entity is a part of the universal whole. All knowledge, all understanding that has been a part of the entity’s consciousness, then, is a part of the entity’s experience.
Thus the unfoldment in the present is merely becoming aware of that experience through which the entity—either in body or in mind—has passed in a consciousness.
Hence there are two phases, or two means of expression from which urges arise in the experience of the entity. There is the form of consciousness attained when absent from the body, whether in normal sleep or in that sleep called death (in the earth plane). Then there is the consciousness to the soul-entity.
For, the entity finds itself body-physical, body-mind, body-soul. The body-soul is a citizen of that realm we call heaven, as much as the body-physical is a citizen of the land we call home.
These are the forms or the premises, then, through which influences arise.
Reading 900-370
. . . all life is one life, and the transition, the separation, the division, is as that given, so that even to man’s sensuous consciousness the change takes place; yet each possession possessing the power, even as in the drop of water separated, or as water congealed or expanded has its own peculiar power through the various stages of transition. Each force as manifested in the various stages, or states, being as that illustration of the various stages a life may manifest in its varied forms, either before combined in hydrogen and oxygen becoming water. Then in .a normal state representing a certain element separated by contact—cold or heat—changing form, and yet in each possessing a power, a force, all individual in itself, and only accessible when in that peculiar state.
Reading 136-18
We see in the physical world the condition in every form of life. As is taken here: We find a grain of corn or wheat that germ that, set in motion through its natural process with Mother Earth and the elements about same, brings forth corn after its kind, see? the kind and the germ being of a spiritual nature, the husk or corn, and the nature or physical condition, being physical forces, see? Then, as the corn dies, the process is as the growth is seen in that as expressed to the entity., and the entity expressing same, see—that death, as commonly viewed, is not that of the passing away, or becoming a non-entity, but the phenomenized condition in a physical world that may be understood with such an illustration, viewed from the fourth-dimension viewpoint or standpoint, see?
Reading 989-2
The earth’s sojourns also make for such close associations with why the entity from one realm of experience to another experiences the entering of those realms from the application of the entity, as we have indicated, in each earthly realm.
Then, a death in the flesh is a birth into the realm of another experience, to those who have lived in such a manner as not to be bound by earthly ties. This does not mean that it does not have its own experience about the earth, but that it has lived such a fullness of life that it must be about its business.
Reading 5005-1
Do spiritualize thy purposes, thy ideals. For it is not all of life to live nor yet all of separation of the body to die. For to be absent from the body is to be present with thy God. What is thy God? Place, position in the earth? These are naught when things of the earth may not be used. For man enters the earth with a body prepared by others before him. He leaves the earth with the body-soul he has prepared for that realm of the interbetween, and can only depend, then, upon self according to that done with Creative Forces or God’s laws. For they are perfect and are unchangeable.
Reading 5729-1
Astrological urges have become less and less a portion of the entity, for not merely material things but the controlling of material things has become the deeper urge for this entity. Hence the appearances in the earth and those that have a particular influence in the present are indicated, that the entity may take warning. Know that it isn’t all of life to live. Neither is it all of life merely to make a success socially or financially. It is not satisfying to the soul, any more than the taking of thought will gratify the appetites or longings of nature in the body itself. These must have their answer one in and with another.
Reading 254-92
For do not consider for a moment (for this might be carried on to an indefinite end) that an individual soul-entity passing from an earth plane as a Catholic, a Methodist, an Episcopalian, is something else because he is dead! He’s only a dead Episcopalian, Catholic or Methodist. And such personalities and their attempts are the same; only that ideal! For all are under the law of God equal, and how did He say even as respecting the home? “They are neither married nor given in marriage in the heavenly home but are one!”
Reading 1391-1
Yet if we learn more and more that separations are only walking through the rooms as it were of God’s house, we become in these separations, in these experiences—aware of what is meant by that which has been and is the law, as from the beginning; “Know O ye peoples, the Lord thy God is one!”
And ye must be one—one with another, one with Him—if ye would be, as indeed ye are, corpuscles in the life flow of thy Redeemer!
Reading 497-1
For, life is of the Creator—and it may only be changed, it cannot be ended or destroyed. It can only return from whence it came. As to how soon it prepares its soul, that is of the influences that may be carried to the Maker, depends upon what that soul in its environs, in its experiences, does concerning that it knows about that He, the Father, would have it do.
There is not more required than can be fulfilled in the experience of any soul. It is true that others, and individuals, may make for influences that may make for changes in the activities, but if the ideal and the soul’s longing is set in Him—only self may separate that soul from its Maker.
Reading 2911-1
Then, keep the mental attitude in that way of knowing in what there is life, light and immortality. It is not all of death to die, nor all of life to live. When there is sought that peace with Him, this may be had. For His promises are sure.
Reading 335-2
What are the ideals? What are the purposes and aims? What are the desired positions of the body, when analyzed by self? Just the accumulation of power, money, the position that comes with the accumulation of moneys? Never—or never altogether, in the basic thought of the individual—has this been true! Rather has it been builded that the necessity of having that power, or that which creates that power, is the basis of the ideals of the inner man!
It is well that the body take this into consideration, then, at this time when changes are probable, when conditions are such in the present associations that the activities, much that the body would have set, or the position the body would occupy (that is, by desire), may bring discontent, fear, an unsatisfactory feeling from within; for it is not yet all of life just to live, neither all of death to die!
Reading 2034-1
. . . there are the needs for the entity to analyze self, self’s purpose,
