the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter i (development)

“The terms “inspiration” and “revelation” have been misapplied, and therefore need definition. Inspiration bears to revelation the relation of cause to effect. Inspiration is not necessarily the act of a human agent becoming a medium of expression for a being in the spirit-world, but it is a well-known phenomenon of everyday life. The act of [...]

the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter i (development)

“The beginnings of organized life act from instinct without brainpower to define and guide the impulse. The insect moves about apparently without aim, a little way in one direction, and back, then in another. Universal Life runs it in accordance with its form and quality, as the water runs the waterwheel. But as experience is [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

““Mighty I AM Presence” of the combined Ascended Host, Thou Light Eternal! We give thanks for Thy Radiant, Expanding Presence, that Thou art more and more pouring Thyself forth into Thy Manifestation to the Children of God, that Thou dost dissolve all things unlike Thyself and dost release the Pure Activity of the individual self! [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“Those Beautiful Souls who have so much loved the flower creation, ferns, and shrubbery, will find such roses and many other flowers new to the Earth appearing from now on, which will have such rare beauty that it will amaze and delight all greatly. At first, they will not be conscious of where these came [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“To make oneself a true Student of the Light, the individual will hold unwaveringly the full Consciousness of the “Mighty I AM Presence”, the Ascended Jesus Christ, as the constant, Invincible, and only acting Presence and Intelligence in one's mind, body, home, and affairs. It is this steadfastness, no matter what the outer appearance seems [...]

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Our work is done – would, that it were better done! But, despite our inexperience in the art of bookmaking, and the serious difficulty of writing in a foreign tongue, we hope we have succeeded in saying some things that will remain in the minds of the thoughtful. The enemies of truth have been all [...]

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Spiritualism, whose aspect is rather that of aggression than of defense, has tended towards iconoclasm, and so far, has done well. But, in pulling down, it does not rebuild. Every really substantial truth it erects is soon buried under an avalanche of chimeras, until all are in one confused ruin. At every step of advance, [...]