Fundamental Laws

Every thought that we contemplate or repeat we feed and give power over us.

There is no death

There is no death to the immortal Soul and the change called death is but the taking off of a dense outer garment of flesh.

Invocation—Evening Prayer

O divine and loving Father, as we rest through the darkness on thy breast, help us to draw close to thee in love, and to realise the almighty power of thy divine Son filling and comforting us. For as the earth and air retain the magnetic and life-giving forces of the sun to bring forth for the new day as it withdraws each night, so may we retain in our Souls through the darkness the light and warmth of his shining, knowing that as the sun rises for the new day we too shall rise stronger, truer, sweeter and more beautiful because we have rested in thy love in abiding faith and trust.

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

As above, so below

As above, so below. As in the cosmos, so in man.

A vision of the coming Avatar

The word is spoken.

The sable curtains of the darkness part.

He who dwells in everlasting radiance comes forth.

With Him, rank on rank, angelic Beings move in ever-widening circles.

Transcendent, ever-changing hues of Light 

With blinding radiance intoxicate the air.

From angelic harps rich melody rolls onward.

The very echoes of yon planet, earth, tremble with ecstasy

And with delirious joy sink into silence profound and awesome.

What bodes it me, an humble child of earth, 

That I behind the veil may glimpse?

Who art Thou, Lord? whom to Thy shepherds thus appeareth?

I dare not look.

My weary world-worn eyes I cannot lift.

Yet rests thy crown of glory on my brow.

Light of the World, forever shining,

Though streaming tears thy radiance hide.

Sun of my Soul, forever near

Lift up my heart in adoration

And there abide for aye.

Deep in my empty heart ent'ring;

All Love Divine and Wisdom cent'ring,

My Saviour, Lord, I'm lost in Thee.

Empty Thine arms, with blessings laden,

Grant me the boon to bear them on.

Thus spake my Soul.

From out the Silence, rolling thunder.

And many Voices cried Amen! Amen!

The heavenly hosts are stilled as Thou draw'st near.

Aye! E'en the harmony divine in silence dies when Thou appear'st.

Grant me to rest in Thy bright shining.

Forth from the hosts angelic a Being speaks—

Still, O earth, thy heart! The Lord Christ cometh.

He passeth by; and thrills the farthest region

Where waves of death beat earth's dark shore.

The darkness flees, by glory vanquished.

The day of blood and steel and death is o'er.

Silent, still and empty. Naught of earth remaining.

Only Thy joy and peace and love abiding.

Sun of my Soul, shine on! Shine on!

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

The Annunciation

Reach out your hands, blessings are falling

Open your ears, the angels are calling.

Open your hearts, O children of earth!

Wake! For today comes the heavenly birth.

Over this land there is centred a star

That reaches to earth its rays from afar.

Lift up your brows and a diadem weave

Out of the stardust, sorrow's reprieve.

Onward courageously walk through your task,

Only the guerdon of Love shall you ask.

For unto you this day is it given

To sit at meat with your Father-in-Heaven.

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

He that believeth on me

He that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

St John, xi, 25-26

The power of The Christ-light

Learn to rely upon the power of The Christ-light within yourself for protection and guidance.

Cultivate Discrimination

Learn to cultivate discrimination, good judgment and common sense.

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