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16 - The Ministry of Spirits
SAGB (Spiritualist
Association of Great Britain), August 1992
Beloved ones, as I
take control of the being of this medium, I look toward you and
around you and see that many of you come here companioned by the
white-robed ones of spirit. If you are sensitive within your soul
and able to feel the influence of those who are trying to guide you,
sometimes you may be aware of a white-robed being, either on the
edge of your aura or standing behind you, or in your inner vision
you may see some part of this whiteness of the spirit.
I would say
that these ‘white-robed ones’ are those who have joined very closely
to your world in this present time to impinge upon the minds of
earth’s dwellers the understanding that their purpose is the living
of the earthly life, and that inner wisdom, the wisdom of the soul,
has to be understood in quietness and peace. The white-robed ones
come close so that earth’s dwellers may begin to understand and
accept some part of the discipline of daily life, the understanding
that discipline in the daily life develops the qualities of patience
and forgiveness within the soul and, above all, the qualities of
strength and tranquillity.
Many of
these who draw near in their white robes are those who, during the
time of their earthly experience, lived through disciplines of the
daily life which developed within them this purity and strength of
soul. Many of the white-robed ones who draw near to you are those
who were accustomed to live in the discipline of a group: some
lived in a large family or within the discipline of a religious
order wherein they had to maintain the weak or poor with their
patience and love, developing a spirit of prayerfulness because of
their love for members of the family; or they belonged to closely
knit tribal groups in which they had to accept the laws and
disciplines of the whole that it might develop inner qualities
within themselves.
In your
ways of earthly life and earthly experience, it would now seem that
most of earth’s dwellers leave the group: they leave the discipline
of the family and many, many live, not perhaps in a solitary state
but in a condition where each one is alone and therefore not
subjected to the discipline of a group. In this aloneness there
begins to develop the desire for a greater degree of spiritual
unfoldment, a fuller degree of spiritual development. The
individual, growing and attaining peace in their somewhat solitary
life experience, is aided and helped by the white-robed ones who
learned the need for discipline in a group when they were in the
earth life, and they impart this understanding of the need for some
discipline unto the souls of such ones as yourselves.
The manner
in which they may impart this knowledge is by seeking to impress
into your mortal understanding the thought that a regular time for
the quietness of meditation, for the quietness of prayerfulness,
should become part of the discipline of your daily life. They also
try to impart to your mind the understanding that when you venture
forth from your aloneness and are absorbed into the community of
your town or living space where there are many many people, then you
have to understand how to develop peace and patience in the midst of
turmoil, and how to control your own impulses when there are those
in the crowd who do not conform to what you would desire.
In this you
meet the discipline of the group, not in the close confined
atmosphere of an order or family but more in a looser discipline
wherein you are able to retreat into your own comfort and silence:
meeting the turmoil, you have to overcome it by the peace and
control within your own consciousness. It is in this that the
bringers of peace, the white-robed ones, come to stand very close to
you.
Beloved
ones, do not be dismayed nor disappointed when you come to know that
there are such helping spirits in your group; there may be a nun, a
monk or even a preacher, or an ancient grandfather or old
grandmother standing close to you to impart some quality of their
soul and understanding - because this is their ministry of love.
I would say
to you that when you leave your mortal body and venture into the
higher places of spirit experience, you must eventually come to
understand that you may only progress further into the light when
you learn to serve or to give away some part of your soul quality to
those who need it. The ministry of spirits may be carried forth in
the first plane of spirit experience to which the newly dead come,
confused and lost and needing the guidance and understanding of
compassionate spirits; or the ministering ones may come back into
earth’s atmosphere because they are attracted by a particular light
or vibration which is being emitted by souls such as yourselves.
Those who
are immersed in their purely material pursuits, whose only thought
is the attainment of earthly substances, when such a one pauses and
becomes aware of the things of spirit or has a desire to understand
a little more about the things of godliness - when there is that
inner change within the soul consciousness - then a little spark of
bright light or a singing note is emitted from that one. It goes
forth into the atmosphere and attracts the attention of those who
are watching, who are serving and desiring to help.
Each one of
you has emitted your little spark of light, has sent forth your
little singing note of desire and praise which is heard like the
sound of a bell or the note from a violin. As this is registered in
the regions of spirit, automatically there will be turned toward you
the attention of spirits who understand your desire, who will draw
near to weave into your aura some quality of their soul that your
desire may be enhanced and your discipline may be strengthened:
your desire for peacefulness may become enhanced because this is the
quality that the ministering or the serving ones bring unto you.
It is
indeed a joy to us: it gives us joy to come close to earth’s
dwellers to stir and stimulate within them a greater degree of
godliness – but how may you interpret the word ‘Godliness’? In its
essence does it not mean an awareness within the inner soul of its
link and affinity with the great Spirit, the great Master Creator
whom you call God? Godliness, therefore, cannot always be described
simply as generosity, or lovingness, or kindness, or peacefulness –
it is a combination of all these things – it is an awareness within
the inner soul that there is something more, something greater, an
awareness of the power and glory of the great Master Creator working
in and through all things. This is what lights the flame of
godliness within the inner soul.
The inner
soul begins to shine like a little flame which has been lit, and as
it shines it reflects some of the greater light and greater glory
which is all around in the manifestations of the Master Creator
through the realm of nature, as it is inherent within the soul of
mankind and as it is manifesting through the ministry of spirit.
It is true
that you do not walk by yourself in the ways of earthly experience,
you are always companioned and watched by at least one ministering
spirit. But if you give yourself to the greater work of serving and
aiding and helping that which is around you, then you will draw
other spirits who will strengthen you in your ministry of love, your
ministry of teaching or your ministry of healing. These come with
differing radiances, with differing colour vibrations, to strengthen
and enhance the quality which belongs to you yourself.
As you are
here in this quiet moment, the white-robed ones stand quietly and
silently smiling at you, and smiling as they hear the manner in
which I try to describe them to you! Also they ask me to make
apparent to your understanding that many of the white-robed ones are
those who have become Christ-oriented: in their earthly life they
focussed their mind or attention upon the inner meaning of the
Christ-life as revealed by the Master Jesu, therefore, when they
came into the regions of the spirit, they were attracted to that
white radiance which is known as the ‘Christ light’, or the
‘Christly influence’.
It is
because you dwell in this English land where the Christ influence
has been so strongly maintained that you draw to yourself so many of
the white-robed spirits. They are trying to strengthen within the
consciousness of individuals such as yourselves a true understanding
of the Christly influence, the influence of compassionate love, of
healing, of peacefulness, and of love which is an expression of
compassion - and self-forgetfulness, that the inner desire of self
may be outwardly turned into a desire for the good of the whole.
Like a little blossom which has the petals inwardly turned in its
beginning then, with development and growth, the petals of the soul
outwardly turn - light and love and healing and truth are outspread
around each individual in great streams of light and blessing and
love. This is the aim of the Christly ones, to develop this within
the souls of those whom they love who are still bound to the use of
the mortal and physical body, that you may serve and grow and
develop for all the years which are granted to you.
Beloved
ones, with these few words I set before you some thoughts about
these ministering ones, and bring to you also some little
understanding of the manner in which we of spirit try to aid and
help you to progress step by step in all the ways of your earthly
experience, from the simple desire of holding yourself and holding
to yourself the things of the earth - to the time when you become a
true giver, sharing and giving in the true power of lovely
loveliness.
We come to the closure
of our talking together in this fashion, but I would say that it has
been good. It is good that you can share some of your thoughts and
searchings with each other, and it is good that you make them known
to us in the spirit group as we hear the words you speak which are a
crystallisation of the thoughts within your inner mind.
All these
changes which are coming into being in your earthly world are a
gradual process beloved ones – no man, no woman, becomes aware
suddenly of the total truths of the spirit. No man, no woman
suddenly receives a total comprehension of truth in an instant of
time, or suddenly and completely becomes a channel for the powerful
energies of healing. The power of the spirit works gradually,
slowly, tranquilly - the law of the great Master Spirit works
slowly, beautifully, tranquilly. The law of the great Maker is at
work through the crystals, through earth and rock, through the tree,
the plant, the water and the air, through all things, weaving them
together into one whole, one beauty which is the manifestation of
the law and life of the one great Creative Spirit.
Sometimes,
in the quietness of your thought, contemplate the majesty and beauty
of the Most High, inherent within all things.
Let your
meditation go from contemplation of a minute cell of life into the
thought of the greatness of the burning sun within the heavens. In
your quietness of meditation, sometimes hold in your hand a little
grain of sand and see the light reflecting on its surface, then
consider how that small grain of sand becomes incorporated into the
great rocky mountain or becomes absorbed into the being of a tree
which takes the little piece of sand or earth into itself and
changes it into bark and leaf and blossom. This is the beauty of
your natural world, these are the manifestations of life. Think
about life, think about the great creative life and try to become
one in an attunement with it; so shall you progress and grow and
become the glorious light-lit spirit you are seeking to become in
the vision of those who are guiding you, those who are calling you,
those who are helping you.
In this
quiet moment I would bring these beloveds in the earthly body into
an attunement with Thee, oh Thou great Master Giver of all things.
May they be still for a little moment, and in the stillness attune
their hearts to Your life as it stirs and sings within the distant
heavens, as it stirs and moves within the heart of planet earth, as
it sings in the burning fire and creates a melody in the flowing
waters. Be still, oh soul, be still and hear the voice of the great
Master Creator speaking to you in the silence of the living things
of which you are a part.
In peace,
in light and in love, I bless you, each and every one.
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