All creation is alive

All creation is alive and working in the scheme for redemption and the evolution of the world.

All prayers should include offenders as well as friends and loved companions; they want it most

All prayers should include offenders as well as friends and loved companions; they want it most.

The very first few minutes after the soul has left the earthly body

No two individuals have exactly the same experiences but all think they are still alive, that is, immediately afterwards. Those who have had to suffer very severe pain are surprised to find they are well. Sometimes people feel awfully frightened at first and very much alone but they are comforted and helped by their own guide as soon as they are able to perceive him. Almost everyone rests for a time, perhaps only for a day or two or perhaps weeks and months, it all depends on the circumstances of their passing. After people have rested, their guides come to them and they are told what their training will be. Before their rest, those who are united by very strong ties of affection meet. Those who came over when they were too young to remember their own mothers are brought to be recognised and those who remember their mothers are told that the mother had come over at last. It doesn't matter how many years have passed or that the young baby has grown to full manhood or womanhood in the spirit world or that the young mother is an old mother now, the recognition is mutual and instantaneous, if the bond of devoted affection is there. Those people who have to undergo a very long discipline are allowed to see their friends for a moment, if the erring soul has been always remembered on our side. The sorrow of a spiritual mother who has seen the utter downfall and wreck of a son on earth is one of the saddest things to see in our world. At the same time, that mother knows the justice of the discipline and can wait and pray and hope. Nothing can keep two souls apart who really love each other and nothing but love can bring them together.

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Love of all humanity

Love of country, love of friends, love of all humanity – these attributes are to be enlarged and increased until the result is seen in another Golden Age on the earth.

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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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Limitless and boundless

The love of the Master for all humanity is limitless and boundless; it embraces all who have ever lived on your earth and all who ever will.

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We are working towards the final end

All our actions are working towards the final end – union with the great Almighty God and on our own efforts or the reverse depends the length of each separate pilgrimage.

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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.

Forgive an injury of thought or word or deed as quickly as possible

We should forgive an injury of thought or word or deed as quickly as possible and those who have been guilty of the injury should lose no time in owning up and making it right as far as they possibly can. Forgiveness of harm done by one ego to another and full reparation made to the injured party is of very great importance to the soul because it helps forward his journey on the upward arc and goes a very long way towards peace and amicable relations with others. The sting of unkind thoughts and deeds and words and the permanent harm lies in the fact that they are so often allowed to slip out of the memory of both injured and injurer. The after-result will be the same. The one ego must forgive the other and sometimes it is harder for the injured party to accept the forgiveness than for the injurer to offer it.

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.