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—
05 March 2024
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—
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31 August 2021
Spirit souls don't alter fundamentally.
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In the world of spirits, all is understood.
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28 August 2021
Simple Truths | Life Review and Judgment | Adult Coloring Pages
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Simple Truths | Stretching The Mind | Adult Coloring Pages
SIMPLE TRUTHS
STRETCHING OF THE MIND
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22 August 2021
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ
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
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19 July 2021
It should alter our whole conception of things.
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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.
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And what all the countless millions have to do.
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)
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What I have to do
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29 April 2015
In my Father's house
Interior of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg—Thomas Bresson—Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported |
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01 March 2014
The soul's highest good
So when you ask, on what general conditions of earth life depend the soul's highest good in spirit life? our answer must be the conditions depend upon the mental status of the spirit which is to be developed.
But there is a greater fact which too often earthly minds fail to perceive at all. This is that both the body and mind of a man (or woman) may receive a very high degree of development while yet the spirit remains comparatively dormant—its development being very little advanced by all its earthly career.
This is a mysterious thing, and the saddest thing in all earth life—that a man may have mental powers polished, cultivated and capable until they are almost Godlike in their power and mastering grasp upon the science and laws of nature, upon minds which are less developed than his own, upon his own bodily appetites and pleasures, and yet have less spiritual perception and development than the child who carries her apron full of flowers, her sympathetic eyes, her loving smiles, to some uncouth, bed-ridden unfortunate!
But you must not judge the man. His own spirit is yet small who dares to do that.
What earthly mind, by looking upon its fellow, can tell what may have been the environments, the crushing disappointments, the unfed hungerings for spiritual necessities—yes, and the pre-natal influences which have left its poor spirit room for so little development—which may have so stunted or warped it from its ultimate possibilities? The one great in spirit is ready to weep with compassion over the struggles, the sorrows, the stumbling, at the sinfulness of such a low-spirited nature; but it never disdains, rejects, or relishes its sufferings. It longs to give plenteously of the light which it has been permitted to receive, and has its patience whetted by the sorrowfulness of the fact, that the other, so enshrouded in darkness, is unable to receive.
The soul's highest good in the spirit life, then, does depend upon the conditions of its earth life. But woe and alas! it cannot make its own conditions of life any more than the babe can choose of whom it shall be born.
But every spirit (as soon as it wakens to a perception of itself and its needs) may modify or advance its conditions. This is purely a spiritual matter. But each of the three-fold natures in man are typical. As the muscles of the arm are strengthened, hardened and developed by constant use so is the spirit advanced by its own efforts in the perception and rendering of spiritual things—its loyalty and truth to itself—to its conception of what is highest, and best and purest in itself; by sustaining itself by prayer, by the perception of God's spirit in nature as in man; by the influx of strength that flows to it from eyes that look into its own with gratitude; by the consciousness of its own unwavering integrity of purpose; by any of the various ways by which through different minds the spiritual man is developed.
As the earthly mind can only find expression through the earthly body, so the spirit can only find expression through the soul or mind. Hence it is that the greatest mind gives evidences of the greatest spirit—when it shall have become developed. No very great, powerful, well-balanced mind ever found expression through a feeble, misshapen, imperfectly developed body; and no sweet, pure, inspiring spirit ever found its way through an ill-balanced, stubborn, arrogant, selfish, undisciplined mind. Thus you see the three-fold nature of man must develop in harmony in earth life to reach its greatest perfection there, and thus, when transplanted, to be in its highest good in spirit life.
What one generation has learned advances the next. When man's mental powers have grasped the facts of what bodily conditions are best to his mind's peace and enlargement, and when he has subjected the body to the dominion of the mind, then will the perfection and perception of the spirit break through and govern both.
So the highest development which the spirit can attain in earth life is wrought through the good which it is able to accomplish in the world for humanity, the uplifts which it can in any way give toward a more spiritualised existence.
It may be through inventions, which economise labour and give more room for the cultivation of mind, in place of the hard, unending toil for bread. It may be in art, which enlarges the perceptions and often teaches lessons which no words could do. It may be in science, which opens up the labyrinths of different laws and truths to an astonished world. It may be in any way that assists mankind to a higher plane than that to which his brute nature would consign him.
But every person has it not, in the possibilities of their nature, to even approach such results. Very true. But every person has it within him, if he will, to be considerate, just and kind, and thus he helps, thus he sustains those at greater heights than himself, who are burning out their bodies to furnish fuel for their mind's action. Thus the father and the mother impress the seeds of righteousness in the mind of the unborn babe, and afterward teach the law of love to their children.
Exchange of love, exchange of sympathy, and a helping hand to one who is stumbling or in distress, is a development of both soul and spirit, one that is reciprocal.
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
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The Laws of Spiritual Development
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25 February 2014
The Great Law of Attraction
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23 February 2014
The kingdom of heaven is within you
This is why you should love God, and love to do his will, who first loved you—loved you infinitely more with compassion than the most tender mother loves and guides her tottling babe.
Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land, M. Karl, S. R. Miner, Chicago, 1886
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The Seeds of Life
Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land, M. Karl, S. R. Miner, Chicago, 1886
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Cosmos Force
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It is Life Itself
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What is God?
Leaflets of Truth or Light from the Shadow Land, M. Karl, S. R. Miner, Chicago, 1886
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