The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1936
I was deeply moved and sat staring at the child, while Helen apparently didn’t take in the significance of the action at all.
But in a few seconds, Helen sat up and threw off the covers and said, “Why, I feel fine! What do you suppose happened?” Then noting that I was lost in thought as I looked at Beverly happily engaged with her playthings, she said, “Did you give me a treatment? Something happened, for like a flash all pain left me.”
I said, “Don’t you realize that your daughter healed you, or rather her understanding of Love and Truth healed you?” Helen couldn’t believe it, and I took occasion to tell her it was part of what I meant by saying that Beverly was an old soul.
I think it was about this time I went in one day and Beverly handed me a copy of Parent magazine. There was a strange smile on her face, and she looked at the magazine and then at her mother and back at me as though she would say, “As if she needed that for me!”
I neglected earlier to say that from infancy there was so much expression in her eyes and face that one could almost tell what she was thinking, and I often made guesses when she seemed to be trying to make us understand something by look or gesture; and as soon as I spoke she would nod and smile as though at last there was somebody who knew her language.
Her parents tried in various ways to teach her how to kiss, but she would have none of it. Her idea of “loving” was to bow her head very low, then raise it till she touched your forehead, and then she would rub heads and noses; and she was very particular about whom she loved in this manner.
When she was about ten months old she came into my apartment one day with her mother, and I sat her up on my table in front of me, something she enjoyed very much. I was explaining to her mother my idea of the New Age upon which we are entering, and about the Great Pyramid Prophecy. Beverly stopped playing with her toys and watched us very intently. Helen said it was all new to her and I mentioned several books which dealt with the subject, and ended by saying that the Bible also contained many similar prophecies.
“It does?” questioned Helen in astonishment, and at that Beverly began an excited chatter and reached for my Bible, which was
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