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Light from the Spirit World

What will you say, I inquired, of Justice?

Justice is not cruelty but is doing what benevolence requires. When thou seest a mind whom thou canst aid, and unto whom thou canst render assistance, be it thy friend or a stranger, then be just to the law which makes thee and him companions and recognises the deed of mercy as a deed of good to thyself. If he should fall by the wayside because he cannot see, then take him by thy strength and bear him where he may rest. Put thy hand upon him gently and say: I will not forsake thee till thou canst aid others as I will aid thee. Let him want nothing and justice to thy needy friend will be satisfied.

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine

What is Wisdom?

Wisdom is wise. It is wise to relieve want. It is wise to do good. It is wise to understand thyself, to know thy dependence on others, and to see the wisdom of God in his works and wonders. It is wise to act, to say, and to wish well toward all mind. It is wise to speak the truth, to utter nothing but the truth and to oppose nothing which is good. It is wise to love, as we see love begets love. It is wise to learn because what thou learnest of wisdom will add to thy circle of bliss and the bliss of others when they are taught of thee. It is wise to co-operate in harmony with the thousands who saw thee in need and aided thy welcome within these courts. It is wise to obey the Master of this house, for, in so doing, great good shall be thy reward and thou shalt wear a crown which the ignorant may envy but cannot pluck from thy head.

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine

What is Progression?

Progression is the expansion of thy mind in the wisdom thou mayest receive from instructed minds around thee. When thou doest good, it is wise, and, as thou becomes wise, thy wisdom will swell thy mind with the luxury it gives. Thou knowest from what thou hast seen, that according to thy works of well-doing, so shall thy measure of bliss be. If thou wouldst do more to benefit those who need, thou must be found faithful unto the instruction thou receivest and then thou wilt be prepared to discharge thy trust with honour to thy station and with satisfaction to thyself.

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine

What is Order?

Order is the law. Law is immutable and universal. When I say, Order is law, I would that thou shouldst understand that it is obedience to the law. Disobedience is disorder and disorder is anarchy. Thou wilt see that nature is obedient unto the law. Planets and suns and systems of suns and worlds are all obedient to the law. The least disturbance might work a disorder, which no mind less than the Creator could possibly control. As thou beholdest order in the natural world, so let it be thy aim to observe order in the society into whose charge thou hast committed thyself.

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine 

What is Harmony?

Harmony is what we mean by social sympathy. It is congenial with order. It is union of minds. It is wisdom in unity of minds. It is sympathy of thoughts and works. It will not divide and distract, convulse or disturb the social enjoyment of the circle now assembled to witness thy progress in the knowledge of the truth. 

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine 

What man, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the pasture and go after that which is lost until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders and rejoiceth, and, when he hath brought it home, he calleth his neighbouring friends and saith unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, likewise, that joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons, who need no repentance.

Spirit Control to Thomas Paine 

Light from the Spirit World—The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine, and Others, to the Seventh Circle in the Spirit World, written through the mediumship of Reverend C. Hammond, Fowler & Wells, J. S. Redfield, New York; Bela Marsh & B. B. Mussey & Co., 1852

Curious Thoughts

An inhabitant of Venus able to visit earth at will! Yet it is not really difficult. It merely involves leaving the physical body and plane at one point and entrance to the astral or psychic plane. From this latter, it is as easy to return to the state of cause at any point—be it Alcyone or even further—as it is to return to the place departed from. The whole difficulty is in leaving the physical plane at all and for the advanced esotericist, this is as nothing because the normal state of his soul is always in the astral or psychic, instead of the physical. The difficulty with a student is in the repugnance he feels to the thought of returning to an inferior state of being, like life on earth. But the Life of Love is—I serve. So we return.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Becak driver, just outside of the city of Jakarta, Indonesia—Jonathan McIntosh—Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

No telescope will ever reveal human life on Venus; not that it is not there, but its forms are of the One Substance effected by a range of force rendering them imperceptible to earthly eyes. You will not think the air any less material or electricity any less real because your eyes cannot perceive them. Your eyes are very limited in their visual range; if the One Substance vibrates more or less rapidly than an exceedingly small length of time, producing correspondingly minute force wavelengths, your eyes cannot cognise such vibrations. It is the same with your ears and hearing. If your eyes and ears were not thus limited, you would see every sound and hear every sunbeam. Every rainbow would be vocal while heat, which now you only feel, would furnish amazing wealth of sound and vision. But so long as you fancy that because you have eyes you can see all that there is to be seen and that your ears hear all that is worth hearing, so long you will depend on these organs and gain that sort of false ideas of the Universe which must arise from entire ignorance of all except the tiny bit of creation you occupy. So long, too, will you depend on the telescope to reveal truths about other worlds; you will hunt for evidence of human life on the nearer planets, but you will never find any until you cease to expect that matter will reveal soul; it cannot do it, for the finite cannot reveal infinity. Turn it about; ask of the soul revealment of itself and of matter also and all worlds will draw near to you, show their teeming vitality of life and all nature will uncover such treasures as the hungry soul of science has never found before.

Phylos, the Thibetan

A Jicarilla Man, 1904, Edward S. Curtis

Now, in the soul realm, if a human being is content with the gradual, easy pitch of the Godward ascending plane of pure daily life, daily temptations to work in error, and too often fall, progress upward will be slow but very sure. But, on the contrary, if eager to learn rapidly, it must meet in a few hours all the crushing force of temptations to err and to sin which the ordinary man meets distributed through many, many incarnations, covering ages, aye, aeonian time. In the one case, the Father giveth sufficient of the daily bread of strength unto men to enable them to progress very slowly but with certitude. GOD-CHRIST in thee can alone win this struggle. There is only one Guide; follow and win. It is a new conception to thee to learn there is an animating ego, a world spirit, inmateriated in each star, each planet, every stellar body, just as there is an individual soul in each human, animal or plant body. Yet this is true. It is also true that the spirits of men will progress; will face the supreme ordeal, and, if they pass victorious, will enter that long rest, heaven, devachan—call it as thou wilt, Nirvana. But that is not the end, for life had a beginning—it hath also an end. And the perfect human ego emerging eventually from Nirvana, that long devachan of all the incarnations, emerges not as Man; it does not live, but It Is, and Its post-viviant existence is a state of Being which no human mind could understand, except inferentially it do so through the knowledge that that state is to Life as the senior to the junior. But ere then is the trial of transfiguration; if we fail, then that is the second death, for it cometh not until the essaying soul be perfect and be ready to leave the pupaceous state of Human Life, to be judged according to (its) works for Him who made it. 

I wish thee to observe also this—that if thou thinkest the judgment day, when according to its works thy soul is arraigned by thy spirit, which is God in thee, if thou thinkest that because that day may be in remote aeons ere it come and, therefore, thou hast ample time to lag, to err, I counsel thee it is a fatal mistake. For if, at the great trial, any man fail it is because, day by day, as the lives were run, he neglected his chances, either by omission or commission. Then shall such suffer the second death, be cast into the lake of fire, in other words, their Spirit will depart from the soul and go unto the Father, while the soul will be gathered into the sum of force—the Fire element—that which is sum of all lesser force forms, out of which springeth life, heat, and vibration. But this will not be until the erring one hath passed from his soul into his spirit. So the second death is not of the sinner; it is the cutting off of all his spoiled work and a chance to begin again, to build better; our Father damneth not His child but only the imperfect work, the sinning soul. In our library, thou canst see a book brought here to Hesper from the Earth, a book which speaketh of the order of the Rosicrux, wherein this supreme Fire is written of. 'Tis also that Fire once called in the Earth the Maxin.

Sohma, son of Mol Lang, to Phylos, the Thibetan

An elephant picks up a basket with its trunk. Set photograph from the film A wise old elephant directed by Colin Campbell (1913)—Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

As all forms of matter are but divine ideas clothed in the One Substance, it is possible to disintegrate the material form but preserve the psychic idea and transport that as other thoughts move, by effort of will, then rehabilitate it in matter. Thus, articles can be brought from the earth here to us. But if you think we can do this by our own bodies you err, for we are the ideas embodied. Truly we can emerge from these bodies and travel in one brief instant from one to any other star. But we cannot have two corporeal bodies at once. If we leave the one we have, we can, by putting it in a cataleptic trance, leave it in fit state to reoccupy upon our return. But if we leave it and make around ourselves a new one, like in all respects to the other, and abide in it, the deserted temple will perish. We could do it, but we have no need to and, consequently, do not. All about you is matter—every breath is matter, differing only from iron in its molecular speed. The air is matter; electricity is matter. I will show you. See, I wish a plate, several plates, cups, saucers, knives, and forks, so I image them (imagio—I create) in the mental or psychic form. Do you see them? Eyes of Earth could not; thou hast for a time Hesperian vision.

Before me was a pile of delicate tableware with the pattern upon each piece of a different kind.

These articles are really only thought forms; no eye unable to perceive a thought could see them. But now look, I gather to myself the higher rate of speed, the extra force which makes air of the One Substance and the force which I leave is just that of the various minerals of which I desire my ware to be made—observe that one plate is a ruby, the real crystal aluminium and another is a pearl—others are of various gemstones—as that cup and saucer—crystal carbon, diamond each one.

Consider this—that we who are illumined by the Spirit of the Creator do little with books or such crude methods of learning, caring only for them as specimens of the work of souls on certain planes. We have no need to read them, no desire—they serve only as texts, for when we would learn, we retire within our souls and listen to the All Knowing Spirit.

Here is an invention by Sohma which will render thy delight greater; I know it is always great where books abound.

She picked up a book from Earth, Shakespeare, and placed it in an instrument which turned the pages automatically and a strong electric light being cast on the visible pages, its beams reflected upon a metallic plate. Unseen wheels revolved within a case and a voice issued from a funnel-shaped mouthpiece. To my pleasure, I heard the reading of page after page of the great English literary gem, in appropriate tones for the various characters. 

Put these over your eyes.

It was Phyris, who gave me a seeming pair of spectacles. They were indeed spectacles which all the fortunes of earth could not obtain. As I put them on, all the shelves of books disappeared and a book being pieced in my hand, as I know from retrospection, for I did not know then, I found myself seemingly amid scenes of most familiar aspect. All the mental pictures conjured up by vivid perusal of Scott's famous poem, The Lady of the Lake, all the voices of its characters became seen and heard, as if I were on the spot where all was said to have transpired. For the time, I was transported by means of those magical eyepieces into the mental world of Walter Scott, which, while he wrote,

Lay around him like a cloud, 

A world he could not see. 

except with the vision of the creative imagination.

When Man was born into the earth from Mars, as he is eventually to be born from the Earth into Hesper, that was the basis of the allegory of Adam and Eve. Thus I have spoken of four of the seven planets of which the human race makes cyclic visits, going from One to Two, to Three, to Four (which is the Earth), to Five (Hesper), to the one to which Man will go after his years on Hesper, and thence to the Seventh or Sabbatic world. These two last, like the two first, are imperceptible to the eyes of man on Earth. Seven are the worlds and seven times the race of Man circles them; three times already hath Man circled the series and arrived en masse at the fourth of the number in this, his fourth round. So, Phylos, I speak of all these many race lives; of Earth, of Hesper, of Mars, and all other human planets, after the ordinary sense. But whosoever wills may go with our Great Master, escaping the Rounds, and of that Life, no words can tell. But such will is rare and there are few that find that Way. Yet here are some of the signs along that Path; hear them, heed, and thus find—me. Use all things as abusing none. Drugs, as drugs; food, as not gluttonously; drinks, as not bibulously; society, as a study; marriage as a Way, but continency as His Highway. The most of our race must go by the lower path, for the Cliffbrow Way is too dizzy; none can walk it, save He holds their hands and there are few that will to let Him, for desires tempt them. But they that refuse that Life now, how shall they find it again? They will not and so shall cease with the world. Being in the middle of its sojourn upon the Earth, the race is half through an experience of life that hath engaged it for a period of time too vast for thy real comprehension.

Phyris, Mol Lang’s daughter, to Phylos, the Thibetan

Aviator Hélène Dutrieu seated in her airplane (circa 1911)—Bain News Service—United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division 

THE GREAT, UNIVERSAL KARMA

THE GREAT, UNIVERSAL KARMA

Unconscious of their agency, or of how, with others equally great, Mol Lang was influencing the affairs of men, these men on Earth went on with their doings, fondly thinking that themselves were doing all. How little humanity on Earth knows that it is thus guided. Yet our Father gives it to His occult children to lead their lesser brethren, just as He gave it to Jesus, one of the Sons of Light, higher than any other, who was an incarnation of the Christ. Perhaps human acts were not, are not, guided individually, as a rule, although exceptions exist. But just as shot, running in grooves, is checked by the leaden pellets before and behind, so the acts of one man depend on the acts of others; these on others still, until finally it appears that the mass is influenced in the whole, and every individual in the mass has his or her acts unconsciously controlled by what are termed circumstances, fates, adverse or propitious, inexorable, the grooves in which they run. That is to say, humanity is ordered in its action by what may be named the Universal Karma. So long as men grope in the dark, ignorant of occult laws, so long must they produce this inexorable karma. It is fate, self-made, running from life to life, incarnation after incarnation, unavoidable, for it is born of the infraction of the laws of the Creator.

The great religious movements, wars, and the fields of commerce, all furnish experiences for mankind. Do some seem cruel, evil? Yet each is a part of the scheme of the Creator, each is a tool in the hands of His ministers, and all teach that except a man, as part of the Eternal Whole, works for that Whole, subduing the selfish animal in himself, he can in no wise come to the Father.

Except by My Path, says the Saviour.

Phylos the Thibetan

A watercolor painter working in Dolceacqua (Liguria, Italy)—Dongio

The Spirit Home

The Spirit Home 

But where do we go? I inquired.

We go where the weary find rest and the conflicting antagonisms of human society disturb no more. We go where the pure will never become vitiated with wrongs and where rivers of light roll on, refreshing the mind forever. We go where nature is understood and her laws obeyed. We go where truth is wisdom and where no mockery of duty answers the call of need. We go where we wish and when we go, we will not cease to remember that our return will be cheered with music, vibrating in harmony with human redemption from the whirlpool of angry waters. We will not tarry among the wrongs and evils of a mourning world but we will visit a wonder away from human cares, where order and harmony are appreciated and spirits concentrate to admire and glorify the Ruler of unnumbered worlds. There is a world you have not seen, a music you have not heard, a joy you have not experienced, where the storm of contention neither lashes against its shore nor the groans of distress reach the borders of my spirit home.

Thomas Paine’s Spirit Mother 

Residents of the village Tarbagatai in traditional costumes—Аркадий Зарубин—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Father Genie

THE SEVENFOLD CHARACTER OF OUR NATURES

Man is a composite being, having seven principles, viz., the I AM, or ego; the spirit body; the human soul; the animal soul; the astral reflection of the two lowest principles—by name, vital force, and the earthly body thereby animated. Thus far, I regret to say, the mass of mankind is not developed much beyond its animal soul; a minority have the human soul shining forth; but only occult adepts have the Sixth or spirit body developed, while none of whom the world knows except Jesus and Buddha are perfect in the Spirit of the Father.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Dutch army Panzerhaubitze 2000 firing on Taliban in Chora. 16 June 2007—David Axe—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Psychic powers are attributes of our human nature, for in itself human nature is essentially godlike.

Phylos, the Thibetan

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules aircraft with the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, flies over Marines with the Silent Drill Platoon at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., 4 March 2014—DoD photo by Staff Sgt Oscar L. Olive IV, U.S. Marine Corps/Released

By the way, what is the mundane idea of God? You say that God is omnipotent, omnipresent and eternal. Very good. But the earthly idea of these things is very narrow. Conceptions can never rise higher than their source; hence, God is, although a noble ideal, not nearly as great to the world as He is to Hesperus. Do you say that I am inconsistent, denying my own high claims for Man and that I am virtually negativing the statement that conceptions can rise to the level of their source? I reply that the Father limits the height of the source. What do I mean? I mean that He speaks to the partially developed human soul on the earth plane from the level of human principle in Himself but from no higher plane. Hence, the terrene conception of Him is that of a perfect Person, all-powerful, ubiquitous, eternal, but a person; whereas He is impersonal. But to the Hesperian, God speaks of Himself and His works from the level of Spirit, which is above soul; it is the level of the Oversoul of Emerson. I hope you will study that statement, for nothing I have said means more, is more important in this entire book.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Portrait of a man, Delhi, India—© Jorge Royan / http://www.royan.com.ar—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Will is the fiat of consciousness. 

Phyris, daughter of Mol Lang, to Phylos, the Thibetan 

Bust portrait of Muhammad Ali, World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg—Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs

Phyris, daughter of Mol Lang, to Phylos, the Thibetan—

Behold, Phylos! If I have but the seed, the herb shall come forth after its kind. But if I do not have the seed, my poor, human soul wisdom could not make that herb grow. Having seed, I can bring God's Viviant Fire to aid its germination—see! it sprouts, and again watch it—it grows visibly.

I was astonished to see, mounting up as fast as evening shadows lengthen, green tendrils, and buds unfolding even as the flowers of primula spring forth, flowers, blossoming, blossomed; seed scarps forming, formed; and the matured fruit hanging in clusters in the radiant flame of the Vita Mundi, as high as my head from the ground, where erst there had been but vacant soil. And this girl, who declared herself not a grown woman, exercising such magic as this and thinking it only ordinary! This was an inherent power of the Human Principle, my friends, and will be common to you also when you become developed in the Human. Earthly man is yet only in the initial of his humanity in a few favoured cases but is very largely in his animality. Most of mankind is merely animal, not human, save by courtesy. Yet the dawn of the glorious new era is at hand, and in its fullness of days Christ shall come again to it and enter into the hearts of his own, and it shall be the Father that shall enter, and by Messias. Be ye then prepared for the coming of the Spirit, for no man knoweth the day nor hour thereof.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Sahrawi tribal men performing fantasia at the Tan-Tan (Moussem) Festival in Tan-Tan, Morocco—Максим Массалитин (Maxim Massalitin)—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

My friend, it is the soul that is chained, not the body of man. Unchain thy souls, oh, brethren, and seek to know the things of heaven, of the high life with God, and all things else shall be added unto you, yea, even to the ability to explore the stars in person.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope—NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University) and Z. Levay (STScI)

I need not say thoughts are things, for all things are thoughts. Even a stone is a thought concept of the Eternal Spirit, and the stone seen by ordinary eyes is but the externalisation of the idea.

Sohma, Son of Mol Lang, to Phylos, the Thibetan 

South Central Farm in the city of Los Angeles California. The 14 acres located at 41st and Alameda St is one of the largest urban gardens in the United States—Jonathan McIntosh—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

The Works of God

The worlds of human life are seven in number, yet four of them are invisible, unknowable to earthly senses and this not because of remoteness but the kind of force-affection of their constituent matter. Mankind occupies but one planet at a time, for, like its present dwelling place (earth), the human race is but a letter in the Divine Library of Being. To be exact, the more advanced occult souls do inhabit Venus, which I have called Hesper and which the ancients of Earth termed The Garden of the Hesperides.

Yes, Phylos, life does mean more to me than to thee. I look at its stately march and I see the battalion of being wherein I am but a corporal, progressing around its appointed seven spheres, whereof only Mars, the Earth and Venus are matters which terrene perception can know; I see the human race progressively incarnating on each of its peculiar planets as it goes, every individual ego about eight hundred times, approximately, on each world each time the race comes to it, which is seven times also, making forty-nine world-carnate epochs. Each ego thus hath incarnation and discarnation periods to the number, more or less, of forty thousand. It is in these, that beginning as an irresponsible creation, far from human, as thou wouldst define, the word human and ending as a Perfect Man entering into Nirvanic rest, that the scheme of the Eternal Uncreated Father is perfected. Yea, verily, man sins but as his incarnations progress, he atones for every jot, every tittle. Karma is penalty for evil doing and it is the law of God; it knows no abatement of payment, accepts no vicarious price but is faithful gaoler over that prison which is life action; whoso is cast therein shall not come out till every farthing is paid. Beware, then, of doing wrong, for thou must bear the penalty, only thou. Verily, life is long enough to make payment; 'tis better to have none to make!

We go now to a view of the truth that the spirit came from the Father and returneth to Him after it hath fulfilled the law and the prophets; it liveth in the worlds of cause a short span but in those of effect a long span, for passivity is to activity as about eighty to one and the lives are many, strung like beads on the one cord of the individual ego. 

Lastly, the ego coming from the Father hath no sex; it is not man, neither woman, but sexless. When it entereth upon life it becometh double so that in the earth there is a man and there is a woman and though the bodies and the animal souls and the human souls be different in the twain, yet behold, their spirit is one and the same. Now sometimes the two, being of one spirit, are also husband and wife. Yet more often they are not, for the age of harmony is not yet at hand. But it is of such singleness of spirit that the Bible saith, What God hath joined, let no man put asunder. There is no man who could, if he would, so sunder. But that saying is not of the carnal marriage but of the spirit unit only. And the latter hath no lust. But when the twain shall, after the millions of years which lie between the non-esoteric Christian and Nirvana, come to know all the law of life, then will the union be as it was before the separation. Thou canst not really comprehend the truth now but when thou shalt, at last, be done with earth life, thou wilt then recall it and know. And knowing it, thou wilt then tell it to the world. But not now. Now is this true―Mates in the Lord cannot know each other as such until they both will to live after the rule of His Highway. And the latter hath nothing carnal. Straight is the Gate and narrow is the Way that leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it. Until they find it they find not each other; neither release from incarnation in the flesh. 

Mol Lang to Phylos, the Thibetan 

Nude recumbent woman―Jean-Christophe Destailleur―Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

The Faraway Home of the Soul

THE FARAWAY HOME OF THE SOUL

Truly, all things under the hand of God work together for good!

Romans 8:28 

South Central Farm in the city of Los Angeles, California—Jonathan McIntosh—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Truly, heaven is what we make it.

Baby playing with yellow paint. Work by Dutch artist Peter Klashorst entitled Experimental—Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

There is no accident, no chance, in the Universe; all is immutable law, cause and effect.

Phylos, the Thibetan

Old retired man playing chess in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris—Jorge Royan—Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Man never is, but always to be blest is wholly true.

Phylos, the Thibetan

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