The two worlds of attraction

Foreword

This book deals in a new and vital manner with the conditions of personal life after bodily death. The subject is treated with a dignity, a profound reverence and withal a deep understanding which place it in a class quite by itself. Specific answers are given to questions that have been a cause of doubt and concern to all real thinkers, and the laws governing the after life are shown to be as definite and as "natural" as the laws we find operating in the realm of the physical life.

The entire subject of the continuity of life is treated with an impressiveness that carries with it deep conviction. Coming at this crisis in our national life, it could not have been more timely in its reassurances to man of the invincible power of courage, faith and absolute fidelity to the higher purposes. It is not too much to say, that "The Two Worlds of Attraction" will contribute greatly to a far more joyous conception of the land beyond the veil, than humanity, as a whole, has yet been able to accept.

Of the approach to the transcription of the material the author says:

"In November, 1919, I began receiving automatic writing from my mother whom I had never known, as she died when I was less than a year old.

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"This experience, which was a very beautiful one, prepared the way for the book, The Two Worlds of Attraction. I could not face the possibility of signing my own name to it when it was completed. Like countless others who have been confronted with the same problem, I could not bear to give up whatever claim I might possess to intellectual respectability, so I planned to publish the book under a fictitious name.

"At the eleventh hour, I was asked by "A friend of the cause" to sign my own name to the book because of the connection of the name of Abbott with the world of literature, in the mind of the public, and I complied.

"I lay no claim to the book in any way, save that for some reason which I do not understand, it came through my hand. With the exception of one line, the few personal passages were left out, at my request, by 'A friend of the cause.' "

Anne Abbott.

"It is always well to remember, in aspiring to individual development to the high place of communication between the two worlds of attraction, that growth must be slow, else it is not truly growth. God gives the flowers of the field, the trees of the forest and his earthly children, all the time they need in which to grow.

"Approach the gates of entrance slowly and serenely and all will be well. The student who dares not be true to the law of calm growth, would better wait patiently for the development of some tried and trusted friend, for soon there will be many of these in every community and the race is not always to the swift but to those who conform to the law as God has made it."

Sunday, December 21st, 1919. The mother speaking:

"Dear Anne, You are to place yourself in readiness for the transcription of the book which is to follow, by allowing all of your faculties to be used by us for the time being, as effort along the line of any analytical process of interpretation will make it difficult for us to continue without breaking the thread, and that we do not wish to do, if it can be avoided.

Remember, you are not writing independently now, you are being used as an instrument of transmission, and in so far as you realize this and act accordingly, you will be of help to us.

Any active effort on the part of your mind makes just that much more for us to overcome, as we are using your brain as a sort of clearing house for the purpose of reaching many people to whom this functioning is an unheard of thing.

There are countless - people who will be impressed not only with the method but with the ultimate results of the proceedings, provided the message comes through clearly and in a lucid way so that those whose minds have not yet turned in the direction of investigation along these lines, will at least look upon the subject with more tolerance and begin to wonder if after all, there is not something more to the subject of psychical research than they have thought; if it is not worth investigating in spite of prevailing prejudice against it.

You have only to trust us and to lend your hand. The rest is done on this side of the veil and may God strengthen and help you and see you safely through your appointed task. Goodbye, dear.

Emma."

A Master speaking:

"Dear child of earth, I am indeed glad to be able to use your hand in this great undertaking. You have been prepared for this work for a longer time than you realize and the hour has come when you are expected to prove the value of training and suggestion along these lines, together with the power of what is called here thought transference, and we have every reason to believe that the result will be highly satisfactory.

In the first place let me tell you this, that no one, however developed upon the plane of dense matter called earth, can fully realize the significance of the work we are attempting to accomplish at this time. We are surrounded on all sides by men and women released upon this plane, especially men, who have been hastened into the life beyond your own before their time.

This makes for confusion on both planes and the result is we are taking advantage of the appeal that is being made to us on this side of the veil to break through the barrier of prejudice and antagonism that exists upon the earth plane in regard to this subject, and bring the two worlds into greater union while the opportunity is so very much at hand.

With the passing of the aftermath of war, people return almost automatically to the pursuits and interests of material life in a way which makes them far more inaccessible from the spirit world, so-called. Now in dealing with this subject, it is well to bear in mind two things, first, that the matter of chief importance is the fact that intercommunication between the two worlds is possible and secondly that it is desirable.

For countless ages man has considered his life upon earth to be a thing apart from what is termed, generally speaking, spiritual. Consequently, he has contended when dealing with this subject of death and of the world beyond the grave, that one world at a time was sufficient and that all people who were really well balanced and what is called sane, felt very much the same way, which is in truth a fact. The majority of thinking people have certainly had the same inclination to accept this point of view as the wisest and best for all mankind.

Now as a matter of fact this has never been true, though in countless instances the investigation along lines of thought called psychic research to-day, has been fraught with misunderstanding and terror of many sorts, so that it is not strange that the average mind has shrunk from the subject and felt the course of entire withdrawal from any further interest in the matter to be the best way to settle a most difficult problem, and one which wiser men had failed for centuries to solve.

This being the case, it would be strange indeed if it did not take a very long lapse of time before there would be so much as a single ray pierce the darkness between the earth plane and those beyond it and true it is that those who have tried have attempted their investigation for the most part, in a manner ill-fitted to bring about results that could possibly appeal to a highly developed ego and naturally the whole subject has fallen into very bad repute indeed.

Now then, these being the facts, the next step upon the road of exploration and discovery, was to make the attempt at least to find out what the cause of so-called phenomena really was, and thereby reduce the danger of investigation to the smallest degree possible.

There is no hindrance to the development of any movement or other organized plan of any kind in the world so great as fear. It is paralyzing in its effect upon the mind of man in a way that reduces his powers to a minimum of efficiency, and the consequence has been from the beginning that people have always felt they were dealing with a force of which they knew nothing, and the most prevalent idea in connection with it was the belief that in some way, all forms of physical manifestation called spiritistic, were the work of the devil and better left alone.

This idea has been dominant in regard to the whole subject until within a comparatively few years and the real reason for the change in public opinion has been man's inner longing for the truth of his own being. In some way or other he has known that he was destined to attain this knowledge if his search were deep enough and sincere in its purpose.

This state of things has brought about what is called the open mind that is prevalent upon earth to-day which signifies to us that the door between the worlds is about to be opened, and what has seemed in past ages to be wrapped in darkness and mystery is no longer so, but revealed as a glorious and wonderful evidence of the patience and the love of God, and of His desire to prepare His children a place of peace and of confidence in the plan of Creation while they are still wearing the garment of flesh.

Do not try so hard to think when you lose the thread for a moment; wait patiently and the pencil will write again freely and accurately.

To continue : We are naturally anxious to do our best to improve this opportunity occasioned by so great sacrifice of life upon the earth plane, and we hope to be able to interest countless readers in this most important subject by putting before them the simple facts which relate to communication in a way that cannot help making a wide appeal and will eventually prove to millions of men and women that their so-called dead are not removed by transition but are far nearer to them than in earth life. That they may at will commune with them as upon earth only on an infinitely more comprehensive and understanding basis, for the matter of thought transference as it operates between the two planes is far more highly developed on this plane than upon the earth plane, and consequently communication is easier and of a much higher nature, necessarily.

True it is, that it will be a long time before a high degree of proficiency will be developed by those to whom this subject is wholly new and one which they accept grudgingly, if at all, and who enter into their attempts at proving the truth for themselves,

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with unbelief and even scoffing in their hearts.

But to those who enter into this investigation in sincerity and in truth, and who believe all things possible to those who love God, to those the way will be shown and the reward at the end of their seeking after truth, will be great indeed.

Little by little the actual knowledge that is bound to follow the many testimonies to the truth of intercommunication will have its effect upon all who dwell on earth, and the time will come when in every home there will be one who knows and appreciates the value of this vast truth, and it will be their task to convey to others in so far as that is possible, something of the changed glory of life after the point is reached when the individual soul recognizes the unity of all life and its own eternal unity with God.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, and soon there will be students of this subject singing the song of truth over all the earth world. They will not be hampered by fear as their forebears have been, for all men are looking at this time as never before for some sign each day from heaven, and it is coming so simply and directly to man that only those who have kept the heart open and the mind unbiased upon these matters, will be able to recognize it without interpretation from some one who has passed over the same pathway before him.

So the time is at hand when the attempt is to be made, to assure the race upon earth to-day that all life is a unified purpose, created in the beginning for the destiny of godhood achieved through overcoming and by the mastery of all elements which it is man's lot to meet upon the pathway of his development and evolution. One day not far distant, there will be some echo upon earth of the song from on high: Peace on earth, goodwill to men and the sword shall perish from the face of the earth. There shall be no more bloodshed nor any more war, for the redemption of man, through love in the great universal sense, will penetrate the dark recesses of man's brain, and he will turn from sin and sorrow to the dawn of a new day.

Then the intercommunication between the two worlds called heaven and earth will be an established fact and it will excite no more wonder than communication between distant points upon the surface of the earth does at this time in the unfoldment of inventive genius, which has brought to the relief of man all of the so-called discoveries which are only the revelation of truth to the mind of the man who stops to listen and who, having heard, carries out the purposes of the Father to further the welfare of His children in all worlds and in all generations.

Try to realize, all who read these words, that they are an attempt to transfer the thought force which is used upon a different plane in a wholly different way; that all effort to convey accurately the meaning of great truths in the speech of earth is inadequate. An idea, however, that conveys to some extent, the importance of the subject at this time is of great significance.

As the revelations of the plan on this side for this work are made known, it will become more and more apparent what is being attempted and what is the best method of carrying out the purpose of the book.

Now we will not tire our instrument longer to-day, for she has made sufficient effort for the first transcription. As time passes the words will flow more freely through her pen and it will not be long before the undertaking becomes a pleasure and not a task. I thank you.

A Friend of the Cause."

II Monday, December 22nd, 1919

"Dear child, I want to congratulate you upon the directness with which you conveyed the message yesterday, for it was very nearly accurate, and in every particular the thought was expressed without interference in any way by the processes of your own thinking.

This overcoming for the time being of any conscious mental action save that which is conducive to help the project in which we are both so interested to as high a form of expression as possible, is not a thing to be easily accomplished in a short space of time. To a person of your tendencies and development, it is peculiarly hard not to dissect from an analytical standpoint as you go along, and that is why the work is harder for you than it would be for a more submissive type of mind.

However, in the end, this will all react in favor of the book, for the more slowly the investigator is content to make progress, naturally the more significant his entrance and his endeavors in this field of labor must be to others who are considering the question seriously and who have not up to this time been by any means convinced that people who are called rightfully, thinking people can really be interested in the subject of psychic research.

If they are, however, and it is no longer considered a matter of disrepute, then he can make the plunge in goodly company he now begins to think, and in this frame of mind, reading a clear and lucid explanation of matters which have been entirely unexplained and mysterious to him before, will have just that much more significance to him and to countless others who share with him the doubts and fears of all past generations from which it is a struggle to be freed.

However, to resume the subject matter of the book where we left it yesterday.

There is in the mind of man to-day an increasing desire to know truth. We no longer upon any plane say with Pilate : "What is truth ?" But we are trying to discover for ourselves whether truth is a purely relative matter varying in the mind of the individual, between different grades of honesty, of morality, of order in regard to personal and national affairs in proportion to his preconceived ideas upon such subjects, together with the influences of early environment and many other things, or whether after all there is an absolute standard which at some time in our development we are to know in full.

Truth will not remain the partial undeveloped vision which it now is to mankind but will become a reality of increasing value in the most constructive sense, upon which man may build something definite to which he may hold throughout the varying vicissitudes of life.

Through all the changing years this will point ever to a definite purpose, a definite goal and a unity of forces, so-called physical and so-called spiritual.

The progress which has led to the point of individual thinking along these lines has been slow indeed, but now it is world-wide, and the force with which it will bear on the race consciousness to the point of conviction in these matters, is swifter than can be estimated at this time; but results will prove the truth of predictions in so short a period that it is idle to waste time and energy in projecting thought of a conjectural nature into the future of this great plan.

It says in the Good Book, "Be ye wise in your generation:" the wise in the present generation are those who are willing to receive the light which is being diffused in the earth world to-day and which is priceless in its value and in its effect upon the race, can be compared to nothing more appropriate than the dawn of an entirely new day.

With the actual facts of communication between the two worlds understood and accepted by this world as a great truth, advancing civilization and progress centuries in evolution at a single bound, there will be a change in the present apathy towards matters pertaining to the functioning upon other planes than this one, which will affect every human being still living on the plane of dense matter called earth.

Here we come to the profound reason for the revelations which are being made in all quarters of the earth at this time pertaining to these things, for there must always be as nicely adjusted causes of all large movements in life upon all planes, as the results are great and that proportion is in exact measure according to unchanging law.

But it is a reason almost too simple to be accepted by many without combat, because the average mind of man still looks for signs from heaven. Where there are no signs, he claims there are no evidences, simply because he personally rejects any other type of what he himself calls proof and which millions of others, thinking of such matters in much the same manner have also called proof.

From the standpoint of sense alone there is no "proof," while man is in the body, but when man through his own seeking for truth and through his willingness to take the step that is necessary for the unfolding of his own inner vision — namely, to ask of his Creator, silently, humbly and with faith in his heart, if he seeks he shall find, and if he knocks the door shall indeed be opened unto him — to every soul that in truth turns to the godhood within himself for guidance, the way is shown.

This is an underlying law of life. We do not create law, but we create reactionaryforce upon our own lives and all they contact, by building up a defense against truth which in turn acts upon the worn and troubled spirit of doubting men and women, until they see that this is not the way to seek the spiritual kingdom.

To the world of sense certain things and conditions are visible and provable, but to the infinite world of spirit, of which the world called the material world, is but one form of manifestation, there is a form of revelation and of conviction which comes through the inner man, which is forever spiritual in actuality, and which persists through all the varying forms it has assumed and will yet assume to the point where it will know that individuality, the continuity of what is called identity does persist and ever will persist in constantly changing and evolving form. This is one of the great and beneficent laws of creation, of which the children of earth have been sadly and persistently ignorant up to the present day.

Surely now, however, the clouds are disappearing and there is more and more light filtering through from the realm beyond the veil and at no distant day there will be singing upon earth where there has been weeping. In every home there will be eventually a voice through the power of thought transference which is reaching such a high form of development in these days, and the voice will carry to the unseen world, as it has always done, but in turn it will speak to the sorrowing ones still in the earth world who have mourned without hope, words of cheer and consolation, and little by little conviction as to the truth of this great law will become an established thing.

It will no longer be a matter of scorn and even degredation to claim that converse between the worlds of earth and so-called spirit is an established fact. Not only natural and as simple as the use of the telephone and telegraph but far more so in fact, as it will cease to be as complicated and difficult a problem to many minds as the wireless process is to those to whom the whole subject of thought waves has previously been a closed book.

The acceptance of the fact of intercommunication will establish upon earth a certainty of the purpose of life, and the worth-while part of each and every human being upon the path of creation in any given place and at any period of evolution, so that the old time standards which marked the belief in a short span of life, dating from birth to death in a material world, will vanish from the face of the earth, and a new way to peace and happiness and a new understanding of the first meaning of unity and brotherhood will be established never to wane again while the world called earth revolves in space.

This will continue as long as the race consciousness calls it into action for the evolution of souls needing the lessons only to be learned by the passage through dense matter for the schooling impossible to gain in other ways.

Do not confuse the term dense matter with the physical body alone or with the earth plane as it is called, for there are spheres and spheres of dense matter, more dense than earth, but by way of expressing the meaning of the term, earth world, it is so often referred to as the plane of dense matter that it sometimes leads to the conclusion that this plane is exclusively one of dense matter, which it is not.

The time will doubtless come when it will be possible to go into the subject of other planes of existence which have superceded this one, but that is not the object of this book.

The object of this particular book is to reveal to men and women upon earth the fact of communication between the two worlds in its simplicity and its beauty; also to help them to realize the nearness of the two planes and their interpenetration and the needlessness of human woe from the standpoint of death chiefly and from contributory causes as well. To those who really seek for light and truth upon this vital subject there is no better advice to give than the well-known passage so often quoted from the Bible, "Seek and ye shall find."

The time is at hand and the way appears, and it will not be long before the fruitless search for so-called instruments through whom our loved ones come to us by special grace reserved only for the few, in an unaccountable way will be done away with forever, and we will seek and find our own directly, as the Father of men intended that we should.

When that day comes, we will wonder that we ever lived in the old leaden world ingloriously and without hope, facing always, and forever the door which shadows all life to the end, and which shuts silently and inexorably at the close of the journey.

We will marvel at the new day and its glory and its possibilities and each new morning will be as a new life undertaken in a purpose for which the end is not only justified but made wholly worthy in spite of its errors and its struggles.

Little by little the soul of man, awakened to the realization of the eternal verities, and aware of his infinite unity with the plan of creation, will cease to magnify the importance of things pertaining to sense and answer the call from within to. fit himself for higher planes of activity, which reach out before him in endless glory.

Accomplishment will become divine in its mission, and all men will be benefited by each and every life to which this knowledge comes while yet upon the plane of earth.

This will finish the message for this morning. I thank you, dear child of earth.

A Friend of the Cause."