LESSON NUMBER 32 ANSWERS TO STUDENTS QUESTIONS

At long last we are now enabled to answer the heretofore unanswerable questions concerning life, death, and what happens after, both as to body and person. Many such questions have been in our files for a long time–not because they could not be answered, but because the answers could not be understood.

New concepts had to be built to replace primate ones. The reality and certainty of death was not only the dread terror but the unnatural thought that death is God’s will, and our resignation to the accepted fact that “God giveth, and He taketh away” places the status of human unfolding at a very low level of the long upward journey to man’s mountain top.

In God’s commands to me, as written in THE BOOK OF INSTRUCTIONS not yet published, He says; “Take thou man’s death away from him, and give him back to Me as Me.” (From The Divine Iliad.)

That does not mean that the principle which we call “death” is to be removed from Natural Law, nor does it mean that “death” can be conquered–in the sense that man can increase his life span indefinitely.

To take death away from man means that greater knowledge will bring him the realization that there is no death. And so it is that the preparation given in the previous lessons will now enable us to answer questions upon that subject which would not have otherwise been understood. We open our long closed files now and answer some of them.

QUESTION. “If reincarnation is a process of Nature, and I come back many times, why do I not remember who I was at other times and in other bodies ?”

ANSWER. You remember all of the essentials of all lives you have ever lived, but you do not remember the non essentials. You remember, for example, how you built your body during the millions of years of desire expressed by you to have a body.

As you rebuild your new body you assemble it into the stage of completion it was in when you last used it. During that period of your assembling you pass through all of its former stages of your unfolding from your beginnings as a spore, or bit of protoplasm, up through the various epochal stages, until you have arrived at what your body now is.

It took millions of years of desire to do what you now do in nine months. It may have taken a hundred thousand years of desire for finger nails to produce what you now produce in your gestation period. You remember everything you have ever added to your body and the purposefulness of every part of it.

Every cell of your body remembers its own particular purpose. White corpuscles will rush to repair damage to your body with the same certainty that a bell will ring when you press a button. Why is this? It is because you remember each little addition to your body as you built it. Your Soul remembers the desire and your body remembers its fulfillment.

You may wonder how your body remembers its fulfillment. God’s recording system does that for your body. As each cell of your body unfolds from its seed a record of that unfoldment refolds back into its seed. In later les sons this principle will be disclosed.

So much for the body. Regarding memories of physical or spiritual experiences consider the things you do now which you would not do a hundred thousand years ago. At such early periods you would kill instinctively at an early age, just as a young lion would kill. It is then your nature to kill without compunction. Gradually you find it not good to kill. Your very nature changes. At each birth you remember that you are not killing. You are no longer that kind of a creature.

More and more your nature changes at each rebirth, for the experiences of killing and cruelty cease to be recorded in the refolding Soul-seed of you.

There are other memories of past experiences such as the following:

1. When the newborn babe’s cheek touches its mother’s breast it immediately seeks that place upon it where it suckles. You will note that a child immediately recognizes the difference between the flesh of the breast and the nipple–as all animals also do. Memory is the answer to that–cell memory of body experiences repeated so many millions of times that such actions become automatic.

2. If you put your fingers in a child’s hands the child will hang so tightly to them that you could almost pull it up. Automatic reflexes and cell memory of many experiences explains that.

There are countless other such evidences of memories of past lives which have to do with the nature of unfolding man. Why is it that you wonder why you cannot remember the name and address which identified you in other lives? It is as though the violet could not remember its name, or what meadow it bloomed in ten years ago.

QUESTION. “It has often been suggested that a mother who dearly loved her son could come right back and be born as his own child. Is that possible?

ANSWER. No, it is not possible to come right back. Every cycle must

be completed. The mother’s cycle is not completed by the passing of her visible body. She must complete her cycle in her invisible body.

If the visible half consumed fifty years it would take an equal period of time before a reversal of polarity could again bring the inner body into reappearance.

In the next series of lessons this will be more explicitly explained by that as yet unknown phenomenon of Nature which compels every polarized body to turn inside out and outside in forever. We will defer the rest of this answer until then.

QUESTION. “Do you know of any cases where loved ones of a family have “reincarnated” in the same family?”

ANSWER. I know of many which are possible–or even probable. We are particularly interested in any evidence which runs within the possibilities, although no cases can ever be proven no matter what the evidence.

Here is one very possible case. Uncle Hubert “died” in his youth, had red hair, was left handed, had Roman nose and a protruding back head and distinct “cow lick” on his unusually high forehead. He was passionately fond of music, knew all of the best classic music and improvised by the hour. Many years later a red haired, left handed child was born to his niece who so closely resembled Uncle Hubert that the older relatives who knew him well were astonished by the great similarity. Such physical features are explainable, however, in families, but not the mental ones. This child gave evidence of great musical talent at three. He knew all of the operas and astonished

his parents and friends by marking time with a baton from start to finish as an expert orchestra leader would do.

Genius is not passed down in families. Children inherit bodies–but not Soul–or Mind. It is very rare that the children of a genius become aware of genius in them. In fact I know many sons and daughters of great men who have felt the frustrations of inferiority complexes because of not being able to measure up to their father’s mental standard.

QUESTION. “Will we ever be able to actually communicate with those who have passed on?”

ANSWER. You have raised a rather large question which is not capable of an adequate answer until more of our old primitive concepts have been replaced with new ones which are in accord with Natural law.

Much can be said, however, which is within present day comprehension. The application of just ordinary common sense to the thoughts which I shall now give you will help you to see that the very framing of your question has in it a lack of common sense.

Consider these thoughts. Forget for a moment the idea of communicating with those who have passed on and ask yourself how you communicate with those who have NOT passed on.

You can communicate with another person in only two ways.

1. Through your senses, which requires an action which extends your body to another body by means of spoken or written words, letters or other physical means of communication.

2. Through your Mind, which requires thought transference without the physical action of transforming thought bodies to material bodies. Telepathy, intuition and such qualities of the Mind are now rapidly unfolding to extend sensory perception to advanced humans.

Now ask yourself this question. Since you have only two ways of communicating with other humans would it even occur to you to use the spoken or written word method if you wished to communicate with your father while he is asleep?

No, of course you would not. You know that there is not a sufficient voltage of electric current in him to vibrate his senses that way unless you awaken his body.

If you did awaken his body you could then extend your body to his, because both would be in the same electrical condition.

If your father had passed on you know you could not awaken him. He is not only in a longer sleep but his polarity has been reversed. You cannot possibly intercommunicate with him by any extension of your electric body to his, for he could not hear sounds, nor read words.

His Mind is not asleep, however, nor is yours. His Mind still DESIRES and always will. That desire of his Soul to manifest his God-Self through a body will eventually bring his body back to manifest his Self.

Now consider this thought. Mind desires–and Mind thinks the THOUGHTS which stem from desire. If you should sit with your father while he is asleep and extend some desire of your Consciousness to his Consciousness he would become aware of your thought extension to a more or less extent, depending upon the advancement of his own unfolding.

This fact is so well recognized that it has a name–thought transference. You can easily demonstrate that yourself. Sit in the room of a sleeping person whom you are close to, such as your wife. If you are exuberantly happy, thinking beauty in rhythmic music and such harmonious thoughts, you can make her sleep happily, and insulate her from inharmonious dreams. And she will awaken that way. It cannot be otherwise for this is a thought-wave universe and her Consciousness will respond to the rhythm and essence of your thought–which is happiness and balance–even if she did not awaken with the patterned idea which you may have given to the thought.

Conversely, if you have deep worries and fears, or disturbing thoughts which are frustrations of your desires, or if something is menacing you, you will soon see your wife turn in her sleep, if she is closely en rapport with you, then, when she awakens she will give full evidence of having Consciously reflected the essence of your worried attitude of Mind. More than likely she will say: with much concern, “What is the matter, John–what is wrong?”

This brings you to another thought for consideration.

If you would not speak to your living father or wife who are sleeping, because you know they could not answer you while in so depolarized a body condition, why should you expect to speak in words to your father who is not only in his long sleep but who has so reversed his polarity that his invisible body could not hear you, but also could not speak to you.

Ordinary common sense, and the knowledge you already have will point out the absurdity of spiritualistic claims that someone’s mother is in the room and wishes to speak to her daughter through the medium who makes these absurd claims.

Omit, therefore, all means of bodily, or person to person intercommunications by means of the senses, and confine such possibilities to Mind–and thought-of -Mind intercommunications.

Omit also, all-thought-of-Mind intercommunications from which you may hope for answers which have to do with things which concern only the senses. By this I mean such absurdities as asking one’s mother if she is happy, or comfortable where she is–or where she hid her jewel box.

Remember always that this is a thought-wave universe–that thought bodies are living bodies–and that thought-bodies are not bound to time. Thought bodies are eternal in time. Once formed they extend to the farthest reaches of time.

Beethoven’s thoughts are your thoughts–and they are posterity’s. They extend THROUGH you. Beethoven is a part of your identity–your individuality–your culture–your charm.

Countless thousands of the thoughts of people who have passed on have been extended to future generations through you.

It is not necessary for me to think of some particular thought of Beethoven’s or of any other person who has extended his thoughts to me, for I can just think of that Soul which is Beethoven, or Leonardo da Vinci, or Walt Whitman, and their very KNOWING extends to me.

Even though they may have been “reincarnated” since they lived, their KNOWING and the thought-bodies of their knowing, extend to me at will.

I can say much more to you on this subject when we have further prepared you for comprehending it but this I will say now, that mankind, as a whole, has but hardly arrived at the verge of his new day of greater Conscious awareness. Great transformations lie ahead for many who have passed beyond that verge. Mankind, three thousand years from now will have Mind qualities undreamed of by this primate age, and many there are right NOW who are ready to step into high places undreamed of by man of one hundred years ago.

QUESTION. “Does cremation have any disastrous effect upon reincarnating bodies?”

ANSWER. Not the slightest. The body which is discarded does not return. It is replaced, just as your body has always been replaced from day to day.

You have not one particle of the same body you were born with. You are constantly discarding it and replacing it with similar states of motion. If you were not constantly discarding your body it might weigh a hundred tons in a lifetime.

Cremation of your whole body would have no more effect upon future bodies assembled by desire in you, than the burning of an amputated arm would have.

Reincarnation does not mean the rebirth of the same body–it means the assembling of the same states of motion which constitute the pattern of that body.

Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia

Beloved friends and students:

Your precious letters letting us know of your more abundant lives, through the knowledge you are gaining by your studies, are to us the greatest demonstration we receive of God’s wondrous law of GIVING for RE-GIVING. When such letters arrive–and they arrive every day–they never fail to inspire us in our GIVING to you by making God’s Message ever more clear so that you may in turn KNOW inner security. When man knows inner security he has the key to peace and happiness whatever material conditions are manifesting in home or world conditions.

In these four lessons the question that has haunted mankind since his beginnings has started being revealed to you and will be continued until this great mystery has been clarified for you. Take each sentence SLOWLY for by so doing you will UNDERSTAND and then it will become so simple for you to comprehend you will wonder why it ever puzzled you at all. Take each thought in it into your meditation until it becomes a part of your own thinking. Do not try to explain it to anyone else until you yourself KNOW for when you are questioned about something you yourself are not clear about, you become confused and are apt to feel that you will never understand this new knowledge.

In our next unit of lessons we shall continue to unfold the heretofore unknown secrets of the Soul and seeds of body forms which come into visibility and out of it in such mysterious ways. These unknown secrets have heretofore been unknown because they belong to the invisible universe which has not yet been penetrated by man.

So much of what is [to] come is unknown that it must be given a little at a time, and much time spent in meditation between readings to assimilate it. The matter of meditation cannot be emphasized often enough, for meditation has been so misunderstood in the past as meaning to concentrate instead of “decentrate”. You will remember that it was Doctor Russell who first gave the world the word “decentration”, thus bringing a new understanding of HOW to meditate. One day his new word “decentration” will become universally known and included in the dictionaries of the world.

In order to make it perfectly clear to you that your share in the creation of this universal body IS UNDER YOUR ABSOLUTE CONTROL when you know yourself as Co-Creator with God,–and that the patterned form of the idea which YOU are manifesting is as eternal as the idea of YOU is eternal,–you must know God’s ways of working.

Our Father-Mother Creator has not withheld His secrets from us. They have always been wide open for us to see and to know. If we at long last desire to open wide the doors to the Light of our inner vision we can, at long last replace the weakness of our ignorance with the omnipotent power of new knowledge which those secrets will reveal.

My husband has much to tell and many mysteries to disclose. There are the unsuspected mirrors and lenses of Nature which reflect, repolarize, dissolve and again resolve forming bodies. There is the supreme mystery of curvature in our visible, radial universe, which emerges from a zero universe of zero curvature.

There is the mystery of simultaneously unfolding from the seed and refolding into the seed–and the mystery of the seed itself. Likewise, there is the secret of God’s “bookkeeping” and recording system of electric waves which have nine “pages” in every wave for His recordings by means of which not one thought of yours or mine is missed, or forgotten.

Likewise, there is the as yet unknown periodicity of magnetic poles in their slow journeys toward, and away from poles of rotation. This periodicity of magnetic poles controls the making and unmaking of cube-spheres and gives you the secret of your own vitality and self-healing. Also there is the gyroscopic principle, the voidance principle and the secret of crystal forms.

All of these have a part in the knowledge of “what happens to me when I die”, so the next several lessons will be devoted to a continuation of this long hidden secret of reincarnation and the continuity of life.

Again I would say to you beloved friends and students–who are surely God’s New Age Messengers–devote every moment possible to making this new knowledge YOUR OWN for man has reached the stage in his unfolding when he will be compelled to make the transition from his past ages of SENSING and repeating and go forward into the glorious Cosmic Age of KNOWING and CREATING.

Your place in this new age will unfold as you become READY. My husband was instructed by God as to WHEN he should release this new knowledge and God brought me to him to fulfill my destiny by helping him find ways and words to bring the great knowledge he was born to give in simple words for your understanding.

Every moment of our lives is given to our work and your joy is our joy for without this work our lives would lose their purpose for Being. And so from the depths of my being I say thank you and God bless you for sharing in God’s great Message for this coming age.

Always beloved friends,

Devotedly your Lao Russell