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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 aspectevery sound thrills the soul like a funeral knell—

Then it is that death often becomes desirablefear vanishesa 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.

31 August 2021

Spirit souls don't alter fundamentally.

Spirit-souls don’t alter fundamentally. But, bit by bit, they move away from earth ideas and limitations and advance more into Light and Wisdom.


The centre third of Education (1890), a stained-glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, located in Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University. It depicts Science (personified by Devotion, Labour, Truth, Research and Intuition) and Religion (personified by Purity, Faith, Hope, Reverence and Inspiration) in harmony, presided over by the central personification of Light·Love·Life | Sage Ross

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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28 August 2021

Simple Truths | Life Review and Judgment | Adult Coloring Pages

SIMPLE TRUTHS

AS ONE THINKS, ONE IS.

There is no compulsion to review one’s past life on earth as soon as one arrives and the new life begins. Some take a long while to tackle the problem. They dread to see the effects of mistakes and failures.

THE CONVICTION THAT ONE HAS FAILED IN THE LAST ROUND HAUNTS THE SOUL.

Some get stuck—these undergo a kind of mental and spiritual psychiatry—and spiritual helpers devote their love and thought, their skill and experience to aiding the stumblers until their course has become clear (both past and possible future) and they have been able to rectify the places in the chain where they have failed.


THE CREATION—THE FIFTH DAY (from Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum. Nümberg—Anton Koberger, 1493) (December 2016) | Trento Municipal Library | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

IN THE DEEPS OF ONE’S OWN MIND

Two blueprints are brought forward into the spirit-soul’s consciousness. These are so clear that the spirit-soul can literally take them out, materialise and study them. One is the Perfect Idea with which the spirit-soul went bravely into incarnation. The other is the resultant of only a partially understood Plan—the life, as it was actually lived.


Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) | Trento Municipal Library

A SALUTARY EXPERIENCE

It is a shock to the spirit-soul to find that these two plans, that is, the Life Review and Judgement, differ exceedingly.

The blueprints resemble maps, with coloured places, and light and dark patches, and a kind of glowing sun for the highlights. The mind looks at the whole comparison and sets the blueprints side by side. This is the first shock—a true humbling of oneself to find that one did so little when one would have done so much; that one went wrong so often when one was sure that one was right.

And yet, one learns so much by facing the results.


Mary Somerville1884 | Popular Science Monthly Volume 25

YOURS IS THE JUDGMENT

During this experience, the whole cycle of the spirit-soul’s life-term unfolds before it in a kaleidoscopic series of pictures. During this crisis, the spirit-soul seems to be entirely alone. It stands at its own bar of judgement, making its own decisions and taking its own blame. It is the accused, the judge and the jury.

This is where quite a few souls become immobilised. Their pictures are too searing in their exposures. They remain prisoners of the self until they have made the inner desire to right their wrongs.

Immediately the spirit-soul becomes ready to face itself again, it is guided to these beautiful and peaceful homes.

The second stage of this recapitulation starts when the spirit-soul feels strong enough and calmed sufficiently to take the earth life, round by round (so-to-speak). Then the blueprints are brought into the mind again; only this time the start is made from the moment of departure from the body. The mind works slowly backwards through its experiences. Now the spirit-soul seems no longer alone.

Someone is beside it. Only now, as the spirit-soul ponders, works out, goes over, tabulates and judges what it did AND WHY AND WHAT WERE THE RESULTS—good or bad—the spirit-soul is aware of a great Being beside it, giving strength, peace, tranquillity and helping with constructive criticism. This is a wonderful experience, though harrowing at times. But very cleansing and bringing new hope.

The Sisters in the Home help the stumblers—many get stuck on their first picture—and try to link up with these great ones and bring help and strength to the stumblers’ level. The soul cannot move on until it has literally seen the Light or at least as much of the Light as it can assimilate at its present stage.


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Simple Truths | Stretching The Mind | Adult Coloring Pages

SIMPLE TRUTHS


STRETCHING OF THE MIND


Spirit-souls still have the same experiences, the same problems, the same hopes, with even greater and wider aspirations for work; only now do they view them from an entirely different angle and with far greater dawning comprehension.

They learn to apprehend the meaning of much that happened to them. They see it as a background Pattern and begin to realise the effects of their thoughts and to view the events that were set in motion by these very thoughts and ideas.


Consciousness is on an upward spiral and progresses onwards.


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The rope of one’s character has to be tested at its weakest part.

22 August 2021

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


19 July 2021

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

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

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

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 by Mehmet Aksoy in Kars, Turkey | Georgios Giannopoulos (Ggia) | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported  *Statue of Humanity (Turkish: İnsanlık Anıtı, Armenian: Մարդկության հուշարձան) 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 (accessed 18 July 2021)

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)

29 April 2015

In my Father's house

In my Father's house are many mansions.

Jesus

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01 March 2014

The soul's highest good

The soul's highest good in spirit life depends on the development to which it attains in earth life.

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.

Man is three-fold in his nature. In man's three-fold development we find what is called body, soul or mind, and spirit.

It is not difficult for any intelligent, watchful mind on earth to observe the reactive influences of mind and body. The best health and development of the one tends to the best health and development of the other.

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

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

25 February 2014

The Great Law of Attraction

Attraction governs everything.

The Wawona tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, California  
Keystone View Co.

23 February 2014

The kingdom of heaven is within you

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.

And, strangely enough, it is only then that rebellion against God occurs; in this transitional state of the soul, it is as if, feeling the spiritual quickening before the birth into the true heirship of the sons of God, the soul were loth to leave its slow, crude condition of mere cosmos force, wherein its odic faculties have lain dormant.

Nothing below man rebels at its appointments. And nothing above man (for earth-bound spirits are not above him) rebels, but delights and loves to do and discover the will of God.

This is why God so loves the world—so pities it with infinite compassion—when man in that state first struggles with his dim perceptions of good and evil.

This is why he sent his prophets, and his Messiah, and why he still sends his spirits of light, and will continue to send them until all of mankind is redeemed—that is, become fully developed into the perception and joy of being children of God.

There is nothing in all the spheres so gratifying to souls of advanced spirits as being able to minister unto the souls of poor earth-bound ones (whether in earthly form or out of it), and lead them onward toward their glorious heirship into the kingdom of heaven. (You know Christ said, 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.

This is why you should love your neighbour as yourself, to help him and do him no wrong, because thus you advance your own soul into that kingdom of love and peace which is not of earth.

This is why the witness of Christ's divinity is true, because of his knowledge of these eternal truths at a time when men on the earth were struggling in greater darkness and ignorance than now. And when the spirits of men, freed from their earthly form, yet found few rays of light to lead them.

It is true that he taught no new thing in his commandments, and the substance of the same thought is taught by all prophets of any people; neither can any spirit bring a newer or truer thought to man than the one incomprehensible, immeasurable thought of God's love to all that he has created, and that we should love him, and love to do his will, that we may grow ever to be more like him.

As we acquire of his nature, so may we acquire of his knowledge, and thus of his power.

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

Cosmos Force

The tree loses nothing by the seeds which naturally fall; they are merely excesses of its own vitality. So we may suppose the great I AM loses nothing of force, or possibilities, or power, by endowing us, his spiritual children, continually being born into the world, with this will force, or by constantly perpetuating the Cosmos Force, which he has caused.

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.

What is God?

What is God? He is the Will of the universe, as He is the Light of the world. That which can create. That Which works over all, through all, in all. For were any not possessed of the spiritual essence of the Creator, there would be no life in them.

The light, the warmth, the electricity, the life of the world, are the emanations from that which creates and perpetuates. This spiritual essence is the intelligent Will of the universe. That from which all life comes.

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