I want to open your eyes to the reality that surrounds you
and that you are incapable of seeing.
The fate of most people is to die and never to have lived in a true
sense. I want you to avoid this common
destiny. You are not a person of only
one death, but a person who has died many times in the past; and the true
destiny of any person is to die a final death and be resurrected into eternal
life. This destiny can only be attained
after many lives of true spiritual significance, and then only if the Grace of
God wills it. Therefore it is necessary
for a person to live as though he were ready to die every minute, and that
means looking at the world with seeing eyes and feeling only love and seeking
only beauty. It means having one's life
in as good order as possible and not wasting any time on inessential thoughts
or acts. It means being prepared to be
alone and stripped of all the trappings of life on earth. Only a person's thoughts and feelings and
memories really belong to him. All else is merely trimming to make life on earth endurable for
people who do not know the true destiny of living. The earth is really only an illusion, and the
life that people live on earth is only a dream.
The reality is here on this planet.
When we come here, we awaken from the dream and begin to live in actual
deathless truth and to be our true and complete Selves, able to function
completely, and not in a frustrated way, as in the earth-dream. Just as the apparitions in the Spirit Realm
were preparations and also tests, so is life on earth; and the way in which we
conduct ourselves and prepare ourselves in the earth-dream is our preparation
for the life after death, which may possibly lead to resurrection to this
planet of reality. Reality is the
perfect and beautiful and indestructible.
Only the dream-lives end in one death and rebirth after another. I am trying to explain the true nature of the
relationship between what you consider life and reality and the true life on
our planet, where the true reality is finally known and lived. You are fortunate, because you are living a
beautiful dream; and it is important that you live it fully, richly, and
joyfully, and that you try to approach the reality of life as the Sons-of-God
know it, as well as can be done in an earth-dream. It is not only your dream, but a collective
dream of all the earth-living, who think that they are the only representatives
of real living, and who have no real conception of the reality. The truth is very strange, because that which
is unseen by people on earth is the true reality; and all that they see is
really apparition, just as much as is life in the Spirit Realm before
resurrection. The soul belongs to the
reality of resurrection, although very many souls never find it and live in a
seeming reality of apparition, both in their earth-lives and in the Spirit
Realm. Apparitions have all the
appearance of the most solid reality, both on earth and in the Spirit
Abodes. Just so you believe my thoughts,
you do not need to fully understand them.