07 October 2017
Trust me in this
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No Greater Happiness
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Testing Stages
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In the Sight of God
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In God's Sight
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05 October 2017
The Breath of the Divine
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A Message from the First Unity Sphere
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Creature and Creator
The Conditions of Time and Space in the Spiritual World
It is not the power of thinking of ourselves as a separate entity that now passes away, but it is the discord that is merged in harmony and the sense of impotency that vanishes, being replaced by the strength that comes from this true unity. The consciousness that we cannot do the good we wish, nor refrain from the weakness that we despise—all such discords pass away in the unity spheres—the spirit was being prepared for it in the Hades state, for there it found the will could do much, now it can do all things.
United to me ye can do all things, severed from me ye can do nothing.
The man, though at peace with himself, is not yet perfect—there are still many traits to be developed, and perhaps some evil yet to be burned away—how, then, can there be this concord; has light any agreement with darkness? The imperfect and undeveloped parts of his being are in abeyance and remain so for a while until he passes into the next sphere; while those parts that are ripe are strengthened and brought into play. So the words of John, or rather of Jesus to John, may be understood.
He that is holy, he that is righteous and he that is filthy, let him be so still.
This is the time, or rather this is the point in the soul’s history spoken of in John’s revelation, when evil is bound for a thousand years, and when the redeemed part of the man enters the perfect state (typified by the 144,000 who wear white robes)—while that part, which is yet imperfect, remains in abeyance, and is spoken of as cast into the fire, or left without the gates of the city. The perfection is partial, though complete as far as it goes. There comes a pause in the conflict with the evil and discordant elements, and in the calm and sunlight of this peace, he grows and is strengthened rapidly.
Though he is no longer out of harmony with his surroundings, his powers may be taxed to their utmost, but not beyond; the strength is always sufficient to the day, and he grows as a plant might, the surroundings of which were perfectly suited to its needs. All his powers are living, in motion, not intermittently but constantly—this is a very high development of life.
The spirit does not need to help his brother; he is help. He does not love his neighbour, he is love. He does not show mercy; he is mercy. No sun of benevolence shines in the city of his spirit; he himself, the Lamb, the Man is the light thereof. No sea of cleansing pity breaks on the shore of his being, for he himself is pity. From his spirit’s centre, all rays go forth; yet they are not cut off from him—the rays are himself, and he is the rays. One does not say to his brother I and thou, for thou and I are one, and there is no difference.
Yet there is nothing vague, hazy, passionless, in this state; the man, as he grows more and more into God is not less alive, but more—the infinite contains in itself the finite, and God has the man in his bosom.
This new being is well typified by the Seer who, when he wants to illustrate the vision, speaks of the spirit as all eyes within and without, and when he speaks of motion and activity speaks of him as all wheels within wheels; that perfect circle of life whose centre is absolute rest.
Further, the pneuma does not make his environment, he and it is one. He does not make anything, he creates, and he is at once the creature and the creator—
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23 September 2017
The Great Power of Insight
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Soul-impressions
Soul-impressions are in the main correct, for spirit life is a mingling of the old and the new; the past and the present; not yet wholly spirit, nor wholly of earth, spirit-souls partake of both natures. Like a girl who is just between childhood and womanhood may be a child one day and a woman the next; or like a dragonfly just emerging from its case comes out with wings, it is true, but they are folded ones, and for a time that bears some proportion to his short life he seems rather to crawl on these folded wings, as if he were a grub, than to open them and fly away.
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Transition
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Harmony of Nature
“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895
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What is your brithright?
And I was caught up in the third heaven and heard things impossible to utter.
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The Vital Spirit
—Rev. iv., 2—11
—Chap. v., 1—7
—Chap. v., 1—2
Another seal is broken—his experience widens, but this time, it is not the triumphant march of the conquerer, but the cry of defeat; while he learns through loss and through conflict, through the wounds of sin and the loss of self-esteem how to conquer in a truer way.
—Rev. vi., 3 and 4
—Chap. vi., 5 and 6
—Chap. vi., 12—17
—Chap. viii., i
“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895
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The experience of the soul before it enters the third life
—Rev. iv., 2—11
—Chap. v., 1—7
—Chap. v., 1—2
Another seal is broken—his experience widens, but this time, it is not the triumphant march of the conquerer, but the cry of defeat; while he learns through loss and through conflict, through the wounds of sin and the loss of self-esteem how to conquer in a truer way.
—Rev. vi., 3 and 4
—Chap. vi., 5 and 6
—Chap. vi., 12—17
—Chap. viii., i
“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side, David Stott, London, 1895
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