of activity.
Hence they bear witness of certain urges in us, not beyond our will but controlled by our will!
For as was given of old, there is each day set before us life and death, good and evil. We choose because of our natures. If our will were broken, if we were commanded to do this or that, or to become as an automaton, our individuality then would be lost and we would only be as in Him without conscience—conscience—(consciousness) of being one with Him; with the abilities to choose for self!
For we can, as God, say Yea to this, Nay to that; we can order this or the other in our experience, by the very gifts that have been given or appointed unto our keeping. For we are indeed as laborers, co-laborers in the vineyard of the Lord—or of they that are fearful of His coming.
And we choose each day whom we will serve! And by the records in time and space, as we have moved through the realms of His kingdom, we have left our mark upon same.
Then they influence us, either directly or indirectly, in the manner as we have declared ourselves in favor of this or that influence in our material experience. And by the casting of our lot in this or that direction, we bring into our experience the influence in that manner.
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God’s Other Door
Reading 1472-2
Q: Does death instantly end all feeling in the physical body? If not, how long can it feel?
A: This would be such a problem; dependent upon the character of which unconsciousness is produced to the physical reaction—or the manner in which the consciousness has been trained.
Death—as commonly spoken of—is only passing through God’s other door. That there is continued consciousness is evidenced, ever, by the associations of influences, the abilities of entities to project or to make those impressions upon the consciousness of sensitives or the like.
As to how long—many an individual has remained in that called death for what ye call years without realizing it was dead!
The feelings, the desires for what ye call appetites are changed, or not aware at all. The ability to communicate is that which usually disturbs or worries others.
Then, as to say how long—that depends upon the entity.
For as has been given, the psychic forces of an entity are constantly active—whether the soul-entity is aware of same or not. Hence as has been the experience of many, these become as individual as individualities or personalities are themselves.
Q: If cremated, would the body feel it?
A: What body?
The physical body is not the consciousness. The consciousness of the physical body is a separate thing. There is the mental body, the physical body, the spiritual body.
As has so oft been given, what is the builder? mind! Can you burn or cremate a mind? Can you destroy the physical body? Yes, easily.
To be absent (what is absent?) from the body is to be present with the Lord, or the universal consciousness, or the ideal. Absent from what? What absent? Physical consciousness, yes.
As to how long it requires to lose physical consciousness depends upon how great are the appetites and desires of a physical body!
Reading 2174-2
In Him, the Christ, as manifested in Jesus, ye find this—the first, the greatest commandment—“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God (that as manifested in self as life itself), and thy neighbor as thyself.”
That which brings these both in awareness is that so well and yet so badly named love. God is love. An individual entity, each soul, each entity, each body, finds the need of expressing that called love in the material experience; from its first awareness until its last call through God’s other door—the need of love, expressed, manifested, by self and from others.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap—this again becomes the foundation of what self, as well as others, may expect. If ye would have friends, show thyself friendly; if ye would have love, love ye one another. These are unchangeable. They do not alter. Man alters them only in the application—as to whether it is to satisfy the ego or the animal, or the flesh, or the mind.
These expressions, then, to self, as is experienced in motherhood, give the greatest glory manifested in the earth.
Reading 2927-1
Q: What journeys should I take for pleasure, which would be most interesting to me in this life?
A: These should be chosen from the promptings of that as would be contributory to meeting some of the hobbies of the entity, and in its relationship to the general contribution of knowledge to the universal activity.
Let that mind be in thee which was in Him, who gave, “I and the Father, God, are one.” So become ye in thine own mind, as ye contribute, as ye attune thy inner self to those greater ideals; for it is not all of life just to live, nor yet all of death to die. For, they that put their whole trust in Him have passed from death unto life. And to such there is no death, only the entrance through God’s other door.
Reading 3954-1
Yea, pray oft for those who have passed on. This is part of thy consciousness. It is well. For, God is God of the living. Those who have passed through God’s other door are oft listening, listening for the voice of those they have loved in the earth. The nearest and dearest thing they have been conscious of in earthly consciousness. And the prayers of others that are still in the earth may ascend to the throne of God, and the angel of each entity stands before the throne to make intercession. Not as a physical throne, no; but that consciousness in which we may be so attuned that we become one with the whole in lending power and strength to each entity for whom ye speak and pray.
For, where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is in the midst of them. What meaneth this? If one be absent from the body, He is present with His Lord. What Lord? If you have been the ideal, that one to whom another would pay homage, you are then something of the channel, of the ideal. Then thy prayers direct such an one closer to that throne of love and mercy, that pool of light, yea that river of God.
Reading 5749-3
Q: Discuss the various phases of spiritual development before and after reincarnation in the earth.
A: This may be illustrated best in that which has been sought through example in the earth.
When there was in the beginning a man’s advent into the plane known as earth, and it became a living soul, amenable to the laws that govern the plane itself as presented, the Son of man entered earth as the first man. Hence the Son of man, the Son of God, the Son of the first Cause, making manifest in a material body.
