What is a Magdalen's death?

There are certain conditions of the human mind when all things on earth seem to wear a gloomy aspect—every sound thrills the soul like a funeral knell—

Then it is that death often becomes desirable—fear vanishes—a strange, reckless daring takes possession of the human soul. 

I can no longer endure this polluting, this festering breath.

Gladly I fly to the refuge that's left me—

Merciful death—

Not sadly, tearfully,

But gladly, cheerfully,

Go to my death.

Priests may refuse to grant sanctified burial thereunto me.

Father, I thank Thee! a blessing is always held

Over the sea.

Aye, in its wildest foam.

Aye, in its thickest gloom,

Blessed is the sea!

Welcome, oh! Sea, with thy breaking and dashings

That never shall cease—

Down in thy angriest, stormiest waters,

Oh, hide me in peace!

Say to the weary face,

Come to thy resting-place,

Slumber in peace.

However great your troubles may be, remember that suide is not a panacea.

In the world of spirits, all is understood.

In the world of spirits, all is understood and judged on a wider basis—and all is understood and viewed with compassion.

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The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ

In Heaven’s Gift—Conversations Beyond the Veil, Mike’s spirit-soul urges his father, Jasper Swain, to beg, borrow or steal a copy of Levi H. Dowling's The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ—The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. In writing The Aquarian Gospel, Levi claimed it was the true story of Jesus’ life and included the lost eighteen years silent in the New Testament. Levi said he had transcribed the text of the book from The Book of God’s Remembrances, known as The Akashic Records,* as a young man in the early morning hours. The Aquarian Gospel is an uncorrupted text and is expressed in simple and familiar language.

*The Akashic Records (or The Book of God's Remembrances) are a collection of concise but detailed information of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present or future. These records are encoded in the etheric plane.

Swain, Jasper, Heaven’s Gift—Conversations Beyond the Veil, 1996, Kima Global Publishers, South Africa, 83

Levi H. Dowling, The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ—The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal, transcribed from The Book of God’s Remembrances, known as The Akashic Records, 1911, L. N. Fowler and Company, London; E. S. Dowling, Los Angeles, California

It should alter our whole conception of things.

It should tell us much, it should alter our whole conception of things, it should bring home what we have to do, what I have to do, and what all the countless millions have to do in the end, to give, and not to take.

Monument to Humanity,* Mehmet Aksoy, Kars, Turkey | Georgios Giannopoulos | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

*The Statue of Humanity was a nearly completed statue in Kars, Turkey. The monument was demolished in April 2011, only months after being criticized by then–prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as a freak or monstrosity.

Monument to Humanity Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_Humanity (accessed 18 July 2021)

It should bring home what we have to do.

It should tell us much, it should alter our whole conception of things, it should bring home what we have to do, what I have to do, and what all the countless millions have to do in the end, to give, and not to take.

Monument to Humanity,* Mehmet Aksoy, Kars, Turkey | Georgios Giannopoulos | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

*Statue of Humanity was a nearly completed statue in Kars, Turkey. The monument was demolished in April 2011, only months after being criticized by then–prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as a freak or monstrosity.

Monument to Humanity Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_Humanity (accessed 18 July 2021)

And what all the countless millions have to do.

It should tell us much, it should alter our whole conception of things, it should bring home what we have to do, what I have to do, and what all the countless millions have to do in the end, to give, and not to take.

Monument to Humanity,* Mehmet Aksoy, Kars, Turkey | Georgios Giannopoulos | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

*The Statue of Humanity was a nearly completed statue in Kars, Turkey. The monument was demolished in April 2011, only months after being criticized by then–prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as a freak or monstrosity.


Monument to Humanity Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_Humanity (accessed 18 July 2021)

What I have to do

It should tell us much, it should alter our whole conception of things, it should bring home what we have to do, what I have to do, and what all the countless millions have to do in the end, to give, and not to take.

Monument to Humanity,* Mehmet Aksoy, Kars, Turkey | Georgios Giannopoulos  | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

*Statue of Humanity was a nearly completed statue in Kars, Turkey. The monument was demolished in April 2011, only months after being criticized by then–prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as a freak or monstrosity.

Monument to Humanity Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_Humanity (accessed 18 July 2021)

In my Father's house

In my Father's house are many mansions.

Jesus

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The Laws of Spiritual Development

Every spirit, as soon as he realises that he is really to live for ever, wants to advance; as soon as the wonders and beauties of God's great laws burst upon his comprehension he searches on and on, with a longing and love that is never appeased though constantly fed.

And as he goes on he learns to transmit in some way every ray of light that he absorbs.

The sciences, or profundity of the laws taught, depend upon the spiritual plane where one is located, and the systems of education differ accordingly.

There are centres of education for all sorts of branches of knowledge on every spiritual plane, unless among very low, earth-bound spirits, who neither realise their condition nor desire to advance it; but these centres of education differ according to the development of the plane upon which they are situated. All is adapted to the needs and requirements of the plane.

Attraction governs everything. The spirit who has a great longing after music will be attracted by the melodious harmonies of some musical centre upon his plane of development. The one who earnestly desires to obtain knowledge of scientific laws will naturally gravitate to a centre where such laws are discussed and expounded.

When he has absorbed as much as he feels he can hold he will in turn go out to prove the laws, perhaps to make some new discoveries. As soon as he has accomplished anything he hastens to communicate it where it is needed, then back to some great educational centre again, or drawn by attraction, may be, to some individual, more highly-developed spirit, who as eagerly gives as he receives.

Everything is taught that anybody knows, limited only by the receiver's ability to absorb.

And the widest toleration for differing views—the most thoughtful consideration of adverse opinions—is always given and received.

A spirit is not afraid to present any side of a subject that seems to him true, nor to tell anything which he has experienced to be a fact.

Several may combine and work for long periods to perfect some invention, to prove some new discovery, to discover some missing link in a chain of laws; but when any attraction which holds the mind loses its force through completion, the ever-busy spirit must on to new attractions and new fields of discovery and advancement.

There is no such thing as monotony or weariness among enlightened spirits.

Can you comprehend the joy and exultation of a mind that never wearies and never rests?

The writer has prepared an abridged and edited copy of the original – Leaflets of Truth; or, Light from the Shadow Land (published before 1923 and now in the public domain), M. Karl, S. R. Miner (Publisher), Chicago, 1886

The Seeds of Life

The seeds of life are scattered broadcast through all the universe. Each seed contains the power of development—of evolution—within itself—it is the principle of which it is. These seeds are indestructible. 

Finding proper conditions, they begin their evolutions, ever accumulating forces as they roll on toward eternity.

It is like a boy making a mammoth snowball by rolling it in the open field; every time he turns it over it grows larger in proportion to its own size. So the faculties of mind, through each successive stage, gain from that through which they pass in proportion to their own development. After mind becomes man it has reached a development where memory may be retained, as well as a dim perception of the God-mind from which it sprang.

Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land, M. Karl, S. R. Miner, Chicago, 1886

It is Life Itself

All intelligence in life is possessed of will. It is the Will in the individual spirit that makes that spirit what it is—that makes it exist at all—it is life itself.