Controversial For A Reason: David Icke.
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/36600-david-icke-and-others-on-creating-deliberate-economic-collapse-
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/36602-we-are-all-one-consciousness-human-race-get-off-your-knees
Please circulate far and wide ... this is the link to send: http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/36651-david-icke-what-the-controllers-really-fear
Please circulate far and wide ... this is the link to send: http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/36696-david-icke-the-truth-vibrations
Please circulate far and wide ... this is the link to send: http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/36695-the-message-bill-hicks-and-david-icke
To see the full interview - Human Race Get Off Your Knees - click here: http://www.davidicke.com/articles/media-and-appearances/34367--david-icke-human-race-get-off-your-knees
Monday, July 26, 2010
Alex Jones - Fearless!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/america-stands-on-the-precipice-of-total-collapse.html
America Stands On The Precipice Of Total Collapse
World government to be built from the ashes of the United States unless nightmarish agenda for new world order is defeated
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
There can be little doubt that America, along with the west as a whole, is being set up for a total collapse in which life as we know it will be fundamentally altered and rebuilt around a collectivist model managed and controlled by the same criminals who engineered the crisis in the first place.
America has been targeted for an economic, military, and social coup d’état by globalists who know that to get people to accept a new way of life under the heel of the new world order requires that the pillars of everything they knew before are completely pulverized. Freedom, prosperity, and community have no place in a “post-industrial revolution,” and every assault on the living standards of American citizens is designed to infect and wither these ideals.
We are looking at a road warrior style collapse of society within two years if the entities that orchestrated the crisis are allowed to pose as saviors and institute their austerity fascism, carbon taxes, “green economy,” post-industrial revolution, and the evisceration of America’s first world status that will inevitably follow if such measures are allowed to pass.
The plan for America is to sink the country into chaos so that it can be swallowed whole and consumed as part of the march towards global government. The globalists want to do to America what they have done to the third world, by creating an underclass of impoverished and deprived citizens who are dependent on government for their every need.
Millions of Americans have been dumbed-down to the point where, as major newspapers announce that the country is heading into a third great depression, as unemployment soars, as police departments announce they will no longer be responding to crimes, and as infrastructure crumbles, the top story this afternoon on Yahoo.com, the most heavily trafficked website in the country, was about how Brad Pitt had shaved off his beard.
Likewise, as society and the economy collapses around them, Americans are more concerned about protesting the decision of a basketball player to move to another team.
However, a growing number of grass-roots movements are now bringing people together under the banner of resentment against big government. This has led to political victories for anti-incumbent candidates who now seriously threaten to dilute the two-party power monopoly in Washington this November. This has led individuals close to Obama to openly invoke the need for a domestic terror attack as the only way to rescue his presidency and the wider collectivist agenda.
Globalists are in a race against time to completely destroy everything America stood for so that they can rebuild the country in their likeness. This is why central banks are now abandoning the U.S. dollar as part of the move towards a global union currency backed by a global central bank that will become the world reserve currency for the new world order.
This is why police departments are now announcing they they will no longer respond to a whole list of crimes including burglary. A certain level of lawlessness has to exist in order to justify the total police state lockdown that will inevitably ensue after widespread rioting begins to break out.
This is why crippling austerity measures are being rammed through even as income drops and jobs are lost. Basic services will skyrocket in price or be cut off completely as America is subjected to the “shock therapy” that has been inflicted on lesser nations as a way of gelding the people to accept sub-standard lives of squalor and dependence. Energy prices will soar after the disastrous “green economy” initiatives are implemented, while toll roads, Obamacare, and all manner of new consumption taxes will dry up whatever disposable income they have left.
The world government will be built from the ashes of the worldwide depression engineered by the financial terrorists who have set in motion a chain of events that only has one conclusion unless we are able to properly identify these globalists for who they are.
Anyone in a position of power who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group or the Trilateral Commission is an enemy of America and needs to be stripped of their office, shorn of their influence and identified as a criminal working behind the scenes to bring about the end of the United States as a first world nation.
Only through exposure and a political drive to squeeze the influence and power of these individuals can we hope to lessen the impact of their nightmarish plans for America.
America Stands On The Precipice Of Total Collapse
World government to be built from the ashes of the United States unless nightmarish agenda for new world order is defeated
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
There can be little doubt that America, along with the west as a whole, is being set up for a total collapse in which life as we know it will be fundamentally altered and rebuilt around a collectivist model managed and controlled by the same criminals who engineered the crisis in the first place.
America has been targeted for an economic, military, and social coup d’état by globalists who know that to get people to accept a new way of life under the heel of the new world order requires that the pillars of everything they knew before are completely pulverized. Freedom, prosperity, and community have no place in a “post-industrial revolution,” and every assault on the living standards of American citizens is designed to infect and wither these ideals.
We are looking at a road warrior style collapse of society within two years if the entities that orchestrated the crisis are allowed to pose as saviors and institute their austerity fascism, carbon taxes, “green economy,” post-industrial revolution, and the evisceration of America’s first world status that will inevitably follow if such measures are allowed to pass.
The plan for America is to sink the country into chaos so that it can be swallowed whole and consumed as part of the march towards global government. The globalists want to do to America what they have done to the third world, by creating an underclass of impoverished and deprived citizens who are dependent on government for their every need.
Millions of Americans have been dumbed-down to the point where, as major newspapers announce that the country is heading into a third great depression, as unemployment soars, as police departments announce they will no longer be responding to crimes, and as infrastructure crumbles, the top story this afternoon on Yahoo.com, the most heavily trafficked website in the country, was about how Brad Pitt had shaved off his beard.
Likewise, as society and the economy collapses around them, Americans are more concerned about protesting the decision of a basketball player to move to another team.
However, a growing number of grass-roots movements are now bringing people together under the banner of resentment against big government. This has led to political victories for anti-incumbent candidates who now seriously threaten to dilute the two-party power monopoly in Washington this November. This has led individuals close to Obama to openly invoke the need for a domestic terror attack as the only way to rescue his presidency and the wider collectivist agenda.
Globalists are in a race against time to completely destroy everything America stood for so that they can rebuild the country in their likeness. This is why central banks are now abandoning the U.S. dollar as part of the move towards a global union currency backed by a global central bank that will become the world reserve currency for the new world order.
This is why police departments are now announcing they they will no longer respond to a whole list of crimes including burglary. A certain level of lawlessness has to exist in order to justify the total police state lockdown that will inevitably ensue after widespread rioting begins to break out.
This is why crippling austerity measures are being rammed through even as income drops and jobs are lost. Basic services will skyrocket in price or be cut off completely as America is subjected to the “shock therapy” that has been inflicted on lesser nations as a way of gelding the people to accept sub-standard lives of squalor and dependence. Energy prices will soar after the disastrous “green economy” initiatives are implemented, while toll roads, Obamacare, and all manner of new consumption taxes will dry up whatever disposable income they have left.
The world government will be built from the ashes of the worldwide depression engineered by the financial terrorists who have set in motion a chain of events that only has one conclusion unless we are able to properly identify these globalists for who they are.
Anyone in a position of power who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group or the Trilateral Commission is an enemy of America and needs to be stripped of their office, shorn of their influence and identified as a criminal working behind the scenes to bring about the end of the United States as a first world nation.
Only through exposure and a political drive to squeeze the influence and power of these individuals can we hope to lessen the impact of their nightmarish plans for America.
Science-Confirmed Prophecies
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/07/14
Disaster Scenarios
Date:07-14-10
Host:George Noory
Guests:Lawrence Joseph, Jeffrey M. Smith
Journalist and science consultant Lawrence E. Joseph discussed threats to life on Earth, including collapse of power grids from solar flares, the weakening of the magnetic field, and the solar system's move into a new area of space. Political, economic, and natural forces are all leading us into a "deadly convergence," he said. Specifically, a solar EMP blast could knock out electricity by permanently destroying transformers in the grid. If a blast like the Carrington Event of 1859 occurred again, we could see 100 million people out of electricity for a couple years, he cautioned.
Joseph advocated for the U.S. to install a kind of surge protection for the power grid-- a plan that the House has already approved, but may get stalled in the Senate because the measure is being attached to other issues. For more on this, see his article Short-Circuiting the Great American Blackout, to be published on the Huffington Post. There's increasing evidence that Earth's magnetic shield is going down, according to NASA research, he added.
He traveled to Siberia to interview a Russian scientist whose research indicates that our solar system is moving into an "interstellar energy cloud," which could cause cataclysmic and evolutionary changes on Earth. His findings were confirmed by a recent paper published in Nature, Joseph noted. He also spoke about his interviews with various shamans. A Guatemalan (Mayan) shaman told him that 2012 would herald the birth of a new era, and like new births there'd be "joy, blood, and pain." Siberian shamans don't see 2012 as a cataclysmic date for the world, but they do see it as "an avalanche date for collapse of the West," he reported.
Disaster Scenarios
Date:07-14-10
Host:George Noory
Guests:Lawrence Joseph, Jeffrey M. Smith
Journalist and science consultant Lawrence E. Joseph discussed threats to life on Earth, including collapse of power grids from solar flares, the weakening of the magnetic field, and the solar system's move into a new area of space. Political, economic, and natural forces are all leading us into a "deadly convergence," he said. Specifically, a solar EMP blast could knock out electricity by permanently destroying transformers in the grid. If a blast like the Carrington Event of 1859 occurred again, we could see 100 million people out of electricity for a couple years, he cautioned.
Joseph advocated for the U.S. to install a kind of surge protection for the power grid-- a plan that the House has already approved, but may get stalled in the Senate because the measure is being attached to other issues. For more on this, see his article Short-Circuiting the Great American Blackout, to be published on the Huffington Post. There's increasing evidence that Earth's magnetic shield is going down, according to NASA research, he added.
He traveled to Siberia to interview a Russian scientist whose research indicates that our solar system is moving into an "interstellar energy cloud," which could cause cataclysmic and evolutionary changes on Earth. His findings were confirmed by a recent paper published in Nature, Joseph noted. He also spoke about his interviews with various shamans. A Guatemalan (Mayan) shaman told him that 2012 would herald the birth of a new era, and like new births there'd be "joy, blood, and pain." Siberian shamans don't see 2012 as a cataclysmic date for the world, but they do see it as "an avalanche date for collapse of the West," he reported.
When former Defense Ministers spill the beans.
http://projectavalon.net/
http://projectavalon.net/Paul_Hellyer_Bill_Ryan_20_July_2010.mp3
21 July 2010
Last night's audio interview with Paul Hellyer [see below] is now available here (57 mins, 39 Mb).
This is a very pleasant, cordial and intelligent conversation with an ex-government minister of remarkable courage and integrity, speaking up with what he knows about the fact of the ET presence - and its potential significance for us all.
Among much else, Paul Hellyer was personally informed by a US Air Force General that "Everything in Col. Philip Corso's book THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL is true - and more".
The 'more' included confirmation that US representatives had had face to face contact with extraterrestrials. He had also heard that most of the visitors were benevolent, but that one race was hostile. It was a most interesting dialog which we both enjoyed.
Paul's most recent book is Light at the End of the Tunnel : A Survival Plan for the Human Species. It is wide-ranging, is eminently readable, and reminds us that we have maybe a ten year window from now in which to get things right on Planet Earth. Our ET friends are rooting for us, Paul understands, but are not permitted to intervene overtly. It is our responsibility to clean up the mess we have created for ourselves down here - something which all followers of my work will know is a principle dear to my heart.
http://projectavalon.net/Paul_Hellyer_Bill_Ryan_20_July_2010.mp3
Paul Hellyer's book at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Light-End-Tunnel-Survival-Species/dp/1449076122
This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms most of the world's major problems. The Human Species is hell bent for extinction unless we change our attitudes and actions with an urgency appropriate to impending disaster. Paul Hellyer suggests that we have about ten years to wean ourselves from the oil economy and profoundly regrets that the Copenhagen Conference reflected little progress in that direction. The whole atmosphere was one that reminded him of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. World leaders simply have to do better! The book outlines the three monumental changes required to accommodate the miracle. First, the book claims that exotic energy sources already exist. They have been developed by the U.S. "shadow government" at the massive underground "black operation" installations in Nevada and Arizona using technology borrowed from visitors from other planets. Yet they remain secret for the alleged benefit of the privileged few. Second, the money has to be found to subsidize poor nations and facilitate major changes. This can be accomplished by a fundamental re-working of the monetary and banking system. Bank leverages must be dramatically reduced and the percentage of virtual money they create as debt strictly limited so that governments can gain the financial flexibility to finance the transition to sustainability. Finally it will be necessary for all countries, races, faiths and colors to drop their antagonisms and work together in common purpose to save the heritage they have in common. -- ·
-- "Paul Hellyer's story is an important contribution to the literature of modern western civilization. His experience in government, his interest in exopolitics and the issues of sustainability of civilization are significant areas of current discourse." Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D, Apollo 14 Astronaut
Phillip Corso's book at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067101756X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279820153&sr=8-1#reader_067101756X
No, I don't get kick-backs from Amazon. It's just a handy source to have a look at and buy these books.
HH
http://projectavalon.net/Paul_Hellyer_Bill_Ryan_20_July_2010.mp3
21 July 2010
Last night's audio interview with Paul Hellyer [see below] is now available here (57 mins, 39 Mb).
This is a very pleasant, cordial and intelligent conversation with an ex-government minister of remarkable courage and integrity, speaking up with what he knows about the fact of the ET presence - and its potential significance for us all.
Among much else, Paul Hellyer was personally informed by a US Air Force General that "Everything in Col. Philip Corso's book THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL is true - and more".
The 'more' included confirmation that US representatives had had face to face contact with extraterrestrials. He had also heard that most of the visitors were benevolent, but that one race was hostile. It was a most interesting dialog which we both enjoyed.
Paul's most recent book is Light at the End of the Tunnel : A Survival Plan for the Human Species. It is wide-ranging, is eminently readable, and reminds us that we have maybe a ten year window from now in which to get things right on Planet Earth. Our ET friends are rooting for us, Paul understands, but are not permitted to intervene overtly. It is our responsibility to clean up the mess we have created for ourselves down here - something which all followers of my work will know is a principle dear to my heart.
http://projectavalon.net/Paul_Hellyer_Bill_Ryan_20_July_2010.mp3
Paul Hellyer's book at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Light-End-Tunnel-Survival-Species/dp/1449076122
This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms most of the world's major problems. The Human Species is hell bent for extinction unless we change our attitudes and actions with an urgency appropriate to impending disaster. Paul Hellyer suggests that we have about ten years to wean ourselves from the oil economy and profoundly regrets that the Copenhagen Conference reflected little progress in that direction. The whole atmosphere was one that reminded him of Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burned. World leaders simply have to do better! The book outlines the three monumental changes required to accommodate the miracle. First, the book claims that exotic energy sources already exist. They have been developed by the U.S. "shadow government" at the massive underground "black operation" installations in Nevada and Arizona using technology borrowed from visitors from other planets. Yet they remain secret for the alleged benefit of the privileged few. Second, the money has to be found to subsidize poor nations and facilitate major changes. This can be accomplished by a fundamental re-working of the monetary and banking system. Bank leverages must be dramatically reduced and the percentage of virtual money they create as debt strictly limited so that governments can gain the financial flexibility to finance the transition to sustainability. Finally it will be necessary for all countries, races, faiths and colors to drop their antagonisms and work together in common purpose to save the heritage they have in common. -- ·
-- "Paul Hellyer's story is an important contribution to the literature of modern western civilization. His experience in government, his interest in exopolitics and the issues of sustainability of civilization are significant areas of current discourse." Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D, Apollo 14 Astronaut
Phillip Corso's book at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067101756X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279820153&sr=8-1#reader_067101756X
No, I don't get kick-backs from Amazon. It's just a handy source to have a look at and buy these books.
HH
The Real James Bond?
(just kidding!)
Bill Ryan at Project Avalon
http://projectavalon.net/
and Kerry Cassidy at Project Camelot
http://projectcamelotportal.com/
Bill Ryan at Project Avalon
http://projectavalon.net/
and Kerry Cassidy at Project Camelot
http://projectcamelotportal.com/
A New Clean Energy Source
Hot debate over cold fusion
by Roy Stemman
at this address: http://www.paranormalreview.com/articles/20100719
quotes:
Richard Milton, however, set the record straight, telling his audience at the SPR that contrary to popular belief, not only is cold fusion still being researched in many laboratories but some scientists are producing impressive results. "100 universities in 10 countries have reproduced it," he affirmed
It so happens that a few days before his lecture I had been reading a very detailed account of this research in the pages of Issue 2 (Jan-March 2010) of Edge Science, a quarterly magazine available online that is published by The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE). I'm not going to go into too much detail because you can read it here, for free, along with two other issues – "Cold fusion: is vindication at hand?" (page 14).
http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/
It deals in depth with an unclassified, eight-page, Defense Analysis Report on the topic, produced by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and released in November last year. However, probably to avoid controversy, it refers to the phenomenon as "low-energy nuclear reactions" (LNER) rather than cold fusion.
The report reveals that researchers "are now claiming paradigm-shifting results, including generation of large amounts of excess heat, nuclear activity and transmutation of elements" adding, "Although no current theory exists to explain all the reported phenomena, some scientists now believe quantum-level nuclear reactions may be occurring. DIA assesses with high confidence that if LENR can produce nuclear-origin energy at room temperature, this disruptive technology could revolutionise energy production and storage, since nuclear reactions release millions of times more energy per unit mass than do any known chemical fuel."
The DIA says "Japan and Italy are leaders in the field, although Russia, China, Israel and India are devoting significant resources to this work in the hope of finding a new clean energy source." The United States is notably missing from this list, a side effect surely of the sceptical brigade.
by Roy Stemman
at this address: http://www.paranormalreview.com/articles/20100719
quotes:
Richard Milton, however, set the record straight, telling his audience at the SPR that contrary to popular belief, not only is cold fusion still being researched in many laboratories but some scientists are producing impressive results. "100 universities in 10 countries have reproduced it," he affirmed
It so happens that a few days before his lecture I had been reading a very detailed account of this research in the pages of Issue 2 (Jan-March 2010) of Edge Science, a quarterly magazine available online that is published by The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE). I'm not going to go into too much detail because you can read it here, for free, along with two other issues – "Cold fusion: is vindication at hand?" (page 14).
http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/
It deals in depth with an unclassified, eight-page, Defense Analysis Report on the topic, produced by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and released in November last year. However, probably to avoid controversy, it refers to the phenomenon as "low-energy nuclear reactions" (LNER) rather than cold fusion.
The report reveals that researchers "are now claiming paradigm-shifting results, including generation of large amounts of excess heat, nuclear activity and transmutation of elements" adding, "Although no current theory exists to explain all the reported phenomena, some scientists now believe quantum-level nuclear reactions may be occurring. DIA assesses with high confidence that if LENR can produce nuclear-origin energy at room temperature, this disruptive technology could revolutionise energy production and storage, since nuclear reactions release millions of times more energy per unit mass than do any known chemical fuel."
The DIA says "Japan and Italy are leaders in the field, although Russia, China, Israel and India are devoting significant resources to this work in the hope of finding a new clean energy source." The United States is notably missing from this list, a side effect surely of the sceptical brigade.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The True Face of Jesus Christ?
Yogananda: "...Of all the pictures I have seen of him in the West, the rendering by Hofmann* comes closest to showing the accurate features of the incarnate Jesus." (page xxvii, paragraph 3)
*Heinrich Hofmann (1824-1911)
Reference: Paramahansa Yogananda. The Second Coming of Christ.
Other mystical Christianity traditions:
Hamid Bey's, Coptic Templar Order. http://www.coptic-sun.org/
Edmund Bordeaux Szekely's, The Essene Gospel of Peace.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Gaia's Message from Bennie LeBeau
Source: http://tetonrainbows.com/newMessage.htm
Gaia's Message from Bennie LeBeau
Earth Wisdom Foundation is a
Non-profit Organization for
Teton-Rainbows.com
Non-Profit EIN #74-3192626
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
New Message to Humanity
This is a message about the Oil Spill a letter to the
editors of the press...This message And other issues
that are related to hurting Mother Earth. May we all
walk the road to a great awareness in what is happening
as Mother Earth: As she now takes control of her
environments World Wide, I pray many will become
conscious to these facts in this message I send out.
Thank you all that read this message for peace as we
awaken to protect Mother Earth Creations and especially
our families at large. Oohweehoo....BlueThunder aka
Bennie LeBeau, Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Indian
Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
WAKEUP CALL FROM MOTHER EARTH
Neptune - Gulf Prayer #37
Gaia (Mother Earth) has directed this message to
the oil industries, bankers, military leaders,
subversive agencies, pharmaceutical industry,
religious leaders and others supporting darkness
on this planet.
Greetings to you all. I will speak slowly and
sincerely as you all must hear what I have to say.
Some of you will act, some will react and
hopefully you will respond from a considered
placed. I have tolerated abuse of the air, water
and earth long enough. That toleration has come
to an end. I will be responding myself. There
may be loss of life, massive loss of income, and
dire consequences to all of you that continue to
put greed, power and control first.
We are coming into a whole new paradigm, one in
which conscious choices are needed to be made. It
is your choice. Those of you who persist, in
raping, pillaging and plundering my oil and other
"unnecessary bounty" will be downgraded to a
different realm to learn your lessons with others
that refuse ascension. It might be what you call,
living your worst nightmare. For those of you
with the courage to quit your current jobs and
move into a new and greener perspective, avenues
of personal abundance will overflow. Avenues will
open up for each and every one of you. You will
create what you focus on and you will integrate it
into the rest of this life. So fear and greed will
create mistrust and chaos with thousands or
millions of others feeling and doing just the same
around you. There will be no Light workers there
to sooth and try to cajole, encourage or shift you
into a higher frequency.
Those of you who choose to take the more evolved
path will be richly rewarded on many, many levels.
We know such a shift is neither easy nor
immediate, yet we are at a point to demand a show
of which direction you will take. Those of you
choosing a higher path, we have to see your
attempts to do this. We will be compassionate and
yet the time is now. You have an expression IF
NOT NOW, WHEN!
This is not a threat; this is simply a heads up.
This is what will be happening. You will no
longer to be allowed to desecrate the land, oceans
or my valuable resources.
My recourses are valuable for me to function
efficiently. The oil is unnecessary at this time
as you have adequate and superior technology
available at this moment to be able to supersede
any use of oil. Plastics can be recycled and new
products invented that are far more eco friendly.
Using my oceans as a trash heap is unacceptable.
Killing my wildlife, whether in the ocean or on
land is unacceptable. Taking pieces of these
beautiful animals, fish or birds for sexual
stimulation, adornment, or profiteering will cease
and desist now. The big cats are not to be made
into fur coats or rugs. Ivory will not be
harvested unless caused by a natural death. We
understand, it may take time to get this message
out to the artery and capillary outflow to all you
have created. And yet, we will be intolerant with
any who countermand this. If one family is
poaching to gain income, that whole family will be
at risk. Whether drugs or oil the families will
also be put in jeopardy. This must stop NOW. So
know that any of you who breach this, will not
just harm yourselves but ALL your relatives are at
risk.
This will have ramifications, all back thru the
arterial system right to the top. This will also
go off planet to any of those who are
masterminding and string pulling from other
galaxies. The galactic federation, the Christ
council and the Archangelic realm along with all
the Ascended Masters have decreed this.
And so beloved beings, it is YOUR CHOICE. Those
who wish to ascend can come and play in the new
paradigm. Those who wish to remain with their old
status quo may also do that, this is a free will
planet. Just know your consequences.
On a lighter note, there are many, many beings
like yourselves who are beginning to wake up and
to see that each of our thoughts and our actions
and our words have a consequence. As more of you
choose the light, the higher path or the path to
higher consciousness, then all of the energies on
the planet will be amplified. So if you have
chosen greed and chaos (the consequences) will be
amplified 10 fold in the remainder of this year
alone. Those that choose a more conscious path
and choose live in a positive compassionate and
community way which is all of earth as one
community will also find peace, love, joy and
prosperity accelerating 10-100 fold. You will
find those to teach you. Ask and the teacher
appears. It is that simple. You may find it is
your child. Maybe a pet. Maybe a stranger or guide
from another realm. Pray earnestly and you will
receive. Release doubt, choose trust. There is
light all around you. You have beings here (on
Earth receiving this message) filled with such
deep compassion for humanity that have devoted
their lives to this pursuit. They are only several
of the many on this beautiful planet, providing me
marvelous hope making it tolerable for me. I do
this for them. I am in honor, integrity, deepest
compassion and strength.
Gaia (Mother Earth)
Namaste
You have all chosen to be here on Planet Earth at
this time not just to witness these miracles, but
to assist in creating them with your hearts intent
and your actions. Thank you all for what your have
done and will be doing. Now please share this
urgent message from Gaia to all you know and heart
centered websites.
Bennie "BlueThunder" LeBeau - Eastern Shoshone Nation
Wind River Indian Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Gaia's Message from Bennie LeBeau
Earth Wisdom Foundation is a
Non-profit Organization for
Teton-Rainbows.com
Non-Profit EIN #74-3192626
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
New Message to Humanity
This is a message about the Oil Spill a letter to the
editors of the press...This message And other issues
that are related to hurting Mother Earth. May we all
walk the road to a great awareness in what is happening
as Mother Earth: As she now takes control of her
environments World Wide, I pray many will become
conscious to these facts in this message I send out.
Thank you all that read this message for peace as we
awaken to protect Mother Earth Creations and especially
our families at large. Oohweehoo....BlueThunder aka
Bennie LeBeau, Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Indian
Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
WAKEUP CALL FROM MOTHER EARTH
Neptune - Gulf Prayer #37
Gaia (Mother Earth) has directed this message to
the oil industries, bankers, military leaders,
subversive agencies, pharmaceutical industry,
religious leaders and others supporting darkness
on this planet.
Greetings to you all. I will speak slowly and
sincerely as you all must hear what I have to say.
Some of you will act, some will react and
hopefully you will respond from a considered
placed. I have tolerated abuse of the air, water
and earth long enough. That toleration has come
to an end. I will be responding myself. There
may be loss of life, massive loss of income, and
dire consequences to all of you that continue to
put greed, power and control first.
We are coming into a whole new paradigm, one in
which conscious choices are needed to be made. It
is your choice. Those of you who persist, in
raping, pillaging and plundering my oil and other
"unnecessary bounty" will be downgraded to a
different realm to learn your lessons with others
that refuse ascension. It might be what you call,
living your worst nightmare. For those of you
with the courage to quit your current jobs and
move into a new and greener perspective, avenues
of personal abundance will overflow. Avenues will
open up for each and every one of you. You will
create what you focus on and you will integrate it
into the rest of this life. So fear and greed will
create mistrust and chaos with thousands or
millions of others feeling and doing just the same
around you. There will be no Light workers there
to sooth and try to cajole, encourage or shift you
into a higher frequency.
Those of you who choose to take the more evolved
path will be richly rewarded on many, many levels.
We know such a shift is neither easy nor
immediate, yet we are at a point to demand a show
of which direction you will take. Those of you
choosing a higher path, we have to see your
attempts to do this. We will be compassionate and
yet the time is now. You have an expression IF
NOT NOW, WHEN!
This is not a threat; this is simply a heads up.
This is what will be happening. You will no
longer to be allowed to desecrate the land, oceans
or my valuable resources.
My recourses are valuable for me to function
efficiently. The oil is unnecessary at this time
as you have adequate and superior technology
available at this moment to be able to supersede
any use of oil. Plastics can be recycled and new
products invented that are far more eco friendly.
Using my oceans as a trash heap is unacceptable.
Killing my wildlife, whether in the ocean or on
land is unacceptable. Taking pieces of these
beautiful animals, fish or birds for sexual
stimulation, adornment, or profiteering will cease
and desist now. The big cats are not to be made
into fur coats or rugs. Ivory will not be
harvested unless caused by a natural death. We
understand, it may take time to get this message
out to the artery and capillary outflow to all you
have created. And yet, we will be intolerant with
any who countermand this. If one family is
poaching to gain income, that whole family will be
at risk. Whether drugs or oil the families will
also be put in jeopardy. This must stop NOW. So
know that any of you who breach this, will not
just harm yourselves but ALL your relatives are at
risk.
This will have ramifications, all back thru the
arterial system right to the top. This will also
go off planet to any of those who are
masterminding and string pulling from other
galaxies. The galactic federation, the Christ
council and the Archangelic realm along with all
the Ascended Masters have decreed this.
And so beloved beings, it is YOUR CHOICE. Those
who wish to ascend can come and play in the new
paradigm. Those who wish to remain with their old
status quo may also do that, this is a free will
planet. Just know your consequences.
On a lighter note, there are many, many beings
like yourselves who are beginning to wake up and
to see that each of our thoughts and our actions
and our words have a consequence. As more of you
choose the light, the higher path or the path to
higher consciousness, then all of the energies on
the planet will be amplified. So if you have
chosen greed and chaos (the consequences) will be
amplified 10 fold in the remainder of this year
alone. Those that choose a more conscious path
and choose live in a positive compassionate and
community way which is all of earth as one
community will also find peace, love, joy and
prosperity accelerating 10-100 fold. You will
find those to teach you. Ask and the teacher
appears. It is that simple. You may find it is
your child. Maybe a pet. Maybe a stranger or guide
from another realm. Pray earnestly and you will
receive. Release doubt, choose trust. There is
light all around you. You have beings here (on
Earth receiving this message) filled with such
deep compassion for humanity that have devoted
their lives to this pursuit. They are only several
of the many on this beautiful planet, providing me
marvelous hope making it tolerable for me. I do
this for them. I am in honor, integrity, deepest
compassion and strength.
Gaia (Mother Earth)
Namaste
You have all chosen to be here on Planet Earth at
this time not just to witness these miracles, but
to assist in creating them with your hearts intent
and your actions. Thank you all for what your have
done and will be doing. Now please share this
urgent message from Gaia to all you know and heart
centered websites.
Bennie "BlueThunder" LeBeau - Eastern Shoshone Nation
Wind River Indian Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Heal the Earth
If you want to understand what is going on with the strange weather around the earth, the best explanation I've heard comes from the Eastern Shoshone Bennie LeBeau. You can hear his explanation on his ProphecyKeepers.com Radio interviews. He also has a website.
Now if you want to build a medicine wheel for yourself, the best book on the subject is probably Sun Bear's Dancing with the Wheel. Sun Bear also has other books out on Earth-based philosophy. Another good teacher is Sandra Ingerman. He book Medicine for the Earth gives a methodology for healing our very sick planet.
I just built a medicine wheel in the back according to Sun Bear's instructions. The weather here has been totally out of whack. It was warm in winter and now it's been cold in summer. The land is definitely out of balance. So rather than have a natural disaster balance it out, I decided to build a medicine wheel and see what happens. Five days after building it, the cold and clouds have dissipated and it's finally starting to look and feel like summer.
Our unbalanced lifestyle is unbalancing the earth and either we change our behavior and correct the imbalance that way or the Earth will correct the imbalance herself with destructive means.
HH
References:
Prophecy Keepers Radio.
http://www.prophecykeepers.com/lebeau3.html
Bennie Lebeau's website.
http://tetonrainbows.com/
Sun Bear's, Dancing with the Wheel. At Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wheel-Medicine-Workbook/dp/0671767321/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Sandra Ingerman's, Medicine for the Earth. At Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Earth-Transform-Personal-Environmental/dp/0609805177/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6
Now if you want to build a medicine wheel for yourself, the best book on the subject is probably Sun Bear's Dancing with the Wheel. Sun Bear also has other books out on Earth-based philosophy. Another good teacher is Sandra Ingerman. He book Medicine for the Earth gives a methodology for healing our very sick planet.
I just built a medicine wheel in the back according to Sun Bear's instructions. The weather here has been totally out of whack. It was warm in winter and now it's been cold in summer. The land is definitely out of balance. So rather than have a natural disaster balance it out, I decided to build a medicine wheel and see what happens. Five days after building it, the cold and clouds have dissipated and it's finally starting to look and feel like summer.
Our unbalanced lifestyle is unbalancing the earth and either we change our behavior and correct the imbalance that way or the Earth will correct the imbalance herself with destructive means.
HH
References:
Prophecy Keepers Radio.
http://www.prophecykeepers.com/lebeau3.html
Bennie Lebeau's website.
http://tetonrainbows.com/
Sun Bear's, Dancing with the Wheel. At Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wheel-Medicine-Workbook/dp/0671767321/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Sandra Ingerman's, Medicine for the Earth. At Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Earth-Transform-Personal-Environmental/dp/0609805177/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_6
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Prayer
1959
There is probably no religious practice so generally accepted yet so little understood as prayer. Nearly everyone will tell you he has received answers to prayers. Regardless of caste, nationality, color or creed all men have experienced that definite sequence of request and fulfillment described as prayer. A man has prayed for money, and the postman has brought him the desired amount ; a woman has prayed for food, and food has been brought to her door. In connection with charitable undertakings especially, there is ample evidence of speedy and liberal response to prayer when in need. On the other hand though, there is also a great deal of evidence of prayers being left unanswered ; of hungry people starving to death, of the child which dies in spite of its parents most passionate appeals to God.
Any study of prayer will reveal many facts which are strange and puzzling. A more or less trivial prayer meets with an answer, while one on an important matter fails ; a simple ailment is relieved, while a prayer poured out to save a beloved life meets with no response. The average devout person will say, "it is the will of God" and question no further, but the esoteric student is not content with this. As Rosicrucian students, we realize that in prayer certain laws are at work, laws which we should be able to discover, identify and understand. So let us now examine what we know of prayer and see what we can learn.
The first thing to do is analyze prayer itself, for this word is used to cover various activities of the consciousness, and prayers cannot be dealt with as if they were all the same. The first level or type of prayer is that which asks for physical aid or material assistance. The most general definition of this type of prayer is one which describes it as a petition placed before a person or being who is presumed to be in a position to grant it. With this goes the assumption that the person or being can grant the petition without sacrifice or effort, and with but little inconvenience to himself. Note that prayer is a petition to a person or being in a position to grant it. We do not say "prayer is a petition to God" although it may well be. Since most such prayers are for some physical or material aid or assistance, very few of them are actually directed to God or First Cause. People are usually a little self-conscious in asking for material benefits and are reluctant to place such a mundane petition before the Highest One. Also over the past two or three thousand years much of the religious teaching has tended to make man fear God and to feel separated from God. Thus God to the vast majority of mankind has become cold and remote, like the president of a large corporation or the head of a large banking institution. Many therefore feel that their prayers will not or cannot reach God and so they direct them to some being or person who seems more accessible and at the same time may be more understanding and tolerant of the human weakness behind the petition.
Thus as far back as we can remember, sailors have prayed to the sea or some entity they conceived of as the God of the Sea. They have prayed for a safe and speedy passage, or for a full catch of fish, or for rescue in a storm. They have also prayed to the winds and to Aeolus the wind god. As recently as last June (1959) in a race of sailing vessels from California to Hawaii, the crew of one boat at a certain time in the voyage deemed most propitious, sacrificed three chickens to the gods of the sea. These were not superstitious south sea natives but wealthy American businessmen and sportsmen. The fact that their boat eventually won has no bearing on the point made here, which is that this was done in all seriousness and represents a form of prayer.
In most religions we find prayers being offered more often to certain holy ones or certain saints than to God Himself. Years ago an unscrupulous priesthood encouraged this human tendency because by it their own incomes were increased. History tells how the priests of Egypt called for a return to the "Old Gods after Amenhotep had proclaimed there was but one Supreme Being. This was not only a political device to regain temporal power but it was also a direct effort to obtain more money. For by multiplying the gods, the gifts multiplied as well. Today in India and China the devout pray to Buddha, in Russia Saint Sergius, in Italy Saint Anthony and in this country Saint Theresa, the Little Flower, as well as to members of the Holy Family, Saint Joseph, the Blessed Mother Mary, and Jesus. Actually there are hundreds of beings in all religions to whom petitions and prayers are daily addressed in the hope that they will recognize the justice and fairness of the request, understand and sympathize with the motives of the petitioner, and use their own power or influence to help provide the material advantages asked for.
Thus we see that in the first kind of prayer, which is prayer for physical or material benefit, the petitions are sometimes directed to God, but far more often to some other entity or person whom the petitioner believes is in a position to grant his request and may be persuaded to do so. If we probe the mind and ask, "Why did you pray to Saint Anthony and not directly to God ?" We find that he feels "Saint Anthony was poor once and can understand how much I need this money." And if we ask another, "Why have you prayed to the Mother Mary instead of to God," the answer comes, "Mother Mary is a woman and she will understand what a man cannot."
As we look in to the hearts of these people we begin to realize how childish most prayers are and we begin to understand why it is that some are granted and some are not. Here among the average people of the world, there is no real understanding of prayer. They are like children asking their parents for what they want, sometimes they get it and sometimes not, but they never know why, and they never seem to know enough and have confidence enough to set out to obtain these things for themselves.
One of the primary objectives of the Rosicrucian Order is to teach its students how to lift themselves out of this childish dependence upon others and train them to use the natural laws and principles for themselves. We are thus given exercises in concentration, we are taught how to focus our attention upon an object and hold it there, our memories are trained, and a serious attempt is made to help us rid ourselves of outworn inhibitions and erroneous ideas. We are taught that our appeals for needed material things should be made to the Cosmic, to the Great Storehouse of Supply, and we are shown techniques which when properly employed are designed to tap this Universal Storehouse. Thus our monographs teach us a practical method of prayer for material needs, an adult approach which can be made to work most of the time, once it is properly understood. It is not a hit and miss method. If the requests are unselfish, or at least not too self centered, and their granting will not hurt anyone else, then they will probably manifest on the material plane. The complete detailed instructions are in our monographs but most of us have never trained ourselves to follow them properly. This takes time, energy and effort and very few of us are willing to make these initial sacrifices no matter how rich the later rewards will be. *
*This kind of prayer is creative visualization. It can be read about in Joseph Weed's, Wisdom of the Mystic Masters. H. Spence Lewis speaks of it in the above: Create Your Future and Creating a New Career. (HH)
The next level of prayer is the petition of the seeking one for light, for instruction to aid him in his desire to come closer to God. This comes under the general heading of Aspiration and is almost always directed to God, or the Supreme Being. Many, many people pray in this way. A substantial segment of all humanity feels the yearning of Aspiration at one time or another but at different levels of understanding. One asks for help in moral or spiritual difficulties, another for spiritual growth, a third pleads for help in overcoming temptations, a fourth for strength and insight, and so on. This is going on all the time all over the planet and its chorus is referred to as the "invocative cry of humanity." It is this aspiration, this prayer for spiritual help which brings response from on High in the form of Hierarchical teaching and guidance. It is because this "invocative cry" is today so loud and strong that we have such a vast flow of revelation from Hierarchy all over the world. Our own Rosicrucian Order is one of the major channels of this flow and the thousands of students in the Order are there because they consciously or unconsciously raised their hearts to the Cosmic in aspiration and petitioned for guidance and help.
On this point let me remind you that membership in the Rosicrucian Order is a great privilege, a hard-won privilege that only comes to those who have earned it. You have worked for many lives for the privilege of obtaining the clearly stated teachings and training you are now receiving. Do not hold it lightly ! Study each lesson carefully and practice each exercise. Do not put them aside with the thought that maybe next week you will get to them. This is a privilege to be cherished. You have worked and aspired to it. Do not lose it now.
The third form of prayer is called Meditation. In it the student commands help and assistance from the Cosmic much as in the first form of prayer, but with this essential difference--he acts with sureness and a confidence which is the result of training and previous success. In Meditation the student consciously and deliberately employs the instructions given him in the monographs and directs his efforts for the benefit of struggling humanity. In his silent communion with the Cosmic, an awareness of need comes to him, stirring him to activity. Then by using his powers of imagination, visualization and will in the manner taught, he directs the energies of the Universal Storehouse to the areas and individuals most in need. Thus he begins to contribute to the Realm of Light. He begins to give instead of taking. Gradually, as his contributions become more significant and he begins to attract the attention of Hierarchy, one of the Masters may decide to use him. When this happens, he is put on probation and when found ready accepted to the Master's Ashram as a disciple. Thus through prayer, aspiration, meditation and unselfish effort one may come to be accepted as a co-worker. That you may all achieve this dignity is my most earnest prayer for you today.
Joseph J. Weed
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Prayer
1959
There is probably no religious practice so generally accepted yet so little understood as prayer. Nearly everyone will tell you he has received answers to prayers. Regardless of caste, nationality, color or creed all men have experienced that definite sequence of request and fulfillment described as prayer. A man has prayed for money, and the postman has brought him the desired amount ; a woman has prayed for food, and food has been brought to her door. In connection with charitable undertakings especially, there is ample evidence of speedy and liberal response to prayer when in need. On the other hand though, there is also a great deal of evidence of prayers being left unanswered ; of hungry people starving to death, of the child which dies in spite of its parents most passionate appeals to God.
Any study of prayer will reveal many facts which are strange and puzzling. A more or less trivial prayer meets with an answer, while one on an important matter fails ; a simple ailment is relieved, while a prayer poured out to save a beloved life meets with no response. The average devout person will say, "it is the will of God" and question no further, but the esoteric student is not content with this. As Rosicrucian students, we realize that in prayer certain laws are at work, laws which we should be able to discover, identify and understand. So let us now examine what we know of prayer and see what we can learn.
The first thing to do is analyze prayer itself, for this word is used to cover various activities of the consciousness, and prayers cannot be dealt with as if they were all the same. The first level or type of prayer is that which asks for physical aid or material assistance. The most general definition of this type of prayer is one which describes it as a petition placed before a person or being who is presumed to be in a position to grant it. With this goes the assumption that the person or being can grant the petition without sacrifice or effort, and with but little inconvenience to himself. Note that prayer is a petition to a person or being in a position to grant it. We do not say "prayer is a petition to God" although it may well be. Since most such prayers are for some physical or material aid or assistance, very few of them are actually directed to God or First Cause. People are usually a little self-conscious in asking for material benefits and are reluctant to place such a mundane petition before the Highest One. Also over the past two or three thousand years much of the religious teaching has tended to make man fear God and to feel separated from God. Thus God to the vast majority of mankind has become cold and remote, like the president of a large corporation or the head of a large banking institution. Many therefore feel that their prayers will not or cannot reach God and so they direct them to some being or person who seems more accessible and at the same time may be more understanding and tolerant of the human weakness behind the petition.
Thus as far back as we can remember, sailors have prayed to the sea or some entity they conceived of as the God of the Sea. They have prayed for a safe and speedy passage, or for a full catch of fish, or for rescue in a storm. They have also prayed to the winds and to Aeolus the wind god. As recently as last June (1959) in a race of sailing vessels from California to Hawaii, the crew of one boat at a certain time in the voyage deemed most propitious, sacrificed three chickens to the gods of the sea. These were not superstitious south sea natives but wealthy American businessmen and sportsmen. The fact that their boat eventually won has no bearing on the point made here, which is that this was done in all seriousness and represents a form of prayer.
In most religions we find prayers being offered more often to certain holy ones or certain saints than to God Himself. Years ago an unscrupulous priesthood encouraged this human tendency because by it their own incomes were increased. History tells how the priests of Egypt called for a return to the "Old Gods after Amenhotep had proclaimed there was but one Supreme Being. This was not only a political device to regain temporal power but it was also a direct effort to obtain more money. For by multiplying the gods, the gifts multiplied as well. Today in India and China the devout pray to Buddha, in Russia Saint Sergius, in Italy Saint Anthony and in this country Saint Theresa, the Little Flower, as well as to members of the Holy Family, Saint Joseph, the Blessed Mother Mary, and Jesus. Actually there are hundreds of beings in all religions to whom petitions and prayers are daily addressed in the hope that they will recognize the justice and fairness of the request, understand and sympathize with the motives of the petitioner, and use their own power or influence to help provide the material advantages asked for.
Thus we see that in the first kind of prayer, which is prayer for physical or material benefit, the petitions are sometimes directed to God, but far more often to some other entity or person whom the petitioner believes is in a position to grant his request and may be persuaded to do so. If we probe the mind and ask, "Why did you pray to Saint Anthony and not directly to God ?" We find that he feels "Saint Anthony was poor once and can understand how much I need this money." And if we ask another, "Why have you prayed to the Mother Mary instead of to God," the answer comes, "Mother Mary is a woman and she will understand what a man cannot."
As we look in to the hearts of these people we begin to realize how childish most prayers are and we begin to understand why it is that some are granted and some are not. Here among the average people of the world, there is no real understanding of prayer. They are like children asking their parents for what they want, sometimes they get it and sometimes not, but they never know why, and they never seem to know enough and have confidence enough to set out to obtain these things for themselves.
One of the primary objectives of the Rosicrucian Order is to teach its students how to lift themselves out of this childish dependence upon others and train them to use the natural laws and principles for themselves. We are thus given exercises in concentration, we are taught how to focus our attention upon an object and hold it there, our memories are trained, and a serious attempt is made to help us rid ourselves of outworn inhibitions and erroneous ideas. We are taught that our appeals for needed material things should be made to the Cosmic, to the Great Storehouse of Supply, and we are shown techniques which when properly employed are designed to tap this Universal Storehouse. Thus our monographs teach us a practical method of prayer for material needs, an adult approach which can be made to work most of the time, once it is properly understood. It is not a hit and miss method. If the requests are unselfish, or at least not too self centered, and their granting will not hurt anyone else, then they will probably manifest on the material plane. The complete detailed instructions are in our monographs but most of us have never trained ourselves to follow them properly. This takes time, energy and effort and very few of us are willing to make these initial sacrifices no matter how rich the later rewards will be. *
*This kind of prayer is creative visualization. It can be read about in Joseph Weed's, Wisdom of the Mystic Masters. H. Spence Lewis speaks of it in the above: Create Your Future and Creating a New Career. (HH)
The next level of prayer is the petition of the seeking one for light, for instruction to aid him in his desire to come closer to God. This comes under the general heading of Aspiration and is almost always directed to God, or the Supreme Being. Many, many people pray in this way. A substantial segment of all humanity feels the yearning of Aspiration at one time or another but at different levels of understanding. One asks for help in moral or spiritual difficulties, another for spiritual growth, a third pleads for help in overcoming temptations, a fourth for strength and insight, and so on. This is going on all the time all over the planet and its chorus is referred to as the "invocative cry of humanity." It is this aspiration, this prayer for spiritual help which brings response from on High in the form of Hierarchical teaching and guidance. It is because this "invocative cry" is today so loud and strong that we have such a vast flow of revelation from Hierarchy all over the world. Our own Rosicrucian Order is one of the major channels of this flow and the thousands of students in the Order are there because they consciously or unconsciously raised their hearts to the Cosmic in aspiration and petitioned for guidance and help.
On this point let me remind you that membership in the Rosicrucian Order is a great privilege, a hard-won privilege that only comes to those who have earned it. You have worked for many lives for the privilege of obtaining the clearly stated teachings and training you are now receiving. Do not hold it lightly ! Study each lesson carefully and practice each exercise. Do not put them aside with the thought that maybe next week you will get to them. This is a privilege to be cherished. You have worked and aspired to it. Do not lose it now.
The third form of prayer is called Meditation. In it the student commands help and assistance from the Cosmic much as in the first form of prayer, but with this essential difference--he acts with sureness and a confidence which is the result of training and previous success. In Meditation the student consciously and deliberately employs the instructions given him in the monographs and directs his efforts for the benefit of struggling humanity. In his silent communion with the Cosmic, an awareness of need comes to him, stirring him to activity. Then by using his powers of imagination, visualization and will in the manner taught, he directs the energies of the Universal Storehouse to the areas and individuals most in need. Thus he begins to contribute to the Realm of Light. He begins to give instead of taking. Gradually, as his contributions become more significant and he begins to attract the attention of Hierarchy, one of the Masters may decide to use him. When this happens, he is put on probation and when found ready accepted to the Master's Ashram as a disciple. Thus through prayer, aspiration, meditation and unselfish effort one may come to be accepted as a co-worker. That you may all achieve this dignity is my most earnest prayer for you today.
Joseph J. Weed
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Attracting Success
A LECTURE GIVEN IN THE ROSICRUCIAN AUDITORIUM
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
By H. Spencer Lewis, Ph. D., F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest July 1932]
FOR the discourse tonight, the subject of, "Attracting Success," was selected because of many questions submitted by those who are on various paths of search for the necessities of life. I believe it is safe to say that the average human being begins a strange search for something very early in life, and that even the adolescent child who is just beginning to sense an evolving personality and beginning to sense the personal idiosyncracies of character and personality, is, perhaps, more affected by this inner strange desire of search than he is affected by the physiological and mental changes that are taking place. And from that time on, each and every one of us is conscious in our moments of retrospection and introspection of an unfulfilled desire, an unsatisfied wish.
I am sure it would be a very fortunate thing for the progress of civilization, if through some magic of the mysteries of Cosmic Law, each and every one of us should suddenly find our prayers answered, our desires fulfilled, and our search ended. Not only would there be an ending of the stimulus that urges us on to achieve better, to achieve greater, but even the search for knowledge, the search to solve the mysteries, would end. Civilization would come to a standstill, and we would begin to retrograde.
The artist who is born an artist or becomes a real artist never feels satisfied with his art. I know of many, and they frankly admit that they never carved a piece, never painted a picture, never chiseled, engraved or cut in any way, a thing of their creation with which they were perfectly satisfied. They admit that necessity has often brought their work to an end. The artist working in Paris in order to study and earn at the same time is often forced, reluctantly, to stop work on a painting he is making, solely because there is a prospective buyer who wants it, and there has come a time when the artist puts the last touch on and says, "It is finished;" but he knows it is not finished. He could go on for days and weeks and months, especially if he could work on something else for a while, and then come back to the painting a week later or a month later, and find hundreds of things to improve. So it is with the inventor and so it has always been with the musician. So it will always be with the real business man, with the creator of business, the man who is evolving cultural ethics in his business system, who is improving his merchandise, his sales methods, his advertising methods, the service he renders to his customers. He is never quite satisfied with what he is producing, with the work and appearance of the article he sells, with its durability, its service to the purchaser, and its performance generally.
When we find an individual in life who feels quite satisfied, who no longer feels the urge to try and do something a little differently, who finds no criticism coming from the voice within, who finds all he has done is satisfactory--such a person, when we find him, is generally an absolute failure. If he has been a success up to the present, failure is written for his future, for the moment he feels he is in the very shadow of success or just around the corner from it, he is sure to be far from it, and walking in the wrong direction. It is this sense of possible greater service, greater power, greater accomplishment, and greater attainment, that has quickened man into real progress toward perfection.
They try to tell us in common historical writings that the Great Pyramid of Egypt, and the great temples, required, in the absence of machinery, such enormous man-power that this man-power was obtained by the use, the liberal use, of the whip, and that the kings and pharaohs and rulers commanded multitudes to come and hitch themselves to chains and to long pieces of leather which were attached to enormous stones, and on the top of each stone stood a master ruler with a long whip, whipping the hundreds of slaves into dragging that individual stone, and that hundreds of stones were being pulled at one time, each with their group of slaves, showing on their naked bodies the blood marks of the whips. But that is not a true picture, because we find that the stones cut in the quarries of Egypt by these slaves, the manner in which they were put together and cemented, without a crack at the edge of the stones that showed between them, and the designs painted by the sweat of blood through the heat and the torture of burning torches could never have been done, and done so beautifully, under a whip. Those workers worked for the glory of Egypt, the glory of an empire, the glory of a prestige that was then a mighty influence throughout the world.
There may have been individual structures built, not only in Egypt, but in Rome and Greece, by individuals who hired slaves to build a mausoleum, or tomb, or something of a personal nature, and who whipped their slaves; and perhaps the many ruined structures throughout Europe, and ruined structures built at a much later date than the Pyramids, but which are now in ruin beyond recognition, may have been built by men who labored under a whip, men who had no inspiration, who had no interest, no love in their work; but the lasting things throughout the world, made by men from the strange Leaning Tower of Pisa that leans and yet never falls, to the magnificent temples of learning, the temples of art, the temples of religion, the temples of science and beauty--those things were not made by slaves, but by adoring worshipers of the art on which they were working.
And it is the same today. We have in our modern times the same desire for great success, for individual power, for class power, for national power, for international power. We have the same desire on the part of the humblest individual for recognition, for attainment, and along with it, for a little of the luxuries and blessings that are commonly enjoyed. And we find, if we carefully analyze life today, that the ones who are attaining success, or who are attracting success to themselves, are those who are laboring primarily under the whiphand of love, under the urge of inspiration, and under the constant impulse of an inner desire to do better and better and better.
You cannot take success in life and reduce it to an element. You cannot take happiness and reduce it to one phase of emotional expression. You cannot take sorrow and say it is of one formula. You cannot take wealth and say it is of one standard. Success for each individual is not measured by a yardstick, but is wholely and exclusively personal. The success for one person cannot possibly be the success for another to the same degree. If we were to take the six or seven hundred persons assembled here and ask each one of them as to what they would call 'success,' in their individual lives, you would find that while there may be twelve general classifications, there would be six or seven hundred distinctively different natures of success.
All success is not accompanied by wealth. The thing we do not have is often the thing that is the most tempting, and the most alluring, and we seldom understand the real nature of anything, especially of material things of life, until we have tasted of it. We cannot understand even life, itself, until we have drunk from the inside of the cup, and tasted of the bitter drink. But very often that which seems to evade us and elude us, is the thing we want to possess. And those who are without money, without wealth, without even enough to meet the necessities of life, are very apt to think that the sudden or gradual possession of money would solve all of the problems of life, and constitute success; yet there are those in the world, in every country, in every state, city, and community, who have all of the actual necessities and many of the luxuries, with some money put away for the proverbial rainy day, who have no real worry at all from any financial point of view; still they would hesitate to say they had attained success, or that they had even reached the goal of their ambitions.
They are not seeking money, primarily, although everything they may do may help to increase what they already have, but it is not the increase of the money or wealth that is the real urge, but the desire to attain, to achieve, to reach that goal that they have set in their lives, and to go just a little ways beyond.
There are, on the other hand, those who have no wealth, not even any of the luxuries, who have just the bare necessities, with a safe assurance that they will always have something to eat and some place to rest and sleep, but even they may not be seeking for wealth, while still fired with an ambition that could not be quenched even if you showed to them that you had deposited in their name in the bank, ten, twenty, or fifty thousand dollars. I know of some men in this community and in other cities and communities, who are living in a mediocre home that they rent; they have no modern conveniences, except possibly a small radio; they make no attempt to have all of the latest things that the neighbors have. They may not even possess a modern automobile--it may be just a Ford; and yet they are not seeking for either wealth or any of the modern conveniences; but they are seeking; they are restless; they are constantly on the lookout. They remind me, when I talk to some of them in my office, of some of these watchmen of ancient days who were stationed for periods of three or four hours at a stretch on some watch-tower, like I have seen in Nimes, in Southern France--an old watch-tower way up on the hill overlooking the Roman baths and the great arena and buildings below, and who watched for the sight of an attack of an approaching army, even in times of peace. Their eyes always looking beyond the present horizon, listening to what you say, but looking at the same time for an undertone, like the trampling of horses' feet; they are listening for something, looking for something that they want to add in their lives or that they want to keep out of their lives. It is not a quest for money, for you soon find that is far away from their minds. They are looking for success in something, for a successful goal at the end of their path.
If you could see in one assembly all of the men and women who are tonight, in just the United States of America alone, sitting in some rattle-shackle of a room, with a workbench, or before them an improvised furnace or some piece of machinery, working out some patent, some device, some invention--if you could see all of those persons in one assembly, you would see a mighty army of men and women who are, at this very hour, regardless of the fact that it is around 8:00 here and 11:00 on the Eastern Coast, in deep concentration, unmindful of the hour, unmindful of the fact that it may be cold, that friends or relatives may be waiting to see them, unmindful of everything but the flaming torch before them, the melting metal in the furnace, or the turning of a wheel, or cog--their whole ambition and whole thought and inspiration of life is there, in that little room. And they would tell you, this army, this great army of thousands of young and old, of both sexes, that success to them would be the solution of the thing that they are trying to produce. One man is trying to make a little magnet that will neutralize the effect of another magnet on a piece of steel. Another is trying to make solder stick to a piece of aluminum, another is trying to make leather harder by applying a certain solution to it. One man is trying to make an imitation of shellac, and has it perfected with the exception of one little thing. Another is trying to make a hole in a needle of a different shape for some purpose. Each one would tell you, "If this thing I am trying to do, can be accomplished, it will be my success." And, you would stand there, look at it, and say, "Well, from my point of view, I could not see where that little thing would change the world one bit. That would not be success for me."
If you would say to the wrinkled old woman, like the one in Paris, who worked over radium, "After all the education you had and all of the glittering possibilities that lie before you, to just teach and lecture and see the world, do you mean to say that you enjoy sitting here? Do they give you anything to eat?" "No, not even a crust of bread." "Do they give you any new clothes?" "No, I am wearing out the ones I have." "Does it make you any younger?" "No, I have aged ten years in the last two." "Will it prevent death?" "No, it is bringing it on. That tube contains radium, and it is destroying the cells of my body. I am more dead than alive." "What is keeping you alive?" "My desire, my ambition. I want to reach success--success that will not bring me anything but thanks from the waiting multitudes." That is success from the point of view of one person.
Thank God there have been thousands who have worked for such success in the past or you would not be sitting here tonight. We would have no illumination, no floor; we would be sitting under tents, or trees, and on the bare ground. We would have no clothing, no education. We would have nothing of the things we have tonight. We are reaping the rewards of those who attained success in centuries gone by. They attained the success; we are reaping the rewards from it. You are enjoying the fruits of success of another. The man or woman who is today seeking success of a selfish nature is seeking something that will never materialize. I do not say that no man or woman today is justified in seeking a position, an opportunity to work or serve or a place to live and labor so that he may receive in return for his efforts such compensation as will make him happy and enable him to meet the necessities of life and enjoy the blessings. It is a just desire. Such a desire is commendable; it cannot be criticized. But there must be more to it than that if you hope to attain it. If your desire stops there, it may be commendable and pass the judgment of man as being proper, but it does not meet the judgment of the Cosmic Mind or of God. I think that one of the most simple and beautiful of phrases that modern philosophers ever wrote in a tract manner, as would be of popular appreciation, was the little phrase which says that 'God could not be everywhere; so he made Mothers.' God could not carry on His creative work in all parts of the world as He did in the beginning, so He created Mothers to be the instrument of His creative work; but He also created men to be channels and instruments for other forms of creative work, and until a man or a woman entering upon any path of labor or any path of effort can conscientiously say, "I am laboring with God, for God, as one of his instruments," he is not going to attempt the real success that is possible.
I remember one time a man came to see me, who felt his position in life was the most menial, the most unsatisfactory that he could possibly have. He had often felt deeply about it. His family, even his children who were now grown up and going to public school, were beginning to comment on it in a manner that hurt him; but the real reason for his sudden outburst was due to an incident that happened that day. The man was a cleaner of sewers in the city. Most of his time was spent underneath the ground, opening the man-holes in the streets and descending and walking in the large curved brick tubing, and he cleaned them where they had been stopped or where a breakage had occurred. He would only come up to eat or maybe once or twice in the morning for a breath of fresh air. He wore the oldest of clothes and had to come home to his wife and children after working in the sewer.
He felt ashamed, but not so much until one evening when he was coming up out of the man-hole near a magnificent home. He saw a well-dressed man go up the path with a doctor's kit in his hand, and hurry to the doorway with a merry smile on his face. And this sewer-cleaner just closed the man-hole after a day's work, and went over to the corner of the house and looked in through the large window, showing a large reception hall, and he saw this man come in, take off his hat and put his satchel on the shelf as though it were the usual place, and sit down at his desk and open the paper. This man had seen the sign "Dr.----" on the door, and so he knew it was the home of a doctor. In a moment the two daughters came in and put their arms around him and kissed him.
The man walked away; he could look no longer. He said to me, "How is it one man can go out and live as he does, and I have to live as I do?" "Are you resentful because you have not the home he has?" "Oh, no, but why must I work at something that is not helpful to humanity and he can go out and do good wherever he goes, and save lives and do good work, and feel that he is one of God's instruments, while I feel as though I am one of His instruments of the lowest type in the world."
I pointed out to him that as far as curing disease and helping the sick and saving lives were concerned, if he was doing his work as properly as it should be done, he would be doing more to protect the health in that community than anything the doctor might do; and that God had it ordained that he should do that work or some similar work for a time as his mission in life. Some one has to do it. Someone in the first place has to build the sewers and others have to keep them clean; and one who is familiar with the work will be put ahead and eventually he will get to another higher place; but all this work has to be done regardless of how menial it is.
You cannot tell whose work is the most important. You cannot tell whether the great four or five thousand Watt lamp on the street corner gives the most illumination, or whether the little pea light at the head of the surgeon's instrument, to guide him in safely cutting, may not be the greater light. Success in life depends upon your contribution to the necessities of the nation or the community on the one hand, and your fulfillment of some Cosmic mission on the other hand. Your success in life depends on doing that which is at hand for you to do, and doing it well. But for those who have not and are seeking such opportunities, there is also this: you cannot find the opening, you cannot find the beginning of the path, until you step forward with the same resolve and determination that, not for yourself alone, not for your own immediate needs, or for your family, but for the benefit of all civilization, you are ready to serve.
If you put yourself in attunement with the Universal laws, the Universal principles, the Universal requirements and necessities, you will gradually be fitted into the proper place. After all, this world and its laborers are much like one of the large old-fashioned puzzle pictures that was once a perfect picture on wood, and then cut up by a gig-saw into different peculiar shapes, and you find the result is a mass of uneven, unequal, and peculiar shapes of wood. The problem is to turn them into a picture by fitting each one in its proper place. And you will recall, after you worked at the problem, there came a time when it was nearly finished and there was one open gap here and another open gap there and another one somewhere else, and as you looked at it, you would say, "I must look for a piece just that shape. I must not look for a perfect square or a round piece, but one that is cut just the right shape, because it is the only one that will fit into that place." You could have taken any of the other pieces and try them and lay them over the opening, but they would not have fitted in, nor would the pretty picture on the surface have been correct.
There is, in the universe, an open space for each one, but we do not have to go seeking around the world to find it. You can bring that open space into your presence. Your success in life will be when you fit into that proper place; and you can attract success to your life by attracting that open space to you. You must begin, first of all, by making yourself universal in your thinking. You must begin by realizing you are one of God's multitudes and that God did not segregate men into Americans, Germans, French, Italians or Russians, or any other nationality; that He did not segregate them into blacks, reds, greens, and other colors. Those are effects of the climate, of evolution, and conditions that have come upon man since he was created. God did not make Baptists, Presbyterians, Jews, Gentiles, or Roman Catholics, or Rosicrucians. These are things that have come upon us or that we have created. They are artificialities. Nor did God create any of us good and any of us bad, but just different. Nor did God create any of us rich or poor. Thank God all of us come into the world absolutely naked and nude of all material possessions. My little son said the other day, speaking of some one being born with a gold spoon in his mouth, "Yes, but perhaps if you looked closely, you would find someone else's initials on the spoon."
We are not born with even sexual inequalities, those artificial standards we set up, whereby we said women were of the weaker sex. Pooh! Do they show any weakness today in the business world, the professional world, or in colleges and universities? Why, not even in a prizefight ring. Those standards between sexes that used to claim that man had liberties women did not have, went so far in that sort of thing that finally women took all the liberties the men had, and now you have a problem on your hands. Equality is all that God and Nature understand, and until you get into that atmosphere, that attitude of mind, you are lost, because one, two, or three things can happen if you are not of that attitude.
You are either one with a superiority complex that puts an imaginary highhat on your head, or you have an inferiority complex, which is just as bad. I know one woman in Los Angeles who was secretary to a business man, and who was a very capable and excellent secretary, but she had one weakness, and that was an inferiority complex. As fast as her employer's friends became acquainted, and knowing she was so competent and had his confidence, could discuss many of his problems, she would say, "Would you mind telling my employer that you think I am a good secretary? I don't think he thinks so. And would you mind telling me if you see me doing anything wrong so that I can correct it? Would you help me get a promotion?" She believed that any hour of the day her employer would discharge her for incompetence. On the other hand, he would try to show her and tell her that her work was good, but every time he opened his mouth to compliment her, she thought he was doing it to cover up some blunder she had made. She was ready for a fall, just like the one with the superiority complex. They are both ready for a fall. Equality--that does not mean you can go around and say, "I am as good as anybody else," but simply say, "I am like others, with my good spots and my bad spots. I am a brother, and all of us are brothers and sisters," and say it with sincerity. Do not go out and start to form a universal brotherhood, as the world is not ready for that. But for your own sake, if you get into a position where you begin to realize that all beings are equal, then all effort and all labor will be equal, and if there are any inequalities, man has created them. Even the depression was created by you--you representing mankind. God did not create these conditions. These inequalities are going to be rapidly changed, but to the man or woman who takes advantage of this now, success will be attracted. As soon as you can, put yourself in a position of the Universal man, the Universal woman and say, "There is a mission for me; my pride, my social position, the things I have tried to maintain on an artificial basis, must be wiped away, and a new beginning made. I must see what God wants me to do and accept it temporarily as a stepping stone!"
The moment you start to attune yourself with this Universal attitude and do not look upon your sorrow, your grief, your wants, your deprivations, as a personal thing, as an individualistic thing--the moment you change your attitude and become universal--that moment you will begin to attract your success--the success that is to be yours in life. From that moment you will open the flood gates of Cosmic inspiration. You will find your mind being cleared of all of the old cobwebs like a garrett is cleared of them. You will find the window panes of your conscience being cleared so that a new vision comes in. You will find your ears, the ears of your soul, are becoming open, and you can hear messages when you are in meditation or concentration that you never heard before. You will find you are understanding things; but what is even better, you will find you are being kept and led away from conditions that should not exist in your life. You will find things will begin to change by being more favorable.
I am not preaching something from Holy Scripture alone. I am not telling you something that is purely philosophical. I am telling you something thousands of persons in every community of this country have tested during the last three years especially, and for many thousands generally, and have found to be true. You know and I know, and it is no use for one of you doubters or skeptics sitting in this hall tonight to say it is not true, for it is, when I say to you, "There is an Invisible Empire in this world today, composed of men and women who are rapidly going toward the success they want, and they are following some definite law." You may challenge my words, if you wish, but the Empire exists just the same. There are men and women that you have pointed out, yourself, Mr. Skeptic, or Mr. Doubter, and you have nudged your wife and said, "Look at Mr.----. There is something strange about him." It is so easy when you don't understand to attribute it to something strange. You may say, "There is something different about that man. Nothing seems to upset him. He has not the most important position, and yet he was not laid off with the others. Look at this man, fifty-eight years old and still active. Look at this woman whose husband passed away suddenly, and who had not been left much money, nor has she many friends, yet she is supporting herself and her baby. Things are just coming her way. Hummm, I can't understand it!" Ah, yes, but there are others who know.
It is the same with two men in the same line of business, and who even copy each other's advertisements in the paper; they get up at 6:00 to see each other's window displays for fear the other has reduced his prices, and they get some friends on the newspaper to tip them off so that they can announce the same prices as the other; and one gets the business and the other does not. One says, "There is something darn funny about that!" Yet you come here and say that you doubt if there is any mystical, Cosmic law involved. Then stand up and tell me what it is. All you can say is, "There is something funny." You do not understand. Why don't you take our word for it for a little while and try it? I will tell you why skeptics don't try it. It is because of their own vanity. They say, "I can't believe anything outside of man's own mind can influence his life and his business." Do you know what he means by that? He doesn't mean what the words actually say. He really means, "I don't believe there is another fellow living that knows as much about me as I know about myself. My mind is as good as anybody else's!" He will tell you he never went beyond the high school because he never needed to go to college, and he says tonight, "That fellow lecturing up there doesn't know what he is talking about!"
Our Invisible Empire is an empire of live beings who rub shoulders with you day after day and hour after hour, willing and ready to help, and show you life's secrets, the laws of happiness, the powers of it, but we cannot stand on the street corner and give it to you. You cannot buy it with money. We do not have a bit of knowledge that you can buy for five cents or five million dollars.
It is not a matter of religion, creed, or theological doctrines, but Universal laws--the same laws that guide trees in growing, the same laws that make the poppies that I had in my office close up every day at 5:00, and not open until I came in the morning and raised the curtain, even though I sometimes did not come until 10:00; the same law that makes the grass grow. These laws are not religious, but Divine Laws, because God invented them. Electric lamps are Divine things; the floor and the bench you are sitting on, and the sounds of my voice that convey meaning to you, are all Divine because God made them; but the laws I am speaking of are also common-sense, Universal laws. The quicker you get into harmony with these Universal laws, the quicker will your life change and be in harmony.
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Attracting Success
A LECTURE GIVEN IN THE ROSICRUCIAN AUDITORIUM
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
By H. Spencer Lewis, Ph. D., F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest July 1932]
FOR the discourse tonight, the subject of, "Attracting Success," was selected because of many questions submitted by those who are on various paths of search for the necessities of life. I believe it is safe to say that the average human being begins a strange search for something very early in life, and that even the adolescent child who is just beginning to sense an evolving personality and beginning to sense the personal idiosyncracies of character and personality, is, perhaps, more affected by this inner strange desire of search than he is affected by the physiological and mental changes that are taking place. And from that time on, each and every one of us is conscious in our moments of retrospection and introspection of an unfulfilled desire, an unsatisfied wish.
I am sure it would be a very fortunate thing for the progress of civilization, if through some magic of the mysteries of Cosmic Law, each and every one of us should suddenly find our prayers answered, our desires fulfilled, and our search ended. Not only would there be an ending of the stimulus that urges us on to achieve better, to achieve greater, but even the search for knowledge, the search to solve the mysteries, would end. Civilization would come to a standstill, and we would begin to retrograde.
The artist who is born an artist or becomes a real artist never feels satisfied with his art. I know of many, and they frankly admit that they never carved a piece, never painted a picture, never chiseled, engraved or cut in any way, a thing of their creation with which they were perfectly satisfied. They admit that necessity has often brought their work to an end. The artist working in Paris in order to study and earn at the same time is often forced, reluctantly, to stop work on a painting he is making, solely because there is a prospective buyer who wants it, and there has come a time when the artist puts the last touch on and says, "It is finished;" but he knows it is not finished. He could go on for days and weeks and months, especially if he could work on something else for a while, and then come back to the painting a week later or a month later, and find hundreds of things to improve. So it is with the inventor and so it has always been with the musician. So it will always be with the real business man, with the creator of business, the man who is evolving cultural ethics in his business system, who is improving his merchandise, his sales methods, his advertising methods, the service he renders to his customers. He is never quite satisfied with what he is producing, with the work and appearance of the article he sells, with its durability, its service to the purchaser, and its performance generally.
When we find an individual in life who feels quite satisfied, who no longer feels the urge to try and do something a little differently, who finds no criticism coming from the voice within, who finds all he has done is satisfactory--such a person, when we find him, is generally an absolute failure. If he has been a success up to the present, failure is written for his future, for the moment he feels he is in the very shadow of success or just around the corner from it, he is sure to be far from it, and walking in the wrong direction. It is this sense of possible greater service, greater power, greater accomplishment, and greater attainment, that has quickened man into real progress toward perfection.
They try to tell us in common historical writings that the Great Pyramid of Egypt, and the great temples, required, in the absence of machinery, such enormous man-power that this man-power was obtained by the use, the liberal use, of the whip, and that the kings and pharaohs and rulers commanded multitudes to come and hitch themselves to chains and to long pieces of leather which were attached to enormous stones, and on the top of each stone stood a master ruler with a long whip, whipping the hundreds of slaves into dragging that individual stone, and that hundreds of stones were being pulled at one time, each with their group of slaves, showing on their naked bodies the blood marks of the whips. But that is not a true picture, because we find that the stones cut in the quarries of Egypt by these slaves, the manner in which they were put together and cemented, without a crack at the edge of the stones that showed between them, and the designs painted by the sweat of blood through the heat and the torture of burning torches could never have been done, and done so beautifully, under a whip. Those workers worked for the glory of Egypt, the glory of an empire, the glory of a prestige that was then a mighty influence throughout the world.
There may have been individual structures built, not only in Egypt, but in Rome and Greece, by individuals who hired slaves to build a mausoleum, or tomb, or something of a personal nature, and who whipped their slaves; and perhaps the many ruined structures throughout Europe, and ruined structures built at a much later date than the Pyramids, but which are now in ruin beyond recognition, may have been built by men who labored under a whip, men who had no inspiration, who had no interest, no love in their work; but the lasting things throughout the world, made by men from the strange Leaning Tower of Pisa that leans and yet never falls, to the magnificent temples of learning, the temples of art, the temples of religion, the temples of science and beauty--those things were not made by slaves, but by adoring worshipers of the art on which they were working.
And it is the same today. We have in our modern times the same desire for great success, for individual power, for class power, for national power, for international power. We have the same desire on the part of the humblest individual for recognition, for attainment, and along with it, for a little of the luxuries and blessings that are commonly enjoyed. And we find, if we carefully analyze life today, that the ones who are attaining success, or who are attracting success to themselves, are those who are laboring primarily under the whiphand of love, under the urge of inspiration, and under the constant impulse of an inner desire to do better and better and better.
You cannot take success in life and reduce it to an element. You cannot take happiness and reduce it to one phase of emotional expression. You cannot take sorrow and say it is of one formula. You cannot take wealth and say it is of one standard. Success for each individual is not measured by a yardstick, but is wholely and exclusively personal. The success for one person cannot possibly be the success for another to the same degree. If we were to take the six or seven hundred persons assembled here and ask each one of them as to what they would call 'success,' in their individual lives, you would find that while there may be twelve general classifications, there would be six or seven hundred distinctively different natures of success.
All success is not accompanied by wealth. The thing we do not have is often the thing that is the most tempting, and the most alluring, and we seldom understand the real nature of anything, especially of material things of life, until we have tasted of it. We cannot understand even life, itself, until we have drunk from the inside of the cup, and tasted of the bitter drink. But very often that which seems to evade us and elude us, is the thing we want to possess. And those who are without money, without wealth, without even enough to meet the necessities of life, are very apt to think that the sudden or gradual possession of money would solve all of the problems of life, and constitute success; yet there are those in the world, in every country, in every state, city, and community, who have all of the actual necessities and many of the luxuries, with some money put away for the proverbial rainy day, who have no real worry at all from any financial point of view; still they would hesitate to say they had attained success, or that they had even reached the goal of their ambitions.
They are not seeking money, primarily, although everything they may do may help to increase what they already have, but it is not the increase of the money or wealth that is the real urge, but the desire to attain, to achieve, to reach that goal that they have set in their lives, and to go just a little ways beyond.
There are, on the other hand, those who have no wealth, not even any of the luxuries, who have just the bare necessities, with a safe assurance that they will always have something to eat and some place to rest and sleep, but even they may not be seeking for wealth, while still fired with an ambition that could not be quenched even if you showed to them that you had deposited in their name in the bank, ten, twenty, or fifty thousand dollars. I know of some men in this community and in other cities and communities, who are living in a mediocre home that they rent; they have no modern conveniences, except possibly a small radio; they make no attempt to have all of the latest things that the neighbors have. They may not even possess a modern automobile--it may be just a Ford; and yet they are not seeking for either wealth or any of the modern conveniences; but they are seeking; they are restless; they are constantly on the lookout. They remind me, when I talk to some of them in my office, of some of these watchmen of ancient days who were stationed for periods of three or four hours at a stretch on some watch-tower, like I have seen in Nimes, in Southern France--an old watch-tower way up on the hill overlooking the Roman baths and the great arena and buildings below, and who watched for the sight of an attack of an approaching army, even in times of peace. Their eyes always looking beyond the present horizon, listening to what you say, but looking at the same time for an undertone, like the trampling of horses' feet; they are listening for something, looking for something that they want to add in their lives or that they want to keep out of their lives. It is not a quest for money, for you soon find that is far away from their minds. They are looking for success in something, for a successful goal at the end of their path.
If you could see in one assembly all of the men and women who are tonight, in just the United States of America alone, sitting in some rattle-shackle of a room, with a workbench, or before them an improvised furnace or some piece of machinery, working out some patent, some device, some invention--if you could see all of those persons in one assembly, you would see a mighty army of men and women who are, at this very hour, regardless of the fact that it is around 8:00 here and 11:00 on the Eastern Coast, in deep concentration, unmindful of the hour, unmindful of the fact that it may be cold, that friends or relatives may be waiting to see them, unmindful of everything but the flaming torch before them, the melting metal in the furnace, or the turning of a wheel, or cog--their whole ambition and whole thought and inspiration of life is there, in that little room. And they would tell you, this army, this great army of thousands of young and old, of both sexes, that success to them would be the solution of the thing that they are trying to produce. One man is trying to make a little magnet that will neutralize the effect of another magnet on a piece of steel. Another is trying to make solder stick to a piece of aluminum, another is trying to make leather harder by applying a certain solution to it. One man is trying to make an imitation of shellac, and has it perfected with the exception of one little thing. Another is trying to make a hole in a needle of a different shape for some purpose. Each one would tell you, "If this thing I am trying to do, can be accomplished, it will be my success." And, you would stand there, look at it, and say, "Well, from my point of view, I could not see where that little thing would change the world one bit. That would not be success for me."
If you would say to the wrinkled old woman, like the one in Paris, who worked over radium, "After all the education you had and all of the glittering possibilities that lie before you, to just teach and lecture and see the world, do you mean to say that you enjoy sitting here? Do they give you anything to eat?" "No, not even a crust of bread." "Do they give you any new clothes?" "No, I am wearing out the ones I have." "Does it make you any younger?" "No, I have aged ten years in the last two." "Will it prevent death?" "No, it is bringing it on. That tube contains radium, and it is destroying the cells of my body. I am more dead than alive." "What is keeping you alive?" "My desire, my ambition. I want to reach success--success that will not bring me anything but thanks from the waiting multitudes." That is success from the point of view of one person.
Thank God there have been thousands who have worked for such success in the past or you would not be sitting here tonight. We would have no illumination, no floor; we would be sitting under tents, or trees, and on the bare ground. We would have no clothing, no education. We would have nothing of the things we have tonight. We are reaping the rewards of those who attained success in centuries gone by. They attained the success; we are reaping the rewards from it. You are enjoying the fruits of success of another. The man or woman who is today seeking success of a selfish nature is seeking something that will never materialize. I do not say that no man or woman today is justified in seeking a position, an opportunity to work or serve or a place to live and labor so that he may receive in return for his efforts such compensation as will make him happy and enable him to meet the necessities of life and enjoy the blessings. It is a just desire. Such a desire is commendable; it cannot be criticized. But there must be more to it than that if you hope to attain it. If your desire stops there, it may be commendable and pass the judgment of man as being proper, but it does not meet the judgment of the Cosmic Mind or of God. I think that one of the most simple and beautiful of phrases that modern philosophers ever wrote in a tract manner, as would be of popular appreciation, was the little phrase which says that 'God could not be everywhere; so he made Mothers.' God could not carry on His creative work in all parts of the world as He did in the beginning, so He created Mothers to be the instrument of His creative work; but He also created men to be channels and instruments for other forms of creative work, and until a man or a woman entering upon any path of labor or any path of effort can conscientiously say, "I am laboring with God, for God, as one of his instruments," he is not going to attempt the real success that is possible.
I remember one time a man came to see me, who felt his position in life was the most menial, the most unsatisfactory that he could possibly have. He had often felt deeply about it. His family, even his children who were now grown up and going to public school, were beginning to comment on it in a manner that hurt him; but the real reason for his sudden outburst was due to an incident that happened that day. The man was a cleaner of sewers in the city. Most of his time was spent underneath the ground, opening the man-holes in the streets and descending and walking in the large curved brick tubing, and he cleaned them where they had been stopped or where a breakage had occurred. He would only come up to eat or maybe once or twice in the morning for a breath of fresh air. He wore the oldest of clothes and had to come home to his wife and children after working in the sewer.
He felt ashamed, but not so much until one evening when he was coming up out of the man-hole near a magnificent home. He saw a well-dressed man go up the path with a doctor's kit in his hand, and hurry to the doorway with a merry smile on his face. And this sewer-cleaner just closed the man-hole after a day's work, and went over to the corner of the house and looked in through the large window, showing a large reception hall, and he saw this man come in, take off his hat and put his satchel on the shelf as though it were the usual place, and sit down at his desk and open the paper. This man had seen the sign "Dr.----" on the door, and so he knew it was the home of a doctor. In a moment the two daughters came in and put their arms around him and kissed him.
The man walked away; he could look no longer. He said to me, "How is it one man can go out and live as he does, and I have to live as I do?" "Are you resentful because you have not the home he has?" "Oh, no, but why must I work at something that is not helpful to humanity and he can go out and do good wherever he goes, and save lives and do good work, and feel that he is one of God's instruments, while I feel as though I am one of His instruments of the lowest type in the world."
I pointed out to him that as far as curing disease and helping the sick and saving lives were concerned, if he was doing his work as properly as it should be done, he would be doing more to protect the health in that community than anything the doctor might do; and that God had it ordained that he should do that work or some similar work for a time as his mission in life. Some one has to do it. Someone in the first place has to build the sewers and others have to keep them clean; and one who is familiar with the work will be put ahead and eventually he will get to another higher place; but all this work has to be done regardless of how menial it is.
You cannot tell whose work is the most important. You cannot tell whether the great four or five thousand Watt lamp on the street corner gives the most illumination, or whether the little pea light at the head of the surgeon's instrument, to guide him in safely cutting, may not be the greater light. Success in life depends upon your contribution to the necessities of the nation or the community on the one hand, and your fulfillment of some Cosmic mission on the other hand. Your success in life depends on doing that which is at hand for you to do, and doing it well. But for those who have not and are seeking such opportunities, there is also this: you cannot find the opening, you cannot find the beginning of the path, until you step forward with the same resolve and determination that, not for yourself alone, not for your own immediate needs, or for your family, but for the benefit of all civilization, you are ready to serve.
If you put yourself in attunement with the Universal laws, the Universal principles, the Universal requirements and necessities, you will gradually be fitted into the proper place. After all, this world and its laborers are much like one of the large old-fashioned puzzle pictures that was once a perfect picture on wood, and then cut up by a gig-saw into different peculiar shapes, and you find the result is a mass of uneven, unequal, and peculiar shapes of wood. The problem is to turn them into a picture by fitting each one in its proper place. And you will recall, after you worked at the problem, there came a time when it was nearly finished and there was one open gap here and another open gap there and another one somewhere else, and as you looked at it, you would say, "I must look for a piece just that shape. I must not look for a perfect square or a round piece, but one that is cut just the right shape, because it is the only one that will fit into that place." You could have taken any of the other pieces and try them and lay them over the opening, but they would not have fitted in, nor would the pretty picture on the surface have been correct.
There is, in the universe, an open space for each one, but we do not have to go seeking around the world to find it. You can bring that open space into your presence. Your success in life will be when you fit into that proper place; and you can attract success to your life by attracting that open space to you. You must begin, first of all, by making yourself universal in your thinking. You must begin by realizing you are one of God's multitudes and that God did not segregate men into Americans, Germans, French, Italians or Russians, or any other nationality; that He did not segregate them into blacks, reds, greens, and other colors. Those are effects of the climate, of evolution, and conditions that have come upon man since he was created. God did not make Baptists, Presbyterians, Jews, Gentiles, or Roman Catholics, or Rosicrucians. These are things that have come upon us or that we have created. They are artificialities. Nor did God create any of us good and any of us bad, but just different. Nor did God create any of us rich or poor. Thank God all of us come into the world absolutely naked and nude of all material possessions. My little son said the other day, speaking of some one being born with a gold spoon in his mouth, "Yes, but perhaps if you looked closely, you would find someone else's initials on the spoon."
We are not born with even sexual inequalities, those artificial standards we set up, whereby we said women were of the weaker sex. Pooh! Do they show any weakness today in the business world, the professional world, or in colleges and universities? Why, not even in a prizefight ring. Those standards between sexes that used to claim that man had liberties women did not have, went so far in that sort of thing that finally women took all the liberties the men had, and now you have a problem on your hands. Equality is all that God and Nature understand, and until you get into that atmosphere, that attitude of mind, you are lost, because one, two, or three things can happen if you are not of that attitude.
You are either one with a superiority complex that puts an imaginary highhat on your head, or you have an inferiority complex, which is just as bad. I know one woman in Los Angeles who was secretary to a business man, and who was a very capable and excellent secretary, but she had one weakness, and that was an inferiority complex. As fast as her employer's friends became acquainted, and knowing she was so competent and had his confidence, could discuss many of his problems, she would say, "Would you mind telling my employer that you think I am a good secretary? I don't think he thinks so. And would you mind telling me if you see me doing anything wrong so that I can correct it? Would you help me get a promotion?" She believed that any hour of the day her employer would discharge her for incompetence. On the other hand, he would try to show her and tell her that her work was good, but every time he opened his mouth to compliment her, she thought he was doing it to cover up some blunder she had made. She was ready for a fall, just like the one with the superiority complex. They are both ready for a fall. Equality--that does not mean you can go around and say, "I am as good as anybody else," but simply say, "I am like others, with my good spots and my bad spots. I am a brother, and all of us are brothers and sisters," and say it with sincerity. Do not go out and start to form a universal brotherhood, as the world is not ready for that. But for your own sake, if you get into a position where you begin to realize that all beings are equal, then all effort and all labor will be equal, and if there are any inequalities, man has created them. Even the depression was created by you--you representing mankind. God did not create these conditions. These inequalities are going to be rapidly changed, but to the man or woman who takes advantage of this now, success will be attracted. As soon as you can, put yourself in a position of the Universal man, the Universal woman and say, "There is a mission for me; my pride, my social position, the things I have tried to maintain on an artificial basis, must be wiped away, and a new beginning made. I must see what God wants me to do and accept it temporarily as a stepping stone!"
The moment you start to attune yourself with this Universal attitude and do not look upon your sorrow, your grief, your wants, your deprivations, as a personal thing, as an individualistic thing--the moment you change your attitude and become universal--that moment you will begin to attract your success--the success that is to be yours in life. From that moment you will open the flood gates of Cosmic inspiration. You will find your mind being cleared of all of the old cobwebs like a garrett is cleared of them. You will find the window panes of your conscience being cleared so that a new vision comes in. You will find your ears, the ears of your soul, are becoming open, and you can hear messages when you are in meditation or concentration that you never heard before. You will find you are understanding things; but what is even better, you will find you are being kept and led away from conditions that should not exist in your life. You will find things will begin to change by being more favorable.
I am not preaching something from Holy Scripture alone. I am not telling you something that is purely philosophical. I am telling you something thousands of persons in every community of this country have tested during the last three years especially, and for many thousands generally, and have found to be true. You know and I know, and it is no use for one of you doubters or skeptics sitting in this hall tonight to say it is not true, for it is, when I say to you, "There is an Invisible Empire in this world today, composed of men and women who are rapidly going toward the success they want, and they are following some definite law." You may challenge my words, if you wish, but the Empire exists just the same. There are men and women that you have pointed out, yourself, Mr. Skeptic, or Mr. Doubter, and you have nudged your wife and said, "Look at Mr.----. There is something strange about him." It is so easy when you don't understand to attribute it to something strange. You may say, "There is something different about that man. Nothing seems to upset him. He has not the most important position, and yet he was not laid off with the others. Look at this man, fifty-eight years old and still active. Look at this woman whose husband passed away suddenly, and who had not been left much money, nor has she many friends, yet she is supporting herself and her baby. Things are just coming her way. Hummm, I can't understand it!" Ah, yes, but there are others who know.
It is the same with two men in the same line of business, and who even copy each other's advertisements in the paper; they get up at 6:00 to see each other's window displays for fear the other has reduced his prices, and they get some friends on the newspaper to tip them off so that they can announce the same prices as the other; and one gets the business and the other does not. One says, "There is something darn funny about that!" Yet you come here and say that you doubt if there is any mystical, Cosmic law involved. Then stand up and tell me what it is. All you can say is, "There is something funny." You do not understand. Why don't you take our word for it for a little while and try it? I will tell you why skeptics don't try it. It is because of their own vanity. They say, "I can't believe anything outside of man's own mind can influence his life and his business." Do you know what he means by that? He doesn't mean what the words actually say. He really means, "I don't believe there is another fellow living that knows as much about me as I know about myself. My mind is as good as anybody else's!" He will tell you he never went beyond the high school because he never needed to go to college, and he says tonight, "That fellow lecturing up there doesn't know what he is talking about!"
Our Invisible Empire is an empire of live beings who rub shoulders with you day after day and hour after hour, willing and ready to help, and show you life's secrets, the laws of happiness, the powers of it, but we cannot stand on the street corner and give it to you. You cannot buy it with money. We do not have a bit of knowledge that you can buy for five cents or five million dollars.
It is not a matter of religion, creed, or theological doctrines, but Universal laws--the same laws that guide trees in growing, the same laws that make the poppies that I had in my office close up every day at 5:00, and not open until I came in the morning and raised the curtain, even though I sometimes did not come until 10:00; the same law that makes the grass grow. These laws are not religious, but Divine Laws, because God invented them. Electric lamps are Divine things; the floor and the bench you are sitting on, and the sounds of my voice that convey meaning to you, are all Divine because God made them; but the laws I am speaking of are also common-sense, Universal laws. The quicker you get into harmony with these Universal laws, the quicker will your life change and be in harmony.
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Creating A New Career
A DISCOURSE GIVEN IN THE FRANCIS BACON
AUDITORIUM, ROSICRUCIAN PARK
By H. Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest March 1932]
THE topic chosen for tonight's discourse is that of creating a new career. It is very likely that at the present time, with the new year just before us and an old year that has just passed, that many are thinking of starting a new career. I imagine that throughout the nation today there are many thousands of men and women sitting around the family round-table looking at the pile of debts before them--whether those debts are physical in form in the way of notations on paper or mental--and are also looking at the small purse and feeling rather depressed and blue, that they are asking each other, the man and wife, whether it is not possible to start a new career.
I know that in my own personal mail there are many requests each month from persons who seek to get some special advice here from the chief executives, hoping that they will learn of something or hear of something unusual. The question they ask is, "Do you think that at my age, do you think in my business or field and with my limitations and obligations and responsibilities, it is possible to start a new career?" So many also want to move, thinking that is the solution of the problem. We even receive telegrams stating, "I am moving; change my mail address. I am leaving Chicago to go to Baltimore." The next one says, "I am leaving Baltimore to go to Chicago." The next one is, "I am going from Jacksonville, Florida, to St. Louis"; and so it goes, each one feeling as the old proverb says, 'that the grass is just a little greener on the other side of the fence.' They feel that merely a change in location may bring them opportunities, or there may be opportunities of which they can take advantage, but the general cry and desire seems to be to change to a new career.
So many feel that they have exhausted the possibilities in their occupation. So many feel, because of age, they have reached that point where the employer or foreman or those executives who have charge of the employment, will some day say, "John or Jim, you have reached the point where you are too old for us; we must have new blood." According to what we learned in the last few years, this age limit has been gradually lowering. It is not a wholesome, encouraging thing for the married man to think of, nor the married woman either. There was a time, if you recall, some of you, when it was said that at forty a man should chloroform himself, but it seems now that they have decided to let him live, but let him starve. It would seem that even a man of thirty-five must begin to think of some sort of exercise or some form of rejuvenation for fear of old age creeping upon him some night. He is so close to the borderline. It is no wonder men and women are beginning to wonder whether they had better look for some other field.
There are some lines of industries, some lines of occupation, that do not set an age limit. Personally, I agree with those chief executives in all fields of activities that say that age is an asset, if that age has been accompanied with experience. After all, the young trained man with all of his technical training and all of his pep cannot always compete with the man of experience.
A few days ago I was visiting one of my friends here in town and, while sitting at his desk, I noticed that on a little scratch pad there was a notation he had written. I happened to read it. I am going to tell you the proverb that he wrote. The proverb, he probably was going to use in his business, which is advertising. He said that "Pep without purpose is piffle." It is easy to remember that. The three p's that form a literation[1] help us to remember; and the truth is astounding.
They talk about the college youth being pepped up with all sorts of exercises and cereal foods, but the pep usually has no purpose and is just piffle. It reminds me of a story about a steamboat on the Mississippi. The captain of that boat wanted to have a very impressive whistle; so he put an enormous steam whistle on it, all out of proportion. They say when it was coming down the stream, and he pulled the strap and blew that whistle, it let out so much steam the boat started going backwards; and because it had a 24-inch whistle and only a 16-inch boiler, every time she was ready to start and he blew the whistle, it had no steam left so had to wait for more steam in order to start. That is also pep without purpose, typifying the average man of today.
Usually the man from college rushes into the city or town, into the offices of the various firms, into the employment department, throws down his hat and says, "I want a job." With all his pep and vim and vigor, like the steamboat, it looks as though he were going to get somewhere. He is no more fitted, perhaps for the business world than a child, but he is full of mistaken ideas regarding that which too many business people have figured out as an asset--vim and pep. Then, the man with long years of experience and judgment who could not get out and do a tap-dance in the middle of the floor to a tune on a harmonica, and who could not run up and down stairs like the young ones, is let out because he did not have the pep and vim of the young men.
Some of the occupations and professions are over-crowded until there is nothing left in that profession or occupation. Why, even the shoe peddler has competition and cannot make as much money in fixing shoes or selling them, along with his little business, as he could before; and so it is in almost all lines of business. Machinery has come in and relieved a great many, but even beyond this there is the desire in the hearts of men and women today, as there never was in any age or period, for a change. That is due to two things: Modern psychology and modern systems of self-analysis. Modern methods of psycho-analysis have, in the first place, enabled men and women to discover that they are in the wrong occupations, wrong professions, or in the wrong nitch[2] in life. It may be a social nitch; it may not be a business nitch. In the second place, our highly efficient business methods have created newer opportunities that are not overcrowded and are lucrative and interesting.
There are thousands, perhaps millions, of men and women tonight who can look back over their past lives, the past years of occupation, toil, and industry, and all look forward a few years and see that unless a change is made very soon, they will fail in life or they will not have the success in life that they should have. You know, it used to take more years to find out that the man who was preaching on Sunday would have made a better plumber. Usually he was the last to find it out. The congregation, or the people to whom he owed money, discovered it long before he did; and they usually found that the average plumber would make a better preacher. It happened sometimes that young men or women went into the business world and were complete failures before it dawned on them that perhaps the parents had not selected the right profession or occupation for them. Today, with our methods of analysis, with all of the specialized magazines that enable us to pick out quickly and easily our real qualifications, persons need not be misfits.
Many ask, "Are there really new opportunities?" Constantly, I hear of men and women who have set out and created for themselves a new career--a new profession they have gone into--a new, trained occupation. Many things in our highly specialized lives today offer opportunities for new lines of occupation. We are in the electrical age, let us say, and that field, alone, is still so young and so small compared to what it will be, that it is hardly more than in the infant stage. We have no idea nor can we have any conception today of what the electrical possibilities of the future and even of the present will afford in the way of new trades, new occupations, new specialized efforts, affording men and women of all types an opportunity to make a good living. The same is true of many other things. If we are in the electrical age now, we are just entering it, and on top of it is coming the air age, so to speak. The air age is going to open up in all its possibilities. But, aside from that, we are coming into many other forms of living that open up new and greater opportunities for the persons who are careful and analytical and discover them, for most of them must be discovered and created.
Early in my first contact with the Rosicrucian teachings, as a young man, I was impressed with the fact that the only openings that are really worth while in life are the ones that the individual creates for himself. I remember being impressed with that idea and wrote an article for the "Success" magazine, as it was called at that time, about twenty-eight years ago, and headed the article, "Creating Your Own Opportunities." The proverb then was very popular, as it is still with many people, "Hark and listen for opportunity when it knocks, for it knocks only once." But I want to tell you that you may be asleep when that knock comes, and yet you cannot stay awake, waiting for it, and I have not much sympathy for one who does. One person might say to another, "You stay at home and watch, and if a fellow comes to the door and leaves a card with 'Opportunity' on it, you let me know, and I am going down town and look for him." Between the two of them, the opportunity is apt to be found.
I have noticed that the one who follows our suggestions, the one who goes out and creates the opportunities, is the one who makes what the other people will say afterwards, a soft berth for himself. He puts himself into such a nitch, one that he, himself, has created, and he fits in it so well, like a missing piece that is out of a crazy cut puzzle, that only one piece will fit, and if he fits--his physical and mental abilities--he will find he is the only one who can squeeze into it, and it takes some difficulty to squeeze him out. Others might say, "It is pretty soft for you." But it is these things created in this manner, that constitute a successful career in life.
Now, I am not going to foolishly quote John D . Rockefeller, and say that perhaps the first time he saw an oil can he said to himself, "I am going to make myself look like an oil can; so I will make a nitch and fit into it." John D. Rockefeller and the whole family created a nitch, and for years have filled that nitch. The time has gone when they were the richest. That never was their real nitch or they would never have moved out. At the present time Henry Ford is in that nitch. It is not his real nitch, either. It is only a temporary one that goes along with his real nitch. There are some people who are successful who have no worldly title, but who are going along just the same, filling the same position safely and with sureness for the rest of their lives, as long as they are capable, physically and mentally.
Now what will you do to begin this creating of a career? The first thing you should do is to say to yourself what your good wife would say to you: "John, what else can you do?" That is a logical question. You cannot begin to create something without having some idea in mind first. You want to know before you start whether or not what you have chosen will suit you. Find out what else you can do other than what you are doing now. First, find out why your present position is not paying you well, or why you are out of a position, and how you liked it when you had it. Now, it is foolish for any man to say that he can plug along through life and make a success in any line that he does not like. He may get his salary, and he may, in exchange for the salary, give what he is forced to give, but that is neither productive for the man nor for the firm. That man is sure to be one of the first to be laid off. Unless that man or woman is in an occupation that is most interesting, and the work so nice or so to the liking of the individual that he could even work at it for a few minutes or hours overtime without thinking of the overtime pay, or is constantly thinking how to improve it or take on more work without thinking of asking for an increase, he is not doing his best. If you have a position that goes against your grain from morning to night, you are not in the right position, and that is one good reason for making a change and a good reason for changing to some different occupation.
On the other hand, if you are of the type where all work is boresome and the mere fact that your alarm clock gets you out of bed and makes you go to work is annoying--if you are of that type, then this analysis will not help you. There are some like that. They wish every day was Sunday so they could sleep a little longer in the morning. They go to work with that attitude. They do not say the job is distasteful; it is passable; they have not given it much thought.
The minute the man is seeking to improve his position and begins to look upon himself as being a victim of universal circumstances, it is like the man who got out of step in the parade and said all of the rest of the parade was wrong and he was right. We may later find this man, a highly expressive and versatile speaker, standing on a soap box, in the park, talking on a new sociology, merely because he cannot adjust himself to conditions. He wants to adjust conditions before he improves himself. He is apt to think that he does not need any changing, but conditions around him do.
On the other hand, the man who feels that the business he is in is one that is not just for him, tries to adjust himself. He will let the business stand as it is, looking upon the system, the line he is in, as an established thing that would only change by the evolution of the component parts in it. Only after all the employees, only after all the consumers, the capitalists, and everybody and everything connected with it gradually evolve, will it change. The average person who is just dissatisfied because the line he is in is distasteful, but knows he can do better and can do something more productive, something more fitting to the ultimate consumer--is the person who can be helped. There is nothing wrong with the business or the employers, nothing wrong with the opportunities of that business, and nothing wrong with the system back of it. The only thing that is wrong is the man himself and his relation to it.
It may be a piano factory. This man, who is restless, tones or tunes pianos all day long. He never does any of the wood carving, or strings any of the wiring, or assembles any of the parts; he does not even hear the piano played when it is being demonstrated for a buyer. All he hears all day long is his playing on a few notes to see if the felt pads need toning or tuning; and he tones one after another all day long. He never had the satisfaction of building one of them, never had the satisfaction of selling one. Such a man may become tired. He may say, "I am qualified for something better than this." But he will not condemn the factory; he will only condemn his individual relationship with the system, with the factory, with the work he is doing. He says, "I am qualified for something better." What else can he do? Too many men have only one training, one profession. If they are bookkeepers or accountants they know just that and nothing else; or the man that tones pianos may never have thought of taking up some other business.
Other fields of work, other than the one you are in, have a certain handicap, but not a definite, continuous handicap, not one that cannot be removed. There are hundreds of schools ready to help you take up a new course of study. Some of these courses of study at home are from such schools as the Columbia University of New York or University of California. The Rosicrucian system also trains the mind, develops latent talent and awakens interest in various fields of endeavor that will help you to improve yourself, and you are studying under a great school. There are many schools, not only international correspondence schools, but others as well. I know a man seventy years of age, who graduated from the Blackstone Institute of Law, worked for six months in a lawyer's office, passed the bar examination, and now practices law. I have known young married women, while taking care of a baby, to study law and graduate and be admitted to the bar to practice; in fact, I know of two cases. It can be done and is being done. It is not too late. No matter if they say in the economic and business world that forty is the age limit, there is one thing about it--education sets no limit on it. No matter how old you are, if you can read and understand what you read, you can still lift yourself up out of the rut you are in.
The principal thing of starting a new career, after you have determined what you want to do, is to visualize yourself in that position, or as a worker in some factory, some line of business. The thing in working it out is to begin with the use of the mind power in creating the hope. You may decide upon going into this or that business. The best way to do this is to begin by visualizing yourself in the very position you have chosen. Do not visualize yourself sitting at a desk, in a factory, or visualize the pay envelope, but visualize yourself as a component part of that particular industry, of that particular business, as an executive, not merely as an employer or foreman. Think of yourself as one who is constantly adding to that knowledge, to the growth and development as though you were fitting yourself into the entire picture, not as an employer, but as a director; not as chief of the board of directors that meets once a month or so, but as one of those directors who represents the field of activity. Keep visualizing yourself as a necessary part of the new growth, the new development of that line of business you wish to get into. Then, in addition to this, every day go out and make contact with those who are in it. Don't just call on the heads of the organization you want to reach, or the vice-president, or the manager. Find out who are the principal employees in that business; try to meet them, or one of them at the club or where he goes to lunch. Try to reach him, talk to him; say frankly, "I understand you are working for such and such a firm, or such and such a line of business." Ask him what he has to say about that business; how it is getting along. Don't talk position to him; talk the business to him. Get some information about the history; how it is going, whether any new improvements are contemplated. Ask him, "Do you know of any improvements in your firm that could be made? Are they working on some?"
I remember one time I went to visit the Borden Condensed Milk Factory at Randolph, New York. I went up with the chief officer of the milk company at Randolph. Randolph is occupied solely by the employees of the Borden Condensed Milk Company. It is a cooperative plan, and they even have their own theater. I found, in talking to one of the employees, that he had been working for three years on a factory improvement. He said, "You know the Borden Condensed Milk Company has a factory full of machinery, and if any of us employees have an idea how to improve it, we are given two or three weeks, if necessary, to go to the factory and they let us work out our ideas, and if our idea works out, we get $5,000, plus our regular salary while working it out. That encourages us. They have a record of twenty-eight inventions in the past year. I don't know how much for preceding years. One girl figured out a quicker way of pasting the labels on the cans and she got $5,000. It cost $9,000 to improve the machinery, but it saved thousands of dollars a year. There is still one thing everybody in the factory would like to do, and we cannot solve it. The man who can find a quicker way of closing up the cases around the cans gets $5,000. We have not been able to make a single improvement on its present method. I have an idea how it should be done, but not how it can be done." Later on, when I was shown through the factory, I understood the problem.
A year from that I was telling a man out of employment to hobnob with the people he wanted to work for and find out if there was any one department that was weak because the firm had not been able to find a specialized man to fit into it. Then I recalled my past experience at Randolph. I said to the man, "I will tell you where $5,000 is waiting for you if you can work out a way of closing wooden cases more quickly," and I described it to him. He secured a permit, and within three months he worked it out and that man is now in charge of that department. That man wanted to get in a position where he could use tools and work around machinery, but if he just stood around waiting for the position, he would have been a failure. He showed the Borden Milk Company that although they did not need him now they would need him tomorrow, because he was what they needed. That is the only way you can do. Get acquainted with the new line, with the people, and then try and see where you might fit in.
This little system can be extended to fit any of your problems, any position, new course, you are seeking to make. First visualize, creating it in your mind until it is a real thing, then go out in the world in a definite way and find the nitch that is a duplicate of the one you have visualized. If you have been visualizing correctly, you can start a new career for yourself. Start out with the thought of developing new ideas, new lines, new life, laying aside all of your wrong habits and doubts that have tended to hold you down in the past. Begin with new faith and new confidence and you will find your new career, regardless of your age and conditions.
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Creating A New Career
A DISCOURSE GIVEN IN THE FRANCIS BACON
AUDITORIUM, ROSICRUCIAN PARK
By H. Spencer Lewis, Ph.D., F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest March 1932]
THE topic chosen for tonight's discourse is that of creating a new career. It is very likely that at the present time, with the new year just before us and an old year that has just passed, that many are thinking of starting a new career. I imagine that throughout the nation today there are many thousands of men and women sitting around the family round-table looking at the pile of debts before them--whether those debts are physical in form in the way of notations on paper or mental--and are also looking at the small purse and feeling rather depressed and blue, that they are asking each other, the man and wife, whether it is not possible to start a new career.
I know that in my own personal mail there are many requests each month from persons who seek to get some special advice here from the chief executives, hoping that they will learn of something or hear of something unusual. The question they ask is, "Do you think that at my age, do you think in my business or field and with my limitations and obligations and responsibilities, it is possible to start a new career?" So many also want to move, thinking that is the solution of the problem. We even receive telegrams stating, "I am moving; change my mail address. I am leaving Chicago to go to Baltimore." The next one says, "I am leaving Baltimore to go to Chicago." The next one is, "I am going from Jacksonville, Florida, to St. Louis"; and so it goes, each one feeling as the old proverb says, 'that the grass is just a little greener on the other side of the fence.' They feel that merely a change in location may bring them opportunities, or there may be opportunities of which they can take advantage, but the general cry and desire seems to be to change to a new career.
So many feel that they have exhausted the possibilities in their occupation. So many feel, because of age, they have reached that point where the employer or foreman or those executives who have charge of the employment, will some day say, "John or Jim, you have reached the point where you are too old for us; we must have new blood." According to what we learned in the last few years, this age limit has been gradually lowering. It is not a wholesome, encouraging thing for the married man to think of, nor the married woman either. There was a time, if you recall, some of you, when it was said that at forty a man should chloroform himself, but it seems now that they have decided to let him live, but let him starve. It would seem that even a man of thirty-five must begin to think of some sort of exercise or some form of rejuvenation for fear of old age creeping upon him some night. He is so close to the borderline. It is no wonder men and women are beginning to wonder whether they had better look for some other field.
There are some lines of industries, some lines of occupation, that do not set an age limit. Personally, I agree with those chief executives in all fields of activities that say that age is an asset, if that age has been accompanied with experience. After all, the young trained man with all of his technical training and all of his pep cannot always compete with the man of experience.
A few days ago I was visiting one of my friends here in town and, while sitting at his desk, I noticed that on a little scratch pad there was a notation he had written. I happened to read it. I am going to tell you the proverb that he wrote. The proverb, he probably was going to use in his business, which is advertising. He said that "Pep without purpose is piffle." It is easy to remember that. The three p's that form a literation[1] help us to remember; and the truth is astounding.
They talk about the college youth being pepped up with all sorts of exercises and cereal foods, but the pep usually has no purpose and is just piffle. It reminds me of a story about a steamboat on the Mississippi. The captain of that boat wanted to have a very impressive whistle; so he put an enormous steam whistle on it, all out of proportion. They say when it was coming down the stream, and he pulled the strap and blew that whistle, it let out so much steam the boat started going backwards; and because it had a 24-inch whistle and only a 16-inch boiler, every time she was ready to start and he blew the whistle, it had no steam left so had to wait for more steam in order to start. That is also pep without purpose, typifying the average man of today.
Usually the man from college rushes into the city or town, into the offices of the various firms, into the employment department, throws down his hat and says, "I want a job." With all his pep and vim and vigor, like the steamboat, it looks as though he were going to get somewhere. He is no more fitted, perhaps for the business world than a child, but he is full of mistaken ideas regarding that which too many business people have figured out as an asset--vim and pep. Then, the man with long years of experience and judgment who could not get out and do a tap-dance in the middle of the floor to a tune on a harmonica, and who could not run up and down stairs like the young ones, is let out because he did not have the pep and vim of the young men.
Some of the occupations and professions are over-crowded until there is nothing left in that profession or occupation. Why, even the shoe peddler has competition and cannot make as much money in fixing shoes or selling them, along with his little business, as he could before; and so it is in almost all lines of business. Machinery has come in and relieved a great many, but even beyond this there is the desire in the hearts of men and women today, as there never was in any age or period, for a change. That is due to two things: Modern psychology and modern systems of self-analysis. Modern methods of psycho-analysis have, in the first place, enabled men and women to discover that they are in the wrong occupations, wrong professions, or in the wrong nitch[2] in life. It may be a social nitch; it may not be a business nitch. In the second place, our highly efficient business methods have created newer opportunities that are not overcrowded and are lucrative and interesting.
There are thousands, perhaps millions, of men and women tonight who can look back over their past lives, the past years of occupation, toil, and industry, and all look forward a few years and see that unless a change is made very soon, they will fail in life or they will not have the success in life that they should have. You know, it used to take more years to find out that the man who was preaching on Sunday would have made a better plumber. Usually he was the last to find it out. The congregation, or the people to whom he owed money, discovered it long before he did; and they usually found that the average plumber would make a better preacher. It happened sometimes that young men or women went into the business world and were complete failures before it dawned on them that perhaps the parents had not selected the right profession or occupation for them. Today, with our methods of analysis, with all of the specialized magazines that enable us to pick out quickly and easily our real qualifications, persons need not be misfits.
Many ask, "Are there really new opportunities?" Constantly, I hear of men and women who have set out and created for themselves a new career--a new profession they have gone into--a new, trained occupation. Many things in our highly specialized lives today offer opportunities for new lines of occupation. We are in the electrical age, let us say, and that field, alone, is still so young and so small compared to what it will be, that it is hardly more than in the infant stage. We have no idea nor can we have any conception today of what the electrical possibilities of the future and even of the present will afford in the way of new trades, new occupations, new specialized efforts, affording men and women of all types an opportunity to make a good living. The same is true of many other things. If we are in the electrical age now, we are just entering it, and on top of it is coming the air age, so to speak. The air age is going to open up in all its possibilities. But, aside from that, we are coming into many other forms of living that open up new and greater opportunities for the persons who are careful and analytical and discover them, for most of them must be discovered and created.
Early in my first contact with the Rosicrucian teachings, as a young man, I was impressed with the fact that the only openings that are really worth while in life are the ones that the individual creates for himself. I remember being impressed with that idea and wrote an article for the "Success" magazine, as it was called at that time, about twenty-eight years ago, and headed the article, "Creating Your Own Opportunities." The proverb then was very popular, as it is still with many people, "Hark and listen for opportunity when it knocks, for it knocks only once." But I want to tell you that you may be asleep when that knock comes, and yet you cannot stay awake, waiting for it, and I have not much sympathy for one who does. One person might say to another, "You stay at home and watch, and if a fellow comes to the door and leaves a card with 'Opportunity' on it, you let me know, and I am going down town and look for him." Between the two of them, the opportunity is apt to be found.
I have noticed that the one who follows our suggestions, the one who goes out and creates the opportunities, is the one who makes what the other people will say afterwards, a soft berth for himself. He puts himself into such a nitch, one that he, himself, has created, and he fits in it so well, like a missing piece that is out of a crazy cut puzzle, that only one piece will fit, and if he fits--his physical and mental abilities--he will find he is the only one who can squeeze into it, and it takes some difficulty to squeeze him out. Others might say, "It is pretty soft for you." But it is these things created in this manner, that constitute a successful career in life.
Now, I am not going to foolishly quote John D . Rockefeller, and say that perhaps the first time he saw an oil can he said to himself, "I am going to make myself look like an oil can; so I will make a nitch and fit into it." John D. Rockefeller and the whole family created a nitch, and for years have filled that nitch. The time has gone when they were the richest. That never was their real nitch or they would never have moved out. At the present time Henry Ford is in that nitch. It is not his real nitch, either. It is only a temporary one that goes along with his real nitch. There are some people who are successful who have no worldly title, but who are going along just the same, filling the same position safely and with sureness for the rest of their lives, as long as they are capable, physically and mentally.
Now what will you do to begin this creating of a career? The first thing you should do is to say to yourself what your good wife would say to you: "John, what else can you do?" That is a logical question. You cannot begin to create something without having some idea in mind first. You want to know before you start whether or not what you have chosen will suit you. Find out what else you can do other than what you are doing now. First, find out why your present position is not paying you well, or why you are out of a position, and how you liked it when you had it. Now, it is foolish for any man to say that he can plug along through life and make a success in any line that he does not like. He may get his salary, and he may, in exchange for the salary, give what he is forced to give, but that is neither productive for the man nor for the firm. That man is sure to be one of the first to be laid off. Unless that man or woman is in an occupation that is most interesting, and the work so nice or so to the liking of the individual that he could even work at it for a few minutes or hours overtime without thinking of the overtime pay, or is constantly thinking how to improve it or take on more work without thinking of asking for an increase, he is not doing his best. If you have a position that goes against your grain from morning to night, you are not in the right position, and that is one good reason for making a change and a good reason for changing to some different occupation.
On the other hand, if you are of the type where all work is boresome and the mere fact that your alarm clock gets you out of bed and makes you go to work is annoying--if you are of that type, then this analysis will not help you. There are some like that. They wish every day was Sunday so they could sleep a little longer in the morning. They go to work with that attitude. They do not say the job is distasteful; it is passable; they have not given it much thought.
The minute the man is seeking to improve his position and begins to look upon himself as being a victim of universal circumstances, it is like the man who got out of step in the parade and said all of the rest of the parade was wrong and he was right. We may later find this man, a highly expressive and versatile speaker, standing on a soap box, in the park, talking on a new sociology, merely because he cannot adjust himself to conditions. He wants to adjust conditions before he improves himself. He is apt to think that he does not need any changing, but conditions around him do.
On the other hand, the man who feels that the business he is in is one that is not just for him, tries to adjust himself. He will let the business stand as it is, looking upon the system, the line he is in, as an established thing that would only change by the evolution of the component parts in it. Only after all the employees, only after all the consumers, the capitalists, and everybody and everything connected with it gradually evolve, will it change. The average person who is just dissatisfied because the line he is in is distasteful, but knows he can do better and can do something more productive, something more fitting to the ultimate consumer--is the person who can be helped. There is nothing wrong with the business or the employers, nothing wrong with the opportunities of that business, and nothing wrong with the system back of it. The only thing that is wrong is the man himself and his relation to it.
It may be a piano factory. This man, who is restless, tones or tunes pianos all day long. He never does any of the wood carving, or strings any of the wiring, or assembles any of the parts; he does not even hear the piano played when it is being demonstrated for a buyer. All he hears all day long is his playing on a few notes to see if the felt pads need toning or tuning; and he tones one after another all day long. He never had the satisfaction of building one of them, never had the satisfaction of selling one. Such a man may become tired. He may say, "I am qualified for something better than this." But he will not condemn the factory; he will only condemn his individual relationship with the system, with the factory, with the work he is doing. He says, "I am qualified for something better." What else can he do? Too many men have only one training, one profession. If they are bookkeepers or accountants they know just that and nothing else; or the man that tones pianos may never have thought of taking up some other business.
Other fields of work, other than the one you are in, have a certain handicap, but not a definite, continuous handicap, not one that cannot be removed. There are hundreds of schools ready to help you take up a new course of study. Some of these courses of study at home are from such schools as the Columbia University of New York or University of California. The Rosicrucian system also trains the mind, develops latent talent and awakens interest in various fields of endeavor that will help you to improve yourself, and you are studying under a great school. There are many schools, not only international correspondence schools, but others as well. I know a man seventy years of age, who graduated from the Blackstone Institute of Law, worked for six months in a lawyer's office, passed the bar examination, and now practices law. I have known young married women, while taking care of a baby, to study law and graduate and be admitted to the bar to practice; in fact, I know of two cases. It can be done and is being done. It is not too late. No matter if they say in the economic and business world that forty is the age limit, there is one thing about it--education sets no limit on it. No matter how old you are, if you can read and understand what you read, you can still lift yourself up out of the rut you are in.
The principal thing of starting a new career, after you have determined what you want to do, is to visualize yourself in that position, or as a worker in some factory, some line of business. The thing in working it out is to begin with the use of the mind power in creating the hope. You may decide upon going into this or that business. The best way to do this is to begin by visualizing yourself in the very position you have chosen. Do not visualize yourself sitting at a desk, in a factory, or visualize the pay envelope, but visualize yourself as a component part of that particular industry, of that particular business, as an executive, not merely as an employer or foreman. Think of yourself as one who is constantly adding to that knowledge, to the growth and development as though you were fitting yourself into the entire picture, not as an employer, but as a director; not as chief of the board of directors that meets once a month or so, but as one of those directors who represents the field of activity. Keep visualizing yourself as a necessary part of the new growth, the new development of that line of business you wish to get into. Then, in addition to this, every day go out and make contact with those who are in it. Don't just call on the heads of the organization you want to reach, or the vice-president, or the manager. Find out who are the principal employees in that business; try to meet them, or one of them at the club or where he goes to lunch. Try to reach him, talk to him; say frankly, "I understand you are working for such and such a firm, or such and such a line of business." Ask him what he has to say about that business; how it is getting along. Don't talk position to him; talk the business to him. Get some information about the history; how it is going, whether any new improvements are contemplated. Ask him, "Do you know of any improvements in your firm that could be made? Are they working on some?"
I remember one time I went to visit the Borden Condensed Milk Factory at Randolph, New York. I went up with the chief officer of the milk company at Randolph. Randolph is occupied solely by the employees of the Borden Condensed Milk Company. It is a cooperative plan, and they even have their own theater. I found, in talking to one of the employees, that he had been working for three years on a factory improvement. He said, "You know the Borden Condensed Milk Company has a factory full of machinery, and if any of us employees have an idea how to improve it, we are given two or three weeks, if necessary, to go to the factory and they let us work out our ideas, and if our idea works out, we get $5,000, plus our regular salary while working it out. That encourages us. They have a record of twenty-eight inventions in the past year. I don't know how much for preceding years. One girl figured out a quicker way of pasting the labels on the cans and she got $5,000. It cost $9,000 to improve the machinery, but it saved thousands of dollars a year. There is still one thing everybody in the factory would like to do, and we cannot solve it. The man who can find a quicker way of closing up the cases around the cans gets $5,000. We have not been able to make a single improvement on its present method. I have an idea how it should be done, but not how it can be done." Later on, when I was shown through the factory, I understood the problem.
A year from that I was telling a man out of employment to hobnob with the people he wanted to work for and find out if there was any one department that was weak because the firm had not been able to find a specialized man to fit into it. Then I recalled my past experience at Randolph. I said to the man, "I will tell you where $5,000 is waiting for you if you can work out a way of closing wooden cases more quickly," and I described it to him. He secured a permit, and within three months he worked it out and that man is now in charge of that department. That man wanted to get in a position where he could use tools and work around machinery, but if he just stood around waiting for the position, he would have been a failure. He showed the Borden Milk Company that although they did not need him now they would need him tomorrow, because he was what they needed. That is the only way you can do. Get acquainted with the new line, with the people, and then try and see where you might fit in.
This little system can be extended to fit any of your problems, any position, new course, you are seeking to make. First visualize, creating it in your mind until it is a real thing, then go out in the world in a definite way and find the nitch that is a duplicate of the one you have visualized. If you have been visualizing correctly, you can start a new career for yourself. Start out with the thought of developing new ideas, new lines, new life, laying aside all of your wrong habits and doubts that have tended to hold you down in the past. Begin with new faith and new confidence and you will find your new career, regardless of your age and conditions.
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Creating Your Future
By H. Spencer Lewis, F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest February 1931]
This is undoubtedly a period in the lives of many thousands of persons when the past becomes a memory and the future looms as a serious question mark. Such persons seem to feel that they are standing on the edge of a great abyss. Back of them are fields, mountains, and valleys over which they have traveled with more or less safety and with considerable pleasure and happiness mingled with periods of sorrow and grief that now seem inconsequential as they face the great abyss before them filled with the terror of the unknown and presenting a serious obstacle to their future progress.
As they face this wide chasm, it seems that nothing but a miracle will help them to get across the great open space and prevent them from falling into the dark recesses below, thus bringing an end to their careers.
In the early days when the pioneers first traversed this continent in an attempt to reach the gold fields and fruitful valleys of California, there were many occasions when hordes of them in covered wagons and on foot came face to face with similar situations. It seemed that the journey's end was at hand and yet the goal of their desires was far from them. For days, they camped at the edge of an abyss or canyon and wondered how they would ever cross that great space with its depths of thousands of feet, and continue their journey on the other side toward the distant goal. They were face to face with real engineering problems, and yet had neither the skill nor the materials with which to bridge such gaps.
The history of the progress of the pioneers shows that eventually these groups found a way of getting to the other side and continuing westward, and their success will ever be a monument to the prowess of the human mind. Ingenuity, prayers to the Cosmic for inspiration, determination, will-power, and an undaunted faith in Providence helped them to solve their problems. They could not turn backward, for they had been months on their way and had traversed desert spaces where there was neither food nor water, and their supply of these things being exhausted meant that they must either go onward or remain where they were and starve. Surely, these persons faced greater obstacles than the thousands of persons face today who think that their problem is one that cannot be solved.
The abyss which these persons face at the present time is a mental one and not a physical one. The obstacles which they have to overcome are more mental than physical in every sense. It is undoubtedly true that these persons stand on a material rock and at the present moment have material obligations and conditions to contend with, but the great chasm that lies between them and the future progress in their lives is not a material one that must be bridged with material things.
The incentive that encouraged the early pioneers to face their problem and try to solve it was the fact that the future that was before them was quite definite and appealing, and in every way alluring. They had no doubt about the joy, the happiness, and success that waited them if they could once cross the great abyss. It was this picture of future prosperity and the enjoyment of the greatest blessings in life that strengthened their determination to solve their problems.
The thousands today who feel depressed and who stand at the edge of the abyss in doubt and hesitancy do not have the alluring picture of the future before them that would encourage them to meet their problems. They cannot see a bright and happy future and they cannot see the goal of their desires waiting for them just beyond the horizon. For this reason, they hesitate and wonder whether the effort to overcome the present obstacles is worth while, and whether anything is in the future worthy of supreme sacrifice at the present time. This is where they are in error. And, this is really their greatest problem, for they must remove from their minds the doubt about the future, and they must have a glorious picture of what lies beyond in order that they may be strengthened to tackle their present problems and overcome them.
The early pioneers knew nothing of the future that was before them except through the reports that had reached them and the pictures they had built in their minds. For many months before they started from their eastern homes and during the many months of suffering and privation while traveling, they had re-created, re-painted, and re-built the pictures in their minds of what the future held in store for them. In their hours of loneliness, privation, cold, hunger, and intense suffering from storms and other conditions, they eased their bodies and their minds by rejecting the present and the past and living mentally in the beautiful picture of the future that their minds preserved and held before them as a rich reward for all suffering and all effort.
The future became so real to them, so actual, so near, and so tangible in its every element that they were able to bridge the gap of the present and move out of the past into the future in the twinkling of an eye. Their day dreams and their night dreams were lived in the land beyond the horizon where everything would be what they had made it in their mental pictures. They created homes, new estates nestled in fertile valleys or on the side of picturesque hills. They filled caskets with gold and boxes with fruit.
They visualized new life, new strength, temperate climate, and an abundance of the necessary peace, happiness, and contentment. They enjoyed these things daily, and hourly before they ever reached the western border. They were making a new world in their minds and this new world constituted their future, and as the picture was completed and all of its marvelous details finished, they drew themselves into that picture and became living, vibrating parts of it so that nothing of the present, no obstacle, no barrier, no charm could prevent them from stepping from the present into the future and realizing all that they had visualized.
In the same manner must the present thousands of hesitating, doubting individuals create a new future and a new life beyond the present horizon. They must look upon all of the sufferings and all of the joys of the past as mere experiences enabling them to select the good from the bad as elements to put into the new picture, the new future, and the new life. Every experience has its lesson, every one of the joys and sorrows of the past and of the present are but illustrations to teach us what we should create and what we should not create for the future.
The future for each one of us can be precisely what we make it. But we must not wait until we are into the future or until we stand in the new valley of the new land, and then begin to make our plans for the estate, the home, the gardens, the orchards, the mines out of which we shall draw our wealth and our necessities. We must visualize each detail, paint in each part of the picture, and keep adding to it all of our dreams and meditations until it becomes a living thing in our lives not of the future but of the present. We should look upon ourselves as standing at the very border of this picture about to step into it, and to begin to enjoy all that we have created. If we do this, the obstacles that now seem insurmountable and which appear to rise before us will be overlooked and negated in our ambition, our determination to step across the borderline from the present into the future, and live in the picture we have made. Such visualization and creating gives us not only the allurement and fascination which is tempting but the urge and determination, the faith, and the power to go beyond the present obstacles.
There is no limitation to what the mind can create in its imagings. There are no castles too high, no homes too large, no estates too great, and no parts of the country too beautiful or too bountiful for the mind to visualize. The world is yours when it comes to painting mental pictures of what you want and what you should have. Furthermore, the history of civilization proves that there is no limitation to man's material creation of the things he has visualized. The whole history of man's achievement since the beginning of the world proves that what he has mentally visualized, he can bring into actual realization. The dreams of men of yesterday that seemed vague, indefinite, and impossible are surprisingly presented to us today in concrete realities and we awaken from our state of doubt and incredulity to realize that while we questioned and hesitated some other master mind turned a dream into reality and the impossible things of the dreamer are the material things offered to us today. And as we analyze the creations of man and his accomplishments, we are impressed with the one great outstanding fact; namely, that he who never dreamed or never painted a mental picture never created in the world of realities a single thing. Around us we find those who have accomplished and built for themselves the things they are enjoying, and there are the others who are in want or who are without even the actual necessities, who had no vision, who never attempted to create in their own minds a single thing, but who depended upon the creations of others and the gifts that might come to them through charity.
Which do you want to be, the creator of your life and the builder of the things you want to enjoy or the one who must take what is left over in the bounties of the lives of others and which are given to you in exchange for the hardest labor or denied to you altogether? Do you want to be the serf and the hireling who accepts at the hands of a master the things he has made and he no longer wants or the things he in a charitable mood is willing to share with you partially or incompletely? Or, do you want to be the creator and make the things you want and bring them into realities in your life so that you are not dependent upon anyone or anything except the great creative power that resides within you? God has given you the same creative power that He possesses, and He has made you equal with Him in making this world beautiful and happy for all living creatures. This great gift is your birthright and you alone determine whether you shall use the power or ignore it.
Come, step back from your close view of the obstacles that seem to surround you, and close your eyes to them for a while and create a new picture. Leave the past and the present out of your consideration and make a new life, a new day, beginning with tomorrow. Build it up part by part in your mind and in your conversations and contacts with those around you until you have a perfect picture of the future that is just beyond today's horizon. Then step forward bravely and with determination into this picture and start your journey along the line that leads to the new estate, the new home, and the new pleasures of life. You will find yourself master of the picture and master of those realities and you will find in it the greatest happiness and the greatest rewards, and every effort, every thought devoted to it.
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Creating Your Future
By H. Spencer Lewis, F.R.C.
[From The Rosicrucian Digest February 1931]
This is undoubtedly a period in the lives of many thousands of persons when the past becomes a memory and the future looms as a serious question mark. Such persons seem to feel that they are standing on the edge of a great abyss. Back of them are fields, mountains, and valleys over which they have traveled with more or less safety and with considerable pleasure and happiness mingled with periods of sorrow and grief that now seem inconsequential as they face the great abyss before them filled with the terror of the unknown and presenting a serious obstacle to their future progress.
As they face this wide chasm, it seems that nothing but a miracle will help them to get across the great open space and prevent them from falling into the dark recesses below, thus bringing an end to their careers.
In the early days when the pioneers first traversed this continent in an attempt to reach the gold fields and fruitful valleys of California, there were many occasions when hordes of them in covered wagons and on foot came face to face with similar situations. It seemed that the journey's end was at hand and yet the goal of their desires was far from them. For days, they camped at the edge of an abyss or canyon and wondered how they would ever cross that great space with its depths of thousands of feet, and continue their journey on the other side toward the distant goal. They were face to face with real engineering problems, and yet had neither the skill nor the materials with which to bridge such gaps.
The history of the progress of the pioneers shows that eventually these groups found a way of getting to the other side and continuing westward, and their success will ever be a monument to the prowess of the human mind. Ingenuity, prayers to the Cosmic for inspiration, determination, will-power, and an undaunted faith in Providence helped them to solve their problems. They could not turn backward, for they had been months on their way and had traversed desert spaces where there was neither food nor water, and their supply of these things being exhausted meant that they must either go onward or remain where they were and starve. Surely, these persons faced greater obstacles than the thousands of persons face today who think that their problem is one that cannot be solved.
The abyss which these persons face at the present time is a mental one and not a physical one. The obstacles which they have to overcome are more mental than physical in every sense. It is undoubtedly true that these persons stand on a material rock and at the present moment have material obligations and conditions to contend with, but the great chasm that lies between them and the future progress in their lives is not a material one that must be bridged with material things.
The incentive that encouraged the early pioneers to face their problem and try to solve it was the fact that the future that was before them was quite definite and appealing, and in every way alluring. They had no doubt about the joy, the happiness, and success that waited them if they could once cross the great abyss. It was this picture of future prosperity and the enjoyment of the greatest blessings in life that strengthened their determination to solve their problems.
The thousands today who feel depressed and who stand at the edge of the abyss in doubt and hesitancy do not have the alluring picture of the future before them that would encourage them to meet their problems. They cannot see a bright and happy future and they cannot see the goal of their desires waiting for them just beyond the horizon. For this reason, they hesitate and wonder whether the effort to overcome the present obstacles is worth while, and whether anything is in the future worthy of supreme sacrifice at the present time. This is where they are in error. And, this is really their greatest problem, for they must remove from their minds the doubt about the future, and they must have a glorious picture of what lies beyond in order that they may be strengthened to tackle their present problems and overcome them.
The early pioneers knew nothing of the future that was before them except through the reports that had reached them and the pictures they had built in their minds. For many months before they started from their eastern homes and during the many months of suffering and privation while traveling, they had re-created, re-painted, and re-built the pictures in their minds of what the future held in store for them. In their hours of loneliness, privation, cold, hunger, and intense suffering from storms and other conditions, they eased their bodies and their minds by rejecting the present and the past and living mentally in the beautiful picture of the future that their minds preserved and held before them as a rich reward for all suffering and all effort.
The future became so real to them, so actual, so near, and so tangible in its every element that they were able to bridge the gap of the present and move out of the past into the future in the twinkling of an eye. Their day dreams and their night dreams were lived in the land beyond the horizon where everything would be what they had made it in their mental pictures. They created homes, new estates nestled in fertile valleys or on the side of picturesque hills. They filled caskets with gold and boxes with fruit.
They visualized new life, new strength, temperate climate, and an abundance of the necessary peace, happiness, and contentment. They enjoyed these things daily, and hourly before they ever reached the western border. They were making a new world in their minds and this new world constituted their future, and as the picture was completed and all of its marvelous details finished, they drew themselves into that picture and became living, vibrating parts of it so that nothing of the present, no obstacle, no barrier, no charm could prevent them from stepping from the present into the future and realizing all that they had visualized.
In the same manner must the present thousands of hesitating, doubting individuals create a new future and a new life beyond the present horizon. They must look upon all of the sufferings and all of the joys of the past as mere experiences enabling them to select the good from the bad as elements to put into the new picture, the new future, and the new life. Every experience has its lesson, every one of the joys and sorrows of the past and of the present are but illustrations to teach us what we should create and what we should not create for the future.
The future for each one of us can be precisely what we make it. But we must not wait until we are into the future or until we stand in the new valley of the new land, and then begin to make our plans for the estate, the home, the gardens, the orchards, the mines out of which we shall draw our wealth and our necessities. We must visualize each detail, paint in each part of the picture, and keep adding to it all of our dreams and meditations until it becomes a living thing in our lives not of the future but of the present. We should look upon ourselves as standing at the very border of this picture about to step into it, and to begin to enjoy all that we have created. If we do this, the obstacles that now seem insurmountable and which appear to rise before us will be overlooked and negated in our ambition, our determination to step across the borderline from the present into the future, and live in the picture we have made. Such visualization and creating gives us not only the allurement and fascination which is tempting but the urge and determination, the faith, and the power to go beyond the present obstacles.
There is no limitation to what the mind can create in its imagings. There are no castles too high, no homes too large, no estates too great, and no parts of the country too beautiful or too bountiful for the mind to visualize. The world is yours when it comes to painting mental pictures of what you want and what you should have. Furthermore, the history of civilization proves that there is no limitation to man's material creation of the things he has visualized. The whole history of man's achievement since the beginning of the world proves that what he has mentally visualized, he can bring into actual realization. The dreams of men of yesterday that seemed vague, indefinite, and impossible are surprisingly presented to us today in concrete realities and we awaken from our state of doubt and incredulity to realize that while we questioned and hesitated some other master mind turned a dream into reality and the impossible things of the dreamer are the material things offered to us today. And as we analyze the creations of man and his accomplishments, we are impressed with the one great outstanding fact; namely, that he who never dreamed or never painted a mental picture never created in the world of realities a single thing. Around us we find those who have accomplished and built for themselves the things they are enjoying, and there are the others who are in want or who are without even the actual necessities, who had no vision, who never attempted to create in their own minds a single thing, but who depended upon the creations of others and the gifts that might come to them through charity.
Which do you want to be, the creator of your life and the builder of the things you want to enjoy or the one who must take what is left over in the bounties of the lives of others and which are given to you in exchange for the hardest labor or denied to you altogether? Do you want to be the serf and the hireling who accepts at the hands of a master the things he has made and he no longer wants or the things he in a charitable mood is willing to share with you partially or incompletely? Or, do you want to be the creator and make the things you want and bring them into realities in your life so that you are not dependent upon anyone or anything except the great creative power that resides within you? God has given you the same creative power that He possesses, and He has made you equal with Him in making this world beautiful and happy for all living creatures. This great gift is your birthright and you alone determine whether you shall use the power or ignore it.
Come, step back from your close view of the obstacles that seem to surround you, and close your eyes to them for a while and create a new picture. Leave the past and the present out of your consideration and make a new life, a new day, beginning with tomorrow. Build it up part by part in your mind and in your conversations and contacts with those around you until you have a perfect picture of the future that is just beyond today's horizon. Then step forward bravely and with determination into this picture and start your journey along the line that leads to the new estate, the new home, and the new pleasures of life. You will find yourself master of the picture and master of those realities and you will find in it the greatest happiness and the greatest rewards, and every effort, every thought devoted to it.
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