We have the privilege of serving; we have the privilege of enlightening. It is like being a bodily physician who thinks nothing of making calls on his patient again and again until the afflicted one´s cure is complete.
The Secret of Control
There is nothing to be solved in this problem but the question of technique. You have the spiritual Light. The more often you succeed in bringing the Light into consciousness by thought of Truth, the nearer you come to knowing the secret of control. When an author first begins to write fiction that interests the multitude, he blunders technically. So when you first begin to regain your one-time angelic bodily control, you may blunder technically. And the same thing goes for emotional control, or control of thought that brings you back into a true appreciation of yourself, AND WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BEFORE THESE PRESENT LIVES.
You must see that the first steps of physical care are taken, and then that responsibility is up to your minds.
A Focal Point
By acknowledging and being interested in these matters, and absorbing this doctrine which we have for you richly, you are identifying yourselves as spirits who are either winning out in their fight over the one-time "beastly" ingredient, as we have said, or spirits who came to this earth planet originally to aid in the task of cosmic regeneration of your fellows. Try to keep this thought in mind. Whichever you are, you are a focal point for the spreading of Light and Knowledge for which the world suffers most in its present extremity. Coming into earth life again and again, we tell you, for the Sons of God is never any hardship... it is more to be regarded as a privilege.
You have the privilege of serving and you have the privilege of enlightening. Would a true physician bemoan the fact that he had to call upon his patient again and again because he was unable to work a cure in a single visitation? Get the thought of your earthly predicament out of your thinking and concentrate on the joys of remedying that and those who are afflicted and who need you.
Are You Serving?
What difference does it make WHERE you exist, if you exist in the happy knowledge that you are serving? We tell you there is no greater happiness. In fact, that IS happiness, and anything else is a form of sensuous enjoyment which you are striving in your fineness of spirit to surmount...
Not all, of course, are aware of this necessity for earthly return, until they have progressed enough through the Planes of Thought awaiting them in the more intricate dimensions. Thousands of people arrive in the discarnate state daily believing they have attained to the heaven of Biblical allegory because they find themselves surrounded by peace and dignity and order, with the turmoils of earth ceasing to be of moment. But sooner or later they "miss something"... it occurs to them in their new environments, they are to all intents and purposes the people they have always been, and they wonder about it.
The Thought Planes
Only after lengthy instruction and awakening of their cosmic memories on the Thought Planes, do they become convinced that earthly re-existence must be an important part of life, and they proceed around the Thought Cycle to arrive at the conclusion that re-entry into physical conditions is not only desirable but necessary, if they are to achieve what they aspire to achieve for their souls´ eternal profit.
Do not be troubled by this at present. We have much to say to you upon it that requires days and weeks and perhaps months to make clear to you. Some parts of it, we tell you, even souls old in wisdom do not comprehend entirely. However, we will instruct you as we can. Not all persons "go around the Thought Cycle" in full awareness of where they are travelling. It is a process of Nature and they acquiesce to it. We beg you to have patience until you come to understand it...
This article is from "Star Guests" by William Dudley Pelley.
