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Session #68 – February 15, 1986
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Owen and Maxine Cramer, Richard and Mary White, Sidney Smither, Ida
Nevala, Myra Perala, Peggy Muldoon, Jean Chisholm, and Bonnie Wisz.
The circle group attended a memorial service and potluck in celebration of the graduation
from the physical earth life, of our beloved member, Larry Horton. The study session led
by Owen focused on the River of Life, the Law of Dominance, and the Garden of Eden.
Richard led the opening meditation, followed by the usual singing.
The next circle will be held at Eileen’s. The group voted to accept Betty Welty as a
regular member since she has completed study of the transcripts and participated as a
facilitator at the Healing Retreat.
Judith: Good evening my precious ones. We are once again pleased to be with
you. We were with you earlier as your thoughts went out to that member of our
circle who is even now with you but yet not with you. As he knows his freedom, he
also knows his fear, and thus it is well that you bless him with your thoughts, that
you love him with your heart, that you give him the regard of your mind. He needs
your support as he struggles to re-establish control over much of that over which he
had thought to have lost control.
While your passage is truly a graduation, it is not as simple as stepping
through a doorway. There is an obligation to be fulfilled. You and you alone are
responsible for the way in which you conduct your lives, for that which you incur,
for that which you aggregate, acquire, for the relationships you establish. You are
responsible for a particular goal, an obligation, a contract which you make before
you are given the opportunity to don a physical body.
Death is not merely the shedding of that physical body. It is an accounting
for your dwelling within that body, for what you leave behind, and for what you
take with you. This interim period of review and evaluation is not always easily
accomplished nor immediately done so. In the case of our friend, there are some
deep fears which he must face and know the reality thereof. You can only help with
your blessing and love.
Grief detains. It is true that you, in your physical bodies, are going to feel the
absence of his physical presence. But know that his finer physical presence is still
with you, is still in need of your regard and your support, but not your detention.
Give him thoughts of encouragement and urging, as you would urge a child to face
an unknown fear, for the fears which he must face are similar to those fears that a
child has of the dark. When he comes to know this, it will be the same as if you
turned on the light in the frightened child’s bedroom.
In addition to this, he is not yet ready to sever that last connecting link with
this earth’s family, as they have not yet been able to reach that point of
consciousness in which they no longer detain him. So in your thoughts, bless them
also. Encourage them also. In this way, you serve your friend best.
Now let us move on to the topic for this evening’s lesson. We congratulate
our member for the picture which inadvertently is upside down. (Laughter.) Take a
lesson from the Hindus. Their “tree of life” has its roots in The Absolute, and its
trunk and its branches hanging downward. Thus it is that your picture would be
reversed, for the Rod, the River, comes as a mighty stream and branches out into
lower realms. These branches are not tributaries, as given in your picture, but
rather stem from the River as the River divides itself into various manifestations.
One thing further, we would also wish to point out, which perhaps we have
not stressed sufficiently: You good people have been immersed for centuries in a
system of thought that is grounded in a system of morality. These lessons, as we
have been giving them to you from The Absolute, through the Divine, the Cosmos,
etc., is the involutionary spiral, and is non-moral.
As the process goes forward, it is a Qualifying process of the Quantity
emanated from The Absolute, which becomes the lower realms. You cannot
quantify a Quality until that Quality is established. As the emanation proceeds, and
the realms come into being, they become Qualifications. It is in the Realm of Self
that the Qualities which you know become manifest. That Quality of humanness
dons a human body, but in the Realm of Mind is not yet a Quality, only an
Intention.
As Adam devises means by which to fulfill the Divine Intention, certain
Qualities become shaped out of the formed matter. But still there are no moral
values established. Morality is the result of the civilizing effort. Morality grows out
of funded experience. It does not fall like Divine rain upon you. You are not born in
sin. There is no such thing. There is only incomplete expression of Intention and the
lack of purposeful activity in the fulfillment of responsibility. In the “involutionary
spiral” of which you find yourself a part, the Intention is to take the Divine Germ
Cell down to its lowest level of functional activity that does not deny the
“evolutionary potential”.
Reincarnation is a process peculiar to the Realms of Soul and below, and is a
means designed by Adam as a means to fulfill the Intention to accommodate the
responsibility for which it was formulated.
Thought, itself, is neither moral nor immoral. Thought pre-exists this
physical manifestation. Thought is the product of the combination of Volition and
Consciousness. Now in the fulfilling of this Intention to reduce the Nine Components
to a condition as nearly the lowest ebb as can be reached without loss of any portion,
the ratio of Volition to Consciousness is reduced.
The Mineral Kingdom is just as conscious as you. Should I ask you, “What is
your mission?” Why are you here?” Could you tell me? And yet you say that the
Mineral Realm is not intelligent because it cannot tell you its mission. Intelligence,
sentience, inheres from The Absolute. Did we not give you that there are Two Minds
in the Divine Germ Cell? Where there is Mind, there must be something else.
Volition and Consciousness and Minds make communication possible.
Communication is not merely words, but action. Communication occurs at
all levels of life. Each ERT is comprised of all the Components of the Divine Germ
Cell. Space is merely expansion of ERT. Solid matter is merely the conjugation of
ERTs. So space and matter are the same. Space and matter both have Minds, have
Force, have Life. Have Quality, have Quantity, Volition, Consciousness. Space is not
inanimate. Space lives. It gives birth.
Now, in the Garden of Eden, we have Matter formed, ERTs have arranged
themselves in certain relationships. As angels come to be in the Realm of Spirit, so
they also come to be in the Realm of Soul what we call Devas, to serve the Intention
of Adam Kadmon. In your experience these become Nature Spirits, for you have no
language with which to comprehend their existence, their activity. But you do have
the intuitive capacity to know their presence. In this manner, all that you would
consider inanimate as well as that which you consider animate is ensouled, has
capacity to communicate, has capacity to change form. Each Deva has a particular
responsibility to fulfill, some portion of the Intention which it is assigned.
A mineral deva may become the deva for one of your automobiles, one of
your appliances, or anything in which a mineral becomes part of the constitution
thereof. Because of the nature of these entities, they have the capacity of union
differently than you experience union, as they can meld with each other. That
melding may not always be cooperative, happy, and when this situation exists, you
may drive what you call a lemon. Because these are intelligent creatures, they
respond to your communication, and you can perceive them if you so choose.
By their very nature, they tend to be attracted to those dispositions,
characteristics, personalities which most please them. Now remember, I told you
that in this Involutionary State, there is no such thing as morals. So these devas are
a-moral. They do not know the difference between what you call right and what you
call wrong. They simply know. They respond spontaneously to any stimulus which
comes along, but only within those limitations granted them. Thus a mineral deva
can only join with certain other devas of certain substances in certain ways. These
creatures are not reproductive in and of themselves. They people the reflected
Garden of Eden, and here is where your scripture leads you astray.
You are led to believe that the Garden of Eden is some place, possibly
Mesopotamia, and is occupied by flesh and blood people. This is not so. The garden
of Eden is Involutionary and certain creations come alive in it. Some remain in it,
and some depart from it. In the evolutionary cycle, when an entity evolves back to
that level, it is said to be “in the state of Eden”, the Garden being then within. So as
you struggle to understand the lessons, remember that you cannot comprehend
these things in terms of evolution, but in terms of evolutionary potential. All matter
must reach that point of inertia just above loss of consciousness before it joins the
evolutionary cycle.
The “deep sleep of Adam” of which your scripture speaks, represents eras of
time beyond your comprehension, during which matter was quiescent, was changing
its direction, although “direction” is not quite the proper word. But at that level of
inertia, there comes a turning point when mineral begins its evolutionary trek
upward. And as was cited in your last session, the calcium becomes part of plant life
and plant life becomes part of animal life, and animal life becomes a part of human
life, and human life becomes a part of, for lack of better language, “spirit” life, and
on up the evolutionary spiral.
Now reincarnation is that act of returning to a state similar to that state just
exited from. A human reincarnates as human, an animal reincarnates as animal, a
plant reincarnates as plant, and mineral reincarnates as mineral. What confuses you
are the long eras of time which some creations require in their reincarnational cycle.
It is very difficult for you to comprehend the reincarnating mineral, but it happens.
That piece of carbon which may have been taken up the evolutionary spiral a ways,
may, through a process of transformation, return to the mineral kingdom as carbon,
but perhaps a different form of carbon.
Now these devas of which I have spoken have to do with the formation of the
“subtle bodies” and the “life spans” of the material manifestation. You see your
devas as your, sometimes called, “guardian angels” or “spirit”. You have so many
names for them and so many concepts of them, most of which are erroneous, that we
find difficulty in speaking of them without laying sufficient ground work. It might
be said that Adam Kadmon is the deva of Adam. And Adam becomes the deva of all
that grows in the Garden of Eden, all of the ideation which becomes shapen in the
Realm of Ego. Devas do not have Ego, but they are ensouled. Ego is an identifying
qualification of substantive matter.
If Adam has the Intention that a certain creation is to become a stalk of
wheat, a deva is created to supervise the substantiation and the manifestation of that
stalk of wheat. Because of the myriad manifestations with which you now deal, it is
confusing to you for me to tell you that there is an ensoulment of food and an
ensoulment of the wheat and an ensoulment of the various forms of creatures which
you may eat.
One belief which you most often entertain of each individual having a soul
has some merit in that the “oversoul of earth” gives birth of itself to a soul of certain
life forms which in turn is served by the deva. Thus a tree will have its own deva
which serves it from the moment it sprouts from the seed to the moment it is
completely discharged of its duty, which may be by burning or by being eaten or by
decay. That tree is also ensouled by the “tree Quality” Soul which is a part of the
“earth Quality” Soul. It is thus in the Realm of Soul that Quantity or matter begins
its “qualifications”.
It is in the Realm of Mind that the thoughts, the ideas of all of these things,
exist and establish their communal relationships. So it is in the Garden of Eden that
the Intention which becomes the Quality Human is established to gain dominion
over all else. But it does not have dominion at that point. Dominion is gained
through evolution not through involution. In the Garden of Eden a tree is equal to
human, mineral is equal to tree.
The Law of Dominance begins to be worked out in the Realm of Soul as the
devas begin to struggle, begin the dynamic of materialization. This has been
symbolized in the Garden of Eden story by the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The implication of morality is there, but the state of savagery must exist before the
process of civilization can begin. We shall call this sufficient in that we have
confused you sufficiently. (Laughter.) There are some questions that remain from
your study period.
Owen: Yes. We had a discussion about the understanding of the term “bestow”. I
think the statement was made in the lesson that Adam Kadmon “bestowed” the Realm of
Soul. We did not understand just exactly what that meant. (Let us put this in terms of
your material existence. Let us say that the Realm of Mind is a realm of limitless
money, and the accomplishment of Adam’s Purpose and Intention depends upon
how well his creations can handle the responsibility of the money Adam bestows
upon them from that limitless storehouse.) Now this act of “bestowing”, this isn’t
direct giving. It’s making available the means by which it may be appropriated? (Yes.)
Myra: The source that something may be applied to in order to receive the need,
is that it? (Except that in the Qualification process, certain limits are established as
though Adam creates you, and says, “You must administer this, and this, and this to
accomplish such and so. And in order for you to do this, I bestow upon you “x”
amount of money and the responsibility, but I do not relinquish final say so.”) It’s
kind of like a wand of the fairy godmother. (Cinderella had bestowed upon her the
gown and the appurtenances with the responsibility to accomplish her deeds by
midnight.)
Owen: Another question had to do with your use of the terms “Intention” and
“responsibilities”. The way that was used, “Intentions and responsibilities draw to
themselves primordial matter to manifest worlds suited to working out the Law of
Dominance”... Are the “Intentions” and “responsibilities” in existence by themselves to
draw the primordial matter, or were these designed by Adam Kadmon?
Judith: In your experience, it is quite likely that you could mistake or take for
a deva, an Intention, or take for an Intention a deva. As certain creations have the
responsibility for the working out of certain Intentions, which has to do with the
relationship of Volition to Consciousness and Quantity to Quality, there are
Intentions of construction and Intentions of destruction and Intentions of
contentions and Intentions upon Intentions, and some, as the Intention of the
mineral kingdom is to provide a certain type of support system. And it is the
Intention of certain plants to provide a portion of the food chain, and the Intention
of some plants to disrupt same, and each has the responsibility to fulfill these
Intentions. Thus, you do not eat poison ivy, but you can gain great nutrition from a
stalk of wheat. The wheat’s Intention is not to poison, and yet you know that there
are certain humans that wheat does poison. But that is in the failure of the human to
fulfill its Intention.
Myra: When a person is poisoned by the wheat, what Intention has the human not
fulfilled? (That depends upon the human. It is different with each individual.) When
a person is allergic to wheat, does he have an incorrect Intention? (Not an incorrect
Intention, but error in fulfilling his responsibility correctly.)
Jean: Can you say more, because I’m still confused? (You will remain
confused until we get to the seven existences of the Self.)
Myra: How would that apply to children who have these allergies? (They have
these implanted attitudes and memories that are brought into the incarnation in the
subtle bodies, as taught by Silverthistle.) And is this because of a previous lifetime, or
because of a parent’s errors? (Perhaps some of both.)
Jean: You said that the carbon comes back as another form of carbon. Would
that account for the isotopes of carbon? (That’s part of it.) And what’s the other part?
Judith: You wish a lesson in physics, in chemistry, in biology. That’s not
within the scope of the next few moments. Remember when we began these lessons,
we told you that we could not give you everything that we might desire, that our
intention is to lay a groundwork for the future by assisting you to understand what
you call the past, and this is the reason why recent events have transpired in our
channel’s life. You are soon to meet a new communicator at some time before your
next public meeting. We had thought it would be this night, but the day’s events
have disturbed the channel’s ordinary procedures.
Myra: Does that mean that you are going to continue with another one or are you
going to be leaving us? (Our lessons will continue. We are far from finished.)
(Laughter.) The last time you mentioned that there would be some changes. That wasn’t
one of them? (Your group will experience changes. The lessons shall go forward.)
Jean: Was Larry’s graduation one of the changes foreseen? (Yes.)
Myra: And were there others? (Not necessarily graduates.) (Laughter.)
Richard: Inasmuch as Eileen Horton has damage to one leg and is not ambulatory,
we were wondering if we might meet at her home rather than here for the next two or
three sessions, and we were wondering about your thoughts on this. (We would be most
pleased to serve our sister in that way.) Thank you. We will ask the channel if she
concurs.
Jean: I have a partial picture of the deva, but I am still not very clear. (In your
daily lives, you have certain nomenclature which you apply to these beings, and you
give them certain categories. You call some “salamander” which are the devas of
Fire, and “fairies”, the devas of Air, and “gnomes”, the devas of your earth, and
“undines”, the devas of Water. You have many, many, many such names for devas.)
What does the deva do? (It does what your guardian angel is said to do. It
protects; it cleanses; it assists; it encourages; it loves.)
Myra: So as we begin to do something, whatever, would it be wise for us to get
into the habit of discussing it with the deva? (Excellent.) I was thinking of Findhorn and
how they talk to the devas before they garden. (You have many such excellent
examples.) So when we do trimming in the garden, we should explain to the plants what
we are going to do? (Of course. How would you like a surgeon to rush up to you and
cut off your arm and say “that is for your own good”?)
Maxine: We could also do this when preparing vegetables for meals. (Have we not
advised you? The deva of your house is a combination of the devas of the trees
which made the wood, the devas of the minerals which became the nails, the devas
of the plants that became your drapes and carpets.)
Myra: So when we feel protected, that is our protection? (Yes. It is sentient and
active and can be violent.) So it’s good to talk to them.
Owen:Did you say “and can be violent”? (Of course. They are a-moral. If it
takes violence for them to get their job done, they will be violent. If a rushing stream
is to carry all of its melted ice water, it has no care for the deva of the shore, and
they struggle together.)
The deva of Fire is very destructive also of other devas. (But the deva of Fire is
also the deva of your heat.)
Sidney: Is there any material object that does not have a deva? (None.)
Myra: How do they feel about being ignored? Do they mind? (They have reaped
their vengeance.) (Laughter.) I was thinking of the day that my car stopped on the way
to school, and I talked to it, and told it that it better get busy, and the car started.
Sidney: So the modern resurgence of wiccas who are praying frequently to Mother
Earth, are helpful then to the planet? (Yes.) And some of what we are doing that aids the
planet and perhaps prevents a greater destruction, is in a sense ameliorating devas? (Yes.)
Jean: Are divining and pendulum swinging and so on picking up the deva, or the
action of the deva when they find the lines of earth where the pendulum or divining rod
responds. (Yes. It goes beyond magnetic field.) Are those instruments that can pick up
the evidence of the deva? (The pendulum does not pick up the action of the devas.
The pendulum responds to its deva’s instructions.)
Myra: Oh. The pendulum itself has a deva too, and the divining rod would have a
deva also. Well, if some people can use divining rods far more effectively than others,
would that be because that person’s deva speaks to the deva of perhaps the water he is
seeking? (Certainly.) Then others who don’t have that kind of communication wouldn’t
have that ability to speak to the devas.
Jean: Are you saying, then, that we have lost our ability to communicate with
these other devas or forces, and you are trying to awaken us to their presence and the fact
that we can communicate? (Yes.)
Myra: When there are accidents – you said there are no accidents – but when
terrible things happen that appear to be accidents, would this be the violence that the
devas use? (Yes, they are involved.)
Sidney: I just completed a book that stated that during the Fourth Root Race, the
people of those civilizations naturally and at will communicated with devas, and that the
end of those cultures and civilizations with the demise of Atlantis was due essentially to
warfare that involved various factions fighting each other with devic powers. Is that
correct? (Nodding affirmatively.)
Peggy: Eileen told me that Larry was buried without being embalmed. Can we
demand this same treatment when our time comes? (If it concurs with the state law, but
I am not an authority on your state law.)
Jean: If it is done within 24 hours?
Owen: That raises another question. I think I recall someone advising that a body
should not be buried or anything done to it for a period of several days after apparent
physical death. Is this a problem with burial within 24 hours? (There is no problem with
burial. The problem is with embalming or destruction of the body.) What is the
nature of the problem with embalming as related to elapsed time after passing?
(Biological death is not always the death that severs the subtle bodies. As I opened
my remarks this evening, there are “passage rites” which must be observed, certain
obligations which must be fulfilled, and in your terms, that occasionally takes time.)
Myra: Could you elaborate? What do you mean “passage rites”? (Those which I
enumerated in my opening remarks.)
Owen: And these are somehow obstructed by the physical processes of
embalming?
Myra: Are you talking about his fears and his need to work through the fears?
(Those are his particular passage rites...) So every individual would have different
passage rites? (Yes.)
Peggy: Today at the memorial service during a prayer, my eyes were closed. I saw
a three-cornered pyramid, and in the center was something like a rod with a light in it. As
it was forming, little things fell away from it, leaving a brilliant light in the center of a
rosy-pink and yellow color. Would that have anything to do with Larry? (Of course.
Everything that transpired at that service had to do with the passage. That was the
form of your social structure. And you tend to believe these images of mind to be
non-physical. But they are not non-physical. They are physical.) Yes, I understand.
(Then why do you ask if it has something to do with what you were doing? How
could you imagine that it would not?)
I was wondering if it could be his… (If you are saying “that is Larry”, no, that
is not Larry. It is an image of your mind. It is a production of your soul. It is a
substantiation of your ego. And it is a manifestation of yourself.)
Myra: In other words, Peggy was able to discern this image? (All of you
experienced the same thing, but not all of you accepted it into your consciousness.)
Sidney: In the beginning you said that our hearts and our thoughts and our minds
should go out to Larry at this time. I’d certainly think that I’d speak for everybody here if
I asked that our meditation tonight be in that direction. Is that possible? (Looking and
smiling at Sidney: Anything is possible.) (Laughter.)
Owen: Are these deep fears that Larry faces then simply in the matter of
transition from one form of life to another? (No.) I remember he had expressed a lot of
fear of the wells that he kept visualizing when we were trying to find a well. (I believe
that I can say without detriment to his passage that Larry as a personality had
painful womb experiences which are repetitions of experience the entity has had in
other personalities. And in passing from this life, there is that memory which must
be dealt with, for the entity knows it must again come through a womb.)
Maxine: Is there any way for a mother at the time of birth to make it possible so
there isn’t that painful entry? Do the mother’s thoughts have action on this? (From the
time of conception.)
Owen: Another question about Larry. The past year when he put in such a valiant
struggle for life, the purpose for his hanging on escapes me. (His devotion to his family
held him much longer than he wished to stay.) The suffering, then, was not to learn a
lesson. (It was a choice made.)
Myra: I was curious about what you said about the “Tree of Life”, that Owen
drew. You said it was upside down. As I look at that picture, I wonder how do the
branches of that Water start in the Realm of Self. Is that what you meant? Could you
please elaborate? (As given now many times, the River of Life begins at The
Absolute, continues through the Divine, through the Cosmic, through the Universal,
and on down through the realms. The Realm of Mind, in the Garden of Eden, it
branches into four branches, symbolic.)
So that really doesn’t become the Rod at that point. (That River of Life is that
Rod of which Silverthistle speaks. You tend to put things into material molds feeling
that if a river branches in the Realm of Mind, it must remain branched all the way
through the other realms. This is not so. These are allegories.)
Owen: So it would be appropriate to show this as one stream coming from The
Absolute, branching in the Realm of Mind, and then coming back together in the Realm
of Soul. (As a tree branches from the stem or trunk, and twigs branch from the
branches, and leaves branch off of the twigs, they all contain a central core that
comes from the tap root.) So what I have drawn as the Rod is merely one of the twigs.
It’s an example twig.
Myra: That would be for an individual, one manifestation in the Realm of Self.
(In manifestation, the degree to which something may be created may be greatly less
than another manifestation. For instance, one of the branches is also that Repeated
Process. And yet I gave you this very night information about the devas who do not
have egos and who do not reincarnate.)
So does this mean that the devas do not do Repeating Process? (Devas change
form, but do not die.) So when they have completed a particular Intention, like they’ve
been a tomato and it’s been eaten, then that particular deva has another job to do
someplace else? (Yes.) So their repetition would be in a different form for another item.
(It might then take on a tomato which grows from the seed of the tomato it formerly
supervised. The tomato, in effect, becomes reincarnated.)
Sidney: And devas that have become combined, such as the deva of a car, when
that car is destroyed, do they break apart into their original components or into other
components with other tasks? (As a vehicle ceases to be used as a vehicle, there are
various ways in which the vehicle is disposed. The deva of the fender would remain
with the fender on any other vehicle to which it might be attached. The deva of the
door frame would stay with the door frame until it becomes oxidized. It would be
impossible in this space of time for me to go through the details of what becomes of
each deva. You might as well ask me to tell you the fate of each grain of wheat. Some
of your understanding must come from your own extrapolation.)
Well, in the melding of all life, my understanding was that the fender and the door
frame become all part of the one deva for the entire vehicle. So that in a certain sense
then, when the vehicle stops functioning, then the individual devas do go with their
component parts. (Since you are so unaware of the various parts of yourselves, it is
difficult for you to comprehend these combinations and re-combinations.)
Owen: Another question was raised in discussion about one of the branches of the
River of Life and the terminology. In the diagram, I called the first branch “repeated
process, and I indicated in the outline that included both reincarnation and evolution. Am
I mistaken about that, and what is the proper term for that branch? (Repeated Process.
The opportunity is never cut off. You always have a second chance, and a third, and
a fourth, and a fifth, ad infinitum. This is not evolution. Evolution occurs when you
no longer need to repeat that process.) (Ed. Note: When you have learned the lesson.)
Myra: Then it would be reincarnation? (Yes, among other things.)
Owen: Does this imply then that evolution is not included in one of the branches?
(It is not. The branches occur in the process of involution. And it is because they
exist that the Realm of Self can participate in evolution.)
Myra: I don’t understand that. It’s because the branches exist in the process of
involution that “what” can participate in evolution? (It is because the branches exist
that the Realm of Self can participate in the evolutionary cycle.)
Judith: Let us draw our session to a close. Set aside for the moment those
thoughts that have recently occupied your mind. Relax your bodies and be
comfortable. Breathe deeply several times to oxygenate the brain tissues and to
relax the abdomen.
We will again this time do as we did previously. To the greatest extent
possible, free your minds from your bodies, and feel that part of yourself which you
call “spirit” rise and expand and experience freedom. Feel yourselves lighter than
air, and know that in this portion of yourselves lies the capacity to move to any
portion of your planet that you so direct it by your thought.
Let us go first to our absent member, Eileen, and there surround her with
yourselves. Join your hands as you are wont to do. Be joyous, be gay, be loving, and
be light hearted. To Eileen sing “Eileen, I love you”. (Done several times.) Very good.
And now, to Larry’s son, Harvey, although you might not be able to picture
where he is in body, envision him in your midst. Dance about him, and sing
“Harvey, I love you”. (Done three times.) Very good.
And now, let us dance around Dennis, and let us sing “Dennis, I love you”.
(Done three times) Now let us surround our brother, Larry, and again, dance around
him and sing “Larry, I love you”. (Done three times)
And now in your minds, bless the bonds his family has established between
its members, and reassure Larry that those bonds shall continue even as he goes
about the obligations he must fulfill. With the love you have extended to his family,
he comes to know that they are supported, that he is not alone, and that they are not
alone, that any of them are welcome to call upon your psychic support, your loving
heart, your companionship.
Now the temple doctors go to serve Larry, to be with him. As you feel the
freedom of your bodies, celebrate the freedom Larry now has from his pain-
wracked body, that he can now release it, and it is all right. He moves toward joy,
and because he is a part of us now, we will in our subtle bodies, in our hearts and
minds, go forward with him until he enters that corridor of transition, which he will
not do until he has fulfilled his passage rites. Until that time, continue to send him
your love, your compassion, your mercy. Above all, as you think of Larry, or as you
think of Eileen, or as you think of Harvey, or as you think of Dennis, hold only joy
in your thoughts. Let Larry be lifted by your thoughts of joyousness.
Now we invite you to bring your circle back to this room. Remain outside the
prisons of your body. Remain free and joyous, and invite your loved ones to come
and dance and sing with you. Come. Come Kick up your heels. You can be more
joyous.
Now the temple musicians join you in your closing song as you return to your
daily consciousness, and your loved ones return to theirs. We bless you, and we keep
you, and we love you. And so I bid you adieu.
Closed as usual.
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