The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1934

Despite all this—or because of it, try as I would, faithfully as I have observed the silent hours, earnestly as I have striven to overcome the selfishness of me (which must have been the hideous form that appeared and struck me down) it is only just today that I have been able to write to you.

Heretofore when I tried, I could not formulate one sentence. Only recently have I entered my Garden—only once the Temple. If from some deep undisturbed center I had not received assurance, I would have almost felt myself lost! But that assurance came when desperately needed. And someway I have seen myself suffer in every temptation that assailed, yet just as in this blessed vision, I have been helped past it.

I HAVE wanted to tell you of the work we do at night—the work with the newly dead. When first it began, as I recollect it, the workers were gathered at a center to which other workers came bringing those who needed adjusting to the new life. We took such to a place which would be in appearance to them familiar. Some were frightened and had to be soothed; others suffered still the pain they had tried to escape through using drugs; some were helped to face what they had tried to escape by killing themselves.

Those who were frightened would help much as a frightened child is assured and quieted—by letting them feel first the love in our hearts for them, and then by leading them into the light of God’s Love. Those who still felt the suffering of their earth bodies, we ministered to in much the same way—teaching them to love and serve the others around them, that that is the surest healing—here as there.

The suicides struggle much and they are greatly in need of help—on all planes, and most times they are cared for by advanced workers. My work now is with those who can be reached before they pass on.

YOU ASKED me to tell you how I was “told” about the value when the “money” as we have it today would be without value.

I cannot tell you where I go. I have never seen any of the surrounding terrain. I find myself, seemingly, somewhere very high, before the entrance of a building which I can’t see. The


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