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| - | ====== The Inner Life 1937 ====== | + | ====== The Inner Life ====== |
| - | == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE == | + | == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JUNE 1937 == |
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| - | THE EASTER CEREMONIES | + | <WRAP centeralign> |
| + | ==== THE EASTER CEREMONIES | ||
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| MANY have learned from the Impersonal Lessons, from what was stated in the April Editorial, or from personal experience, that in the higher soul realm of Spirit at each Easter time many souls—all true followers of Christ—are called to attend and take part in a wonderful ceremony in which each goes through a Spiritual cleansing, receives Christ’s blessing, and is lifted to a higher stage of consciousness and ability to work in His Service. | MANY have learned from the Impersonal Lessons, from what was stated in the April Editorial, or from personal experience, that in the higher soul realm of Spirit at each Easter time many souls—all true followers of Christ—are called to attend and take part in a wonderful ceremony in which each goes through a Spiritual cleansing, receives Christ’s blessing, and is lifted to a higher stage of consciousness and ability to work in His Service. | ||
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| “I shall descend into the uttermost parts of earth,” weren’t those His words? And He permitted me to be in it just long enough to know of its blackness. And when I returned the last vestige of self-righteousness had been eternally destroyed. I shall never forget it, never. Nor shall I ever stop sorrowing for those in the darkness, until the last one is redeemed. It was almost too terrible a vision. | “I shall descend into the uttermost parts of earth,” weren’t those His words? And He permitted me to be in it just long enough to know of its blackness. And when I returned the last vestige of self-righteousness had been eternally destroyed. I shall never forget it, never. Nor shall I ever stop sorrowing for those in the darkness, until the last one is redeemed. It was almost too terrible a vision. | ||
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| (2) I MUST tell you that a great change came over me on the Monday following Easter Sunday. It was as though a great load had suddenly been lifted from my shoulders. Before I have been working in more or less of a confused, over-anxious state; but now the way seems so clear, so simple. And I am more relaxed. While financial conditions seemingly are getting tighter, and I must bear more of the worldly burden, yet inside me a great peace and confidence rules. I will have less time for actual study in the future, but I am finding that I am now able to apply the things I have learned during the past two years of study. And many enlightening experiences are happening, small but quite significant to me. | (2) I MUST tell you that a great change came over me on the Monday following Easter Sunday. It was as though a great load had suddenly been lifted from my shoulders. Before I have been working in more or less of a confused, over-anxious state; but now the way seems so clear, so simple. And I am more relaxed. While financial conditions seemingly are getting tighter, and I must bear more of the worldly burden, yet inside me a great peace and confidence rules. I will have less time for actual study in the future, but I am finding that I am now able to apply the things I have learned during the past two years of study. And many enlightening experiences are happening, small but quite significant to me. | ||
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| (3) I AM enclosing the marvelous Easter Message I was privileged to hear from the lips of our beloved Lord and Master on Easter morning. It is so beautiful that I want you to have it with its original vibrations of Perfect Love. | (3) I AM enclosing the marvelous Easter Message I was privileged to hear from the lips of our beloved Lord and Master on Easter morning. It is so beautiful that I want you to have it with its original vibrations of Perfect Love. | ||
| After His speech there was music and then I with others was taken on to the platform and touched with the Rod of Initiation on the forehead, solar plexus, small of back, and back of neck. I had been told to prepare for my fourth initiation, and now have this sign on my forehead (on the spiritual body, of course—a cross with four dots above it). | After His speech there was music and then I with others was taken on to the platform and touched with the Rod of Initiation on the forehead, solar plexus, small of back, and back of neck. I had been told to prepare for my fourth initiation, and now have this sign on my forehead (on the spiritual body, of course—a cross with four dots above it). | ||
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| BELOVED disciples, I greet and bless you, ye who have served Me, and ye who have but lately found Me and are waiting upon Me. All I welcome and hold in My Love. | BELOVED disciples, I greet and bless you, ye who have served Me, and ye who have but lately found Me and are waiting upon Me. All I welcome and hold in My Love. | ||
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| My Peace I leave with you. | My Peace I leave with you. | ||
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| - | ———○——— | + | <WRAP centeralign> |
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| - | TRUTH | + | |
| + | ==== TRUTH ==== | ||
| BLUE vaulted sky, above, around, beneath, | BLUE vaulted sky, above, around, beneath, | ||
| - | How like Truth thou art!—Intangible, | + | \\ How like Truth thou art!—Intangible, |
| - | Yet no less real because we cannot cull | + | \\ Yet no less real because we cannot cull |
| - | Thy loveliness and with our fingers wreath | + | \\ Thy loveliness and with our fingers wreath |
| - | A garland for ourselves—a sapphire sheath, | + | \\ A garland for ourselves—a sapphire sheath, |
| - | Or mould of thee as fancy wills today | + | \\ Or mould of thee as fancy wills today |
| - | An earthly crown to wear—a gift of clay. | + | \\ An earthly crown to wear—a gift of clay. |
| In petty pride we may anon bequeath. | In petty pride we may anon bequeath. | ||
| - | Like Truth, O sky, thou seemest so abstruse. | + | \\ Like Truth, O sky, thou seemest so abstruse. |
| - | We cannot touch or grasp thee—even seeing | + | \\ We cannot touch or grasp thee—even seeing |
| - | We needs must learn, as pensively we muse | + | \\ We needs must learn, as pensively we muse |
| - | In Consciousness we live and have our being. | + | \\ In Consciousness we live and have our being. |
| - | Blue sky and Truth, are these God’s Presence Real— | + | \\ Blue sky and Truth, are these God’s Presence Real— |
| - | So tangible, we hold with Love’s Great Seal. | + | \\ So tangible, we hold with Love’s Great Seal. |
| + | \\ —S. B. | ||
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