Christ - The Companion of All

When friends or companions are divided for a little space of time it seems that sometimes outside influences, and your own thoughts as well, comes in between. That perfect harmony is missing; that glorious certainty in the love of the one for the other as well. When God and the Spirits are not with you in a physical sense like this it seems that perhaps they have forgotten their responsibilities in regard to the children that they have taken under their care.

But it was they who adopted you, you didn't adopt them because you didn't know that they existed. Right back in the early days of every one, with no exception, they sought you, found you, and gathered you in. Just because the years passed by and you did not know of their existence does not say that they did not know of yours. In thinking about them, do away forever with the remembrance of the first time you met with the Spirits in this way, and remember instead that long before that, in the sleep state, you and the Spirits were friends. Friends and companions in a way you little understand, because your friendship and companionship has the direct blessing of God upon it; and that makes all the difference with ties of these kinds. All outside and inside your immediate circle belong to the Spirits, under the Christ. Because they have been commissioned to watch over your life, to direct and guide it, when you will allow it, they are able to protect you and to fend off the enemy again and again.

It seems to you that the shadows have struck you without any protection at all. Yet does it not suggest something to your mind that again and again you meet in Holy Communion. The shadows approach, they torture your mind, and because you do not strike them off at once they are able to stay, to linger by you a little and to make you suffer a lot. But their time is limited. God has given you into the Spirits’ charge, and when sorrow binds you it is but for a time. The clouds will break and the sun of harmony, of understanding and of sympathy will shine in upon your chilled heart and mind and winter will give place to spring.

The clouds will break and the sun of harmony, of understanding and of sympathy will shine in upon your chilled heart and mind and winter will give place to spring.

It is a great big world that you are in. To your mind interests are so varied, people are so preoccupied with their own affairs that loneliness, that most terrible "isolation of the soul", comes very close. It makes its presence felt in a way that, at times, is almost terrifying.

But there is a word of comfort even here when you talk of the "isolation of the soul", by which you mean the very essence within; that intimate, greater self which only you, you think, knows anything about. It is such a contradiction of even common-sense. How could the soul, that spiritual side of you, be isolated, be left alone for one second, when the world of the spirit is all around you; when those from the brightest realms come again and again with power and with love to assist you in your time of need? How could the real you be lonely in such an environment? It is the physical mind only that suffers. But because it suffers, by its very limitations of outlook and understanding, that suffering is added, automatically, as treasure to the bigger self within.

But it is not God's will that even that physical mind of yours should be bearing this burden. The Christ came into the physical body so that He might understand the individual experience of every one. The Christ came into human form so that He might understand the individual point of view of all; and this is true in every particular.

Even in your world today there are "sensitives", whom you call "messengers", who are able to feel and to experience, in a very definite manner, the thoughts and the feelings of others. But take a lesser illustration! When those you love are in the clutch of any great feeling; joy or grief, have you felt it yourself! The love between you has made the connection which allowed spirit and spirit to contact and, for the moment, to be as one.

Then from the lesser to that which is greater. In your world the messengers, the instruments of God; for indeed they should be of God if they are to remain intact from evil, these have, to a certain degree, removed themselves from the physical; the material environment which surrounds the majority. They have emerged from the coarser into the finer vibrations of feeling, of sight and of hearing. According to their development and the effort put into their labours, so they are able, indeed they cannot help it, to experience the feelings, the emotions and even the intimate thoughts of others.

It should not be hard for you, taking these little stages, to imagine something of what The Lord went through during His earthly journey. He, so sensitive, so pure, so entirely spirit; in the sense that He had conquered the flesh. He, as you can comprehend, was never free from the burdens of others. Literally, the Christ came to earth not only to bear His own portion of struggle, of so-called failure and of death, but during those years of manhood was as a magnet in drawing out the thoughts and the feelings of others. Being keyed to such fine vibrations it was impossible for Him to shut Himself off from the lives of those about Him, and this applies to the multitude as well.

When it is said that the Christ came to bear the burdens of the world, remember that this burden was not only taken up then and has been going on ever since, but started right back in the beginning of creation. Yet had not God assumed human form and lived among the children of the earth, not one could have taken it in that God understands all that you feel; all that you want to be and cannot rise to. Therein lies the greatest pain of all. You cannot love the Christ, even in the smallest way, without suffering so. How many vow each morning that they will do better; yet, as night comes round again, they look back on what seems to them like failure; failure of the greater, nobler self within. But even if the day seems like that to you and you still wish to go on and still wish to imitate the Master, you shall find, hereafter, that you came closer to your desire than could be imagined now.

You see, there are words of comfort for all. Do not regard life as an enemy in the way you do. You are not antagonised to the Christ as some think. The troubles of the day and the pains of the body come in between you and the Light which shines from Him, but He does not move one inch because of that! Could you see things as they are you would find that it was simply that in front of you stands the Light of the World; your Christ, your Saviour and your Father too. But remember that these Names make no barrier at all, for isn't He also your Companion and Protector? Standing thus, with the light of the World shining upon you, you should be able to go forward in confidence. But what happens is that you bow your head so low that all you see is the ground beneath, and that is dark and ugly! ! If you could but remember to raise your eyes then the Light of His Presence would instantly shine upon your face and you would know that just the wish to love God and to do His will ensures an illumined way and protection on either side.

The troubles of the day and the pains of the body come in between you and the Light which shines from Him, but He does not move one inch because of that!

Do not be disheartened if at times it is too difficult for you to raise your eyes to where the Christ stands. Remember that even though you lack the strength, the Christ is there all the same and nothing could be strong enough to separate Him from you. The shadows, it seems, separate you from the Master, but because darkness and light have nothing in common, no force of evil could ever separate God from you. He is your Father, and the Father does not desert His children in their hour of need.

Everywhere there is light and hope and certainty.

Do you not know the journey which the physical mind has always to go through in order to reach happiness? First of all it has to free itself from its bonds. Even as a prisoner in a dark dungeon so is the physical mind before it hears the call to arise and to go to meet its God! But the smallest movement in the heart in the way of effort makes it possible for the prisoner to look up, and there, out of the prison window maybe, they see a little of the light of the great big world without. That is the first step! The second is hope and then, how to get free.

There are very few who during their earthly experience are not even as prisoners, bound by the limitations and the exactions of the body. But hope is there; they see the light and rise in a vain endeavour, so it seems to them, to reach that which is so desirable.

Build up in your mind some idea of the position as presented to you. It appears to you that, although you arise and peer at the light you can do little more; you are bound by your chains and fastened within a locked door! All know that feeling. The light is there but how can you reach it? Between you and freedom there is that thick, impenetrable obstacle of lack of faith; of circumstances and of physical disabilities which you cannot break through! But with God all things are possible and, even as the disciples of old found when they answered to the Voice of the Spirit, the prison doors were opened and they walked forth free from all that bound. So it is with you!

Once the desire comes to make that light your own it is only a question of effort, of dedication and of preparation; to find those seemingly impenetrable walls exist no longer, and that you can step forth into that which of all things is the most glorious, both in your world and the Spirit World; into certainty!

There is no joy which is perfect if it holds one petal of doubt. It must be free from questionings and misgivings if it is to bring you the happiness that it represents. The last stage is glorious indeed! You step out free from the world, from your heart-aches, from the doubts of the questioning mind; step into the light of understanding of the Love of God. Then certainty, which means contentment and completeness, so fills your heart and mind that there is no room for those other half-joys to enter in. Just certainty that God does not fail; that what He has said was not meant to be interpreted in this way or that, but stands as it is. "I am the Light of the World" He said, and in so saying He knew that death had far less evil in it than doubt and misgiving and all those tortures which sting the physical mind again and again.

Believe in God! Go through your records, through the sacred script which you call the Bible and you will see, if only you read it right, that what God has once given that He never takes away, and that the Master fulfils His promises down to the tiniest detail. You will find it so Hereafter in such a comprehensive and wide-stretching way that you will be amazed at the magnitude of Love laid out before your wondering eyes.

You are human, and when anything comes between you and your loved ones perhaps you are inclined to put things, at first, in a different way to that which is reflected by the Mind of the Great Example of all.

But time is not elastic and there is much to be got through, with the usual tasks of everyday life. Do you not see how each little task at hand works for God in doing the next thing? Sometimes it means a struggle, and sometimes they have to go away leaving an impression which it is within their power to destroy; the impression that no comfort is forthcoming in the way most desire. Realise, if you can, that when you are a soldier of the Christ it means that you are willing to take orders; to follow you Leader, not to argue with Him or defy Him. When you pass over you will find that indeed you are a soldier, and that you will rejoice in laying aside your own will in order to work out to perfection the plan of the Great One who goes on in front.

In guiding you, the Spirits did not choose the way. You chose the way of your earthly experience, chose it with the spirit. Because of necessity, the physical mind is hampered in its perceptions, and so the Spirits walk it with you in order, so far as they are able, to help when it was over-steep or over-rough.

The Spirits do not have the power you think; and then again they have much more power than you give them credit for. The Spirits do not have the power to take from you the experiences which your spirit has taken on of its own accord; God could not intervene in a case like that. But where their power comes in, given to them in such a lavish way by the All-Loving, is to soothe, to heal the wounds and to encourage, so that you may get over that which troubles you now so much and be free to expand; to grow spiritually into the likeness of that which your spirit intends to reach.

Their powers, coming from God, are unlimited in this respect. Their responsibilities are unlimited likewise. Do not grieve over this or that which seems to have gone wrong, or seems to have left you desolate, but face the position with firmness.

You have chosen this path, and therefore you will get on with the journey as quickly as you can! If you can do this, then in the very act of doing and of being the Spirits can prove to you that their power is unlimited. For as you strive so the help comes, from the Throne of God, and as you struggle so is the strength given to you. As you emerge from the bonds of the physical so are the robes of Immortality thrown over you and you are made one in aim and one in purpose with all who are fighting with the Christ to overthrow that which is destructive to happiness and to the fulfilment of the Promise that, in the end, you shall be one with Divinity Itself.

God's blessing is on you and His peace is gathered to you and made your own. Throw around you those cords of love which, with God's help, shall bring you through.