Forgive your enemy

Do you know the souls who stay in darkness suffer beyond description? Suppose someone you loved was in darkness; wouldn't you try to help him? Well, forgive the enemy. 

Make your mind your servant

Can you have anything you want just for the wishing and if you have faith it will be yours? Yes—Make your mind your servant.

The Rules of the Astral

Lord Kitchener's* spirit guide gives him these general rules of the Astral—

First, passing anyone without a helping hand is not permitted. Second, you must steel yourself and cultivate a certain amount of control in preventing influences of the earthbound to vibrate in your aura. Third, be careful of your thoughts, build artistic things, construct and create and be a builder. Never permit a destroying thought to exist. Fourth, be careful of your instruction. Never give advice to an earthbound being unless you know exactly what you are talking about. Fifth, guard your second astral body, it must never be allowed to come in contact with the vibration of space which surrounds your outer aura. Never allow a dark shadow to lurk within your aura. Sixth, study one particular subject and if you go back to the earth plane, try to produce a light from your training here.

*The Message—Lord Kitchener Lives (received by Ala Mana), Volume I, Grafton Publishing Corporation, California, 1922

The Lowest Grades

Dying does not necessarily end one's troubles or work. Some are so incapable, so childish, fearful and physical that they take the form of a child and have to begin in the lowest grades of the Spirit schools until they grow. 

Fate assigns the test

Do people choose what they will be and do?

No—Fate assigns the tests.

The Story of the Tree

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Reflections on a World of Thought

The Astral is a world of thought. We construct what we have and realise what we possess by our thoughts. Our thoughts produce things.

Everything we see is a reflection of our thoughts. Every object is a consequence of our thoughts, made manifest in form and each means something. In the Astral, we learn to distinguish what is best to bring out in the objective, for thoughts are things real—good or bad—according to the power we give them. They manifest themselves in many forms—they are our thoughts merely expressed in forms. We expect to see a room and we do. When we think of the room's furnishings, our thoughts form the kind of setting we like—furnishings to which we were accustomed in our physical life. Suppose you had been thrust from the physical body of the material into the astral and at that time had been living in cramped circumstances. When you came to the Astral, your thought would not have changed and immediately when you had overcome darkness and weakness, your mind would reach out and bring forth forms of your earthly existence. You would see again around you the furnishings and thought pictures of your earthly life. We bring from the earth plane, when we come here, our every thought of the material. Some are so filled with these thoughts that they believe for a long time that they are existing as they did upon the earth plane. 

The Story of the Tree (for Children)

A long time ago, there lived a Tree in a forest;

Its branches were stunted and gnarled, 

And all its leaves malformed and jagged. 

And the Tree said, 

“Why is this, 

Surely the One that planted me ought to have known better. 

I am of no good to man or beast.”





At that moment, a woodman came into the forest,

And passing by all the goodly, well-shaped trees, saying, 



“They will not serve my purpose,”

—came where the ragged, old Tree lifted up its misshapen branches to the sun.

Said he, “Why this is the very thing; this will serve my purpose well.” 

With that, he called his fellows and cut it down. 

Lo! when it had been sawn into pieces,  

The most gorgeous veins of beauty were found running through its heart, 

And the tracing was lovelier than any artist could have fashioned, 

And of it were made many beautiful articles of use 

And ornament for the King’s Palace.



THE END

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Incomprehensible

There is little that we can learn about the spheres beyond the first one. 

After the rest and strengthening of the first unity sphere, the spirit passes into one of the duality and there conflict begins again on a higher plane. Those sides of his nature which have been dormant are now quickened into new life and the spirit struggles to manifest himself more perfectly in all ways where he has been deficient. Then, greatly strengthened and enlarged, he passes into the Sphere of Action. He then becomes the Creator rather than the creature; more resembling the Lord God, which the old Hebrews worshipped but without the blemishes and limitations they imputed to their ideal Creator.

The next conflict sphere is too remote for us to clearly comprehend. Then comes, finally, the Unity in Peace, the highest which we can even faintly imagine. Here we must leave the spirit, for, without some body, some manifested form, he is to us incomprehensible.

Do not fear

Do not fear Life or Death, for both are the breath of the Divine. Fear neither loss nor gain, for the gain shall be for your brother and the loss shall only lighten your burdens.

Do not fear the mysteries of life, for those mysteries are only the depths of your own being and the key to them all is Love.

Do not fear the thorns upon your pathway, for they only protect the blossoms of your heart.

Do not fear anguish, no conflict, for the cross is encircled with the crown of victory.

Fear nothing that enables you to understand and support your brethren but with your eyes ever fixed upon the Highest, press forward on the path of destiny until the outward becomes the inward and the discordant notes of nature blend in one great Amen.