not the first spiritual influence, spiritual body, spiritual manifestation in the earth, but the first man—flesh and blood; the first carnal house, the first amenable body to the laws of the plane in its position in the universe.
For, the earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds!
And man’s development began through the laws of the generations in the earth; thus the development, retardment, or the alterations in those positions in a material plane.
And with error entered that as called death, which is only a transition—or through God’s other door—into that realm where the entity has builded, in its manifestations as related to the knowledge and activity respecting the law of the universal influence.
Hence the development is through the planes of experience that an entity may become one with the first cause; even as the angels that wait before the Throne bring the access of the influence in the experience through the desires and activities of an entity, or being, in whatever state, place or plane of development the entity is passing.
For, in the comprehension of no time, no space, no beginning, no end, there may be the glimpse of what simple transition or birth into the material is; as passing through the other door into another consciousness.
Death in the material plane is passing through the outer door into a consciousness in the material activities that partakes of what the entity, or soul, has done with its spiritual truth in its manifestations in the other sphere.
Hence, as there came the development of that first entity of flesh and blood through the earth plane, he became indeed the Son—through the things which He experienced in the varied planes, as the development came to the oneness with the position in that which man terms the Triune.
Q: Describe some of the planes into which entities pass on experiencing the change called death.
A: Passing from the material consciousness to a spiritual or cosmic, or outer consciousness, oft does an entity or being not become conscious of that about it; much in the same manner as an entity born into the material plane only becomes conscious gradually of that designated as time and space for the material or third dimensional plane. In the passage the entity becomes conscious, or the recognition of being in a fourth or higher dimensional plane takes place, much in the same way as the consciousness is gained in the material.
For, as we have given, that we see manifested in the material plane is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He—who entered into materiality.
Reading 262-52
Q: Explain how so called good and evil forces are one.
A: This has just been explained. When there is delegated power to a body that has separated itself from the spirit (or coming from the unseen into the seen, or from the unconscious into the physical consciousness, or from God’s other door—or opening from the infinite to the finite), then the activity is life; with the will of the source of that which has come into being. As to what it does with or about its associations of itself to the source of its activity, as to how far it may go afield, depends upon how high it has attained in its ability to throw off both negative and positive forces.
Hence we say, “The higher he flies the harder the fall.” It’s true!
Then, that which has been separated into the influence to become a body, whether celestial, terrestrial, or plain clay manifested into activity as man, becomes good or bad. The results to the body so acting are dependent and independent [interdependent?] (inter-between, see) upon what he does with the knowledge of—or that source of—activity.
Reading 390-2
Q: Would it be better if I gave up all thoughts of marriage and children?
A: The opportunity will come; for, to build the home—those that make for the cherishing and directing of the lives of those that may be lent to a union of love in the body—is to be a handmaid to the Creator.
For, the home becomes—to such that conduct their lives in that direction—as an outer door to the heavenly home.
For, as man and woman pass through God’s other door from experience to experience, those that have been directed by thine hand will make for the blessings of the efforts put forth in the home.
Reading 1246-2
Q: Must I go on living?
A: Life is eternal. It is in Him, and merely to change through God’s other door has only changed the outlook. But as we prepare the self for the vistas of the various consciousness upon the stages of development, we become a part of that—if our pathway is being led aright.
Q: What should my next step be in order to be of service to one and meet my financial obligations?
A: These become rather conflicting in their import, but know—O child of light—the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, “The silver and the gold are mine, saith the Lord.” He knoweth what thou hast need of. Be willing to put thy service to thy fellow man, thy service in a commercial world, into His hand. For God alone giveth the true increase. Fear not, if ye are in the Lord’s hands! Fear rather if ye have slipped from same.
Reading 262-57
Q: Does the truth, “By becoming aware in a material world was the only manner through which spiritual forces might become aware of their separation from spiritual surroundings” show that the reincarnation of those who die in childhood is necessary?
A: As the awareness comes by separation (which is being manifested in materiality as we know it in the present), there is the necessity of the sojourning in each experience for the developments of the influences necessary in each soul’s environ, each soul’s attributes, to become again aware of being in the presence of the Father. Hence the reincarnation into this or that influence, and those that are only aware of material or carnal influences for a moment may be as greatly impressed as were a finite mind for a moment in the presence of Infinity. How long was the experience of Saul in the way to Damascus? How long was the experience of Stephen as he saw the Master standing—not sitting, standing? How long was the experience of those that saw the vision that beckoned to them, or any such experience?
When one considers the birth of a soul into the earth, the more often is the body and the body-mind considered than the soul—that is full-grown in a breath. For, did the Father (or Infinity) bring the earth, the worlds into existence, how much greater is a day in the house of the Lord—or a moment in His presence—than a thousand years in carnal forces?
Hence a soul even for a flash, or for a breath, has perhaps experienced even as much as Saul in the way.
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