The Inner Life

sorrow or contempt in the eyes of your child, after some outburst of temper on your part when self was wholly in evidence? Then can you not see that such children are undoubtedly here to teach and discipline you, and not just for you to guide and train them?

This being so, the only way is so to gain their respect and confidence that you will be to them their dearest chum, to whom they will always turn and confide everything. And if you truly love them and seek more than anything else to aid them express their highest and best self, you will be continually surprised, not to speak of compensated, by the wonderful understanding and deep knowledge they have of things beyond your human ken.

THE WAY you can tell unusual children are of a high order of intelligence is by their quickness of understanding and by those subjects that engage their minds’ interest and attention; also by their precocity along one or more particular lines of endeavor. You must remember that to be an old and wise soul, one must have great knowledge and ability gained through vast experience in many lives, in many countries, under many varied conditions. Such souls coming in such large numbers as at this time must be for a special purpose, and undoubtedly as a part of some great plan concerning humanity as a whole.

It is therefore easy to believe that such souls coming as your children may have something to do with the New Order rapidly being ushered in; and therefore it becomes your duty, if wishing to contribute as much as possible to that Order, to help unfold and equip your son’s or daughter’s mortal instrument as perfectly as may be for the part to be played by it.

Hence your part is to work with them, trusting to their souls to know what they want to do, instead of opposing them and trying to bend them your way; of course always allowing for the natural propensities of their childish animal natures which have to be ruled and wisely directed, and their minds taught as early as possible how to control such natures.

Many of such children are clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient and have an awareness of an inner world of being where they live almost as much as in the physical, especially if they are much alone. Such children, to their parents who do not understand, are indeed peculiar, but with great possibilities, if