5 - Spirit View of
Remembrance Day
In
silence and peace Thy children remember Thee, oh Thou great Maker
and Creator of their being. In silence and peace Thy children
draw near to Thy heart of love that they may be impregnated through
heart and soul and body with the radiance of Thy love and power.
As they think upon Thee as that great Spirit of Light they ask that
You will think upon them, and in this thinking together may the
great golden chain which binds one part of Your creation unto
another be forged in sympathy and power between their heart and Thy
heart, between their minds and Thy mind, between their love and the
infinite flow of the love which comes from Thee, the source of their
being whom they call their God and their Heavenly Father. In
this little moment of quietude the bond of remembrance is formed,
the golden chain is spun; and we pray that as this golden
chain is spun, link by link, the little ones of earth and the great
ones of spirit may be bonded together in unity and power.
In the
light, with the blessing and peace of the Great Giver of all good, I
set here the sign and symbol of spirit in the form of this shining
cross that is forever surrounded by the gleaming, ever-expanding
circle of progressive light and love - and may it shine here within
the atmosphere of this place to show that spirit has set its
blessing herein.
May peace
and peace be unto you.
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In the quietude of your
thought, you ask me what view we in the spirit hold about this
yearly time of remembrance (Remembrance Day), this yearly
festival in which you stop in the midst of all your earthly activity
to pause and remember for a little while those who died in battle,
who died in the sea or lost their lives in the vastness of the air -
who died because they felt they were combating some great wrong here
in your earthly world. They died because they felt it was their
duty to answer that which other men and women expected of them. But
I would say that when they emerged from the recollection of their
time of death and lost the feeling of the many pressures which were
against their consciousness as they lived in the mortal existence,
then indeed many of these men and women take a different view of
war, a different view of peace, and a different view of the
sacrifices they were forced to endure.
I would say
to you, This, your time of remembrance, need not necessarily be one
which is bound to those who served in war: it should be a time in
which you recollect the life of the peace bringers, when you think
about those who tried to create peace in their earthly life - and
also a time to join your thoughts in love to those who are the peace
makers here in the high regions of the spirit existence. Just the
remembrance of those who died does but little, for that remembrance
of the dead lies in the hearts of all who loved them. Those who
have died continue to live in the spirit existence and are
remembered and loved by those who know them in their spirit families
and who love them in their spirit places. Just this remembrance
from earth about those who have died serves little purpose for the
incoming generations, the men and women who in their youth have but
little understanding of the true meaning of battle nor the real
meaning of sacrifice.
It would be
a better, wiser and lovelier thing if your time of remembrance came
to be a time in which you deliberately remember those who desired
peace rather than those who desired war; it would be better if you
would think about those who understood the meaning of peace rather
than those who tried to express valour. It is peace that is needed
in your earthly world, and it is communication between earth and the
spirits of peace which is required.
Here in the
spirit existence are men and women who died for their ideals and
willingly sacrificed their lives for the good of the world in which
they dwelt, but not all of them manned mighty guns nor swept the
world with fire; many of them patiently and quietly kept watch and
guard to see when danger was appearing, many were those who sat
beside the beds of sick children trying to soothe their pain and
illness and give them peace as they left the physical body. These
were the ordinary men and women who became known as nurses and
doctors, attendants and drivers of vehicles. Their desire was such
that they did not wish to harm the world, so they gave themselves to
succour the suffering and wounded. In your times of recollection
these peaceful men and women are not recalled – but rather the names
of the men and women who fought and killed, and in their fighting
brought peace to your world.
After their
time of transfer into the spirit existence, some of those who fought
and swept the world with fire said to the wise spirits: “For what
purpose was all this? I did not desire to harm the creation but
this was all I could do. Could I now do something for the creation
of peace?” So a great army of light has been created in the spirit
places, and in this army are soldiers and sailors and flying men of
the past who do not desire to express their failure or courage, but
simply to bring peace; these now belong to the great armies of
peace in the spirit realm. When there is a threat of war and it
seems that men are once more bringing a great crisis into your
earthly world, then those who have the open vision, who possess the
gift of clairvoyance, will say they see the armies of light coming
into the atmosphere of your mortal world. The armies of light come
to fight - but not with the weapons of destruction, not with
destructive fire, they come to fight with their purified will which
has become like a gleaming sword; they come to fight with their
vibrations of thought which go forth with vibrations of peace unto
your mortal existence.
Whenever
there is an opportunity, the armies of light draw near unto earth.
When you hold your little time of recollection in your earthly world
and men and women pause in the midst of their many activities and
say they remember the dead, then I would say, In that time and that
day the cohorts of light sweep down into the atmosphere of your
earthly world that they may, with the loving spirit of their living
will, cut through some of the selfishness which binds the hearts of
men and women as in a bondage of darkness. They use their will to
implant the desire for peace into the hearts of statesmen and
sovereigns and those who have influence over the peoples of earth.
This is the most important part of this time of remembrance and
recollection.
If you will
upraise your thought to the armies of light and make yourselves
channels through which their will may be filtered into the
atmosphere of your mortal existence, then you will make channels for
the bringers of peace and a pathway for the armies of light to tread
for a little while in the ways of the mortal men and women of your
earthly world. I would say to you, beloved ones, Your day of
remembrance has great significance to us who are here in spirit. It
is not in the significance of sadness and tears and it is not that
we are glad that you remember your dead, but we are glad that you
create channels for peace, pathways through which the armies of
light may enter into the atmosphere of your earthly world and shed
their influence far and wide.
You say to
yourselves and unto me: “What good does the army of light do when
our world is so filled with discord, when the world is so fraught
with hatred and men and women seek to destroy one another?” I would
say, You know but little of the terror of war, you know but little
of this terrible flame which sears the body of the earth and
destroys the life of all that lives upon it.
The terrors
in your world today are little compared to the total terror which
comes when a mighty war sweeps your world and enfolds it in darkness
and horror and death. The armies of light have drawn near to your
earth many many times, and it is through their influence and the
thoughts and prayers of the good ones in the earthly existence that
the totality of war has been avoided several times. Only a few
years by people were saying to me, the teacher, and to one another:
“Surely this war is going to involve the whole world in a flame of
horror?” We answered and said, The cohorts of light are going to
try to quench the flames, that it may not spread and become a great
world conflagration.
When the
time of silent remembrance is in your heart, try to visualise this
world enfolded in a golden girdle of spirit influence; hold in your
vision the thought of this great living globe of your mortal
existence slowly being encircled by a golden glow of spirit light
and a silver thread of spirit influence. As your thought circles
round the world, it is lit for a moment by your recollection and
blessed through the various places for which you pray, and some who
belong to the great armies of light may draw near you and extend
their influence in peace and harmony into the very places which you
yourselves remember.
We who look
down into your earthly world and earthly atmosphere from the high
places of spirit, we would impart light and peace and healing that
it may filter through into the soul and heart, into the very being
of each beloved. In the fullness of time, may each one become a
server in light, a server in the law, a creator of peace in the very
place wherein you dwell.
And so in
peace and harmony I would bless you and seal you all with love.
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