But we say to such, that not unless they are being taught out of the love in their hearts, and are conscious of You, the I AM there, teaching them, and they are earnestly seeking to obey Your loving guidance, they are not “living” souls, but are sleeping souls; are sleeping, as buds which are not yet opened are sleeping; for they are not aware of Your life which will be theirs when the buds of their hearts open and they awake in the new consciousness, that of their True Self, of You, the Christ within them, a Son of God.

If such minds think that all are “living” souls, let them look about and see how many souls are awake and are living in this consciousness. And they need not look very closely to see how most of them are indeed asleep, dreaming such foolish dreams, thinking that all these pleasures of the senses, the mad rush to satisfy the desires of self, the appetites and lusts of the flesh, the urges of greed and ambition, the love of power and the craving for riches; thinking that these will bring happiness or soul content.

Nay, it is quite easy to tell how few of all those walking around in the world today are awake and are no more than just human souls; for are not almost all you know ruled largely by their animal appetites and selfish desires and know not true love as yet, except in a rudimentary sense, as loving only their own kin or friends and in a more or less selfish way?

But remember, within each is the Light which lighteth every man—the consciousness of a Son of God, which He, from deep within, in the Celestial Realm—not yet in the soul realm—is gradually unfolding in their human minds, so that they will eventually become conscious of Him as Love, and through such consciousness will bring