As you seek union with the Truth, think also of the devic creation, with which you have had much intimate relationship in the past. This is a composite form of intelligence which, if you can bring it into your atmosphere, will devitalize the opposition that may come into your presence.
In seeking union with a deva, remember that you are endeavoring to contact the intelligence of an angelic being that exists in an atmosphere or vibration quite foreign and in opposition to the sovereignty of your own place in the physical and mental divisions of your world.
Few people are able to assimilate the devic consciousness, for its power is tremendous and disturbing to the human atmosphere. Seek always to glorify God through these beings or intelligences, for they represent all the nobler standards and ideals to which few men can attain. Therefore, watch that their presence may be known to you, for in the beginning you will get intermittent vibrations from their plane.
These devic intelligences can give you the deeper truths which lie behind the foundations of all society. When you feel such a vibration, let nothing disturb the tranquillity of your mind. Seek union with God through these vibrations, for there is a great need for such union with your man-in-nature. The deva itself is not always conscious of your approach, and you must seek to absorb as much of its consciousness as possible so that a bindery link may be formed between its consciousness and yours. This will open to you certain divisions of your nature, with which you are little acquainted, and remember that within its atmosphere is the brooding spirit which unifies all things in nature’s creation.
This is a discovery to which you must attain, for without its power it would be hard to assume any position of real importance in the world. This has been symbolically referred to as “the herald of the dawn” to this new age of discovery into which you are awakening. Your world is foreign to the devas’ nature, which has a high standard and witnesses the illusion which man fails to perceive.
To those who have the potentialities for reading and understanding the book of nature, the doctrine of the spirit will unfold itself. The great book of emancipation is given to those who can read, assimilate, and understand the real nature of their being.
The devas, in an age of corruption and wrongdoing, are composed of those atoms which are witnesses of the Law. They understand how wrongdoing developed in humanity, and witness things which cannot be perceived by the human mind. When the student allies himself with nature’s understanding he will have a vision which is threefold. With reference to the nature of its being, he will see the beginning and the emergence of a thing into the truth. He will perceive the law of cause and effect operating through it while in being, and will realize that there is also a power which will retire and disintegrate it.
It is necessary that you should unite yourself with the “middle” kingdom within your nature of being, for here the deva can assimilate itself with the outer covering of your atmosphere, so that its presence can be felt, and the activities of its spirit be known to you.
In other words, that which is above unites itself with that which is below, and that which is below unites itself with that which is above; thereby a common ground of understanding is made known to your human consciousness.
You must take a great deal of care in seeking to enter and analyze the nature of truth on its plane, and you must endeavor to sense the relationship which exists between this world of being and that of your lower counterpart, which is the world of humanity at large.
Remember also that this division in nature, symbolized by the devic consciousness, exists in parallel within the finer nature of your being and, in order to unify yourself with this consciousness, you must travel inwardly towards the source and center of your being.
You must also realize that you have within yourself this great emancipation book of the Universe, and when you wish to bring its material into the light of your day, you must aspire inwardly for its manifestation. To enter into nature’s consciousness, you must seek out the inner things of the spirit, and not cast your thought outwardly into the atmosphere of so-called conscious nature, which you behold and analyze with your senses.
Deep down within man are those streams of energy which bring to birth in humanity fountains of expression through the voice of literature.
There is one thing which you do not realize, and that is, with the aid of that instrument in nature which you have in your keeping, you have a part and place in the reorganization of human conduct. This power is given you so that you may be able to discriminate between that which is false, and that which partakes of the truth.
Through devic guidance man comes to realize that the cell life and atoms which are to be found in his composition have their corresponding positions in the seven divisions of nature, and that he corresponds to nature’s embodiment and is a part of her manifestation. Man, in his waking consciousness, has little realization of nature’s divisions of consciousness.
At so-called death, however, man makes the discovery that he is a part of nature, and he passes through a period of being reborn into her consciousness. This is why people who have passed over find it difficult to adjust themselves to the new environment. After the age of seven years, when boys and girls merge themselves deeper into the consciousness of this physical and mental world, nature withdraws from them, although a few people retain their link with nature’s consciousness during their human life.
This is a point we wish to emphasize; when man passes from this earth plane at death, he is slowly reborn into that plane of consciousness through which he had passed before incarnation. We also find that the more developed aspirers for Truth pass quickly into the nature of their being, and that is why they seldom communicate with their loved ones on this earth. Humanity in general is not aware that when we pass out of our body in sleep we can, if worthy, associate in the finer spheres of nature with those whom we love, but when we come back into the confusion of this world we do not retain, unless trained, the memory of our conversations with those who are now evolving in the finer states of consciousness.
When the ignorant person, with a strong passion and desire nature, concentrates upon the loved one who has passed on, he is unconsciously creating a line of communication as in earth life. He is breaking a law of nature by this desire, for with the force of his longing and desire, by personal domination, he is pulling the departed back into the density of our world atmosphere.
Often by concentration of desire upon a beloved one, who has found peace and tranquillity in the finer essence of matter, he is drawn back into our world of tumult and disaster, perhaps into the family atmosphere of self-pity and sorrow, and this will cause acute suffering. If the chamber house of memory could be entered by the ordinary mind, there would return to us memories of those spheres from which we came, memories which usually disappear within seven years after birth.
The little child in his pram can talk to the Yogi by telepathy and often, in the presence of a baby, you are listening to the inarticulate utterances of a wise man or woman. I have often felt myself in the presence of a sage, whose soul was imprisoned and bound in the inarticulate body of the child. We are often asked by the unborn child to inform its mother what food it needs for the deficiencies of its body, or the type of books its mother should read to it. It will sometimes tell us when it was last incarnated.
These unborn babies will often converse with you in the tongue of their last incarnation and one said to me, “Tell mother that my body will be deficient in a certain property, which swine’s flesh fed on acorns will give me.” It spoke in old English, and it told me that it wished to be named Alfreda.
These unborn babes will also inform you of the things which should not be done to the child as a baby, because of prenatal shocks. For instance, a pregnant woman got a chill from the water being too cold in her bath. This sudden immersion caused the unborn child to suffer. After this child was born, the mother, forgetting this incident, squeezed a spongeful of cold water over its head in its bath. The baby became hysterical with fear, and she then remembered the warning.
Sometimes when the child passes on at birth, it will ask that the mother should be given the message, “I will try to come again.” The Yogi often converses with these souls who are to incarnate, and he becomes quite attached to them, for they are whimsical like the “little people,” the fairies in nature, and bring a purity into his atmosphere. We seldom see these children seeking incarnation in the atmospheres of men and women of evil nature. In such atmospheres we see half developed and half human entities, which seldom show themselves more than a foot above the ground, crawling in the slime of a dank and fetid pool. These are denizens of the underworld who seek an entrance into our spheres of consciousness.
Often we see malformations which can be applied to the human frame; creations consisting of a combination of the human and animal of the lower elemental worlds. These forms often inflict themselves upon a sensitive man on waking. They seek to becloud the sensitive with their atmosphere and try to influence his personality by contacting him with some other character, which is not of the nature of his being.
An evil man, who died a leper, brought his atmosphere to impress me with the vision of what was once his face, and asked my help. When such an one asks for help it should be given freely. In time you will learn to love these poor monstrosities, whom disease has malformed, as you observe the slow awakening of their bedimmed consciousness. They tell us that there are very few who will love and help them, and that many drive them away. The Yogi often finds himself speaking to vast audiences in those spheres where the light is dark. I know a lady who is very much of this world, but “out of the body” I have listened to her orations to great audiences, in a world where midday is like a London fog. Many people, unrecognized in this world, are working out of the body in the deeper states of consciousness to bring the hope of peace to these people of the underworld.
One of the severest trials of the Yoga student is the conquest of fear, for when he has attained to a slight degree of consciousness of the light, the moths of the underworld see it, and flutter about his candle. Many sensitive people, suddenly seeing these apparitions, have suffered shock. The less cultured members of society who loved coarse jokes, when earthbound, like to try their jokes on sensitives who can see them. They are like boys who hide behind trees and jump out with a shout upon some lovelorn swain to give him a fright. Their antics resemble the sadism which most boys display at about the age of fourteen. So we find these jokers dressing themselves up as pirates or highwaymen and trying to frighten the sensitive.
Whenever you see an apparition of this kind, quietly send your love to it, and then it will reveal its true nature, whether good or evil. I was once privileged to sleep for six months in a hut in a churchyard and my work, each night before going to bed, was to go through the churchyard to break, when merited, the linga sharira thread which held the astral body to the corpses.
The clergy in the Protestant churches know little of the science of liberating the soul from its tomb, but in the olden days the sonorous intonations of the mass and the tolling of the church bell brought this about. This is why cremation should be advocated, as this releases the astral body from the corpse.
When a man died in the early Christian days, if the priest considered him worthy, he could be helped out of the body and piloted through the three purgatorial belts of illusion which surround our earth. Among the death scenes I have witnessed I find that the seemingly devout Christian fights for life. He is afraid of death, which should be welcomed. If a man earnestly aspires for Truth there is nothing to fear in death, for it is an awakening into those spheres which his just deserts merit.
People will dogmatically state what they expect after death, yet, because they never take the trouble to observe things about their physical plane, they know little about life. If people realized what emanations of a lower elemental nature arise from churchyards, they would not bury the dead in the midst of the living.
Sometimes ill people are taken into hospitals or nursing homes and placed on a bed in which a person has recently died. The room may have been used for some time and magnetized by the thoughts of the former occupant. A normal person placed on that bed for a minor operation, if sensitive, may take upon himself the atmosphere which his predecessor left behind. The room may have been properly cleaned and disinfected, but a person who has passed out in a state of delirium seeks to return to his old bed, and it is difficult to remove such an atmosphere.
In my travels I have often found a bed which I was to sleep in, already occupied by the passion and desire body of a being who would ask me what I was doing in his room. He did not realize that he was dead. Also, I have found supposedly uninhabited houses haunted by old people who have passed over. It is their passion and desire body, known as a spirit, which remains behind.
We find also through clairvoyance that the astral form of an old building, which has been pulled down, still exists, although another house may have been erected on that spot. This astral form is often inhabited by a spirit who may tell you that there is a bag of sovereigns back of the skirting board behind the washstand, even although to the normal eye there is no washstand. Clairvoyantly, however, we could see a fragment of the old room, with its green washstand and when we mentioned the green washstand the spirit (an old lady), in great excitement said, “Yes, it is there.” She had been a miser and did not realize that another building had been erected upon the site of her old home. A miser is difficult to help.
Sometimes we also talk to the gnomes, an elemental people whose habitat is the mineral kingdom. They may take you to a very old ruin which, to them, remains as it was in its days of prosperity, for its astral form still remains intact. Perhaps they will show you where things of value were hidden in the past and are often surprised that you cannot see things which they register.
They may show you treasure which to them remains intact, as well as treasure which our living friends may possess. In Scotland one of these friendly gnomes accurately described to me the treasure chest of an old Scottish family, and when I went to see this friend and told her what the gnome had said, she got the chest, which she said had not been opened for two and a half years. We found that the gnome had been accurate in his description. He had particularly described an ornament that had once belonged to “the Bruce.” In speaking of my friends he would say that their bodies were made up of precious stones and certain minerals.
I wish that humanity in general were as honest as my friend, the gnome. While he could magnify the qualities of sincerity and honesty, the charming thing about him was his enthusiasm over everything which was going on around him. He had the wisdom of an old man and the enthusiasm of a child, and he had the power of foretelling whenever I was going to travel into the land of the fairy folk. He could tell me where the elemental conditions were good, and where they were evil, and he also told me to beware of the gnomes that had pot bellies and legs like frogs. His great interest lay in the Christian religion and its observances.
He knew a great deal about the secrets of levitation, which he called a change of vibration, or the bringing into the student of a vibratory arc where the lines of vibration converge to one point to counteract the pressure of the earth traveling through space. He did not speak of gravitation as we know it and I asked him if a man standing at the North or South Pole would be blown off the earth. He replied, “That force which is back of the vacuum pushes the earth along.”
He told me also that this force which propels the earth will propel the airplanes of the future, and that the Atlanteans of old knew this secret. He said that the future airplane, when it gets this “push” from that which is back of the vacuum, will propel itself and that its design will be quite different from that of today. He often spoke as if the earth propelled itself through space. I do not know if he is correct, for I have never investigated the source of this information. This gnome was educated by the monks in St. Edmund’s time and had access to books which have passed beyond our ken. He would often bring these books to me, and putting on a pair of spectacles to appear wise, he would read me what the ancients had written.
Whenever I told him that I was going to Ireland, he would dance with glee and go through a pantomime showing the pains and sorrows of the poor people there. He said that the gods walk there in the sheltered places at daybreak. He is cosmic in his happiness, as well as in his sorrow, and his consciousness seemingly extends over a long range of time. Although he is fond of bedecking me with ornaments, and will suggest certain qualities and virtues which he wishes me to attain, he also brings a touch of sadness.
He hopes that I may attain to the Light which is back of all creation. He sometimes gives me a blessing as if he were a prelate, but I cannot analyze the kind of a prelate that he wishes to express, for his costume was of a period which I did not recognize. It was rather like some old Celtic priest, then he changed to the period of St. Alban. When departing he always shakes his hands together.
