THE MESSAGE of the IMPERSONAL TEACHINGS is that same essence of Truth to be found at the heart of all religions, namely that GOD is ALL and is in ALL: and that the human Soul only reaches its full stature in Union with, and as an expression of this indwelling Principle of Life. Each school of attainment has one method or another of discipline necessary to train and subordinate the vehicle of the outer personality. Step by step these schools lead their Disciples, first, through much detailed discipline to their recognition, and the experiencing of Spiritual laws, and finally, to actual conscious, Union with the Divine.

Mysticism, in its pure state throughout the ages, has given this joy of Union and insight to its devotees. Whether they belong to the Buddhist faith, whether they were Taoists, Sufis, or Catholics, the record of their exaltation and their consequent illumination is alike a revelation of the Homeland of the Soul.

Jacob Boehme, that God-taught philosopher of the 16th Century, says, that ten minutes of exalted Soul Consciousness revealed to him more truth regarding the nature and composition of the Universe, than he could have learned in years of University study. Large numbers of people have touched this consciousness in dreams; at times of great stress when barriers have fallen; or in moments of meditation. But they have not known, nor have they perhaps even attempted to retain or regain this liberation.

The particular gift of the IMPERSONAL TEACHINGS lies in the simple but essential way in which, when followed faithfully, consciousness is raised to a state of illumination. When adhered to, practiced and persisted in against all odds, the truths in the IMPERSONAL LIFE will sooner or later erase the confines of the three-dimensional mentality, and the waking consciousness will expand to Soul consciousness. Numbers of students of the IMPERSONAL TEACHINGS, unschooled in, and perhaps even unconscious of these older methods, testify to their ability to reach Soul consciousness at will, due to what the IMPERSONAL TEACHINGS have done for them.

The writer of the IMPERSONAL LIFE spent much time in study, meditation and research before his consciousness received the truths written down in that book. By the written and the spoken word, he has shown his indebtedness to many other “God-taught” Souls. But his essential gift to this day is the simplicity to which he reduced the main truths elsewhere more elaborately taught, so bringing the eternal fact of UNION nearer to the struggling heart of humanity.

Several years after the publishing of the IMPERSONAL LIFE, the necessity for a simple and safe technique for the attainment of the Christ Consciousness became evident as hundreds of readers of the IMPERSONAL LIFE appealed for instruction. In response to this demand the IMPERSONAL PAPERS were written in which definite instructions were given as to how to find and enter the Kingdom Consciousness. These Papers are quite unique and hundreds testify to the Spiritual blessings that have followed their study. As time passed, the further need for a simple manual for self-discipline became apparent and the WAY OUT and WAY BEYOND text books were drawn up giving a simple, practical method of controlling the emotions, and training the mind, thus disciplining the whole outer personal man so that he might in time entertain in full awareness the Angel of his own Higher Self.

The very simplicity of the teachings developed in the WAY OUT and WAY BEYOND text books often hide from the inquirer the great value of their practical nature, as a very necessary preparation to the complete obedience and efficient cooperation of the outer faculties in carrying out the purpose and destiny of the Soul.

These books were first published in 1930. Later the value of a Correspondence Course based on their teachings, and on those of the Impersonal Papers, analyzing them in detail and bringing out their practical application, appealed to the author. Pressure of work delayed the fruition of this idea, but in 1936, with efficient cooperation from students of the Impersonal Teachings, the Correspondence School was initiated. This now comprises a first Course on the WAY OUT and the WAY BEYOND, and a second on the IMPERSONAL PAPERS.

Thus from the publication of the IMPERSONAL LIFE written as a Message from the Spirit within, there has developed a series of teachings covering the main essentials of mind training, the development of Soul faculties and the attainment of the Christ or Spiritual Consciousness.