The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== +====== The Inner Life ====== 
-“For some time now, I have been able to get back into the con- +== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1935 == 
-sciousness of my dreams and realize their significance. It has +----
-helped me a great deal, and has spared your being burdened with +
-my relating them.+
  
-“One of the things that comes to me time after time in my 
-dreams and that I interpret as being perhaps my ‘forte’ or mis- 
-sion, is in these dreams my constantly ‘bringing order out of con- 
-fusion.’ I feel that I am working, helping in the inner realms, in 
-this way. Sometimes, it is a disorderly room where I am picking 
-up newspapers, putting chairs to rights, adjusting shades and 
-pictures. Again, it is in a big, bare hospital ward where I am 
-plumping pillows, straightening coverlets, smoothing tousled hair; 
-then, it is a desk littered with everything imaginable, and I am 
-discarding the useless, and filing or sorting the worthwhile things; 
-or a magnificent room is full of packing cases and rolled up rugs, 
-and the people are running around aimlessly, accomplishing noth- 
-ing. I always take charge and order begins to manifest itself. 
-These are all symbolic, I know, of conditions I am helping to 
-straighten out in people’s lives. If God grants me the privilege of 
-doing that kind of work for Him, I shall certainly be happy. 
  
-“Recently I have found so many ways in which I can help, +<WRAP justify> 
-outwardly as well as inwardly, that while I have not written you +“For some time now, I have been able to get back into the consciousness of my dreams and realize their significance. It has helped me a great deal, and has spared your being burdened with my relating them.
-until now of being a volunteer, yet I have been accepted as one. +
-And another thing I have been doing recently, is following my +
-first impulse. If the thought comes to me to do a certain thing, +
-I do it even though later my ‘common sense’ tries to talk me out +
-of it as being impracticable or unsuitable at this time, etc. I +
-don’t know what the results have been, or may be, but I know +
-my heart is lighter and joy fills my days more when I follow that +
-impulse, than when I wanted to do something and then thought +
-it best not to.+
  
-“May I prove to be worthy as a volunteer in the great Inner +“One of the things that comes to me time after time in my dreams and that I interpret as being perhaps my ‘forte’ or mission, is in these dreams my constantly ‘bringing order out of confusion.’ I feel that I am working, helping in the inner realms, in this way. Sometimes, it is a disorderly room where I am picking up newspapers, putting chairs to rights, adjusting shades and pictures. Again, it is in a big, bare hospital ward where I am plumping pillows, straightening coverlets, smoothing tousled hair; then, it is a desk littered with everything imaginable, and I am discarding the useless, and filing or sorting the worthwhile things; or a magnificent room is full of packing cases and rolled up rugs, and the people are running around aimlessly, accomplishing nothing. I always take charge and order begins to manifest itself. These are all symbolic, I know, of conditions I am helping to straighten out in people’s lives. If God grants me the privilege of doing that kind of work for Him, I shall certainly be happy.
-Work!”+
  
-○+“Recently I have found so many ways in which I can help, outwardly as well as inwardly, that while I have not written you until now of being a volunteer, yet I have been accepted as one. And another thing I have been doing recently, is following my first impulse. If the thought comes to me to do a certain thing, I do it even though later my ‘common sense’ tries to talk me out of it as being impracticable or unsuitable at this time, etc. I don’t know what the results have been, or may be, but I know my heart is lighter and joy fills my days more when I follow that impulse, than when I wanted to do something and then thought it best not to.
  
-A SPIRITUAL DIARY+“May I prove to be worthy as a volunteer in the great Inner Work!” 
 + 
 +<WRAP centeralign> 
 +———○——— 
 +==== A SPIRITUAL DIARY ==== 
 +</WRAP> 
 + 
 +MONDAY, August 14th, 1933. 3 A. M.  
 + 
 +Attained realization of the power of Spirit. My body seemed to expand and expand, until every cell was filled to overflowing. 
 +</WRAP>
  
-MONDAY, August 14th, 1933. 3 A. M. 
-Attained realization of the power of Spirit. My body 
-seemed to expand and expand, until every cell was filled to over- 
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-The Impersonal Work Feb35 6 
  
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