Belief in the Law of Karma

When we really grasp and believe that we have to account for the way in which we have occupied ourselves during our earth life, it will make us behave more wisely. A man can hardly sweat his work and enjoy wealth won for him at starvation wages when he knows for an absolute fact that he will some day feel for himself what they are suffering now. A man could not deliberately wrong an unprotected woman, knowing that some day he will suffer bitter biting remorse for his cruelty and not be able to make up for the wrong he had done in the way he would wish. So you can multiply all sorts of different cases and apply the same test nationally. It would ultimately lead to the abolition of wars on the earth. 

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Karma

The Master wishes me to say that this message is necessary to counteract the teaching of some people on the earth who think there is no such thing as punishment after death. There is but it is not punishment in the way they mean, it is simply consequence of actions, in other words, Karma. Sometimes an awfully bad man may come over here and be obliged to go to the place he has earned but if he has had a spark of affection in him, for even only a dog and been kind to him, that flicker of love will help him enormously. 

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God's plan for the salvation of souls

God's plan for the salvation of souls does not depend on the death of one particular soul in a barbarous, horrible manner but on the working out, everyone for himself, of the great destiny to which he was committed in the very beginning of time on your earth.

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Original sin does not exist

Original sin, as the priests mean it, does not exist. What does is the outcome of past experiences and tendencies, which show themselves in each successive earth life and those inclinations to wrong-doing which were not carefully checked and struggled against in the preceding life will show in a marked degree in the following one and produce results which are called sins and described by the priests on your plane as Adam's inheritance or something like that.

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The nature of the great Master Christ

The nature of the great Master Christ is like an ever-increasing, ever-spreading ripple on a pond, taking in all the little bits of leaves and twigs and anything else that may be on the surface and reflecting everything from above.

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Riches are no bar to happiness on this side, poverty has no claim

Riches are no bar to happiness on this side, poverty has no claim.

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We all make our own environment

We all make our own environment.

Joined by the strong tie of warm affection

Purely physical ties are broken by physical death. Nothing lasts but warm affection for souls of like promise as ourselves; that is as certain as the other. Love of one soul for another is indestructible.

While we are on the earth

It is while we are on the earth in our physical bodies that we have the opportunity to make up to others any harm that we may have caused them.

It is not enough to say "I'm sorry"

Repentance for wrong-doing must be accompanied by a righting of the wrong done – if in any way it is possible. It is not enough to say I'm sorry and to leave the injury still unrepaired.

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All souls are trained for ultimate perfection and union with God

All souls are trained for ultimate perfection and union with God, be they saint or sinner. No ego is annihilated and all progress. Nothing can shorten the time of the soul's discipline but his own efforts; never forgetting that those efforts are watched and encouraged and every help is given.

He conquered, so can we

Master Christ was fully conscious of the power of evil. He knew what it was to wrestle in prayer with the Almighty God and to feel sometimes that the fight was almost too much for Him. He was exposed to all sorts of trials and finally overcame.  He conquered, so can we. 

The value of the soul's independence

Every soul works out his own destiny to the very, very end. 

Get up and fight the hundredth round

Be sober, be watchful, because your adversary goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking to devour  whom he may.

Always be on the look-out and never mind if you are beaten ninety-nine times, get up and fight the hundredth round.

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We are still striving and shall be for many a year

Departed souls are still the same people, undergoing further training for union with God – on another plane and with still much to overcome that would drag them back.

Pray for those within the veil

My people have forgotten all about me, they never speak of me at home.

Souls in the spirit want our thoughts and prayers.  They appreciate the tiniest bit of prayer from anyone on earth.

Each man works out his own salvation

Each man works out his own salvation.

Petra, El Deir – Berthold Werner (CC-by-SA-3.0)

The needful thing for every man and woman on earth

The needful thing for every man and woman on earth is not to shirk or evade their responsibilities but to shoulder them bravely and do the very best they can with them and for them.

Unselfishness is the keynote of our life on earth

Unselfishness is the keynote of our earthly lives.

Only in that way is there distinction of class in the spirit world

All souls go to the special environment which they have acquired for themselves while on earth. Only in that way is there distinction of class in the spirit world.