What is able to pass judgment upon itself?

The wonderful phenomenon of the review of the past life of the soul―that great panorama, which passes before the mental vision of the soul, as it sinks into the soul-slumber really occupies but an infinitesimal moment of time—a moment so brief that it can scarcely be spoken of as a point in time. 

Yet in this brief moment, the soul witnesses the panorama of the life it has passed on earth. 

Scene after scene―of infancy to old age―passes before it in review. 

The most insignificant incident is reproduced with as much fidelity to detail as is the greatest event. 

The subconscious planes of memory unfold their secrets to the last—nothing is reserved or withheld. 

Moreover, the soul by its awakened spiritual discernment is able to know the meaning, cause, and consequence of every event in its life. 

It is able to analyse and to pass judgment upon itself and its acts. 

Like an omniscient and impartial judge, it judges itself. 

The result of this process is that the acts of your past life are concentrated and impressed upon the records of the soul―there to become as seeds, which will produce better fruit in the future. 

These seeds serve to bear the fruits of future character in future lives—at least, so far as the acquired characteristics and desires will admit of.

In ordinary dreams, time is practically reduced to a small unit―

In the review of the past-life of the soul, the process of concentration is intensified―

The single point of time covers the period of the longest life.

The soul carries with it into its slumber-state a concentrated record of its entire life, including the seeds of its desires―ambitions―likes and dislikes―attractions and repulsions. 

These seed-ideas soon begin to sprout and bear blossom and fruit. 

Not only in future incarnations are these manifest, but also in the life of the soul on the Astral.

For kind Nature does not impose on the soul the task of living out and outliving all of its tendencies in future incarnations, but so arranges that many of these strong impulses will be manifested and wornout on the Astral, so that the soul may leave them behind when it is reborn into a new earth-life. 

And it is toward this fruition that the soul-slumber serves. 

During the soul-sleep, the soul is prepared for its entrance into Astral life and manifestation. 

The soul-slumber is just as necessary for the soul in this stage of its progress, as is the slumber of the unborn babe in the womb of its mother.

Life Beyond Death

What is the review of the past-life of the soul?

The wonderful phenomenon of the review of the past life of the soul―that great panorama, which passes before the mental vision of the soul, as it sinks into the soul-slumber really occupies but an infinitesimal moment of time—a moment so brief that it can scarcely be spoken of as a point in time. 

Yet in this brief moment, the soul witnesses the panorama of the life it has passed on earth. 

Scene after scene―of infancy to old age―passes before it in review. 

The most insignificant incident is reproduced with as much fidelity to detail as is the greatest event. 

The subconscious planes of memory unfold their secrets to the last—nothing is reserved or withheld. 

Moreover, the soul by its awakened spiritual discernment is able to know the meaning, cause, and consequence of every event in its life. 

It is able to analyse and to pass judgment upon itself and its acts. 

Like an omniscient and impartial judge, it judges itself. 

The result of this process is that the acts of your past life are concentrated and impressed upon the records of the soul―there to become as seeds, which will produce better fruit in the future. 

These seeds serve to bear the fruits of future character in future lives—at least, so far as the acquired characteristics and desires will admit of.

In ordinary dreams, time is practically reduced to a small unit―

In the review of the past-life of the soul, the process of concentration is intensified―

The single point of time covers the period of the longest life.

The soul carries with it into its slumber-state a concentrated record of its entire life, including the seeds of its desires―ambitions―likes and dislikes―attractions and repulsions. 

These seed-ideas soon begin to sprout and bear blossom and fruit. 

Not only in future incarnations are these manifest, but also in the life of the soul on the Astral.

For kind Nature does not impose on the soul the task of living out and outliving all of its tendencies in future incarnations, but so arranges that many of these strong impulses will be manifested and wornout on the Astral, so that the soul may leave them behind when it is reborn into a new earth-life. 

And it is toward this fruition that the soul-slumber serves. 

During the soul-sleep, the soul is prepared for its entrance into Astral life and manifestation. 

The soul-slumber is just as necessary for the soul in this stage of its progress, as is the slumber of the unborn babe in the womb of its mother.

Life Beyond Death

Is the very world of material substance real?

You are so grounded in materiality that you do not realise that at the last, there can be nothing more unreal—more dreamlike—more transitory—more phantasmal—than this very world of material substance. 

You are not aware that in your very world of material substance, there is absolutely no permanence—

The mind itself is not quick enough to catch a glimpse of material reality, for, before the mind can grasp a material fact, the fact has merged into something else. 

The world of mind, and still truer, the world of spirit is far more real than is the world of materiality. 

From the spiritual viewpoint, there is nothing at all real, but spirit, and matter is regarded as the most fleeting and unreal of all illusory appearances. 

From the same viewpoint, the higher in the scale you rise above the material plane, the more real becomes the phenomena experienced. 

Therefore, it follows that the experiences of the soul on the higher Astral are not only not unreal in nature, but by comparison are far more real than the experiences of life on the material plane. 

Nature is not cheated on the Astral—

Nature herself manifests with more real effect on that plane than on the material plane.

Life Beyond Death

How do you bring your mind into accord with the divine will?

Bring your mind, desires and will into accord with the divine will by prayer and good deeds.

Is the body an entity?

Nothing really dies. 

What is called death―even of the smallest and apparently most inanimate thing―is merely a change of form and condition of the energy and activities, which constitute it. 

Even the body does not die, in the strict sense of the word. 

The body is not an entity―

It is merely an aggregation of cells, and these cells are merely material vehicles for a certain form of energy, which animates and vitalises them. 

When the soul passes from the body, the units composing the body manifest repulsion for each other―in place of the attraction, which formerly held them together. 

The unifying force, which has held them together withdraws its power, and the reverse activity is manifested. 

―Yogi Ramacharaka

There is only one Mind.

There is only One Mind, and that Mind is God.

Allow nothing else to enter.

Keep your mind open only to good and allow nothing else to enter.

Keep your mind open only to good.

Inasmuch as ye follow the words of the Truth thou shalt never lose thy self-control and advancement. 

Keep your mind open only to good and allow nothing else to enter.

Have faith in prayer.

Have faith in prayer. 

Ask, and you will be helped. 

The One Great Mind knows all―

Ask in prayer for your guidance.

Pray almost without ceasing

Pray almost without ceasing. 

Be wonderfully true to that faith, which you possess. 

Never doubt. 

The One Mind―God―will heed you because you have faith.

Evil one, be cast out!

Queen Elizabeth leads Queen Mary to Lord Kitchener's side. 

As he is about to ask her some questions and tell her about his experiences in the astral, he refrains, for her face suddenly goes pale and her eyes widen. 

Lord Kitchener turns and looks around. 

The room is in tense silence. 

What meets Lord Kitchener's eyes causes a little tremor to pass through him. 

There is a tall being standing in the doorway. 

Her hair, mixed with grey and gold, straggles about her. 

Her eyes stare wide. 

She is uncertain―her hands twitch as they clasp and unclasp. 

She looks around the room in a shifty, disturbing, yet pitiful manner. 

Her gown of faded blue hang in rags and tatters. 

Her feet are sandalled. 

Her face is ash-grey―it hurts to look upon it, and yet in her strange wild face is sensitive beauty.

Lord Kitchener takes a step towards her―pity makes him―

He holds out his hand to her as she sways. 

But Queen Mary touches his arm—

Wait, she says, in a tense, low voice. 

The woman holds out her arms. 

Queen Mary steps forward. 

What do you want? she asks clearly.

The woman smiles queerly. 

Have you seen my little boy?

Queen Mary shakes her head slowly―no, she replies.

The woman gives a sob. 

I—I have looked everywhere.

Queen Mary steps nearer. 

What does your little boy look like?

The woman stands still. 

For some time her face is practically blank. 

Then she smiles―a smile, which lights her whole face.

He is a very pretty little boy with golden hair and blue—blue eyes. 

I used to tell him they were like the faraway skies. 

She pauses―

So loving, too, just a dear little boy, but he is not here?

She looks about again. 

Despair comes into her piteous face. 

Queen Mary steps forward. 

Your little boy is not here, but how did you get in?

The woman moans―

Oh, I go everywhere to find my little son—he is all I have—I am so lonely. 

She steps forward. 

Queen Mary reaches her side. 

You poor, lost soul.

The woman sighs. 

No, no, I am not lost, just my little boy, and I cannot find him.

Queen Mary holds her close. 

We shall find him.

She draws the woman into her arms. 

She utters these words―

Evil one, be cast out!

The woman utters a cry at her words. 

I am dying—all is dark, she exclaims.

Queen Mary holds the woman. 

Yes, you evil one, your wickedness is dead. 

This soul is free. 

The woman becomes suddenly limp and sinks forward. 

Queen Mary holds her up. 

Two men enter the room and carry the woman out. 

Queen Mary says―

Take her to my home. 

She stands a moment silent and motionless―the colour leaves her face, even to her lips. 

She exclaims―

Go, you evil one―learn the goodness of God.

Lord Kitchener sees a shadowy form slink away from the woman―the colour rushes into her face. 

Queen Mary turns to him, saying―

Dear Friend, a worthy mission takes me away. 

Queen Elizabeth says to him―

That woman was obsessed. 

Mary ordered the evil one away―now the woman will recover her own mind and her soul will come into her astral body.

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

Demand freedom.

The soul has to reincarnate until knowledge of better things is firmly established in the consciousness. 

Punishment is interpreted as adjustment. 

The laws of the spirit are that each being must overcome, and when he has conquered personal selfishness, he need not return to the earth for progression. 

The adjustments assigned to the being are not given to injure―or cause sorrow or pain―but to bring out the needful quality, which then asserts itself and makes the soul stand up under all suffering to demand freedom, and overcome all the defects to which it is subject. 

It is impossible to enter the Circle of the Master until you have learned to overcome and be as nearly perfect, as the reflection of the great Mind can be. 

Life is complicated, and only through learning lessons, and possessing a pure, free consciousness can you approximate the Master's wishes. 

Great advancement is often gained through sacrifice and suffering in an earthly existence.