Tuesday 13 May 2008
You get exactly what you have earned and nothing else!
Remember ~ You get exactly what you have earned and nothing else!
Speak always words of love, truth and kindness!
Remember ~
Speak always words of love, truth and kindness!
Speak always words of love, truth and kindness!
Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
Remember ~
Always ask yourself – is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
Always ask yourself – is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?
The Top of Creation
In The Path of the Masters, Julian Johnson says it really well –
In the meantime, while we sojourn in this dark region of matter, we have to deal with the Negative Power. With him we must contend in our struggles here, while it is our duty to escape. The resulting struggle purges us and makes us strong and fits us for our homeward journey. This everlasting fight, this struggle in a welter of pain and blood and heart cries, is designed by the Supreme Father to purge us and make us clean, ready for our homeward ascent. Let us never become discouraged. All of this is designed by the Father for our benefit. It is much as if one enters a gymnasium to take exercise. If we meet these difficulties in the right spirit, we shall greatly profit by them. The idea of pain and struggle is to purge us and inspire in us a longing to rise above the regions of pain and shadow.
The fundamental qualities of spirit are – wisdom, power and love. The larger the measure of these three a soul possesses, the higher does it rank in the Grand Hierarchy. Man, however, has the privilege, when initiated by a Perfect Master, to rise above all those planes and reach Home. Hence, he is rightly regarded as the Top of Creation.
Julian Johnson,The Path of the Masters, God and the Grand Hierarchy of the Universe, 7. The Negative Power, pp. 306; 309, Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1939
In the meantime, while we sojourn in this dark region of matter, we have to deal with the Negative Power. With him we must contend in our struggles here, while it is our duty to escape. The resulting struggle purges us and makes us strong and fits us for our homeward journey. This everlasting fight, this struggle in a welter of pain and blood and heart cries, is designed by the Supreme Father to purge us and make us clean, ready for our homeward ascent. Let us never become discouraged. All of this is designed by the Father for our benefit. It is much as if one enters a gymnasium to take exercise. If we meet these difficulties in the right spirit, we shall greatly profit by them. The idea of pain and struggle is to purge us and inspire in us a longing to rise above the regions of pain and shadow.
The fundamental qualities of spirit are – wisdom, power and love. The larger the measure of these three a soul possesses, the higher does it rank in the Grand Hierarchy. Man, however, has the privilege, when initiated by a Perfect Master, to rise above all those planes and reach Home. Hence, he is rightly regarded as the Top of Creation.
Julian Johnson,The Path of the Masters, God and the Grand Hierarchy of the Universe, 7. The Negative Power, pp. 306; 309, Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1939
The heart of man is ever restless
Thou o God, hast made us unto Thyself and the heart of man is ever restless, until it rests in Thee.
St Augustine
St Augustine
What would Love do now?
Remember ~
Before you choose to do anything, ask yourself -
What would Love do now? Is my choice in accord with Perfect Love? If you're sure that it is, there will be no strain.
Before you choose to do anything, ask yourself -
What would Love do now? Is my choice in accord with Perfect Love? If you're sure that it is, there will be no strain.
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ Hold fast to that which is good
Bumper Sticker Wisdom – Hold fast to that which is good.
When the light becomes strong, the darkness vanishes
Remember ~ When the light becomes strong, the darkness vanishes.
Only Perfect Love exists!
If Perfect Love is All That Is; why do we fear? It seems to me that if only Perfect Love exists, fear is a state that does not exist. This is logical. Moreover, the converse is also true - if fear exists, then there is not Perfect Love. Are we saying that Perfect Love is less than Itself? Surely, this is upside-down thinking, isn't it?
We are all one in spirit
Remember ~
We are all one in spirit. Our reality is only spirit. Spirit is born of Perfect Love. Therefore, only Perfect Love exists. Everything else we may imagine is only illusion.
We are all one in spirit. Our reality is only spirit. Spirit is born of Perfect Love. Therefore, only Perfect Love exists. Everything else we may imagine is only illusion.
Friday 09 May 2008
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ If one wants nothing, he has everything!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ If one wants nothing, he has everything.
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ You get most by giving most!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ You get most by giving most.
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ Karma! Always karma - twenty-four seven!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom – Karma! Always karma – twenty-four seven!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ Make love the sole law of your life!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom – Make love the sole law of your life!
To give and give only, never once thinking of rewards, is the beginning of immortality
To give and give only, never once thinking of rewards, is the beginning of immortality.
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving!
The soul lives forever by giving, not by receiving.
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson
Give a little love and contribute to the elevation of humanity
Every person who loves even a little in purity and unselfishness contributes that much toward the elevation of the whole of humanity.
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson
Thursday 08 May 2008
Clean Minds and Pure Hearts
Clean Minds and Pure Hearts –
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.
Bumper Sticker Wisdom ~ Concentration is the cure!
Bumper Sticker Wisdom – Concentration is the cure!
The Secret of All Secrets
The secret of all secrets – begin with mind control and control all else!
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson
Everything that exists is a unit in the universal being.
Everything that exists is a unit in the universal being.
Julian Johnson
Julian Johnson
The Process of Death
The Process of Death
“Well Dad,” said Mike, “seeing that you will eventually join me here on this side of the Great Divide, let's talk about the process of death from your point of view first. There are three ways of moving into our world from yours. The first is to come as I did, with the violence of an abrupt end. The second is to come as a result of the body breaking down; for example, from illness or old age. The third way, the logical way, is to come to us with full and conscious understanding of why it is happening.
“Now I know that the third way rang a bell in your mind, so let's discuss it here and now.
“For a start, the soul that inhabits your body operates like a system of electrical impulses. Most people call it the etheric body. The New Testament agrees that human personality does survive the barrier of death. The Master Jesus Himself revealed His etheric body to His disciples.
He even showed them the nail holes in His hands, remember ?
In other words, he recreated His earthly body out of etheric matter; out of the electrical impulses which had activated the flesh-and-blood body. Being a Master, He was enlightened enough to do so; for a Master has full control of all the energy levels on the earth and can bend them all to His will.
“I often marvel at His humility when He was hanging on the cross; allowing Himself to be thrown from that life into this one, when all the might of Heaven was at His command! By the flick of a finger, He could have unleashed powers unknown to man! Yet He let them do to Him what they would, even though they subjected His physical body to unspeakable torture. When I think of the example of the Master, I regret I did not study His teaching a bit more intelligently when I was on earth. It's only when you arrive here that you realise how His teachings have been twisted to suit the ends of men; including His attitude to the process of dying. When the Bible says: “the silver cord is severed and the golden bowl is broken,” it uses precise and clear-cut language. When you're asleep, your soul can travel to these planes where I exist but it maintains contact with your mortal body by a thin luminous thread which the Bible calls the Silver Cord. This anchors the soul to the body until the need for sleep has been satisfied.
“Sometimes a recollection of the soul's journey filters down this silver cord to the mind of the sleeper in the form of a very vivid dream. But the human mind is fallible, having been conditioned since childhood to certain watertight beliefs and so the message transmitted by the silver cord can become garbled and incoherent. Sometimes, when the soul observes its own body on the earth doing something contrary to Divine Will, it lashes the physical conscience into such ferocious nightmares that the poor sleeper is terrified into recalling the soul to his body. An awakening in a cold sweat of terror follows.
“When death comes, the process is exactly the same, except that when the soul detaches itself from the body, the silver cord is severed completely. That is the beginning and the end of the mechanics of death.
“There are of course a few minor conditions involved. Firstly, no soul can ever pass over into these worlds unless it has given its consent and here I don't mean a conscious consent because the conscious mind is only a minor extension of the soul. The conscious mind may assume that death is approaching but it is the soul itself that must give its consent before the process can take place.
“Imagine, Dad, that you are an old man with reasonable faith in your Creator. You have been a fairly good Christian all your life, trying to live the laws as they were laid down by the Master Jesus. Admittedly, you broke them when the temptation became too great but you feel in your own mind that the Great One will forgive your run-of-the-mill transgressions.
“That would be your first mistake. There is no judging when you pass over into our world. As I said before, your soul vibrates at a certain rate and when it passes over, it will vibrate at a similar rate here.
“If you have lived a deceitful life on earth, your soul vibrations will be very sluggish; you will go to a low plane here, on which your fellows will be similar to you in mind and deed. You can imagine the infighting which goes on among such people! You meet the application of the law: “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
“But the actual act of dying is as simple as dozing off after lunch. A drowsy feeling fills the whole of your body with relaxing comfort. You can still see, with your earthly eyes, the room about you. Then you notice that there are all kinds of new people standing around your bed; people that you once knew; such as parents, a favourite uncle, a friend who passed over many years sooner: the joy of seeing them again takes your mind off everything else. They take you by the hand and lift you to your feet. This invariably causes you to look back at the bed and to your surprise you or your mortal shell is still lying there. You say aloud: “But how can I be here with you people and yet still be lying there on the bed?” Only then do you realise that this is death.
“So now you are taken by your friends to the world where you now belong. As you move out of the room together, you pass through what appears to be a fog or mist. It is not dense, you can see for about six feet ahead of you and because you know and love the people you are with, you follow them gladly. This mist is caused by the dispersing of your etheric body, which has served as the guardian of your material body. The etheric body, now that death has intervened, leaves the material body and seeks to attach itself to the soul. But as you move up towards the rarer planes, the etheric matter cannot follow; so it forms the mist which obscures your vision for a few seconds. When you step out of the mist, the etheric matter returns to the universal reservoirs.
“The silver cord and the golden bowl” are merely symbolic words, signifying the end of the earth experience. Nature wraps you in a blanket of sleep; a person, even if he is terrified of dying, merely falls asleep. In his sleep, he dreams that he is still in the same room but actually he is passing to our Golden World.
“Believe me Dad, it is ten times more dangerous and unpleasant to be born into your world, than it is to leave it! Being born is a painful, risky process and none of us contemplate it with any degree of pleasure. And yet to all you people on the earth fear death. I feared it when I was there; the few times I did think of it, which were very, very few!
“Now let us deal with the conscious passing over of someone who is familiar with the process of death. There are very few such people in the western world today, for they are mostly advanced souls who only returned to your earth to perform a specific task; to bring about an advance in thought or encourage a particular philosophy. When the time comes for them to return to their proper realm, they do so, believe me, with the utmost relief and joy! They tidy up their earthly affairs, then unhurriedly ask the blessings of the Great One. Then they simply lift out of their bodies and come straight to the plane where they belong. Nothing could be simpler or more benign.
“The first means of passing over is as I did. Remember Dad, although my conscious mind didn't know I was about to return here, my soul did. Three days before the accident, I knew somehow subconsciously, that my earth life was coming to a close. My actual passing I have already described to you. Both Heather and I were lifted out of our bodies before the collision. There was no pain, no shock. This process is the same in all and every form of violent death. If it appears violent from your end, believe me, it is only from your end, never from ours!
“In the case of the rather backward soul, we place him into a deep torpor as soon as we take charge. When he arrives in this world, he wakes in what appears to him to be a hospital ward. The realisation filters to him that he is safe and being well looked after; then it gradually dawns on him that there are no doctors or nurses in this hospital; no bandages and no surgical instruments. He himself feels no pain; so his next move is to get out of bed and start exploring, to find out what sort of hospital this is. It is wonderful to watch his amazement and relief when he realises he is more alive than ever.
“It takes some time, quite some time, for all this to register completely; often his first reaction is to go back to bed for another couple of days to get used to the idea of what has happened to him!
“Then one of the elders visits him and answers all the unasked questions in his mind. You see, the laws of creation are not so easily grasped by these backward souls as they are by their more experienced brothers.
“By the same token, if there is not enough love in the heart of the new arrival here, his ability to adapt to a world that operates on love is likewise backward. Which is a good thing because the first thing he would do would be to create weapons and then use them to establish power over his fellow souls!
“Not that they can hurt one another; their new bodies are indestructible; so when they finally realise the futility of picking up a club and bopping a neighbour over the head with it, they feel very hard done by. But they end up by realising that they will only win by living in peace with their fellows. Gradually, (and you can watch the idea taking hold), unselfish gestures emerge and finally the texture of the soul purifies itself enough to enable them to reach a clearer, more harmonious plane and as things become clearer still, so do they advance to even more evolved planes.
Suicide
“There is one very foolish method of coming here. By suicide. This is a futile action for all concerned. When someone on the earth plane feels so restricted, so cramped, so frightened, that he sees no solution to it – when in fact, he can no longer face up to the day-to-day burdens that confront everyone else in your world – he thinks that committing suicide will be an easy way out and will punish his “tormentors” at the same time.
“When his soul comes here, it is immediately placed in a state of rest until the jangling dislocations of the suicide have subsided. Then he is immediately sent back to earth to inhabit a new body. Once again he finds himself a mortal man; but he retains no recollection of his previous history.
“What is more, in this succeeding life of his, he is going to be confronted by exactly the same problems. If he fails a second time, the same process will occur and continue to occur until he learns to face his problems rather than escape them.
“Throughout he will be surrounded by the love of the Great One and guarded by his brothers but he must solve his problem without any aid from anyone. Once he has faced it and solved it, there is no further danger of him committing suicide. At the same time he is developing the strength of mind that he will need when he eventually learns to be a Creator, as his Great Father was before him.
“So if you want a frustrating round-trip ticket up to our world and right back down to yours again, Dad, commit suicide! It will get you nowhere fast!
“Originally, when our souls first took on the forms of men, we were still sons of God: with His divine sanction we chose for ourselves how we wanted to look and how we would develop. All divine law is predicated on this freedom of choice. We decide, Dad. We ourselves decide what we are going to do. If it conflicts with any of the Divine rules, then we have to correct our error. Remember the miser and the drunkard, when they came over here? They punished themselves very, very effectively! Yet no one sat in judgment on them. No one decreed any punishment or penalty. That is because – and I reiterate it – these worlds are created of love, Dad; the infinite love of the Great One. As we pray to Him, a blue shaft of light goes up to the heavens – then it turns to gold and His infinite peace flows down it to surround us.
“When ‘men of the cloth’ get up here, oh Dad, it is terrible to watch their self-recrimination and their soul-searching when they realise what they taught on earth was too often wide of the mark, even though they merely taught on earth what they themselves had been taught. They need all our help and comfort as they battle against terrifying images of devils and hell fire, which in truth do not exist here or anywhere else!
“But there are, on the lower planes, souls who need the security of a church and the advice of a minister, before their faith can take articulate form. They attend beautiful cathedrals and they listen avidly to all the sermons. But the only ritual they hear here, is the true litany!
Animal Life
“When Heather last talked to you, she told you about the kitten that adopted her when she came here. Now she has a dog. There is every kind of tame animal and bird in these realms, proof once again of the law of love! When you create a bond with an animal on the earth plane, that bond is powerful enough to bring him here when he dies. He is cared for until his master passes over to our plane. When animals arrive here, it is wonderful to see them gambolling with one another – lions and tigers alongside tabby cats – why, some Burmese mahouts even bring their elephants with them! All of them survive the journey because of the love and care showered on them by everybody here.
“We hear birds singing wherever we go. If I happen to admire their song, they immediately respond to my thought; they will perch on my finger and show off their colours and their musical range! We never cease to marvel at the infinite variety of happiness on these planes, Dad.
“When I first arrived here, I felt no sudden jar at my passing. As I told you, we were lifted in the air and I took Heather’s hand and together we saw the cars collide. Then Uncle Mark was suddenly standing beside us. He explained that we had been through such a terrible collision that we were no longer in the land of the living. I was too surprised to ask him how he knew, although I did have a hunch I was dead and it seemed perfectly natural that he had come to take charge of us.
“I decided that Heather and I couldn’t do better than go along with him; so we did. It was simply a question of ascending gradually into the sky, until all of a sudden we were in this beautiful pasture. I can’t say exactly how long it took us to leave the earth plane. It was rather much like flipping a radio dial from one station to another. When you turn the knob, you take for granted that another station will be awaiting your pleasure; you don’t think there is anything unusual about it. That was how we moved from your world to our new one. All our family, even the ones we didn’t know when we were on the earth, were here to welcome us. They made us feel wanted and very much at home!
“That’s why I took so long to realise that the news of our death would not be accepted by you as it was on this plane. It was only then, Dad, that I could actually feel the terrible pull of the grief that you and Mum were suffering. You remember when you wanted to punish the driver of the other car? When I felt that terrible resolve hardening itself in your heart, I knew I had to return and make myself known to you. Nothing else would have altered your stubborn determination to revenge our deaths.
“Before you could raise yourself up to this plane, you would have to raise your vibrations to the speed of mine. Likewise, when I need to regress myself back to your world, I have to reduce my vibrations to their slowest rate. This isn’t easy Dad: some of it is downright painful. It’s like putting on a straitjacket. I have to constrict myself more and more, like the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, until my vibrations are moving as slowly as yours.
“Not that I am trying to blow my own trumpet, you understand, but I am one of the few here who have been able to manage it. I can move from my world to yours by my own free will. Heather can do it too, now. But I would say that ninety-five per cent of the souls at this level are completely unable to manifest at the earth level. Maybe in moments of urgency, they can appear momentarily to their loved ones on earth but they wouldn’t promise to guarantee it.
“Perhaps the most important message we can send you from here – if you can get it across for me – is that grieving, weeping and wishing for the soul of the departed to return, are the worst things that you people can do to someone who has just died.
“You see, wherever there is a bond of love, there is an unbroken line of communication.
“When you grieve for someone you love, your sorrow is immediately transmitted to him in his new world – a most beautiful world – but he cannot come back to the earth plane to comfort his mourners. He hasn’t had time to master the art of slowing down his vibrations until you can see him or hear him. This puts him in a hell of a quandary – he is torn between a desire to comfort his loved ones, knowing it to be impossible and a need to adjust himself to his bright new surroundings.
“So please, Dad, tell those who are still on earth not to grieve for those of us who have come over here. I know it’s impossible to ask them to rejoice, yet we on this side rejoice when the soul of an old friend comes here. I would ask the bereaved to sit and think of their loved ones instead of themselves. They will soon forget their own sorrows. Tell them please, just to send their love and kindly thoughts for a calm journey and a happy arrival, for the friend they have lost is already secure in this world of warmth and happiness.
“Send wave upon wave of love. This will help the newly dead to stablise because it convinces them of the validity of both spheres of existence. This is perhaps the most important thing I want you to put into this book.”
“Well Dad,” said Mike, “seeing that you will eventually join me here on this side of the Great Divide, let's talk about the process of death from your point of view first. There are three ways of moving into our world from yours. The first is to come as I did, with the violence of an abrupt end. The second is to come as a result of the body breaking down; for example, from illness or old age. The third way, the logical way, is to come to us with full and conscious understanding of why it is happening.
“Now I know that the third way rang a bell in your mind, so let's discuss it here and now.
“For a start, the soul that inhabits your body operates like a system of electrical impulses. Most people call it the etheric body. The New Testament agrees that human personality does survive the barrier of death. The Master Jesus Himself revealed His etheric body to His disciples.
He even showed them the nail holes in His hands, remember ?
In other words, he recreated His earthly body out of etheric matter; out of the electrical impulses which had activated the flesh-and-blood body. Being a Master, He was enlightened enough to do so; for a Master has full control of all the energy levels on the earth and can bend them all to His will.
“I often marvel at His humility when He was hanging on the cross; allowing Himself to be thrown from that life into this one, when all the might of Heaven was at His command! By the flick of a finger, He could have unleashed powers unknown to man! Yet He let them do to Him what they would, even though they subjected His physical body to unspeakable torture. When I think of the example of the Master, I regret I did not study His teaching a bit more intelligently when I was on earth. It's only when you arrive here that you realise how His teachings have been twisted to suit the ends of men; including His attitude to the process of dying. When the Bible says: “the silver cord is severed and the golden bowl is broken,” it uses precise and clear-cut language. When you're asleep, your soul can travel to these planes where I exist but it maintains contact with your mortal body by a thin luminous thread which the Bible calls the Silver Cord. This anchors the soul to the body until the need for sleep has been satisfied.
“Sometimes a recollection of the soul's journey filters down this silver cord to the mind of the sleeper in the form of a very vivid dream. But the human mind is fallible, having been conditioned since childhood to certain watertight beliefs and so the message transmitted by the silver cord can become garbled and incoherent. Sometimes, when the soul observes its own body on the earth doing something contrary to Divine Will, it lashes the physical conscience into such ferocious nightmares that the poor sleeper is terrified into recalling the soul to his body. An awakening in a cold sweat of terror follows.
“When death comes, the process is exactly the same, except that when the soul detaches itself from the body, the silver cord is severed completely. That is the beginning and the end of the mechanics of death.
“There are of course a few minor conditions involved. Firstly, no soul can ever pass over into these worlds unless it has given its consent and here I don't mean a conscious consent because the conscious mind is only a minor extension of the soul. The conscious mind may assume that death is approaching but it is the soul itself that must give its consent before the process can take place.
“Imagine, Dad, that you are an old man with reasonable faith in your Creator. You have been a fairly good Christian all your life, trying to live the laws as they were laid down by the Master Jesus. Admittedly, you broke them when the temptation became too great but you feel in your own mind that the Great One will forgive your run-of-the-mill transgressions.
“That would be your first mistake. There is no judging when you pass over into our world. As I said before, your soul vibrates at a certain rate and when it passes over, it will vibrate at a similar rate here.
“If you have lived a deceitful life on earth, your soul vibrations will be very sluggish; you will go to a low plane here, on which your fellows will be similar to you in mind and deed. You can imagine the infighting which goes on among such people! You meet the application of the law: “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
“But the actual act of dying is as simple as dozing off after lunch. A drowsy feeling fills the whole of your body with relaxing comfort. You can still see, with your earthly eyes, the room about you. Then you notice that there are all kinds of new people standing around your bed; people that you once knew; such as parents, a favourite uncle, a friend who passed over many years sooner: the joy of seeing them again takes your mind off everything else. They take you by the hand and lift you to your feet. This invariably causes you to look back at the bed and to your surprise you or your mortal shell is still lying there. You say aloud: “But how can I be here with you people and yet still be lying there on the bed?” Only then do you realise that this is death.
“So now you are taken by your friends to the world where you now belong. As you move out of the room together, you pass through what appears to be a fog or mist. It is not dense, you can see for about six feet ahead of you and because you know and love the people you are with, you follow them gladly. This mist is caused by the dispersing of your etheric body, which has served as the guardian of your material body. The etheric body, now that death has intervened, leaves the material body and seeks to attach itself to the soul. But as you move up towards the rarer planes, the etheric matter cannot follow; so it forms the mist which obscures your vision for a few seconds. When you step out of the mist, the etheric matter returns to the universal reservoirs.
“The silver cord and the golden bowl” are merely symbolic words, signifying the end of the earth experience. Nature wraps you in a blanket of sleep; a person, even if he is terrified of dying, merely falls asleep. In his sleep, he dreams that he is still in the same room but actually he is passing to our Golden World.
“Believe me Dad, it is ten times more dangerous and unpleasant to be born into your world, than it is to leave it! Being born is a painful, risky process and none of us contemplate it with any degree of pleasure. And yet to all you people on the earth fear death. I feared it when I was there; the few times I did think of it, which were very, very few!
“Now let us deal with the conscious passing over of someone who is familiar with the process of death. There are very few such people in the western world today, for they are mostly advanced souls who only returned to your earth to perform a specific task; to bring about an advance in thought or encourage a particular philosophy. When the time comes for them to return to their proper realm, they do so, believe me, with the utmost relief and joy! They tidy up their earthly affairs, then unhurriedly ask the blessings of the Great One. Then they simply lift out of their bodies and come straight to the plane where they belong. Nothing could be simpler or more benign.
“The first means of passing over is as I did. Remember Dad, although my conscious mind didn't know I was about to return here, my soul did. Three days before the accident, I knew somehow subconsciously, that my earth life was coming to a close. My actual passing I have already described to you. Both Heather and I were lifted out of our bodies before the collision. There was no pain, no shock. This process is the same in all and every form of violent death. If it appears violent from your end, believe me, it is only from your end, never from ours!
“In the case of the rather backward soul, we place him into a deep torpor as soon as we take charge. When he arrives in this world, he wakes in what appears to him to be a hospital ward. The realisation filters to him that he is safe and being well looked after; then it gradually dawns on him that there are no doctors or nurses in this hospital; no bandages and no surgical instruments. He himself feels no pain; so his next move is to get out of bed and start exploring, to find out what sort of hospital this is. It is wonderful to watch his amazement and relief when he realises he is more alive than ever.
“It takes some time, quite some time, for all this to register completely; often his first reaction is to go back to bed for another couple of days to get used to the idea of what has happened to him!
“Then one of the elders visits him and answers all the unasked questions in his mind. You see, the laws of creation are not so easily grasped by these backward souls as they are by their more experienced brothers.
“By the same token, if there is not enough love in the heart of the new arrival here, his ability to adapt to a world that operates on love is likewise backward. Which is a good thing because the first thing he would do would be to create weapons and then use them to establish power over his fellow souls!
“Not that they can hurt one another; their new bodies are indestructible; so when they finally realise the futility of picking up a club and bopping a neighbour over the head with it, they feel very hard done by. But they end up by realising that they will only win by living in peace with their fellows. Gradually, (and you can watch the idea taking hold), unselfish gestures emerge and finally the texture of the soul purifies itself enough to enable them to reach a clearer, more harmonious plane and as things become clearer still, so do they advance to even more evolved planes.
Suicide
“There is one very foolish method of coming here. By suicide. This is a futile action for all concerned. When someone on the earth plane feels so restricted, so cramped, so frightened, that he sees no solution to it – when in fact, he can no longer face up to the day-to-day burdens that confront everyone else in your world – he thinks that committing suicide will be an easy way out and will punish his “tormentors” at the same time.
“When his soul comes here, it is immediately placed in a state of rest until the jangling dislocations of the suicide have subsided. Then he is immediately sent back to earth to inhabit a new body. Once again he finds himself a mortal man; but he retains no recollection of his previous history.
“What is more, in this succeeding life of his, he is going to be confronted by exactly the same problems. If he fails a second time, the same process will occur and continue to occur until he learns to face his problems rather than escape them.
“Throughout he will be surrounded by the love of the Great One and guarded by his brothers but he must solve his problem without any aid from anyone. Once he has faced it and solved it, there is no further danger of him committing suicide. At the same time he is developing the strength of mind that he will need when he eventually learns to be a Creator, as his Great Father was before him.
“So if you want a frustrating round-trip ticket up to our world and right back down to yours again, Dad, commit suicide! It will get you nowhere fast!
“Originally, when our souls first took on the forms of men, we were still sons of God: with His divine sanction we chose for ourselves how we wanted to look and how we would develop. All divine law is predicated on this freedom of choice. We decide, Dad. We ourselves decide what we are going to do. If it conflicts with any of the Divine rules, then we have to correct our error. Remember the miser and the drunkard, when they came over here? They punished themselves very, very effectively! Yet no one sat in judgment on them. No one decreed any punishment or penalty. That is because – and I reiterate it – these worlds are created of love, Dad; the infinite love of the Great One. As we pray to Him, a blue shaft of light goes up to the heavens – then it turns to gold and His infinite peace flows down it to surround us.
“When ‘men of the cloth’ get up here, oh Dad, it is terrible to watch their self-recrimination and their soul-searching when they realise what they taught on earth was too often wide of the mark, even though they merely taught on earth what they themselves had been taught. They need all our help and comfort as they battle against terrifying images of devils and hell fire, which in truth do not exist here or anywhere else!
“But there are, on the lower planes, souls who need the security of a church and the advice of a minister, before their faith can take articulate form. They attend beautiful cathedrals and they listen avidly to all the sermons. But the only ritual they hear here, is the true litany!
Animal Life
“When Heather last talked to you, she told you about the kitten that adopted her when she came here. Now she has a dog. There is every kind of tame animal and bird in these realms, proof once again of the law of love! When you create a bond with an animal on the earth plane, that bond is powerful enough to bring him here when he dies. He is cared for until his master passes over to our plane. When animals arrive here, it is wonderful to see them gambolling with one another – lions and tigers alongside tabby cats – why, some Burmese mahouts even bring their elephants with them! All of them survive the journey because of the love and care showered on them by everybody here.
“We hear birds singing wherever we go. If I happen to admire their song, they immediately respond to my thought; they will perch on my finger and show off their colours and their musical range! We never cease to marvel at the infinite variety of happiness on these planes, Dad.
“When I first arrived here, I felt no sudden jar at my passing. As I told you, we were lifted in the air and I took Heather’s hand and together we saw the cars collide. Then Uncle Mark was suddenly standing beside us. He explained that we had been through such a terrible collision that we were no longer in the land of the living. I was too surprised to ask him how he knew, although I did have a hunch I was dead and it seemed perfectly natural that he had come to take charge of us.
“I decided that Heather and I couldn’t do better than go along with him; so we did. It was simply a question of ascending gradually into the sky, until all of a sudden we were in this beautiful pasture. I can’t say exactly how long it took us to leave the earth plane. It was rather much like flipping a radio dial from one station to another. When you turn the knob, you take for granted that another station will be awaiting your pleasure; you don’t think there is anything unusual about it. That was how we moved from your world to our new one. All our family, even the ones we didn’t know when we were on the earth, were here to welcome us. They made us feel wanted and very much at home!
“That’s why I took so long to realise that the news of our death would not be accepted by you as it was on this plane. It was only then, Dad, that I could actually feel the terrible pull of the grief that you and Mum were suffering. You remember when you wanted to punish the driver of the other car? When I felt that terrible resolve hardening itself in your heart, I knew I had to return and make myself known to you. Nothing else would have altered your stubborn determination to revenge our deaths.
“Before you could raise yourself up to this plane, you would have to raise your vibrations to the speed of mine. Likewise, when I need to regress myself back to your world, I have to reduce my vibrations to their slowest rate. This isn’t easy Dad: some of it is downright painful. It’s like putting on a straitjacket. I have to constrict myself more and more, like the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, until my vibrations are moving as slowly as yours.
“Not that I am trying to blow my own trumpet, you understand, but I am one of the few here who have been able to manage it. I can move from my world to yours by my own free will. Heather can do it too, now. But I would say that ninety-five per cent of the souls at this level are completely unable to manifest at the earth level. Maybe in moments of urgency, they can appear momentarily to their loved ones on earth but they wouldn’t promise to guarantee it.
“Perhaps the most important message we can send you from here – if you can get it across for me – is that grieving, weeping and wishing for the soul of the departed to return, are the worst things that you people can do to someone who has just died.
“You see, wherever there is a bond of love, there is an unbroken line of communication.
“When you grieve for someone you love, your sorrow is immediately transmitted to him in his new world – a most beautiful world – but he cannot come back to the earth plane to comfort his mourners. He hasn’t had time to master the art of slowing down his vibrations until you can see him or hear him. This puts him in a hell of a quandary – he is torn between a desire to comfort his loved ones, knowing it to be impossible and a need to adjust himself to his bright new surroundings.
“So please, Dad, tell those who are still on earth not to grieve for those of us who have come over here. I know it’s impossible to ask them to rejoice, yet we on this side rejoice when the soul of an old friend comes here. I would ask the bereaved to sit and think of their loved ones instead of themselves. They will soon forget their own sorrows. Tell them please, just to send their love and kindly thoughts for a calm journey and a happy arrival, for the friend they have lost is already secure in this world of warmth and happiness.
“Send wave upon wave of love. This will help the newly dead to stablise because it convinces them of the validity of both spheres of existence. This is perhaps the most important thing I want you to put into this book.”
So is our relation to the eternal One
Multitudes of people are like the million dew drops in which the one sun is reflected. Untold millions of them but only one sun. So is our relation to the eternal One.
Vedic Teaching
Vedic Teaching
Wednesday 07 May 2008
Study cause and effect
Study cause and effect. Study the rise and fall of everything according to cyclic law. The tidal wave must spend itself on the shore before it subsides again into the sea.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Love one another - it makes the way easier
The road of initiation is a hard road for all. Love one another, you who try to tread it. It makes the way easier.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Rise up and up to the Source of all life and wisdom
Each day rise to the plane of the spirit, above the physical world, beyond the desires of the astral world, beyond the lower stratum of mind, up and up to the Source of all life and all wisdom.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Be not a quicksand but a rock!
Be calm and poised and sure. Be not a quicksand but a rock.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Tuesday 06 May 2008
Evil is - so long as good is!
Be not deceived into saying there is no evil. Evil is – so long as good is.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
When you are really beyond good and evil
When you are really beyond good and evil you will not gossip about your neighbours, nor envy them their charm or possessions, nor try to use them for your own ends, nor worry lest some evil person shall do you harm, nor twist your faults 'til they seem virtues, nor deceive yourself as to your motives.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Examine yourselves
Examine yourselves, my children. Look for your faults. If you can find no fault in yourself, hang your harp on the nearest willow, for your progress is at an end.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Recognise, transmute and transcend your faults
Man progresses through recognising his faults, through transmuting them and transcending them. If you are perfect, this world is no place for you.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
Judge not!
Judge not, that ye be not judged. But do not flirt with the devil to prove that you judge him not.
The Judge [War Letters]
The Judge [War Letters]
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