Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

By Baird T. Spalding

Volume I

(Published 1924) 

FORWARD:

In presenting THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF THE MASTERS OF THE

FAR EAST, I wish to state that I was one of a research party of eleven
persons that visited the Far East in 1894.

During our stay—three and a half years—we contacted the Great Masters of
the Himalayas, who aided us in the translation of the records, which was of
great assistance in our research work. They permitted us to enter into their
lives intimately and we were thus able to see the actual working of the great
Law as demonstrated by them. We call them Masters, which is merely our
name for them. One living the life described herein is entitled to reverence
and consideration as a Master.

Records and manuscripts—our actual experience with the Masters—were

preserved. Personally, at that time, I thought the world was not ready for
this message. I was an independent member of the research party and I am
now publishing my notes under the title LIFE AND TEACHING OF THE
MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST, with the thought that the reader may accept
or reject, as he wishes.

This book, which will be followed by others of the Sun series, gives the first
year's experience of the expedition in relation to the Masters. It includes
their teaching, which was taken by us stenographically at the time, with
their permission and approved by them.

The Masters accept that Buddha represents the Way to Enlightenment, but
they clearly set forth that Christ IS Enlightenment, or a state of
consciousness for which we are all seeking—the Christ light of every
individual; therefore, the light of every child that is born into the world.

(Signed) Baird T. Spalding

Chapter I
We had been in India about two years, doing regular routine research work,
when I met the Master known in these writings as Emil. While walking
along a street in the city where we were staying, my attention was attracted
to a crowd. I saw the center of interest was one of the street magicians, or
fakirs, that are so common in that country. As I stood there I noticed beside
me an elderly man who was not of the same caste as those about him. He
looked at me and asked if I had been long in India. I replied, "About two
years." He asked, "Are you English?" I answered. "American."

I was surprised and very much interested to find one who spoke English. I
asked him what he thought of the performance then going on. He
answered, "Oh, it is a common occurrence in India. These fellows are called
fakirs, magicians, and hypnotists. They are all the name implies; but
underneath it all is a deeper spiritual meaning that few discern, and good
will come of it some day. It is but the shadow of the thing from which it
sprang. It has caused a great deal of comment, and those commenting upon
it seem never to have reached the true meaning, for there certainly is a
truth underneath it all."

Here we parted and I saw him only occasionally during the next four
months. Our expedition was confronted by a problem which gave us a great
deal of trouble. In the midst of our worries I again met Emil. Immediately
he asked what was bothering me and began talking about our problem.

I wondered at this, for I felt that none of our party had mentioned it outside
of our little circle. His familiarity with the situation was such that I felt the
whole matter was known to him. He explained that he had a certain insight
into the affair and that he would endeavor to help.

Within a day or two the matter was cleared up, leaving us without a
problem. We wondered at this but, with other things to occupy our time,
soon forgot.

As other problems came up it became a habit with me to talk them over

with Emil. It seemed that as soon as I discussed our troubles with him they
would cease to exist.

My associates had met and talked with Emil but I had said little to them
about him. By this time I had read a number of books on Hindu lore,
selected by Emil, and I was fully convinced that he was one of the adepts.
My curiosity was keenly aroused and I was becoming more deeply
interested each day.
One Sunday afternoon Emil and I were walking in a field when he called my
attention to a pigeon circling overhead and casually remarked that the bird
was looking for him. He stood perfectly still and in a few moments the bird
alighted upon his outstretched arm. He said the bird has a message from
his brother in the North. This proved to be a fellow-worker who had not
reached the attainment whereby he could communicate directly, so he took
this means. We later found that the Masters are able to communicate with
each other instantly by thought transference or, as they call it, a force much
more subtle than either electricity or wireless.

I then began to ask questions and Emil showed me that he was able to call
the birds to him and direct their flight while they were in the air; that the
flowers and trees would nod to him; that the wild animals would come to
him fearlessly. He parted two jackals that were fighting over the body of a
smaller animal that they had killed and were feeding upon. When he
approached them they stopped fighting and put their heads in his
outstretched hands in perfect trust, then resumed their meal in quiet. He
even gave me one of the young wild creatures to hold in my hands. He then
said to me, "This is not the mortal self, the self you see, that is able to do
these things. It is a truer, deeper self. It is what you know as God, God
within me, God the Omnipotent One working through me, that does these
things. Of myself, the mortal self, I can do nothing. It is only when I get rid
of the outer entirely and let the actual, the I AM, speak and work and let the
great Love of God come forth that I can do these things that you have seen.
When you let the Love of God pour through you to all things, nothing fears
you and no harm can befall you."

Every day during this time I had lessons with Emil. He would suddenly
appear in my room, even if I had taken special care to lock the door before
retiring. At first his appearance at will disturbed me but I soon saw that he
took it for granted that I understood. I became accustomed to his ways and
left my door open so that he could come and go as he pleased. This
confidence seemed to please him. I could not understand all his teachings
and I could not accept them fully, nor was I able, with all I saw while in the
East, to fully accept at the time. It required years of meditation to bring me
the realization of the deep spiritual meaning of these peoples' lives.

Their work is accomplished without ostentation and in perfect childlike

simplicity. They know the power of love to protect them and they cultivate
it until all nature is in love with them and befriends them. Thousands of the
common people are killed annually by serpents and wild animals, yet these
Masters have so brought forth the power of love in themselves that serpents
and wild animals do not injure them. They live at times in the wildest
jungles, and sometimes lay their bodies down before a village to protect it
from the ravages of wild animals, and no harm befalls the village or
themselves. When occasion requires they walk on water, go through fire,
travel in the invisible, and do many other things that we have been
accustomed to look upon as miracles performed only by one supposed in
some way to possess supernatural powers.

There is a striking resemblance between the life and teaching of Jesus of

Nazareth and those of these Masters as exemplified in their daily life. It has
been thought impossible for man to derive his daily supply directly from the
Universal, to overcome death and to perform the various so-called miracles
that Jesus performed while on earth. The Masters prove that all these are
their daily life. They supply everything needed for their daily wants directly
from the Universal, including food, clothing and money. They have so far
overcome death that many of them now living are over five hundred years
of age, as was conclusively proved by their records.

There are comparatively few of these Masters in India, other cults seeming
to be but offshoots of their teaching. They realize their number is limited
and that only a few scholars can come to them. In the invisible, however,
they can reach almost unlimited numbers and it seems to be the greater
work of their lives to reach out into the invisible and help all who are
receptive to their teaching.

The teaching of Emil laid the foundation for the work which we were to take
up years later in our third expedition to these countries, during which time
we lived with the Masters continuously for three and one-half years,
traveled with them, and observed their daily lives and work throughout the
Far East.

Chapter II

We arrived at Potal, from where the expedition was to start, late in the
afternoon of December 22, 1894, and found we were to start Christmas
morning upon what was to be the most memorable expedition of our whole
lives. I never shall forget the few words Emil said to us that morning. These
words were delivered in fluent English, although the speaker did not boast
an English education, and he had never been out of the Far East.

He began by saying, "Tis Christmas Morning; to you I suppose it is the day

Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, was born; to you the thought must come that
He was sent to remit sins; to you He must typify the Great Mediator
between you and your God. You seem to appeal to Jesus as a mediator
between you and your God, who seems to be a stern and, at times, an angry
God sitting off somewhere in the place called heaven, located where I do
not know, except it be in man's consciousness. You seem to be able to reach
God only through His less austere and more loving Son, the great and noble
One whom we all call Blessed and whose advent into the world this day
commemorates. To us this day means more; to us this day not only means
the advent into this world of Jesus, the Christ, but also this birth typifies
the birth of Christ in every human consciousness. This Christmas Day
means the birth of the Great Master and Teacher, the Great Liberator of
mankind from material bondage and limitations. To us this great soul came
on earth to show more fully the way to the real God, the great Omnipotent,
Omnipresent, Omniscient One; to show that God is all Goodness, all
Wisdom, all Truth, All in All. This Great Master, who came to this world
this day, was sent to show more fully that God not only dwells without us
but within us, that He never is, nor can be, separated from us or any of His
creations; that He is always a just and loving God; that He is all things;
knows all things; knows all and is all Truth. Had I the understanding of all
men, it is beyond my power to express to you, even in an humble way, what
this Holy Birth means to us.

"We are fully convinced and we hope you also will see that this Great
Master and Teacher came to us that we might have a fuller understanding
of life here on earth; that all mortal limitations are but man-made and in no
other way should they be interpreted. We know that this greatest of all
teachers came to show more fully that the Christ in Him and through whom
He did His mighty works is the same Christ that lives in you, in me, and in
all mankind; that we can, by applying His teachings, do all the works that
He did and greater works. We believe that Jesus came to show more fully
that God is the one great and only Cause of all things, that God is All.

"You may have heard it said that we believe Jesus received his early
training among us. Perhaps some of us do believe. Let that be as it is. Does
it matter whether His training came from among us or as a direct revelation
from God, the one source where all things really exist? For when an idea
from God-mind has been contacted by one man and sent out through the
spoken word, cannot one, or all, again contact that thought in the
Universal? Because one has contacted the idea and sent it out, it does not
follow that it is his particular possession. If he did appropriate and hold it,
where would be room for receiving? To receive more we must give out what
we have received. If we withhold what we receive, stagnation will follow and
we will be like the wheel that generates power from the water and suddenly,
of its own volition, begins to withhold the water which it is using. It will
soon find itself stifled with inert water. It is only when the water is allowed
to flow freely through that it is of value to the wheel to create power. Just so
with man. When he contacts God's ideas he must give them out in order to
receive the benefit from them. He must allow all to do the same, that they
may grow and develop as he is growing.

"I am of the opinion that what Jesus taught came to Him as a direct
revelation from God, as it no doubt has come to our great teachers. Are not
all things of God, and whatever one human being can do, cannot all do? We
believe you will be convinced that God is ever willing and ready to reveal
Himself to all men as He has revealed Himself to Jesus and others. The
only requisite necessary is for each one to be willing to let God come forth.
We believe, with all sincerity, that all are created equal; that all men are one
man; that the mighty works done by Jesus can and will be done by all. You
will see there is nothing mysterious about these works. The mystery is only
in man's mortal concept of them.

"We fully realize you have come to us with minds more or less skeptical. We
trust you will live with us and know us as we really are. Our work and the
results accomplished, we leave you to accept or reject, as you will."

Chapter III

Emil sent us away with a few remarks, in which he said, "You are about to
start on your expedition with these two men, Jast and Neprow, to
accompany you. As you travel it will take about five days to journey to your
next important stopping place, about ninety miles distant. I will tarry here
for a time because it will not be necessary for me to consume that time to
cover the distance, but I will be there to greet you. I wish to ask that you
leave one of your party here, in order to make observations and corroborate
what may happen. In this way, time will be saved and he will be able to join
the expedition not later than ten days hence. We simply ask him to watch
and report what he sees."

We started with Jast and Neprow in charge of the expedition and I wish to
say that more business-like arrangements could not well be imagined.
Every detail was complete and swung into line with the rhythm and
precision of music. This harmony was maintained throughout the entire
expedition, which lasted three and half years.

We arrived at the appointed village about four o'clock of the fifth day and
there was Emil to greet us, as he had agreed. Can you imagine our
amazement? We were quite certain we had come by the only traveled route
and by the swiftest mode of locomotion in that country, except as the
couriers go. They travel in relays and go night and day. Here was a man well
advanced in years, as we thought, and one we felt would in nowise be able
to negotiate a journey of ninety miles in less time than it required us to do
the same—yet, here he was.

Of course we all tried to ask questions at once and were eager to hear. These
were his words, "I said when you departed that I would be here to greet you
—I am here. I wish to call your attention more fully to the fact that man in
his right domain is limitless, knows no limit of time or space. Man, when he
knows himself, is not obliged to toil wearily along for five days to
accomplish ninety miles. Man in his right estate can accomplish any
distance, it matters not the magnitude, instantly. A moment ago I was in
the village from which you departed five days ago. What you saw as my
body still reposes there. Your associate, whom you left in that village, will
tell you that, until a few moments before four o'clock, I conversed with him,
stating that I would go to greet you as you would arrive here about this
hour. What you saw as my body is still there and your associate still beholds
it, although it is at present inactive. This was done simply to show you that
we are able to leave our bodies and greet you at any appointed place, at any
specified time. The two who accompanied you could have accomplished the
journey as I have. In this way you will more readily realize that we are only
ordinary humans of the same source as you; that there is no mystery but
that we have developed the powers given all by the Father, the Great
Omnipotent One, more fully than you have. My body will remain where it is
until night, then I will bring it here and your associate will proceed on his
way here as you did, arriving in due time. After a day's rest we will journey
to a small village, one day off, where we will tarry one night, then return
here and meet your associate to see what his report will be. We will
assemble this evening in the lodge. In the meantime, farewell."

In the evening, after we had assembled, Emil, without opening the door,
suddenly appeared in our midst and said, "You have seen me appear in this
room, as you would say, by magic. Let me say there is no magic about it.
Here is a simple experiment which you can behold. You can see this,
consequently you will believe. Kindly gather around so that you can see. We
have a small glass of water which one of your number has just brought from
the spring. You see that a minute particle of ice is forming in the very center
of the water. You see it gather to itself, particle by particle, more ice, until
now the whole of the water in the glass is frozen. What has happened? I
held the central atoms of the water in the Universal until they became
formed or, in other words, I lowered their vibrations until they became ice
and all the other particles formed around them until the whole has become
ice. You can apply this to the little glass, the tub, the pond, the lake, the sea,
the whole mass of the water of the earth. What would happen? All would be
frozen, would it not? To what purpose? None. You ask by what authority. I
say by using a perfect law. But in this case, to what end? Nothing, as no
good has been accomplished or could be accomplished. Had I gone on
determined to carry this out fully, what would have happened? The
reaction. To whom? To me. I know the law and what I express returns to
me as truly as I express it. Therefore, I express only the good and the good
returns to me only as good. You can readily see that, had I persisted in the
freezing, the cold would have reacted upon me long before I had
accomplished the end and I would, in reaping the harvest of my desire,
have been frozen. Whereas, if I express the good, I reap the harvest of my
good eternally.

"My appearance in this room tonight may be explained in this way. In the
little room where you left me I held my body in the Universal by raising its
vibrations and it returned to the Universal or, as we say, returning it to the
Universal where all substance exists. Then, through my I AM, my Christ
Consciousness, I held my body in my mind until its vibrations were lowered
and it took form right here in this room and you could see it. Wherein is
there any mystery? Am I not using the power, or the law, given me by the
Father through the Beloved Son? Is not this Son you and I and all
mankind? Wherein lies the mystery? There is none.

"Consider the faith represented by the mustard seed. It comes to us from

the Universal through the Christ within, which has already been born
within us all. As a minute speck it enters through the Christ, or
superconscious mind, the place of receptivity within ourselves. Then it
must be carried to the mount or highest within ourselves, the very top of
the head. It is held there. We must then allow the Holy Spirit to descend.
Now comes the admonition, `Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength and with all thy mind.' Think!
Does the meaning come? Heart, Soul, Strength, Mind. Is there anything to
do at this point but to turn it all over to God, the Holy Spirit, the Whole-I-
Spirit in action? This Holy Spirit comes in many ways, perhaps as tiny
entities tapping and seeking admittance. We must accept and allow this
Holy Spirit to come in and unite with the minute point of light or seed of
knowing and revolve around it and adhere to it just as you saw the particles
of ice adhere to the central particle, and it will grow in form particle by
particle, circle by circle, just as the ice, multiply and express that seed of
knowing until you are able to say to the mountain of difficulties, `Be thou
removed and cast into the sea,' and it will be done. Call this fourth
dimension or what you wish, we call it God in expression, through the
Christ in us.
"It is in this way the Christ was born. Mary, the Great Mother, perceived the
ideal; the ideal was held in mind, then conceived in the soil of her soul, held
for a time there, then brought forth or born as the perfect Christ Child, the
First Born, the Only Begotten, the Son of God. He was nourished and
protected; given the very best of the mother; watched over and cherished
until He grew from childhood into manhood. It is thus the Christ comes to
all of us; first as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul—the central part
where God is—held in mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born
as the perfect Child, the Christ Consciousness.

"You who have seen what has been accomplished here doubt your own eyes.
I do not blame you. I get the thought of hypnotism from the minds of some.
My brothers, is there one here who feels that he does not have the power to
exercise every God-given faculty that he has seen brought forth tonight? Do
you think for a moment that I am in any way controlling your thought or
vision? Do you think that I could, if I would, cast a hypnotic spell over any
or all of you—for did you not all see? Is it not recorded in your own great
Book that Jesus entered a room with the doors closed? He just came in as I
have done. Do you think for a moment that Jesus, the Great Master and
Teacher, needed in any way to hypnotize? He used His own God-given
power as I have done tonight. Let me say that I have done nothing but what
each one of you can do. Not only you, but every child that is or has been
born into this world, or universe, has the same power to do just what you
have seen accomplished this night. I wish to get this clearly before your
minds. Let me also say that you are individuals, that you are not
personalities, that you are free wills, not automatons. Jesus did not need to
hypnotize and we do not need to hypnotize. Doubt us all you wish until you
are fully satisfied as to our honesty. Put the idea of hypnotism away for the
time, or at least let it lie passive until you have gone deeper into the work.
All we ask is that you keep an open mind."

Chapter IV

We entered the little village of about two hundred inhabitants one-half hour
before sunset and, when it was known that Jast was with us, I believe every
villager, old and young, and every pet and domestic animal came to greet
us. While we were the object of more or less curiosity, it was immediately
noted that Jast was the center of interest, greeted by all with the utmost
reverence. After a few moments he said a word to the villagers and all but a
few returned to their usual duties. Jast turned to us and asked if we wished
to go with him while the camp was being prepared for the night. Five of our
party said they were tired after the day's journey and wished to rest. The
remainder of us followed Jast and the handful of villagers toward the far
side of the clearing that surrounded the village. After crossing the clearing
we had gone but a short distance into the jungle when we came upon the
form of a man lying upon the ground as though dead—that was our
impression at first glance. A second glance, however, showed that the
repose suggested calm sleep rather than death.

We stood staring as though transfixed for we saw that the figure lying on
the ground was Jast. Suddenly, as Jast walked toward it, the figure became
animated and rose to a standing position. As the figure and Jast stood face
to face for an instant, there was no mistaking the identity—it was Jast. All
saw that it was he. The, instantly, the Jast we had known had disappeared
and there was but one figure standing before us. Of course, all this was
accomplished in much less time than it takes to tell and the wonder was
that not one of us questioned. The five who had been left behind at camp
came running without a signal from any of us. We afterwards asked them
why they came. The answers were, "We don't know. The first we knew, we
were all on our feet and running to you. We simply do not know why we did
it. None of us recall any signal. We found ourselves running in your
direction before any of us realized what we were doing."

One of our number remarked, "My eyes are opened so wide that I see far
beyond the vale of death and the wonders that stand revealed are beyond
conception." Another said, "I see the whole world overcoming death. How
vividly the words come back, `The last enemy, Death, shall be overcome.' Is
not this the fulfillment of these words? What pigmies are our mere
intellects in comparison with this gigantic but simple understanding and
yet we have dared to look upon ourselves as giants of intellect. Why, we are
mere babes! I just begin to see the meaning of, `Ye must be born again.'
How true the words!"

I leave the reader to imagine our surprise or bewilderment. Here was a man
with whom we had been in daily contact, and by whom we had been served
daily, that was able to lay his body down for the protection of others and go
on and serve so very efficiently. Could it do otherwise than recall, "He that
is greatest among you, shall be servant or shall serve." I think there was not
one among us but from that moment lost all fear of death.

These people are accustomed to laying a body down before a village in the
jungle of a country infested with marauding men and animals and that
village is as safe from the ravages of men and animals as though it were in a
civilized country.

It was very evident that Jast's body had been lying where we found it for a
considerable time. The hair had grown long and bushy and in it were the
nests of a little bird peculiar to the country. These birds had built their
nests, reared their young, and the young had flown away, thus giving
unmistakable evidence of the time the body had been in that position and
inactive. These birds are very timid and will abandon their nests at the
slightest disturbance. This shows the great love and trust of the little birds.

Chapter V

We were up at sunrise the next morning and that day returned to the village
where we had left our outfit. We arrived at the village just before dark and
pitched our camp under a great banyan tree. The next morning Emil
greeted us and we all began asking questions. He said, "I do not wonder at
your questions and I will gladly answer all that I can at this time, leaving
others until you have gone further into our work. In talking to you as I am,
you fully realize that I am using your language to convey to you the one
great underlying principle of our belief.

"When all know the Truth and it is rightly interpreted, truly is it not one
and all from the same source? Are we not all one with the universal mind
substance, God? Are we not all one great family? Is not every child,
everyone born, no matter the caste or creed, a member of this great family?

"You ask if we believe death is avoidable. Let me answer in the words of the
Siddha: `The human body is built up from the individual cell, like the
bodies of plants and animals, whom we love to call younger and less
evolved brothers. The individual cell is a minute microscopic unit of the
body. By a process of growth and division, repeated many times, this
minute nucleus of a cell-unit results at last in a complete human being,
built up of almost countless millions of cells. These body cells specialize for
certain different functions but they retain, in the main, the characteristics
of the individual cell whence they arose. This individual cell may be looked
upon as the torch bearer of animate life. It passes on from generation to
generation the latent fires of God—the vitality of all living beings, with an
unbroken ancestry reaching back to the time when life first appeared on
this planet.' This individual cell has the property of unlimited youth. But
what about the group cells called the body? The group cells arose from the
individual cell repeated many times, retaining its individual characteristics,
one of which is the latent fire of life, or Eternal Youth. The group cells, or
body, function as guardian of the individual cell only during the short span
of life as you know it now.

"The most ancient of our teachers by inspirational means perceived the

truth of the fundamental unity of life reactions in plant and animal. We can
well imagine these teachers beneath the spreading banyan addressing their
pupils as follows: `Look at this giant tree. The vital process going on in our
brother, this tree, and in ourselves is fundamentally the same. Behold the
leaves and the buds at the tips of the oldest banyan—how young they are—
young as the seed from which the giant sprang into life. The life reactions of
plant and man being alike, man can certainly profit by the experience of the
plant. As the leaves and buds at the tips of the branches of the oldest
banyan are as young as the seed whence it sprang, even so the group cells in
man forming his body, need not gradually lose their vitality and die, but
may grow young and evergreen as the ovum or individual cell itself. Indeed,
there is no reason why your body should not grow as young and vital as the
vital seed from which it sprang. The ever-spreading banyan, always a
symbol of everlasting life, does not die except through accident. No natural
law of decay, no old age process seems to exist within the banyan tree to
affect injuriously the vital energy of its cells. The same is true of the human
form divine.

"There is no natural law of death or decay for man, except through accident.
No inevitable old age process exists within his body or group cells—nothing
that can gradually paralyze the individual. Death is, then, an avoidable
accident. Disease is, above all, dis-ease, absence of ease or Santi—sweet,
joyous peace of the spirit reflected through the mind in the body. Senile
decay, which is the common experience of man, is but an expression that
covers his ignorance of cause, certain disease conditions of mind and body.
Even accidents are preventable by appropriate mental attitude. Says the
Siddha: `The tone of the body may be so preserved that it may naturally
resist with ease infectious and other disease, like plague and influenza.' The
Siddha may swallow germs and never develop disease at all.

"Remember that youth is God's seed of love planted in the human form
divine. Indeed, youth is the divinity within man; youth is the life spiritual—
the life beautiful. It is only life that lives and loves—the one life eternal. Age
is unspiritual, mortal, ugly, unreal. Fear thoughts, pain thoughts, and grief
thoughts create the ugliness called old age. Joyous thoughts, love thoughts,
and ideal thoughts create the beauty called youth. Age is but a shell within
which lies the gem of reality—the jewel of youth.

"Practice acquiring the consciousness of childhood. Visualize the Divine

Child within. Before falling asleep suggest to your consciousness, `I now
realize that there is within me a spiritual joy-body ever young,
ever beautiful. I have beautiful, spiritual mind, eyes, nose,
mouth, skin—the body of the Divine Infant, which now, tonight,
is perfect.' Repeat this affirmation and meditate upon it quietly
while falling asleep. Upon rising in the morning suggest to
yourself aloud, `Well, dear (addressing yourself by name), there
is a divine alchemist within.' By the spiritual power of these
affirmations during the night a transmutation takes place and
the unfolding from within, the Spirit, has saturated this spiritual
body and spiritual temple. The inner alchemist has caused dead
and worn-out cells to fall and the gold of new skin to appear with
perpetual health and loveliness. Truly divine Love in
demonstration is eternal youth. The divine alchemist is within
my temple, constantly coining new and beautiful baby cells. The
spirit of youth is within my temple—this human form divine, and
all is well. Om Santi! Santi! Santi! (Peace! Peace! Peace!)

"Learn to smile in the sweet way of a child. A smile from the soul is spiritual
relaxation. A real smile is a thing of true beauty, the artistic work of the
`Inner Ruler Immortal.' It is well to affirm—‘I think a kind thought for
all the world. May all the world be happy and blest.’ Affirm
before taking up the work for the day—‘Within me there is a
perfect form—the form Divine. I am now all that I desire to be! I
visualize daily my beautiful being until I breathe it into
expression! I am a Divine Child, all my needs are being now and
forever supplied!'"

"Learn to thrill yourself. Affirm, `Infinite Love fills my mind and

thrills my body with its perfect life.' Make everything bright and
beautiful about you. Cultivate a spirit of humor. Enjoy the
sunshine.

"You understand that I am quoting from the teaching of Siddha. They are
the oldest teachers known and their teaching antedates all history by
thousands of years. They went about teaching the people and showing them
the better way of life even before man knew the simple arts of civilization. It
is from their teaching that the system of rulers sprang. But these rulers
soon wandered away from the realization that it was God expressing
through them. Thinking it was themselves, the personal, who were doing
the work, they lost sight of the spiritual and brought forth the personal or
material, forgetting that all comes from the one source—God. These rulers'
personal concepts gave rise to the great separations in belief and the wide
diversity of thought. This is our concept of the Tower of Babel. The Siddha
have preserved throughout the ages the true inspirational methods of God
expressing through mankind and through all His creations, realizing that
God is All and that it is God manifesting through all. They have never
deviated from this teaching. Thus they have preserved the great
fundamental Truth."
Chapter VI

The man we had left in the village to observe Emil joined us here and
reported that he had conversed with Emil until nearly four o'clock of the
day he was to keep his appointment with us. Then Emil said he was about
to keep his appointment. His body immediately became inactive and
reposed upon the couch as though asleep. It was in this position until about
seven o'clock in the evening, when it gradually became more indistinct and
disappeared. It was at this time in the evening that Emil came to us in the
lodge at the little village.

We had made a number of short trips from our headquarters with either
Jast or Neprow accompanying us and in every instance, they had shown
their sterling qualities and worth. On one of these trips Emil, Jast, and
Neprow accompanied us to a village where a temple called The Silence
Temple, The Temple Not Made By Hands, is located. This village contains
the temple and the houses of the attendants and is located on the former
site of a village that had been nearly destroyed by the ravages of wild
animals and pestilence. We were told that the Masters visited this spot and
found a few inhabitants left of about three thousand population. They
ministered to them and the ravages of the wild animals and pestilence
ceased. The few villagers vowed that, if they were spared, they would, from
that time on, devote their lives to God, serving Him in any way He chose.
The Masters left and when they returned later they found the temple
erected and attendants in charge.

The temple is very beautiful, situated on an elevation overlooking a wide

expanse of country. It is about six thousand years old, is made of white
marble, and has never needed repairs, as a piece chipped off replaces itself,
as was proven by members of our party.

Emil said, "This is called the Temple of Silence, the Place of Power. Silence
is power, for when we reach the place of silence in mind, we have reached
the place of power—the place where all is one, the one power—God. `Be still
and know that I am God.' Diffused power is noise. Concentrated power is
silence. When, through concentration (drawing to a center), we have
brought all of our forces into one point of force, we have contacted God in
silence, we are one with Him and hence one with all power. This is the
heritage of man. `I and the Father are one.' There is but one way to be one
with the power of God and that is consciously to contact God. This cannot
be done in the without, for God manifests from within. `The Lord is in His
holy temple; let all the earth keep silent before Him.' Only as we turn from
the without to the silence of the within can we hope to make conscious
union with God. We will realize that His power is for us to use and we will
use it at all times. Then we will know that we are one with His power.

"Then will humanity be understood. Man will learn to let go of self-

delusions and vanities. He will realize his ignorance and littleness. Then
will he be prepared to learn. He will realize that the proud cannot be taught.
He will know that only the humble can perceive the Truth. His feet will feel
the firm rock, he will no longer stumble, he will be poised in decision.

"To realize that God is the only power, substance, and intelligence may be
confusing at first. But when man does realize the true nature of God and
brings Him forth into active expression, he will use this power at all times.
He will know that he consciously contacts His power at all times—when he
eats, when he runs, when he breathes, or when he does the great work
before him. Man has not learned to do the greater works of God because he
has not realized the greatness of God's power and has not known that God's
power is for man's use.

"God does not hear us through our loud and vain repetitions nor our much
speaking. We must seek God through the Christ within, the invisible
connection which we have within ourselves. When the Father within is
worshipped in Spirit and Truth, He hears the calls of that soul which
sincerely opens to Him. The one who makes the connection with the Father
in secret will feel the power flowing through him as the fulfillment of every
desire. For he that sees the Father in the secret place of his own soul and
there abides, him the Father will reward openly. How often Jesus disclosed
his individual contact with the Father. See how He constantly held Himself
in conscious communication with God within. See how He talked with Him
as though He were personally present. See how powerful this secret inner
relation made Him. He recognized that God does not speak in the fire, the
earthquake, or the great wind, but in the still, small voice—the still, small
voice deep in our own souls.

"When man learns this, he will become poised. He will learn to think things
through. Old ideas will drop away, new ideas will be adjusted. He will soon
find the ease and efficiency of system. He will learn at last to take all the
questions that perplex him into this silent hour. There he may not solve
them but he will become familiar with them. Then he will not need to go
hurrying and battling through the day and feel that his purpose has been
defeated.

"If man would come to know the greater stranger—himself—let him enter
his own closet and shut the door. There he will find his most dangerous
enemy and there will he learn to master him. He will find his true self.
There will he find his truest friend, his wisest teacher, his safest adviser—
himself. There will he find the altar upon which God is the undying fire, the
source of all goodness, all strength, all power—himself. He will know that
God is in the deepest part of the silence. He will find that within himself
abides the Holy of Holies. He will feel and know that his every desire is in
God's mind and is, therefore, God's desire. He will feel and know the
closeness of the relationship of God and man, the Father and the Son. He
will realize that only in consciousness has there been any separation of
these which have seemed two—just as his spirit and his body have seemed
to be two—but which in reality are one.

"God fills both heaven and earth. It was this great revelation that came to
Jacob in the silence. He had slept on the stone of materiality. In a great
burst of divine illumination he saw the outer is but the out-pressing or
expression of the image held within. So impressed was he by this that he
called out, `Surely the Lord (or law) is in this place (the earth or body) and
I knew it not. This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate to
heaven.' Man will realize, as Jacob did, that the real gate to heaven is
through his own consciousness.

"It is this `ladder' of consciousness, revealed in a vision to Jacob, which

each of us must climb before we can enter that silent secret place of the
Most High and find that we are in the very center of every created thing,
one with all things visible and invisible, in and of the Omnipresence. In
Jacob's vision he was shown the ladder reaching from earth to heaven. He
saw the angels of God descending and ascending upon it—God's ideas
descending from Spirit to form and ascending again. It was the same
revelation that came to Jesus when the `heavens were opened unto him'
and he saw the wonderful law of expression whereby ideas conceived in the
divine Mind come forth into expression and manifest as form. So perfectly
was this law of expression revealed to the Master that at once he saw all
form may be transformed, or changed in form, through a change of
consciousness in regard to it. His first temptation was to change the form of
stones to that of bread to satisfy personal hunger, but with the revelation of
this law of expression came the true understanding that stones as well as all
other visible forms have come forth from the Universal Mind Substance,
God, and are in themselves true expressions of divine Mind; and all things
desired, (not formed) are still in this Universal Mind Substance ready to be
created or brought forth to fill every desire. Thus, the need for bread but
showed that the substance with which to create bread or any other needed
thing is at hand without limitation and bread can be created from this
substance just as well as stones can be created therefrom. Every good desire
man has is God's desire; therefore, there is an unlimited supply in the
Universal God Substance all about us to fill every desire. All we need do is
to learn to use what God has already created for us and this He wills to have
us do that we may be free from every limitation and thus be `abundantly
free.'

"When Jesus said, `I am the door,' He meant that the I AM in each soul is
the door through which the life, power, and substance of the great I AM,
which is God, comes forth into expression through the individual. This I
AM has but one mode of expression and that is through idea, thought,
word, and act. This I AM God Being, which is power, substance,
intelligence, is given form by consciousness; and for this reason the Master
said, `According to your faith be it unto you,' and `All things are possible to
them that believe.'

"Now we see that God is within the soul as power, substance, and
intelligence—or in spiritual terms, wisdom, love and truth—and is brought
out into form or expression through consciousness. The consciousness
which is in the infinite mind of God and in man is determined by the
concept or belief that is held in mind. It is the belief in separation from
Spirit that has caused our forms to age and die. When we see that Spirit is
all and that form is constantly being expressed from Spirit, then shall we
understand that that which is born of or brought out of Spirit is Spirit.

"The next great truth to be revealed through this consciousness is that each
individual, being a concept of the divine Mind, is held in that Mind as a
perfect idea. Not one of us has to conceive himself. We have been perfectly
conceived and are always held in the perfect mind of God as perfect beings.
By having this realization brought to our consciousness, we can contact the
divine Mind and so reconceive what God has already conceived for us. This
is what Jesus called being `born again.' It is the great gift the silence has to
offer us; for by contacting the God-mind we can think with God-mind and
know ourselves as we are in reality rather than as we have thought
ourselves to be. We contact God-mind through true thought and so bring
forth a true expression; whereas, in the past, perhaps through untrue
thought, we have brought forth an untrue expression. But, whether the
form be perfect or imperfect, the Being of the form is perfect God-power,
substance, and intelligence. It is not the Being of the form that we wish to
change but the form that Being has assumed. This is to be done through the
renewing of the mind, or through the change from the imperfect to the
perfect concept, from the thought of man to the thought of God. How
important then to find God, to contact Him, to be One with Him and to
bring Him forth into expression. How equally important is the silence or
the stilling of the personal mind, that the God-mind in all its splendor may
illumine the consciousness. When it does, then we shall understand how
`the sun of righteousness (right-use-ness) shall rise with healing in his
wings.' The mind of God floods consciousness as sunshine floods a
darkened room. The infusion of the Universal Mind into the personal mind
is like the entrance of the vastness of the outside air into the impurity of
that which has long been held in some close compartment. It stands alone,
supreme, and we realize that we are to build but one temple. The Temple of
the Living God is the blending of the greater with the lesser through which
the lesser becomes one with the greater. The impurity was caused by the
separation of the lesser from the greater. The purity is caused by their
union, so that no longer is there a greater and a lesser but just the one good,
whole, pure air. Even so must we know that God is One and all things
visible and invisible are One with Him. It is separation from Him that has
caused sin, sickness, poverty, and death. It is union with Him that causes
one to become a whole Being or to become conscious of being whole.

"The separation from unity is the descent of the angels on the ladder of
consciousness. The return to unity is the ascent of the angels upon the
ladder. The descent is good, for unity then becomes expressed in diversity,
but in diversity there need be no concept of separation. That which is
diversity has been misconceived from the personal, or external viewpoint,
to be separation. The great work for each soul is to lift the personal
viewpoint to such heights in consciousness that it becomes one with the
whole. When all can `meet with one accord in one place,' that place in
consciousness where it is understood that all things visible and invisible
have their origin in the one God, then we stand upon the Mount of
Transfiguration. At first we see Jesus and with Him Moses and Elias; or
Law and Prophecy, and the Christ, (the power within man to know God);
and we think to build three temples, but the deeper meaning comes. We are
given to realize the immortality of man and to know that divinity is never
lost, that Divine man is deathless, eternal. Then Moses—the Law, and Elias
—the Prophecy, disappear; and the Christ stands alone supreme and we
realize that we have to build but one temple—the Temple of the Living God
within our very selves. Then the Holy Spirit fills the consciousness and the
sense delusions of sin, sickness, poverty, and death become no more. This is
the great purpose of the silence.

"This temple from which you may chip a piece and the scar will be instantly
healed but typifies the temple of our body, of which Jesus spoke, the temple
not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, which we are to bring forth here
on earth."

Chapter VII
Thursday morning the sun rose clear and beautiful but, instead of pushing
on as we had expected, we were told that we would wait where we were
until the trails had dried and the rivers had receded so we could proceed
more comfortably. We were all fearful lest our provisions should be
exhausted and one of our party voiced this fear. Emil, who had charge of
the whole outfit, came to us and said, "You need not fear. Does not God
take care of all His creatures, both great and small, and are we not His
creatures? You will see that here I have a few kernels of corn or corn seed. I
will plant them. By this act I have definitely said that I want corn. I have
formed corn in my mind. I have fulfilled the law and in due season it will
come forth. Is it necessary for us to await the long, arduous process that
Nature in her slow growth and unfoldment will take in order to grow corn?
If so, we would be obliged to wait a long, hard time to obtain it. Why not
use a higher or more perfect law, given us by the Father, to produce it? All
that is required is to become quiet and visualize or idealize corn and we
have corn cured, ready for use. If you doubt it, you can gather it, grind it
into meal, then make it into bread." There before us was corn grown and
cured so that we did gather it, and grind it, and afterwards made it into
bread.

Then Emil went on to say, "This you have seen and believe but why not use
a more perfect law and bring forth a more perfect thing or exactly what you
want—bread. You will see by using this more perfect, or as you would say,
more subtle law, I am able to bring forth exactly what I need—bread." And
as we stood there spellbound a large loaf of bread was in his hands, nor did
the supply stop until there were forty loaves upon the table before us,
placed there apparently by Emil himself. He remarked, "You see there is
sufficient for all; if not sufficient, more can be supplied until there is
enough and to spare." We all ate the bread and pronounced it good.

Emil continued, "When Jesus at Galilee asked Philip, `Whence shall we buy
bread?' He did this to try him, for within Himself He knew full well there
was no necessity to buy the bread needed to feed the assembled multitude
nor to secure it through the material market then in existence. He saw the
opportunity to prove to His disciples the power of bread leavened or
increased by the Spirit. How often man in the mortal concept thinks as did
Philip! He was calculating, as human consciousness is calculating today,
from the visible supply on hand—thinking he had only so much bread or so
much supply or so much money with which to buy. Jesus recognized that
the one in Christ Consciousness knows no limitation. He then, in Christ
Consciousness, looked to God as the source and creator of all and gave
thanks for the power and substance right at hand to fill every want. He then
broke and distributed, through His disciples, to those in outer need until
the need was supplied and there remained twelve baskets over. Jesus never
depended on the over-supply of another to fill His need nor the need of
another; but He taught that our supply is right at hand in Universal
Substance where all supply exists and all we need do is to create it or bring
it forth. Just so when Elisha multiplied the widow's oil. He did not apply to
someone having an over-abundance of oil, for had he done this the supply
would have been limited. He contacted the Universal and the only limit to
the supply was that all the vessels were filled. The supply could have flowed
on until this day had there been vessels to receive it.

"This is not hypnotism. None of you feel that you are in any way under a
hypnotic spell. Let me say that the only hypnotism is the selfhypnotism of
believing that each and every one can not do the perfect works of God, and
create the desired condition or thing. For is not the need itself the desire to
create? Instead of unfolding and creating as God wills us to create, you fold
up in your little shells and say, `I can't,' and you hypnotize yourselves into
actually believing that you are separate entities apart from God. You simply
fall short of your perfect creation or expression. You do not let God express
perfectly through you as it is His desire to do. Did not Jesus the Great
Master say, `The works that I do, ye shall do also, and greater works than
these shall ye do'? Was it not Jesus' true mission here on earth to show that
we, as sons of God, or man in his true estate, can create as perfectly and as
harmoniously as God does? When Jesus commanded the blind man to
bathe his eyes in the pool of Siloam, was not this intended to open the eyes
of all? All were to see that Jesus was sent by the Father to show us that the
Father intended us to create exactly as He creates; all are to do the perfect
work as Jesus did by recognizing the Christ in himself and in all.

"I can go one step further. This loaf I just received and held in my hand is
consumed as though burned by fire. What happened? I misused the perfect
law that brought forth my conception and consumed that which I brought
forth, because of my misuse or not using rightly or righteously, the perfect
law which is as exact as music or mathematics or any other so-called
natural law. If I persisted in the misuse of the perfect law, it would consume
not only that which I create but would consume me, the creator.

"Is the bread really destroyed? We will admit the form is changed for, in
place of the loaf, we have a small amount of dust or ashes. Has it not in
reality been returned to the Universal Substance from which it sprang? Is it
not now in unmanifest form, waiting to be brought again into
manifestation? Is this not the way with all forms that go from our sight
either by fire or decay or in any other way? Do they not return to the
Universal Substance—God—from which they sprang? Is this not the
meaning of `What descends from heaven must ascend into heaven'?

"A short time ago you saw ice formed, without any apparent cause, as you
perhaps think of it. Let me say that that is the same as creating the bread. I
can use the law to obtain ice as well as bread, just as long as I use either as a
benefit to mankind, or as long as I am working in living accord with the law,
or expressing as God wishes all to express. It is good for all to make bread,
or ice, or any and all things desired; and all must press on to the stage at
which they can do these things. Can you not see that by using the highest
law, the absolute law of God, you may bring forth that which you need or
conceive in mind as your highest idea and thus please God more fully by
manifesting more fully, knowing as Jesus did that we are perfect Sons of
God?

"Does not this suggest freedom from commercial bondage as well as all
other bondage? As I see it, the commercial bondage will, in a few years,
become the greatest bondage of all. If it goes on at the rate it is now
progressing, it will dominate man, soul and body, and it cannot do
otherwise than consume itself and those that are interested in it. There is
no question but that the first inception of commercialism was on a high
spiritual plane, but materialism was allowed to creep in until the very
power used to create is the power that will consume; just as the very power
used to create will always consume if not used rightly. Is not the pressing of
commercialism and limitations upon us crowding us on to see that we must
come up over, or overcome, these conditions? Is not this done by simply
realizing that we are to do the perfect works of God, to raise our
consciousness to the Christ Consciousness? Is not this what Jesus taught us
here on earth? Does not His whole life exemplify this?

"My dear brothers, do you not see that in the beginning there was the Word
and the Word was with God? At this time, everything to be formed later was
in unmanifest form in the Universal Mind Substance—or as expressed by
some, in chaos. This word in the original was actuality. This word, chaos, is
misinterpreted to mean a turbulent or warring state, instead of the deep,
spiritual state of actuality, always awaiting a definite, creative, spoken word
through which it can spring forth into manifest form.

"When God Principle desired to bring forth the world out of Universal Mind
Substance, God was quiet and contemplative. In other words, God saw an
ideal world; He held in mind that substance of which the world was to be
formed a sufficient time to lower its vibration; then He spoke the Word and
the world was formed—or, as we might say, God visualized a mental pattern
or mold into which could flow the substance needed to make the world and
it came forth a perfect form, built upon the pattern which was held in
consciousness.

"All these things might have been thought of by God, Infinite Power. He
might have wished during an indefinite time that they were formed and
made visible. Had not the definite spoken word been put forth into the
formless ether, nothing would have been created or brought forth into
visible form. In order to establish in visible results the thought and desires
of even an Infinite Omnipotent Creator and bring orderly forms out of
actuality, it took the definite, positive `Let there be.' So must we take the
definite step.

"God is holding the ideal perfect world in mind in every detail and it is
bound to come forth as a heaven or perfect home where all His children, all
His creatures, and all His creations may dwell in peace and harmony. This
is the perfect world that God saw in the beginning and the one He is
thinking into existence right now, and the time of its manifestation lies in
our acceptance of it. When we can come to the one place and know that we
are all one, one man, and know that we are all members of God's body as
much as one member of our body is a part of the whole body, then we are
in, and of, God's kingdom, heaven here on earth, now.

"To make this manifest, realize that there is nothing material in heaven. All
is spiritual. Realize that heaven is a perfect state of consciousness, a perfect
world here on earth now, and all we need to do is to accept it. It is here all
about us, waiting for us to open the inner eye. Through that eye our bodies
shall be made light, the light which is neither of the sun nor moon but of the
Father; and the Father is right here in the very innermost part of our being.
We must sufficiently realize that there is nothing material, that all is
spiritual. Then we must think of that wonderful God-given spiritual world
which is right here now if we can realize it.

"Do you not see that God created all in this way? Did not God first become
quiet and contemplative and see the light? Then He said, `Let there be
light,' and it was so. In the same way He said, `Let there be a firmament,'
and it was so; and likewise with other creations, He held each form or ideal
steadfast in consciousness, then spoke the word, and the ideal was brought
forth. Just so with man. God said, `Let us make man in Our image, after
Our likeness and give him dominion over all.' God, all good, created all
things good; man the greatest and last, with full dominion over all. Then
man saw only good, and all was good until man separated himself from God
and saw duality, or two. Then he, by his thought, created two, one good and
the other the opposite; for if there were two, they would be opposite—good
and evil. Thus evil came through man's perfect power to express or bring
forth that which he gazed upon. If man had not seen evil, evil would have
been given no power of expression. Only the good would have been
expressed and we would be as perfect as God sees us today. Would not
heaven always have been on earth as God sees it and as we must all see it to
make it manifest? Jesus had a perfect right to say that He came from
heaven; for did not all come from heaven, the great Universal Mind
Substance?

"Since man was created in the image and likeness of God, did not God give
man the power to create exactly as He creates? And does not God expect
man to use that power as freely as He uses it—and in exactly the same way?
By first perceiving the need; then conceiving the good, the ideal, with which
to fill the mold that we hold in consciousness and which is to be filled from
the Universal Mind Substance; then sending forth the word that it is filled;
that it is so, and it is good.

"Jesus, when He was crucified, gave His flesh, the outer, what we see of the
body, to prove that there is really a deeper or spiritual body; and it is this
spiritual body that He manifested when He came forth from the tomb. This
is the body of which He spoke when He said, `Destroy this temple and in
three days I will raise it up.' He did this to show us we have the same
spiritual body and that we can do all the works He did. There is no question
that if Jesus had wished to do so, He could have saved Himself. There is no
doubt but that He saw there was a great change taking place in His body.
He also saw that those about Him were not able to see that they also could
bring forth the spiritual body, as He was attempting to have them see. They
still looked to the personal and He saw that if He brought forth the spiritual
body without some decided change, the people would not be able to discern
between the material and the spiritual; so He adopted the way of the
crucifixion to bring about the change.

"Truly is not this the Christ in man, which the Great Master, Jesus, whom
we all love and reverence, came to show? Did He not unfold His life here on
earth to show us the perfect way to God? Can we do other than love this
perfect ideal way when we once see it, whether it be planting seed, making
bread, or doing the million and one things necessary to human existence?
Are not these acts mere lessons carrying us on to our unfoldment? Some
day we are to realize that we are truly Sons of God, not servants; that as
Sons we can and do have all that the Father has and that we can use it just
as freely as our Father does.
"I admit this takes a mighty faith at first; one that usually must be taken
step by step and must be practiced faithfully like music or mathematics,
until we come to the place of knowing. Then we are grandly, beautifully
free. Could there be a better, truer example of this life than that of Jesus?
Can you not recognize the power that is in His name, Jesus, the Christ
made manifest, or God manifesting through the flesh man? Jesus came to
the place where He relied wholly upon His deep knowledge or
understanding of God and this is how He did His mighty works. He did not
rely upon His own will power or upon strong, concentrated thoughts.
Neither must we rely upon our own will power nor strong, concentrated
thoughts, but upon the will of God. `'Tis not my will, but Thine, O God, be
done.' Will to do the will of God. Do you not think that Jesus willed in all
things to do the will of God or to do what God willed Him to do?

"You will note that very often Jesus is referred to as going into a high
mountain. Whether He physically ascended a high mountain or not, I do
not know. This I do know, that we must all ascend to the heights, the very
highest in consciousness to receive our illumination. This height means the
very top of the head and there, if the faculty is not developed, we must
develop it by spiritual thoughts. Then from the heart, the love center, we
must let love flow forth to balance all and when this is done the Christ is
revealed. The son of man perceives that he is the Son of God, the only
begotten Son, in whom the Father is well pleased. Then with constant love,
we must realize this for all.

"Just stop and think deeply for a moment and realize the countless number
of the grains of sand of the seashore; the countless number of drops of
water that go to make up the waters of the earth; the countless number of
life forms in the waters of the earth. Then realize the countless number of
rock particles that are contained in the whole earth; the countless number
of trees, plants, flowers, and shrubs upon the earth; the countless number
of forms of animal life upon the earth. Realize that all are the outpicturing
of the ideal held in the great universal mind of God; that they all contain the
one life, the life of God. Then think of the countless number of souls born
upon this earth. Then realize that each soul is a perfect outpictured ideal
image of God as God sees Himself; that each soul is given the same power,
expression, and dominion over all that God Himself has. Do you not think
that God wills or wishes man to unfold these God-like or God-given
qualities and to do the works that God does through the inheritance given
man by the Father, the one great, Universal Mind in all, through all, and
above all? Then realize that each person is an expression or pressing out
(from the unseen, the Spirit) into visible form, a form through which God
loves to express. When we can realize and accept this, we can truly say as
Jesus did, `Behold a Christ is here.' It is in this way that He attained His
mastery over the worldly or flesh self. He recognized, claimed, and accepted
His divinity, then lived the life just as we must do."

Chapter VIII

After a delay of eight days, we broke camp on Monday morning and

proceeded on our way. The afternoon of the third day out, we came to the
bank of a larger river. The stream was about two thousand feet wide,
running bank-full, and the current was at least ten miles per hour. We were
told that this stream, in ordinary times, could be crossed at this place
without any inconvenience.

We decided to camp until morning and observe the rise and fall of the
water. We were informed that we would be able to cross by bridge farther
up stream, but to reach this bridge would necessitate a detour of at least
four days' hard travel. We felt that if the water was receding, it would be
better to wait a few days rather than undertake the long detour. It had been
demonstrated to us that we need not take any thought as to our provisions
for, from the day already referred to, when our provisions were exhausted
the whole company, consisting of over three hundred persons, had been
supplied with an abundance of provisions from the invisible, as we called it.
This supply was maintained for sixty-four days, until we returned to the
village from which we started. Thus far, none of us had any idea of the true
significance or meaning of the things we were experiencing. Neither were
we able to see that these things were performed by definite law, a law that
all can use.

When we were assembled for breakfast next morning, we found five

strangers in camp. They were introduced and it was mentioned that they
were from a party that was camped on the other side of the stream and were
returning from the village of our destination. We thought very little of this
at the time, as we naturally supposed they had found a boat and had
crossed in it. One of our party said, "If these people have a boat, why can we
not use it to cross the stream?" I think all of us saw this as a way out of our
difficulty; but we were told that there was no boat as the crossing was not
thought to be of sufficient importance to maintain one.

After finishing breakfast that morning we were all assembled on the banks
of the stream. We noticed that Emil, Jast, and Neprow with four others of
our party were talking with the five strangers. Jast came to us and said they
would like to cross with the others to the camp on the other side of the
stream as they had decided to wait until the next morning to see if the water
showed signs of receding. Of course, our curiosity was aroused and we
thought it rather fool-hardy to attempt to swim a stream as swift as the one
before us just to make a friendly call upon a neighbor. We felt that
swimming was the only way the crossing could be accomplished.

When Jast rejoined the group, the twelve, fully dressed, walked to the bank
of the stream, and with the utmost composure stepped on the water, not
into it. I never shall forget my feelings as I saw each of those twelve men
step from solid ground upon the running water. I held my breath,
expecting, of course, to see them plunge beneath and disappear. I found
afterwards that that was the thought of all our party. At the time, I think
each of us held his breath until they were all past midstream, so astonished
were we to see those twelve men walking calmly across the surface of the
stream without the least inconvenience and not sinking below the soles of
their sandals. When they stepped from the water to the farther bank I felt
that tons of weight had been lifted off my shoulders and I believe this was
the feeling of every one of our party, judging from the sighs of relief as the
last man stepped ashore. It certainly was an experience that words fail to
describe. The seven belonging to our party returned for lunch. While the
excitement was not so intense at the second crossing, every one of us
breathed more freely when the seven were safe ashore again. Not one of our
party had left the bank of the stream that forenoon. There was very little
discussion regarding what we had witnessed, so engrossed were we with
our own thoughts.

The second day the company was toiling up the steep side of a mountain
with the hot sun pouring down upon us when our Chief, who had said but
little during the last two days, suddenly remarked, "Boys, why is it that man
is obliged to crawl and grovel over this earth?" We answered in chorus that
he had voiced our thoughts exactly.

He went on to say, "How is it, if a few are able to do the things we have seen
accomplished, that all men cannot accomplish the same things? How is it
that man is content to crawl, and not only content to crawl but is obliged to
do so? If man was given dominion over all things, he was certainly given
power to fly above the birds. If this is his dominion why has he not asserted
this dominion long ago? The fault must certainly be in man's own mind.
This must all have come about by man's own mortal concept of himself. He
has only been able, in his own mind, to see himself crawling; thus he has
only been able to crawl."

Then Jast took up the thought and said, "You are perfectly right, it is all in
man's consciousness. He is limited or unlimited, bound or free, just as he
thinks. Do you think that the men you saw walk across the stream yesterday
to save themselves the inconvenience of this trip are in any way special
creations any more than you are? No. They are not created in any way
different from you. They do not have one atom more power than you were
created with. They have, by the right use of their thought forces, developed
their God-given power. The things you have seen are accomplished in
accord with definite law and every human being can use the law if he will."

Chapter IX

Located in this village was The Healing Temple. It is claimed that only
words of Life, Love, and Peace have been given expression in this temple
since its erection, and the vibrations are so potent that nearly all who pass
through the temple are instantly healed. It is also claimed the words of Life,
Love, and Peace have been used and sent out so long from this temple and
the vibrations emanating from them are so strong that, should words of
inharmony and imperfection be used at any time, they would have no
power. We were told that this is an illustration of what takes place in man.
If he would practice sending forth words of Life, Love, Harmony, Peace,
and Perfection he would in a short time not be able to utter an
inharmonious word. We attempted to use inharmonious words and found
in each instance that we could not even utter them.

This temple was the destination of those of the company who were seeking
healing. It is the custom for the Masters who are in the vicinity to
congregate at this village at certain intervals for a season of devotion and
instruction to those who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity. The
temple is dedicated entirely to healing and is open to the people at all times.
As it is not always possible for the people to reach the Masters, the Masters
encourage the people to go to the temple for healing. This is the reason they
do not heal those that congregate for the pilgrimages. They accompany the
pilgrims to show the people that they are no different than themselves, that
all have the same God-given power within. I suspect that when they crossed
the river that morning they did it to show that they could rise above any
emergency and that we should also rise above any emergency.

In places not accessible to this temple all who come to the Masters for help
are greatly benefited. Of course, there are the curious and those who do not
believe that do not seem to receive any help. We witnessed a number of
assemblages of from two hundred to two thousand people and all those
desiring healing were healed. A great many told us they were healed by
declaring silently that they desired to be made whole. We had the
opportunity to observe a large number of those healed at different times
and we found that about ninety per cent of these healings were permanent,
while all the healings in the temple seemed to be permanent. It was
explained that the temple is a concrete thing located in one place,
representing the God center, the Christ in the individual—just as all
churches should typify this God, or Christ center, in the individual—and
that it is always accessible to those desiring to go there. They could go to the
temple as often as they chose and stay as long as they wished. The ideal is
thus formed in the minds of those who come to it and the ideal becomes
fixed in mind.

Emil said, "Right here comes the suggestion that has led to the idolatry of
the past. Men sought to grave in wood or stone, gold, silver or brass the
image of that which they idealized but any idol can only imperfectly picture
the ideal. The image, the idol, is no sooner formed than men become
conscious that the ideal surpasses the idol and they are shown that they
must gaze upon love and idealize for themselves that which they wish to
bring forth from the within, instead of graving any idol in outer form of the
ideal they would express. A later form of idolatry is to idealize the
personality of the one who expresses our ideal. We should idealize the ideal
which he expresses and not the personality which expresses it. This is true
even of so great a person as Jesus. Thus, Jesus chose to go away when He
saw the people were idealizing His personality instead of the ideal which He
represented. They sought to make Him their King, only realizing that He
could supply them with every outer need, not recognizing that they within
themselves had the power to supply their every need and that this they
must do, as He, Himself, had done. He said, `It is expedient that I go away
for if I do not go, the Comforter will not come,' meaning that as long as they
looked to His personality they would not recognize their own powers. For
they must look within, within their very selves.

"Another may teach or tell you, but you of yourselves must do the work, for
if you look to another, you build the idol instead of bringing forth the ideal."

Chapter X

Emil talked to us on the realization of the Christ Consciousness. He said, "It

is through the power of our own mind or thought action that we are able to
bring forth or realize the Christ Consciousness. Through the power or
process of thought we can transmute and evolve our bodies, or our outer
conditions and surroundings, through recognition of this Christ
Consciousness within ourselves, so that we will never experience death nor
any change called death. This is done wholly through man's power to
visualize, idealize, conceive, and bring forth that which he gazes upon. This
is done by first knowing or perceiving or having faith that the Christ is
within ourselves; seeing the true meaning of Jesus' teaching; holding our
body one with God, made in the image and likeness of God and merging
that body into the perfect God body just as God sees us. We have idealized,
conceived, and brought forth into manifestation the perfect God body. We
are `born again' truly of and in the Spirit Kingdom of God.

"It is in this way that we can return all things to the Universal Mind
Substance, from which they sprang, and bring them back or return them
perfect into outer form or manifestation. Then, by holding them in their
pure, spiritual, perfect state, the vibrations are lowered and the things we
wish to create come forth in perfect form. In this way we can take every
false belief, every old condition, every sin, all of our past life—it does not
matter what it has been, how good or seeming bad, it does not matter what
mountain of false belief or doubt and unbelief or fear we or anyone else
have erected about us or in our paths—and we can say to them all, `I now
return you to the great ocean of Universal Mind Substance, from which all
things come forth and where all is perfection, and from which you sprang,
there to be again resolved into the elements from which you were created. I
now return you or bring you back from that pure substance as perfect and
pure as God sees you and hold you always in that absolute perfection.' We
can say to ourselves, `I now realize, in the old order of things, that I
brought you forth imperfectly and you manifest imperfectly. Realizing the
Truth, I now bring you forth perfect as God sees you. You are reborn perfect
and "it is so.'" We must realize that the inner alchemist, God within, has
taken hold of this and has transmuted, refined, and perfected that which
seemed imperfect, that which we brought forth and are now returning. We
should realize that it is refined, perfected, and transmuted just as our own
bodies are refined, perfected, and returned to us as God's body, joyously
perfect, beautifully free. Finally, we should realize that this is the perfect
Christ Consciousness in all and for all. This is `Hid with Christ in God.'"

The morning of July 4th found us at the summit of the pass. Emil had told
us the evening before that he felt we had earned a holiday and that he saw
no more fitting time than the Fourth to celebrate.

At breakfast Emil began by saying, "This is the Fourth of July, the day you
celebrate the birth of your independence. How fittingly expressive is this
day!

"I feel that all of you must have more or less confidence in us; therefore, I
am going to speak freely. In a few days we shall be able to prove to you
conclusively that the statements I am making are true.
"We love to call your country `America,' and all of its inhabitants,
`Americans.' You will never know the joy these few moments bring to me,
on this day of such import, to be able to talk with you and see eye to eye
with a small group of Americans who were, with one exception, born in that
great land. Let me say that it has been the privilege of some of us to have
beheld your country long before Columbus started on the memorable
expedition. There had been other attempts at discovery but they had come
to naught. Why? Simply because of the absence of that one God-given
quality—faith. The one who had the courage and faith to see and carry out
the vision had not yet awakened. The moment that soul awoke to the
realization that the earth was round and there must be land on the other
side equal to that already known, we could see that another great historical
epoch had begun to unfold.

"Who but the great Omnipotent One, who sees all things, could have
awakened that little grain of faith in the soul of Columbus? What were his
first words as he stood before the Queen that day, not recognizing the
higher power? `Dear Queen, I am firmly convinced that the earth is round
and I wish to sail forth and prove it.' I do not know whether you recognize it
but those words were God-inspired and Columbus was recognized as one
who had the determination to carry out what he undertook.

"Then the long sequence of events started to unfold which was shown us
years before, not in its entirety, but enough so that we have been able to
follow. Of course we dreamed of the almost unbelievable wonders to be
accomplished and recorded in the seemingly short span of years has
passed, but those of us that have been privileged to live through it now fully
realize that far greater wonders are in store for your great nation. We feel
that the time has come for your nation to awaken to its true spiritual import
and we wish to do all we can to help you to this realization."

It appears that their interest in us was prompted by their great desire to

have America accept the Christ Consciousness and realize her possibilities.
They know that her inception was truly spiritual and through that fact she
is destined to be a leader in the spiritual development of the world.

Chapter XI

After the meal was finished and we were sitting around the table, one of our
party asked how the room was warmed. Emil said, "The warmth that you
feel in this room comes from a force that we are all able to contact and use.
This force or power is higher than any of your mechanical force or power
but can be contacted by man and used as light, heat, and power even to the
driving of all mechanical appliances. It is what we call a universal force. If
you were to contact and use this force, you would call it perpetual motion.
We call it Universal Power, God Power, supplied by the Father to work for
all His children. It will turn and move every mechanical device, furnish
transportation without the consumption of fuel in any way, and will also
furnish light and heat. It is everywhere present without money or price and
can be contacted and used by all."

One of our party asked if the food had been prepared by this force. We were
told that the food came prepared as we had eaten it, direct from the
Universal, just the same as the bread and the other provisions had been
supplied heretofore.

We were then invited by Emil to accompany the group to their home, about
two hundred miles distant, where we would meet Emil's mother. He went
on to say, "My mother is one who has so perfected her body that she was
able to take it with her and go on and receive the highest teachings.
Therefore she is living in the invisible at all times. She is doing this from
choice as she wishes to receive the highest; and by receiving the highest
teaching she is able to greatly assist us. In order to make this clear to you, I
might say that she has gone on until she has reached the Celestial Realm, as
you would call it, the place where Jesus is. This place is sometimes called
the Seventh Heaven. To you I suppose this suggests the mystery of
mysteries. Let me say that there is no mystery about it. It is a place in
consciousness where every mystery is revealed. Those who have reached
that state of consciousness are outside the mortal vision but they can return
and converse and teach those who are receptive. They can come in their
own bodies, for they have so perfected their bodies that they can go where
they will with them. They are able to return to earth without reincarnation.
Those who have passed through death are obliged to be reincarnated in
order to return to earth with a body. This body was given to us as a
spiritual, perfect body and we must so see and keep the body in order to
retain it. Those who have left the body and have gone on in spirit now
realize that they must again take up a body and go on and perfect it."

It was arranged, before leaving the table that evening, that the party should
divide into five groups, each group in charge of one of the five that had
appeared in the room and taken dinner with us. This would enable us to
cover a larger field and would greatly facilitate our work; and at the same
time it would enable us to verify such things as traveling in the invisible and
thought transference. This plan would give us at least two of our men in
each party and one of the five as leader. We would be quite widely
separated, yet we were to keep in touch through those who were so greatly
befriending us and giving us every opportunity to prove their work.
Chapter XII

The next day all details were arranged and three of our party, including
myself, were to accompany Emil and Jast. The morning following found
each party with its guide and attendants all ready to depart in different
directions, with the understanding that we should carefully observe and
record all that occurred, and should meet sixty days later at Emil's home in
the village just spoken of, two hundred miles distant. We were to keep in
communication with each other through our friends. This was
accomplished each evening by these friends conversing with each other or
traveling back and forth from party to party. If we wished to communicate
with our Chief or with any other member of our party, all we need do was to
give our message to our friends and in an incredibly short time, we would
have the answer. In giving these messages, each would write them out in
full and note the time to the minute on each message; then when the
answer came we would do the same. When we came together again, we
compared notes and found that all noted corresponded. Aside from this our
friends would travel from one camp to another and converse with us. We
kept accurate records of these appearances and disappearances; also we
noted the time, the place, and the conversations and all checked fully when
we compared notes later.

At times after this we were widely separated; one party would be in Persia,
one in China, one in Tibet, one in Mongolia, and one in India, always
accompanied by our friends. At times they traveled in the invisible, as we
called it, distances as great as one thousand miles and kept us informed as
to the happenings and progress in each camp.

The destination of the party to which I was assigned proved to be a small

village to the southwest, located on an elevated plateau well up in the
foothills of the Himalayas and about eighty miles from our starting point.
We did not take any provisions for the trip but we were amply provided for
at all times and had very comfortable quarters. We arrived at our
destination early in the afternoon of the fifth day, were greeted by a
delegation of villagers, and shown to comfortable quarters.

We noted that the villagers treated Emil and Jast with the utmost
reverence. We were told that Emil had never visited the village but that Jast
had been there before. The occasion of his first visit was in response to a
call for help to rescue three villagers from the fierce snow-men that inhabit
some of the wildest parts of the Himalayas. This present visit was in
response to a similar call and also to minister to the sick who could not
leave the village. These so-called snow-men are outcasts and renegades who
have lived in the snow and ice regions of the mountains until they have
developed a tribe that is able to live in the mountain fastnesses without
contact with any form of civilization. Though not numerous, they are very
fierce and warlike and, at times, capture and torture those who are
unfortunate enough to fall into their hands. It proved that four of the
villagers had been captured by these wild snow-men. The villagers, being at
their wits' end to know what to do, had sent out a messenger to get in touch
with Jast and he had come to the rescue, bringing Emil and us along.

Of course, we were all excited, thinking we were to get sight of these wild
people, whom we had heard of but supposed did not exist. We at first
believed that a rescue party would be organized and we would be allowed to
join, but these hopes were shattered when Emil announced that he and Jast
would go alone and that they would go immediately.

In a few moments they disappeared and did not return until the second
evening, with the four captives, who told weird tales of their adventures and
of the strange people that had captured them. It seems that these strange
snow-people go entirely naked, that their bodies have become covered with
hair like that of a wild animal, and that they can withstand the intense cold
of the mountain altitudes. They are said to move over the ground very
swiftly; in fact, it is claimed that they are able to pursue and capture the
wild animals that live in the region that they inhabit. These wild people call
the Masters. "The Men from the Sun," and when the Masters go among
them for the prisoners they do not resist. We were also told that the
Masters had made a number of attempts to reach these wild people but
these attempts had come to naught because of the fear in which the people
held them. It is said that if the Masters do go among them, the snow-men
will not eat or sleep, but stay in the open night and day, so great is their
fear. These people have lost all contact with civilization, even forgetting that
they had ever contacted other races or that they are the descendants from
them, so far have they separated themselves from others.

We were able to get Emil and Jast to say but little about this strange wild
tribe, nor could we influence them to take us to them. When we questioned,
the only comment was, "They are God's children, the same as we are, only
they have lived so long in hatred and fear of their fellow men and they have
so developed the hatred and fear faculty that they have isolated themselves
from their fellow men to such an extent that they have completely forgotten
they are descendants of the human family, and think themselves the wild
creatures they appear to be. They have gone on in this way until they have
even lost the instinct of the wild creatures, for the wild creature knows by
instinct when a human being loves it and it will respond to that love. All we
can say is that man brings forth that which he gazes upon and separates
himself from God and man, and in this way he can go lower than the
animal. It would serve no purpose to take you among them. It would,
instead, harm those people. We are in hopes some day to find some one
among them who will be receptive to our teaching and in this way reach
them all."

Chapter XIII

We prepared to return to the village where we had left my associates. I

found that Emil and Jast wished to go to another small village, located in
the valley about thirty miles from where our trail left the valley trail. I
suggested that they go and I accompany them. We camped that night at a
sheepherder's lodge and were up and started early next morning in order to
reach our destination before dark the next day, as we were walking. We
were not able to use horses on the trip to the temple and so had left them at
the village.

About ten o'clock that morning there came on a heavy electric storm and it
looked as if there would be a downpour, but no rain fell. The country
through which we were passing was quite heavily, thick, dry grass. The
country seemed exceptionally dry. The lightning ignited the grass in a
number of places and before we knew it, we were virtually surrounded by a
forest fire. In a few moments this fire was raging like mad and closing in
upon us from three sides with the swiftness of an express train. The smoke
was settling down in thick clouds and I became bewildered and panic-
stricken. Emil and Jast seemed cool and collected and this reassured me
somewhat. They said, "There are two ways of escape. One is to try to get to
the next creek, where there is water flowing through a deep canyon. If we
can reach this canyon which is about five miles away, we can in all
probability make ourselves safe until the fire has burned itself out. The
other way is to go on through the fire with us if you can trust us to take you
through."

Instantly all fear left me, as I realized that these men had proved true in all
emergencies. Throwing myself, as it were, wholly upon their protection, I
stepped between them and we proceeded on our way, which seemed to be
in the direction the fire was raging the most. Then immediately it seemed as
if a great archway opened before us and we went on directly through that
fire, without the least inconvenience, either from smoke or heat, or from
the burning brands strewn along the trail under our feet. There were at
least six miles of this fire-swept area that we passed through. It seemed to
me as if we were as calmly walking along that trail as though there were no
fire raging around. This went on until we crossed a small stream and then
were out of the fire.

While we were going through the fire, Emil said to me, "Can you not see
how easy it is to use God's higher law to replace a lower one when you really
need the higher? We have now raised the vibrations of our bodies to a
higher vibration than that of the fire and the fire does not harm us. If senses
mortal could see us now, they would think we had disappeared, when in
reality our identity is as it has always been. In reality we actually see no
difference. It is the concept of the mortal senses that loses contact with us.
Could they see us as we are, no doubt they would think we had ascended. In
reality that is what happens. We do ascend to a plane of consciousness
where the mortal does lose contact with us. All can do the same as we are
doing. We are using a law given us by the Father to use. We are able to use
this law to convey our bodies through any space. This is the law we are
using when you see us appear and disappear or, as you call it, annihilate
space. We simply overcome difficulties by raising our consciousness above
them and in this way we are able to overcome or to come up over all
limitations that man in mortal consciousness has placed upon himself."

To me it had seemed as if we were going over the ground with our feet just
touching it. When we were safe across the stream, out of the fire, my first
impression was that I had awakened from a deep sleep and had dreamed
this, but I gradually awoke to the realization of it all and the real meaning of
it began to dawn upon my consciousness. We found a shady place on the
bank of the stream, ate our lunch and rested for an hour, then went on to
the village.

Chapter XIV

We stopped in a village three days. During these days a wide vista of the
past unfolded before me. I could see these teachings going back in the dim
past to the very beginning whence all came forth from the one Source or
Substance, God. I could see the different offshoots of these teachings being
put forth by individuals, each individual adding his concept, each thinking
it was his, revealed to him by God or a direct revelation from God to him
alone; each feeling that he had the only true message and that he was the
only one to give his message to the world. In this way the mortal concepts
were mixed with that of the true revelation intended and diversity and
inharmony resulted. Then I could see these people, the Masters, standing
firmly on the rock of true spirituality, perceiving that man is truly immortal,
sinless, deathless, unchanging, eternal, the image and likeness of God. It
seemed to me that further research must prove that those great people have
preserved and handed this truth down the long ages in its unadulterated
state. They do not claim to have all there is to give nor do they ask anyone
to accept anything, unless they can prove the words themselves and do the
work the Masters do. They do not claim any authority save the actual works
they do.

Quite a number of the people from the surrounding country had

congregated at the village for healing, as couriers had gone out with the
tidings of the rescue of the four who had been captured by the snow-men.
We stopped over the next day and attended the assembly and saw some
remarkable cures. One young woman about twenty years of age who had
had her feet frozen the previous winter had them restored. We could
actually see the flesh grow until they were normal and she walked with
perfect ease. Two blind people had their sight restored. One of them we
were told was born blind. There were a number of minor cases healed.

After the assembly we asked Emil whether there were many converts. He
said a great many were really helped and in that way their interest was
aroused. They would for a time become workers but the greater part of
them soon fell back into their old ways of living, as they found it would be
too much exertion to take up the work in earnest. The people nearly all live
an easy, carefree life, and there seems to be about one percent of those that
profess to believe that are really in earnest. The rest depend entirely upon
others to help them when they get into trouble. Right here is where a great
deal of their trouble lies. The Masters say they can assist every one that
really desires help but they cannot actually do the work for anyone. They
can tell others of the abundance in store for them but, to be actually one
with and of the abundance, each individual must accept and prove it for
himself by actually knowing and doing the works.

Chapter XV

We had been seated but a few moments when a man whom we judged to be
about thirty-five appeared suddenly in the room. He was introduced to us
and all shook hands with him. We were all spellbound at his appearance for
we had imagined that he would be very old. He was above the medium
height, with rugged features, but the kindliest face I had ever looked upon.
There was strength of character back of every move. His whole being
emanated a light that was beyond our power of comprehension.

Before we were seated Emil, Jast, and the two strangers clasped hands in
the center of the room and stood in perfect silence for a few moments. Then
all were seated and the one who had appeared in the room so suddenly
began by saying, "You have asked for this interview in order to get a better
understanding of the documents that have been read and interpreted for
you. I will say that these records were made and kept by me; and those
referring to that great soul, John the Baptist, which seem to surprise you so
greatly, are actual occurrences of the time he was with us here. These
records show that he was a man of wide knowledge and wonderful intellect.
He perceived that our teaching was true but he apparently never came to
the actual realization for, had he done so he would never have seen death. I
have sat in this room and heard John and my father converse and it was
here that he received much of his teaching. It was here that father passed
on and took his body with him and John beheld his passing.

"There are none of my family on father's or mother's side that have not
taken their bodies with them in passing. This passing means the perfecting
of the body spiritually until one becomes so conscious of the deep spiritual
meaning of Life or God that one sees life as God sees it; then one is
privileged to receive the highest teaching and from this realm one is able to
help all. (We never descend from this realm for those who have reached this
place never wish to descend). They know that life is all progress, a going
forward; there is no turning back and none wish to do so.

"All are reaching out to help those that are striving for more light and the
messages that we are continually sending out into the Universal are being
interpreted by God's children who are receptive, in every part of the earth
today. This is the prime object of reaching this realm or state of
consciousness, for we are able to help all in some way. We can and do talk
with and instruct those who are receptive and who raise their
consciousness, either through their own efforts or the assistance of another.
Another cannot do the work for you nor can another carry you along
indefinitely. You must decide to do the work for yourself, then do it. Then
you are free and self-reliant. When all come into the consciousness, as
Jesus did, that the body is a spiritual body and indestructible, and hold
themselves in this consciousness, then we shall be able to communicate
with all and give out the teaching we have received to a greater number. We
are privileged to know that all can accomplish all that we have
accomplished and, thereby, solve every problem of life; and that which has
been looked upon as difficult and mysterious will be found simple.

"I do not seem any different to you from any other man that you meet every
day, neither do I see any difference in you."

We said we thought we could see something far finer in him. He answered,

"that is only the mortal as compared with the immortal of man. If you
would only look for the God quality and not make any comparison, you
would see every human being as you see me; or by looking for the Christ in
every face you would bring forth that Christ, or God quality, in all. We make
no comparisons; we see only the Christ or God quality in all at all times and
in that way we are out of your vision. We see perfection or have perfect
vision, while you see imperfection or have imperfect vision. Until you are in
contact with someone who is able to instruct you, until you can raise your
consciousness where you can see and converse with us as you are now
doing, our teaching seems only inspirational in nature. It is not inspiration
when we are conversing or attempting to converse with one. This is only in
the nature of instruction leading to the point where the true inspiration can
be received. It is inspiration only when it comes direct from God and you let
God express through you; then you are with us.

"The ideal image of the flower in minutest detail is within the seed and
must expand, multiply, unfold, and be wrought into the perfect flower by
hourly preparation. When this inner image is complete in minutest detail,
the flower comes forth beautiful. Just so God holds the ideal image of every
child in mind, the perfect image through which He wishes to express. We
can get more out of this ideal way of expression than the flower does if we
will but let God express through us in the ideal way He has conceived for us.
It is only when we take things into our own hands that the problems and
difficulties begin. This is not for one, or a few, this is for all. It has been
shown us that we are not different from you. It is a difference in
understanding, that is all.

"All the different isms, cults, and creeds, all the different angles of all
beliefs, are all good for they will eventually lead their followers to the
realization that underneath all there is a deep factor of actuality that has
been missed, a deep something that has not been contacted or they have
failed to contact that which rightly belongs to them, which they can and
should rightfully possess. We see it is this very thing that will eventually
drive man to possess all. The very fact that man knows there is something
to possess, which can be possessed and which he has not, will goad him on
until he has it. It is in this way every step in advance is made in all things.
The idea is first pressed out from God's into man's consciousness and he
sees there is something ahead if he will but go on. Here man usually
blunders and fails to recognize the source from which the idea came; but
thinks that it came wholly from within himself. He gets away from God and,
instead of letting God express through him the perfection God sees for him,
he goes on and expresses in his own way and brings forth imperfectly the
thing which should be perfectly wrought or manifest.
"If he should but realize that every idea is a direct, perfect expression from
God and, as soon as this idea comes to him, he would immediately make it
his ideal to be expressed from God, then take his mortal hands off and let
God express through him the perfect way, this ideal would come forth
perfect. Here we must realize that God is above the mortal and the mortal
cannot help in any way. In this way man would learn in a short time to
express perfection. The one great thing man must learn is to get forever
through and out of the psychic or mind forces and express directly from
God, for all psychic forces are created wholly by man and they are likely to
mislead."

Chapter XVI

Here the talk ended with the understanding that all should meet at
breakfast. We were up early next morning and ready for breakfast at 6:30.
As we left our lodging, we met our friends going in the same direction,
walking along and conversing the same as ordinary mortals. They greeted
us and we voiced our surprise at meeting them in this way. The reply was,
"We are only men the same as you. Why do you persist in looking upon us
as different? We are in no way different from you, we have only developed
our God-given powers to a greater extent than you."

We then asked, "Why can we not do the works that we have seen you do?"
They answered, "Why do not all we contact follow on and do the works? We
cannot and do not wish to force our way upon anyone; all are free to live
and go the way as they wish to go. We try only to show the easy and simple
way, the way we have tried and found very satisfactory."

We went to breakfast and the conversation drifted into the ordinary

everyday occurrences. I became lost in wonder. Here were four men sitting
opposite us at table. There was one that had lived upon this earth about
one thousand years. He had so perfected his body that he was able to take
it with him wherever he desired; his body still retained the buoyancy and
youth of a man of thirty-five years and this perfection had been completed
about two thousand years. Next to him sat a man that was the fifth in line
or regular descendant of the family first mentioned. The second had lived
upon this earth for more than seven hundred years and his body did not
appear to be a day over forty. They were able to converse with us the same
as any other men would converse. There was Emil who had lived for over
five hundred years and appeared to be about forty; and Jast who was about
forty and appeared to be about that age. All were conversing together like
brothers with not a hint of superiority, all kindly, simple, and yet well-
grounded and logical in every word uttered, with no trace of the mystical or
mysterious about them—just plain human beings in daily intercourse with
each other. Still I could scarcely realize that it was not all a dream.

After breakfast, when we arose from the table, one of my associates started
to pay for the meal. Emil said, "You are our guests here," and held out to
the lady in attendance what we thought was an empty hand; but when we
looked a second time, there was just the amount of money necessary to pay
the bill. We found that our friends did not carry money with them, neither
did they depend on others for their supply. When money was needed, it was
right at hand, created from the Universal.

We walked out of the house and the man that was with the No. 5 party
shook hands with us, saying that he must return to his party, and
disappeared. We made a note of the time of his disappearance and
afterwards found that he appeared with his party within ten minutes after
he had left us.

We spent the day with Emil, Jast, and our friend of the records, as we called
him, in wandering over the village and the countryside, our friend
recounting in detail many instances which happened in the time of John’s
sojourn of twelve years in the village. In fact, so vividly were these
instances brought to our minds that it seemed as if we were back in the dim
past, walking and talking with this great soul, who, to us before this, had
seemed but a mythical character conjured from the minds of those who
wished to mystify. From that day on, John the Baptist had been a real
living character, so real to me it seems as if I can now actually see him
walking the streets of the village and countryside and receiving the
instruction of those great souls about him, the same as we walked the
streets of the village and countryside that day, yet not able to grasp the
fundamental truth of it all.

After tramping all day, listening to the most interesting historical

occurrences, and hearing records read and translated on the very spot
where the incidents took place thousands of years before, we returned to
the village just before dark thoroughly tired. The three friends who were
with us and had walked every step of the way as we had walked were not
showing the least sign of fatigue or weariness. Whereas we were begrimed,
dust-laden, and perspiring, they were cool and at ease, their garments were
as white and fresh and spotless as when we started out in the morning.

We had noted during all our journeys with these people that none of their
clothing became soiled. We had remarked about this a great many times
but had received no reply until this evening when, in answer to a remark
made, our friend of the records said, "This may seem remarkable to you but
it seems far more remarkable to us that one speck of God's created
substance adheres to another of God's creations where it is not wanted and
where it does not belong. With the right concept this could not happen, for
no part of God's substance can be misplaced or placed where it is not
wanted."

Then, in an instant we realized that our clothing and bodies were as clean
as theirs were. The transformation, for to us it was a transformation, had
taken place instantly to all three alike while we stood there. All fatigue left
us and we were as refreshed as though we had arisen from bed and had our
morning bath.

Here was the answer to all our questions. I believe we retired that night
with the deepest feeling of peace we had experienced at any time thus far
throughout our sojourn with these people; and our feeling of awe was fast
giving place to the deepest love for these simple, kindly hearts that were
doing so much for the benefit of mankind, or their brothers, as they call
them. We began to look upon them as brothers. They took no credit upon
themselves, saying it was God expressing through them, "Of myself I can do
nothing. The Father that dwelleth within me, He doeth the works."

Chapter XVII

We were up the next morning with every faculty alert with interest and
wonder for what that day would reveal. We had begun to look upon each
day as a revelation of unfoldment in itself and felt that we were but
beginning to realize the deep meaning of the things we were experiencing.

While at breakfast that morning we were told that we would go to a village

higher up in the mountains and from that place we would visit the temple
that was located on one of the mountains that I had seen while standing on
the roof of the temple already described. We were told we would only be
able to use our horse for fifteen miles of the journey; and that two of the
villagers would go with us that far and would take the horses to another
village farther on and care for them until we arrived. We turned our horses
over to the two villagers at the appointed place and started to climb to the
village up the narrow mountain trail, which at times proved to be steps
hewn from the rock. We camped that night at a lodge located on the crest
of a point about midway between the place where we had left the horses
and the village of our destination.

The keeper of the lodge was fat, old, and jolly; in fact, he was so plump and
round that he seemed to roll rather than walk and we could scarcely tell he
had eyes. As soon as he recognized Emil he began asking for healing,
saying, as we were told afterward, that if he did not get help he would surely
die. We were told that he and his forefathers had kept this lodge and served
the public for hundreds of years and that he had been in charge about
seventy years. About the time he took over the lodge he was healed of what
was called an inherited disease and supposed to be incurable. He had
become a very active worker for about two years, then gradually had lost
interest and begun to depend upon others to help him out of his difficulties.
This had gone on for about twenty years and he had seemed to prosper,
seeming to enjoy the best of health, when suddenly he dropped back into
his old ways from which he would not make the necessary effort to arouse
himself from his lethargy. We found that his case was only a fair example
of thousands of others. These people live simply and easily and anything
that requires an effort becomes a burden to them very quickly. They soon
lose interest and their prayer for help becomes a mechanical sound instead
of something uttered with deep meaning or desire.

We were up and on our way early the next morning and four o’clock in the
afternoon found us at the village, with the temple of our destination
perched on a rocky pinnacle almost overhead. In fact so steep were the
walls that the only means of approach was by a basket attached to a rope
and let down on a pulley supported by a wooden beam made fast in the
rocks. One end of the rope was attached to a windlass and the other was
passed over the pulley and fastened to the basket, the basket being let down
and pulled up in this manner. The windlass was located in a little room
hewn from the solid rock of the ledge that jutted out so that it overhung the
rocky walls below. The wooden derrick to which the pulley was attached
swung out so that the rope and basket just cleared the ledge, making it
possible to haul the load up from below until it cleared; then basket and
load were swung in and landed safely on top of the ledge in the little rock
room hewed out for the purpose. This rock ledge jutted out over the rock
walls below so far that the basket would swing out in midair from fifty to
sixty feet as it traveled up and down. At a given signal the basket was
lowered; we stepped in and were hauled up, one by one, to the ledge four
hundred feet above.

When we were landed upon this ledge we began looking about for some
trail leading on up to the temple, the walls of which we could see standing
out flush with the wall of rock that still towered five hundred feet above.
We were told that we would make the ascent in a similar manner to that
already described. As we looked, a derrick arm corresponding to the one on
the ledge where we were standing swung out, a rope was let down and
attached to the same basket, and we were hauled up, one by one, and
landed on the roof of the temple five hundred feet above. I again felt as if
we were on top of the world. The temple was located on a rocky pinnacle
that stood out nine hundred feet above all of the surrounding mountains.
The village we had left nine hundred feet below was located at the summit
of a mountain pass used in crossing the Himalayas. We found that this
temple was about one thousand feet lower in elevation than the one I had
visited with Emil and Jast but it commanded a much wider outlook. From
where we stood it seemed as if we could look into infinite space.

We were made comfortable for the night and our three friends told us they
were going to visit some of our associates and would take any message we
wished to send. We wrote messages, carefully dating them, giving our
location and including the time of day. When we handed our friends these
messages they shook hands with us, saying they would see us in the
morning, and disappeared one by one. We made careful note of the time
and of what we had written and found afterward that the messages were at
their destination within twenty minutes of the time they left our hands.

After eating a hearty supper served by the attendants, we retired for the
night, but not to sleep, for our experiences were beginning to make a deep
impression upon us. Here we were nearly nine thousand feet in the air,
with no human being near us except the attendants, with not a sound
except that of our own voices. There did not seem to be a breath of air
stirring. One of my associates said, “Do you wonder that they chose the
locations of these temples as places of meditation? The stillness is so
intense one can fairly feel it. It certainly is a place in which to meditate.”
He then said he was going outside to have a look around. He went out but
returned in a few moments, saying there was a heavy fog and nothing could
be seen.

My two associates were soon asleep but I could not sleep; so I arose,
dressed, and went out on the roof of the temple and sat down with my feet
hanging over the wall. There was just enough moonlight filtering through
the fog to eliminate the inky blackness that would have prevailed had not
the moon been shining. There was just enough light to reveal the great
billowy fog banks rolling by, enough to remind me that I was not suspended
in space, that somewhere way down, the earth was as ever, and that the
place I was sitting upon was somehow connected with it. Then all of a
sudden, it seemed as if I could see a great pathway of light, its rays
widening like a fan with the wide part extending toward me; where I was
sitting seemed to be in about the center of the ever-widening ray and the
central ray was the most brilliant of them all. Each ray seemed to project
onward in its course until it illuminated one part of the earth. Each
illuminated its own particular portion of the earth until the whole blended
in one great white ray. Looking far ahead I could see all gradually
converging until they ended in one central point of intense white light, so
white that it seemed transparent and crystal. Then, instantly, it seemed as
if I stood out in space looking at it all. Looking far, far down the white ray I
could see what seemed to be specters of the far-away past marching on and
on in ever-increasing numbers but in solid ranks until they reached a
certain place; then they separated wider and wider until they filled the
whole of the light ray and covered the entire earth. They all seemed to
emerge at first from one central white point of light. They seemed to come
forth from this point, first one, then just ahead were two, then just ahead of
them were four; and so on until they reached the place of wide divergence,
where there were about one hundred abreast in solid fan-like array. When
they came to the point of wide separation, they suddenly scattered widely
and occupied all of the light paths and each marched on more or less alone
until they seemed to occupy the whole earth. When they had occupied the
whole earth, it seemed the rays had reached their widest expanse. Then
they grew gradually narrower and narrower until the rays again converged
into the one point from which they first started; the cycle was complete and
they entered again one by one. Before they entered they formed in solid
array one hundred abreast, gradually closing up until they became one, and
that one entered the light alone. I suddenly aroused myself and, thinking
that this was rather an unsafe place to be dreaming, I went in and retired.

Chapter XVIII

We had asked one of the attendants to call us at the first sign of daybreak;
and almost before I knew it, there came a rap at the door. We all bounded
out of bed, so eager were we to see the first break of day from our lofty
perch. We were dressed in no time and went rushing out on the roof like
three eager school boys. In fact the noises we made so startled the
attendants that they rushed up to see if we were really in our right minds. I
suspect the noise the three of us made was more noise than had ever
disturbed the peaceful quiet of the old temple since the days it was built and
this we learned was more than ten thousands years ago. In fact it was so
old that it looked a part of the rock upon which it rested.

When we arrived on the roof there was no need to ask for quiet. One look
and my two associates’ eyes and mouths went wide open. I suspect, had
anyone looked at mine, they would have seen the same. I waited for them
to speak. Almost in one breath came the exclamation, “Why, we are surely
suspended in mid-air.” They said the sensation was exactly like that I had
experienced in the other temple. They had forgotten for a moment that
there was anything under the feet and the sensation was that they were
floating in mid-air. One remarked, “I do not wonder that these men can fly
after experiencing this.”

We were aroused from our reveries by a laugh and all turned to find Emil,
Jast, and our friend of the records standing close behind us. One of my
associates walked quickly up to them, tried to grasp all of their hands at
once, and said, “This is wonderful! We do not wonder you are able to fly
after you have been here for a time.” They smiled and one said, “You are as
free to fly as we. You only need to know that you have the power within to
do so, then use the power.” We then turned to the outlook. The fog had
lowered and was floating in great billowy waves just high enough so that
not a foot of land could be seen anywhere and the movement of the banks
of fog all around gave the sensation that we were being carried on noiseless
wings along with the fog. Standing there looking far out, one lost sense of
anything underfoot and it was very difficult to believe that we were not
floating in space. As I looked out, it seemed as if my body lost all sense of
weight and that I was actually floating above the roof. I had so far forgotten
myself that when one of the party spoke, my feet hit the roof with such force
that I felt the effects of the jar for several days after.

At breakfast that morning we decided to stay over for three days, as we

expected to visit only one other place of interest before going on to the
appointed meeting place. Upon reading the messages Emil had brought,
we learned that our Chief’s party had visited this temple only three days
before. After breakfast we went out and found the fog gradually clearing.
We watched it until it cleared entirely and the sun came up. We could see
the little village nestling close in under the cliff and the valley far below.

Our friends decided to visit the village and we asked if we might go with
them. They laughed and said we could but they thought we had better use
the basket as we would present a better appearance if we did than if we
attempted their mode of travel. So we lowered one by one to the ledge, then
down to the little plateau just above the village. No sooner had the last one
stepped from the basket than our friends were there. We went down to the
village and spent the greater part of the day. It was a quaint old place,
typical of those mountain districts with its houses built by digging into the
side of the cliff, then closing up the opening with rock walls. There were in
all about twenty of these houses. We were told that the houses were built in
this manner to keep them from being crushed by the heavy snows in winter.
The villagers soon began to gather and Emil talked to them for a few
moments. It was arranged that a meeting should be held the following
afternoon and couriers were sent out to notify those of the neighborhood
who wished to attend.
We were told that John the Baptist had lived at this village and received
instruction in the temple and that the temple remained the same as when
John received his instruction there. We were shown where the house had
been torn down. That afternoon, when we returned to the temple, the
weather had cleared so that we could see a wide expanse of country and we
were shown the trail that John had used in going to and from the temple
and the different villages where he lived. The temple was supposed to have
been built and the village established more than six thousand years before
John visited there. We were shown the trail we would take when we
departed and were told the trail had been in use since the temple was built.
About five o’clock that afternoon, our friend of the records said he would
leave us for a time. He then shook hands, saying he would see us soon and
disappeared.

That evening we saw the most remarkable sunset from the roof of the
temple that I have ever witnessed and it has been my good fortune to have
seen sunsets in nearly all lands. As evening advanced, a light haze was
gathering over a low range of mountains that bordered a wide expanse of
table lands which we could look down upon. When the sun reached this
rim, we were seemingly so far above it that it appeared as if we were looking
directly down upon a sea of molten gold. Then came the afterglow and
every mountain peak appeared to be aflame. Those in the distance that
were covered with snow seemed to be blanketed with fire and, where
glaciers filled the ravines, it appeared as though they were shooting forth
great tongues of fire and these flames appeared to meet and melt with the
different hues in the heavens. The lakes that dotted the plain below were
transformed suddenly into volcanoes belching forth fires which ascended
and blended with the colors in the heavens. For one moment it seemed as if
we were standing on the brink of a silent inferno; then all blended into one
harmony of color and the soft peaceful quiet was beyond description.

We sat on the roof until after twelve that night asking Emil and Jast
questions. These questions pertained principally to the people and the
history of the country in general. Emil quoted liberally from their records.
These records proved that this country was inhabited thousands of years
before our history began. Emil went on to say, "While I do not in any way
wish to disparage or make light of your history or of those who wrote it, I
will say that at the beginning of this history the historians did not go back
far enough, but took for granted that Egypt meant what the name implied,
outer darkness or the wilderness. It really meant a wilderness of thought. At
that time as now, a large portion of the world was in wilderness of thought
and they did not go back of it to get the deeper meaning. They accepted
what they saw or heard or what appeared on the surface, recorded it, and
your history began. It is quite difficult to correlate the two and I would not
attempt to say that you must take ours as authentic. I would suggest that
you choose for yourselves."

The moon then appeared over the far-off mountains. We sat and watched it
round and full until it rose nearly overhead. It was a beautiful sight with an
occasional light cloud passing by at an elevation just above us. When these
clouds went drifting by it seemed as if the moon and clouds were standing
still and we were drifting past them. This went on for an hour when,
suddenly, there was a noise as of some object thrown to the roof behind us.
We started to our feet and looked around. There stood a middle-aged lady,
smiling and asking if she had startled us. Our first impression was that she
had jumped from the parapet to the roof but she had only stamped her foot
to attract our attention. The stillness had been so intense we had greatly
magnified the sound.

Emil stepped forward quickly, greeted her, and introduced us to his sister.
She smiled and asked whether she had intruded on our dreams. We then
sat down and in a short time the conversation drifted into reminiscences of
her experiences. She has three sons and a daughter that had been raised in
the work. She replied that the youngest two were always with her. We
asked if we might see them. She replied that they could come there that
evening; and immediately two figures, a man and a woman, appeared.
They greeted their uncle and their mother, then came forward and were
introduced to the three of us. The son was a tall, erect, manly fellow, whom
we took to be about thirty years of age. The daughter was not tall, rather
slight, with very fine features; she was a fine, well-poised girl, whom we
judged about twenty years of age. Afterwards, we found that the son was
one hundred fifteen and the daughter was one hundred twenty-eight years
old. They were all to be present at the meeting the next day and soon went
below.

After they had retired we passed complimentary remarks about the son and
daughter. The mother turned to us and said, “Every child born is good and
perfect. There are no bad children. It does not matter whether they are
conceived in the perfect or immaculate or through the sense or material
way. The one conceived in the perfect way will soon recognize his Sonship
with the Father, that he is the Christ or Son of God; then he will develop
and unfold quickly and he will see only perfection. The one conceived
through the sense way may also immediately recognize his Sonship,
perceive that the Christ is in him, and may realize his perfection by
idealizing the Christ. He gazes upon that ideal, loves and cherishes it until
he manifests or brings forth that which he gazes upon, the Christ. He is re-
born and is perfect. He has brought forth perfection from within himself,
that perfection which was always there. The one held to the ideal and was
perfect; the other perceived the ideal and unfolded that ideal, and regained
perfection. Thus no child is bad; all are good and from God.” Here one of
the party suggested that it was bedtime, as it was past twelve o’clock.

Chapter XIX

Five o’clock the next morning found us all assembled on the roof of the
temple. After the regular morning greetings, we gathered around and, as is
the usual custom, a selection was read. The selection this morning was
from the records of the temple. Jast translated them and we were surprised
to find that the translation closely corresponded to the first chapter of St.
John in our Bible, and the second reading corresponded to the first chapter
of Luke. After the reading, we asked if we might get our Bible and compare
the versions. They readily consented and, with the assistance of Jast, we
made the comparison and were surprised at the similarity. We had scarcely
finished when the breakfast call sounded and all went in. After breakfast
we prepared to descend to the village and, for the time, the comparison left
our minds.

When we arrived we found quite a number congregated from the near-by

country and were told by Jast that they were nearly all shepherds that
pastured their flocks in the high mountains in summer, and the time for
leaving the lower regions was fast approaching. We were told that such a
meeting as would take place that afternoon was always called just before
the people departed.

As we walked through the village we met Emil’s nephew and he suggested

we go for a short walk before lunch. We accepted the invitation readily as
we wished to see some of the country around. While we were on this walk,
several places were pointed out in the valley as being of special interest.
The names, when translated, very closely resembled those of the earlier
Bible names, but the real significance of all this did not present itself until
we had returned, had lunch, and were seated among those that had
assembled.

There were about two hundred in this assembly, when the rest of our
friends from the temple appeared. Then Emil’s nephew arose and
approached two men holding what looked to us like a large book. When
this was opened it proved to be a box in the form of a book. He selected a
package which consisted of flat leaves like those of a manuscript; then the
box was placed on the ground. The package was handed to one of the men.
He opened it and handed the first leaf to Emil’s nephew. When the reading
of each leaf was finished, it was handed to the other man who placed it in
the box. The reading proceeded, with Jast as interpreter. It had not gone
very far when we saw that it bore a striking resemblance to the Book of St.
John, carried out much more in detail. Then followed one similar to that of
Luke, then one similar to that of Mark, and the final one was like that of
Matthew.

After the reading the people collected in little groups and we, with Jast,
sought Emil, for we were curious to know the meaning of it all. We were
told that these records were read each year at the meeting and that this
place was the center of the country where these scenes were enacted long
years ago. We remarked the similarity of these happenings with those
chronicled in our Bible and were told that there was no question but that
some of the earlier scenes as chronicled in our Bible were taken from these
records; but those happenings of a later date, such as the Crucifixion, took
place elsewhere, the whole reaching its climax in the Birth and Life of
Christ. The foremost thought of it all was the search for the Christ in man
and to show those who had wandered away from the ideal that the Christ
lived in them as He always had. Emil went on to say it does not matter
where the scenes were enacted, it is the underlying spiritual significance
which we wish to perpetuate.

We spent the balance of the afternoon and the next day making
comparisons and taking notes. Space will not permit the inclusion here of
these notes and comparisons but the spiritual meaning will be understood
by reading these chapters mentioned above. We found that the father of
Emil’s nephew who read the records to us was born in the village and was a
direct descendant of John and that it was the custom for some member of
the family to come to this place at this time and read these records. The
temple above us was the one where Zacharias and John both had
worshipped.

We found that our friends wished to be on their way, so it was arranged that
Jast would stay with us and the others would go on. We finished with the
records the next day, then left the temple early the morning after. Although
the hour was early, nearly all the villagers were up to bid us “God-speed.”

Chapter XX

The next five days our trail led us through the country that John had
traveled. The fifth day brought us to the village where our horses were
waiting for us. Here Emil met us and from this time on the traveling was
comparatively easy to the village where Emil lived.
As we neared this village we could see that the country was more thickly
populated and the roads and trails were far better than any we had traveled.
Our way led along the fertile valley and we were following this valley to
what happened to be a level plateau. We noticed that the valley was
gradually getting narrower as we went on and at last the walls came in so
close on each side of the stream that they formed a canyon. About four
o’clock of the day we reached the village we came suddenly to a
perpendicular bluff over which the stream fell in a drop of about three
hundred feet. The road led to a level place at the foot of the cliff, near the
falls. We found that there was an opening cut in the sandstone on an angle
of forty-five degrees to the plateau above and steps had been hewn in the
floor of the upraise so that the ascent was an easy one. Great stone doors
had been so arranged that they could be closed into the opening at the foot
of the cliff, thus presenting a formidable barrier to an intruding foe. When
we reached the plateau above, we found the stairway up the incline was the
only means of egress or ingress that the creek afforded. At one time there
had been three means of access but the walls that surrounded the village
had now been rebuilt in such a way as to bar all possible access. A great
many houses in the village were built so that one wall formed a part of the
wall that surrounded the village. We noted that, when the houses formed
part of the wall, these houses were usually three stories high and there were
no openings for windows in the wall until the third story was reached. At
every opening a balcony was built large enough for two or three people to
stand upon comfortably. These, we judged, were arranged so that a lookout
could be kept at all times. We were told the district was once inhabited by a
native tribe that isolated themselves from the others until as a tribe they
had disappeared, a few having been assimilated by the other tribes.

This was Emil’s home and the place where we were to meet the members of
our party who had divided into small groups in order to cover more
territory. Upon inquiry we found we were the first to arrive and that the
others would be in the next day. We were assigned to one of the houses
built into the wall of the village. The windows of the third story looked out
over the rugged mountainous country to the south. We were made
comfortable and were told that supper would be served on the first, or
ground floor. We went down and found Emil, his sister, her husband, and
the son and daughter that we had met at the temple a few days before,
seated at the table.

We had no sooner finished supper than we heard a commotion in the little

square which the house faced. One of the villagers came in and announced
that our Chief and his party had arrived. They were made comfortable;
then we all proceeded to the roof.
The sun had gone down but the afterglow still lingered. The view we looked
out upon resembled a large basin at the confluence of a number of streams
coming down in deep gorges from the higher mountains. These streams all
entered the larger stream before it flowed over the steep wall of rocks into
the valley below, thus forming the waterfall. This larger stream emerged
from a deep canyon and ran over the level plateau but a few hundred feet
before it plunged over the precipice. A number of smaller streams flowed
over the perpendicular walls of the canyon cut by the larger stream,
forming perpendicular falls and in some cases, roaring torrents. Some fell
in sheer drops of one to two hundred feet while others had cut their way
into the canyon wall and fell in a succession of cataracts. Far up in the
mountains the gulches were filled with glaciers and these glaciers projected
like giant fingers from the great snowcap that covered the top of the entire
range. The wall to protect the village had been joined to that of the larger
gorge where it jutted out upon the level plain, then ran out to the cliff where
the water dropped into the valley below. Where this wall joined the wall of
the gorge the mountain rose perpendicular for two thousand feet, thus
creating a natural barrier as far as the eye could see. We were told that the
level plateau extended for sixty miles east and west and in some places was
thirty miles north and south; and the only other means of access was at the
widest part of the plateau where a trail led over a pass; and this pass was
guarded by a wall similar to the one where we were.

While we were talking over the advantages of the location for defense,
Emil's sister and her daughter joined us and a little later Emil, his sister's
husband and son, came up. We noticed an undercurrent of excitement and
were soon told by Emil's sister that they expected a visit from their mother
that evening. She said, "We are so happy that we can hardly contain
ourselves, for we do love mother so. We love all that have gone on to the
higher attainments very dearly, for they are so fine and noble, and helpful,
but our own mother is so sweet and adorable, so helpful and loving, we
cannot help loving her a thousand times more. Besides, we are of her flesh
and blood. We know you will love her as we do." We asked whether she
came often. The reply was, "O yes, she always comes when we need her, but
she is so taken up with her work that she comes only twice a year of her
own accord and this is one of her semi-annual visits. She is to stay a week
this time and we are all so happy we scarcely know what to do."

Here the talk drifted to experiences of our associates while we were

separated and we were deep in this discussion when, suddenly, stillness
came over all and almost before we realized it we were sitting perfectly
silent, without a suggestion from anyone. The evening shadows had
gathered until the far-off mountain's snowcap looked like a great white
monster just ready to loose its icy fingers and reach out over the valley
below. From the stillness came a gentle swish like that of a bird alighting
and it seemed as though a slight mist were gathering on the eastern
parapet. The mist suddenly took form and there stood a woman,
wondrously beautiful in face and form, with an intense radiant light about
her that we could scarcely look upon. The family started to their feet and
advanced rapidly toward her with outstretched arms, exclaiming "Mother,"
almost as one voice. She stepped lightly down from the parapet to the roof
and embraced each as any fond mother would, then was introduced to us.
She said, "Oh, you are the dear brothers from far-away America that have
come to visit us. I certainly am overjoyed to welcome you to our land. Our
hearts go out to all and we feel that if they would only let us, we would just
put our arms out and embrace all as I have embraced these I call mine, just
now. For we are in reality one family, sons of the one Father-Mother God.
Why can we not all meet as brothers?"

We had remarked just before that the evenings were growing chilly, but
when this lady appeared the warmth emitted from her presence made the
evening seem like that of midsummer. The air seemed laden with the
perfume of flowers, a light like that of the full moon seemed to pervade
everything, and there was a warmth and glow over all that I cannot
describe. Yet there was no hint of display; just that deep, simple, kindly,
childlike way.

It was suggested that we go below and the mother with the other ladies led
the way to the stairs, with our party following and the men of the household
bringing up the rear. Then we noticed that, although we seemed to be
walking in the usual way, our feet made no sound upon the roof or the
stairs. We were not trying to go quietly; in fact, one of our party said he
deliberately tried to make a noise and could not. It did not seem as if our
feet came in contact with the roof or stairs. We went into a beautifully
furnished room. As soon as we entered and were seated we noticed a
warmth and glow and the room was filled with a soft light that none of us
could explain.

All maintained a deep silence for a time. The mother asked if we were
comfortably located and cared for and if we were enjoying our trip. The talk
led to general everyday subjects and she seemed familiar with them all. The
talk then led to our home life and the mother gave us the given names of
fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, and we were surprised at the
detailed description of each of our lives that she gave without asking us one
question. She told us the countries we had visited, the work we had
accomplished, and where we had failed. This was not told in a vague way
that we would be obliged to piece together but every detail stood out as
plainly as if we were living the scenes over again. After our friends bade us
goodnight, we could but wonder, when we realized that not one of them was
less than one hundred years old and the mother was over seven hundred
years and six hundred of that time she had lived on earth with her physical
body. Yet all were as buoyant and light-hearted as though they had been
twenty, and nothing was assumed. It was as though youthful people were
with us. Before they departed that evening we were told there would be
quite an assembly in the lodge the next evening and that we were all invited
to be present.

Chapter XXI

Before noon of the next day all of the parties had arrived. We spent the
afternoon in comparing notes and these notes checked to the letter. That
evening, after we had finished with our notes, we were invited to go directly
to the lodge for dinner. When we arrived we found about three hundred
people—men, women, and children—assembled and seated at long banquet
tables. They had reserved places for us at one of the end tables so we could
look down the whole length of the room. The tables were all covered with
beautiful white linen and set with china and silverplate as for a real
banquet; yet there was but one dim light burning in the hall.

After we had been seated for perhaps twenty minutes, there was a deep
stillness and in a moment a pale light flooded the room. The light grew
stronger and stronger until all the room was aglow and everything in the
room sparkled as if thousands of incandescent lamps had been cunningly
hidden and turned on gradually until all were fully lighted. We were to
learn afterwards that there were no electric lights in the village. After the
light came on, the stillness lasted for about fifteen minutes, then of a
sudden, a mist seemed to gather and there was the same gentle swish like
the sound of wings that we had heard the evening before when Emil's
mother appeared before us. The mist cleared and standing in the room at
different points were Emil's mother and eleven others; nine men and three
women.

Words fail to describe the radiant beauty of that scene. When I say that,
although they had no wings, they appeared like a troop of angels, I am not
exaggerating. They stood for an instant as if transfixed. All bowed their
heads and waited. In a moment there came music from unseen voices. I had
heard of heavenly voices but I had never experienced them until that night.
We were fairly lifted from our seats. Toward the close those that had
appeared walked to their seats and we again noticed that, though they made
no effort to walk quietly, their feet did not make the slightest noise.

When the twelve were seated in their respective places the same mist
appeared again and when it cleared there stood twelve more. This time
there were eleven men and one woman and among these was our friend of
the records. As they stood there for a moment another song burst forth.
When the song was nearly ended the twelve walked to their respective
places without the slightest noise.

They were no sooner seated than the haze again filled the room. When it
had cleared there were thirteen standing, this time across the far end of the
hall, six men and seven women; three men and three women on each side
of the woman in the center. The center one appeared to be a beautiful girl in
her teens. We had thought every woman that appeared was very beautiful
but this one surpassed them all. They stood with bowed heads for a
moment and the music again burst forth. This music floated out for a
moment then the choir of voices began. We arose to our feet. As the tones
rolled on, it seemed as though we could see thousands of mystical forms
moving about the singing as with one voice and through it all there was not
one sad refrain, not one minor key. All was a joyous, free burst of music
that came from the soul and touched the soul, lifting it up and up until we
felt as if we were losing all contact with the earth.

As the singing ceased, the thirteen walked to their respective places and
were seated. Our eyes were fairly glued on the central figure as she
advanced toward our table, with a lady on either side. She was seated at the
head of our table. As she sat down, the places were quietly stacked at her
left hand. The lights grew dim for a moment and around each one of the
thirty-seven there was that same light that so puzzled us and the most
beautiful circle of light just above the head of our honored guest. We were
the only ones in that assembly that were greatly moved. Those assembled
with us seemed to take it as a matter of course.

After all were seated, the silence was maintained for a time; then every
voice in the room burst forth in a glad, free chant led by the thirty-seven
that had appeared. When this was finished, the lady at the head of our table
arose and held out her hands. On them appeared a small loaf of bread about
two inches square and about fourteen inches long. Then each one of the
other thirty-six arose, came forward, and received a similar loaf from her
hands. They passed around to all the tables and gave to each one a portion
of the bread. Our lady passed around and gave each one a portion of her
loaf.
As she handed each of us our portion she said, "Know ye not that Christ
dwells within you and in all? Know ye not that your body is pure, perfect,
young, ever beautiful, divine? Know ye not that God created you an exact
image and likeness of Himself and gave you dominion over all things? You,
of yourself, are always Christ, the perfect Son of God, the only begotten Son
of God, in whom the Father-Mother is well pleased. You are pure, perfect,
holy, divine, one with God, all Good, and each and every child has a right to
claim this Sonship, this Divinity." When all had been given a portion, she
returned to her seat and the loaf was the same length and size as it was
when she broke the first portion from it.

After this ceremony was over, the edibles began to arrive. They came in
large covered containers. These containers just appeared on the table
before the lady as if they were placed there by unseen hands. She lifted the
lids, set them aside, and began serving. As served, the plates were passed,
first one to the lady on the right, then one to the lady on the left; and they in
turn passed them on until all were served generously.

The meal had not progressed far when our Chief asked the lady what she
considered the greatest attribute of God. Without a moment's hesitation
she answered, "Love." Then she went on to say, "The Tree of Life is located
in the midst of the paradise of God, the very depth of our own soul, and the
rich, abundant fruit that grows and ripens to the fullest perfection, the most
perfect and life-giving, is Love. Love has been defined by those who
perceive its true character as the greatest thing in the world. I might add
that it is the greatest thing in the world. I might add that it is the greatest
healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the
human heart. The Divine Principle of Love may be used to eliminate every
sorrow, every infirmity, every harsh condition, and every lack that harasses
humanity. With the right understanding and use of the subtle and
illimitable influence of love, the world may be healed of its wounds and the
sweet mantle of its heavenly compassion may cover all inharmony, all
ignorance, and all mistakes of mankind.

"With wings outstretched, Love searches out the arid spots of the human
heart, the waste places of life, and with seeming magic touch redeems
humanity and transforms the world. Love is God, eternal, limitless,
changeless, going beyond all visions into infinitude. The end we can only
envision. Love fulfills the law of its own, consummates its perfect work, and
reveals the Christ within the soul of man. Love is ever seeking an inlet
whereby it may flow forth into the soul of man and pour itself out as all
good to him. If it is not disturbed by man's perversity and discordant
thinking, God's eternal, changeless current of love flows ever onward,
carrying before it, into the great universal sea of forgetfulness, every
appearance of inharmony or ugliness which disturbs the peace of man.
Love is the perfect fruit of the Spirit; it goes forth, binding up the wounds of
humanity, drawing nations into closer harmony, and bringing peace and
prosperity to the world. It is the very pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the
universe. Humanity must be charged with this current of love from the
great Omnipresent Life if it would do the works of Jesus.

"Does life press heavily upon you? Do you need courage and strength to
meet the problems that confront you? Are you sick or afraid? If so, lift your
heart and pray to Him who leads the way. The imperishable love of God
enfolds you. You need not fear. Did He not say, `Before they call I will
answer and while they are yet speaking I will hear'? Approach this throne of
grace boldly, not as you have thought of beseeching and groveling attitude,
but with the prayer of understanding faith, knowing that the help you stand
in need of is already yours. Never doubt. Do more—ask. Claim your
birthright as the child of the living God, as Jesus did. Know that in the
Invisible, Universal Substance, in which we all live and move and have our
being, is every good and perfect thing that man can desire, waiting to be
drawn forth by faith into visible form or manifestation. Read in your own
great Book what Paul says of love in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13, using the
word, `love,' instead of charity, as was intended.

"Consider Solomon, when in the night of his experience he allowed his

radiant love nature to expand to that universal plane of consciousness
where he asked to be of service and not for self. This brought to him wealth
untold and added to this was life and honor beyond his power to ask. He
recognized the wisdom of Love and Love released its boundless wealth
upon him. `Silver was counted as naught in the days of Solomon.' Even the
drinking vessels of this mighty king of love were of pure gold.

"To love is to release God's unlimited storehouse of golden treasure. If we

love we cannot help giving, and to give is to gain, and the law of love is
fulfilled. Then, by giving, we set in operation the unfailing law of measure
for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid
receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment
of the law, `Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom.
For with the same measure that you mete, withal, it shall be measured to
you again.'

"If we work in the spirit of love, we must have God present in

consciousness. To be one with Life, Love, and Wisdom, is to consciously
contact. To consciously contact God is to have abundance pressed upon us
the same as abundance of food has been pressed upon us tonight. You see
there is an abundance for all and none need want in the presence of God's
abundance. This thought of abundance must lift the mind far beyond the
bounds of limitation. To conceive abundance, one must relinquish all
thoughts of things in particular. This concept is so large that it will not
permit the thought of detail. To hold it in mind, consciousness must swing
far out into the Universal and revel in the joyousness of perfect freedom.
This freedom must, however, not be taken for license, for we are held
responsible for every thought, every act. Our consciousness cannot attain to
this freedom in an instant. The breaking of the last vestige of limitation may
be accomplished in an instant but the preparation for the glorious event has
gone before; the preparation in minutest detail has been accomplished
from within, just as every petal of a flower is perfected in every detail within
the bud. When the perfection is complete, the bud bursts its sepal shell and
the flower comes forth beautiful. Just so man must break the shell of self
before he can come forth.

"God's laws are changeless, the same as they have ever been. While they are
immutable, they are beneficent, for they are good. When we live in
conformity to them, they become the very foundation stones on which we
build our health, our happiness, our peace and poise, our success and
attainment. If we abide fully in God's law, no evil can befall us. We do not
need to be healed. We are every whit whole.

"How well we realize that in the great heart of humanity there is a deep
homesickness which never can be satisfied with anything less than a clear
consciousness or understanding of God, our Father. We recognize this
hunger as hearts cry after God. There is nothing the human soul so longs
for as to know God, `Whom to know aright is life eternal.' We see people
ever shifting from one thing to another, hoping they will find satisfaction or
rest in some accomplishment or in the possession of some limited, mortal
desire. We see them pursuing and gaining these things only to find
themselves still unsatisfied. Some fancy they want houses and lands; some,
great wealth; and some, great learning. We are privileged to know that man
has all these things within himself. Jesus, the Great Master, attempted to
have all see this. How we do love Him! He stands out so beautifully
triumphant because of His attainments. We love all who have reached the
heights or high places in consciousness that Jesus has. We not only love
them for their attainments but because of what they really are.

"Jesus never allowed Himself to dwell in the external after His illumination.
He always kept His thoughts at the central part of His being, which is the
Christ. In Jesus, the Christ or Central Spark which is God in us all, living in
everyone today, was drawn forth to show itself perfectly ruling the material
body or flesh man. It is in this way that He did all His mighty works, not
because He was in some way different from you. He had no greater power
than all have today. He was not in some way a Son of God and we only
servants of God. He did these works because this same Divine Spark, which
the Father has implanted in every child born, was fanned into a brighter
flame by His own efforts in holding Himself in conscious communion with
God Himself, the source of all Life, Love, and Power.

"Jesus was a man the same as all men are today. He suffered, was tempted
and tried, just as you suffer because of temptation and trials. We know that
during His residence on earth in the visible body Jesus spent hours of every
day alone with God and we know that, in His early manhood, He went
through just what we have gone through and what you are going through
today. We know that every man must overcome the mortal, the fleshly
desires, the doubts and fears, until he comes to the perfect consciousness or
recognition of the indwelling Presence, this `Father in me,' to whom Jesus
ascribed the credit of all His mighty works. He had to learn as we had to
learn and as you are learning today. He was obliged to try over and over
again as you are doing. He was obliged to hold fast as you are obliged to
hold fast today, even with clenched fist and set teeth and saying, `I will
succeed, I do know the Christ lives within me.' We recognize that it was the
Christ within which made Jesus what He was, and is today, and that the
same attainments are for all. In all this we would in no way detract from
Jesus for we love Him with a love unspeakable. We know He went through
the perfect crucifixion of self that He might lead His people to God; that He
might show them the way out of sin, sickness, and trouble, that they might
manifest the Father in them; that He might teach all that the same Father
lives in all and loves all. None that follow Jesus' life and teaching closely
can help but love Him. He is our perfect elder brother.

"But if we sell our birthright, if we disregard or treat with contempt the

beneficent laws of God, and by so doing turn our backs on the Father's
house and wander into a far country, as did the prodigal son, of what avail
is the peace and plenty, the abundance of warmth and cheer that abides
within the house? When you are tired of the husks of life, when you are
weary and homesick, with faltering steps you may retrace your way home to
the Father's house. This may be done over the road of bitter experience or
by a joyful letting go of all material things. It does not matter how the
understanding and knowledge is gained, you will eventually press on
toward the mark of your high calling. With each step you will grow strong
and bolder until you will no longer falter nor hesitate. You will look within
you for your illumination; then in your awakened consciousness you will
realize that home is here. It is the Divine Omnipresence in which we all live,
move, and have our being. We breathe it with every breath. We live it with
every heartbeat.

"Do not think you must come to us. Go into your own home, your church,
your house of prayer, alone, anywhere you choose. Jesus the great love
Master can help you; all those that have passed and are receiving the
highest teachings can help you and are endeavoring to help you where you
are now and at all times. How plainly we see Jesus and all the others always
ready to help those who call. You need but make the call and they answer
before the call is even finished. They stand and walk beside you every
moment. What you must do is to raise your consciousness so that you can
see and know that you walk beside them; then you will not falter. They are
holding out their hands and saying, `Come unto me and I will give you
rest.' This does not mean `Come after death'; this means `Come now, just
as you are.' Raise your consciousness to our consciousness and behold, you
stand where we are tonight, above all mortal limitations, abundantly free.

"Peace, health, love, joy and prosperity are here. These are the fruits of the
Spirit, the gifts of God. If we look unto God, no harm can befall us, no evil
can come nigh us. If we look to Him wholly, we are healed of our
infirmities, in the transcendent name of the Law, or Jesus.

"God is in the midst of you, child of infinite, immortal Spirit. There is

naught to make you tremble or despair, naught to make you fear. From the
bosom of the Father you came; the breath of Almighty God created you a
living soul. `Before Abraham was, you were. Beloved now are we Sons of
God, joint heirs with Christ.' The same power is in you that is in Jesus. This
is called the mantle of the Spirit. With the right concept of this, it is found
that there is no decay, no disease, no accident, no death, nothing that can
take your life in any way. You can draw this mantle so closely around you
that nothing can penetrate it, nothing can touch you. All the destructive
agencies or forces ever created by man may be directed at you; yet you will
come forth unharmed. If by any chance the outer form should be destroyed,
it would immediately return as spiritual in the same form. This is an armor
better than any armor plate ever devised by man and you can use it at all
times without money and without price. You can stand forth as you are, the
child of the living God.

"Jesus recognized this, and He could have saved Himself the Calvary
experience. Had He wished to use His power, his enemies could not have
touched Him. He saw there was a great spiritual change taking place in His
body and saw that, if this was brought about among those He knew and
loved, without some outward change, a great many would not recognize the
spiritual import but would still cling to the personal. He knew that He had
the power to overcome death and He wished to show those that He loved
that they had the same power; so He chose the Calvary way, the way they
could see; and seeing, they would believe. He also wished to show that He
had so perfected His body that, should His enemies take His life (as they
looked upon life) and place His body in the tomb and roll a great stone
thereon (the last limitation that man could put upon it), still He, the true
Self, could roll away the stone and raise His real or spiritual body above all
mortal limitations. Jesus could have taken His body and disappeared but
He chose to show that, when the spiritual body is developed, no material
accident or condition can destroy it, not even the taking of the life by
another.

"After the Crucifixion and Ascension His body was so highly developed
spiritually that Jesus was obliged to raise the consciousness of those about
Him to a plane where they were able to see Him, just as we are obliged to
raise the consciousness of nearly all those about us tonight. When the
women came to the tomb that morning and found the stone rolled away
and the grave clothes lying by, even they did not know Him until He had
raised their consciousness to the plane where they could behold Him. Then
later, when two were on the road to Emmaus, Jesus drew near and
conversed with them, yet they knew Him not until He broke bread with
them. At that time their consciousness was raised to the plane where they
could behold Him. Just so, when He appeared to others, He even walked
and talked with them, yet they did not recognize Him because their
consciousness was not functioning on the plane where they could see Him.
The moment their consciousness did rise or function on the plane with His,
they saw Him. Then some perceived the spiritual import of actuality. They
saw the deep meaning underlying it all. They knew. Yet with all this a great
many did not believe in Him because they had not yet attained a plane in
consciousness where they could see or perceive the underlying spiritual
meaning.

"Then the veil of mystery drawn by man's mortal perception was removed.
`And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.'
The consciousness was attained that death had been overcome; and that
not only death, but all man-made mortal limitations could and would be
overcome, by coming up over them or raising our consciousness to the
plane on which they can no longer be seen and, therefore, do not exist. If
this consciousness is loved and cherished it will come forth.
"This was the revelation that came to Jacob as he lay upon the hard stone of
materiality. It was revealed to him that that which is gazed upon is brought
forth and his realization of this released him from his material bondage. It
was this which prompted him to put spotted sticks in the cows' drinking
water, thus causing them to bring forth spotted offspring.

"We can so definitely put forth our ideal into the formless that it is formed
direct from the unformed, that which appears invisible to mortal
consciousness. The drinking water of the cows but typifies the mirror
through which the image held in mind is reflected to the soul, the
innermost, and then conceived and brought forth. It is the same with the
friends assembled here tonight; only a few of the earnest ones perceive and
they go on, unfold, and do the real work of God. Others make a good
beginning but it soon requires too much exertion to surmount the first wall
of materiality. They find it much easier to drift with the tide and they drop
out. We have all lived in the visible, mortal plane on this earth. In fact, we
have never left the earth. We are now invisible only to those that are in
mortal consciousness. To those that are on a higher plane of consciousness
we are always visible.

"Every seed idea placed in the soul becomes a conception and is given
thought-form in mind, later to be experienced in physical form. Ideas of
perfection produce perfection. The reverse is equally true. Just as the sun
and the earth produce with equal willingness the mighty tree or the frailest
flower, when their respective seeds are planted, so Spirit and Soul respond
to man and that which he desires or that for which he has asked, believing,
he receives.

"Those that have passed from the visible through death are manifesting on
the same psychic plane as when they left the body, for the mortal mind
functions on the psychic plane. This is the cause of the great psychic realm
which lies between the material, or visible, and the true spiritual, and
through which all aspiring to the true spiritual must force their way before
the spiritual is perceived. In order to perceive the spiritual, we must forge
through the psychic directly to God. Death releases the soul only to the
psychic plane and it manifests on the same spiritual plane it was in when
the soul was released from the body. The one so passing has not perceived
that there is but one Spirit, one Mind, one Body and that all came forth
from this One and must return to it. The Spirit sent forth from this One and
given a perfect body is as much a part of the One Spirit as our arm is a part
of our whole body; and is never separated from it any more than any
member of our body is a separate part, but is one with the whole body and
must be fitly joined with it to make up the whole. So must all spirit or
expression be fitly joined together to be complete and perfect.

"`They shall all be gathered together in one place,' means that we shall be
conscious that we are one expression of the Divinity and all from the same
source, God. This is the atonement, the at-one-ment, knowing we are all
created in the image and likeness of God, exactly like Him, an image
through which He may and can express the ideal He has conceived for us.

"To be willing that God shall express perfectly through us the highest ideal
He has conceived is the meaning of, `Not my will, but Thine, O God, be
done.' None can rise above mortal thoughts without doing the will of God
whether he does it consciously or unconsciously."

Here the talk dropped for a moment and one of our party asked about the
Relativity of Matter. She went on to say, “The real world is Substance, the
Relativity of Substance. Let us consider for a moment the five kingdoms:
the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, the man, and the God kingdoms.
We will begin at the mineral, the lowest. We find every particle of the
mineral kingdom expressing the one life, the life of God. The disintegration
or division of the particles of the mineral, combined with elements of air
and water, has formed soil, every particle still retaining the original life, the
life of God. This gives place to the vegetable kingdom, the next higher
expression of God to come forth. Then the vegetable, every part of which
contains this one life, has taken up a part of this life from the mineral, has
increased and multiplied it, and is expressing it one step higher toward the
God kingdom. This gives place to the animal, the next higher expression of
God. Then the animal, every part of which contains the one life, has taken
up a part of this life from the vegetable, has increased and multiplied it, and
is expressing one step higher toward the God kingdom. This gives place to
the man kingdom, the next higher expression of God. Then the man
kingdom, every part of which contains the one life, has taken up a part of
this one life from the animal kingdom and, in expressing it one step higher,
gives place to the God kingdom, the highest expression through man.
When man has attained this kingdom, he recognizes that all have come
forth from the one Source, that all contain the one life, the life of God, and
he has gained the mastery over all material things. But we need not pause
here, for all is progression. When he arrives here he will find there are new
worlds still to conquer. Now we come to the place where we recognize that
all space or magnitude contains the one life, the life of God, that all is from
the one Source and Substance. Then all substance becomes relative or
related, does it not?”
Here the talk ended, the dinner was finished, and the room was cleared of
tables and chairs. There followed a time of frolic and fun, including dance
and song with the music furnished by the invisible choir, and all enjoyed a
good time together. The evening finally ended in music and song; the
invisible choir became visible, walked among those assembled, and at times
floated just above their heads. The final ending was one outburst of music,
song, and laughter, with all participating. Taken altogether, it was the most
impressive scene that we ever witnessed.

We were told that if we would become quiet, we could hear the music at all
times, but it is only on an occasion like this that the chorus accompanies the
music. We tried this a number of times afterward and found that we could
hear the music. It was always low and beautifully sweet but it never had the
glad free ring of that one evening unless there were a number of the
Masters congregated. We were told that this music is what has been called
the angel choir. They call it "the symphony of souls in accord."

We stopped in this village three days and during that time saw a great deal
of our friends. The evening of the third day they bade us goodbye and,
saying they would meet us at our winder quarters, disappeared.

Chapter XXII

The next morning we left the village with only Emil and Jast accompanying
us, our objective being the village we had decided upon for our winter
quarters. The winters in this part of the country are quite severe and we felt
that we wished to make certain of comfortable quarters before the cold spell
set in. In this as in a great many other matters our fears were not well
grounded for when we arrived we found comfortable quarters all ready for
us.

Our trail from the village led across the plateau, then up a long winding
canyon to the divide where the second fortified village that guarded the
plateau we had crossed was located. The canyon walls were from two
hundred to five hundred feet perpendicular and joined the mountains
which rose to an elevation of two thousand feet above the crest where the
trail crossed the divide. At the top of the divide two great rock ridges jutted
up on either side of a level space about five acres in extent. These two
ridges were about six hundred feet apart. A wall forty feet high had been
built across the open space, thus connecting the two ridges of rock and
forming an effectual barrier. This wall was sixty feet wide at the bottom
and thirty feet wide at the top and was so constructed that the top formed a
runway over which huge rocks could be rolled, then dropped to the ground
on the outer side of the wall where the ground sloped sharply and
connected with a steep declivity, down which the trail passed on the way to
the other side of the divide.

There were chutes arranged along the wall at intervals of one hundred feet
so that the rocks would gain headway enough to clear the base of the wall
before they struck the ground. When they did strike they would roll down
the slope, then over the declivity and on down the canyon for about four
miles before they would stop, if they did not fly into pieces from their own
momentum. In all, this formed an effectual defense, as the canyon was not
over fifty feet wide at any place in the four miles, and it was steep enough to
give great momentum to the rolling rocks. There were also two places on
each side of the canyon where rocks could be loosened and would roll
down. These places were connected by trails cut along the mountain side
from each end of the wall. There were a number or rocks, each about
twelve feet through, placed along the top of the wall ready for an
emergency. We were told that it had not been found necessary to use any of
them, as there was but one tribe that had ever attempted to gain access to
the village uninvited, and this tribe had been all but annihilated by rocks
released from the four stations in the canyon walls. The first rocks released
in their downward course had released others until an avalanche swept
down the valley, carrying all before it. We were told the rocks on top of the
wall had rested where they were for over two thousand years, as there had
not been a war in that country during that time.

We found that the six houses comprising the village were built into the wall,
three stories high, with the roofs level with the top of the wall. Access to it
was thus gained by stairways leading up through each story to the roof of
each house. Openings for windows were left in the wall at the third story.
These windows overlooked the canyon below. The trail could be seen from
these windows and the top of the wall, as it wound around the mountain
side, miles away.

We were made comfortable for the night in the third story of one of these
houses and, after an early dinner, we went to the roof to see the sunset. We
had been there but a few moments when a man apparently fifty years of age
came up the stairs to the roof. After being introduced by Jast he joined in
the conversation. We soon found he lived in the village we had selected for
our winter quarters and was on his way there. We supposed he was
traveling as we were and invited him to join our party. He thanked us and
said he was able to make the distance much more quickly than we could,
that he had stopped in the village to see a relative, and would be home that
evening. The conversation then turned to the temple the three of us had
visited with Emil and Jast. This man spoke quietly and said, "I saw you
sitting on the parapet of the temple that night." Then he went on and gave
the dream or vision just as it came to me and as it has been set forth in this
book. This came as a surprise to me and my associates as I had not
mentioned the occurrence to them. This man was a perfect stranger to us,
yet he recounted the dream as vividly as it had appeared to me.

Then he went on to say, "You were shown just what we are shown, that man
comes forth in unity just as long as he has consciously realized this and
used the power and dominion rightly; but the moment he, in his mortal
self, conceived dual powers, he began to see dual, he misused this power,
and brought forth duality, for man is a free will agent and brings forth that
which he gazes upon. Then diversity and wide separation resulted and this
has followed him all over the earth. But a change is coming. Diversity has
about reached its limit and mankind is recognizing that all came forth from
the one Source. Recognizing this, men are now coming closer and closer
together. Man is beginning to realize that every other man is his brother
instead of his enemy. When man does fully realize this, he will see that just
as all came from the one Source, all must return to that Source or become
as brothers in reality. Then he will be in heaven and will recognize that
heaven means the inner peace and harmony created by man right here on
earth. He will then see that he makes his heaven or hell just as he chooses.
This heaven has been conceived rightly but misplaced geographically. He
will know that God dwells within him and not only within him but in
everything about him, every rock, every tree, every plant, every flower, and
every created thing; that God is in the very air he breathes, the water he
drinks, the money he spends; that God is the substance of all things. When
he breathes, he breathes God as much as he does air; when he partakes of
food, he partakes of God as much as he does of food.

"It is not our wish to form new cults, or sects. We feel that the churches that
are established today are sufficient and they are the logical centers to reach
out and help the people to the realization of God, through the Christ in all.
Those associated with the churches must realize that the church but typifies
the one thing, the Christ Consciousness in all mankind. If they realize this,
where can the diversity lie but in the concept of man's mortal mind and not
in the church? Wherein then is one church or society different from
another? The diversity thought to exist today must be wholly in man's
mortal mind. See what this diversity has led to, the great wars, the intense
hate engendered between nations and families and even individuals, and all
because one church organization or another has thought that its creed or
doctrine was better than that of another. Yet all in reality are the same for
they all lead to the same place. It would not be possible for each to have a
heaven of its own; for if it did, when a fellow man finished with his
particular brand of church organization and was ready to receive his
reward, he would be obliged to spend the remainder of his existence
looking through the maze of heavens for the particular one he is destined
for. The church organizations and those associated with them are coming
closer each day and the time will come when they will be united as one.
When all are as one, there will be no need of organization.

"Yet the fault does not lie wholly with church organizations. Few people
have awakened to the realization of what life really holds for them. We find
the greater majority drifting through life, dissatisfied, dazed, crushed, or
uncertain. Each must learn to lay hold of life and begin to express, from his
own life center, with purposeful, definite action, the gifts that God has given
him. Each must unfold his own life. It is not possible for one to live for
another. No one can express your life for you and none can say how you
must express your own life. `As the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He
given unto the Son to have life in Himself.' A soul cannot realize this and
just drift, for the whole purpose of life reveals itself in the privilege and
opportunity of expressing the God self within. That man is and shall be the
divine image and likeness of Himself is God's purpose for man. To express
that which God has conceived for him should be man's great purpose in life.
When Jesus was on the mountain top and His disciples came to Him, see
what words of wisdom He spoke unto them. His consciousness was
awakened to this realization and He had become established in this high
resolve, that man can unfold in the fullness of power only when he has a
true ideal, a real purpose in life. A seed can begin to grow only when it is
firmly fixed in the ground. The God power within can bring forth a true
desire only when it is firmly fixed in the soul of man. We must all know, as
Jesus did, that the first spiritual impulse toward expression is the definite
desire to express.

"Jesus said, `Blessed be the poor in spirit,' realizing that any limitation in
life that can create a desire in the individual to rise superior to the
limitation and free himself from it is good. He realized that need is the
prophecy of fulfillment. He looked upon every need as soil prepared for a
seed. If the seed were planted, then allowed to grow and come forth, it
would fill the need. Need or desire, in the unfoldment of life, is
misunderstood. That it must be crushed out of the heart is taught by some
great teachers. Jesus said, `Woe unto you who are satisfied.' If you are
satisfied, you are at a standstill. In order to contact life fully, we must seek
each moment to express life fully. Desire for this is the urge toward it.
Weary of crawling in the dust of the earth, man yearns to fly, and this
longing invites him to find the manifestation of law that will enable him to
rise above his present limitations. Finding it, he is able to go where he will,
without thought of time or distance. It has been said that man proposes and
God disposes. The reverse is true, for God proposes and man disposes; if
man is so disposed, he can do all that God does. Cannot the Son do what the
Father has done?

"The failure of outer things to satisfy leads the soul to seek the power
within. Then the individual may discover that I AM, he may know that
within him lies all power to satisfy the soul, to fulfill its every need and
desire. This knowledge may not come until the individual is driven by the
buffetings of the world to seek this inner plane of peace and calm. When he
knows I AM is the fulfillment of his desire, the desire is filled. To look
outside the God self for the fulfillment of his desire is folly. To unfold, the
self must do the unfolding.

"Then what a realization, what an awakening to know the I AM; to know

that within is the power, substance, and intelligence from which all forms
take form; and to know that the moment a definite and true idea of desire
can be intelligently formed, the power, intelligence, and substance of spirit
must flow to it and bring it forth. Are these not treasures in heaven that we
have not beheld? Here, in the unformed, lie boundless treasures hid within
ourselves. How clear this is to the one that has found the pearl. Then think,
`Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (right-use-ness)
and all these things shall be added unto you.' The reason they are added is
that they are made out of the very essence of Spirit. The consciousness must
first find the Spirit before it can form the desired thing.

"The awakened one perceives the creative principle within; then he sees
and his realization is his life opportunity. He has a vision or becomes aware
of his possibilities or the possibilities that lie before him. With the
knowledge that the creative power lies within, he recalls his heart's desire;
this becomes an ideal, or mold, that draws forth power and substance to fill
the mold. I SEE is the soul's conception; it is the Promised Land, the dream
come true, toward which the soul may look in faith. Although it may not yet
be consciously possessed, it must come forth into visible form as he fulfills
the law. A wilderness of experiences may have to be met and overcome.
This but makes the soul worthy of atonement. Understanding the vision as
a Land of Promise, an ideal that is to be realized or to become real, the soul
now sees only the good, the object of its desire. Here there must be no
doubt, no wavering, no hesitation, for this would be fatal. One must be true
to the vision and press on. This vision is typical and as necessary as the
plans and specifications of a building. One must be as true to the vision as
the builder is true to the plans and specifications the architect has
furnished. All but the truth must be eliminated.
"All great souls are true to their vision. Everything brought forth was first a
vision, a seed idea planted in the soul, then allowed to expand and come
forth. These souls never allow the unbelief of others to influence them. They
are willing to sacrifice for their vision, they are true to it, they believe in it,
and it is to them as they believe. Jesus remained true and steadfast to His
vision. He adhered to His plan, even when those nearest and dearest to
Him were unbelieving and untrue. It was unto Him as He believed and it is
so unto all.

"When the individual starts for the Promised Land, the land of darkness
must be forsaken, forgotten. He must leave the darkness and start toward
the light. It is impossible to go and stay at the same time. The old must be
forsaken, the new adhered to. He must forget the things he does not wish to
remember and remember only the things he wishes to retain. One is as
essential as the other. The vision only must be remembered if he wishes it
fulfilled. He must remember by holding in mind the vision he wishes to
reproduce. He must disremember or refuse to remember the thing he does
not wish to reproduce. Every idea, thought, word, or act must be true to the
vision in order to bring it forth. This is true concentration, the
concentration of devotion, the centering of the forces upon the essential.
This is loving the ideal. It is only through love that an ideal can be given
expression. Love makes the ideal become the real.

"If at first he fails, he must be determined and press on. This is the exercise
of the will, the cry of self-confidence, the expression of faith directing the
power toward the ideal. This ideal could never be attained without this
conscious direction of power, this exercise of the will; and yet it would be
fatal to the ideal if the will, too, were not ideal. The will must possess the
same quality as the ideal to serve. If the will does not possess the desire to
serve, the power the will wishes to direct cannot be released from the soul.
THE WILL TO BE SERVED TURNS THE LIFE CURRENT AGAINST SELF.
THE WILL TO SERVE KEEPS THE LIFE CURRENT FLOWING
THROUGH SELF AND KEEPS THE SELF IN RADIATION. To serve gives
purpose to vision; it releases love in life. How can love be expressed unless
it flows through the one expressing life? If it flows through the
consciousness, the whole organism responds; it thrills every cell with the
love it expresses. Then the body becomes harmonized; the soul becomes
radiant; the mind becomes enlightened; the thought becomes keen,
brilliant, alive, definite; the word becomes positive, true, constructive; the
flesh is renewed, purified and quickened; affairs are adjusted and all things
assume their true position. The I AM is expressed through the ME and the
ME is no longer allowed to suppress the I AM. If the body is not obedient to
Spirit, how can it express the Spirit? The conscious mind must seek and
want the Spirit in order to learn the power of the Spirit. In this way the
individual learns to know that Spirit is the fulfillment of the need. In no
way can it be given higher expression than when it is allowed to fill the need
of others. It is the flowing forth to others that opens the storehouse of
Spirit. It is the `I will to serve' that opens the unlimited storehouse of God
to all and brings its realization to the soul.

"The soul has returned to the Father's house as soon as it has willed to
serve. The prodigal who is serving becomes the feasted son; the hireling
feeding on the husks becomes the prince of a royal household, the
household of his own possibilities. He knows the love of God and
understands and appropriates his Father's gift. None but a son can receive
this gift. No servant, no hireling can enter into the joy of the son's
inheritance. The servant is always seeking to attain; the son has already
inherited all that the Father has. When we know that we belong to the
Father's household and that we are heir to all that the Father has, then we
can begin to live as the Father wishes us to live. `Behold now are we Sons of
God.' The Son consciousness causes the fulfillment; the servant
consciousness causes the lack. We will find every desire of the heart fulfilled
by the Father as soon as we act the part of the Son in thought, word, and
deed. We will find that the Sons of God are free."

Here the speaker arose, bade us goodnight and, with the remark that he
hoped to see us when we arrived at winter quarters, departed.

Chapter XXIII

We left the village the next morning. For three days the trail led through a
rough mountainous country so sparsely populated that we were obliged to
pitch our tents each night. No provisions had been taken along for this trip,
yet when food was needed it was there. No sooner were the arrangements
made for a meal than an abundance of food was right at hand to be
partaken of; and at no time did we see it all consumed; there was always a
little left.

The evening of the third day we reached the head of a wide valley, through
which valley we were to travel to reach the village of our destination. From
this time on our road led through a fertile, well populated valley. We had
selected this village as our winter quarters for the reason that it was located
in the very heart of the country we were visiting and we felt that it would
give us the opportunity we desired to come in daily contact with the people
for a longer period of time. A great many of the people we had met in the
different places we had already visited lived in this village and they had all
extended cordial invitations to visit them. We felt that, by staying in this
village for the winder, we would have ample opportunity to observe their
daily life more closely.

We reached this village November 20th and made a number of short trips
from there until the snow came on and travel was made difficult. We were
housed in very comfortable quarters, the people were very kind, and we
prepared to enter into the life of the village. All the homes were thrown
open to us and we were told that the latchstrings were always out and that
they considered all men brothers.

At this time we were invited to share the home of one of the remarkable
women that lived in this village, whom we had met before. We felt that we
were comfortable and that it was not necessary to trouble her. She insisted
that it would be no trouble; so we moved in, bag and baggage, and made
her home our home during the remainder of our stay. I shall never forget
the first time we met her. It was in a small town near the border. When she
was introduced we thought she was not a day over eighteen and we all
thought her beautiful. What was our surprise when we were told she was
over four hundred years old and one of the most loved of teachers. Her
whole life was spent in the work. When we first met her we had been
thrown in daily contact with her for nearly two weeks but her true self did
not show forth until we saw her in her own home. After living in her home
and being in daily contact with her, we could readily see why the people
loved her as they did. It was impossible for anyone to do otherwise than
love and respect her. We lived at this lady’s home and ate at her table from
the last of December until the following April. We had ample opportunity
to observe her home life and the home life of a number of others in this
village and we found their lives ideal. The more we saw all these people the
more we loved and respected them. We had ample opportunity to
corroborate all that they told us regarding their ages, by records that could
not be contradicted, any more than our records can be contradicted.

Chapter XXIV

Time went on until the last of December and the year was drawing to a
close. We had noticed that a number of persons were congregating for the
one ceremonial event that the Masters participate in practically alone. Each
day we were introduced to strangers. All spoke English and we began to feel
that we were a part of the village life. One day we were told that the event
would take place on New Year's Eve and we were invited to be present. We
were also told that, while this event was not for outsiders, it was in no way a
secret meeting, that none of their meetings were private. The assembly was
for those who had commenced the work, had taken it up in earnest, and
had gone far enough to realize that they wanted to live the life; those who
had accepted the higher consciousness and realized what this meant in
their lives. It was called by some the "Feast of the Passover." These
gatherings were usually held at some stated location at this time of year and
this place had been chosen for the occasion this year.

The morning of the day appointed for the assembly dawned bright and
clear, with the mercury well below zero. It found us all eager for we felt that
this evening would add to the many interesting experiences of the trip. We
arrived at the appointed place at eight o'clock that evening and found about
two hundred assembled. The room was lighted in the same way as the one
mentioned before and was very beautiful. We were told that the beautiful
young lady who once before had been our hostess would have charge of the
services. A few moments after we were seated she entered the room and we
all marveled at her youth and beauty. She wore a beautiful white gown but
there was no attempt at display.

She stepped quietly to the small platform and began her address. "We are
gathered here this evening with the desire to enter into the fuller meaning
of passing from a lower to a higher consciousness and we welcome those of
you who are prepared for this. At first you followed us, led by your interest
in the things you have seen us accomplish, which you at first looked upon
with awe and wonder, thinking of them as marvelous. We know you have at
this time learned to look upon these things as the everyday occurrences of a
life lived as it should be lived, a natural everyday life that God would have
us live at all times. By this time you are satisfied that we have not
performed any marvels. You realize the true spiritual meaning of what you
are doing. The consciousness that functions from the true spiritual plane
always interprets all forms in terms of the ideal underlying them; then the
great inner meaning is revealed and there is no mystery, consequently no
marvel, no miracle. This passing over from a lower to a higher
consciousness means putting away the material, where all is discord and
inharmony, and taking up and accepting the Christ Consciousness, in which
all is beauty, harmony, and perfection. This is the natural way of living, the
way God sees us living, and the way so beautifully exemplified by Jesus here
on earth. The other is the unnatural, the self way, the hard way. When we
realize it, it is so easy, so natural to live the Christ way. Then we come into
the Christ Consciousness.

"We have tables spread. This is the only occasion on which we congregate
for a feast. It is not a feast such as those in mortal consciousness might
think. It is a feast of realization and accomplishment, symbolizing the
passing from the mortal to the Christ Consciousness, and so greatly
misunderstood throughout the world today. We believe that all of God's
children will sit down to such a feast some day with the true realization of
its meaning.

"We shall have with us, tonight, a few of those that have so perfected their
bodies that they are able to take them into all the Celestial Realms and
there receive the highest teachings. They have all lived a certain time here
in visible form, then passed on and taken their bodies with them, to a place
in consciousness where they are not visible to mortal eyes; and we must
raise our consciousness to the Christ Consciousness to converse with them.
But those that have so perfected the body that they can take it to this
Celestial Realm can return to us and go away at will. They are able to come
and instruct all who are receptive to their teaching and appear and
disappear at will. It is these that come and teach us when we are ready to
receive instruction, sometimes intuitively and at time by personal contact.
There will be five of these to break bread with us tonight. Among the five is
one especially beloved by us, as she is the mother of one of us and has dwelt
among us. (This proved to be Emil's mother.) We will now gather around
the tables."

The lights were dimmed for a moment and all sat perfectly quiet with
bowed heads. Then the lights came on and the five stood in the room, three
men and two women. They were all dressed in white and were radiantly
beautiful, with a soft glow of light about each one of them. They walked
quietly forward and each took a place left vacant at the head of each table.
Emil's mother took the place at the head of our table, with our Chief at her
right and Emil at her left. After the five were seated, the edibles began to
arrive. It was a simple meal of vegetables, bread, fruit and nuts, but very
palatable. The talks that followed were chiefly instructions to those who had
assembled for the occasion. They were given in the native tongue and were
translated by Jast. I will not include these talks, as the greater part has
already been given.

Emil's mother, the last speaker, used perfect English and her voice was
clear and concise. These were her words: "We use forces every day that man
in the mortal concept laughs at. We who are privileged to see and use these
are doing all that we can to have men see and know what they are keeping
out of their lives by the thoughts they are holding of the perfect things that
are right at hand ready and waiting to be taken hold of. As soon as these
forces are taken hold of or appropriated by man, they will be far more real
and living than those things that man clings to so desperately in the mortal
—clings to because they can be seen, felt, and handled or contacted through
the limited mortal senses. You will note that all our comforts in this room
and those you are occupying, such as light and heat and even the things you
have eaten, are prepared by one of these forces. You may call it light rays or
what you will. We see it as a great universal power or force, which, when
contacted by man, will work for him far more effectually than steam,
electricity, gasoline, or coal; yet we call it one of the least of the forces or
powers.

"This force will not only furnish all the power needed by man but it will also
furnish heat for all his needs, at all times and in all places, without the
consumption of one pound of fuel of any kind. This force is perfectly
noiseless; and if man will contact and use it, it will stop a great deal of the
noise and confusion that now seems unavoidable. This power is right at
hand all about you, waiting for man to contact and use it. When he does
contact and use this force, it will be far simpler than steam or electricity. As
man is able to do this, he will see that all modes of power and locomotion
that he has devised are but makeshifts that he has brought forth in his own
mortal concept. He has thought that he, himself, has brought them forth;
and he has in this way brought forth only that which he could contact with
the mortal senses. He has brought forth imperfect things; whereas if man
would see that all is of God and from God expressing through him, all
things that he brings forth would be perfect. Man, having free will, has
chosen the hard way; and instead of realizing his Sonship with God and
using all that God has, he will go on in the hard way until he is driven to
realize that there must be, and really is, a better way. He will eventually
know that God's way is the only way. Then he will express the perfection
that God sees him expressing right now.

"Do you not see how you must be centered in the Father within you,
drawing the whole of your good from Him; and how every force of your
nature is to operate from the divine self? In the beginning of all expression
is God, the Father, within; else God could not be expressed or brought
forth."

Here one of our party asked what power or force our thoughts and words
had upon our lives. She held out her hand and in a moment a small object
was lying in it. She said, "Let me drop this pebble into this bowl of water.
You see that the vibrations caused by the pebble's coming in contact with
the water radiate from that center in ever-widening circles until they reach
the rim of the bowl, or outer edge of the water; where, to the eye, they seem
to lose their force and stop. What really happens is this. As soon as the
vibrations have reached the limits of the water, they start on their return
journey back to the place where the pebble entered the water; and they do
not tarry until they reach that center. This exactly represents every thought
or word we think or speak. The thought or ward sets in motion certain
vibrations that go out and on, in ever-widening circles, until they compass
the universe. Then they return as they went forth, to the one that sent them
out. Every thought or word we think or speak, be it good or bad, returns to
us as certainly as we send it forth. This returning is the Day of Judgment
spoken of in your Bible. `Every day will be a day of judgment thereof.' The
judgment will be good or evil, just as the word or thought sent out is good
or evil. Every idea is sent out, planted in the soul (held in mind), becomes a
conception later to be brought forth or expressed in physical form. thoughts
or ideas of perfection bring forth perfection; thoughts or ideas of
imperfection bring forth imperfection.

"The sun and earth combined will produce, with equal willingness, the
mighty banyan or the smallest flower if the seed is planted. It is in this way
that the Soul and Spirit respond to the call of man; and that for which he
asks by word or thought, he receives. The only thing that has separated man
from heaven is a mist of material thought that man has created around
heaven; and this has given rise to the mysteriousness that surrounds all
things divine. This veil of mystery is gradually being pulled aside and it is
found that there is no mystery. Those establishing their different church
organizations have found it expedient to surround the things of God with
mystery, thinking to get a closer hold upon the people. But all are now
finding that the deep things of God are the real, simple things of life. If not,
of what avail are they? All are perceiving that the church but typifies the
Christ Consciousness in man, the God center of humanity. They are
perceiving the ideal instead of worshiping the idol which has been built by
mortal thought. Look at the vast number of heterodox organizations
springing up on every hand. Though widely diversified now, they are bound
to lead to the one. Has not this one thing come forth to bring the churches
to the true realization?

"We who have so perfected our bodies that we are able to take them where
we will are privileged to see and be in what is called the Celestial Realm.
This realm is known to a great many as the Seventh Heaven. This realm is
thought to be the very mystery of mysteries. This again is where man in
mortal thought has erred. There is no mystery; we have only reached a
place in consciousness where we are able to receive the highest teachings,
the place where Jesus is today. It is a place in consciousness where we know
that by putting off mortality, we are able to take on immortality; where we
know that man is immortal, sinless, deathless, unchangeable, eternal, just
as God is and as God sees man. A place where we know the real meaning of
the Transfiguration; where we are able to commune with God and see Him
face to face. A place where we know that all can come, and receive, and be
as we are. We know that, before long, the consciousness of all will be raised
to the plane where we can talk with them face to face and see eye to eye.
Our withdrawal from their sight is but the raising of our consciousness
above that of the mortal and by this we become invisible only to those in
mortal consciousness.

"We have to look upon three events. One that happened long ago, the one
that typifies to you the birth of the Christ Consciousness in man, the birth
of the Babe Jesus. Then the one we can see coming when your great nation
accepts and realizes the Christ Consciousness. Then we love to turn to the
third and last, the greatest of all splendors, the second and last coming of
the Christ, when all know and accept the Christ within, and live and unfold
in this consciousness and grow as the lilies grow. This is the Atonement (At-
one-ment)."

As she finished, the invisible choir began to sing. The room was at first
filled with music which ended in a solemn dirge. Then there was silence for
a moment and the choir again burst forth with one glad riot of music, with
each measure ending in a boom like the stroke of a great bell. This
continued until twelve had been sounded and we suddenly realized that it
was twelve o'clock and the New Year was here.

This ended our first year with these wonderful people.

ADDENDUM

In presenting these notes of experiences with the Masters, I wish to

emphasize my personal belief in the powers of these Masters and in their
demonstration of a great Law—a Law that must carry a profound message
to the whole human race. They proved conclusively that there is a Law that
transcends death and that all humanity in its evolution is slowly moving
forward to understand and use it. The Masters say this Law will be brought
forth in America, will be given to the world, and then all may know the way
to Eternal Life. This, they acclaim, is the unfoldment of the New Age.

None of the manifestations referred to in these notes were the

materialization of the ordinary séance—far from it. It was the higher
expression making the body visible and invisible at will—a glorifying and
spiritualizing of the flesh. There is a God Law and human beings will soon
inherit it, become illumed, and use the body with understanding in full
Masterhood.
There is no question but these people have brought the Light through the
long ages and they prove by their daily life and works that this Light does
exist just as it did thousands of years ago.

B.T.S.