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AA PPaatthh ooff LLiigghhtt George Morley
Kosmon Church (1962)
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Table of Contents
Introduction (3)
Evolution and Awakening (3)
Ideas and Inspiration (10)
Attunement and Rhythm (19)
Rhythmic Expression (26)
Objective and Subjective (36)
Towards the Eternal Dawn (44)
There is a Bridge (56)
The Self Within All Selves (67)
Like unto a Flame (79)
Evensong (88)
The Voice, the Thought and the Master (100)
How to Build (107)
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Introduction
THE KOSMON FRATERNITY in England was brought into being as a
result of directions from the spiritual spheres, and all through its sixty
years of activity, communion with those spheres has been a basic factor
in its teachings.
For over half a century the main channel of spiritual communications
was one of our founders, George Morley; and many of the trance
addresses given through him in our church in London were taken down
in shorthand.
In the following pages will be found a short selection, chosen to cover
briefly the various aspects of Kosmon thought. These are reproduced
almost as spoken, being only slightly edited in the interest of clarity.
The publishers wish to pay tribute to the lifelong service of George
Morley, and to the help of Mabel Maidstone, stenographer.
Evolution and Awakening
From the beginning of time right down to the present day, the world has
been passing through the process of evolution. But evolution is a
peculiar thing; it is not like a continuous steady stream. There have been
times when Man was in some respects more advanced than to-day,
when he had reached a higher point of evolution. In the civilisations of
the ancient Egyptians and Persians, and earlier still on the grand
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continent which sank beneath the Pacific, we see great knowledge and
wisdom, when men had understanding of the gods, and walked and
talked with them.
Then what is it that has advanced? It is the conditions of life. It is the
ability of Man to command the forces of Nature by the power of his
scientific attainments, and the ability to use these things for the ordinary
comforts of life. Whether the conditions of Humanity are better or worse
is a matter, really, of comparison.
However, since this evolutionary march has brought us to the condition
of understanding material things, it must ultimately come about that there
will be a spiritual apotheosis to which Man will attain.
The evolution in spiritual matters has gone on in periods. It seems that
the Races of Men become spiritual and aware of the gods and of the
occult forces that work in their lives, and then they fall into decay, or
perhaps entirely disappear, and the peoples that follow them start right
at the beginning again, even from the very elements of barbarism, and
so the process continues until another high point is reached.
Now, to-day, we have come to the point when it is the spiritual that is
most important, or instead of the word "spiritual," if you prefer, you can
use the word "truth." Perhaps we can say that it is vitally important for
spiritual truth to be restored, in order that a real balance in human life be
attained. This spiritual truth has been lost, but it was known long before
Jesus lived; it was taught by many priesthoods and lodges of initiates in
ancient days. It alone can help man to understand himself, and guide
him toward a new and higher world-order. This is where the Fraternity of
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Faithists can do so much. Is there, to-day, a greater urge after the
spiritual life? The answer is this, that since everything has evolved
according to cycles of time, so in the new cycle now proceeding,
gradually the point of spiritual attainment will be reached by all nations.
Some will be slower than others, and not all will attain by exactly the
same path. But we had to wait until the Earth was encircled. Encircled by
what? The ability of men to communicate with each other. It is said in
Oahspe that when the continents are bridged across then all people will
become as one. To-day that becoming as one is in evidence. You must
not look at the extreme points, but rather at the underlying desire for
peace, progress and human welfare. It is in the hearts of the few, who
are more and more becoming the many.
Kosmon is slow in its road. All these processes are slow. The reason is
this: that the forces which are awakening in the Human Race to-day in
every part of the Earth, are in accord with heavenly seasons. The major
cycles are heavenly cycles, those great periods which include the sun
and its attendant planets as they move forward. Each cycle produces
effects upon the sun and planets, and brings them into contact with
powers which are manifold and directed by the Ethereans; slowly these
powers will finally find expression in the human race. The light of the
Kosmon cycle will require thousands of years.
Unto this end the brethren in the Kosmon Order are working, but not to
this alone. So much depends upon the conditions of the spirit planes and
how far the material plane can react to them. The stronger and purer the
spirit planes of this planet, the stronger and purer will Mankind become.
In time, the lower planes must be cleared of evil and obsessing
influences, because obsessions can create disaster amongst those
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people who are receptive. Supposing the leaders of nations became
receptive only to darkness, then war and anarchy would prevail. But
there are soon coming the angel world leaders or directors, and men
who come under the higher light, being moved by a noble inspiration;
then through them light will prevail.
This will depend very largely on the powers of the so-called Unseen.
You, on your side, are working to clarify men's minds and bring their
hearts into a knowledge of spiritual truth. We, on our side, are
endeavouring to clear the lower spirit planes from the earthbound. When
the light of the higher heavens can manifest through the reaction
between the two, there will be no doubt about the manifestation of
LIGHT.
To understand this fully, we have to go into the occult phases of heredity,
not only of individuals but of Races. This Race, the English, in particular
— and of course, the continent of America includes a large number of
the descendants of the English Race-is directly associated with the land
of Egypt, once so great. Egypt, as you know, was the foundation of a
mighty power or force, and it works itself out in the expression of the
British Race to-day; and many of the Nordic peoples come under its
influence. So you see, by the continued out-working of the Law of
Heredity, there are many things which have to transpire within the Race
to-day. There are occult forces and powers which have to be redeemed
from what is sometimes called in Theosophical circles "Karma," or in the
Kosmon School, the "Loka of the past."
You may be suffering in your own life now some reaction which is out-
working itself as a result of the activities coming down your life-ray,
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bringing into your life forces which must find redemption or neutralisation.
On the other hand, you may be the recipient of a spiritual power which,
in its turn, comes down that same ray; and indeed, it is usual to find the
two are working together, one to be redeemed, and one to elevate. Yes,
it is said the Cross always accompanies the Crown. This was taught by
Jesus when He was upon Earth. We must press on, working to establish
the power of redemption in the hearts of Mankind.
We are definitely pointing out these facts to you. So little is known about
all these things which have their out-working in human life, the destiny of
man and of the planet. Now to come to a simple point so that you may
piece these things together. Your life is a strange mixture. On one hand
there is the good which you claim as your own, the many benefits you
receive, the happiness and peace, the ideals and inspiration which come
to you; these belong to the higher part of you; but the tendency to take a
downward path against which you have sometimes had to fight, the
thoughtlessness, conceit and selfishness, even, perhaps, enemies you
may have made, these are difficulties which are constantly around you,
and which must be transmuted. But you recognise these two aspects of
your being.
How can the religion of the New Age help you? By setting you free from
all that might hinder you in your own evolution; by bringing you into real
contact with etheric or spiritual powers which help you to transcend and
triumph; by providing the means for developing the higher self and
opening up the way of interior service to your fellow-man; and finally, by
leading you into at-one-ment with the All Highest.
Beloved brethren, this thought inspires us to-day. We must attune
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ourselves to the spiritual influence of the great Life of the Infinite which is
ever streaming out to us, and see how we can best work for Him.
That we do by realising we are guided from the spiritual worlds, by
frequently thinking about spiritual things, and by deliberately linking
ourselves with the light of the Kosmon Age in whatever way we find it
manifested, so that we can grow in this light.
You may not like going to a church. Then go out into the fields, amongst
the trees or under the stars; look upward and praise your Heavenly
Father saying: "Eternal Father, I want to come into at-one-ment with
Thee. Speak within my soul that I be led onward and upward ever nearer
to Thee.” Then He will manifest His light because you have realised the
possibility of His power becoming your own.
By cleaving to the Light, not by clinging to the Cross, although you have
to bear it, but by striving after the Crown, that is the great thing.
Prayer and praise help, but some people feel that in striving after the
Crown they can do so best in practical service, such as those noble
souls who nurse the sick, who rescue the downcast, or who engage in
some form of humanitarian work. All this is good, but it becomes more
potent if one can realise the power of the All Highest being expressed in
this service through the inner awakening of one's soul. For others, there
are more interior phases of work, developing the spiritual body while still
on the physical plane and learning to serve in that body in the higher
states. Other seekers go into deep branches of occult manifestation, or
the paths of mystical attainment. The way is open to all. If there is a
dynamic impulse within you to serve your Creator through good works,
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then there is a way wherein you can do so. Find that way, and put your
whole soul into it, your every thought, word and action, and never give
up, because once you have entered on the way, to give up would one
day cause you bitter anguish at the thought that you had turned back
upon the path of spiritual evolution.
We know that the greatest help comes to you through Positive Prayer,
Spiritual Meditation and through praising our Father. Let your whole
being go out to Him, and His light will shine upon you and keep you unto
the end.
Never forget there is an invisible world about you, and it is the invisible
forces of life, which are intelligent, that can interplay in your soul and
quicken that which is waiting for manifestation. That which is waiting is
your higher self. At present it is like a little child in slumber; it must be
awakened, fed, and helped to grow and unfold. That which is subjective
must become objective, the latent self within must come into
manifestation; that higher self must rule the lower, and when it is really
awake and linked with the Infinite Powers which are ever in Jehovih's
keeping, the angels will send down to you through that higher self,
everything needed for the fulfillment of your destiny. Then life will
change into those modes of expression which are best for the out-
working of your own life's ray.
Here in these grand thoughts is the key to life. Let go of material things
that may hinder in any way, and enter into the spiritual life now. Think
dynamically, always affirming the good and beautiful; never talk about
ugliness, sorrow or pain; do not allow anything in the mind that may
keep you from becoming strong in the light. By constantly striving to find
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Jehovih, and realising that His angels are helping you, in service
gradually expand the life and grow into at-one-ment with the All
Perfection.
Those of you who desire to make contact with the higher spirit planes so
that you can come under their influence, begin now. Whether you are a
Faithist or not, it is possible. Come before the shrine, and the powers of
spirit will be breathed upon you so that you can enter into the fullness of
the awakening; and then go home and meditate on these themes and let
them grow into your life. Let them expand, so that you can become
united with them at last, and the Father will bestow His Crown, even the
Crown of High Attainment.
Ideas and Inspiration
The Universe is made up of an aggregate of ideas. These ideas are
clothed in form. The whole of the universe, both seen and unseen, is a
result of inspiration from a very interior source. We could argue that the
interior source of all ideas, and therefore, of all forms, is that All-
pervading Mind, which cannot be limited by a definition.
If we regard the universe as a result of a Supreme Inspiration, we can
likewise regard ourselves as the result also of an inspiration. In these
things we see and understand the workings of the All Mind. Why should
we despair? Why should we give up hope? Why should we ever doubt
that there is something beyond that which we know as a plane of
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limitation?
Brethren, if we grasp the importance of life and what it means we shall
no longer doubt or despair. It is a fact that we are in being; we are here;
we are either on corpor or in spirit, and we are conscious of this
awareness. In this idea of thinking or becoming aware, we are building
something which we can only describe as our eternal selves. As this is
so the process of inspiration is continuous, the process of inspiration
which started when this planet Earth was a fiery mass and began to cool,
and the waters separated from the air and from the material elements
which were solid-continuing until the first forms of life appeared on its
surface continuing until the birds flew through the air, and the trees put
forth a scented blossom — continuing through long ages until man
began to build houses, leaving the trees for the plains, and then on when
the great cities began to appear, and the elements of science, religion,
poetry and artistry, first made their appearance —continuing through
further centuries until one race disappears and others come into being,
through the long years until the birth of the present Kosmon Era.
But what, you may ask, of those who first walked this Earth in the early
days of its history? Has inspiration now stopped for them? No. We find
that they have advanced in the spiritual worlds to those high and interior
states of life, called in Oahspean terminology, "Ethereal," even unto
Nirvana. Inspiration is still carrying them on, heights to attain, depths of
knowledge to gain, and so this continuous process is bringing into being
a grandeur surpassing our wildest powers of imagery.
How can we apply this to ourselves at the present time? It is well if we
regard ourselves as a part of the Supreme Whole — if we can consider
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our lives as essentially an expression of something great and
stupendous. Thus, for instance, you began in the earth life. Starting as a
child you grew into maturity, and all along the path of growth you have
learned life's lessons. Understanding has increased; indeed, as age has
come it seems as if you are capable of looking farther than you could
have done in youth, and it is the experience which has formed your
character. Thus it comes about that something important has happened.
The foundation is laid; and that is as the foundation of the spiritual life.
This spiritual life, when the spirit becomes conscious or aware of itself,
will continue when the earth life is over. It will continue in those states of
life called the spirit spheres or the heavenly worlds. The knowledge
gained during earth life will, therefore, be of profoundest service, and in
this deep knowledge the heights of attainment will increase because
their boundaries will extend further and further.
It means in time, that the whole of our life during the physical stage is a
preparation for something which begins with the change called death.
The Faithist is quite aware of that fact, and it is in the consciousness of
this fact that he lives; furthermore, it is all-important that he should
realise this. He asks that he may join in the great work of inspiration.
Even as this world is slowly advancing into the New Age, the period of
time often called "Kosmon," so he would fain join issue with those who
are assisting the consummating of that glorious season of light. So he
asks how he may assist, and the angels answer: "You can assist by
responding to the inspirations which we bring to you."
You may naturally ask if these inspirations will help you in your daily life.
The answer is that they certainly will. When you awake in the morning
there will be a subjective consciousness that during the hours of sleep
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you have been active out of the physical body, working in various ways
to advance the kingdom of light on earth. Then, during the day, every
now and again, the mind will turn inwards to meditate on spiritual things.
The inspiration of the unseen will come and help in that direction.
Shall we endeavour to advance so that we may gradually come into full
at-one-ment with the angel worlds? If this growth is slow yet permanent
all is well. He who has attained to that condition slowly is always ready
for any jarring note which may arise during the physical sojourn. He will
be ready when events do not go quite as they should, because he is
guided by the inner light, and is patient in trial of tribulation. That is
because the spiritual body has accustomed itself to the reflex action of
the spiritual powers which are constantly operating.
On the physical plane there is little spiritual light, excepting in centres of
meditation, or where people meet together for spiritual services. In the
ordinary material world there is very little light, excepting that which is
carried by individuals accustomed to meditation or rituals which have a
spiritual import. The reason is, of course, that the material world shuts
out the inner light; the urge downwards is so constant, the self-seeking
amongst people so continuous, that it is ever necessary for those who
desire to be light-bearers to associate frequently with others who are like
themselves. What a splendid mission for them, and for you! To go
constantly to those places where the spiritual light is dispensed, where
the power from the heaven worlds is manifesting, that you may catch a
glimpse of it; that you may store up its energy in the aura; then, as you
go about the world, you can carry that light everywhere.
It is said by those who have the faculty of psychometry, that if an object
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is handled by an individual it stores up some peculiar property, which the
psychometrist can read by touch. What is that property? It is the ability
which every object possesses of registering vibrations, of which there
are several kinds. You have the vibrations of light; the vibrations of
colour as light, or rather, a variation of light in colour. You have
vibrations of magnetism and electronic vibrations of material elements.
There are mental and spiritual vibrations; all these are states of motion.
The Creator, it is said, is Life, Motion, Individual, Person. Apply this then,
and you will see that if solid, inanimate objects can store up or radiate
vibrations of differing orders, why it is more wonderful with a human
being. The physical body can store up all kinds of vibrations and transmit
them, even unconsciously. Those of you who are sensitive, know very
well when you come into the presence of an angry person; you can feel
that that person is angry before a word is uttered. It is not always the
expression on the face, it is something in the surroundings. Or if you
enter the presence of someone who is peace-promoting, you can feel at
once that wonderful condition. This peculiarity has always been noted,
and it is more pronounced than we realise. As the New Age goes on,
and the children of the New Order are born more sensitive to these
vibrations, the world will have to be different for it to become a bearable
place for them to live in; to make it so is our work, your work.
One of the fundamentals of religion, therefore, should be to know and
understand the meaning of spiritual vibrations, and to know how one can
work by directing thought currents — how one can receive inner power
and then give it. You come, for instance, into this little group to-day, your
hearts beating high with spiritual devotion. We, who are speaking, join
issue with you. Thus you find the two poles of one battery — you on the
physical plane, we on the spiritual; between us there is an interior
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"rapport." You are receptive, and we give to you our love. Immediately
you are quickened and you respond. The Second Resurrection of the
higher worlds becomes manifest within this building. All the while you are
storing up this spiritual energy, and will take it away with you. When you
go out into the world you carry that power with you, and are constantly
radiating it. When someone shakes you by the hand, he at once
receives from you a measure of this spiritual current, though he may not
be outwardly aware of it. Thus you are doing good. It is this then, that
makes religion so necessary and important.
But there is something to be added to that. There is a necessity that
those who join in religious observances should be aware of the presence
of spiritual powers to make these as effective as they might be. If all
churches could realise this fact, they would not lack power as they do to-
day. They would be a force for good in the world; but because they have
lost this key, they are not the power they should be.
When the consciousness of the presence of spiritual powers returns-
when the belief in angel communion is world-wide-when it is a pan of all
religious observances to join issue with those who stand in the so-called
"Unseen" — then the spiritual forces will begin to flow again — the flood
gates will surely open.
In your meeting here to-day, a link is made between the spiritual worlds
and the physical in meditation, and power flows from one plane to the
other; and as long as this continues the world will benefit therefrom.
Though you may be few in numbers, yet it is possible that from the few
many will finally receive their inspiration. It does not need a large flame
to start a big conflagration; a small spark can set a city in flames. It is
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because the necessary energy is in the spark and the material is ready
to receive the power from the spark. A spark is present in many places in
the world to-day, because there are many people who are seeking the
power of spiritual communion in service and in worship.
You may ask why a particular form of service is observed; would not any
meeting do? There is a reason for a special form of service because in
the spiritual body there are certain elements which respond to the
activity of the mind. Supposing, as in some places where a meeting is
held, everybody is in a state of tension waiting for the descriptions which
the clairvoyant will give at the conclusion of the service. This interferes
with spiritual manifestation of the kind we want, because most of these
people are over anxious about their material affairs, and expect to
receive guidance through the seer on material matters. The result is the
spiritual body is not stimulated on the interior planes. If you have an
expectancy for anything, the spiritual body is always in a condition of
receptivity. So that if a ritual is observed, and you are participating in it in
an anticipation of receiving a blessing you will receive, even though no
preceptory or teaching may be given, because you absorb from the
elements of die surroundings the spiritual power which is present there.
This is a real power — it is not something merely fictitious or symbolical
— it is an actual thing. Of course, guidance or help can be given to those
in sorrow but on another occasion, perhaps privately.
Just as light is necessary for the growth of the plant, so is spiritual light
necessary for the growth of the spiritual body. Spiritual light cannot be
seen with the physical eye, but there are certain forms of its
manifestation which can be seen with the inner eye, sometimes referred
to as the small organ within the physical brain called the pineal gland.
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Not that this gland has actually the power to receive these vibrations, but
it is the centre of a physical activity which can register them.
The vibrations of the spiritual light which can be seen by the clairvoyant
are those forms which reflect back their power from the radiations of
physical objects. Thus, for instance, everything is transmitting light; this
reflects the spiritual light which then becomes visible. Just as when you
send a current of electricity through an X-ray tube you cannot see
anything very much. You can cover it over, and it is something like
ordinary light. Then if you put a piece of a certain mineral near it this
mineral will begin to glow with a light you can see. That is because there
is something within the mineral quickened by the invisible rays from the
X-ray tube. In a similar way the spiritual life becomes active by meeting
the astral counterpart of physical objects.
In the lower spirit planes, called in Oahspe, the First Resurrection, you
have a light of a kind, which appears like dull twilight, similar to what you
have on a very dull, grey day, and yet a little different because it seems
almost like moonlight if we can put it that way. In this light you can see
people moving; to them it is sufficient; in fact, they could not stand a
stronger light. That is why in Oahspe it tells how some of the false gods,
having been rescued from bondage, when taken into the presence of the
high-raised beings, had to have their eyes bound because the light there
was too strong, or the light had to be toned down so that they could
stand it.
How is it possible to tone down spiritual light? In the higher planes all
light is under the influence of the will. Angels, high-raised, create light, or
rather they make it manifest, and it is by their presence and by the highly
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vibrating condition of their minds that that light becomes manifest.
Is there any relationship then between this actual light of which we
speak and inspiration? Well, since form is the outcome of inspiration,
and since everything is built up from light, that must be so. There is a
correlation between the two things — an interaction. The spiritual light
created by the angels is a result of their activities and aspirations. You
create light wherever you go, beloved brethren. If as you move about in
the world your mind is attuned to heavenly things, as well as
concentrating on material tasks, you will naturally create and generate
spiritual light. The physical eye will not see it, but the spiritual eye can.
Unfortunately, many people cannot see that light because of the density
of their aura.
Perhaps you may think that it would not be well for the world to become
good all at once. But actually, beloved brethren, that question does not
arise at all. The world will become brighter, and people will change in
accordance with the rule of the cyclic influx and efflux. As time passes,
the spiritual light in the world will become stronger, and this planet will
gradually come into the fullness of this New Age called "Kosmon."
But there is every necessity for us to do all we possibly can to bring it to
pass, because we are under the inspiration of the All Light, and we are a
part of the process, angels and mortals, ethereans, atmosphereans and
corporeans. We must all move with a concerted oneness of purpose,
never despairing even though times may be dark; we know that in
course of time, the world will pass into a region of light, and then the
good things we desire for Mankind will come to pass. But we must
prepare — we must lay the foundations.
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We must, therefore, regard these things in the light of the Ever Presence.
We must realise that the Great Spirit is ever with us, and His Power is
upon us, stirring us, moving us to exercise constantly all our faculties
toward making manifest His Life. Let this thought be often in our mind:
"Eternal Father, I will give myself in service unto Thee; I will do my part
to promote the power of the New Age: I will come more into at-one-ment
with Thee daily, that the path of service which opens out before me shall
shine by Thy Light, even Thy Love manifesting through me."
Beloved brethren, we are with you, and your life is not as empty as
sometimes it seems. There is a grand purpose behind it-there is a great
work for you to do. Turn the mind inward, and let the light develop within
you that power which shall make you supreme over all limitations at last.
Amen.
Attunement and Rhythm
The Brotherhood of Faithists aims at coming into closer union with the
Unseen Universe, that its activities may be guided by that superior realm
of Light and Being comprised by the dwellers in the Interior Planes of
Life. We believe in the continuity of life-that there is a continued line of
action between the life lived on earth and the life to be lived in the
heaven world. The Faithist recognises that earth life is the beginning of
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an existence which can only be described as an Eternity. In this
existence he passes through planes of experience. The more interior we
go the more difficult it is to describe but we know that through this
experience we can attain to perfect happiness and peace; and we know
this through the consciousness that life is the expression of the Word of
the All Father and that he is expressing Himself in his creations. In our
earth life we get the experiences which bring us into self-conscious
realisation, into a condition of objective association with the material
plane, and if we stop at this point we are materialists seeing in all
phenomena the out-workings of what we call "Natural Law."
But we do not stop there. We seek to get behind the phenomena and
find what it is that causes things to manifest as they do. We find then
that Mind exists apart from the physical plane. We find that Mind is
expressed through the angelic hosts who are occupying the planes of
ascension away from the earth. All the problems which vex humanity
have a solution, and those trials which beset human progress result from
attempting to deal with everything only on the plane of physical
manifestation.
There is a cause for trouble in the world. The possibility of wrong choice
came into being with the creation of man "at zero" or incomplete and
destined to complete himself, to create himself in ultimate perfection. In
the ancient continent of Pan man expressed his self-realisation in a
selfish manner, and calling the tremendous psychic forces of the
Universe to his aid he brought destruction on his kind, and the continent
was sunk. But certain people escaped the catastrophe. These were
those who had interior knowledge of the spirit. They held the secret of
manifestation of the light, and they sought only that which was best for
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mankind and were not concerned for power for themselves.
But great evil had been committed, and it left its impress on the astral
plane of the spirit world. The record has a way of impinging itself again
and again on the minds of mortals. It is in the power of that impression
that the false gods have attempted to keep control of the heaven worlds
near to the earth plane, inspiring selfish men to follow their lead and so
bring trouble, dispute, war and its attendant evils to the Red Star, the
planet Earth. But all the while there has been an effort on the part of
organised higher angels to counteract this by inspiring man to become
ever more fully conscious of himself and to put aside all inharmony.
It is this struggle which is represented in the old Zarathustrian teachings
as the conflict of Ormazd and Ahriman. In the Christian school it is the
conflict of God and Satan. It is the struggle between the upward-pulling
forces and the downward-pulling forces in man's own nature. Now in the
course of this great struggle there have been cyclic times of greater light
and greater darkness. These have succeeded each other-sometimes
one trend lasting for thousands of years. We are come now to a time
when the Light is growing stronger and stronger, because we are
coming to the stage of man's maturity when he should find balance and
an objective realisation of the spiritual situation from which realisation he
should be enabled to go forward unto an establishment of the Light on
earth which we call the Kingdom of God. Then the darkness will fade
away, never to re-establish itself in ascendancy. The vision of the
accomplishment is already established in the Mind of the world.
When man develops more fully in the Light he will possess a physical
earth body of a higher type. His nervous responses and reflexes will be
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more acute and refined. He will possess the power of telepathy. He will
be able to see without physical eyes though he will use them. His voice
will become richer and more resonant. His thought itself will be like a
note of music that comes from the heart. Things at present dumb to him
will speak to him. He will hear the voices of the stars and the flowers,
and as the crystal grows he will hear its soft quiet murmur in the tone of
C natural. This is due to the fact that everything is in a state of vibration
and the vibrations which every object emits are in accordance with a
definite scale. This scale is known already to some who have followed
the line of Light down through the ages.
In the years of Light before us, peace shall come and the Brotherhood of
Man shall be established. Want and misery will be swept away and
disease will become practically unknown. The basis of present disease
is in the astral world, where forces called elementary powers, impinge
themselves on the sensitive side of the human being giving micro-
organisms a chance to take possession. The note of the human being is
thrown into discord and his heart cannot beat with the rhythmic note
which comes from the Sun and the Moon.
All this may seem very strange to you. But in these days of scientific
discovery it is found that all depends on vibration, attunement and
rhythm. And when you review the number of strange happenings which
are recorded by reputable witnesses you can no longer shut out from
your mind the facts of the Unseen World. Most religions do not take
these facts into full and conscious consideration so it is meet that
schools of teaching should arise which shall place all phenomena on a
definite and understandable basis and try to discover how it is possible
to benefit humanity through the operations of the Unseen. This
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Brotherhood is one of the attempts made to this end by the Master
Minds who work from the Invisible Planes. Its work is carried on along
lines laid down by the invisible hierarchy. We try to come ever into closer
communion with the Unseen. But steps must be taken to avoid the
confusions of the lower planes of spirit in order to reach closer
association with the more interior planes of Light and Being. But success
in this depends largely on our motives. We shall achieve the higher
association only if we genuinely reach out towards the good of mankind
and not towards some selfish end.
Mankind is changing. More and more people are coming into being
capable of greater sensitivity to the needs of all.
It is the beginning of a new human race. Every day children come into
life and start to manifest the life of the corporean. What impulse has
impelled their being towards the conditions of the material plane — and
thus toward the spiritual plane? That depends largely on how they are
over-shadowed. What do we mean by that?
Large numbers of children are particularly over-shadowed from the
spiritual planes, protected and inspired. They can and will respond to the
spiritual worlds. Their protection comes from their Guardian Angels who
must work very close to the earth plane. Their Angel Overshadowers,
their inspirers, must come to them whilst they are at play or asleep or
when they move about among their fellows. They often possess a very
sensitive organism. Who will help them? Their Overshadowers. Who will
help their Overshadowers? You will. How is this?
The great angels near the earth can pass through your line of thought
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and receive from you the power which will help them operate in holiness
even on the earth plane. Theirs is the great work or watching over the
little ones who will grow to be great ones, in however humble
circumstances.
When you come into contact with a spiritual fraternity, that is, any
fraternity consciously working for the spiritual regeneration of human
nature, a link is made between yourself and the Unseen. This link
produces an irradiation from your aura, and wherever you are you will
bear the message of peace and goodwill to men. This is not for one time
of the year but for all time. It should radiate perpetually from your
thought. Why? Because you are under the inspiration of an angel of the
Second Resurrection.
A Church that can move under this Power will do a great work however
silently and unobtrusively. If every member and associate will realise this,
peace will come to the world, for nothing could withstand the radiation of
the Light.
What is the Kosmon Church doing? It is striving to make this higher
association. Does it claim to be better than others? On the contrary, we
realise in all humility that the task ahead is no light one. There must be
all of sharing and none of competing. The task draws us nearer to God
and fills life with an intense interest. When life vibrates on material
planes religion is just a part of the commonplace; doubtfully one awaits
death and possibly heaven.
But here is spiritual work for the emancipation of the human race from all
past evil and the establishment of the true Kingdom of knowledge. That
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is the message the Faithist carries, and even though he may not speak it,
his presence carries a power wherever he goes. And if you would
become a Faithist what is it that you are expected to believe?
You are expected to believe in the All Wise, All Pervading Presence of
the All Pure and All Holy. It is for you to build up your own doctrine on
that basis. In the revelations which have been given from the Higher
Worlds you will find guidance upon your path. These will help you to
synthesise your own religion, your own knowledge and to come to terms
with your own experience. But the path of the Faithist is the Path of
Service.
If it takes 200 years to develop a Brotherhood strong enough to found a
community in all its power that shall be a model unto the world, the work
will not have been in vain. But the work needs You. It wants you for
service. In the close association with the things of Reality you will make
your life an everlasting joy.
You will say, "Why cannot I go on living my own life and still come into
at-one-ment with the Great Unseen?" That is not denied you, but we
believe there may come a time in your life when you feel the necessity
for association, for a greater power can be gained in a concerted
oneness of purpose.
Always remember this. You feed the physical body. You care for its
health? This is an urge; you feel it to be a necessity. What about the
Spiritual Body? Are you going to neglect that?
Is there a Spiritual body? There is, indeed. It is that vesture which you
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take on when the earth life is over. If you bring it into association with the
Higher Worlds it is strengthened, its growth is maintained and it is
already established in harmony with the heavenly places of being. To
feed and develop this spiritual body will bring you already into the region
of Light while you are already on earth; wisdom shall govern all your
decisions, a joy shall uplift you even through times of mortal suffering
and distress; Life abundant shall be yours. Come therefore and let us
work together.
Rhythmic Expression
The forces which make up the forms with which you are familiar are the
powers of Rhythmic Expression. These manifest within the ethe or ether
— that power or substance which is behind all physical matter, the
existence of which is disputed by some scientists and accepted by
others. But we do not speak of physical ether, we refer to a
transcendental ether, if we may so call it.
The powers of the All Mind produce this rhythmic expression which
causes forms to appear in the material world with which you are familiar.
We see according to this that everything is built to a pattern, and that
pattern is a living one. If we look, for instance, into the constitution of
some chemical substances, we find they are built up according to
definite ratios or expressions of what is called the law of chemical affinity.
Do what you will, you cannot alter that law, and the fact remains that this
is the basis on which every operation is performed.
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If we carry this into the realm of mystical accommodation we shall see
that the artist must receive his ideas from the plane of the Ideal, and
these ideas must be the very manifestation of this rhythmic expression of
something. We have said again and again that beauty lies within
everything, and our failure to appreciate it is possibly due to the
limitations of the mind when it has to interplay through its physical organ,
the brain. There is, however, a hidden glory behind everything that
manifests in form.
Here we come face to face with a very important fact, because it
concerns us most closely. Even though these powers of rhythmic
expression of the All Mind produce effects as we know them, yet there
may be some things with which we are not entirely in attunement. If we
could become in tune with them, we might find that we have then a
higher appreciation of life, and an unlimited scope of power for good.
These powers which are within, the powers of those influences of which
we speak, are waiting to be grasped and used. It should be the work of
religion to seek them out.
Can we name some of them? Yes we can.
Within every human being is the ability to reach out beyond the physical
plane. The physical realm is limiting every individual that lives upon it,
and yet it is the medium for the expression of that soul. How could a man
live and be aware unless he had a physical body through which to
manifest? In spite of this limitation, there is a power within which can
reach out to the beyond. It is not actually intuition — not exactly second-
sight — it is something more. It is the spiritual self which does not belong
to the physical plane forever, but is here to gain experience — then in
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the Hereafter to manifest life in a higher experience.
It is always important to remember that the spirit has the power to
transcend corporeal limitations. What is the limitation in your own
particular case? You know it quite well. Perhaps it is some destructive
habit, or a problem that has baffled you for years. Yet there is a solution
to that problem, you can find it through transcendence.
Some people would say that religion should not interfere with these
things because they belong to God and are veiled. But should not
religion teach us to come closer into at-one-ment with God — to be more
like Him, the All Wise? The Faithist believes that he should endeavour to
grow increasingly into at-one-ment with God, the Eternal Father, and that
this must be a continuous process of growth, evolution or unfoldment, on
each plane of experience ever ascending. This is the great ideal that is
ever before the Faithist, and his religion guides him toward it. But that is
not a mechanical or entirely mental process. Some people follow their
religion as a purely mental thing and receive no real benefit from it, but
not so the Faithist. He seeks a gradual blending with the Infinite Source
of his being.
At first that may sound solely mystical, but in fact it is intensely practical.
One begins by blending with the spiritual worlds. The unseen spheres,
the great heaven world which is about us and within us everywhere, is
both a condition and a place of boundless spiritual powers and
dominions, of beauties and joys and heights undreamed of by the mortal
mind. These produce constantly a deep response within all who contact
them. You know now if you have the power to appreciate art how the
sight of a beautiful picture or piece of statuary will cause a deep
response within you; the same thing happens but very much more
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intensely in the spiritual spheres.
Most Spiritualists will tell you that when they speak with their friends who
have passed into that higher world, they are told that the other world is
beautiful beyond all description, and no words can be found to describe
it exactly. That is truly the experience when one enters the condition of
blending with the universal harmonies — feeling their rhythmic
expression.
When there is harmony in your life — when events are smoothly flowing
— when everything is rhythmical and when you find a joy in being-what
a pleasure, a deep interior satisfaction it creates. In the heaven worlds
that condition is not transitory, it is permanent, and is the real delight of
life. Now this belongs to your true self. All the limitations you suffer on
the physical plane are only a part of that engendering process which
brings the spirit out to a focus with the things becoming familiar to it.
Existence on the physical level is an expression of life. You have come
into the corporeal world on the ray of your descent, but in the
descending arc you were entirely unconscious as far as yourself was
concerned. You dwelt only in the subjective consciousness. Now from
your childhood up you have gradually become conscious of self; and
have been wrestling with the difficulties of objective consciousness and
experience. This has produced within you the condition of self-
identification. You know yourself as different from other persons and
from objects; and you can examine and reason about things, because
the mind has brought itself to various focal points. You know things from
without.
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When physical life is ended you will know things from within. There you
enter into the plane of Ideation, called by us the Second Resurrection,
where things are known by being at-one with them. To explain further. In
physical life, if for instance, you hear a piece of music and enjoy it, it lifts
you up and helps you to feel that there is a wonderful ideal behind or
within the music. Out of the physical body however, if you hear a piece
of music, it is being expressed on the plane of its rhythmic expression,
and it creates a similar vibration within you; it elevates your mind — a
profound illumination comes — and the universe seems to open its
doors and you then know things which you never knew before; the soul
has been quickened with a newness of life and glory.
It is by and through these conditions that those who live on the higher
planes learn all about the manifestations of life in which they are merged,
and they re-form them and re-express them. The beauty of the human
form in dance, for instance — yes, the angels sometimes dance, you
know — falls into line with the powers of expression, as the rhythmic
waves of the celestial harmonies sweep out from the All Mind, and take
shape in the dancer's mode.
In the realm of metaphysics, we find there is a point beyond which the
mind cannot go because it seems there are no terms by which its
manifestations can be connoted.
In one of the Indian philosophies, it is said that there is an interior
condition of consciousness in which the soul blends with the Universal
All. This is called Samadhi. In this condition knowledge and
understanding come which cannot be known by the ordinary outer
consciousness. There is, however, always the difficulty of relating in a
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practical way the inner knowledge with the external life.
What the Faithist does is to use a simple rite of contemplation, and thus
gradually come into touch with celestial powers. It is a teaching in the
Kosmon line of thought, that there are no powers, principalities or forces
unless they are associated with personality. The Father doeth His Will
through His angels and the souls of men. Angel communion therefore is
the key to illumination.
These wonderful worlds of which we have spoken, peopled as they are
by angels and archangels, at one time in mortal form as you are now,
are constantly pouring out those rhythmic powers on to the physical
plane of expression, and many people receive them or reject them as
the case may be. The true religious seeker of the New Age sees that he
must associate himself very definitely with those who have entered the
life and reality of the heaven worlds, and with the power of God sweep-
ing through them all.
This is one of the most important teachings in the Kosmon philosophy.
Instead of regarding angels as some kind of invisible missioners who
come under the will of God, but who cannot be known, the Faithist
defines them as elder brethren, who gained physical experience on this
or some other world, and have entered the spiritual spheres which are
around this earth, where one day you will join them. They are gaining
objective experience through at-one-ment in the spirit life, and transmit
the powers of rhythmic expression back into the world of physical
humanity.
Here is the answer to all social problems if only it can be rightly applied.
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Since love is one of the expressions of supreme harmony, your love for
your fellow-kind immediately receives this quickening power for all who
desire to help toward universal brotherhood.
The history of the world is marked by cycles of time. Some of these may
extend for as much as three thousand years. In this then we see the
gradual evolution of the Human race — each cycle having a particular
spiritual significance, and very deep effects upon Mankind. These times
were well known to the prophets of old. The present cycle, which is part
of a vast era of time, is one in which spiritual forces will increasingly
impinge upon the physical plane, and in spite of all the conflagrations or
rumours thereof — the tendency to snap civilisation in twain — there is a
Power guiding humanity toward a destined end which is away from war
and destruction toward peace and amalgamation.
The philosophy of Kosmon recognises that in all powers which are
helping the spiritualisation of the human family there is a higher cause
and an angelic influence. This present cycle will gradually produce in the
world an entirely new race of people, in that they will have a higher ideal
of living, a deeper appreciation of artistic values, and the ability to come
into at-one-ment with the unseen worlds through spiritual experience,
and consequently slowly transcending corporeality will show their fellow
men the way to a new world-order. Their symbol is the morning star.
These words will go deep into your heart, when you realise that many of
the younger generation to-day are particularly overshadowed by the
angelic powers who send their thoughts towards the physical globe to
create the reign of universal love, peace and truth.
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We have often told you that this present cycle is very young indeed. It is
only a century old, and it may take hundreds of years yet to bring the
human race to full prosperity; yet if you look deeply enough, you will
surely see many signs of the times pointing to the coming of the reign of
light at last.
This philosophy, therefore, proclaims that from the minds of the great
ones in the higher worlds who are guiding the evolution of Mankind there
is ever streaming down a ray of love, power and illumination which flows
through those in mortal form who are receptive, and from them it goes
forth to proclaim the light of the New Day. This is not always given in
words, but often just through contact — the silent but potent message
your presence in the world gives to all whom you meet. This is one of the
secrets of the new religion.
We have not given you any familiar dogma, nor quoted any scripture.
We have just stated the very elemental facts relating to the science of
transcendental being. We do this because you already have books,
teachings and doctrines without number, and you have dogmas if you
want them. But, above them all you cannot get away from the facts of
spirit.
You remember that for many years the churches fought against the
theories propounded by scientists regarding the rotundity of the Earth,
but there are few who will refute that teaching to-day. The dogma given
at one period of time may not be sufficient for a more advanced period.
Even if we consider the lives of the great teachers, the messiahs, and
their salutary effect on the human race, we still hold this important view
that there are grades of individuals, and if an individual is born into the
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earth life highly graded, the power which he has of attuning himself with
those rhythmic harmonies of which we have spoken, the thought world,
the Mind of God, expressing the eternal love and wisdom, then the very
power which he produces as an impulse in the world will live on even
after he has gone, and anyone can come· into touch with the same
impulse, the same harmonies.
But why should we attune ourselves to only one source of power? We
should attune ourselves to the One Source, the Eternal Father, because
He alone is All Perfection, and no matter by what channels we choose.
to approach Him, we should be perfectly free, and not be limited by any
thoughts or ideas which might prevent us from gaining the full value of
contact with the glorious Ineffable.
Angelic ministry is important however. If your spiritual capacity is of a
sufficient nature and you can receive the rhythmic expression which an
angel may bring you, linking you with the realm from which he or she has
descended, you are quickened and illuminated, becoming for a time at-
one with the infinite Source of Life, giving you happiness, strength and
courage. And wherever you go, people who are receptive receive the
same impulse though perhaps in a lesser degree, through contact with
you.
This transcendental science is gradually being enlarged. Psychologists
have discovered many potent features about the hidden self. They have
found some of the influences of that peculiar submerged self they call
the "Subconscious," which often need release or cleansing — the
complicated make-up of the hidden man encrusted about by corporeal
limitations. Many of these limitations are the subtle psychic bonds which
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the earth, as a living body itself, imposes. Some are imposed by heredity,
and not always by physical heredity. There may be another heredity,
something on the ray of your descent which happened in past ages, the
effects of which you now bear. If you can bear nobly some great sorrow
or pain, you may entirely negative its cause — wipe out the shadow of
some ancient evil, so that those who come after you on the same ray
may be free from the bondage which has caused you suffering.
On the question of suffering, of which there is so much in the world, we
must not forget one important thing. Man is free, and if he deliberately
creates disharmony where harmony should reign, then he must be
responsible for it. It was said by one of your great poets: " .... the evil that
men do lives after them." This is very true, but we must remember that
evil lives not only physically, but psychically (or etherically if you prefer
the term) also. In other words, actions produce etheric re-actions. In
every war there are millions of thoughts of anger and hatred created;
these produce actual forms in the lower ether which sometimes can be
seen clairvoyantly. Many people without knowing it are receptive to such
forms, and become thus moved to further anger and hate. What a vast
work therefore it is to clear away this evil fog from the world's psychic
sphere. All this is linked with suffering, and the strange illnesses, the
terrible crimes which constantly appear. But you who have some
measure of spiritual knowledge can help in the great redemptive process.
Even if through psychic reflexes you suffer for a time, yet by bearing
nobly the cross of matter, you can change it into a Cross of Light.
When the earthly life is over, and you step out into the glory of the higher
worlds, you will rejoice to see how much your sufferings, your bearing of
the burdens of life, have helped to bring the world into the light of the
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New Age.
Meanwhile, your spiritual body is developing and your mind expanding
because here and now you enter into communion with the realms of light.
This you do by thinking about them. As you think about those realms
and the bright ones who come to you from them, a new strength,
understanding and peace become yours. This is the real power within
the Kosmon religion.
This religion can help you — it can give meaning and purpose to your
life. It can lift you above limitations — it can help you to understand
yourself — and by it you can become virtually "born again." You may,
however, find your help in another school of thought. It is not for us to
deny you this; but our advice is: "Seek until you do find, and having
found the right path, follow it to the end."
One day, the higher call will come, and you will pass into the worlds of
spirit, but you can begin that life here and now. That is why we make this
contact with you, that our words may awaken your heart, and we may
lead you into the peace the world cannot give, even joy and Light
Everlasting.
Objective and Subjective
It is generally agreed by most learned men that every individual is
capable of more than he ordinarily expresses. It is said that the
subjective part of Man is so wonderful that he has powers far
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exceeding anything which the ordinary objective state of
consciousness reveals, and this includes the workings of what is called
the "sub-conscious mind." It goes to prove that there is within the
ordinary man or woman a power which we call the spiritual man; and
since this spiritual man is active in those in whom the subconscious
powers are awakened fully, then we can suppose that there is a
relationship between the life after death and this subjective
consciousness.
If, then, we were to argue philosophically, we would have to admit that
a man is dual in his manifestation of consciousness; he is both
objective and subjective. Arguing then along these lines we can see
how it is that that power which is called the soul acting as a vehicle for
the mind, whatever the mind may be, causes the functioning of his
spirit self, reacting on the nervous organic system of the physical body,
and controlling the outer organism.
Now all that is rather scientific, but it will help us to come to a very
important conclusion. It is this, that if the spiritual worlds are real, and if
they do play some part in the life of human beings, then one half, yes,
more than one half of the human race is spiritually starved. It may be
that this is the cause of most of the trouble in the world.
The spiritual worlds are everywhere. They are particularly associated
with this planet in what are called in Kosmon terminology its
Atmospherean Heavens — the Astral planes, if you prefer the term,
associated with this particular globe. In these heavens reside those
who have left the physical body, and they form a vast company of
intelligent thinking beings, not those vapourish, vague sort of drifting
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spirits that the popular imagination thinks of as ghosts. If this then is
true, there is associated with this Earth a section of the human race
which we can rightly call the invisible inhabitants of this globe; and it is
important to remember this.
Modern Spiritualism is doing a good deal to popularise this idea, but
for many it has shortcomings, or does not as a rule go far enough. The
deep thinker would like to know as much as possible to what extent
the spiritual worlds do affect this physical plane on which you live, and
it will come to pass that we shall see in our search that the spiritual
world would do infinitely more for the good of the world if only it had
the opportunity. Whereas now the lower planes wherein dwell those
who have not progressed, those who are earthbound, find that they
can easily attach themselves to the sensitives who have no training, or
knowledge, concerning these overshadowers of theirs, the result is
that crime very often prevails where it should not.
There is indeed a profound reason why we should take into
consideration this important fact.
We see in the naturally born-sensitives, who are not spiritually inclined,
a vast field of work. For those spirits who are unprogressed, who
desire not to leave the earth plane, find a harbour in the auras of those
who can respond to their wills and their wishes. Against that, of course,
we have a vast band of great hosts of workers on the spiritual side
who are doing their best to protect these people and to resurrect the
earth-bound, to lift them up and guide them to a higher plane. All this is
very wonderful work.
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But what the Kosmon Church and Fraternity is concerned about is the
spiritual development of every individual, who should indeed be
equipped with far greater powers than most people to-day possess.
Here is a point which immediately brings us to consider the facts of
psychic development and more. We are concerned with the natural
development of all faculties, particularly those which govern and direct
the psychic gifts when they begin to manifest. What are the psychic
gifts? They are the manifestation of certain centres within the spirit
body. These centres become active under strong magnetic influences,
and they are naturally under the control of the subjective part of man,
and are, therefore, associated with the sympathetic nervous system in
the physical body. Thus we see the need for the awakening of the
higher consciousness fully, so that it can govern and hold in check any
undue manifestations, and keep steady the general flow of the
magnetic currents within the spiritual body.
Now, as you turn your thoughts inward to meditate on spiritual things
you do not at first quicken these psychical activities. Instead you begin
to awaken the higher consciousness, a state of mind which functions
in harmony with the higher spiritual planes. Your ordinary mode of
thinking becomes changed, and you find that you compare everything
material with spiritual values. You regard life in the light of its reaction
to spiritual influences. When this manifestation of the mind begins to
open out, then it is quite safe for the psychical faculties to begin to
manifest. As a matter of fact, the higher consciousness always acts
very cautiously, and it works in conjunction with the guardian angel.
The guardian angel works in conjunction with your spiritual master, a
high-raised angelic being with whom you are associated according to
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the ray of your spiritual descent. Your master knows what is best for
you, and he communicates the fact frequently to your guardian angel,
called in Oahspean terminology, the "ashar."
The ashar then will speak to you through your higher mind, and will
always help you whenever you need guidance in regard to your
spiritual unfoldment. As time goes on you deepen this consciousness
and you increase the spiritual activities by various means. For instance,
you may engage in some form of work which has a spiritual expression
such as helping people to find spiritual values according to their needs.
Or you may guide poor souls to a fuller realisation of their powers and
to a happier life. You may become a healer or teacher; you may be all
these things. The result is that you are daily coming nearer to that high
realisation of which we speak.
Meditating on the spiritual planes will also develop these faculties;
reading spiritual books, prayer, and joining with others in worship-all
quicken within the spiritual body those right vibrations which lift the
consciousness and cause it to awaken on the higher planes. The
moment it so becomes awakened it is linked with the dwellers on those
planes. These dwellers — call them angels, spirits, astrals, estreals or
esseans, as you wish — once lived like you on a physical globe, either
this or some other planet. These angels or esseans then live together
in the higher spiritual planes, where they have become attuned to each
other in perfect harmony, knowing the joy of constant activity and
association. Their thoughts are always producing beautiful things, and
the spirit body becomes increasingly active according to the exercise
of their own personal faculties, some as artists, some as musicians,
builders, teachers, some as helpers guiding others as they rise from
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the lower planes. Probably as sweet and beautiful as any of them all,
there are those who care for the little children who have died and risen
like stars of the morning to these realms of light and glory.
As you advance, then, on your ascension, the higher mind awakens
and becomes linked with these higher spheres. There is a wonderful
telepathy between the awakened mind and the angels of these planes.
There are those who know all about you and your struggles on life's
pathway. They are your overshadowers and helpers and your loves.
They are of your spiritual family, because they came down the same
ray of descent as you have after them, from the great subjective
realms into the objective form of life, to ascend back again, knowing
through the objective association all things that they have to contact.
Like you then, they love, and hope, and sing, and laugh and dance,
and wait for still higher glories. Linked with you therefore, power flows
from each plane to you. This causes the soul to expand and the
spiritual body to grow, and that subjective self to become awakened on
its own plane of manifestation. Then new powers become active within
you, and the physical system, which used to govern you, now
becomes your servant. This is the secret of all mental and spiritual
healing. In whatsoever form it manifests it is the same. It is the
developing of the higher consciousness, and the directing of the
vehicle, the spirit body, through subjective channels.
The Faithists have a way of explaining this. It is the coming into
awareness of the Creator and His manifestations. There is a point in
one's unfoldment wherein it is said that a man is able to hear the
Creator speaking. This may be regarded as the highest intuition and
illumination combined. If we can learn to cease from always seeking
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objectivity, the intuition gradually advances to its highest possible point
culminating in permanent illumination. That would give to all men the
power to understand everything. Would it not be a wonderful thing to
hear His Voice speaking through the higher mind? One day you will
know this, then you can say: "The Father moveth me," and "I and the
Father are one."
This is the condition of consciousness found in those spiritual spheres
called in Kosmon language, the Third Resurrection, the highest planes
connected with this planet. There love and wisdom blend and produce
another attribute. Just as when you and someone you love meet and
your minds seem to flow into each other, your thoughts blend and your
whole outlook on life becomes different. So on these higher planes the
blending of the archangel powers gives you joy, and a peace which
passeth all understanding, by your being so close to at-one-ment with
the All One.
We are anxious to see a New Humanity come into the world; because
this is the right time for it to appear. Every great age in the earth's
history is marked out in cycles, and the present cycle is sometimes
called the Arc of Sabea. That is to say, the sun and its planets
marching forward in a great circle are now passing through that
section known in the spiritual spheres as the Arc of Sabea. The name
means the time of the descent of the angelic hosts from the Etherean
worlds. This is the time when spiritual knowledge shall be restored to
Man-the time when all high ideals of humanitarianism, peace and
universal brotherhood shall be brought into actual manifestation. You
can assist in the initiation of the New Race by becoming a
representative of those angelic hosts. As you reach up toward them,
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so will their light flow down to you and through you to a waiting world.
If you link yourself with them, the same power that they have, Peace,
Joy, Transcendence, will manifest in your heart, and radiate from your
aura wherever you go. You may come into touch with hundreds of
people perhaps each week; everyone shall receive from you the touch
of this miraculous hidden power. You are not going to wait for your life
to end before you enter on your life's work, are you?
Here then is a means by which all can be of service. We first aid
people toward the awakening of the higher faculties of the soul and the
bringing of the mind into focus with the higher spiritual planes, then
later assist in the developing of the inner faculties sometimes called
psychic. There is, of course, a further means by which all this can be
done. That is by association. By associating with others of like mind,
forming a guild, a league, an order or brotherhood (call it what you will)
all seeking to manifest the higher life, and in the unity of the many form
a great channel for the out-pouring of the angelic light.
Let us not forget also, that once the spiritual self has begun to awaken,
you gradually become more and more active out of the physical body
when it sleeps at night. There, gathering up experiences of the spiritual
planes, and engaging in service with those who live therein, you can
fulfill as much or more than on the physical level, though you may not
be able to bring back the memory of these experiences until you have
advanced far on the inner path.
We do not want to call you away from your ordinary place of worship if
you are quite happy there; go back to it and carry with you the greater
understanding and the spiritual power for service which you gain by
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coming into harmony with the higher spheres.
This is a religion of reality: it is a path of service: and if you can grasp it,
it will transform life for you. The earth-life is a preparation for the real
life which begins with the death of the physical form. Having come into
an awareness of self-ness on the physical plane, you will begin the
real life with understanding and joy. But that life can be yours now. Let
the angels be your companions; their light will illuminate your path, and
ever quicken your heart anew in the consciousness of the higher
reality. Go forth to-day then, and begin life anew, and being
companioned by the radiant ones, the Great Spirit shall bless you in all
you do.
Towards the Eternal Dawn
It is written that Jehovih is everywhere present. He is the soul of things,
and yet He comprehends not only the soul but the material part.
It is difficult to argue about the Creator. Some men would have you do
this, but we cannot argue about Him. We can, however, talk about His
attributes and the way He manifests, because we can know Him through
His manifestations.
That overcomes the difficulty which arises in our minds when we
endeavour to reconcile the old anthropomorphic idea of God with that of
a Universal Creative Intelligence. When we understand that we,
ourselves, are symbols, we shall see that it is an easy thing to talk about
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the All Wise and the All Intelligent as "Our Father." This enables us to
focus our minds definitely to one point; and if we would understand
anything at all, one-pointedness is the first thing which must be attained.
The Faithist endeavours to bring out religion that it may be understood
by the developing mind, that the begging of the question attitude may be
put on one side. He does not tie himself to any dogma or doctrine
however ancient, if it is not possible to equate it with the things he knows.
The old idea that man is punished because he thinks or acts wrongly,
must be put away. It is purely a question of cause and effect; and we
suffer for what we do wrong to others, or in whatever way we
disorganise the general harmony of the great Creator's handiwork. But
since action and reaction are equal and opposite, we must, of necessity,
expect that we shall suffer as a result of putting any point in the harmony
out of accord, thus causing a discord.
If a group of people, whether mortals or angels, conspire to disturb the
harmony of the creative process, then that group will naturally suffer in
consequence through the reaction caused to themselves by that
disharmony.
If we examine the teachings of Zarathustra, sometimes called Zartusht
or Zoroaster, the first great Persian prophet, he has distinctly laid it down
for us that the process of evolution, from any primitive condition into that
which may be described as goodness, is like the ripening of the fruit on
the tree. It is first of all green, and gradually ripens in the sun. We can,
therefore, liken a man's growth from any condition to one which is more
superior, to the ripening of the fruit in the Sun of Eternal Majesty.
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Mind is everywhere present, and manifests a form of its own particular
attribute, which is called consciousness. The individual man or woman,
or animal, partakes of that consciousness and specialises it. You can
say that in man consciousness is permanent because in the human form
it becomes an aggregate. The aggregate, however, is not itself
permanent in form because it changes according to the plane on which it
manifests. Thus taught Sakaya, the great one sometimes called Sakaya
Muni, the Enlightened One, or Buddha.
When we examine this in the light of our teachings, we find that the
consciousness of man persists after his body is dead, and since it can
manifest only through a form without becoming diffused again, there is a
form which persists when the physical body passes away. That form is
built out of the ether, which is of a substance sufficiently substantial to
exist on the plane of its manifestation according to the state which the
individual enters. Thus when you finally leave your physical body, you
will possess a spiritual body which will be composed of the ether of the
plane in which you are able to think. If, therefore, you have learned to
think in a manner appropriate to an extremely spiritual level, you will find
yourself in an environment of extreme spirituality. If, on the other hand,
your mind cannot rise above an earthly environment, you would manifest
in your spiritual body very near to the earth plane.
You see the difference in the Kosmon teachings to those which you
were taught in the old schools. You were taught that if a man did evil,
when he passed from the physical body he was punished. Here you
observe, though there may be a punishment, it is purely the effect of a
cause. If one cannot rise above the old conditions to which one was
accustomed, it is entirely due to the fact that the eanh pull keeps one
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down. It should be a part of modern religion to teach us how we may rise
above the limitations which are imposed on us by heredity and
environment.
The new religion can help us, and in this, then, we learn how we can
raise the consciousness to a higher plane of manifestation, so that when
the physical life is ~ver we shall be able to find that plane and not be
earthbound. At the same time, while we are still in the physical form, we
can live a higher life, particularly one of service to our fellow man.
The more a corporean can ascend from earthly things, the greater will be
his or her powers. The secret is as old as the hills. The growth in spirit
means that transcendence over all things below is gained. The prophets
of old who found the All Light could rise to those heights of spiritual
transcendence that they could perform miracles. They had gained the
spiritual heights and were not limited by anything below the plane of their
attainment. We have an example in the life of Joshu, sometimes called
Jesus. He, we are told, was able to perform many wonders, and he did
so because he had been born into a state of perfection. We may ask at
this point: "Why was he born in a state of perfection?" Simply that he
might be the corporeal focus point for spiritual powers during his ministry.
Therefore, he came, not subject to earthly conditions as men are, but
free. At the same time, he could experience everything men felt during
their earthly life. Hence, he knew sorrow and grief because he could feel
every vibration within his fully developed spiritual body.
The Faithist regards himself as a spiritual being dwelling within a
physical body, and he tries daily to gain more and more control of the
physical plane through the exercise of the faculties of the spiritual body.
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It is to such a state of attainment that the New Race will come,
possessing powers of a transcendental nature, and be able to rule and
direct to the advantage of the human family all things that concern the
race. Now let us examine this statement. The forces sweeping through
the universe are of three kinds, namely, physical,
psychical and spiritual. You are quite familiar with the physical forces,
thunder and lightning, wind and rain, sunshine and frost, sound and
colour and so on. You are aware perhaps, of the psychic forces — such
things as cause the emotions to rise without any apparent external
cause whatever — the strange premonitions which some people get of
happenings which are inimical to them or to other people — the
manifestations of such experiences as clairvoyance and clairaudience.
These things are familiar to many of you.
These psychical forces are associated with the inner magnetic energies
of the sun, the moon, the planets and particularly with the band of stars
called the Zodiac. These deep and invisible psychic powers have a
greater influence on the human race than men at present dream. A new
understanding is now coming; a new consciousness will appear in those
yet to be born, which will reveal much about the unseen worlds, and how
spirits or angels live and move in accord with the Creator's times and
seasons. As an indication of this, you will find in the histories recorded in
Oahspe how the ancients were told to observe the times of the moon.
And you hold here to-day a ceremony during the new moon when you
pray particularly for all who have recently passed into spirit life.
It is, therefore, quite clear that this hidden world needs to be understood
if the human race is to rise at all from its physical environment, because
the unseen does affect the seen. There are thousands of patients in
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hospitals for the mentally afflicted simply because the modern scientific
man does not know of the forces which cause people to become so
distraught. As we persevere in our search for truth, we shall not only
discover these unseen causes, but we shall be able ultimately to find
remedies; and any religion which does not help in this, is not really
fulfilling a good purpose.
If the Kingdom is to come on earth, as we are taught to pray it should,
then somehow we must find how it can come — it cannot be wholly with
social reform. If the invisible world reacts upon the physical, the initiation
of the Kingdom must include the unseen world.
Hence the Faithist seeks this higher knowledge, and you desire to learn
more, that you may gradually rise above those things which not only limit
but interfere with the outworking of all that is best and noblest in your life.
The spiritual life is a very real thing, and if your one desire is to enter into
it, you are not bound to become a perfect being before you start on this
road. A beginning must be made. Some folk have the idea that one must
have advanced a good deal along the road of perfection before
expressing the Kosmon tenets and becoming a member of this
Brotherhood. A greater mistake could not be made. We want you to
begin, and we want to help you from our side as you start to step out on
a very definite path. We are not asking what your life has been in the
past; we are asking you to try to follow the exhortations laid down in
these teachings as far as you can. Let the past be redeemed by the
progress you make as the years roll on. And when we speak of the past,
we do not mean only this little strand of your earthly life. We mean the
spiritual ray of descent-the ray of influences coming through the spiritual
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and physical families. What is it that has made your heredity? Those
things that seem so often to limit you — those adverse forces that seem
to be against you; often just when a fulfillment is coming something
appears like a cloud between you and that achievement. What is the
cause? Or again, whence come those strange influences that help you
to accomplish tasks that other people fail to do? That deep something
that strengthens and guides you through the maze of life, what is it?
To answer this we must go back for ages. We have to look into the lives
of all who have gone before you — perhaps the physical line of descent,
but most especially the spiritual line, which links you with the past and
future. Believe us when we tell you that you are a member of a great
company, a family, many of whom have already risen into the Eternal
Light. You have a most deep, spiritual link with them. And coming later
when you have left the physical life, will be others belonging to the same
company. Perhaps you will look down upon them, watch over to guide
and bless them, and see them complete much that you began — see
them face similar difficulties, and because you gained strength by
passing through such difficulties, be able to help them toward a
triumphant conclusion. You will know the solutions to many problems
because you have gained the heights, so you will be able to pass on the
solutions to them, and they will thus manifest the light even more than
you can to-day.
There are many people who have suffered, but who have benefited
through the suffering. In a strange way they may have escaped a
prosperity which would have taken them away from the spiritual light.
They may have been happy as far as worldly possessions can give
happiness, but how long would it last? How long would all the glamour of
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earthly existence give them that vague, fleeting happiness? There is a
happiness which the world cannot give you. It comes through the
association of yourself with those higher ones who are on your ray. This
happiness will lift you out of the slough of despond, and no matter how
hard life may be at times, it will bring you a deep joy that nothing else
can give.
What is the greatest thing that has ever given you any joy in life? Was it
the love of a friend, or husband, or children? Love! Is there anything like
it, when the heart can understand what the other heart feels? Is there
anything like that wonderful outflowing sympathy which another can give
to you when you feel that life has nothing worth living for? It is a strange
fact, but friendship has kept many a soul from despair, and enabled
obstacles, apparently insurmountable, to be overcome. If you have a
soul for sympathy, and extend that sympathy to another, it goes out from
you as a radiant emanation; it can be seen clairvoyantly as a light
flowing from you. It is an expansion of your soul, and it blends itself with
the soul to whom you send it. A peculiar fact about this is that what you
feel, that one will feel. Thus, if you have hope in the ascendant, that one
receives hope. If you have faith, they receive faith; if you have
understanding, they receive understanding, and so are enabled to
overcome inertia and difficulty.
Now apply that to our message. All around you in the great unseen is a
vast world of being. Into that world many who have loved you, and still
love you, have passed. There they are waiting until you join them in the
day of glorious unity beyond the veil of earthly life. Sometimes when
they come to you now, they find a veil between themselves and you, and
it may negative their efforts to communicate with you. Whereas, that veil
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removed, their soul can flow to you at once, and illuminate your mind by
the spiritual light gained, to give you transcendent happiness which they
know because they have found the higher path. This we call "angel
communion."
This service to-night is held to augment that communion as you are
gathered here. Those who come from the planes of spirit endeavour to
stimulate within you a consciousness of their presence. This will enable
them to help you, especially in dark days, and life will become brighter
for you, simply because the higher consciousness of this company has
blended with yours on earth.
Apply this then to the more advanced teachings.
Supposing you desire to help the world toward a better state and initiate
the reign of brotherhood and peace. Obviously, if you do frequently
come into association with the higher worlds, those angels who are
working with the same desire will come to you, and their coming will
quicken within you a new consciousness. Having linked yourself with
them, life will shape its ends according to the needs. It is not a matter of
having to struggle with circumstances, or give up anything at all. Your life
will quietly change because you have come into harmony with the great
plan.
Will you become a messenger for the Light? We are not asking you to go
forth and proclaim this message from the house-tops or the wayside.
You can preach the silent sermon because very often the silent word is
as potent as the spoken. You know the secret of thought transference;
positive thoughts can pass from mind to mind. If your mind is radiating
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thoughts of this New Age, people with whom you come into contact will
be quickened strangely by this power. That is the silent sermon, and
everyone in Kosmon Unity can preach it.
In meditation you can come into communion with the angelic light, then
as you go forth into the world, the light will be radiating from you all the
time. Often your teacher from the higher spheres is with you, and he
sees the spirits who are associated with the people you meet, and they
see him, and they immediately find a link with him, because his mind is,
perhaps, stronger than theirs. These spirits overshadowing the people
you meet will feel a reflex, even though they know nothing at all about
higher things.
This is one of the means by which the angels are working to-day. They
are finding the different points of contact through those who are
associating themselves with the light of the New Age, the Kosmon Age,
whether of this Community or any other.
Can The Kosmon Unity help you? Yes, that is its object. Its aim is to give
you greater strength, a deeper insight into spiritual matters, a power to
mould your destiny, a means whereby you can attain to celestial heights
of illumination; and above all, it shall open for you the gates of
everlasting day, and there shall be no more night.
Will you keep the door closed to those who desire to come to help and
bless you-those who have gone on before you, who still love you, could
the thread be severed by death?
Perhaps there is someone who during their earthly life did you a great
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wrong? Then try hard to forgive. Perhaps it is that great wrong which is
holding him down; your forgiveness will help to set him free at last so
that he may begin to climb the heights. If only we could forgive others
their trespasses it would even help us to receive greater joy and
blessings.
Behold the rainbow in the sky. It shines there when the sun has made a
rift in the clouds, and tells of the departing of the storm. The rainbow is a
symbol of hope — the Etherean descent. Gradually, as the rainbow in
the sky is descending so are the Ethereans coming to the earth. Long
years ago they walked the physical path, just as you are now. They were
either on this planet or a planet in some other system perhaps. But they
understand, they know your needs and the need of all Mankind; and
they want to spread the light of the New Age. What is more, they want to
weave a shining garment which you shall wear, and it shall be the colour
of your aspirations, your highest ideals, your hopes. They will invest you
with that robe, the robe of glory. Your inner being shall respond to the
light they bring, and the soul shall be attuned to the Infinite Illumination.
What a wonderful thing it will be not to fear any more but to go into the
silence and during meditation to feel the incoming of that peaceful aura,
the Ray of the Ineffable Calm over storm; adjusting every fractious
particle, putting it into its right place within you. Will it not be a wonderful
thing to feel the presence of the angelic light, and to know during the
hours of sleep the consciousness now awake on the spiritual planes?
You will be able to join those who have gone on before you, and to
speak with them face to face, and ask them all about the things of their
new life.
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How wonderful it will be to look on earth with other eyes, and to be able
to say: "The life of spirit is a higher call. I bear the heat and burden of the
day, but some day I shall be in that fuller and larger life, there to take up
the threads of my destiny anew, and go on life after life in the spheres of
glory, knowing that as I go on we shall enter more and more into the
experience of what Jehovih is. I shall see His glories as they manifest
through His Creations: I shall know the great peace and fear no more."
So, beloved brethren, let this be your religion, let this be your life: —
Faith in the Great Spirit Who is ever-present, and Who does His Will
through His angels. His inspiration is ever with you and He works
through your soul. His presence can magnify the good within you until it
expands and you become a transformed being. His presence within you
gives you complete freedom, and yet gives you the joy of service to your
fellow-man.
This brotherhood to which you belong, is the earthly focus point for a
vast brotherhood in the spiritual spheres working for the Light. Together
we are dedicated unto the best endeavour to found the reign of Light on
earth, for unless spiritual means are taken to found the Father's
Kingdom, all other efforts will fail. So let us go together in service
towards the eternal dawn.
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There is a Bridge
The religion of the Faithist is one which aims at helping a man to find his
true self — to find the capacity which he possesses, not only corporeal
but spiritual also, because the true self lies within. The outer seli, the
physical body, is a peculiar thing because it is a limitation as well as a
means whereby the true self can find expression on the material plane of
activity.
This physical body is endowed with all the limitations which heredity can
impose, but it is also given characteristics which enable the individual to
realise his true self; and it would seem as if this body, the house in which
the thinker resides during his earthly sojourn, limiting as it does his
expression, would require some particular form of quickening to enable it
to respond to vibrations which are above the physical, those things
which are higher than the mere material form of stimulation. But there is
a bridge between the physical and the spiritual; this bridge is the etheric
part of a man's being. You may call it his astral body if you wish, but it is
a link between the purely spiritual and the physical, and is represented in
the physical by the very fine nervous system which that body possesses.
This nervous system is bi-polar, positive and negative, the cerebro-
spinal and the sympathetic nervous system; and since the whole of
one's activities depend on the accurate functioning of this dual system,
the occultist and the psychologist have studied its functions most closely.
Beyond the range of physical action there are the baffling phenomena of
psychic action, that particular kind of manifestation which seems to
evade all forms of physical explanation. It points to the fact that there is
another realm of existence in which the spiritual can live and manifest
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apart from the physical. The Faithist accepts that fact, and he calls this
other world, the spirit or heaven world. It may be that a better term could
be found for it, but it is sufficient if we explain it to mean that state of
existence in which the thinker, the spirit lives after it leaves the physical
body permanently.
The heaven world, therefore, is a locality. It has an objective existence. It
is as complex as the physical; indeed in its lowest aspect it is a reflex of
the physical plane, for this reason, that the substance of the lowest
plane receives the atomic reflexes of everything in the physical world.
The eye of the spirit body is an organ, a psychic organ, capable of
receiving reflections from objects on the physical as well as registering
the light which is given out by objects on the spiritual planes. Mortal sight
sees things only by the light they reflect, whereas spiritual sight sees
spiritual things by the light they emit, or physical objects by their atomic
reflections.
The dwellers on the lower spirit planes cannot always see the higher
Orders of Spirits (unless those Orders make themselves visible) for the
simple reason that the more interior or higher one goes, the finer are the
vibrations and therefore more difficult to perceive by the means available
on the first planes of ascension.
With this thought before us you will immediately see that a number of
people who pass out of the physical body, having no knowledge of the
afterlife, are confronted with a problem, because they may return to
those they have left upon the physical plane, and they can see them but
yet there is a difference. They find that some are more discernable than
others, and upon the old familiar objects they cannot make an
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impression as they did during earth life. This, at first, leads to much
confusion, and would lead to a more disordered state of mind were it not
for the fact that he thinks he is dreaming; and that is his salvation. He
just passes from one dream state to another for quite a long time.
Many people investigating Spiritualism are confronted with the problem,
that those who come to communicate with them can often do so only
partially. Their communications also may be very confused, and it seems
as if they are not fully aware of the state and condition of things they
have left behind. That is due to the first condition of dreaming in which
they have found themselves and their inability to arouse themselves
objectively to communicate in a direct manner. The more positive of
those who pass into that life, asserting to themselves they are still alive,
are able to cohere their thoughts, and receive information, and very
often communicate successfully. But one thing is needed, and that is a
complete break from the physical conditions that they may enter more
completely the interior planes of life before they can talk again to those
they have left on the mortal plane.
Here then we must distinguish between those who having passed
through death, are living on the lower spirit planes, and those who have
gone on to the higher levels. The first may sometimes be a little
confused or uncertain; whereas the second will be clear and positive, but
cannot communicate frequently, coming to us only at certain times
according to esoteric rules.
The fact is this, that the whole world around is overshadowed by a vast
world of spiritual beings. It would perhaps be unwise for us to suggest
worldwide spirit communication, but we do urge a universal spiritual
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communion — a communion with the higher worlds, with the planes of
light, truth and beauty, seeking it for knowledge regarding spiritual
things-that in this knowledge we may be the better able to carry out the
Father's Will in helping the world into a brighter and better state.
Can we help the world if we come more into touch with the higher
spheres? Well, let us examine that point for a moment. Those higher
planes, often in this philosophy called the Second Resurrection, are both
a place and condition inhabited by those who have risen above the low
spirit spheres and are no longer earthbound. They are free and
unaffected by earthly conditions. Their realm is one of light, joy, harmony
and unity; and within it are found music and art, beauty and strength. All
these things, which are attributes for which you often long, are there in
manifestation, and the dwellers on those planes move about amongst
the things they have created — houses, gardens of perfect loveliness,
art galleries, halls for music and drama, temples and sanctuaries, places
which you would desire to visit if you were in such a state and condition,
still realising that you have an objective existence. The old idea of
heaven being a place of sweet remoteness as to be perfectly ntangible
must be dismissed.
Here in your earth life, you have a pattern of that which shall come after
this life is ended, free from its limitations if you will, providing means for
each for the expression of one's interior genius.
Who of you has ever found it possible to express all that you have felt
within yourself — the desire to play a part with power in something
creative, or to express the poetry, art or music which you hold so dear?
That is possible only in a sphere of higher dimensions, free from the
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many limiting conditions of the physical plane. Such is the life of those
higher spiritual worlds of which we have spoken — the spheres where
dwell those who have left the bondage of the lower planes, and who
were once like you, dwelling on the material plane. Even life in these
higher spheres is not permanent, for there are worlds beyond, far more
wonderful, but the period of time spent there is usually much longer than
the earthly span.
What is the object of this state and condition? May we explain to you
that it has for its object the nurturing of certain interior capacities and
powers, several of which you do not realise are latent within you now.
For instance, the ability to read the interior light as it expresses Creation,
to help to build that plane upon which one has one's dwelling; to give the
best expression of one's deeper self, and to learn to become a creator
under the Supreme Creator. All this requires many years. You, for
instance, may have within you the potentials of an orator, but have no
means of expressing that ability on the physical plane. In the higher
spheres you will find the right conditions and opportunities, and they will
be in this way, that no longer limited by a physical body, you would be
able to attune yourself to the inner vibrations of the universe, and the
spiritual body would respond to those vibrations which were in accord
with your inner nature, and you would begin to develop along very
definite lines of your own particular individuality.
There might be times when it would be necessary for you to contact the
earth plane again. What is the reason for that? It is this, that there might
be certain things which you had left undone whilst in the physical form,
or other things which you should not have done, and the law of cause
and effect would call you back again. Then by overshadowing others,
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especially if they had a spiritual relationship to you, you would help to
redeem the little wrong you had done, or make good that which you
failed to do. By overshadowing others, by inspiring them to greater
fulfillment, you both aid them on the path of progress and develop your
individuality further.
These higher spiritual planes, called in Kosmon terminology, the Second
Resurrection, give you the power to do this, for the simple reason that as
soon as the spiritual faculties are developed they are manifesting. That
which is now latent within you, there comes into full fruition; then you will
return to the physical contact with a strange and wonderful power which
you did not possess when you were in the lower planes. This is due to
unfoldment or growth; and moving about in company with other workers
you help the world along its troubled pathway toward the fullness of this
New Age — toward that condition yet to come in its history when all its
problems, its vexed conditions, will have been resolved, and an earthly
paradise have come.
It is by and through this spiritual ministry that the world is inspired to help
itself, to establish universal brotherhood, to work for all those good
things that humanise society, to bridge the gulf between different nations,
to advance toward a better state of life and health. All these are of the
New Age, and this inspiration comes from the Second Resurrection
where such conditions already abound. This is the key to human
progress on the physical plane.
We cannot pass without considering the world which overshadows the
Second Resurrection. This is the highest state and condition of
development before one leaves this earth and its heavens for good to
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find absolute emancipation. In this third realm you have a still higher
expression. There, thought is even more potent, feeling more acute, and
the things which give you true peace, and make you really happy, are
found there in perfection. In this sphere we see the focusing point of all
the angelic beings working in the higher planes. This focal point, this
centre, is the mind of the great ruler of this planet and its heavens, called
in Kosmon terminology "God" as distinct from the term: "God the
Father." This great angel, who focuses the minds of all the higher angels
in his own, acts as the heart beat, moving in tune to the interior spheres
of the great All Life, or their manifestation.
Is this not the plan of the universe? You have the sun and the attendant
planets moving in vast orbits. What is it that holds them to the central
luminary? The scientists have not yet discovered it, but it is a vast vortex
of etheric force; nor can that etheric force hold them in its embrace
unless there were an inner impulse within it. That impulse is the mind
within the great solar centre, and due to its rhythmic heart-beat, all
planets move in concert, and in accord with the forces which play upon
them. Everything is so exact that astronomers can read the skies for
hundreds of years ahead.
This vast universe which you see around you when the stars light up the
sky, all moving, is a part of the grand universal Whole, the infinitely great,
yet how wonderful also is the infinitely small. Within the laboratory you
see the physicist examine the substances within the high potential
currents, the substances giving off tiny particles which he calls ions and
electrons, causing light to radiate forth, moving by the intrinsic impulse
which is said to be within them, each tiny, ultra-microscopic particle
moved with a perfect quantum of energy. These quanta would be to
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each, and perfect in each part, but cannot be made to manifest unless
under the influence of mind. These things help to prove that the universe
is ruled by a Master Mind.
Brothers and sisters, is it not time we began to look at ourselves to see
whether we have been drifting through life aimlessly-just thinking that to-
morrow or the next day will do before we begin to consider these
spiritual matters. Remember, right within each of us, angel and mortal,
there is a power at work, calling up the secret well-spring of our being. Is
it not time we examined the question:
"What am I?" Am I a being in light, or just a mere man or woman, a
physical body? What is it within you that gives you the power to be? It is
Life, it is Mind, and under the direction of the One All Mind the perfection
of the universal power is working.
Come! Let us put aside the limitations which the physical plane imposes.
Limitations we said, not possibilities; those we will develop. Do you wish
to grow in knowledge or wisdom, in love or beauty, in true nobility of
spirit? Then realise now that you have the capacity, and then put
yourself in touch with the Higher Worlds of spiritual being, and let the
forces of life flow through you from the great wells of the universe. It is
for you to realise that you have the power within to become more than
you are, no matter how you desire to express yourself in art, music or
crafts, or whatever it may be. There is the power within for your true self
to shine. It may be the desire to heal, or to help those people whom you
contact in their sorrow.
You can step over the threshold into the lives of others and assist them,
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because if you are actually in touch with the higher spiritual worlds, their
power will flow through you and immediately inspire those who are
downcast to take a different view of life and move out in that direction
which will resolve their vexed problem once and for all.
All over the world are sincere people who have stepped forward from the
old orthodox religions, and are working to establish this line of newer
thought, with the result that thousands of different voices are speaking
this message to-day, and people in many groups and of various grades
are listening to the words of power from the realms of light.
Now the world is advancing from the chaos into the New Age, and at the
same time is being guided toward universal brotherhood, peace and
spirituality, apart from all creeds. These are the seeds the angels have
sown. You, in your part, are assisting likewise. Every person who turns
his mind toward meditating on the spiritual worlds becomes a channel
through which those worlds express their power; and having tuned into
the higher planes by focusing your heart and mind toward them, it is
beneficial because the spiritual can overcome all limitaions. Thus in
realising this fact you have a strength and courage with which to
overcome all difficulties.
The Earth is passing through a cycle of time which is indicative of
change. This change had to come before a more stable and settled
condition. The children who are being born to-day are said to be different.
Many of them are. Some children are born under the light of the Second
Resurrection in a particular manner. They are coming into the world
among all nations, but are deeply in touch with the higher spheres
though they may not all be outwardly aware of it. Their elders may try to
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prevent them expressing their spiritual gifts or their inspiration, but will
not succeed, because the light must flow out. When these children grow
up they will proclaim this light, its truth, because they will feel it so
strongly within them, and they will be the world reformers and world
redeemers. This is the hope of the future, the child of the New Age
under the Iesu Light, to whom we bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh. This is our higher service.
The path of spiritual service is not a very easy one by any means, for the
simple reason that anything that is worth attaining cannot be obtained by
easy means. You see, the physical body is very prone to change its
habits. Spiritual vibrations arising within it, all its impulses begin to rebel,
and naturally when once it starts its journey there is a conflict between
the world's pull and the pull of the spiritual worlds. With some this conflict
goes on for quite a long time, but in the end the spirit gains the mastery;
it gathers its power through the trial of strength to which it has been
subjected. Every effort put forward helps you to receive more fully the
light from the higher worlds; but you are free to accept this light or reject
it. You can keep it or share it with others. Though you may never come
again to this sanctuary, yet in the silence you can always seek the Light
of Spirit; you can think of the angelic worlds and all they mean to you;
you can visualise the light of heaven coming to you as an actual fact —
not just a mystical phrase. You can find a peace which the world cannot
give.
The journey may seem hard at times, but you can attain the Second
Resurrection now whilst in the physical body; you can attain even the
Third Resurrection — it is only a question of spiritual growth. The more
you turn toward the contemplation of these things and allow them to
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guide and direct your life, the more will the inner eye become open, and
you be consciously aware of the spirit brethren around you; they are no
longer wraiths or ghosts, they are vitally alive, they are angels, and have
become to you persons of real value, because they are your spiritual
companions. This will give you joyful upliftment, and particularly when
your teacher comes to you, finding you in the moments of meditation, he
will give you thoughts regarding the higher worlds, and your knowledge
will gradually increase. Sometimes there will come to you the spirit of
your higher self with the power of a transcendent love. When you are
lonely on the physical plane people misunderstand you; you feel you
cannot go on because this great loneliness enfolds you. Then that great
one will come to you, and it will be as though the golden gates will have
opened wide and the light of heaven will come streaming in. The cup of
blessing will be held aloft, and the peace of a wonderful consolation, of
beauty, of joy transcending anything you have ever known, will be yours,
and these moments of communion will be for you very sweet indeed,
because the light will come to you in a strange and arcane way.
This light, called by the ancients "Illumination" will be that which comes
from God's own throne — the power of the central heart-beat mingling
itself with the heart-beat of all who have risen above the bondage of
earth. Come! Do not let the earth's darkness enfold you. About you is a
higher truth. You are on a long journey, and every moment of your life is
important with regard to it. With this knowledge within you, press forward
on the grand pathway, through sphere after sphere, until at last you
reach Etherea's heights, and then, having fulfilled all that was asked of
you, having found that objective realisation for which you, as a spirit,
came to earth in passivity, you will pass through eons upon eons in
unending joy, light and glory. Now is the time to begin.
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The Father wants you as a worker for the world's reformation, and we
shall be ever with you in your service.
Remember, the life of spirit is a higher call.
The Self Within All Selves
" To every self I am the Self of that self. He who perfecteth the self
which is in all selves, such a man is one with Me. To travel on that road,
is the right road."
These are the words which the seeker needs. They are the words of
hope; they are words which indicate the possibility of attaining
something above the personal self which has limited him. If there is
within him something apart from his personal self which, if developed,
will free him from the delusion of this plane upon which he lives, then he
will indeed be very happy.
The Kosmon message affirms this something within by which the
personal self becomes merged in the One Self, and a man becomes
transformed; he is a new being; he is nearer to God; he understands in a
way he could not have understood before. How can we grasp this
important fact and realise its full meaning?
The process begins with the abnegation of the lower self, after which
comes the development of the spiritual self, that which is of Jehovih, a
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part of Him. You will understand this better when you realise that the
physical plane is only a part of Man's life. It is the beginning of the
growth of that peculiar entity which is the particularisation of that self
which is in all selfs. The corporeal phase, though necessary for this
objectification, is only the primary aspect of Man's existence.
The undeveloped man has power over the physical plane only by the
use of brute force; the spiritual or arch natural man will have other
powers as we shall see presently. The fact remains that Man is eternal;
he survives the change called death, and he then lives in another state
of existence which approximates more to his deeper self. The physical
life is important because here we develop a will, and the power of
exercising the will, bringing the perceptive faculties to a focus, that we
may hereafter unfold the apperceptive faculties through at-one-ment. On
the physical plane Man learns through coming into contact with things,
while in the spiritual body he learns through assimilating with them. That
is the big difference. He assimilates with his surroundings, and by and
through this assimilation develops something which he does not possess
whilst he is in mortality.
That is the keynote of the New Religion, whether it is taught in the
Kosmon Church or any other Community. Thus by the unfoldment of the
angel man, even while inhabiting a physical body, he becomes so
attuned to the spiritual planes that he is able the better to live a normal
life, and rule his surroundings, not by brute force, but by spiritual
transcendence.
That fact of spiritual transcendence is one of the features which we shall
find developed in the Race now coming into being, and when in the
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fullness of time it gains its triumphant ascendancy in what the Faithist
calls the "Kosmon Era," the world will be a very different place. Crime,
ugliness and sin will have been put away — nor will any man be happy
while another wants. Means will be found to put an end to all these
things which mar existence on the physical plane at the present time.
The physical body, so wonderful in its construction, has been developed
by the Infinite Mind working through the subtler forms of matter, and has
produced a vehicle which will respond through its nerve impulses to the
power of a directing mind. But the body is useless without this mind
behind it. Mind, which we cannot define saving by abstract terms, can
rule and direct the body; but at the present time, man, in his worship of
his personal self, is inclined to allow the body to rule him. It is this which
causes him to cry out: "O what am I that I am thus limited!"
Well, of course, he does not understand until he is instructed. How shall
he obtain this instruction? It will be given to him by and from the beings
who live out of the physical body. The beings called angels or spirits, are
themselves men and women who have passed from the physical life, of
either this or some other planet, and knowing as they do through
assimilation, will be able to impart to man the necessary knowledge
whereby he can gain the transcendency of which we speak.
Listen to what they said, and are going to continue to say. Listen to the
Voice, even as spoken through the seers and seeresses in the days of
Moses and Zarathustra. Listen again to what they said through the
entranced seer in the upper room in the time of Jesus, during the
mystical supper of the Essenes: This is what they said.
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The real man is a spiritual man. His powers are latent within the matrix
upon which the spiritual body is ultimately built up. This latency is a
subjective condition; and when you can arouse the subjective man into
activity, he immediately becomes associated with transcendental powers.
There you have then the beginning of the theme.
Your scientists investigating with no spiritual object in view have
discovered this subjective self. They call it the Subconscious. But this
subjective self has possibilities which Science did not dream a man
possessed; arouse it, they say, and then all sorts of things come to the
surface. This is just what the spiritual teachers have said all down
through the Ages. If you arouse this subjective self by scientific means,
there is no telling what dangers you will encounter. Arouse it by spiritual
means, so that it can respond to spiritual planes, and you will find all the
difference. That is where the need for a religion comes in.
We need the power of Spirit. We need that looking upward every day.
We seek to come into at-one-ment with the Self of All Self. Then we shall
be in tune with the angels in Light, and nothing can come near to hurt or
to harm.
When the spiritual self is aroused and comes into activity — when the
subjective becomes the objective — then a man begins to look
differently at life. Before, he judged his life by physical standards; now
he has a higher perspective. Although he sees the possibilities and
potentialities of physical life, yet he begins to realise that they are not
everything. A strange unrest has come into his heart, and with it a
wonderful joy. It is the knowledge of the higher worlds which has come
to him. Whereas he once thought he was alone, now he realises he is
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companioned. He finds that around him in the invisible worlds are the
angelic hosts. He has breathed a new air. Beautiful themes come to him.
Nature in all her loveliness preaches to him a silent sermon. In the busy
haunts of men he sees the power of life working amongst those with
whom he comes into contact. Then he begins to understand that every
individual is peculiarly sensitive, and that he himself may be even more
so because he learns that within him are certain centres of occult activity,
and when these are beginning to manifest they may produce strange
sensations which are familiar to everyone who is awakening in the Light.
Everybody is sensitive to the power of thought, and the seeker now
understands that many a poor sinner is struggling against some gaunt
obsession, or is in the grip of an evil thought current from which he is
unable to break away. While the mystic or the saint is influenced by
another thought-current, receiving power and guidance from the higher
planes. Then sometimes to the seeker there comes from the planes
invisible his spiritual teacher, and whilst he is in deep meditation with his
thoughts turned inward, his aura glows with a gentle violet or golden light
according to the nature of his meditation, and through it there comes a
tiny ray. Watch the point of that ray, and you will see that it passes
through the back of his head and there becomes invisible. Now turn your
inner eye on to another plane and, still watching that tiny ray, you will
see it comes from the forehead of an angelic being in the higher spheres,
wonderful in the power by which he is surrounded, bathed in intense
radiance. From the master mind to the mind of the one in meditation the
thought is passing.
That one is you, whether you are a member of this Fraternity or not!
Whatever you are, or whoever you are, if you sit in meditation with a true
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desire to come into touch with the Light, there is an angel who will draw
near and instruct you. Of course, if you do not follow the school of
wisdom to which the members here belong, then you come under
particular guidance of definite teaching.
This light then comes to the one in meditation. He may not be aware of
thoughts as words; understanding often come in mind pictures or a very
gradual extension of consciousness; but slowly he grows in the light,
ever nearer to the All Father. A. new strength manifests within him, and
the things which held him down at one time begin to lose their hold
because higher and transcendental powers are now taking their place.
His religious observances, the ceremonial, the singing of hymns or
chants, the recitation of the prayers, all promote within his spiritual body
a rhythmical flow of the finer forces.
This spiritual body is at first like a film of white lines and can be seen by
the clairvoyant within the radius of the physical form. It is not actually in
touch with all the parts of the physical body, though interpenetrating it.
This white film-like body, when it becomes aroused or developed,
perfectly exhibits the transcendental likeness of the being, himself. Thus
your characteristics apparent to the physical eye will stand out clearly in
the spiritual likeness, though in a more refined degree. If, for instance,
you now possess brown eyes and dark hair and strong hands, even so
but more beautiful will be your spirit body when developed. If you die,
and this body is not fully developed, it then expands quickly, or it takes
upon itself a definite shape in which the mind can function subjectively. It
takes a little time for the objective to develop if you have not unfolded
these inner powers before you passed out of the physical body. This will
explain the trouble many psychic investigators have when getting into
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touch with someone who has recently passed away from the physical life.
That one forgets his earthly name; he forgets certain facts of his past life,
and this leads the investigators to say that the communication is false.
They do not realise that the deceased is now minus his physical brain,
and that many sensations which stir the physical brain in a particular way
are entirely absent. Of course, the individual associates himself with the
physical life in some ways subjectively, but never really receives
impressions on the inner mind. It is as though the consciousness is
manifesting dreamily in a body which is only partially developed, and he
may remain in that dream condition for quite a long time. He comes out
into objective awareness in short intervals, until gradually a complete
lucidity returns when the spirit body has become quite cohered and
intact. Then he is able to pick out from the latent memory storage the
things which happened long ago, his name and many other matters. But
the investigator is usually too impatient to follow out such a line of
research and gives it up.
Later on the individual having developed his higher self, passes on to
the Second Resurrection planes, and is not anxious to contact the
physical plane again. He has little interest in it, and does not desire to be
probed and questioned in the séance room. His only interest in the earth
life is his care and love for those he has left.
In the Second Resurrection the now arisen spirit finds the life and visions
there so wonderful, so beautiful, so powerful, that he begins to realise
the meaning of life. He understands that there was a purpose in the
earthly life, but that the life of spirit is a higher call, a greater experience.
Later he will come under the care of the Lords of Direction.
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Who are the Lords of Direction? They are more advanced angels who
attain their full unfoldment by watching over the affairs of earth. They
each have in their care a number of angels who in seeking their
unfoldment may yet have to work out something, or develop some theme,
or put right something they left undone, or perhaps undo the knots of a
skein they tangled. Sometimes it is difficult for these Lords to persuade
the lesser ones, but they explain that one cannot attain still higher
heights, or inner grades, until everything in the personal life has been
put right. You must go near the earth plane for a little while, they explain,
sometimes individually, but usually in company with others, because in
unity there is strength. You may go to teach or heal, to inspire and uplift,
or just to clear those circumstances which you left tangled.
This is done by thinking strongly of someone on the physical plane; then
when you find yourself in his presence, you keep the mind upon some
particular spiritual theme and speak to him about it. You blend with his
aura, and your vibrations become closer. He will then begin to feel that
you are present, though if he is not yet spiritually awakened, he may not
realise what your presence really is, but he will gradually become
receptive to your thoughts. You tell him what to do, how to overcome a
difficulty, or how to put right something that is wrong. You inspire him
with higher ideals, new thoughts. By these means you will gain
experience of spiritual control, and you will also learn the lessons of the
higher life. You will begin to understand causes and reflexes. In course
of time you will come back again to these higher planes from those to
which you have descended. This is the path of attainment through
service. Such is the process for those beginning to understand spiritual
life.
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But you who are listening to this address may not have to follow quite
that same path because you are learning so much now about this higher
knowledge; you are already preparing for the after-life, and beginning to
develop the spiritual body. We are helping you to unfold that" Self which
is in all selves," so that when you pass from hence to thence, you shall
have all the inner faculties developed, and, entering into the Second
Resurrection, shall be received amongst the company as one who has
knowledge — for to have knowledge is the key to power — the power for
ever greater service.
But we want you not to wait until you have passed into the spirit life
before you begin your real transcendental work; you can begin it now;
and If you do it now, you can work out your own salvation, gain your
resurrection, and enter into the spiritual life in power as a king entering
upon his rights and privileges without conquest, saving that you have
conquered the old enemy, the lower self.
If you make this a fact, what will happen?
Firstly, you make your decision to enter the path the Faithists are
treading. Then you will say: "I will strive to come into at-one-ment with
the Self within all selves, the Heavenly Father. I will come daily nearer to
Him, then I know the Masters of Wisdom will draw near to me, and in the
times of meditation — to which I will devote ten minutes each day — I
will take a theme from some book that inspires me, and I will meditate
upon it — then I know that light will come. I will daily affirm the power of
the All Highest in my life; I affirm the power of angel communion,
because only by the mind affirming something can it become operative,
for this is the key to all growth. So I begin at the basis of all by affirming
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attunement with the Eternal Father; then I shall be always rightly
guided."
Brethren, this is the simple foundation of a real and true religion. Of
course, knowledge may become very complicated as you advance, but
then you will be ready for it. To-day, we speak of the beginning when a
new life dawns for you, to lead you to happiness, to growth, to fulfillment
and to service for your fellow-men.
As the new life unfolds you will be aware of the guidance of the angels of
Light. At night when the physical body sleeps, it will sink into a condition
of repose, but since you have objectified the subjective self, that will
leave the physical body, having become objective on the planes of spirit,
and in course of time, you will be able to mingle with those who, like you,
have transcended the limitations of the lower planes, and join with them
in full association and spiritual activity — accomplishing much and
learning much. When you return to the body in the morning it will have
gathered its vitality from the magnetic sphere around the earth, and will
be charged with sufficient nervous energy for your requirements of the
day. You may not remember all that you have done out of the body, but
as time goes on, gradually the doors of memory will open more and
more, and knowledge and understanding will filter through. Slowly your
view of the world will change, so that you can see a great purpose
moving through it, and realise that your life is a part of the Whole in a
very special way.
Will you then to-day begin the higher path? Slowly yet surely the new
Self will take the place of the old self; you will become more responsive
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to higher vibrations; your voice takes on a magnetic quality, your eye
gives out a spiritual power, and your aura pulsates with a beautiful light,
which other people, though not seeing, will nevertheless feel and be
moved toward things spiritual. Thus you become a power for good in the
world.
Come! It is time we began to realise these things. The world sadly needs
our help, but only spiritual light and power can solve all its problems.
Although the Kosmon Unity can do only a little, yet it will count for much,
because it is a part of the great Movement for world illumination in this
New Age, and the Great Ones watching over the destiny of this planet
are using it in no uncertain manner. Gradually the new schools of
transcendental light will take the place of the old religions which have
failed, while those which have not failed will go on to higher heights. The
Kosmon Race will at last adorn this little planet, and the things which
trouble Man to-day will pass away, because the higher vibrations
created by those who live and work in the transcendental light will make
it impossible for wrongs to exist. Even the physical body will I vibrate to a
higher note so that disease will not be able to touch it.
We give you the message. We want you to understand the things which
are and which can be; the real issues in the salvation of the world. You
are the light-bearers; go forth and accomplish much for the Father's
Kingdom.
You can become the ministers of light to a waiting world, and in
becoming the focus for the higher Powers, do your little part, ever
attaining in service. Then, some day when the great call comes, you
shall enter the joys of the Lords who will greet you as brother or sister,
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and then the sweet harmony of peace shall gladden the heart, even the
Peace of Everlasting Love. Amen.
Like unto a Flame
The spiritual body may be likened unto a flame. Just as you have in the
flame of a candle different colours, different layers of light, so the
spiritual body is a compound of several bodies, yet these are one. Each
is a distinct manifestation on a higher plane of the other below it. To
understand this is to understand the nature of spiritual experience.
It is easy to see how those who have spiritual experience do so,
because certain manifestations of the spiritual body are in evidence and
are in accord with the planes of angelic life and being, those planes
which one inhabits after leaving the physical life.
In understanding this matter, we shall conclude then that the objective of
the physical life is to mould or express in concrete form, the things which
relate to the spiritual life. It is the result of the inbreathing of the Almighty
First Cause, Absolute Father of All, in His great outpouring of life, that
the earthly vessel has come into being to contain that life, and hereafter
to manifest it in the individualised self-conscious being.
Each one of you thinks of himself or herself as something apart from
everyone else. How difficult it is to realise that all are but One Great Life.
Yet it is not so difficult to understand if we consider that this One Grand
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Life is divisible into rays of life-manifestation. Just as pure white light can
be divided into the component colours from which it is built, so the One
Grand Life can also be separated into Its component colours or rays.
Thus in the human sphere one individual could be associated with the
violet end of the spectrum; another would be associated with the red end
of the spectrum and others come between, some responding to blue,
green, yellow and all the sub-tones. If you can look on your fellow-man
with this understanding, you will see how it is that you can associate with
some people better than you can with others. You will also understand
how you can influence some people and not others; how some can
affect you, and others leave you entirely indifferent.
The glory of this One Life which we all express, angels and mortals, is
manifested in the variety of expression which we know. For instance, the
gardener loves his garden because of the variety of the flowers he
produces there, yet within the variety he sees expressed ideas. He
knows that one plant is of the same genus or family as the other, but he
sees particularly the difference in the beauty or special manifestation
which is the idea behind or within each plant or flower.
This conception of the idea or ideal, when seen in the Cosmos is often
called in mystical language, the Macrocosmos, meaning the greater
cosmos or the universe. When considered in relation to the human being
it is known as the Microcosmos — the great universe and the small. In
regarding these relationships one with the other, we notice that the idea
which is behind every form is a thing which belongs to it intrinsically, in
so much that this idea can become the ideal, if we can only find the true
note which corresponds with our interior life; then if we could just vibrate
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with that note, what a beautiful thing life would be! But there is a difficulty.
It is because we are put into this condition of separateness that we have
to be seeking and searching constantly; we must forever strive to find
the inner note, or rather, the note which corresponds with our inner
being, and having found it, vibrate with it.
In blending then with the glory of the universe, the great becomes linked
with the small, and the two — by interaction — cause the being to come
into manifestation which can accurately be described as an angel. It is
because of this fact that the Faithist considers a human being on the
physical plane as a corporean, and on the spiritual planes as an angel. It
is difficult to describe him otherwise, because to call him a spirit is to
confuse the issue, as there are spirits of animals, of plants, of minerals;
spirits which blend with them and which belong to their own plane of
manifestation. Thus we try to clarify what might otherwise seem to be a
very complex situation.
Now, as though out of the physical body, examine the spirit spheres
themselves. The First Resurrection, the condition of life which is associ-
ated very closely with the physical, so much so, that it has been
accurately described as a reflex of it, is that state whose inhabitants live,
as it were, in the shadow of the physical plane. True, there is a light, but
it is much subdued, and sometimes called the grey light of the shadow-
world. Who would desire to stay in this twilight, in this shadow? There
are some who so desire, but they are earthbound.
Over and above them in the Second Resurrection there are those who
have found the light of spiritual day. They dwell in a sphere which is
peculiar in its manifestation. It is peculiar in this, that those who live
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therein can remain only by blending with everyone else on that plane
with whom they come into contact. Because of this there can be no dis-
harmony in the Second Resurrection; it is, so to speak, a perfect
blending of soul with soul and mind with mind. Though we can
understand that since the colours of the spectrum can blend, such as the
blue blending with yellow to produce a wonderful green — so in this
sphere one note can blend with another to produce a manifestation —
an ideal born out of the Heart of the Cosmos — a thing of beauty.
How wonderful it is to consider this, and to know that some day, you,
now dwelling on the physical plane as a corporean, can, when you have
ultimately left the physical life, enter the Second Resurrection, that state
and condition of harmony, and blend with the dwellers there in the
sacred work which they have to perform. We speak thus, because this
constant seeking and searching is a labour, though it is a labour of love;
and all seeking to manifest something is work.
In your life as you know it to-day, you love to express your personality in
that you do, whether it is to carve, to mould or build, to heal, to teach
others or lead them into the New Light; whatever is the part you play in
life, you enjoy putting your best into it; that is Y0u£ service to the grand
cause of human progress. In the Second Resurrection the higher ideals
which may not find a manifestation during the physical life will there
obtain a means of expressing themselves. How many there are upon the
physical plane who love music, art, science, yet ever feel baffled or
incapacitated to express the themes that constantly radiate through their
soul. In the Second Resurrection the limitations of the earth life are
removed, and there is a more plastic material with which to mould and
create. Occultists call it Astral matter, some refer to it as Etheric
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Substance, and the ancient Hindu teachers called it the Akasha.
These things we understand if we turn our mind then to know that there
is a means of expressing one's idea through the activity of the Will. But
we also come to see that we can do nothing entirely of ourselves, nor
can there come into being anything, either an idea or ideal, which does
not already exist somewhere. If you have in your mind a beautiful picture
that you might desire to paint, the ideal is already there. What you do is
to build it up, to register it on the fine sensorium, the soul. You may say:
"Yes, but I begin to paint a picture, but alter it as I go along." Exactly: you
alter it because you have not yet caught the true theme. The theme
works through from within; it gradually makes itself manifest on the outer
mind: the result is that which you produce.
In this we see we have the fundamentals of a new religion, because
when a religion brings us more into touch with the invisible world of life
and form — when we understand that there is a plastic medium between
the outer life and the inner planes of existence — we can clearly see that,
after all, the hidden world of spirit can help to make the physical world a
brighter and better place for men to live in.
Those who have once lived here have gone on into the higher worlds of
being. Have they no memory of the things they have left behind? Come:
let us be reasonable. Memory may for a time be clouded, especially on
small things, but we never forget anything which has once become a fact
in our consciousness; it is still there; memory never dies. Every fact of
your life is impressed upon the auric envelope, the spiritual body. Every
fact impresses your aura no matter the plane upon which they have
manifest. You should carry even unto Nirvana the memory of the little
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things done since you began to walk the earthly way; but as the worlds
unfold for you, and as life becomes more real, the explanation of all the
mistakes which have been made, stand out clear and true. But the
wonderful thing about it all is this, that for each one of us there is an
opportunity to rectify every mistake which is made; nor can we enter into
the worlds of complete emancipation, called Etherea, until we have done
so.
Here we see the reason for angel communion; why it is that spirit beings
come back again to overshadow corporeans. They come that they may
work out their salvation. They come that they may undo the knots of the
tangled skein. They come back to make the crooked straight; to negative
the effects of their misdeeds. This is imperative and incumbent upon
them before they pass on into the very high realms.
You will then see what a cloud of witnesses there is over the earth at the
present time in those who are desiring to help the world into a brighter
and better state, called by the Faithists, "Kosmon," The Universal Voice
manifesting itself all over the world. One Unity, one Note, one Voice, one
Life, one Manifestation.
Beloved brethren, it is because of this that the Kosmon Fraternity has
come into being. It takes its place amongst the other schools of higher
thought which ever urge men on to see the universality of Spirit, and to
understand that there is a vast brotherhood at work on the unseen
planes of life and form, working with humanity on the physical plane to
bring to pass the world-wide reign of Love and Peace.
This cannot be completed at once; in fact it is part of our teachings that
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we can move only in synchronisation with the manifestation of light
according to cycles of time. These times are associated with the march
of the sun and the planets through a vast etherean roadway, or orbit,
wherein every now and again the earth passes into a region of light. It is
passing into such a region now more and more — in the Faithist
terminology, the region of Sabea. In this region the vibrations of spiritual
light will become increasingly stronger.
Ultimately two things will happen on the physical level. Those who have
prepared themselves will be able to respond to the spiritual light, while
those who are not able to respond wiII cease as a race. It will not be in a
condition of judgment. We are not talking about some great cataclysm
which might come to the planet — nothing of the kind. We are speaking
about Races, spiritual Races and materialistic Races. In the end, those
who respond to light will be able to live on this plane as long as they
desire, or rather as long as the Will of the One All Mind desires them to
remain. By then materialistic races will have faded away because they
could not stay in conditions of such high grading. In the latter day there
will come to the earth wonderful beings who will be able to take unto
themselves physical bodies through materialisation. Something of this
process has been witnessed in psychic investigation, though in a rather
coarse degree, but when the centuries have passed and Mankind is
more highly unfolded these things will transpire in a beautiful and holy
degree.
Perhaps you feel these ideas are fantastic or too deep? Well, they are
part of our teachings, but accept them or reject them just as you like, it
matters not. One thing that matters above all else is this, that you should
find your higher nature, your ability to respond to the inner vibrations of
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the spiritual planes. Why? Simply because you have an intrinsic and
interior desire to become more efficient. This desire is not only the wish
to become efficient in corporeal knowledge or work; it is the need to
express oneself, and that has been urging you ever since you began to
think, to express your personality and individuality. You have been doing
this somewhat all the way through life, but now the light has come to you,
and you are beginning to express the higher personality, your spiritual
being. A new life has dawned for you, and you have said good-bye to
the world of darkness and destruction, going forward into the world of
Kosmon wherein you will discover first your higher self, and then
become a master builder amongst others, gradually helping to build a
new world and a new race, that finally when the darkness of the past has
been transmuted, a new world-order, the Kingdom of Light, shall be
established over all the earth.
Beloved brethren, these words are almost identical with what we said to
you nearly thirty years ago. Little did you then dream that events would
happen so rapidly as they have done in that space of time. What
advance Science has made since we then spoke to you about etheric
vibrations! Is it not now proven that phenomena can manifest through
what astronomers call "cosmic energy" that we call the invisible ethe?
Strange but perfectly true, this branch of science was known to the
Ancients thousands of years ago; it is but a revival — a revival, since it is
necessary that spiritual knowledge should now come to Mankind. It is
time for us to discard the old Theology and all the errors which it has
entailed. It is time for us to begin anew, to start on a new basis, to
consider man's relationship with the universe and his Creator — to begin
to understand the invisible worlds, and to build on a new foundation the
religion of this New Age.
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If our minds are attuned to the Absolute we cannot go very far wrong.
When you start your soul upon this, those angels who are on your ray of
light will come to you; they will begin to identify themselves with you, and
you will find that you are associated with a vast family of brethren. That
was an expression used by one of the Gnostic teachers. When you
understand that you are linked with a vast family of brethren, by the light
they bring the colour of your ray, whatever it may be, will be intensified,
and it will correspond with a note of music, to be a link between you and
the Infinite. Then during the hours of sleep, or in your meditation, your
spirit will become more and more objective in the conditions of life which
belong to the Second Resurrection. Later on it may be possible for you
to leave the physical body in trance and go freely amongst those planes.
Be quite sure that if the spiritual light is unfolded within you, then during
sleep when the tired body is renewing its energies, you will take unto
yourself the robe of glory. You will pass out of the physical form and
move amongst that vast family of brethren in happy association, there to
learn about the vibrations of the higher planes, to learn the meaning of
sympathies and harmonies and how one thing can correspond with
another. You will see the wonderful means of self-expression which
each soul has there in creative activity. You will understand that each
planet has its own particular celestial note; you will understand that there
is a vast Mind behind the grand movement of the solar systems; you will
gradually see the ideal patterns through which the great life-forces ever
flow, and you will come to realise that all minds on the earth plane and in
its heavens are focused toward one point, which is the God of this planet,
and his mind is at-one with the Infinite, the Master Mind. By such is a
universe organised.
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"Nearer, my God, to Thee." Yes, nearer to Thee, along the mainstream
of life which will carry me on from the First Resurrection and its greyness
into the realms of light, the Second Resurrection, where I shall meet the
brethren, meet those I love; to see life as it really is, and not as it
appears to be, as I see it on earth. From then, when I am ready, I shall
pass to the Third Resurrection and understand the true meaning of the
words: "God is love." I shall hear the inner note of all things, and
understand the cause of all manifestations. Then also I shall know why I
may have suffered; and there shall come to me the realisation that the
gold of my inner being has been refined by the fires of sorrow, joy and
love. Then the last veil shall fall from my eyes, and I shall behold the
Gnosis, until the Voice shall call me across the Bridge of Chinvat to enter
at last Etherea's vast realm, and a cloud of golden light shall ever lead
me on into a future bright and glorious.
Brothers, this is the religion which you have sought. It is that which is
giving you a real meaning to life — that which will carry you over the
stream of mortal existence with its troublous elements, and will give you
strength to face life's problems, because it reveals the purpose of it all.
Henceforth there shall be no night saving that which is transitory, for the
morning shall follow every disappointment, and with each uprising of the
sun a new ray of hope shall come to the heart, and you will cry aloud
anew: " ... from earth redeemed by love." AMEN.
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Evensong
Eternal Father-Mother! In this quiet hour reveal Thyself unto us, Thy
Children, that by this revelation we may the better understand, and in
understanding serve for the coming of Thy Kingdom on earth. Amen.
Beloved brethren, it is part of the philosophy of the New Age to proclaim
the fact that basically all manifestations of life are dual. The Supreme
Being Himself is also Herself, the Father and the Mother, and that
Supreme Being is expressed through the universe, and the universe is
dual, for it consists of the seen and the unseen. Thus perhaps at this
moment unless you are watching us with your spiritual eye, the spiritual
world is unseen. But if you were to leave your physical body now, either
in trance or in death, and enter objectively into the spiritual world, that
would be the seen which had previously been unseen, but there would
still be another unseen beyond or within it, and this is so until at last you
reached the great heights of spiritual attainment and unfoldment known
to some schools as the Nirvanian attainment wherein you have become
at-one with the Infinite, and in that sublime and glorious state the duality
of all things is resolved. It can continue for us if we wish or it ceases to
be because we are at-one with the unity. Therefore we see that if life
basically expresses itself in duality it will follow that within ourselves we
have a duality and that the pathway that we are following will be of a
duality. That is to say, deep within all of us, irrespective of what the
physical body may be, there are also certain aspects of the opposite sex
polarity. If you have a physical body that is masculine, nevertheless
there are certain elements within you that are essentially feminine. If
your body is feminine there are characteristics within which are
masculine, and to a certain extent these will be brought out into
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expression as you follow the pathway of spiritual unfoldment, not that
you will become something that is unnatural but you will become more
fully integrated and equilibriated; that is why the great angels, when they
are seen clairvoyantly, often have a wonderful light about them, but their
face is difficult to describe as to whether it is masculine or feminine,
because within their being by virtue of their attainment, they have
reached a balance of both. They are coming near to the Unity. And
again, therefore, in the pathway of the life that each one of you is
following you do so naturally in accord not only with the polarity of your
physical body but also with your psychological construction. By that we
mean that it has already been discovered by certain schools of
psychologists on your side — that all people express one or the other
either introvert or extravert. Those who are introvert are the people who,
as it were, take all the impressions from the world around them into
themselves and assimilate those impressions. This type of person lives
very much within themselves. They are perhaps more self-contained.
They may be rather more reserved and shy whereas the extrovert is the
type who does not wish to receive impressions from the outer world but
on the contrary wishes to express himself outwardly and make his
impression on the external world. So that in one case there is a pouring
in, and in the other there is the pouring out, to put it into quite simple
language.
Now we mention this fact because we find that some of you are desirous
of finding the inner path of spiritual training and unfoldment. Now it will
follow, therefore, that your approach to the inner mysteries of life will
differ as to whether you belong to the introvert type or the extrovert —
whether your own inner self, your spiritual make-up, is of the receptive or
of the projective type. This is known among the students of the Esoteric
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as being the path of the Adept or Occultist or the path of the Mystic. But,
as in all things, eventually the two become one. In other words, at the
end we find a balance which is the Unity. Let us ever remember that fact
because it is vital to the life of each one of us.
Now just, therefore, as there are two types of individuals, two paths of
unfoldment, so also there are two means of contact with the higher
spiritual planes of being. One is objectively, through someone who has
the power to be a channel or vessel by which those who live in the
spiritual world can communicate with your plane. Of course, you all have
that faculty in potential but not necessarily developed. The other way of
contact and communication is what we might call the inspirational path
wherein through the quickening of certain vital centres within your
etheric or physic construction, power can be received by you from those
who are working and watching with you from the higher planes. So you
see in one case it is external from yourself; the other is internal to
yourself.
Perhaps it was a great pity that when the age of darkness from which we
are now arising first approached, the means of contact with the spiritual
planes were closed. This was largely due to certain edicts which were
put forward by the Kings and Emperors of that time wherein they made it
an offence for anyone to have communication with the Unseen. Maybe
they had certain cause at that time. Perhaps the channels of
communication were not of very high grade. But by closing them the light
of spiritual guidance and illumination was cut off from mankind, saving in
a very few rare cases where it has been maintained down through the
ages among the mystics, saints and occult students who had to work
very discreetly. So, therefore, these dual means of instruction,
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illumination and communication were closed. To-day they are being
opened because a New Age has come to the earth, and the shadows of
materialism are gradually falling away as the soul of Man awakens to a
new understanding, a new mode of life, in which gradually he will learn
to understand himself, discover his own interior structure, and find the
means for spiritual self-expression.
You know, sisters and brothers, one of the real purposes of life is that
we should find ourselves and discover the means by which to express
ourselves in the deepest and fullest sense, because everyone of us has
something that we can give to the world, something deep within us that
can shine as a light, not only to lighten our own life but the lives of all
with whom we come in contact.
In the teachings of the Kosmon Church and Fraternity, there is
expressed the aim of assisting those who are seeking the Light of the
New Age, and who like yourselves are desirous of attaining personal
experience of the spiritual path and all that contact with the higher
planes can mean. And this is a wonderful thing. It is a great and glorious
adventure-the exploration of the world of spirit. Not losing touch with the
physical plane; not turning your back upon the responsibilities of life, but
rather finding a means whereby that life becomes enriched and
purposeful. Now, therefore, through the means which this Fraternity
presents to you, you can gradually attain contact with the Unseen by
either of the two paths.
Tonight, shall we consider a little of the Omnific, that is to say the
receptive, the mystical side of things? How can you within yourself
unfold the inspirational and intuitive gifts? Well, of course, you know the
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great key to all these manifestations is to develop realisation. That is to
say, not to negative the gift by your own thought but to develop it and to
quicken it. Not to say: "I am never receptive. The angels never come to
me. I can never find any light in life. I can never see the way ahead. I am
ever frustrated." Not to say that, because at once you are closing the
door. But to say: "I know the Eternal Father will reveal Himself unto me
according to my measure of faith and unfoldment. Therefore will I in
humility go forward trying to approach nearer to Him, realising the more I
can do so, the nearer can come the angel or spirit guides to work with
me and through me." You, of course, understand that the development
of these faculties will take time because you are all descended from
corporeal families in which these spiritual gifts have been latent for so
many, many generations that they cannot be stimulated very quickly. If
you can cleave to the path of spiritual development, slowly yet surely
these things will unfold within you and then the world of spirit will
become a living reality to you. It will be its own proof and demonstration
to you as you go forward in humility, ever seeking a further revelation.
This revelation is not merely to satisfy a corporeal curiosity.
Nevertheless, that thought takes place in your mind. The revelation of
spirit is in order that you should grow in understanding and in the ability
to make your place in the world brighter and better than what you found
it at the beginning of your life, so that when at last the great call comes
and your physical eyes close finally you will step out into the spiritual
worlds able to look back upon a life of fulfillment, even though it may
have been a fulfillment in a very small and humble sphere of being.
Realisation, therefore, of yourself as spirit, or angel in potential, though
still possessing a physical body as a garment, and the realisation too
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that the spiritual planes are all about you and that within them are those
who have very close affection for you, waiting to reveal themselves, to
whisper into your mind words of wise counsel and encouragement,
brings a power and a strength that shall infuse courage and ability into
you, by which you shall the better fulfill your life. Yes, try to realise these
things and affirm their presence, their reality, their power, for you, then
they will increase.
Is not Evensong itself the song of joy and of affirmation? Let us respond
to its keynote that our own hearts and minds may express the joy that
comes from inner understanding. Very well then, in this hour of joy and
quiet communion can we help you a little further in understanding. The
spiritual worlds are all about you. They do, however, vary in what we
might call their atomic rate of vibration. Or if it is easier for you to
visualise we will say they vary in their wavelengths. Thus, just as this
very moment there are passing through your little building here several
dozen different wavelengths sent out by wireless transmitting stations,
but you are not conscious of any of them unless you were to bring a
wireless instrument into here and turn its knob of reception so that it
would tune into one of those wavelengths. In the same way, therefore,
as these wavelengths all interpenetrate so do the spiritual worlds
interpenetrate, and there is no conflict between one or the other. But
forgive us if we are a little technical for a moment, but we have to
remember that our perception, yours and ours, of the spiritual worlds
varies according to whether you are regarding them objectively or
subjectively. That is to say, when you regard a thing objectively you are
looking at it as external from yourself, just as you can look now at the
walls of this Temple. That is external from yourself. But if you shut your
eyes and hold within your mind a picture of this temple and see the walls
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there portrayed, that is subjective. It is within yourself. Now on your
plane the subjective often seems to be unreal or illusionary. But on the
higher planes of being, the subjective is real.
Now to give you another picture. The spiritual planes which are nearest
to your physical plane are very largely a copy of the physical, particularly
geographically so. Where you have a river, the spiritual worlds have a
river. Where you have a mountain or an ocean, we on the lower spirit
planes have mountains and oceans. And sometimes even if you have a
city there may be a corresponding city on the lower spirit planes. But the
higher spiritual planes are somewhat removed from the physical and do
not copy your geographical structure. Can you think of the clouds that
rest above you, perhaps a thousand feet up maybe? Now hold that as a
picture in your mind, of what the higher spiritual planes are objectively,
because they are of the structure of plateaux. That is to say, they do not
rest on the surface of the earth like the lower spiritual plane, but are
composed of plateaux which may be at varying distances away from the
earth excepting in so far as they are within its vortex which extends to a
little further than the distance to the moon. And, therefore, if a spirit
wishes to pass from the lower planes to the higher he must find the
means of ascending from that which is geographically like your plane
into the spiritual plateau which he needs to visit. These plateaux can be
far more extensive than any bank of cloud that you know and can extend
for hundreds of miles and, here we know you find it hard to understand
when we say that some of them can be inhabited within as well as on
their surface, and the further in distance they are from the physical globe
the more beautiful or refined and high-graded they are. That is
objectively. But you can go to them subjectively without even moving
from your chair at this moment. It is almost as if your mind can be the
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wireless receiving set and once you have learnt the art of turning the
knob of reception, that higher spiritual plane can be all about you, even
though objectively it may be several miles away.
Now we know that is hard to understand at first and we are not going to
argue about it-just leave it for you to think out in the quiet moments
during the coming week. Only in so far that just as your wireless
transmissions interpenetrate each other but do not exist for you unless
you tune into them, in the same way, therefore, the higher spiritual
planes are remote from you until you tune into them, and the first act of
tuning in is to try to visualise them, to build as much as you can a picture
in your mind of what they may be like. It is quite true that at first perhaps
your efforts may be rather faltering and elementary, but like the young
musician who has to learn to move his fingers up and down the key-
board, week after week for a long time, stumbling perhaps, frustrated
may be at times, disappointed too, until one day suddenly he finds he
has mastered a sonata or some other piece of music and can play it
without a mistake. What a joy that is. It is as though for a moment a new
world had opened up for him. In the same way, therefore, the art of
communication with the spiritual worlds is something that you work at
and practise and practise, never minding the disappointments, until one
day it all unfolds to you as a real and objective revelation, coming
through the door of the subjective. Gradually you have practised the
visual is at ion until you find it is no longer what you thought was
imagination and illusion, but it does really live for you.
So by these means we in the Kosmon Fraternity present to you what we
might call a transcendental yet practical mode of spiritual growth and of
blending with the higher planes of being, and it is this blending which is
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important because by so doing you draw down into your very being the
life forces that are ever vibrating in those higher planes, pouring down
into your being, helping to transform and beautify your own life, and from
you, flow into the lives of others with redemptive and restorative potency.
Not only do you do that but you come into closer contact with the angels
of light who are ever awaiting and ready to minister from those planes to
you. Some of us who stand here tonight not so very long ago were on
your plane in bodies of flesh — perhaps not members of this Fraternity.
Some of us who are here tonight laboured in other churches, more
orthodox bodies, but oh! the wonderful revelation that has come to us
since we left your plane! Now having found the pathway of light, we
return to fulfill the task of the service that came to us in our earthly time,
though it was not quite possible for us to see things then as we do now,
and as you do now. Perhaps the day may come when you too will return
to speak through someone who has that gift on the physical plane — ten,
twenty, fifty, a hundred years hence, in order that you may fulfill and
complete your service as a messenger of light, before finally entering the
higher planes of being, never needing to return any more.
Oft-times the angels will come when you least expect it and when you
are busiest. It does not matter to them. They can leave their thoughts as
seeds in your mind which will bear fruition tomorrow, or the day after.
There are occasions when even in the midst of your business you will
suddenly be aware that a light has flashed through you just for a second,
and brought a thought of consolation and encouragement. Now we who
come, therefore, minister by the power of the sevenfold path, the
sevenfold light which is synthesised in the word of power which is the
name Jehovih. Nearly all spiritual names are words of power, as you will
learn as you follow the inner path. By" word of power" we mean that they
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have the ability when they are uttered by someone who understands and
who has also developed a certain amount of spiritual quality to their
voice, called sometimes the oralite power; then the utterance of these
sacred names are words of power because they create a condition or
vibration in the ether surrounding you, a condition of beauty and of light.
Therefore, in the sacred name Jehovih there are seven letters, which
comprise this word of power, and they are linked with the seven rays of
the spectrum, seven notes of the musical scale. Yes, you who are
musicians-and there are several of you here to-night, both on the
physical plane and on the spiritual-remember when you are discoursing
your music or even perhaps in a very small way, trying to be composers,
you are touching one of the wonderful mysteries of life itself—how to
weave together the creative threads or forces, the rays that ever stream
from the Infinite Mind and express them in patterns of sound. But we
who come to minister to you do so along these rays, and according to
our function so we shall bring a light into your presence, into your being,
though you may be in the counting house or the shop on the busy
highway, in your garden or in your home, still the light will come, and the
seven main groups, although, of course there are many sub-divisions,
are the angels of the seven rays. Those who come to you to quicken you
with strength and with courage, to stimulate within you organisation and
foresight and the ability to create, come on the bright RED Ray, bringing
its vitality and invigoration. Those who come to teach, and lead your
minds in ways of wisdom, come on the deep YELLOW Ray. Those who
come to work with you in healing will produce in your surroundings the
colour ORANGE, like the setting sun that, having bestowed its light and
its power, has brought restoration to the earth ready for its nightly rest.
Those who come on the tasks of restoration and transmutation bring the
light of the GREEN Ray with them. This, of course, is a very occult thing
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and it has attached to it certain teachings regarding the gradual
spiritualisation of your physical body. Those who come to you on the
pathway of prayer, devotion and aspiration, the path of purity and
spirituality, bring the colour BLUE with them. First it is the pale blue of
the turquoise, that is the colour of faith, and as your faith deepens so
does the colour deepen, until the tints of royal blue are about you
brought by the angels who belong to that ray. The great angels of
Compassion who come to minister to those who suffer and are lonely —
perhaps minister through you — come along the PURPLE Ray, that
wonderful soft benedictory light, the Purple Ray. Those who come on the
Ray of music and poetry and all things that are beautiful, shall we call
that the MAUVE Ray? We mention those things because we want you to
remember them and sometimes in your quiet moments you will be
conscious of a light, of these colours around you, and you will know then
the particular plane and sphere into which you were being attuned at
that time, and this power, this light, will grow and increase within you.
So beloved brethren, on this night of Evensong, when joy of spiritual
realisation is in the hearts of us all, we tell you these things to give you
encouragement on the pathway of life, and although we know
sometimes you find its way difficult yet, remember this, that the power of
spirit is within you and it is that power which can triumph over any and all
physical circumstances, for it is the revelation of the presence of the All
Perfection within your heart and mind. Yes, He is the Life of your Life.
So in the weeks that lie ahead of you, springtime is soon coming, fresh
labour awaits you all, wonderful experiences that the summer time will
bring, speaking spiritually, of course. Go forward, therefore, to-night,
encouraged and consoled, strengthened and uplifted, knowing that the
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power of the seven rays is being focused within you, sometimes
specialising in one colour, sometimes all blending like the light of a
rainbow. What was it the ancient initiates said about the rainbow? They
said it was a symbol of etherean guidance and overshadowing. And the
ethereans are those great angels who have attained the celestial heights
where they are free from the earth and its spirit spheres; they have
followed the dual paths, blended them at last in equilibrium and found
the unity. That is the ideal at which you are aiming, aren't you? And we
are walking the path with you. We share its joys and its experiences with
you, and you with us. Yes, they are coming back to the troubled earth
that, perhaps not very closely as yet but in a few years' time drawing
ever nearer, their great wisdom and understanding will percolate through
into the material plane and guide the affairs of nations, at last leading
Mankind into paths of brotherhood, peace, restoration, joy and light. That
is the message of Hope, therefore, for us all to-night. Over our heads
see the rainbow arch. The ethereans are calling to you, and if
sometimes they cannot come quite so close 'as we do, it is our privilege
to be their representatives, their channels through which the light of the
great redemption and release is flowing into your life.
Come, we are going to walk out through those doors with you in a few
moments time. You will go home not so lonely as before; we shall walk
the way with you and on the morrow its experiences will be shared by us
with you. And so the light, therefore, the great attainment draws nearer
to us all, and by taking these steps we are augmenting that day which
shall come at last; in fact its dawn is about us already—the day when the
New Age, the New Kingdom, even the Father's Kingdom of Light has
come to all Mankind. AMEN.
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The Voice, the Thought and the Master
The message of Kosmon although frequently expressed in the same
way, has many aspects, and it is well that we should at times consider
them.
In the meditation this evening, you have heard that the spirit body is a
receptive organism, that it receives from an invisible source the life
energies which build it up and keep it cohered. We want you always to
remember that fact.
Man needs religion, but it must ever be flexible, to change and grow as
Mankind evolves. Our religion teaches us how we may constantly build
up the spiritual within us; that should be the object of all religions.
Though it was originally so, these matters have gradually been placed in
the backkground; they have been relegated to a condition which is not
acceptable to the modem mind, and that is why so many people neglect
to go to church to-day. There must be pointed out to each individual a
means by which he or she can benefit from religion, and this must be
quite rational to all. The ordinary teaching on theological lines is not
sufficient in itself, as beautiful as it may be.
If a man has a physical body, he can learn all about it and its functions,
and can learn how it can be cared for and how to avoid the ordinary
dangers which may lead to its destruction. Must it be left to the
psychiatrist to discover how the spirit body is developed and
maintained? Or can religion teach us something about this, and give us
a practical exposition on how the spirit body grows and we live in it here
and now?
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You see it is not at all easy to explain the matter in the terms with which
you are familiar, and we have to speak to you more or less symbolically,
or point to you means whereby you could understand these matters
more fully.
The power which builds up the spirit body is an etheric one. The ether,
that vague, unsubstantial something with which you are familiar
hypothetically — that invisible, intangible, and we may say from your
scientific point of view, doubtful medium-is the source from which this
power is gathered. There must, therefore, be several kinds of ether. We
prefer to say there are several manifestations of the one and the same
ether.
This invisible and intangible something, which in physics produces
certain phenomena —
occult and electro-magnetic phenomena — is also the same thing when
it is considered on a higher plane in another condition of its
manifestation. By condition, we mean not only its vibration, but its
expression. And here the difficulty comes in of how to explain to the
scientific mind exactly what we mean.
A train of thought may pass through your mind.
You may have some difficulty to put it clearly into the language with
which you are familiar. You see how much more difficult it becomes
when you try to express that same thought in a language you have
learned and with which you are not quite so conversant as your own
mother tongue. At the back of your mind the idea is clear enough, and
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you can also formulate that idea by a set of symbols which pass before
your inner eye.
The ether is something like thought. It manifests by and through, not
only vibration, but by expression or expansion. It contains within it the
expression of the idea or ideal which is in the Mind of the All One, the
Eternal Father. And we sometimes postulate that it has seven
manifestations, coming from the Mind of the All One as pure expressed
Thought, right down to the ether with which you are familiar in occult
studies and even physical experiments.
Resurrection — that state of spirit life to which go those who have
overcome the old conditions of the earth life — those spirits who desire
to live in a condition of harmony and unity with others — who have the
welfare of their fellows at heart, and who have the spark of aspiration
within them, enter the Second Resurrection, or the plane of spirit life
which is named as such.
Here then we find this same ether manifesting very clearly and
powerfully, in and after the manner which you, in your experiments with
telepathy, have foreshown. That is to say, when two human beings on
the physical plane who are "en rapport" with each other, find that they
can speak in thought to each other over a great distance. Two things
which are required are sympathy and harmony for this thought
transference to be fully successful. Even scientifically, if you consider the
brain as an exceptionally finely attuned instrument, it is not very difficult
to understand how thought can be transmitted and received through a
finer ether than that which is used by the physicist.
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Therefore, in the Second Resurrection, thought becomes a means of
speech. This does not mean that on those planes you lose the beauty of
individual expression which a voice gives. Voice has a particular
significance through vibration. Occultists tell you that the power of the
voice is a very remarkable thing in ceremonial. You have not hesitated to
use it when you sang that beautiful mantram to-night which is taken from
Bon's Book of Praise. You use it when you sing hymns or chants, or
express audibly the invocations. Perhaps you have already noticed that
people whom you would regard as advanced spiritually often have a
beautiful tone within their voice.
In the Second Resurrection speech is used exactly as you use your
voice now, but the thought-wave accompanies its rhythmical cadence,
through the ether, so that there is no possible misunderstanding of what
a fellow spirit means. Even if he did not use the language of the country
in which you were born, he could speak to you in his own tongue and
you would understand because the thought conveyed through the ether
is sufficient to translate it.
People who have studied psychic research have often asked how it is
that spirits can come to communion circles from all parts of the world
and seem to be able to understand the language which is used although
not able to speak it themselves. If they are high-raised sufficiently to the
grade of the Second Resurrection they read by thought transference.
That explains how it is that here in the universal life of spirit there is no
such thing as a language bar. We can rightly say, therefore, that on the
most interior planes of life and being, language is quite different from
what you know it to be. In the Third Resurrection and Etherea, language
is still used, and you will find it spoken of in Oahspe as employed even
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by Nirvanians, but that is what we call Es’ean language. It is then that
the spoken word corresponds exactly with the thought, and it is an
arrangement of syllables which in their arcane manifestation and
signification have a mathematical occult value and produce the right
chords.
Suppose, therefore, in your thoughts you try to speak to an Etherean
angel, he would immediately understand what you were thinking about
because you would pitch your mind to the planes from which he had
descended. The peculiarity of this is that thought involves us all and
enfolds us all.
You may sometimes ask if your loved ones who have passed on can
know when you are thinking about them. The answer is that if your
thought has that range in sympathy it can reach to the most interior
plane, and can carry the expression which you most desire with it.
Thought is everywhere — unexpressed perhaps, but when it becomes
expressed it has formulated an idea in the mind of a god, an angel or a
human being on the Earth. That is a wonderful thing, beloved brethren;
do you realise its full significance?
So what we want really to understand in our idea of a practical religion is
that we can approach God. We can approach Him through this com-
munion, through this thought-wave, through this idea of at-one-ment or
unity.
In the moment of your deepest communion the soul becomes linked with
the great one who is associated in a very direct way with the plan of your
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destiny.
This great angel, who is sometimes called the Master, sometimes the
Asharah, is an angel whose profound knowledge of life, whose
understanding of the path which you must tread, whose knowledge of
the circumstances which will interplay in your life, is very vast indeed. He
watches over you as it were from a distance, from the heights of spiritual
attainment, and he directs you through the channels of inspiration.
Freedom is given unto each. Response to the inspiration or impulse
rests with the individual. How difficult it is sometimes to determine in the
life what that impulse means, how hard to interpret the impression
received. But, beloved brethren, it can become a very real thing indeed,
if in your attainment you have grown into close communion with the
Asharah, the great angel who stands at the door of life.
The path to him is through the Ashar. This angel's inspiration coming to
you is limited, partly because he still has far to go himself, partly
because you may not always be receptive. He can but impart to you
things which concern your welfare, spiritual and corporeal, as he
receives them. But this is helpful if one looks at the earth-life from the
planes of Es with understanding. Though one may be limited,
nevertheless, he who speaks from the Es side has the higher view
because of his altitude.
The Ashars in their coming to you according to the cyclic order, are
directed by the Asharah.
Therefore, the message which we would give to you this day is: "Seek
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through communion, the light of the Master who stands at the door of
life."
This quiet communion is as if we commune with a friend, one who is real
and stands by your side, one who has close knowledge of your life and
who fully understands all the influences which affect you, and can read
the surgings which ever flow over the soul. In time this communion
becomes manifest on higher planes still. Growth into the mystic life
means that you come more and more into atonement with the planes of
Inner Being. Supposing you are aware of and awake within the objective
life of the Third Resurrection; then there is within you a capacity to
understand life in all its manifestations concerning the physical plane,
and no fear can disarm you. What a beautiful thought that is this day!
So as you come before the shrine to receive your benediction, in linking
your heart with Jehovih through prayer, the Master will draw near to you
and speak with you, speaking in the silence of the soul, and he will
envelope you in the glory of the spiritual worlds. So shall you go forth
into life with a newer faith, a greater strength, an eye with the inner
vision. And you will say: "All that happens is for my good if I unfold on
the path of righteousness."
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How to Build
And thou shalt go forth in My Name,
and I will teach thee how to build the Father's kingdom."
Those pregnant words are very applicable to our work in founding the
Father's kingdom. But do the members of this fraternity allocate to
themselves the sole work of founding this kingdom? Never let that be
said. Has not this idea been the downfall of many Movements? When
you remember that there are over two thousand different sects in the
world, would it not seem very presumptuous of any particular religious
body to claim the exclusive right to found the Father's kingdom?
In the Kosmon revelations it says: "Thou shalt have no doctrine which is
exclusive." In other words, you shall preach no doctrine which shall
offend or cannot in some way be accepted. Of if you propound such a
doctrine, you shall not be dogmatic about it. As you read in the last
chapter of the Book of Discipline: "Freedom unto all people to think
whatsoever they will."
Well, the founding of the kingdom will be done by all people who follow
the inspiration which comes to their souls from the Heavenly Father,
because it is said: "You shall go forth in My Name." Does it mean that
you shall inscribe any particular name on the banner of your belief, and
because that name is inscribed there you are to be victorious over
everyone else? No, the answer is something much deeper than that. For
thousands of years, the wise men of India have asserted that everything
is a product of mind, and it is not until this latter day that men are
beginning to realise that there is some truth behind that ancient
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statement.
In the Kosmon philosophy, we say that there is mind everywhere. You
cannot have mind without intelligence. Therefore, mind and intelligence
must be synonymous, and if that be so, you cannot have intelligence
without a thinker. So we argue that there must be a thinker before there
can be a mind, or there must be a mind as well as a thinker. Will it not be
equally true that the thinker must be a person? But how difficult it is in
corporeal limitations to realise exactly what an All Person may mean; we
can hold that idea only partially. How can we do that?
We can regard the entire physical universe with its countless galaxies of
stars as forming one great physical body. And we can regard all the
spiritual worlds as the spiritual body of an All Person. Then when we see
intelligence manifesting through our fellow-man and the wonderful
patterns on which every phenomenon is based, we see the tokens of a
vast Mind ever working. We sincerely endeavour to see the highest and
best within everyone; that is the All Person manifesting through them.
For the moment we ignore evil. Zarathustra the great one who founded
the line of Magi whose descendants came to the cradle of Jesus, said
that evil was like unripe fruit. An evil person is one who has not yet
progressed unto perfection. Is there a possibility of salvation for those
beings who are in the depths of gross darkness, spirits who have fallen
from their high estate, or who never had a high estate — those who
have lived in wickedness and sin, even since they passed out of the
physical body? Indeed there must be. The Father's Light is in them
somewhere because of intelligence. And so long as they have will and
power to direct that intelligence, the touch of the Great Compassion will
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come to them. Why, Jesus himself said, "I go to minister to spirits in
prison." He did not say anything without a deep meaning, and it would
seem then that if we can grasp the beauty of regarding the person in
everyone as a reflex of the All Person we are coming nearer and nearer
to the truth. The All Person manifests through the human race whether
on the physical plane, in the spiritual worlds, etherea or nirvana; and
when you and I reach nirvana, the highest possible conceivable state of
individual unfoldment, we shall be able to understand perfectly the
meaning of an All Person, but all the while we are going there, we are
gradually attaining a fuller interpretation of Him.
In Kosmon, we say that the Father does His will through His angels and
the souls of men — through intelligence in beings grade upon grade.
Thus for instance, out in the vast universe where there are great masses
of fiery gas burning, or rather formulating, there is a Mind working for
thousands, perhaps for millions of years, working in that dense etheric
mass, causing it to move, and investing it with that essential quality
which will enable it to produce one day, suns, worlds and moons, and
waters and trees and birds, rainbows and flowers and all that makes life
worth while. The Infinite Mind does His will through His angels yes, and
the souls of men; and since He is the All Person, He is Intelligence, and
therefore there must be something by which we can know Him, a Name.
In a spiritual name there is power. Most of our Christian brethren refer to
the All Highest as God. But the word God is really a description, an
ancient word meaning a ruler. The Infinite is more than that. Oahspe tells
us that in very ancient days people called Him E-O-Ih. As they listened
to the sounds of the winds blowing through the trees, they imitated that
sound, and said that that must be the Name of the Creator. What was
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behind this idea? It is this. The great forces which move through the
whole of Creation do so in a rhythmic order. They have what is known as
their time-rhythm. We can say they have their wave-lengths; their
densities and intensities, and could be called the universal winds. And
since there is order, rhythm and harmony in sound, it ever produces,
utters, the Creator's Name. E-O-Ih, Jehovih.
That beautiful hymn: "God of the granite and the rose" gives the whole of
our instruction. It is that power which moulds the rose, and formed the
crystals of granite, that gives life to the bird and insect. It was the power
of the great Name working through the universe, seen and unseen. No
one name is adequate to the Almighty, but by coming back to those
syllables and speaking them as a word of power, will help you to link
yourself with Him in a very positive manner. The moment you do that,
you at once become linked with those spirits or angels who are working
on behalf of founding His kingdom. It really does not matter in the long
run what your religion may be, if you are working in harmony with the
great All One as He speaks to your soul either through His angels or to
you directly.
What do we mean by saying "speaking to you directly"? There is a
peculiar power in the region of the heart in the spirit body. That centre is
a receptive channel through which high etheric vibrations can manifest.
That is why the ancients always regarded the heart as the seat of life;
they also said that the heart must be the seat of inspiration, because it is
the brain which interprets the inspiration and puts it into corporeal terms.
The idea of a centre within your heart is something more than a poetical
thought, it is a reality. In times of prayer or meditation, or when you are
in church for instance, it is as if a flower had opened in your soul. The
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moment you look upward in aspiration, an angel hand comes down and
gives you a benediction. From that moment, that tiny centre in the heart
will vibrate, and will circulate an energy throughout the whole spiritual
body, the wonderful astral aura, the powers of the sun, moon and stars;
and further, it will, if quickened from time to time, gradually rotate until at
last it is in unison with the Universal Voice, the power which radiates
throughout the universe. Then in a profound way you will begin to see
the whole world differently from what you did before; you will see a
strange and wonderful light in the eyes of your fellow man which you had
not known before; it will be the light of the Great Spirit, Jehovih — call
Him by what name you like.
The moment this centre within the spiritual heart is vibrating in tune with
the universe, the angels draw near in a very positive manner, to share
with you the light, peace and joy they know. Your mind becomes linked
with theirs. Now in the higher spheres of spirit, the angels — call them
spirits if you wish — communicate with one another by speech in a
similar manner to you, but with this difference. In those spheres, called in
Kosmon the Second Resurrection, you cannot say anything that you do
not really mean, because the words would not be formulated by your
mind. In the physical life, you utter certain sounds to convey ideas, but
the words may be quite different from the ideas that you actually have at
the back of your mind. You cannot do that in heaven, because the
moment you have an idea in your mind, it sets the interior power in your
heart vibrating, and this in its turn sets the e the into motion, and you
must live rhythmically because the power of the thoughts must co-
ordinate with the vibration within the spiritual centre.
Poets have said that the heart is the centre of truth. Well, this wonderful
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power which is centred around it in the spiritual body is certainly the
regulator of truth. Then you see, you never desire to say anything
excepting that which is beautiful, or which has a creative effect. All things
that are beautiful have a creative effect. For instance, if you plant a
garden, your trees and flowers create a condition or vibration, so that as
the power comes from the heart of the rose, the delphinium, the
carnation, the iris, the magnolia; whatever it may be, it produces a
rhythmic etheric manifestation, and as you walk through your garden
your spirit body immediately gathers from the radiations of these flowers
and trees something which brings you nearer to attunement with the
Universal Voice.
It was part of the inspiration of this New Age which has made some men
in authority, plan big public gardens and plant them with fair trees and
beautiful flowers so that the people of the cities can walk amongst them.
If you could plant more flowers in the great cities, there would soon be
less self-seeking and more sympathy, and a nobler understanding. But
future generations will do that as part of the work of founding the
Kingdom. "We will clear away the slums and plant flowers," they will say.
To remove poverty and teach beauty, that is the cure for crime and
disease. The people will soon respond because the inner impulse will be
upon them.
You knowing these things will always endeavour to create things of
beauty. How can you do that since opportunities are not frequent on the
physical plane especially in the great cities? You will create on the
spiritual planes. Let us explain.
The physical body has a way of gathering a power from the aura of the
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earth. That is, radiations which come from the sun are reflected back by
the earth, and build up a form called the dense etheric body. In Kosmon
terms this is called the sargis body because the word "sargis" was the
ancient name for a Pyramid, and the priests of Egypt knew how to
control this power. That is why they built Pyramids. You then build your
etheric body through these finer forces, and one result is that your
thoughts create in the dense magnetic cloud beautiful forms which take
upon themselves the reflections of your ideas and emotions. Because
these forms have come from human beings living on the physical plane,
as they go forth they make impressions on other people who are
sensitive.
Perhaps you wish to send out healing power to the sick. By
concentrating your thought, you build a form — it may be like a flower or
geometric pattern in colour. This you do by your will, building out of this
semi-material substance, the etheric light, and you invest the form with
your vitality, and mentally send it away. That is the whole meaning of
rites and ceremonies from the Kosmon point of view; it is the creating of
beautiful things.
Anyone, irrespective of creed or colour, may receive this service, and
anyone who is moderately healthy may perform healing, in this way.
When such a healing form reaches the sufferer, it goes right into his aura,
and there it discharges a magnetic, etheric energy which begins to
restore him to normal vibration and drive out the disease.
The members of the Kosmon Unity, therefore, know that they are
working in conjunction with vast bands of angels who come in the
Father's Name gradually to found the kingdom of light on earth. Each
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realises that he is radiating the spiritual powers he is receiving, and thus
building the beautiful, the good and true. Each knows that if he listens to
the still, small voice within, he receives the power of the sacred Name.
" . . . if you go forth in My Name, I will show you how to found the
kingdom." That is why individual brethren both here and in far away
lands of America, Australia, India and Africa are working in a particular
way to-day to initiate the new spiritual world order.
Does it matter that there are over two thousand sects in the world? If you
go into your garden how many different kinds of flowers have you
planted? And how many flowers has Nature smuggled in when you were
not looking? The clover, the yarrow, the bindweed, the little striated
locksuife, or the scarlet pimpernel. Go out into Nature's garden, and will
you quarrel with the cornflower? No, you will love them all. Each one
speaks the Father's message to you, His message of love and wisdom.
Does it not seem that like the garden and its flowers, the world needs its
many varieties of religion? However, they will all come to one point at
last.
You see, this is the Age of diffusion. It is because of diffusion we should
break down the outer forms which have become too stereotyped. Man
has grown out of the old knowledge and the old ways; he seeks new
light and life. The old scriptures were not translated correctly, and what
is more, those scriptures were written so long after the times of those
who gave them that misunderstanding has crept into the churches. That
is why there is so much diffusion. How are we going to get back to the
beginning, to the right and true? There is one way. Go to the heart, the
All Father, and ask Him what they mean. And He will tell us, and His
angels will come and teach us.
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How do the angels teach? They teach through meditation and inspiration.
They will teach you how to live your life the better. They will teach you
about the spiritual worlds, about etheric energies, about healing, about
seership and how to come into an ever-increasing at-one-ment with the
One All Mind. You see, in the higher planes, the supra-astral or estreal
spheres known in Kosmon as the Second Resurrection, we have no
creeds or dogmas, but we do have ideals. Since these ideals are the
highest possible we can realise on those planes, they cannot possibly
clash. If we go into these higher spheres from our various schools of
religion, we always see the ideals that are behind the outer teachings,
and they so co-ordinate with each other that there is no longer any
question of belief in this or that doctrine or dogma. All things are possible
in the Father's Presence. We realise that so much has been a question
of history as to what has been taught and what really happened, and
much was not very important after all. Now we must know and
understand all teachings from a mystical point of view. All the ancient
faiths had a mystical or esoteric interpretation. If only the churches to-
day would seek the inner light, their differences would soon begin to
fade.
One thing we must tell you. Firstly ever seek the guidance of the All
Pervading Spirit of Wisdom, and secondly give to all people sympathy
and tolerance; then the way is clear. If you adopt methods of worship
and means of service to others time will prove your power. The only
obstacle, of course, may be self. Selfishness has so many disguises,
and when anyone tries to rule over another, that is the beginning of the
downward path.
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Members of the Kosmon Unity realise that they must become workers,
they must learn their spiritual craft, as it were. The first thing is to make
oneself receptive to angelic guidance and the second is to strengthen
the spirit body. Brethren know that the sun is constantly sending out
great waves of etheric energy, tokens of the Eternal Father's wisdom
and love. These energies affect their thoughts and ideals by investing
them with power. They know also that the psychic moon receives these
energies and reflects them back conditioned. Thus are produced
conditions within the psychic body. The universe is a living organism,
and we must strive to understand its powers and how they affect the
growth of the spiritual body. Thus we become strong for service.
As you have gathered in this temple to-day and united in an act of
worship, your auras blend with each other as we speak these words.
You may not as yet fully understand all that we say, but these thoughts
start a vibration within the spiritual body of each of you. This produces
an effect in the temple, a vortex, and its radiant power rises upwards,
and reaches out over all the world. Wherever people are sitting in quiet
thought or meditation, if they are in tune with your life-ray, they can
actually hear it through that inner power. Not as you hear these words
but felt as an inspiration and message. Knowing this, vast bands of
angels who are present here, travel along these waves, make contacts
and teach the truths which are spoken audibly here. This may sound
strange, but it follows on what we have just told you that sound vibration
accompanied by etheric radiations produce an effect upon the spiritual
body. This is done through the inner solar energies, so that those who
are quickened by this power will begin to understand the message.
Again, in this temple you build up a body or sphere of light, and your
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loved ones in spirit can come to you, because you are giving them
conditions or vibrations which they can take unto themselves and so
make closer contact with you. It is not easy, you know, to contact your
plane from ours. But you help greatly by providing the right conditions by
entering into the ritual, the prayers, the hymns, the chants, the melodies;
everything acts as a formula in producing vibrations. Then brethren spirit
come down the rays of light sent by God to you, to be united with you in
this hour of evening service. You could do the same thing around your
own fireside, because you have home conditions where love reigns.
We want you. That is why we come to-day to speak to you. We want to
touch that little centre in the spiritual heart. We want to lead you to
become a worker for the kingdom of light on earth. That when physical
life for you is over, you will leave the world a little brighter for having
passed that way. Within you is a thread of light which links you with the
long ages that have gone, and which links you with the eternity that lies
before you. It unites you with the Infinite One and will lead you back to
Him again. You came into physical embodiment to experience all that
the earthly plane can give, but now returning on the ascending path,
clothed in robes woven not with hands, to join the company of those
beyond and one day to shine like a star in the crown of heaven.
Eternal Father, teach us Thy Love, then we shall regain Thy Wisdom,
and when we have Love and Wisdom, our right arm shall have the
Power to found Thy kingdom and do Thy Will. Amen.
THE END