these forces—brought about those that made for all manners of the various forms that are used in the material world today. Many of them to a much higher development. As those that sought forms of minerals—and being able to be that the mineral was, hence much more capable—in the psychic or occult force, or power—to classify, or make same in its own classifications. Who classified them? They were from the beginning! They are themselves! They were those necessities as were in the beginning from an all wise Creator! for remember these came, as did that as was to be the keeper of same! The husbandman of the vineyard! Each entity, each individual—today, has its own vineyard to keep, to dress—For who? Its Maker, from whence it came! What is to be the report in thine own life with those abilities, those forces, as may be manifest in self—through its calling upon, through what? How does prayer reach the throne of mercy or grace, or that from which it emanates? From itself! Through that of crucifying, nullifying, the carnal mind and opening the mental in such a manner that the Spirit of truth may flow in its psychic sense, or occult force, into the very being, that you may be one with that from which you came! Be thou faithful unto that committed into thy keeping! Life itself is precious! For why? It is of the Maker itself! That is the beginning! The psychic forces, the attunements, the developments, going to that! As did many in that experience. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him. As was many of those in those first years, in this land, this experience.
Reading 262–56
(Q) (General question) Please explain the existence of darkness before the existence of light.
(A) This has just been explained, to those who will read that given! That man, or war, or sin, or separation in glory of those that were heedless. Then, that there might be the way for those—What has been given as the most meaning of all that written? He has not willed that any soul should perish, but from the beginning has prepared a way of escape! What, then, is the meaning of the separation?
Bringing into being the various phases that the soul may find in its manifested forms the consciousness and awareness of its separation, and itself, by that through which it passes in all the various spheres of its awareness. Hence the separation, and light and darkness. Darkness, that it had separated—that a soul had separated itself from the light. Hence He called into being Light, that the awareness began. Hence we look out and see the heavens, the stars; and, as the psalmist has said: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork, as day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”
(Q) Comment upon the following. Is it worthy of expansion; that is, does it carry any light of truth? The Creator, in seeking to find or create a being worthy of companionship, realized that such a being would result only from a free will exercising its divine inheritance and through its own efforts find its Maker. Thus, to make the choice really a Divine one caused the existence of states of consciousness, that would indeed tax the free will of a soul; thus light and darkness. Truly, only those tried so as by fire can enter in.
(A) The only variation that we would make is that all souls in the beginning were one with the Father. The separation, or turning away, brought evil. Then there became the necessity of the awareness of self’s being out of accord with, or out of the realm of blessedness; and, as given of the Son, “yet learned he obedience through the things which he suffered.”
Reading 281–42
As an illustration (this merely illustrating, now): It is hard for an individual, no matter how learned he may be, to conceive of the activities that exist only three miles above the earth. Why? Because there are no faculties within the individual entity in the present capable of conceiving that which is not represented within his individual self.
Yea—but the individual of that period was not so closely knit in matter. Thus the activities of the realms of relativity of force, relativity of attraction in the universe, were an experience of the souls manifesting in the earth at that period, see?
Thus we find that the experiences of individuals of the period, seeking for the understanding as to the evolution of the souls of men, might be compared to the minds of individuals in the present who are seeking an understanding as to man’s use of physical or atomical structure in his own relationships.
Then, the individual of that experience or period was not necessarily one other than a soul or entity seeking the knowledge as to the relationship of that which would sustain and gain for man the abilities not only to continue the physical evolution but the spiritual or soul evolution as well.
Reading 518–1
Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land during those periods when there were the separations of the peoples from the high and the low estates of the varied developments that were in that period of man’s experience in the earth, when there were the sons of the High; or, as given in holy writ, “The Sons of God looked upon the daughters of men.”
The entity was among the sons of God, yet looking upon the daughters of men and making of self in those associations those periods when faith was broken with others, and when there was the belittling of the tenets and the truths in the powers that had been given among those peoples for the manifesting of that which would cleanse their souls that they might be one with the Creative Forces in this material world and in the spiritual forces also.
Reading 294–189
For when the purposes of an entity or soul are the more and more in accord with that for which the entity has entered, then the soul-entity may take hold upon that which may bring to its remembrance that it was, where, when and how. Thinkest thou that the grain of corn has forgotten what manner of expression it has given?
Think thou that any of the influences in nature that you see about you—the acorn, the oak, the elm, or the vine, or anything—has forgotten what manner of expression? Only man forgets! And it is only in His mercy that such was brought about. For what was the first cause? Knowledge—knowledge! What then is that cut off in the beginnings of the Sons of God? Becoming entangled with the daughters of men, and the Daughters of God becoming entangled with the sons of men! As in Adam they forgot what manner of men they were! Only when he lives, he manifests that life that is the expression of the divine, may man begin to know who, where, what and when he was! That there may be read from the records of God’s Book of Remembrance, as from here, in the keepers of the records, is true—if thy purpose, thy desire, in heart, in soul, is for the love of God as may be manifested among the sons of men; but these may read only by those in the shadows of His love.
Reading 262–119
(Q) Explain the “Sons of God—Daughters of Men—Sons of Man.”
(A) This, too, has been given again and again. As has been indicated through other associations, the influences of those souls that sought material expression pushed themselves into thought forms in the earth. And owing to the earth’s relative position with the activities in this particular sphere of activity in the universe, it was chosen as the place for expression. Think—universe, eternity, time, space! What do these mean to the finite mind? More often than otherwise they are just names. More often we think of spirit as just a name, rather than experiencing it. Yet we use it, we manifest it, we are a part of it. Taking thought doesn’t change anything! It is the application of the thought taken that makes the change within ourselves! Then, as those expressed they were called the Sons of the Earth or Sons of Man.
When the Creative Forces, God, made then the first man—or God-man—he was the beginning of the Sons of God.
