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(2016)
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Table of Contents
Spirit is Immortal Life by Mrs. J. H. Conant — p4
The Book of Knowledge by John Newbrough— p9
The Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom on Earth by John Newbrough—
p11
The Jewels by Carlyle Petersilea— p13
Little Ruth by Aber and Nixon— p16
What Became of That Fetal Life? by Aber and Nixon— p19
Exegetical Spiritualism — Resurrection by J. M. Peebles — p23
The Destiny of Man by Wesley Aber— p26
Future of a Child by Edward Randall—p33
The House of the Harpy by James Hewat McKenzie— p45
The Unborn Dead by Edward C. Randall— p47
Of Birth and Death: From Whence To Where? By Walter DeVoe
— p53
Brought Back to Earth by The Eloists— p62
A Nurse from the Plateau by The Eloists—p64
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Wanted: Mothers by Anonymous—p67
Bless the Innocents by The Eloists— p73
The Gift of Life by The Eloists— p75
Growing in the Spiritual Worlds by The Eloists—p78
Peace by The Eloists by —p80
Dear Souls of Light by The Eloists —p82
Lines of Light by The Eloists —p86
The Sacred Life Immortal by Robert Bayer —p89
Eternal Families of Love by Robert Bayer—p92
Pro-Life Feminism by Jeannine Parvati Baker—95
The Development of the Unborn Child by Walter and Betty—104
A Family of the Heavens by Robert Bayer—124
The Cosmic Family Eternal by Robert Bayer—128
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Spirit is Immortal Life
Flashes of Light
Mrs. J. H. Conant
(1872)
Q. Is life, or that principle of vital activity which is manifested through
the human organism, spirit? If not, what is it leaves the body at
death?
A. Spirit I define as something undiscernible by human sense;
something which no living soul can measure or analyze. I define life
to be, so far as we understand it, a manifestation of spirit. Those
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things which our senses perceive, recognize, are the things of life, all
living things, every one of them—not one dead; and they are all
manifestations of spirit. That subtle power that defies the scalpel, and
passes out of the body at the change called death, I believe to be
spirit, co-eternal with the God-spirit, and part and portion of the divine
life,—such a part as that divine life saw fit to exercise over humanity.
You call it the spirit of man, the soul of man or woman. It matters not
by what term it is recognized. It is the one spirit, the infinite,
all-pervading—a something indestructible, without creation and
without end.
Q. You consider all spirit immortal?
A. I do, most certainly. And I have most ample proofs that it is all
immortal.
Q. Then animals are not at death swept into a grand chaos—the
great mass of spirit—to be again worked over into some other form?
A. By no means. Here is the rock—the rock of form—upon which all
classes of theological scientists split, and many of them founder; the
rock of form, supposing that the form we have or behold to-day will
exist forever; that the immortality rests with that, is dependent upon
that. By no means is it. Forms are constantly changing, as spirit has
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need of higher instruments through which to express itself. The
instrument is made better. How is it with regard to the flowers? They
are not to-day what they were years ago. And why not? Because the
God that was within them called upon the God that was within the
human intellect, and said, "Come, intelligence, shed your dews upon
me, act upon me, bring me into a higher form of good." What was the
result? Why, the husbandman went to work to make more beautiful
flowers, to add new hues to their fair faces, to make more beautiful
their forms, to change for the better the rose and lily, not at all
infringing upon Nature or Nature's God. Immortality does not call
upon the form for its power. By no means. Forms must change. You
have evidence of that every day of your lives. But the immortality that
belongs to the form is immortal forever and forever. There is no
sudden change of those forms, but a gradual growth. If the change
was sudden it would produce too great a shock in the realm of
intelligence; therefore it is very slow, comes as you are prepared for
it. The years throw their snows upon your brows as you are prepared
to receive them—just so fast, and no faster.
Q. If spirit is not matter, is all spirit the same—that is, equally
advanced or perfect? If so, what benefit is derived from its
manifestation through matter? A. That spirit is not matter, matter is
every day proving. But that spirit is inseparably connected with
matter, matter is also every day proving. Matter is the expression of
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spirit, not the spirit; the outer bark, the foliage, the branches, not the
inner, invisible life. What the advantage? Why, all intelligence can
answer that question as well as we can. Of what advantage is it to
you of this age that you have greater light than they who lived ages
before you did? Since you require greater light, certainly it is for your
advantage to have it. All the expressions of spirit through matter are
not only an advantage to matter, but is also to intelligence, to that
subtle force that expresses itself through the human brain, and says,
"Behold, this is very beautiful or very grand." The world of matter was
made for the world of intelligence. When you keep this in your mind,
you will hardly wonder that matter changes its form.
Q. Is the spirit of the infant an emanation from that of the parent? and,
if so, is the spirit of the parent less an individualized entity, or does it
suffer any diminution or disarrangement in its powers?
A. The infant is physically a physiological result of the parents' life,
but spiritually it is not. It is a spirit independent of either father or
mother; you may be sure of this. It is from God, the Great Spirit, the
Father and Mother, the Whole, the Universal Life.
Q. If the spirit of the infant is not an emanation from that of the parent,
whence does it originate? At what period during the incubation does
it take possession of the human organism?
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A. At conception.
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The Book of Knowledge
Oahspe
John Newbrough
(1882)
And yet the depth is not full. In a stately mansion a woman of high
caste is dead. And it was said she was blessed, because since not
having borne children, ease and glory were at her command. And
now, with curious mirth and some envy, the spirits of other women
who were outcasts come to behold the newborn spirit of the leader of
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fashion. And as they turn about, nurses come with children born from
her body and her spirit, by abortion cast into heaven, even in
Jehovih's face accursed: A curtain of black death that will not away,
choketh her. To the left, the right, or up and down, there is nothing
but the wail of sweet babes - Mother, why murderest thou me? Was I
not Jehovih's gift? The woman of fashion hides but is not hidden,
even the soiled outcasts are white beside her; like a woman that is
crushed but cannot die, she squirmeth and writheth in the kingdom
she built with her own hands.
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The Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom
on Earth
Oahspe
John Newbrough
(1882)
We were created in order to help rescue the world from darkness, and
to rejoice in our own lives, because of such good as we can do unto
others. Behold, we were orphans and castaways; Jehovih wedded us
to all the world. Having, therefore, wisdom and purity within
themselves, and, withal, having sufficient association to choose from,
they did choose and wed for love's sake. Nor did any worldly ambition
control their choice, or influence them in hope of any gain as to their
wedded partners. And it came to pass that the offspring begotten of
these were indeed a new race in the world, as to wisdom, love, purity
and spirituality, and new also as to beauty and shapeliness, the like of
which had never been before in all the world. And they were by birth
so developed in su'is, that, when they were grown a little, education
came to them without books. To see and to hear, either corporeally or
spiritually, was all they required in order to accomplish wisely all
things required unto mortals. And, with them, the heavens were as an
open book; the libraries of the heavens as the sound of voices full of
wisdom. And the angels of ancient and modern times came, and
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stood by them, and walked with them, revealing the past and the
future. And, yet, none of these colonies were bound by written laws,
nor had any of them leaders or masters, nor any government, save
the Light of Jehovih. Nor was one colony bound by the customs and
commands of another colony; but all of them lived by the highest Light
that came to them. Nor owned any man, woman or child anything
more than the clothes he or she wore; but all things were Jehovih's, in
care of the keeping of the colony.
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The Jewels
The Discovered Country
Carlyle Petersilea
(1889)
“A little child had passed through the Gates Eternal, and was lying
happy and content in the arms of an angel. We heard the mother’s
wail of grief, and hastened to comfort her.
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She was kneeling by the grave of her baby, desolate and
heart-broken; to her the child was dead she would never see it more;
the heaven she believed in was too far off, too indefinite; she felt that
her baby was lost to her forever.
We whispered words of hope and comfort to that sorrowing heart,
placed the spirit-form of the babe within her arms, and then with
gentle magnetic touches we opened the mother’s spiritual sight and
she saw the babe within her arms, she felt its little hands caress her
face, its little lips as they were pressed to hers, she looked into its
beautiful spiritual eyes and her tears were dried. My baby! oh my
baby! You are not dead but here with me.”
The jewel was a pearl, and it sent forth rays of soft and beautiful light
as the angel passed it to the one on the left.
“You all know,” said the angel, “that every jewel here has its own
story. Some kind and loving deed was done; if not directly to the
denizens of earth, to some new-born spirit.
Some of these jewels represent the taking and caring for infants sent
into spirit-life, before they ought to come, through the ignorance of
parents. Other of these gems, are of those that think out inventions
and improvements of all kinds for the benefit of both earth and
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heaven. Others, for the amelioration of all suffering, and using their
influence to bring those together that will give the greatest amount of
happiness to each other; for happiness is heaven and heaven is
happiness; and you all know that ignorance and suffering is all the
hell there is, or ever will be; and it is to save mankind, both in and out
of the body, from ignorance, suffering, or hell, that we all are
constantly working. We also know that whenever any creature
suffers there is ignorance and wrong somewhere. If the wrong has
not been committed by the sufferer, it has been committed by
someone; and it is to right these wrongs, and to bring all things into
harmonious and happy relations, that we are constantly at work. The
greatest amount of suffering known to us is caused by ignorance. To
enlighten those below us in wisdom will event usually create a
heaven for all, and at last all will inhabit the kingdom of heaven which
is happiness.
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Little Ruth
Beyond the Vail
Aber and Nixon
(1901)
Little Ruth is one of Zelda's pupils. Perhaps this Ruth is daughter of
Rachel Ann John, who is sister to N, this secretary. ("Rending the
Vail," 31) It is not because this is a sister to the secretary, but
because the case is one of a class of many thousands of similar
cases, and because this particular case was susceptible of
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identification by N, that the spirits, having charge of this work, chose
this case to illustrate this class of conditions, and intimate to the
psychic student the great schemes in the economy of Nature by
which she ultimately gathers into her illimitable garners the ripened
harvests of all the seeds she ever sows: and to present to mankind
lessons which, being heeded, might assist Nature in working out her
ultimate designs to the advantage of mankind in the coming ages.
It was not until one year after closing these séances that they got
hold of the facts concerning the immediate cause of the premature
transition of sister Ann. And now that the reader may have
advantage of such facts as seem necessary to the case, we may be
excused in retrospecting so far as we have learned.
Some eighteen years before the beginning of these séances, sister
Ann married at the homestead in Washington County, Indiana, and
immediately accompanied her husband to their home several
hundred miles away, and they never again met her in the physical life.
In due course of time there was one son of this union, who yet
survives. And, later still, perhaps three years from the marriage, she
had a fetal abortion, brought on by taking calomel or some other
violent purgative in an over-dose, as prescribed and insisted on by a
physician or some very confidential friend, which she now, in spirit,
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says she "felt she ought not to take, but did so just to please"; and
from the complication, blood-poison caused her transition.
And it is now said by some who were present when she was about to
pass out of her body that she became both clairvoyant and
clairaudient—could both see her spirit friends within the room and
could hear them talk—and thus the spirit messengers were enabled
to assist her through the gates with joy and peace to her.
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What Became of That Fetal Life?
Beyond the Vail
Aber and Nixon
(1901)
1299. On the evening of the 5th day of June, 1890, at the second
séance for "Rending the Vail," sister Ann made her presence and
identity known in materialized form, and thenceforward, at different
séances, for nearly two years she appeared, always holding in her
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hands the appearance of an exceedingly small babe, and would
claim it as "my little girl baby," but never would give any explanation,
and N, never having been apprised of the cause of her death, farther
than that it was some kind of fever, was unable to understand what
the appearance of the little babe meant.
At the séances of 1899 and 1900 for "Beyond the Vail," sister Ann
sometimes was invisible form, but did not present the form of a babe
in her hands or arms. In making illustrations for this book, the spirit
artist made one which is found on page 252, recognized as a good
likeness, in many respects, of this sister Ann, and she said: "That is
my picture." And the artist made another picture, found on page 430,
which presents so many features in common with the picture of sister
Ann as to lead us to conclude that the two pictures are undoubtedly
pictures of mother and daughter, and after we so recognized the
pictures, the spirits informed us that we had guessed the true
intention of the pictures and that the picture of the child is designed
as an illustration of the personality and work of one called in spirit
Little Ruth, and of whom Reed speaks in his description of work in
the spirit world.
If the reader will turn back and read carefully all of last above
reference, he or she will be prepared to discern what has become of
our fetal life in question: That just as Ruth was given in charge of
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Little Peg, and by the assistance of Dr. Reed, got Little Peg into a
cozy little home in spirit life and changed the name Margaret or Peg
to Crystal, because Little Peg was becoming such a beautiful spirit,
so some qualified spirit messenger was given charge of the spark of
life eternal that escaped from this fetus in question, garnered it away
and cared for it and named it Ruth, in designation of the messenger
work it would be qualified to do. But, ere this, Ruth has grown to adult
condition, passed all the schools of Zelda, and is climbing the eternal
mountains of grandeur and intelligence that the spirit Thomas Paine
so eloquently portrays in "Rending the Vail." (R. V., 2455-2459)
Purpose of This Case
Perhaps part of the purpose of this spirit band in presenting this case
in the manner in which it is done is to further assist the psychic
student and the student of medical jurisprudence who may chance to
peruse these pages, in learning that,
(a) From a period exceedingly early in fetal life it contains an
organized spirit entity that survives destruction by whatever cause of
the fetal body.
(b) That the tiny spirit is received into the tender care of kind
messenger spirits, who look after its welfare, much the same as
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would have been the case with it in this world, had the child been
permitted its natural birth alive in its physical body.
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Exegetical Spiritualism — Resurrection
Seers of The Ages:
Embracing Spiritualism Past And Present
J. M. Peebles
(1904)
During the process of death, consciousness, in the seeming, is
sometimes suspended, as with those who are suddenly ushered
into the spirit world by capital punishment, suicide or accident, and
with those especially whose habits of life, given to pernicious
gratification, have materialized their senses, as if locked in "chains
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of darkness." Those who have lived pure and exalted lives, aglow
with truth and charity, do not lose their consciousness for a moment,
but cognize the transition from a darker to a more illumined room in
the mansions of the Father.
There are no idiots to the spiritual vision. Imbecility is caused by
malformation of the physical organization. Entering the spirit world,
released from ante-natal and social perversions, they immediately
commence their upward march of knowledge and wisdom.
Infants are immortal from the sacred moment of embryonic existence.
Uniting the alkali and acid, instantly you have the third and higher
compound — the salt. So when the positive and negative relational
forces blend, then and there is the divine incarnation. Nature never
takes a retrogressive step. If purposely blasted, during the gestative
life, the spiritual principle remaining undisturbed, and the individuality
intact, the tender riven bud is borne by matronly angels to the
nursery gardens of innocence to be trained in the virtues of the
spheres. Designed abortion is murder ! Multitudes will meet those
offended little ones that ought to have had a natural, physical birth
and the experiences of an earthly life, preparatory to a ripened
entrance into the world of spirits. Prematurely ushered there, the
spiritual objective being based upon the material, they are
necessitated by a law of their being, to return under heavenly
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guidance to the mediumistic spheres of sympathizing friends to
gather glimpses of, and participate in, earthly struggles and victories.
Identity is cognate with existence itself. It is the natural attribute of
spirit — its very impressibility. It depends not on form for recognition,
but the form on it. Every part of the grain we sow is represented in
the harvest. Essential spirit being inseparable substance, and ever
reporting itself magnetically, we recognize it by sympathy, the same
as a child in the darkness knows its mother without the aid of sight or
hearing. Our spheres are ourselves extended — our very loves
and thoughts in telegraphic communication. When, therefore, spirits
from the mortal lands meet the gone before, instantly, by sympathy,
they recognize each other, and the past, with all its checkered
pilgrimages, indelibly engraved on the tablet of memory, rolls in upon
the consciousness with light and shadow, all in order of relations
and events, in sweet, unspeakable joy and fall of glory.
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The Destiny Of Man
The Dawn of Another Life
Wesley Aber
(1910)
As the ages of time glide away, as a dream that is dreamed floats
away forever into the irrevocable past, we stand in mighty hosts and
watch mortals in their daily ways, how they control their actions and
order their lives.
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Mortal man in all the wanderings of his mind, is never satisfied with
today, no matter how much he has accomplished or how great a
good has come to him. He is ever looking ahead and sighing for the
rising of tomorrow's sun, so that he can witness what it brings forth to
him.
So much he has laid out with mathematical precision, to perform and
fully accomplish that he cannot see the future unfold with a pace too
swift. And this insatiate desire to do more, be more, and thus better
himself and his loved ones, is as inborn within him as is the breath he
breathes. This rising force is simply the result of progression, upon
which is built every element which mortals possess. No man can
stand still in the face of the moving power of the Universe. He either
progresses or retrogrades. So that each act of a lifetime either points
to one or another of these ways. And again, there are many of your
world, and even of ours who have fallen into darkened conditions on
account of their own choice and the backward slipping of their own
footsteps, when such environments at last have tended to awaken
the better part of their natures, and seeing at last into what they had
fallen, their condition served as a dear lesson to them, and they at
once turned their faces toward the bright sun of knowledge, and the
road of progression. When this is so, they are made the better and
stronger men and women for it. The chain of man's destiny is
wrought together link by link, by the strong hand of Providence , as
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the smith welds together bits of burning red-hot iron. And as the
fragments of his life join each with each, to make at last the real acts
of his existence so does his destiny begin to unfold itself, and lay out
like a scroll to be read at will. The daily aspirations of the mortal mind
that are the indwelling sentiments of the consciousness are the
deeds in embryo that have birth, and at last form many links in
destiny's chain.
The inborn voice of the soul which speaks in various tongues and
grows into principles which actuate the deeds of a man's life, whether
good or bad, forms a part of his destiny, the tiny thoughts in embryo
which take vital strength and grow into shape until they become
things and take their places in the mortal existence as kindness and
at last form the consummation of an earthly life. But does the output
of man's inner consciousness from day to day find an end of
occurrence with death? Ten thousand times no! Just as he lays aside
his earthly apparel (the flesh) and sinks down to rest in the evening
of death, thinking his labors are finished, he scarcely loses
consciousness in the last of mortal life, until his spirit eyes are
looking on the light of the Immortal morning, and he realizes with the
fullness of his newly awakened spirit senses that his destiny was not
finished on earth, but just begun! When we are near mortals of earth
we often hear one and another speaking of some person's destiny,
and they usually interpret a destiny as meaning some one
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accomplishment or another, or refer to it as some business or
vocation acquired by them in earth life, saying, "Oh, it was his
destiny," or "Well, she had to do her grand work, it is certainly her
destiny." A man's destiny is his own precious gift from the Most High,
and it accurately means the actual fulfillment of certain laws that
abide for him and in his aura for the purpose of fixing his life on earth
and in Spirit Spheres, just as it was originally intended to be. A great
many of the first plans for mortal life and action that are laid with
accurate precision are never reached by persons for whose lives
they were intended for the simple reason that these persons are ever
ready to neglect the impressions they daily receive and throw aside
as imagination or chaff, the whispered words from spirit lips, whose
messages are as signal lights along the pathway of truth, and as the
guiding rays of a candle under the sheltered roof to the weary,
travel-stained wanderer in the Storm of Darkness and Ignorance.
Instead of seeking to understand the governing motives of their lives,
they turn their faces into the shabby and threadbare path of
ignorance and failure, and then when the Hand of Death beckons
them across the river and opens the gates of another existence, they
wonder at their own seeming nothingness and failures, and are lost
in amazement that they have not really tried to learn something of
themselves long ago. How many, many of earth's people today that
do not realize the building or the completion of their own destinies!
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As man's real destiny built day by day, as the years of his life unfold,
so should man strive to crowd out of his nature all the petty follies of
his earthly years and grow more and more in the Image of God.
Fix your minds, Oh mortals of earth, on some of the high and mighty
destinies of those who have left your earth in a blaze of glory as it
were, and even as you have had the privilege to learn of them
through contact with the love they have left behind, so should you
order your lives, that in the law of eternal progress you could witness
the upbuilding of a destiny for yourselves of which you need never be
ashamed. The reason for a great deal of the hubbub and confusion
of your world is because the mortal only strives to realize what is of
necessity for his present wants, and tries not to build for himself a
future monument of Eternal Peace. In the Heavens the usual destiny
that man sees is day after day of gaining the world's goods, so that
when he grows old in the years of earth his prosperity he will find him
fattened in worldly gain, and Spiritual Ignorance.
The mortal who comes to realize that every happening which comes
into his life is for the best, so long as he is living the principles which
he feels to be right, is the man who is stepping on the high plane of
Progress and attainment of success in his each and every
undertaking.
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Believe in yourselves or you will be the creatures of failure. If your
friends believe in you, you will be a success, but the first element of
your friends' trust imposed in you is your own self confidence. Your
daily acts, your thoughts, your beliefs, your prejudice, your loves, and
hope and fears, all join together in the eternal and form link by link,
the wonderful chain of your destiny. They are but the elements which
help to make you what you finally are.
How many there are in your world who are all unconsciously laying
the corner stones of their destinies today; putting in the foundation
principles on which their whole lives are to rest. The multitude of men
go on and on up the steep hill of Earthly Fortune and never stop to
pick the thorns from their bleeding feet (that come as gentle
reminders that their pace is too swift), but trudge tip and tip the steep
Incline of Worldly Prowess, until some day the hour of the Eternal
comes and they are called to the realms of Spirits, to houses not
made with hands, and find they then have nothing in keeping with
this new life, only the change called death, and at this occurrence in
their existence, when the last scale has fallen, and they are permitted
full sight, they see at once that what would have been the greatest
possibilities in their mortal destinies were completely left out and
moreover alas never known ! A mortal can understand only so much
as his experience up to the present time has taught him. It is
impossible for him to thread his way into paths unknown, for he
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cannot comprehend that which has never been his pleasure to be
conscious of. If it were otherwise, how different would thousands and
thousands of destinies be.
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Future of a Child
The Dead Have Never Died
Edward Randall
(1917)
THE orthodox teachings make no attempt to tell us what becomes of
children who go out of the earth-plane in infancy. How many millions
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of mothers have had babies too young for speech, boys and girls just
able to talk and walk, sink into a dreamless sleep, and having kissed
for the last time the lips of love, have seen the little bodies lowered
with tender hands into the grave, and as the earth fell upon the
casket have heard from the lips of ignorance "ashes to ashes, and
dust to dust." With hearts without hope they have gone back to the
house of sorrow, the toys, the little bed, the vacant chair, the ache in
the heart, the tears that fall in countless thousands of homes, and the
cries that go out in the night to know where in the vast universe the
baby is, if it lives at all.
"What becomes of those who go out in infancy, you ask? "Do they
develop in mind and body? Shall we know them and meet them
again? Will they know us? Is there any one to comfort and care for
them, and teach them?
Do they miss and seek the mother love?" These and a thousand
more questions have been asked in the countless ages that have
gone, and are being asked in every desolate home in the world
today.
Let me tell what I have learned of those conditions through many
years of speech with those in the afterlife.
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I repeat what I have said before and shall say again, for it is the key
to comprehension, that the infant at conception possesses an etheric
form, at that moment clothed in a physical garment or flesh body.
This etheric form is material, composed of matter, and as matter
cannot be destroyed; it follows that etheric child-body cannot by any
possibility be annihilated.
The infant etheric form by the process of dissolution passes out of
the physical garment which it took on at the moment of conception,
the same garment that it wore at birth, and becomes an inhabitant of
the next plane of consciousness, where all is etheric, where nothing
physical can enter. This change may be likened to an earth-birth.
There are thousands of childless women, who never in earth-life
found expression for the mother-love. These, with countless others
who find their greatest happiness in doing good together with those
of blood relation, attend at such a time and take and care for the little
stranger in the new environment.
Let me give an instance that came under my personal investigation.
It is a well known fact that children up to about three years of age are
able to, and do see spirit people; some have spirit playmates. The
instance I am about to relate was the passing of a little boy, only one
week old, who had a sister a little under three years of age, with
whom I was privileged to make an experiment. This little girl night
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after night saw the baby boy, and described him; he was in the same
room with two spirit nurses in attendance, while another woman was
from time to time described as being present. Again, this three year
old sister often saw the spirit-baby when she was away from her
home. On various occasions I verified these statements by inquiry
from those in the afterlife during our investigation, and found that
what the little sister related had actually taken place. The woman
who appeared from time to time was the grandmother; she, assisted
by two nurses, cared for the little stranger, and on several occasions,
before he could articulate plainly, prior to his fourth birthday, I heard
him speak to me. This was a most valuable experience.
Children in the afterlife are cared for very much as they are here.
There are those who find their greatest delight in mothering the
motherless, and teaching them words of speech and wisdom; so
under such unselfish care the children reach mental and bodily
maturity just the same as they would if they had remained in this
world.
The etheric process of development is interesting; children need
mother-love no less in spirit than in earth life, and as the mother
sleeps, those in charge place the etheric baby-form close to her
heart, where it rests absorbing the love so necessary to its existence.
We little know how close the afterlife is, how close its inhabitants
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come to us, the influence they exert on us, or the result of our
thought vibrations upon them. Then again, as the children grow, they
keep in touch with us from day to day, and when we go out into the
afterlife, they know and greet us as we enter the life that has no
night.
There are in the next life kindergartens, schools, colleges, and
universities of learning just as we have here, and what is more, the
inhabitants do not cease to study and increase their store of
knowledge when they reach a certain age, but there are great lecture
halls where the advanced ones teach the supreme laws of Nature,
where all are welcome and all go, and so the secrets of the Universe
are understood. There is but one aristocracy in the life to come, and
that is founded on the refinement and development of character.
Measured by this standard, how very poor are our very rich! I have
often written that the aristocrats of the afterlife have gained their
position by helping others less fortunate. They rise by raising others.
Those alone stand erect who stoop above the lowly.
Here is what a sojourner in the next plane has said of the little ones:
"Many people have puzzled as to the state and condition of young
children in the spirit world, and it is on that subject that I desire to
speak, more particularly, tonight. There are millions of young children
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of all ages passing into the spirit world every year. Some of them are
of very tender age, while others know right from wrong. It is an
interesting subject to inquire as to what they do in the spirit life. At the
outset, I must tell you that there is a divine law in the spirit world, that
whosoever passes into that kingdom before he has reached to man's
estate upon the earth-plane, shall grow mentally to the stature of a
man. You can gather from that that the 7 youngest child, even the
infant which has been taken from you, will grow mentally and
spiritually on the other side of life. Clairvoyants and others have often
described young children in the spirit life, who have been recognized
by mothers and fathers; they perhaps years after, have been
somewhat astonished to hear of the child looking much older, and
they have not been able to account for it. You will understand that the
presentation of the spiritual form is in order that those in the flesh
may be able to see them through the physical senses, and to note
that they appear to be growing toward manhood and womanhood. I
am afraid that many people upon your earth-plane today are
neglectful of their responsibilities to their children. If God has given
you such a flower as a child, it is incumbent upon you by example
and precept to train that child in spiritual things, so that ultimately he
will be with you in the kingdom of Heaven and will rejoice in the
knowledge that you guided him spiritually when an infant. But how
careless are many people with their children! They forget that the
child is all the time taking note, not of what they are saying, but of
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what they are doing. I assure you that if you are unmindful of your
responsibilities toward your children, you will undoubtedly have to
pay the penalty when you reach the spirit side of life."
Too little attention has been paid to the going out of children; the
world has little knowledge on that subject. No greater blessing can
come to the fathers and mothers of every nation and tribe than to
know that children with bodies too frail to carry them through the
earth-life are not lost in going from among us, but in the other life go
right on with their growth and development under the care and
guidance of good men and women who for love of humanity do the
necessary work, and so enrich themselves.
I am impressed not to leave this subject without a word of warning to
do no murder. Know that at the moment of conception out of the
mass of the universal good, out of the life mass, an etheric atom, a
body infinitesimal in size and perfect in form is clothed, and no matter
whether the physical birth is natural or premature, that life-force so
individualized has commenced its journey back to God, and all the
power in all the Universe cannot change its ultimate destiny.
I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have
come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a
natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their
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development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with
the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless
murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man,
because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge
shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of
her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his
criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her
"Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child
murder
"They walked the valley of the dead,
Lit by a weird half light,
No sound they made, no word they said,
And they were pale with fright.
Then suddenly from unseen places came,
Loud laughter, that was like a whip of flame,
They looked, and saw, beyond, above,
A land where wronged souls wait
Those spirits called to earth by love,
And driven back by hate.
And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild,
As she beheld the phantom of her child.
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Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled
Out into night and death,
Before it reached the Mother world,
Or drew its natal breath.
And terrified, each hid her face and fled
Beyond the presence of her unborn dead,
And God's Great Angel, who provides
Souls for our mortal land,
Laughed, with the laughter that derides,
At that fast fleeing band
Of self-made barren women of the earth.
Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth.
'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they,
That down below us fared;
Those shapes with faces strained and grey,
And eyes that stared and stared;
Something there was about them, gave us fear;
Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.'
Thus spake the spectral children; thus
The Angel made reply:
'They have no part or share with us,
They were but passers by.'
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'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead;
'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."
"I want to tell you," a teacher in the afterlife said, "of a little waif that
came to us in infancy. We taught and carefully guarded, and
schooled her in the pure conditions of our sphere until she
approached womanhood, but she had no contrasts, therefore she
could not judge of the relative purity and delights of her environment.
In order that she should be able to enjoy her home and the glories of
our world, it was necessary for her to have a knowledge of earthly
conditions. And so I was instructed to conduct this child back to earth
from time to time. When this child first returned to earth and was
among your people, she could hardly endure even to examine the
gross conditions, and could not understand how people could exist in
such dark, crude elements. But, as I led her along from one condition
to another, over the road she would have gone had she remained on
earth for the ordinary allotted period, I said to her: 'Had you lived your
time in the body, you would have been in the condition in which you
see these people.' I also told her that they would look gross to her
when they reached the spirit state, but that in course of time they
would improve enough to assume the state of purity and peace that
she enjoyed. And as we journeyed on, we met one whose earthly
experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks
different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training.
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And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there
were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and
learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the
different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast
between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life.
This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and
she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of
earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a
reality.
"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of
earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we
came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there,
unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This church
house is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently the
services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for here
she would get the average experience of the church methods and be
able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly needed
on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his discourse in
his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he thought
essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit. But the
girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the dicta of
the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit world and
had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods attempted by
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the church to enlighten the people and prepare them for future
realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to her so
gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen, heard, or
read of in the land which had always been her home that she
hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and welfare
required that she learned as much as possible of the earth conditions
in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such earth
conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more the
young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In fact, it
was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on this
side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for
entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my
suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the
earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it;
we, therefore, journeyed on."
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The House of the Harpy
Spirit Interaction
James Hewat McKenzie
(1917)
The author, travelling on one occasion through the middle astral
plane, visited a city which had almost fallen into ruins, the houses on
the outskirts being quite impossible of habitation, for only the walls
remained; others in a better state of repair were inhabited by people
of a type such as might be met with on earth in slum
neighbourhoods. The atmosphere of the place was disagreeable,
and in the deserted streets from time to time one could perceive what
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appeared to be the dead bodies of new-born children, in various
stages of growth. Entering one of the houses, these baby forms were
everywhere to be found, let into the walls, lying on the floor, and upon
the beds, so that there seemed to be no place within the rooms
where one could sit down without seeing these strange creations. In
these homes lived women whose lives on earth had been devoted to
the procuring of abortion, and who had to suffer the annoyance of
having these baby forms continually kept before them by unseen
spirit operators. Before sitting down it was necessary to remove them
from the chairs, and they frequently cast them out of the windows in
their desire to be rid of them, but no sooner was this done than the
forms were returned to the old position, for unseen eyes were always
watching, and brought them back as speedily as they were got rid of.
These were artificial creations used by higher spirits as object
lessons to awaken the conscience, and arouse these women to the
unnatural enormity of their past evil practices. This irritating lesson
seldom, failed to bring them to an understanding that what they
believed was dead and unknown was in reality alive and known to all.
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The Unborn Dead
The Dead Have Never Died
Edward C. Randall
(1917)
I am impressed not to leave this subject without a word of warning to
do no murder. Know that at the moment of conception out of the
mass of the universal good, out of the life mass, an etheric atom, a
body infinitesimal in size and perfect in form is clothed, and no matter
whether the physical birth is natural or premature, that life-force so
individualized has commenced its journey back to God, and all the
power in all the Universe cannot change its ultimate destiny.
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I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have
come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a
natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their
development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with
the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless
murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man,
because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge
shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of
her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his
criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her
"Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child
murder.
"They walked the valley of the dead,
Lit by a weird half light,
No sound they made, no word they said,
And they were pale with fright.
Then suddenly from unseen places came,
Loud laughter, that was like a whip of flame,
They looked, and saw, beyond, above,
A land where wronged souls wait
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Those spirits called to earth by love,
And driven back by hate.
And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild,
As she beheld the phantom of her child.
Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled
Out into night and death,
Before it reached the Mother world,
Or drew its natal breath.
And terrified, each hid her face and fled
Beyond the presence of her unborn dead,
And God's Great Angel, who provides
Souls for our mortal land,
Laughed, with the laughter that derides,
At that fast fleeing band
Of self-made barren women of the earth.
Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth.
'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they,
That down below us fared;
Those shapes with faces strained and grey,
And eyes that stared and stared;
Something there was about them, gave us fear;
Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.'
Thus spake the spectral children; thus
The Angel made reply:
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'They have no part or share with us,
They were but passers by.'
'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead;
'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."
"I want to tell you," a teacher in the afterlife said, "of a little waif that
came to us in infancy. We taught and carefully guarded, and
schooled her in the pure conditions of our sphere until she
approached womanhood, but she had no contrasts, therefore she
could not judge of the relative purity and delights of her environment.
In order that she should be able to enjoy her home and the glories of
our world, it was necessary for her to have a knowledge of earthly
conditions. And so I was instructed to conduct this child back to earth
from time to time. When this child first returned to earth and was
among your people, she could hardly endure even to examine the
gross conditions, and could not understand how people could exist in
such dark, crude elements. But, as I led her along from one condition
to another, over the road she would have gone had she remained on
earth for the ordinary allotted period, I said to her: 'Had you lived your
time in the body, you would have been in the condition in which you
see these people.' I also told her that they would look gross to her
when they reached the spirit state, but that in course of time they
would improve enough to assume the state of purity and peace that
she enjoyed. And as we journeyed on, we met one whose earthly
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experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks
different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training.
And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there
were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and
learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the
different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast
between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life.
This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and
she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of
earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a
reality.
"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of
earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we
came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there,
unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This
churchhouse is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently
the services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for
here she would get the average experience of the church methods
and be able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly
needed on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his
discourse in his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he
thought essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit.
But the girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the
52
dicta of the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit
world and had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods
attempted by the church to enlighten the people and prepare them
for future realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to
her so gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen,
heard, or read of in the land which had always been her home that
she hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and
welfare required that she learned as much as possible of the earth
conditions in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such
earth conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more
the young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In
fact, it was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on
this side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for
entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my
suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the
earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it;
we, therefore, journeyed on."
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Of Birth and Death:
From Whence To Where?
The Archives of The Eloists
Walter DeVoe
(1933)
Let us begin your journey through eternity from the only logical
starting point, conception. We could begin with the infinite vastness
of the All Person because the essence of your being, your soul, is
and always has been the very Person of your Creator, and for that
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reason the essence of your being has always existed through the
infinite eons of the past. In that sense your soul being has always
had an existence, but in the same sense even the physical body you
possess has always existed, for the atoms of hydrogen, oxygen,
carbon and so forth of which it is composed have been part of your
planet, your sun, your galaxy, your nebula and thence from previous
stars and nebulae that have been dissipated and gone from an
unfathomable and incomprehensible time long passed. Could the
atoms of your physical body speak with a conscious awareness, they
could tell you awesome stories of stars and planets, peoples and
civilizations in the farthest reaches of space, that were born,
struggled with the limitations of corpor for a time and then passed on.
Their histories long forgotten except in the minds of great gods and
goddesses high now in etherea who either lived on those birth places
of immortal souls or in some way had assisted with their resurrection
and growth.
Yes, even if the spiritual "atoms", if we may use the poetic license to
call them such, of your soul being could speak, they could tell you
tales of life through the numbing distant unlimited past, of a place
infinitely far away or so very close, of a time incomprehensibly
ancient and yet as recent as the very now, of experience and wisdom
whose comprehension and magnitude would leave even the highest
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raised angel speechless with awe.
But wait, all of this is our fanciful imagination at play, for none of it
can be. Your earthly shell cannot speak, nor can the component
parts of your astral shell or soul, though that is where the Great
Intelligence that created you resides; and neither can you speak of
those times, for the you that you are, the self-conscious, self-knowing
aware being that you are came into being at the moment of
conception.
The essence of Jehovih’s Person that is all knowing and resident in
the sperm, and the spark of the Divine Being that is all knowing and
resident in the egg came together in a magical transformation within
a star-flash of that union and at that moment a new soul was born. At
that moment you were a dual being in soul: the very I AM of the All
Person and a "blank slate" that was destined to be the sentient,
self-aware, reasoning being that you are. Due to the maturity of our
age, the you that you are became an immortal soul when those two
components cleaved together in the physically primitive embryonic
cell. Understand that whether your physical embryo ever reached
further stages of development or not, the spiritual being that you are
was already assured immortality as a soul and was destined to grow
into more expansive realms forever onward. If it had not been
allowed to proceed with its growth on the physical plane in the womb,
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then it would have continued the growth the I AM ordained it to
experience but on the spiritual plane instead by special dispensation.
The means by which this is accomplished will be discussed in a later
chapter. This then was the birth from whence you came, and this is
sufficient understanding to allow us to turn our attention to the places
you will be exploring in the days ahead.
Each person born as to life on earth is bestowed with three
component attributes, namely a soul or spiritual nature, a corporeal
or physical being and the qualities of action, movement,
self-expression, metabolism and similar manifestations of energy in
motion which we call life. This is why it is said that we are born in the
Creator’s image, because the Great Spirit also has the same three
components which are the Ever-Present All-Spirit, the infinite
corporeal creation (composing our universe) and the All-motion or
the manifestation of sentient Energy, the All-Life.
Since we are bestowed with those same attributes in a limited form,
and since our destiny is an ever expanding comprehension and
usefulness as our Creator’s "hands" in action, it is logical to begin by
experiencing one aspect of creation at a time and thus allowing our
infant souls a chance to grow at a tolerable rate, and at the same
time provide an anchor through which our immature spirit may be
nurtured until it reaches a state where it can comfortably subsist on
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its own.
The main purpose of corporeal existence therefore is to acquire a
basic appreciation of the physical aspects of creation, to provide an
elementary education for our newly formed souls, which are like
blank slates waiting for the experiences of life to be written upon
them, and finally to provide a fetal stage for the embryonic
development of our soul-selves, the spiritual being that our earthly
shell merely reflects.
While it is important to put our brief sojourn on this earthly plane to
the greatest possible use, and to grow in maturity and wisdom to the
best of our ability before our time comes to move on, yet, in the great
scheme of things, our time here is of minor importance in comparison
to the eternity ahead, just as our nine months in the womb is of minor
importance when compared to the perhaps 90 or even 100 years of
corporeal existence. Life in the womb would probably be of great
importance, indeed, to the fetus were it able to comprehend, but that
nine months pales in comparison to the life time ahead. It is the same
when comparing the earth life to the infinity that lies before us in the
world of spirit. Were life in corpor of more importance, would not the
Creator have provided greater safeguards to make our physical
bodies less vulnerable to premature death as to this life? The
simplest and most unexpected mishaps can snuff our corporeal lives
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out, for the mortal body is so delicate and vulnerable. But the truth is
that our corporeal existence is only like a heartbeat when compared
to the infinite life ahead, and our corporeal life while important is not
paramount and is not crucial to our eventual development.
And so it is, be it soon or late, the time comes for each of us. The
delicate bond between spirit and corpor snaps to allow our true
selves, the spiritual beings that we are, to emerge like a butterfly
from a cocoon and take its rightful place in the greater part of
creation. For the world of spirit is not a vague and ephemeral place. It
is only the imperfect perception of your mortal senses which gives
you these false impressions.
Your whole world consists of the surface of a little ball of corpor,
while our spiritual world penetrates all levels of the rest of creation.
We here in spirit can see, hear and feel on levels that you can only
dream of, for your earthly shell handicaps the natural spiritual senses
that you possess in a blunted form. We are free from your earthly
drudgery. We are freer on every level beyond your wildest dreams,
for we are the real inhabitants of a real world, a world that you are
destined to inhabit as your true and rightful place in an infinite
creation.
No two souls describe the act of passage in the same way, for no two
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individuals perceive through the windows of their separate souls in
quite the same way, and the circumstances of each transition differ in
detail. Suffice it to say that everyone admits that the actual process
that liberates the spirit from corpor is easier and smoother than
anyone expected. Some "arrive" with such swiftness that they at first
don’t realize that the change has taken place at all, while others
make the change so gradually that they can describe every detail as
a remarkable experience of joy and wonder. Realize that when we
say "arrive", that no actual travel necessarily occurs, for when we
speak
of you being "there", while we are "here" describes not so much the
difference of location as it does describe the difference of dimension,
which is something that interpenetrates the same place at the same
time at a differing level of vibration. This difference in state prevents
you from not only perceiving us, but also prevents the interference of
one level of experience with that of the other unless extraordinary
conditions come into play.
Yet, in spite of the illusion of a great chasm separating us, everyone,
soon or late, will make the transition called death, for all your earthly
existence is merely preparation for that great event. All you
experience, both good and bad, has been an exercise for your soul
to build in strength and perfection so that it may be ready to stand on
its own in the more refined states of thought, where your self-control
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and will must be at a greater stage of maturity than had been
required when your being was localized in its corporeal shell. For
while the personality that you are is housed in its earthly shell, the
dulling influence of the lower vibrations of corpor allows the "thought
being" that you are to subsist with greater safety and efficiency.
Realize that your lack of maturity as a young and immortal soul
allows your concentration to wander, and your self control or will is
seldom a dominant force in your existence. You are easily distracted
by things in your environment and you are often led in your
weakness to do things which are not in your best interest or in the
best interests of others. You can see, however, when comparing an
infant to a mature adult, that some degree of progress has been
made in this regard, through one’s life time. There is more self
control. There is a greater understanding of how your mental powers
can be applied to create and accomplish. There is a greater exercise
of will to do what is right and necessary even when your lower
propensities would have you act differently. Of course, there are
great differences in the degree of development even in mature adults,
but in most cases it is of a great enough degree to allow that
individual after death to subsist in the freer and more refined state of
spirit with a great enough degree of competence to keep from being
a burden on the rest of the newborn in spirit who are residing on the
same plane of existence. Should this newborn be too imperfect, then
special provisions must be made, depending on the degree of
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imperfection and the reason for its occurrence. The innocent soul
thrust prematurely into spirit life by being killed through abortion, for
example, must be dealt with in a very different manner than a person
who has passed over as a result of the fruits of a life of crime. But in
all cases, whether it is through natural development in a normal
corporeal existence or through special corrective measures applied
afterwards, every soul must reach a state of mental development that
allows him or her to exist competently in a state of refined vibrations
of thought, for the world of spirit requires much greater strength of
personality and control of will than is required in the grossness of
corporeality. Always remember our basic truth that you are in
essence a being of thought. The greater totality that you are is not
your corporeal shell but rather your mind, which is thought, and in
thought, as a distinct portion of the All-Thought, will you live, move,
and have your being for all time to come.
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Brought Back to Earth
Radiance
The Eloists
(1985)
You don't need to keep your mind closed to information of events
taking place in the world. Learn all you can about the earth. Thus you
will be more fully developed when you pass on to the next world. You
have to go through different grades of learning, just as you do in
schools. You cannot go forward into more complicated grades until
you have passed those in the corporeal world. Babes who die in
infancy, by abortion or other means, are brought back to earth under
angelic protection to learn about the place of their birth. Earth is
really a beautiful planet, and you can be grateful you were born upon
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it. There are many ugly things about it, to be sure, created by spirits
in darkness who are influencing people to harm one another and
make war. This will go on until the light of the Creator takes over and
comes into positive expression through many awakened souls. You
don't need to tune in with anything in the news that depresses you,
but you can pour light into the dark conditions as you keep your
awareness with the Creator at all times.
Of the trillions of souls who need to be brought in the way of
resurrection, fully a hundred million are infants, most of whom are the
result of abortions and stillbirths. With the widespread acceptance of
the heinous act of abortion, we have been flooded with these poor
souls, and though it is true that they are without sin, yet that does not
lessen the burden placed upon our workers or upon the lower
heavens as a whole.
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A Nurse from the Plateau
Radiance
The Eloists
(1985)
Let us ponder for a moment on the awesome burden placed on our
spiritual realms by the untimely death of so many innocent babes
through the thoughtless act of abortion. The number of undeveloped
souls thrust into the care of our doctors and nurses who labor on the
plateaus close to the earth is far greater than your darkest imaginings.
The fact that these babes are thrown upon us in greater and greater
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numbers each year makes the scene that much more pathetic. Could
we only make these selfish women realize that each soul is complete
and immortal at conception, perhaps they would more carefully
ponder their decision. Their basic misconception that their body is
theirs to do with as they please is their first error. They had as little to
do with the growth and development of their own bodies as that of the
infant they carry. Both belong to the Creator that made them and He
is the one to whom they must ultimately answer. If they could only
realize that the soul of that poor infant is brought back to them in
many cases and fetaled upon them until full term (and therefore only
the earthly body may be aborted while the spirit remains), perhaps
they would think again before making the fateful decision. If they
could only realize that the day will come when they will pass over into
our realms of spirit and there meet their rejected child face to face,
though then fully grown, and be forced to justify their decisions and
rectify their actions once and for all. Perhaps this is the image they
need placed before them. Perhaps if they could see their child's
pained expression as he or she asks, "Why did you do this to me,
mother? Why did you deprive me of my life and your love? What did I
do to you to be treated so?" "Why?" is our question as well. We, here
on the Plateau in the hospitals and nurseries labor hard and long to
maintain and revive these innocent souls, fetaling them sometimes to
the natural mother and sometimes to a more appropriate soul, until
they are strong enough to be transferred to the nurseries where
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primary education can begin. This is, of course, more difficult without
the corporeal body and corporeal experiences to guide them. But we
will work harder and longer still, until those on earth awaken to the
Light of the Creator within their souls and awaken to the love that
dwells within their hearts. Until then we remain, Your loving friends.
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Wanted: Mothers
The Faithist Journal
Anonymous
(1988)
One day as my body lay resting quietly on its bed, I decided to
plunge into hada, the lower atmospherean heavens of the Earth. I
closed my eyes, visualized the soles of my feet until they started
to tingle; then I felt the tingling creep up my ankles, lower legs,
thighs and torso. The tingling picked up on my fingertips and
crept up my forearms to the elbow, then to the shoulders and finally
to the top of my head. Meditating on this a while, I heard (or felt)
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a loud buzzing sensation in my head and suddenly I was outside,
looking back at my reclining, corporeal form.
I floated through the bedroom walls to the outside and soon found
myself wandering amongst the teeming billions of departed
earthlings who inhabit that region closest to the Earth and to all
they have loved. I talked with many of them as I wandered, and
found that their aims, aspirations and beliefs were little different
than those of the people one might meet at the county fair. Many
expressed disappointment in not having been taken to "The
Saviour" and all were preoccupied with finding a more or less
permanent place to reside. (The crowding of this region is
somewhat like Manhattan Island multiplied by many thousands of
times).
As I elbowed my way through the dense crowds, I came eventually
to a large open valley. The ground of this valley was covered with
boxes, baskets piles of straw and similar things, each of which
contained the astral form of a tiny infant. Each infant was wrapped
in a blanket. The scene extended for as far as the eye could see,
clear to the horizon of this region over the North American
continent.
There were millions of tiny infants, placed in little groups of about a
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dozen, with walkways cleared between the groups. Up and down
along these walkways strolled a few dozen sad, tired, middle-aged
looking ladies, each wearing a grey tabard with a rope belt, and each
busily trying to take care of the immediate needs of several hundred
of the infants.
Needless to say, I was quite curious about this scene, and could not
resist inquiring what it was all about.
"Where did all these children come from?", I inquired of the nearest
lady.
"One of these babies is mine", she responded, "but I don't know
which one, because I never saw it; I don't even know, whether it is a
boy or a girl. I do know that if it has blue, grey or green eyes, it very
probably isn't my own, because I and my lover both had brown eyes.
And the new ones arriving, of course, are not mine, either, but they
all need to be taken care of; they all need a mother but they only
have us few."
"How did it happen", I asked, `that you never saw your own child?"
"It was an abortion", she sadly replied, "I was ashamed to let my folks
find out that I was pregnant so I went to this so-called ‘doctor’ who
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ripped it out and left me unconscious from shock and, incidentally,
with all sorts of germs in the torn spots and I came over here shortly
afterward as the result of a serious infection. All of these kids were
aborted, and every day we get several thousand more, so we press
into service every woman who comes here looking for her child. Still,
as you can see, there are not nearly enough ladies to take care of all
of them properly."
She continued, "They all need to be bathed more often than they are.
There are so many of them and we have such meager facilities for it,
and so few people to help with it; that's why the stench is so bad. I
don't really mind it myself but it is so offensive to ‘the others’ that they
always bring them here and just drop them." She added, "Most of
their mothers wouldn't care enough about them to help, even if they
were over here on this side; they were just glad to be rid of them.
As for their fathers, I seriously doubt that many of them even believe
that they have children here."
I looked out across the tremendous field with miles and miles of little
bundles, all dirty, hungry, crying and squirming with loneliness and
discontent.
I thought to myself, "If only every young girl who plans to get rid of
her kid could come over here and see this!"
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I wanted to help, but knew that I lacked the skill and experience to
even get started; also, I knew that I had to return to my body, so what
little I was able to do was just a token, like dipping out the ocean with
a teaspoon. I wondered quietly whether the lower heavens over the
other continents of the Earth had tremendous foundling fields like this
one.
I knew that heredity is the main factor in whether one continues after
death of the body, so to a certain extent, survival of bodily death
comes to most as a corollary to the gift of life itself. It's a little like
beauty; one gets it chiefly by choosing the right parents. If survival
of bodily death was due to faith or to good works or piety, none of
these little ones would be here. If it was a universal gift to every
animal thing, the lower heavens would be a raging, howling zoo filled
with creatures of every description still trying to do the things they did
in corporeal life. As such it would hardly be called ‘heaven.’
I wondered at the poor physical condition of many of the babies.
There were cripples of every kind, deformed bodies, missing
members, Siamese twins, dwarfs, blind, deaf and partly paralyzed
children. There were representatives of every, race and ethnic
group on the North American continent, but the ratios didn't seem the
same as in the corporeal real world. I suppose that some ethnic
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groups place a higher value on life and on children than they do on
daughter's "reputation." Certainly, the child's religion could hardly
have any effect upon its survival, particularly at the ripe old age of
minus four or five months.
As I strolled through these thousands of acres of outdoor nursery,
looking at the millions upon millions of abandoned children who had
been prematurely cast into heaven, I marveled at the size of the task
before any woman who had the courage to volunteer to help. I also
wondered at the folly of our people in letting this thing happen to us.
I realized that the Puritan Ethics, the antiquated concept of
"marriage" and the consequent quaint ideas about "honor" and
"disgrace" related to the reproductive process must carry much of the
blame for this wholesale slaughter of innocents. I remembered
hearing that in the United States of America, it is estimated that over
two million such deaths at the hands of ‘dear mother’ occur every
year. The U.S.A. only lost somewhat over fifty thousand young men
each year during the ten years of the Vietnam fiasco.
Eventually, I tired of this nightmare and was overwhelmed by a
feeling of helplessness and sadness.
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Bless the Innocents
Radiance
The Eloists
(1988)
Soon we will be gone from your focus until our travels bring us back
to your realm again. My hosts and I have been hard at work to
strengthen the organizations that are helping the weak-minded, the
undeveloped and misguided souls who continually cross the great
divide. Our nurseries, most of all, are overburdened above your
nation. These are part of the great change we are seeking. Your
people must make the leap in consciousness from war and violence
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to peace. They must learn peace among nations, peace in the home
and peace within their inner selves. They must also put an end to the
slaughter of the innocents and either accept the responsibility of
parenthood or learn how to become mature adults and not become
parents, through conscious choice. We can no longer tolerate the
continued destruction of so many unborn babes. The hand of
judgment will remain above all nations that condone such practices,
and until their ways are changed, peace will not reign within their
families, but they will continue to deteriorate and wallow in misery.
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The Gift of Life
Radiance
The Eloists
(1990)
Oahspe reveals to humanity the truth of your immortality, and the
reality of the angelic overshadowing that has continuously, over
countless centuries, labored to raise the understanding and behavior
of mortals to a state that would allow them to become a blessing to
themselves and to their progeny, who would inherit conditions in
which they have little to say and even less control. Many of the
actions taken by mortals through ignorance not only make their lives
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a time of suffering, but also place inestimable burdens on our angelic
realms. It is in that concern that we speak with you tonight, not only to
impress upon you the seriousness of our plight, but to enlighten you
on things to come. Life begins at conception. At that very moment
you become an immortal human soul destined to progress in wisdom
and power throughout eternity. This marvelous reality was not always
assured in the distant past history of your race on this planet, but for
many thousands of years now every soul has been guaranteed
immortality at conception, regardless of one's parentage and
circumstances surrounding the birth. The evolving embryo at that
moment is a separate and distinct immortal being, placed in the care
of another separate and distinct immortal being by the Ever-Present
Creator until it can subsist unaided in the mortal realm. To terminate
or abort this development for any reason constitutes murder of the
earthly habitat and thus thrusts the developing soul into our spiritual
realm prematurely to the will of the Creator. This is the simple truth
which cannot be couched in euphemisms or more expedient phrases.
The reality of the consequence is all too readily apparent to us here,
and is a practice which must be reversed before any semblance of
order can be restored to the lower heavens surrounding your planet.
You are well aware that this issue is being hotly contested in your
nation today, and it will continue to be hotly contested through the
decade to come. But we tell you that the Creator's hand is over this
matter and the day will come when your society will finally decide in
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favor of life, but not before a great deal of suffering is sustained as
the battle over this issue is brought to the streets of your nation. Just
as your nation's civil war could not be resolved until the majority of
your nation's inhabitants resolved in their hearts in favor of freedom
to the slaves, so will your nation not find peace in its cities or country
places until the majority resolves itself in favor of life. Until then,
violence in the streets and within the home will continue to grow. The
integrity of the family base will continue to crumble. The children you
do raise will continue to be a disappointment both individually and
collectively as constructive members of your society. Criminal activity
will continue to undermine the fabric of society and the use of drugs
and other forms of self-destruction will continue to thwart your efforts
at reformation. Though we are already entering a period of increased
spiritual light, yet amongst the masses of society it will hardly be
evident until this issue is resolved. Until then, keep the light of your
focus strong and stay well centered. When the minds of the masses
begin to awaken there will also come great progress in disarmament,
social reform and the blessings of peace. But many long and painful
years remain. Sometimes this is the only way important lessons can
be learned. Keep your spiritual community committed and strong so
that you may ride unscathed through the turmoil and contribute
something positive and helpful in the process.
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Growing in the Spiritual Worlds
Radiance
The Eloists
(1991)
Peace be with all the Creator's children on earth. Let love flow from
their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives
are being snuffed out of the body too soon. Too many are passing on
to the other side with no preparation for further development. Our
time and energies are devoted to receiving these many new souls,
and trying to keep them from going back to earth again. Once they
have left their physical bodies, they must go on to new experience
and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us. We have great
compassion for these newborn souls. Many little babies come over
here from abortions, sickness and accidents. They have been
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cheated out of their earthly experience. Not that they would have had
all good experiences, but every experience, good and bad, would
have contributed to their soul development. They will still grow in
spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands
of our Creator and give Him our faith and love. It is by His power in us
that we are able to accomplish our task.
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Peace
Radiance
The Eloists
(1991)
Peace be with all the Creator's children of Earth! Let love flow from
their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives
are being snuffed out of the body too soon. This earth is a school for
the education and development of souls while still in the physical
body. Too many are going to the other side with little preparation for
further development. Our time is taken up in receiving millions of
these new souls and trying to keep them from going back to earth
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again. Once they have left their physical body, they must go on to
new experiences and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us.
We have great compassion for these newborn souls, especially little
babies who came here due to abortion, sickness and accidents. They
have been cheated out of their earthly experience, not that they
would all have had good experience, but every experience would
have contributed to their development as souls. They will still grow in
spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands
of Our Creator, and give our Faith and Love to Jehovih at all times!
The Ever-Present is the captain of our ship!
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Dear Souls of Light
Radiance
The Eloists
(1992)
Be steadfast in our common purpose. As we come together at these
appointed times we work to build greater harmony and continuity
between your plane and ours. We seek to burst through the barriers
that separate us. As we do this, it is important that your whole life, the
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sum totality of your existence, plays a fundamental part in this
process. The time spent in council is fine and good, but the
preparation beforehand makes you fit tools through which we can
work and that is the vital link that really "sets the stage." It is how you
live, what you think, and how you serve each and every day that
molds your vessel for our use. Through it all, it is not what you did
yesterday, today, or tomorrow that makes the difference, but rather
what habits and traits you nurture day in and day out, year by year,
until they are constitutionally part of your character and personality.
We have made great strides together, no doubt, but do not let that
slacken your pace. Reconsecrate yourselves, your lives and your
Purpose to Jehovih each and every day and you will be answered
with greater fulfillment and greater joy of soul throughout all the days
of your lives here and hereafter.
We have a deep and genuine concern for your wellbeing. Since we
are much older than you in years (as you count them), you are like
precious children whom the Great Spirit has chosen to place under
out care. All children, regardless of the circumstances of their birth
and surroundings, are gifts of the Great Spirit and their presence
among us should be viewed as a most sacred trust.
They are "angels to be" in time, just as you are, but their innocence
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and vulnerability behooves us all to love, protect, and nurture them
'until they are strong enough to stand on their own. That is your
obligation as their elder care takers, just as you are our responsibility
as your elders even though we are separated from you by the
unseen dimension that seems to separate your realm from our world
of Spirit.
Every child is a sacred trust from the moment of conception, and
every child from the earliest moment of development should be held
in greater reverence for the sacred miracle that it is. This is not the
case among too many people on your plane, and this must be
changed through growth in understanding as to who we are as
immortal souls, with a purpose and destiny greater than just the here
and now.
The number of young souls cast upon our spirit plane prematurely
every year are testimony to the fact that the people of your world are
still mostly misguided and stumbling, diseased in spirit and burdened
with darkness. Verily are you rising and falling, both at the same time.
This must be remedied, and it will be remedied in this era of Kosmon,
but it will be a laborious journey with no easy solutions.
Have no doubt that Jehovih has the solution, and it will be made
manifest through the exalted Hosts of Angels who labor as the
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Creator’s hands, yes and hearts on the scene. Have no doubt that
they hold all of you as their most sacred trust, and they will not rest
until all have been redeemed to light and understanding, to a fuller
consciousness and maturity unlike any that has heretofore
manifested on earth. Then will a greater peace manifest. Then will all
the awakening gifts of spiritual and corporeal knowledge blend and
blossom into the fullness of a blessing as it was meant to be, free of
all the pain and sufferings of the past. This will be the task of the
high-raised beings who are soon to follow us now that we have
fulfilled our part and set the stage. All is planned; all is in concert; all
is orchestrated.
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Lines of Light
Radiance
The Eloists
(1992)
The Hosts of Light are with you in focus. We come from realms that
are not so far removed from your plane that we are insensitive to
your earthly trials and your mortal needs, nor are we so close that we
are unduly influenced by your realm's unenlightened behaviour or the
inharmony and disorganization of the lower atmospherean realms.
We have risen to a state in which unity of action and unity of purpose
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under one Infinite Source is our rule and guide. We work organically
under one high council and our labors being so perfectly planned and
orchestrated bring us seasons of endless delight and fulfillment as
only the higher, more liberated realms can enjoy.
We come to your plane to bring guidance and inspiration to those
who are receptive to the Light. We work behind the scenes to
orchestrate those earthly events that we can influence for an ultimate
good, and to provide spiritual balm for those who suffer from those
events of darkness or fate that we cannot influence.
We greet those who arrive here in both timely and untimely fashion
and give assurances and instruction to those who are advanced
enough to perceive our presence. When they are not, we turn them
over to those hosts who are best trained to deal with souls who are
diseased. undeveloped, or mired in darkness. Many of the latter are
beyond our immediate help because they arrive in such great
numbers at this time, especially when there are self-inflicted
tragedies and wars.
These unfortunates try us all and test our resources to the limit. Most
have to be left to their own devices until more opportune occasions
arise at times of dan or when etherean hosts come to our assistance.
It is at those times that circles of dedicated souls on earth can be
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most useful to us, for when they are trained and well developed over
many years of discipline, they can be of use to us as "batteries",
"step down transformers" and "anchors", through which we can touch
the lower atmospherean realms. Through our earthly intermediaries
we can reach those in the lower spiritual realms even though they
have already passed through the veil into our world of spirit.
Lastly, we also work with those who are young, undeveloped and
innocent; those youthful souls of innocence who are thrust upon us
through untimely births, mistreatment or abortion. These arrive
without the sins of darkness upon them and they are cared for in a
most considerate, caring and loving environment, well removed from
the lower discordant realms of earth. Some are joined with an
appropriate corporeal host under close supervision until they are
mature enough to be taken in a state of spiritual infancy to an
appropriate region for care, while others who are more mature are
removed right away. But in either case all of these innocents quickly
find their way to our organic heavens of the higher atmospherean
realms. Though they may arrive under the most sorrowful
circumstances, they are all by their innocence and virtue special
gems in our plateau of Light and Love. Here they are kept in love and
joy and away from all harm, where they soon mature with grace and
beauty.
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The Sacred Life Immortal
Visions of a New Age
Robert Bayer
(2009)
There is a clock image before me. It is bejeweled in green and
purple crystals. Its hands point a few minutes from midnight. I pass
through the clock. I see mothers, a dozen or so different ones holding
their newborn babies in love, smiling and very happy. A complete
shifting of the vision onto a new scene: a surgery room, and screams
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of fear and pain, and an angelic baby rises upward to be swaddled in
a spirit blanket by angels who rise above with it. I look to the grisly
settling of the operating table, mother, doctor and table and cutting
instruments covered in blood. A lifeless child’s body is thrown away
into a plastic bag. I see a corridor of such scenes, extending like
into infinity when you look into 2 mirrors facing one another.
Ghastly butchery after ghastly butchery. Very difficult to keep seeing.
Below, and unseen to the doctors, a black network of tentacles,
monstrous, control the thoughts and movements of the “doctors.”
The “mother” is in a state of shock and the tentacles grip her too, in a
kind of dark cocoon. I follow the trail of tentacles to a subterranean
chasm of caverns. The lightning and mood is horrific. Blood flows
everywhere. A demonic entity, goat-shaped and black winged, fiery,
red coal eyes, wielding knives in both hands, “sacrifices” the
children’s astral forms on the burning altar before him. I can watch
no more. I rise up from this hell, to the earth, to the heavens … I see
pure child after pure child growing up in the heavens, wise and good
parents and teachers working with them, loving them, teaching them
the truths of the universe they know. Many colors of spiritual
blessings enfold them. A great gathering of these new angels is
growing, very serene and very filled with the purpose of returning to
earth to enlighten and strengthen all there in a new sacredness of life.
Mothers and fathers of the world are coming under their beautiful
mantel of love. My guide speaks:
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The Unseen is where the Truth of all things lie. Nothing is hidden,
whether the light of love or darkness of selfishness, all is revealed in
the spirit which is the true reality. For decades, a holocaust of
infants has terrorized the world and burdened the heavens. The time
for the repudiation of this great crime has come. No more will the
murder of the innocent be allowed to continue, blackening the earth
in great sin. A new conscious that all life is sacred and created with
divine purpose, by the All Highest Creator, shall dawn and illuminate
the mortal mothers and fathers that their highest purpose is to be in
love and to love their children forevermore. Our love for you all, our
mortal children, is eternal and so let us extend this love to all people,
for all are our brothers and sisters, all Children of the Great Spirit,
The Sacred Life Eternal.
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Eternal Families of Love
Visions of a New Age
Robert Bayer
(2010)
The blue sky is above me, with very lovely white clouds dappling it.
Also, there is a kind of transparent window outlined in a section of the
blue sky. I rise up to it and it opens and I pass into it. There is a
rush of fast movement upward, myself and others that I can only
dimly see. After a short time, and all at once, we appear out in the
open, above the crown of vast white cumulous clouds. Passing a
little way forward, we then look down upon a city of white and gold
and silver and crystal buildings, each surrounded by large gardens
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and lawns. The guide asks me where I would like to go. After a
short pause, I say where I can be of the most service. He says to
follow him and we descend into a park of gardens, wide lawns
divided by sections of blooming flowers and trees. I see very young
and happy children running and playing. There are parents and
teachers overseeing one or more young ones. Some of these are
baby infants and are being carried and caressed. I try to tune into
the vibrations and purpose of this uplifting and heart-warming place.
I perceive that all the attending adults were childless during their
mortal lives. My guide speaks:
Yes, you perceive rightly, for all those laboring here, or rather, I
should say parenting here, are fulfilling their long-held desire to be
parents, while at the same time performing a great service to these
little ones. For know that their work and dedication in service is of
an eternal nature, and that they have not simply volunteered for a
short time, a few days or years to these newborn in spirit. Their
commitment, though not the biological parents in fact, raises them to
be in truth from now on the real parents of these children for all
eternity. These are children who were discarded in their earthly
lives, whether through abortion or abuse or abandonment, and so
met a tragic and far too early end to their lives on earth. Yet behold
the Wisdom of our Heavenly Father-Mother, who joins together lives
burdened with sad trials, and thereby makes and blesses a new
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family of heaven, that shall love and support and rejoice in one
another. Where before there was sadness, and pain, now there is
but joy and healing in united futures of happiness together that shall
always be. Here, in these gardens, you and your loved ones shall
one day meet.
I smile in tears of joy and look upon the happy scenes of families in
harmony and love and cheer. Our thanks and blessings to the
Heavenly Creator!
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Pro-life Feminism
Conscious Conception
Jeannine Parvati Baker
(1986)
Arising from the Great Cosmic Song are the growing voices of
feminists who respect life in all its forms--even down to the
"unplanned" pregnancies. For too long the spiritual communities of
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the pagans and the yogis, the two philosophies I have studied for
many years, have neglected to re-vision abortion.
Lingering still is the rationalization that an "unwanted" child somehow
was worse than abortion--that a "fast death" was better than an entire
lifetime of feeling
"unwanted" (with a personal history filled with emotional and/or
physical abuse from immature, irresponsible parents). It seems to me
that abortion really is the ultimate child abuse. And death, whether it
be fast or slow, is still death.
In fact, I have left particular "spiritual" communities because of this
basic anti-life, pessimistic perspective on abortion. It seemed to me
that on the most primal level, a person has much more to learn about
spirituality by accepting WHAT-IS (i.e., a pregnancy) than by
forcefully "re-cycling" the soul (i.e., terminating the baby). And
besides, having an abortion undermines any and all possibilities of
changing the culture's basic anti-life/anti-children attitude; much less
a personal miracle, wherein the reluctant parents-to-be learn to
accept their coming child.
Allow me first to first turn my attention to the Yoga community wherein
it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies so
that they can get on with the "real" spiritual work: i.e., a meditation
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practice. Babies are sometimes seen as a distraction to a heroic
spiritual practice.
I have six children and have been practicing yoga for many years. I
have received overt as well as more subtle condemnation for my
"attachment to fertility" from the yogi community. Somehow being a
mother is not viewed as spiritual as being able to go on solitary
meditation retreats. In Yoga there are two clear paths to
liberation--the sadhu and the householder traditions. The path of the
sadhu is to withdraw from the world, unravel our natural attachments
and transcend ignorance/suffering by realizing the source of pain:
attachment to the ephemeral. From the sadhu's perspective, being
sexual and reproducing is seen as adding to the load of attachments.
The path I am on is the one of householder--of being in the world, and
yet not of the world at the same time. In other words, the attachment
to attachment is made conscious. Rather than throw the baby out with
the bathwater, householders are challenged to watch our natural
attachments to our children and let them be manifest in their fullest
and purest sense. It is a goal to revision this attachment with eternal
eyes, not just with temporal sight.
Having babies is known to be a great opportunity to learn surrender,
service, ecstasy and other qualities of the spiritual life. However, this
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path has generally not received as much "good press" as the well
known path of the hermit/sadhu yogi. Ask the man on the street what
his image is of a yogi and the response more likely than not will be "a
solitary and limber man, meditating on his navel in the peace and
quiet of the Himalayas."
I have watched many of my yogini sisters procure abortions knowing
that it was breaking the primary vow of ahimsa (harmlessness) that
yogis make. They justified their actions with a con-fusion philosophy
of reincarnation and "free will." In other words, they said that the soul
knew "on some level'" what it was getting by choosing incarnation into
a woman who did not want to be a mother just yet. Therefore "on
some level'" the fetus being aborted accepts being returned back into
the cosmos. Some yoginis have even had the hubris to state that their
unwanted fetus was a "very advanced soul" who only needed to be
incarnated for a very short time to complete its karma here on this
plane of existence. Adding insult to injury they go on to state that they
have done it a service by providing the soul with a temporary body to
"finish up." Maybe their unwanted baby was a samurai in a past life
and by being aborted (by dilation and curettage) it is completing its
own slicing karma (!) I am constantly amazed at the cleverness of the
mind in justifying its own desires. Calling an aborted fetus a "high
soul" not needing full deliverance on earth is an example of confused
yoga.
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Yoga clearly considers abortion killing—yet guru after guru condones
abortion through metaphysical belief in reincarnation. "We only go
around a thousand times so may as well grab as much personal
enlightenment as we can!" The most liberating belief in some ways is
that this is our past life—with that philosophy we will do what is best
for life now and not await our next chance, next lifetime.
Which brings me to the pagan community and our heritage as women
healers, the Wicca tradition. Wicca is a wise woman—one who knows
how to work natural forces--one who understands women's mysteries
and one who can do magic (i.e. work with images realizing that
energy follows thought). Amongst the pagans many abortions do
occur from a point of view that calls it "freedom." Janis Joplin sang, "
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" (reflecting
perhaps a bit of the sadhu philosophy) yet my pagan sisters still
perceive their ability to abort non-medically (through herbs,
incantations, etc.) as some kind of statement of power and control
over their lives. I challenge the true Wicca to display their "control"
and "power" in not conceiving unwanted babies in the first place.
Babies teach us that "control" is not as important from the spiritual
perspective as surrender. We all know how babies do not recognize
"personal privacy" and tend to muck around with special things, like
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the altar, and generally interfering with "personal pagan progress."
How many high priestesses will lead a ritual with a babe in arms? No,
here too, children are seen as intervening an ability to raise the cone
of power and draw down the moon. To my way of thinking this is the
height of irony--that drawing down the moon is perceived as difficult
with a baby present! Pregnancy and birth and breastfeeding seem to
draw the moon down into our very bodies!
It all comes down to what our ideas and beliefs are about "spirituality."
Christian writers have well documented the inconsistency of abortion
with Jesus' teachings. Christianism itself is claimed by the child
archetype and so lends its dogma towards the literal protection of
babies as well. "Suffer the little children to come unto me," Jesus said,
yet abortion misreads the word suffer literally, not in the original
meaning of "allow." However, most of the older spiritual traditions,
and here paganism of the west and yoga of the east are our examples
(as well as ethnic Judaism), have lagged behind by not consistently
denouncing abortion. My intuition says that the confusion in the public
mind about witches as evil, ugly women, rather than as
healers/midwives comes from abortion practices. And though yoga is
quite clearly against violence and killing, this is amended for
"advanced" practitioners who have the boldness to believe they are
somehow above personal karma.
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Part of this confusion stems from the archetype of the Terrible Mother
and the Great/Good Mother. I have had pagans and yoginis alike tell
me that motherhood archetypically contains both the loving as well as
the rejecting mother and to be "whole" we need to express both.
Abortion seen in that light is but an extension of the natural "weaning
mother." This argument is absurd in my book. The source of
confusion is calling killing "weaning" or a "natural process"-- dying is a
natural process, killing other humans is not part of a natural or
spiritual path.
Or at least killing doesn't have to be. I am aware that plenty of killing
takes place in nature. Yet if we want to arise from the jungle
consciousness (and survival of the fittest myth of social Darwinism)
and bring "heaven" here to Earth, as is our New Age potential, we
need to set an example to the other animals/organisms on our shared
planet. How ironic it is that some yoginis will forego the eating of meat
out of compassion for animals, yet this same sensitive compassion is
not extended to unwanted babies. Pagans also believe in karma with
the dictum that what one puts out comes back three times as hard!
Yet somehow abortions are set apart from that universal law.
Vegetarianism and recognition of the Golden Rule and karma are part
of the spiritual path and both yogis and pagans base their practices
on doing no harm. I am praying for the day when these practices will
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extend to abortion as well and all of us will act consistently with these
noble beliefs.
The homebirth community grows in awareness that previous
abortions negatively affect natural birth. When a mother labors in a
birth after having an abortion previous to the present pregnancy, she
often is doing the work to birth both babies at once – the aborted one
and the baby coming now. One exaggerated argument against
gynecological/medical personnel being involved in natural birth is that
in their busyness and routines they might forget in an early prenatal
which procedure they are doing--an abortion or a prenatal exam.
Unfortunately many midwives also counsel abortions, being wolves in
sheep's clothing. For the most part, medically trained perinatal
professionals have accrued a lot of harmful karma and it shows in
their limited ability to assist in spontaneous births without their
technological tools. If on the one hand you are terminating babies and
on the other hand trying to welcome them, there might be some subtle
confusion. I believe babies can sense who is truly harmless and trust
their deliverance into the hands that consistently support life. No
amount of sadhana (spiritual practice) or pagan powers can
supersede abortion in our psychic closet: Especially if those past
abortions are not healed (atoned, integrated and/or understood that
what happened made sense at the time but to repeatedly abort is a
waste of a painful lesson.)
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Spirituality in its essence is reverence for life. It is not denying the
physical for the spiritual. Rather it is seeing the spiritual in the material
and ultimately unifying our vision so that there is no separation.
The means is the end. Having an abortion in order "to get my spiritual
act together" is self-defeating (Self Defeating). One of the best ways
to get oneself together is by helping someone else. Each action we do
on the Earth sets the stage for all future actions. Having an abortion is
the strongest metaphor for separateness and non-acceptance of the
unity of life there is.
Let me close with a prayer for all the babies who are here —
whether they be convenient or not. May we be worthy of their trust.
May we prepare ourselves fully for those babies whose faces we
have yet to see rising from the ground. May we witness the end of our
world's confusion about personal "freedom" and "independence" and
come to celebrate our divine interdependence and oneness. In the
God (Us) name, may all conscious beings come to accept fertility as
the blessing it truly is and through all our babies, come to know who
we really are.
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The Development of the Unborn Child
Conversations with Walter
Walter and Betty Shepherd
(2010)
Walter has told me that, during its time in the womb, the Spirit looks
after the development of the new child, at birth handing over its care
to the mother and then gradually to the child’s own psyche. He has
also told me that during life it is the mind, with its ideas, which makes
all decisions for the individual. It occurs to me that I don’t really know
what all this means.
“Walter — by what mechanism does the Spirit care for the growing
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embryo? And exactly how does the psyche influence us during life?
Is it consciously, or is it through the unconscious mind?”
“These are two different questions. Let’s take the first one first. What
you mean is that as the Spirit cannot touch the material body, there
must be some way in which it causes the body to react. Is that right?
“Yes, exactly.”
“Well, as you know by now, all energy comes from the Spirit, which is
Life itself. Cells have an inbuilt desire to divide and reproduce. You
could say that this idea, or instinct, is in the mind of each cell. To a
cell, this would be Love of Living. The Spirit can choose which cells
divide and how, by giving energy to some and not to others. In this
way it can encourage some cells to form — for instance — a nose,
and prevent others from growing in an inappropriate place. That’s a
sort of shorthand answer. Is it good enough?”
“Well, it does give me a general idea, but I have a couple of
questions. You talk about the division of cells being discouraged by
the Spirit if it is not required. Yet in the case of cancer, the cells are
not prevented from over-reproducing; why is this?”
“Walter was talking about what happens before the birth of the child.
He has told you that when the individual life on earth begins at birth,
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control is given to the child’s own psyche, so that the Spirit is no
longer in charge. We do not think that a child has ever been born with
cancer. This develops later, when the psyche is in control, and wrong
ideas in the psyche itself are the main cause of it.
What else did you want to know?”
“What about genetic faults? Can the Spirit not prevent these from
developing?”
“No it can’t. These are in the DNA, and no amount of love with cure
them.
We have been talking about the material body. As you know, your
actions are controlled by ideas in the mind. No idea: no action. A
person in a coma cannot act.
Where the mind is concerned, in the early stages of the embryo the
Spirit will give love (energy) to those ideas it wants to encourage and
not to others. At birth, as you already know, the Spirit abrogates its
power of veto, and will give love to any ideas of the mind. An idea
carries the tenderness of love which gives desire, and the energy of
love, which fuels the action. The result of the action is then the light
of love, which as we have said before can be all sorts of things.
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Does that give you a good enough answer to your first question?”
“Yes. The Spirit controls both body and mind by the giving or
withholding of love; that is, energy.”
“Good. Then we will go on to the second question. But first, Walter
wants to tell you something about the unconscious mind. In depth
psychology, this is considered to consist of two parts, the Personal
Unconscious, whose contents have at one time been conscious, and
which is unique to the individual, and the Collective Unconscious,
which is shared with all mankind. This last is usually considered to be
a treasure-house of power and important potential. It has even been
considered to equate with the Mind of God, or with the collective
mind of Mankind, containing all that has ever been known.
The idea is not true. It is consciousness which is important. And also
the Personal Unconscious.”
“But unconscious ideas do exist! They affect mood — and, for that
matter, behaviour!”
“Of course they do. And it is very difficult — sometimes impossible —
to reach them and change them for the better. But they exist in the
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Personal Unconscious.
The Collective Unconscious contains the experience gained during
evolution through the lower forms of life, before we became human
beings at all, and also from some of mankind’s very early
experiences. That is valuable in that it teaches empathy — like the
boy Arthur when, as a child, Merlin taught him what it is like to be a
bird, and a fish, and other things. (You told Walter you had been
reading the legend of King Arthur.) When we humans are able to
understand other forms of life, it is because we have been through
that stage ourselves and have, as it were, a picture in the Collective
Unconscious mind with which to compare anything we find out.’
“Are you telling me there are no ideas in that mind, only pictures?”
“Darling, we simply don’t know what is in it! People on earth have no
way of finding out, since if they had conscious knowledge of it, it
would not be unconscious! And in Heaven it doesn’t exist. All mind is
conscious.”
We think the Collective Unconscious must contain pictures, as these
seem to influence how some artists see the world. It is also a
reasonable assumption, since there was very little of what we would
call ‘thought’ in the early stages of evolution, and impressions taken
by the growing mind would very likely be in picture form.
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“What about the body processes, like digestion? These are
unconscious.”
“Yes. It is possible that they are controlled by a part of the
Unconscious Mind. But Walter doesn’t think so. He thinks — and so
do many other spirits — that the person’s own Spirit, when it hands
over to the psyche at birth, retains control of the body’s internal
processes. This would be a wise thing to do. You can see how
disastrous it could be if the conscious mind were able to interfere
with these unconscious processes. People might try to change the
shape and functions of their body according to fashions and the
whim of the moment, or in order to excel at some sport! So Walter
thinks that love is given where necessary by the individual Spirit.”
I said I had always thought the body was programmed to operate
automatically. “Is the Spirit in control of the autonomic nervous
system, then?”
“Both are probably true. No doubt the systems are set up to work on
their own, but if things go wrong, the Spirit can intervene.”
“But even so,” I objected, “things do go wrong — with the digestion,
for example.”
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“The digestion, like other processes, has to work within the
framework of the material body — the stomach, intestines, and so on.
These are subject to illness, of course. And all illness is caused by
wrong thoughts in the mind, usually beyond any control by the
sufferer.
Are you any the wiser now?”
“I think so. . . You were talking about the unconscious.”
“Yes. This leaves the Collective Unconscious as a sort of ancestral
record, and certainly no treasure-house of knowledge. It knows what
snakes and fish and frogs know — but that is nothing compared to
the knowledge of humans! All knowledge, and all power, needs to be
conscious, because consciousness is life and reality. This is true
right through the Universe, from God to the atom and beyond. The
great reservoir of knowledge and power could be the conscious mind
itself, if it better understood its own Spirit.
Your second question was: How does the psyche influence us
through life on earth? You really already know the answer to this.
The psyche is the seat of ideas, and we are controlled by our ideas.
In fact, the mind is its ideas, and without ideas we could do nothing.
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You might say, we would be nothing.
Are you answered?”
I said I thought I was. “But it’s a new idea that the conscious mind is
— or could be — the treasure-house of knowledge and wisdom. I
suppose the truth is that, as things are, it isn’t!”
“That is because not many people on earth are as yet living in their
spiritual bodies, although these are with them on earth. The Spirit is
conscious; if you are ever to live in spiritual bodies, and not only in
the material and Etheric ones, it will be consciously. If Evil is to be
defeated, it will be by consciously loving Good.”
He went on: “Walter has said that most people love God in their
hearts. When they come to acknowledge this, when they love him
with the reasoning mind as well as in the heart, they will no longer do
any evil thing. Well — will they?”
“No. That’s quite true; they won’t.”
A thought occurred to me: “You said we don’t ‘yet’ live in our spiritual
bodies. Presumably that means we will one day? If you compare the
human race to a growing child, how old would you say it is? How far
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have we got in the journey of its life on earth?”
“Walter would say it is a toddler; perhaps two years old.”
“Good heavens! Is that all? Then will we change altogether? I have
sometimes wondered whether we would end up even a different
shape, as the demands of life change.”
“Not a different shape. The material body is already exactly right for
life on earth, and the head has grown larger to accommodate the
larger brain. Nothing more is needed. It is the psyche which needs to
develop. And will — unless disaster prevents it from doing so.”
“You know,” I said, “in spite of all you have said about the psyche, I
still find it difficult to know to what degree it can be equated with the
mind. I mean, what is the difference?”
“The psyche is the mind and non-material emotional centre of a living
person. You are not alone — many psychologists would be hard put
to tell you what they think it is! During life on earth, the psyche
controls, and interacts with, the electro-magnetic (etheric) part of the
living body. For this reason the materialists can think of it as material,
and do. They are wrong; the psyche is a spirit. In books on
psychology you will read that mechanical thoughts and feelings,
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verging on sensation of the physical body, are attributed to the
psyche. But in fact, thoughts and feelings controlled by the brain and
nervous system, such as fear, hunger, lust or anger, are not a part of
the psyche at all, but belong to the material body.
Some are evil, and some necessary on earth; all die with the body, or
are shed in the afterlife as soon as possible. What continues after
death is the true psyche — creative thought and emotional feeling.
People living on earth experience the psyche as intuition, empathy,
and creative imagination, and also the will which powers them.”
“Not as ideas?”
“Certainly as ideas! All the three words which Walter has just given
you are functions powered by the will (love) and giving rise to ideas.
Walter has already explained that while ‘creative imagination’ sounds
rather grand, in fact it is the most everyday thing in the world. Some
people might think they haven’t got any — but they certainly have!
Without it, they would not be able to plan the simplest day. Creative
imagination accounts for all actions from getting out of bed in the
morning to painting a masterpiece. Knowledge and empathy tell you
how to do it, and intuition tells you the likely result.
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Every act is a creation, resulting in something that was not there
before, and it involves imagination because in order to know whether
it should be done you have to look into the future — perhaps only a
minute hence, but that is still future; the result of your action cannot
possibly be with you in the present, when you are still wondering how
or whether to do it! The psyche includes the desire to create (to act),
and the energy of that desire (that is, the tenderness and energy of
love). These two contents of the psyche are everyday things, and
account for every large or small action, every day of your life. If you
did not see in imagination (and where else would you see it, for it is
not there in the present) the boiling water in your kettle, you would
not put it on the fire, and you would not get your cup of tea! The mere
sight of a kettle is not enough to tell you that water can boil.
“Well, but you would never know unless someone told you! Or unless
you were the first to discover it.”
“Quite right. The psyche also includes knowledge — which, when
you think about it, consists of ideas about all sorts of things. The
mind of the psyche consists of its ideas — remember? — and these
may come from personal experience, from some other psyche, or
from a source like a book, which is the same as getting it from
another person. True knowledge is experience, the truth of which has
been personally discovered, or is known by intuition. Facts which you
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get second hand are not knowledge until they enter your own psyche
as known truth, and when they do this they transform the psyche
itself.
Your true self includes the truth you know: real knowledge and being
are the same thing.
Some people are crammed with facts they have not experienced,
and which have not therefore affected their psyche. These constitute
a false personal being. Once experienced, some of these facts may
enter the psyche and become part of the real person, but until they
do they are useless, and may be harmful. ‘I always thought that
marmalade was green!’ could be said by someone who has never
seen or eaten marmalade. That wouldn’t matter too much. But what
about: ‘I always thought all business people could be trusted,’ or ‘I
always thought all red berries were edible.’? Both ideas might lead to
disaster. But far worse — and not that uncommon: ‘I always thought
all foreigners were dangerous, and should be killed.’”
A thought struck me. “I went wrong over an idea, didn’t I — that
discarnate spirits had all knowledge and wisdom! If I hadn’t thought
that, I wouldn’t have trusted the ancestor’ spirits, and got my fingers
burned.”
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“Walter is glad you realise that! You see — you have gained
knowledge, and it has entered into your being. Now, for the future,
you know.
All people hold some ideas which are second-hand and possibly
dangerous, and some people are so full of them that they have
hardly any true identity at all. You may wonder how they survive in
the world. Well — heaven looks after them, and a sore trial they are
to their guardian spirits!”
“I suppose they usually get these ideas from their parents, or family,
or from their peers?”
“Very often. On the other hand, most families pass down good ideas
to their children, and only a few bad ones, so don’t blame them for all
evil.”
“The trouble at present is that young people won’t listen to their
elders, for good or ill.”
“Absolutely true. But Walter thinks this will pass. It must, if the human
race is to survive.
People often feel they need to build a protective wall between
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themselves and the rest of the world, and to do this they use some
ideas which are true and some which are not, creating a facade
behind which they can hide their weaknesses. With this shield they
feel they cannot be attacked at their weakest points, as no one will
know which they are. Psychologists have called this false person the
Persona, after the masks worn by actors in Ancient Greece to
identify the characters they were playing. (This is still done in
Japanese theatre.) The Persona does not only hide weakness; it can
present a brave show, and add greatly to the stature of the
personality.
In some people it is very like the real person behind it; in others it is
almost entirely false.”
I said I thought most people had a Persona to some degree,
acquiring it during their teen years, or sometimes even earlier, “One
of the tasks of growing up — often not finished until quite late in life is
to get rid of the false hits, until the face you present to the world
represents as exactly as possible the true nature behind the mask.
“I think I was seventy or more before I really achieved this. And, oh!
the joy when one does — the sense of release!”
“You have done well if you have achieved it at all!
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So long as the mask is not too far from reality, and can be taken off at
will, it is not too dangerous and can be helpful, as the world is a hard
place and few people can face it without protection. But the Persona
can grow on to the person so that it cannot be taken off, and then it
prevents the proper growth of the psyche, leading to self-deception
and loss of identity, for in the end the person no longer knows which
is the Persona and which the real self.
“Like the Red Shoes which grew on to the little girl’s feet, in that most
dreadful of fairy tales.”
“Yes. Fairy tales tell us the truths. The little girl was determined to
have her own way — to wear the Red Shoes, and to dance in them.
She saw this as the expression of her own self. Then she couldn’t
take them off, and could not stop dancing, although she was
dropping with fatigue.
At death, this inability to shed the Persona causes a terrible dilemma,
because all falsehood in the personality must be discarded before
the psyche can join the Spirit and progress through the heavens.”
“Before the ‘Golden bowl’ of the Lustral body can be ‘broken’?”
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“Well done! Yes, exactly.”
“When the Lustral body has been superseded, does the psyche, with
the Spirit of Love, then live in the Astral body.”
“Yes. That is what it is called. What it means is that the feeling part of
the spirit person is then all love, and is no longer contaminated with
any bad feelings.”
I had to smile at Walter’s determination that I should not use names
(of bodies or anything else) without fully understanding what those
names represent. As Shakespeare pointed out, the name of a thing
is not its identity, merely a convenient label.
“Walter, you have said that some things are more easily learned here
on earth than in the afterlife. Is this one of them — discarding those
parts of the Persona which are not true to yourself?”
“Yes, it is.
The psyche is mental spirit. Without it the body would be — not a
lump of meat, as it would be without the individual Spirit — but a
cabbage. The psyche and the brain are not synonymous; you know
that, but it is very important that you should remember it. The psyche
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is a spirit; the brain is part of the material body. The mind part of the
psyche uses the brain as a tool; it no more is the brain than a
carpenter is his adze. Damage to the brain damages, not the psyche,
but the connection between the two.”
“That accounts for the feeling one gets with brain-damaged people
that something within them understands only too well, but cannot
communicate what they know and want.”
“Yes. It is a sad fact that this was not understood until recently.
People were treated cruelly for what is no more than a mechanical
malfunction.
Also, much of what people believe to be intelligence is intellect, and
belongs to the electro-magnetic system of the brain — which works
better in some people than in others, but is never a spiritual function.
Electro-magnetism is not a spirit, it is material; in the language of
heaven, the Etheric body.
If the psyche stretches out to learn all it can by personal experience,
or by the exercise of its intuitive knowledge of truth (which is given by
contact with the Spirit of Love), then it will grow and develop, and live
in its own Lustral body.
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This is the object of our experience on Earth. To allow the psyche to
reach its full potential. As Walter has told you, there are certain
lessons which are learned more easily on earth (though sometimes
not without suffering).”
“Is that why a hard life can in some ways be a blessing?”
“Yes, it is. Some lessons can be learned only with difficulty in the
continuing life in the conditions of heaven, after the death of the
material body. What you do not learn now, you will have to learn later,
and it may be harder — that is the simple truth. We do not stop
learning just because we have finished with the physical body. And
just as well, for you will agree that no one is perfect at the end of life
on earth.”
“Well, that’s true enough! But why is it harder to learn in the afterlife?
I would have thought that it would be easier to take things in, without
the pressures of living on earth, and when you are surrounded by
loving and helpful spirits.”
“Dear love, you are making the all-too-human mistake of judging
others by yourself! You are so anxious to learn that you will not find it
hard. But many people don’t want to give up their wrong ideas! They
will fight to keep them! All the love in heaven finds it hard to get
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through to someone who is determined not to have it.
That’s why learning can be hard in the afterlife. It is painfully difficult
to give up your most cherished ideas. But every soul learns in the
end. The Church Father, Origen, taught that every person in the
world, however evil, would be saved in the end, and this is the
blessed truth. Thanks be to God!
“So Walter, can I summarize what you have told me.
On earth, the psyche is both thought and feeling, for the two cannot
be separated. It is also the individual self — which presumably
consists of thought and feeling?”
“Yes. And while on earth, temporarily of sensation.”
“So Descartes was not too far wrong when he said: ‘I think, therefore
I am’?”
“Walter believes he put too much emphasis on thought and forgot
feeling.”
“Well — yes. . . But that was a diversion. The intellect, as opposed to
intelligence, is the work of the mind using the brain as a tool, and is
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material.”
“Yes.”
“In the heavens, thought and feeling gradually become entirely
loving; the psyche then joins with the individual Spirit to live in the
Astral body. This — the ‘Pitcher’ of Ecclesiastes — is eventually
superseded, and the psyche and Spirit, thought and love together in
the Glorified body, return unto God who gave life to them.”
“Good. You have understood. The glorified person will retain
personality — all the good things gained by each of us during life on
Earth and in the heavens, and will return to God bearing this
treasure.”
“Dare one say — by which God will be enriched?”
“That is the hope of the spirits of heaven.”
“What a wonderful thought!”
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A Family of the Heavens
Visions of a New Age
Robert Bayer
(2013)
Upon the lower astral planes, there is a chasm that serves as one of
the avenues to the hells far below. A number of years ago, I walked
across this gorge of hell upon a White Bridge. And I was doing so
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now though not with any great relish. At this time I became very
focused and clear in mind, careful to not allow the slightest trace of
fear or doubt enter my mind, no matter what I might encounter. For it
is natural to assume that in these sundry, dark places of spirit, any
weakness or negativity would only attract far worse.
And so I walked upon the White Bridge spanning these depths. Fire
and Back plumes cascaded upward, fashioned by the hate and fear
of the denizens below. This time the bridge descended gracefully
downward with me athwart it. I heard my unseen guardians caution
me to stay upon the bridge at all times. As I descended, the
delirium of screams rose in volume and intensity of emotion.
Shadows of many shapes, faces of many kinds of anguish passed by
but did not touch me nor did they seem aware of me. So I managed
to stay outwardly calm, because there was no alternative. At last
we reached the bottom of the pit, and at first I could see nothing. I
wondered why I was even here. I became aware of the great
vastness of the black plateau, whose ravines and caverns stretched
for what seemed thousands of miles. Being alone, what purpose
could I possibly serve by being here? My guides said quietly but
reassuringly to watch and wait. And so I did and my spiritual eyes
became gradually used to the dim light and I found I could see a bit
ahead. I heard next some pitiful weeping, and so walked a few
steps forward and found that there was a young girl, perhaps ten
years old, who was on her hands and knees crying most bitterly. She
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was so forlorn and in pain that my heart immediately went out to her
and as it did, I found that I instantly knew by reading her spiritual
vibrations, just what was the cause of her predicament. Her parents
had never wanted a child and had resented everything extra
parenting required, and especially being of meager resources,
resented and over time, developed a hatred for this pleasant girl,
who in their twisted view, was causing them so much extra work and
financial costs. They constantly scolded and punished her, often
quite sadistically. And so her heart and spirit were at last broken
and one day she cast herself into a stone quarry and so ended her
life. Being a suicide she had just arrived here and was hardly less
anguished now than before the suicide.
As I have stated before, my heart instantly went out to her and I
made an inner pledge to the Creator of Universe at that moment, that
this girl, I and my soul-mate would take on and love as our own
daughter from this point in eternity onward, no matter what. For love
begets love, of that I was certain. Also, having no children on earth
of our own, it seemed even more fitting to do just this. She rose up
almost immediately as the force of my parental love flowed to blend
with her and greeted me quite hopefully. I felt something cosmic click
in our destinies, and there was in that hell an exchange of smiles and
greetings as cheerfully done as in a neighborhood park. Her name
was Sally.
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Just then, a great Star Sphere of Light next appeared with my Eternal
Soul-Mate, Joyce, within it, and quite an entrance of brilliance and
angelic beauty she was. Both Sally and I were amazed but delighted
and in seeing her welcoming smile, and the opening of her
beckoning arms, we entered her craft. All three of us then
embraced warmly and with deeply gladdening hearts. We were
together, a family! At long last! In hell now yet in the heavens so
happy, we knew now, for all time.
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The Cosmic Family Eternal
Visions of a New Age
Robert Bayer
(2015)
I am walking down a long corridor, very white and very bright, with
gold framed works of art along its walls. Each of the pictures is
marvelously vivid, beautiful, empowering to gaze at, representing
various unique Symbols of Sacredness: Rose, Star, Jewel, Rainbow,
Sunrise, Waterfall and many more. There is a Golden Door at the
end of the corridor, glowing with a radiance of sparkling golden
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particles. Above it is an arch inscribed with the words: <Love is Our
Eternal Truth.>
As I reach for the doorknob an angelic hand takes mine and pulls
gently through to another dimension and realm.
I am standing upon vast garden lawns that are roofed by a very
beautiful transparent glass pyramidal dome, tessellated in many
pleasing geometric shapes which fit together perfectly. The blue
azure skies and golden sun are above all of this. The glass pyramid
seems to be generating a very lovely positive energy, a blend of
crystal, emerald and amethyst colors, with which it lightly gleams and
radiates.
I give these environmental details now but what really got my
immediate attention were children soaring in ecstatic joy and
laughter many meters above the garden. Down below them, their
parents and other family members laughed with them, while
encouraging and exchanging pleasantries with their kids. It all looks
like a family-outing picnic of some special holiday. I feel their
heavenly happiness together and rejoice for them. A guide standing
next to me speaks:
<These are the Families of The Chosen. Almost all of the children
here have been adopted by childless couples since their passing
over from the spirit world. Many of these boys and girls have
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parents who rejected or aborted them or who are now bound in dark
hells for past evil acts where they shall someday learn to walk the
spiritual path of ascension. But it is the Will of the Creator that all
God’s Children shall find love in the heavens even if unloved in their
mortal life. This is their new glad beginning of their very new, very
real immortal lives. Many workers and teachers of the heavens are
continuing to labor to bring together those whom are destined to be
part of the Cosmic Family Eternal. Our reward is simply to see these
families united in angelic love and jubilation, eternally so.>
Looking all around me, I once again hear their laughter, see their
smiles and happy play together, and feel their deep uplifting love for
one another. Yes, this is heaven. Yes, this is Eternal Love.
The End
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