Radiance: An Eloist Anthology (1904-1999)

RADIANCE May the Creator's Angel Ambassadors find ways to appropriate our faculties to the service of All Light for the benefit of all souls who seek the Higher Way.  An Eloist Anthology 1904 � 1999 Being a Collection of the Books, Essays, Lectures, Inspirational Writings and "Dawn Writings" of The Eloists The Eloists, Inc. Duxbury, MA 2022  Copyright � 2022 The Eloists, Inc. Some Rights Reserved This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. Published by The Eloists, Inc. theeloists@gmail.com https://www.oahspesales.com The body of the text for this edition was typeset in Adobe Weidemann with Adobe Frutiger and Slimbach used in supporting roles. Printed in the United States of America G&H SOHO, Inc., Elmwood Park, NJ 07407 www.ghsoho.com This volume is of vegan construction Publications Office: The Eloists, Inc. P.O. Box 4 Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927 ISBN-13: 978-0-9889834-0-3  TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface vii Part I. Essays, lectures, Inspirational and "Dawn Writings" as published in the bimonthly journal, Radiance 1. April 1983 � February 1984 1 2. April 1984 � February 1985 62 3. April 1985 � February 1986 109 4. April 1986 � February 1987 153 5. April 1987 � February 1988 194 6. April 1988 � February 1989 244 7. April 1989 � February 1990 286 8. April 1990 � February 1991 332 9. April 1991 � February 1992 383 10. April 1992 � February 1993 428 11. April 1993 � February 1994 475 12. April 1994 � February 1995 514 13. April 1995 � February 1996 547 14. April 1996 � February 1997 600 15. April 1997 � February 1998 654 16. April 1998 � February 1999 709 Part II. Books Healing Currents from the Battery of Life (1904) 769 Mystic Words of Mighty Power (1905) 815 Doors of Life (1909) 866 Concord of Creators (circa 1930) 883 Pathway of Light (circa 1936) 924 v PREFACE Within Radiance flows the spirit of the Eloists. It is an held a special place in the hearts of those who have be- expression of Light, and speaks with the Voice of come most closely associated with it. the Living Spirit as It has come to be known through the Eloist family. As Eloists we know we are far from perfect, and that there remains much room for our personal improvement. It has been our ardent prayer that Radiance may It is reassuring to us to realize that the Great Spirit has evolve to become more the Journal of the Angels than that been wise in providing wide fields in which to labor, and of the Eloists, and in that process to become a positive we trust that our growth and development will inevitably pole for truth, love, joy and serenity, when all too often continue, for all of us have embarked on an immortal jour- just the opposite dominates our attention on this earthly ney "to the stars." shore. The angels who appear in every religion of the world The objective of Radiance was not so much to educate are not a separate order in creation, but are actually our as it was to strike a keynote or set a tone that would help elder brothers and sisters who return to assist us as we the reader become attuned to "the realm of thought in endeavor to assist those less fortunate than ourselves. We which angels dwell," and in that harmony to learn how are angels in embryonic form and there is no time better to rise in spirit to embrace a Higher Purpose. than the present to strive to emulate the angels and culti- vate the attitudes that will elevate us to embrace the same The Eloist family has always been by its nature limited exalted state of mind. in numbers and quiet in its expression, but its long-stand- ing traditions have given it a unique character that has vii  PART I The Journals Radiance was the "Journal of The Eloists." Eloist means "a doer of the Creator's will." We believe that our Creator is ever pres- ent, residing in all places and in all things, and especially as the divine, sentient essence within every soul. Due to this personal proximity, the I AM perceives our every thought and deed and speaks to us directly. We only need to learn how to listen to hear that Voice which speaks to everyone, whether we are pay- ing attention or not. Change is irrepressible and growth is in- evitable. There is no death! The veil between mortals and those who have gone ahead is illusory, thin and penetrable, allowing us to receive help and instruction from our elder brothers and sisters in our life long search for the "higher way." APRIL 1983 � FEBRUARY 1984 IN SERVICE tered into a manhood that seemed a dreary prospect of ambitionless effort, of galling slavery to tiresome duties, I We thank Thee, O Creator, for the protection and in- happened to purchase a copy of "A Romance of Two spiration of the guardian angels. They serve us and Worlds" which attracted me by its mysterious title. I read Thee without revealing themselves to us, without desiring this first effort of an impressionable writer with the most to be identified, and without asking for praise, thanks or startling results. In my boyhood I was religiously inclined any profit for themselves. They are content to be anony- without knowledge of creedal limitations, and later, fol- mous, and to proclaim Thee as the One Source of all good, lowing the inclination of my own mind I became atheistic to Whom every soul may achieve, and the awareness of and then agnostic in mental attitude. It was a state of mor- Whose Presence is every soul's peace, happiness and se- bid pessimism, looking upon the world as a failure with- curity. We would serve others in our world with the same out faith in anything worthwhile. selflessness as that of Thy angels, seeking no recognition or praise, wanting only that Thy Presence be recognized But that "Romance" kindled my faith in the possibility and praised. We would refrain from talking about our of a life after death, and I went forth into the open air after work and efforts when such speech tends only to draw at- having read the book, and I found myself in a new world. tention to the self. We would say to all others, through I saw the same streets and trees and people, but the mo- our manner and actions, "We are only such as you, chil- notony and dreariness had departed and in its place there dren of the Creator, babes in experience, limited in wis- shone the glory of a wondrous possibility. That which had dom and strength, capable only as you are capable in the awakened in me was more than credulity. It was divine effort to uncover the soul's true beauty and power." conviction in my own immortality and in the survival of every good and noble effort. I did not need phenomena YOU WILL NOT DIE! or logical deductions to prove the life immortal. My soul knew. The ambition and will, and faith to accomplish, (PUBLISHED IN 1907) which had been lying latent so long, were suddenly awak- ened. The world was the same, but I was changed. I saw The first truth that came to me with power and awak- the world and its people from a higher altitude of vision ened my soul to a new and satisfying view of life was and hence those things which heretofore had seemed so the blessed truth that there is another world besides this dark and ugly became softened and glorified in the Pres- earthly planet, another realm of activity superior to this ence of the Great Reality. one of earthly experience. John Alex Dowie was beginning his healing ministry O, I would shout this marvelous fact to every sorrow in this city and my new born faith was ready to accept burdened creature. I would proclaim it to the unsuccessful more truth if l could hear it. Dowie at that time was di- and the down-trodden in life's ways. I would shine its recting the whole force of his positive mind toward heal- gladsome message as a ray of hope into every darkened ing the sick and the marvelous cures wrought among his soul that all may rise up and press on with a living faith followers convinced me of the second great truth � heal- that every effort toward attainment will meet with its ing through faith in the Divine Power. This truth enabled fruition, if not here, then in the Land of Surprises that me soon to realize a greater degree of physical health. At reaches out beyond death's dark portals into endless vistas the same time I began to study the philosophy of healing of realization. by spiritual means which already had many exponents. But my journey in the direction of health and happiness Just after I had passed my twenty-first birthday and en- was only begun and I had many hard battles to fight in 1 2 RADIANCE myself and with material conditions in order to satisfac- to receive communications from the spirits of departed torily demonstrate what I was convinced was absolute friends, and having learned many things of the life beyond truth. the grave, she told her minister what she had heard. He was a broad, liberal-minded man, and listened in silence, I am still but a student and humble follower of the not making any comment or in any way contradicting her Great Spirit but so wonderful have been the experiences belief. She considered it her duty to sow the seed and of my soul since that day when the glory of Infinite Possi- leave with God the fruitage. Some time after this minister bility first burst upon my view that the "Romance," when had left his physical body, my friend had another "sitting" I read it now, seems but a tame exposition of the truth of with a medium, and the medium told her there was a immortality. The reality is so startling in its bold vividness spirit present who wished to speak with her, and she de- and so surprisingly good in its certain agreement with the scribed and gave the name of the minister. He said he de- very necessity of things, that after one is convinced he ex- sired to thank her for the information she had imparted claims, "How could I have believed anything less of the to him in regard to the condition of spirits after leaving Kind Father of life? His wise omnipotence could only do their physical bodies, for this information had rested in what was best and tenderest from the very constitution his mind and when he found himself in just such circum- of His nature of Divine Love. How could I doubt in God stances as she had described, he was prepared to look in what I in my little wisdom should have planned to meet the right direction for the help which he needed to lift human needs?" him to a higher plane and give him peace. Listen now! Your friends are not dead! You will not We should consider a man very foolish who started die! That mental bundle of hopes, fears, aspirations and out to visit a strange country without first gaining a knowl- memories which you call yourself, will simply emerge into edge of the language and geography of the country and the mental realm, into a world of mental forces and ob- providing a medium of exchange for the necessities which jects in which it lives this very minute, and it will con- he would be obliged to buy from the natives of the land. tinue to use its present faculties and senses on that plane, to see and feel and hear, to undo the wrong it has done to And yet so strong is the belief that there is no mode others and to attain the soul's desire. of communication with the spiritual worlds, and no infor- mation of any value ever imparted from the invisible uni- O my soul! Put all the fervor of thy realization of im- verse, that those who are accounted of greatest wisdom mortality into these words that those who read them may in the world "wrap the drapery of their couch about them praise the Father continually for the transcendent loveli- and lie down to pleasant dreams," only to be rudely awak- ness of that Supernal Love which holds in its embrace of ened after a short slumber and find themselves as helpless immortal life all whom they have ever loved. Thus they as babes in a country whose existence they thought an will open the inner door to receive Light from thence and impossibility. They are dependent upon friends who have allow, and also help, those they love to progress to higher gone before, or upon self-appointed friends, to teach them states of spiritual happiness. Praise, continual praise, will the rudiments of life and how to deal with existence as lift sorrowing minds close to Him whom souls adore � the they find it. Light of Immortal Life- and all their sorrows will be dis- solved by His illuminating Presence. There are schools and teachers innumerable in every state and plane of the Universal Mind, and it is time that "Glory to Thee for the briefness of life. The gladness these schools be established on the earth plane and mor- of death, and the brightness of Immortality." THERE IS tals be enabled to receive instruction in things spiritual NO DEATH. while yet incarnate, and thus be prepared for more rapid progression from state to state after the earthly temple has I have a fund of knowledge gained from long experi- been laid aside; for all progression is by means of knowl- ence with the inhabitants of the realms invisible to mortal edge, and the knowledge of abstract principles, while very sight, and by expressing this knowledge I shall put truths necessary, is not all that is required for spiritual progres- that have heretofore seemed abstract and intangible into sion. Just as the knowledge of the abstract principles of a form more concrete and comprehensible to many mathematics would not fit one for the practical duties of minds. a business life, so there is a practical side to the spiritual life which must be understood in its relation to the eternal Sooner or later the inevitable call will come which will principles of life. open to you the doors of a larger and wider realm of ac- tivity, and I should not be fulfilling my mission as a teacher I would not advise anyone to waste time seeking of the mysteries of life did I withhold from you the knowl- among the phenomena of spiritualism for the facts, for edge needful to you when you enter the portals of spirit while there is much that is true in the manifestations of life. spirit return, there is also so much that is deceptive and false that one is apt to have experiences that are both dis- Even though such knowledge is not believed by those couraging and disgusting. This is easily explained when to whom I give it, it will find a place in the mind and we understand that only the gross, uneducated, unaspir- when the mind awakens in another world of activity and ing, earth-bound spirits remain in the vicinity of the earth. finds all things as I have said they would be, this knowl- edge will be very useful. To illustrate, a friend of mine was in the habit of having "sittings" with a medium in order APRIL 1983 � FEBRUARY 1984 3 The general tone of the mind of the race is so discordant obsessed, and the sapping of the system by outside enti- and dark in quality that the more refined spiritual entities ties has in many cases brought on paralysis and apoplexy. enter this state only when duty calls them to minister to The most refined emanations of the physical body are the a soul in need. most external and gross of the substances of the spirit form, and when spirits enter the atmosphere of mortals The affections of earth-bound spirits are centered in they clothe themselves with this vital ether in order to the things of this world, and they crave mortal compan- keep in touch with the physical plane, and in conse- ionship like that which was their pleasure while incar- quence the person incarnate feels that he has been de- nate. Such entities delight in passing away the time pleted of vital energy. Those who feel this depletion of deceiving and misleading mortals who seek to commune physical strength should cultivate a positive, resistant at- with them and to be inspired by them under the belief titude toward all mental influences. that because such information comes from the invisible side of life it must be wisdom. Some will imagine when they receive their first infor- mation by means of "automatic writing" that now they These spirits, being earth-bound, stimulate the mortal have opened the door which will give them entrance to and carnal nature of those with whom they come in con- all the mysteries of life and death, but they find after a tact, and in order to gain the attention and leadership of few trials that there is likely to be as much false informa- mortals they sometimes feed the self-conceit and vanity tion as true given to them. In the search for materializa- of the investigator with words of praise until his bump of tion of spirit forms there is found deception in not only self-esteem is twice enlarged, and he thinks that such wis- the mediums and their methods (of course there are many dom as they express has never before been given to mor- exceptions) but also in the imposture practiced by spirits tals. in falsely impersonating characters, until one is never sure that any phenomenon is genuine. For instance, one may He may even be led to believe, when his conceit will make test conditions so that he is certain that the medium permit of such exaltation, that he is the second incarna- can practice no deception, only to be confronted by the tion of the Messiah. In cases of this kind I have found that materialized form of George Washington or some other the individuals in question were surrounded and im- famous character, and given a foolish message which pressed by a class of gross, ignorant and even sensual spir- proves that it is some mischievous spirit impersonating its whose presence they would have considered the character. contaminating had they seen them in the flesh. So strong becomes the hypnotic sway of such influences that it is Spiritualists seek to find and commune with discanate impossible to convince their subjects that all is not as they spirits, we seek to develop the latent powers of our own have been told. spirit. Wonderful powers may be discovered in the spirits of "just men made perfect."But all who have developed Only the pure soul sight of a cultivated, discriminating such powers in the free state of spiritual life had the same mind is able to judge of the quality of spirits and to know powers stored within their souls and minds while they if they be true or false. Without this it is unwise to culti- were incarnate, and could have gained wonderful domin- vate the friendship of spirits or seek to find a guide other ion had they exercised their spiritual force on this plane than your own judgment, which is as capable of being in- and received the same instruction that they have received spired by the Spirit of God as is the judgment of any dis- since they departed from this form of life. carnate spirit. A being who has lost the physical envelope is not necessarily endowed with any more wisdom than Mortals are so engrossed with the pleasures of the he had while in earth life. So many think they are on the senses and live so closely identified with the body as the road to wisdom when they "sit for development" of medi- only expression of themselves, that they find it hard to umship or lucidity of vision. There are many who have comprehend the great fact that the physical body is but psychic faculties uncovered and wonderful mediumistic an expression of a more potent power which holds the powers and yet they are both unhealthy and unwise. The flesh in organization. When they do cast aside the flesh wisdom of God comes thru the awakened individual's soul form and find themselves alive in a body with the form into the mind and needs not the development of either and all sensations which they attributed to the body of mediumship or psychic faculties. To cultivate mediumship flesh, they are under the belief that they are still in the as it is done at the present time by so many, is to make earth life but from some unexplainable cause have been the nature negative and open to the dominion of any pos- carried into the midst of new scenes and relationships, itive entity that cares to take control of the organism. which are very puzzling to them. It is hard for many of them to understand that they are, in the language of the The search for phenomena to prove the reality of the world, "dead,'' for they are conscious that they are even continued existence of the human form after the death of more alive than they ever were when functioning in the the body reveals many marvelous facts, but never fully sat- flesh. isfies the cravings of the spiritual nature. Many become insatiable searchers after the wonders of spirit manifesta- It is the common belief of material science and of the tions without ever growing any better morally or gaining world in general that all intelligence is in and of the brain, development of their own spiritual insight into the mys- and that when the body disintegrates as a matter of course teries of life. In fact, very many become devitalized and 4 RADIANCE there cannot be any intelligence as the brain has become is the Consciousness of God, without beginning of days inactive. We hold that all the force generated by the brain or ending of years. and body exists in relation to the brain and body as thought force, and that thought force is the substance of Praise the Living Spirit of your soul as the life and the spiritual form of man, and when it is evolved from the health of your body, and see its transforming energy begin organism of flesh it is intelligently independent and forms to renew all the substance of your nature with eternal vi- an entity that is as much alive in spiritual space as the tality. body is alive in physical space. Praise the conscious powers of your soul as the wis- This spiritual or mind form of man is not the soul, but dom of God, and a new light and understanding will break is the organized form of all the thoughts and memories, of forth into your mind, inspiring your thoughts with the joy all the minds begotten from earthly experiences. This spir- that fills all beings in the angel worlds. itual entity is the character that man evolves from his thought and environment.When we discover that thoughts Thought Force Creates Enduring Forms are living forces, it is but one step more to the understand- ing of the fact that these thought forces aggregate them- Tens of thousands are seeking for proof of immortality. We selves together into an intelligent form or character which should all feel less fear, less sorrow and more faith while on its plane of activity is an actual entity that will live as we cultivate our minds if we were certain that we should long as there is life and force in the thoughts of which it is keep all mental accumulations and after death should be composed. It had its beginning from an interblending of as we are now, plus all the memories of the subconscious the minds of the parents and has developed in time from mind. experience, and although it is natural for thought force to remain in a particular form longer than physical substance, How shall we gain that certainty of continued exis- the time comes for the dissolution of all physical forms tence? By examination of spiritualistic phenomena, by ac- whether they are composed of thought force or physical cepting the word of psychics, or by faith in ancient force. A person may learn to build up the substance of his clairvoyants whose words are recorded in scriptures? physical form as fast as it is torn down by the wear and These methods have been sources of conviction to many, tear of experience, and even if he could do this for a thou- but in spite of the marvelous phenomena produced sand years, yet it could not be said that the body is immor- through the instrumentality of mediums and regardless of tal for that reason, because it would be a constantly the fact that in every age the more impressionable of mor- changing body. In like manner one might lose old mental tals have held converse with friends who had passed be- traits and continually develop and build up the mental yond the mystic border, there remains in the minds of form of new thoughts and desires until he had lived in the many of those who have considered all the evidence a mental spheres for ten thousand years, but this would not doubt of the persistence of the ego after death. constitute immortality in the real sense of the word; it would be a series of succeeding states of thought, con- Learned men will talk knowingly about the "sublimi- nected by the thread of memory. But that is not the case. nal consciousness" and show records of telepathic exper- iments, which they say prove beyond the shadow of a It is said, "He that hath the Son hath life." The soul is doubt that particular memories are recorded in some re- the Son of God, and it is that which makes one immortal. fined state and can be recalled to vivid reality by the en- Because of the presence of the soul in man, even though tranced medium, but they hesitate to boldly affirm that it be in a dormant state, man can organize a body and those memories can form bundles of images, as it were, mind that will overcome physical and mental dissolution. or aggregate themselves into forms which will be self-con- scious entities. It is like acknowledging the fact that Your soul is the eternal Spirit of God organized as in- minute cells of living, intelligent substance exist in the dividual power and consciousness that partakes of all the natural world but denying that these little cells can unite attributes of Deity. and co-operate to form organisms of a high degree of life and intelligence. Thoughts and memories may be com- Your soul is the eternal life and substance of God made pared to the individual cells, and the spirit-body, or mind- manifest. It is not dependent upon the physical or the form of an individual is like the organism which the thought form for its life or being, for it lives in and from uniting of these cells constructs. God, and is as immortal as the Creator. There is a royal road to realization of individual im- Your soul is the likeness or essence of the infinite mortality that every one may travel and it is a way to the Spirit polarized into an image of the eternal light and love. most glorious outlook as to the possibilities in the devel- The real You is a living Sun of omniscient glory. Praise the opment of the human character. This way consists in be- Holy One who inhabiteth eternity within you. coming conscious that you are now an intelligent spirit, inhabiting the physical body. In the degree you realize that Praise the effulgent glory of the eternal God enshrined you are a form of life and intelligence you will overcome within your soul life, and from your recognition and praise all disintegrating agencies and when your work is finished of this living truth will come the quickening response of in the bodily temple you will rise on the wings of aspira- His uplifting Spirit. tion to fairer fields of endeavor. Praise the immortal Consciousness of your soul, for it APRIL 1983 � FEBRUARY 1984 5 The wonderful demonstrations of occult powers such negative intelligence with only the nucleus conscious and as levitation, materialization and like phenomena which a beautiful, radiant spirit form conscious in every part of have occurred in the presence of noted scientific investi- its substance, and then choose which you desire to be. gators, and are as well vouched for and as truly demon- strated as the phenomena of electricity, I do not consider The substance of the mental realm obeys the same law any greater proofs of spirit power than man's ability to of polarity as does the substance of space, and the opera- walk. It is no more wonderful to see a music box or a child tion of this law in the formation of a solar system from carried about through the air in a seance room than to see electric particles is a revelation of its mode of action in a spirit in the flesh cause that otherwise inert mass to the mind of man. All the luminous thought force which walk and obey its will. We see our friends acting through pervades the human body responds to the conscious will, these crude physical envelopes, and again we see that the and the central nucleus the I AM, which is self-conscious, spirit of our friends no longer inhabits the forms, that the may by affirmation of its being, send out rays of electric forms lie lifeless and still, and yet in the darkness of our intelligence which will unite the intelligence resident in material minds we do not see the transcendent truth that each cell of the body into a cohesive, forceful mind-form is being lived before our eyes, that spirits are informing that will develop into a most powerful spirit being. and enlivening these physical forms and that these spirits depart to continue their growth elsewhere amid condi- The orchid that draws all its sustenance from the air, tions better adapted to their mental development. is a most beautiful illustration of the law of materialization by which the planet and all substance came into concrete I am immediately met with the response that I must manifestation. The nucleus or spirit of the orchid polarizes apply the same reasoning to the lower animal kingdom. or draws to itself from the surrounding atmosphere all the That if it is the spirit form that causes man's activity, then elements necessary to build its organism. In like manner the same must be true of animals as well. Why not? man's spirit incessantly draws upon the finer forces of the universe. It has the powers of all the spirits of less devel- I gladly acknowledge that Nature, the great and benef- oped forms of life and in addition can reach out into the icent Mother of all, has provided for the conservation of more refined realms of intelligence and appropriate power all the intelligence that experience in every form, howso- and wisdom of the highest degree. This power to appro- ever minute, has evolved, and a philosophy or science of priate and materialize for its use the substance and intel- life that does not recognize the value of these forms of in- ligence of universal life increases as man becomes telligence that are struggling to attain the light of reason, conscious that he is a spiritual being. Knowledge of his or a Providence whose heart is not great enough to con- powers awakens faith and faith enthuses the whole spirit tain them all, is not complete. These deductions are not with a conscious degree of polarity which increases its merely idle speculations, they have a substantial basis of power to draw and expands its capacity to receive. scientific as well as personal experience. When once one has brought his intelligence to ascertain degree of polarity, Thus the spirit need not lose its physical body to be- there comes an awakening of the more interior degrees come conscious of the superiority of the spirit over the of the mind that enables one to see natural facts from a body. Every effort the spirit makes to control the body more illuminated point of view and then they all unite to gives it power. The will force and faith necessary to move form a picture of the great truth of perpetual individuality, and to walk are spiritual forces. Any effort on the physical and while living in this state one abides in the serene con- plane requires more power than in the mental realm, so sciousness of everlasting being that no doubts or fears can with each action power is developed and this power will becloud. enable the spirit when it enters the realm of mental ac- tivity to traverse space with the speed of light. The Development of the Mind Body We should realize that every experience is useful in The mental organism of man is either nebulous or highly making us more conscious of ourselves and we may be- organized according as the personality is positive or nega- come so conscious of this development of our spirit's tive. To soul perception the spirit as it leaves the body at strength that we shall rejoice in all our ways while facing death appears as a nebulous, luminous cloud or as a well the limitations of mortal life and feeling the invincible formed spirit entity, according to the development of the faith of the immortal Victor in us, Who transforms loss mind. Whether a man is to be a phantom in the memory into gain and pain into pleasure as he marches in tri- of the world-mind or a moving spirit of power with the at- umphant joy toward the supreme attainment of self-con- tributes of a god dwelling in the Realm of the Divine Will, scious power and dominion. depends on the quality of his desires and aspirations and the forcefulness of character developed in this life. Affirmation of the following truths will rouse the slum- bering powers of the spirit and gradually develop a con- This is the place and now is the time for each one to sciousness of the reality of the spirit entity that cannot be gather the knowledge and develop the power which will attained by any amount of metaphysical reasoning. serve him in all his future progression. I am a spirit inhabiting this body. Think of the difference between a vaporous cloud of My spirit is an enduring form, a storehouse of knowl- edge and power. I am greater than time or earthly things. These are but the alphabet through which I learn to un- 6 RADIANCE derstand the Word of Power. those days was natural, as natural as the leaping tiger and I feel that I am a joyous spirit of immortal power the springing snake. And to these visible terrors was added a new realm that explained as they thought, the clothed with a garment of beautiful thoughts. crash of thunder and the earth's mighty tremble, the tear- I will weave into this garment the bright thoughts of ing winds and the silent threat of death. immortal youthfulness that I may "shine forth as the sun The one who could see and communicate with the un- in the Kingdom of the Father." seen became a being to be propitiated, a priest, a sooth- sayer and a healer. Thus we read in runic rhyme and vedic Growth of Perceptive Power script, the air was peopled with the spirits of the dead and through the seers they sought to guide the footsteps of the There is an animal living in the sea that has no eyes. He living. But the spirits of the dead knew little more than has a brother that has evolved the faculty of sight. It hap- those of earth. Their lust for blood, for war, for slaughter, pened in this way: for revenge, continued and so through the mediums they led the peoples of earth into war. They instituted the sac- In an early time one of these sea animals of an inves- rifices of animals as a means of propitiating Deity appar- tigating turn ventured into higher altitudes of the water ently, but really to glut their appetites for slaughter and to into which the light penetrated. The light made his body refresh themselves with the freed magnetism from the feel strange, but he could not grasp the meaning of the blood of newly slain animals. Through the ages the weak- strange sensation. His mind had not developed the power nesses of men were thus reflected back from the unseen of conscious thought. He had only feeling as yet and as as the likenesses of the gods, and gods there were, but conscious thought did not stand in the way, he could feel not so pitiably weak and carnal. the sensations of and transmit those sensations to his brothers telepathically. The more progressive of his kind As the races progressed finer and nobler qualities were then made many journeys into the luminous water feeling developed among the seers and then they began to see a after the new vibrations and striving to sense them better. light within the light, a more interior realm was opened They handed down this desire to know the light to their to their vision, then they heard the voice of the true gods offspring and each generation could sense more of the of destiny, then came to them flashes of thought so noble, light until after a long period of time the desire to know so compassionate, so grand with majestic meaning that the light so developed certain nerves in that sea animal when they transmitted it to their fellows on earth they that he could see quite plainly. In other words, the desire could not receive it. It went against the grain of their na- to comprehend the light resulted in the growth of eyes. tures. The angel said "Love;" hatred was more But his unprogressive brother, who was content to abide natural.The angel said "Forgive," but revenge filled their in the darkness of the depths, remained sightless and does breasts. The angel said "Give," but endless competition not see to this day. When eyes were developed, the sea with the wild beasts of nature had taught them to hold. animals discovered not only light but objects existing in So the voice of the prophet fell upon unheeding ears and the sea and above the surface of the sea, which were re- when he troubled them with prophecies of evils to come vealed by the light. from their crude ways of life, they slew him and continued to praise and sacrifice to their old gods, who were but There are animals more highly developed living in a themselves wrapped in the glamour of mystery. sea of Mind, most of whom are content to grovel in the dark depths of the mental sea, but in ages past some few A few there were who felt a hidden flame within their ventured beyond the beaten tracks of thought and felt the hearts leap into conscious joy as they listened to the words presence of an unseen light and their descendants grew of the angel from the lips of the prophet and they treas- interior brain cells that perceived the vibrations of the ured in secret the words of wisdom. They wrote them on light of the Universal Mind, and wonderful to know, they leaves, they carved them in stone, they made talismans not only perceived the light but they saw objects in the and amulets of the mystic words and handed them down light. A new world of beings was revealed by the light. to their descendants who held them as sacred, and in time These beings were like themselves, but more ethereal. worshipped the mystic words and formed sects who They had all the attributes of mortal sight, sensation, fought one against the other over the meaning of the memory, intellect, volition and form, and they soon con- words, and fought most righteous wars and tortured the vinced their earthly friends that they were the spiritual captives to convince them of the true meaning of the counter parts of earthly things, no better than they were words. But no man did what the angel said. when clothed in flesh and no wiser except in the knowl- edge that they could not die. And are we any different today? We have all the states of humanity's evolution before us in actual life at the pres- Those in whom the sight of spiritual things were ent time, and are inspired by we know not what hidden awakened told their simple-minded brethren of those impulses from the unseen, and crime and bloodshed by primitive times of their vision and of their converse with those who worship the ancient god of greed; "holy" wars their ancestors. The brethren listened eagerly to the new of words over the words that the spirits spoke and the an- thoughts which touched their imagination with awe and gels uttered through seers of the past still continue. At no peopled the darkness with the imagery of fear, for fear in APRIL 1983 � FEBRUARY 1984 7 time since the first seer saw into the light in which spirits ous exhaustion to complete paralysis, including epilepsy live has communication with the departed entirely in most of its forms, where the psychic perception re- ceased. One hundred thousand known and many un- vealed very clearly that the presence of spirits was the known there are in this country who have received cause for the disease, and this perception of the cause has through heredity the faculty that enables them to hold been confirmed over and over by his psychic teachers. converse with the inhabitants of the unseen, and among these there are souls so highly attuned, so noble and so In one case a lady physician who had locomotor ataxia pure, that the glorious form of the angel is known and complained of intense pain in feet, hands and brain, and seen and they hear and give expression to the splendid the cause of these pains was seen to be a dwarf, who was truth of the celestial state, and most glorious to tell, the drawing out the nerve force from the back of her neck number is rapidly increasing that listen to the words from and had been doing so for some time. After absorbing her the Fountain of Wisdom. Unlike those of the old time they strength, the spirit dwarf would depart for awhile and left are striving with all their heart's fervor to obey the word alone, she grew stronger and the pains ceased until her and do the will of that Central Intelligence of Love that vital strength was largely restored. Then he would return has watched man's upward journey from savagery to the and draw on her nerve energy until she was almost crazed present state where he begins more fully to accept and with pain. understand the gracious message of Immortal Love. In cases of epilepsy, spirits very often work upon the Educate Spirits solar plexus until they render their mediums unconscious. In many such cases the spirits are of a low order, using It is a very common idea among believers in spirit return the medium to gratify their sensual natures, and such that spirits need no wisdom from the earth plane, that mortals who have been far from gross in their habits, be- they have transcended our limited range of knowledge come even in physical expression, sensual and coarse- and that we should accept all they give us as final. This is looking through the obsession of their mediumistic nature a misconception that has caused many to be misled by un- by immoral spirits. The writer could give a host of illus- wise spirits, and made many negative and obedient to be- trations to prove these facts. Those who believe in spirit ings less developed than themselves. The truth is, there return try to close their eyes to these facts, and very often is wisdom taught on the earth plane at the present time their eyes are closed by spirits who do not want the truth that would be of great value to all spirits that hover near known. Knowledge is power, and only by a clear knowl- the earth and also to many who have attained to purer edge of the causes of these conditions can sufferers be and higher planes of spirit activity, if they have not yet re- freed from a painful death-in-life existence. ceived the same wisdom from the teachers in those more enlightened worlds. When we think of the thousands that daily enter spirit life without aspiration for anything higher than mortal There is one law of spirit return that few spirits fully gratification and who now are free to take up their abode comprehend, namely, that they unconsciously injure their in almost any home they may choose, we begin to see the friends when they desire to be of help to them, through necessity for developing within ourselves a degree of spir- ignorance of the fact that a spirit absorbs the vitality of itual force that will enable us to resist and put away from the person with whom he is present. Spirits must clothe us, and from our friends and patients, these unwise and themselves in the auric elements of their friends in order immoral spirits. to enter into close unity with them and when a number of spirits are around one person continually, the drain on Even our spirit friends must be taught of the effect of the magnetic force of that person is very considerable. their presence in our atmosphere because in their love Even the strongest and most robust will show in ill health for us, and from their great desire to bless us and aid us, and deficient nerve force after a time, that they are sup- they are apt to lose sight of the fact, if they realize it at porting too many spirits, a greater number than one body all, that they are living among us at the expense of our vi- can provide with material force. tality. This condition is not confined to those who believe in A minister came to me for mental treatments. He was spirit return. In every walk of life the clairvoyant will find a strong soul and many high and beautiful spirits were at- those whose peculiarly sensitive, mediumistic tempera- tracted to him because of the beauty of his soul and the ment has drawn to them a number of spirits who seek to inspiration they found in his sermons. They were of the live out their unfinished earthly career in the atmosphere same spiritual belief as he, and although they were very of the earth, gaining earthly experience by proxy, and these good, their presence was so depleting that he had become unfortunate mediumistic persons suffer from a depletion of partially paralyzed. Clairvoyants in his congregation had nerve force, which is often carried to the point of producing told him of the beauty of his spiritual company, and he partial or entire paralysis of the nervous system. was much puffed up by the thought. I told him the truth, that we had to free him from his spiritual followers or his The writer has in his work as a healer come in touch case would become worse. It was an easy matter to edu- with a great number of cases, extending from slight nerv- cate these spirits, who acknowledged they did not know that their presence was devitalizing to their friend. The strongest among them immediately formed a band for his 8 RADIANCE protection, much to his relief. When you find a truth that is inspiring and uplifting, Not all spirits are so easily convinced of the mischief keep it for your spiritual friends and read it to them aloud, if possible, with all the enthusiasm you can generate. they are causing and very many refuse to give up their Teach them of the power that comes to spirits and mortals medium, or even give relief by partial absence, so intent who work from the Spirit of Love and your words will are they upon carrying out their selfish plans. often inspire them to more spiritual endeavor,enabling them to realize a power that will bring a return in bless- A man was troubled by intense pain in one arm. He ings to you and to hundreds of others now groping in dark- consulted a professional medium, and the spirit who was ness. causing the pain by drawing on his force, told the medium to tell him he was with him and was treating him and THE LIGHT OF DAY would heal him. He came to me for treatment and through the discriminating judgment of my spirit teacher, When we stand outside on a summer day and feel the it was found that this spirit was playing false. He was cut warmth of that yellow ball in the sky, we realize that off by the power of the word and the patient experienced it is a star like any other. Though it may not be as big or relief. as hot as many others, it stands out for one important rea- son. Unlike any other star it happens to be very close to I do not desire patients of this kind as they take too us; only 93 million miles away. much time. I prefer to teach the law of cause and cure that each one may become his own healer. In fact, only As our corner of the spinning earth enters the shadow as people understand these laws and develop their own side, we experience what we call night and we become spiritual selves will permanent freedom be realized. Each aware of the other stars that inhabit our universe. While soul has within its being the same powers that have been most of us know that we inhabit a spiral galaxy (and we developed by the mighty masters and archangels in all know from pictures what that looks like), most of us heaven, and each one is in this life to unfold and develop don't realize what we are actually seeing above us on a these latent powers. starry night. Every truth that the student learns should be given by To explain this, let's use an illustration. Take a saucer him to his spirit friends, should be proclaimed very posi- from the cupboard and place it on the table. Next, take a tively to the hosts of spirits that live among mortals. They quarter and place that on the saucer somewhere near the need truth. They need to receive the teaching that will edge. Now imagine that the quarter is not sitting on the enlighten their minds and prepare them for entrance into saucer, but actually floating just inside it under the surface. the more enjoyable realms of light and love, and very often they will receive truth much more readily from their Let's imagine that the saucer is our galaxy and our sun friends on earth than from the teachers that come to them is an atom at the center of that quarter. The quarter in from the more ethereal realms, because truths projected turn represents the area encompassing all the stars in our to them through mortal thought seem more substantial galaxy that are visible to us from the earth. and real than those coming from above. Have you ever wondered why we don't see that bright While my physical senses were asleep, in spirit I have globular cluster of stars at the center of our galaxy when had classes among spirits seeking knowledge, teaching we look into the sky? The reason we don't see that them the power of thought to cause happiness and to free seething mass of stars is that the center of our galaxy is them from mortal limitations and how its persistent use so far away that it is invisible to us. The only stars close would develop within them spiritual powers such as they enough to us to be visible are within an area composing saw manifest in the beautiful guides and helpers around the wispy arm of stars in which our sun resides; an area them. They were shown how much power they possessed proportional to that quarter floating inside your saucer. to help sorrowful and depressed spirits newly arrived from So, you see, the vast majority of stars in our own galaxy earth and inspired to go to work with the thoughts given are too far away to be seen. and uplift the fallen, strengthen the weak and encourage the hopeless as a means to their own soul development. 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