When you come to the end of your earthly experience
and step forth from the physical body in the new life it will not be asked
of you: "What religion did you follow? What belief did you hold?" There
will be none to say: "Were you a Roman Catholic, a Hindu, a Jew or a Christian?"
But those who have loved in your earth life, these will come to you with
love. They will look to see how much service you have rendered, how much
love you have given to those weaker and less evolved than yourself, how
much courage you have shown in dark and lonely experiences, for by this
measure is the soul known when it comes to the spirit life. But where spiritual
knowledge has given the soul increased ability to live kindly and peacefully,
then we say that religious belief has its value. Where a philosophy helps
to raise the thoughts on high, then that philosophy is a true one. But
it is not true that worship in any one church or belief or any one religion
is more important than the other.
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Your world needs to manifest the spiritual aspects of
love, and the first of these is patience. In order to help you lift your
love on to a higher plane, the things you desire are withheld for a time
that you may learn to wait in patience and in peace, for truly in patience
there is peace.
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Day by day think not that what happens to you is of importance
and grieve not over the actions which others extend to you, but rather
think unto yourself: "The wisdom of the spirit lies not in what others
do, but in how I react unto what others may do."
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Order your life so that your reaction is always one of
forgiveness, gentleness, peacefulness, lovingness. So will your spirit
become lightened and brightened, and at the end of the journey it will
be released, ready to rise into the realm of light where it may enjoy all
the happiness, harmony and beauty which I strive so inadequately to clothe
in the words of earth, that you may gain some faint understanding of the
beauty you may all see one day.
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Let go of regret and let go of self reproach. Say sometimes
in your prayer: "Yes, great Father of All, I have failed in this. I should
have done better. Help me next time to fulfil this with a greater understanding."
Do not weep over your failure and reproach yourself endlessly, for you
only build a barrier which holds you back from Light and comfort.
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All real spiritual development and unfoldment comes about
within the inner spiritual consciousness, which then stimulates the mortal
brain, so that each person may discover truth according to their own particular
needs.
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We in the spirit love you, but our labour of love is rendered
not by removing your responsibilities but by standing by and lending unto
you hope, strength and comfort, by shedding light upon you and interpenetrating
your world with radiations of peace. We know that through such spiritual
influence slowly you become stronger and able to stand in your own right
as beautiful spirits, and out of your own experience of suffering will
develop the desire and ability to comfort others.
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Man often says, "God has answered my prayer," but if he
had the open eye of vision he would see a loved one standing near watching
over the progress of this soul who says, "Here is a sincere desire which
we will try to bring to fruition that the spiritual progression may be
forwarded."
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To feed the hungry over an indefinite period of time is
to supply their need but to deprieve them of the desire and necessity to
work. Work and labour should be undertaken with love, for that is the expression
of the inward spiritual will through which the great laws of cause and
effect are continually balanced. Where there is no need to labour, then
lethargy and self-indulgence seize upon the mind, body and soul, and with
that comes destructiveness and sinfulness.
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It is true that you must pass through varying experiences
in the daily life but you do not need to suffer; your suffering is simply
your reaction to what occurs. God has not ordained suffering, but has ordained
change, change which must come in every human life. But there is no need
for you to suffer through these changes if you can accept them as experiences
by which to learn.
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In your secret moments of prayer say unto your Lord: Thanks
for this failure, for this inadequacy, for I realise that from this I gain
something by which I may help the progress of others upon the way.