Problems of your generation

Dedication

"In memory of those whose lives on earth exemplified the meaning of this Book, who now interpret to you, illuminating the pathway to Eternity."

Copyright, 1910, by the Arden Press, New York.

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Preface

We hope to present the truth in such form as will dispel doubt and uncertainty. The effort will be to prevent a lack of decision in the minds of those who read; that they may absorb sufficiently strong proof to enable their minds, not only to discuss these problems, but to satisfactorily comprehend the tenets of a superior wisdom, and we assert without fear of failure, our ability to give out what may be desired.

The mental attitude of the reader should be receptive, that is, with the intention to grasp ; holding naturally the power to discuss.

We have the power to interpret.

We make use of the one mind whose power we are at liberty to control.

We shall unfold slowly, and with precision; it will not be an abrupt ascent, but a positive growth, so interesting as to claim attention.

The unfolding of a Divine truth is the interpretation of the word of God.

Your effort should be so attuned to the Infinite that your grasp on the Higher intelligence may be sufficiently strong to produce an impression upon the finite mind.

We wish to assist scientific research; we mean the problems which have been propounded by the great minds of the Universe ; our desire is to contest some of these problems, that is, to bring more light, more proof to them.

In the meantime we shall endeavor to give you cursory glances of your future home, so that you, with others, may learn to take the necessary steps toward your advancement, for while progressing where you stand, you materially advance your progress here. In this way we mean to aid mankind, working in accord with the Divine mind.

A task has been given; we assume the responsibility; we return to your earth plane to teach ; so much has been given us, so much was given you, as shown by the fact of your desire for knowledge and improvement. We will return again, and yet again, till our task has been accomplished.

Contents

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I. The Demand 9

Chapter I. The Demand

YOUR demand was to have some understanding of i. The Mysteries of Life.

2. The Creative Forces.

3. Evolution.

4. The Soul Life.

Your demand has breadth, depth, as well as a profound attitude of thought request; we will endeavor to make clear at least a part of your desire. We work within confines ourselves, our vision not being perfected.

We draw our mentality from the Superior forces, making, as it were, a battery. Now this battery has incoming currents and outgoing currents of mentality; the incoming must be of great force to reproduce a like current. What we give we first have to collect. No current is a current or can become a dominating force without the battery. We shall endeavor later to explain the wave currents, not only electrical but mental.

Chapter II. Control

THE power to commune with the Infinite mind can be attained only by earnest effort; it is an endowment, the highest privilege transmitted to man. In its use, that is, in its conception of the Infinite, it draws only in proportion to its ability to conceive.

This power, if rightfully used, never fades ; the gift once given can never be taken away. We do not recognize individual personality, that is, in the same way that you do, for ive have no language only perception.

We work with the grand force called in- 11 telligence; this force indicates personality, individuality ; it becomes a dominating force, so powerful as to absorb the human faculties and erase the personality of the medium.

We speak of this force as a flowing current of ideas passing through the medium. This current has no one dominating intelligence, that is, no sex, and is not an individual, or the result of a single intelligence on our plane.

The concentration of thought put in the form of a question from several minds on your plane forms a wave current of thought, which vibrates, the battery responds and you get the answering current or response through our intermediary.

There is then, the question which is produced by the concentration of thought forming its wave current, it touches the battery, giving out its response through our intermediary. There must be the battery, for that is the center of attraction.

We are the battery storage of force, through which this superior intelligence passes. Minds coming in contact with this wave current of mentality, responding in proportion as they grasp, assist in so far the development, by adding to the wave current of mentality.

The wave current having been started has its response, in consequence of which the same result ensues, as when two minds meet, each having stimulated into action its own wave current of thought. These minds meet to understand each other's mind, and the action thereof is the reproduction of their thought. Now, then, we do the same thing. The normal brain is stimulated by the thought current of the other mind. This should be as plain to you as it is on your present sphere of action, the stimulating current remaining more or less the same. Simply, the mind you stimulate you cannot see, neither can you see the action of the mind on the human plane. Is it the more wonderful where you cannot see the workings of the human mind?

Is it impossible to understand that somehow or somewhere there is a correct transmission of thought, of a mind stimulating itself to action outside of its own knowledge? The current producing this exists; our intermediary is in that current, and has the power to draw others within it.

We put the human faculties in quick action by our superior thought transference. When an unintelligent answer without consecutive thought is given it is apparent that the current is not quite sufficiently strong to dominate the faculties, that is, the brain faculty, into as quick action as is necessary.

Say the method o'f doing this is like the tapping of a drum head. As you strike there is reverberation, depending upon how loudly you strike; is that clear?

Now then, we understand that striking a drum head means reverberation of sound as the direct result of a mechanical action, but you can see in this mechanical action there are forces to produce sound.

So it is with us, with our forces at work. We strike, not to produce sound, but thought, (meaning idea) as there can be no mechanical action as in the case of the drum which we have cited. It becomes then a wave current of superior intelligence striking on a less highly developed intelligence than that with which we are endowed, hence the enormous difficulties of the situation.

The human organ with which we work does not always respond with accuracy to the pressure of superior intelligence brought upon it.

We are sent to create new thought, to develop the desire for improvement. When our work completes itself we shall have given out pages teeming with interest, which at least will arrest the attention of the more thoughtful, and awaken a new interest in this line of thought.

* * * * Prophecy to be given in a later book.

We are asked to interpret here again the solutions we have been able to reach through mental activity both here and beyond.

We represent the minds at work on our side, perhaps a better word is — Combination. We represent the forces at work; so called intelligent, consecutive, currents of ideas. Names are meaningless, definitions as to personality do not affect the subject.

It takes more than one to create the impression on our intermediary, or medium, it takes a combination on our side to start our current, or you might say intellectual force, or mentality, as against every other current. To set our current in motion we follow a law, which we will call a Divine Law; everything must be in accordance with the Divine. We take no steps to further any development without the aid of, or rather we act in accordance with, the Divine Law.

In the frequency of Indian controls, it's a question of mental ability; the savage mind is an untutored, untrained mechanism. As the development of the savage is so incomplete, that is, on the earthly plane, it must necessarily complete itself here more slowly, therefore the capacity for understanding is more akin to control an untrained, untutored apparatus with greater facility.

We do not wish you to gather that we do not bring with us here, and cherish all the love that we created or that was created about us, this being in accordance with the Law of Love. We do not wish you to infer, that we so lose all identity here as to become unrecognizable to each other, meaning those who are kindred or of one family.

You are liable to draw erroneous conceptions, as we cannot fully explain owing to your limitations of vision, and it is with difficulty we are able to make good all your demands upon us, and make intelligible the forces.

We have put in force the vibrating currents under our control, which correspond more nearly to the desires or ideas or questions you wish answered.

When communicating we make use of a dominating force, rather than any single individual intelligence; disabuse your mind of personality in this matter. We are working on a different plane of action, for the reason that with different human mechanisms we employ diverse methods. You are subject entirely to our dictation. You are the instrument we use for this work.

Later the topics will be more interesting; this is all preliminary. We have our work under arrangement, we have our plan, the details are more or less subject to change, but not the main fund of information. These few papers we designate as the Primer — in distinction from more profound transmission of thought which is to follow.

You have the power to draw from these, our forces of intelligence, what you desire most to know.

We think we understand the needs of mankind, and whether you question or not, you will get information.

The active qualities of the mind of the intermediary are in our possession, the others are dormant, asleep.

Finite mind grasps our superior intelligence through the medium or intermediary of the so-called human faculty — Brain. The intel ligence that we wish to convey becomes as an electrical current so powerful as to dominate the mind. When carried to perfection this dominating force has complete control of all the faculties, for the time being. It does not lie within our power to dominate any mind to its destruction. Were this otherwise, it would be in direct opposition to one of the greatest Laws, that of Progress, and as the creative forces work in harmony and in perfect unison, one with the other, there can be no interference, neither on our plane, nor on yours.

We learn here slowly, we trace our way through the impenetrable mysteries of the multitudinous Planets, all under one dominating force. Our progress is as the ratio of our spiritual advancement or power of perception. As we grow in the Grace of God, so we grow in our understanding of His Laws. With our superior wisdom we give help to others just learning the Divine alphabet, so that in time, they, then understanding our Spiritual language, progress with us, thus helping to increase the power of our force. We mean the knowledge of His Laws — the understanding of the Divine mind.

Nature is the great exemplification of the Divine mind. You have only to behold nature and the marvels of her handiwork to grasp the magnitude of thought. We err in using the word "grasp," for you cannot hope to grasp, that word is all embracing and quite beyond your reach ; we mean rather Search for the magnitude of the Divine mind.

Chapter III. The Mysteries Of Life

LIFE is the energy of matter. Life is an energy, a force, working in accordance with the Divine Law of Creation. The meaning of the Law of Creation comes under the head of the creative force, which sets in motion a wave current of development. Now this development may be physical, may be mental, but the creative force itself is the Divine energy. By Divine energy is meant the creative force of the Almighty. There is the distinction always between the energy which is Divine, and the energy of matter. The Divine energy becomes the creative energy.

Life existing in the lowest form is the infinitesimal spark of the Divine mind. It must therefore have its creative force within. This being the fact, it has the power to recreate. We call this power and this recreative force the Divine energy.

It throbs, it pulsates with creative force, and therefore must come under the head of Divine. It has its force, its current, its magnetism, through its magnetic current. It attaches itself to the great energy of living vitality.

It is then an attribute tending towards its source; it give out as it takes in, and is then in itself a creative force.

The forces (you may find this difficult to grasp ; an energy is a force, and when we refer to an energy we mean a force, or the forces.)

A force increases in volume and strength 24 as it takes on its numberless attributes, it must; anything becomes larger that is added to.

The beginning of life is the moment when the inanimate is drawn within the creative force or current. That is done through the magnetic force and power of attachment.

Do you not see the currents are there, that is, they exist, and as they exist they also have the power of attraction, and they draw towards the inanimate. This is in accordance with the Divine Law of Progress.

The greatest of all Laws is that of Progress, growth, development.

The inanimate has to become animate; as this is done through the power of attraction, it must in its turn not only reach its development along these lines, gaining its strength by degrees, but adding at the same time its own force to the current in which it finds itself.

As you develop, more of these currents will be explained. You now have the creative current.

Now you are within the greater, the grander, force, of this self same current. You are a part of it. This then is the energy of Life.

It is the dominant force of nature. Everything pulsates. We do not mean that everything pulsates in the same degree.

There is the higher pulsation which means the greater creative force, within itself having the power to recreate.

The atom may become the protoplasm, as it finds itself drawn into the magnetic current.

The protoplasm is the infinitesimal form of life, the protoplasm is a combination. The atom has no life, and is therefore matter, but the atom must become the protoplasm, and the protoplasm must have its action of life accelerated. Hence it cannot remain a protoplasm, it must progresss.

We think you should have this quite clear. We endeavor to be simple as well as explicit.

This is a topic without end. We will give you more on the vital side of life.

Then there comes the distinction between the mental, physical and the Divine life. We will continue with the forces first and endeavor to make it conclusive.

Chapter IV. Acting Forces

THE acting forces are currents, moving with a greater or less degree of rapidity, as they are able to take on, each one to itself, an increase, or greater volume of force, having a like degree of the power of attraction; that is, in proportion to the power ai attraction contained in themselves the ratio increases.

There are also tributaries to the great currents which are drawn in by the magnetic power of attraction, each smaller tributary assuming or taking on, its own individuality, that is, a single current has but the power of its own attraction.

The currents then become forces, emanating, we may say, from the infinitesimal beginning of the demands of the Great Creative Force.

You therefore cannot control these forces; they are the great forces of nature. First the Creative, then the recreative force, Progress, and finally Development.

Vegetation has its vital 'force. While these forces work in accordance, one with the other, they never interfere with, or augment the progress one of the other.

The Vegetable Kingdom has its force, we may say, its own energy of action, that is, it has a perfect development of the Creative force within its tributaries which form its life giving current.

This also applies to the Animal Kingdom. 29

It has its creative and recreative force, dominated by a superior force of intelligence, which you do not find in your Vegetable Kingdom.

How does this intelligence or mental attribute in the Animal Kingdom find its original source?

This current or force draws to itself through its power of attraction a more vital current, a stronger energy.

This vital force develops with the mental forces in the Animal Kingdom. The dawn of its mentality must be infinitesimal. The dominating, or vital force, becomes so powerful a factor as to generate within its own force the mental.

This action having taken place, and the mental current established, it becomes eventually a force in itself.

You have in the beginning of the Universe the physical forces at work. You have the physical forces producing size in the animals; you have but to study Natural History, or early conditions of your sphere to prove this fact.

The mental current has its own energy, has the power to attract, to give out, always reinforcing itself as we have already stated.

These are the currents in which Man is being developed, the final development on your sphere through this process, by means of the Animal Kingdom^ he has evolved. It is then evolution on the great plane of your action.

Now you have the mental and the physical currents. Out of these comes the Psychic or Spiritual, as a force, and a current.

This vital force develops from the power of its own energy, as it proceeds, from the very nature of its force, it takes on, or takes to itself, not only more tributaries, but becomes more dominant. Developing along these lines, it assumes grander proportions and becomes the dominant force of life.

This knowledge is not only of vast importance, but of the greatest difficulty to give out, owing to the necessity of exact reproduction of our meaning.

You have then so far the three Kingdoms, the Animal, so-called Vegetable, and Mineral. The lowest is the Mineral. It has no vital force, no mental energy. A force of infinitesimal atoms, so divided and subdivided as to become legion in its qualifications and compound in its development.

Having these three Kingdoms you have Nature in its entirety. These currents employed by Nature develop along these lines.

These are the currents in the separate Kingdoms, each one acting independently of the other, drawing through their tributaries the necessary forces for their progress and final development.

You have the three energies and the explanation of their sources. As we proceed we will give you their developments.

Man finds himself directly in the current of the Animal Kingdom.

Chapter V. The Magnetic Force

THE Battery, already explained, is intended to reproduce a force which it draws to itself through its magnetic power of attraction^ and as it does not hold or retain this elemental force, it gives it out, depleting itself; becomes then ready to take in fresh force. We think you asked the origin of this force?

Its origin is in the Great Creator of all forces or as we say, the " Great Creative Force." It may be more conclusive to some minds to say Creator. We recognize "Creaative Force" or Forces as the Power.

This so-called magnetic force is a life current; one of its energies, or the element of power contained in this force, is its vital life. It exists through its vitality, grows in volume, and as it attracts vital force to itself, and develops itself in form, is it not Life itself?

This vital current having life within itself, develops life in various forms.

These various forms of life develop themselves, in proportion to the vital current in which the embryo finds itself. These currents are of diverse magnitude, and as the atom finds itself in the vital current, it will depend upon the power of attraction in the atom to draw to itself a greater or lesser degree of vital force, to develop its physical proportions.

We refer to the Animal Kingdom ; the be- 35 ginning of this Kingdom does not show mentality.

There is growth continuous in everything, nothing is stagnant, nothing is, but what must contribute to its elemental force. No one portion of the Kingdom is exempt from the work of evolution. It is all a constant, gradual progression.

Understand that no vitality is lost. At the expiration of time what appears to you as a clod, lifeless, gives up its vitality not as a loss but as a gain to the great vital force.

Do you not see that the volume of the vital force must increase, and in its use it must develop itself, and eventually must return to its source?

To continue, in the Animal Kingdom. We are not yet on the mental plane. We are studying the vital force, or the vital forces, the origin, the source, the demand upon it and its return to itself through its own power of attraction.

A life-giving current once put in motion does not cease ; as time is eternal, so a force is without end.

It draws to itself, thereby accumulating force as the power to contain must equal the drain.

It depends upon the power of the protoplasm to draw to itself a larger amount of vitality through its own greater or lesser degree of magnetism.

If it has not the power to draw on this current, it must content itself with less vitality, hence a lower, feebler form of intelligence, or life.

You have now the vital life in the Animal Kingdom before its contact with any mental force. The explanation of the vital current has been given, that is, the existing magnetic current, or force, the increase, which ever occurs, and the going out^ furthering a more vital, but always a more physical life all confined under the lower Animal Kingdom. This is the vital energy, with no dominant force of mentality.

Now you ask, when does this vitality increase its mental energy?

In the lower Animal Kingdom there are no organs under the denomination of mental organs. There is simply life and the sense of perception.

This is the beginning; hence you will observe, that in the beginning of the Universe, the great size of the Animal Kingdom is dominant.

With time, however, this dominating force 38 has the power to concentrate through the increasing vitality which it must ever draw to itself.

The animal itself does not become the human being. A fish having very little of the vital force gives out what little force it contains, but this little in connection with other forces also given out from the lower orders eventually becomes a combination of force.

It is not the animal that becomes man, it is the uniting of animal vitalities.

We refer to the vital force as a power, as a current, starting as a physical force only, this current has only the power to draw to itself the physical vital force. Its increase is dependent upon its power to attract its own kind of force.

You have the physical energy, that is life ; the energy of matter, this is the beginning, your beginning. We are at the beginning of the Universe.

You are but partially aware of the existing forces on the planet where you live. With clearer vision you will see the great forces at work in the millions of planets, all with currents and forces at work, in various stages of development.

With the gradual development of the physical — that is with a greater concentration of vitality — there must be generated a greater volume of force than can be contained within itself. By the gradual completion of this process, a faint attribute of a faculty is evolved.

By faculty we mean conception, or awakening. When once the physical finds itself dominated by a stronger, higher force, it must expand.

There is no such thing in nature as retro- 40 gression; all must progress. Now in progression what appears to decay is not lost, but goes on as before, that is, it attaches itself to the current which has given it life, and to v/hich it belongs.

To go back, we are where the protoplasm is beginning to attain some degree of intelligence.

Now this intelligence develops itself in proportion to its own power of action, or in the ratio of its speed, that is, movement. A current flows, runs, is not lifeless.

Now we are at the point where the protoplasm attaches itself through, we will say, its velocity.

In the first gleam of intelligence, with the beginning of a mental growth^ the same rule holds good, it cannot remain quiescent.

This vitality has its source in the Great 41

Creator* and is by him directed into a forceful current of Life. Having an impetus given it, it increases as it advances, from its own velocity, force or power, its object being to increase, to grow and eventually to attain the Soul.

This current being the energy of its existence, increases in its power of attraction, therefore must assume a grander life.

You have first the infinitesimal life, you have then the growth of this life, and eventually you have a Soul Life.

The Vegetable Kingdom does not find itself in the same life-giving current, that is, in the vital current. It is generated, and it generates itself, and has second place. It has not the power to ever assume the Soul life, hence it remains quite distinct

In process of time evolution completes itself.

Any form of life in the Animal Kingdom

taking on a higher form of life draws a greater vital current to itself.

Chapter VI. The Forces At Work Of Good And Evil

THE Soul development means the completion of all the working forces. The process of development means the awakening. By awakening we mean, a desire for attainment, for better things, a higher purpose, loftier sentiment, and the ambition to become more worthy, to take on such attributes as will elevate, to learn the A. B. C. of the Divine language.

Man exists on your plane of action in a more or less numb condition, that is, as regards the higher life, and the highest atributes which he is to attain, and must attain, before his Spiritual enlightenment.

This stage is slow, owing to the counter currents, that is, the evil surrounding Man.

Temptation presents itself in every form, and there is not a sufficiently strong current of objection.

The currents of good and evil are very powerful. Man is drawn towards these currents by the same power of attraction. The power of these currents is possibly inexplicable to you.

Conditions of Evil do not surround Man, unless they are brought to him by his own weakness. Evil exists, but cannot pursue. It must ever be in abeyance to the Creative Force. It exists rather as an impartial force. Fear no Evil therefore, it must be forever under the Law of Supreme Control.

The evil surrounding man is of his own making. The weak or unbalanced mind generates a bewilderment of the senses, which having no guide, becomes a forceful current of lower thought difficult to regulate. This force augmented in every direction becomes a great power, never overlooked, but being as featherweight in comparison to the Universal Law of Love and order. Evil can never be but the wasted energy of this force.

Control, then, becomes the essential factor in every life, control of the senses. Mind must ever dominate. To regulate and guide the mind it must be attuned to the Divine mind.

To attain this stage of perfection must become the aim of the wise Soul.

Evil cannot exist in the clear light of the Heavenly World.

Every Soul must purify itself before it can 46 dwell with us. We help strengthen the desire of the Soul.

It is not within our power to arrest an evil influence, thought or deed, otherwise we should break one of the highest laws and put an end to the necessary conflict which is the Salvation of the Soul, as every life is accountable to itself, and must attain its perfect proportions through the combating of evil and the final triumph of Good.

The life-giving current stimulates the action of life, but in stimulating the higher life here this current has its own force, its greater power of attraction, and would not only draw, but contain all within.

But where it does not succeed in attaching itself it is because of the predominating evil intention or desire, consequently it has its distinctive energy which has to be reckoned with.

These Evil and Good currents are always fighting each other, always. These are the Soul forces, these are the currents causing the development of the Soul. As the Soul realizes what is expected of it, it begins its effort at attachment and it depends upon the capacity of this Soul to realize the fbrces at work and the magnitude of its own effort to attain success.

There must be the conscious desire. With the conscious effort comes the power to dominate the life and to free itself.