Letters from an occult student

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This power is as wonderful as God himself, who gave it. Try to fly to other worlds. Don't consider the matter of time or distance in your flight. Close your eyes, get your mind and force active; then rise in the air. This brings your subjective mind into control, which does not recognize time or space, both of which are material. You will be surprised to what extent you will appear to fly. Be careful not to overdo your strength, but go steadily and carefully, always bear this thought in mind. There is nothing supernatural, but everything that occurs and that your may experience is answerable to some law. We may not understand what particular law governs each case, but we realize that all law is based on the assumption that right and justice shall prevail. Now, would you feel justified in trying to move a heavy weight that is far beyond the possibility of your strength to handle, which were you to attempt would result in a strain of your muscles?

It would be contrary to the laws of strength, etc. You cultivate concentration and pentration by practice.

Yes; we may imagine our work is in some particular line, but circumstances will work out our destiny, if we fall in line and push with all our might in the right channel. A nervously constituted person is more highly spiritual than one otherwise, provided they have learned to control the mind, so as to concentrate the thought and idea upon a single subject, which is the secret of all mind power. I love the thought of our being part of the Infinite mind, and that we may grasp His thoughts and follow them out, until with Monto Christo we may exclaim, "The World Is Mine," but with a much higher and brighter ideal before us, than that of revenge.

When I have exerted my strength on others, I become so filled with power, that it appears to lift me off the ground. It did not do so at first, for I allowed myself to feel and think that strength was leaving me, but now I realize that it does not leave me, but augments itself and overflows to the other person, and fits me to contain more and more each succeeding effect. Use your magnetism and electricity to fill yourself full, by the force of your mind and will to send it in circles thrpugh your body and spirit.

Read, think, will and believe. Faith is mighty. Each mind that is uplifted and unfolded in the higher life benefits the whole Universe, and happiness is obtained by benefiting mankind. Faith! don't strive too hard after it, but let it flow into one's being gently, smoothly. Faith is all in all. Let go and faith comes. Relax mind and body. The material gain is as nothing in comparison with the mental, the spiritual that comes by faith, and is also cultivated by the study of the writings of our elder brothers, not in the sense of age, but of enlightenment. The desire to learn is good, nourish it carefully. Think reason, open the mind to receive, and the Master will help one to attain his desire. All learning grows by putting one's mind to work. Time and opportunity comes, not to those who wait, but to those who seize the present moments and let unessential things go by. Create your own opportunity, if one waits it may never come. Keep silent and learn to hold one's tongue, keep from expressing the higher thoughts to those who are not ready to receive. Send them mentally a desire, that may open their minds to the grand existence of the higher life, but go carefully; don't say too much, a little hint or word will be developed by their higher self. One must grasp these high ideas slowly, not at a big jump;

look at all growth, it is slow, atom by atom, into the beautiful whole.

I offer this proposition: If we have a spirit, it must be in the form of pur bodies, for God is a spirit and created man in His own image. If God's image is of the form of our bodies, truly the Spirit is also of the same form, for it (the Spirit) was created by the same power, and must be of the same form. If God created us in His image, He must have endowed us with His 1 attributes, or we would not be in His image. The attributes of God, are all power, Omniscience, omnipotence, and perfect love. Our bodies are only temporary or death would not overtake them; hence the Spirit is the essential part of the creation. If this be true and we have the attributes of God, one of which is Omnipotence, we must be able to be at any and every place at the same time, for the Spirit travels as does thought. Hence when the Spirit is properly educated (which must be possible, if it is perfectely created, which we cannot dispute) it must be capable of acting independently of the body, whether the body be above or under the ground. Does it not prove that the spirits of those who have passed out of the body may communicate with a properly educated spirit, that is still in the body. Good Night, J. N.

You ask about my method for healing disease. It is as follows: I begin by grasping the hands or wrists, which I hold until the temperature is about equal to my own, when I hold one wrist at the pulse, or hold the hand, and place my other hand on the nape of the neck. Always using the right hand in operation, I keep my will constantly affirming that I shall and do command and control the disease. I can force it until those great waves or chills, as it feels like, pass up my back and over my head, and out at my arms into the person. They always become drowsy and sleepy very soon. Then I make the curative passes very slowly down the back to the waist for a few times, then to the thighs, then short passes again, during which time I will and feel there is flowing from me something that is breaking up and dispensing whatever the disease may be. I appear to get as much benefit from it as the person operated upon.

Dr. B's teachings are that God is. He created, directs and rules everything by His power. He does not perform anything of the nature of miracles, but He made all of nature's laws perfect and complete in the beginning, so that no changes of any kind are needed, and to experience a miracle we have only to get in touch with those laws and stay with them and we see signs and wonders that we look upon as being out of the general order of events, but they are not.

Everything in the world is moved and controlled by vibration, by them we see, hear, taste, smell and feel, that is a scientific fact, accepted and believed by all classes who give science any thought. The higher we become spiritually and the less we think of matter and are controlled by it, the more rapid our vibrations become; hence we get on a higher or more spiritual plane of living. Each of us are but a drop of water in the mighty ocean of God's great universe.

Try to think and realize how much that God has made for our service and use it, use it, use it, and think that it is within your reach and power to actually grasp His great and mighty hand as He enforces the laws of nature, which He made perfect billions of ages ago, and has not been compelled to change or alter one of them since.

It is a mighty thought, and comes only from the Maker.

Magnetism is formed or cultivated by deep breathing, which takes the natural electricity from the air, vitalizes the blood which again strengthens and invigorates the body, and we have the magnetism to force out over the universe by our thoughts and wills; hence the "I will" of the mind, that, with magnetic force, goes out and forms a wave, which will reach beyond the earth, for of such God created the Universe. What we need is to be in constant touch with the great "I am" and love and 1 ft up to light and happiness the poor, sick, afflicted and down-trodden of men.

Let us resolve to see the bright side that God has made for us to look at, try to make each day an improvement over the one before, and if we stumble, we need not lie down, but get up quickly, and help anyone up, who may have fallen. May the Infinite God keep you in constant touch with His great mind and open your spiritual eyes to see the wonders and beauties of His Universe, and thus enable you to feel that thrill of power which can only come from the source of All-Power. Every time that you can do so, make this thought dominant. Begin by saying in a voice audible to yourself, say it firmly. "I am" growing stronger, stronger, stronger." Repeat the words a dozen times. Then take the words brighter healthier and better. Think this; also keep it in your mind and do it dozens of times each day. Keep the thought always with you, that you are becoming perfect in every way. Let me give you a little logic to convince you that you are right in this thought. A perfect, pure and powerful God made man in His own image; hence the logical conclusion is that this same God made you in that perfect image; thus you have the right and privilege to say that you are just as He made you, and if you will assert that right He will make it good. Don't be afraid of offering an insult by claiming everything for your body, for it is the "Temple of the living God*', as that creative and preservative part of Him is in that temple. Don't forget these beautiful thoughts; they keep you in touch with the All-power. Say, think, and believe that "I am." Learn to meditate on the Vastness of the Universe and the wonders of creation. You are God's, and vnt God is yours. He sl&rrt want you to do any begging of Him or pleading for anything, simply say that I am part of of the powerful God; I am healthy and strong, and I am growing stronger every day. I have no pain, disease or weakness, I will do all things right, and force your mind to realize that you are doing just as you say. When our occult power is fully developed that power will prove to be our teacher. Good-bye.

Yours truly,

J. N.

III

The word "God", as we use the term, applies or means a personal or individual God. The word "Om" is a combination of sounds, which when understood in its occult meaning treats of the Great Creative Principle or Great First Cause. That antidates the description of Creation given in Genesis, when all was darkness and void and silent, when there was no light, no motion, for vibration was then unknown. Vibration is the seeking of component parts to unite themselves. Without vibration there is nothing. We see by vibrations of light; we hear by vibrations of sound; we taste, smell, feel, breathe, take pain or pleasure all in vibrations. We have all of the above when vibrations are in accord with our vibrations, which give us pleasure; if the vibrations are not in accord, they must be in discord; then we do not take pleasure, but are pained. Our vibrations may be cultivated; take music, for example. As we become trained by study and concentration, the laws of harmony assert themselves in our vibrations. It is needless to ask you, if discord is unpleasant. So it is with all vibrations, if they continue in the same relations, but they may become slower and slower, for example, suppose our vibrations of light is 8000 per siecond, should some other person's vibrations be but 4000 per second, we would not see them clearly; if their's is 2000 per second, we would not be able to see them at all. That is not the actual measurements of vibrations, but from it you catch the idea. Then turn it the other way and suppose our vibrations were 1 and others ran up to millions, the same rule would hold good. Now, while vibrations has equal (or on the same line) relations, we will not take the pain especially, but we will not see, nor hear, nor smell the same etc. Now, go back to where I spoke about uniting of component parts, like can only unite with like, is one of nature's laws, spiritual and corporal cannot unite, but one may envelope the other, and if the vibrations can be nearly of the same relations, there is a kind of union or toleration which will allow them to remain in a kind of contract (under protest we might say) so it is that soul and body are together.

Hence we take our exercises and develop the body, trying to get nearly the same vibrations, or to get the body as nearly perfect as possible. Then again the body was developed for almost twenty years before the spirit was developed of any consequence, so we try to develop the spiritual to the strength of the developed perfect body.

. The Om before Creation began was all within Himself, which was divided by His own mighty will, creating a positive, negative, and neutral, thus forming a trinity, all of which appears in all electricity, and are constantly attracting and repelling the particles of air, setting up lines of opposing force, which again divide by the same line of force, while all the time they are anxious or trying to connect themselves. Now, to sum up: Om is the center or origin of all power and force in the universe and controls all suns, planets, stars and systems of worlds. We try to get into accord with those vibrations and hence in touch with all-Power, Life and Light. When you meditate, let your mind dwell on what must have been the state of darkness and silence before the dawn of creation, and try to look into that darkness and see the light of life begin to shine, when the Great First Cause began to move.

We get close to nature by being close to God by thinking and meditating on His wonderful works, and having love and compassion for all poor, weak, unfortunate creatures both human and brute.

All human vibrations are about equal, but to get the corporal, so that we can see the spiritual, we have to reduce the corporal so as to lose it entirely, which is accomplished by the exercises, meditation and concentration. This is all due to the necessity of bringing ourselves up to the spiritual. When we were born, we were equally spiritual and corporal,but during so many years of our lives, we have spent our time and effort on the temporal, that our spiritual became dwarfed in comparison with our corporal, or in other words, the a^u^ body outgrew the spirit so much, that now wemust bring the spirit up, which is done by the exercises, meditation and concentration. Good-night.

J. N.

IV

Yes; it is possible for the soul to leave the body under certain favorable conditions, and when those conditions^obtained it is also possible for the physical eye to see it in its astral envelope, and could you have seen the face you spoke of, very likely you would have looked at yourself, but its position in its natural state would be the same in direction as your physical at the time you saw it, which would naturally be with its back or side to you, had you been in your astral proper you could have turned and seen your physical body very clearly. The odd shapes and shadows you see are elementals or disembodied entities coming by reason of your force, to do your bidding and obey your commands. In all probability you will get a teacher, sometime soon, one of the Astral brotherhood (whose vibrations accord with your own) will be delegated to represent the brotherhood and to be your teacher.

When anything of the kind appears, command it to be peaceful and happy, and to bring you love, peace, contentment, power, health, and plenty; to return to its higher station in peace, and to come again, when you will, to bring you news, and to help you advance in your higher self, to teach you all you need to know and that peace and happiness shall attend all its visits. Should a tall form appear and gaze steadily at you, say to it, "Peace be to you, in the Master's name, tell your errand, do your work and in peace return to your station, and come again when a message requires your presence."

The yellow light you see, is the Golden Sun light of your soul's illumination, and is more to be desired than almost anything else, save the appearance of an Angel of brightness. Don't forget that every thought you think is a creation of a force or entity, and as you think and send good thoughts to every person, they return to you ladened a thousand fold with good towards you, and for you and remain in you to be again sent out on these errands of good. Don't allow yourself to become irritated or feel harshly towards any person, for you are generating power that should you hold for a second an evil or unkind thought towards any person or kind of life it is likely to make them sick or even go so far as to take t!eir life; be most guarded in this particular. Don't allow your vibrations to be disturbed, for remember you are holding part of the Omnipotent power of God Himself within yourself, and to throw that mighty and terrible force at any person is more than likely to cause them pain and perhaps instant death. Think peace, love, happiness and plenty to every one "for as you mete to others it shall be meted out to you." Give and you will get. Love and you will be loved; help and you will be helped; lift up and you will be lifted up. No difference how lowly you may find people, help by a kind thought or word, if opportunity presents itself. Don't get the idea of fear, of this power into your mind, but rest on the sublime thought that you are becoming "One with God", which is always an overwhelming majority.

You have love, peace, power, and plenty at your command. I am especially anxious to develop the Astral, so I can get into it at will, which makes the almost almighty Adept, for when one can do that at will, everything is possible. Your visitor is some teacher from the Astral Plane, and will prove to be your helper. It is making its presence felt, and don't do a single thing of any kind without requesting its aid, and then thank it for helping you. It will not allow you to make any mistakes, if you do everything as you are impressed. You are perfectly safe, no difference what emergency may arise, for it will warn and protect you and lead you. Just think of the idea that an Omnipotent power is at your side every moment, not such a weak power as the strongest man on earth could weild in your behalf and protection, but a power that transcends by far our highest ideal of what power is. Man's physical arm is short and weak, but that power about you is a power that flashes throughout the Universe in a second of time and that individual, whoever it may be, is there for your help. Talk to it, in all confidence, about all you wish and desire, and you will find that you are being strangely led. Keep all tendency toward anger down. Don't, as you prize your highest ideals of happiness and friendship of friends, allow the least particle of anger to disturb your vibrations, for if you do so, it will set loose a lot of entities that are worse than bloodhounds to worry the person against whom your anger might be turned. They will follow to death the person against whom they are projected, and they have the power even to take life. Occult power gives the power of God for good, and the wickedness of hell for bad. When you see the mist, turn your eyes downward, and close them tightly, and see if a rainbow or star will not appear or perhaps a ray of bright light. Now, turn your occult power to a practical use, will and say out loud, "I command the powers that are subject to me to open up the way for me, and my life-work, and if it is honorable I will follow up the work," for I am my higher self, it is indestructable, and Omnipotent, and I will that I have love, peace, power and plenty." If it is for your good and development, the powers will provide the place and direct you. You have progressed upward out of the Magnetic plain into the Electric plain, and your next experience of progress will be into the Astral Plane, for the first is Magnetic, second, Electric, third, Astral, and fourth Etheric.

Vibrations are everything, and without them nothing can be accomplished. There is but one Good thing and that is God, which is only a name for Its principle and this principle is Love, and love is Truth, and truth is God, and there we have the trinity in the form of a triangle thi

God

Earth Plane

Love and truth is the base. God is the Apex, both the points on the base line point to and in uniting, they are are God. Turn the triangle in any way, and you have the same results; all of the three points are God. The love so expressed, is not our narrow love for those who love us, nor is God a great big Something that we should fear Him, for fear kills love and separates us from God. We have nothing to fear. Fear is the Devil of our Bible and causes all disease, sorrow and pain. Love is within us, in our life. We must be selfish in a certain way, and that way is to get within, and see and appreciate our mind or higher self.

The part of us that is part of God gets our vibrations. We need to do lots of meditation, lots of sitting still, and trying to keep from thinking of anything, breathing slowly, getting quiet, with eyes closed; don't ever rock; don't move; lose all sense of the physical; shrink within yourself. The higher self is everything. Think of it as overshadowing everything, as enveloping us, or sitting down over us as a vapor or cloud, which shuts us in, and then think slowly of our heart, what a fine and delicate piece of creation; within its inner chambers are etheric atoms or vibrations, which represent Divine Love and immortal Touch or God. Listen for that still small voice from within "Peace be still", and know that I am God. Listen long and quietly if necessary, but wait until the answering peace and quiet comes. Then feel the delightful, quiet, warmth, peace, harmony and know that you are in touch with the Infinite. This meditation gives power, wisdom and knowledge. Then look for mental impressions. They will come. This leads to concentration; also follow gazing, for a long time, at the black spot, it aids concentration.

The black spot is made as follows, — Take a piece of white paper, eight inches square, and put a black spot, the size of a fifty-cent piece in the center, put it on the wall, sit about six feet from it, having the black spot on a level with the eyes, have a straight chair, and sit erect, without touching back of chair, soles of feet on the floor and hands with the palms on the knees. While doing so use long, full, deep breaths. This increases the magnetism, which is another name for atoms or vibrations. For as our magnetic or vibrating currents are strong, quiet, and send out vibrations all about us, as an envelope, ladened with the love thought, they will (like the magnet) attract their own kind from the either about us, hence we give out love and get back the same, only each return is quadruple the vibrations sent out.

You cannot afford to be impatient, for that sets up a counter-vibration, and your development is thrown back for weeks, you cannot hurry anything in which the Soul has the control, for it is never in a hurry; it has all of Eternity in which to do its work, and can well afford to take its time. Try to converse with your spirit friend, in a quiet, slow undertone, a whisper, tell him to take charge of you while you sleep and advance your development, to work on your head and brain. Don't worry about being good. Love in your heart for everything, is what makes good, and that is God; add a single "o" to God, and you have good, or reverse it and you have the same result.

Meditation and concentration, pure and simple are the Himalayan heights of Occult power and force. It is late, so good night.

Your truly,

J. N.

V

The breath is the only thing that will bring the Astral light, so keep it up all the time, do it when sitting, walking and on all occasions. Your visitor is just as anxious as you are, and will stay and help you, but you must not get anxious; he will direct you in your work, do whatever impressions come to you and don't do anything from duty of affection, should an impression come to your mind not to do so. Your visitor is no doubt a spiritual guide sent to help and teach you, and when your vibrations are exactly right, he will communicate with you and will show you wonderful things, both of the present and the future. Keep in constant touch with him, when the illumination does come you will wonder at its work.

Get out of doors on a clear day in a hammock or on the grass, lie on your back and look steadily at the blue sky, think of nothing save the wonder of that beautiful sky and the Great First Cause that produced it from darkness and nothing. Try to see what must have been that darkness, when "All was darkness and void." It was the darkest darkness that your mind can conceive, nothing was there but the Great, Absolute, First, Cause, God. We cannot picture anything in our minds for it was only darkness, get the darkness in your mind and thought and the sublimity of the Greatness of the darkness will overpower your objective mind and awaken your subjective mind, which will cause you to want to take deep breaths. Take plenty of them. Then try to think of nothing save that darkness, close your eyes, and look at it. Then you get a view of the Absolute, keep quiet, so still, that you can't hear your heart beat, nor anything else. Then you are in touch with the Infinite, who is All Life and Light. This is meditation. If anything happens to disturb or disquiet you, repeat this "I am my higher self, my power to think it is indestructable and omnipotent. My every atom springs from it, and jg fully if charged with its power and harmony." I have nothing to fear, nothing can harm me. Love, peace, power and plenty are mine." Commit those words, repeat slowly, draw each word out long. Sit still and think of their wonderful import and notice how you become quiet. All these meditations will cause the cold waves of power to pass up your back, and into your head and limbs. Don't forget that this power is not simply power, like a locomotive, but it is the power that holds the Universe that Creates worlds and peoples them with living beings. It is God, God, God, power.

Keep in thought, "Nothing can harm or disturb me." "I have nothing to fear", keep your heart beat quiet by force of your will, do nothing in haste; don't hurry; don't speak quickly nor at any time allow your temper to get the least start. Be. cool, kind, loving, cheerful, strong when others are weak, when any disturbing elements arise think the thoughts of your Master who, when on the sea of Galilee, spoke those memorial words, "Peace be still." Those words mighty in power to quell the disturbing elements, are in your power to use for the same purpose, and with the same force, and they will bring the same results. Try to grasp the thought, God speaks through you and must be obeyed. Those cold waves of power, are the mighty waves of Magnetism coming from the poles of the Universe, and stars, and the Absolute. You feel them pass upward and spread out over the back part of your head (the animal part) you| feel them through the hip and back. Keep them running up, and try to have them pass over the top of your head and down in front; send them to any point where you feel weak or tired.