The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1937
THE SCHOOL FOR DISCIPLES
WE HAVE said nothing recently about the contemplated School for Disciples, as we were waiting for conditions to develop that would make the School necessary.
Since the idea of the School was first mentioned in November 1935 many things have happened in the world, many changes have taken place, but most important of all many have fallen away from the Faith, believing false teachers and false prophets, beguiled into thinking that they are still Christians and that there is no hurry or need of being concerned about their spiritual state.
But the School for Disciples is not intended for them, they are being taken care of by others; but it is for the few who wish to be prepared for anything that may come to pass; not for their own safety, but that they may be perfectly equipped to succor those who when tribulations come turn to God in true humility of spirit and seek to know the way back to Him.
During the intervening time much has been accomplished in preparation for the School. The results obtained in the Correspondence Courses plainly prove what can be done were earnest students to attend a School where they could study and answer perfectly all the questions in the different Courses and could be stayed with until their truths were firmly built into their consciousness and they could be demonstrated in the outer life.
It was hoped by this time that a place would be made available near one of the large cities in the East, preferably New York, because of its being accessible to the hundreds of students in the Work in that and nearby cities. But as this is the Work of the Brotherhood of Christ and is to fulfill Its plan and purpose, we know that when all is ripe and ready the place and everything needed for the School will be forthcoming.
We must remind all of those deeply interested in the Impersonal Work and teachings, however, that the School is or should be as much their concern as it is ours, for the benefit will be to all who wish to perfect themselves for the Master’s Work and to be a conscious part of the Great Christ Brotherhood.
Many have gotten a glimpse of what this means, especially those who attended the Summer Classes or made personal contact with The Sun Center in Akron. But remember, only those could get that glimpse and any understanding of just what is that Brotherhood who have been able truly to enter the Christ Consciousness where they could know with Jesus, if only for a moment, that “I and my Father are One,” and “All that the Father hath is mine.”
In this School all who are truly making Christ and the finding of the Kingdom or His Consciousness FIRST in their lives would be stayed with until they find and are able to enter and abide in His Consciousness and to work from there.
We feel that the teaching and the workers are ready, and it now only remains for the place and the means to start the School to be made manifest, and as always we leave this in the Father’s hands and in those of the Brotherhood, whose outer expression is this Work, to arrange as They have planned, knowing that They will take care of everything.
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THE FELLOW WHO THINKS
YES, he’s a brilliant, splendid man;
He gets right down to hardest pan,—
The fellow who thinks.
He keeps his healthy brain cells hoppin’;
Thick and fast his words come poppin’,—
The fellow who thinks.
He sees just where the world’s all wrong;
He knows how it should go along,—
The fellow who thinks.
And you can’t fool him for a second;
He’ll get your plan before you’ve reckoned,—
The fellow who thinks.
You ask who is this guy so smart;
What sets him up so much apart,—
This fellow who thinks.
Why that’s as plain as plain can be;
Why he’s the man that agrees with me!
This fellow who thinks.
—Hellen Hastings Abbott.
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