The Fairies

 Oh! earth that is sobbing, like a child in its sleep.

Oh! Brothers who suffer with pain fierce and deep.

Stand still in the ruin your passions have wrought.

Take count of the guerdon greed and sorrow have brought.

If your heart sinks despairing in the mystical calm,

List to God's choir; its echoes bring balm.

The fire but purifies; strife ends in peace.

Hosanna! Hosanna! the carnage must cease.

Lift up your voices, the day is at hand.

No more of sorrow to this happy land.

Realms of the Living Dead—A Brief Description of Life After Death, Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, the Curtiss Philosophic Book Company, Washington D. C., 1926

Fairies' Kiss

From a Nymph

A kiss upon your lips dear Brother that shall make you speak kind words.

A kiss on the lips for you dear Sister that shall make you speak pure and beautiful words.

A kiss upon the lips of you dear Priestess that shall make you speak for us. For all the Little People shall show to mortals how we are made up; made out of light, sunshine and joy and happiness. When mortals let in our forces then we draw close. And the more light, joy and sunshine and happiness they let in, the more we come and dance in their hearts and shine from out their eyes, till mortals see us dancing in the light, just as you see motes dancing in a sunbeam.

From a Salamander

A kiss upon the lips for thee, Brother, that thou shall speak fiery words of strength and power.

A kiss upon the lips for thee, Sister, that the strength of Love shall fill thee; that thy lips shall smile always.

A kiss on the lips for thee, dear Priestess that the Flame shall manifest in thy heart and life, consuming all the dross and purifying the love that humanity lays at thy feet.

We have come again

Light of the Flame.

Joy we bring to thee

Out of the Flame.

From a Sylph

A kiss on the lips for you dear Brother, soft as a zephyr's touch, filling thy heart with tenderness, filling thy life with joy.

What a kiss on thy lips dear Sister!

Like the wind from Fairyland,

Blowing away all doubts and fears.

All loneliness throughout the years;

Filling thy life with tenderness,

Wiping away all tears;

Watching near thee ever, ever,

Throughout the long, long years.

A kiss on thy lips, dear Priestess. A kiss that takes not gives. A kiss that is filled with sweetness, a kiss on which we live. Oh, breathe out thy Spirit in loving. Oh bind up thy heart in joy. Think only of the joys of giving; thy years full of love employ.

Life is full of loving

Life is full of joy

Whispers the breeze of loving

Whispering to girl and boy.

Sweet little nestlings are waiting.

The springtime draweth near.

Open thy heart with loving

For the joy of the springtime is here,

For the joy of the springtime is here.

From a Gnome

A kiss of Earth to dear Master

I bring you my wealth and my store.

I have but a pick o'er my shoulder

But I lay all its gifts at thy door.

A kiss on thy lips dear Sister

And out of the earth comes cheer,

Plenty and life-giving forces

To save you from sorrow and fear.

Out of the darkness of winter,

When the snow and the ice are gone,

The storehouse of Nature shall fill you.

You shall gather her wealth in your barn.

A kiss on your lips dear Priestess,

Earth's angels are whispering now.

Out of its bosom comes healing,

Out of its breath comes balm.

Balm for a spirit distracted,

Life for the flesh ill at ease,

Priestess of mercy and goodness

The earth brings a blessing to seize.

Realms of the Living Dead—A Brief Description of Life After Death, Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, the Curtiss Philosophic Book Company, Washington D. C., 1926

Those who refuse to learn

Those who refuse to learn and refuse to exercise self-discipline in this life will lay the foundation for psychopathic and paranoid conditions in a future life.

Realms of the Living Dead—A Brief Description of Life After Death, Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, the Curtiss Philosophic Book Company, Washington D. C., 1926

Thoughts tend to result in action

Every thought entertained tends to result in action unless counteracted by a contrary thought of equal power. This applies to all suggestions either from without or within. For instance, carrying a gun suggests the right to kill at your discretion and the temptation to do so is continually present, only waiting the opportunity for expression. We should, therefore, not only resist temptations to respond to suggestions which we do not wish to execute but should take gains to avoid placing ourselves in positions where such temptations are suggested. 

Put your failures behind you

Put your failures behind you and determine to try harder next time. Never mourn or even pray over your failures, for to do so is to dwell upon them and strengthen them by your thought-force. Rather rouse your will to fighting pitch and determine that next time you will conquer, then put the matter entirely out of mind and shut the door upon it.

Guard thou the door of thy heart

Guard thou the door of thy heart.

Hold fast

Have faith and hold fast to the hand of the loving Christ and rest in the absolute understanding that whatever comes is best because it is your place and the place where you can overcome the hard conditions and learn their lessons.

The Teacher

Look deeply into your own personal life

One of the most difficult parts of the Path, which goes with us practically all the way is the ability to look deeply into our own personal life and unflinchingly recognise our own shortcomings and to try, through the power of the Christ within us, to transmute them into good.

The Teacher

The thing we dread

Remember that the thing we dread is really drawn to us.

The Pattern of All Things

The pattern of all things exists in the Divine Realm, and to manifest on Earth it must pass down through all realms, building around the pattern the substance of each particular realm through which it is passing. This is true of the tiniest seed which grows in the Earth and is equally true of the Soul of man which descends to manifest on Earth.

The Teacher

Into the Path of Wisdom

The man who sins otherwise than through ignorance is a fool because the teaching is there for him to follow, and there is forever held out to him the hand of Divine Love which will lead him into perfect understanding and perfect co-ordination with Divine Love and forgiveness. We like to say, instead of forgiving sin, that God is so Divine that He overlooks our foolishness and leads us gently but firmly and unwaveringly through no matter how much suffering ultimately into the Path of Wisdom.

The Teacher

The whole object of life

The Father is ever ready to forgive our sin or mistake provided we are ready to acknowledge it and try to correct it. But forgiving us for making a mistake does not mean that we will not have to reap its results, for as we sow so shall we reap. If through disobedience a child is burned the parents readily forgive it and love it all the more because of its suffering, but in spite of the forgiveness the child must still suffer the pain of the burn. Once we understand that every event in life is calculated to bring to the mind of him whom, for the sake of understanding, we will call the sinner, the mistakes he has made and the reasons for them, then there is no question of not being forgiven. Through such recognition does man grow, for the whole object of life is for man to understand himself and to know why he makes these mistakes.

The Teacher

Outpouring of Divine Life, Love and Wisdom

What we call the Christ is the outpouring of Divine Life, Love and Wisdom which is expressed in the story of Jesus the Christ.

The only true religion

It does not matter whether we belong to any so-called religion; as long as we recognise the everlasting Divine Life-power which emanates from the Godhead, we are in truth worshipping the Christ. Some call it Christ, some Krishna, some Buddha, etc. Yet all represent the same underlying cosmic principle or ideal. And to be true to this universal ideal and seek to let it manifest in your life is the only true religion. The name by which we call it does not matter—just as all humanity are God's children and it does not matter whether we call them John or Harry or any other name.

The Teacher

To love the Christ

To love the Christ we must let His force manifest through us.

The same great Avatar

Jesus the Christ as the Savior of humanity is the same great Avatar in His universal aspect as the Light and Life and Son of His Father, manifesting through this world, through all creatures and all things as that Power which is forever drawing them upward and Godward. Therefore, in one sense the two are one. Yet as Jesus He seems to come closer to us because Jesus was the human aspect in which He manifested. If we recognise that in reality the Christ manifests through the Higher Self of each Soul passing through its pilgrimage of Earth and lifting up all the events of Earth, then in very truth He is closer and we can call on Him to enter into us and help us to pass through all our trials.

The Teacher

Divine Outpouring

The way to gain a full and clear knowledge of the Christ is to seek Him in your heart. And when it warms at the thought and you feel that great love filling you, say to yourself, This is true. This very love that is in me is the outpouring of His heart, and I can draw close to Him only through love. I can know and will know my Beloved more and more only as I seek for Him within myself and also in my brothers and sisters; only as I try to live true, to watch for Truth, to take no subterfuge, to listen to words of love which come in His messages to mankind; only as I refuse to take as His anything that does not measure up to this divine outpouring of Christ-light in the world.

The Teacher

Spark of Divinity

When any Soul has honestly and sincerely tried to draw close to the Christ, that Soul finds Him, not in the personality of a man crucified ages ago, but within himself, a very spark of Divinity and oneness with the Father.

The Teacher

We have all eternity to grow in

God never expects any of His children to believe or to do that which to them at their stage of development seems impossible. He knows well that we are but children and that we will grow both in understanding and in love and in appreciation of the Christ. We have all eternity to grow in, for we are told most positively that Jesus the Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

The Teacher

Spiritual Things

Realise that spiritual things must be spiritually discerned.