The Impersonal Life

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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== +====== The Inner Life ====== 
-that ever directed my efforts. If I failed to see It—if I saw It but +== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1935 == 
-to deny It—that, too, was cast up against me.+----
  
-As each trial on earth ended, if the total to my credit was 
-greater, this Ray became larger and brighter. So it goes on, a 
-seemingly endless chain. 
  
-Of my Real Life I remember more and more, as the dream life +<WRAP centeralign> 
-on earth grows dimmer and dimmerSo often have I contemplated +==== A SOUL’S SOLILOQUY ==== 
-those who have wished to recall their past dream lives on earth, +By M. B. W
-and so often have I wished to admonish them about so doing; +</WRAP>
-for, brother, where your thoughts are, there are your desires also, +
-and who of you dare wish to be chained to a life on earth—to +
-the ashes of the past? Has it not been said, “ashes to ashes and +
-dust to dust?” Why then be concerned about the ashes, when +
-the Real alone has value.+
  
-Butthe Real Life! How beautifully it stands out, with one’s +<WRAP justify> 
-Ray of Light ever growing larger and brighteruntil finally the +YOU WHO see me with world dimmed eyessee but a reflection of yourselfbut if you truly seek to know me, you may see me in memory as a Soul.
-Light is all that the Soul is!+
  
-Well do remember when I passed my Real Life in a place of +Many migrations have I made between the earth and heavenbut Love has most mercifully blotted out all the experiences of earth, with the exception of faint dreams.
-beauty and light that even now it dazzles my eyes to remember. +
-These and memories like them are being made more lasting and +
-realso that they are recalled even during earth experiences. More +
-and more of the Real Life is being revealed to ascending Souls; +
-some of whom it is decreed are to come but once more.+
  
-Many call earth life the school of experienceand it is so; but +It is true that many ages ago, having left the brighter sphere, I descended of my own will to help lift the darkness hanging over earthonly to be engulfed in it. After that I was compelled to return again to earth—for a task once begun must be finished. 
-the examinations are all held in the Real Life and the Soul is + 
-taught what to reject and what to accept. One is then sent back +I came also with the one remembered as Jesus. He, too, was engulfed in the blackness of doubt, despair, slavery; but with it all remained unstained and untarnished—the only one who thus remained of the many who descended. His Light shorn in the darkness of hell and it unchained the Souls from the darkness there. 
-to transmute what he, in the light of Infinite Love and Wisdom, + 
-rejected as unworthyHe descends with only the realization of +All of these memories of my life on earth are unreal and indistinct—only remembered as dreams in the Real World to which I ascended after each incarnation; to be summed up—some acceptedsome rejected, but the sum total to be set down in the Ledger of Memory as Knowledge and Understandingsometimes on the credit side, and alas, sometimes on the debit sideFor it is in the Real Life of the Spirit where all is remembered and where the lessons are really learned and built into the Soul. 
-certain lessons to be learned. If he fails, he is not only held + 
-responsible for his own failurebut for the failures of his +In my first ascent (not very high)I knew it would be my duty to be reborn, in order to make use of what I had learned, by helping those of my brothers who were in the same state as myself—to do penance as it wereThis first dream life on earth was but a dim memory, yet I know that in my eagerness to ascend, in this retiring from earth contact, selfishness was born in me
-brothers on the same plane of consciousness whom he had misled + 
-by his example and preceptFor we are indeed our brother’s +Truethe Real Life I entered was higher and my intelligence had grown. I have not explained that in each Real Life something to my credit was added, and in my descent I brought but the failures and weaknesses, but with them a brighter Ray of Light 
-keepersthough of this we may be yet unawareIt does not save +</WRAP>
-ushowever; for sins of ignorance are as great as those deliberately +
-committed.+
  
-In the Real Life we know all this, and as it becomes more 
-deeply engraved upon us as Souls, we (as our credit balance in- 
-creases and our Rays become more intense) are enabled to know 
-and do consciously what we returned to earth to do. 
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-A Souls Soliloquy 
  
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