The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1938
THE SUMMER CLASSES
THOSE preparing to attend the Summer Class this year we find are generally planning to stay two or three weeks, and so we have decided to make this Class a three weeks Course, beginning July 11th and ending the 30th. The first week will be devoted to foundational work for those who are new or who have not previously attended, and the last two weeks will be given to the more advanced teachings, and to their practical application in the times immediately ahead. This will include the highest form of Healing and of Inner Work.
For that reason we are especially inviting and urging all old students to be present the last two weeks if possible, those particularly who have come into their higher consciousness or are approaching it, and who wish to learn just how to work from it; as definite and important work will be given to such, work fraught with deep significance for all who wish to be able to help in the possibly troublous times of the near future.
We are in the midst of great changes. All those who are a part of this Work have been brought to it by their Higher Selves for one purpose only—to prepare their outer instruments so that they can worthily perform their parts and fill their places in the Great Plan concerned with the fast forming New Order, under the direct guidance of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ.
All Impersonal students are His faithful disciples, and they have definite parts to play in the New Order; therefore it will be our purpose this year to study and determine upon the most effective forms of service whereby the greatest possible good can be accomplished. All ideas and suggestions to this end will be welcomed and considered in the Class.
Readers of this Magazine who love its truths and who wish to prepare themselves for service, as well as all students of the Impersonal Teachings, who feel urged to do so, are invited to attend this Class. They will receive in it just what they are able to receive, both through inspiration and instruction, for many great truths will be uncovered, because of the many beautiful souls present who will draw them forth. Those attending former Classes know of the loving spirit of soul companionship and Brotherhood that was in evidence, and it will be more so this year, because many of the older students plan to be present.
As in previous years very satisfactory hotel and other accommodations can be had for $3.50 a week and up, close to headquarters; likewise meals at 25c and up.
The Class is conducted wholly on a Free-will Offering basis, leaving it to the Higher Selve’s of those being helped and blessed by its truths to tell them what to do in return.
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THE SCHOOL FOR DISCIPLES
THE loving response to the suggestion in the “Preview” of the proposed School has continued, and we are pleased to acknowledge below the tangible evidences of those who wish to see it a reality.
Everyone having a part in the creating of this School, through prayer, seeing it in mind as a living fact, or through the sacrifice of time, effort or money, will be truly blessed. It is wholly possible that its outmanifestation is being withheld by the Brotherhood, waiting for enough interested ones to show a strong enough desire and prove their earnestness in wanting to have it materialize. For unquestionably, it being the actual outer manifestation of Their School for Disciples already operating in Spirit, They could easily provide the means, or inspire in the minds of those able to supply them the ideas and the way to make it a fact.
Surely, with the hundreds of millions that have been given for the building of cathedrals, temples and churches, for schools, colleges and universities, and the additional millions for endowing them, it would be as nothing for Them to inspire the gift of a suitable home for Their special Work, or of the funds needed to build and support it—a Work of preparing, teaching and equipping Their own disciples for the accomplishing of Their Work on earth, even as They have planned it in Heaven.
We know this to be so, and await the proof from these dear ones that to them this is the most precious need of Their Work at present in the outer world—the need of showing sufficient interest and desire to have such a School to bring it about.
Because we also know that it can come into expression only as a fulfilment of the Law—that it is only as we, here in the outer, think and believe it is so, will it outmanifest. Therefore, those of us who truly believe it, let us prove that we do by doing all that we can to bring it about.
“All that we can” includes doing what is suggested in the last paragraph on page 105 and continuing on page 106 of the Magazine, actually doing all that is stated in a vital, positive way, living in the realization of what is pictured in mind, and then following whatever leading one gets from within.
This opens one wide first to the Idea, then to the Guidance that will be given to bring the Idea into manifestation. </WRAP>
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ABOUT BEN ADHEM
ABOUT BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
“What writest thou?” The vision raised its head,
And with a look made all of sweet accord,
Answered, “The names of those who love the Lord.”
“And is mine one?” said Abou. “Nay, not so,”
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still, and said, “I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.”
The angel wrote and vanished. The next night
It came again, with a great wakening light
And showed the names whom love of God had blest.
And, lo, Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest.
—Leigh Hunt.
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