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Table of Contents

Spirit is Immortal Life by Mrs. J. H. Conant — p4

The Book of Knowledge by John Newbrough— p9

The Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom on Earth by John Newbrough—

p11

The Jewels by Carlyle Petersilea— p13

Little Ruth by Aber and Nixon— p16

What Became of That Fetal Life? by Aber and Nixon— p19

Exegetical Spiritualism — Resurrection by J. M. Peebles — p23

The Destiny of Man by Wesley Aber— p26

Future of a Child by Edward Randall—p33

The House of the Harpy by James Hewat McKenzie— p45

The Unborn Dead by Edward C. Randall— p47

Of Birth and Death: From Whence To Where? By Walter DeVoe

— p53

Brought Back to Earth by The Eloists— p62

A Nurse from the Plateau by The Eloists—p64

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Wanted: Mothers by Anonymous—p67

Bless the Innocents by The Eloists— p73

The Gift of Life by The Eloists— p75

Growing in the Spiritual Worlds by The Eloists—p78

Peace by The Eloists by —p80

Dear Souls of Light by The Eloists —p82

Lines of Light by The Eloists —p86

The Sacred Life Immortal by Robert Bayer —p89

Eternal Families of Love by Robert Bayer—p92

Pro-Life Feminism by Jeannine Parvati Baker—95

The Development of the Unborn Child by Walter and Betty—104

A Family of the Heavens by Robert Bayer—124

The Cosmic Family Eternal by Robert Bayer—128

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Spirit is Immortal Life

Flashes of Light

Mrs. J. H. Conant

(1872)

Q. Is life, or that principle of vital activity which is manifested through

the human organism, spirit? If not, what is it leaves the body at

death?

A. Spirit I define as something undiscernible by human sense;

something which no living soul can measure or analyze. I define life

to be, so far as we understand it, a manifestation of spirit. Those

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things which our senses perceive, recognize, are the things of life, all

living things, every one of them—not one dead; and they are all

manifestations of spirit. That subtle power that defies the scalpel, and

passes out of the body at the change called death, I believe to be

spirit, co-eternal with the God-spirit, and part and portion of the divine

life,—such a part as that divine life saw fit to exercise over humanity.

You call it the spirit of man, the soul of man or woman. It matters not

by what term it is recognized. It is the one spirit, the infinite,

all-pervading—a something indestructible, without creation and

without end.

Q. You consider all spirit immortal?

A. I do, most certainly. And I have most ample proofs that it is all

immortal.

Q. Then animals are not at death swept into a grand chaos—the

great mass of spirit—to be again worked over into some other form?

A. By no means. Here is the rock—the rock of form—upon which all

classes of theological scientists split, and many of them founder; the

rock of form, supposing that the form we have or behold to-day will

exist forever; that the immortality rests with that, is dependent upon

that. By no means is it. Forms are constantly changing, as spirit has

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need of higher instruments through which to express itself. The

instrument is made better. How is it with regard to the flowers? They

are not to-day what they were years ago. And why not? Because the

God that was within them called upon the God that was within the

human intellect, and said, "Come, intelligence, shed your dews upon

me, act upon me, bring me into a higher form of good." What was the

result? Why, the husbandman went to work to make more beautiful

flowers, to add new hues to their fair faces, to make more beautiful

their forms, to change for the better the rose and lily, not at all

infringing upon Nature or Nature's God. Immortality does not call

upon the form for its power. By no means. Forms must change. You

have evidence of that every day of your lives. But the immortality that

belongs to the form is immortal forever and forever. There is no

sudden change of those forms, but a gradual growth. If the change

was sudden it would produce too great a shock in the realm of

intelligence; therefore it is very slow, comes as you are prepared for

it. The years throw their snows upon your brows as you are prepared

to receive them—just so fast, and no faster.

Q. If spirit is not matter, is all spirit the same—that is, equally

advanced or perfect? If so, what benefit is derived from its

manifestation through matter? A. That spirit is not matter, matter is

every day proving. But that spirit is inseparably connected with

matter, matter is also every day proving. Matter is the expression of

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spirit, not the spirit; the outer bark, the foliage, the branches, not the

inner, invisible life. What the advantage? Why, all intelligence can

answer that question as well as we can. Of what advantage is it to

you of this age that you have greater light than they who lived ages

before you did? Since you require greater light, certainly it is for your

advantage to have it. All the expressions of spirit through matter are

not only an advantage to matter, but is also to intelligence, to that

subtle force that expresses itself through the human brain, and says,

"Behold, this is very beautiful or very grand." The world of matter was

made for the world of intelligence. When you keep this in your mind,

you will hardly wonder that matter changes its form.

Q. Is the spirit of the infant an emanation from that of the parent? and,

if so, is the spirit of the parent less an individualized entity, or does it

suffer any diminution or disarrangement in its powers?

A. The infant is physically a physiological result of the parents' life,

but spiritually it is not. It is a spirit independent of either father or

mother; you may be sure of this. It is from God, the Great Spirit, the

Father and Mother, the Whole, the Universal Life.

Q. If the spirit of the infant is not an emanation from that of the parent,

whence does it originate? At what period during the incubation does

it take possession of the human organism?

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A. At conception.

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The Book of Knowledge

Oahspe

John Newbrough

(1882)

And yet the depth is not full. In a stately mansion a woman of high

caste is dead. And it was said she was blessed, because since not

having borne children, ease and glory were at her command. And

now, with curious mirth and some envy, the spirits of other women

who were outcasts come to behold the newborn spirit of the leader of

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fashion. And as they turn about, nurses come with children born from

her body and her spirit, by abortion cast into heaven, even in

Jehovih's face accursed: A curtain of black death that will not away,

choketh her. To the left, the right, or up and down, there is nothing

but the wail of sweet babes - Mother, why murderest thou me? Was I

not Jehovih's gift? The woman of fashion hides but is not hidden,

even the soiled outcasts are white beside her; like a woman that is

crushed but cannot die, she squirmeth and writheth in the kingdom

she built with her own hands.

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The Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom

on Earth

Oahspe

John Newbrough

(1882)

We were created in order to help rescue the world from darkness, and

to rejoice in our own lives, because of such good as we can do unto

others. Behold, we were orphans and castaways; Jehovih wedded us

to all the world. Having, therefore, wisdom and purity within

themselves, and, withal, having sufficient association to choose from,

they did choose and wed for love's sake. Nor did any worldly ambition

control their choice, or influence them in hope of any gain as to their

wedded partners. And it came to pass that the offspring begotten of

these were indeed a new race in the world, as to wisdom, love, purity

and spirituality, and new also as to beauty and shapeliness, the like of

which had never been before in all the world. And they were by birth

so developed in su'is, that, when they were grown a little, education

came to them without books. To see and to hear, either corporeally or

spiritually, was all they required in order to accomplish wisely all

things required unto mortals. And, with them, the heavens were as an

open book; the libraries of the heavens as the sound of voices full of

wisdom. And the angels of ancient and modern times came, and

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stood by them, and walked with them, revealing the past and the

future. And, yet, none of these colonies were bound by written laws,

nor had any of them leaders or masters, nor any government, save

the Light of Jehovih. Nor was one colony bound by the customs and

commands of another colony; but all of them lived by the highest Light

that came to them. Nor owned any man, woman or child anything

more than the clothes he or she wore; but all things were Jehovih's, in

care of the keeping of the colony.

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The Jewels

The Discovered Country

Carlyle Petersilea

(1889)

“A little child had passed through the Gates Eternal, and was lying

happy and content in the arms of an angel. We heard the mother’s

wail of grief, and hastened to comfort her.

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She was kneeling by the grave of her baby, desolate and

heart-broken; to her the child was dead she would never see it more;

the heaven she believed in was too far off, too indefinite; she felt that

her baby was lost to her forever.

We whispered words of hope and comfort to that sorrowing heart,

placed the spirit-form of the babe within her arms, and then with

gentle magnetic touches we opened the mother’s spiritual sight and

she saw the babe within her arms, she felt its little hands caress her

face, its little lips as they were pressed to hers, she looked into its

beautiful spiritual eyes and her tears were dried. My baby! oh my

baby! You are not dead but here with me.”

The jewel was a pearl, and it sent forth rays of soft and beautiful light

as the angel passed it to the one on the left.

“You all know,” said the angel, “that every jewel here has its own

story. Some kind and loving deed was done; if not directly to the

denizens of earth, to some new-born spirit.

Some of these jewels represent the taking and caring for infants sent

into spirit-life, before they ought to come, through the ignorance of

parents. Other of these gems, are of those that think out inventions

and improvements of all kinds for the benefit of both earth and

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heaven. Others, for the amelioration of all suffering, and using their

influence to bring those together that will give the greatest amount of

happiness to each other; for happiness is heaven and heaven is

happiness; and you all know that ignorance and suffering is all the

hell there is, or ever will be; and it is to save mankind, both in and out

of the body, from ignorance, suffering, or hell, that we all are

constantly working. We also know that whenever any creature

suffers there is ignorance and wrong somewhere. If the wrong has

not been committed by the sufferer, it has been committed by

someone; and it is to right these wrongs, and to bring all things into

harmonious and happy relations, that we are constantly at work. The

greatest amount of suffering known to us is caused by ignorance. To

enlighten those below us in wisdom will event usually create a

heaven for all, and at last all will inhabit the kingdom of heaven which

is happiness.

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Little Ruth

Beyond the Vail

Aber and Nixon

(1901)

Little Ruth is one of Zelda's pupils. Perhaps this Ruth is daughter of

Rachel Ann John, who is sister to N, this secretary. ("Rending the

Vail," 31) It is not because this is a sister to the secretary, but

because the case is one of a class of many thousands of similar

cases, and because this particular case was susceptible of

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identification by N, that the spirits, having charge of this work, chose

this case to illustrate this class of conditions, and intimate to the

psychic student the great schemes in the economy of Nature by

which she ultimately gathers into her illimitable garners the ripened

harvests of all the seeds she ever sows: and to present to mankind

lessons which, being heeded, might assist Nature in working out her

ultimate designs to the advantage of mankind in the coming ages.

It was not until one year after closing these séances that they got

hold of the facts concerning the immediate cause of the premature

transition of sister Ann. And now that the reader may have

advantage of such facts as seem necessary to the case, we may be

excused in retrospecting so far as we have learned.

Some eighteen years before the beginning of these séances, sister

Ann married at the homestead in Washington County, Indiana, and

immediately accompanied her husband to their home several

hundred miles away, and they never again met her in the physical life.

In due course of time there was one son of this union, who yet

survives. And, later still, perhaps three years from the marriage, she

had a fetal abortion, brought on by taking calomel or some other

violent purgative in an over-dose, as prescribed and insisted on by a

physician or some very confidential friend, which she now, in spirit,

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says she "felt she ought not to take, but did so just to please"; and

from the complication, blood-poison caused her transition.

And it is now said by some who were present when she was about to

pass out of her body that she became both clairvoyant and

clairaudient—could both see her spirit friends within the room and

could hear them talk—and thus the spirit messengers were enabled

to assist her through the gates with joy and peace to her.

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What Became of That Fetal Life?

Beyond the Vail

Aber and Nixon

(1901)

1299. On the evening of the 5th day of June, 1890, at the second

séance for "Rending the Vail," sister Ann made her presence and

identity known in materialized form, and thenceforward, at different

séances, for nearly two years she appeared, always holding in her

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hands the appearance of an exceedingly small babe, and would

claim it as "my little girl baby," but never would give any explanation,

and N, never having been apprised of the cause of her death, farther

than that it was some kind of fever, was unable to understand what

the appearance of the little babe meant.

At the séances of 1899 and 1900 for "Beyond the Vail," sister Ann

sometimes was invisible form, but did not present the form of a babe

in her hands or arms. In making illustrations for this book, the spirit

artist made one which is found on page 252, recognized as a good

likeness, in many respects, of this sister Ann, and she said: "That is

my picture." And the artist made another picture, found on page 430,

which presents so many features in common with the picture of sister

Ann as to lead us to conclude that the two pictures are undoubtedly

pictures of mother and daughter, and after we so recognized the

pictures, the spirits informed us that we had guessed the true

intention of the pictures and that the picture of the child is designed

as an illustration of the personality and work of one called in spirit

Little Ruth, and of whom Reed speaks in his description of work in

the spirit world.

If the reader will turn back and read carefully all of last above

reference, he or she will be prepared to discern what has become of

our fetal life in question: That just as Ruth was given in charge of

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Little Peg, and by the assistance of Dr. Reed, got Little Peg into a

cozy little home in spirit life and changed the name Margaret or Peg

to Crystal, because Little Peg was becoming such a beautiful spirit,

so some qualified spirit messenger was given charge of the spark of

life eternal that escaped from this fetus in question, garnered it away

and cared for it and named it Ruth, in designation of the messenger

work it would be qualified to do. But, ere this, Ruth has grown to adult

condition, passed all the schools of Zelda, and is climbing the eternal

mountains of grandeur and intelligence that the spirit Thomas Paine

so eloquently portrays in "Rending the Vail." (R. V., 2455-2459)

Purpose of This Case

Perhaps part of the purpose of this spirit band in presenting this case

in the manner in which it is done is to further assist the psychic

student and the student of medical jurisprudence who may chance to

peruse these pages, in learning that,

(a) From a period exceedingly early in fetal life it contains an

organized spirit entity that survives destruction by whatever cause of

the fetal body.

(b) That the tiny spirit is received into the tender care of kind

messenger spirits, who look after its welfare, much the same as

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would have been the case with it in this world, had the child been

permitted its natural birth alive in its physical body.

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Exegetical Spiritualism — Resurrection

Seers of The Ages:

Embracing Spiritualism Past And Present

J. M. Peebles

(1904)

During the process of death, consciousness, in the seeming, is

sometimes suspended, as with those who are suddenly ushered

into the spirit world by capital punishment, suicide or accident, and

with those especially whose habits of life, given to pernicious

gratification, have materialized their senses, as if locked in "chains

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of darkness." Those who have lived pure and exalted lives, aglow

with truth and charity, do not lose their consciousness for a moment,

but cognize the transition from a darker to a more illumined room in

the mansions of the Father.

There are no idiots to the spiritual vision. Imbecility is caused by

malformation of the physical organization. Entering the spirit world,

released from ante-natal and social perversions, they immediately

commence their upward march of knowledge and wisdom.

Infants are immortal from the sacred moment of embryonic existence.

Uniting the alkali and acid, instantly you have the third and higher

compound — the salt. So when the positive and negative relational

forces blend, then and there is the divine incarnation. Nature never

takes a retrogressive step. If purposely blasted, during the gestative

life, the spiritual principle remaining undisturbed, and the individuality

intact, the tender riven bud is borne by matronly angels to the

nursery gardens of innocence to be trained in the virtues of the

spheres. Designed abortion is murder ! Multitudes will meet those

offended little ones that ought to have had a natural, physical birth

and the experiences of an earthly life, preparatory to a ripened

entrance into the world of spirits. Prematurely ushered there, the

spiritual objective being based upon the material, they are

necessitated by a law of their being, to return under heavenly

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guidance to the mediumistic spheres of sympathizing friends to

gather glimpses of, and participate in, earthly struggles and victories.

Identity is cognate with existence itself. It is the natural attribute of

spirit — its very impressibility. It depends not on form for recognition,

but the form on it. Every part of the grain we sow is represented in

the harvest. Essential spirit being inseparable substance, and ever

reporting itself magnetically, we recognize it by sympathy, the same

as a child in the darkness knows its mother without the aid of sight or

hearing. Our spheres are ourselves extended — our very loves

and thoughts in telegraphic communication. When, therefore, spirits

from the mortal lands meet the gone before, instantly, by sympathy,

they recognize each other, and the past, with all its checkered

pilgrimages, indelibly engraved on the tablet of memory, rolls in upon

the consciousness with light and shadow, all in order of relations

and events, in sweet, unspeakable joy and fall of glory.

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The Destiny Of Man

The Dawn of Another Life

Wesley Aber

(1910)

As the ages of time glide away, as a dream that is dreamed floats

away forever into the irrevocable past, we stand in mighty hosts and

watch mortals in their daily ways, how they control their actions and

order their lives.

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Mortal man in all the wanderings of his mind, is never satisfied with

today, no matter how much he has accomplished or how great a

good has come to him. He is ever looking ahead and sighing for the

rising of tomorrow's sun, so that he can witness what it brings forth to

him.

So much he has laid out with mathematical precision, to perform and

fully accomplish that he cannot see the future unfold with a pace too

swift. And this insatiate desire to do more, be more, and thus better

himself and his loved ones, is as inborn within him as is the breath he

breathes. This rising force is simply the result of progression, upon

which is built every element which mortals possess. No man can

stand still in the face of the moving power of the Universe. He either

progresses or retrogrades. So that each act of a lifetime either points

to one or another of these ways. And again, there are many of your

world, and even of ours who have fallen into darkened conditions on

account of their own choice and the backward slipping of their own

footsteps, when such environments at last have tended to awaken

the better part of their natures, and seeing at last into what they had

fallen, their condition served as a dear lesson to them, and they at

once turned their faces toward the bright sun of knowledge, and the

road of progression. When this is so, they are made the better and

stronger men and women for it. The chain of man's destiny is

wrought together link by link, by the strong hand of Providence , as

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the smith welds together bits of burning red-hot iron. And as the

fragments of his life join each with each, to make at last the real acts

of his existence so does his destiny begin to unfold itself, and lay out

like a scroll to be read at will. The daily aspirations of the mortal mind

that are the indwelling sentiments of the consciousness are the

deeds in embryo that have birth, and at last form many links in

destiny's chain.

The inborn voice of the soul which speaks in various tongues and

grows into principles which actuate the deeds of a man's life, whether

good or bad, forms a part of his destiny, the tiny thoughts in embryo

which take vital strength and grow into shape until they become

things and take their places in the mortal existence as kindness and

at last form the consummation of an earthly life. But does the output

of man's inner consciousness from day to day find an end of

occurrence with death? Ten thousand times no! Just as he lays aside

his earthly apparel (the flesh) and sinks down to rest in the evening

of death, thinking his labors are finished, he scarcely loses

consciousness in the last of mortal life, until his spirit eyes are

looking on the light of the Immortal morning, and he realizes with the

fullness of his newly awakened spirit senses that his destiny was not

finished on earth, but just begun! When we are near mortals of earth

we often hear one and another speaking of some person's destiny,

and they usually interpret a destiny as meaning some one

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accomplishment or another, or refer to it as some business or

vocation acquired by them in earth life, saying, "Oh, it was his

destiny," or "Well, she had to do her grand work, it is certainly her

destiny." A man's destiny is his own precious gift from the Most High,

and it accurately means the actual fulfillment of certain laws that

abide for him and in his aura for the purpose of fixing his life on earth

and in Spirit Spheres, just as it was originally intended to be. A great

many of the first plans for mortal life and action that are laid with

accurate precision are never reached by persons for whose lives

they were intended for the simple reason that these persons are ever

ready to neglect the impressions they daily receive and throw aside

as imagination or chaff, the whispered words from spirit lips, whose

messages are as signal lights along the pathway of truth, and as the

guiding rays of a candle under the sheltered roof to the weary,

travel-stained wanderer in the Storm of Darkness and Ignorance.

Instead of seeking to understand the governing motives of their lives,

they turn their faces into the shabby and threadbare path of

ignorance and failure, and then when the Hand of Death beckons

them across the river and opens the gates of another existence, they

wonder at their own seeming nothingness and failures, and are lost

in amazement that they have not really tried to learn something of

themselves long ago. How many, many of earth's people today that

do not realize the building or the completion of their own destinies!

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As man's real destiny built day by day, as the years of his life unfold,

so should man strive to crowd out of his nature all the petty follies of

his earthly years and grow more and more in the Image of God.

Fix your minds, Oh mortals of earth, on some of the high and mighty

destinies of those who have left your earth in a blaze of glory as it

were, and even as you have had the privilege to learn of them

through contact with the love they have left behind, so should you

order your lives, that in the law of eternal progress you could witness

the upbuilding of a destiny for yourselves of which you need never be

ashamed. The reason for a great deal of the hubbub and confusion

of your world is because the mortal only strives to realize what is of

necessity for his present wants, and tries not to build for himself a

future monument of Eternal Peace. In the Heavens the usual destiny

that man sees is day after day of gaining the world's goods, so that

when he grows old in the years of earth his prosperity he will find him

fattened in worldly gain, and Spiritual Ignorance.

The mortal who comes to realize that every happening which comes

into his life is for the best, so long as he is living the principles which

he feels to be right, is the man who is stepping on the high plane of

Progress and attainment of success in his each and every

undertaking.

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Believe in yourselves or you will be the creatures of failure. If your

friends believe in you, you will be a success, but the first element of

your friends' trust imposed in you is your own self confidence. Your

daily acts, your thoughts, your beliefs, your prejudice, your loves, and

hope and fears, all join together in the eternal and form link by link,

the wonderful chain of your destiny. They are but the elements which

help to make you what you finally are.

How many there are in your world who are all unconsciously laying

the corner stones of their destinies today; putting in the foundation

principles on which their whole lives are to rest. The multitude of men

go on and on up the steep hill of Earthly Fortune and never stop to

pick the thorns from their bleeding feet (that come as gentle

reminders that their pace is too swift), but trudge tip and tip the steep

Incline of Worldly Prowess, until some day the hour of the Eternal

comes and they are called to the realms of Spirits, to houses not

made with hands, and find they then have nothing in keeping with

this new life, only the change called death, and at this occurrence in

their existence, when the last scale has fallen, and they are permitted

full sight, they see at once that what would have been the greatest

possibilities in their mortal destinies were completely left out and

moreover alas never known ! A mortal can understand only so much

as his experience up to the present time has taught him. It is

impossible for him to thread his way into paths unknown, for he

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cannot comprehend that which has never been his pleasure to be

conscious of. If it were otherwise, how different would thousands and

thousands of destinies be.

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Future of a Child

The Dead Have Never Died

Edward Randall

(1917)

THE orthodox teachings make no attempt to tell us what becomes of

children who go out of the earth-plane in infancy. How many millions

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of mothers have had babies too young for speech, boys and girls just

able to talk and walk, sink into a dreamless sleep, and having kissed

for the last time the lips of love, have seen the little bodies lowered

with tender hands into the grave, and as the earth fell upon the

casket have heard from the lips of ignorance "ashes to ashes, and

dust to dust." With hearts without hope they have gone back to the

house of sorrow, the toys, the little bed, the vacant chair, the ache in

the heart, the tears that fall in countless thousands of homes, and the

cries that go out in the night to know where in the vast universe the

baby is, if it lives at all.

"What becomes of those who go out in infancy, you ask? "Do they

develop in mind and body? Shall we know them and meet them

again? Will they know us? Is there any one to comfort and care for

them, and teach them?

Do they miss and seek the mother love?" These and a thousand

more questions have been asked in the countless ages that have

gone, and are being asked in every desolate home in the world

today.

Let me tell what I have learned of those conditions through many

years of speech with those in the afterlife.

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I repeat what I have said before and shall say again, for it is the key

to comprehension, that the infant at conception possesses an etheric

form, at that moment clothed in a physical garment or flesh body.

This etheric form is material, composed of matter, and as matter

cannot be destroyed; it follows that etheric child-body cannot by any

possibility be annihilated.

The infant etheric form by the process of dissolution passes out of

the physical garment which it took on at the moment of conception,

the same garment that it wore at birth, and becomes an inhabitant of

the next plane of consciousness, where all is etheric, where nothing

physical can enter. This change may be likened to an earth-birth.

There are thousands of childless women, who never in earth-life

found expression for the mother-love. These, with countless others

who find their greatest happiness in doing good together with those

of blood relation, attend at such a time and take and care for the little

stranger in the new environment.

Let me give an instance that came under my personal investigation.

It is a well known fact that children up to about three years of age are

able to, and do see spirit people; some have spirit playmates. The

instance I am about to relate was the passing of a little boy, only one

week old, who had a sister a little under three years of age, with

whom I was privileged to make an experiment. This little girl night

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after night saw the baby boy, and described him; he was in the same

room with two spirit nurses in attendance, while another woman was

from time to time described as being present. Again, this three year

old sister often saw the spirit-baby when she was away from her

home. On various occasions I verified these statements by inquiry

from those in the afterlife during our investigation, and found that

what the little sister related had actually taken place. The woman

who appeared from time to time was the grandmother; she, assisted

by two nurses, cared for the little stranger, and on several occasions,

before he could articulate plainly, prior to his fourth birthday, I heard

him speak to me. This was a most valuable experience.

Children in the afterlife are cared for very much as they are here.

There are those who find their greatest delight in mothering the

motherless, and teaching them words of speech and wisdom; so

under such unselfish care the children reach mental and bodily

maturity just the same as they would if they had remained in this

world.

The etheric process of development is interesting; children need

mother-love no less in spirit than in earth life, and as the mother

sleeps, those in charge place the etheric baby-form close to her

heart, where it rests absorbing the love so necessary to its existence.

We little know how close the afterlife is, how close its inhabitants

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come to us, the influence they exert on us, or the result of our

thought vibrations upon them. Then again, as the children grow, they

keep in touch with us from day to day, and when we go out into the

afterlife, they know and greet us as we enter the life that has no

night.

There are in the next life kindergartens, schools, colleges, and

universities of learning just as we have here, and what is more, the

inhabitants do not cease to study and increase their store of

knowledge when they reach a certain age, but there are great lecture

halls where the advanced ones teach the supreme laws of Nature,

where all are welcome and all go, and so the secrets of the Universe

are understood. There is but one aristocracy in the life to come, and

that is founded on the refinement and development of character.

Measured by this standard, how very poor are our very rich! I have

often written that the aristocrats of the afterlife have gained their

position by helping others less fortunate. They rise by raising others.

Those alone stand erect who stoop above the lowly.

Here is what a sojourner in the next plane has said of the little ones:

"Many people have puzzled as to the state and condition of young

children in the spirit world, and it is on that subject that I desire to

speak, more particularly, tonight. There are millions of young children

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of all ages passing into the spirit world every year. Some of them are

of very tender age, while others know right from wrong. It is an

interesting subject to inquire as to what they do in the spirit life. At the

outset, I must tell you that there is a divine law in the spirit world, that

whosoever passes into that kingdom before he has reached to man's

estate upon the earth-plane, shall grow mentally to the stature of a

man. You can gather from that that the 7 youngest child, even the

infant which has been taken from you, will grow mentally and

spiritually on the other side of life. Clairvoyants and others have often

described young children in the spirit life, who have been recognized

by mothers and fathers; they perhaps years after, have been

somewhat astonished to hear of the child looking much older, and

they have not been able to account for it. You will understand that the

presentation of the spiritual form is in order that those in the flesh

may be able to see them through the physical senses, and to note

that they appear to be growing toward manhood and womanhood. I

am afraid that many people upon your earth-plane today are

neglectful of their responsibilities to their children. If God has given

you such a flower as a child, it is incumbent upon you by example

and precept to train that child in spiritual things, so that ultimately he

will be with you in the kingdom of Heaven and will rejoice in the

knowledge that you guided him spiritually when an infant. But how

careless are many people with their children! They forget that the

child is all the time taking note, not of what they are saying, but of

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what they are doing. I assure you that if you are unmindful of your

responsibilities toward your children, you will undoubtedly have to

pay the penalty when you reach the spirit side of life."

Too little attention has been paid to the going out of children; the

world has little knowledge on that subject. No greater blessing can

come to the fathers and mothers of every nation and tribe than to

know that children with bodies too frail to carry them through the

earth-life are not lost in going from among us, but in the other life go

right on with their growth and development under the care and

guidance of good men and women who for love of humanity do the

necessary work, and so enrich themselves.

I am impressed not to leave this subject without a word of warning to

do no murder. Know that at the moment of conception out of the

mass of the universal good, out of the life mass, an etheric atom, a

body infinitesimal in size and perfect in form is clothed, and no matter

whether the physical birth is natural or premature, that life-force so

individualized has commenced its journey back to God, and all the

power in all the Universe cannot change its ultimate destiny.

I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have

come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a

natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their

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development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with

the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless

murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man,

because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge

shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of

her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his

criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her

"Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child

murder

"They walked the valley of the dead,

Lit by a weird half light,

No sound they made, no word they said,

And they were pale with fright.

Then suddenly from unseen places came,

Loud laughter, that was like a whip of flame,

They looked, and saw, beyond, above,

A land where wronged souls wait

Those spirits called to earth by love,

And driven back by hate.

And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild,

As she beheld the phantom of her child.

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Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled

Out into night and death,

Before it reached the Mother world,

Or drew its natal breath.

And terrified, each hid her face and fled

Beyond the presence of her unborn dead,

And God's Great Angel, who provides

Souls for our mortal land,

Laughed, with the laughter that derides,

At that fast fleeing band

Of self-made barren women of the earth.

Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth.

'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they,

That down below us fared;

Those shapes with faces strained and grey,

And eyes that stared and stared;

Something there was about them, gave us fear;

Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.'

Thus spake the spectral children; thus

The Angel made reply:

'They have no part or share with us,

They were but passers by.'

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'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead;

'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."

"I want to tell you," a teacher in the afterlife said, "of a little waif that

came to us in infancy. We taught and carefully guarded, and

schooled her in the pure conditions of our sphere until she

approached womanhood, but she had no contrasts, therefore she

could not judge of the relative purity and delights of her environment.

In order that she should be able to enjoy her home and the glories of

our world, it was necessary for her to have a knowledge of earthly

conditions. And so I was instructed to conduct this child back to earth

from time to time. When this child first returned to earth and was

among your people, she could hardly endure even to examine the

gross conditions, and could not understand how people could exist in

such dark, crude elements. But, as I led her along from one condition

to another, over the road she would have gone had she remained on

earth for the ordinary allotted period, I said to her: 'Had you lived your

time in the body, you would have been in the condition in which you

see these people.' I also told her that they would look gross to her

when they reached the spirit state, but that in course of time they

would improve enough to assume the state of purity and peace that

she enjoyed. And as we journeyed on, we met one whose earthly

experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks

different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training.

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And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there

were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and

learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the

different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast

between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life.

This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and

she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of

earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a

reality.

"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of

earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we

came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there,

unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This church

house is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently the

services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for here

she would get the average experience of the church methods and be

able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly needed

on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his discourse in

his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he thought

essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit. But the

girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the dicta of

the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit world and

had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods attempted by

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the church to enlighten the people and prepare them for future

realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to her so

gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen, heard, or

read of in the land which had always been her home that she

hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and welfare

required that she learned as much as possible of the earth conditions

in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such earth

conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more the

young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In fact, it

was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on this

side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for

entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my

suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the

earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it;

we, therefore, journeyed on."

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The House of the Harpy

Spirit Interaction

James Hewat McKenzie

(1917)

The author, travelling on one occasion through the middle astral

plane, visited a city which had almost fallen into ruins, the houses on

the outskirts being quite impossible of habitation, for only the walls

remained; others in a better state of repair were inhabited by people

of a type such as might be met with on earth in slum

neighbourhoods. The atmosphere of the place was disagreeable,

and in the deserted streets from time to time one could perceive what

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appeared to be the dead bodies of new-born children, in various

stages of growth. Entering one of the houses, these baby forms were

everywhere to be found, let into the walls, lying on the floor, and upon

the beds, so that there seemed to be no place within the rooms

where one could sit down without seeing these strange creations. In

these homes lived women whose lives on earth had been devoted to

the procuring of abortion, and who had to suffer the annoyance of

having these baby forms continually kept before them by unseen

spirit operators. Before sitting down it was necessary to remove them

from the chairs, and they frequently cast them out of the windows in

their desire to be rid of them, but no sooner was this done than the

forms were returned to the old position, for unseen eyes were always

watching, and brought them back as speedily as they were got rid of.

These were artificial creations used by higher spirits as object

lessons to awaken the conscience, and arouse these women to the

unnatural enormity of their past evil practices. This irritating lesson

seldom, failed to bring them to an understanding that what they

believed was dead and unknown was in reality alive and known to all.

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The Unborn Dead

The Dead Have Never Died

Edward C. Randall

(1917)

I am impressed not to leave this subject without a word of warning to

do no murder. Know that at the moment of conception out of the

mass of the universal good, out of the life mass, an etheric atom, a

body infinitesimal in size and perfect in form is clothed, and no matter

whether the physical birth is natural or premature, that life-force so

individualized has commenced its journey back to God, and all the

power in all the Universe cannot change its ultimate destiny.

48

I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have

come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a

natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their

development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with

the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless

murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man,

because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge

shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of

her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his

criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her

"Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child

murder.

"They walked the valley of the dead,

Lit by a weird half light,

No sound they made, no word they said,

And they were pale with fright.

Then suddenly from unseen places came,

Loud laughter, that was like a whip of flame,

They looked, and saw, beyond, above,

A land where wronged souls wait

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Those spirits called to earth by love,

And driven back by hate.

And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild,

As she beheld the phantom of her child.

Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled

Out into night and death,

Before it reached the Mother world,

Or drew its natal breath.

And terrified, each hid her face and fled

Beyond the presence of her unborn dead,

And God's Great Angel, who provides

Souls for our mortal land,

Laughed, with the laughter that derides,

At that fast fleeing band

Of self-made barren women of the earth.

Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth.

'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they,

That down below us fared;

Those shapes with faces strained and grey,

And eyes that stared and stared;

Something there was about them, gave us fear;

Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.'

Thus spake the spectral children; thus

The Angel made reply:

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'They have no part or share with us,

They were but passers by.'

'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead;

'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."

"I want to tell you," a teacher in the afterlife said, "of a little waif that

came to us in infancy. We taught and carefully guarded, and

schooled her in the pure conditions of our sphere until she

approached womanhood, but she had no contrasts, therefore she

could not judge of the relative purity and delights of her environment.

In order that she should be able to enjoy her home and the glories of

our world, it was necessary for her to have a knowledge of earthly

conditions. And so I was instructed to conduct this child back to earth

from time to time. When this child first returned to earth and was

among your people, she could hardly endure even to examine the

gross conditions, and could not understand how people could exist in

such dark, crude elements. But, as I led her along from one condition

to another, over the road she would have gone had she remained on

earth for the ordinary allotted period, I said to her: 'Had you lived your

time in the body, you would have been in the condition in which you

see these people.' I also told her that they would look gross to her

when they reached the spirit state, but that in course of time they

would improve enough to assume the state of purity and peace that

she enjoyed. And as we journeyed on, we met one whose earthly

51

experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks

different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training.

And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there

were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and

learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the

different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast

between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life.

This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and

she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of

earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a

reality.

"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of

earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we

came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there,

unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This

churchhouse is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently

the services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for

here she would get the average experience of the church methods

and be able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly

needed on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his

discourse in his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he

thought essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit.

But the girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the

52

dicta of the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit

world and had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods

attempted by the church to enlighten the people and prepare them

for future realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to

her so gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen,

heard, or read of in the land which had always been her home that

she hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and

welfare required that she learned as much as possible of the earth

conditions in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such

earth conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more

the young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In

fact, it was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on

this side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for

entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my

suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the

earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it;

we, therefore, journeyed on."

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Of Birth and Death:

From Whence To Where?

The Archives of The Eloists

Walter DeVoe

(1933)

Let us begin your journey through eternity from the only logical

starting point, conception. We could begin with the infinite vastness

of the All Person because the essence of your being, your soul, is

and always has been the very Person of your Creator, and for that

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reason the essence of your being has always existed through the

infinite eons of the past. In that sense your soul being has always

had an existence, but in the same sense even the physical body you

possess has always existed, for the atoms of hydrogen, oxygen,

carbon and so forth of which it is composed have been part of your

planet, your sun, your galaxy, your nebula and thence from previous

stars and nebulae that have been dissipated and gone from an

unfathomable and incomprehensible time long passed. Could the

atoms of your physical body speak with a conscious awareness, they

could tell you awesome stories of stars and planets, peoples and

civilizations in the farthest reaches of space, that were born,

struggled with the limitations of corpor for a time and then passed on.

Their histories long forgotten except in the minds of great gods and

goddesses high now in etherea who either lived on those birth places

of immortal souls or in some way had assisted with their resurrection

and growth.

Yes, even if the spiritual "atoms", if we may use the poetic license to

call them such, of your soul being could speak, they could tell you

tales of life through the numbing distant unlimited past, of a place

infinitely far away or so very close, of a time incomprehensibly

ancient and yet as recent as the very now, of experience and wisdom

whose comprehension and magnitude would leave even the highest

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raised angel speechless with awe.

But wait, all of this is our fanciful imagination at play, for none of it

can be. Your earthly shell cannot speak, nor can the component

parts of your astral shell or soul, though that is where the Great

Intelligence that created you resides; and neither can you speak of

those times, for the you that you are, the self-conscious, self-knowing

aware being that you are came into being at the moment of

conception.

The essence of Jehovih’s Person that is all knowing and resident in

the sperm, and the spark of the Divine Being that is all knowing and

resident in the egg came together in a magical transformation within

a star-flash of that union and at that moment a new soul was born. At

that moment you were a dual being in soul: the very I AM of the All

Person and a "blank slate" that was destined to be the sentient,

self-aware, reasoning being that you are. Due to the maturity of our

age, the you that you are became an immortal soul when those two

components cleaved together in the physically primitive embryonic

cell. Understand that whether your physical embryo ever reached

further stages of development or not, the spiritual being that you are

was already assured immortality as a soul and was destined to grow

into more expansive realms forever onward. If it had not been

allowed to proceed with its growth on the physical plane in the womb,

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then it would have continued the growth the I AM ordained it to

experience but on the spiritual plane instead by special dispensation.

The means by which this is accomplished will be discussed in a later

chapter. This then was the birth from whence you came, and this is

sufficient understanding to allow us to turn our attention to the places

you will be exploring in the days ahead.

Each person born as to life on earth is bestowed with three

component attributes, namely a soul or spiritual nature, a corporeal

or physical being and the qualities of action, movement,

self-expression, metabolism and similar manifestations of energy in

motion which we call life. This is why it is said that we are born in the

Creator’s image, because the Great Spirit also has the same three

components which are the Ever-Present All-Spirit, the infinite

corporeal creation (composing our universe) and the All-motion or

the manifestation of sentient Energy, the All-Life.

Since we are bestowed with those same attributes in a limited form,

and since our destiny is an ever expanding comprehension and

usefulness as our Creator’s "hands" in action, it is logical to begin by

experiencing one aspect of creation at a time and thus allowing our

infant souls a chance to grow at a tolerable rate, and at the same

time provide an anchor through which our immature spirit may be

nurtured until it reaches a state where it can comfortably subsist on

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its own.

The main purpose of corporeal existence therefore is to acquire a

basic appreciation of the physical aspects of creation, to provide an

elementary education for our newly formed souls, which are like

blank slates waiting for the experiences of life to be written upon

them, and finally to provide a fetal stage for the embryonic

development of our soul-selves, the spiritual being that our earthly

shell merely reflects.

While it is important to put our brief sojourn on this earthly plane to

the greatest possible use, and to grow in maturity and wisdom to the

best of our ability before our time comes to move on, yet, in the great

scheme of things, our time here is of minor importance in comparison

to the eternity ahead, just as our nine months in the womb is of minor

importance when compared to the perhaps 90 or even 100 years of

corporeal existence. Life in the womb would probably be of great

importance, indeed, to the fetus were it able to comprehend, but that

nine months pales in comparison to the life time ahead. It is the same

when comparing the earth life to the infinity that lies before us in the

world of spirit. Were life in corpor of more importance, would not the

Creator have provided greater safeguards to make our physical

bodies less vulnerable to premature death as to this life? The

simplest and most unexpected mishaps can snuff our corporeal lives

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out, for the mortal body is so delicate and vulnerable. But the truth is

that our corporeal existence is only like a heartbeat when compared

to the infinite life ahead, and our corporeal life while important is not

paramount and is not crucial to our eventual development.

And so it is, be it soon or late, the time comes for each of us. The

delicate bond between spirit and corpor snaps to allow our true

selves, the spiritual beings that we are, to emerge like a butterfly

from a cocoon and take its rightful place in the greater part of

creation. For the world of spirit is not a vague and ephemeral place. It

is only the imperfect perception of your mortal senses which gives

you these false impressions.

Your whole world consists of the surface of a little ball of corpor,

while our spiritual world penetrates all levels of the rest of creation.

We here in spirit can see, hear and feel on levels that you can only

dream of, for your earthly shell handicaps the natural spiritual senses

that you possess in a blunted form. We are free from your earthly

drudgery. We are freer on every level beyond your wildest dreams,

for we are the real inhabitants of a real world, a world that you are

destined to inhabit as your true and rightful place in an infinite

creation.

No two souls describe the act of passage in the same way, for no two

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individuals perceive through the windows of their separate souls in

quite the same way, and the circumstances of each transition differ in

detail. Suffice it to say that everyone admits that the actual process

that liberates the spirit from corpor is easier and smoother than

anyone expected. Some "arrive" with such swiftness that they at first

don’t realize that the change has taken place at all, while others

make the change so gradually that they can describe every detail as

a remarkable experience of joy and wonder. Realize that when we

say "arrive", that no actual travel necessarily occurs, for when we

speak

of you being "there", while we are "here" describes not so much the

difference of location as it does describe the difference of dimension,

which is something that interpenetrates the same place at the same

time at a differing level of vibration. This difference in state prevents

you from not only perceiving us, but also prevents the interference of

one level of experience with that of the other unless extraordinary

conditions come into play.

Yet, in spite of the illusion of a great chasm separating us, everyone,

soon or late, will make the transition called death, for all your earthly

existence is merely preparation for that great event. All you

experience, both good and bad, has been an exercise for your soul

to build in strength and perfection so that it may be ready to stand on

its own in the more refined states of thought, where your self-control

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and will must be at a greater stage of maturity than had been

required when your being was localized in its corporeal shell. For

while the personality that you are is housed in its earthly shell, the

dulling influence of the lower vibrations of corpor allows the "thought

being" that you are to subsist with greater safety and efficiency.

Realize that your lack of maturity as a young and immortal soul

allows your concentration to wander, and your self control or will is

seldom a dominant force in your existence. You are easily distracted

by things in your environment and you are often led in your

weakness to do things which are not in your best interest or in the

best interests of others. You can see, however, when comparing an

infant to a mature adult, that some degree of progress has been

made in this regard, through one’s life time. There is more self

control. There is a greater understanding of how your mental powers

can be applied to create and accomplish. There is a greater exercise

of will to do what is right and necessary even when your lower

propensities would have you act differently. Of course, there are

great differences in the degree of development even in mature adults,

but in most cases it is of a great enough degree to allow that

individual after death to subsist in the freer and more refined state of

spirit with a great enough degree of competence to keep from being

a burden on the rest of the newborn in spirit who are residing on the

same plane of existence. Should this newborn be too imperfect, then

special provisions must be made, depending on the degree of

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imperfection and the reason for its occurrence. The innocent soul

thrust prematurely into spirit life by being killed through abortion, for

example, must be dealt with in a very different manner than a person

who has passed over as a result of the fruits of a life of crime. But in

all cases, whether it is through natural development in a normal

corporeal existence or through special corrective measures applied

afterwards, every soul must reach a state of mental development that

allows him or her to exist competently in a state of refined vibrations

of thought, for the world of spirit requires much greater strength of

personality and control of will than is required in the grossness of

corporeality. Always remember our basic truth that you are in

essence a being of thought. The greater totality that you are is not

your corporeal shell but rather your mind, which is thought, and in

thought, as a distinct portion of the All-Thought, will you live, move,

and have your being for all time to come.

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Brought Back to Earth

Radiance

The Eloists

(1985)

You don't need to keep your mind closed to information of events

taking place in the world. Learn all you can about the earth. Thus you

will be more fully developed when you pass on to the next world. You

have to go through different grades of learning, just as you do in

schools. You cannot go forward into more complicated grades until

you have passed those in the corporeal world. Babes who die in

infancy, by abortion or other means, are brought back to earth under

angelic protection to learn about the place of their birth. Earth is

really a beautiful planet, and you can be grateful you were born upon

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it. There are many ugly things about it, to be sure, created by spirits

in darkness who are influencing people to harm one another and

make war. This will go on until the light of the Creator takes over and

comes into positive expression through many awakened souls. You

don't need to tune in with anything in the news that depresses you,

but you can pour light into the dark conditions as you keep your

awareness with the Creator at all times.

Of the trillions of souls who need to be brought in the way of

resurrection, fully a hundred million are infants, most of whom are the

result of abortions and stillbirths. With the widespread acceptance of

the heinous act of abortion, we have been flooded with these poor

souls, and though it is true that they are without sin, yet that does not

lessen the burden placed upon our workers or upon the lower

heavens as a whole.

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A Nurse from the Plateau

Radiance

The Eloists

(1985)

Let us ponder for a moment on the awesome burden placed on our

spiritual realms by the untimely death of so many innocent babes

through the thoughtless act of abortion. The number of undeveloped

souls thrust into the care of our doctors and nurses who labor on the

plateaus close to the earth is far greater than your darkest imaginings.

The fact that these babes are thrown upon us in greater and greater

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numbers each year makes the scene that much more pathetic. Could

we only make these selfish women realize that each soul is complete

and immortal at conception, perhaps they would more carefully

ponder their decision. Their basic misconception that their body is

theirs to do with as they please is their first error. They had as little to

do with the growth and development of their own bodies as that of the

infant they carry. Both belong to the Creator that made them and He

is the one to whom they must ultimately answer. If they could only

realize that the soul of that poor infant is brought back to them in

many cases and fetaled upon them until full term (and therefore only

the earthly body may be aborted while the spirit remains), perhaps

they would think again before making the fateful decision. If they

could only realize that the day will come when they will pass over into

our realms of spirit and there meet their rejected child face to face,

though then fully grown, and be forced to justify their decisions and

rectify their actions once and for all. Perhaps this is the image they

need placed before them. Perhaps if they could see their child's

pained expression as he or she asks, "Why did you do this to me,

mother? Why did you deprive me of my life and your love? What did I

do to you to be treated so?" "Why?" is our question as well. We, here

on the Plateau in the hospitals and nurseries labor hard and long to

maintain and revive these innocent souls, fetaling them sometimes to

the natural mother and sometimes to a more appropriate soul, until

they are strong enough to be transferred to the nurseries where

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primary education can begin. This is, of course, more difficult without

the corporeal body and corporeal experiences to guide them. But we

will work harder and longer still, until those on earth awaken to the

Light of the Creator within their souls and awaken to the love that

dwells within their hearts. Until then we remain, Your loving friends.

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Wanted: Mothers

The Faithist Journal

Anonymous

(1988)

One day as my body lay resting quietly on its bed, I decided to

plunge into hada, the lower atmospherean heavens of the Earth. I

closed my eyes, visualized the soles of my feet until they started

to tingle; then I felt the tingling creep up my ankles, lower legs,

thighs and torso. The tingling picked up on my fingertips and

crept up my forearms to the elbow, then to the shoulders and finally

to the top of my head. Meditating on this a while, I heard (or felt)

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a loud buzzing sensation in my head and suddenly I was outside,

looking back at my reclining, corporeal form.

I floated through the bedroom walls to the outside and soon found

myself wandering amongst the teeming billions of departed

earthlings who inhabit that region closest to the Earth and to all

they have loved. I talked with many of them as I wandered, and

found that their aims, aspirations and beliefs were little different

than those of the people one might meet at the county fair. Many

expressed disappointment in not having been taken to "The

Saviour" and all were preoccupied with finding a more or less

permanent place to reside. (The crowding of this region is

somewhat like Manhattan Island multiplied by many thousands of

times).

As I elbowed my way through the dense crowds, I came eventually

to a large open valley. The ground of this valley was covered with

boxes, baskets piles of straw and similar things, each of which

contained the astral form of a tiny infant. Each infant was wrapped

in a blanket. The scene extended for as far as the eye could see,

clear to the horizon of this region over the North American

continent.

There were millions of tiny infants, placed in little groups of about a

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dozen, with walkways cleared between the groups. Up and down

along these walkways strolled a few dozen sad, tired, middle-aged

looking ladies, each wearing a grey tabard with a rope belt, and each

busily trying to take care of the immediate needs of several hundred

of the infants.

Needless to say, I was quite curious about this scene, and could not

resist inquiring what it was all about.

"Where did all these children come from?", I inquired of the nearest

lady.

"One of these babies is mine", she responded, "but I don't know

which one, because I never saw it; I don't even know, whether it is a

boy or a girl. I do know that if it has blue, grey or green eyes, it very

probably isn't my own, because I and my lover both had brown eyes.

And the new ones arriving, of course, are not mine, either, but they

all need to be taken care of; they all need a mother but they only

have us few."

"How did it happen", I asked, `that you never saw your own child?"

"It was an abortion", she sadly replied, "I was ashamed to let my folks

find out that I was pregnant so I went to this so-called ‘doctor’ who

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ripped it out and left me unconscious from shock and, incidentally,

with all sorts of germs in the torn spots and I came over here shortly

afterward as the result of a serious infection. All of these kids were

aborted, and every day we get several thousand more, so we press

into service every woman who comes here looking for her child. Still,

as you can see, there are not nearly enough ladies to take care of all

of them properly."

She continued, "They all need to be bathed more often than they are.

There are so many of them and we have such meager facilities for it,

and so few people to help with it; that's why the stench is so bad. I

don't really mind it myself but it is so offensive to ‘the others’ that they

always bring them here and just drop them." She added, "Most of

their mothers wouldn't care enough about them to help, even if they

were over here on this side; they were just glad to be rid of them.

As for their fathers, I seriously doubt that many of them even believe

that they have children here."

I looked out across the tremendous field with miles and miles of little

bundles, all dirty, hungry, crying and squirming with loneliness and

discontent.

I thought to myself, "If only every young girl who plans to get rid of

her kid could come over here and see this!"

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I wanted to help, but knew that I lacked the skill and experience to

even get started; also, I knew that I had to return to my body, so what

little I was able to do was just a token, like dipping out the ocean with

a teaspoon. I wondered quietly whether the lower heavens over the

other continents of the Earth had tremendous foundling fields like this

one.

I knew that heredity is the main factor in whether one continues after

death of the body, so to a certain extent, survival of bodily death

comes to most as a corollary to the gift of life itself. It's a little like

beauty; one gets it chiefly by choosing the right parents. If survival

of bodily death was due to faith or to good works or piety, none of

these little ones would be here. If it was a universal gift to every

animal thing, the lower heavens would be a raging, howling zoo filled

with creatures of every description still trying to do the things they did

in corporeal life. As such it would hardly be called ‘heaven.’

I wondered at the poor physical condition of many of the babies.

There were cripples of every kind, deformed bodies, missing

members, Siamese twins, dwarfs, blind, deaf and partly paralyzed

children. There were representatives of every, race and ethnic

group on the North American continent, but the ratios didn't seem the

same as in the corporeal real world. I suppose that some ethnic

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groups place a higher value on life and on children than they do on

daughter's "reputation." Certainly, the child's religion could hardly

have any effect upon its survival, particularly at the ripe old age of

minus four or five months.

As I strolled through these thousands of acres of outdoor nursery,

looking at the millions upon millions of abandoned children who had

been prematurely cast into heaven, I marveled at the size of the task

before any woman who had the courage to volunteer to help. I also

wondered at the folly of our people in letting this thing happen to us.

I realized that the Puritan Ethics, the antiquated concept of

"marriage" and the consequent quaint ideas about "honor" and

"disgrace" related to the reproductive process must carry much of the

blame for this wholesale slaughter of innocents. I remembered

hearing that in the United States of America, it is estimated that over

two million such deaths at the hands of ‘dear mother’ occur every

year. The U.S.A. only lost somewhat over fifty thousand young men

each year during the ten years of the Vietnam fiasco.

Eventually, I tired of this nightmare and was overwhelmed by a

feeling of helplessness and sadness.

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Bless the Innocents

Radiance

The Eloists

(1988)

Soon we will be gone from your focus until our travels bring us back

to your realm again. My hosts and I have been hard at work to

strengthen the organizations that are helping the weak-minded, the

undeveloped and misguided souls who continually cross the great

divide. Our nurseries, most of all, are overburdened above your

nation. These are part of the great change we are seeking. Your

people must make the leap in consciousness from war and violence

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to peace. They must learn peace among nations, peace in the home

and peace within their inner selves. They must also put an end to the

slaughter of the innocents and either accept the responsibility of

parenthood or learn how to become mature adults and not become

parents, through conscious choice. We can no longer tolerate the

continued destruction of so many unborn babes. The hand of

judgment will remain above all nations that condone such practices,

and until their ways are changed, peace will not reign within their

families, but they will continue to deteriorate and wallow in misery.

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The Gift of Life

Radiance

The Eloists

(1990)

Oahspe reveals to humanity the truth of your immortality, and the

reality of the angelic overshadowing that has continuously, over

countless centuries, labored to raise the understanding and behavior

of mortals to a state that would allow them to become a blessing to

themselves and to their progeny, who would inherit conditions in

which they have little to say and even less control. Many of the

actions taken by mortals through ignorance not only make their lives

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a time of suffering, but also place inestimable burdens on our angelic

realms. It is in that concern that we speak with you tonight, not only to

impress upon you the seriousness of our plight, but to enlighten you

on things to come. Life begins at conception. At that very moment

you become an immortal human soul destined to progress in wisdom

and power throughout eternity. This marvelous reality was not always

assured in the distant past history of your race on this planet, but for

many thousands of years now every soul has been guaranteed

immortality at conception, regardless of one's parentage and

circumstances surrounding the birth. The evolving embryo at that

moment is a separate and distinct immortal being, placed in the care

of another separate and distinct immortal being by the Ever-Present

Creator until it can subsist unaided in the mortal realm. To terminate

or abort this development for any reason constitutes murder of the

earthly habitat and thus thrusts the developing soul into our spiritual

realm prematurely to the will of the Creator. This is the simple truth

which cannot be couched in euphemisms or more expedient phrases.

The reality of the consequence is all too readily apparent to us here,

and is a practice which must be reversed before any semblance of

order can be restored to the lower heavens surrounding your planet.

You are well aware that this issue is being hotly contested in your

nation today, and it will continue to be hotly contested through the

decade to come. But we tell you that the Creator's hand is over this

matter and the day will come when your society will finally decide in

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favor of life, but not before a great deal of suffering is sustained as

the battle over this issue is brought to the streets of your nation. Just

as your nation's civil war could not be resolved until the majority of

your nation's inhabitants resolved in their hearts in favor of freedom

to the slaves, so will your nation not find peace in its cities or country

places until the majority resolves itself in favor of life. Until then,

violence in the streets and within the home will continue to grow. The

integrity of the family base will continue to crumble. The children you

do raise will continue to be a disappointment both individually and

collectively as constructive members of your society. Criminal activity

will continue to undermine the fabric of society and the use of drugs

and other forms of self-destruction will continue to thwart your efforts

at reformation. Though we are already entering a period of increased

spiritual light, yet amongst the masses of society it will hardly be

evident until this issue is resolved. Until then, keep the light of your

focus strong and stay well centered. When the minds of the masses

begin to awaken there will also come great progress in disarmament,

social reform and the blessings of peace. But many long and painful

years remain. Sometimes this is the only way important lessons can

be learned. Keep your spiritual community committed and strong so

that you may ride unscathed through the turmoil and contribute

something positive and helpful in the process.

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Growing in the Spiritual Worlds

Radiance

The Eloists

(1991)

Peace be with all the Creator's children on earth. Let love flow from

their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives

are being snuffed out of the body too soon. Too many are passing on

to the other side with no preparation for further development. Our

time and energies are devoted to receiving these many new souls,

and trying to keep them from going back to earth again. Once they

have left their physical bodies, they must go on to new experience

and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us. We have great

compassion for these newborn souls. Many little babies come over

here from abortions, sickness and accidents. They have been

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cheated out of their earthly experience. Not that they would have had

all good experiences, but every experience, good and bad, would

have contributed to their soul development. They will still grow in

spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands

of our Creator and give Him our faith and love. It is by His power in us

that we are able to accomplish our task.

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Peace

Radiance

The Eloists

(1991)

Peace be with all the Creator's children of Earth! Let love flow from

their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives

are being snuffed out of the body too soon. This earth is a school for

the education and development of souls while still in the physical

body. Too many are going to the other side with little preparation for

further development. Our time is taken up in receiving millions of

these new souls and trying to keep them from going back to earth

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again. Once they have left their physical body, they must go on to

new experiences and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us.

We have great compassion for these newborn souls, especially little

babies who came here due to abortion, sickness and accidents. They

have been cheated out of their earthly experience, not that they

would all have had good experience, but every experience would

have contributed to their development as souls. They will still grow in

spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands

of Our Creator, and give our Faith and Love to Jehovih at all times!

The Ever-Present is the captain of our ship!

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Dear Souls of Light

Radiance

The Eloists

(1992)

Be steadfast in our common purpose. As we come together at these

appointed times we work to build greater harmony and continuity

between your plane and ours. We seek to burst through the barriers

that separate us. As we do this, it is important that your whole life, the

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sum totality of your existence, plays a fundamental part in this

process. The time spent in council is fine and good, but the

preparation beforehand makes you fit tools through which we can

work and that is the vital link that really "sets the stage." It is how you

live, what you think, and how you serve each and every day that

molds your vessel for our use. Through it all, it is not what you did

yesterday, today, or tomorrow that makes the difference, but rather

what habits and traits you nurture day in and day out, year by year,

until they are constitutionally part of your character and personality.

We have made great strides together, no doubt, but do not let that

slacken your pace. Reconsecrate yourselves, your lives and your

Purpose to Jehovih each and every day and you will be answered

with greater fulfillment and greater joy of soul throughout all the days

of your lives here and hereafter.

We have a deep and genuine concern for your wellbeing. Since we

are much older than you in years (as you count them), you are like

precious children whom the Great Spirit has chosen to place under

out care. All children, regardless of the circumstances of their birth

and surroundings, are gifts of the Great Spirit and their presence

among us should be viewed as a most sacred trust.

They are "angels to be" in time, just as you are, but their innocence

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and vulnerability behooves us all to love, protect, and nurture them

'until they are strong enough to stand on their own. That is your

obligation as their elder care takers, just as you are our responsibility

as your elders even though we are separated from you by the

unseen dimension that seems to separate your realm from our world

of Spirit.

Every child is a sacred trust from the moment of conception, and

every child from the earliest moment of development should be held

in greater reverence for the sacred miracle that it is. This is not the

case among too many people on your plane, and this must be

changed through growth in understanding as to who we are as

immortal souls, with a purpose and destiny greater than just the here

and now.

The number of young souls cast upon our spirit plane prematurely

every year are testimony to the fact that the people of your world are

still mostly misguided and stumbling, diseased in spirit and burdened

with darkness. Verily are you rising and falling, both at the same time.

This must be remedied, and it will be remedied in this era of Kosmon,

but it will be a laborious journey with no easy solutions.

Have no doubt that Jehovih has the solution, and it will be made

manifest through the exalted Hosts of Angels who labor as the

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Creator’s hands, yes and hearts on the scene. Have no doubt that

they hold all of you as their most sacred trust, and they will not rest

until all have been redeemed to light and understanding, to a fuller

consciousness and maturity unlike any that has heretofore

manifested on earth. Then will a greater peace manifest. Then will all

the awakening gifts of spiritual and corporeal knowledge blend and

blossom into the fullness of a blessing as it was meant to be, free of

all the pain and sufferings of the past. This will be the task of the

high-raised beings who are soon to follow us now that we have

fulfilled our part and set the stage. All is planned; all is in concert; all

is orchestrated.

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Lines of Light

Radiance

The Eloists

(1992)

The Hosts of Light are with you in focus. We come from realms that

are not so far removed from your plane that we are insensitive to

your earthly trials and your mortal needs, nor are we so close that we

are unduly influenced by your realm's unenlightened behaviour or the

inharmony and disorganization of the lower atmospherean realms.

We have risen to a state in which unity of action and unity of purpose

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under one Infinite Source is our rule and guide. We work organically

under one high council and our labors being so perfectly planned and

orchestrated bring us seasons of endless delight and fulfillment as

only the higher, more liberated realms can enjoy.

We come to your plane to bring guidance and inspiration to those

who are receptive to the Light. We work behind the scenes to

orchestrate those earthly events that we can influence for an ultimate

good, and to provide spiritual balm for those who suffer from those

events of darkness or fate that we cannot influence.

We greet those who arrive here in both timely and untimely fashion

and give assurances and instruction to those who are advanced

enough to perceive our presence. When they are not, we turn them

over to those hosts who are best trained to deal with souls who are

diseased. undeveloped, or mired in darkness. Many of the latter are

beyond our immediate help because they arrive in such great

numbers at this time, especially when there are self-inflicted

tragedies and wars.

These unfortunates try us all and test our resources to the limit. Most

have to be left to their own devices until more opportune occasions

arise at times of dan or when etherean hosts come to our assistance.

It is at those times that circles of dedicated souls on earth can be

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most useful to us, for when they are trained and well developed over

many years of discipline, they can be of use to us as "batteries",

"step down transformers" and "anchors", through which we can touch

the lower atmospherean realms. Through our earthly intermediaries

we can reach those in the lower spiritual realms even though they

have already passed through the veil into our world of spirit.

Lastly, we also work with those who are young, undeveloped and

innocent; those youthful souls of innocence who are thrust upon us

through untimely births, mistreatment or abortion. These arrive

without the sins of darkness upon them and they are cared for in a

most considerate, caring and loving environment, well removed from

the lower discordant realms of earth. Some are joined with an

appropriate corporeal host under close supervision until they are

mature enough to be taken in a state of spiritual infancy to an

appropriate region for care, while others who are more mature are

removed right away. But in either case all of these innocents quickly

find their way to our organic heavens of the higher atmospherean

realms. Though they may arrive under the most sorrowful

circumstances, they are all by their innocence and virtue special

gems in our plateau of Light and Love. Here they are kept in love and

joy and away from all harm, where they soon mature with grace and

beauty.

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The Sacred Life Immortal

Visions of a New Age

Robert Bayer

(2009)

There is a clock image before me. It is bejeweled in green and

purple crystals. Its hands point a few minutes from midnight. I pass

through the clock. I see mothers, a dozen or so different ones holding

their newborn babies in love, smiling and very happy. A complete

shifting of the vision onto a new scene: a surgery room, and screams

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of fear and pain, and an angelic baby rises upward to be swaddled in

a spirit blanket by angels who rise above with it. I look to the grisly

settling of the operating table, mother, doctor and table and cutting

instruments covered in blood. A lifeless child’s body is thrown away

into a plastic bag. I see a corridor of such scenes, extending like

into infinity when you look into 2 mirrors facing one another.

Ghastly butchery after ghastly butchery. Very difficult to keep seeing.

Below, and unseen to the doctors, a black network of tentacles,

monstrous, control the thoughts and movements of the “doctors.”

The “mother” is in a state of shock and the tentacles grip her too, in a

kind of dark cocoon. I follow the trail of tentacles to a subterranean

chasm of caverns. The lightning and mood is horrific. Blood flows

everywhere. A demonic entity, goat-shaped and black winged, fiery,

red coal eyes, wielding knives in both hands, “sacrifices” the

children’s astral forms on the burning altar before him. I can watch

no more. I rise up from this hell, to the earth, to the heavens … I see

pure child after pure child growing up in the heavens, wise and good

parents and teachers working with them, loving them, teaching them

the truths of the universe they know. Many colors of spiritual

blessings enfold them. A great gathering of these new angels is

growing, very serene and very filled with the purpose of returning to

earth to enlighten and strengthen all there in a new sacredness of life.

Mothers and fathers of the world are coming under their beautiful

mantel of love. My guide speaks:

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The Unseen is where the Truth of all things lie. Nothing is hidden,

whether the light of love or darkness of selfishness, all is revealed in

the spirit which is the true reality. For decades, a holocaust of

infants has terrorized the world and burdened the heavens. The time

for the repudiation of this great crime has come. No more will the

murder of the innocent be allowed to continue, blackening the earth

in great sin. A new conscious that all life is sacred and created with

divine purpose, by the All Highest Creator, shall dawn and illuminate

the mortal mothers and fathers that their highest purpose is to be in

love and to love their children forevermore. Our love for you all, our

mortal children, is eternal and so let us extend this love to all people,

for all are our brothers and sisters, all Children of the Great Spirit,

The Sacred Life Eternal.

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Eternal Families of Love

Visions of a New Age

Robert Bayer

(2010)

The blue sky is above me, with very lovely white clouds dappling it.

Also, there is a kind of transparent window outlined in a section of the

blue sky. I rise up to it and it opens and I pass into it. There is a

rush of fast movement upward, myself and others that I can only

dimly see. After a short time, and all at once, we appear out in the

open, above the crown of vast white cumulous clouds. Passing a

little way forward, we then look down upon a city of white and gold

and silver and crystal buildings, each surrounded by large gardens

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and lawns. The guide asks me where I would like to go. After a

short pause, I say where I can be of the most service. He says to

follow him and we descend into a park of gardens, wide lawns

divided by sections of blooming flowers and trees. I see very young

and happy children running and playing. There are parents and

teachers overseeing one or more young ones. Some of these are

baby infants and are being carried and caressed. I try to tune into

the vibrations and purpose of this uplifting and heart-warming place.

I perceive that all the attending adults were childless during their

mortal lives. My guide speaks:

Yes, you perceive rightly, for all those laboring here, or rather, I

should say parenting here, are fulfilling their long-held desire to be

parents, while at the same time performing a great service to these

little ones. For know that their work and dedication in service is of

an eternal nature, and that they have not simply volunteered for a

short time, a few days or years to these newborn in spirit. Their

commitment, though not the biological parents in fact, raises them to

be in truth from now on the real parents of these children for all

eternity. These are children who were discarded in their earthly

lives, whether through abortion or abuse or abandonment, and so

met a tragic and far too early end to their lives on earth. Yet behold

the Wisdom of our Heavenly Father-Mother, who joins together lives

burdened with sad trials, and thereby makes and blesses a new

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family of heaven, that shall love and support and rejoice in one

another. Where before there was sadness, and pain, now there is

but joy and healing in united futures of happiness together that shall

always be. Here, in these gardens, you and your loved ones shall

one day meet.

I smile in tears of joy and look upon the happy scenes of families in

harmony and love and cheer. Our thanks and blessings to the

Heavenly Creator!

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Pro-life Feminism

Conscious Conception

Jeannine Parvati Baker

(1986)

Arising from the Great Cosmic Song are the growing voices of

feminists who respect life in all its forms--even down to the

"unplanned" pregnancies. For too long the spiritual communities of

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the pagans and the yogis, the two philosophies I have studied for

many years, have neglected to re-vision abortion.

Lingering still is the rationalization that an "unwanted" child somehow

was worse than abortion--that a "fast death" was better than an entire

lifetime of feeling

"unwanted" (with a personal history filled with emotional and/or

physical abuse from immature, irresponsible parents). It seems to me

that abortion really is the ultimate child abuse. And death, whether it

be fast or slow, is still death.

In fact, I have left particular "spiritual" communities because of this

basic anti-life, pessimistic perspective on abortion. It seemed to me

that on the most primal level, a person has much more to learn about

spirituality by accepting WHAT-IS (i.e., a pregnancy) than by

forcefully "re-cycling" the soul (i.e., terminating the baby). And

besides, having an abortion undermines any and all possibilities of

changing the culture's basic anti-life/anti-children attitude; much less

a personal miracle, wherein the reluctant parents-to-be learn to

accept their coming child.

Allow me first to first turn my attention to the Yoga community wherein

it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies so

that they can get on with the "real" spiritual work: i.e., a meditation

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practice. Babies are sometimes seen as a distraction to a heroic

spiritual practice.

I have six children and have been practicing yoga for many years. I

have received overt as well as more subtle condemnation for my

"attachment to fertility" from the yogi community. Somehow being a

mother is not viewed as spiritual as being able to go on solitary

meditation retreats. In Yoga there are two clear paths to

liberation--the sadhu and the householder traditions. The path of the

sadhu is to withdraw from the world, unravel our natural attachments

and transcend ignorance/suffering by realizing the source of pain:

attachment to the ephemeral. From the sadhu's perspective, being

sexual and reproducing is seen as adding to the load of attachments.

The path I am on is the one of householder--of being in the world, and

yet not of the world at the same time. In other words, the attachment

to attachment is made conscious. Rather than throw the baby out with

the bathwater, householders are challenged to watch our natural

attachments to our children and let them be manifest in their fullest

and purest sense. It is a goal to revision this attachment with eternal

eyes, not just with temporal sight.

Having babies is known to be a great opportunity to learn surrender,

service, ecstasy and other qualities of the spiritual life. However, this

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path has generally not received as much "good press" as the well

known path of the hermit/sadhu yogi. Ask the man on the street what

his image is of a yogi and the response more likely than not will be "a

solitary and limber man, meditating on his navel in the peace and

quiet of the Himalayas."

I have watched many of my yogini sisters procure abortions knowing

that it was breaking the primary vow of ahimsa (harmlessness) that

yogis make. They justified their actions with a con-fusion philosophy

of reincarnation and "free will." In other words, they said that the soul

knew "on some level'" what it was getting by choosing incarnation into

a woman who did not want to be a mother just yet. Therefore "on

some level'" the fetus being aborted accepts being returned back into

the cosmos. Some yoginis have even had the hubris to state that their

unwanted fetus was a "very advanced soul" who only needed to be

incarnated for a very short time to complete its karma here on this

plane of existence. Adding insult to injury they go on to state that they

have done it a service by providing the soul with a temporary body to

"finish up." Maybe their unwanted baby was a samurai in a past life

and by being aborted (by dilation and curettage) it is completing its

own slicing karma (!) I am constantly amazed at the cleverness of the

mind in justifying its own desires. Calling an aborted fetus a "high

soul" not needing full deliverance on earth is an example of confused

yoga.

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Yoga clearly considers abortion killing—yet guru after guru condones

abortion through metaphysical belief in reincarnation. "We only go

around a thousand times so may as well grab as much personal

enlightenment as we can!" The most liberating belief in some ways is

that this is our past life—with that philosophy we will do what is best

for life now and not await our next chance, next lifetime.

Which brings me to the pagan community and our heritage as women

healers, the Wicca tradition. Wicca is a wise woman—one who knows

how to work natural forces--one who understands women's mysteries

and one who can do magic (i.e. work with images realizing that

energy follows thought). Amongst the pagans many abortions do

occur from a point of view that calls it "freedom." Janis Joplin sang, "

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" (reflecting

perhaps a bit of the sadhu philosophy) yet my pagan sisters still

perceive their ability to abort non-medically (through herbs,

incantations, etc.) as some kind of statement of power and control

over their lives. I challenge the true Wicca to display their "control"

and "power" in not conceiving unwanted babies in the first place.

Babies teach us that "control" is not as important from the spiritual

perspective as surrender. We all know how babies do not recognize

"personal privacy" and tend to muck around with special things, like

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the altar, and generally interfering with "personal pagan progress."

How many high priestesses will lead a ritual with a babe in arms? No,

here too, children are seen as intervening an ability to raise the cone

of power and draw down the moon. To my way of thinking this is the

height of irony--that drawing down the moon is perceived as difficult

with a baby present! Pregnancy and birth and breastfeeding seem to

draw the moon down into our very bodies!

It all comes down to what our ideas and beliefs are about "spirituality."

Christian writers have well documented the inconsistency of abortion

with Jesus' teachings. Christianism itself is claimed by the child

archetype and so lends its dogma towards the literal protection of

babies as well. "Suffer the little children to come unto me," Jesus said,

yet abortion misreads the word suffer literally, not in the original

meaning of "allow." However, most of the older spiritual traditions,

and here paganism of the west and yoga of the east are our examples

(as well as ethnic Judaism), have lagged behind by not consistently

denouncing abortion. My intuition says that the confusion in the public

mind about witches as evil, ugly women, rather than as

healers/midwives comes from abortion practices. And though yoga is

quite clearly against violence and killing, this is amended for

"advanced" practitioners who have the boldness to believe they are

somehow above personal karma.

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Part of this confusion stems from the archetype of the Terrible Mother

and the Great/Good Mother. I have had pagans and yoginis alike tell

me that motherhood archetypically contains both the loving as well as

the rejecting mother and to be "whole" we need to express both.

Abortion seen in that light is but an extension of the natural "weaning

mother." This argument is absurd in my book. The source of

confusion is calling killing "weaning" or a "natural process"-- dying is a

natural process, killing other humans is not part of a natural or

spiritual path.

Or at least killing doesn't have to be. I am aware that plenty of killing

takes place in nature. Yet if we want to arise from the jungle

consciousness (and survival of the fittest myth of social Darwinism)

and bring "heaven" here to Earth, as is our New Age potential, we

need to set an example to the other animals/organisms on our shared

planet. How ironic it is that some yoginis will forego the eating of meat

out of compassion for animals, yet this same sensitive compassion is

not extended to unwanted babies. Pagans also believe in karma with

the dictum that what one puts out comes back three times as hard!

Yet somehow abortions are set apart from that universal law.

Vegetarianism and recognition of the Golden Rule and karma are part

of the spiritual path and both yogis and pagans base their practices

on doing no harm. I am praying for the day when these practices will

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extend to abortion as well and all of us will act consistently with these

noble beliefs.

The homebirth community grows in awareness that previous

abortions negatively affect natural birth. When a mother labors in a

birth after having an abortion previous to the present pregnancy, she

often is doing the work to birth both babies at once – the aborted one

and the baby coming now. One exaggerated argument against

gynecological/medical personnel being involved in natural birth is that

in their busyness and routines they might forget in an early prenatal

which procedure they are doing--an abortion or a prenatal exam.

Unfortunately many midwives also counsel abortions, being wolves in

sheep's clothing. For the most part, medically trained perinatal

professionals have accrued a lot of harmful karma and it shows in

their limited ability to assist in spontaneous births without their

technological tools. If on the one hand you are terminating babies and

on the other hand trying to welcome them, there might be some subtle

confusion. I believe babies can sense who is truly harmless and trust

their deliverance into the hands that consistently support life. No

amount of sadhana (spiritual practice) or pagan powers can

supersede abortion in our psychic closet: Especially if those past

abortions are not healed (atoned, integrated and/or understood that

what happened made sense at the time but to repeatedly abort is a

waste of a painful lesson.)

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Spirituality in its essence is reverence for life. It is not denying the

physical for the spiritual. Rather it is seeing the spiritual in the material

and ultimately unifying our vision so that there is no separation.

The means is the end. Having an abortion in order "to get my spiritual

act together" is self-defeating (Self Defeating). One of the best ways

to get oneself together is by helping someone else. Each action we do

on the Earth sets the stage for all future actions. Having an abortion is

the strongest metaphor for separateness and non-acceptance of the

unity of life there is.

Let me close with a prayer for all the babies who are here —

whether they be convenient or not. May we be worthy of their trust.

May we prepare ourselves fully for those babies whose faces we

have yet to see rising from the ground. May we witness the end of our

world's confusion about personal "freedom" and "independence" and

come to celebrate our divine interdependence and oneness. In the

God (Us) name, may all conscious beings come to accept fertility as

the blessing it truly is and through all our babies, come to know who

we really are.

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The Development of the Unborn Child

Conversations with Walter

Walter and Betty Shepherd

(2010)

Walter has told me that, during its time in the womb, the Spirit looks

after the development of the new child, at birth handing over its care

to the mother and then gradually to the child’s own psyche. He has

also told me that during life it is the mind, with its ideas, which makes

all decisions for the individual. It occurs to me that I don’t really know

what all this means.

“Walter — by what mechanism does the Spirit care for the growing

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embryo? And exactly how does the psyche influence us during life?

Is it consciously, or is it through the unconscious mind?”

“These are two different questions. Let’s take the first one first. What

you mean is that as the Spirit cannot touch the material body, there

must be some way in which it causes the body to react. Is that right?

“Yes, exactly.”

“Well, as you know by now, all energy comes from the Spirit, which is

Life itself. Cells have an inbuilt desire to divide and reproduce. You

could say that this idea, or instinct, is in the mind of each cell. To a

cell, this would be Love of Living. The Spirit can choose which cells

divide and how, by giving energy to some and not to others. In this

way it can encourage some cells to form — for instance — a nose,

and prevent others from growing in an inappropriate place. That’s a

sort of shorthand answer. Is it good enough?”

“Well, it does give me a general idea, but I have a couple of

questions. You talk about the division of cells being discouraged by

the Spirit if it is not required. Yet in the case of cancer, the cells are

not prevented from over-reproducing; why is this?”

“Walter was talking about what happens before the birth of the child.

He has told you that when the individual life on earth begins at birth,

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control is given to the child’s own psyche, so that the Spirit is no

longer in charge. We do not think that a child has ever been born with

cancer. This develops later, when the psyche is in control, and wrong

ideas in the psyche itself are the main cause of it.

What else did you want to know?”

“What about genetic faults? Can the Spirit not prevent these from

developing?”

“No it can’t. These are in the DNA, and no amount of love with cure

them.

We have been talking about the material body. As you know, your

actions are controlled by ideas in the mind. No idea: no action. A

person in a coma cannot act.

Where the mind is concerned, in the early stages of the embryo the

Spirit will give love (energy) to those ideas it wants to encourage and

not to others. At birth, as you already know, the Spirit abrogates its

power of veto, and will give love to any ideas of the mind. An idea

carries the tenderness of love which gives desire, and the energy of

love, which fuels the action. The result of the action is then the light

of love, which as we have said before can be all sorts of things.

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Does that give you a good enough answer to your first question?”

“Yes. The Spirit controls both body and mind by the giving or

withholding of love; that is, energy.”

“Good. Then we will go on to the second question. But first, Walter

wants to tell you something about the unconscious mind. In depth

psychology, this is considered to consist of two parts, the Personal

Unconscious, whose contents have at one time been conscious, and

which is unique to the individual, and the Collective Unconscious,

which is shared with all mankind. This last is usually considered to be

a treasure-house of power and important potential. It has even been

considered to equate with the Mind of God, or with the collective

mind of Mankind, containing all that has ever been known.

The idea is not true. It is consciousness which is important. And also

the Personal Unconscious.”

“But unconscious ideas do exist! They affect mood — and, for that

matter, behaviour!”

“Of course they do. And it is very difficult — sometimes impossible —

to reach them and change them for the better. But they exist in the

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Personal Unconscious.

The Collective Unconscious contains the experience gained during

evolution through the lower forms of life, before we became human

beings at all, and also from some of mankind’s very early

experiences. That is valuable in that it teaches empathy — like the

boy Arthur when, as a child, Merlin taught him what it is like to be a

bird, and a fish, and other things. (You told Walter you had been

reading the legend of King Arthur.) When we humans are able to

understand other forms of life, it is because we have been through

that stage ourselves and have, as it were, a picture in the Collective

Unconscious mind with which to compare anything we find out.’

“Are you telling me there are no ideas in that mind, only pictures?”

“Darling, we simply don’t know what is in it! People on earth have no

way of finding out, since if they had conscious knowledge of it, it

would not be unconscious! And in Heaven it doesn’t exist. All mind is

conscious.”

We think the Collective Unconscious must contain pictures, as these

seem to influence how some artists see the world. It is also a

reasonable assumption, since there was very little of what we would

call ‘thought’ in the early stages of evolution, and impressions taken

by the growing mind would very likely be in picture form.

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“What about the body processes, like digestion? These are

unconscious.”

“Yes. It is possible that they are controlled by a part of the

Unconscious Mind. But Walter doesn’t think so. He thinks — and so

do many other spirits — that the person’s own Spirit, when it hands

over to the psyche at birth, retains control of the body’s internal

processes. This would be a wise thing to do. You can see how

disastrous it could be if the conscious mind were able to interfere

with these unconscious processes. People might try to change the

shape and functions of their body according to fashions and the

whim of the moment, or in order to excel at some sport! So Walter

thinks that love is given where necessary by the individual Spirit.”

I said I had always thought the body was programmed to operate

automatically. “Is the Spirit in control of the autonomic nervous

system, then?”

“Both are probably true. No doubt the systems are set up to work on

their own, but if things go wrong, the Spirit can intervene.”

“But even so,” I objected, “things do go wrong — with the digestion,

for example.”

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“The digestion, like other processes, has to work within the

framework of the material body — the stomach, intestines, and so on.

These are subject to illness, of course. And all illness is caused by

wrong thoughts in the mind, usually beyond any control by the

sufferer.

Are you any the wiser now?”

“I think so. . . You were talking about the unconscious.”

“Yes. This leaves the Collective Unconscious as a sort of ancestral

record, and certainly no treasure-house of knowledge. It knows what

snakes and fish and frogs know — but that is nothing compared to

the knowledge of humans! All knowledge, and all power, needs to be

conscious, because consciousness is life and reality. This is true

right through the Universe, from God to the atom and beyond. The

great reservoir of knowledge and power could be the conscious mind

itself, if it better understood its own Spirit.

Your second question was: How does the psyche influence us

through life on earth? You really already know the answer to this.

The psyche is the seat of ideas, and we are controlled by our ideas.

In fact, the mind is its ideas, and without ideas we could do nothing.

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You might say, we would be nothing.

Are you answered?”

I said I thought I was. “But it’s a new idea that the conscious mind is

— or could be — the treasure-house of knowledge and wisdom. I

suppose the truth is that, as things are, it isn’t!”

“That is because not many people on earth are as yet living in their

spiritual bodies, although these are with them on earth. The Spirit is

conscious; if you are ever to live in spiritual bodies, and not only in

the material and Etheric ones, it will be consciously. If Evil is to be

defeated, it will be by consciously loving Good.”

He went on: “Walter has said that most people love God in their

hearts. When they come to acknowledge this, when they love him

with the reasoning mind as well as in the heart, they will no longer do

any evil thing. Well — will they?”

“No. That’s quite true; they won’t.”

A thought occurred to me: “You said we don’t ‘yet’ live in our spiritual

bodies. Presumably that means we will one day? If you compare the

human race to a growing child, how old would you say it is? How far

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have we got in the journey of its life on earth?”

“Walter would say it is a toddler; perhaps two years old.”

“Good heavens! Is that all? Then will we change altogether? I have

sometimes wondered whether we would end up even a different

shape, as the demands of life change.”

“Not a different shape. The material body is already exactly right for

life on earth, and the head has grown larger to accommodate the

larger brain. Nothing more is needed. It is the psyche which needs to

develop. And will — unless disaster prevents it from doing so.”

“You know,” I said, “in spite of all you have said about the psyche, I

still find it difficult to know to what degree it can be equated with the

mind. I mean, what is the difference?”

“The psyche is the mind and non-material emotional centre of a living

person. You are not alone — many psychologists would be hard put

to tell you what they think it is! During life on earth, the psyche

controls, and interacts with, the electro-magnetic (etheric) part of the

living body. For this reason the materialists can think of it as material,

and do. They are wrong; the psyche is a spirit. In books on

psychology you will read that mechanical thoughts and feelings,

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verging on sensation of the physical body, are attributed to the

psyche. But in fact, thoughts and feelings controlled by the brain and

nervous system, such as fear, hunger, lust or anger, are not a part of

the psyche at all, but belong to the material body.

Some are evil, and some necessary on earth; all die with the body, or

are shed in the afterlife as soon as possible. What continues after

death is the true psyche — creative thought and emotional feeling.

People living on earth experience the psyche as intuition, empathy,

and creative imagination, and also the will which powers them.”

“Not as ideas?”

“Certainly as ideas! All the three words which Walter has just given

you are functions powered by the will (love) and giving rise to ideas.

Walter has already explained that while ‘creative imagination’ sounds

rather grand, in fact it is the most everyday thing in the world. Some

people might think they haven’t got any — but they certainly have!

Without it, they would not be able to plan the simplest day. Creative

imagination accounts for all actions from getting out of bed in the

morning to painting a masterpiece. Knowledge and empathy tell you

how to do it, and intuition tells you the likely result.

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Every act is a creation, resulting in something that was not there

before, and it involves imagination because in order to know whether

it should be done you have to look into the future — perhaps only a

minute hence, but that is still future; the result of your action cannot

possibly be with you in the present, when you are still wondering how

or whether to do it! The psyche includes the desire to create (to act),

and the energy of that desire (that is, the tenderness and energy of

love). These two contents of the psyche are everyday things, and

account for every large or small action, every day of your life. If you

did not see in imagination (and where else would you see it, for it is

not there in the present) the boiling water in your kettle, you would

not put it on the fire, and you would not get your cup of tea! The mere

sight of a kettle is not enough to tell you that water can boil.

“Well, but you would never know unless someone told you! Or unless

you were the first to discover it.”

“Quite right. The psyche also includes knowledge — which, when

you think about it, consists of ideas about all sorts of things. The

mind of the psyche consists of its ideas — remember? — and these

may come from personal experience, from some other psyche, or

from a source like a book, which is the same as getting it from

another person. True knowledge is experience, the truth of which has

been personally discovered, or is known by intuition. Facts which you

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get second hand are not knowledge until they enter your own psyche

as known truth, and when they do this they transform the psyche

itself.

Your true self includes the truth you know: real knowledge and being

are the same thing.

Some people are crammed with facts they have not experienced,

and which have not therefore affected their psyche. These constitute

a false personal being. Once experienced, some of these facts may

enter the psyche and become part of the real person, but until they

do they are useless, and may be harmful. ‘I always thought that

marmalade was green!’ could be said by someone who has never

seen or eaten marmalade. That wouldn’t matter too much. But what

about: ‘I always thought all business people could be trusted,’ or ‘I

always thought all red berries were edible.’? Both ideas might lead to

disaster. But far worse — and not that uncommon: ‘I always thought

all foreigners were dangerous, and should be killed.’”

A thought struck me. “I went wrong over an idea, didn’t I — that

discarnate spirits had all knowledge and wisdom! If I hadn’t thought

that, I wouldn’t have trusted the ancestor’ spirits, and got my fingers

burned.”

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“Walter is glad you realise that! You see — you have gained

knowledge, and it has entered into your being. Now, for the future,

you know.

All people hold some ideas which are second-hand and possibly

dangerous, and some people are so full of them that they have

hardly any true identity at all. You may wonder how they survive in

the world. Well — heaven looks after them, and a sore trial they are

to their guardian spirits!”

“I suppose they usually get these ideas from their parents, or family,

or from their peers?”

“Very often. On the other hand, most families pass down good ideas

to their children, and only a few bad ones, so don’t blame them for all

evil.”

“The trouble at present is that young people won’t listen to their

elders, for good or ill.”

“Absolutely true. But Walter thinks this will pass. It must, if the human

race is to survive.

People often feel they need to build a protective wall between

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themselves and the rest of the world, and to do this they use some

ideas which are true and some which are not, creating a facade

behind which they can hide their weaknesses. With this shield they

feel they cannot be attacked at their weakest points, as no one will

know which they are. Psychologists have called this false person the

Persona, after the masks worn by actors in Ancient Greece to

identify the characters they were playing. (This is still done in

Japanese theatre.) The Persona does not only hide weakness; it can

present a brave show, and add greatly to the stature of the

personality.

In some people it is very like the real person behind it; in others it is

almost entirely false.”

I said I thought most people had a Persona to some degree,

acquiring it during their teen years, or sometimes even earlier, “One

of the tasks of growing up — often not finished until quite late in life is

to get rid of the false hits, until the face you present to the world

represents as exactly as possible the true nature behind the mask.

“I think I was seventy or more before I really achieved this. And, oh!

the joy when one does — the sense of release!”

“You have done well if you have achieved it at all!

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So long as the mask is not too far from reality, and can be taken off at

will, it is not too dangerous and can be helpful, as the world is a hard

place and few people can face it without protection. But the Persona

can grow on to the person so that it cannot be taken off, and then it

prevents the proper growth of the psyche, leading to self-deception

and loss of identity, for in the end the person no longer knows which

is the Persona and which the real self.

“Like the Red Shoes which grew on to the little girl’s feet, in that most

dreadful of fairy tales.”

“Yes. Fairy tales tell us the truths. The little girl was determined to

have her own way — to wear the Red Shoes, and to dance in them.

She saw this as the expression of her own self. Then she couldn’t

take them off, and could not stop dancing, although she was

dropping with fatigue.

At death, this inability to shed the Persona causes a terrible dilemma,

because all falsehood in the personality must be discarded before

the psyche can join the Spirit and progress through the heavens.”

“Before the ‘Golden bowl’ of the Lustral body can be ‘broken’?”

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“Well done! Yes, exactly.”

“When the Lustral body has been superseded, does the psyche, with

the Spirit of Love, then live in the Astral body.”

“Yes. That is what it is called. What it means is that the feeling part of

the spirit person is then all love, and is no longer contaminated with

any bad feelings.”

I had to smile at Walter’s determination that I should not use names

(of bodies or anything else) without fully understanding what those

names represent. As Shakespeare pointed out, the name of a thing

is not its identity, merely a convenient label.

“Walter, you have said that some things are more easily learned here

on earth than in the afterlife. Is this one of them — discarding those

parts of the Persona which are not true to yourself?”

“Yes, it is.

The psyche is mental spirit. Without it the body would be — not a

lump of meat, as it would be without the individual Spirit — but a

cabbage. The psyche and the brain are not synonymous; you know

that, but it is very important that you should remember it. The psyche

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is a spirit; the brain is part of the material body. The mind part of the

psyche uses the brain as a tool; it no more is the brain than a

carpenter is his adze. Damage to the brain damages, not the psyche,

but the connection between the two.”

“That accounts for the feeling one gets with brain-damaged people

that something within them understands only too well, but cannot

communicate what they know and want.”

“Yes. It is a sad fact that this was not understood until recently.

People were treated cruelly for what is no more than a mechanical

malfunction.

Also, much of what people believe to be intelligence is intellect, and

belongs to the electro-magnetic system of the brain — which works

better in some people than in others, but is never a spiritual function.

Electro-magnetism is not a spirit, it is material; in the language of

heaven, the Etheric body.

If the psyche stretches out to learn all it can by personal experience,

or by the exercise of its intuitive knowledge of truth (which is given by

contact with the Spirit of Love), then it will grow and develop, and live

in its own Lustral body.

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This is the object of our experience on Earth. To allow the psyche to

reach its full potential. As Walter has told you, there are certain

lessons which are learned more easily on earth (though sometimes

not without suffering).”

“Is that why a hard life can in some ways be a blessing?”

“Yes, it is. Some lessons can be learned only with difficulty in the

continuing life in the conditions of heaven, after the death of the

material body. What you do not learn now, you will have to learn later,

and it may be harder — that is the simple truth. We do not stop

learning just because we have finished with the physical body. And

just as well, for you will agree that no one is perfect at the end of life

on earth.”

“Well, that’s true enough! But why is it harder to learn in the afterlife?

I would have thought that it would be easier to take things in, without

the pressures of living on earth, and when you are surrounded by

loving and helpful spirits.”

“Dear love, you are making the all-too-human mistake of judging

others by yourself! You are so anxious to learn that you will not find it

hard. But many people don’t want to give up their wrong ideas! They

will fight to keep them! All the love in heaven finds it hard to get

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through to someone who is determined not to have it.

That’s why learning can be hard in the afterlife. It is painfully difficult

to give up your most cherished ideas. But every soul learns in the

end. The Church Father, Origen, taught that every person in the

world, however evil, would be saved in the end, and this is the

blessed truth. Thanks be to God!

“So Walter, can I summarize what you have told me.

On earth, the psyche is both thought and feeling, for the two cannot

be separated. It is also the individual self — which presumably

consists of thought and feeling?”

“Yes. And while on earth, temporarily of sensation.”

“So Descartes was not too far wrong when he said: ‘I think, therefore

I am’?”

“Walter believes he put too much emphasis on thought and forgot

feeling.”

“Well — yes. . . But that was a diversion. The intellect, as opposed to

intelligence, is the work of the mind using the brain as a tool, and is

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material.”

“Yes.”

“In the heavens, thought and feeling gradually become entirely

loving; the psyche then joins with the individual Spirit to live in the

Astral body. This — the ‘Pitcher’ of Ecclesiastes — is eventually

superseded, and the psyche and Spirit, thought and love together in

the Glorified body, return unto God who gave life to them.”

“Good. You have understood. The glorified person will retain

personality — all the good things gained by each of us during life on

Earth and in the heavens, and will return to God bearing this

treasure.”

“Dare one say — by which God will be enriched?”

“That is the hope of the spirits of heaven.”

“What a wonderful thought!”

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A Family of the Heavens

Visions of a New Age

Robert Bayer

(2013)

Upon the lower astral planes, there is a chasm that serves as one of

the avenues to the hells far below. A number of years ago, I walked

across this gorge of hell upon a White Bridge. And I was doing so

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now though not with any great relish. At this time I became very

focused and clear in mind, careful to not allow the slightest trace of

fear or doubt enter my mind, no matter what I might encounter. For it

is natural to assume that in these sundry, dark places of spirit, any

weakness or negativity would only attract far worse.

And so I walked upon the White Bridge spanning these depths. Fire

and Back plumes cascaded upward, fashioned by the hate and fear

of the denizens below. This time the bridge descended gracefully

downward with me athwart it. I heard my unseen guardians caution

me to stay upon the bridge at all times. As I descended, the

delirium of screams rose in volume and intensity of emotion.

Shadows of many shapes, faces of many kinds of anguish passed by

but did not touch me nor did they seem aware of me. So I managed

to stay outwardly calm, because there was no alternative. At last

we reached the bottom of the pit, and at first I could see nothing. I

wondered why I was even here. I became aware of the great

vastness of the black plateau, whose ravines and caverns stretched

for what seemed thousands of miles. Being alone, what purpose

could I possibly serve by being here? My guides said quietly but

reassuringly to watch and wait. And so I did and my spiritual eyes

became gradually used to the dim light and I found I could see a bit

ahead. I heard next some pitiful weeping, and so walked a few

steps forward and found that there was a young girl, perhaps ten

years old, who was on her hands and knees crying most bitterly. She

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was so forlorn and in pain that my heart immediately went out to her

and as it did, I found that I instantly knew by reading her spiritual

vibrations, just what was the cause of her predicament. Her parents

had never wanted a child and had resented everything extra

parenting required, and especially being of meager resources,

resented and over time, developed a hatred for this pleasant girl,

who in their twisted view, was causing them so much extra work and

financial costs. They constantly scolded and punished her, often

quite sadistically. And so her heart and spirit were at last broken

and one day she cast herself into a stone quarry and so ended her

life. Being a suicide she had just arrived here and was hardly less

anguished now than before the suicide.

As I have stated before, my heart instantly went out to her and I

made an inner pledge to the Creator of Universe at that moment, that

this girl, I and my soul-mate would take on and love as our own

daughter from this point in eternity onward, no matter what. For love

begets love, of that I was certain. Also, having no children on earth

of our own, it seemed even more fitting to do just this. She rose up

almost immediately as the force of my parental love flowed to blend

with her and greeted me quite hopefully. I felt something cosmic click

in our destinies, and there was in that hell an exchange of smiles and

greetings as cheerfully done as in a neighborhood park. Her name

was Sally.

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Just then, a great Star Sphere of Light next appeared with my Eternal

Soul-Mate, Joyce, within it, and quite an entrance of brilliance and

angelic beauty she was. Both Sally and I were amazed but delighted

and in seeing her welcoming smile, and the opening of her

beckoning arms, we entered her craft. All three of us then

embraced warmly and with deeply gladdening hearts. We were

together, a family! At long last! In hell now yet in the heavens so

happy, we knew now, for all time.

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The Cosmic Family Eternal

Visions of a New Age

Robert Bayer

(2015)

I am walking down a long corridor, very white and very bright, with

gold framed works of art along its walls. Each of the pictures is

marvelously vivid, beautiful, empowering to gaze at, representing

various unique Symbols of Sacredness: Rose, Star, Jewel, Rainbow,

Sunrise, Waterfall and many more. There is a Golden Door at the

end of the corridor, glowing with a radiance of sparkling golden

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particles. Above it is an arch inscribed with the words: <Love is Our

Eternal Truth.>

As I reach for the doorknob an angelic hand takes mine and pulls

gently through to another dimension and realm.

I am standing upon vast garden lawns that are roofed by a very

beautiful transparent glass pyramidal dome, tessellated in many

pleasing geometric shapes which fit together perfectly. The blue

azure skies and golden sun are above all of this. The glass pyramid

seems to be generating a very lovely positive energy, a blend of

crystal, emerald and amethyst colors, with which it lightly gleams and

radiates.

I give these environmental details now but what really got my

immediate attention were children soaring in ecstatic joy and

laughter many meters above the garden. Down below them, their

parents and other family members laughed with them, while

encouraging and exchanging pleasantries with their kids. It all looks

like a family-outing picnic of some special holiday. I feel their

heavenly happiness together and rejoice for them. A guide standing

next to me speaks:

<These are the Families of The Chosen. Almost all of the children

here have been adopted by childless couples since their passing

over from the spirit world. Many of these boys and girls have

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parents who rejected or aborted them or who are now bound in dark

hells for past evil acts where they shall someday learn to walk the

spiritual path of ascension. But it is the Will of the Creator that all

God’s Children shall find love in the heavens even if unloved in their

mortal life. This is their new glad beginning of their very new, very

real immortal lives. Many workers and teachers of the heavens are

continuing to labor to bring together those whom are destined to be

part of the Cosmic Family Eternal. Our reward is simply to see these

families united in angelic love and jubilation, eternally so.>

Looking all around me, I once again hear their laughter, see their

smiles and happy play together, and feel their deep uplifting love for

one another. Yes, this is heaven. Yes, this is Eternal Love.

The End