Once we realise an existence, we go on forever

Personal life is so important that infinite wisdom has provided for it eternally – once we realise an existence, we go on forever.

Spirit life is closely allied to earth life

Spirit life is closely allied to earth life.

Death is not painful

Death is not painful.

Death is life and a life that no circumstance or change can blot out

Death is life and a life that no circumstance or change can blot out.

He has chosen the weak things of earth to confound the wise

God works by and through angel power and they minister to the wants of all, whether rich or poor, great or small.

Wonderful are Thy works, oh God, and glorious Thy revelations

Wonderful are Thy works, oh God, and glorious Thy revelations.

They who sow by the wayside will reap thistles and tares

Christ's teachings that they who sow by the wayside will reap thistles and tares were very pure – we reap just such a harvest as we prepare the ground and seed for but well-doing and an earnest desire for right will bring its own reward.

All wrong thought goes to build up and strengthen the power of evil

All wrong thought goes to build up and strengthen the power of evil.

Truth will always bear the light

Truth will always bear the light.

Curiosity – robot geologist and chemist in one! – NASA / JPL-Caltech

Spiritual socialism

In the spiritual socialism that will be law in my Arcadia on earth some day, both the theoretical and practical men will realise their responsibilities to each other and will live to right wrong. The master will not say, How little? but How much can I afford to pay this man, to make his life agreeable and not merely bearable? And the man will do his best honourably to give honest and interested service in return as his right and share in the bargain.

Claude

The thoughts of yesterday, if they cannot bear the light of today, should be cast aside

The thoughts of yesterday, if they cannot bear the light of today, should be cast aside.

Make this the object of your life

Harmonise your being; make this the object of your life. Eradicate your peculiar evils one by one, with a firm faith in success.

The spiritual body pervades the external form

The spiritual body pervades the external form. Bone pervades bone; muscle, muscle; nerve, nerve. The spiritual is a simile of the earthly body. When the earthly dust is brushed off – when it rises into the bright day of immortality – it finds itself the same entity with similar thoughts, desires, passions, affections and emotions. The earth and Spirit-world are similarly related, being intimately blended, without any chasm between them; so that the individual who has obeyed the laws of his nature, passes quietly, as it were, from one room into another, calmly and easily, as the ripened apple falls from its parent stem.

He who doeth well enjoys the satisfaction of that well-doing

He who doeth well enjoys the satisfaction of that well-doing.

The Sage

To this end, unite with a congenial mind

The great multitude are all subject to surrounding circumstances. Exercise your charity then, brothers, in changing the condition of the miserable and elevating the wretched.  

The Sage

All men are equal in their rights

All men are equal in their rights.

Death is a great leveller

Death is a great leveller. When Charon wafts the weary soul over the Styx, he strips it of all its wealth, titles, honours and ornaments. The mind remains in its unconcealed magnanimity or meanness and gravitates to its proper sphere.

The rank weeds of error luxuriate in the neglected mind

Remember – 

The pursuit of wealth has no correspondence in the Spirit-world. The miser and speculator are men of this world.

The Nazarene understood this

Most men make themselves prominent by putting out other's lights. These do not appreciate the truth, that by bringing the world with them, they can accomplish an infinitely greater good. The Nazarene understood this. His precepts, his philanthropy, his pure life, embraced the race and he lives forever.

Bring the subject home to your own hearts

Study cause and effect attentively and then act true to your convictions.