The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1936
feats—or attain mastery. I COULD perform miracles, etc. There is something vastly greater and deeper, in my soul. I can contact, and do contact, the GREAT LIGHT. Then, dear friends, why seek the Lesser Lights.
Have I made myself plain? In the words of the street—I’ve seen the WHOLE SHOW—but I never found the true, secret, teachings of the Master, until I contacted The Impersonal Life. It is All I need, and all I NOW desire—in this earth’s experience.
Quest. 2. I guess I answered this quite carefully in Quest. 1.
Quest. 3. The same as 12. Answered in that.
Quest. 4. Have possessed the natural gift of psychometry since a child. I use it in my writing, my newspaper work; and most of all when the Father is working through me to heal or help another soul.
Webster calls it Psychometry, I believe; the Occultists—Reading in the Astral Light; the Mystic—Soul reading. Personally I believe it is that natural talent that is developed by all who LIVE The Impersonal Life.
Deep in my soul I have KNOWN, and used, the Impersonal Life Teachings, ever since a child, but I could not find the words to express my belief. I thought I was queer, and I was always regarded as a strange child. I never could subscribe to the true orthodox interpretation—yet I was a devout Christian for many years. But when my daughter died, in 1924, I was awakened, and then it was I set out to find the true Light, and I made a vow I would seek and follow it even if it took me to the gates of “hell” (?). And no one but the Father knows of the hours of reading, study, prayer, meditation and contemplation that have been mine—and they are the only hours of my life that I have cared for.
I could write reams of EXPERIENCES. I shall give only one: I held in my hand a letter written by a man in the Samoan Islands (and I was in Helena, Montana). The letter was written to a very dear friend of mine, and he had never seen this Samoan Island friend—an English official there (so it was not mind-reading). I held the letter unopened in my hand and dictated a letter describing him. I have in my possession his reply (to me) confirming practically all I had written. (These letters are filed
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