The Link Between You And The Universal Mind

Our sermon this morning is Tarot, the Link Between You and the Universal Mind.

And as you will notice, the Tarot key we've placed before you is that of the magician.

We're going to have quite a bit to say about the illusion that the magician can create, the delight, incidentally, of the illusion, and try to see just what is meant in basic esoteric occultism when we speak of universal consciousness or forming a link between ourselves and the universal mind and perhaps we can develop ideas that are more in accordance with reality in other words to be able to be the magicians consciously. Unfortunately, in so many of the occult schools of thought, aspirants are taught to think or believe or feel that what we must do is escape the illusion or what is often called Maya in Eastern thought to escape the illusion and to withdraw or be drawn up into what is called the universal mind cosmic consciousness cosmic ecstasy to get away in other words to get away from the terrible illusion to get away from the here and now living to get away incidentally truly if we only knew it from being magicians because so much delusion has developed in relation to the ideas of what actual attainment really implies that the true masters of the inner school the true esoteric schools of training in some ways have a more difficult time with aspirants today than they ever have had down through the centuries even though also today and in this age we have more untold numbers of thousands of aspirants who have reached the spiritual readiness to develop and know the truth or reality. So we are going to try to explain at least in part, because this cannot be done in just a small sermon or lecture, but at least to give us a start as to what is implied by a link between ourselves and the universal mind. How How better to attain or achieve it, and thereby, curiously enough, how better to enjoy the so-called illusions, how to become more truly magicians?

You know, Dr. Paul Foster Case, the founder of our work, was a prestidigitator, and I always use the word to show how well I can pronounce the difficult syllables, though one could more easily say a magician and a master of illusion and so on. Our little vanities come up and there's nothing wrong with them, that's the point that we're going to speak about. It's being deluded by them, lost in them. This is the problem, not in having them. This perhaps is the delight when we know how to chuckle create illusions and enjoy them well dr k certainly knew how to create illusions he was one of the finest magicians press the digitators I insist upon saying again that at least I have ever known and many many people have said the same thing about him and sometimes incidentally just to share a few little intimacies with you he was quite a problem quite a problem we found a cartoon one day which so exactly showed the problem but we have learned and knew how to chuckle in this cartoon there was a magician press the digitator who wanted to show a trick and And there was his wife with her hair on end, looking very harried, something like half a dozen children around her skirts, a sink full of water, soap and dishes, and her hands in the water, things cooking on the stove.

In other words, she was having quite a time. And in this cartoon, there was her husband, the magician, came in and say, here, pick a card, pick a card, any card. She's looking like she's ready to explode well that's exactly what Dr. Case used to do occasionally and Mrs. Case and I had a slightly hysterical time with our laughter when we saw such a very appropriate cartoon to explain the situation as it existed amongst us from time to time all right when one has become familiar with just what a magician a prestidigitator a master of illusion does in the game of entertainment and the art of entertainment one can understand so much better some of the implications of occultism some of the ideas that are involved with the grand illusion or the play of life and indeed when the Eastern philosophy speaks about the fact that the phenomenal universe is a play like an act that it is in a sense an illusion the curious thing is they are not incorrect it's just that we misinterpret the value and we misinterpret the significance of this basic idea so let's analyze together for just a moment what is meant by universal mind most of us think of it as something away and beyond us which we want to reach and we couldn't be more mistaken this is part of our delusion in relation to the grand and incidentally really glorious illusion because if it's universal mind how can it be away or beyond whatever it is we are now how can it it's illogical and if there is one thing we must be careful about it's to see that reasoning faculties stay right in alignment with our metaphysical our philosophical our psychological and our occult understandings it is illogical to think of the universal mind as being something away way when universal implies that there's no place that it is not in the beginning was the word and the word was god and the word was with god and there was not anything made except by this life which is the light of men now then the universal mind if we accept the fact that it must be universal cannot be separate from us if we have a mind of course some of us often think we have more of a mind than we do in fact most of us do as we often like to say in various developments of the tarot series we are so enamored with our own mental radiocinations usually that we overlook the fact that if there is one thing each and every one of us must accept sooner or later it is that the mental workings of an individual of a specialized aspect or cannot really know it all there are are limitations to our knowings.

And there's nothing wrong with that. It's in recognizing and accepting it. Nevertheless, we're all rather more or less enamored with our own type of thinking. And as we know, we all feel more or less, more intensely or less intensely, that if everyone else thought as we did, we'd have a much nicer world.

I know that I suffer from the same illusion and I'm sure we all do to some extent or other. It doesn't bother me to suffer from this illusion because I know how to chuckle at it. In essence, underneath, we also know if we didn't all have our variations, life would become terribly boring. You just stay with someone that agrees with you all the time about everything.

After all, what kind of challenge are you going to have? What's, how much stimulation is there going to be? It's only, it's the impact of the apparent variations that bring excitement and interest and drive and challenge. It's wonderful that we should think or evaluate differently from each other in many ways. It's wonderful we will in time learn to accept this and love it instead of becoming insulted or affronted when some human being shows such very poor mental ability or capacity as not to see that what we think is the only way to think about the very important subjects of life well at any rate then the universal mind it cannot be separate if it's universal therefore just using common logic and it's not so common unfortunately we must recognize that everything that exists is an aspect of the universal mind so we don't have to attain to the universal mind at all we are in it we live in it we breathe in it we think with it we feel with it we create our illusions in with and for it so we don't have to fight or yearn to achieve our contact with the universal mind we've got it nevertheless we're in trouble aren't we so what's wrong and indeed we're in lots of trouble we recognize it still always remember any play any entertainment any show that hasn't got its villains and its problems to overcome would be very boring we wouldn't want to watch it because it wasn't it wouldn't entertain us so of course we have problems it's another way perhaps look at problems this is what keeps the living interesting but of course we get lost in our interpretations in the meaningfulness and we suffer, we suffer indeed.

But in true esoteric occult training, we know, and we know without equivocation, that spiritual growth must become joyous.

Livingness must become chuckling, laughing, and fun-producing. We take ourselves too seriously because we do not recognize that we are aspects of the universal mind we think it's something way off there and we're separated away and that we are alone and we can't be alone we're lost in the illusion and we can definitely get out of being lost in the illusion and thereby start using it for our own purposes which are after all the purposes of life or we wouldn't have them we cannot want anything that isn't part of the divine will whether we realize it or not otherwise we couldn't feel it we are a part of that one glory and always of course comes the question what about these people who want these evil things they're only misinterpreting the the value of the want, and going about it the wrong way, and by wrong way we mean the immature way. There's nothing wrong with the want.

It comes from God.

In the beginning was the word, and in the beginning of any want, this is the vibration of the one life. When we get to recognize this, we have less problems with our wants, and they get incidentally fulfilled filled much more readily but that belongs to a series of different types of sermons so we are a part of this universal mind in other words we are linked to the universal mind and again as usual it seems we give you a title for a sermon or a lecture we tell you it's all wrong it's part of recognizing the illusion and enjoying it really and in as much as this is the way people think it's best to approach with topics in relation to the way people think and then show them how to think about it in a few other ways at least it makes for more charming enlargement of interpretation and that's always enriching isn't it now then if we don't really need a link between ourselves and the universal mind if we already have it what is the problem well this is basically the problem which in the final analysis isn't a problem at all nevertheless when we understand it we learn how to act more consciously like this magician the universal mind has vibrational levels that perhaps go into infinity we don't know it would be a very erroneous to try to give an analysis of all the levels that exist within the universal mind it would be implying whoever is giving it that they know all the universal minds levels and therefore they are the whole thing and of course I know no one can be the whole thing we can be we are an aspect and an expression of that glory that that wonder that miracle there are many levels of self-expression in this universal mind and everything that lives must be expressing from from some level, or it couldn't be.

The fact that it is, the fact that you are, the fact that I am, the fact that a tree and a flower exist, the fact that a star shines, the fact that it is at all, automatically shows us that it is an aspect, an expression of the universal mind, or we couldn't be conscious of it. There could be no experience in relation to it.

So there isn't in essence anything we do not experience which isn't the universal mind but problems indeed we have and here we come to the crux of the matter we differentiate certain levels of the universal mind we give them names in our work we do this it's necessary we have to work in categories with our mind and because we have to work in categories we have to get to understand to analyze and understand certain parts which are not really separate we have to act as though they're separate in order to try to understand them bit by bit by bit then there's a better chance of an insight and understanding of the whole so in our work in the lessons you receive in the mail and it's essential let it be this way you are told about about the subconsciousness, about self-consciousness, and about super-consciousness. And you are taught how to deal with subconsciousness to bring it more under control, how to utilize self-consciousness to point it more where it ought to go under control, how to reach for super-consciousness in order to receive its guidance.

It is necessary to do this nevertheless it is also necessary to understand finally and at some time or other that there is really no demarcation in actuality it is merely it's a graduated aspect of the universal mind a graduated level of vibrations and the evolutionary level of an aspect of consciousness in relation to the universal mind is what determines what level this aspect is tuned into it's like a radio and like hi-fi in a sense you might say we're trying to become hi-fi sets any of you who love the hi-fi music that means high fidelity know that in the high fidelity you have more exact tune in to the FM stations so that the notes that come out are more clear sharp exact and accord in accordance with the broadcast yet even in your high fidelity sets my high fidelity set has something wrong with its correlation we haven't discovered what it is yet mainly because I haven't had the time to have someone called in to study it now because there's something wrong with some correlation in the mechanism when I put on my music on my high fidelity set to enjoy the music very often there's another station that comes in and drowns out the one I want it's not tuning it in exactly because the alignment there's something wrong with the alignment or perhaps with a tube or maybe it's both well in relation to ourselves this is a very excellent analogy because a great deal of our problems exist in this field it is in the fact that we have not yet learned how to tune in with exactitude to the station that is the level of the the universal mind that we require for the period or the moment or the experience or the guidance or the insight or the understanding or the expression and so on and so we tune in off key we might be uh with our own center of consciousness we might put it between two stations so that we're getting interference and and the reception is not clear and therefore it isn't very beautiful either you know there's a sort of discord does develop and of course if our own personal alignment is very poor if it's very much off center we have even a more terrible cacophony existing in the sound elements that is what we are receiving and it can be very irritating very disruptive very annoying sound has a tremendous effect upon the individual and the beginning was the word and the word was with God don't forget the Bible was written by Qabalists and these Qabalists the terminology used they have completely and I mean the meaning is very definite and specific and when we understand the Qabalistic philosophy and when we undertake the Qabalistic teachings and trainings when we practice the techniques as we receive them in our lessons then we come to realize what was really being said in this amazing book both the Old and the New Testaments we we begin to realize what it is that has really been attempted in teaching.

And we stop misinterpreting as much at any rate. So there's something wrong with what we're tuning into, or the way we're tuning into, the various levels of the universal mind. Well, of course, one of the things that's basically a problem is this.

On what we call the subconscious levels we share these vibrational levels with all life because this is the level of the universal mind that amongst other things builds form this is the part of the universal mind that receives the picture from the universal mind or god or aspects of the universal mind don't forget yet a picture that you and I give subconsciousness is being given it by the universal mind.

There is nothing else.

And so when we are building pictures or presenting pictures to subconsciousness in order to build a form, it's nothing but God doing it, only we don't know it.

We're lost in the illusion of separateness and we need to learn how to correct it in order to utilize the high fidelity of the vibrational levels of that mind for better more glorious effects not to get rid of the effects and just have better ones and better and better so hearing then this subconscious level as naturally we do with all life which builds the form and also because it's on the subconscious levels of the universal mind that the thinking feeling processes of all life go on in an interrelated manner remember if there is anything true anywhere in the universe it would be this basic thing there isn't a thing you think or feel or that anyone thinks or feels which is not forever and forever pouring back and forth from the radio sets of your personalities back and forth not only towards those you know all life is influenced by what you think and you are influenced by what the rest of life thinks we are not separate from any of the so-called evil in the world nor are we separate from any of the so-called good in this world and we want to separate ourselves away from that which we think of as evil because we do do not know that the only way you separate yourself is by just learning how to tune in to the vibrational levels of the universal consciousness so strongly that you will transmute not just for yourself you may want to you may think it's just for yourself but you cannot do it for yourself alone because it just doesn't happen that way even if your motive is selfish even if you feel I want to transmute my subconsciousness because the universal mind if it be universal is all-inclusive every proper tune-in every transmutation affects everybody else in its constructive manner and incidentally every immature and negative tune-in affects the other way it can't be helped this is life this is the way it is now if we heap coals of ashes on our head and if we moan and groan and talk about how evil we are and get lost in the need for self punishment all we are doing is is adding to those expressions for the rest of life as well as ourselves these ego-centered lost in the illusion delusions and we are strengthening instead of weakening the immaturities of course then some will say well how can such evil hate misery poverty torture and so on how can that be the universal mind well of course we have we feel in the cabalistic training system the only answers that truly give peace to the heart but as you know this is a vast subject and it cannot be covered by word or phrase nevertheless insight into the true picture does wash away forever and forever that particular soul-searing question for this particular little talk in order to try to do something a little more extensively about what we call linking ourselves with the universal mind though as we've told you it isn't that at all or like that all we can say on that question to help because we need to give many talks on the other idea is this if we think of the various beautiful stories told in the Bible which remember are allegorical they are realities and principles given in symbol and they reveal their truths when we learn how to work with their symbols as we do with the Tarot if then we will remember in in the story of Genesis, a creation was formed out of chaos.

Let's try, at least temporarily, because there's no way we're going to think of it with our intellectual faculties, which is really gonna be exactly right. But at least it's pointing our radio set towards a better alignment with the hi-fi system.

And this is what we are going to learn how to do together in this work.

Well, if we will then think of this universal mind, and remember it isn't exactly correct because analogies never can be, but this universal mind as having this infinite capacity for self-living and expression.

And if we will remember that when we dream, we can create untold numbers of people, pieces of furniture, scenery, experience and so on. We don't have to worry about after all there must be then a part of God, the universal mind, that isn't developed because it isn't that at all. You know the latest theory on the creation of the universe is that it is eternally self-creating that out of nothing suddenly appear the atom out of nothing and that it is this from nothing having an atom appear which is the cause of the expansion of the universe because certainly it is known the universe is expanding and this latest theory is a very interesting one because it can be used as an analogy that helps to point the soul towards the true reality of the universe life consciousness livingness the soul and so on we do not need to think then that there are parts of god or the universal mind that are just undeveloped and happen to be developing it happens to be developing itself because the latest theory of the way the universe comes into being and is continuously creating atoms out of nothing we could say that perhaps and it's analogy only the universal mind is forever shall we say like the cell you have one cell and it divides then there are two cells and then they grow up and then each of them is big as the original cell and then they divide and then you have more and more and more and it goes by geometrical progression so I mean that staggers the mind so it isn't that there are parts of the universal mind that have just been lying stagnant and have nothing it has nothing or that it needs anything but the creative universal mind apparently just out of itself keeps reproducing parts of itself and these parts or aspects form into complexes by complexes we mean groups organization groups and these organized groups go through the series of self livingness self experience and maybe there's no end to the matter but of course with our limited looking we cannot truly understand we cannot understand infinity though we use it as a word we cannot understand foreverness though we use it as a word we cannot understand eternity though we use it as a word but we can experience it and this work helps us to experience just that.

Nevertheless, it is a mistake to think, a terrible mistake to think, that experiencing it or reaching for the experience is going to then take us away from the livingness of its aspects, which are these glorious individual personalities with our nonsense and our foolishness and our hurt feelings and our egos and our vanities and our loneliness and our tears I mean we want to get away from these things and indeed we can get away from the unhappy aspects of these amazing individuated parts of the universal consciousness but only as these created atoms of God which we are out of God because from what else are we completely created as definite parts of the universal mind which we can't get out of because there's no place to go as parts of that we are like an expanding the universe is expanding and so are we you know in alchemy says as above so below whatever is true in miniature will be found when we experience it to be true in its universal sense and vice versa if we have seen it truly so we are expanding aspects of the consciousness of god in our earlier development we are what are called young souls now this is a very nice term because it always helps us to be able to say that everybody else who doesn't believe as we do is a young soul and then we become old souls it's helpful it's a term but in a way there may be no such thing as young souls and old souls just certain aspects of consciousness which have gone through certain self-experiences so that they are able to point their radio tune in to the aspects or parts of the universal consciousness which are more in accordance with harmonious hi-fi with beautiful inspiring music instead of the the discordance and all of us really being cut out of the same piece of cloth. I must confess that some of our modern music tune-in with its passion for the discord which is considered so gloriously developed leaves me cold and I'm often very tempted at least very tempted to place the causative factor on the fact that these people must be very young souls which would naturally automatically make me an old one but it is not necessarily so I may not be understanding certain things however we are influenced very intensively on the subconscious level of the universal mind by the thinking, feeling, living, responding processes of all life.

Indeed, human consciousness, as we have been told by the inner school, is at that stage of its own self-experience where it acts as a transformer former for the newer creations of universal self-expression towards or to the, shall we say, older, though they're not correct terms.

And therefore, being in this stage of universal self-awareness, we can and we must and we we will of course some of us are not very active and will take half a dozen to a dozen lifetimes to learn how to make one good tune in on the radio and maybe that's all right if we have eternity but I guess if when the universal mind becomes determined through us because after all we're it that we're kind of a little tired of being lost in the illusion then perhaps we'll get busy and decide I'm going to do it in this one if I can and indeed the people who come to us usually as though those who come and stay because with our work you have to work anyone who thinks they don't have to to achieve these things they usually we let you just smilingly let them try in time they find out you don't develop a muscle without exercising it it's impossible and you cannot develop a conscious feeling of the link between yourself and the universal mind a conscious knowledge of it the link is there without practicing it without developing the muscle and the knowledge of how to focus your mental motor coordination to get that hi-fi tune in so the human consciousness as you see it there with the magician is at that level of the universal self-experience where it can be aware simultaneously simultaneously of the three what we have differentiated into the three levels of consciousness that is super consciousness you notice the way the magician holds that staff up self-consciousness that's the concentration on the moment subconsciousness that's the garden that's being grown the transmutation that's taking place human consciousness can in other words become aware of the different stations and learn how to to tune in to whatever station it wants.

Though it isn't easy. You have to want to do it very badly. But it can be done. And the secret behind it is, first of all, to stop taking yourself so seriously. Isn't that funny?

Now, unless you aspire with all your heart and mind, which means you have to take yourself seriously, you'll attain nothing.

And unless you stop taking yourself seriously you're not going to attain it either these are the curious things that we run up against and actually one needs to understand this type of thing with the heart rather with the mind but we will try to show why this is so what it really entails the drive to stick to anything of course is the grace of God it's the fact that we've tuned we've evolved enough to tune in to the universal mind that much whether we consciously recognize it or not or we wouldn't have the drive to aspire but our problem then is we think of it as a personal thing we think that we as a separated it is it is personal but the fact that there are persons must mean that God is many persons isn't it doesn't it or shouldn't it as we have have often said after all we have many relationships but are we other we're all of them I happen to be a mother and I'm also a grandmother I always like to have a given excuse to bring this in I'm also a grandmother I have two lovely grandsons I'm a sister and a different kind of sister to many sisters and I have friends many friends and I'm a different friend to everyone I'm different with each one because they call forth something different and I call forth something different we are unique expressions of interrelationships within the one universal mind and I'm a teacher I people who have not liked me have called me some things that are not nice which they say I am and people who like me have called me other things which are very lovely which they say I am but I have many relationships I'm a daughter I am so many things but I am an am I not so with you helps us to understand this idea of the unity of life and it makes it a little easier to overcome this feeling of separativeness because as long as we're going to feel so separated from the universal mind we're not really going to be consciously linked it is the recognition that brings the experience this is part of the exercise and so with the tarot techniques which were designed by the inner school for this particular era of aspirants who were to come pouring into to incarnation these tarot keys were designed to make an impact upon the subconscious level which is the problem level which keeps us feeling so separate which keeps us feeling unhappy because after all it holds the patterns qabalah we call it it holds the shells of the the dead and lots of people think well that means the discarnates well it means that as just one thing but the shells of the dead are the thinking and feeling processes of yesterday and yesterday and yesterday and subconsciousness holds the thinking and feeling and responding of the past and it is releasing the energy from these patterns which makes that energy available to self-consciousness for super conscious awareness or shall we say for conscious knowledge that we are linked with the allness and as we work as with the tarot tarot speaking speaking directly to subconsciousness.

In other words, presenting the reality picture of the... In other words, perhaps what it's doing is presenting the reality of the illusion instead of the delusion of the delusion, of the illusion, which makes the difference.

As this is done, we start getting over the idea that we are so separate. It we start recognizing how we share each other all the time whether we know it or not and we start accepting the fact that there are parts of us that of course are still immature and are going to go in for some very nonsensical thinking feeling and doing some of it perhaps even what might be considered evil but the curious thing is the more we recognize through practice of tarot the more we make ourselves see and feel ourselves as an aspect of the universal life the less tendency develops through us because what is pouring is pouring more completely and and consciously and fully and deeply, the less tendency there is towards what we call the deluded and evil reactions.

And we don't have to fight with them. Do you know that never on God's green earth, please don't be upset, but really, never on God's green earth, from eternity to eternity, will any one of us overcome our evil or immature responses to conditions by fighting the conditions through heaping coals of fire or ashes on our heads because by fighting and by self recrimination self condemnation all we're doing is strengthening that whole level this is why people with guilt complexes never seem to be able to get over them at all because they're going about it the wrong way once you recognize yourself as being linked with this universal mind once you recognize and you have to recognize it by practicing it with the tarot particularly once you recognize that you are linked once you realize that there isn't anything you've ever done or felt or experienced or expressed that has not been an essential part of that level of your development for that time once you've managed to do that what is going to happen to your guilt complexes you're going to stop blaming yourself then when you stop blaming yourself you can stop blaming other people you will automatically become an accepting loving glorious reproduction of the higher or more immature or more developed aspects of the universal mind and it is essential to go through all these areas of growth you don't jump from age 1 to age 21 just boom if you want to try it doesn't work you can't jump from the bottom to the top of the steps try it you have some nice steps back there an embryo can't jump from a single cell to a fully developed form this is part of the self process of experience but it is part of the play we'll go back to the a beautiful illusion. If we start again recognizing that never have we been separated from that universal mind, the fact that we are, this is it. The fact that forms exist are an indication that the universal mind is holding them. We hold forms because naturally in his image and likeness created he them we're not different it's a glorious idea why should we be so disturbed and upset because the forms that we are holding as aspects of the universal mind are not very beautiful is it so terrible to be young do we condemn our children because they're young or do we expect them to grow up and love them? Why should we expect from ourselves that we can sit down with a pencil and draw a perfect picture when we have our consciousness hasn't swept through that area of self-expansion yet it's going that way. It's the practice. Why should we expect to who gives such perfect performances.

What ego this is.

Of course, they say actors are always egomaniacs.

And you know, we are all actors on the stage of life, as Shakespeare said.

And so perhaps we're all egomaniacs, and we all feel that our performance should be perfect when in essence, we haven't been practicing our various parts long enough to give the flawless performances, which we will in time. But part of the fun is in practicing and looking forward, looking forward, knowing that we will know our parts well.

There's nothing wrong with being clumsy when we're starting something.

Nevertheless as long as we hold the yearning to become more we will work towards it and so to start seeing this illusion as being not so much the illusion it seems and yet being an illusion again we have these curious factors that come into occultism because after all if we are dreaming we are building pictures in our minds while we sleep we wake up and we say this is an illusion because we only dreamed it but the fact that we had we dreamed it is real now the it may very well be that the universal mind it is its nature to build self pictures so although we may say this is an illusion it may be the only reality there is and it may be that evolution and attainment have nothing at all to do with getting out of the illusion at all but in consciously playing on the stage of life enjoying the roles knowing that everybody else is playing one not being fooled by the role and maybe this is what might be more truly the illumination than the things we've been led to believe and at least this much we can know life can be so much more fun if we can silently chuckle to ourselves when we watch ourselves performing rather clumsily, if we are not taking ourselves so seriously, because we know this is a changing, growing sort of thing, we might be able to live in the very same place we're living with a feeling of magic, because the magician gives you the feeling of magic.

With the feeling of magic this may be the real reality and what else then we experience of course cannot be told in words because it's beyond comprehension description of belief it is glory it is the word made life in fullness we don't know whether we've told you how to link yourself with the universal mind but we do know we've shown you how to become more aware of the fact that you were never unlinked we might have mentioned that the link in this chain of life goes on and on from the most what we choose to call highly evolved to a little less we might have spoken about the inner school and the masters of wisdom on this one because they're very deeply involved but we find we haven't got the time so we'll take that up with our next sermon next Sunday did you want to give the announcement on the title of Reverend Davy's lecture this Thursday will be develop your discrimination through tarot and those who are VOTA members here and have not come to our Cuneos classes have the privilege of attending these classes three times before joining if they'd like to investigate and see what it's like before committing themselves we'd be most happy to have you and you'll find yourself most welcome the only evening that visitors would not be able to attend would be the first Tuesday in every month because that evening we hold our mass initiation the next Sunday sermon will be Qabalah the angelic language Reverend Ann Davies will conduct and you'll find our new programs on the table near the entrance door and bota members who do not attend our thursday evening lectures I would like to mention that those of you who have some free time during the week would be very grateful if you would donate a few hours of that time to us we could we need some help in the office and in the assembling of some of our lessons so if you would like care to spend a few hours with us would be very grateful thank you very much I would like to add that next uh in my next thursday night class the title develop your discrimination through tarot that deals with the sixth tarot key the lovers and that actually I'm going to show the significance of the male-female relationship and give a little bit of the esoteric significance of union between male and female and show it in its principles of discrimination on other levels.

At least we hope we will succeed.

It's quite an order. We keep attempting it through the different series that come up, tarot keys that come up which deal with that principle we wouldn't want you to think you're coming just to find out about discrimination and discover that most of the class is being given on the male female relationship and how it can be improved and what's wrong with it and so on and so on let us bow our heads in prayer holy art thou oh lord of the universe may the offering we now make in support of thy work serve to remind us that we are all the receivers of the immeasurable gift of life.

May the pure knowledge of the ceaseless giving and receiving of the love of God burn ever more strongly in our heart of hearts. Amen.

I believe for every drop of rain that falls I believe that somewhere in the darkest night A candle glows I believe for everyone who goes astray Someone will come to show the way I believe, I believe I believe above the storm the smallest prayer Will still be heard I believe that someone In the grave somewhere Hears every word Every time I hear The newborn baby cry Oh, touch your knees Or see the sky Then I know why I believe We give thanks to thee, O Lord of the universe, verse for the riches of the spirit manifesting thy bounty here on earth amen there are those who weep whose lives are burdened with sorrow there are those whose hearts are heavy whose bodies are wracked with pain we will now hold these near and dear ones in our thoughts permeate them in the healing love of God wash them in the wholeness of the divine perfection I think like a God I speak like a God I act like a God for I am the offspring of the living God This body is an expression and manifestation of the divine idea. Every nerve, every muscle, every cell is now vibrant with light, life, energy in perfect rhythm, in perfect harmony, and perfect coordination with the whole. I am in thee and thou art in me. Thou Almighty One in most and most high, may these whose names we hold in our minds come to the realization that the real self reveals the truth and sets them free from all negativity. May they come to rely on spirit, not on form, on movement, not on structure, and thus change daily into more responsive instruments of the life power. May they realize the transformation into the likeness of the the one self, that self which sees not but the perfection of its divine manifestation.

May they, as of this hour, resign themselves utterly to the unfailing support of the one reality. Instructed by the inner voice, may they turn away from the limitations of the the outer senses that their bodies may be transformed into the new image through the unfailing strength of the perfect law may they realize the everlasting and overshadowing protection of the almighty one amen