By that I mean that I am fully aware of these worldly conditions, but I seem to view them from a height. At times I have the sensation of floating above them, or in other words, I seem to be just an onlooker and not a part of it at all.

Sometime ago I was sitting alone on the porch in the moonlight. I got to thinking about the awful conditions that seemed to be becoming so increasingly prevalent, and was filled with sadness and sympathy for humanity in general. I was wondering why it must be, when I heard a voice say,

“My child, let not your heart be troubled, nor your head bowed down. These things do not concern you. They are not real. They are only as dreams and visions that come when you separate yourself from Me. Have done with dreaming.

“Have I not given you a glimpse of the real world, where suffering exists not? Have I not brought you to the mountaintop of understanding and given you a vision of reality? Know you not then that these conditions are but man’s beliefs outmanifesting—the thought pictures he is carrying around in his consciousness, thinking they are real?”

Here the voice ceased speaking, and I seemed to be standing on a high mountain, looking down upon the world. Beside me, holding tightly my hand, was our dear Master, Christ Jesus.

We stood watching the seething mass of people rushing too and fro, each bent upon gaining his or her selfish ends. As I sensed their thoughts of hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, etc., I shuddered. Here and there among the groups of people were patches of bare space in which there appeared a glowing mist. No people were visible there.

I asked Jesus what caused this glow and why were there no people in it, and He said they were there but were submerged in the light of Love, so that they were unaffected by the hard dark conditions surrounding them, which could not reach them.

The above message and its accompanying vision brought a great truth to me which explained much.

The world generally sees and is sunk in the terrible conditions that are manifesting today. Now if these conditions are man’s thoughts outmanifested, when viewed in the light of Truth, as