Life, life, eternal life

Life, life, eternal life.

In the Father's home are many mansions.

In the Father's House—and the word should be home—are many mansions. 

And that means that being the great parent, not only does He understand the individual heart and mind, but also He has provided many channels through which His children may find Him—unimpeded by those distinctions of thinking, which make such barriers upon the earth.

Beautiful Maxims

To all who would hold life, as dear as God would have them do, let them remember that His Word is the Truth, and He says that Life is everlasting—

Therefore, make it a continual beauty—filled with harmony of thought.

To those who look forward with eagerness to some pleasurable event, there comes an extra heart throb.

Let that throb be filled with pure joy—

That it may permeate the entire being with clean thought.

Pure thought is like a crystal—

So transparent when reflected upon your face.

Always think of some way to better yourself in God's eyes, and do not be so anxious to look beautiful to them who have no power of observation for the beautiful.

Everything in nature strives to grow upward to the Light—why do so many human beings strive to bend and turn from it? 

Should not all make the attempt to be as intelligent as the trees and the flowers?

Clearness of mental vision comes to those who have faith in God. 

The more beautiful the trust, the more beautiful will the thought be, which comes to you.

All who welcome God into their hearts are fitting themselves for a glorious future life.

One and all are welcome in God's home—

If you come unto Him with Truth in your heart—

For He asks nothing more than that.

Think each day that you will try your best to improve in some way. 

However small it may appear, the effort will bring results of a gratifying nature to the mind.

When one is sincerely truthful, he naturally becomes prayerful—that is, because the natural desire is thoughtful, and more or less religious, in some form. 

It is only the warped, and insincere nature, which shuns prayer—for knowing that prayer must be truthful, it shuns the thought of facing the imperfectness of its own self. 

Whereas, the imperfection and shadow would soon vanish if sincere prayer was indulged in more frequently.

A prayer is any sincere and truthful combination of words offered with kind intent—either for oneself or another. 

A request, which God dearly loves to favour.

As seeds must be sown in the ground to bring forth a harvest of grain, so must seeds of Truth be sown within the mind—

That the harvest may be one of worthiness unto the Creator, for He alone is the judge of the quality of your soul.

To bear cheerfully your burdens, whether mental or physical, is a great accomplishment. 

Would that more might profit by the thought, for it is a good one.

To hear the voice of conscience, one must make good use of their grey matter. 

Do not let it mould through disuse.

If you were kind to all living creatures, as you should be, how beautiful would all things appear, for you would then know the true meaning of justice.

Pray to God often that everlasting peace may enter into your true self.

Think thoughts above the earthly plane to bring comfort to the sad heart.

Aspire to godliness by truthful living. 

It is the only way to succeed.

True success means the entrance into the mind of the Holy Spirit.



All that which is good and true is welcomed by God in His home—

Therefore strive for purity that you may be a welcome guest.

A motto is a thing, which should be truthful—

That one may live by it without fear of mistake.

Let all maxims explain themselves clearly and sincerely, then they will be of assistance to them that read.

Thinking sincerely means to the mind what deep breathing means to the lungs.

Kind and loving thought should affect the heart as April showers affect the budding plants.

Chide them not who are of seemingly weaker intellect than yourself, for it is quite possible that their heart may feel more kindness to a fellow-creature than your own.

Do not inquire into that reason, as you are not supposed to know all that God knows. 

He is the Perfect General, so try to follow—not guide—Him.

Life is a strange thing to many, insomuch as they cannot see it all at once, as they would wish to. 

It will become clearer to them when they learn patience.

There are clear, bubbling springs within the bowels of the earth. 

Hunt for them within your heart, for they are there.

The word friendship is carelessly used in many cases. 

Make it more sincere each day that it may become more filled with beautiful meaning.

Each and every soul aspires to Truth if it be given its original freedom. 

It is mortal, not God, who places the handicap upon it.

Thinking of a beautiful future life will always bring happy results to a weary mind. 

Try it.

Tears shed in sympathy for another always bring relief to one's own heart.

The cloak of charity is a garment, which fits many forms.

See to it that it covers truth, not hypocrisy.

All things in this world should be of interest to man, as God placed them here to be of benefit to him.

A simple, truthful heart is in a direct line of vision with God. 

To be simple does not necessarily mean to be foolish, or ignorant. 

One cannot be truly great mentally, without being simple. 

Study the thought.

The Man Who Found God

There seems to be no way, in which I can better teach you about this life, so strange to you, than by telling my experiences and conversations with men and women here [in the world of spirits].

I said, one night long ago, that I had met more saints than philosophers, and I want to tell you now about a man who seems to be a genuine saint.

Yes; there are little saints, and great saints, as there are little sinners, and great sinners.

One day, I was walking on a mountaintop. I say “walking,” for it seemed about the same, though it takes but little energy to walk here.

On the mountaintop, I saw a man standing alone. He was looking out and far away, but I could not see what he was looking at. He was abstracted, and communing with himself, or with some presence of which I was unaware.

I waited for some time.

At last, drawing a long breath, for we breathe here, he turned his eyes to me. and said, with a kind smile―

Can I do anything for you, brother?

I was embarrassed for a moment, feeling that I might have intruded upon some sweet communion.

“If I am not too bold in asking,” I said, “would you tell me what you were thinking, as you stood there looking into space?”

I was conscious of my presumption, but being so determined to learn what can be known, if sometimes I am too bold in making inquiries, I feel that my very earnestness may win for me the forgiveness of those I question.

This man had a beautiful beardless face, and young-looking eyes, but his garments were the ordinary garments of one who thinks little or nothing of his appearance.

That very unconsciousness of the outer form may sometimes give it a peculiar majesty.

He looked at me in silence for a moment; then, he said―

I was trying to draw near God.

And what is God; and where is God?

He smiled. I never saw a smile like his, as he answered―

God is everywhere. God is.

“What is he?” I persisted, and again he repeated, but with a different emphasis―

God is.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

God is, God is.

I do not know how his meaning was conveyed to me, perhaps by sympathy, but it suddenly flashed into my mind that when he said, “God is,” he expressed the completest realisation of God, which is possible to the spirit; and when he said, “God is,” he meant me to understand that there was no being, nothing that is, except God.

There must have been in my face a reflection of what I felt, for the saint then said to me―

Do you not also know that He is, and that all that is, is He?

“I am beginning to feel what you mean,” I answered, “though I doubtless feel but a little of it.”

He smiled, and made no reply, but my mind was full of questions.

“When you were on earth,” I said, “did you think much about God?”

“Always. I thought of little else. I sought Him everywhere, but seemed only at times to get flashes of consciousness, as to what He really was.

Sometimes when praying, for I prayed much, there would come to me suddenly the question,

To what are you praying?

And I would answer aloud,

To God, to God!

But though I prayed to Him every day for years, only occasionally did I get a flash of that true consciousness of God.

Finally, one day, when I was alone in the woods, there came the great revelation.

It came, not in any form of words, but rather in a wordless and formless wonder, too vast for the limitation of thought.

I fell upon the ground, and must have lost consciousness, for, after a while, I awoke, and got up, and looked about me. Then, gradually, I remembered the experience, which had been too big for me while I was feeling it.

“I could put into the form of words, the realisation, which had been too much for my mortality to bear, and the words I used to myself were,

All that is, is God.

It seemed very simple, yet it was far from simple.

All that is, is God.

That must include me, and all my fellow beings, human and animal; even the trees, and the birds, and the rivers, must be a part of God, if God were all that is.

“From that moment, life assumed a new meaning for me.

I could not see a human face, without remembering the revelation, that the human being I saw was a part of God.

When my dog looked at me, I said to him aloud,

You are a part of God.

When I stood beside a river, and listened to the sound of its waters, I said to myself,

I am listening to the voice of God.

 

When a fellow being was angry with me, I asked myself,

In what way have I offended God?’

When one spoke lovingly to me, I said,

‘God is loving me now,' and the realisation nearly took my breath away.

Life became unbelievably beautiful.

“Theretofore, I had been so absorbed in God, in trying to find God, that I had not given much thought to my fellow beings, and had even neglected those nearest me.

But from that day, I began to mingle with my human brethren.

I found that, as more and more I sought God in them, more and more, God responded to me through them.

And life became still more wonderful.

Strive steadfastly in your own little world.

If one purges the Judaism of the prophets, and Christianity, as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching, which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.

It is the duty of every man of goodwill to strive steadfastly in his own little world to make this teaching of pure humanity a living force, so far as he can. 

If he makes an honest attempt in this direction without being crushed and trampled underfoot by his contemporaries, he may consider himself, and the community to which he belongs, lucky.

―Albert Einstein

God in heaven is your portion!

There was a poor man whose pious parents left him no heritage, save an honest name, and a good, God-loving heart―

Now, although in this, he had riches without measure, the world accounted him poor.

It went well with him at first, but by degrees, he tasted trouble. 

He lost the small fortune he had succeeded in saving by dint of work. 

And the people pointed to him saying—

Poor wretch!

No; not poor, he said―

God is my portion!

But misfortune pursued him. 

Most of his so-called friends turned their back on him, and those whom he had trusted most proved faithless. 

He was deceived, calumniated, misjudged.

And people shook their heads saying—

How wretched and miserable you are to be sure!

No; he said, though his voice trembled, not wretched, for God is my portion!

But the greatest trouble of all now laid him low―

He lost his loving wife, and soon after, his only child. 

The suffering man stood alone in a heartless world.

Again, the people said, shrugging their shoulders—

Surely now, you will own yourself miserable and wretched―

A very butt of trouble!

No; he cried, repressing the welling tears, God is yet my portion!

And the people turned from him, saying he was singular and strange, and nicknaming him John Comfort, in virtue of his peculiarity.

But he, truly, was not wretched, nor indeed forsaken. 

The last words he was heard to speak on earth were—

God in heaven is my portion!

And he entered into the joy of his Lord.

L. W. J. S.,  Letters from Hell, Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1889

Overcome! For Jesus

Overcome! For Jesus

Learn these valuable lessons—

Humility, and the acceptance of the divine will.

Never allow your physical body to dominate your spirit.

Your time on earth is but a grain of sand when compared to the eternity of the soul. That is why Jesus was able to resist such terrible temptations. He knew that their duration was momentary, and that pain was as illusory as pleasure. By exerting complete control over the material world, he gained power over it. All the miracles he accomplished were natural because he understood the cosmos and its laws.

—Kirkudian*

*Migęne Gonzalez-Wippler, What Happens After Death, Scientific & Personal Evidence for Survival, 1997, Llewellyn Publications, Minnesota, U. S. A., Part Two, Kirkudian, 9, Separation, 224-5

Be guided by the example of Jesus.

Be guided by the example of Jesus.

He came to overcome enmity by love.

Ye shall know the truth.

Ye shall know the truth, Jesus told his followers, and the truth shall make you free, and ye shall be free indeed.

Jesus taught you to look into the depths of your heart―

To test your life―

To try your motives and to weigh all you do.

He told you to be humble, merciful, truthful, pure, self-denying, honest in heart and intent―He set before you a living example of the life, which he preached.

He revealed glimpses of a better life in the hereafter. 

He preached the religion of daily life, repentance for the past, amendment and progress in the future.

He reasoned of life and death and eternity―of the true nobility and dignity of your nature, and of the way to progressive knowledge of God.

He found a world buried in ignorance, at the mercy of an unscrupulous priesthood in matters religious―under the absolute sway of a tyrant in matters political.

He taught liberty in both―liberty without licence―

The liberty of a responsible spirit with duties to God, and to itself―of a spirit corporeally enshrined with a corresponding duty to its brethren in the flesh.

He came as the great fulfiller of the law and showed you the end for which the law was given—the amelioration of humanity. 

He would elevate you to the dignity of the truth―the truth, which should make you free.

I ask God's blessing for you all.

Dear Friends

Our prayer for you all is that you may realise the beauties of the life-eternal, which God has prepared for you. 

Guard yourself against unholy and impure thought, as it will detain you on the upward flight. 

Try to prepare yourself to meet your Maker with a clean heart. 

If you feel that you have sinned in body or mind, do not feel that you are lost to God's sight, but try to remedy your mistakes by the life, which is left before you.

Gaze not backward upon a blight, except when you are tempted to make another mistake—in which case, a backward glance may be of service to you. 

Let it never step forward to be your master again. 

Let it fade into nothingness—

Remodel the remainder of the human part of yourself—

By so doing, there will be brightness, and not darkness before your gaze. 

We pray you one and all—

We beseech you one and all—

Believe in God as He really is—

The most beautiful, most wonderful, and gentle being in all the universe who awaits patiently your acceptance of him into your heart.

Keep Him not waiting on the outside. 

Let Him enter freely and bring to you the great love He is so anxious to give to all. 

His whole thought is of love and kindness to every being on earth and in Heaven. 

Hear this little prayer of ours. 

Trust us, for the sake of Christ and your own soul. 

Try your utmost; fear nothing, but evil—

Let your motto be Ever onward and upward. 

May the blessing of God in His mercy descend upon you as a golden shower, lighting your way to higher hopes, kindly acts; any and every particle of good you may find to do while on earth. 

Let nothing escape you in the way of helpfulness to others. 

Think not of self except as a quantity for doing good. 

Pray often to God, for strength for all good purpose, and it will be given to you in great and glorious measure. 

All He asks of you while in your earthly husk is to try to do your best at all times and under all circumstances. 

To try truthfully and earnestly means success in the end. 

A sincere try, for the truthful is what is needed, as a spur in every mind. 

Again, I ask God's blessing for you all to bring courage and hope to you. 

May all imperfection vanish from your mind as dew before the sun. 

Think of us all as kind friends waiting to help you to the right pathways.

Cherish your mothers and fathers. 

Strive to bring happiness into their lives while you may. 

Shun every unkind word or act. 

Treat them as they deserve, for they are the most precious gift God gives you while on earth—

They are the one earthly treasure that never dims with wear. 

Amen!

—Spirit Clifford