Man will die, as he has ever done.

Man will die, as he has ever done. 

As long as he believes that death is the end, disease and destruction will last. 

Mankind is using palliatives, when the cure is within his grasp. 

Change the angle of belief—

Do away with the dread and fear of death and teach the eternal One-ness of life. 

That is redemption, both of man and of the earth. 

This may take thousands of years. 

But there are millions of years behind us. 

Man has taken centuries to lift his inert response thus far but he is on an upward path. 

Here is the old answer again. 

Light, and yet more Light; 

Light of understanding, of knowledge, of wisdom and true perception to penetrate this fog of illusion in which the mass of mankind still wanders.

—Spirit Sister Frances Banks

What an illusion thought is!

What an illusion thought is! 

I thought I was real enough on earth. 

Now I realise that what seemed important and substantial and worthwhile was but a shadow! 

I am not really real here! 

This too is merely the shadow, which is but a shell or covering of something else. 

I am on a journey still—

Perhaps to the Centre—

Certainly to a higher point, but what this is I scarcely dare imagine. 

I have only peeled off the outer shadow—yet the outer skin—rather like peeling skins from an onion. 

One goes on shedding—

It seems an eternal process.

—Spirit Sister Frances Banks

Light! Light! And yet more Light!

Light! Light! And yet more Light!

Light to educate and uplift the minds of people, bringing calmness and peace in a sure reliance on life’s purpose and the wonder of divine creation. 

Light in their souls and in their minds to lift them above the illusion of earth life’s fears—

Light in their minds to teach them how to ‘tune in’ any frustration of the life or personality to the great reality of divine love. 

—Spirit Sister Frances Banks

Collection of Images by Toni Frissell

MADE WITH LOVE BOOK SERIES

This Volume—

THE BEST OF SOME THINGS

(Collection of Images by Toni Frissell)

Luisa Rodrigues

Toni Frissell (1907—1988), American photographer, is best known for her imaginative and pioneering fashion photography, World War II photographs, and her informal portraits of the famous and powerful in the United States and Europe.

The noblest man 

In God's great plan 

Is he who will persevere, 

Through boundless love, 

Like that above, 

In deeds that live forever. 

The grandest birth 

Upon the earth 

Is not of rank or fashion, 

But one who shows 

At others ' woes 

His love and great compassion.

 

The greatest wealth, 

Debarring health, 

Which mortals can inherit, 

Produces deeds 

Surpassing creeds In grand and peerless merit. 

The grandest rule 

To learn in school Is every man's a brother, 

And always true 

To never do Injustice to another. 

The truest strife 

To have in life 

Is found in noble doing, 

Surpassing men 

In action when 

The earth with love they're strewing. 

The Godlike church 

Will ever search 

For ways to save a brother, 

And prove its creed 

In time of need 

By aiding one another. 

The noblest soul 

Will find its goal

In love and deeds fraternal, 

And when at last 

The earth is past, 

Will go to life eternal.

 

W. H. Smith, The Frailties of Humanity, and Other Poems, 1894, Irving Company Publishers, New York, The Best of Some Things, 103-107