BEYOND THE HIMALAYAS
CHAPTER NINE
We continued our work day after day until my mind was as clear as crystal. Each day the power grew stronger. The air was crisp and clear, and no inharmonious thought or feeling ever arose between us. We worked every day until we felt slightly tired but not over-tired, for that would retard progress.
Eventually I reached the stage where I could work by myself, which was essential before my training ended.
A meeting had been arranged by Geshi Rimpoche, unknown to me, and he arrived with Dar Tsang from Yangtang, Geshi Malapa from Gonsaka, and Geshi Tung La from Takohu. So there were eight of us now, and with such a company anything could happen.
I saw Geshi Rimpoche speaking to Tsang Tapa (the oracle, which means medium), and I anticipated that we were to have a real seance that night. In fact it had been previously arranged, but this was kept as a surprise for me. I could, however, now read their minds as easily as if they were speaking. I had become an expert, thanks to the practice I had during these months of intensive training.
Supper was prepared for us specially in the Abbot's quarters, which were quite large, consisting of a big oblong room with a long table, around which his students sat. This formed a perfect dining-table. There was a general animated conversation, some of it in Tibetan, some in Hindustani, some in English. With English and Hindustani I was quite familiar, and I could make out a good bit of Tibetan now, the Abbot having given me lessons whenever possible. He was a wonderful teacher and knew all the easy ways of putting the words together. Tibetans use as many words as possible with great flourish. When they did this I resorted to reading their minds and that is fatal if you want to learn a language, because to learn a language you must think in that language and not try to read the mind. To read the mind you do not listen to the word otherwise your mental reception becomes distorted, and mind-reading is then impossible.
There was a silence in the animated conversation when my friend spoke in no uncertain terms, condemning the so-called religious hermits of the present time.
He said: "The hermits of today have degenerated into a lot of useless, deluded devotees because of the fact that the true teaching of Guatama and Malarepa are no longer understood by the lamas. They are brought up on ritual and know nothing of the inner powers of man.
"At one time suitable candidates were chosen by the great Masters and after a period of training they retired, away from the haunts of men to attain self-enlightenment and to develop the power of the Tibetan Yogi. But what have we today? Devotees without any knowledge of the science of Yoga.
"These lamas go into solitude only to waste their lives in this stupid deterioration of the mind and body. They gain nothing by it. Their retirement has become merely a part of their religious ritual."
I asked: "What do they do?"
"Well," he replied, "in the training of the lama he is supposed to spend part of his life in confinement, but without training it is pure folly. The period is three days or three months or three years, generally.
"At first they may retire for three days, then they may retire for three months or three years. They may emerge once more before going in for Life in one of the cells that you see on the mountainside, and once they are locked in a cell they are in complete darkness, their minds being dark as well. On one side of the cell there is a small drain covered with a slate which they use for their daily excretions. On the other side of the cell there is a stone that can be removed from the outside only, through which a daily supply of tea and tsampa is pushed on to a ledge on the inside, and the hand that appears to take in the food must be gloved, for no light must strike any part of the body.
"Many of these deluded devotees go out of their minds before their lifelong confinement comes to an end. They become mental and physical wrecks. They have no training, nor do they know anything about the arts of the Tibetan Yogi. Their lives are a complete waste, with nothing gained."
"But," I ventured to point out, "there are some ascetics who retire into the mountain or into a solitary place and there develop their gifts."
"Certainly," he said, "but they have been trained by a Master Yogi in the first place. Those who come out of the monastery with only a knowledge of ritual are a debased type, capable only of the physical part of the hermit's life. They prostitute the practice of the adept and are therefore incapable of developing their Spiritual gifts."
Geshi Rimpoche then spoke. I could see that he had gone into that subjective state with his eyes closed, and the timbre of his voice was fascinating to listen to.
"Friends," he said, "I do not decry religion nor the search for Reality, but organised dogma with its rituals, reciting prayers, repeating mantrims, quoting the Gita or the Bible, that is not religion. By calling yourself a lama, a Buddhist, a Christian, a Hindu, or following a ritual, can you find Truth? I think not! In these separate influences you are caught up in the net of organised beliefs, they are the drugs that dull the mind, they offer an escape, thus making the mind dull and ineffective."
No one said a word, because everyone knew that when Geshi Rimpoche spoke like this it was the wisdom of the gods.
"You are caught up," he went on, "in a whole system of authorities, priests and 'gurus'. You do not understand yourself, so you are merely accepting, not inquiring. Because your great grandfather did some ritual and your mother would cry if you don't, is humbug. It is because you are dependent that you are fearful, incapable of finding out what is false - and when you do not know what is false you cannot know what is true.
"You may talk about God and repeat His name a thousand times, but this will not reveal the Truth. The Truth will be hidden from you because you will be folded up in your own prejudices, your own fears. The ignorance of man himself is responsible for this organised religion, whether it be of the East or the West. It is because man is confused that he wants an authority."
No one spoke. Geshi Rimpoche was leading up to something important.
"So having created the authority," he continued, "whether political or religious, you follow its direction in the hope of finding the Truth.
"What you know of Reality through the authority of another is not Truth, and thus you do not know. Since Reality is unknown, how can you seek it through an authority? When you seek an authority you have lost confidence in yourself because you are merely an imitator. It is because you have lost confidence that you create leaders. You read all the holy books you can find. You pursue different ideas which create contradiction, the more imitative you are the less confidence you have in yourself, and you merely make your life into a copybook."
I knew this was a lesson for me as well as for the Abbot, in fact all of us would benefit by it.
"From childhood," he went on, "you have been told what to read and what to do. You were not allowed to think for yourself. To find out the cause of your confusion you must have confidence in yourself, you must have a deep inward certainty of what is false and what is true. But you do not know because you have never inquired how you acquired your beliefs or ideas.
"Being confused, do you think that you can find the Truth by reading the Upanishads, the Gita, the Bible or any other book? Do you think you are capable of reading the Truth of it when you yourself are confused? You will merely translate what you read according to your confusion, your likes, your dislikes, your prejudices, your conditioning.
"The Truth is revealed when you understand yourself, your prejudices, your ideas, your beliefs. Truth comes to you; you do not have to go to the Truth. Truth is! You do not create it.
"When you think you are going to the Truth it is merely a projection of your own conditioning. Then it becomes a process of self-hypnosis which is organised religion and there can be no conclusion regarding the Truth.
"When you have freed yourself from all your mental formulations you will find that which is not a mental formulation. The mind must cease to formulate before you can find the Real. Then you will not belong to any organised religion, neither will you condemn nor criticise, nor will you become an atheist, for that is only another form of belief.
"To find that which is the Real Self you must not make an idea of It, nor can It be separated from Itself in others, because there is no division in Reality. Only by understanding the personal self that is hiding the Real will the false fall away. Then the glory of God, His Love, Wisdom and Power will manifest, for it is ever-present and eternal and you do not create It."
He opened his eyes again. He looked at me and then at the Abbot.
"Seek not after power for what it will give you, otherwise you will lose the Real. When you have the Real you have everything. You do not develop the Real, the Real will develop you. Therefore, Be Now! For you are Real only in the Now, not in the past nor in the future. If you are not the Real Now, then you will never be, because only in the Now is the Real expressed."
No one spoke after this. There was a silence for at least five minutes.
The moon was rising; it was full, coming up behind the mountain. It had a reddish glow, and as it rose higher it became pure silver, white and clear. The shadows of the mountains were now in the valley below, while the peak of Chomolhari was reflecting the silvery light from the moon. It was a perfect scene in a perfect night, the air still, crisp and clear. It was as if the Masters of old were around and about us. The feeling was one of excited expectancy. Then Geshi Rimpoche broke the silence as he said: "We now have the perfect circle, the purest atmosphere to create the necessary conditions for our friends to visit us this evening. We have all gathered together before in my own sanctum except that my son here and the Abbot were not with us then, but now we have the perfect combination to make our circle complete for materialisations tonight. It is a delight to have our friends come to speak to us in their own voices."
Turning to me he said: "You will experience the fact that there is no death and it will no longer be a belief but a fact. Not that we need a demonstration to convince us that there is no death, but we enjoy the company of our friends just as naturally as you would your friends on earth. Not only will there be those who have passed on from the flesh but also those who are still in the flesh will come. This," turning to me again, "will be a new experience for you, my son."
I said: "Not quite, for I have seen you before beside me."
"Yes, that is correct, but to see and speak to our other friends just as I am speaking to you will be an experience you have not yet had."
"That is true, and it will be wonderful!" I exclaimed. I was eager to begin.
The door of the Abbot's room led out on to the balcony and faced down the valley. Geshi Rimpoche opened the door.
I said: "But do you not need darkness for materialisation?"
"Oh no," he replied, "we do not need darkness; in the light of the moon you will see as clearly as you would in daylight."
I remarked: "In the West they need darkness for a materialisation."
"Yes," he said, "but they do not have the perfect combination, and their methods are clumsy and unsatisactory."
I did not say any more, because I realised that the power that I had already seen demonstrated was beyond the comprehension of the ordinary mind, and there was no reason why there should not be something that I did not yet understand.
In any event, Geshi Rimpoche showed that he had experience, for he set about the arrangements with a confident understanding of what he was doing. First, he ordered the table to be put to the side, out of the way. Then he arranged us in the way that he wanted. He said: "To get the best results I want an uninterrupted flow of the magnetic force so as to build up the ectoplasm. Those who are still on or near the earth can show themselves with comparative ease, but those who have left the earth-influence need a substance in which the vibration of their ethereal bodies can be reduced so that they can be seen and heard with our physical eyes and ears."
So he sat us as follows: I on his right; on his left he put the Abbot, and opposite him sat my friend; on the right of my friend he placed Dar Tsang, and on the left Malapa; then came Tung La, and opposite Tung La sat Tsang Tapa.
Then he said: "You understand that at the four points of the 'plan' are the positive," and he drew on the floor with a piece of chalk as follows:
At the points so marked he drew a + ; then he drew a circle in-between each segment, linking them all up; and from the centre he drew another four lines ending with a small circle. "Now," he explained, "the + represents the positive element, and the circle represents the negative element, just like the two poles of electricity, if the one is without the other no relative force is created."
He went on: "Electricity is in the atmosphere and all around us; it is in its nebulous form, but it becomes active in the relative world when the two elements unite."
Then he filled in the centre. "This is the mixing bowl," he said, "in which the ectoplasm is formed; then it will spread out, enveloping the whole room, going as far as the door, the walls of the room keeping it as it were together."
"Now," he said, "when we are ready to begin, the chemists in the ethereal world will come and they will use their own formula in regulating the density of the ectoplasm for the materialisations.
"The gross form of this substance comes from us from our magnetic body. It is crude and thick and often unusable, but when it is regulated by the ethereal chemists into its perfect texture those around us here, unseen at the moment, will be seen and heard."
"Of course," he said, "there is much more to it than what I have said. It is a science that is not yet really understood; although your scientists are delving into the structure of matter, they have not yet grasped the fact that the electro-magnetic force is behind all form, and, in fact, all the atomic structure of the Universe. It is the slowing of the electro-magnetic force that makes the different textures of matter from the very highest ethereal down to the grossest physical, and there is no division; you cannot tell where one ends and the other begins; it is one complete indivisible substance.
"If I may give you an example, a crude one for lack of a better, take a piece of solid pitch, add heat to it, and it gradually begins to lose its solidity. The gradual dissolving process begins from the solid mass until it becomes a liquid; you cannot see a division from the time of its solidity to the state of its fluidity. Keep on applying more heat until it reaches its gaseous state, and from the solid mass into its invisible form you cannot detect any division.
"From the visible to the invisible and beyond, there is no division, and from beyond the invisible to the visible there is no separation, and in and through, supporting this change, is the changeless basic substance that remains stable always. And beyond and within is the Creativeness that uses this substance to create form. The form changes back into the original basic substance, which remains stable. This is called creation and disintegration; they are one, and not separate forces."
"Now, what we do not know is the Uncreated which alone is creative. And," he continued, "this Uncreated is within you; you can discern all that is relative to It, but you cannot discern what It is itself because It will always be discerning that which is external to Itself.
"You cannot tell what your consciousness is - try to see if you can, and you will find that consciousness is always discerning what is relative to itself. It cannot turn back upon itself. But when all the relative is understood and known, then the Unknown can be experienced. It cannot be known, for the known cannot know the Unknown; therefore the known is not the Real, the Real is the Unknown, the Unknowable. But when you have reached the point where one merges into the other, there is awareness and creativeness at point; the totality of Creativeness is behind point, and point is where It is expressed through you, and then that which is the Real manifests. This is the Master! He is the point through which the Whole works. Jesus said: 'It is the Father who ever abideth within Me, He is performing His own deeds.' "
Then he looked at me, and continued: "Therefore, the proof is when you have reached creativeness. At that point you become aware of all that is relative and therefore you know that it is not creative; the Creative is the Uncreated in you and me, the All of Creativeness is behind point.
"Now what we will witness here tonight is phenomenon. It is interesting and instructive; it is the nearest to that religion which will make us realise that we are all One, the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Man's belief in separation, his belief in authority, his following of an authority, his selfishness, his cravings for Spiritual and material gain, all these will pass when this Truth is universally known.
"I look forward to the day when this land will be freed from its stupid superstition which is preventing its freedom. I am sure that, with our knowledge of the occult freed from superstition, we may yet lead the world into the true light of the Eternal Truth of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
"Now, we have not wasted any time in singing and praying or playing music as you do in the West, my son" (he was speaking directly to me). "But we have gained the required harmony necessary for the building-up of the ectoplasm and at the same time you have gained enlightenment by listening to me."
He then directed: "Concentrate on the centre, and you will see the ectoplasm forming."
Sure enough, there it was, forming into a white cloud. The light from the moon showed it up clearly. It began to whirl above our heads as well. We seemed to be enveloped in it. It eventually filled the whole room and the doorway like a white cloud. In fact it was as if we were enveloped in the clouds - such was the feeling I got. I felt I was transported from the earth into the clouds and that soon we would be talking to the Masters of old and to relatives who had passed from their earthly abode; and some who were still in the flesh would also come to talk to us.
Words fail to describe the whole wonderful demonstration. The great Malarepa was the first to speak. He spoke to us in three languages, Tibetan, Hindu and English.
He said: "I have come to give you further enlightenment. The occult power you try to possess is not the Real. The Real is beyond and is so magnificent that what I say can only create ideas about it. Yet It is far beyond what the mind can make up in regard to it. There is so much rubbish and nonsense taught and all this blinds you to the Truth. For instance, reincarnation as you believe, is nowhere near the Truth.
"You believe that the late Dalai Lama is reincarnated in the present Dalai Lama. This is not a fact. If the great Buddha were incarnated he would be free from ritual and the nonsense you carry on with. His great wisdom would be shown in his acts. But what do you find? A mere child in wisdom and understanding! Reincarnation as stated in your religion is but humbug and is holding everyone in subjection to a superstition of fear and ignorance.
"I tell you, 'Truth' is not in any way like what is being taught. What is being taught is an absolute fabrication of the Truth. The man you called the last Dalai Lama is not in the body of the present Dalai Lama as your religion teaches. I want you to see that it is merely a belief and not a fact, certainly not the Truth.
"There is reincarnation, but not as you understand it. The Spirit of the one God - the Life - is in the present Dalai Lama as it was in each preceding Dalai Lama, but the present Dalai Lama is not aware of this Truth. It is the one Spirit that is in each and everyone, and only when this is realised through knowing what is false does the wisdom and power of the Spirit manifest.
"I urge you to lead the people away from this stupid nonsense that creates self-hypnosis. I am speaking to you in modern language so that you can understand what I say."
He spoke for a long time to Geshi Rimpoche, and I heard him say: "Care must be exercised so that you do not hinder the work to come, for many are not yet ready to understand that Life is not separated by so-called death. There is but one Life and this Life is Eternal. More will come after me to speak to you. Your friend the Hermit of Ling-Shi-La is here tonight."
Malarepa seemed to be the conductor in the astral, and Geshi Rimpoche conducted on the physical.
Still they came, many of them, and as they reached the door they became visible. It was a wonderful sight, a wonderful experience. I never saw anything like it before or since.
About an hour or so later, St. Anthony of Alexandria and Paul the Apostle came direct to me, and I will relate what St. Anthony said later in this chapter. But I want to tell you first what convinced me that all this was real and not the figment of my imagination.
My mother came to me. I could see her form and face as well as I did when she was on earth, except that she was young-looking and wonderfully radiant. She spoke to me in Gaelic to prove that it was she.
"It is truly me, your mother; your father is with me, and so is your friend John Sutherland."
She said: "I am very happy because of the work you are doing, and we are all helping." Her face shone bright and beautiful when she said that, as if the feeling gave her great joy.
There were six hours of this, coming and going, and the details alone would fill another volume. Many who were still in the physical came, including the great hermit of Ling-Shi-La, of whom Geshi Rimpoche had already told me.
The hermit said to me: "You are coming to stay with me at my hermitage."
Geshi Rimpoche had not told me this, but it happened that I did go to stay at the hermitage, and of this I will tell you in another chapter.
Then, near the end, there was the most brilliant light; it shone all over the room. It lit up everything as if the sun was shining. So bright was this light that we had to close our eyes at first; then we gradually became accustomed to it, and in this light appeared the Master himself. He came to give us His blessing.
Those of you who have read my book Divine Healing of Mind and Body (The Master Speaks Again) will realise the truth of what I say; it was the culmination of all my training in the Himalayas.
This indeed was the most wonderful seance I had ever seen, and I will probably never see the like again.
I knew then that there was no separation between the material and the Spiritual; what separated us was but a veil of ignorance. But enlightenment was coming into the world, and soon all the darkness of the mind would disappear and those with spiritual gifts would no longer be persecuted.
A new religion is coming into the world, not a sectarian religion or a dogma or a creed, but one that will reveal that death is but the doorway into a higher state of the one Life that is eternal and ever-present, showing that there is no division between us and those who have gone on. The Masters of old, even Jesus, are one with us, as he said he would be, even unto the end of the world.
Words cannot describe the beauty and the glory of such a wonderful revelation.
The science of the various arts was discussed. St. Anthony spoke to me especially about healing. He was the great therapeutist of ancient Egypt, and healing was his great subject, that is why, as he said, he was detailed by greater ones than himself to help me in my work along with many others who also were working and would continue to do so when I go back again into the world I came from.
His discourse on healing was specially directed to me. The others who came talked to those present about various things.
Apparently the whole seance was conducted in a perfect way. No one was allowed to "chip in" while another talked to one in particular, though ten or more were in the room at the same time.
I was keenly interested in what St. Anthony had to say to me. I had spoken to him before but not in such a complete way.
He said: "God is glorified through the Son of Man." I knew the meaning of those words, for he had spoken of them to me before. Then he continued speaking to me personally as though there were no one else in the room.
He said: "Since time began, men and women have been given the power to heal and to teach. Some of the healings have been so amazing that the mind of man could not comprehend them. Thus sceptics arose, and made every effort to deny these amazing transformations on the grounds of their apparent impossibility."
"Divine Healing," he went on, "has achieved wonders where all other methods have failed, yet man does not realise the mighty power of the Spirit, because the mind cannot penetrate the realm which is beyond it. The mind can reason only on what it knows, but that which it does not know, that which is beyond reason, cannot be defined, and it is in this realm that Divine Healing takes place."
"Yes," I remarked, "many have wondered how Divine Healing takes place, how that which is unseen could accomplish such a complete and instantaneous change, and they still want to reduce it into terms which would merely give the mind an idea and not the Truth."
Then St. Anthony spoke again: "Phenomena of any kind are produced through a law that is intelligent, otherwise there would be no phenomena. For instance, if you have a fear of anything or you have faith in anything, there is an Intelligence that operates in both what you think in fear and think in faith and produces exactly according to how you think in fear and in faith, that is the law of thought-action or electro-magnetic activity for in fact the body is electrical, being composed of atoms of energy.
"But Truth is like mathematics; It is exact. When an error is discovered and corrected, it disappears. You cannot tell me why two and two make four and not five, you cannot investigate mathematics, just as you cannot investigate Truth. You can investigate only error. Truth, like mathematics, is eternally true and ever-present and is not subject to change, therefore not subject to error. That is why Divine Healing is so perfect.
"You can investigate the laws operating around you, but even these come from That which is beyond the mind of man which cannot be investigated.
"The cause of the chaos that surrounds you is that man has failed to understand the underlying principle of Life. This stupidity has prevented the best brains from understanding the Law of Life operating in man himself.
"To deny the existence of the law of mathematics would be stupid; so is denying the existence of the Law of Truth. You can understand the Law of Truth, but you cannot tell what Truth is, only that It is, just as mathematics is. You can work with Truth just as you can with mathematics. There is a true note in music which is harmonious; there is no such thing as a false note, there is only a noise, and that is not harmony.
"To deny, does not help. To deny the false is to give it recognition, a reality that it does not possess. But to understand how it arises, then you will see how false it is. Then you will see that the false is created by the self which has no existence in the Real. The Real which is harmony comes into Being when you see that the false has no existence except in the self.
"The false tries to hang on to the self because that is the only existence the false can ever have; hence the illusion.
"Jesus never claimed any power of his own. He said: 'It is the Father who ever abideth within me, He is performing His own deeds.' Neither did he make something of himself: he said 'Of my own self I am nothing.'
"But when you take upon yourself the cloak of healer and say, 'I am a healer or a prophet' you limit yourself to the personal; that is why so many fail. The self hides the Divine, so you must get the self out of the way; the self is nothing, and the sooner you realise this the better it will be for you and all who come to you.
"Jesus seemed to be an outside agency to those who looked upon him as separate from themselves and God but this was only because they did not know their true Father and therefore they did not know his. Had they known the Father of Jesus to be theirs also, they would have been free. Jesus said that he was nothing by himself, but all was possible with the Father. He knew that he could not be separate from the Life which is yours and mine. Therefore he works through the Cosmic which works through the individual. You must learn to do likewise. It is difficult for those caught up in conformity and separation to realise this Divine Power, but those who have experienced the Divine Power have definite proof of its Reality.
"When I am speaking to you about the Omnipresence my words are relative, and it would seem that I am speaking about something apart from myself. But it is not so. I can speak to you only in relative terms to help you find the Real within yourself."
He continued: "I know that you have already dealt with the relative and understand what I mean. The Master said, 'Know ye not I am in the Father and the Father is in me?' This was to show the unity in the Consciousness that is creative in all who understand that He gave them power to become sons of God. 'What I see the Father do, I do likewise.'
"Now you realise that sickness is mostly the effect of certain causes and neglect of natural laws. This comes about through ignorance, through fear, through lack of Love (lack of giving love), lack of understanding the self which is always seeking Love.
"Sickness is the symptom showing that the body and mind has lost its natural rhythm, and the 'struggle' to regain it is the disease. In other words, if you continue to neglect the natural laws and at the same time continue to struggle with the 'dis - ease', the attention of the mind becomes focused upon the condition because the body is talking back to the mind and the mind is caught up in what the body is feeling. Now, the mind is struggling, making a great effort to save the body. It is this struggle that is causing all the disturbance and displacements of the atoms resulting in pain and discomfort. When this Truth is known the struggle ceases.
"The mind is conscious of feeling, and this feeling is registered in the mind as a disease. This disease is given a name so that the mind can hold on to it. If the name conveys to the mind an incurable disease the mind may accept it, thus creating a further burden. Only when man sees that the cause is through ignorance of the truth of his Being and through the neglect of the natural laws, does the burden fall away, and then the Spirit-Life transforms the mind and the body responds to Nature's perfect action."
I said: "I can see very clearly that one is conscious of disease by the abnormal condition of the body?"
"Yes," he replied, "when there is a disruption among the cells of the body, a sad report is carried to the brain centres, and then the conscious part of the mind identifies itself with ill-health. Fear and apprehension enter because the complete power of the Spirit is not realised. When the mind accepts the Truth of Being, the brain centres are informed; and reconstruction sets in. But when the mind is caught up in the struggle it is not capable of using its first line of defence - Divine Reason - and accepts the report of the disturbance as final. When the Truth of your Being is realised then the True healing takes place. Sometimes the mind is so charged with the Truth that complete and instantaneous transformation takes place. This is Divine Healing."
So engrossed was I in what he was saying that I took no notice of what was going on around me, and he continued without interruption: "What really happens in sickness is that a consciousness of the Truth of your Being has disappeared from the mind and a consciousness of ill-health has taken control of the mind. There is a loss of cheerfulness, the feeling of vigour has gone. What fate has befallen the mind that supported the body? The Truth has temporarily gone from the mind that has fallen under the spell of the illusion of the reality of sickness; the mind has surrendered its knowledge of the sovereignty of the Spirit to the forces of disorder and confusion."
And he added: "I am speaking as one who has watched the mind give up its sovereignty."
"Now," he continued, "some resort to drugs as the final agency for recovery, and because this recovery is not forthcoming a further acceptance of the condition is the result. But if by some means a chemical change takes place, there is a change for the better. Then a false belief in medicine is the result, and this causes further confusion if the trouble returns; and when the patient finds that, in the end, drugs are no longer any help it leads to further depression and apprehension.
"You must realise that the body is not an exclusive combination of chemical reactions; it is endowed with an intelligence, a knowing-how, an amazing organisation for the maintenance of bodily functions. This is the animating power of Life which is fundamental in producing motion and transformation.
"Natural remedies, such as herbs, biochemics, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, have in many cases acted upon the cell structure and produced a chemical reaction. This produces a powerful suggestion on which the mind is induced to act. Such action on the mind will begin to reproduce a consciousness of health and restoration of the balance and harmony within the body. But if the mind is left in this state alone, without understanding the laws of the inherent power of the Spirit within, the second state may be worse than the first."
"You see," he said, "it is the self that is caught up in disease. It is the self alone that knows disease. The Spirit knows nothing of disease. It is the self that is selfish, ingathering, acquisitive, hateful, antagonistic, unforgiving and violent, and this is the cause of most sickness.
"The Impersonal Spirit knows nothing of these things, hence the Impersonal is Healing. The more impersonal you become, the more loving and kind you become, because the Impersonal is Love, and Love is healing. Love is God and God is Love and the foundation of all perfect action in which there is no reaction.
"When you see that the personal self is always taken up with the external, with struggle, with war inside and out, then you will understand the cause of the trouble; and, when this is understood, the inner self which is impersonal is freed, then the radio-activity of Life's forces is released. These electro-magnetic waves of Nature's forces begin to transform the mind and body.
"This inner atomic action creates strong suggestions to the subconscious mechanism, which in turn starts instantaneous action throughout the whole mind and body because of the strong currents of energy which are moving in the right direction, sweeping all before it from within outwardly, quelling the existing confusion. The mind and body feel the relief and as the struggle ends, the momentum is kept in the right direction.
"There must be a giving-up of the idea of disease as the confusion and chaos dies down, and when peace is established the body ceases to talk back, and harmony is established.
"Once harmony is established in this way, through understanding, the mind and body is transformed regardless of the nature of the disease or the length of time of the chronic condition.
"With true guidance the patient begins to realise that the suffering is a temporary and artificial thing, and anything that is temporary is transitory and has no foundation of its own. It is the ignorant self which is caught up in things external. The Reality is in no way like the ignorant self. Reality is the Impersonal self which is whole and complete without a flaw."
"If disease were real," he said, "it could not be healed, since Reality is not subject to change. The self is born into fear by the aid of suggestions from those who fear. The fear of death is the cause of most suffering in the human family. Then the removal of this fear is of first importance."
"I want you to realise," he emphasised, "that there is not a dead particle in the Living Universe. There cannot be a dead part of Life. There is no difference between Life and death; they are one and the same, as you now see. It is but a change from one phase to another in Life Eternal.
"Life continues in its more perfected abode, and the individual consciousness of Life becomes more aware. Therefore you must eliminate the fear of death from the mind so that the consciousness of Eternal Life is established. This is the greatest aid to the healing of mind and body, because the consciousness of fear is destructive to the functions of both, while a consciousness of Life renews their proper function. 'Call no man your father on earth for one is your Father who is Eternal.'
"Perfect healing of mind and body can be done only when the fear of disease and death has disappeared. But you must know yourself before you can help another. Even the dullest mind can be penetrated by an enlightened consciousness."
"Remember," he stressed, "that mantrims are not much help to a mind that is full of fear, for it often intensifies the dominant idea of the trouble; thus you are only creating opposites. You hold an idea of health while struggling with ill-health. You have an idea of Life while struggling with death, an idea of good while struggling with evil, and so on and so on.
"But with skilful, intelligent words through understanding, the patient will become receptive and willing to co-operate, and then a change begins to take place, sometimes instantaneously.
"The power of the Truth of Being sets in motion electro-magnetic vibrations which reach the mind of the patient and begins to break up the negative mental conditioning that is binding him. By this means the mind of the patient is reached either from a short or long distance. At that very hour the servant was healed. 'Daughter, be of good cheer, thy faith hath made thee whole.' These sayings you are familiar with, now see that you realise their true meaning."
He paused for a moment, and then continued: "With the knowledge of the truth of your Being, your aura is purified and your thoughts become dynamic. Realise that everything in Nature is harmless to you and you are harmless to all Nature. When you are not afraid of Nature you can control Nature in the raw, for you have been given power and dominion over all things.
"See the nothingness of the self, know that you are nobody, and your humility will be the channel through which the Spirit can do Its work. Take the brakes off, God will do the rest.
"Acquire your faith through understanding, and not through the opposite, fear. If it rises from fear then you have no faith, you are caught up in the opposites of fear and faith.
"Develop a willingness to listen; the casting-off of the burden is a great help to the patient.
"Be impersonal by seeing beyond the personal, knowing that the Spirit is not affected by disease or death, good or evil, success or failure.
"Remember at all times that you must first heal yourself before you heal the patient. What I mean is, to rid your mind of all disturbing elements. By doing this the Divine Power acts without hindrance. Transform all things by the spiritualising power of Love and Wisdom. Remember that every disturbing influence is like a guerilla, hiding in the corner of the mind, waiting for his comrades to arrive, and when they gather in sufficient numbers they launch an attack on the unsuspecting individual and lay him low.
"These elements thrive in ignorance. The cure is understanding. Spiritualise the patient's consciousness with your own powerful Spiritual light of understanding, so that when his light is lit it shall shine in the darkest corner, thereby lighting up the mind and body with the Light that never dims.
"The world is sick because the individual is sick. Confusion and ignorance are the cause. Remove these two impostors and the Divine man will appear in all his glory as he was made, in the likeness of his Creator.
"The task before you may seem great but our radio waves of Love will go with you. You will not delay. Go back into the world you know, as soon as you are finished here, and may the Almighty aura of the Christ of God surround you."
Then he took his departure.
I was struck dumb by the wonderful lesson. Only one who knows could have
spoken as he did, and I knew it was true. It must have been over half an hour
since he began to speak to me, but it seemed like only a moment of time that disappeared into the timeless, for I was in Eternity at that moment.
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Now I want to tell you of another fact that made this meeting so real. After my mother spoke to me, my bosom friend, Jock Sutherland, who was killed in 1915 in the first World War, spoke. He always called me "Murdo" with a very Highland accent; he came from the Highlands and spoke Gaelic. We had been bosom pals for many years, so we talked about old times and laughed together while he recalled the following story of which only we two knew.
One New Year's Eve, in Glasgow, Jock and I had a few whiskies. Jock was fond of whisky but he could not take very much. That night he became violently sick and began to vomit so badly that he dislocated his jaw. We happened to be passing the Western Infirmary at the time, and I took him in there. The doctor on duty, a friend of mine, was busy. By this time Jock was getting somewhat difficult, he could not even speak.
So I said to him: "Open your mouth, you idiot, I will do this myself." I put my two thumbs on his back molars, gave a quick downward thrust and, click, in went his jaw.
When he retold me this there could be no doubting. He had a very prominent forehead and it showed quite clearly. Then he tried to give me some advice but someone shut him up.
When the meeting was over, we sat and talked; everyone seemed to have been rejuvenated. Tea was brought in, and I had still a few boxes of Huntley & Palmer's biscuits left, so we all enjoyed ourselves, talking until daybreak.
As the sun came up we went out to watch it rising from behind the beautiful mountain of Chomolhari.
To see the sunrise was apparently a common occurrence with the Masters beyond the Himalayas, but to me it was the greatest experience of its kind that I ever had. It put the seal on all that I had seen and learned.
My friend came over and sat down beside me, and he said: "You have a wonderful venerable Spirit friend in St. Anthony."
"Yes," I said, "I know now that I have many wonderful friends and all of them I love very much, including you."
Then he put his arm around my shoulders and said:
"It is the Love of God that unites us all together to do His will."
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