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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

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

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 

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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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