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THE VOICE FROM SPACE 
 
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 Emily Preston 
 
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 Helen Haskell Noyes 
 
 The Irving Press 
 
 New York 
 
 1920 
 

 Copyrighted 1920 
 
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 Emily Preston 
 
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 Helen Haskell Noyes 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 One of the most significant results of the years of war, in which an 
 adjustment to a state of social unrest suddenly demanded readjustment 
 to a state of social upheaval, is the forward march into respectability 
 of certain causes hitherto treated by the greater part of the world as 
 subjects for derision. Woman Suffrage is one, Prohibition another, 
 Spiritism a third. Now, born of the stress of the times, all but a small 
 minority grant the justice of the enfranchisement of women; Prohibi- 
 tion has risen above the stigma of being the gospel of cranks to the 
 dignity of a Constitutional Amendment; Spiritism has presented its 
 proofs from so many reliable sources that all but the unintelligent grant 
 it a respectful hearing. 
 
 This little book is not printed as proof of spirit communication 
 and in it we have no thought of attempting a scientific explanation of 
 any part of our remarkable experience. We began our experiments in 
 1916 in a spirit of pure curiosity. Neither had ever seen table tipping, 
 one had not seen a Ouija board. Step by step we felt our way and 
 because it has led us into green pastures and beside the still waters, 
 we are impelled to give in part what we have received without measure. 
 In the beginning we made no record, nor did we take seriously any ot 
 the messages. There was in both an instinctive distrust, born no doubt 
 of the orthodoxy of our upbringing. What came from the table was, 
 we know now, mainly the work of mischievous elementals: warnings 
 of coming disaster, messages from friends not known to be dead and 
 later found to be living, promises of immediate change of fortune, in 
 fact, just the charletanism we anticipated. We went several times to 
 Spiritist meetings and always came away repelled. It was evident we 
 were off the path, yet we knew too little of psychical research to come 
 back to safety. Then came the publication of Raymond to give cour- 
 age to go on, for nothing we had received was more inconsequent than 
 the babblings of "Feda." Early in the serious work, I began taking 
 the messages from the bench we used, letter by letter, giving them in 
 words, for always was a pause between the words, to Mrs. Noyes who 
 recorded each one. This idea of recording was not ours, it came as a 
 suggestion in a message from my father who said: "If Helen will 
 take pencil and paper and record the message, a Master will come at 
 nine." These instructions were rigidly followed. The original record 
 after being typed, is filed. These recorded messages have come from 
 less than a dozen sources, our near loved ones, a Teacher and Masters. 
 
 Automatic writing was not attempted for messages until February 
 20, 1919, when I had a letter. Since that date, we have had letters 
 regularly, from various members of our families, as well as the three 
 series of lessons, which, excluding personal or intimate allusions are 
 printed here, in sequence. Since January, 1920, when the first Master 
 wrote, we have both received communications. We do not consider 
 ourselves Mediums but recipients across space, of letters and lessons, 
 because our faith is sufficient to put us in harmony with the vibrations 
 of the spheres beyond our mortal knowing. 
 
The beginnings of all endeavour are insignificant but still, from 
 feeble roots spring much that in full growth, comes to beauty. So the 
 early efforts we made to be Spiritists were feeble and mainly futile. We 
 have no doubt that those early messages came from spirit messengers 
 but looking back after years of progress to the first efforts, we feel a 
 sense of danger miraculously passed, wonderful protection about us 
 as we walked a path not safe for him who goes without a guide. The 
 days of prophetic messages were those of exaltation for we saw many 
 prophecies made clear and many come to fulfillment. But to us the 
 power of Spiritism lies in the strength to be found for enduring the 
 pains of growth, through knowledge that the time of growing comes to 
 an end in fruition and that life lived wisely can carry one far along 
 the path that leads to Light. 
 
 This collection of Letters was written by three Masters during two 
 widely separated series of Lessons. Not a word is altered, save for a 
 few omissions the letters are just as they came across space. The 
 hours were well defined for receiving them and in each series one came 
 each day. The first series consisted of fourteen Lessons to each, with 
 a short health letter by another Master written to me at a later hour 
 each day for ten. Because instructed so to do, six of the first series 
 are omitted and one of the second, as well as half the health lessons. 
 I never cease to marvel at the wonderful rapidity with which the letters 
 are written. Not one of these in the present volume exceeded fifty 
 minutes in the writing, never is there a correction, or a crossing out. 
 As I write slowly and rewrite often, this sure touch of the Masters 
 always impresses me. The Lessons convey so much of benefit that we 
 are impelled to give them to others, hoping those who read will gain 
 as we have gained in faith and hope and love. 
 
 Emily Preston. 
 October, 1920. 
 
It is nearly four years since our feet seemingly wandered into the 
 way of Spiritism. Mine has been the lesser though a necessary part in 
 this research. The power of communication came with much less effort 
 to Miss Preston: therefore she has the greater developed gift. But 
 together we have trod the way; at first from curiosity and then with 
 ever deepening seriousness and interest, until now it is as natural to 
 receive letters from dear ones across the chasm or from those who 
 teach us truths as it is to receive letters by post. 
 
 When Miss Preston realized that she could take the messages alone 
 and unaided; it left me free to be the recorder of the communications 
 coming by means of the table. When she had progressed to Automatic 
 Writing I was told not to try it until last January when I also was per- 
 mitted to write each day for two weeks. The messages to me at that 
 time were largely personal instructions about overcoming faults, and 
 also were concerned with the necessity of becoming stronger physically ; 
 so that body, mind and spirit should develop harmoniously. After that 
 came many letters from my father, from a friend and from Teachers 
 and Masters: always short, always helpful: often clearing up points 
 in the Bible which had troubled me. 
 
 The subject of re-incarnation had been distasteful to me. We have 
 been so gently, carefully and logically led that now belief in it as a 
 truth supremely just and beautiful underlies all the joy of life. The 
 short letters in the third series are from those given me for ten days 
 in August. 
 
 Naturally many of our early communications concerned the war, 
 because from August, 1914, our sympathies and efforts were for the 
 Allies. Never for one moment did any communication waver from the 
 fact that Germany was to be defeated. Many prophecies of special 
 defeat or success were fulfilled, but we were told that dates given were 
 never to be relied upon. They saw the accomplished deeds but time 
 was not to be counted. Nevertheless sufficient dates were exact to 
 give our hearts courage. 
 
 We greatly respected and admired Theodore Roosevelt as our hero. 
 We had seen and heard him speak but had never met him. Yet it was 
 with real grief that we received the statement, November 14th, 1918, 
 that "He had gone into an hospital to die." Five times the prophecy 
 came in two months and then at 10.30 P. M., January 5th, 1919, we 
 received this: "An ex-President can barely live the night out. Bar- 
 riers cannot protect Theodore, gift of God, after this fateful date. Bas- 
 tions of a heavenly city are appearing in his darkening vision. A man, 
 take him all in all we ne'er shall see his like again." He died at 4 A. M. 
 January 6th. 
 
 During these four years two friends have walked with us all the 
 way: Mrs. George Bullock of Oyster Bay and Mrs. Irving Cox of 
 Mill Neck, Long Island. Their constant and unfailing belief, interest 
 and sympathy have been stimulating and inspiring. They are the only 
 ones who have shared all our communications from the beginning. 
 
 Helen Haskell No yes. 
 October, 1920. 
 
FOREWORD BY OUR MASTER 
 
 I a Master, write this word for my dearly loved pupils, for when 
 I wish to say the word of counsel, they listen reverently and strive to 
 follow. Follow you too and gain over self a victory. When life has 
 assumed its proportionate place in your mind's eye, not taking the 
 large share of the canvas but leaving space for the universal plan to 
 assume form: when so you view the days of a man as not those of 
 three score and ten years but those of an eternity for effort, there is 
 then, an impetus toward the really higher life that will lead you far 
 if you set foot upon the path, determined to achieve faith through 
 works and life in great abundance of blessing, by life in great abundance 
 of serving. The coming to the knowledge of men of the certainty of 
 life eternal gives them willingness to bear the mortal woe of the mo- 
 ment. Where faith does not exist in a life that stretches far as the 
 farthest star in space beyond the grave, sadness is inevitable and little 
 joy to give or to take, as life goes forward. A dusty pathway it is 
 across the desert, with slow progress, much suffering, thirst unassuaged, 
 love unsatisfied because not believed an enduring quality but ephemeral 
 as life, as circumstance, as a shower in the sun-shine. 
 
 Men, whomsoever ye may be, believe in a God great enough to 
 conceive the creation of the Universe, so divine enough to conceive 
 an eternal progress. Men whomsoever ye may be, see light out over 
 the great wastes of daily living because faith kindles in your hearts 
 the belief in a light that lightens the World. 
 
 Are you blind? Who healed the blindness of one who was a sinner? 
 Are you crippled? Who made the cripple to take up his bed and walk? 
 Are you taken in sin? Who said go and sin no more? Are you happy? 
 Who gave wine of happiness at a feast? Are you in sorrow? Who 
 brought forth from the tomb the dead to give him life eternal? Are 
 you weary and heavy laden? Who bade you come to Him for rest? 
 This is religion. Just the teachings of Jesus the Christ. Nothing 
 better to follow than the words of the Messenger from God who came 
 to men that they might be saved. Not saved from damnation, why 
 so accuse God of mortal instincts? But saved from themselves to 
 their higher selves. 
 
 Give of yourselves you children of earth. Give more than love 
 to those who touch your daily life, give service. And giving, learn 
 that each widening of the vision's outlook is a progressive part of 
 being. So you live and develop and leave a fragrant memory, so you 
 go farther in the next step of the way. 
 
 These lessons were given to two who with my permission, give them 
 to many. May they touch in some, a vital chord. May they reach 
 an inner ear and carry a word of encouragement beyond the mortal 
 brain to the immortal spirit. 
 
SEVEN LESSONS FROM A MASTER 
 To E. P. 
 
January 7, 1920. 
 
 The vibrations of the air are for the waves of the air, a reflexion 
 of the action, as the moan of the surf is to the wave, and space is filled 
 with etheric waves, as the sea is filled with wave upon wave of breaking 
 water restlessly trying to beat against rock or shore. These waves of 
 ether carry with them, vibrations of thought, of sound, of deeds done, 
 to be ever remembered because ever reverberating in space. The 
 deed, the word, all, stirs the etheric sea and goes on and on in the vast 
 spaces, as in the Sea a disturbing ripple spreads wider and wider out 
 into the great beyond. 
 
 The etheric space is afloat with the thought born to be carried out 
 to the Haven at the end, the thought unborn to be brought to the Earth, 
 vibrating to waves of ether; vibrating to desire from a single mind; 
 vibrating to sound, vain or full of effort towards greater adventure. 
 Not the etheric wave, that I intend to teach now, but the vibration of 
 soul to soul. 
 
 Soul can only respond to the vibrations in its own harmony. 
 Nothing out of harmony from the vast sea of space, comes to a soul, 
 on vibratory notes. Vibrations of hate respond to angry thought, to 
 mean desire, to hateful deed. The vibration of this note, goes out as 
 a call of wireless and in reply, comes the answering wave vibrating, as 
 sure as a bird to its own home when on the wing. 
 
 Vibrate love and see love come to you as to a wave comes the form 
 of the crest, as it breaks. Love cannot be created by longing to be 
 loved. Vibrate to loving and you will love more deeply; more free 
 from the pettinesses of earth will come these returning vibrations. 
 Strive now, to reach my idea. You desire a great love in your own 
 heart, you strive to create this love by being open to great emotions, 
 those of pity, of sympathy, of kindness and to you, as a wave of the 
 beach breaks in the rhythm of harmony, comes a love, great beyond 
 your hope: great, because a reply from the All High to an eager ana 
 honest cry for help and out of the ether of space, a vibration of love 
 is sent as a pebble, skimmed across the surface of a calm sea, goes to 
 larger circles in the unknown waters beyond. This, dear child, is 
 etheric wave. 
 
 Ether encircles the space about you, above you. In ether swims 
 as it were, the atmosphere, the clouds, the stars, the suns, the moons, 
 of celestial skies: not ether of anaesthetic quality, but a refined 
 atmosphere, so thin, so refined, as to partake of no quality of earthly 
 chemical substance. It causes to vibrate in space, great masses of 
 marvellous action. The spoken word goes off into the ether to be 
 carried on and on. So can one who knows the quality of this great 
 encircling substance, use it to carry, or to fetch. 
 
 You call me from vast distance by a thought that vibrates in 
 harmony in the ether with a thought held by me, in suspense. My 
 thought is: "Can a child of earth so vibrate to my will as to call to 
 me for help for teaching?" Yours may be: "Can a great spirit in the 
 world unknown to me, but believed by me to be in the realms of God's 
 creation, know of my need and respond to a call of my soul?" So the 
 
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vibration, being in harmony, comes in waves to me by a flash and to 
 you by a flash, and wireless is possible by etheric waves between two 
 spirits vibrating to like keys of harmonies. 
 
 All is the same child, the parents here longed for you to call, but 
 until you could vibrate together no possibility save by appeal to lower 
 forms of mediumship which you, never having known, are saved from 
 overcoming. 
 
 Vibration once established, on it goes, by waves of etheric form to 
 the others who can reach the vibrations. Often rude hands dash down 
 in inharmony upon an earthly instrument so here, rude, unprofitable 
 souls cross the vibrations with evil, vibrating to this key. But higher 
 you go in the spheres of study, less danger. 
 
 When a Master takes a note of your chord and makes it the key, 
 evil is indeed hard pressed to come into the scale. You are for great 
 work, you and the dear other. You will work in harmony and vibrate 
 to the same heavenly key and your music will be much more harmon- 
 ically pure, because made together, and made for high purposes. 
 
 The electric wireless takes up these etheric waves of thought by 
 means of an instrument attuned to certain harmony, placed far from 
 its mate and attracting the mate through space, by using the vibra- 
 tions of space, caught and revealed by the attuned instrument. 
 
 Thus you and your loved ones here are now attuned. As you sit 
 pencil in hand, or table under hand, or little toy under hand — a method 
 not worthy your power — the etheric wave of thought, carried by the 
 vibrations of the sea of ether, is attracted to the instrument attuned 
 to receive it. 
 
 Helen has only a word of this on her sheet, for she has not the mind 
 yet trained to receive and record so fast as you work. I wish her to 
 practise and acquire facility so to be free from dependance upon you. 
 She is a note in the chord, she must see to it that her note does its 
 share in the performance. 
 
 The waves of the ether vibrate to desires other than love, to those 
 of ambition. When the soul is aiming towards power the wave is not 
 attuned to love but to desire for ruling. Good may be the key note 
 of this desire but good is rarely in power. The power of ruling kills 
 the will to be good. Generals are filled with this power, and will to rule 
 makes this power a menace. So are men filled with will to rule who 
 have wished women to be lesser agents in life's great causes than they. 
 Some times it is the sole chance for power a man has, that to rule his 
 wife. His love is killed when this aim is first. He has lost the great 
 companionship of love. How desperate a power to wield! How sad 
 a reflection upon God's plan of mate to mate ! Eye to eye is the way 
 of God: soul akin, heart atune. So into the way of happiness can go 
 any couple of souls, at peace for all time in the happiness of love 
 awakened. Power to control women has made men more evil. They 
 are less to be hurt hereafter, in this temptation, for woman has come 
 to her kingdom as God meant the kingdom to be and the man will be 
 less willing to degrade what can turn again and rend him. 
 
 Laws were made by men and given by them, the sanction of God. 
 
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Who ever wrote the Bible? It is not God's Book. It is great history, 
 great poetry, great ethical teaching, great symbolic writing but by 
 God's hand no part of it was sent to men. The wicked tales of God's 
 wrathful dealings with men, the cheating, the killing, the arson, all 
 of such sins told as by God's command ! Never sins against women laid 
 to God's advice, even in this book of primitive emotions. In the 
 Bible the women were not made the equal, by the men who wrote the 
 Scriptures; but in the adulteries, the women were equally to blame by 
 the Bible account, save in the escapade of Lot's daughters, a filthy tale, 
 written by a hand that yearned over the vile, as modern hands do in 
 certain cases. 
 
 Jesus loved women and never did Jesus say a word that set men 
 above women. He came to bring love and joy and peace to the Earth 
 and not to atone. Why atone? Man comes back to make better his 
 life's burden by a higher development of soul. The first effort to sing 
 is not the great note of the bird. The note swells into being after 
 countless efforts. The first canvas does not mark the great painter. 
 
 The conception of life as an event from babyhood to old age, to be 
 and then forgotten in the joys of golden streets and songs and praise, 
 is a childish one, not in accord with the evolution of the intellect. 
 So it is sent with other childish things to be put away. A conception 
 of life as something given each soul as an experience is so vast a con- 
 ception that it leads men up to the path of the angels. 
 
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January 8, 1920. 
 
 Lesson for today concerns the necessity of giving attention to the 
 many sentences of the Masters, concerning religion. Not the Master 
 Jesus alone, the great one of all, but the lesser ones who have come to 
 Earth with messages. 
 
 Such was Mahomet, such Buddha, such the last teacher Confucius, 
 such the Apostle Paul. Such as Savonarola, Luther, Calvin, the late 
 Brooks few have been. Such as many great souls of all faiths, all may 
 attain by a degree of faith that corresponds to attainment of other 
 great places. 
 
 The words of these Masters of Spirit World were parallel in lines 
 of thought; they came far apart but they taught like words and like 
 faith. 
 
 Mahomet taught service and loving his fellow men and a desire for 
 freedom from sin in a carnal form. The followers of Mahomet fall 
 far short of what they received. They had words of high import as 
 guiding stars but they chose rather the act of service as shown in 
 devotion. However wicked the Mohammedan may be, he is a devout 
 worshipper. He has made clean the outside of the platter, if within 
 all is full of iniquity. The acts of Turks are unspeakably wicked and 
 what they do as to religious observance, is of small renown to them 
 here, in the Sphere of celestial Light. Back go they, to degraded bodily 
 condition, to work up for a higher development of soul by a discipline 
 of the body, by want and by desire for the things they have never 
 given to the unbeliever amidst their civilization. 
 
 The Buddhist has less cruelty to atone, less of all sin to atone than 
 most, but more of neglected opportunity to give, instead of feeding with 
 introspective philosophy the desires of individual soul. The Buddhist 
 will return to be generally made perfect by more service to others in 
 fields of far service and of creature comforts given to restore balance 
 where creature comforts were left altogether away from the life's 
 experience. The rich and pious Buddhist who only spoke words of 
 pious belief may go to the Caves and Mountains first, as a Devout 
 before evolving into a rounded soul. 
 
 But possibly the Buddhist this time has been a Mohammedan 
 before, in incarnation. However this is, each must see a forgiving 
 spirit for each, before Heaven is eternally theirs. Tolerance of belief 
 is a great future for religion; seeing Ethics as great religious inspira- 
 tion; seeing life as a field of enormous dimension in which conflict 
 begets conflict and game begets game. Love of competition is an in- 
 herent human tendency. Children develop this naturally. Men 
 carry tradition of battles fought and won to the incarnations to come 
 and no sense yet has come to the earth development of the way to 
 change this completely human attribute into a divine one. 
 
 Competition is essential to life, to trade, to business, to profession. 
 Deprive the world of competition, and a power for action is made im- 
 potent. In the arts, in the drama, in life everywhere this charms the 
 active force into possession of high ability. Competition therefore, 
 must exist until man ceases to be a force. How then, make this great 
 
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gift of use and not of wrong in the world? By the simple plan of giving 
 to mankind living principles, concerning which I write now. 
 
 Live in wise concern for the competitive life about you; strive to 
 excell. Give ear to any impulse for good that leads to excellence. 
 But be sure the impulse is good. To excel is fine but in excelling, to 
 beat down another's desire to also shine, is evil, born of evil and des- 
 tined to an evil consequence. Excell therefore in honest competition, 
 glow with joy in your triumph, but also glow with pleasure in the tri- 
 umph of others. Here is a concrete example: you see yourself a good 
 Bookbinder: you love your craft, you strive to be excellent in the 
 work, should you so, cut off from like striving Helen, who too has gift, 
 desire and ambition? So is to be composed of a low ambition of char- 
 acter that a lesser part of you should shine. Is hand greater than 
 nobility of soul? You two have no such feeling, so you are happy 
 together. 
 
 Now suppose you were a church, striving for good influence, aware 
 of no unhappy separation of faith, yet filled by will to put down the 
 success of your sister church, for cause of mean desire for more power, 
 for more excellence of reputation: a meaningless attitude in the world's 
 evolution, certain to meet dismaying discouragement in the end. 
 
 So with Nations. If they develop great power and use this, in still 
 futher noble effort to expand, great glory to them. If however, mean 
 jealousy comes in to bear down lesser peoples in this expansion, to 
 conquer, to rule unjustly, to let rapine and murder aid the conquering 
 soldier's action, to such a Nation, life's hold is very slight. Behold 
 History and be encouraged to be very hopeful. Egypt fell, Babylon 
 fell, Carthage fell, Greece fell, Rome fell and Germany fell. So too 
 falls any country, driven to unjust raiding upon peoples not their 
 lawful subjects. 
 
 Russia is not so fallen. To this great Land will come a new life, 
 after the purifying fire of revolution has atoned in some small part, 
 for the wicked terrible acts of the great against the little people, sub- 
 jects of the Czar. No deed of these men, now so wickedly in power 
 but is parallelled in act of former noble or Ruler. 
 
 Oh Land of Russia, great in ideal, land of culture in a degree 
 eastern, in a degree western, so a blending of orient and Occident; oh 
 great Land of promise, here is written a promise to be certainly ful- 
 filled. You are to be reborn and made again a strong power, but this 
 time, a Republic and a power, refined as gold when cast into a furnace 
 and made pure. Russia, you live and to the world you give a wealth 
 of poetry, music and drama, art in all forms of plastic beauty and of 
 colour, architecture, combining again oriental beauty with the re- 
 straint of occidental taste. All these gifts go from you to the world, 
 which now, thinks to see you dying. Not dying, you. Ill to the death, 
 but well soon, alert, young as you are, and able to retrace the way 
 back to civilized lands' ideals. You are sure to see this, you Emily 
 Preston, you Helen Noyes, to see it with eyes that love the Land reborn. 
 You will be nowise surprised at all that comes, for to you has the 
 prophecy been given: Russia shall LIVE. 
 
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Now to the sayings of the Masters. All Masters give the same 
 eternal teaching: to be honest, above meanness of deed, fine in prin- 
 ciple, generous and able to endure. Only Jesus taught love and service, 
 so Jesus has carried to the other lands visited by other Masters, a mes- 
 sage not before theirs. Love has no part in Buddhism; service, yes, 
 but mostly to the self, for self development. Love exists not for 
 Mahomet nor for Confucius: weakness of love, not to be accepted 
 as a great doctrine of life. They chose Greek ideals of ethical culture, 
 but gave no thought to love as a motive force. 
 
 So Jesus lives and always grows and always will grow, till His 
 kingdom comes in the earth and the new era begins. 
 
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January 12, 1920. 
 
 Lesson to-day on the most difficult of all subjects to understand, 
 the real conditions concerning a religious life, that count. Faith, is the 
 foundation of all life, religious or civil. Faith in the home is a funda- 
 mental. Should man not have faith in woman, where is the family? 
 Should woman not have faith in man, where is the home? Children's 
 want of faith in parents is almost unsupposable, certainly rare. So 
 the faith of family life, the faith required in friendship, the faith at the 
 foundation of all business endeavor, is equally a demand of religion. 
 
 Faith in God is a foundation stone of all religions. "Allah is 
 great," cry Mahomet's disciples; "Good is God the great Master," cry 
 the Buddhists and so the Christians cry, "God be merciful to us." The 
 Greek god Jupiter was really God, the highest of all their ideals. So 
 the idol of each Nation is but the symbol of the greatest power they can 
 create in imagination. God, the God of righteousness that the Chris- 
 tians love and worship, is indeed the most blessed conception of the 
 Creator. His, is power made merciful, power to be accepted and wor- 
 shipped because good, beneficent, full of the glory of great righteous- 
 ness and just judgment. Faith in God is a desire all creatures have; 
 an elemental wish. If it cannot be realized because of some strange 
 twist of mind, or because of some cruel chance or mischance of train- 
 ing, then never is the poor mortal, deprived of the blessed gift, really 
 happy. Happiness is made or marred by faith or lack of faith. If 
 you see a face clouded by discontent, judge it to be the reflection of a 
 soul that lacks a fundamental faith. God may be lacking in that 
 soul's conception of life, or men may have been false and so warped the 
 outlook, but faith is gone, a main spring broken when unhappiness is 
 apparent in the face of a passer bye. 
 
 Jesus said, "Go and sin no more" to the poor woman taken in 
 adultery. He saw a sick soul; looking deep into the eyes to reach that 
 soul, he bade it be well. Not body, but soul was ill to the death and 
 body was but the medium that the soul used to express its wickedness. 
 
 To the poor sufferer say this: "Be as Jesus would have you, free 
 of corrupt ideals, free of false standards, open to the freshness of the 
 winds of the best that can be carried, the winds that carry the doc- 
 trines of faith and all that this great Christian characteristic stands 
 for. Never be of little faith. Be sure all is well. All is well." 
 
 The disturbances in this world at the moment are mighty forces 
 that are cleansing and refining, as no other period has been refined 
 since ever history was written. Have faith. Sing aloud in hallelujah 
 to the coining of the King. The Prince of Peace will come, riding on a 
 whirlwind. You will not see the coming and your test is the prepara- 
 tion you make, by faith, for the coming so heralded. 
 
 Now after faith, is hope the greatest virtue. Hope has been the 
 world's only standard for going on, in most crises. Hope, substituted 
 for a simple faith in God, sees a vision of the works by which God's 
 power will be made manifest. To be hopeful for all good, is to be a 
 tonic in a time of great illness when medicine for the soul is in demand. 
 
 Optimism, is a wonderful gift, hold it in high esteem. It is ever 
 
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the optimist who moves the world. How think you, would the great 
 movements for the uplifting of the world go on, if doubt and despair 
 were their parents? No, it is the Salvation of the world, that optimism 
 exists. The man who decries what is new in his experience, is the 
 narrow soul, which creates no hope, but fathers instead a spirit of 
 resignation. 
 
 Hope, flaming hope, is what the world demands. Hope, to see 
 visions realized. Hope, to reach a goal that faith has made you see a 
 possibility. Hope to know great moments of living, because faith tells 
 you such have existed and still are to be. Hope that allows you to 
 see even in the great tragedies of living a side not tragic. Oh bow a 
 head in prayer that to you, hope will be a constant companion. 
 
 Hope for all the best part of the prophecies to be realized. Think 
 not of the tragic prophecies with hope of their realization, for thus, 
 you show a desire for vengeance, which is God's not yours to admin- 
 ister. Vengeance is not revenge. Never does God the all Good, admin- 
 ister punishment for revenge. Vengeance, is the just rendering to a 
 culprit of a judgment he has deserved. Vengeance is mine said the 
 Lord. 
 
 And together with Faith and Hope, is Charity. Love divine ; love 
 overwhelming in its great possibility for Salvation. Forgiveness to 
 all enemies. Absolute trust in the good that is inherent in men. The 
 judging not, but trusting to the divine forgiveness to be best judge. Oh 
 love divine, how great a thing you may be in the healing of the Nations. 
 How much sympathy and gentleness and all inspiring help lie in 
 love. Just aim to make love your guiding impulse, and see you bloom: 
 not foolish sentimentality, not talking of love, as a benefit to man- 
 kind, but showing love to be a benefit to your character. 
 
 Cease criticism. Accept the people about you as individuals, 
 endowed with attributes such as yours, being possibly developed under 
 a different idea, but being developed. 
 
 Like people. Talk to them freely. Exchange ideas; give helpful 
 suggestions concerning life's problems where you can. And do this by 
 a withdrawing from all talk that concerns critical discussions of others. 
 Let the individual friend know that with you, in any place he or she 
 is safe, safe to be presented in a favourable light. Now to laugh 
 gently at foible or fad, is not malicious; be gay, be funny, if you have 
 a desire, but be not willing to leave a sting. Guard from this by 
 Charity and you will speak, child, with the tongues of the blest. 
 
 Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; Love is greatest, Hope is rarest, 
 Faith is the foundation upon which Hope and Love are built. I am 
 done. 
 
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January, 14, 1920. 
 
 Concerning any doubt, be of good, brave heart. All creed, save 
 this one of Spiritism has gone through the terrible period of doubt; 
 now the coming forward of this Spiritism as a religion is rapidly devel- 
 oping an antagonism of doubt where once was scepticism. No need to 
 fear. All storms are not weathered, but most, when the ship is sea- 
 worthy. 
 
 You will see no diminution of faith in yourself and so no harm can 
 befall your acceptance of the high good that is yours. Go on and fear 
 not. 
 
 The wages of sin is death, but death is not the wage of sin alone, 
 it is a wage of righteousness. The death of a good man leads unto a 
 high reward. The death is not the last act any more than the falling 
 asleep in a bed, each night, is the end. Death opens the way into 
 more of life, into great ways and paths of being not fathomable to the 
 human intelligence, for here is space, what can be made into visualiza- 
 tion; but there what is space is illimitable. Dimensional degrees of 
 length, breadth, thickness, are of earthly significance. The dimension 
 of space is the greatest of all, the fourth dimension, that which is the 
 first for the spirits, density. The density, is what is the residuum ol 
 space in any measurement. All of the earth is round; so much di- 
 ameter, so much circumference, so much in the depth of the globe from 
 point of antipodes to point of antipodes. Density is the word to 
 describe what is about the earth, atmosphere and all the space is 
 density, the other dimension. 
 
 The waves of ether are not alone diverse in power, but diverse 
 in duties. Some carry on exhausted sound, no longer heard, but on, on 
 into space to ripple across the sea of ether. The waves of exhausted 
 thought, hardly a memory for earth but carried on in the density of 
 space, to be as a menacing remembrance in the end. The sounds of 
 this sea of ether are the histories of peoples and nations and gone 
 worlds. In its vastness, all the force of the Universe is generated 
 and from this source, the mighty convulsions of the Universe get the 
 power that allows them to be. 
 
 No one who sees force as it is so to be seen, but realizes that it has 
 no possible end but to germinate power for wonderful greatness of 
 purpose. Why else, creation? Not destruction the end and aim of 
 any Creator, but giving good help and aid to the best he knows. Crea- 
 tion, on this hypothesis, is the best God knew to give; that, is all good. 
 Now Creation, being all good, these vast etheric seas, must carry all 
 good if only the evil intention of the individual can be merged into 
 the wondrous good of God. So the etheric wave is really carrying good, 
 good, good, on into spaces beyond. Evil is purged by the washing in 
 the waves of good. 
 
 Can this explain any way better re-incarnation? Suppose a life of 
 beginning to be in animal shape: evolving up from the protoplasm, 
 through the kingdom of the animal, into the kingdom of the highest 
 animal, man. Then developing higher, each time the soul assumes 
 form, like a ripple on the sea of ether until at length the purification 
 
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is complete and the soul may go into the deeper pool where troubled 
 waters do not reach the great rest from sin ; where work of the noblest 
 goes on; where souls of the elected to high place by high service done 
 are to be forever in the labours they choose, not those that development 
 requires. 
 
 This is re-incarnation, the vibrations of the re-incarnated soul's 
 voyagings registered on the waves of ether until finally the pool of 
 rest is reached where such lower vibratory disturbances do not attune. 
 
 It is not easy to see why some explanations are accepted, for they 
 are so humanly complex, whereas God's ways are Divinely simple. 
 Humanity has created the sub-conscious mind. It does not know 
 what it means really. A term in psychology is used rather wildly and 
 no possible explanation to satisfy the ordinary man is to be given by 
 this subconscious idea. Here is an explanation to make, that is under- 
 standable. 
 
 The mind is a human organ. It functions as do all the human 
 organs. As it is developed by study, training, environment, so it 
 goes toward perfection or stands uninterruptedly at rest. Now this 
 mind has a memory on which is printed as words upon a page, impres- 
 sions, recollections, words said, faces seen, people loved, people known, 
 conscious acts, unconscious desires. All is here in the memory of the 
 mind. Hold this. Now: — in the soul of every man is a mind brought 
 up, up, from development by incarnation, to further development by 
 incarnation; rich in impression, in memories, in thoughts; also printed 
 there as on a page. Here is a pool of limitless depth, from its waters 
 come to consciousness such thoughts or desires as cannot be explained 
 from the conscious mind. Knowledge of life, called instinct is the 
 mind of the soul attending a memory class. The conscious personality 
 is distinct, has its individuality so complete that it is indelibly a part 
 of the incarnation. But sometimes into this conscious personality, 
 from the inner consciousness, the mind of the soul, is injected a dual 
 personality. Another personality comes as an obsession, a former 
 personality, something you were persists and for a time controls the 
 I am of the Now. This is what is the subconscious if it were known. 
 
 You may study the subject now, with my explanation in mind and 
 see if the very simple explanation will not cover most cases. A — the 
 conscious mind; B — the soul's mind; C — the avenue of connection that 
 leads the soul's mind into the conscious mind. A, B, C, all together 
 combined and a dual personality. 
 
 To protect from this, — high thought: God, God always in your 
 life. To cure; high thought: God. God appealed to, to help. 
 
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January 15, 1920. 
 
 Lesson today upon the topic of the absolutely true and the half 
 true. Absolute is what has been proven so that it must be accepted 
 by the world of science or religious thought or the historian to come. 
 
 Absolutely true is the power of electricity to communicate afar, to 
 light, to convey by power, to manufacture. Absolutely proven is the 
 power to convey sound by the vibrations of air; to convey message 
 from land to land. Absolutely to be accepted is the Creator of some 
 sort. Absolutely to be undenied that the Historian will know, unless 
 he chooses to neglect common sources of knowledge, State papers, that 
 this War was caused because long planned for. 
 
 Now what are half truths? To illustrate; radium is only a half 
 discovered medium as yet. Etheric waves are but dreams of the 
 scientific mind. The marvel of the stars is but half understood. 
 Heaven is but half known even by the most exalted divinition of earth. 
 Birth is but partly understood; — whence, why, are not to be explained 
 scientifically, so the human mind, so death, so much about us. 
 
 But apart from truth known and half truth, is a great undiscovered 
 field neither half, nor in any part known, to be the great research field 
 of to-morrow. Here will be the assigned position of Radium for more 
 such chemical forces will be investigated and assigned uses later on. 
 The working of the natural law is so marvelous that the Scientist 
 stands on the threshold of truth greater than he has conceived to be 
 possible. Elementary indeed will seem what he has known, when the 
 coming discoveries make the absolute of to-day, the beginning of the 
 absolute. 
 
 Flying is one of the future discoveries that will make the air com- 
 mon to all as is now the road. Flying is as natural a law as walking 
 but not yet laid out before the eye of mortal. The Magicians of old 
 could often fly. Elijah could fly. So he sped upward when his day 
 was over here. He could not ascend into Heaven so, for the ascent into 
 Heaven is not physical, but he did quit the field of ordinary daily life 
 and he passed out of life, by the ordinary way of death, upon a moun- 
 tain top. So Moses. He was not marvelously taken up into the 
 Heavens, he died; but from Pisgah's height he could soar to another 
 height farther on and there, die as a man unknown to his followers 
 who never found his body. Now you will never fly, but had you 
 children to give you grandchildren to give you one more generation, 
 that generation would fly as easily as you walk. Up and away like a 
 lark, singing for pure joy of flight. Up and about the great work of 
 life a still greater conqueror of the facts of life than the ones preced- 
 ing. So this part truth of the flying machine of now, the Aeroplane, 
 the seaplane will be an absolute truth in three generations from 
 yours, — in forty years, perhaps less. 
 
 See the science of Electricity developed as it has in your life time, 
 telephone, electric motors, trains, automobiles, the light, all work 
 done swiftly by its power, wireless, that wonder of the moment, how 
 much more too. And when you were a little child, only the one tele- 
 graph to show that there was a power here, to be unfolded. 
 
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So it was with oils; no thought of this natural supply fifty years 
 ago; boiling to the surface of the earth like a great geyser. Now see 
 this wonderful commodity of everyday life become the absolute neces- 
 sity of every one of the peoples of the globe save savages. Now when 
 the coming possibilities of the Earth are known, oil will seem a simple 
 product not considered save as a crude out-put of a cruder time. 
 
 Again, gold; this precious metal lies here in the mountains of this 
 great America, so hidden that man has not yet divined that gold is as 
 common as iron to the riches of the land of this Continent. Gold will 
 ever be the medium of exchange which means, that past the dreams 
 of avarice will be the wealth of this land ere the end comes to this 
 phase of living. 
 
 So with Russia. There, will be ere long a land of quiet and calm 
 revelling in Republican ideals, forgetting in present prosperity, past 
 misery, seeing the future as a great life of successful government and 
 literacy where once illiteracy made the past possible. Great Russia 
 will be a land of choice souls. The Jewish caste will flee soon and 
 leave the pure Slav, for the Jew has so exploited the Slav that heart of 
 the giant will be hard, when head of the giant is alive to the possibility 
 of freeing Gulliver from the Lilliputians. 
 
 The world has run mad for the desire of power; even here, in the 
 land of Liberty; even in France, the land of Liberty and Fraternity, 
 even in England, the place of Freedom real though unproclaimed. 
 Power is the longing of each heart. Power to control the weaker; to 
 exploit them, to kill them with laborious life, to enslave them as did 
 America the Blacks only to treat them, after freedom is won by a great 
 soul, as though they had sinned unforgivably against the American 
 white and could not be given hope. 
 
 The sins that men commit against the weak, whether man, woman, 
 or child, whether Race or Nation is unforgivable until repented and 
 atoned. Sin of Will to enjoy life is more venial; the sin of pleasure 
 loving is not really sin, though what it leads to is sin when it is com- 
 mitting of offense against law and decency. But sins that ruin other 
 lives or hurt them or help to keep them back are to be repented by 
 reincarnated soul in the aches of a like suffering. Know then that what 
 is of joy in your life you are earning; what is of pain, you are atoning. 
 No possible escape from the last. I the Lord thy God am a jealous 
 God visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children means visiting 
 the sins of one life upon the next life, and again the next if this is 
 essential to purification. This explains a sentence, cryptic otherwise, 
 does it not? Makes clear a dark place. So you see face to face. 
 Leave no half place for sin in your life. Think in terms of righteous- 
 ness. Be always pure in heart. Be always gay, be a ray from sunshine, 
 this pleases God and helps make beautiful life itself. But do not mis- 
 take gladness with sin. Too much pleasure maketh the heart to sin. 
 Pain lies close to every door, seek it out and alleviate suffering. Carry 
 the message of the reincarnated life far, so be believed in the home. 
 Act the belief in God. Let men say: "There, is a Christian." How great 
 a word to say of another! 
 
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Jesus the Christ was the man that has been most despised and most 
 loved of all created beings. His life was not all tragic, nor was his 
 death all tragic. To die is not too tragic a time. To die suffering is 
 tragedy but the suffering for a cause is so great an honour to the soul ! 
 A death to bring the story of life. Jesus so, has given much and 
 endured much and now is loved much or despised much. Be of those 
 who love. 
 
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January 18, 1920. 
 
 Lesson today, concerns a religious idea of sacrifice. The earliest 
 beginnings of the religious idea are sacrificial, the offering of some- 
 thing to the greatest they knew. So came to the Romans, the Greeks, 
 the Egyptians the Babylonians, as well as the peoples of the Biblical 
 times, the idea of sacrificial offering to placate one or many gods. 
 And so even in the modern Church of Greek or Roman Catholic is 
 the offering to one or another saint, to the Virgin, to the infant Jesus, 
 the same expression. This offering of sacrifice, is one of the crude 
 forms of religious expression. It is what called into being the belief of 
 the offering of His only Son by God. The early story of Abraham so 
 attracted the Jewish mind that another was told as if symbolized by 
 the first. It was all folk lore, a people highly religious, gave to their 
 folk lore the tincture of religious feeling they cared to think on. Just 
 as the Greeks gave to their folk lore valour and love as a sign of di- 
 vinity; just as the Egyptians gave devotion to Sun lore as a sign of 
 divinity; so the Jews gave religious observances of sacrifice as their 
 best example. The religious movements of to-day too, give a high 
 place to sacrifice, but as a moral, not physical meaning is given, the 
 real sacrificial spirit is to be developed. 
 
 In this time just about us, is a realization of sacrifice. France gave 
 to save France, with hymns of praise in the giving, her best; her 
 valiant youth. Belgium gave of her noblest, her honour, to save which, 
 she gave liberty, land, even people for a time. To the greatest of all 
 sacrifice, the one of the individual father and mother, how many noble 
 examples! Whole families serving, whole families swept into a higher 
 existence! Even the wickedest of peoples gave freely in such sacrifice. 
 
 The spirit of sacrifice is great and high of intent but is often a mis- 
 taken virtue. Self sacrifice is a fine attribute if not carried to an 
 extreme, but to swing into oblivion self, in order to exalt another is not 
 just nor does it abound to high reward in the just summing up of 
 achievement, when this incarnation is finished. 
 
 Self, the personal entity, deserves first thought: not first thought 
 selfishly intended but development is for self, a just requirement: 
 high place, not always, but preparation for high place by education, 
 proper attention to the body, to the soul's desires, proper thought of 
 companionship. When no thought is taken of such physical require- 
 ments, because another life is to have more so, a wrong is being done 
 and the one guilty is he who stunts so the opportuniy of his own entity 
 to the growth for which it is here in the earth life. 
 
 A mother who serves blindly and lovingly, so stunting the growth 
 of her children by denying them sacrifice, is one who is wrong funda- 
 mentally in conception of her being and its requirements. Loving 
 care of young is an intuitive feeling and if not possessed, a terrible 
 lack of womanhood, but servile care, giving up when young to all the 
 desires of the unformed is to be wrong in the way personal life is 
 accepted. 
 
 Personal entity, is the greatest of all the earth's puzzles. It exists, 
 it persists, its growth must be a permanent source of satisfaction. 
 
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When one falls short of this acceptance, he falls short of an under- 
 standing of what Life really means. 
 
 The young are finer, better, higher in life's growth, if they acknowl- 
 edge that parents owe to themselves as much as to them. To give over 
 all self culture that the selfish youth of a country should be protected, 
 is indeed a sad limitation of the acceptance of the Love of the World, 
 Jesus. Life is for all, for all; not to be denied any proper growth, not 
 to be made slave to another. To serve, yes ; to love, yes ; to be a power 
 of help, yes; but not to serve that other souls may be enslaved to 
 idleness; not to love that selfish requirement shall take the place of 
 love's holy exchange of loving gift. Helping not, such as says: "rest 
 you, while I labour ; play you, while play and life's happy aspects quit 
 me forever." No, this is to belittle sacrifice. It must not be. 
 
 In the ideal of living made manifest by Jesus, was no such idea 
 expressed. Sacrifice was exhorted by Him. Sacrifice that gave when 
 giving was a denial as the widow who gave her mite. Sacrifice of the 
 money to live as when precious ointment was bought. Sacrifice of 
 loved ones, if so only the Christian ideal could be attained. All such, 
 were as a great example to the Lord Jesus but not sacrifice of the soul's 
 self. The going into the Wilderness alone to fast and pray, showed 
 that Jesus was oblivious at times of the demands of His followers. 
 So when He slept as the storm raged. So as He sat at meat with 
 publicans for this shocked his followers and caused them pain. So 
 if Jesus saw life as His developing field, should not His comrades, His 
 followers, His adorers? Why not sit by one's self and contemplate 
 one's thoughtful vision of the scene, if by doing so, the scene becomes a 
 lesson upward? 
 
 To us here, the life of earth is filled with useless services, given be- 
 cause demanded, but futile to help the recipient or the giver. Such, 
 give over. Do not sacrifice time needlessly, be strong to resist when 
 your soul cries out for rest. Do not be aware of the need to respond 
 to others, unless they actually need you, save when the service done 
 may be one rightly yours to give, rightly theirs to receive. Service 
 may actually do harm. If by a service you keep another from a plain 
 duty, you fail. Cease such sacrifice. 
 
 If your spoken word leads another to accept your guiding mind 
 and become indolent concerning intellectual labour, — silence. If your 
 example is followed blindly by another and so, no moral stamina is 
 being attained, halt the friendship. To do, to act, to think, to dare, 
 to speak, — these are to be the conscious attainments of the soul, by 
 thoughtful consideration. He therefore, who offers to so serve another, 
 is on holy ground, an interloper. 
 
 Even parents for children can only point the way ; the hand stays, 
 from leading on. No soul that has not striven, has attained. Strive, 
 — think consciously how best to strive; decide for yourself the best 
 way; serve your mind by training it and do this consciously. Go to 
 places of proper culture. Hear the noblest expressions of conduct 
 when possible. Be able to think with directness and to determine the 
 good from the evil and help others to this same way of life. To think, 
 
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to act, is great progress. Those who follow are never able to lead. 
 Those who are not able to think for themselves are not able to govern. 
 And how can a child learn, save by being made to work out the salva- 
 tion, guided by his own mind; pointed to good ways by a guiding 
 finger. 
 
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January 20, 1920. 
 
 This lesson is for you, a part of philosophy difficult to understand. 
 That is, — the relation of part of the whole, a glimpse of the whole, 
 to the whole scene of a past incarnation. The glimpse of the part 
 lived or living, to all that has been lived. Always a relation. Ever 
 a close connection. If you have a temper controlled usually, but un- 
 leashed occasionally it is because in the former incarnation, is a 
 terrible result of evil temper: a carried over characteristic, because 
 one that must be absolutely controlled before it is done with. Every 
 time you lose control, a step back; every time you keep control, a step 
 up. Now control, does not mean entirely no word spoken or sign 
 given, it means the showing a displeasure in no way, a gentle refusal 
 to be intertwined with any ill nature. When this is accomplished, the 
 temper is controlled. Life is so vast a source of food for living nobly, 
 live so. 
 
 Now the philosophy of the relation of a part to the whole is dif- 
 ferent. The whole lies far back and what is now is not related, save 
 as occasionally, a little obsession from B to A through C makes the 
 whole, part of the part. This connection of consciousness with con- 
 sciousness is a great hold. Be sure you study and understand and 
 strive to keep A apart from the intrusions of B. 
 
 The part is not the whole, but by parts of development, the whole 
 is to be read. Had you no tempestuous times of ill nature you would 
 not be so unequal in spiritual growth, and this in turn, is the reason 
 that the physical is not always in poise. Now your disposition is 
 even as a whole, you are usually gay and bright and so meet the 
 world with smiling front. But along comes a certain event and off 
 you go! Mend this and be more evenly developed. 
 
 The facts of the lessons are not so many as the philosophies, this 
 will sum up both. The facts are prophecies repeated. None idly 
 spoken, all to be true. The prophetic part of the lessons will be 
 realized in short time. The real lessons are those that teach real 
 problems and their solving. One on Etheric waves is for a refutation 
 of the principles of the Spiritualists that the spirits can be at their call 
 in the presence of the seeker. The lesson on inner consciousness is 
 to reply with some degree of sureness to the idle talk of the great power 
 of the sub-conscious mind. The lessons upon the occult, which tell 
 of the principle of control are simply first lessons in occult power. 
 As you practice these you will go on higher. 
 
 The lesson on vibrations is for the clearing up of some theories 
 in your mind, to give clear vision, concerning harmonics. 
 
 Five lessons on Ethics: on Faith, Hope, and Charity; on Patience; 
 on the Absolutely true and half true; on Sacrifice and yesterday's on 
 The Will to Obey: the one lesson of denunciation are the series. 
 Child, I hope, I hope indeed, that these will be for you but a stepping 
 stone. How can you mount if you do not try to step agilely from 
 stone to stone? Strive so to do. Make every effort. You are to 
 succeed beyond your dreams. The means are at hand, the desire is 
 here, now obey and so go up, up. 
 
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The idea of prophetic saying is not to prepare you for events, but 
 to give you a proof that you have touch with things higher than 
 human. So the prophecies, while not in any degree reaching to the 
 ethical, or the philosophical, have surpassed both, in proof you hold, 
 of the Immortal. 
 
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LESSONS GIVEN BY A MASTER 
 To E. P. ON HEALTH 
 
SLEEP 
 
 January 7, 1920. 
 
 I wish to write of the sleep necessary to health. You must have 
 at least seven hours of unbroken sleep in a night, after fifty. Seven 
 hours unbroken, means eight in your bed. Be, therefore, in your bed 
 by eleven o'clock and you will have time to compose your mind and 
 sleep peacefully and well for seven dreamless hours. Dreams come 
 near the waking time. Dreams are an association of ideas in the 
 inner consciousness that come together fantastically when the mind is 
 not alert. No possible importance is to be attached to dreams, save 
 as one may be careful to conceal in the inner consciousness, as little 
 as possible that may revive later as a phantasy of a dream. 
 
 The dream of disturbing accident just escaped, or of falling, or of 
 being unable to complete a task begun, is tired nerves, being made 
 subject to worry by imps of the inner consciousness. These may be 
 put together as fatigue dreams. Rarely do they come to the bodily 
 presence in sleep not worn and over spent. 
 
 Dreams of important events to come are not important really; 
 they are but the shadows of what we wish in waking hours. 
 
 Many visions of wonderful adventure are really journeys of the 
 astral body to far places, taken while the body rests unconscious. 
 The bodily unconsciousness means a mind resting in unconscious re- 
 pose, but spirit may be up and away. Spirit has love of the life away 
 from this, a renewal of other ties. So a great adventure may be the 
 spirit's day of pleasure while off duty, and to the mind may come 
 flashes of this by the return to the body of the spirit after the 
 excursion. 
 
 All of dreams are to be questioned as necessary revelations of 
 condition. Nightmare is the pressure of stomach to assert its woe. 
 It is always after feasting that nightmare comes. 
 
 Fasting is for the spirit as a tonic, fast occasionally, for a time, 
 not long, two meals we will say. Take no breakfast and no dinner and 
 see the joy of the night. Lunch is more necessary. At that time the 
 toil of the day is in being and to feed the fire, fuel is essential. For the 
 beginning a low fire may answer, for the furnace is not equal yet to 
 too much stoking, lest the night be too weary. 
 
 The sleep of a woman is not the sleep of death, but light and 
 easily brought to awakening. This, because the woman's need is to 
 be aware of the babe. The woman so, wakes at a slight sign and 
 stirs into alertness at once. So the adventures of women are not so 
 great as men's farings. The spirit does not go when a child may be 
 left distressed by mother's silent sleep. The spirit accepts the bondage 
 and stops close to the body. 
 
 So women are said not to have the fancy of men, the quick imagin- 
 ings, the ready spirit of voyaging on uncharted waters. But women 
 unbidden to the joys of motherhood by God, or as often is so, lost to 
 the joys of maternity, are equal to far faring a'night as disembodied 
 spirits. 
 
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THE HEART _ ,_ 
 
 January 8, 1920. 
 
 Now as to the functions of the heart; they are never to be under- 
 stood by one who is not eager to see the action of this organ and 
 realize how essential it is to health that it should be kept perfectly 
 free from over exertion. A heart strain means many hours wasted 
 from life's labours. Heart is the active member of a large firm of 
 business men let us say. The member that does the hard work. The 
 heart pumps as steadily as a trip hammer not resting as do stomach, 
 if properly fed and brain, if properly free from worry, but beating, 
 beating, all day, all night, steadily pumping good red blood out into 
 veins and arteries eager to have this help of life, steadily drawing to 
 it the blood not cleansed and filtering as it were, the weak stuff away, 
 leaving red corpuscles to go back into the veins. 
 
 Heart stands for romance in symbols of life, why, one cannot 
 see. It is the wheel horse, the over worked house mother, the ever 
 full of work man of affairs. It is a powerful agent in life. It is the 
 one functioning organ that needs every hour to function. One lung 
 may completely rest, a liver may be so low in condition that bile 
 is flowing through the digestive organs like water through the pipe 
 of plumbing. It never rests; it pumps, pumps, steadily and if it is 
 out of condition, suffering is acute and life in most critical condition. 
 
 Heart may fail to function, then the life flows away in a second 
 of time. Heart may have inconstant, unsteady beat, then the pulse 
 is too weak for a power of strength, to work. Heart may be victim 
 of terrible spasms of pain as when angina pectoris is there, then 
 suffering is so acute, the heart literally aches for hours after. 
 
 The heart of the lover is the fiction of Nature. Why not the spirit 
 rather? For after all, it is the spirit that is awake to the moral 
 emotions. Even brain does not function morally. A man may be 
 as intellectual as a giant of intelligence and function not at all, 
 morally. This, because brain and spirit do not necessarily function 
 together. They do not co-ordinate in philosophical parlance. When 
 brain is governed by spirit the man is clean handed and clear headed, 
 but when brain and heart and body function irrespective of spirit, 
 they fail of high degree of attainment. 
 
 Heart is the head of the working force of the body. It has con- 
 trol, for without it, death. Watch carefully your heart. It may beat 
 too slowly, then you are depleted in strength and need a tonic. It 
 may pound, then be careful, you are over taxed in nervous excitement, 
 slow down. 
 
 The heart at forty must be less strained than at twenty. You need 
 not learn from us, to go slowly upstairs; to come into the places of 
 convenient rest when tired; to beware exercising over much. But 
 also, beware over excitement. Think gentle thoughts and so calm 
 the heart beat. 
 
 Anger stirs the little organ to tremendous pounding. Be not angry. 
 So the heart is at one with the thought you see, each apart in work 
 and together in influence. So you may see life work out its vast 
 scheme, each doing its share, all sharing the action. 
 
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THE BRAIN 
 
 January 9, 1920. 
 
 A lesson to-day upon the brain, that functioning organ of the 
 body, greatest and most intriguing. The brain! What is this organ? 
 Spirit, no: but yet so endowed by spirit that it seems a part of the 
 soul. Brain is the great mental force. To it is the whole system 
 debtor for all the care given the body. Brain uses the body wisely 
 or unwisely as it forces the body to good or to evil, to wise or to 
 unwise. 
 
 No moral consciousness has intellect. Coldly it weighs desire to 
 the merit or to the demerit. A wish is indulged only when conceived 
 by brain, though brain is of course governed by spirit. Alone, the 
 brain can function but the brain has no spiritual side. 
 
 It is developed to logically decide questions, if logically de- 
 veloped; to mathematical attainment, to the knowledge of fact and to 
 the calculations of fancy, but any high moral question, philosophical 
 or spiritual, is attached to the soul, belongs to the soul's realm. Such 
 decision of questions as pertain to righteousness are inspired by spirit. 
 
 Brain tends the storage batteries, brain intensifies the gear, brain 
 helps the body to a better development, or degrades it to low purpose. 
 Brain is the ruler of man's body, so far as bodily organs can so func- 
 tion, but brain is the servant of soul. A great soul is the master, it 
 controls the brain's functioning as a master controls a servant's duties. 
 
 Brain determines a man's capacity for success. Often it brings 
 to bear successful achievement, by thought so directed, but any time, 
 any moment, soul may warp this development by a wicked turning 
 of the mind to evil. Brain can help the soul's development,, if so used 
 that only fine thinking is for the soul's food by means of this brain. 
 
 It is not an evil to avoid brain tear and wear, it is best treatment. 
 Brain work should be steady and within certain limits. Study certain 
 hours, thought certain hours, sleep certain time, feeding for nourish- 
 ment of body and brain, making red blood, avoiding worrying troubles, 
 being calm, cool, collected, facing danger with brave mien, avoiding 
 scenes of disturbing kind, loving, loving, loving: so is the brain well 
 nourished and made strong for service. 
 
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FASTING 
 
 January 14, 1920. 
 
 The lesson today, the good effects of fasting. Now over eating is 
 as abnormal as drunkenness, but too much eating is the habit of most 
 people. Eating a great variety at one meal tends to make the eater 
 uncomfortable even when no great amount has been taken; also, to 
 eat in abundance of abundance of variety is equal to over eating for 
 it excites the stomach to much activity, and often to overwork. 
 Eating should be done slowly, calmly. No scenes of anger ever at a 
 meal, nor any designs to be thought out with intent gaze or inward 
 concentration. Light pleasant talk at meals, no disturbing subjects, 
 just good talk. And then a rest for a time after; for the lighter lunch, 
 ten minutes, for the heavier dinner, half an hour after, of quiet. If 
 the rest is in quiet so much the better, but at least, rest. 
 
 As to food; the use of much meat is bad, the use of much sweet 
 too, is bad, but both in slight quantity for variety, are not harmful. 
 Eat as many vegetables as you can and much fruit, eat rice, hominy, 
 potatoes, not too often. Some vegetables as cabbage, turnips and 
 parsnips are best seldom, but those out of the earth for the most part, 
 eat plentifully. Cabbage is too indigestible, otherwise growing in 
 the sunshine is good. So peas are better, and asparagus and beans 
 and tomatoes and artichokes and corn. 
 
 Eat slowly and when you fast, fast for only two meals. Begin at 
 dinner, then the midday lunch has sustained you, at breakfast no 
 food, coffee, or tea, just a cup of hot water, and at the lunch you will 
 be in fine condition. Try this always in travelling, so you are spared 
 the danger of poison. 
 
 Mind that has stated fast, is clear and the whole body functions 
 better. But take little exercise while fasting, no more than a short 
 walk. No possible excuse for over-doing while fasting. Choose to 
 fast when resting is a possibility. 
 
 Now fasting has spiritual significance. To fast, means to be will- 
 ing to give up and this, spiritually, is strength, as well as the physical 
 strength it gives the body. Strength of spirit comes of giving up what 
 is pleasant now and then. Through sacrifice is strength, in indulgence 
 is great weakness. 
 
 Fast when tired, fast when travelling, fast when ill with cold or 
 with a stomach poison, or have nervous headache and so be the 
 stronger. Today you are stronger than you were a year ago, be always 
 so. Gain as you grow older, and die young at seventy. 
 
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THE NERVES 
 
 January 17, 1920. 
 
 Lesson tonight concerns the many nervous troubles that make 
 life's journey intolerable. 
 
 Nerves are more an inheritance than most physical organs because, 
 during pregnancy, the child is subject to the pre-natal influence of 
 nerves, more than other ails the mother is enduring. Nervous women 
 too are hard on childish nerves. They fret the child, no calm is 
 possible and so, little nerves are sick and drawn before the personality 
 is sufficiently strong to assume control. Nervous diseases are due 
 usually to such causes; as Saint Vitus' dance; as nervous spasms of 
 shyness, of terrible fits of crying, of bad temper. A properly managed 
 child should be free from all these ills and so not a subject for nerves 
 in adult life. 
 
 Poor nervous men and women who go until the end of the tether 
 is reached are themselves their own victims. If life could be adjusted 
 to proper conditions during the pre-natal time and through childhood, 
 no nerves should be known in health. Healthy nerves are a rarely 
 great possession. 
 
 The nervous man is as hard to live with as the nervous woman, 
 both are uncontrolled humanity and for both must doctors seek a 
 remedy. 
 
 Sleep is for nerves. Good long draughts of water before sleeping, 
 open windows, light dinners, plenty of air all day too, hours of recrea- 
 tion, steady hours of work, then rest. Eating regularly, no reading 
 while eating, no thought of worries while eating. Such little care and 
 the nerves would be less over feci and worked. 
 
 Once declared gone to pieces and nerves must be taken in hand 
 by a specialist. Do not go to the brink of the breaking point, have 
 common sense and control life. It can be controlled always. Even if 
 work presses, the man or woman who stops and rests and eats and 
 takes recreation, goes back to fresher inroads upon the necessary 
 work and accomplishes it more easily. You do well to slow down 
 when the feeling of pressure begins, keep this up. 
 
 Just stop and say "halt. This is not wise and I am to be a wise 
 woman, ergo, no foolishness." 
 
 Never to let go grip is best. Hold on to voice, to look, to every 
 expression of displeasure. Nerves so controlled grow strong. If it 
 is best to express displeasure, do so calmly and quietly, never allow 
 a scene of temper. Withdraw if necessary but say your ears are not 
 attuned to angry notes. A quarrel is a disturbance to nerves, so is 
 bad news or sorrow or sometimes, music. 
 
 Nervous people are not more happy because making themselves 
 a nuisance, but they feel they cannot help the expression. They can 
 and should. When legs are nervous, get up and exercise a bit. If 
 back or shoulder nerves are aroused, lean back and close your eyes 
 and rest. If the nerves of the stomach are acting badly, starve 
 them into submission. When eyes are strained, people are inclined 
 to be nervous, see then, an Oculist and try for poise so. Never 
 
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recognize the power of nerves to be Master. They must be made 
 subservient, by calm and unvarying determination to be Master and 
 not Servant. 
 
 To cry, is not necessarily a sign of nerves, but to cry for nothing, 
 is a sign. Tears should be controlled and loud cries and sobs are not 
 to be tolerated by grown men and women. They are illy controlled 
 nerves. 
 
 The habits of life have much to do with nerves. Too much drink- 
 ing is death to any control of body; too much smoking is bad for 
 nerves; too much indulgence at table creates havoc with digestive 
 nerves and coffee too often taken is a cause of insomnia. Sex habits 
 are expressed in nervous breakdowns, so are many morbid habits. 
 
 Nerves of careful men and women, whose common sense controls 
 a well governed, ordered life, are not subject to nervous breakdowns 
 save by cause of worry and who can escape that in this sorry world? 
 
 Nerves are the thermometer of health of mind and body. 
 
 So all said. 
 
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SIXTEEN LESSONS FROM THE MASTER 
 
August 6, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Many times may you feel the need of prayer for help but most 
 for power. Pray ever for power to comprehend Nature's Laws and 
 pray the great Jehovah to be near your coming into wisdom. Never 
 doubt the words of God's servants, the messengers from on High. 
 The glorious roots of the tree of Life are in the ground, to be made to 
 grow if watered and tended. The fruit of the tree of Life is rich with 
 gifts to living. Pluck them to devote to good and worthy purposes 
 and great and noble acts and see how properly the reward will follow 
 the gathering of the fruit. Pluck to eat to be a sensuous and eager 
 glutton by enjoying for the profit of your own body and indeed you 
 will hide yourself ashamed, for you will be a disobedient child of an 
 indulgent Father. 
 
 Many Masters have come to you two pupils, come to prepare the 
 ground. Harvest is now at hand see that labourers for the Harvest 
 are at hand; time is one, faith another, eagerly awaiting messages 
 another, gentle word, deed, thought: all these are field servants to 
 gain good Harvest. Sow no tares. Be awake to the possibility of evil 
 and alert to destroy his power. Waken refreshed each day, because 
 sleep is disturbed by no reflection of evil desires of the last hours of 
 the day but gone. Speak of good things. Be careful never to destroy 
 faith in your force for good by an impulse towards evil. So I can 
 reach your spiritual ear and give you a message of importance to 
 your well being. Selfishness gives and grows wounds; so does hate, 
 so do all sins big and little, sins against self, sins against others, sins 
 against God. My blessings upon you for the desire to avoid errors 
 of doubt, of desires not holy and upright. To walk in the ways of 
 peace is so holy a joy to self, — to more than self! No need to sup- 
 press great joy in longing for holiness. Joy, the simple pleasures, the 
 holy ties, all this is part of the progress of the soul. The ties that 
 tend towards pain can well be let go: but do not be sustained in a 
 wish to destroy old ties and so prove yourself false to what has grown 
 part of your work in the present life. 
 
 To-day you with me, will strive to look at a place far from your 
 path. The great Land of Illusion. Here, is the ideal of every soul. 
 Not what is, nor what is best, but what is desired, dreamed of, 
 imagined, longed for beyond all that the real World of living offers. 
 
 The Land of Illusion ! Have you ever seen your mind as really it 
 is? No, as you would have it could your mind be with your body in 
 this illusive Land. Cling to illusion as a dream of all good and strive 
 to make the real land and the dream land meet. Else, this land of 
 illusion, grows to be your goal, the mind's hours of dreaming grow 
 the happiest hours and slipping from you, can go the real events, 
 the lessons life has and the real opportunities, the rewards life offers. 
 Hold the Land of Illusion as ever a far Country, not to be seen unless 
 the right is earned by practical overcoming of what prevents the 
 realizing of dreams and desires. Hold to the real, fear the dream that 
 draws you from the real. Be wise to say: "Here lies my pathway 
 
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in the flat country with little shade along the way perhaps, with a 
 hard road, a rough path, an illy shod foot to tread the path." All 
 this may be, but the Rainbow's end is harder to find and the pot of 
 gold not such a reward as Love and the blessings of those about you. 
 
 This is no mere essay, child, it has an earnest lesson to teach. 
 You dream of great things and see them not realized but the great 
 things you may attain are as much more what you will wish, as great 
 gain on the road of life is more than a pot of gold at the rainbow's end. 
 
 Never forbear work for dreams. The work you have done is much, 
 the preparation has so come for all to be. Work is to be very near 
 your ways ever, hard work, constant work, wearing work. No pot 
 of gold for you, no great life in the Land of Illusion, but and if you 
 do your duty, work in fair Lands of reality, work for great cause. 
 
 Hold then no thought of what might be, hold only thought of 
 what must be. Give dreaming no place in your mind, let dreaming 
 be done with. Face fact and reality and be brave and full of high 
 courage. 
 
 The days ahead will point each one a hand toward the path. 
 Follow the guiding hands. Aim to march steadily on. Live and see 
 yourself live each day in the real World full of the joy of living, full 
 of a zeal for more service. 
 
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TqE p August 7, 1920. 
 
 By no means can all the lessons be in the atmosphere of peace 
 unless the pupil is at peace, be therefore two good, peace loving ones 
 for these days. See no disagreeable atmosphere; through fog, feel 
 Sun; through sorrow, see joy. In any feeling, have the issue of peace 
 the completion of the emotion. Never can power come unless through 
 calm, so, the generation of force is made possible. The mill-pond 
 is where the wheel forces the power to the Mill and the grain by 
 this force is ground. 
 
 Niagara Falls causes great power to be generated, yes, but the 
 force goes through distance in quiet form. Force creates, but power 
 generates and power is gained by force through repose. 
 
 Were you to count upon this force to allow you uninterrupted 
 action of mind or body, you would soon lose the force and have no 
 power for creating the art or the mental work for which the force 
 should have been conserved. 
 
 Power is just as essential to generations coming as to the races of 
 pioneers who so wonderfully developed the land here in this great 
 Western Hemisphere. Power is to be used differently in the coming 
 years than it was used by the Greeks in their great development, but 
 to create great eras power must be generated by force through proper 
 use of rest with this force. 
 
 Power is a wonder working of strength when strength is desired. 
 The man may be strong as an ox but of no powerful possibility in the 
 scheme of creation. Be he so and he is strong not powerful. The 
 man may have power with little physical strength when mental 
 faculties are creative or are able to command. Wish to command 
 must have behind it power to create the certainty in another the 
 commands given are great and desirable to see executed. 
 
 Place no faith in your own will to obey unless there is also a 
 power in the will to be willing to obey. To accept is fine, to have 
 the power to say: "I will to accept if I am crossed," — is the will to 
 obey what is best; what the Creator sees as best for an unit in the 
 great problem. 
 
 Many are called, few are chosen. Why? Because all are called 
 to be their best, few are chosen to be elected to high position because 
 those who are chosen have great will to obey the laws of life. All 
 who are called have the same chance to obedience, but power to will 
 obedience has not been the result of the force, put into the act of living. 
 
 This is a thought to ponder upon; to think as a philosopher, one 
 must ponder. The weight of the question is ponderous, when philo- 
 sophical. Of no more help to the idle thinker is a problem than is a 
 large and lofty painting of help to him who loves miniature work and 
 sees life through the reverse lens. Be sure whence the thought comes, 
 then follow it whither it leads and trace the processes of reasoning. 
 This, is to ponder. None of the jumping at quick conclusions, but the 
 acceptance of force behind you, force created by healthy study and 
 living, to give through proper repose and use, the generated power to 
 ponder and solve the problem, as a wise thinker and a philosopher. 
 
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Be careful to think clearly, directly, not hastily; with direct and 
 general acuteness, to go through, not over. Never go over. Halt and 
 study the problem, then give it up or go to its end from its beginning. 
 Do not jump to a conclusion. Be careful and clear thinkers. 
 
 The discussion of great subjects is of use to you, be on the alert 
 to enter into such when opportunity offers. Do not fritter away 
 your thought. Be sure friends are worth while before passing with 
 them too many hours. Do not gossip nor be interested in news of 
 people's personal affairs. Say naught of personal affairs nor of the 
 faults of others when by such restraint it would be possible to have 
 good talk. The world is full of wise and thoughtful spirits, why choose 
 your way among those who think little and know nothing. The 
 world is filled with great inspiration, why fritter your life away in 
 small and senseless acts that take time and its companion strength 
 and are empty of gain. 
 
 Life must contain the stimulus of greatness to be achieved or to 
 be sustained; else it is of benefit to few, least of all to the liver 
 himself. 
 
 Live in great service to those about you. Now I mean not service 
 with your hands to those who can well serve themselves. Your service 
 should be soul service. See to it that thus you give with hands open. 
 Be ever ready to say! "I -serve. I excel when best I serve. I will 
 be ever excellent, forever will I serve." See so the development of 
 power to serve. The will is generated through the force that has 
 come from all these years now, of work and preparation. Calmness 
 must be the root of this power and will the blossoming force and when 
 the two are equally in the spirit, control, is sure to be, by calm power 
 to force will to yield to best endeavour. Oh have the many lessons 
 well in your mind my child, those that are and those that have been. 
 Yield you to no weakness. Be you courteous and gentle and willing 
 to love and to forgive. 
 
 The life of the spirit shows in the face. Illumined it should be, 
 full of the power created within by calm waiting upon the Lord. 
 His will yours, His ways yours, His plan your only desire as you 
 go your way into Salvation. What does Salvation really bring to 
 him who has not power to profit by its riches of grace? What do 
 riches give to him who has not power to profit by the opportunities 
 they give? What profit wealth of beauty, if the power of expression 
 is not in the face because no will to develop mind has existed? Will 
 to be good, to be more than excellent, to be excelling. Will for culti- 
 vating of gifts of mentality. Will to be a force in the world's work by 
 means of mind cultivated, spirit made quick, heart made pure in 
 the inward part. 
 
 My child, I may give you some far more deep and helpful lessons 
 than these perhaps but none more needful to the willing pupil. I 
 strive to bring you into harmony with life but the harmonies of all the 
 chords depend upon the individual note. Let this drop from pitch and 
 how inharmonious is the result. Pitch then is the key to the chord's 
 achievement. Perfect pitch is complete desire to be in detail prepared 
 
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for the general. Healthy tissues give well balanced mind. Well con- 
 trolled nerves give constant and satisfactory digestive action if habits 
 of digestive control are formed as are yours. Habits such as yours 
 are the basic principle of living correctly. You have more chance, 
 because you chose to take a path to opportunity's golden way. You 
 went into Spiritism inclined to be playful, but ever, ever, you chose 
 to be reverent in assuming you were holding conversation with de- 
 parted spirits, now you are far along the path. Hold well your steps 
 from turning. Care child, prayer child, and ever a song in your heart 
 and a glow in your face, for your way is illumined. I have no words 
 to give you now that are occult neither of ethical import. I am laying 
 a foundation. 
 
 I wish both to guard this time as sacred. No delays, no heed of 
 interruptions. Along the way we go together, I ahead, you together 
 in my wake, up, up, to the high places. Helen, no falling, you are 
 roped to the trio. Emily, no falling, your step must not falter. Just 
 love and we three and all on the road that leads to the dear Jesus, 
 who is indeed at the end of the rainbow. 
 
 The bag of gold is but His words of golden worth, His deeds of 
 golden worth, His thoughts worth more than the jewels of the World 
 combined, and all these thoughts were as paths that lead to one spot 
 in the end; the holy of holies, the God most High. Jesus guides 
 all to His Father's Mansions and in the love of Jesus, the narrow 
 creed, the bigoted belief, the cruel injustice, is washed and made 
 the white garment of charity. 
 
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August 7, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 You have taken a practical lesson as to how to rest. When you 
 feel exhausted drop your work and stop. Even a few minutes relieves 
 every nerve and muscle and renews your strength. The practical 
 working out of a philosophy is proof to the world of its truth or 
 falseness. Not that bad practice can change truth and make it false. 
 But to those who look for flaws in any philosophy, any failing seems 
 to make for falseness: when in reality what they want or seek is 
 something super-human. But for the sake of the truth you love let 
 all people see you grow in strength of body, in clearness of mind, in 
 purity of soul. It is for you to remember that not only are friendly 
 eyes watching with love and excuses when you fail in the highest 
 charity: but that those who wish to see you fail are also watching. 
 So avoid the very appearance of evil in speech, in health and in 
 spirit. Let your eyes look out on the world, clear and brilliant, un- 
 afraid and unashamed when meeting criticism or ridicule. Let your 
 bodies prove that they are the temples of the Holy Spirit. Let your 
 words be gentle, persuasive and always loving. It may be necessary 
 to chide, to discipline; but if love attends, then is the chiding and 
 discipline effective. No burden is given that is too great to bear. 
 Men often assume too great burdens and then the spirit weakens. 
 That is the fate that results from such choice. So meet the world with 
 your spirit high and your body will not be wearied. For the sake of 
 this great truth, this philosophy which will bring comfort to thou- 
 sands and rest to the weak and sorrowing; grow in perfection and 
 beauty daily as green fruit ripens: never a cavilling or unkind word: 
 never a weary look. Go into the silence when you are tempted and 
 alone will your spirit be uplifted. I am done. 
 
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August 8, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Today I have a philosophy of living to give that is not usual to 
 discuss, but which needs clear seeing if it is to be remedied. It is the 
 life of the sex. Sex is not just reproduction. It has a far deeper 
 significance than this. The species is reproduced by sex but the 
 species is also raised and elevated and evolved by reason of the 
 sexes. To men one labour, to women another and each in the proper 
 sphere the head. Never did God decree a higher place for one than 
 the other. Even the quaint tale of Adam and Eve has been made 
 one of equal companionship, equal responsibility for falling into the 
 sin of disobedience. Here is a distinction of sex in refusal to accept 
 responsibility. One blames his mate, one her tempter. The temp- 
 tation was the thing to fight, not who gave it. But ever, women blame 
 the temptation of their love, ever men say that women lure them. 
 
 Sex has its physical functions, but far more than physical is the 
 functioning of sex in brain and in the spirit. A male has certain 
 directness of purpose. He wishes and to this wish, he bends his will. 
 The desire is the one aim of existance for its duration. Be it money, 
 he will work and toil and scheme to acquire gold. Be it a woman, all 
 else goes from him save as by help of other possessions the woman can 
 be added. Be it reputation, how he strives for eloquence, for political 
 friends, for church position ! Be it any weakness of vice, how entirely 
 it controls him, if to it he yields his entire devotion. Drink or cards 
 or evil habits, each and all can ruin him even if he has ties so strong 
 that the lure would seem impossible against their hold. So sex is 
 representative in the male, in his desire and in his advance toward 
 achievement. 
 
 The woman is far less advanced in will because for long Centuries 
 she has been a possession, a part of the man and has had no expres- 
 sion of will made possible, in open manner. So she has tried seductive 
 allure, hoping so to gain what her mate chooses to have by direct 
 attack. This use of allure, of flattery, of deceit, has held back the 
 woman and has been the reason of her long backwardness in becoming 
 the force she was intended to be. Never has a woman been free from 
 the sway of some ruler, for some man, or her father, or her brother or 
 the lover or husband, has held life in his gift to make her happy, or 
 miserable. And now there comes to the woman a hope of the breaking 
 down of the barriers and the coming in of a great freedom, a wide 
 horizon, a glorious opportunity. No longer need she scheme for 
 liberty, license will be hers instead. 
 
 The liberty of the women who are the outcasts of the world has 
 been won through terrible wrong done them by men. The punish- 
 ment will fall upon the man for this vice of prostitution. For his 
 own ambitions and lust he sank into this degradation certain numbers 
 of women, denouncing them for their vicious lives while patronising 
 them as partners in sin. No chance you man, whomsoever you may 
 be, for freedom from restitution through reincarnation for the vicious 
 belief in your own ability to live two lives and your impure partner 
 
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to be the victim of society, meanwhile. Woe unto ye hypocrites, 
 indeed ye will have your reward. 
 
 High gifts have been rather the man's than the woman's of the 
 ages past but with the freedom to be, the woman's age will come and 
 gifted as her mate she will be. Eloquence has no sex, nor learning, 
 nor power to decide and discuss, but the man has been trained to 
 these, the woman restrained from any attempt towards like exercise 
 of ability. 
 
 Well it is to have a home and one that is happy, with high gifts 
 of social spirit to make the environment a high one; but more, is 
 the realization of great and noble gifts to be used as God directs 
 and to direct the home by means of ability, as man directs great under- 
 takings and to have in children a source of joy in power to direct 
 souls, rather than a mind too burdened by the details of living and 
 eating to know where the soul of the child is directed; to be too 
 ignorant to guide the mind. 
 
 You who are keenly alive to the events of each day have no under- 
 standing of what life means to the weary, burdened woman, un- 
 ashamed of her burden but alive to the limitations of her lot. Help 
 women develop. Forgive women who sin. Beg them to be good 
 but never turn from them in their sins, even as you hold to boys who 
 are immorally inclined, so give loving help to girls. Remember life 
 is sex and the call of sex is great to the newly developed youth 
 of either. 
 
 So do good and see the philosophies not as dreams of noble intent 
 but as realizations of the every day in the mental attitude toward 
 them. You have never seen men and women who are all vicious 
 but even then there is a germ of good. The divine is in each of you 
 and here you may give the seed water and dig about it and try to 
 make it spring up from the wretched soil into a something akin 
 to beauty. 
 
 The peace of the world will come when innocence is taught ana 
 vice is shunned; but innocence is not ignorance and vice is not neces- 
 carily the yielding to sex, when best, nature were curbed. Cultivate 
 high thoughts, so be innocent and teach restraint, so prevent vice. 
 
 My child, be good and strive ever for grasp on all truth. So you 
 grow and so you bloom. 
 
 Have you a wish today to see any more the prophetic utterances 
 of the past years? You will hear none from me, for I see nothing of 
 the future as I go my ways. Life has great promises to fulfill for each 
 of you two; and life's promises are fulfilled when the human wills to 
 make the promises to be realized. Work therefore with a will, work 
 to be nearer the heart's desire, work to be gentle and of higher purpose. 
 See good where you can. Love God, follow Jesus and so a greater 
 glory is to be in your vision and you will have fulfilled the promise 
 that has been made and as you go to your meditations now, think; 
 "the Master has need of me." You need no staff nor scrip, your way 
 will be made clear. 
 
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August 8, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will 
 give you rest." This means labour that is given you to do, not rush- 
 ing from one labour to another of your own choosing and of your 
 own free will. If you try to fit in various labours closely like a 
 picture puzzle you have no right to ask or expect rest. 
 
 The sermon this morning was finely thought out. See that you 
 carry the thought into all that you possess. There is no right or 
 wrong in possessions: that is all in your attitude toward them. This 
 home is dear to your heart. Make it a blessed place of rest and 
 comfort to many in this season that you are here. Let it stand for 
 something high and holy — Sanctuary. 
 
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August 9, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Letters from the other beloved Masters have concerned your 
 philosophical, health, ethical and conscious growth, mine are most 
 for spirit's growth. More simple they seem than those of January 
 but the spirit is simple, for its ways are not complex when seeking 
 right. Jesus taught simple truth. Your knowledge of the words of 
 Jesus is not so complete as it might be, try to read His words and the 
 account of His life over and over. So to know them as to be able 
 to say them to yourself under standingly. 
 
 The Parables have been explained by a Master, by his explana- 
 tion you have seen light in some perplexing cases. 
 
 Light is on the way for you, seek it and trust your signs and 
 symbols as given. You are here in a far place for definite work, see 
 to it you fail not. See to it you talk, when you have an opportunity ; 
 and that you use any power you have for good works among those who 
 long for a message. Your discussions with others, set the mould of 
 thought from a fluid form. Your analysis of certain accepted ex- 
 periences, for explanation to sceptical minds gives you a certain 
 power to state your actual tenets of belief. 
 
 Your desires are wholly good. Equal in deeds your desires. See 
 now that each day you grow and bloom and advance. Admire the 
 good in all. Denounce the weaknesses of your own character. So seek 
 to prune and cut the poor growth and give Sun and air and good 
 soil to what in you is worthy. You, means both. Your letters are 
 for each, equally. 
 
 You, Emilita, having most physical power and psychic, for the 
 present, have the longest letters but both are alike given these letters, 
 they are equally the property of both. 
 
 The desire of the Christian should be toward belief in Spiritism, 
 but it is not thus, because creeds and dogmas have set a barrier be- 
 tween the Christian and his pathway upward. I wish you to pub 
 aside all these barriers. Jesus, of the Christian church, 
 who suffered and was crucified to save from damnation the souls His 
 Father, God, had created, is absolutely not the Lord Jesus, who is of 
 all spirits the highest, noblest, purest. 
 
 His coming was as an example how to live and how to die. His 
 life was one of great sacrifice and example, his death was noble and 
 saintly and when again he appeared unto His Disciples, it was an 
 astral body that came, a body that was not the flesh, but came from 
 the flesh as His spirit came, when death on the cross was made mani- 
 fest and the body taken for burial. Death, as always was a mortal 
 experience. Jesus assumed then, immortality, coming again and 
 again four times, to His disciples and followers. To Peter and James 
 and John; to the Marys; to the disciples at Emmeus and when He 
 ascended to the source of light. His ascension was but a swift rising 
 and a losing of His presence in the mists of atmosphere. All who 
 appear to mediums or to clairvoyants are but in astral form. Jesus 
 is, was, and forever will be, Love Incarnate. His creation was first 
 
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of the graces. It is His own personal charm that is in every deed of 
 love you or any mortal may perform. Every emotion that has in it 
 a spark of loving charity is from Jesus. His is the presence most to 
 be longed for in your soul. Strive to keep in your heart the love 
 that would be Jesus in your home. He is very close to each of His 
 children who strive for His quality of loving service. Jesus' power 
 was generated through the force of love. Every miracle He performed 
 was a service. Even when it was drink at a feast He used a force 
 and created not alone wine from water; He created good, precious 
 wine, that was unlike all that the giver of the feast had furnished. 
 He healed souls and bade them walk away in the sick bodies, cured 
 from sickness because cured from sin. He gave vision so to those 
 who came for bodily help; vision of a freedom from sin which would 
 make spirit lofty and above bodily pain. Spiritual always, was Jesus' 
 word. What He said was in simple phrase but never did He fail to 
 express a lofty ideal. He created ideals with which His followers 
 could generate power to live, to walk, as God would deem desirable 
 in His people. 
 
 To create ideals merely as an expression of eloquence or of an 
 emotion of momentary place in the soul, is not worthily useful. The 
 assimilation of the ideal by the real is the only method whereby this 
 momentary emotion can be aught but harmful, in the process of 
 development. To express a certain desire for noble living does actual 
 damage to character save where the taking up of this expressed desire 
 is immediate and the effort to make it appreciably develop towards 
 good, is sustained. I aim at cutting deep into the sores of living and 
 to remove the putrid parts in order to make the sore a memory and 
 the part whole. 
 
 I am not a Master for long but I hope and know that the ploughed 
 field will be harvested well. The seed will be sown and the harvesters 
 will be many. Good will to obey; time taken for service; loving will 
 to serve; all these helpers and more will be your friends and will 
 harvest if only you will keep far from them ill will, envy, hatred and 
 all uncharitableness. 
 
 Be ready for much talking with friends and for much insight 
 through pondering. ''Never over, always through," remember this. 
 Go into the heart of a matter or leave it. 
 
 Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity! God is Love. Jesus is the 
 Master to teach love. The Holy Spirit is the will to love that must 
 come into every heart if the owner would see God, know Jesus and 
 feel a wondrous glory in his soul. 
 
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August 10, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Let never the thought come to you that the mind's eye is not clear. 
 The eye of the mind is what is most useful in living correctly and 
 facing life squarely. So keep the mind's eye very clear and bow 
 to no doubt of its clarity. 
 
 The science of mentality is founded upon the rock of truth. Men- 
 tal attitude does most to keep poise physically correct. Where this 
 is correct the body is well and the nerves are in tune. The mind sees 
 well if it is balanced and fed with good thinking. Remember your 
 lesson of last January in the late afternoon by a Master, where he 
 said of the mind that it was ruler of the whole body but subject to 
 the soul; Kingdom and Empire, you see. So symbolically, can most 
 ideas be expressed for clarity. The mind must be fed and kept alert. 
 So I bade you think a question to its solving, "through not over," 
 heed this at all times. 
 
 If you wish to help, as you will often wish, some one in sorrow, 
 or fancied affliction because founded upon the so-called Christian 
 belief in death and decay and the Heaven of the Revelations, you 
 must be calm and assured. Do not fear failure, nor doubt your ability. 
 From now on to your life's end this ability is open to all as a gift, 
 developed and understood. Your use is to be altogether now, in writ- 
 ing. You must give to others now as a letter to them received through 
 your power. I wish to explain therefore, carefully, just what it means 
 to have a spirit letter. Your mind has grasped the salient fact that 
 the writing is yours. If it is another's gone from earth, it is only 
 because your mind's eye sees that familiar handwriting and your hand 
 follows a mental suggestion. This might come from some one sitting 
 with you so the mere writing, is no possible evidence that a spirit 
 hand is writing. Separate matter from spirit. See them apart; one 
 as only etheric in quality, not grasping matter and not wishing to 
 handle a pencil. The writing is a message sent through you or to 
 you and the sender may use his own wireless as do the Masters, or 
 may send through a spirit medium. The letters from the Masters 
 come directly to you from the vibrations of the ether. Your key is 
 answered when opened, by a response and then the currents are held 
 while the words fly across space and from your mind are transferred 
 to paper fast as can be written. You might sit without a pencil and 
 receive a letter or a message, into your mind it would come soon as 
 the switchboard call was answered. But, of what use such a letter? 
 To you it would soon be all a dream, to others a bit of your mind's 
 wandering. Nothing absolute, nothing to use as data. So the Master 
 carefully writes and you as carefully receive. When I say writes, I 
 mean that I compose as if to write. Not conversational the messages 
 but in writing form. The message comes to you in like manner if an- 
 other comes for help, but here, must perhaps be assistance also, on this 
 side. The spirit wishing to communicate may be able to hold the 
 connecting wave or he may have no chance to come into the wave be- 
 cause he does not vibrate with you. Then, one of your Masters will 
 
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translate for the communicator. And you will always, if you come 
 prayerfully seeking, from now always, have a response for a suffering 
 friend. 
 
 The remedy for sorrow is of course to accept life in the immortal 
 sphere as greater and to rejoice that such a fine experience is come 
 to a loved one. But not all can reach this altitude of spiritual attain- 
 ment. Sorrow and loss crush for a time and the weight must be lifted 
 ere the soul can rejoice. Be ever alert to urge resignation. Without 
 this on the earth plane, the poor, fluttering spirit is sore pressed to 
 advance. Many a spirit is held back for long periods because of the 
 crushing, unreasoning grief of some body on the earth plane. 
 
 Talk this much. Explain, urge the attitude of faith which wills to 
 say: "Thy Will be done, dear Lord." It is so you can heal and make 
 happy not alone sorrowing hearts with you, but spirits alert to progress 
 but held back by the grief they fain would assuage. So you do this, 
 so you talk of immortality in words that make it seem a blessing, not 
 something to grieve about, and you have become a master of one of 
 the greatest services to be rendered by man to man. 
 
 Tell of the etheric waves, of the vibratory notes; tell of reincar- 
 nation as you know it to be. Give help and courage and good cheer. 
 Make sick souls well. Read concerning Heaven and tell your own 
 wonderful letters to give hope that such may be the experience faith can 
 bring. 
 
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August 10, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 It means great poise of soul when you can come to an anniversary 
 of bitter grief, with joy and contentment in your heart and an eager 
 looking forward to development here or vacation over there, which- 
 ever one may be for your best good. When the greater number of 
 people learn to look on death as a beginning of vacation time, a 
 gathering up of the threads of all incarnations, a meeting of loved 
 ones, a learning of those who have gone back and watching over their 
 gain in the new incarnation: then will life take its proper place in 
 the scheme of things — and so will death. Death will be swallowed 
 up in victory. You must not forget that this is your special mission 
 — you two. To you has been given a knowledge of reincarnation more 
 simple, more logical, more just than has been given before. Spread 
 it abroad. Let people see how happy this makes you, how contented 
 with your lot, how you strive for the best development of soul be- 
 cause of your knowledge. Most people fear death. Take this fear 
 from them and life will be brighter and better — like a sweet song. 
 None are too young to be told of it: none are too old. If one learned 
 this as a little child, all his life would be a marvellous growth. The 
 minister was right to teach that children should understand that they 
 are Christians. He might have gone farther and taught that this is 
 one of many lives and what is learned here makes for greater joy and 
 service in the next. It is one long intertwining of lives until a beauti- 
 ful pattern is made. In the tapestry you are doing, there is more 
 behind the pattern than shows on the surface, making the whole close 
 and firm and enduring. The filling in may seem monotonous to those 
 who are seeking excitement, beauty, variety; but to one who looks 
 on it as service which brings out and harmonises the beauty of the 
 whole, to that one there is great joy in the background. Remember 
 this when you see what looks like a colorless life. It may be in reality 
 the rounding out and harmonising of all former incarnations. You 
 need this lesson to open your eyes to the beauty of many lives that 
 surround you. Let no day go by without helping some soul upward. 
 Be obedient, be joyful, be calm and poised and serve your fellow men. 
 
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August 11, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Lesson today will concern the expression of the mind as shown 
 through speech, thought and deed. The mind is ever alert, even in 
 sleep the sub-conscious part of this physical organ, that is, the store 
 house of the present physical incarnation, is alert and is in the work 
 of assembling and analysing the thoughts of the day done. The 
 conscious mind is awake when the eye of the mind is open for im- 
 pression. Sleep may be a day dream absolutely of no help physically 
 or it may be the deep refreshment of the hours of relaxing and of 
 unconsciousness. 
 
 The thoughts of the mind are not always to be controlled. This 
 is the spirit speaking and a deaf ear is hard to turn to the spirit's 
 utterances. This Emperor, this absolute Ruler must be made however, 
 to grow wise and good, by every physical aid as well as spiritual. Be 
 aware of evil thoughts and strive that they shall not be put into words 
 nor translated into deed. So you quench evil in its first, chrysalis 
 stage. The thought is what can become after incubation a wonderful 
 moth of beauty or a butterfly of immortal loveliness. So the chrysalis 
 must not be allowed to break if it is impure, irreverent or of evil 
 intent. Let sink into the mind as little of impiety as you can, for the 
 reverence that mind has controlled and grown is the expression of the 
 man. 
 
 Strive ever to translate fine thinking quickly into fine deeds, full 
 of the human best. Let the words that fall from your lips express a 
 gentle, well controlled spirit and a mind stored with fine and lofty 
 thought. No mind is of itself a fine machine. It may have greater 
 possibilities of training than another, but the steady plodding, the 
 filling the corners of memory with fine thoughts of great souls, the 
 developing of logic, of mathematical ability, which causes reasoning 
 faculty, the studying of history to make a philosophical basis, all 
 this is what the individual must give his mind or have opportunities 
 lost of being one chosen for any but low place. 
 
 Men apparently, are favoured at times above others; but this, 
 all believers in reincarnation know to be the result of Karma and not 
 to be helped by any outcries or rebellion. 
 
 Every soul has its chance. It always grows upward. Each return 
 is to a higher result and each return sees a higher path for next time. 
 Not even the tempestuous changes of revolution can alter the soul's 
 destination. A soul may suffer a terrible cataclysm of separation 
 from all that is for great joy; but it so endures, because joy has been 
 over developed and pain has given no echoing refrain to balance 
 character. All qualities for good, must have an expression. Happi- 
 ness that has expressed itself by selfish joy, must see pain govern at 
 another incarnation. If while enjoying great happiness, unadulterated 
 by anxious hours or sorrowful ones, you had opened your eyes and 
 heart to others' pain, you were spared an incarnation to know and 
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poverty, all the trials and good fortunes, they are rightly together; 
 if they are separated then the one neglected must have paramount 
 place next time. 
 
 My child, when thus you see life, there are no inequalities. All 
 God's scheme is justice. When you accept an affliction as a judgment 
 of God upon you, you err. God's ways are worked by an absolute 
 Law. Why think the human races else? They see the marvels of 
 nature and the complete system of law that governs all natural pheno- 
 mena. See the heavens, the marvels of the Planetary system; of the 
 stars in their courses! See the winds, the tides, the waves of the 
 sea ! See the return each year of vegetation ! See the winter's ice and 
 snow ! Earthquakes and volcanoes follow law ; all is Law. 
 
 To try to reason about the destiny of man without a fixed law as 
 governing that destiny, is a fearful bit of egoism. "I," you would 
 say, "am set by God above His Laws. I, my little puny soul, is to 
 His eye an important factor in creation. I can move Him from His 
 plan by an appeal." My children, my children, beware such thought! 
 See God as All High; not to be talked of as with human attributes, 
 but to be thought of reverently as all Divine. In you is a spark of his 
 divinity. So much, just so much are you in God's image. 
 
 Never fear the wrath of God. His wrath is as unknown as His 
 human attributes. He is Love and not for anger are His children 
 punished. They are brought, through a reign of Law, into His King- 
 dom, which is altogether Holy and has no end. Until the soul has 
 been given its full development the training ground of earth is its 
 home. Only for rest and the next step along, as a grade in school, 
 does that soul come to the Plane of departed spirits. 
 
 Give heed, therefore, to your thoughts. Keep in tune with all high 
 and lofty ideals. Express first in deed then put the cause of the 
 deed into word. Do not talk of the great thoughts until effort to 
 achieve them has been made. Your heart is to help the mind ever. 
 Keep it alive and quickened by love to instant sympathetic willing- 
 ness to aid a good thought. Heart here means the conscience, the 
 altogether spiritual part of the being. Heart as organ, beats as a 
 machine to throw good blood out into the system of veins and arteries. 
 The heart of which I speak is the gentle and tender instincts of the 
 spirit. Cultivate these and feel them to be the most enduring part 
 of your being. 
 
 Never say what you would regret. Hold word serf to thought and 
 let deed be its page. Deed can be trusted more than word. Word is 
 the untrained part of you if you are careless. Often your mind is 
 well intentioned, and yet an idle, careless word makes a difficult place 
 in your journey of life. Teach words to be only spoken at the will 
 of controlled thought. So no chance of wrong done by the least 
 reliable of the three servants of the mind. 
 
 Thought control is spiritual development. Deed is the high ex- 
 pression of good thought. Word is the member of the trio most to be 
 curbed. The thought, only you can know. The deed may be but little 
 known, but the word, ah the word can carry despair and sorrow 
 
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when no thought made this a necessity, when only the idle letting fall 
 fin idle expression has ruined lives and wrecked Nations. 
 
 Give heed then, to thought, deed and word. Let words be kind 
 and gentle. Guard your tongue dear children, guard this little member 
 carefully ; train it to answer thought, not to lead it. 
 
 I wish now to strive to explain in one phrase the consciousness 
 you sometimes feel of a life that is not yours but might be your ex- 
 perience. You see a house that recalls some vague, far away memory. 
 You see a face that seems to hold for you a link with some past ex- 
 perience. All this is the consciousness of the past that the inner 
 consciousness, the soul's memory carries. You have lived many lives, 
 some here, some there. You have heard, seen, known much. All life's 
 experiences are parallels and so when something comes into your con- 
 sciousness that seems familiar, it is a call to the soul's memory for 
 the parallel experience of another incarnation. You live, you love, 
 you suffer; you play, you weep, you worship. Childhood, manhood, 
 old age, youth, middle age, all are paralleled in human experience. 
 Child birth, death, war, pestilence, famine. Earth hath not anything 
 to keep for some special case, all is in the common lot. So if the 
 parallel does not come as coincidence in life, it comes as vague stirrings 
 of the unknown to the inner consciousness. 
 
 Recognize and divide the subconscious, the mind's cataloguing 
 list from the inner consciousness, the soul's memory. 
 
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August 11, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 Health of the body is pitiful if the mind is impaired. 
 
 Better is a clear mind in a weak body, but best is the strength 
 of both in harmony. Therefore the many instructions about the body 
 so that a perfect whole may develop. 
 
 You can see the refreshment to the country of a rainy day like 
 this. Your mind understands automatically how the gardens need 
 watering, the roads need the dust laid, all nature the rest from the 
 blazing sun. Children see only that they cannot go out to play, that 
 their plans are spoiled. This is a symbol of spiritual matters. 
 Spiritual things are unintelligible to those who look only for physical 
 and mental pleasures. 
 
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August 12, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 The blue is ever about us dear children; look for it in grey skies, 
 seek it in sorry moments. Know blue is there as clouds burst, that 
 only the surface is covered. Back of the rain is the Sun. The rain 
 comes to the earth to develop and tears to the soul for growth. The 
 laugh that is only amusement is not that which stirs. It is the laugh 
 that has behind it pain conquered and so an understanding of joy 
 that follows grief. The sympathy of one never touched by sorrow 
 would be futile. It is the understanding one who appeals, who assures, 
 who helps the feet over stony ways. When you feel no sorrow, you 
 feel no real joy. For sunshine has shadow; only unreality casts no 
 shadow. The spirit would cast no shadow, but spirits come not to be 
 of life a part, but to strengthen some spirit that lives and is in 
 despair. The material is for life; the spiritual is what fits for a life 
 to come. The material is lovely. Beautiful objects in your life, 
 beautiful homes, lovely paintings, grandeur of architecture, all this 
 is for the realization of something greater than living. If life is mere 
 existence, eating, sleeping, procreating the Race, hunting to eat and 
 killing to find cover for day and night, what is there to call emotion 
 to the part it plays? No! Life is a great Drama. Every incarnation 
 is a new role. Every human existence is for creating another role and 
 for so, being great and noble and fine for development to be, later on. 
 
 Life is complex. The simplest form of life, the home for children's 
 development is complicated by the needs that each little new soul 
 must express. You may fail to appreciate the soul of a child so 
 effectively that you mar an incarnation. How can such responsibility 
 be given mortals? This is the natural development, the growing to- 
 gether of young and older. The failing, the beginning of growth ; the 
 development, the expansion of vision. Where can you go for more of 
 life's greatest than to a home where high thought guides to high living. 
 So the home is not simple living! Nothing of living but is complex. 
 
 To meet the souls of others the soul must be trained to understand 
 the high ways of life. Then, indeed, the human intercourse begins 
 to partake of the divine. You reach heights only if you climb. You 
 scale the abyss but you climb the mountain. You soar, when the 
 aeroplane takes you aloft but this, because you are the master of a 
 great fact of science gained by the climbing of many minds to high 
 attainment of their studies. 
 
 Nothing you do is easily done. Each act has slowly evolved from 
 some act that led to the later development. You eat, as do all the 
 animals, but how great has your evolution been shown in the science 
 of the eating of modern men. You sleep, as did your forbears, but 
 you sleep for the reason that your forbears were evolved from watchers 
 and sleepers, to sleeping the hours of the night. The caves first, the 
 forests, the tent, the hut, the house, each in its time evolved for man's 
 eating and sleeping. Life simple! Your minds cannot grasp its 
 wonderful plan. Stars and planets are as simple; stones and earth, 
 fire and sea, all full of life and all to strengthen the living of this 
 period. 
 
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Each element has been furthering life, each life has been developed 
 by means of the help of these elements. Chemicals, what do they 
 give? Air is chemical. All you eat is composed of the elements, put 
 together in proper proportions, of chemicals. Life is the greatest proof 
 to the power of your Creator. To hear a man deny God is so puerile 
 a sound! Deny God! What can such a development know of Deity? 
 Deny a Creator ! The ant on a hill in the desert may far more wisely 
 deny the existence of the Sea. Oh ye of little faith. Have ye eyes 
 and see not? Have ye ears and hear not? 
 
 The life each day of every mortal is a miracle. The service that 
 history does in man's education is to teach the science of living. The 
 Past is paralleled by every act of the Present. Do men grow better 
 in one Era than in the last, you ask. Yes, they grow slowly better. 
 Not for years to be can your children's children see the good that has 
 come from this last cataclysm, but good was there. Nations come up 
 and sink. Rome fell and Greece, Babylon fell and many another. 
 No more are Trojans, no more are the Greeks, but the characteristics 
 of those myths are carried into the present. Did Achilles exist? Who 
 cares. His desires persist now, his lusts, his vices, his great powers. 
 Did Hector live? Well, and why care? Love as he showed it to 
 Andromache exists. So the spirit grows and the times change. Love 
 is finer now than in Hector's day for love sacrifices now and it is love's 
 sacrifice that shows how much the World has bettered. 
 
 Individuals must each grow to the stature of their being, so growth 
 must continue and evil exist. When all men are good, the World is 
 finished, for no more is the testing ground needed. But all growth 
 is slow. Centuries and thousands of them were for the growth of 
 the testing ground. Envisage living by the vast spaces of the Heavens. 
 See the limitations of space as endless and of time as not and you have 
 immortality and eternity. 
 
 The Heavens declare God's glory. All the phases of the storm 
 are but for the purposes of Creation. Earthquakes have created more 
 of land or less of land but they have helped in the founding of Con- 
 tinents and it is due to Volcanic eruptions that the conformation of 
 the Earth is such as you know it. In the Seas are vast ranges of 
 mountains, and of continents buried, there are more than Atlantis. 
 The Periods, from Glacial to the present have been but to form your 
 World to receive its beautiful adornments of flora, fauna and rock, 
 that you know. The making of all this wonderful Earth took aeons 
 of time. This you know but do you see why it was done? Why 
 science has been made by incarnation and reincarnation of assiduous 
 students of Natural forces? Why Churches exist and religion? Why 
 War has been permitted and has been a scourge? When all the earth 
 has become the fit home for man, why was man made so little fit for 
 the earth? Because God, the eternal, the everlasting Good, has made 
 all as the witness of growth ; only growth in character and the rest is but 
 the beginning, the preface to the volume. What comes swiftly glows, 
 lives a moment and dies. What comes through pain and toil, through 
 sorrow and anguish, what strives and fails and strives again; this, 
 
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is the great human example. And so life goes on and on, up always, 
 vastly bettered by the past, greatly helped each era, each generation. 
 
 Life is progress; no step backward. Evil prevails in your midst 
 but not so much of evil as of good. Shun pessimism, be observant of 
 the growth. Do not falter but feel ever the need, the glow of life's 
 growing in yourselves. 
 
 Be careful as to fatigue, as to food, as to desire. Think of good. 
 Talk of good. Say no more, a man is evil. Say a man is backward. 
 That is really it, a man may be evil in some ways and intellectually 
 a giant. His development is backward, that is all, arrested in some 
 way. So saying, your own paths are cleared of the dangerous under- 
 growth of carping and criticizing. Appreciate. Do not compare, 
 do not depreciate. Say naught or say good. See good and believe the 
 World grows toward light. Love the light. Love too the shadows, 
 they too are lovely. 
 
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August 13, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 Sympathy and smiles are the sunshine that heals aching hearts, 
 that restores confidence. Always smile with your eyes into children's 
 eyes and you are giving Faith to the little souls who should always 
 receive love from every one they meet. Eyes are the windows of the 
 soul. You look into other souls; your soul shows in yours. When 
 eyes look cold and watchful try to bring warmth and cheer into them. 
 It is worth while to do this for your own sake and more worth while 
 to have warmed a cheerless soul. Much has been given you two: 
 much will be required of you. Never turn away from a sincere desire 
 to know, to learn. You should be able to discriminate between that 
 and idle curiosity. The end of these lessons is drawing near. Use 
 this time daily when you can to read the lessons given, so that they 
 may be written on the tablets of your heart where nothing can take 
 them away . This is true education. It is not enough to read them 
 once or twice, appreciate their beauty and then let them become a 
 dim memory. Clear water can make a sieve clean, but no water can 
 be held in it to quench the thirst of another or your own. So let your 
 minds be pure, firm vessels to hold the spiritual teachings for the 
 development of your own and other souls. 
 
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August 14, 1920. 
 To E. P. 
 
 Your ways are not to be smoothed and made soft. Before you lies 
 a height to climb that has no repose along its way nor is rest at the 
 summit. Do not draw away from simple amusements. Be willing 
 to go among friends and be so exactly as usual that none can say: 
 "She has changed and become queer." Guard against aught of change 
 that seems unlike the normal. Be gay and happy and ever kind and 
 your path is cleared of many obstacles. Kindness is needful and when 
 not shown the reaction is sharp, so too sympathy and love and gentle 
 will to express this. When these exist, life is made a higher walk to 
 him who so expresses his development. Lack of these is but lack of 
 high development. They will come some time. Charity must be basic 
 ere the character is highly grown. "Hope is the rarest, Faith is the 
 foundation and Charity the highest of the graces." 
 
 The House of Life is built upon foundations of Faith or must be a 
 temporary structure. Naught but Faith can carry the building to 
 completion. When finished, the adornment is Hope and the occupant 
 Love, or all is failure and must be rebuilt. Your lesson today con- 
 cerns then the building of the House of Life. 
 
 Faith as foundation, we presuppose. Faith gives the religion firm 
 hold as if the sub-structure were religion. God is only in the life 
 of faith to accept. God exists. You see Him not, you feel Him not 
 but you know Him in the intimacies of your communings. God then, 
 is the first sub-structure of the House of Life, when that house is 
 founded upon a rock. Acceptance of God as the Ruling Power is 
 natural to men of Christian Lands and under other forms, to all Lands. 
 The belief in God as the over Lord, the whole of the Firmament being 
 His dwelling place, goes back to the Cave men, in some form. The 
 acceptance of the Christian tenets of Trinity or the dogmas of sect 
 are not sub-structures but as it were, flooring, easily replaced though 
 well laid. 
 
 Faith is to accept what is beyond the realm of mind to explain. 
 What can be explained, requires no faith. It rains, you say; this is not 
 faith, it probably does rain, but and if you believe that though 
 drought exists, rain is sure ultimately to come, this might be called 
 faithful accepting of future from the results of the past. To say "God 
 sends rain. He is good and just, He created the Earth to bloom and 
 produce hence His rain will ever fall to feed the children of men and 
 water the brooks and make beautiful all Nature" this, is Faith. The 
 great Jehovah is faith's founder. To Him, Faith addresses its highest 
 fealty. Faith in God, in His Heavenly Kingdom, in His justice, in 
 His wisdom, all this substructure makes firm foundation. 
 
 The walls may be faith in your fellow men in your House of Life; 
 in their loyalty, progress, fealty one to another. Whoso trusts his 
 fellows is a man with no need of support from false standards. Even 
 though some fail his trust, he will say, "Here was a wall not strong 
 to support pressure put upon it, I must make thicker and stronger 
 beams by a surer trust that God makes men to answer to good, when 
 
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good is the call their souls receive." So Faith is the surest support the 
 walls of the House of Life can receive. 
 
 The faith in himself is the cover to the House. There falls rain 
 and sunbeam, there comes the soul for air in the eventide. A very 
 garden should this roof of the House of Life become, where faith in 
 self, — in ones motives, in ones intentions, in ones truth and purity 
 can be tested and tried and proved strong. When a break comes, a 
 leakage in which some one or more of these qualities seem not strong 
 to hold, strengthen them. No need to pull down the House of Life, 
 rebuild its weaker places, repair all the time. Hold fast all that is 
 good, cling to all that is righteous and make to reach the standard of 
 good, what is weak. Then this House is indeed firm to bear the builder 
 to the end of this incarnation. 
 
 Hope adorns this well built Mansion. Pictures of beautiful dreams 
 realized, beauty in all the parts. Beauty of spirit, manifested through 
 eyes of sympathy. Beauty of spirit made manifest through desire to 
 help and heal and encourage. Beauty of spirit made manifest through 
 visions of immortality, seen as symbolic in the changing of the Sea- 
 sons, the changing of the insects, the dying of blossom and the growth 
 of fruition. Oh how greatly hope adorns what it can reach! Hope 
 is the quest of every high instinct. Hope is the noblest expression, 
 because a rare one of the inner consciousness. Hope can only realize 
 through effort but effort without Hope is sadly prone to failure. It 
 is the vital force in life, for when hope dies the will to go on is also 
 dead. 
 
 Hope creates and Charity executes the creation, the design. The 
 life is a charitable one, or the occupant of the House of Life, founded 
 on Faith and adorned by Hope, is indeed unworthy the home and sure 
 to wreck it. 
 
 No man who is moral, just, firm yet severe, unforgiving of fail- 
 ings, unfeeling for the weaknesses of others, has a good inmate in his 
 House of Life. With the justice, firmness, severity, should be pity, 
 yielding to loving pursuasion, gentle moments of loving human inter- 
 course. Faith, without Hope and Love has been a sorry ruin, stand- 
 ing alone and unadorned, wind swept and pitilessly forlorn. Hope 
 added to Faith and the house is there well cared for, adorned, fine to 
 the view, noble of aspect, gardens cared for, windows decorated with 
 proper hangings, furnishing of beauty visible, but no lights, no fires, 
 no signs of habitation. Love brings these. Light, fire, warmth, the 
 intimate touches that make the House of Life a noble home are Love's 
 contribution. 
 
 Love alone, may be forlorn too, for Love alone is bereft of wisdom 
 to house herself and understanding wherewith she may use her quality 
 for human benefit. 
 
 So Faith and Hope and Love are sister Graces, combined the 
 best of the trinities, separated, made weak and of futile achievement. 
 
 Build ye the House of Life as ye are told. Strengthen the sub- 
 structure, the walls. The floors change. The roof repair. Adorn the 
 House of Life. Hang visions as pictures and realize the visions to 
 
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furnish. Let then the occupant Love in to make a home and your 
 journey ings will be toward the home in the New Jerusalem, from a 
 home in the Earth, that fits you for the finer dwelling. 
 
 You cannot put into a noble mansion a man unfitted to care for 
 its beauty and its fine building. You room him first, in furnished 
 tenement with the keynote, honest simplicity and train him for the 
 greater benefits. This is right. Your occupant who loves not, ruins 
 the House of Life howsoever adorned by hope or built by faith. 
 
 Let Love in, the love that is a mantle of charitable understanding. 
 My children, you know the way, walk therein. When danger assails, 
 seek your sub-structure for safety. It lies in religion, in God's mercy 
 as your refuge. When doubts assail, see to your floors. Change if 
 you will, but lay your new one well; no chance, temporary creed must 
 floor your House of Life. When faith in friendship is weak, strengthen 
 your walls; stay them with understanding, support them with absolute 
 belief in integrity and truth. When your roof is showing leakage, 
 mend it; see what fault has made the trouble, repair it; mend the 
 little ways that lead to big damage and so see yourself a cover worthy 
 the structure you shield. And your adorning, let it be only the best; 
 high hope in self and self achievement, high hope in others and their 
 intents; high belief in goodness as an attribute not rare, but common; 
 high confidence in the goodness and mercy of your Creator and in 
 the desire you have to follow close in His image. 
 
 Build so, adorn so and then, ask in Love to kindle the fires of 
 sacrifice for others, to light the lamp of service, to shut out the dark- 
 ness of doubt, to make so like Home the House of Life that the virtues 
 will seek it for its comfort and inner sanctuary. I am done. 
 
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To H. H. N. August 14, 1920. 
 
 It is well that these hours are precious to you and you have won 
 the appreciation of their worth from patient and sincere and eager 
 following of directions and teachings. You have stumbled and hesi- 
 tated; but you have been willing to recognize the failure and start 
 again, always a little farther in the way than you were at the last 
 failure, and sometimes racing over the path. Then one goes far, but 
 always at the risk of mistaking the signals and wandering awhile on 
 other paths. Then it has been right-about-face, back turned upon 
 failure, acknowledging its mortification, and then an eager recognizing 
 of the right way. So long as your souls are willing the progress is 
 sure though not steady in development. Already you see that for 
 these nine days there has never been a sacrifice of plan or pleasure: 
 but knowing that such sacrifice might be required, you chose to be 
 obedient and set this time aside for the Master's teachings. Will 
 this not teach you that times of silence, of sanctuary, are the most 
 blessed times, the times when strength is gained for life's duties and 
 the carrying of life's burdens? Some time, long or short, each day 
 chosen in accordance with duties will keep your souls fresh and eager 
 and your hearts youthful instead of being bowed with life's trials. 
 Your father's "Going into the Silence" was never understood by you 
 because you were so far backward in your development: but his going 
 away and your great desire to communicate with him has, after three 
 years, brought to you the appreciation of it. Take this to heart and 
 realize that really sincere seekers cannot at once understand even 
 when they wish to. You have had wonderful training and yet how 
 gradual has been the unfolding of truth and experience; so beyond 
 everything else become patient in the teachings you are to give; be 
 ready to talk; never take offence at argument and say: — "I do not 
 simply believe, I know." Such appreciation of knowledge carries 
 weight to both simple and complex minds and fearing minds, and 
 gives confidence that knowledge such as that is built on a firm founda- 
 tion. It is for you both to build a beautiful mansion on that founda- 
 tion. Jesus said: "In my Father's house are many mansions, I go 
 to prepare a place for you." The loved ones who have gone on can 
 help you on the foundation — prepare the place: but it is for you to 
 build your own mansion thereon. The place is there; opportunity 
 is given to build; but they are powerless to make you build. Will 
 you have a narrow, contracted, dark mansion? Then you choose to 
 be carping, critical, domineering, intolerant here and such will be the 
 mansion for the soul that you build in your own place. But do you 
 wish wide, bright, airy, sunny rooms? Then here you must radiate 
 love, cheerfulness under sorrow and trial even, service to your fellow- 
 men always, and tolerance of ignorance and even crime and evil, recog- 
 nising it as backward development of souls that have not chosen well 
 in their incarnations and so -must come back over and over again. 
 Never let them shadow your sunshine. Let the sunshine of your 
 truth bring light into their darkness. Never hate ; never be depressed. 
 See always the victory of truth and light and love. 
 
August 15, 1920 
 To E. P. 
 
 Lesson today is upon the bounty of living when it is for high 
 purpose. Living may be full of great luxury, full of so much happi- 
 ness of earthly origin that the cup seems fairly to overflow and still 
 lack in bountiful gifts, for bountiful gifts are the riches of spirit. 
 How can much of spirit, bountiful gifts of this, go to her who is con- 
 tent with lovers or luxury or all conquest? Or to him who has success 
 writ over his page of life, without honourable record or honour among 
 men? Success is the least of the great attainments. To succeed, 
 requires application, shrewdness, unscrupulous methods often, lack 
 of sympathy and ambition. These create success if it is to be in a 
 life. A man may be a successful one and still have bountiful gifts 
 but he is then more than a successful citizen, he is an honoured citizen. 
 So to be full of riches, of possessions that give a surface show; to have 
 fine rank in a profession, to be a great politician or even in high place 
 as Statesman or Soldier means not necessarily to be honoured as a 
 citizen. Success is ephemeral; it may endure a lifetime, it may slip 
 away some day, with no warning of the desertion. Fortune, friends, 
 properties may go and he who was on the crest of the wave become 
 as jetsam and flotsam. No prophesying here, or you might have a 
 word of this, for an example is so close of the endurance of the great 
 and bountiful gifts when pure success, the chance fortune or the 
 cleverly won fortune is gone. 
 
 Life can be bountifully blessed by high purpose. Aim high, 
 Emilita. Cease any criticism. Cease all effort to advise the life of 
 another. Stand fast and cast anchor but let the ship right itself where 
 this is possible. To help another is a good deed when the call comes 
 for help; but to step forth to save a man from danger who is quite as 
 capable as yourself is an act not admirable. 
 
 Go among people accepting their good and ignoring their less good 
 qualities. The life to be is full of opportunities. Guard these, seize 
 upon every chance, give, give. But do not proffer your gifts in the 
 Market Place. Keep at home the gift and let those who desire, seek. 
 Over again I say this for I go now and I am full of desire to impress 
 upon you that the slight reasons many have for a call upon you are 
 to be shunned. You have in your possession a great gift. Hold it 
 precious. Let never a friend say you are placing the new belief be- 
 fore her all the time to her weariness. Let her say rather she longs 
 to hear about it and you do not give it to her. 
 
 The lessons of living are many, gained in diverse ways. Honesty, 
 truth and proper conduct come to you from all mother lore. No 
 mother but teaches her babe the little facts of life so essential, while 
 it is about her knee, when she herself has the growth that should be 
 the heritage of the child. Religion comes later; the little prayer is 
 
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conned at mother's side, yes, but the real lesson of religion must come 
 when understanding is developed sufficiently to make this possible. 
 Religion is the soul's cry; the human struggle to attain the Divine. 
 So it comes in later growth. 
 
 You are saved by means of your own conduct what will prevent 
 another incarnation from enduring all of this. Accept reincarnation 
 and live in its tenets and you are saved much. Diverse ways come to 
 the life's developing. Teachers come and friends and foes and cir- 
 cumstance. Love comes as the crown of the life. Young mating 
 and the coming of the home and the birth of children and their young 
 lives, to help round the lives of the parents! Every step has its way 
 of teaching life. Never can you know the next turn in the path and 
 what stepping stones are there to be seen. Never can you feel your 
 life is completely lost to pain or to pleasure by a certain event. Life 
 is progressive and all that is progress changes. 
 
 You are today healthy and strong, tomorrow, striken by malignant 
 disease and brought low. You are today rich in all blessings and 
 tomorrow your lot is cast among those bowed by affliction. You 
 have wealth of possessions today, none after a conflagration. You 
 have wealth of friends, none after a social cataclysm. All is change! 
 All is on the way to the vacation. 
 
 Learn to envisage life as a school term. Endure its disappoint- 
 ments, its privations and its sorrows as but an experience of this 
 year; to be forgotten during vacation and next time to be ignored 
 amidst newer and higher scenes. 
 
 Life is as you will it to be. Not its setting, here your way is 
 planned for cause of development but your progress is as you choose. 
 Wisely advance to learning and wisdom; seek experiences that lead 
 to right growth; love good and worthy men and good and righteous 
 living; and life is as you will it to be. You are, perhaps, in a poor 
 environment but loved where you are known. You have sore afflic- 
 tions of health and sorrow but always care and always tender sym- 
 pathy. Never does God permit His righteous child to have more 
 than can be endured. Sorrow, yes and a heart bowed down by woe, 
 but neglect in sorrow, no. Here is man's own will to live' well, the 
 reaction to the burden borne. Because sorrow crushes is no reason 
 the burden should be cast away, rather bear it cheerfully, head high, 
 heart aflame, soul ready for painful progress. Then is the burden 
 dropped because the pilgrim's way of staggering fatigue is ended and 
 joyfully may he go forward to the new and glorious holiday. 
 
 To be averse to living and enduring and striving is to be averse 
 to the sunny ways, the heights, the tall forest! To prefer the failure 
 of success to the honour of the road described is to look upon the 
 slough as beauty rather than the mountain lake. Love the strife. 
 Face the open road. Live, love, give, strive, hope and in the end, 
 
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come here to the season of holiday to face happiness and peace and 
 all blessing. 
 
 My pupil, we part today for many a day; but your way and my 
 way and Helen's way are alike into the blue of the sky road. Follow 
 my words as guide, live by them and feel yourself strong to talk by 
 them. 
 
 Talk when you are sought, have no fear. Look your belief, act 
 it, live it. Let those whom you meet say; "Here is a gift of spirit, 
 let us quench our thirst at this spring." Give the water of life freely 
 for remember, freely have you received. 
 
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August 15, 1920. 
 To H. H. N. 
 
 You come to the last lesson with grateful heart for all you both 
 have received in these ten days. You have been wakened to many 
 lessons new to you; to philisophy and to ethics. This is your vaca- 
 tion time. You have gathered up the threads of many friendships 
 which play no part in your city life and enjoyed them with the same 
 freshness and friendliness as if it had not been nearly twelve months 
 since you had seen them; and you have heard much of the friends 
 who are not here yet or who have come and gone. 
 
 Can you see that Death is vacation time in the same way, and 
 something more; that you may not see all you love every time you 
 cross the chasm? But you will find those just as dear whom you 
 have known in other incarnations. This last incarnation is the most 
 spiritual one because we go up always each time we come for develop- 
 ment. It may be by strenuous labour of spirit, mind and body; and 
 it may have been in quiet paths, but each is what is needed for your 
 best development; alternating colour with shadow to make a large 
 and beautiful pattern. 
 
 These are my last instructions:— 
 Teach Re-incarnation. 
 Be Patient. 
 Be Joyous. 
 
 Show what Victory over Death means. 
 Let not your Heart be troubled. 
 
 Follow Jesus' Example so far as in you lies, and Always Love 
 and Serve your Fellow Men. 
 
 My blessing goes with you now though I shall not come often. 
 
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