As Dr.

Lobsang Rampa lay, desperately ill, in a Canadian

hospital, he looked up with pleasure to see his old friend and
mentor, the Lama Mingyar Dondup, standing by his bedside.
But it was with some dismay that he listened to the message
that the Golden igure had brought.
Lobsang Rampa!s work on this plane was not, as he thought,
"ompleted# he had to write another book, his ele$enth, for there
was still more of the mysti" truth to be re$ealed to the world.
%ere then is that ele$enth book. Feeding the Flame is mainly
"on"erned with answering some of the any &uestions whi"h
Dr. Rampa!s readers ha$e put to him o$er the years. 't "o$ers
su"h sub(e"ts as Life after Death, )ui"ide, Meditation and *ui(a
Boards, and in"ludes many in$aluable obser$ations on the modern
world. Dr. Rampa!s many admirers will be delighted that, despite
the pain and suffering of his illness, he has been spared to write
this fas"inating and inspiring book.
++D',G -%+ LAM+
't sa$es a lot of letters if ' tell you why
' ha$e a "ertain title# it is said, .'t is
better to light a "andle than to "urse
the darkness.!
'n my first ten books ' ha$e tried to
light a "andle, or possibly two. 'n this,
the ele$enth book, ' am trying to eed
the lame.

RAC+ * -A,
Copper is this man,
A man of daytime white,
/ellow is that man,
And one of dark night. . .
-he four main "olours,
All known as Man,
-omorrow0s unity will "ome
orming the Ra"e of -an.
1oem by 2. A. de Munnik of
+dmonton, Alberta.

C%A1-+R *,+
-he more you know the more
you ha$e to learn.
-he letter was short, sharp, and $ery mu"h to the point.
.)ir,! it said, .why do you waste so mu"h paper in your books #
who likes to read these pretty3pretty des"riptions of -ibet4
-ell us instead how to win the 'rish )weepstake!. -he se"ond
one followed the theme $ery well. .Dear Dr. Rampa! wrote
this brash young person, .2hy do you waste so mu"h time
writing about the ,+5- life4 2hy not tell us how to make
money in this one4 ' want to know how to make money now.
' want to know how to make girls do what ' want now.
,e$er mind the ne6t life, '0m still trying to li$e this one.!
-he *ld Man put down the letter and sat ba"k shaking
his head sadly. .' "an write only in my own way,! he said, .'
am writing -R7-%, not fi"tion, so . . .!
og lay hea$y on the ri$er. -railing tendrils swirled and
billowed, redolent of sewage and garli" it swept yellow
feelers like a li$ing "reature seeking entry to any habitation.
rom the in$isible water "ame the urgent hoot of a tug,
followed by furious yells in the ren"h3Canadian patois.
*$erhead a dark red sun struggled to pier"e the odorous
gloom. -he *ld Man sitting in his wheel"hair peered dis3
gustedly around at the "lammy building. 2ater dripped
mournfully from some mouldering "on"rete wall. A $agrant
bree8e added a new dimension to the world of smells "on3
(ured up by the fog 3 de"aying fish3heads. .1ah9! muttered
the *ld Man, .2hat a "rummy dump9! 2ith that profound
thought, he propelled his "hair ba"k into the apartment and
hastily "losed the door.
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-he letter thumped through the letter3bo6. -he *ld Man
opened it and snorted. .,o water tonight,! he said, .no heat
either.! -hen, as an after3thought, .and it says that for some
hours there will be no ele"tri"ity be"ause some pipe or some3
thing has burst.!
.2rite another book! said the 1eople on the *ther )ide of
Life. )o the *ld Man and amily *ld Man went off in
sear"h of &uiet. ;uiet4 Blaring radios, rumbling hi3fi0s, and
yowling "hildren shrieking through the pla"e. ;uiet4
Gaping sight3seers peering in through windows, banging on
doors, demanding answers to stupid &uestions.
A dump where &uiet is not, a pad where nothing is done
without immense effort. A pipe leaks, one reports it. Mu"h
later a plumber arri$es to see it himself. %e reports it to his
superior, the Building )uperintendent. %+ "omes to see it
before reporting it to .the *ffi"e!. .-he *ffi"e! reports it to his
)uperior. %e gets on the telephone, a "onferen"e is held.
Mu"h later a de"ision is rea"hed. Ba"k it "omes from .Mon3
treal *ffi"e! to the )uperior who tells the Building )uper3
intendent who tells the plumber who tells the tenant that
.,e6t week, if we ha$e time, we will do it!
.A "rummy dump! is how one person des"ribed it. -he
*ld Man had no su"h deli"ate way of des"ribing the pla"e.
A"tions speak louder than words# long before his tenan"y
e6pired the *ld Man and amily left, before they died in
su"h s&ualid surroundings. 2ith (oy they returned to the
City of )aint <ohn and there, be"ause of the strains and
stresses in Montreal, the *ld Man0s "ondition rapidly wor3
sened until, $ery late at night, there was an urgent "all for an
ambulan"e, hospital . . .
-he gentle snow "ame sliding down like thoughts falling
from the hea$ens. A light dusting of white ga$e the illusion
of frosting on a Christmas "ake. *utside, the stained glass
window of the "athedral gleamed through the darkness and
shed $i$id greens and reds and yellows on the falling snow.
aintly "ame the sounds of the organ and the sonorous "hant
of human $oi"es. Louder, from right beneath the window,
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"ame the musi" of a tom"at ardently singing of his Lo$e.
-he hiss of braking tires on the snow3"lad road, the
metalli" "lang of "ar doors slamming and the shuffle of o$er3
shoe3"lad feet. A fresh "ongregation filing in to the e$ening
ser$i"e. Muttered greetings as old friends met, and passed.
-he solitary tolling of a tenor bell e6horting the tardy to
hurry. )ilen"e sa$e for the muted bu88 of distant traffi" in
the "ity. )ilen"e sa$e for the amorous tom"at singing his
song, pausing for a reply, and "ommen"ing all o$er again.
-hrough a broken pane of the "athedral window, smashed
by a teen3age $andal, "ame a glimpse of the robed priest in
solemn pro"ession, followed by swaying, (ostling "hoir boys
singing and giggling at the same time. -he sound of the
organ swelled and diminished. )oon "ame the drone of a
solitary $oi"e intoning an"ient prayers, the rumble of the
organ and again a glimpse of robed figures returning to the
$estry.
)oon there "ame the sound of many footsteps and the
slamming of "ar doors. -he sharp bark as engines "oughed
into life, the grating of gears and the whirring of wheels as
the "athedral traffi" mo$ed off for another night. 'n the
great building lights fli"ked off one by one until at last there
was only the pale moonlight shining down from a "loudless
sky. -he snow had "eased, the "ongregation had gone, and
e$en the an6ious tom"at had wandered off on the eternal
&uest.
'n the %ospital fa"ing on to the "athedral, the night staff
were (ust "oming on duty. At the ,urses0 )tation, (ust fa"ing
the ele$ators, a lone 'ntern was gi$ing last3minute instru"3
tions about the treatment of a $ery si"k patient. ,urses were
"he"king their trays of drugs and pills. )isters were writing
up their Reports, and a flustered Male *rderly was e6plain3
ing that he was late on duty through being stopped for
speeding by a poli"eman.
Gradually the %ospital settled down for the night. .,o
Breakfast! signs were fi6ed on the beds of patients due for
operations the ne6t day. Main lights were e6tinguished and
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white3"lad attendants mo$ed to a s"reened bed. )ilently a
wheeled stret"her was mo$ed behind the s"reens. Almost in3
audible grunts and muttered instru"tions, and a still figure
entirely "o$ered by a sheet was pushed into sight. *n whis3
pering wheels the burden was "arefully mo$ed into the "or3
ridor. )ilent attendants stood while the summoned ele$ator
slid to a stop, then, as if "ontrolled by a single thought, the
two men mo$ed in unison to propel the laden wheeled stret3
"her into the ele$ator and so down to the basement mor3
tuary and the great refrigerator standing like an immense
filing "abinet, the repository of so many bodies.
-he hours dragged by as ea"h relu"tant minute seemed
loathe to gi$e up its brief tenure of life. %ere a patient
breathed in stertorous gasps, there another tossed and
moaned in pain. rom a side "ubi"le "ame the "ra"ked $oi"e
of an aged man "alling in"essantly for his wife. -he faint
s&ueak of rubber soles on stone flooring, the rustle of
star"hed "loth, the "link of metal against glass, and the
moaning $oi"e "eased and soon was repla"ed by snores rising
and falling on the night air.
*utside the urgent siren of a fire engine "aused many a
sleepless patient to wonder briefly .where it was! before laps3
ing again into introspe"tion and fear for the future. -hrough
the slightly open window "ame the rau"ous sound of a late
re$eller being heartily si"k on the flagstones. A muttered
"urse as someone shouted at him, and a string of %ail Mary0s
as the al"ohol fumes made him ret"h again.
-he Angel of Death went about %is mer"iful mission,
bringing ease to a tortured sufferer, ending at last the useless
struggle of one ra$aged beyond hope by "an"er. -he ster3
torous gasps "eased, there was the &ui"k, painless refle6
twit"h as a soul left a body, and the attendants with their
whisper3wheeled stret"her mo$ed forward again, and, later,
yet again. %e, the last one was a man noted in politi"s. *n
the morrow the yellow press would dig in their files and
"ome up with the usual ina""ura"ies and downright lies?as
e$er.
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'n a room looking out o$er the "athedral "lose, and from
when"e a sparkling glimpse "ould be obtained of the sea in
Courtenay Bay, the old Buddhist lay inert, awake, in pain.
-hinking, thinking of many things. A faint smile fli"kered
on his lips and was as &ui"kly gone at the thought of an
in"ident early in the day. A nun had entered his room, a nun
more holy3looking than usual. )he looked sadly at the old
Buddhist and a tear glistened in the "orner of ea"h eye.
)adly she looked and turned away. .2hat is the matter,
)ister4! &ueried the old Buddhist, ./ou look $ery sad.!
)he shrugged her shoulders and e6"laimed, .*h9 't is sad,
you will go straight to %ell9! -he old Buddhist felt his
mouth drop open in ama8ement. .Go straight to %ell4! he
said, wonderinglyA .2hy!
.Be"ause you are a Buddhist, only Catholi"s go to %ea$en.
*ther Christians go to 1urgatory, Buddhists and other
heathens go straight to %ell. *h9 )u"h a ni"e old man as you
going straight to %ell, it is so sad9! %astily she fled the room,
lea$ing an ama8ed old Buddhist behind to pu88le it out.
-he Angel of Death mo$ed on, mo$ed into the room and
stood looking down at the old Buddhist. -he *ld Man
stared ba"k. .Release at last, eh4! he asked. .About time too. '
thought you would ne$er "ome.!
Gently the Angel of Death raised %is right hand and was
about to lay it on the head of the *ld Man. )uddenly the
$ery air of the room "ra"kled and a Golden igure appeared
in the blue gloom of the midnight shadows. -he Angel
stayed his hand at a gesture from the Bisitor. .,o, no, the
time is not yet9! e6"laimed a well3lo$ed $oi"e. .-here is more
to be done before you "ome %ome.!
-he *ld Man sighed. +$en the sight of the Lama Min3
gyar Dondup "ould not "onsole him for a further pro3
longation of his stay upon +arth, an +arth whi"h had
treated him so badly through hatred fostered and en3
"ouraged by the per$erted press. -he Lama Mingyar
Dondup turned to the *ld Man and e6plained, .-here is yet
another book to be written, more knowledge to be passed on.
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And a little task "onne"ted with auras and photographyA
<ust a little longer!
-he *ld Man groaned aloud. )o mu"h always to do, so
few to do it, su"h a "hroni" shortage of money?and how
"ould one pur"hase e&uipment without money4
-he Lama Mingyar Dondup stood beside the hospital
bed. %e and the Angel of Death looked at ea"h other and
mu"h telepathi" information was passed. -he Angel nodded
his head and slowly withdrew and passed on to "ontinue
elsewhere the work of mer"y, terminating suffering, setting
free immortal souls imprisoned in the "lay of the flesh body.
or a moment in that small hospital room there was no
sound. *utside there were the usual night noises, a stray dog
prowling about the garbage bins, an ambulan"e drawing in
to the +mergen"y +ntran"e of the hospital.
.Lobsang,! the Lama Mingyar Dondup looked down at
the *ld Man lying there in pain upon the hospital bed.
.Lobsang,! he said again, .in your ne6t book we want you to
make it $ery "lear that when you lea$e this +arth you will
not be "ommuni"ating with ba"k street Mediums, nor guid3
ing those who ad$ertise in the "ult maga8ines.!
.2hate$er do you mean, %onourable Guide4! said the
*ld Man. .' am not "ooperating with any Mediums or "ult
maga8ines. ' ne$er read the things myself.!
.,o, Lobsang, we know you do not, that is why ' am
telling you this. 'f you had been reading those maga8ines we
should not ha$e had to tell you, but there are "ertain un3
s"rupulous people who ad$ertise "onsultati$e ser$i"es, et".,
and pretend that they are in tou"h with those who ha$e
passed o$er. -hey are pretending that they are getting
ad$i"e and healing and all that from beyond this +arth
whi"h, of "ourse, is utterly ridi"ulous. 2e want to make it
$ery "lear that you are not in any way en"ouraging that
tri"kery or &ua"kery.!
-he *ld Man sighed with some "onsiderable e63
aspiration and replied, .,o, ' ne$er read any of those
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maga8ines, neither +nglish nor Ameri"an. ' "onsider they do
more harm than good. -hey a""ept misleading ad$ertising,
and mu"h of it is dangerous, and they ha$e su"h personal
bias and su"h personal dislike of anyone not in their own
little "li&ue that they a"tually harm what they pretend they
are helping. )o ' will do as you say, ' will make "lear that
when ' lea$e this +arth ' shall not return.!
Reader, *h, you most dis"erning of people, may ' ha$e
your attention for a moment4 'n fulfilment of my promise '
want to say thisA ', -uesday Lobsang Rampa, do hereby
solemnly and irre$o"ably state that ' shall not return to this
+arth and a"t as a "onsultant for anyone who "laims that '
am so a"ting, nor shall ' appear at any mediumisti" group. '
ha$e other work to do, ' shall not ha$e time to play about
with these things whi"h ' personally dislike. )o, Reader, if
you see any ad$ertisement at any time whi"h purports to
imply that su"h3and3su"h a person is in spiritual "onta"t
with Lobsang Rampa, "all the 1oli"e, "all the 1ost *ffi"e
authorities and ha$e the person arrested for fraud, for trying
to use the mails, et"., for fraudulent purposes. ', when ' ha$e
finished with this +arth in this life, am mo$ing on a long,
long way. )o there it is, ' ha$e deli$ered that spe"ial mes3
sage.
Ba"k in the green3tinted hospital room with a window
looking out o$er the "athedral and with its glimpse of the
waters in Courtenay Bay, the Lama Mingyar Dondup was
stating what was re&uired.
.-his, your ele$enth book,! said the Lama, .should gi$e
answers to many of the &uestions you ha$e re"ei$ed, &ues3
tions whi"h are (ust and reasonable. /ou ha$e lit the flame
of knowledge, and now in this book you need to feed the
flame that it may get a hold on peoples0 minds and spread.!
%e looked gra$e and &uite a bit sorrowful as he went on, .'
know you suffer greatly. ' know that you will be dis"harged
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from this hospital as in"urable, as inoperable, and with little
time to li$e, but you still ha$e time to do one or two tasks
whi"h ha$e been negle"ted by others!
-he *ld Man listened "arefully, thinking how unfair it
was that some people should ha$e all the health and all the
money, they "ould do anything and get on with their own
tasks in the easiest "onditions possible, whereas he had
suffering, "ontinuous perse"ution and hatred from the press,
and shortage of money. %e thought how sad it was that
there was no Medi"are in this 1ro$in"e and how e6pensi$e
medi"al bills were.
or some time the two, the *ld Man and the Lama Min3
gyar Dondup, talked as old friends will, talked of the past,
laughed o$er many in"idents whi"h were not funny at the
time they o""urred but were most amusing in retrospe"t.
-hen at last there was a shuffling of footsteps as a night
orderly went about his duties. -he Lama Mingyar Dondup
bade a hasty farewell and the golden light faded, and the
bare hospital room was on"e again in the blue gloom of early
morning.
-he door was pushed open and a white3"lad orderly (ust
mo$ed in with his flashlight forming a pool of light round
about his feet. %e listened to the sound of breathing, and
then &uietly withdrew and went on about his rounds. rom
a"ross the "orridor "ame the uproar and "ries as the aged
man in"essantly "alled for his wife. Another $oi"e farther
down the "orridor broke in with a torrent of A$e Maria0s
endlessly repeated, monotonously repeated, reminding the
*ld Man of some of the almost mindless monks who re3
peated *m Mani 1adme %um in"essantly without a
thought as to what it a"tually meant.
rom somewhere far away a "lo"k stru"k the hours, one,
two, three. -he *ld Man tossed restlessly, the pain was
a"ute and made more a"ute by the strain through whi"h he
had (ust gone. *n the day before he had had a total "ollapse,
and e$en in a hospital a total "ollapse is a matter of some
"on"ern. -hree o0"lo"k. -he night was long. rom some3
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where out in the Bay of undy a tug boat hooted as it and
some others went out to bring in an oil ship waiting to berth
by the oil refinery.
A shooting star hurtled a"ross the hea$ens lea$ing a glow3
ing trail behind it. rom the "athedral tower an owl hooted,
and then, as if suddenly ashamed of the noise he was
making, emitted a s&uawk of fright and flapped off a"ross
the "ity.
our o0"lo"k and the night was dark. -here was no moon
now, but suddenly the shaft of a sear"hlight wa$ered a"ross
the Bay and "ame to rest on a small fishing boat whi"h prob3
ably was fishing for lobsters. -he light snapped off and into
sight "ame a tug towing a $ery large oil ship. )lowly they
ploughed through the turgid waters of Courtenay Bay,
slowly the bright red light on the port side of the oil ship
"ame into $iew and mo$ed a"ross the field of $ision, to be
hidden behind the *ld 1eoples0 %ome standing "lose.
*utside in the "orridor there was sudden hushed "om3
motion, whispering $oi"es, the sound of "ontrolled hurry.
-hen a new $oi"e, an 'ntern hurriedly roused from his bed.
/es, an emergen"y and the need for an immediate operation.
;ui"kly the orderly on duty and a nurse got the patient on to
the wheeled stret"her, &ui"kly it was hustled past the doors
and down in the ele$ator to the operating area two floors
below. or some minutes there were whispering $oi"es and
the rustling of star"hed "lothes. -hen all noise stopped
again.
i$e o0"lo"k. -he *ld Man started. )omeone was stand3
ing beside him, a white3"lad orderly. Brightly he said, .' (ust
thought '0d tell you there0s no breakfast for you this morn3
ing. ,othing to drink either.! )miling to himself he turned
and walked out of the room. -he *ld Man lay there mar3
$elling at the "rass idioti" stupidity whi"h made it ne"essary
to awaken a patient who had (ust gone to sleep, awaken him
that he "ould be told there was no breakfast for him9
*ne of the most frustrating things is lying in a hospital
bed, hungry and thirsty, and ha$ing (ust outside one0s open
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door an immense "ontraption stuffed with food 3 ready pre3
pared breakfasts for e$ery patient who "ould ha$e breakfast
on that parti"ular floor. But the *ld Man glan"ed to his
right and there it was, .,o Breakfast!, plain as "ould be. %e
stret"hed out his hand for a drink of water, but?no, no
water either. ,othing to eat, nothing to drink. *thers were
ha$ing their breakfast# there was a "latter of dishes and the
noise of trays being dropped and slammed around. +$entu3
ally the turmoil "eased and the hospital was setting about its
ordinary morning business, people to go to the -heatre,
where they wouldn0t see a good show either, people to go to
53ray, people to go to 1athology, and the lu"ky ones to go
home. 1erhaps the lu"kiest ones of all were those who had
passed o$er to one0s .true %ome.!
-he *ld Man lay ba"k in his bed and thought of the
pleasures of passing o$er. -he only diffi"ulty is that when
one is dying it is usually the physi"al breakdown of some
part 3 some portion of one0s anatomy has been in$aded by a
dread disease, for instan"e, or something is being poisoned.
,aturally, that "auses pain. But dying itself is painless, there
is nothing to fear in dying. As one is about to die there "omes
an inner pea"e, one gets a sense of satisfa"tion knowing that
at last the long day has ended, work has "eased, one0s task
has either been done, or, for the time being it is being sus3
pended. *ne has the knowledge that one is .going %ome.!
Going %ome to where one0s "apa"ities will be assessed and
where one0s spiritual health will be built up.
't0s a pleasant sensation really. *ne is ill, one is in the last
stages, pain suddenly "eases to be a"ute and there is a numb3
ness followed &uite speedily by a feeling of well3being, a
feeling of euphoria. -hen one be"omes aware that the
physi"al world is dimming and the astral world is brighten3
ing. 't is like looking at a tele$ision s"reen in the darkness#
the pi"ture is darkening, there is nothing to distra"t from the
pi"ture on the tele$ision s"reen if e$erything else is in dark3
ness. -hat tele$ision s"reen represents the life on +arth, but
let the dawn "ome, let the rays of the sun "ome shining in the
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window to impinge on the tele$ision s"reen, and the bright3
ness of the sun will make the tele$ision pi"ture disappear
from our sight. -he sunlight represents the astral day.
)o the physi"al world whi"h we term .+arth! fades away.
1eople look faint, their images look faint, they look like
shadows, and the "olours of the +arth disappear and the
+arth be"omes peopled with gray phantoms. -he sky, e$en
on the brightest day, turns purple, and as one0s sight on the
+arth fades one0s sight in the astral brightens. About the
deathbed we see helpers, kind people, those who are going to
help us to be reborn into the astral world. 2e had attention
when we were born into the world whi"h we "all +arth,
perhaps a do"tor, perhaps a midwife, perhaps e$en a ta6i
dri$er. ,o matter who, it was someone to help. But waiting
for us to deli$er us on to the *ther )ide are highly e6peri3
en"ed people, highly trained people, people who are "om3
pletely understanding, "ompletely sympatheti".
*n +arth we ha$e had a hard time, a sho"king time.
+arth is %ell, you know. 2e ha$e to go to .%ell! for all sorts
of things. A lot of "hildren think s"hool is %ell too. +arth is
the s"hool of wayward humans. )o, we are in a shaken "on3
dition, and most people fear death, they fear the pain, they
fear the mystery, they fear be"ause they do not know what is
to happen. -hey fear they are going to fa"e some wrathful
God who will sti"k a hay3fork into some part of their anat3
omy and toss them straight down to old )atan who will ha$e
the branding irons all ready.
But all that is rubbish. -here is no su"h thing as a wrath3
ful God. 'f we are to lo$e God then we ha$e to lo$e a kind
and understanding God. -alk of fearing God is nonsense, it
is "riminal. 2hy should we fear one who lo$es us4 Do you
fear a really kind and understanding father4 Do you fear a
really kind and understanding mother4 ,ot if you are sane.
-hen why fear God4 -here is a God, $ery definitely there is
a God, a kind God. But, ba"k to our deathbed.
-he body is upon the bed, the sight has (ust failed.
1erhaps the breath is still struggling in the "hest. At last that
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too fades, "eases and be"omes no more. -here is a twit"h
whi"h (ournalists would probably "all a "on$ulsi$e shudder
of agony. 't0s nothing of the kind. 't0s painless, or, to be more
a""urate, it is a pleasurable sensation. 't0s like shrugging out
of a "old and "lammy suit of "lothes and being able to get
the warm air and sunlight on one0s body. -here is this "on3
$ulsi$e (erk, and then the astral body soars upwards. -he
feeling is indes"ribable. Can one imagine what it is like to be
swimming in "hampagne with all the little bubbles bounding
against one0s body4 2hat is the most pleasurable holiday
you ha$e had4 %a$e you been on the sands somewhere, (ust
la8ing away with the sunlight pouring upon you and the
sounds of the wa$es in your ears, and a gentle s"ented bree8e
ruffling your hair4 2ell, that0s "rude, that0s nothing "om3
pared to the reality. -here is nothing whi"h "an des"ribe the
pure e"stasy of lea$ing the body and .going %ome!.
-he *ld Man thought of these things, del$ed ba"k in his
memories, and knowing what was and what was to be, the
day was passed, the day was endured would perhaps be a
better statement, and soon night "ame again. 'n this hospital
there were no $isitors, no $isitors at all. An epidemi" in the
whole area had "aused all the hospitals to be "losed to $isi3
tors, so patients were on their own. -hose in publi" wards
"ould talk to ea"h other. -hose who were in rooms alone,
stayed alone 3 and it was (olly good for meditation, too
At last, a day or two later 3 it seemed an eternity?the *ld
Man was sent home. ,othing "ould be done, no "ure, no
operation, no hope. And so he de"ided to do as re&uested by
those knowledgeable people on the *ther )ide of life, write
the ele$enth book. And it is going to be answering people0s
&uestions.
or se$eral months past the *ld Man had been "arefully
"ombing the forty or so letters whi"h arri$ed e$ery day, and
pi"king out those whi"h had &uestions whi"h seemed to be of
most general interest. %e wrote to a number of people in
different "ountries suggesting that they should do a list of
&uestions they wanted answered, and some $ery good friends
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were made. 2e must not forget our old friend, Mrs. Baleria
)oro"k, but the *ld Man wants to thank in parti"ular these
for pro$iding &uestions whi"h will be answered in this
bookA
Mrs. and Miss ,ewman.
Mr. and Mrs. ./eti! -hompson.
Mr. de Munnik.
Mrs. Rodeha$er.
Mrs. Ruby )immons.
Miss Betty <essee.
Mr. Gray Bergin.
Mr. and Mrs. %anns C8ermak.
Mr. <ames Dodd.
Mrs. 1ien.
Mrs. Ban Ash.
Mr. <ohn %enderson.
Mrs. Lilias Cuthbert.
Mr. Da$id *0Connor.
-he 2orstmann Ladies.
)o the *ld Man was sent home. .)ent home.! )imple
little words, probably it means nothing to the a$erage
person, but to one who has ne$er had a home until fairly
re"ently, until fairly late in life, it means &uite a thing. .)ent
home! 3 well, it means being with lo$ed ones in familiar
surroundings where sorrows are not so great, sorrows shared
are sorrows hal$ed or &uartered. )o, the *ld Man was sent
home. Miss Cleopatra and Miss -adalinka were there with
their most serious manners to see what sort of strange "rea3
ture "ame ba"k from the hospital. -here was mu"h wrinkling
of noses, mu"h hard sniffing. %ospital smells are strange
smells, and how was it that the *ld Man was still in one
pie"e instead of ha$ing lumps "ut off4 %e still had two arms
and legs, of "ourse he hadn0t a tail but he didn0t ha$e one
before. )o Miss Cleopatra and Miss -adalinka inspe"ted
him most gra$ely and then "ame to a de"ision. .' know,! said
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Miss Cleopatra, .' know e6a"tly what has happened. %e has
"ome ba"k to finish the book Ieeding the lameJ before he
is taken off to feed the flame at the lo"al "rematorium.
-hat0s going to "ome as sure as eggs is eggs.!
Miss, -adalinka looked $ery gra$e indeed, ./es,! she said,
.but if he loses any more weight there won0t be anything
with whi"h to feed the flames. ' think they must ha$e star3
$ed him. ' wonder if we should gi$e him some of our
food.!
Miss Cleopatra (umped on the *ld Man0s "hest and
sniffed around, sniffed his beard, sniffed his ears, and had a
good sniff of his mouth. .' think he0s underfed, -ad,! she
said. .' think we shall ha$e to ha$e a word with Ma to get
him stuffed up a bit with food to fill out all those hollows.!
But no matter what Miss Cleopatra said, no matter what
Miss -adalinka said, no matter how good Ma0s intentions, the
*ld Man was on a diet for the rest of his life, a miserable,
horrifying diet, hardly enough to keep body and soul
together.
Miss -adalinka rushed under the bed to Miss Cleopatra,
.)ay Clee,! she yelled, .you know something4 '0$e (ust heard
them talking, he0s losing a pound a day, so that means that in
two hundred and se$enty days he won0t weigh anything at
all.!
Both "ats sat there thinking about it, and then Miss Cleo3
patra nodded her head $ery wisely, with all the wisdom and
saga"ity whi"h "omes to a Little Girl Cat four years of age.
.Ah yes,! she e6"laimed, .but you0$e forgotten one thing,
-addy. -he hungrier he is, the si"ker he is, the more
"lair$oyant he be"omes. )oon he0ll be seeing things before it
happens.!
.1hooey to that9! said Miss -adalinka, .he does already.
Look at the telepathi" messages he sent us from the hospital.
)till, it0s good preparation for the start of his book. ' think
we0d better help him all we "an.!
-he radiator was &uite warm and both little "ats (umped
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up to the sill abo$e the radiators. -here they stret"hed out
full length, head to tail, and went into the usual state of
introspe"tion before "ommuni"ating all the thoughts of the
day to the lo"al "ats. -he *ld Man4 2ell, the *ld Man was
glad to get in bed. %e lay ba"k for a time and thought, .-his
wret"hed book, suppose ' ha$e to write it. ' ha$e to li$e and
e$en if ' don0t eat mu"h nowadays ' ha$e to pay for what '
do eat. )o, on the morrow, he de"ided, let!s start this book
with the hope that it would be finished, and here it is. 't0s
started, you are reading the first "hapter, aren0t you4
;uite a lot of people ha$e written asking things, asking all
manner of &uestions. 2ell, it would be a good idea if this
book were de$oted to answering what appear to be "ommon
&uestions. 1eople ha$e a right to know, otherwise they get
weird ideas su"h as those who think that death is a terrible
thing, su"h as those who think there is no after3life. 2ell, it
always amuses me when people say there is no after3life (ust
be"ause they don0t know about it. 'n the same way a person
li$ing in a remote "ountry area "an say there is no London,
no ,ew /ork, no Buenos Aires be"ause they ha$en0t a"tually
seen it. After all, pi"tures "an be faked, ' ha$e seen a lot of
faked pi"tures about life on the *ther )ide, and that is &uite
a pity. -here is a $ery, $ery good .*ther )ide!, and it is the
depth of absurdity when "rooks and per$erted .seers! produ"e
a lot of faked stuff. 't0s so easy to produ"e the a"tual reality,
easier in fa"t.
' had hoped to get on with the aura resear"h. 7n3
fortunately ' ha$e had to lea$e it through la"k of money,
and now?well?there is no medi"al health s"heme here,
not like in +ngland, and e$erything is frightfully e6pensi$e.
)o the aura work will ha$e to be left for others.
-here is another pro(e"t whi"h ' wanted to de$elop and it
is thisA it is absolutely possible to make a de$i"e whi"h will
enable one to .telephone! the astral world. 't has a"tually
been done, but the man who did it had su"h a barrage of
doubts, suspi"ions, and a""usations from the press that he
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got tired of it, he lost heart, and dri$en by the insane press
he smashed his apparatus and "ommitted sui"ide.
't is &uite possible to make a telephone with whi"h to
telephone, the astral world. Consider spee"h now# when we
speak we "ause a $ibration whi"h imparts its energy to a
"olumn of air, whi"h in turn energi8es some re"ei$ing appar3
atus, for e6ample, someone0s ear, and so they hear the sounds
we make. 't is interpreted as spee"h. ,o one has e$er yet
su""eeded in standing atop a radio mast and shouting to the
world, and being heard all o$er the world. or that the $i3
brations are transformed into a different form of energy and
messages spoken and transformed into this energy "an be
heard, with suitable apparatus, all o$er the world. ' listen to
+ngland, <apan, Australia, Germany?e$erywhere. ' ha$e
e$en heard little Ameri"a in the )outh Antar"ti".
A de$i"e to telephone the astral is something like that. 't
transforms present day radio wa$es into something in"om3
parably higher (ust as radio wa$es in turn are $ery mu"h
higher in fre&uen"y than is spee"h.
'n days to "ome people will be able to telephone those
who ha$e newly passed o$er in mu"h the same way as a
person "an now telephone a hospital and, if he is lu"ky and
the nurse is feeling good tempered, "an speak to a patient
who is re"o$ering from an operation. )o it will be that those
who ha$e newly passed o$er and are re"uperating from the
strain of passing o$er, (ust as a mother and baby re"uperate
from birth strains, so while this re"uperation pro"ess is
taking pla"e relati$es "an telephone a re"eption area and
find out .how the patient is doing!. ,aturally, when .the
patient! is &uite re"o$ered and has gone to yet other dim3
ensions he or she will be too busy to be bothered by the petty
little affairs of this +arth.
-his +arth is (ust a spe"k of dust e6isting for the twinkle
of an eye in what is the real time.
or those who are interested, ' ha$e a"tually seen su"h a
telephone and a"tually seen it in use. 't0s a pity that the idiot
press is not sub(e"t to "ensorship be"ause they should not be
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permitted to take foolish a"tions (ust for the sake of sen3
sation, and so inhibit what are real de$elopments.
)o now let us "onsider this as a start, and the ending of the
first "hapter. 2e will go on together and see what we "an do
to answer some &uestions in the se"ond.
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C%A1-+R -2*
,e$er reply to "riti"ism#
to do so is to weaken your "ase.

-he *ld Man was alone at home. Ma, Butter"up, Miss
Cleopatra and Miss -adalinka were out about the ordinary
business whi"h seems to surround all households, out shop3
ping, be"ause e$en in the best ordered "ommunities there is
always the ine$itable shopping. 1otatoes, soap flakes, $arious
other things in"luding?well, let us whisper it?un3
mentionable re&uisites without whi"h in modern days we
"annot easily manage. )o the *ld Man was lying ba"k in his
bed listening to the radio.
Re"eption was good. -he program was "oming along
on the Afri"an )er$i"e of the B.B.C. $ery "learly and with
good $olume. )omeone was playing the new musi"al hits.
-he *ld Man smiled at one pie"e with the unlikely title of
.Astral <ourney!. %e had to stop his program be"ause the
telephone was ringing, the telephone beside his bed.
2ith that disposed of, he swit"hed on again in time to
hear one of the latest hits. An announ"er of the B.B.C., or
dis" (o"key, or whate$er he was, announ"ed in a de"idedly
Co"kney $oi"e that he was (ust going to put on the latest
re"ord, .2ithout the ,ight -here 2ould be no )unshine!.
2ithout the night there would be no sunshine. Did the
fellow know that he uttered a great truth there4 *ne has to
ha$e e6tremes in order to ha$e anything. )ometimes from
the 7.).A., parti"ularly on a )unday, there "omes by way of
the short wa$es a horrible program sent out by some gang
of re$i$alist missionaries. -he uproar, the ranting, is enough
to turn anyone against Christianity. And then from a )tation
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in )outh Ameri"a (ust by the +&uator there is another re3
ligious re$i$al gang, they fairly hoot about the terrors of not
being a Christian. +$eryone not a Christian a""ording to this
)tation, is damned and will go to %ell. )urely not the way to
"ondu"t a sane religion.
2ithout the night there "an be no sunshine# without e$il
there "an be no good# without )atan there "an be no God#
without "old there "an be no heat. 2ithout e6tremes, how
"an there be anything4 'f there were no e6tremes there
would be only a stati" "ondition. -hink of when you
breathe, you for"e out your breath, that is one e6treme be3
"ause to all pra"ti"al purposes you ha$e no breath within
you and you are in danger of suffo"ating. -hen you take in
breath and you ha$e a lot of air in you, and if you take in too
mu"h breath too &ui"kly you are in danger through hyper3
$entilation. But again, if you do not breathe out and you
do not breathe in, then you ha$e nothing and you "an0t
li$e.
)ome remarkably foolish person in ,o$a )"otia sent me a
silly, badly dupli"ated, purplish effusion about sinners and
)atan. Apparently the idea was that ' should send them
some money as that would help wipe out )atan. 2ipe out
)atan4 1erhaps they were going to get some of the latest
detergents and spread it on a new floor "loth, or something,
and try to rub out old )atan that way. Anyway all that
garbage went where it should go?in the garbage.
-here must be negati$e or there "annot be positi$e. -here
must be opposites or there is no motion. +$erything that
e6ists has motion. ,ight gi$es way to day, day gi$es way to
night# summer gi$es way to winter, winter gi$es way to
summer, and so on. -here (ust has to be motion, there (ust
ha$e to be e6tremes. 't0s not bad to ha$e e6tremes, it (ust
means that two points are separated from ea"h other as far
as they "an be. )o, good old )atan, keep him going for a time
be"ause without )atan there "ould be no God, without God
there "ould be no )atan be"ause there wouldn0t be any
humans either. -he worst .)atan! is the awful dri$eller who
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tries to ram some religion down the throat of a person of
another religion. ' am a Buddhist, and ' definitely resent all
the stupid "reeps who send me Bibles, ,ew -estaments, *ld
-estaments, pretty pi"tures, purely imaginary of "ourse Kor
should it be .impurely!4L of Cru"ifi6ions, et"., et"., ad lib, ad
nauseam. ' am a Buddhist. All right, ' am an e6treme from
Christianity, but Christians are e6treme from me as a Bud3
dhist. ' do not try to get any "on$erts to Buddhism, in fa"t a
$ast number of people write and ask me if they "an be"ome
Buddhists, and my in$ariable answer is that they should
remain affiliated with the religion to whi"h they were born
unless there is some great, great o$erriding "ondition or "ir3
"umstan"e.
' do not like people who "hange their religion (ust be"ause
it is .the done thing!, or the newest thing, or be"ause they
want a thrill and ha$e people point them out saying, .Look,
he0s a Buddhist9!
But without the darkness there "an be no sunshine. /es,
Mr. Announ"er with the Co"kney $oi"e, you "ertainly said a
great truth there. Don0t let0s perse"ute old )atan so mu"h,
he0s got to li$e otherwise there is no standard of "omparison,
is there4 'f there was no talk of )atan, how would you (udge
good4 'f there was no bad there "ould be no good. *b$iously
not, be"ause there would be no standard of "omparison, be3
"ause one must be able to "ompare 5 with /, then we ha$e
good and bad (ust as in 7.).A. and Canada, it seems, there
ha$e to be .good guys! and .bad guys!. -he good guys are
always the red3blooded he3men, all Ameri"an with '$y
League suits and the 1epsodent smile, whereas the bad guy is
automati"ally the poor 'ndian who was swindled out of his
"ountry with a lot of spe"ious promises. But think of the
tele$ision program, wouldn0t it be dull if there were no
good guys who "ould fight against the bad guys, or if there
were no bad guys who "ould show how good the good guys
really were4 )o, to all you people who write in and say don0t
' think )atan should be bumped off or rubbed out or e63
"ommuni"ated or sent to Russia, or something, let me say
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now?,o, ' think )atan is a good guy in that he pro$ides a
fall guy for good, he pro$ides a standard against whi"h we
"an measure good. )o let0s drink a toast to )atan, but (ust for
lu"k let0s ha$e some sulphuri" a"id and brimstone in a glass
and tip it upside down, it0s safer that way.
-he *ld Man groaned as he unfolded the letter, .' wrote
to +ngland for a -ou"h )tone,! he read, .four weeks it was
and ' sent them the money, but ' ha$en0t had an answer. '
think ' am being swindled.!
-he *ld Man groaned aloud. -hen he looked at the en3
$elope and groaned again. irst of all the *ld Man is not in
any way "onne"ted or interested in any business "on"ern or
$enture. )ometimes a firm will bran"h out and "laim that it
is asso"iated with Lobsang Rampa, et"., et". -here is only
one "ase, and that is with a firm in +ngland. -hey ha$e
permission to use the name of -he Rampa -ou"h )tone
Company. But, again, the *ld Man wants to make it $ery,
$ery "lear that he is not "onne"ted with nor interested in any
business enterprise. -here is one firm with whom the *ld
Man is e6traordinarily displeased be"ause they ad$ertise a
mail order "ompany using the name of the *ld Man0s first
book, entirely without his permission, definitely with his dis3
appro$al.
)o, there it is, that0s business for you.
But the *ld Man groaned as he looked at the en$elope,
and he groaned be"ause neither on the en$elope nor on the
letter was there any address. 'n the 7.).A. and Canada
people sometimes put their name and address on the en3
$elope but rarely on the letter where it should be. 'n +ng3
land and +urope the letter sheet itself bears the name and
address of the sender, and so one "an always reply to letters
from +ngland and +urope, yet this parti"ular person groan3
ing so bitterly and so libellously about being swindled had no
address to whi"h one "ould reply. 2hat should one do then4
-he signature was (ust .Mabel!, nothing else, no surname, no
address, and the postmark 3 well, that "ould not be read
e$en with a magnifying glass. )o you people who "omplain
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that you ha$e had no reply who "omplain that you are
being swindled, ask yourself?Did you really put your
address on the letter or on the en$elope4
A little time ago we had a letter and we "ouldn0t read a
single word of it. 1robably it was in +nglish, but we (ust
"ouldn0t read any part of it, so it had to go unanswered. -he
purpose of a letter is to make something known, and if the
writing "annot be read the letter fails in its purpose, and if
there is no address on it, well, it is (ust a waste of time.
-he *ld Man listening to his programme# the *$erseas
1rogramme of the B.B.C., pondered upon sounds. A few
years ba"k musi" was a $ery pleasant thing, a soothing thing
or a rousing thing, but now 3 what has happened to the
world4 -he stuff that is "oming from +ngland is like a horde
of tom"ats with their tails tied together. 't isn0t musi", ' don0t
know what it is. But sounds, well, different sounds are
pe"uliar to different "ultures. 1eople ha$e "ertain sounds
whi"h are alleged to do them good, su"h as the sound of
.*M! "orre"tly pronoun"ed. /et there are other sounds
whi"h are not so"ially a""eptable. -he sounds of "ertain four
letter words, for e6ample, are not so"ially a""eptable, and
yet perhaps those same sounds are absolutely permissible in
the language of another "ulture. -here is a "ertain four letter
sound whi"h is naughty, naughty, $ery naughty indeed in
+nglish, and yet the sound in Russian is perfe"tly "orre"t,
perfe"tly de"ent, and used many, many times a day.
Do not pla"e too great a relian"e on sounds. Many people
get almost demented wondering if they are pronoun"ing
.*M! "orre"tly. *f itself .*M! is nothing, it doesn0t mean a
thing ? of itself, not e$en if you pronoun"e it as it should be
pronoun"ed in )anskrit. 't is useless to pronoun"e a .meta3
physi"al word of power! "orre"tly unless you also think "or3
re"tly.
Consider this# think of your radio programme. /ou ha$e
"ertain sounds whi"h, of themsel$es, "annot be transmitted.
-hose sounds "an only be transmitted if first of all you ha$e
a "arrier wa$e. A "arrier wa$e is similar to the light you ha$e
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to show before you "an transmit a "ine pi"ture or a tele$ision
pi"ture, or show your slides on a s"reen. -he slides them3
sel$es, without light, are nothing. /ou ha$e to ha$e a light
beam as a "arrier, and in pre"isely the same way you ha$e to
ha$e a "arrier wa$e before you "an transmit your radio pro3
gramme.
Again, in e6a"tly the same way the sound of .*M!, et"., or
some other .word of power! merely a"ts as a "arrier wa$e to
"orre"t thoughts.
Do you want it made "learer4 All right. )uppose we
made a phonograph re"ord whi"h had nothing but .*M!
"orre"tly pronoun"ed, *M, *M, *M, *M, *M, you
"ould play that re"ord for e$er and a day pro$ided it did not
wear out first, and you (ust wouldn0t do any good be"ause
the phonograph player, or gramophone, if you happen to be
in +ngland, is an unthinking ma"hine. *M is useful only
when one is thinking "orre"tly as well as .sounding! "or3
re"tly. -he best way to impro$e is to get one0s thoughts right
and let the sound take "are of itself.
)ounds9 2hat a powerful thing a sound "an be. 't "an add
impetus to one0s thoughts. Musi", good musi", "an stir one
and lift one up spiritually. 't "an lead one to a greater belief
in the honesty of one0s fellows. )urely that is a most desirable
attainment in itself. But musi" spe"ially designed "an make a
rabble into a warlike army. Mar"hing songs "an help one
mar"h "orre"tly and with less effortA But now 3 what0s hap3
pened to the world4 2hat0s all this stuff worse than (a88,
worse than ro"k 0n0 roll4 2hat0s happened that young
people are trying to dri$e themsel$es "ra8ier with dis"ordant
"a"ophony whi"h seems to be designed to bring out all the
worst in them, dri$e them to drug addi"tion, dri$e them to
per$ersions, and all the rest of it. -hat0s what happens, you
know.
1eople sub(e"ted to the wrong sound "an ha$e a longing
for drugs. Drinking songs "an make people desire to drink
more, some of the old German biergarten songs were mu"h
the same as salted nuts pro$ided, apparently, by some bars to
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in"rease the thirst and enable one to drink more to the
greater glory of the publi"ans! in"ome.
,ow there are wars, re$olutions, and hatreds and dis3
turban"es all o$er the world. Man fights against Man, and
things will get mu"h worse before they get mu"h better.
)ounds, bad sounds, "ause it. )"reaming, ranting agitators
rousing the worst thoughts in the rabble (ust as %itler, a
most gifted but distorted orator, was able to rouse normally
staid, sensible Germans to a fren8y, to an orgy of destru"tion
and sa$agery. 'f only we "ould "hange the world by elimin3
ating all the dis"ordant musi", all the dis"ordant $oi"es who
prea"h hate, hate, hate. 'f only people would think lo$e and
kindness and "onsideration for others. -here is no need for
things to go on as they are. 't needs (ust a few determined
people of pure thought to produ"e those ne"essary sounds in
musi" and in spee"h as would enable our poor sorely stri"ken
world to regain some semblan"e of sanity instead of all the
$andalism and (u$enile delin&uen"y whi"h assails us daily.
-hen, too, there should be some "ensorship of the press for
the press always, almost without e6"eption, stri$es to make
things appear more sensational, more bloodthirsty, more
horrendous than really is the "ase.
2hy not all of us ha$e a period of meditation, thinking
good thoughts, thinking and also saying good thoughts4 't0s
so easy be"ause the power of sound "ontrols the thoughts of
many people. )ound, pro$ided it has a thought behind it.
-he *ld Man lay ba"k in his bed, the poor fellow had no
"hoi"e. Miss Cleopatra was lying on his "hest with her head
nestling in his beard, purring "ontentedly she ga8ed up with
the bluest of blue eyes. Miss Cleopatra Rampa, the most
intelligent of people, the most lo$ing and unselfish of people,
(ust a little animal to most people, although an e6"eptionally
beautiful animal. -o the *ld Man this was a definite, intelli3
gent 1erson, a 1erson who had "ome to this +arth to do a
spe"ifi" task and who was doing it nobly and with entire
su""ess. A 1erson with whom the *ld Man had long tele3
pathi" "on$ersations, and he learned mu"h from her.
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'n the ele"tri" wheel "hair Miss -adalinka Rampa was
"urled up snoring away, e$ery so often her whiskers would
twit"h and her eyes would roll beneath her "losed eyelids.
-addy was a most affe"tionate 1erson, and -addy lo$ed
"omfort, "omfort and food were -addy0s main pre3
o""upations, and yet -addy earned her food and her
"omfort. -addy, the most telepathi" of "ats, did her share in
keeping in tou"h with $arious parts of the world.
-here "ame a light tap at the door and riendly ,eigh3
bour "ame in and plonked a solid behind with a resounding
.thwa"k! upon a seat whi"h seemed inade&uate to "ontain
su"h bulk. .Lo$e your "ats, don0t you Gu$4! said riendly
,eighbour with a smile.
.Lo$e them4 Good gra"ious, yes9 ' regard them as my
"hildren, and as remarkably intelligent "hildren at that.
-hese "ats do more for me than humans.!
By now -adalinka was alert, sitting up ready to growl,
ready to atta"k if ne"essary be"ause both little "ats "an be
$ery, $ery fier"e indeed in defen"e of what they regard as
their responsibilities. At one apartment a man had tried to
enter at night. Both "ats had rushed to the door and nearly
s"ared ten years of growth on to the poor fellow, be"ause a
)iamese "at in a fury is &uite a frightening sight. -hey puff
out, e$ery hair of their fur stands straight out at right angles
to the body, their tails fluff out, they stand on tiptoe and
they look like something out of the inferno. -hey should not
be "alled "ats really be"ause they are unlike "ats. -hey roar,
growl and fume, and nothing is too dangerous for a )iamese
"at prote"ting a person or property. -here are many legends
about prote"ting by )iamese "ats, many legends originating
in the +ast about how this or that )iamese "at prote"ted
important people or si"k people. But?enough. ,o one else
tried to enter our apartment without our knowledge, the
story of .the fier"e Rampa "ats! went the round, and people
are more frightened of wild )iamese "ats than they are of
mad dogs, it seems.
)o it was, or, should it be, now it is, that now with the *ld
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Man so disabled the two little "ats are e$er alert to rush to
his defen"e.
*h yes, among our &uestions, here is a &uestion from a
lady who asks about animals. 2here is it now4 Ah, here9
.Can you tell us what happens to our pets when they lea$e
this +arth4 Are they utterly destroyed, or do they e$entually
rein"arnate as humans4 -he Bible tells us that only humans
go to %ea$en. 2hat ha$e you to say about it4!
Madam, ' ha$e a lot to say about it. -he Bible was written
a long time after the e$ents related happened, the Bible is
not the original 2ritings either. 't is a translation of a trans3
lation of a translation of another translation whi"h had been
re3translated to suit some king or some politi"al power, or
something else. -hink of the Ming <ames +dition, or this
+dition or that +dition. A lot of things written in the Bible
are bunk. ,o doubt there was a lot of truth in the original
)"riptures, but a lot of things in the Bible now are no more
truth than the truth of the press, and anyone knows what a
lot of bilge that is.
-he Bible seems to tea"h humans that they are the Lords
of Creation, that the whole world was made for Man. 2ell,
Man has made an awful mess of the world, hasn0t he4 2here
are there not wars, or rumours of wars, where is there no
sadism, no terror, no perse"ution4 /ou will ha$e to mo$e off
this +arth if you want an answer to that. But we are dealing
with animals and what happens to them.
'n the first "ase there are many different spe"ies of "reat3
ures. %umans are animals, whether you like it or not humans
are animals, horrid, un"outh, unfriendly animals, more
sa$age than any of the ,ature type animals.
Be"ause humans ha$e a thumb and fingers they ha$e been
able to de$elop along "ertain lines be"ause they "an use their
hands to fabri"ate things, and that animals "annot do. Man
li$es in a $ery material world and only belie$es that whi"h
he "an grasp between his fingers and his thumb. Animals,
not ha$ing thumbs and not being able to grasp a thing in
two hands, ha$e had to e$ol$e spiritually, and most animals
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are spiritual, they do not kill unless for the absolute ne"essity
of eating, and if a "at .terrori8es and tortures! a mouse?well
that is an illusion of the human# the mouse is &uite obli$ious
of it be"ause it is hypnoti8ed and feels no pain. Do you like
that4
7nder stress a person0s sensations are anaestheti8ed, so in
times of war, for e6ample, a man "an ha$e an arm shot off
and apart from a $ery dim numbness, he will not feel it until
loss of blood makes him weak. *r a person piloting a plane,
for instan"e, "an be shot through the shoulder but he will go
on piloting his plane and bring it down safely and only when
the e6"itement has ended will he feel pain. 'n the "ase of our
mouse by that time the mouse doesn0t feel anything any
more.
%orses do not rein"arnate as daffodils. Marmosets do not
rein"arnate as maggots or $i"e $ersa. -here are different
groups of ,ature people, ea"h one in a separate isolated
.shell! whi"h does not impinge upon the spiritual or astral
e6isten"e of others. 2hat that really means is that a monkey
ne$er rein"arnates as a man, a man ne$er rein"arnates as a
mouse although, admittedly, many men are mouse3like in
their la"k of intestinal fortitude whi"h is a $ery polite way of
e6plaining?well, you know what.
't is a definite statement of fa"t that no animal re3
in"arnates as a human. ' know humans are animals as well,
but ' am using the a""epted, the "ommonly a""epted term.
*ne refers to humans and one refers to animals be"ause
humans like to be buttered up a bit, and so one pretends that
they are not animals but a spe"ial form of "reature, one of
God!s "hosen?humans. )o?the human animal ne$er, ne$er
rein"arnates as a "anine animal or feline animal, or e&uine
animal. And, again, our old friend $i"e $ersa.
-he human animal has one type of e$olution whi"h he
must follow, the?whi"h shall we say4?has a different, and
not ne"essarily parallel, form of e$olution to follow. )o they
are not inter3"hangeable entities.
Many Buddhist )"riptures refer to humans "oming ba"k
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as spiders or tigers or something else, but of "ourse that is not
belie$ed by the edu"ated Buddhist, that started as a mis3
understanding many "enturies ago in mu"h the same way as
there is a misunderstanding about ather Christmas, or
about little girls being made of sugar and spi"e and all things
ni"e. /ou and ' know that all little girls are not ni"e# some of
them are $ery ni"e, some of them are proper stinkers, but, of
"ourse, you and ', we only know the ni"e ones, don0t
we4
2hen a human dies the human goes to the astral plane
about whi"h we shall say more later, and when an animal
dies it, too, goes to an astral plane where it is met by its own
kind, where there is perfe"t understanding, where there is
perfe"t rapport between them. As in the "ase of humans,
animals "annot be bothered by those with whom they are
in"ompatible, and now study this "arefully# when a person
who lo$es an animal dies and goes to the astral world, that
person "an be in "onta"t with the lo$ed animal, they "an be
together if there is absolute lo$e between them. urther, if
humans were more telepathi", if they were more belie$ing, if
they would open their minds and re"ei$e, then lo$ed animals
who had passed o$er "ould keep in tou"h with the humans
e$en before the humans passed o$er.
Let me tell you something# ' ha$e a number of little
people who ha$e passed o$er, and ' am still $ery definitely,
$ery mu"h in "onta"t with them. -here is one little )iamese
"at, Cindy, with whom ' am in daily "onta"t, and Cindy has
helped me enormously. *n +arth she had a $ery bad time
indeed. ,ow she is helping, helping, always helping. )he is
doing absolutely as mu"h as anyone on the *ther )ide "an
do for anyone on this )ide.
-hose who truly lo$e their so3"alled .pets! "an be sure that
when this life has ended for both, then they "an "ome
together again, but it0s not the same.
2hen humans are on the +arth they are a disbelie$ing
"rew, "yni"al, hard, blasN and all the rest. 2hen they get to
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to reali8e that they are not the Lords of Creation they
thought they were, but (ust part of a Di$ine 1lan. *n the
*ther )ide they reali8e that others ha$e rights as well, when
they get to the *ther )ide they find that they "an talk with
utmost "larity to animals who are also on the *ther )ide,
and animals will answer them in any language they "are to
use. 't is a limitation on humans that most of them while on
+arth are not telepathi", most of them, while on +arth, are
not aware of the "hara"ter and ability and powers of so3"alled
.animals!. But when they pass o$er it all "omes "lear to them,
and humans then are like a person born blind who suddenly
"an see.
/es, animals go to %ea$en, not the Christian %ea$en, of
"ourse, but that is no loss. Animals ha$e a real %ea$en, no
angels with goose feathers for wings, it0s a real %ea$en, and
they ha$e a Manu, or God, who looks after them. 2hate$er
Man "an obtain or attain on the *ther )ide, so "an an
animal?pea"e, learning, ad$an"ement 3 anything and
e$erything.
7pon the +arth man is in the position of being the domi3
nant spe"ies, dominant be"ause of the fearful weapons he
has. 7narmed a man would be no mat"h for a determined
dog# armed with some artifi"ial method su"h as a gun, a
man "an dominate a whole pa"k of dogs, and it is only
through Man0s $i"iousness that the telepathi" power of "om3
muni"ation with animals has been lost, that is the real story
of the -ower of Babel, you know. Mankind was telepathi" for
general use, and mankind used spee"h only in lo"al diale"ts
for "ommuni"ating with members of the family when they
did not want the "ommunity as a whole to know what was
being said. But then Man lured animals into traps by false
telepathy, by false promises. As a result mankind lost the
telepathi" power as a punishment, and now only a few people
on this +arth are telepathi", and for those of us who are it is
like being a sighted person in the "ountry of the blind.
2ell, madam, to answer the &uestion in your letter briefly
?,o, humans do not rein"arnate as animals, animals do not
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rein"arnate as humans. /es, animals go to %ea$en, and
if you truly lo$e your pet then you "an be together after you
pass o$er ' your lo$e is truly lo$e and not (ust selfish,
senseless desire to dominate or possess. And, finally on this
sub(e"t, animals are not an inferior spe"ies. %umans "an do a
$ast number of things that animals "annot, animals "an do a
$ast number of things that humans "annot. -hey are
different, and that0s all there is to it? they are different, but
not inferior.
,ow, Miss Cleo, resting so "omfortably, looked up with
those limpid blue eyes and sent a telepathi" messageA .-o
work, we ha$e to work or we do not eat.! )o saying she rose
gra"efully and most deli"ately walked off. -he *ld Man,
with a sigh, turned to another letter and another &uestion.
.Are there Mantras for sending dying animals to higher
realms, and, if so, what are su"h Mantras4!
*ne doesn0t need Mantras from humans to animals# (ust
as humans ha$e their own helpers waiting on the *ther )ide
of life to help the dying human to be reborn ba"k into the
astral, so animals ha$e their own helpers. And so there are
no Mantras ne"essary to help dying animals enter the astral
world. Anyhow animals know by instin"t, or by pre3know3
ledge, far more about su"h things than do humans.
*ne should not wait until an animal is dying before one is
ready to help. -he best way to help an animal is while it is
ali$e and well on this +arth be"ause animals are beautiful
"reatures, and there are no bad or $i"ious animals unless
they ha$e been made bad and $i"ious by the ill3treatment,
"ons"ious or otherwise, of humans. ' ha$e known many
"ats, and ' ha$e ne$er known a "at who was naturally
$i"ious or bad tempered. 'f a "at has been tormented by
humans, or by human "hildren most likely, then of "ourse it
does adopt a prote"ti$e fier"eness, but soon with a little kind3
ness all that goes, and one has a gentle, de$oted animal
again.
/ou know, a lot of people are s"ared stiff about )iamese
"ats, saying how fier"e they are, how destru"ti$e, how e$ery3
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thing bad. 't isn0t true, there isn0t a word of truth in it, not a
word. Miss Cleopatra and Miss -adalinka ne$er, ne$er do
anything to annoy us. 'f something irritates us, then we (ust
say, .*h, don0t do that, Clee9! and she doesn0t do it
again. *ur "ats do not tear up furniture or draperies be"ause
we ha$e a pa"t with them# we pro$ide a $ery easily made
s"rat"hing post, a"tually we ha$e two. -hey are sturdy posts,
strongly mounted on a s&uare base, both are "o$ered with
hea$y "arpet, not old s"ruffy "arpet on whi"h one has upset
the garbage pail, but new "arpet, a"tually off3"uts. 2ell, this
"arpeting has been se"urely fi6ed to the posts and on top of
the posts there is room for a "at to sit.
)e$eral times a day Cleopatra and -adalinka go to their
s"rat"h posts, and they ha$e su"h a long beautiful stret"h
that it makes one feel better (ust to wat"h. )ometimes they
will walk up the post instead of (umping to the top, and that
is $ery good for their mus"les and $ery good for their "laws.
)o, we pro$ide the s"rat"h posts and they pro$ide the tran3
&uility be"ause we do not ha$e to fear for any furniture or
any draperies.
*n"e ' thought of writing a book about Cat Legends and
the real story of "ats. '0d lo$e to, but in"reasing de"repitude
makes it improbable that ' e$er shall. ' would like to tell, for
instan"e, how, on another world, in another system, far re3
mo$ed from the solar system, there was a high "i$ili8ation of
"ats. 'n those days they "ould use their .thumbs! as humans
"ould, but, (ust as humans are doing now, they fell from
gra"e and they had a "hoi"e of starting a Round all o$er
again or going to another system to help a ra"e not yet
born.
Cats are kind "reatures and understanding "reatures, and
so the whole ra"e of "ats and the Manu of "ats de"ided to
"ome to the planet we "all +arth. -hey "ame to wat"h
humans and report to other spheres on the beha$iour of
humans, something like ha$ing a tele$ision "amera wat"hing
all the time, but they wat"h and report not to harm humans,
but to help them. 'n the better regions people do not report
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things to "ause harm but only so that defe"ts may be o$er3
"ome.
Cats "ame to be naturally independent so they would not
be swayed by affe"tion. -hey "ame as small "reatures so that
humans "ould treat them kindly or treat them harshly, a"3
"ording to the nature of the humans.
Cats are benign, a good influen"e on +arth. Cats are a
dire"t e6tension of a Great *$erself of this world, a sour"e of
information where mu"h information is distorted by world
"onditions.
Be friendly with "ats, treat them kindly, ha$e faith in
them knowing that no "at has e$er willingly harmed a
human, but $ery, $ery many "ats ha$e died to help
humans.
2ell, Miss -adalinka has (ust rushed in with a telepathi"
message, .%ey, Gu$, guess what4 -here0s se$enty3eight
letters for you today9! )e$enty3eight letters9 't0s about time '
got down to answering some whi"h are waiting.
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-he right 1ath is "lose at hand
yet mankind sear"hes for it afar.
.2hat is life like in Lhasa today4 Are no$i"es ha$ing their
Ithird eyeJ opened4 2hat has happened to all the people you
des"ribe in the first book4!
-he Lhasa of =:G> under the terrorist rule of the Red
Chinese is $ery, $ery different from the Lhasa of the era
before the Chinese in$asion. 1eople are furti$e, people look
o$er their shoulders before $enturing to speak to e$en the
"losest a"&uaintan"e. -here are no beggars in the streets
now# they ha$e either been nailed up by their ears and are
long sin"e dead, or they ha$e been sent to for"ed labour.
2omen are not the happy, "arefree people they used to be.
,ow in Chinese dominated -ibet women are for"ibly mated
with Chinese men who ha$e been deported from China and
sent to -ibet to be the first "olonists.
-he Chinese are guilty of geno"ide, they are trying to kill
the -ibetan nation. Chinese men were torn from their fam3
ilies in China and sent to -ibet to till the hard soil and to
s"rape a li$ing somehow, sent to -ibet to mate with un3
willing women and to be the fathers of a ra"e of half3breeds,
half Chinese and half -ibetan. As soon as a "hild is born it is
taken away from the parents and pla"ed in a "ommunal
home where it is taught as it grows up to hate all things
-ibetan and to worship all things Chinese.
-ibetan men are being dealt with so that they are men
no longer, so that they "an no longer be fathersA Many men,
and many women too, ha$e es"aped perhaps to 'ndia or
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troops "annot "limb. -he -ibetan ra"e will not die out, the
-ibetan ra"e will "ontinue. 't is a tragedy that the high
ranking -ibetans now in 'ndia do not stir up interest in
sa$ing -ibet.
At one time ' had the fond hope that some of these
higher3ups would put aside their petty (ealousies and petty
hatreds and they would ha$e "o3operated with me. ' ha$e
long had the great desire to speak as a representati$e of
-ibet before the 7nited ,ations. ' am not dumb, ' am not
illiterate, ' know the side of the +ast and ' know the side of
the 2est, and it has long been my most fer$ent desire to
ser$e -ibet by appealing to the ree 1eoples of the world on
behalf of the people now ensla$ed, now fa"ing determined
attempts to e6tinguish the whole ra"e. But unfortunately '
ha$e been "alled many things, and those higher3ups, li$ing
in "omfort in 'ndia, ha$e not seen fit to do mu"h about
sa$ing -ibet. %owe$er, that is another matter, and is .one
man!s ambition! , an ambition, though, whi"h is entirely
unselfish for ' sought nothing for myself.
My books are true, e$ery single one of them, they are
absolutely true, but unfortunately the press saw fit to atta"k
me, after all it0s so mu"h easier and so mu"h more sen3
sational for the press to try to pull down a person and try
to make a blood3and3thunder tale out of something whi"h
doesn0t e6ist than to admit the truth. 't seems to me, looking
ba"k through the years, that those high ranking -ibetans in
'ndia, now li$ing there in "onsiderable "omfort, are afraid to
support me in the mistaken idea that if they did so they
would lose the support of the press. 2ho "ares about the
press, anyhow4 ' don0t9
1eople ' ha$e known in -ibet4 -he most highly pla"ed of
them ha$e been killed, tortured to death. or e6ample,
-ibet0s 1rime Minister was dragged behind a speeding "ar
through the streets of Lhasa, a rope was tied around one
ankle, the other end of the rope was tied to the ba"k of a "ar.
-he "ar was loaded with (eering Chinese, and off it started
pulling an eminent man through the streets, turning and
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twisting on the ro"ky road, tearing off his nose, tearing off
his ears, tearing off other things, until, raw3red and soaking
with blood, he was (ust tossed aside on a garbage heap for
dogs to de$our.
2omen whom ' knew4 2ell, their daughters ha$e been
publi"ly raped in front of their families as well. Many emi3
nent women ha$e been for"ed into brothels for Chinese
troops. -he list "ould go on long about su"h happenings, but
there is no point in it.
Certain "owardly men of high estate "apitulated to the
Chinese demands and be"ame la"keys of the Chinese, obey3
ing their e$ery whim, aping them, fawning upon them, and
remaining in positions of .trust! until their masters tired of
them and li&uidated them.
/et others es"aped into the mountains to "ontinue the
fight against the Chinese. Many, of "ourse, went to 'ndia.
2ell, that0s their "hoi"e, but again the thought "omes 3 why
would not the Great *nes, safely in 'ndia, do something to
help those who were not safe4
'n the Great -emples and at the 1otala itself all the gold
sheets forming the roof ha$e been torn off and "arried away
to China where, presumably, the gold has been melted down
and made into money or something. )a"red igures ha$e
been melted down for their gold and sil$er "ontent, pre"ious
(ewels ha$e been remo$ed and taken to China, and other
things, books, manus"ripts, paintings and "ar$ings, ha$e
been tossed upon a great bonfire and the whole lot burnt up,
and with it the history of a harmless, inno"ent "ountry de3
$oted only to the good of mankind.
Lamaseries are now brothels or barra"ks. ,unneries?
well, the Chinese regard them as ready3made brothels. An3
"ient monuments ha$e been torn down to afford easier pass3
age for armoured "olumns.
Lhasa now is the "apital "ity of terror, where people are
tortured and killed without knowing the reason why. All
that was beautiful has been destroyed. 7nless alert men
"ould sa$e those things in time, and painfully "arry them
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off to mountain refuges where they would be stored for
"oming generations, all that was beautiful has been de3
stroyed. -ibet will rise again, there is no final battle until the
last battle, and only the last battle is de"isi$e. -ibet will rise
again. 1erhaps there will be some strong man emerge who
will be a great Ruler, perhaps he will re3$itali8e those who
now ha$e merely sought safety and "omfort in flight.
-ibet now is ringed with great roads, great barra"k3like
buildings housing workers who are trying to make some sort
of order out of high barren land. 't is not a happy task
be"ause the Chinese men, who ha$e been for"ed against their
own wishes to be immigrants or "olonists, hate the land, hate
the people, all they desire is to return to their own homes, to
their own families. But the -ibetans are treated as sub3
humans, the Chinese "olonists are treated as prisoners and
kept in -ibet against their will, and any who try to es"ape are
tortured and publi"ly e6e"uted.
Meanwhile the nations of the world go about their own
e$eryday business of ha$ing a few wars here and there 3
Morea, Biet ,am, 'srael and the Arab "ountries, Afri"a, the
ChineseORussian border, and &uite a few other pla"es. But
if there was a suitable Boi"e perhaps some of the more
astute nations of the world would listen to a plea for help
from an a""redited representati$e of -ibet who "ould aug3
ment the spoken word by the written word, who "ould
appear before the 7nited ,ations, who "ould appear on tele3
$ision, and who "ould write and write seeking aid for a
stri"ken people before it is too late.
rom the "orridor "ame a roaring like a town bull on
double o$ertime. A "rash at the door and *utsi8e ,eighbour
"ame striding in. a"e flaming like the setting sun he
plonked down on a "hair with a "rash that seemed to shake
the building. .Mnow what4! he bellowed# .those ? !s in %ali3
fa6 want to put up my rent90
-he *ld Man, propped up in bed, tried to think of some
good words to say about .%alifa6!, but he had to admit that
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e$erything was going up, milk, rent, postal "harges, freight
"harges, the works9
Downstairs in the main lobby the )uperintendent, Angus
Robi"haud, worked hard at "leaning the "arpet. )o mu"h to
do, far too mu"h to do and far too mu"h responsibility.
Angus Robi"haud is a good man, a loyal man, and one who
su""essfully treads the narrow path between doing what his
employers demand and doing as mu"h as he "an for his
tenants. A rare man, of a type be"oming in"reasingly hard to
find.
'n the )uperintendent0s Apartment his 2ife, Mrs. Rob3
i"haud, was fighting to preser$e patien"e and sanity between
"onfli"ting telephone "alls. Mrs. )"hnit8elheimer of =>@G
was "alling bad3temperedlyA .' $ant 8e .eat you should turn
off yes, already. My .usband .e say .e got fried on .is skin the
.eat she is too mu"h, yes.! ,o sooner had she hung up with a
bad3tempered bang than the phone rang again. .)ay,
Ma!am, you (ust tell your husband to turn up that heat a lot
pronto or ' phone ,the Boss and make a "omplaint. 2hat
you think ' pay for here, eh4 -o be refrigerated4!
+$erything going up4 -he *ld Man guessed that Mr.
Robi"haud!s pay was not. 2hat a pity, he thought, that
some of these Apartment Building owners were so blind that
they put a man in "harge of a building that "ost a few
million to build?and probably pay him hardly enough to
keep body and soul together. /es, pri"es were going up to
make money for those who already had plenty9
1ay4 1ay4 -he pri"e of e$erything is going up4 /es, that0s
a good &uestion. ' am asked why do o""ultists e6pe"t to be
paid for gi$ing ad$i"e, for information. 't0s wrong to "harge
for o""ult knowledge.
All right, Mrs. )o3and3)o, you go along to your lawyer or
to your do"tor or to your food store, go anywhere you like,
and if you e6pe"t something you will ha$e to pay for it. /our
lawyer had to pay a lot of money for this training, he had
many lean years as a student, and as a graduate lawyer. %e
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in$ested money and time in knowledge, spe"iali8ed know3
ledge, and he e6pe"ts, and rightly e6pe"ts, to ha$e an ade3
&uate return on his in$estment.
/our do"tor also had many years of hardship as a medi"al
student. %e had to study, he had to walk the wards, and then
he had to pass a se$ere medi"al e6amination to see how
mu"h he knew and how little he knew. 'f he is any good as a
do"tor he is still studying, still keeping up with "urrent de3
$elopments, still reading about the results of resear"h. %e
spent a lot of money on his studies, in$ested in the future, and
like the lawyer, like a sto"kbroker, like anyone, he e6pe"ts to
get an ade&uate return on his in$estments.
-ry going to a lo"al store and getting free gro"eries. -ell
the storekeeper it0s "riminal for him to ha$e so mu"h food
upon his shel$es while you ha$e none on yours, tell him that
it0s "riminal ? him with so mu"h food and you with none ?
for him to "harge you. Do that, and you0ll probably find
yourself hustled off to the lo"al mental home as being non-
compos mentis.
-he genuine o""ultist or metaphysi"ian 3 and ' am one 3
has spent a long time learning and suffering. As su"h, while
we gladly do anything we, "an to help people, we still ha$e
the right to li$e, the right to eat, the right to wear "lothes, as
su"h we make a "harge. Ask your do"tor, your gro"er, or
your lawyer if that is not "orre"t.
-here is another &uestion on the same letter# perhaps we
should deal with that at the same time# it is pertinent to the
remarks abo$e.
-he &uestion is?.' ha$e been to Ban"ou$er and ' li$e in
British Columbia. -here is a man there who "harges large
sums of money for answering &uestions. %e says he is a stu3
dent of yours, and he works $ery "losely with you and you
ad$ise him whene$er he is in diffi"ulties. -his man has taken
a lot of money from me, and he has gi$en me information
whi"h is "ompletely and utterly false. 2hat ha$e you got to
say about that4!
'n the first "ase, ' am not working with anyone. ' ha$e no
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students whate$er. 't is utterly false to say that ' am working
"losely with any fortune3teller# ' don0t belie$e in fortune3
tellers. -oo often if one .fortune tells! one indu"es a person to
do what he or she would not normally do, but we will deal
with that in a moment.
'f you ha$e reason to belie$e that person is posing as a
student of mine and that person is obtaining money from
you by falsely pretending to be a student of mine, then all
you ha$e to do is to go to the lo"al 1oli"e )tation and see
someone in the lo"al raud )&uad. +6plain things to him,
and if you like you "an show him this book, show him this
page, where ' state most definitely that ' ha$e no students
whate$er and that ' do not work at all with fortune3tellers or
anyone of that ilk.
-ell him also that ' ha$e no dis"iples, ' do not want dis3
"iples, a"tually they are a darn nuisan"e9 But, of "ourse,
that0s between you and me, Dis"iples bumble around, ./es
Master this, yes Master that,! they get under foot, they "reep
out from the woodwork like termites. )o many, many years
ago ' de"ided that ' would ne$er ha$e students and ' would
ne$er ha$e dis"iples, and all this makes your fortune3teller in
Ban"ou$er, British Columbia, sound a bit silly, doesn0t it4
,o madam, don0t blame me for false information. ' gi$e
none, ' don0t e$en sell any. ' write my books, and here again
you ha$e my positi$e, my definite statement, that all my
books are true. ' wouldn0t swear it on a sta"k of Bibles be3
"ause ' am not a Christian and that would not mean any
more to me than swearing on a bundle of old newspapers,
but, ' repeat, all my books are true.
't0s unwise, you know, to bother with fortune tellers. After
all, ea"h and e$ery one of us "omes to this, +arth as students
to a s"hool. ,ow supposing you went to College and during
a $a"ation or half day off you puttered o$er to some old
biddy who probably wears great big earrings and a s"arf o$er
her head, and you said in effe"t, .%i, Biddy, what am ' going
to do ne6t term4 ' won0t tell you anything, you tell me all.!
2ell, the old biddy "ouldn0t tell you mu"h, "ould she4 )he
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wouldn0t know what "ourse you were taking, she wouldn0t
know what your se"ret ambitions were, what your weak3
nesses were. ,o9 And the a$erage fortune3teller is mu"h like
that.
,ow, read this "arefully, get it engra$ed on your memory#
no human "an "onsult the Akashi" Re"ord of another
human without .Di$ine 1ermission!. And you "an take it
that Di$ine 1ermission is rarer than hair on an egg, so if
people say they are (ust going to bu88 off for a moment, ha$e
a look at the Akashi" Re"ord and "ome ba"k with a blue3
print of your past life and your future life, (ust tell them what
you think and if you are wise (ust "all in the raud )&uad if
any money is in$ol$ed.
+$ery one of us is here to do something, and if we listen to
fortune3tellers who do not really know what they are telling,
then we might be side3tra"ked and instead of making a
su""ess of our life we may be heartily disillusioned, dis3
"ouraged, or disen"hanted. -he best thing is to meditate
properly, and if you do that you "an know an awful lot about
yourself 3 and usually it is &uite awful. /ou see things where
you ha$e gone wrong through listening to others. *f "ourse,
you "an listen to others, but you ha$e to make a "hoi"e your3
self and go your own way with full responsibility for your3
self.
*ne of the most foolish statements e$er made is to the
effe"t that no man is an island unto himself. )illy, isn0t it4 *f
"ourse e$eryone has to be .an island unto himself!.
'f you (oin "ults and groups, then you are not being an
indi$idual you are being (ust somebody li$ing in a "om3
munity. 'f you be"ome a member of a "ult or group you are
not a""epting your responsibility as an indi$idual human. ,o
doubt this will "ause a "onsiderable uproar among all those
people who ad$ertise metaphysi"al "orresponden"e "ourses
where you pay high sums for life and get little ba"k, but the
whole truth is thisA no matter what your mother told you to
do, no matter what your group leader told you to do, or the
high mysti"al holder of the symboli" key of the "orrespon3
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den"e "ollege, when you pass o$er from this life you, and you
alone ha$e to answer to your *$erself for what you did or for
what you did not do. 't is utterly futile for you to think that
you "an say, .*h, you "an0t blame me for that, ' only did
what my mother told me to do. 'f she were here she would
tell you so herself! But that is idioti". /ou ha$e to take the
responsibility, and you alone. )o, if you ha$e to take the
responsibility, and you most "ertainly ha$e, then why allow
yourself to be persuaded to do something by a gang of people
who are out to get your money or out to get a bit of power
through heading a group4 -hat type of person is not going to
stand by you when your *$erself is (udging your life. Again
let me repeat, you, and you alone, ha$e to answer to your
*$erself, so you, and you alone should li$e your life and
make your de"isions, and a""ept or re(e"t responsibilities (ust
as you and you alone think fit.
't is useless to listen to Mr. Dogwalloper, the 1resident of
the %og0s -ooth Metaphysi"al )o"iety who will tell you this
and tell you that and tell you something else, and who will
tell you that if you do as his "ult suggests you will get a
reser$ed seat in %ea$en with free harp playing lessons
thrown in. /ou won0t know. 'f Mr. Dogwalloper knew
enough he wouldn0t talk su"h a lot of bilge, he would be so
busy trying to "lear up his own life and preparing for his own
(udgment that he wouldn0t meddle with your respon3
sibilities.
'n the same way it is stupid to be swayed or influen"ed by
those old women of both se6es who prate and yowl that you
should (oin their religious group, telling you how damned
you will be if you don0t, telling you how wonderful you will
be if you do (oin them. 2ell, again, remember that all these
people will not answer for you later.
-oo many people bleat about .God0s blessing be upon
you.! -hey "ome pretending that they ha$e dire"t authority
from God to bless one and to gi$e one absolution for things
already done. 2ell, God must be awfully busy9 -hese people
are (ust the same as you, and you, and you?no better and
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perhaps no worse. -hey might be deluded, they might think
that be"ause they wear their "ollar the wrong way round, or
be"ause they read a book that they automati"ally ha$e
be"ome a saint.
%a$ing a knowledge of metaphysi"s does not ne"essarily
make one spiritual, you know. A""ording to legends old
)atan himself knows &uite a tri"k or two in the metaphysi"s
line, but you are not going to "all him spiritual, are you, not
in the right way, that is. -o "ome down to brass ta"ks,
anyone "an learn metaphysi"al things, it doesn0t matter how
bad the person, he or she "an learn su"h things, he doesn0t
ha$e to be of a "ertain degree of spirituality first. But a great
and mer"iful 1ro$iden"e nearly always, not always but
nearly always, arranges matters so that if we get a double3
dyed $illain studying metaphysi"s he "hanges first to a on"e3
dyed $illain and some of the dye washes out, he might e$en
be a de"ent fellow beneath. But don0t belie$e all the ad$er3
tisements about the .)aintly )o3and3)o who is now a )wami!.
A )wami is a Mr., do you know that4 't is no mysti"al title,
that little word )wami really "arries weight with a lot of
people, but don0t you be fooled by it.
,ow, ' see there is another &uestion here whi"h really we
ha$e (ust answered. -he &uestion is, .-ell me why people
shouldn0t do metaphysi"al things in groups but should do it
alone.!
' ha$e already answered that, but perhaps ' "an add to it.
A short time ago ' was sent some .literature! from a group
who wanted me to (oin them. -hey boasted about their $ast
"lasses who were all meditating together. Did you e$er read
anything more stupid than that P .who were all meditating
together4! 2ell, if they had a s"rap of metaphysi"al know3
ledge they would know that you "an0t meditate together.
Do you know why4
+$ery human radiates energy, radiates wa$es, wa$es of
thought, wa$es of prana, and e$eryone is to some e6tent
telepathi", so if you get a whole group of people all medi3
tating about their own affairs?well, they "ertainly do gum
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up the works and it is impossible to do any worthwhile medi3
tation for oneself when in a group.
/ou get the same sort of thing in big "rowds. -ake a foot3
ball "rowd, for instan"e# here you get a few thousand normal
people, some of them fairly well balan"ed, some of them as
"ra8y as "oots, and they all "ongregate together. -hey are
thinking about the game, and then something happens,
someone thinks a "ertain thing and says a "ertain thing, and
here in this "rowd you get a sudden group personality, you
get mass hysteria. 1eople get trampled underfoot, immense
damage is done to the football ground buildings, seats "ol3
lapse, people "ome storming out through the gates yelling
and shouting, and roughing up any one in their path, and
later, when the "rowd breaks up, the responsible ones feel
&uite dreadful and shamefa"edly they wonder whate$er
happened to them.
-he same thing happens in group meditation. +$erybody
thinking on a "ertain thing "an "ause the law of Re$ersed
+ffort to take pla"e. ' said, .thinking about the same thing!.
-he mere fa"t of meditation, of meditating is enough be3
"ause if one is meditating then it is a definite a"t, and e$ery
person meditating adds his or her own grain to the newly
formed thought form or group personality, and unless there
are some highly trained people?there rarely are?who "an
"ontrol things, you get all sorts of ner$ous illnesses resulting
from the meeting. )o, again ' say, if you want this to be your
last life on this Round do not (oin groups or "ults, li$e your
own life, a""ept your own responsibilities, make your own
de"isions. *h yes, by all means, "onsider the ad$i"e of others,
"onsider ad$i"e, weigh up the different ad$i"e you get, and
then de"ide for yourself. -hen when you ha$e left this +arth
and you are in the %all of Memories with your knees kno"k3
ing together with fright, and you get the (udgment of your
*$erself upon your sins of omission and "ommission, you
might get a few words of praise for yourself, and you might
"ome out thinking, ./es, yes, '0m glad ' followed Lobsang
Rampa0s ad$i"e. %e was right after all.!
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2ith the "losing of the day .the amily! were gathered
about the *ld Man0s bed. Miss Cleopatra was looking out at
the ships in the harbour, Miss -adalinka was sitting on the
*ld Man0s lap. Ma put down the first pages of the types"ript
whi"h she had been reading and almost simultaneously But3
ter"up put down the "opy whi"h she had been reading.
.2ell4! &ueried the *ld Man, .2hat do you think of
it4!
Ma rubbed her ear and said, .'t0s all right, it made me
laugh so that should be test enough.!
.And how about you, Butter"up, what do you think about
it4! the *ld Man said.
Butter"up ? well, she looked down at the types"ript again
and then looked up at the *ld Man as she said, ./ou repeat
yourself, you know. -hat bit about Metaphysi"ians getting
paid, well, you said something like that in IBeyond the
-enthJ.!
.But sure ' repeated myself,! said the *ld Man in some
e6asperation. .%ow do ' know if the person who is reading
this book has read IBeyond the -enthJ4 And these things, to
my mind, are so important that surely a repetition is (ustified.
After all, if you go to s"hool the tea"her doesn0t say a thing
(ust on"e and e6pe"t you to ha$e it fore$er and three days,
does he4 %e repeats it!
Ma broke in?almost as if to pre$ent a fight9?./ou say
about no dis"iples, about not being interested in anything,
how about <ohn4!
-he *ld Man remembered his blood pressure, remem3
bered his $arious "omplaints and sat gamely on his safety
$al$e?if bodies ha$e safety $al$es?But anyway, he sup3
pressed, as so often of late he had had to suppress, the
$arious "omments whi"h rose almost unbidden.
.All right, we0ll make an e6"eption about <ohn. All right,
we0ll "lear up one or two things whi"h you say are not ade3
&uately "o$ered so far.! )o?here goes.
+$ery so often one "omes a"ross a man or a woman who
has a deep urge to obey spiritual impulses and to impro$e
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the nature and show that Mharma "an be o$er"ome. )u"h a
person is <ohn %enderson. 2e are $ery fond of <ohn %en3
derson?er, let me &ualify that# his hobby is a"ting and he is
a $ery good a"tor e6"ept when he tries to a"t the role of an
'rish priest. %is 'rish a""ent is more like the Bron6 in ,ew
/ork, that, though, is a digression. <ohn %enderson is a good
man who is trying and su""eeding. ' ha$e suggested to him
most strongly that later, when he is a bit older, he starts a
)piritual Retreat so that he "an help those who need help.
%e won0t be telling fortunes, he won0t be trying to delude
anyone. 'nstead, as a truly spiritual person he will be trying
to help. )o perhaps in three or four years you will be reading
about <ohn %enderson, in the best way of "ourse, that0s
understood.
Butter"up said, .But how does metaphysi"s help people to
be more spiritual4 /ou say that anyone "an study meta3
physi"s and usually e$en the bad ones turn good when they
study metaphysi"s. %ow4!
2ell, before the Communist take3o$er in -ibet there were
$arious ins"riptions "ar$ed on the lintels of lamasery en3
tran"es, su"h as .A thousand monks, a thousand religions!, or
.-he saffron robe does not a monk make!. 7nfortunately
there are many arrant fakers and phonies in o""ultism, so
mu"h is hard to dispro$e and so mu"h appeals to what
people want to know. )ome of the bums who study meta3
physi"s, or pretend to study metaphysi"s, gather a little
knowledge and then a"t as if they were Gods who know
e$erything, plus. A"tually most of these people really are
(ust that?ignorant bums and nothing more. -hey are not
truly studying with the intention of progressing, they are not
truly studying with the desire to help others. -hey are trying
to get a fast3talking smattering of o""ultism so they "an
make a fast bu"k. -hey are (ust pursuing a "ult or e$en
trying to start a fresh "ult. -hey set out with a gang of so3
"alled .dis"iples! and they perpetrate all sorts of spiritual
"rimes, they lead people astray and they di$ert people from
what should be their real task.
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At the present time, within the past $ery few years, a great
horde of people ha$e "ome on the s"ene, people whom one
"ould (ustifiably "all .the great unwashed!. Most of them are
not merely unwashed, they stink with it physi"ally and
spiritually. -hey seem to take a pride in wearing tattered
rags of "lothing, and they take an e$er greater pride in being
un"outh and "oarse, well, un"outh is being "oarse, isn0t it4
But anyway, they are un"outh and they are also "oarse with
it. Let me tell them, as ' so often tell them in letters, that
there is no $irtue in being dirty, in fa"t with many of them '
would like to get busy with a pig s"raper and remo$e the first
few layers of dirt to see what really was beneath.
,ow for that &uestion from Butter"up as to why people
should study metaphysi"s# in studying metaphysi"s they are
(ust getting ba"k what should be a birth right. Metaphysi"s
has a s"ruffy name, but that is be"ause s"ruffy people ha$e
abused the name. A"tually, in years gone by e$eryone had
metaphysi"al ability, that is, e$eryone was "lair$oyant and
telepathi", but through abusing those powers they lost the
ability, the ability atrophied. /ou get the same sort of thing
with a person who has to stay in bed a long time. 'f a person
is "onfined to bed and not permitted to e6er"ise the leg, then
the person loses the power of walking, forgets how to do it,
and when the illness whi"h "aused the poor wret"h to stay in
bed has been "ured he or she has to be taught to walk all o$er
again.
A person who has been born blind and suddenly through
some ad$an"e in s"ien"e has been gi$en sight, has to be
trained in the art of seeing be"ause when you see for the first
time you "annot "omprehend what it is that you are seeing.
*ne has to be taught to see things in CD, one has to be
taught to be able to (udge distan"es. *n this ' ha$e mu"h
personal e6perien"e be"ause ' ha$e been blind, and re"o$3
ering sight suddenly is &uite a sho"k.
)o people study metaphysi"s so that they may regain
powers whi"h their an"estors had and lost. And
how does metaphysi"s help e$en bad people be"ome less bad
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and more spiritual4 +asy9 2hen one studies metaphysi"s it
a"tually raises a person0s $ibrations, and the higher a
person0s $ibrations are the more spiritual he be"omes. )o if a
real thug suddenly has a "hange of heart and starts to study
metaphysi"s, the mere a"t of studying o""ult knowledge
makes him a better man, while redu"ing his $alue as a
thug.
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)u""ess is the "ulmination of hard
work and thorough preparation.
.But why do "rowds get out of "ontrol4! Butter"up would
not let the &uestion drop. ./ou say that football "rowds get
out of "ontrol, well, we know that is so, but why do, how do
they, what me"hanism is employed4!
-he *ld Man ga$e a sigh be"ause he wanted to dis"uss
something &uite different, but a &uestion is a &uestion, and
there may be many people who are interested in why, how,
et".
+$ery person has a magneti" field around him?oh yes,
naturally we in"lude .her! in that, and sad to relate all too
fre&uently the magneti" field around the female of the
spe"ies is stronger than that of the male. 1ossibly that is why
the female of the spe"ies is supposed to be dangerous9 +$ery3
one, then, has a magneti" field around the body. -his mag3
neti" field is not the aura, it is the etheri", and if you find it
diffi"ult to $isuali8e think that instead of a "olle"tion of
people you ha$e a "olle"tion of bar magnets. ,aturally
enough they will be standing on end the same as people do,
so let us say the ,orth points up and the )outh points down.
2ell, immediately you ha$e a lot of magnets with their
fields inter3a"ting, some are stronger, some are weaker, some
are perhaps a bit warped, and together they build up &uite a
formidable for"e and they ha$e a strong effe"t upon nearby
stru"tures.
'n a $ery similar way humans, with their built3in magnets,
intera"t upon ea"h other. )ome of the magneti" fields are
disturbing fields rather opposed to others, and they will
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"reate a ripple of dis"ontent whi"h "an grow and affe"t
people who are normally &uite sensible and stable. 'n a foot3
ball "rowd e$eryone is thinking more or less about the same
thing, that is, about the game. /es, we know that perhaps
half the "rowd want one side to win, and the other half want
the other side to win, but we "an disregard that be"ause they
are both thinking of substantially the same thing?.a win!.
)o all the time the game is in progress the magneti" field is
being in"reased, and in"reased, and in"reased by the positi$e
thoughts of .a win!. 2hen some player does something
wrong one side is o$er(oyed and gets a surge of power, while
the other side is despondent and has a re$erse of power
whi"h, again, "auses a dis"ordant note in what one might
term the basi" fre&uen"y of humans.
7nder "ertain "onditions mass hysteria is generated.
1eople who are normally &uite de"ent and well beha$ed lose
"ontrol of themsel$es, and do things of whi"h they are heart3
ily ashamed after.
/ou know that e$eryone has a built3in "ensor, that .little
inner $oi"e whi"h keeps us on the straight and narrow path!,
and when mass hysteria o""urs the Mundalini of people is
affe"ted and the re$erse "urrent Knote "arefully that it is a
re$erse "urrentL surges along the spinal "olumn, o$er3
powering the good impulses of the Mundalini and o$er3
powering and temporarily paraly8ing the human built3in
"ensor.
2ith the "ensor o$erpowered there is no limit to the de3
stru"tion, to the $andalism, and to the outright sa$agery of
whi"h a human is "apable. +$ery fresh a"t seems to lend
power. 1eople be"ome obli$ious to hurts they re"ei$e them3
sel$es, they get bruises, "uts and assorted gashes in the melee,
and they do not noti"e them.
-he weaker people fall to the ground and are trampled
on. 1ani" sets in and the whole mass of people will "harge
the e6its or barri"ades, and by sheer weight of numbers will
"rash through lea$ing many in(ured behind them.
2hen the "rowd disperses the magneti" build3up fails and
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dissipates, and so people ."ome to their senses!. -hose who
"an get away to their own homes ha$e time to feel heartily
ashamed of themsel$es at home, whereas those who are
"arted off in a Bla"k Maria or 1addy32agon, "ool off in
what the 1oli"e inelegantly term .the "ooler!. -he "ooler, of
"ourse, is a "ell where hot tempers soon subside.
*h yes, of "ourse, on a lesser degree su"h things "an o""ur
with groups and "ult meetings. /ou "an get mu"h the same
sort of thing when a whole horde of people get together and
imagine they are meditating, but they are not, they are
building up &uite a re$ersed "urrent whi"h does more harm
than good.
Ladies and Gentlemen, those of good intention, those who
try to do good for others, your attention please for some3
thing whi"h is of $ital importan"e to sufferers.
Do you e$er try to do so3"alled .absent healing!4 Do you
e$er dash off a bun"h of prayers for those who are affli"ted4
Do you think you are doing a lot of good helping to "ure and
all that4 As a $i"tim of su"h $ery well intentioned efforts '
want to utter a shriek of protest on behalf of the sufferers.
)upposing one has three, or four, or fi$e, or si6 people all
wanting to do absent healing on to one poor sufferer. -hese
three, four, fi$e or si6 people may ha$e absolutely the purest
intentions but they do not know the e6a"t nature of the
illness affli"ting the sufferer, they try to "ast a blanket "ure
and, belie$e me, ' ha$e definitely been in(ured by su"h so3
"alled blanket "o$erage.
't is $ery, $ery dangerous to hypnoti8e a person into be3
lie$ing that he has no illness when, in fa"t, he is almost dying
from some "omplaint. 't is e&ually dangerous to do this
absent healing stuff unless you are a &ualified do"tor and
know the nature of the disease and what side effe"ts there
"an be from that disease. Again we ha$e our old friend, or
more likely, old enemy, the Law of Re$ersed +ffort, with
whi"h to "ontend.
7nder "ertain "onditions if one too ardently desires a
thing and one "on"entrates untrained thoughts on a "ertain
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thing, then instead of getting a positi$e thing, a positi$e
result, one gets a negati$e result. 2hen you get fi$e or si6
people all doing the same thing the suffering of the $i"tim?
well, '0$e had some9
My strong re"ommendation based on the most un3
fortunate personal e6perien"e is that none of you try absent
healing without knowing the pre"ise nature of the "om3
plaint, without knowing what side effe"ts might be e6pe"ted,
without knowing the se$erity of the "omplaint.
%a$e you e$er been in a really populated area and tried to
get a radio program, and there seemed to be stations
"oming in from e$erywhere, ea"h interfering with the others
so the result was nothing but (angled "a"ophony with
nothing "lear in the whole bun"h4 -hat0s what you get with
absent healing. ' do a lot of short wa$e listening, it0s about
my only entertainment now, and sometimes a station will be
(ammed by Russia or China, and the whining and wailing
and weirdly3woos make one ha$e to swit"h off in a hurry.
7nfortunately it0s not so easy to swit"h off when a group of
people are trying ill3ad$isedly and in "onfli"t with ea"h
other to do absent healing. Mind you, the people "on"erned
"an ha$e the highest moti$es, but unless they are trained as
priests or as medi"al pra"titioners it0s a thing whi"h "annot
be re"ommended.
-he other day a ta6i dri$er asked Butter"up a &uestion.
%e said, .Don0t you agree that young people today are far
more alert and far more intelligent than were their fathers4!
Butter"up had her own "omments about that, and probably
they were the same as the "omments ' makeA
Do ' think that young people of today are more aware
than were their parents at a similar age4
,o, by golly, ' don0t, ' think they are a lot dimmer. '
think some of them nowadays are (ust a gang of e6hi3
bitionists going about with their long hair and their s"ruffy
tattered rags of "lothing, and the sten"h whi"h "omes from
them is enough to lift one0s hat off. ,ot only that, but so
many of them appear to be downright stupidA
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A few years ago, when parents, or?no, let0s go farther
ba"k 3 when grandparents were teenagers they had to work,
they had to study, they "ouldn0t go wat"hing tele$ision all
the time or blaring hi3fi. -hey had to do things, they had to
make their own entertainments. 't taught them to think.
,owadays young people do not seem able to make them3
sel$es understood in what should be their own language,
they are illiterate, downright "rummy in fa"t. -here are
some "hildren nearby of s"hool age and their "ommand of
+nglish is not a "ommand at all, it!s a "omplete disorder.
-hey seem to be as illiterate as %ottentots who don t e$en
know what s"hool is.
1ersonally ' think "hildren and teenagers are going like
this be"ause both parents go out to work and ignore the
absolutely essential re&uirement that the rising generation
shall be taught by the generation whom they are repla"3
ing.
' think, too, that tele$ision and the "inema are largely to
blame for the illitera"y and the general mental sluggishness
of the a$erage teenager.
-he films, the tele$ision shows, well, they show an absol3
utely artifi"ial world, an absolutely artifi"ial set of "onditions.
-hey show wonderful houses, wonderful estates and fan3
tasti"ally e6pensi$e furnishings. and the film stars seem to
ha$e fleets of Cadilla"s and hordes of boyfriends or girl
friends. 'mmorality is not merely "ondoned, it is a"tually
en"ouraged. A"tress Dinah Dogsbody, for instan"e, boasts of
how many men she has run through and left weak3kneed
and shaking, while a"tor %e"tor %ogwash boasts of ha$ing
perhaps fourteen wi$es, presumably di$or"ing them one
after the other, but anyway, what is the differen"e between
prostitution and these a"tors and a"tresses who "hange part3
ners almost at the drop of a?well, drop of a hat# ' was going
to say something different, but perhaps there are ladies read3
ing this.
My answer, then, is that ' think the general standard of
edu"ation is falling rapidly. ' think the edu"ation in +urope
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is far, far higher than it is in the 7.).A. and Canada, but
then in +urope there is still some semblan"e of parental dis3
"ipline.
,owadays mere "hildren "an do a menial sort of (ob, work
short hours and get enough money to run wild, to buy all
sorts of e6pensi$e radios, to buy a "ar, and almost anything
they set their mind to. 'f they do not ha$e the "ash then they
soon get a "redit a""ount and they are hooked for life (ust as
surely as if they were on drugs.
2hat is the point of gi$ing people edu"ation when the
ma(or part of that edu"ation seems to be tea"hing them that
they should ha$e things whi"h they ha$e no possible "han"e
of obtaining4 ' think there should be a return to religious
dis"ipline, not ne"essarily Christian, not ne"essarily Bud3
dhist, not ne"essarily <ewish, but a return to some religion
be"ause until the world has some spiritual dis"ipline, then
the world will "ontinue to turn out worse and worse spe"i3
mens of humanity.
;uite a number of young people write to me and tell me '
am an old fuddy3duddy be"ause ' do not appro$e of drugs.
,ow these young people, si6teen, se$enteen or eighteen
years of age, they think they know all, they think the whole
fount of knowledge is open to them instead of reali8ing that
they ha$e hardly started to li$e, instead of reali8ing that
they are hardly out of the egg.
' am definitely, utterly, and irre$o"ably opposed to drugs
of any kind unless they are administered a""ording to stri"t
medi"al super$ision.
'f a person goes and "hu"ks a dollop of a"id in the fa"e of
another person, then the results are apparent, the flesh peels
away, the eyes burn out, a"id s"ores deep groo$es in the "hin
and runs down to the "hest, and the result is generally hor3
rible. But that is a kindly a"t "ompared to what happens
when people be"ome drug addi"ts.
Drugs wrongly used, and all drugs used without medi"al
super$ision are wrongly used, "an sear the astral body (ust as
a"id "an sear the physi"al body.
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A drug addi"t who dies and passes o$er to the astral world
has a truly horrible time. %e has to go to what is in effe"t an
astral mental hospital be"ause his astral body is warped and
distorted, and it may take a long, long time before the most
skilled attention that he "an re"ei$e "an restore that astral
body to anything like a workable "ondition.
1eople ra$e about this entirely e$il drug L.).D. -hink of
the number of sui"ides there ha$e been, the ones that are
reported, and think of the ones that ha$e not been reported,
think of the harm that has been "aused in terms of insanity
and $iolen"e. L.).D., mari(uana, heroin, all those things,
they are all de$ilishly e$il. 7nfortunately young people do
not seem able to a""ept the ad$i"e of older people, people
who ha$e the e6perien"e.
't is true that, for e6ample, L.).D. will get the astral body
separated from the physi"al body, but all too often, un3
fortunately, the astral body goes down to one of the lower
hells, one of the weirdly astral planes, and when it "omes
ba"k the sub"ons"ious itself is seared with the horrors it has
undergone. )o, young people who should be reading this,
stay away from drugs, ne$er mind if you do think drug 5 or
drug / is harmless, if they are taken without medi"al super3
$ision, you might ha$e some idiosyn"rasy whi"h will make
you parti"ularly sus"eptible to those drugs and $ery &ui"kly
you will be hooked beyond hope of re"o$ery.
Remember, all these drugs are harmful, and although by
some remote "han"e it might now show on your physi"al for
the time being, yet it will show $ery definitely upon your
astral and on your aura.
By the way, if people do take drugs and they damage their
astral bodies, then they "ome under the same "ategory as do
sui"ides, and if a person "ommits sui"ide then he or she has
to "ome ba"k to this +arth to finish his or her senten"e,
whi"h is one way of looking at it, or to "omplete his or her
lessons, whi"h is another way of looking at it. 2hi"he$er
way you look at it there are no drop3outs from the %ea$enly
ields, no drop3outs from this +arth either. 'f you gum up

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the works this time and do not learn the things whi"h you
"ame here to learn, then you "ome ba"k and ba"k and ba"k
again until you do learn your lessons. )o this drug business is
a $ery serious thing indeed and no a"tion taken by the
go$ernment "an be in any way too se$ere to deal with the
drug problem. -he best way to deal with it is for ea"h and
e$ery one of us to de"ide that we will not take drugs. 'n that
way we shall not be spiritual sui"ides, and we shall not ha$e
to "ome ba"k to this +arth into steadily worsening "on3
ditions.
'n the last paragraph ' referred to spiritual sui"ides?re3
peating the remarks in others of my books?about sui"ides. '
re"ei$e an ama8ing number of letters from people who tell
me that they are going to "ommit sui"ide. 1erhaps they ha$e
been "rossed in lo$e, perhaps they weren0t "rossed in lo$e
and li$ed to regret it, but whate$er it is ' ha$e been appalled
at the number of people who write to me saying they are
going to "ommit sui"ide. Let me state on"e again, as ' ha$e
stated "onstantly, sui"ide is ne$er, ne$er (ustified. 'f one
"ommits sui"ide one (ust gets slapped ba"k to this +arth to
.enter "lass! on"e again. )o, do not think that you "an es"ape
your responsibilities by "utting your throat or slashing your
wrists, or anything like that# you "an0t.
)ome years ago a boy who was somewhat unstable appar3
ently "ommitted sui"ide and left a note to say he was going
to "ome ba"k in a few years0 time. 2ell, unfortunately, a
"opy of one of my books K/ou ? ore$erL was found near
him, and the press really had a Roman holiday, they went
delirious with (oy, they raked up e$erything they "ould
think of and then they "alled in other people to see if they
"ould think of anything else. And, you know, the most am3
a8ing thing of all is that it was reported in the press that '
en"ouraged sui"ide. A"tually, ' ha$e ne$er en"ouraged sui"3
ide. ' often think ' would like to murder press people, but
that fate would be far too good for them. Let them go on
making their mistakes and let them pay for it after. ' per3
sonally belie$e that the ma(ority of press people are sub3
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human. ' personally belie$e that the press is the most e$il
for"e on this +arth today be"ause the press distorts things
and tries to whip up e6"itement or fren8y, tries to dri$e
people to war. 'f Go$ernment leaders "ould sit down
together and dis"uss matters without the press blaring out a
"olle"tion of lies and ruining friendly relations, then we
should ha$e more pea"e. /es, emphati"ally, based on my
own e6perien"es, ' am firmly of the belief that the press is
the most e$il for"e on this world today.
' mention all this be"ause e$en the press reported that the
boy thought he would "ome ba"k and start again. 2ell, that
was right, the boy would ha$e to "ome ba"k again. But let
me again repeat, ' ne$er, ne$er en"ourage sui"ide. As ' ha$e
stated un"hangingly for the whole of my life, sui"ide is ne$er
(ustified, and while some Buddhists apparently do it in the
belief that it is going to help the Buddhist "ause or the "ause
of pea"e# ' still maintain that sui"ide is ne$er (ustified. )o 3
my strong re"ommendation is do not e$en "ontemplate sui"3
ide, it doesn0t help, you will ha$e to "ome ba"k under worse
"onditions. And if you sti"k it out here nearly always it0s not
so bad as one fears. -he worst things of all ne$er happen,
you know, we only think they might.
)ui"ides, dead bodies, et"., et". ,ow here is a &uestion
whi"h "ame only yesterday. A lady asks, .-he "loud whi"h
stays o$er a body for three days?is it the soul or the astral
body4 Doesn0t the soul lea$e soon for the *ther )ide4!
2el=, yes, of "ourse. -he soul lea$es the body with the
"utting of the )il$er Cord (ust the same as a "hild is entirely
deta"hed from its mother0s body as the umbili"al "ord
is deta"hed. 7ntil that umbili"al "ord is se$ered then the
"hild is in "o3e6isten"e with its mother. 'n the same way,
until the )il$er Cord is dis"onne"ted the astral body is "o3
e6istent with the physi"al body.
-he "loud whi"h hangs o$er a dead body for three days or
so is (ust the a""rued energy dissipating. Look at it in
another way# suppose you ha$e a "up of tea, the tea is
poured out and before you "an drink it you are "alled away.
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-he tea stays hot, but be"omes "ooler, and "ooler,
and "ooler# so, in the same way, until the body has
lost all the energy built up during the lifetime, a "loud
ho$ers o$er the body gradually dispersing o$er three days.
Another illustration# suppose you ha$e a "oin in your hot
little hand and you suddenly put down that "oin, the energy
imparted in the form of heat from your hot little hand
lost all the energy built up during the lifetime, a "loud
ho$ers o$er the body gradually dispersing o$er three days.
Another illustration# suppose you ha$e a "oin in your hot
little hand and you suddenly put down that "oin, the energy
imparted in the form of heat from your hot little hand
doesn0t suddenly disperse, it takes a "ertain amount of time
for the heat put in the "oin by your hand to go, and for the
"oin to return to the ordinary temperature surrounding it. 'n
the same way an astral body "an be &uite deta"hed from the
physi"al body, but by the prin"iple of magneti" attra"tion it
"an still sense the "harge around the physi"al body, and so
until all that "harge has gone it is said that the physi"al body
and the astral body are "onne"ted.
*ne of the horrors of dying in this part of the world is the
barbari" pra"ti"e o$er here in ,orth Ameri"a of embalming
people. 't seems to me to be mu"h the same as stuffing "hi"k3
ens, or something, so in my own "ase ' am going to be "rema3
ted as that is far better than to be handled and messed
around by the embalmer and his mate. And, as a "ertain lady
"at said, .-he *ld Man is trying to "omplete Feeding the
Flame before he feeds the flame.! May ' for my part say
that ' hope they will not put on the "rematorium door
Kwhen ' am insideL .rying tonight.!
A lady?' am sure she is a lady be"ause she writes in su"h
an elegant manner?takes me to task somewhat, .2hy do
you o""ultists always say this is so, and that is so, but offer no
proof4 1eople must ha$e proof. 2hy do you not gi$e proof4
2hy should we belie$e anything4 God has ne$er said a word
to me, and the astronauts ha$e not seen any sign of hea$en in
spa"e.!
1roof9 -hat0s one of the biggest things, but tell me this# if
one is a sighted person in the "ountry of the blind, how does
one gi$e proof that there is sight4 Moreo$er, how do you
gi$e proof when so many people will not belie$e a thing
when it0s stu"k slap in front of their nose4
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-here ha$e been many $ery eminent s"ientists K' "an only
think of )ir *li$er Lodge for the momentL, &uite a number
of famous names ha$e been interested in proof, in s"ien"e
"ooperating with the o""ult world. or e6ample, )ir *li$er
Lodge, a most spiritual man, addressed a $ery important
Asso"iation in =:=C in +ngland. )ir *li$er said, .+ither we
are immortal beings or we are not. 2e may not know our
destiny, but we must ha$e a destiny of some sort. )"ien"e
may not be able to re$eal human destiny, but it "ertainly
should not obs"ure it.! %e went on to say that in his opinion
the present3day methods of s"ien"e would not work in se"ur3
ing proof. %e said also that it was his belief that if reputable
s"ientists were allowed to work free without all the s"offers
and doubters, then they "ould redu"e o""ult o""urren"es to
physi"al laws, and that is ob$iously $ery mu"h so. 1eople
who demand proof demand proof in the terms of bri"ks
standing upon bri"ks, they want proof while all the time
they are trying to pre$ent that proof. 1eople who go into
o""ult studies (ust trying to get a material proof are like
people who go into a darkroom and turn on the lights to see
if there is any image on the yet unde$eloped film. -heir
a"tions definitely inhibit any manifestation of proof.
'n the o""ult world we are dealing with intangible
matters, we are dealing with matters of an e6tremely high
$ibration, and the way people go along nowadays is some3
thing like using a pneumati" road drill to e6"a$ate in order
that fillings may be put in one0s teeth. Before proof "an be
gi$en in a materialisti" sense s"ientists ha$e to be trained in
what "an be and what "annot be, it0s useless for them to
"harge like a bull at a gate, they are not breaking bri"ks, they
are trying to find out something whi"h is as basi" as hu3
manity itself. 'f people will be honest with themsel$es, if
they will stay away from the tele$ision s"reens and the
"inemas and all that stuff, and if they will meditate properly,
then they will ha$e an inner awareness that su"h a thing is,
they will be"ome aware of their own spiritual natures,
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always assuming that their spiritual nature is not so debased
as to pre"lude any other manifestation.
or years in addition to wanting to photograph the aura
whi"h ' see around e$ery person ' ha$e wanted to de$elop,
as ' ha$e already stated, a telephone whi"h would enable the
ordinary people, non3"lair$oyant, non3"lairaudient people to
telephone the *ther )ide. -hink what fun it would be look3
ing up a %ea$enly telephone dire"tory and ha$ing to ask for
information?Did he go up or down4 ' suppose the nether
regions would ha$e an e6"hange "alled Brimstone, or some3
thing similar. Anyway, in years to "ome when s"ientists are
less materialisti", then it will be that there will be su"h a
telephone. A"tually there has been, but that is another
story.
1erhaps ' should head the ne6t bit .)top press news! be3
"ause there has been a telephone "all from <ohn %enderson,
some three thousand miles away. %e has now had some
proof of people on the *ther )ide of this life. A message
"ame to him and he had the sensation that he was ha$ing his
head ki"ked whi"h is what ' on"e told him ' would like to do
to him9 But anyway, he (ust phoned to say that at last he has
G*- -%+ M+))AG+. -hat message was dire"ted from
the *ther )ide and not at all impelled by me. )ome day
perhaps <ohn %enderson may write a book, he should, and if
he tells about this o""urren"e many people will probably say,
.2ell, ' ne$er9 ' wouldn0t like su"h things to happen to
me9!
.%i, Gu$,! said Miss -addy, (erking to a full awake after
being soundly and noisily asleep for some time. .'0$e got a
&uestion whi"h any human would like answered.!
.All right, -adikins, what is it4!
)o Miss -adikins sat down and folded her arms and said,
.2ell, it0s like this# we "ats know what arrangements are
made on the *ther )ide, but why don0t you tell humans how
they plan their life on +arth4!
1ersonally ' thought ' had dealt with that ad nauseam
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and ' don0t want Butter"up to "ome (umping at me telling
me that ' am repeating myself, and after writing so mu"h
about sui"ide it might be something akin to sui"ide if ' start
up again writing about life after death, so perhaps ' "an get
o$er it by "alling this answer .Life Before Birth!.
*n the *ther )ide of this life an entity has de"ided that
he or she must go to s"hool again to take a spe"ial "ourse.
1erhaps "ertain lessons were learned pre$iously and the
return %ome has enabled those lessons to be digested and
weaknesses to be per"ei$ed. )o then the entity who is he or
she, sits down and thinks things o$er.
*n +arth many students dis"uss their future with a "oun3
sellor, they dis"uss what "ourses are re&uired in order that
they shall obtain a "ertain &ualifi"ation. or e6ample, a
nurse in +ngland wants to be"ome a surgeon# ob$iously she
has some knowledge of anatomy, so what does she need in
order to enter Medi"al )"hool4 )he dis"usses what she has to
do, and then goes to it. 'n the same way our he or she on the
*ther )ide of life on +arth de"ides with "onsiderable help
what lessons ha$e to be learned, what tasks ha$e to be sur3
mounted, and what diffi"ulties ha$e to be endured. -hen the
whole thing is planned $ery "arefully.
Do you play "hess4 2ell, if you do you will know all about
those "hess problems whi"h appear in "ertain maga8ines.
-he "hess board is all set up with pawns and knights and
rooks, and all that, in "ertain predetermined positions. /ou,
poor soul ha$e to think and think until your brain nearly
"ra"ks and work out a way in whi"h to win that game. 't0s
something like that in planning the life to "ome. All the
obsta"les are set up, all the "onditions are laid down# what
do you ha$e to learn, do you ha$e to learn po$erty and how
to o$er"ome it4 't0s no good going to a ri"h family, then, is
it4 Do you ha$e to learn how to be generous to others, how to
handle money4 -hen it0s no good going to a poor family, is
it4 /ou ha$e to de"ide what you want to learn, you ha$e to
de"ide what sort of family will best meet your re&uirements.
Are you "oming to a tradesman0s family or to a professional
family4 *r are you "oming as one of a noble family4 't all
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depends, you know. 't0s like a"tors on a stage, an a"tor may
be a king in one play and a beggar in another, and it0s (ust
the same with life, it depends on what you ha$e to learn.
/ou "ome to the station, to the "onditions, to the diffi"ulties,
to the problems and obsta"les whi"h you yourself ha$e de3
"ided upon. Before you "ome you set up your problems in
$ery mu"h the same manner as a "hess problem is set up and
then left for someone else to sol$e.
)o you ha$e your problems set up in front of you, and
instead of (ust sitting down and s"rat"hing your head,
and anywhere else whi"h is troubling you at that moment,
and trying to work it out, you do something about it. /ou
look about and find the family, the "ountry, the lo"ality
whi"h will best enable you to li$e the problems whi"h you
ha$e set up and sol$e them by the mere a"t of your li$ing
and enduring the diffi"ulties and tests.
After all, a student perhaps going to a post3graduate
"ourse, he knows he is going to ha$e some hardships, he
knows he has to get a "ertain per"entage of marks otherwise
he won0t pass, otherwise he0s got to "ome ba"k again. %e
knows that he0ll ha$e to .ser$e! a "ertain time in the "lass3
rooms, but he knows all these things and he wants to go
through it be"ause he wants the &ualifi"ations or the know3
ledge that "omes after. )o you planned e$erything, but none
of your plans e$er in"luded sui"ide. 'f you "ommit sui"ide,
then it means you are a drop3out, it means you failed, and if
a person is a drop3out it means he "an0t ad$an"e through
la"k of &ualifi"ation and through la"k of intestinal fortitude.
Always without any e6"eption those who drop out of life
through sui"ide "ome ba"k and start all o$er again with a
fresh bun"h of problems (ust tagged on for lu"k.
,e6t time you look in some newspaper or in some maga3
8ine, and you see a "hess problem all set up so ni"ely on the
bla"k and white s&uares of print, well (ust remember you set
up problems like that for yourself before you "ame to this
+arth.
%ow are you sol$ing them4 Are you making out all right4
Do not be disheartened, you started it, you know9
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C%A1-+R 'B+

A hundred men may make a "amp#
it takes a woman to make a home.
.-sk, tsk,! said the *ld Man to Miss Cleo who was sitting
admiring the sunshine "oming in through a parting of the
"urtains. )he turned her head wisely and ga8ed through
those beautiful blue eyes. .-sk, tsk,! he repeated as if en(oy3
ing the sound. .' wish ' were a ri"h author,! he said, .and had
an e6tensi$e referen"e library. Do you know how many
books ' ha$e, Clee4! -he *ld Man turned his head and
looked at the only books he possessed, a di"tionary, a dia3
beti"s0 manual, a medi"al handbook for ships0 "aptains, a
book about "ountries0 flags, a 1ayette "atalogue about radio
stuff from Montreal, a Canadian type "atalogue from -or3
onto, and, of "ourse, a $ery large atlas, so large that it (ust
about takes two men and a dog to lift the thing, it0s "ertainly
an atlas too large and too hea$y for a poor wret"h "onfined
to bed. .And that0s all this author0s library, Clee,! said the
*ld Man with that wry laugh. .Rather a pity, though, be3
"ause the number of things people ask, well, it would be
enough to make my hair stand on end if ' weren0t bald. )till,
this is wasting time# we ha$e to get on with our book, Miss
Clee, and you and -addy "an go and en(oy the sunshine
while ' work for the daily bread.!
Mrs. )oro"k?our old friend Baleria )oro"k?asks about
sleep. Good gra"ious me, Mrs. )oro"k, don0t you know what
sleep is4 Anyway, &uite a number of people ha$e asked the
same thing so let0s see what we "an do about it.
*n the physi"al plane a body works and builds up a lot of
to6ins, a lot of poisons a""umulate in the mus"les. 2hen we
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work too hard at a gi$en task using the same mus"les, "rys3
tals form in the mus"ular tissue and, being wret"hedly sharp
things, they dig in when we "ontinue mo$ing and make us
feel .stiff!, so we soon stop mo$ing.
All the organs of the body get suffused with to6ins and so
after a time it is ne"essary for Man to lie down and go to
sleep so that the body me"hanism slows down, be"omes
almost stati", and during that period of sleep the to6ins
whi"h "ause tiredness and mus"ular stiffness, dissipate or dis3
perse so that when we wake up we are as good as new. All
the stiffness has gone, all the a"hes and pains ha$e gone, and
people feel $ery refreshed, at least they do if they go to bed
early enough and get enough rest, otherwise if people ha$e
been out drinking they ha$e o$erloaded the body me"han3
ism badly and they suffer from a hango$er. But we are not
dis"ussing drunks and their ilk, we are dis"ussing your atti3
tude towards sleep, you, the sensible people.
)o on the ordinary physi"al plane, when we sleep it is with
the purpose of dissipating to6ins and "rystals whi"h make
one sluggish, tired, and full of a"hes and pains.
But there is more to sleep than this. <ust as s"hool "hildren
go home at the end of the s"hool day, so does the human
psy"he ha$e to go home at fre&uent inter$als.
'f a human had to stay "ompletely awake all the time he
would find life insupportable, all manner of strange physi"al
manifestations would o""ur. )o he goes into a period of sleep
to the astral world for re"uperation. -hink of s"hool "hil3
dren who had to stay in "lass for twenty3four hours a day#
well, of "ourse, they "ouldn0t do it, but supposing they had
to, soon they would not be able to learn anything, soon they
would be "ompletely insane with fatigue. -he same with
adults.
During sleep the physi"al body is left prone upon a bed,
most times it0s upon a bed, anyhow, enough times in fa"t for
us to say .prone upon a bed!. At su"h times the physi"al body
is resting there and (ust sleeping off the effe"ts of e6isting for
yet another day. -he dri$er of the body, the psy"he, is away
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so the body me"hanism "alled the sub3"ons"ious takes o$er,
and all sorts of refle6 a"tions o""ur in the body. *ften the
eyes will roll behind shut eyelids, often the body will gasp
and groan or snort, and there is mu"h threshing about be3
"ause the body e6er"ises a "ertain amount during sleep in
order that "rystals and to6ins may be dispersed and dissipated
more rapidly. -hat is why people are mo$ing &uite a lot
when they are asleep, and no one e$er stays "ompletely im3
mobile during sleep. 'f they did they would ha$e a fresh load
of to6ins at the point of "onta"t between the body and the
bed be"ause all the time the same flesh would be "om3
pressed.
-he sub3"ons"ious during this sleep period is "ompletely
freed from the "ontrol of the psy"he, and so it, in effe"t
wanders among the memory3file "ards something like an
idiot boy who "an grasp a file "ard here, or perhaps two or
three file "ards there.
'f one "ard only is pi"ked?and remember that we should
ha$e put ."ard! in &uotes to show that it0s not really a "ard,
but we are (ust using a symboli" item. 'f you like, we "ould,
to make it "learer say that a memory "luster is tapped?if
that memory "luster, then, is tapped we get a dream whi"h
"an be &uite "lear about one spe"ifi" e$ent. But if two or
three memory "lusters Klet0s "all them "ards and ha$e done
with it9L are pi"ked, then the dream be"omes a fantasy be3
"ause, purely as an illustration, we "an ha$e a dream or ad3
$enture in whi"h a fish is riding down the road on horseba"k
be"ause the memory pi"ked up may ha$e been of a big fish,
and then superimposed upon it will be the memory of a
person on horseba"k. 'f these two memory "ards are super3
imposed, then we get the distorted impression of a fish on
horseba"k.
'f you go in for slide pro(e"tion with CE mm transparen3
"ies you will know that you "an get a $ery "lear pi"ture by
ha$ing (ust one slide in your pro(e"tor, but if you sti"k in two
slides then you get something whi"h ne$er happened, you
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get one pi"ture superimposed on the other. And if you get
three slides in, well, then you get "onfusion. 't0s the same
with your dreams, the dream is a simple thing, (ust an ordi3
nary straight3forward memory, but when it be"omes tinged
or o$erpowered with a different memory "ard, then you get
fantasy or e$en nightmare. /ou dream of things whi"h are
&uite impossible, things whi"h "ould ne$er happen, and then
if you ha$e retained any "ontrol of your memory when your
psy"he returns to the body, you will say that you had a
nightmare.
During sleep when the psy"he is away the built3in "ensor
of the body also is sleeping, and so some of the memories or
fantasies may be eroti" or sadisti", and so we get those ter3
rible dreams of whi"h people sometimes write in and say,
.Gee9 2hate$er happened to me4!
't is impossible to "onfuse astral tra$el with dreams or
nightmares be"ause in dreams there is nearly always some
in"onsisten"y, some improbability, there is always some el3
ement whi"h is at $arian"e with what you know to be fa"t.
-he "olours may be wrong, or you may, for e6ample, see a
person with the head of a tiger. 't "an be determined, with a
little pra"ti"e, that whi"h is a dream and that whi"h is astral
tra$el.
Memories of dreams and memories of astral tra$el follow
the same path into one0s awareness when one is awake# when
the psy"he "omes ba"k and the body awakens it may say,
.*h, ' had a terrible dream last night.! *r if the person has
training and knows how to astral tra$el "ons"iously, then he
"omes ba"k with a "omplete knowledge of all he has done.
-he body is still rested, the to6ins are still dispersed, but the
psy"he has retained the information of what happened in
the astral world.
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"ited at "oming ba"k to s"hool that e$erything that hap3
pened during the holiday "ompletely disappears from their
brains or from their memories, and in (ust the same way,
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people "oming ba"k from astral tra$el may forget "om3
pletely all that happened in the e6"itement of starting
another day.
't "annot be too often repeated that if one wants to re3
member astral tra$el, then one (ust simply must say to one3
self three times before going to sleep, .' will sleep soundly
and restfully, and in the morning ' will be aware of all that '
ha$e done in the astral.! Repeat that three times before
going to sleep, and if you really think what you are saying,
and if you really mean what you are saying, then you will
remember when you awaken. -here is nothing magi"al
about it, it0s (ust getting through to a rather stupid sub3
"ons"ious and saying, in effe"t, .%ey Bud, you0$e got to keep
alert tonight, no playing about and gumming up the works
with my memories, you keep out of the way ready for a fresh
load of memories when ' return.!
*f "ourse the person who is trained in astral tra$el "an
astral tra$el when he is fully awake. 't is &uite usual for the
trained person to sit down in a "hair, "lasp his hands and put
his feet "lose together and then (ust "lose his eyes. %e "an
then will himself to lea$e the body and go anywhere and
stay fully "ons"ious during the whole period of astral tra$el
so that when the astral body re(oins the physi"al body there
is brought ba"k a "ompletely retained memory of all that
happened.
-hat takes pra"ti"e, of "ourse, and a bit of self3dis"ipline,
it is not diffi"ult to train oneself to remember all that hap3
pened when the body is asleep. /ou (ust ha$e to tell your
sub3"ons"ious to shut up e6a"tly as you tell an unruly s"hool3
boy to shut up. -he first telling is more or less a waste of
time, at the se"ond telling the sub3"ons"ious (umps to aware3
ness, and with the third telling it is hoped that the "ommand
sinks in and the sub3"ons"ious will obey. But if you do this
for a few nights you will find that the sub3"ons"ious does
obey.
Many people like to keep a notebook and pen"il by the
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bedside so that immediately upon awakening in the morning
the knowledge of what happened in the night "an be written
down, otherwise with the press and turmoil of modern li$ing
there is a great tenden"y to forget what happened. A poor
fellow will awaken, for e6ample, and think he is going to be
late for work, and then ne6t he will wonder if his wife is in a
good temper and will get his breakfast or if he will ha$e to
go without. )o with things like that on his mind he is not
mu"h in a mood to remember what happened in the night.
)o make a definite pra"ti"e, keep a notebook and pen"il by
your bedside and the $ery first thing you do when you
awaken, write down immediately e$erything you remember
of the night. 2ith pra"ti"e you will find it0s easy and with a
bit more pra"ti"e you won0t need your notebook and your
pen"il, you will "arry out your days on +arth with mu"h
more "ontentment knowing that this is (ust a hard s"hool and
nothing more, knowing that at the end of the s"hool term
you will be able to return %ome.
*f late there seems to ha$e been a rash of ad$ertisements
from all sorts of firms who purport to tea"h one sleep learn3
ing. -hey want to sell one e6pensi$e gi8mos and e$en more
e6pensi$e taped "ourses "omplete with time swit"h, head3
phones, under3the3pillow speaker, and what3ha$e3you.
,ow it is &uite impossible for anyone to learn anything
worthwhile while asleep. -o start with the dri$er of the
body is away, and all that is left is a sort or "rummy "are3
taker "alled .)ub3"ons"ious!, and $ery e6tensi$e resear"hes in
the leading "ountries of the world ha$e pro$ed beyond
doubt that sleep learning is not possible, it doesn0t work.
'f you stay awake, that is, if you are slow in going to sleep,
then you may pi"k up a few snat"hes of "on$ersation from
the tapes. But there is no easy way of learning, you "an0t
press a button and say, .%ey presto! to a ma"hine, be"ause
that will not make you a genius o$ernight. 'nstead it will
interrupt your sleep rhythm and make you a bad tempered,
unmentionable you3know3what.
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)uppose you lea$e your "ar in the garage while you go in
your house to ha$e your buttered beans on toast, or what3
e$er it is that you ha$e before going to bed. 2ell, you would
be &uite a bit of an optimist in thinking your "ar was going
to learn through tapes while you were away from it. -he "ar
manufa"turers admittedly make se$eral lurid and impossible
"laims for their me"hani8ed tin bo6es Kno, ' do not ha$e a
"arL, but e$en the most optimisti" of "ar ad$ertisers would
balk at saying their "ars would learn during the owner!s
sleep.
/our body is (ust a $ehi"le, a $ehi"le whereby your *$er3
self "an gain some e6perien"e on +arth and on a few other
assorted planets, so don0t gi$e yourself a lot of airs about
how "le$er you are, how important you are, and all that,
be"ause when it "omes down to brass ta"ks or whate$er stan3
dard of $alue you want to use, .you! are (ust a lump of pro3
toplasm whi"h is dri$en around by day by an owner who
happens to be your *$erself. /ou "an liken it to the 'rish3
man and his donkey# the donkey stays in the stable by night,
but no amount of tapes will enable the donkey to speak +ng3
lish or e$en Ameri"an, yet during the day the owner "an be
taught to learn?e$en Ameri"an. 't might be worth trying to
tea"h an 'rishman 2elsh one day to see if that "an be
done.
' think a"tually ' deser$e a medal for pointing out to you
some of these things whi"h are designed to take your hard3
earned money from you. Always think, what0s behind the
ad$ertisement4 2ell, ob$iously, the ad$ertiser wants to get
your money. 't reminds me of the people who ad$ertise how
to make a million in, say, three easy lessons, or how to fore3
"ast the 'rish )weepstake and win the first pri8e. 'f these
people who "ould do su"h things did them, then they
wouldn0t bother to ad$ertise, would they4 And if they "an t
do it, well, they ha$e to make money in some other way, by
pretending that they "an make millions in a month. -hey
"an if enough people reply to their ad$ertisements, but don t
you be one of them, button up your po"ket, keep your hand3
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bag shut, keep your mouth shut too, and your ears wide
open.
*h Glory Be, and all the rest of it, now here0s a &uestion?
you0d better get ready to read this "arefully. ./ou say the
sub3"ons"ious is stupid, yet in IChapters of LifeJ it is said to
be $ery, $ery intelligent, it seems to be more intelligent than
the part of us you say is one3tenth "ons"ious. ,ow, tell us
straight out, is it stupid or is it super3intelligent4!
'f we are going down into basi"s again, like this, then we
ha$e to say that the sub3"ons"ious is neither intelligent nor
unintelligent be"ause it doesn0t ha$e intelligen"e, it0s a
different sort of thing altogether. -he sub3"ons"ious is (ust a
repository of knowledge, good knowledge, bad knowledge.
't0s (ust a filing system. 't "ontains all you ha$e e$er heard,
all you ha$e e$er seen, all you ha$e e$er e6perien"ed. 't
reminds your automati" responses when to breathe in and
when to breathe out. 't reminds part of you to wriggle and
s"ree"h if you are ti"kled, et". 't0s (ust an automati" re3
minder.
2ould you say that a librarian is intelligent4 2ell, that0s a
matter of opinion, of "ourse. ' know ' tried to deal with
those silly librarians at a famous Library in London, the ones
who put down details, and ' tried to tell these people that
the details they were putting down about me were utterly
and in"ontro$ertibly in"orre"t, but it0s su"h a (ob "on$in"ing
some of them, and ' am left with the indelible opinion that
the Re"ord Library librarians at that famous Library are not
intelligent. Anyway, that0s a matter of opinion, but let us
make that &uery again (ust for the sake of answering this
&uestionA3
2ould you "onsider that a librarian was a genius4 2ould
you "onsider that a librarian "ould answer any &uestion
about anything and say what any person has said before4
2ell, of "ourse you "ouldn0t, not e$en if you were a librarian
yourself "ould you make su"h "laims. 'nstead you would say,
&uite "orre"tly, that?no, there is no su"h knowledge in a
"ons"ious human, but a librarian knows where to find "ertain
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information. -he best librarians are those who "an find the
information fastest.
/ou and ' "ould go to a library and fumble our way
through "ertain filing "abinets in sear"h of a book title "on3
taining matter on the sub(e"t of interest. -hen we would
find we had to refer to something else, then we would find
that the book was out of print or out of "ir"ulation or out of
the Library. 2e would waste half a day or more, yet by
asking a librarian there is a se"ond during whi"h he has an
absolutely blank e6pression, and then the penny seems to
drop with a "lank, and he or she gets into motion and pro3
du"es the book with the desired information.
'f he or she is good at the work, they re"ommend many
more books.
-he sub3"ons"ious is like that. As soon as the thinking .we!
desires to know something, then the sub3"ons"ious tries to
"ome up with the answerA -hat is not intelligen"e, that is
entirely automati", and as it0s automati" it "an be trained.
-rained for what4 2ell, the answer is simple. /our sub3
"ons"ious is your memory. 'f you ha$e a poor memory it
means that your "ons"ious one3tenth is not getting through
to your sub3"ons"ious nine3tenths. 'f you ha$e a poor
memory it means that the sub3"ons"ious is falling down on
the (ob of pro$iding you the information whi"h you
demand.
)upposing you want to know what Gladstone really said
ba"k in the year =H3something3or3other. 2ell, you0$e prob3
ably heard it, you0$e probably read of it, so it0s in your
memory and if your sub3"ons"ious "annot bring it out it
means that there is a fault in a relay somewhere.
)ome people "an reel off a terrible lot of stuff about foot3
ball or baseball teams, and gi$e all the winners or whate$er
they are "alled for years ba"k, but that is be"ause they are
interested in the sub(e"t, and people "annot remember
things in whi"h they are not interested. ,e$er ha$ing seen a
football mat"h or a baseball mat"h, and not wanting to, '
ha$en0t the $aguest idea about it. ' thought that a baseball
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diamond, for instan"e, was a thing gi$en to pri8e winners# no
doubt somebody will write in to tell me differently.
'f you want to "ulti$ate a good memory, then you ha$e to
"ulti$ate your sub3"ons"ious. /ou ha$e to be interested in a
sub(e"t, until you are interested the sub3"ons"ious "annot .tag
on.! Many of our lady readers will know all about the male
film star, how many times he has been married, how many
times he has been di$or"ed, and how many times he has
"hased his belo$ed3for3the3moment around the world.
-hat0s easy, they "an do that, but (ust ask them to go and get
a standard fine thread from a lo"al shop, perhaps a three3
si6teenth standard fine thread, and they0ll "ome ba"k look3
ing blanker than usual.
-o train your memory, that is, to train your sub3"on3
s"ious, you should think "learly about things and assume an
interest in those things. 'f men are sent shopping for
women0s things, well, they "ome ba"k without a single
thought in their heads, but if they took an interest in things
then their memory would impro$e. *ne "an take an interest
by asking oneself why a woman wants this, or that, or some3
thing else, and the woman "an ask herself why a man should
want, for instan"e, a three3si6teenth bolt of fine thread. 'f
she "an get a definite interest, then he or she "an remem3
ber.
'f you are trying to remember something spe"ifi" su"h as a
telephone number, then try to imagine the person to whom
the telephone number belongs, or if you do not know the
person or "annot $isuali8e him or her, then look at the tele3
phone number 3 is it a series of "ir"les or a lot of strokes4 or
e6ample, F0s, :0s, >0s be"ome "ir"les, as do C0s and @0s. But
strokes would be =0s, G0s, et". ? and, of "ourse, D0s. )o if you
"an $isuali8e a number by "ir"les or strokes, you "an remember
it. -he best way is to use our old system of threes.
Repeat the telephone number three times while holding the
sin"ere "on$i"tion that you will always remember that
number. /ou "an, you know, it0s &uite easy, nothing diffi"ult
in it.
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Another thing whi"h "an be done during the period of
sleep is to approa"h another person whom one desires to
influen"e. ,ow, sleep learning is useless, that is absolutely a
waste of time be"ause you are trying to tea"h the body some3
thing when the entity that "ontrols the body is out of the
body. but let us deal with something else 3 influen"ing
others.
)upposing that Mr. <ohn Brown $ery mu"h desires to get
an appointment with the firm of the 5/Q Manufa"turing
Company. Mr. Brown has heard that this Company is an
e6tremely good "ompany and that it is definitely desirable to
be employed by su"h a firm.
Mr. Brown has had some good fortune in getting an ap3
pointment with the personnel manager or someone else in
authority for, say, the following day. ,ow, if Mr. Brown
really wants to sell himself, this is what he will doA?
%e will get hold of any information he "an about the firm
and espe"ially about the person with whom he has the inter3
$iew. -hat means that Mr. Brown must make a definite in3
&uiry as to who will do the inter$iewing. -hen if it is at all
possible he will get a photograph of the inter$iewer, and
before going to bed that night Mr. Brown will sit &uite alone
and he will $isuali8e himself talking to the inter$iewer on
the morrow. Mr. Brown will "on$in"ingly state Kin the pri$3
a"y of his bedroomL the reasons why he would be a desirable
employee, the reasons why he needs that parti"ular ap3
pointment, the reasons why he "onsiders he is worth more
than the firm normally pays. %e says all this to the photo3
graph, then he lifts up his feet and tu"ks them in bed, and he
puts the photograph so that it is fa"ing him as he lies on his
a""ustomed side.
Mr. Brown goes to sleep with the firm, $ery definite, $ery
emphati" intention of getting out of his body and (ourneying
to Mr. 'nter$iewer0s house. -here he will meet Mr. 'nter3
$iewer out of his body, and Mr. Brown0s astral will tell Mr.
'nter$iewer0s astral all that Mr. Brown has (ust said in the
pri$a"y of his bedroom.
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antasti"4 Daft4 Don0t you belie$e it9 -his really works.
'f the 'nter$iewee K' hope that is right# it means the one
who is going to be inter$iewedL plays his "ards properly, then
the inter$iewer will gi$e him the (ob. -hat is sure, that is
definite, it really works.
,ow, you who want a better (ob or more money, go
through those words again and put them into pra"ti"e. /ou
"an influen"e people in this way, but not ne"essarily for bad.
/ou "annot influen"e a person to do that whi"h he or she
would not normally do, that is, you "annot influen"e a
person to do an e$il or wrong a"t, whi"h means that some of
you fellows who write in to me asking how to get power o$er
girls?well, you "an0t friend, you "an0t, and don0t try.
/es, inno"ent readers, ladies of high degree and of the
utmost purity, ' sometimes get letters from .gentlemen! who
ask me to tea"h them to hypnoti8e girls or to put spells on
girls or to produ"e the formula of something whi"h will
render girls helpless so that the .gentleman!?well, what
would he do under su"h "ir"umstan"es4 Anyway, ' tell them
the truth whi"h is that unless they go in for poisoning they
"annot influen"e another person to do that whi"h the other
person0s "ons"ien"e would not normally permit. )o there you
are. 'f your desires are pure or ."lean!, then you "an influen"e
others, you "an influen"e others to do good but not to do
bad. Most people don0t need influen"ing to do bad anyhow#
it seems to "ome natural.
't might be as well here to introdu"e a &uestion ha$ing
bearing on some of the remarks made in pre$ious "hapters.
-he &uestion isA?
./ou say that people "ome to this +arth time after time
until the person "on"erned does his spe"ifi" task. /ou also
say that at times groups of people "ome for the same pur3
pose. Can you gi$e any definite illustration on that point4!
As a matter of fa"t?yes, &uite definitely, yes. ,ow, ' had
a "utting some time ago in the )panish language, and this
)panish language thing ga$e a lot of details about a maga3
8ine "alled Excalibur whi"h had been published some years
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ago, apparently, in Durban, )outh Afri"a. ' ha$e only a
$ery, $ery brief "omment on the whole matter, but it seems
the maga8ine published some remarkable pro$en parallels
between the life and death of 1resident Lin"oln of the
7.).A. and 1resident Mennedy of the 7.).A. -his will so
ade&uately reply to many &uerents that ' will gi$e all the
details here. Let us do them numeri"ally as then it will be so
mu"h easier if you want to refer to them or dis"uss them
with your friends. )o here the first one isA?
=. 1resident Lin"oln was ele"ted to that *ffi"e in the year
=HF>. -hat, of "ourse, "an be as"ertained from history books.
)o ? Lin"oln be"ame 1resident in =HF>, and here is the first
"oin"iden"e# Mennedy be"ame 1resident in =:F>, a hundred
years later.
@. 't might shake you to know that 1resident Lin"oln was
assassinated on a riday. 1resident Mennedy was
assassinated on a riday.
C. /ou may ha$e read that 1resident Lin"oln was at a
theatre en(oying a stage show in the presen"e of his wife, and
he was then assassinated in the presen"e of his wife. 1resi3
dent Mennedy was $isiting Dallas, -e6as, and he was riding
in a "ar with his wife. %e also was en(oying the show, that is,
the show of publi" a""laim, et".
D. 1resident Lin"oln was shot in the ba"k while sitting in a
bo6 at the theatre. 1resident Mennedy was shot in the ba"k
while sitting in a "ar.
E. 1resident Lin"oln was su""eeded by a man "alled <ohn3
son. <ohnson be"ame 1resident after 1resident Lin"oln, but
in -e6as 1resident Mennedy was killed and Bi"e31resident
<ohnson was sworn in as 1resident of the 7.).A. on board an
air"raft bringing the body of the late 1resident and the
li$ing new 1resident ba"k to the "apital.
F. But we ha$e not finished with our list of "oin"iden"es,
yet, not by a long way. -he <ohnson who su""eeded 1resi3
dent Lin"oln was a Demo"rat from )outh 7.).A., and
Lyndon <ohnson who su""eeded 1resident Mennedy also is a
Demo"rat from the )outh 3 from -e6as. )o that is &uite a
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good list of ."oin"iden"es!, isn0t itA -hough to show that
there is more than "han"e taking a part in things, enough to
show that there must be some .Di$ine 1lan! making the en3
tity who was 1resident Lin"oln perhaps "ome ba"k as Men3
nedy so that a task "ould be a""omplished.
All right, let0s get ba"k with?
G. Both the <ohnsons had been members of the )enate
before be"oming 1resident.
H. Lin"oln0s su""essor was Andrew <ohnson. ,ow really
read this . . Andrew <ohnson was born in =H>H, but the
<ohnson who su""eeded 1resident Mennedy was born in
=:>H.
:. Lin"oln was assassinated by a rather strange sort of a
person, a thoroughly dissatisfied sort of person if we are to
belie$e the report, whi"h is now history, and that assassin of
Lin"oln was <ohn 2ilkes Booth and he was born in =HC:. Lee
%ar$ey *swald who, it was stated, murdered 1resident Men3
nedy appears also to ha$e been a $ery dissatisfied sort of
person, one who had been in trouble all too fre&uently. %e
was born in =:C:.
=>. -o "ontinue with our list of ."oin"iden"es!, Booth was
assassinated before he "ould be brought to trial, but so was
*swald# *swald was shot while being mo$ed by the 1oli"e,
and before he "ould be brought to trial.
==. -hese "oin"iden"es, as you ha$e seen, e6tend not only
to the 1residents and the assassins, but also to the wi$es of
the 1residents be"ause Mrs. Lin"oln, the wife of 1resident
Lin"oln, lost a "hild while in the 2hite %ouse, and Mrs.
Mennedy, the wife of 1resident Mennedy, lost a "hild while
in the 2hite %ouse.
=@. Lin"oln had a )e"retary and that )e"retary was "alled
Mennedy. )e"retary Mennedy ad$ised 1resident Lin"oln
most strongly not to go to the theatre where he was as3
sassinated. 1resident Mennedy had a )e"retary also and he
was "alled Lin"oln, and )e"retary Lin"oln strongly ad$ised
1resident Mennedy not to go to Dallas9
=C. <ohn 2ilkes Booth shot 1resident Lin"oln in the ba"k
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while the 1resident was wat"hing a show and then the as3
sassin, Booth ran to hide in a store. But Lee %ar$ey *swald
shot at Mennedy from a store and ran to hide in a theatre.
/ou (ust read that "arefully again and see how $ery strange
it isA *ne assassin shot in a theatre and hid in a store, the
other one shot from a store and hid in a theatre.
=D. L3'3,3C3*3L3, is se$en letters, and if you "ount up
M3+3,3,3+3D3/ you will find that that also has se$en
letters.
=E. 'f you "ount <ohn 2ilkes Booth you will find that there
are fifteen letters, and if you "ount Lee %ar$ey *swald you
will find that that has fifteen letters.
=F. 't is belie$ed that *swald killed Mennedy and *swald
had a""ompli"es. ,one of this has been a"tually, definitely,
in"ontro$ertibly pro$ed# it is a matter of "ir"umstantial e$i3
den"e, no one "an pro$e that Booth murdered Lin"oln. 'n
the same way *swald, it was stated, had a""ompli"es, but it
has not been "on"lusi$ely pro$ed that *swald did murder
Mennedy, and it has not been pro$ed that *swald had a"3
"ompli"es. Let0s fa"e it &uite bluntly?"ir"umstantial e$i3
den"e points "learly at Booth and at *swald, but again how
mu"h of what we "ould read was a"tual truth and how mu"h
was the press pre3(udging and pre3"ondemning a man4 2e
do not know and ' point out this be"ause it is another "o3
in"iden"e in the "ase of two men.
=G. /ou will remember that the man "alled Ruby, who
was a bit of a fanati", killed *swald, he shot *swald in front
of the tele$ision "ameras, he (ust pushed his way past the
poli"e, pointed a gun and pulled a trigger. But Boston Cor3
bett was also a bit of a fanati", he too belie$ed that he was
doing right when he murdered <ohn 2ilkes Booth. 'n both
"ases these two men killed the man suspe"ted and a""used of
the murder of a 1resident, and in both "ases it was stated
that the se"ond assassin, that is Corbett and Ruby, did so out
of e6"essi$e loyalty for the 1resident of the time. But in
neither "ase is the a"tual moti$e established.
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'n another book ' wrote about the *$erself managing a
group of puppets. 2ell, you think about that in the light of
this information, where two 1residents were ele"ted a hun3
dred years apart, they were both assassinated on a riday,
and?look through the list again and see all the different
"oin"iden"es. ,ow, do you seriously belie$e that these "ould
be (ust "oin"iden"es4 't isn0t really possible, you know. My
own belief is that Lin"oln did not do his (ob, and so he had to
"ome ba"k to substantially the same (ob to finish what he did
not do before.
-he only way to "ome ba"k was to "ome ba"k as one who
would be 1resident of the 7.).A. whi"h is what he did. /ou
"an take it that sometimes an *$erself has .dress rehearsals!
with puppets, so in the "ase of Lin"oln the stage was set,
appropriately enough at a theatre, and a 1resident was as3
sassinated. ,othing was pro$ed against the assumed mur3
derer and the assumed murderer was assassinated by another
person. 't was all most unsatisfa"tory, moti$es were un3
known and nothing was e$er pro$ed against anyone, so
perhaps the *$erself got a bit fed up with su"h a waste of
time and effort and another arrangement was made for a
hundred years later be"ause in the astral world time is
different from here, you know. -he *ther )ide of death the
astral "ould ha$e sat down and s"rat"hed his metaphori"al
head, so to speak, and wondered what to do ne6t. 2ell, by
the time he had fidgeted around and s"rat"hed a bit more, a
hundred years by +arth time would be slipping by.
*ne also wonders what happens now, was that *$erself
satisfied with the se"ond attempt, or will there be a third4
1ersonally ' belie$e that we shall yet see a 1resident of the
7.).A. who is a"tually put in se"lusion for being insane.
,ow ' know all the old (okes about 1residents of the 7.).A.
being mad in any "ase, and far be it from me to dis"ourage
them, but this time it is a serious matter, and ' belie$e that
before too long we shall see a 1resident of the 7.).A. who
has to be relie$ed of his duties be"ause he is too insane to
HE
"ontinue. ' also belie$e that we shall see another $ery
diffi"ult thing# ' belie$e that we shall see many most import3
ant and influential members of the 7.). Go$ernment in3
di"ted for Communist a"ti$ities?for gi$ing aid and "omfort
to the enemy and for selling out their own "ountry. )ome of
you who are fairly young will see all that be"ause it is going
to happen. -here are going to be some truly horrendous
things happening to the 7.).A. )o keep your radios swit"hed
on in the ne6t few years9

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C%A1-+R )'5
-ime is the most $aluable thing a
man "an spend.
-he *ld Man was in his new bed, the new hospital bed
with the motor whi"h lifted the head3pie"e up and down
and whi"h, by pressing a button, ad(usted the height of the
bed. 7p and down he went playing with the thing somewhat
like a "hild with a new toy, perhaps, but it0s not so easy when
one "annot get about at all, when one has to lie in bed, a bed
whi"h is so low that one is pre$ented from e$en looking out
of the window. ,ow the *ld Man had a bed, the height of
whi"h "ould be ad(usted by an ele"tri" motor. %e thought of
himself as a submarine surfa"ing for a look at the world.
.%ey9! yelled Miss Cleopatra, .how the he"k do you think
we are going to (ump on the bed if you keep altering the
height like that, how do you think we "an (udge our dis3
tan"e4!
-he *ld Man "ame ba"k to the present with &uite a (erk,
and hastily set the bed to go its lowest. Miss Cleopatra
(umped up and stood on the *ld Man0s "hest full of indig3
nation. ./ou trying to get rid of me4! she asked. .Do you
want to make it diffi"ult, so ' "an0t "ome and stand on your
"hest, hey4!
.,o, of "ourse not, Cleo,! replied the *ld Man, .but (ust
think, if you stand up here on my "hest you "an look o$er
that stupid bal"ony outside our window and you "an see the
ships in the harbour.!
-ogether they lay there looking out o$er the harbour.
Closest was a ship unloading ni"kel ore, beyond that was a
Russian ship $ery deep in the water astern but with the bows
HG
well out showing that all the forepart had yet to be loaded. A
little farther, two berths farther on, a"tually, a )outh
Morean ship was loading wood pulp for Morea. .Don0t know
why they want to "ome here for wood pulp,! said the *ld
Man, .there0s plenty of trees in )outh Morea.!
.*h well,! said Butter"up, .probably they want to do a
barter or something, and they want to buy wood pulp from
Canada in e6"hange for something else.!
Butter"up was definitely the e6pert when it "ame to ships
and shipping, Butter"up was a spe"ialist when it "ame to
ship0s flags. -he unusual )outh Morean flag defeated her for
(ust a few moments, but ? anything else, 1anama, Monro$ia,
e$en the old Red +nsign, she "ould distinguish it miles off9
Miss -addy looked up, .2hat are you doing, Gu$4! she
asked in a rather pu88led fashion. .%a$e you got so si"k that
you are talking to yourself4!
.,o, of "ourse '0m not talking to myself, '0m (ust making
some notes for a book. Can0t ' make some notes, "an0t '
speak without you interfering, -addykins4!
-addykins shook her head in pu88led ama8ement and
then "urled up in a ni"e "ompa"t ball and dropped off to
sleep again. )uddenly Miss Cleo0s ears pri"ked up and
-addy (erked to full awareness. *utside a strident $oi"e
"ame, .2ell, ' looked in the papers today and ' saw my
horos"ope wasn0t so good so ' thought, well, ' thought to
myself, if you didn0t ha$e a (ob to do, *ld Girl, you0d be
better staying off and being in bed, but you "an0t do that
when you gotter earn a li$ing, when you gotter man to keep,
"an you4! -he $oi"e passed on a""ompanied by the mumble
of some other woman, probably bel"hing out some dri$el
about her own troubles.
.Ah yes,! said the *ld Man, .that reminds me# that0s a
&uestion whi"h ' had here. Let0s see, where is it4! %e riffled
through a pile of letters and triumphantly "ame up with the
desired one.
1ostmark, well somewhere in one of the far 'slands# sub3
(e"t, what is it4 .Dear )ir, ' en"lose a dollar and my birth3
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date. 1lease send me a full horos"ope and life reading
immediately, and send it to me by return by airmail. 'f there
is any "hange keep it for someone who didn0t send a postal
"harge.!
,ow, what do you think of that4 )omeone thinks that
horos"opes grow on trees. -hey are not so easy as that, it
takes time. But here is another &uestionA
.2hat do you really think of horos"opes4 Do all these
people who ad$ertise do it for a ra"ket4 A horos"ope has
ne$er been right for me. 2hat0s the truth of it all4!
2ell, the truth of astrology is this# gi$en the right "on3
ditions, astrology "an be "ompletely a""urate and su""essful
. . . gi$en the right "onditions.
Let me first of all warn you against all this run3of3the3mill
ad$ertising offering to do your horos"ope for a "ouple of
dollars or a few shillings. 2hat you get is a few printed
pie"es of paper whi"h purport to be a horos"ope, but that
stuff is hardly worth putting out for garbage, and in my
"onsidered opinion the same "an be said for all this rot whi"h
is alleged to "ome from "omputers, it (ust isn0t worth the
money. Astrology is not (ust a me"hani"al pro"ess. Astrology
is a s"ien"e and an art, one "annot do it altogether by
s"ien"e, art is ne"essary, and one "annot do it altogether by
art be"ause s"ien"e is ne"essary.
-o do a horos"ope properly 3 really a""urately, that is ? it
is ne"essary to ha$e the pre"ise time of birth and the a"tual
lo"ation of birth. -hen it is ne"essary to spend many days
working out $arious aspe"ts, et". 't "annot be done su"3
"essfully for fi$e or ten dollars, what you get from that sort
of thing is (ust a rough, $ery rough, guide, whi"h "an apply
to thousands of different people. ' will not do a horos"ope
for anyone for any pri"e be"ause ' do not belie$e in people
ha$ing their horos"opes done. 'f people ha$e a horos"ope
done they feel that they (ust ha$e to do e$erything the hor3
os"ope says, and a horos"ope is not an absolutely "ast iron set
of "onditions. A horos"ope is a set of possibilities. By know3
ing a person0s astrologi"al make3up one "an des"ribe what
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the person0s appearan"e should be like, one "an des"ribe
what the person0s "hara"ter should be like, and the hor3
os"ope sets the limits of what the person "an be. or
e6ample, one person "an ha$e a "ertain horos"ope whi"h
says that he "annot rise abo$e the station to whi"h he was
born, but that he "an do "ertain things with immense
effort.
-he se"ond person "ould ha$e a horos"ope whi"h says
that he will rise abo$e his station and he will progress $ery
rapidly with hardly any effort at all. 'f you really want to
know what the horos"ope is like "onsider it in this light# it is
a spe"ifi"ation, an informed guess of what a person0s "apa3
bilities are.
-o make it "learer let us take two "ars. -he Rhoros"ope0 of
a Rolls3Roy"e "ar "an say that the "ar will be $ery silent,
$ery fast, $ery "omfortable, that it will ha$e a "ertain ma6i3
mum speed and it will use so mu"h petrol e$ery few miles.
-he horos"ope of the se"ond "ar perhaps?are there still
Morris Minor0s in +ngland4?will say that it is a low3
powered "ar, $ery, $ery suitable for lo"al (aunts, that its
ma6imum speed is su"h3and3su"h a figure, that it doesn0t use
mu"h petrol, and it is a $ery ni"e little "ar for getting about
in traffi". 2ell, people are like that, they ha$e their
spe"ifi"ations only we "all them horos"opes.
A horos"ope will not tell the eager young lady, you know,
the one who is an6ious to get a husband in a hurry, that she
will go out and meet RMr. Right0 under the third lamp3post
as she turns to the left or to the right, or that she will meet a
dark haired young man who is busy tying his shoe la"es, and
it will be lo$e at first sight. -hat0s not horos"opes at all,
that0s not real astrology, that is fake fortune3telling.
-here are $ery, $ery few really genuine, really "apable
astrologers ad$ertising. -hey don0t ha$e to ad$ertise. -heir
fame, their a""ura"y, is passed by word of mouth, and if yol=
think you "an fill in a "oupon and send it off with fifty "ents
or fi$e shillings and get a life reading?well, think again, for
you are one of the gullible ones who really deser$e to be
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"aught in the su"ker trap for thinking you "an get something
so "heaply. /ou only get what you pay for.
' will not do horos"opes for any sum of money. 'f ' do
them ' do them free under $ery spe"ial "ir"umstan"es, but in
my "onsidered opinion no horos"ope whi"h "osts less than a
hundred dollars is worth ha$ing be"ause it means that the
person who did the horos"ope (ust did not spend enough
time and take enough trouble, so all you ha$e is (ust a few
marks on a pie"e of paper.
'n my own "ase my past was foretold by astrology with
utterly stupendous a""ura"y. +$erything that was foretold
about me has happened, sadly enough a few things e6tra
ha$e happened, a few things whi"h the astrologer didn0t get
around to dis"ussing, and all the wret"hed .e6tras! were bad
things, too9
-o answer a &uestion, then, .'s astrology genuine4! ' will
say, yes, astrology "an be $ery genuine, it "an suggest what a
person0s life will be like, it "an indi"ate probabilities, but
they are probabilities only. )o do not take astrology too
seriously unless you get an absolute gem of an astrologer
who knows e6a"tly what he is doing and who is "ompletely
ethi"al, that is, one who tells you the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. )o many people, so many astrol3
ogers, ha$e their .information! and put in &uite a few sto"k
paragraphs be"ause they know what people want to hear.
,ow here is another one, .My daughter0s husband is a
$ery strange sort of man, he doesn0t belie$e in the same
things as those in whi"h ' belie$e, he doesn0t belie$e in
o""ult things. 2hat "an ' do to make him4!
-he only answer that one "an gi$e here is to state most
definitely that nothing "an be done to help in the way in
whi"h the lady means. 'f a person is not yet ready to study
o""ult sub(e"ts then it is definitely wrong to try to for"e
o""ult things at him.
+$eryone has a right to free "hoi"e, and whi"he$er "hoi"e
they make is entirely their own affair, and their own respon3
sibility. 'f Billy Bugsbottom de"ides that .o""ult stuff is all a
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lot of hogwash!, then why should one try to persuade Billy
Bugsbottom anything different, it0s his belief and his "hoi"e,
and it is definitely wrong to influen"e a person.
-here are so many people who write in asking how they
"an do a Mantra to "ompel some pour wret"h to do some3
thing whi"h they (ust would hate to do, and ' repeat ad
nauseum that it is wrong to influen"e another person.
1erhaps the person has some definite reason for not wanting
to study astrology or o""ultism or how to play snakes and
ladders. 'n the same way it is &uite wrong to e6pe"t a person
to agree with us in e$erything we do. /ou should hear how
Butter"up and ' agree to differ. -here are many things
whi"h ' know from a"tual e6perien"e to be fa"t, but Butter3
"up is entitled to her own opinion and if my beliefs are not
always her beliefs, that is her "hoi"e and ' do not influen"e
her at all. -he "rummy press often print arti"les saying that
Butter"up is a dis"iple of mine# they "ouldn0t be farther
from the truth9 )he is not a dis"iple of mine, nor is she a
Buddhist. -o start with ' ha$e no dis"iples and ne$er had
any, and se"ondly ' belie$e it is wrong for people to swit"h
sides and be"ome a Buddhist when they really want to be a
Christian, or a Christian when they really want to be a Bud3
dhist. Being a bit biased on the matter, ' always say that
when a person is ready they will be"ome a Buddhist auto3
mati"ally be"ause the real Buddhism (ust means obeying the
law of doing unto others as you would ha$e them do unto
you. *f "ourse ' am not meaning some of these pe"uliar
"ults in +ngland and in the 7.).A. who now "all themsel$es
Buddhist .temples!. -hat is not my idea of Buddhism at all.
-he real Buddhist doesn0t ha$e to go out and get "on$erts. '
am a real Buddhist.
2hile on the sub(e"t of astrology, be"ause we are, more or
less, let us ha$e a look at two other systems. ,ow, grapho3
logy, whi"h is the s"ien"e of reading "hara"ter from hand3
writing, is a thing whi"h ' thoroughly endorse when done by
an e6pert. Graphology is not fortune3telling, it is instead a
most a""urate method of determining a person0s "hara"ter,
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potentialities, and all the rest of it. *f "ourse one has to be
an e6pert at su"h things. -oo many beginners or outright
fakes base their "on"lusions on (ust one or two points in the
handwriting, but one has to ha$e about se$en "onfirmations
before one "an say with absolute "ertainty, without any fear
of "ontradi"tion at all, that this is so or that is so.
%andwriting tells "hara"ter and ability and all that. 't is
not in any way possible to fore"ast the future from hand3
writing and no reputable graphologist e$er "laims that it is.
-he ideal use for graphology is in assessing a person0s ability
for a "ertain (ob.
)ome years ago .Ma!, to whom we now refer as .Ra0ab!,
did graphology for "ertain industrial firms, and she did it
su""essfully. irms would supply her with the handwriting
of people who applied to the firm for employment, and then
Ra0ab would &uite a""urately suggest whi"h appli"ant was
the most suitable and gi$e an assessment of his "hara"ter and
abilities.
*h, by the way, perhaps ' should say how .Ma! has sud3
denly be"ome .Ra0ab!# well, the "ats thought that the first
name KMaL would remind people too mu"h of Dinah
Dripdry0s Ma, the "harlady, and so we used instead a name
whi"h she used in a pre$ious life, Ra0ab. -hat is one of my
infamous digressions, by the way, ne$er mind, it0s better to
ha$e a digression than no book, or don0t you think so4
'n this parti"ular book there are going to be many di3
gressions and there are going to be many repetitions# ' ha$e
been looking through a whole series of &uestions, and ' see
that it is &uite essential to ha$e repetitions e$en if one or two
of you do not like it. )o you are being warned now that there
will be a few repetitions. ' "an safely warn you now that you
are so far into the book and, ' hope, ha$e bought the book
instead of borrowing it from some library. A poor wret"hed
author doesn0t get any royalties on books supplied to a Li3
brary, you know, and e$ery book read from the Library
shel$es is a loss of in"ome, that is, a loss of food, to the
author. 1eople write to me and tell me that they ha$e read
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part of one of my books in a 1ubli" Library and now would '
please tell them the answers to a lot of &uestions, or, if ' will
send them a "omplete set of my books, ea"h autographed
and with a photograph of me, they will try to find time to
read the books. %opeful little souls, aren0t they4 )o 3 now
that you0$e got so far and presumably ha$e bought this book
let me say that, yes, there are going to be a few repetitions
but it0s all in a good "ause. ' hope repetition will enable you
to get all this in your sub3"ons"ious. /ou had to pra"ti"e
repetition before you "ould do the multipli"ation tables, and
' am trying to do something for you, help you by pla"ing this
knowledge into your sub3"ons"ious.
-here are many firms who "hoose appli"ants largely on
the basis of the handwriting, and so it0s to your own interest
to brush up on your handwriting. /ou might get a better (ob
or more money that way. /ou might also get an assessment
of "hara"ter from a good graphologist be"ause that will help
you to o$er"ome any weakness in "hara"ter and to streng3
then those whi"h are already strong. But ne$er, ne$er belie$e
that you "an ha$e your .fortune! told from your hand3
writing. /ou "annot.
*ne of the original systems for telling a person0s past,
present and future is by palmistry, reading all those &ueer
marks on the palm. Again, if one really knows how to do it, it
is (ust about infallible. 'n brief and assuming that you are
right handed, then your left hand will indi"ate what you
planned to do in this life, and will indi"ate the e&uipment
with whi"h you "ame, that is, are you artisti", are you a
plodder, are you &ui"k tempered or stolid4 -he left hand
tells what one planned, but the right hand shows what one
has a"tually a"hie$ed up to date. -he a$erage pra"titioner
"an gi$e &uite a good assessment of "hara"ter from the lines
of the hands and fingers, but it needs to be a far more than
a$erage pra"titioner to be able to tell truthfully of the past
life and the probabilities for the future. ,ow, let me stress
that point again# the .probabilities.! -here is nothing on this
+arth that "an say definitely and in"ontro$ertibly what will
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happen to a person, there is no s"ien"e, no art, no skill, no
de$i"e whi"h will say what is going to happen to a person
beyond any shadow of doubt. -ruthful pra"titioners will
admit that they "an tell only probabilities.
-ake, by way of e6ample, some poor fellow who falls out
of a plane without a para"hute# well, anyone would be
(ustified in saying that he is $irtually dead as soon as he
starts to fall be"ause as soon as he stops falling there is a
horrid splat, and he has left his mark on the +arth. But, wait
a moment 3 he may not fall on something hard. -here are
&uite a few "ases of people falling out of aeroplanes and
sur$i$ing to tell the tale?whi"h they do9 'n my own "ase '
fell out of a plane when it was on fire, ' fell about a thousand
feet, and ' sustained $ery se$ere spine in(uries whi"h "aused
a "ertain amount of "ur$ature of the spine. *ther people
ha$e fallen safely, there was one poor fellow who fell out of a
plane and hit a haysta"k and his only real danger was the
fear of being suffo"ated before wat"hers "ould take him out,
dig him out from the bottom of the haysta"k. %e got a bump
or two and a king si8e fright, but he was no worse off.
Another well known "ase happened in )wit8erland. -he
pilot had to lea$e his plane and he left without his para3
"hute, it seems, and he fell through the "old )wiss air and
landed in a deep snowdrift. %is only danger was in free8ing
to death, and people had to dig franti"ally to dig him out,
and his only trouble was feeling a bit "hilly. )o you see any
astrologer would ha$e said that the fellow would meet his
death in an air a""ident be"ause the probability would be
there but the a"tuality wasn!t.
'f any soothsayer, "lair$oyant, astrologer, palmist, et".,
et"., ad lib, tells you su"h a thing will definitely be, then (ust
grab your money and run for it. /ou "an be told prob3
abilities but always, always keep in mind that they are prob3
ablities only and nothing more, nothing at all more. 'f you
"an keep your head and use a little bit of will3power and
imagination, the probabilities "an be o$er"ome.
-here is a "lassi" e6ample of that. Do you know it4 2ell,
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)o"rates, one of the $ery wise men, had his horos"ope pre3
pared, it seems, when he was a $ery young man. -he hor3
os"ope indi"ated that he would be a most enthusiasti" thug
and murderer and would engage in all forms of $illainy with
great elan. -he young )o"rates e6"laimed to himself the
Greek e&ui$alent of .Bud, that0s for the birds# '0m "hanging
fast,! and de"ided to do something about it. )o he "hannelled
all his energies into knowledge, into philosophi"al works,
and now he is re$ered as one of the great )ages, he has made
his indelible mark on the pages of time whereas if he had
(ust sat down under the weight of an unfa$ourable hor3
os"ope he might ha$e (ust left his imprint on the Crooks0
Calendar of Crime. )o there it is, e$en if an astrologer or a
palmist tells you something whi"h frightens you enormously,
remember, you "an o$er"ome it, you "an always sidetra"k
bad things.
By letters whi"h ' re"ei$e ' gather that most of you ha$e
the impression that authors su"h as ' re"line in plush splen3
dour and ha$e a whole gang of se"retaries waiting with
bated breath to hurry to do one0s bidding. ' gather that many
of you think that an author su"h as ' has a Rolls3Roy"e
kno"king at the door, ready to take me out. 't0s not so, it0s
not so at all. A"tually ' am re"lining in some dis"omfort in
a hospital type bed and, at the moment, through disabilities,
et"., ' am not able to type, so Butter"up the Bene$olent is
typing for me as she has typed most of my books 3 typed
them well too, by the way, But do you know what sort of
&uestions ' get4 Admittedly you know about some of them,
but do you know about the &uestions whi"h ' do not nor3
mally answer4 %ow would you, for e6ample# answer this
;uestion. .-ell us about su"h things as "asting shadow
through standing in sunlight4! ;uestion. .'s there really su"h
a thing as distan"e and is the globe really spheroid4! ;ues3
tion. .2hat is the meaning of right this and right that4 Does
that mean one should eat only with the right hand4!
-hat last &uestion is &uite sensible, you know. /ou might
think that some sort of nut or kook sent it in, but if you think
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about it seriously there is a lot of sense to it. 2hat is the
meaning of right this and right that4 2ell, we know all
about doing things the right way and a$oiding wrong, we
know it is right to do good instead of to do wrong, but do
you know that our hands ha$e polarity4 *ne hand is pos3
iti$e and one hand is negati$e. 'f you read ba"k a few para3
graphs to where we dealt with palms you will see that the
left hands deals with the abstra"t, that is, things before we
"ame to this +arth, how we planned things, whereas the
right hand is the pra"ti"al hand, the hand whi"h says how
far we ha$e a"hie$ed our ob(e"ti$es.
'n the same way some of the Arabs of a few years ago had
a $ery definite ruling about hands. -he left hand was known
as the .dirty hand!, and that hand "ould be used only for
dirty tasks su"h as dealing with "ertain aspe"ts of one0s toilet,
but the right hand was the ."lean! hand, and one "ould only
use the right hand when dealing with food. All foodstuff was
tou"hed with the right hand although one "ould pi"k up a
"up or a glass with the left hand. 't would be &uite interest3
ing to in$estigate the matter further and see how mu"h
differen"e it made to one0s digestion when one tou"hed food
with the right hand only, and then, perhaps a month later,
tou"h food with the left hand only.
-he right hand is the "orre"t hand for holding a dagger or
sword, or shaking hands with a person. 'n the old days
people used to "arry a knife or dagger in the right hand as a
means of warding off atta"kers, so when they met a friend
they would e6tend the right hand to show that they had no
knife hidden, to show that they "ame in friendship. And so
we had the start of the "ustom of shaking hands?shake a
person0s hand and you "an see that he is not holding a knife
against his palm with his thumb, and if he has any weapons
"on"ealed in his slee$e?well, shake them out.
rom the same sour"e there is another &uestion. 't isA
.%ow does the )il$er Cord "onne"t the physi"al, and the
*$erself, and the astral at the same time4!
-he )il$er Cord, like e$erything else, is a $ibration, whi"h
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means that it is also a sour"e of energy. -he Cord does not
ne"essarily ha$e to go to (ust one other ob(e"t, that is, it is
not limited to "onne"ting body and soul together. +6ten3
sions "an be taken from it in (ust the same way as you "an
ha$e e6tensions taken from your telephone. 'f you ha$e a
telephone in your li$ing room, then it0s no great diffi"ulty to
ha$e an e6tension to your bedroom.
't is ordinary "ommon sense to reali8e that the *$erself is
the sour"e of ea"h person0s energy, the sour"e of ea"h
person0s being, and the *$erself, you "an say, has ea"h
human on a leash. )o (ust as you "an ha$e a dog on a leash,
or you "an ha$e ten dogs all on leashes, so you "an ha$e an
*$erself "onne"ted to an astral and to a physi"al body.
-here is really nothing to answer in that &uestion e6"ept to
say that if you ha$e a dog, let us say a big dog, at the end of a
leash it is &uite easy to "onne"t a small dog to the leash of the
big dog and that would "orrespond to the *$erself, the
astral, and the physi"al.
-hrough writing books ' ha$e "ome into "onta"t with
some perfe"tly horrible people, some real .kooks! who might
well be "lassed as mental home drop3outs. -hey are in the
great minority, but ' ha$e also "ome into "onta"t with some
remarkably ni"e people. or e6ample, there are two $ery
ni"e ladies in British Columbia, Miss and Mrs. ,ewman#
they are truly trying to make a su""ess of life and ' "onsider
that they are a"hie$ing su""ess. -hey ha$e sent some &ues3
tions and here in this "hapter ' am going to reply to (ust one
of the &uestions for the spe"ial reason that it fits in so well.
)o here is an answer to a spe"ifi" &uestion from Miss and
Mrs. ,ewman. -he &uestion is, .2ill you please e6plain
homose6uality in mu"h the same way as you e6plained
al"oholi"s in IBeyond the -enthJ4!
*ur *$erself, as ' ha$e e6plained, is getting e6perien"e on
+arth. -he *$erself itself is too big, too powerful and too
high3$ibrating to "ome to +arth, and so it has to employ
those lumps of protoplasm whi"h we in our ignoran"e think
is the highest form of e6isten"e anywhere. 2e humans are
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(ust hunks of meat supported on a bony framework and pro3
pelled around by gra"e of the *$erself, but ine$itably hit"h3
ups o""ur.
)ometimes a "ar manufa"turer says to himself Kin effe"t,
of "ourseL .*h, glory be, '0$e "onne"ted the brakes ba"k3be3
fore3frontways on su"h3and3su"h a "ar. Let0s "all it ba"k.! )o
noti"es go out to "ar owners and the "ars ha$e to be re"alled
to the fa"tory for "ertain things to be put right.
'n the hurly3burly of getting from the astral world to that
world we "all +arth, mi63ups o""ur. Being born is a trau3
mati" e6perien"e, it0s a most $iolent affair, and a $ery deli3
"ate me"hanism "an easily be"ome deranged. or e6ample, a
baby is about to be born and throughout the pregnan"y the
mother has been rather "areless about what she was eating
and what she was doing, so the baby has not re"ei$ed what
one might term a balan"ed "hemi"al input. -he baby may
be short of a "hemi"al and so de$elopment of "ertain glands
may ha$e been halted. Let us say the baby was going to
"ome as a girl, but through la"k of "ertain "hemi"als, the baby
is a"tually born a boy, a boy with the in"linations of a girl.
-he parents might reali8e that they0$e got a sissified little
wret"h and put it down to o$er3indulgen"e or something,
they may try to beat some sense into him one end or the
other to make him more manly, but it doesn0t work# if the
glands are wrong, ne$er mind what sort of atta"hments are
stu"k on in front, the boy is still a girl in a boy0s body.
At puberty the boy may not de$elop satisfa"torily, or
again, he may to all outward appearan"es. At s"hool he may
well appear to be one of the limp3wristed fraternity, but the
poor fellow "an0t help that.
2hen he rea"hes man0s estate he finds he "annot .do the
things that "ome naturally!, instead he runs after boys?
men. *f "ourse he does be"ause all his desires are the desires
of a woman. -he psy"he itself is female, but through an
unfortunate set of "ir"umstan"es the female has been sup3
plied with male e&uipment, it might not be mu"h use but its
still there9
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-he male then be"omes what used to be "alled a .pansy!
and has homose6ual tenden"ies. -he more the psy"he is
female, the stronger will be the homose6ual tenden"ies.
'f a woman has a male psy"he, then she will not be
interested in men but will be interested in women, be"ause
her psy"he, whi"h is "loser to the *$erself than is the physi3
"al body, is relaying "onfusing messages to the *$erself and
the *$erself sends ba"k a sort of "ommand, Get busy, do
your stuff.0 -he poor wret"hed male psy"he is ob$iously re3
pelled by the thought of .doing his stuff! with a man, and so
all the interest is "antered on a female, so you get the spe"3
ta"le of a female making lo$e to a female and that0s what we
"all a lesbian be"ause of a "ertain island off Gree"e where
that used to be .the done thing!.
't is &uite useless to "ondemn homose6uals, they are not
$illains, instead they should be "lassed as si"k people, people
who ha$e glandular troubles, and if medi"ine and do"tors
had the brains they were born with then they would do
something about that glandular defe"t.
After my own e6perien"es of late ' am e$en more "on3
$in"ed that 2estern do"tors are a "rummy lot of kooks (ust
out to make a fast bu"k. My own e6perien"es ha$e been
unmentionably and ad(e"ti$ally deplorable, howe$er we are
not dis"ussing me now, we are dis"ussing homose6uals.
'f a lesbian KwomanL or a homose6ual KmaleL "an find a
sympatheti" do"tor, then glandular e6tra"ts "an be gi$en
whi"h "ertainly impro$e the "ondition a lot and make life
bearable, but unfortunately nowadays with the present
breed of do"tor who seems to be out to make money only,
well, you ha$e to sear"h a long way to get a good do"tor. But
it is useless to "ondemn a homose6ual, it is not his fault or
her fault. -hey are $ery, $ery unhappy people be"ause they
are "onfused, they don0t know what has happened to them,
they know that people are sneering at them, and they "an0t
help what is, after all, the strongest impulse known to man
or woman?the reprodu"tion impulse.
%ead shrinkers alias psy"hologists are not mu"h help
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really be"ause they take years to do what the a$erage person
would do in a few days. 'f it is "learly e6plained to the
homose6uals that they ha$e a glandular imbalan"e, then
they "an usually ad(ust. Anyhow, the laws are being am3
ended to "ater for su"h "ases instead of sub(e"ting them to
su"h fier"e perse"ution and imprisonment for what is truly
an illness.
-here are $arious ways of helping su"h people. -he first is
deep sympathy with the sufferer should e6plain pre"isely
what has happened. -he se"ond is the same as the first but
with the addition that the $i"tim should be gi$en some
medi"ament whi"h suppresses the se6ual urge, the se6ual
dri$e. -he third?well, again, matters should be e6plained,
and a &ualified do"tor "an gi$e hormone or testrone in3
(e"tions whi"h "an definitely help the body in the matter of
se6ual ad(ustment.
-he $ital thing is that one should ne$er, ne$er "ondemn a
homose6ual, it0s not his fault, he is being penali8ed for some3
thing he hasn0t done, he is being penali8ed for some fault of
,ature# perhaps his mother had the wrong sort of food,
perhaps the mother and the "hild were "hemi"ally in"om3
patible. %owe$er, whi"he$er way you look at it, homo3
se6uals "an only be helped by true understanding and
sympathy, and possibly with the (udi"ious administration of
drugs.
' see here a &uestion whi"h a"tually we ha$e already
answered. 1erhaps ' had better answer it again. -he &ues3
tion is, .%ow did the mis"on"eption o""ur that o""ultists
"annot "harge for their ser$i"es4!
-he answer is not far to seek. 'n the ar +ast most people
are desperately poor, they do not ha$e tele$isions and "ars
and pri$ate air"raft and split le$el homes. )ometimes they
(ust ha$e food and a few "lothes, sometimes people of the
ar +ast do not see money during the whole of their lifetime.
'nstead they make their pur"hases by barter, they e6"hange
produ"e, eggs and all that, or e$en labour, for the things they
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want. )o if a peasant wants the ser$i"es of an o""ultist the
peasant will not think of gi$ing money to the o""ultist be3
"ause he doesn0t ha$e any, so instead he will pro$ide the
o""ultist with food, grain for e6ample or fruit, and again, if
he doesn0t ha$e any eggs or grain or fruit to spare, then he
will do work for the o""ultist, mend his robes for e6ample,
"ar$e a new bowl. 'f he had a""ommodation then the
peasant will "lean his a""ommodation. 't may be a "a$e in
the hillside and in that "ase the person who has used the
o""ultist0s ser$i"e will "lean the "a$e so many times, will
sweep up the old grass and strew the floor with fresh grass.
%e will pro$ide firewood and will do all ne"essary work.
't0s still payment, though, isn0t it4 'f he gi$es food, if he
gi$es labour, it0s still payment. But a"tually the warning
against payment was a different matter altogether be"ause
the warning is against uns"rupulous 2esterners who ad3
$ertise ser$i"es they "annot really perform, and who are (ust
out to make unreasonable "harges. )ome of the ad$er3
tisements ' ha$e seen are truly too fantasti" to be belie$ed. 't
strikes me as most hilarious to think of a fellow pa"king his
brief "ase and perhaps an o$ernight "ase and dashing off
into the astral to read somebody0s Akashi" Re"ord, always of
"ourse, for a high fee. )u"h things are impossible, they are
&uite impossible be"ause there is a $ery stri"t o""ult law to
the effe"t that no person "an see the Akashi" Re"ord of
another person who is ali$e. 'f you want to know what
happened fi$e hundred years ago, then that is a different
matter, that is history and you "an "onsult the Akashi"
Re"ord in that "ase (ust as you "an go to film libraries and
pi"k out histori"al films. But (ust as many things are
"lassified nowadays, you "annot report the speed of a "ertain
plane or you "annot say how fast a "ertain shell goes, well, in
mu"h the same way you (ust "annot see or dis"uss the Aka3
shi" Re"ord of a li$ing person. After all, the )pirit 2orld,
you know, doesn0t e6ist solely for some of these "ranky ad3
$ertisers# think of that when you read some of the ad$er3
tisements, and ha$e a laugh with me, will you4
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C%A1-+R )+B+,
'n(ure others and you in(ure
yourself.
-he day had been $ery pleasant, a "lear blue sky and a
warmer temperature than had been during the past few
weeks. -here were signs that the winter had ended and that
spring was really thinking about peeping around the "orner
of the "alendar and bringing warmth and sunshine and new
life to those (aded and defeated by the frigid winters of
Canada.
'n the $alleys snow was still thi"k and would remain so for
perhaps a few weeks more, but in the higher ground e6posed
to the warming rays of the sun the snows were fast melting
and tri"kling ri$erlets "ame rushing down to swell the )aint
<ohn Ri$er.
-he day had seen many birds flying by, signs that spring
was "oming, birds returning to their old haunts# a whole
"o$ey of du"ks went by, soon after a huge bla"k3ba"k seagull
had "ome sweeping in from the sea to land on the roof and to
peer about and utter rau"ous "ries.
-he e$ening had turned "hilly. -here was a hint of snow
in the air. )uddenly, une6pe"tedly there "ame the drum3
ming of hailstones beating rapidly upon the windows, boun"3
ing off the bal"onies, and, for a few moments, "arpeting the
road with a white i"y sheen.
-he *ld Man thought, .*h, poor Mr. Robi"haud, he0ll
ha$e to get busy again in the morning9! During the day Mr.
Robi"haud had been $ery busy sweeping aside puddles of
melting snow, brushing away gra$el thrown down by "ity
tru"ks in an attempt to pro$ide tra"tion for motor traffi".
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But now the hail had "ome dri$ing fresh gra$el into the
front of the building and adding to the work of an already
mu"h o$erworked man.
-he e$ening sped by and lights in the "ity went out one by
one. 'n the %ospital the lights were e$er on, always ready for
emergen"ies, always ready by day and by night.
-he *ld Man turned his head and looked out of the
window o$er the bal"ony# down in the %arbour there was
still a"ti$ity. -he Russian ship loading grain for Russia was
still a bla8e of light. -here was the "lank of ma"hinery and
the hissing of high pressure steam.
Closer there was the terrible blare, and blare, and blare
again as one of the Canadian ,ational infernal diesel engines
"lattered along the rails o$er the le$el "rossing, hooting and
blaring as if the world had gone mad. .' wonder that no one
has told the engineer that there are signal lights on the "ross3
ing,! thought the *ld Man, be"ause it does seem insane how
in Canada lo"omoti$es go along to the "onstant blare of
sirens and the in"essant "langing of bells. 't0s something like
a gang of $ery small "hildren playing with toys in the noisiest
way possible. Canada, e$en more than the 7.).A., should
be known as the Land of ,oise and Bustle.
-he *ld Man lifted his ga8e again beyond the le$el "ross3
ing and the endless pro"ession of freight "ars obstru"ting the
road. 'n the %arbour tugs were "oming to a Liberian ship
whi"h had (ust re"ently unloaded se$en thousand tons of
ni"kel ore. +arlier the ship had been arrested for non3pay3
ment of dues in the 7.).A. 't had steamed away from a
1a"ifi" "oast port apparently without the little formality of
paying harbour dues, but the telephone was mu"h faster
than a ship and telephone messages had ra"ed all a"ross from
the 1a"ifi" "oast of the 7.).A. to the +ast "oast of Canada,
and earlier in the day 1oli"e offi"ials had mar"hed aboard
the ship and ser$ed an arrest order to the Captain.
ranti" work had resulted in a bond being posted and now
the ship was free to mo$e, so tugs were "oming to tow her out
sternwards, tow her out ba"kwards into the deep water
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"hannel and then, with her pointing in the right dire"tion,
off she would steam possibly for Australia.
-he 1ilot was already aboard, the 1ilot boat was going
out beyond the buoys waiting for the ship whi"h would then
slow and the 1ilot boat would sidle along and take off the
1ilot, and then the ship would be free to mo$e away on her
own.
-he ship went out silently, no hooting, no "lanking, no
hissing of steam, the ship stole away as if she were ashamed
of being arrested through the perfidy and bad faith of man3
kind, mankind as e6emplified by those who should ha$e paid
the bills in"urred for their ser$i"e.
All o$er the "ity the sleeping people were lea$ing their
physi"al bodies and going up into the astral worlds, their
)il$er Cords were stret"hed out like skins of silk, self3illumi3
nated, shiny, twit"hing and (erking.
-he *ld Man smiled to himself be"ause from one room
"ame the soft snores of Butter"up. .)he0d ne$er belie$e what
a ra"ket she is making9! thought the *ld Man. )uddenly her
astral form appeared through a wall and off she shot,
straight up and then away in the dire"tion of the 7.).A.
2ith her astral out of her body the snores in"reased.
rom another room Ra0ab was doing a bit of snoring too.
)he had gone off earlier to an astral Cat Land where she
would be met by some truly belo$ed little people, Miss
Mu0ei, Mrs. ifi Greywhiskers, Miss Cindy, Long -om, and
Lord urhead, and others. Ra0ab had the benefit that she
was aware of when she was going to the Land of the Astral
Cats, but probably Ra0ab was not aware of how stertorous
her snores would be9
Little Girl Cat Cleopatra was sleeping away as well
beside Ra0ab. )he too was off to the Land of the Astral Cats,
but at Cat -addykins was on duty, she would be on duty
until D o0"lo"k in the morning, and at Cat -addykins was
resting on the shelf (ust abo$e the radiator where she got all
the warmth, all the beautifully heated rising air. *ne arm
was dangling o$er, the other was supporting her "hin. %er
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hind &uarters were fa"ing one way and her head &uarters
were fa"ing another way, a position that only a "at "ould
adopt.
ar out in the Bay of undy a fishing boat suddenly
flashed its sear"hlight. 't wa$ered around for a moment and
then, as suddenly, was e6tinguished and there was no tra"e
that a little fishing $essel was anywhere about. /et all o$er
the bay there were fishing $essels with their lines out and
with their nets, hoping to get fish and that were not "on3
taminated by the mer"ury in the water flowing from the
7.).A., from some big industrial plant in the 7.).A. whi"h
had dis"harged mu"h poisonous efflu$ia into the streams
passing by their boundaries. And yet there was a fresh sour"e
of poison be"ause an oil tanker had broken up and sunk
beneath the wa$es off the "oast of ,o$a )"otia, and oil and
poisoned birds and fish were being swept shorewards all the
time. )o the fishermen of ,ew Brunswi"k were out about
their business rather gloomily, knowing that their li$elihood
was at stake be"ause of the "riminal manner in whi"h Man
polluted the sour"es of ,ature.
-he sky had a few "louds s"udding a"ross, there seemed to
be &uite a wind "oming up. -he three flags away on the hill
were flapping madly and the halyards were slapping against
the masts as if in unison with the wa$ing of the flags.
*$er the hill beyond Mispe" the full moon suddenly
sailed with ama8ing rapidity straight up into a "lear pat"h of
sky, "asting a pale brillian"e o$er the whole s"ene, dimming
the street lights, dimming the lights along the new bridge
o$er the )aint <ohn Ri$er, and as the moon rose the shaft of
sil$er light sped rippling along the sea all the way from
Mispe" point to the %arbour, brilliant fingers tou"hing a
fishing $essel here, lighting a buoy there, sil$ering a strip of
land and breaking up in ripples as it en"ountered the wake of
a speeding tug.
-he *ld Man turned suddenly and a sharp, tearing,
wren"hing pain gripped him inside, a pain that left him
gasping and almost ret"hing with the sudden agony of it.
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1ain, his "onstant "ompanion for a long time past, pain
whi"h was be"oming e$en more fre&uent and e$en more in3
tense, pain whi"h pointed with ine6orable fingers at the "al3
endar showing how the (ourney through life was
progressing, showing how soon it must end.
*n the shelf abo$e the radiator at Cat -addykins stood
up, peered intently at the *ld Man, muttered to herself, and
went trotting into where Ra0ab was still asleep. )oon the
)il$er Cord atta"hed between Ra0ab0s astral and physi"al
&ui$ered and started to reel in, it reeled in with in"reasing
rapidity until the astral body "ame as well. )e"onds after
Ra0ab "ame in to see what "ould be done for the *ld Man,
but what "ould be done4 -he *ld Man had been in a state
of permanent ama8ement sin"e ha$ing .medi"al treatment!
in Canada. 'n his ignoran"e he had thought that the first
duty of a do"tor was the relief of suffering, that is what he
had been taught. %e had been taught that first of all you
relie$e the suffering, then you try to "ure what "aused it. But
now?well, he saw the other side of the story, not as the
do"tor but as the patient.
-he *ld Man had had mu"h pain and he and Ra0ab had
asked the do"tors for some pain relie$ing tablets, or any3
thing. irst they had been told, .,o, we do not want to gi$e
it yet, it might disguise the symptoms.! But in the meantime
the *ld Man still had his pain, still had his suffering, in the
meantime the *ld Man had been taken to hospital as a des3
perate emergen"y, and a "ompassionate nurse at the first
hospital had done what the do"tors did not seem able to
do.
-hen "ame the se"ond emergen"y and another hospital,
and the $erdi"t that nothing "ould be done. )o, knowing
that nothing "ould be done to "ure, the *ld Man and Ra0ab
and Butter"up (ust "ould not understand why it was that
nothing "ould be done to relie$e suffering, to ease the pain,
to gi$e rest for, to ask yet again, is not the do"tor0s first task
the relief of suffering4 And if he "annot "ure the "ause, then
surely he "an gi$e relief while there is still life.
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)o Ra0ab looked around helplessly 3 what was there that
she "ould do4 -here wasn0t anything, she had no drugs,
nothing. )o on"e again she (ust had to sit and wat"h and gi$e
nothing else e6"ept sympathy and understanding.
)oon there "ame Cleopatra who did the feline e&ui$alent
of handsprings in the hope of distra"ting attention from
pain, in the hope of pro$iding some light relief, and Cleo3
patra and -addykins both purred away to show how they
understood how bad all this suffering was. -wo little people
who to the a$erage man or woman in the street would
appear to be (ust two $ery, $ery beautiful little animals, but
to those who know them these two little people are people
apart, intelligent, highly "i$ili8ed and entirely sympatheti"
and understanding.
And so the *ld Man lying in his bed of pain still won3
dered why the lo"al medi"al fraternity did not seem to ha$e
heard of pain relie$ers, or, if they had, why did they not use
them, why did they not use su"h methods of gi$ing relief to
one who truly was in "onsiderable distress4
,ow the sky darkened, the moon was e6tinguished by
bla"k lowering "louds. A sudden ha8e "ame o$er the far sea
and sped rapidly landwards, the first pattering drops of rain
hit the window panes and a blast of air shook the building.
)oon the storm burst in all its fury, the howling, shrieking
wind and torrents of rain interspersed with hail. Down it
"ame drowning out all memory of a pleasant day, hiding the
%arbour under a $eil of rain. Lights in the streets showed
up as a ghostly greenish3blue as the sodium lamps $ainly
stro$e to penetrate the water fog and the beating rain.
-he drumming of the rain was monotonous, the shrieking
of the wind howling around the "orners of the building,
pushing against the windows, making the doors rattle, it re3
minded the *ld Man of how things seemed to be inside
him.
-he night seemed endless, it seemed that e$ery minute
was an hour, and e$ery hour was a day. Ra0ab, at the *ld
Man0s re&uest, went ba"k to bed. Cleo stayed for a time,
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when she too went ba"k to bed. -addykins resumed her post
on the shelf until D o0"lo"k in the dark and gloomy morning.
At D o0"lo"k Miss Cleopatra "ame ba"k into the room and
(umped up by -addy. Briefly they tou"hed noses and -addy
(umped off lea$ing Miss Cleopatra to settle down into
almost the same position that -addy had adopted.
*utside the first traffi" was beginning to mo$e, early
workers going to the do"ks. Down below a man started his
"ar, perhaps he was going to the dry do"k to see what was
happening. A lonely tug hooted away as if lost in the rain
and darkness. -here was no sign of the lighthouse, the rain
"ompletely obs"ured its rays, but faintly "ould be heard the
mournful lowing of the fog horn.
-he hours dragged on. At last dim gray light appeared
o$er the Mispe" hills, a dim gray light whi"h did little to
dispel the gloom for it (ust showed a thoroughly unpleasant
day, e$erything saturated with water. 2ater teeming from
the rooftops, water streaming down the roadways, and sud3
denly s&ualls obliterating the sight of the bridge and the
%arbour.
More hours passed on, and more people began to stir.
Ra0ab "ame ba"k, shortly after Butter"up "ame. Another day
had started.
-he %arbour looked almost empty. A Blue )tar freighter
was (ust turning into the stream ready to go out. )he too
was an6ious to lea$e us. -he Russian ship was still there with
a faint plume of steam "oming from its e6haust, and down
on the D.*.-. wharf men were boarding one of the red3
hulled ships that went out to take supplies to the lighthouse
keepers and pro$ide ser$i"e to the light buoys and the sound
buoys. 'n the middle of the %arbour a solitary tug was mo3
tionless, a figure at the stern seemed to be hauling in on a
fishing line. 1erhaps the tug men were trying to "at"h their
breakfast9
-he ine$itable, in"essant mail "ame pouring in. *n this
day with the *ld Man feeling like something the "at
brought in, se$enty3eight letters "ame, nearly all of them
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from people who wanted something, nearly all of them with3
out the elementary "ourtesy of a reply stamp.
*ne woman wrote so gushingly, .*h, Dr. Rampa, ' ha$e
been told that you are going to die and ' thought ' must get
your help before it was too late for me. 2ill you do this for
me?you must do this for me before you die.!
1eople wrote in and wrote in, the *ld Man did his best to
answer reasonable &uestions. Butter"up worked hard and a"3
"urately typing the letters whi"h the *ld Man was now no
longer able to do, but there was no let3up from people. )o
many of them, no sooner had they re"ei$ed a reply than they
sent ba"k a whole shoal of &uestions .before it was too
late!.
*ne .lady! in -oronto sent se$en letters all by one deli$ery.
Apparently she wrote a letter of se$eral pages and then when
she0d got it all ready and posted she thought of other things
she wanted to know, and so on, and so on, until se$en letters
had arri$ed.
-he *ld Man had many strange e6perien"es with letters.
*ne woman in *ntario wrote really inflammatory letters and
managed to get hold of the *ld Man0s address. )he got in
tou"h with the 1oli"e and said it was desperately ne"essary
to "onta"t Dr. Rampa, it was a matter of life and death. And
so our good3natured, well3intentioned lo"al 1oli"e sent a
poli"e "ar to where the *ld Man li$ed, to where the *ld
Man was ill, and the 1oli"eman had a $ery stern order. ./ou
must phone this number immediately, it0s a matter of life
and death.! -he same woman sent )pe"ial Deli$ery letters,
telegrams ? e$erything. And at last the *ld Man "ouldn0t
sti"k it any longer, .at last! was "aused by a letter from the
woman saying that unless the *ld Man would be her .friend!
she would "ommit sui"ide and she en"losed three pages with
(ust the same thing repeated, .Die KnameL, Die KnameL, Die
KnameL.! -he *ld Man "ould take no more so he got in tou"h
with the 1oli"e in the distri"t in whi"h she li$ed, and the
1oli"e went along to see her about these letters of an .am3
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pea"e, it is understood, though, that the poor unfortunate
poli"eman who had to "all upon her returned to the )tation
"onsiderably shaken by the e6perien"e.
2hen the *ld Man was at %abitat he was in bed one
night &uite seriously ill. At round about midnight there
"ame a thunderous kno"king at the door. Ra0ab hurried
from her room and the *ld Man managed to get out of bed
and into the wheel "hair, and to grasp something in "ase it
was an unwanted intruder. But at the door were two
ren"h3Canadian poli"emen, and in de"idedly shaky +nglish
they demanded to see Dr. Rampa. *ne of the poli"emen was
from the fraud s&uad, the other was a poli"e dri$er. -hey
wanted to know all sorts of things, all manner of &uestions
had to be answered, and at midnight. At last the *ld Man
wanted to know what it was all about, why were they asking
so many &uestions, and the two poli"emen looked at ea"h
other and one walked to the telephone, then in a gabble of
ren"h3Canadian spoke to his )uperintendent. After repla"3
ing the telephone their manner "hanged "ompletely. %e said
that a man in the Middle 2est )tates of the 7.).A. had
telephoned the Montreal 1oli"e %ead&uarters saying there
was a desperate emergen"y and would the 1oli"e please "on3
ta"t Dr. Rampa, address unknown, and get him to "all a
"ertain number in that Middle 2est Ameri"an )tate.
'n relaying the message to the poli"e on patrol the infor3
mation was somewhat garbled, and be"ause a fraud s&uad
man took the message he thought he was "oming to see the
*ld Man on a matter of fraud, and so he a"ted a""ordingly.
%owe$er, at last matters were straightened out and the
poli"e left. Apologies were a bit late, well after midnight,
and after rousing and distressing a $ery si"k man.
-he same thing happened when the *ld Man li$ed in
)aint <ohn pre$iously. -he 1oli"e were phoned by some old
biddy in Montreal. )he said it was a matter of life and death,
and so the poli"e "ame up like eager bea$ers thinking they
were going to sa$e a life. -he phone "all was made and the
stupid "lot of a woman (ust wanted the *ld Man to tell her
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husband that she shouldn0t ha$e any se6 life with him9
'n"identally, although "onsiderable e6pense was in$ol$ed,
the woman and her husband ha$e not made any attempt to
repay that e6pense. -hat0s what usually happens, some
person (ust thinks that the *ld Man is made of money and
that he is (ust dying to rush to their aid and to pay them for
that pleasure.
;uite re"ently a man wrote from Asia. %e wrote to say
that he wanted to do good for mankind, and he thought he
would be"ome a do"tor, so he instru"ted the *ld Man to
send money immediately for this would3be do"tor0s first3"lass
air fare to Canada. %e told the *ld Man that he Kthe *ld
ManL should ha$e the honour of pro$iding board and lodg3
ing and pay all e6penses for this would3be do"tor. %e ended
by writing, .' "an ne$er repay you but at least you will know
that ' am doing good for others.!
/et another "ase at %abitat was when a man "ame late at
night "omplete with his luggage. %e (ust "ame to the door
and banged and banged until he got an answer. %e "ame all
the way from 'ndia, and he said, .' ha$e "ome to li$e with
you as your son. ' will "ook for you.! And he tried to push his
way in?"omplete with luggage.
-he *ld Man was thinking about these things, thinking
about some of the humans who wrote in, thinking of the
woman who wrote to say that her book was all ready, the
book whi"h the *ld Man had di"tated to her telepathi"ally,
and now she wanted a letter written by him saying that a
1ublisher was to take it and gi$e the royalties to her.
A most entertaining book "ould be written about some of
the remarkable letters whi"h are sent, but really the *ld
Man in the short time remaining is far more interested in
answering &uestions whi"h it is hoped will help people. )o
many &uestions are &uite sensible, &uestions su"h as
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.2hy is it that we ne$er remember the tasks we are sup3
posed to do when we are on this +arth4 2hy do we ha$e to
press forward blindly without knowing what we are doing4
Can you tell me that40
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2ell, yes, "ertainly, there is nothing $ery remarkable
about it. 'f people knew beforehand what they had to do
they would "on"entrate e6"lusi$ely on that thing, and so
gain a $ery one3sided knowledge or e6perien"e.
' am often told that ' liken the +arth life to a s"hool. But
of "ourse ' do, it is a s"hool, a s"hool for humans. And so,
going ba"k to our s"hool e6planation, "onsider this# you
study at s"hool, but then you ha$e to take an e6amination.
/ou ha$e to take an e6amination. /es, an e6amination to
find out how mu"h you know. /ou go to the e6amination
room without knowing what the &uestions are going to be. 'f
you knew the &uestions before you went to the e6amination
room, then it would (ust not be an e6amination at all be3
"ause you would (ust swot up a few senten"es on a $ery few
sub(e"ts, and ob$iously you would pass the e6amination with
ease 3 but you wouldn0t know anything.
At s"hool one has to learn a broad field of knowledge, and
to make sure that one does learn an ade&uately broad field of
knowledge e6aminations are set for some future date. -he
students know that there is going to be an e6amination, but
ob$iously they do not know the e6a"t &uestions. -hus it is
by the e6aminations, and not spe"iali8e in (ust one or two
items.
)upposing a surgeon, or rather, surgeon3to3be, was taking
his e6aminations and he had been sla"k throughout his
studies, supposing that someone had told him the pre"ise
nature of the &uestions. 'f the surgeon3to3be was un3
s"rupulous and unprin"ipled he would "on"entrate only on
the answers to those &uestions and, of "ourse, would pass
."um laude!.
But you might be his first patient. )upposing you went for
a kidney operation and all he "ould do was remo$e an ap3
pendi6 ? would you feel happy4
2ould you feel happy in dealing or flying with an air pilot
who, by knowing the answers to the e6a"t e6amination &ues3
tions and knowing little else, had managed to get a (ob4 *f
"ourse you wouldn0t.
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/ou are kept from knowing what your task is in this life so
that you do your best Kor at least it is hoped that you will9L in
the whole field of life. /ou might ha$e a task that you ha$e
to be kind to "ats# well, if you knew what you had to do you
might be $ery kind to "ats, si"keningly so, in fa"t, but you
might be so wrapped up in the "at theme that you would
perhaps unwittingly "ause anguish to dogs or horses by "om3
pletely and utterly negle"ting them. ,o, Mrs. ;uestioner, it
is pro$idential that humans do not know their task on +arth.
'f they did it would make them unbalan"ed and one3
sided.
But do not get the idea that e$eryone who writes is a
dumkopf or "lutterhead, su"h would be absolutely in"orre"t.
' ha$e be"ome a"&uainted with some e6traordinarily ni"e
people. Baleria )oro"k, for one. )he was the first to greet me
when we arri$ed from 'reland, sin"e that we ha$e been firm
friends and Baleria )oro"k has an absolutely wonderful
$irtue# she is "ompletely and utterly reliable. ' am not at all
mobile and if there is anything in parti"ular that ' need, of
"ourse always something whi"h is e6tremely diffi"ult to
obtain, then Baleria )oro"k is the one to lo"ate it. 2e li$e
&uite a long way apart physi"ally, but we are $ery "lose
spiritually.
Let me salute Baleria )oro"k here for her unfailing "on3
stan"y, for her loyalty, and for the immense effort she puts in
to do any kindness. )he is not a wealthy woman by any
means at all, in fa"t she has to work hard and tra$el many
miles to earn what is truly a mere pittan"e, yet Baleria
)oro"k "an always afford the time to do anything and to
help. )o?Baleria?my thanks to you and my undying
friendship to you in return for the friendship you ha$e
always gi$en me.
-here are &uite a number of people who are definitely
abo$e a$erage, $ery definitely abo$e a$erage, and it0s a sad
thought that these people most times are not at all well en3
dowed with this world0s goods. Most times these people are
so de"ent and so modest that they definitely underrate their
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own abilities. ' am thinking now of two $ery brilliant people,
Mr. and Mrs. C8ermak. -hey are ha$ing a diffi"ult time be3
"ause, in my opinion, they do not .sell themsel$es!.
Mr. C8ermak is a man whom anyone "ould be proud to
know, a man of the better type, a man with a first3"lass brain,
and who e6"els at something whi"h always defeats me 3
figures9 igures that go =3 @ 3 C, et"., not the type that one
looks at although ' ha$e no doubt that Mr. C8ermak "ould
possibly beat me at looking at those.
-hen there is Mrs. C8ermak, a truly $ery, $ery gifted
person indeed. )he has most e6traordinary artisti" ability,
"erami"s, photography, anything in the artisti" line seems to
be "hild0s play to her. )he puts the brakes on her own pro3
gress, though, by tending to be too mu"h of a perfe"tionist.
*ne "annot ha$e perfe"tion in this world, and if one stri$es
too mu"h for utter perfe"tion then one wastes too mu"h time
on the unattainable.
)oon we shall be dealing with two &uestions, one from Mr.
C8ermak and one from Mrs. C8ermak.
/es, people write to me with all sorts of strange problems,
and the longest letter ' ha$e re"ei$ed from any one person
was written on a pie"e of paper : in"hes wide by =C feet :
in"hes long. 't was all one "ontinuous sheet of paper and the
whole thing was "losely typed. )o, as ' say, that is the longest
letter ' ha$e had. 2hat would you do with it4 )o did '9
-hen, of "ourse, there0s <ohn %enderson. ' be"ame a"3
&uainted with him following a letter or two that he wrote to
me. <ohn %enderson is a $ery ni"e fellow, $ery "apable, and
he0s .going pla"es!. 't is my hope that later he will be able to
unfold his spiritual wings and write a book or two, start a
)piritual Retreat, and do whate$er people on the *ther )ide
suggest that he should do.
/es, ' make some $ery ni"e a"&uaintan"eships. )ome
people who write in ha$en0t the $aguest interest in meta3
physi"s, but what does it matter, what does it matter if one is
interested in metaphysi"s or not4 'n fa"t, it might be a good
idea now to answer a &uestion from Mr. %anns C8ermak. %e
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says, ./es, ' do ha$e a &uestion, Dr. Rampa. 2hat is the
most important thing a person should or "an do to de$elop
any latent o""ult abilities he or she might possess4 ' am
asking this be"ause ' seem to ha$e trouble getting started
with the things you des"ribe so "learly in your books. *b$i3
ously ' am doing something wrong and ' am wondering
whether there isn0t a way of preparing one0s mind and
body.!
A"tually, it doesn0t really matter if you do astral tra$el or
not, "ons"iously, that is, be"ause e$eryone does astral tra$el
in the time of sleep. But if you find diffi"ulty in doing some3
thing, then are you sure, really sure, that you want to do it4
Are you sure that there is not some bar imposed, let us say, by
diffi"ulties in a past life4
)upposing a person 3 oh, not you, of "ourse9?had been a
wit"h in a past life. )upposing you had been burned at the
stake or bumped off in some e&ually interesting way, then if
you "ame ba"k to this life with more or less of an interest in
o""ultism you might ha$e some ingrained fear that if you
started again you would end up at the stake or at the end of a
rope, and so your sub3"ons"ious would "lap the brakes on
and you would make no progress.
-he only way one "an pro"eed if one finds real diffi"ulty
in settling down to o""ult work isA
Meditate on the problem. Do you really, sin"erely desire
to astral tra$el or to do "lair$oyan"e or read the "ards or do
anything in that field4
'f you do, if you "an say ./es!, then ask yourself why you
want to do it. /ou must "lear up all these problems first.
-he ne6t thing to ask yourself is, do you fear that you will
be out of the body and will not be able to get ba"k, are you
afraid that some strange entities will atta"k you if you get
out of the body4 'f so, remember that no harm whatsoe$er,
no harm of any sort "an happen to you if you are not
afraid.
'f you are sure that you really want to do o""ult work,
then the best thing is to de$ote a "ertain time ea"h day, e$en
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half an hour of an e$ening, to thinking about it. And the best
way is to imagine as strongly as possible that you are doing
what you want to do, be"ause when you "an get o$er to your
sub3"ons"ious that you want to get out into the astral he will
metaphori"ally, unlo"k the gate and set you free. -hink of
the sub3"ons"ious as a sort of idiot, a high3grade idiot, if you
like, who obeys orders &uite literally so that if at some time
in the past you ha$e said, .Gee9 or 1ete0s sake don0t let me
get out of the body9! then the sub"ons"ious will obey that
in(un"tion until you "an o$erpower its one3tra"k mind and
repla"e the obsolete order by another.
But remember that if you think you are not making pro3
gress, you definitely are so long as you are aware of things.
And my strong ad$i"e to you is that if you are e6perien"ing
obsta"les or diffi"ulties, then (ust do not bother, wait until
things settle themsel$es.
2hen ' was studying Morse many years ago ' was warned
about .the hump!. 2ell, this mysterious .hump! bothered me
until ' rea"hed a speed of twenty3three words a minute, and
no matter how mu"h ' tried, no matter how many hours of
pra"ti"e ' put in, ' "ould not get o$er that .hump!. 't pro$ed
to be a mountain in the way of my progress towards a faster
Morse sending and re"ei$ing speed.
*ne day ' uttered some really naughty words with fer3
$our. ' said, in effe"t, .*h well, if ' "an0t go any faster ' (ust
"an0t.! Later in the day ' sat down at the old Morse key again
and found that ' "ould go mu"h faster, in fa"t ' "ould do
nearly thirty words a minute. ' had got o$er the .hump!. '
had been trying too hard, and ' think probably you are
trying too hard, Mr. C8ermak, and you, and you, and you
also are trying too hard. 'f you are meeting obsta"les don0t
go on like a bulldo8er, take it easy, think about things, and
you will find that the path of least resistan"e has enabled you
to get o$er the hump, and you will be surprised at the
result.
2ell, ' think that in the interests of domesti" harmony '
should reply to a &uestion from Mrs. C8ermak is this same
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"hapter as that in whi"h ' replied to a &uestion from her
husband, otherwise ' "ould be a""used of separating hus3
band and wife, or something like that.
%ere is what Mrs. C8ermak writes. .A &uestion# well, by
the time it0s too late to submit them ' know ' will be full of
them. Right now there is only one problem that is still $ery
mu"h with me, and maybe other people might profit too if
you would be kind enough to say a few words on the topi".
't0s time, or rather, shortage of time. -here are only so many
hours in the day and they (ust are not suffi"ient to do all the
things ' want to do. ' surely don0t shirk work but what is
most frustrating is that not only is there not enough time for
all the more or less mundane things that one wants to do, but
there ne$er seems enough left for the spiritual things one
wants to learn. 'f it0s meditation ' don0t seem to ha$e
enough energy to get up e6tra early either on )aturday or
)unday, instead of sleeping an hour later, and if it0s astral
tra$el ' seem to fall asleep as soon as ' hit the pillow.!
Business firms, fa"tories, and $ery large of i"es ha$e the
same trouble, that is why they often "all in e6perts who "all
themsel$es .-ime and Motion! people. +$eryone has three or
four times as mu"h time as they think they ha$e, but usually
people waste time in mu"h the same way as people waste
water and so now there is a shortage of water throughout the
world, drinking water, that is.
-ime and motion e6perts study how people do things.
<ust as an e6ample, if you go to the kit"hen how many things
do you bring ba"k with you at one time4 Do you bring ba"k
one or two things when you know perfe"tly well that right
after you will ha$e to go ba"k for two or three things more4
'f people will only make an intelligent appraisal of things
they ha$e to do, then they will ha$e ade&uate time in whi"h
to do it.
-he best way to pro"eed is to write down on a sheet of
paper all the things you want to do on any gi$en day. -oss
out the things whi"h are not really ne"essary, and plan the
remaining things so that you go the shortest way about them
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and do not ha$e to make two or three (ourneys when one
will suffi"e. )ome people ha$e shopping to do, so they dash
around to the "orner store and get one thing, then they
return to the kit"hen and find they are short of salt or sugar
or something else, so ba"k they go again. -hey are running
about all the time.
*thers, perhaps, ha$e letters to mail, and they make a
spe"ial (ourney to mail those letters whereas, if they only
waited a little longer, they "ould mail the letters when they
went shopping.
*ne "an di$ide up the day (ust the same as at s"hool
lessons were di$ided up ? so long for Geography, so long for
%istory, so long for Arithmeti", so long for re"reation and so
long for meals. 'f people only set about their tasks in a sen3
sible manner they would ha$e ample time in whi"h to do
things.
'n Mrs. C8ermak0s "ase, she has a highly intelligent hus3
band who would gladly assist her in planning her days. A
task whi"h he is well fitted to undertake $ery su""essfully.
)o the answer is, if people would plan their days properly
and sti"k to the plan, there would be ade&uate time for
e$erything. -his is the Boi"e of +6perien"e be"ause ' pra"3
tise what ' prea"h?su""essfully9
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C%A1-+R +'G%-
'f you don0t s"ale the mountain
you "an0t $iew the plain.

-he *ld Man resting in his bed was looking out a"ross the
"ity, looking out at some new building being built, and at a
$ery large hotel, the leading hotel in the whole "ity.
Miss Cleo and Miss -addy were busy sleeping. -hey had
had a disturbed night be"ause the *ld Man had been $ery
unwell and, of "ourse, it definitely takes two )iamese "ats to
manage things when the *ld Man is parti"ularly unwell. )o
they were "at"hing up on their sleep, mo$ing about in their
sleep as all the best people do, twit"hing a bit, but happy to
be "lose to ea"h other. -he *ld Man thought of them with
absolute lo$e, thought of them as he would ha$e thought of
his own "hildren, for these were $ery high entities in animal
form, little people who had "ome to do a (ob and who were
doing that (ob magnifi"ently.
'n their four short years of life they had had &uite a bit of
mo$ing about, &uite a bit of tra$el, and &uite a bit of hard3
ship, hardship largely brought on by the in"essant press per3
se"ution. -he *ld Man lay there in the gloaming thinking
about it all, thinking of "onditions at Montreal, and how
they had left before their tenan"y had ended.
-hey had made arrangements for a""ommodation in the
"ity of )aint <ohn but when it was too late to "hange any3
thing the person still in the apartment found he was unable
to lea$e, so -he amily had no alternati$e to staying e63
pensi$ely in an hotel# the Admiral Beatty %otel was truly as
mu"h of a home from home as any hotel "ould be. 't was and
is a happy hotel where e$eryone is satisfied with the General
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Manager, a man with years and years of e6perien"e, a man
who knows all the problems and, better still, knows the
answers to them.
'n the hotel one of the bell boys, Brian, was always most
helpful and most "ourteous, and being a "at lo$er he really
fell for Miss Cleo and Miss -addy, and that pair, being flirts
like most girls, really played him up, purred for him, rubbed
against him and, like most girls, made him think that he was
the only one.
Mrs. Catherine Mayes. -he *ld Man had a lot of diffi"ulty
with diet, and the menu of a hotel is not designed for those
who are si"k and limited to "ertain foods. Mrs. Catherine
Mayes went out of her way at all times to make sure that
e$erything was as good as "ould be. ,ow that -he amily
were in an apartment they still wel"omed Mrs. Mayes as a
$isitor.
But the lights in the %arbour were be"oming more and
more numerous. )hips were "oming in ready to dis"harge
their "argoes at the ne6t working day. -wo Russian ships,
another one from Liberia, one from 'ndia, and one from
Cyprus, all moored up along the whar$es, all laden down,
well down to their plimsoll line, and a gently swaying at
the "hanging of the tide.
-he 1ilot Boat was (ust "oming away from a new"omer,
its red signal lamp blinking and bobbing. )oon it turned
right and went into its slipway so the 1ilots "ould wait for
the ne6t ship.
Down at the le$el "rossing the infernal trains hooted and
blared away, making su"h a "ommotion as would get any
other person "lapped straight into prison for disturbing the
pea"e, yet these unmentionable railway workers seemed to
think it was their prerogati$e and sa"red duty to wre"k the
hearing of a whole "ity. -he *ld Man wondered why the
City Coun"il didn0t get off their behinds and pass that long3
prote"ted law prohibiting the blaring of sirens from trains
passing through the "ity.
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But the *ld Man thought, it0s useless to do idle ga8ing
when a book has to be written, so he thought he would
ha$e to do what the City Coun"il should do, he thought
he would ha$e to .get off his behind! and get to work.
Going through all the &uestions, one of the most ama8ing
things is the number of people who write .tell us about life
after death and about dying!. ' am almost ashamed to return
to that sub(e"t whi"h ' ha$e dealt with so many times, ' am
almost ashamed to tell Ra0ab that ' am writing about death
again, and ' am almost frightened to think of Butter"up0s
stony glare when she tells me that ' am repeating myself.
But then, Miss ,ewman, or perhaps it is Mrs. ,ewman, asks
about life after death, and another letter here wants .a "om3
plete but understandable knowledge of the so3"alled after3
death state!. Riffling through these &uestions ' find more and
more people asking about life after death. 2ell, ' seem to be
ruled out, it seems that ' shall ha$e to write about life after
death, and if you don0t want to read it, go through these
pages with your eyes shut until you "ome to a part you
like.
Let us "onsider what happens at the onset of death.
7sually a person is ill and as a result of that illness some part
of the body, essential to the "ontinuan"e of life on +arth, is
losing its ability to fun"tion properly. 't may be the heart, let
us pretend that it is a heart "ase whi"h we are dis"ussing. )o,
in our heart "ase we "an say that the heart mus"le has turned
into a fibroid mass, it "an no longer pump blood in ade&uate
&uantities through the brain, and so the fa"ulties be"ome
dull. As the fa"ulties be"ome dull the will to li$e diminishes
and there is less stimulation for the heart to "ontinue its
laboured pumping.
-here "omes a time when the heart "an no longer "on3
tinue. Before that stage is rea"hed the person is in a state
where he does not ha$e the energy to feel pain, he is half in
this world and half in the ne6t, he is in the state of a baby
who is half out of the world whi"h is his mother and half in
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helpers are ready. As soon as the heart "eases there is a (erk#
no, no, that is not a (erk of pain, there is no death agony, that
is &uite stupid fi"tion. -he so3"alled .death agony! is merely
a refle6 a"tion of ner$es and mus"les whi"h, freed from the
"ontrol of the .dri$er! of the body (ust twist and twit"h and
(erk?well, as the name implies?un"ontrollably. Many
people think that it is agony but of "ourse it is not be"ause
the o""upant of the body has left, and should there be grim3
a"es of the fa"e, that is merely the twit"hing of the
mus"les.
-he body, bereft of its o""upant, may twit"h or utter
gasps for a short time. -here may be the rumbling of organs
within the body, but all that is (ust like an old suit of "lothes
settling down after they ha$e (ust been thrown on a "hair or
on a bed, there0s nothing to it, the body is now (ust garbage
ready to be buried or burnt, it doesn0t matter whi"h really.
-he newest o""upant or inhabitant of the astral world, the
former dri$er of the body, will be met by helpers ready to do
anything they "an to assist in the pro"ess of a""limati8ation.
't sometimes happens unfortunately that a truly ignorant
person will not belie$e in life after death, so what then4
'f a person definitely refuses to belie$e in the life after
death he or she is in a state of "omplete hypnosis, auto3
hypnosis, and e$en on +arth there are many "ases of people
being blind (ust be"ause they think they are, there are many
"ases of people who are deaf only be"ause they ha$e wished
themsel$es deaf perhaps to es"ape the noise of a nagging
wife, and su"h "ases are attested by the medi"al pro3
fession.
'f a person will not belie$e in anything after death, then
that person is en$eloped in a thi"k, bla"k, sti"ky fog, and
helpers "annot help him, they "an0t rea"h him be"ause he
won0t let them, he repulses e$erything they want to do for
him be"ause he is so "on$in"ed that there is no su"h thing as
an afterlife that he belie$es he is ha$ing unpleasant night3
mares.
'n the "ourse of time the person begins to reali8e that
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there must be something in this life after death business after
all# why does he hear $oi"es, why does he sense people near
him, why does he hear perhaps musi"4 2ith dawning
awareness that there might (ust possibly be something after
death, the thi"k bla"k fog lightens and be"omes gray, light
"an filter in, he "an see dim figures mo$ing about, and he "an
hear more "learly. )o, gradually, as his pre(udi"es and in3
hibitions break down, he be"omes more and more aware that
something is happening around him. 1eople "onstantly try
to help him, they try to tell him that they want to help, they
in$ite him to a""ept that help, and as soon as he does feel
that he will a""ept help, then the fog disperses and he "an
see all the glory of the astral world, "olours su"h as +arth
la"ks, brightness and lightness, and $ery, $ery pleasant sur3
roundings.
*ur poor friend, who is only (ust beginning to reali8e that
there is life after death, is taken to what we might "all a
hospital, or rest home, or re"uperation "entre. -here by
$arious rays his mental inhibitions are further dispersed, his
spirit body is strengthened and made healthy, and it is also
nourished.
-hings are e6plained to him, he is in mu"h the same pos3
ition as a new3born baby e6"ept that he "an understand all
that is said to him and he "an reply whereas a baby has to
learn e$en to speak. )o the person hears an e6planation of
what life on the *ther )ide is like. 'f he wants to argue
about it he (ust "annot, people will not argue with him, he is
(ust left to think about what he has been told, and when he
"an freely a""ept that whi"h he has been told, the e63
planation "ontinues. %e is ne$er persuaded of anything, he is
ne$er for"ed to do anything, he has a right of "hoi"e. 'f he
doesn0t want to belie$e then he has to stay in a somewhat
stati" "ondition until he will belie$e.
Many there are who pass beyond the +arth to the ne6t life
with the firm, absolutely unbreakable "on$i"tion that their
own parti"ular religion is the only one whi"h "an e6ist.
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the helpers on the *ther )ide know &uite well that they
"annot help the new"omer if their mere appearan"e shatters
a lifelong belief, so, let us suppose a person is a $ery strong
Catholi" belie$ing in angels and de$ils and all the rest of
that pantomime. -hen, when they get to the *ther )ide
they do indeed see the 1early Gates, they see an old fellow
with a beard and a wha"king great ledger in whi"h they
think all the sins are being re"orded.
+$erything is done to put on the sort of show that the
good, ignorant Catholi" wants to see. %e sees angels with
flapping wings, he sees people sitting on "louds playing
harps, and for a time he is &uite satisfied thinking he has
rea"hed %ea$en. But gradually it dawns on him that all this
doesn0t ring true, the people do not fly in the right rhythm
for beating wings, et"., et". Gradually it dawns on the new3
"omer that all this is a stage show and he begins to wonder
what is behind it all, what is behind the drapes and the set
pie"e, what are things really like, and (ust as soon as he
begins to think that way he begins to see ."ra"ks! in the
fa"ade of the %ea$enly Crowd. )oon there "omes a time
when he "annot sti"k the pantomime any longer and he "ries
out for enlightenment. ;ui"kly the angels with their
flapping wings fade away, &ui"kly the harpists sitting in
their nightshirts on a "loud beat it, &ui"kly highly trained,
highly e6perien"ed helpers show the newly awakened new3
"omer the reality instead of the illusion, and the reality is far
greater than the illusion e$er "ould be. 't is a sad fa"t that so
many people see a few pi"tures in the Bible and they .take
them for gospel!. 2ell, book illustrators are employed to
illustrate the Bible as well, remember.
,o matter what religion it is, if there are adherents who
belie$e unswer$ingly in the legends and, let us say, fantasies,
of that religion, then that is what they see when they lea$e
the +arth and enter the astral plane.
2hen the new"omer "an reali8e the nature of the world
he is in, then he "an pro"eed further. %e goes to the %all of
Memories and there, alone, he enters a room and he sees the
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whole of his Life, e$erything he has done, e$erything he has
tried to do, and e$erything he wanted to do. %e sees e$ery3
thing that happened to him, and e$erything that he thought
while upon the +arth, and he, and he alone, "an make a
(udgment of whether his life was a su""ess or a failure.
%e, and he alone, "an de"ide whether he will .go ba"k to
"ollege! and start the Course all o$er again in the hope of
passing su""essfully ne6t time.
-here is no mother or father or best friend to stand by and
take the blame for anything that he has done wrongly, he is
there alone, entirely alone, more alone than he has been
sin"e he stood in that pla"e before, last time. And he (udges
himself.
,o de$ils, no )atan waiting with twit"hing tail and fiery
breath, nobody is going to (ab pit"hforks into him, and as for
all the flames, well, they don t e$en use su"h things for "en3
tral heating9
Most people emerge from the %all of Memories "on3
siderably shaken and remarkably glad of the help and
sympathy whi"h their helpers, waiting outside, offer.
-here "omes a period of ad(ustment, a period when the
new"omer "an think o$er all that he has seen, think o$er all
the mistakes he has made, think o$er what he is going to do
about it. 't0s not a matter to be de"ided in a few minutes, all
manner of things ha$e to be "onsidered. 's it worth going
ba"k and starting all o$er again, or would it be better to stay
a few hundred years in the astral waiting perhaps for more
suitable "onditions to "ome along4 But then, thinks the new3
"omer, he doesn0t know about all the suitable "onditions or
when they are likely to "ome along. )o he is in$ited to go to
helpers who will dis"uss e$erything with him, and who will
ad$ise him without putting any pressure whate$er on him.
At all times he has "omplete freedom of "hoi"e, freedom of
de"ision, no one is going to for"e him to do anything. 'f he
wants to go ba"k and do a bit of hell3raking on +arth, that is
his "hoi"e, and his "hoi"e only.
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the sustenan"e, all the nourishment they need from the air,
from the $ibrations around them. -hey think of their
earthly life, they think of all the "hoi"e foods they would
ha$e liked to ha$e had but perhaps "ouldn0t afford, so, if
they want it they "an ha$e it. ,o matter what type of food,
it is there for the asking. 'f they want fat "igars or thin
"igarettes or stinking pipes, yes, they "an ha$e those as well.
Clothes?you0ll ne$er see su"h a medley of "lothes and "os3
tumes as you will on the astral plane9 Anyone "an wear any
style of "lothes he desires and it0s not "onsidered at all
wrong, no one "ares, it0s the other person0s affair. )o if a
fellow wants to get himself done up as a hippy with a load of
pot on ea"h hand, he "an do so, the pot there won t hurt him,
it only hurts when he0s on the earth be"ause astral pot is
entirely harmless# +arth pot is horribly dangerous.
But the new"omer soon tires of doing nothing, he soon
tires of (ust ki"king his heels and wat"hing the astral world
go by. +$en if he was a la8y slob on +arth, one who (ust liked
to hang around street "orners and utter wolf whistles, well
e$en that sort of fellow soon tires of doing nothing in the
atmosphere of the astral plane. %e asks for work, and he gets
it. 2hat sort of work4 -here are all manner of things to be
done. 't0s impossible to say what sort of work he does (ust as
it0s impossible to say what sort of work a person would get
here on +arth if they went to -imbuktu or Alsa"e Lor3
raine suddenly. -hey do work within their "apabilities,
ne"essary work, and in doing the work they find "onsiderable
satisfa"tion and stability.
But all the time they ha$e the nagging thought, the nag3
ging wonder of what to do. )hould they stay in the astral a
bit longer4 2hat would other people do4 -hey ask again
and again, and they are told again and again, always the
same thing they are told, and ne$er is there any attempt to
persuade them to do anything, the "hoi"e is entirely
theirs.
At last they de"ide they "an0t hang around any longer#
they de"ide they "annot be a drop3out from the s"hool of
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+arth, they must go ba"k, do their lessons properly and pass
the e6aminations.
-hey make their de"ision known and then they are taken
to a spe"ial group of people who ha$e $ast e6perien"e and
some $ery, $ery remarkable instruments. 't is determined
what the person has to learn, it is determined how best he
may learn it?go to a poor family, will that help4 *r should
he go to a ri"h family4 )hould he be a white man or a
"ollared man, or should he be a woman, "ollared or white4
't depends on the sort of mess he made of his last life, it de3
pends on how hard he is prepared to work in the "oming life,
it depends on what he has to learn. Anyhow, the ad$isers
are well &ualified to help him, they "an suggest 3 and they
suggest only?the type of parents, the type of "ountry, and
the "onditions. -hen when he has agreed to the "onditions
"ertain instruments are brought into play and the ne"essary
parents3to3be are lo"ated. Alternati$e parents are lo"ated as
well, and these parents are obser$ed for a short time. -hen,
if e$erything pro$es satisfa"tory, the person who is ready to
rein"arnate goes to a spe"ial home in the astral world. -here
he goes to bed, and when he wakes up he is in the pro"ess of
being born into the +arth. ,o wonder he makes su"h a "om3
motion and lets out wails of despair9
Many people, entities, de"ide they do not want to return
to +arth (ust yet, and so they stay in the astral worlds where
they ha$e mu"h work to do. But before dis"ussing them let
us deal with a spe"ial "lass of people who ha$e no "hoi"e#
sui"ides.
'f a person has wilfully ended his or her life on +arth
before the allotted number of years, then that person has to
return to +arth as fast as possible in order to ser$e out the
une6pired time, (ust as if they were a "on$i"t who had es3
"aped and had been re"aptured, and had had a bit ta"ked on
as an e6tra punishment.
A sui"ide gets into the astral world. %e is met, re"ei$ed,
(ust as if he were an ordinary legitimate person "oming ba"k,
no re"riminations, nothing of that type at all. %e is treated
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pre"isely the same as other entrants. %e is allowed a reason3
able time in whi"h to re"o$er from the sho"k of lea$ing the
physi"al body probably $iolently, and entering the astral.
2hen he has re"o$ered suffi"iently he has to go to the
%all of Memories, and there he sees all that has e$er hap3
pened to him, he sees the flaws whi"h really made him
"ommit sui"ide. And so he is left with the awful feeling, the
awful knowledge would be a better term, that he has to get
ba"k to +arth and li$e out the une6pired term.
1ossibly the sui"ide is a person of poor spiritual "alibre,
possibly he la"ks the intestinal fortitude to go ba"k on +arth,
and he thinks he is (ust (olly well going to stay in the astral
and nobody "an do anything about it. 2ell, he is wrong
there be"ause it is a law that a sui"ide has to return to +arth#
and if he will not return of his own free will, then he is
"ompelled to go.
'f he is willing to return, then, at a meeting with spe"ial
"ounsellors, he is ad$ised of how many days or years there
are remaining to him on his +arth .senten"e!. %e has to li$e
out all that time on +arth, he also has to li$e out all the time
that has elapsed sin"e he "ommitted sui"ide and before re3
turning to +arth again. )o, perhaps it took a year to
straighten him out and get him to de"ide that he had to go
ba"k to +arth, thus he gets a year added to his life on
+arth.
Conditions are found on +arth so that he "an return and
en"ounter substantially the same type of "onditions whi"h
"aused him to take his life before, and then at the appointed
time he is put to sleep and awakens to the a"t of being
born.
'f he pro$es re"al"itrant and (ust will make no mo$e to go
ba"k to +arth, then the "ounsellors de"ide for him on "on3
ditions whi"h would meet his "ase. 'f he will not go freely
then the "onditions are a bit tougher than if he did go freely.
-hen, again at the appointed time, he is put to sleep without
him ha$ing any "hoi"e whate$er in the matter, he is put to
sleep and when he wakes up he is ba"k on +arth.
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't is often the "ase that a baby who is born and dies
perhaps a month or two after is the rein"arnation of a person
who "ommitted sui"ide rather than perhaps fa"e two or
three months of agony when they were dying from in3
"urable, inoperable "an"er. -he sufferer may ha$e taken his
own life two or three, or perhaps si6 months or a year before
he would naturally ha$e died. But he still has to "ome ba"k
and ser$e out all the time whi"h he tried to short3"ir"uit.
't is sometimes thought that pain is a useless thing,
suffering is a useless thing. 't is sometimes thought that it is
good to kill off a human who is in"urable, but do these
people who ad$o"ate su"h a "ourse really know what the
sufferer is trying to learn4 %is $ery suffering, the $ery nature
of his illness may be something about whi"h he desired to
learn.
1eople often write to me and say, .*h, Dr. Rampa, with
all your knowledge how is it that you ha$e to suffer so4 2hy
don0t you "ure yourself and li$e fore$er4! But, of "ourse,
that0s nonsense. 2ho wants to li$e fore$er4 And people who
write in with statements like that, how do they know what '
am trying to do4 -hey don0t, and that0s all there is to it. 'f a
person is in$estigating a "ertain sub(e"t then often that
person has to undergo a "onsiderable amount of hardship in
order to do the work properly. -hese people who wander off
and bring aid and sustenan"e to lepers, for instan"e, well,
they don0t know how the leper feels or how the leper thinks.
-hey might be helping the leper0s physi"al being, but they
still are not lepers. 't!s the same with -.B., or "an"er, or e$en
an ingrown toenail. 7ntil one a"tually has the "omplaint or
the "ondition then one &uite definitely is not &ualified to
make any dis"ussion on the "omplaint or "ondition. 't always
amuses me that Roman Catholi" priests who are not married
and who, presumably ne$er ha$e "hildren, ne$er be"ome a
father, that is, e6"ept in the spiritual sense, dare to ad$ise
women about ha$ing "hildren and all that. *f "ourse many
of these Catholi" priests go away for $a"ations and they get
to know &uite a lot about women. 2e saw that in Mon3
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't is definitely wrong, then, to "ommit sui"ide. /ou are
(ust postponing the day when you "an be free of +arth legit3
imately, you0$e got to "ome ba"k like an es"aped "on$i"t
who has been re"aptured, and you are hurting no one but
yourself, and it0s yourself you think about, isn0t it4 -hat0s
one of the things that has to be o$er"ome, too.
-he ordinary a$erage person who is not too good and not
too bad stays in the astral world for a $arying period of time.
't is not true that e$eryone stays there for si6 hundred, or a
thousand, or two thousand years# it depends entirely on the
"onditions whi"h pre$ail in the "ase of ea"h and e$ery indi3
$idual. here is an a$erage time, but then there is an a$er3
age man3in3the3street and an a$erage woman3in3the3street,
and the a$erage time is (ust?well, (ust a figure.
-here are many tasks to do in the astral world. )ome
people help those who are "oming to (oin the astral world,
some people a"t as guides to them, and this .guide! has
nothing to do with spiritualist sNan"es or old ladies who
think they ha$e a Red 'ndian guide or a Chinese Mandarin
guide or a -ibetan Lama guide. 2hat these old ladies
usually ha$e is an o$erdose of imagination. A"tually, if
e$erything was "ounted up and if e$eryone who "laimed to
ha$e an 'ndian guide or a -ibetan guide was listed, there
(ust wouldn0t be enough 'ndians or enough -ibetans to go
round, and in any "ase these people on the *ther )ide ha$e
tea"ups so some old biddy "an gi$e a reading, it doesn0t in3
"lude speaking through a tin trumpet or mo$ing a bit of
"heese"loth. All that stuff, whi"h of "ourse is utterly useless,
"omes from a bit of ner$ous energy on the part of some
usually hysteri"al operator. 1eople on the *ther )ide ha$e
too mu"h to do looking after their own affairs to "ome to
+arth and poke about in dark rooms breathing down the
ne"ks of people who are there for a deli"ious thrill. -he only
ones who do go to these sNan"es from the *ther )ide are the
,ature )pirits of a lower type "alled +lementals. -hey
are there (ust for some fun, to see what a lot of saps
these humans are to belie$e anything and e$erything that is
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told to them. Don0t you, my dear friends Reader, go in for
this guff, be"ause guff it is.
-he same goes for this *ui(a Board stuff. 1eople will get a
*ui(a Board and play about with it, and some +lemental
who is always dashing about like a mis"hie$ous monkey, will
see what is being done, and he will definitely influen"e the
reading. ,ow you might think there is no harm in that, but
there is no good in it either, and definitely there is great
harm in these *ui(a Board readings if an +lemental "auses
the message to be gi$en to sound highly plausible but whi"h
is (ust something e6tra"ted from the $i"tim s own sub3"on3
s"ious. A person0s whole life "an be affe"ted for the worse by
belie$ing in this *ui(a Board messages.
Another great sour"e of misinformation is when the *ui(a
Board is mo$ed in a""ordan"e with the "olle"ti$e thought of
the people who are gathered around. *ften it will be im3
pelled by wishful thinking and, again, will gi$e a message
whi"h "an be positi$ely harmful by being misleading. -he
safest thing is 3 ha$e nothing whate$er to do with *ui(a
Boards and nothing whate$er to do with sNan"es. Remember,
you "ame to this +arth deliberately not knowing the e6a"t
purpose of your $isit, and if you try to find out too mu"h
without $ery, $ery e6"eptional "ause, then you are like the
student going to the e6amination room who manages to steal
a "opy of the e6amination papers first. -hat is (ust plain
"heating, and it doesn0t help at all.
*ne (ob whi"h has to be done in the astral world is to
re"ei$e those who "ome during the hours of sleep. 1eople are
arri$ing at all times be"ause when it is daylight in one part
of the world it is night in another part, so there are a "on3
stant stream of people going to the astral world during their
sleep period, and they are like "hildren returning from
s"hool. <ust as "hildren like to be greeted by their parents or
friends, so do these night tra$ellers.
-heir traffi" has to be dire"ted, they ha$e to be put in
tou"h with those whom they desire to meet, and many of
them desire information and "ounselling during what, upon
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what they should do on the morrow. -his does o""upy a lot
of time for a lot of people.
-hen there are other entities in the astral world who are
not rein"arnating to +arth again, they are going on 3 going
up, going up to an e$en higher plane of e6isten"e. At the
right time they will .die! $ery pea"efully, $ery painlessly to
the astral world. -hey will, in fa"t, (ust $anish to the astral
world and will appear in a higher plane.
-here are more and more people "oming to the +arth,
more and more people being born to the +arth, and many
in&uirers wonder why that should be so. -he answer is
+arth is (ust one spe"k of dust amid billions of spe"ks of dust,
and when people ask me why the population of the +arth is
in"reasing ' tell them the truth, whi"h is that people are
"oming to +arth from other more nebulous planes of e6ist3
en"e. 1erhaps a person "omes from a two dimensional world
and "omes to +arth as his first e6perien"e in a three dim3
ensional world, so he starts his round of e6isten"e to the
three dimensional world whi"h we "all +arth. And all the
time there are more and more people "oming as +arth
be"omes more and more of a &ualified s"hool of hardship.
-hat is the purpose of +arth, you know, to tea"h one
hardship and how to endure it and how to o$er"ome it.
1eople do not "ome to +arth to ha$e a $ery en(oyable time,
they "ome to learn so that all the information they learn "an
be passed on to the *$erself.
After this world there is the astral plane, and from the
astral plane, in the fullness of time, one is born upwards to
different planes of e6isten"e until at last the fully e$ol$ed
entity merges with the *$erself. -hat is how the *$erself
grows.
'f, ha$ing grown &uite a lot, the *$erself de"ides that
there is mu"h more to learn, then fresh puppets are put
down on some world and the whole pro"ess of "y"les of life is
started all o$er again, and ea"h time when the puppets ha$e
"ompleted their "y"les they return purified to the *$erself,
whi"h, again, grows through it.
2hen a person is li$ing in the astral, that is, when a
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person has .died! to +arth, then that parti"ular entity enters
into the full life of the astral world and is not (ust a $isitor as
are those who return to the astral world during that time
when their body is asleep on the +arth, and, being full3time
members of the astral world, they beha$e as ordinary people
would on the +arth. -hat is, at the end of an astral day they
sleep. -he astral body whi"h, of "ourse, is &uite solid to
people in the astral world, goes to sleep, and, again, the
psy"he lea$es the astral body at the end of its )il$er Cord
and goes into a yet higher plane. -here it learns things
whi"h will be of use on what we might term the lower astral
when the spirit returns to the astral body. Do not think that
the astral world is the highest world, do not think that it is
%ea$en# it is not. -here are many, many different "y"les or
planes of e6isten"e.
2hile in that world whi"h we "all .the astral world! we
"an ha$e a family. 2e li$e in mu"h the same way as people
li$e down here e6"ept that there are not &uarrels be"ause in
the astral you (ust "annot meet people with whom you are
in"ompatible. )o that if you get married in the astral, then
you "annot ha$e a nagging partner. -his is not generally
understood by people on +arth# while in the astral world
you "annot meet those who were your enemies on +arth, and
your family?well, your astral family are as solid to you as
were people on the +arth to you.
%umans are not alone in the astral world, animals go
there too. ,e$er, ne$er make the most tragi" mistake of
thinking that humans are the highest form of e6isten"e# they
are not. %umans are (ust another form of e6isten"e. %umans
think in one way, animals think in another way, but there
are entities who, "ompared to humans, are as mu"h abo$e
the humans as the humans are abo$e the earthworms, and
e$en these 1eople know that they are not the ultimate form
of e$olution. )o forget all about being a superior "reature
and "on"entrate on doing the best (ob you "an.
Animals go to the astral plane, animals go higher as they
merit it (ust as humans do. *ne of the big diffi"ulties with
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the Christian religion is that they think humanity is the
highest form of e$olution possible, they think that all "rea3
tures were made for the satisfa"tion of Man, and that has led
to some terrible "onditions. -he animal world and the
animal Manus ha$e been in"redibly tolerant knowing that
humans ha$e been misinstru"ted by their religious leaders,
by their priests who really rearranged Christianity to gi$e
themsel$es ade&uate power.
A""ept it as fa"t, then, that in the astral worlds you will
not find "owering dogs or s"ared "ats. /ou will instead find a
partner who is in e$ery way the e&ual of a human and who
"an "ommuni"ate with a human with utter ease by tele3
pathy.
Many people ha$e asked about bodies, will a body appear
to be (ust a bun"h of gas, or what4 And the answer is, no, a
body will appear as solid to you in the astral as is that lump
of me at whi"h you now push about on two bony stems, and
if two people should "ollide in the astral, well, they get a
bump (ust the same as when two people "ollide on the +arth
plane.
-here is great lo$e in the astral world, physi"al lo$e as
well as spiritual lo$e but# of "ourse, on a s"ale whi"h the
mind limited to +arth thoughts "annot "omprehend while in
the +arth body. -here is no su"h thing as .frustration! in the
astral world be"ause lo$e is "ompletely satisfa"tory at all
times and for both partners.
)ome people ha$e written in asking for a des"ription of
God. God is not (ust the %ead of a big Corporation, you
know, %e0s not (ust an old fellow who wears a long beard
and "arries a lantern on the end of a staff. God is a great
or"e whi"h "an be "omprehended and understood when
one is out of the +arth body and in the astral world. At
present upon the +arth one is in a three dimensional world
and most people "ould not understand, let us say, the de3
s"ription of a nine dimensional ob(e"t.
+a"h world has a Manu in "harge of the world. /ou "an
say that the Manu is like one of the Gods on *lympus so
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thoroughly des"ribed in Greek legends. *r if you wanted to
be more up to date you "an say that the Manu is like the
General Manager of the bran"h of a big firm. 7nder the
General Manager of that bran"h?be"ause this world is only
a bran"h, after all?we ha$e departmental managers who, ?in
our terms, would be "alled the Manus of different "ontinents
and of different "ountries. -hese under managers are re3
sponsible for running, let us say, the 7.).A. or Germany or
Argentina, and so on, and (ust as human managers ha$e
different temperaments so do the Manus, and so the "ountry
"on"erned gets a different national "hara"teristi". -he
Germans, for e6ample, are &uite different from the 'talians,
and the 'talians are &uite different from the Chinese. -hat is
be"ause the .Manager! of that department happens to be
different.
-he Manus, no matter how glorious they seem to be, are
(ust puppets of the Great +ntity or *$erself whi"h makes
up .God!. -hat Great *$erself uses Manus as puppets in
mu"h the same way as the human *$erself may use a whole
bun"h of humans in order to gain e6perien"e.
Another &uestion whi"h is so fre&uently asked is, .-he
astral body apparently has some sort of substan"e to it. 'f it
has mole"ules, no matter how thinly dispersed, these "ould
be sub(e"t to destru"tion or in(ury through heat, "old, or
"ollision. 'f this were so some dis"omfort and pain in almost
a physi"al sense "ould e6ist. %ow would the astral fare in the
$i"inity of a physi"al star4! 2ell, when one talks of mol3
e"ules one is talking of substan"es whi"h are in the +arth
plane. A mole"ule is a physi"al thing, a pie"e of matter, but
when we are talking about the astral plane we are "om3
pletely away from the low grade $ibration whi"h "omprises
e$erything upon this +arth. A physi"al body on the +arth
"an re"ei$e in(ury from another physi"al body, but a physi3
"al body in the astral "annot in any way be damaged by the
physi"al body of the +arth, the two things are "ompletely
and utterly different. *ne "an say, (ust purely as an e6ample
and not a $ery good e6ample at that, one "an say that a ro"k

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and a light do not intera"t upon ea"h other. 'f we throw a
ro"k up into the sky it doesn0t hurt the sun. )o in the same
way anything that happens on the +arth does not hurt any
astral body, but what does hurt people in the astral is the
"rass stupidity displayed by humans on the +arth in trying
to bump ea"h other off, li&uidate ea"h other in $arious pain3
ful ways, and generally beha$e like a lot of "ompletely
insane people instead of entities who are upon +arth to
learn something. -he way people of +arth as going on at the
present time is mu"h the same as the way the students who
wre"k million dollar "omputers are going on. 't0s time
humans grew up, and it0s time students learned that they go
to a s"hool or "ollege to learn from people who know more
than they do.
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Remember, the turtle progresses
only when he sti"ks out his ne"k.

Glory be9 ' thought ' had put behind me all dis"ussion of
astrals, deaths, and all that sort of thing, and now here0s
another load of &uestions all bearing on the same thing. or
e6ample, .Does an atom e6plosion whi"h in"inerates thou3
sands of human bodies simultaneously "ause pandemonium
on the astral plane, or how does it affe"t or disturb them4!
't does not do a thing to harm them physi"ally, but it
"ertainly "auses an awful flap be"ause thousands of people
are going to "ome to the astral world in one awful huddle.
Many of them will be s"ared si"k, many will be insane with
sho"k, so all a$ailable helpers are rushed to help those who
are pouring in and are in a $ery distressed state. -he s"ene,
a"tually, would be $ery mu"h like that when there is a truly
bad "alamity on +arth su"h as an earth&uake or something
at least as disastrous where helpers and $olunteer helpers
rush to use any means possible to lend assistan"e. -he
answer then is nobody in the astral world is harmed by
the detonation of the bomb, but they are $ery mu"h upset by
the e6tra work in trying to "are for so many people all at one
time be"ause, while su"h an e$ent will ha$e been foreseen,
yet all these .foreseeings! are probabilities and not ne"essarily
a"tual e$ents whi"h are (ust bound to o""ur.
-he ne6t one asks, .%ow do the Manus of nations super3
$ise the affairs of their nation4 Do they work through the
7nited ,ations Representati$es, through the heads of
nations their "abinets and ad$isers, or how4!
'f the 7nited ,ations was as had been hoped, that would
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ha$e been the way for a Manu to work, but here is some3
thing that you ha$e to "onsider $ery seriously, it may be
distasteful to you, it may e$en be thoroughly sho"king to
you, but ne$ertheless it is a"tual fa"t.
-his parti"ular world is not a $ery ad$an"ed world, a"tu3
ally it is a penitentiary world, a hell, a hard s"hool 3 "all it
what you will?and many of the Manus in "harge of this
world are themsel$es learning9 As they gain e6perien"e and
as they be"ome su""essful, then, (ust like a departmental
manager, they get promoted, and if the General Manager
"an make a su""ess of things in his small bran"h then he
might well be promoted to a mu"h larger bran"h.
't really is ne"essary to look at things with an open mind
and to remember that when on the *ther )ide in the astral
one does not sit on a "loud and strum a ban(o or plu"k the
strings of a harp# one has to work.
'f you are in the kindergarten "lass at s"hool you might
think that the great big .grown3ups! of twel$e years of age in
a "lass higher are real Gods who do nothing e6"ept tell the
tea"hers where to go, and these twel$e and fourteen year
olds might think that the si6th3formers or thirteenth graders,
or whate$er you want to "all them, are truly Gods of Cre3
ation. But these Gods of Creation still ha$e to do homework,
still ha$e to attend "lasses, still ha$e to gain e6perien"e. All
right, people "ome to this +arth to gain e6perien"e, Manus
look after this world Kmore or lessL in order to gain e6peri3
en"e, and if there are a few fights between "ountries, well, it!s
tea"hing humans and it0s tea"hing Manus as well.
'n higher states, that is, with mu"h more ad$an"ed
worlds, Manus "an get together and dis"uss things ami"ably
so that there are no wars and no parti"ular "rime, but that is
mu"h too ad$an"ed for the hoodlums of the +arth. -he
+arth people are here to learn the hard way be"ause they
won0t learn in the soft way, the kind way. 'f a "hap "omes
along and takes a swipe at you with a "lub or shows an
earnest desire to bonk you on the noggin and lay you out,
well, it0s useless to say, .' pray, my dear fellow, that you will
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kindly desist from these unwel"ome attentions.! 'nstead if
you are wise you will ki"k him where it will do most harm,
and then let out a hoot for the poli"e.
)o the Manus of this world are learners. -hey are learning
things (ust as you are, and when they ha$e learnt to
straighten up things a bit they will mo$e on to something
better. But, "heer up, you ha$e to stay only about se$enty
years or so to a lifetime, the poor Manus ha$e a longer sen3
ten"e than that by far.
,ow here is a little &uestion tu"ked in, .'t is understood
that the line of the -hirteenth Dalai Lama was all the same
soul. Could the -hirteenth be now in the Land of the
Golden Light and still rein"arnate in the ourteenth4!
2ell, that is the easiest &uestion of all to answer be"ause
the ourteenth Dalai Lama himself seems to ha$e spilled the
beans to the press and admitted that he is not a re3
in"arnation of the Great -hirteenth, whi"h is (ust as well
be"ause the Great -hirteenth is a $ery a"ti$e entity indeed
in the astral world doing $ery mu"h good, and, ' belie$e,
rather sad that the present .leaders! in e6ile in 'ndia are not
doing mu"h to aid suffering -ibet. But ' dealt with that at
some length in an earlier "hapter of this book so perhaps '
should not gild the lily or repeat myself when ' need
not.
Another person writes in referring to .My Bisit to Benus!,
but let me state here and now that ' definitely, definitely,
definitely do not re"ommend that .book!. 't is (ust a few
pages "ontaining some arti"les whi"h ' wrote years ago, and
it "ontains some ? well, ' "onsider them off3beat 3 illus3
trations not done by me. -his book "ontaining parts of my
work and filled out with a lot of blurb was published entirely
without my permission and entirely against my wishes.
-he same applies to a re"ord, .-he 1ower of 1rayer.! '
definitely do not re"ommend it. -he &uality is e6"eedingly
poor and it was ne$er meant to be reprodu"ed as a re"ord. 't
is (ust something that ' made many, many years ago, and
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informed that this re"ord had been made without my per3
mission, without my desire, during my absen"e from the "on3
tinent.
'f you want a real re"ord then pur"hase the Meditation
re"ord whi"h ' made espe"ially for a re"ord. -his was made
spe"ially to help people meditate, and it may be obtained
from A?
Mr. +. Q. )owter,
CC Ashby Road,
Loughborough,
Lei"estershire,
+ngland.
' will tell you that Mr. )owter has world rights for this
re"ord and for -ou"h )tones and many other things, and he
is the only person who has my full permission and agreement
to sell my re"ords and -ou"h )tones. %e also sells $arious
other things of my design.
-hat is a free ad$ertisement for Mr. )owter who is a $ery
de"ent man and who is trying to do good.
-his book is not meant to be a "atalogue of ni"e people, it
is not meant to be a "atalogue of "rummy dopes on the outer
fringe of sanity either, but ' "annot let the book be "om3
pleted without mentioning a $ery pleasant family indeedA
Mrs. 2orstmann and her two daughters. /ou may re"all
that one of my books was dedi"ated to Mrs. 2orstmann, a
$ery pleasant, $ery highly edu"ated woman whom it is a
pleasure to know, and ' ha$e known her for se$eral years,
known her while her husband was still ali$e on this +arth,
and ' ha$e been in tou"h with him now that he is on the
*ther )ide. Mrs. 2orstmann, then, is one of the more en3
lightened types. Certainly she was enlightened enough to
ha$e two talented daughters, Luise who is a nurse in one of
the better London hospitals# she is a good nurse, but she is
good at so many things. )he is artisti"?well, ' am not going
to list all her $irtues, they are too many to put down on these
pages. ' want to mention, also, her sister, -herese, another
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talented one. )he also is a nurse, and she is $ery an6ious to
train as a surgeon, she has all the "apabilities for it, e$ery3
thing e6"ept the money in fa"t. ' ha$e been looking around
to see if there were any 'nsuran"e )"hemes whi"h would
enable a highly gifted young woman to get training as a
surgeon. 7nfortunately ' ha$e not yet found any su"h
sour"e, so if any of you, my Readers, know how to raise
money whereby an entirely "apable young woman "an pay
for her training at Medi"al )"hool, then now is your "han"e
to do good.
' make it "lear, ' make it absolutely "lear, that this young
lady has the ability to do some good for the world as a sur3
geon, and it seems rather dreadful that she may be depri$ed
of the opportunity of doing that good through la"k of money
to finan"e he6 training.
Dealing with a surgeon3to3be, let us deal with heart trans3
plants. ' ha$e a &uestion here, .2hat about the "urrent rash
of heart transplants and other radi"al surgery inserting
foreign organs, plasti" $al$es, and tubing, et". into a body.
rom a purely material, physiologi"al standpoint this seems
to be "onsidered an almost mira"ulous s"ientifi" break3
through, but does it do the tri"k4 2ill the use of $arious
"hemi"als "ountera"t the normal tenden"y of the body to
re(e"t any foreign material introdu"ed into it this way4 *r is
su"h re(e"tion ine$itable simply be"ause the substituting of a
healthy new organ into a body to repla"e a diseased member,
won0t result in proper meshing between the still diseased
etheri" of the organ in &uestion with the artifi"ially intro3
du"ed material "ounterpart4 And, furthermore, is there any3
thing really gained for the indi$idual being operated upon if
he has a few months or e$en years of in$alidism added to his
present stay on +arth, unless he really uses the time gained
thereby to learn some really worthwhile lessons whi"h would
otherwise ha$e been deferred to another in"arnation4!
2ell, that0s a mouthful, "ertainly9 Many hundreds of "en3
turies ago in the days of Atlantis people "ould do trans3
plants. 't was possible in those days to graft on an arm or a
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leg, possible to repla"e hearts and kidneys and lungs, but it
was a pro$idential a"t of ,ature that a "i$ili8ation whi"h
did su"h things "ame to an end. -hey tried repla"ing brains,
and they produ"ed amoral monsters.
Basi"ally there is nothing $ery diffi"ult in repla"ing a
heart. 't is (ust a me"hani"al pro"edure. /ou ha$e to "ut out
the heart and you ha$e to trim the repla"ement heart to
e6a"tly fit the .pipes! whi"h are left. Any "ompetent surgeon
"ould do su"h an operation.
'n the physi"al world one has a semi3in$alid. After all,
when one does su"h a radi"al operation "ertain small blood
$essels and ner$es "annot be re(oined, the whole stru"ture
be"omes impaired and so a $ery si"k man is gi$en an added
si"kness 3 impairment of his body. But still su"h a person
"ould go on for an indefinite number of years, go on li$ing a
life of semi3in$alidism.
'n the astral world, howe$er, there are two people who
are suffering greatly by being ."ross3mi6ed!. *ne person is
half in the astral, that is, he goes to the astral world during
sleep only, and the other person is right in the astral but
be"ause his heart or other organ is still li$ing he has a sort of
sympatheti" atta"hment through the )il$er Cord of the
person who now has that organ.
/ou sometimes get two radios# you swit"h on two radios
in the same room, perhaps on the same programme, and if
you swit"h off one then it does make slightly more $olume to
the se"ond there is some intera"tion between the two, and
these are only radios, only things whi"h some set of girls put
together while they were talking about their latest boy
friends and how mini their miniskirts would be the ne6t
season. 2hen you get to li$ing humans the intera"tion is
mu"h, mu"h stronger, and it definitely, $ery definitely,
impairs the effi"ien"y of a person li$ing in the astral world to
be e$en .sympatheti"ally! "onne"ted to the body of another
person.
't is my firm belief that repla"ing organs like this is ter3
ribly, "riminally wrong, and really people should not permit
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su"h abuses of ,ature. -he refle"tions from the donor0s
heart show up in the aura of the re"ipient, and the two
people may not ha$e been "ompatible. -he fa"t that one
"ould be "ollared and the other white has nothing to do
with it. -he basi" rate of $ibration, that is, the fre&uen"y of
ea"h person, has e$erything to do with it, and ' "ertainly
hope that su"h transplants "an be outlawed.
't is a different matter if one is repla"ing an organ with a
syntheti" organ be"ause that is no worse than a person wear3
ing glasses or a hearing aid or "lothing, no worse than using
a "rut"h.
' belie$e that medi"al s"ientists should be en"ouraged to
de$ise artifi"ial organs whi"h "ould safely be used on
humans, then there would be no "ross3linkage between two
entities whi"h "auses a handi"ap to both entities until both
are free of their )il$er Cords and li$ing in the astral world.
)o, to answer this spe"ifi" &uestion, ' am definitely opposed
to organ transplants.
%ere is another &uestion whi"h should be of general
interest. 't isA?
.'nformation or dire"tions on how a few people working
de$otedly "ould bring about a "hange in the "ourse of world
affairs.!
'f a few people would definitely think .in step! on a spe"ifi"
sub(e"t, then whate$er they think about "ould a"tually be so.
,owadays people "annot hold a thought for more than a
se"ond or two. 'f you doubt that, try it yourself, try and
think about one spe"ifi" sub(e"t while wat"hing the se"onds
hand of your wat"h. /ou will find, if you are honest, that
your attention will wa$er and wander far more rapidly than
you would belie$e possible. /our attention will only stay
more or less "onstant if you are thinking about something to
do with yourself, something you want, something you want
to do, something whi"h affe"ts you deeply. Anything else
su"h as bringing help to another person whom you ha$e
met?well, you "annot hold the interest for $ery long.
1eoples0 thought is not "onstant, and no one thinks of the
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same thing at the same time with the same intensity. -hey
are like a mass of people milling about, all walking but all
out of step, whereas if people "ould think .in step! then they
"ould indeed a""omplish mira"les. 'f you want to think of
this further, "onsider an army of men, "onsider a regiment of
soldiers mar"hing o$er a bridge. 'f those men mar"hed in
step a"ross the bridge they would destroy it, and for that
reason the men are instru"ted before going on to the bridge
to .break step0. )o they go o$er walking (ust as a disorderly
rabble would walk, not in step, not in rhythm, and so the
building up effe"t of many men walking in step is destroyed,
there isn0t the for"e there any longer, and the bridge is not
damaged.
'f you "ould get a number of men mar"hing absolutely in
step they would destroy any bridge that "ould be made, and
if one kept up the mar"hing they "ould destroy a building
also be"ause the "onstant pounding down and lifting up
would build up su"h a series of $ibrations that the amplitude
or degree of $ibration would in"rease and in"rease beyond
the point where the natural elasti"ity of the bridge or build3
ing "ould en"ompass it, and then the bridge would (ust shat3
ter like a broken glass.
'f one "ould get?oh, half a do8en people, and get them to
think definitely, deliberately in wa$es of the "orre"t pattern
they "ould topple go$ernments, or build go$ernments, they
"ould make one "ountry pre3eminent o$er all others, and
they "ould do things whi"h now would be regarded as
utterly impossible.
't is perhaps fortunate that it is not too easy to get people
to think in unison at e6a"tly the right fre&uen"y be"ause,
and ' am telling you this &uite seriously, it is not a (oke, if
one had a gang of "rooks who were trained in thinking "or3
re"tly they "ould think open a bank $ault. Dear me, what a
pity ' ha$en0t a ni"e little gang# it would be $ery pleasant to
ha$e a ni"e load of money, wouldn0t it4 )till, it is truly &uite
possible, and in fa"t in Atlantean days it was an e$eryday
o""urren"e.
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-he Catholi" "hants are a reli" of those bygone days,
"hants whi"h some think are only two thousand years old,
but they are still "hants whi"h ha$e been built on the orig3
inal songs of power of the )umerians and the Atlanteans.
1erhaps ' should put it the other way round, Atlanteans and
)umerians be"ause, of "ourse, the Atlanteans are the oldest
"i$ili8ation of the two.
'n those days it was possible to lift massi$e "hunks of stone
by thought, by ha$ing a trained mass of priests thinking at
the same time under their "ondu"tor so that the stone would
lift straight up in the air.
'f you think that is too fantasti" remember that you "an
make a sound whi"h will break a glass. 'f you sustain the
sound you "an break a glass or break a window, and thought
is (ust another form of sound, that is, a $ibration, e$erything
is a $ibration, and if you set the right $ibration in motion
you "an a""omplish anything.
Another &uestion# .Readers are wondering when will be
the proper time for the free world to know of the -ime
Capsules.!
-he proper time is not yet. -he proper time is not until
the end of this "i$ili8ation, the end of this "i$ili8ation as we
know it at present. Later?oh, not in your lifetime, so don0t
worryA? mu"h later there will be earth&uakes whi"h will
really shake the "rust of the +arth and these -ime Capsules
will be thrown up to the surfa"e ready to be opened. -here
are &uite a number of them. *ne tremendous "apsule is in
+gypt# ' suppose te"hni"ally it is a "apsule, but a"tually it is
a $ast "hamber deep beneath the shifting sands of the +gyp3
tian Desert. -he Chamber is an absolute museum of artefa"ts
whi"h e6isted tens of thousands of years ago?yes,
.tens of thousands of years ago!.
-here are air"raft of a $ery, $ery different type than those
in use now, air"raft whi"h work by anti3gra$ity so that the
power of the motor is not e6pended in supporting the weight
but is used (ust to propel the $ehi"le forward. ' will tell you
&uite truthfully that ' ha$e seen su"h an air"raft.
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*ne de$i"e would be espe"ially of interest to the house3
wife or to the person who has to "arry weights. 't is a sort of
handle whi"h atta"hes to whate$er has to be "arried, and
then one (ust "at"hes hold of the handle as when one is
"arrying a basket. 'f the par"el or bundle is hea$y then the
handle is depressed more, if the par"el is not $ery hea$y then
the handle is not $ery far depressed. +a"h of these de$i"es
was "onstru"ted so that no matter whether the par"el
weighed a ton or ten pounds, the person had no more than
about a pound of effort to e6pend.
Anti3gra$ity was a perfe"tly ordinary, perfe"tly "ommon
thing in "enturies long past, but the priests of that day, who
also were the leaders of the armies, got a bit "ross with ea"h
other, and ea"h side tried bigger and better weapons than
the other, with the result that they blew their whole "i$i3
li8ation in the air, and it "ame down as a radio3a"ti$e dust.
Later, when these -ime Capsules are opened, tele$ision in
three dimensions will be seen, and not (ust C3D by means of
two "ameras or two lens, but a thing in whi"h there appear
to be a"tual people, miniature si8e, of "ourse, a"ting out
plays, dan"es, and e$en debates.
1hotography too was different in those days, there were
no su"h things as the flat photographs whi"h we now see.
+$erything was in the .solid!, more C3D than C3D itself. -he
nearest thing is the $ery, $ery "rude holograms with whi"h
s"ientists are (ust e6perimenting in whi"h you "an almost
look behind the ob(e"t you had photographed. 2ell, in the
days of Atlantis you "ould look behind9
%undreds of "enturies ago there was the mightiest "i$i3
li8ation the world had seen up to that time, but there was
su"h a "ata"lysm that people be"ame almost demented,
those that were left, and they had to start (ust about from
the sa$age state and the present so3"alled Age of )"ien"e has
barely rea"hed what would be "alled the kindergarten stage
when Atlantis was at its peak.
Many people disbelie$e in Atlantis whi"h, of "ourse, is
(ust utterly foolish. -hey are like the fishermen who go out
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fishing and be"ause they don0t "at"h anything they say, .*h,
there are no fish in the seas any more, they ha$e all died
off.!
/es, there was an Atlantis, and there are li$ing remnants
of Atlantis still, deep underground in a "ertain part of the
world, and let me make "lear here that that part of the world
is not Mount )hasta. Don0t belie$e all the hooey you read or
are told about Mount )hasta# this is (ust an ordinary area
whi"h has been o$er publi"i8ed by people who wanted to
make not (ust a fast bu"k, but a whole sa"k of them.
' wish ' "ould tell you some of the things ' absolutely,
definitely know, but there are "ertain things whi"h "annot be
told at present. ' know the a"tual truth about the sub3
marines Thresher and Scorpion, and ' know what happened
to them and why. -he story, if it "ould be told, would make
"old "hills run up and down your spine, but the time is not
yet. -here are many things whi"h "ould be told, but 3 well 3
these books "ir"ulate e$erywhere, many, many people read
them, and there are many people who should not be aware
that "ertain people know what is really going on. /ou "an
take it, though, that the mystery of the Thresher and the
Scorpion is a stranger thing than you would e$er belie$e.
.But you seem so $ery interested in animals,! said the
letter, .and yet you say that you do not belie$e in $egetarian3
ism. 2hy4 %ow do you re"on"ile the two, a lo$e of animals
and a dislike of $egetarianism4!
' belie$e most firmly that Man has a body whi"h at this
stage of e6isten"e needs meat for its sustenan"e. ,ow, let me
tell you something. Countless years ago?years and years
and years ago?there was a form of Man who was entirely a
$egetarian. %e was so busy eating that he had no time for
anything else. 't ne$er o""urred to him to eat meat, and so
that he "ould deal with the tremendous bulk of $egetables,
fruit and nuts ne"essary he had an additional organ, the last
$estigial remnant of whi"h is the appendi6.
-he e6periment was a "omplete failure. -he Gardeners of
the +arth found that $egetarian Man was ineffi"ient be"ause
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to take in the ne"essary amount of "ellulose matter to enable
him to do any worthwhile work was &uite a prohibiti$e
matter. %e would ha$e to be eating all the time, eating for so
long that there would not be any time left for him to do any
"onstru"ti$e work. And so the Gardeners of the +arth s"rap3
ed that type of Man, or, if you don t like the word .s"rap3
ped,! let us say that through e$olution mankind turned into
a meat3eater.
2e ha$e to fa"e basi" fa"ts, and one of the basi" fa"ts is
this# all $egetable matter is "ellulose supported. ,ow, you
imagine la"e "urtains, a ni"e openwork net, and then you
stuff the holes with paste stuff "ontaining food substan"e.
)upposing you had to eat the la"e "urtains in order that the
food $alue pa"ked in the holes "ould be absorbed into your
body. 't sounds a bit fantasti", doesn0t it4 But that0s (ust
what you do when you eat a lot of lettu"e or "abbage or
other $egetable or fruit stuff. 2hat you are eating is a "ellu3
lose sponge, the holes of whi"h are pa"ked with food, but the
sponge material takes up a lot of room and so to get an
ade&uate amount of food one has to take a &uite e6"essi$e
bulk of "ellulose, and the poor wret"hed body "annot digest
"ellulose, you know, it has to be e6"reted.
'n all my life ' ha$e ne$er, ne$er met a $egetarian who
"ould do any hard work. *f "ourse if he was sitting on his
behind all day letting other people do the work, then no
doubt he "ould get by, but he wouldn0t be $ery bright. 'f by
any "han"e he was bright then you "ould take it that if he
li$ed naturally he would be a darn sight brighter.
;uite truly ha$e you e$er seen a na$$y or a person who
does hard manual work who "ould li$e on $egetables and
fruits only4 /ou ha$en0t ha$e you, now you "ome to think of
it4
But let us get ba"k to our animal business. ' am truly an
animal lo$er, ' lo$e all animals, and ' "an assure you that
animals know they ha$e to die sometime and it helps their
own Mharma if they "an die for a useful purpose.
Animals who are raised for food are looked after, they are
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bred "arefully, any si"kness is treated. -he herd is $ery
"arefully super$ised so that there are only healthy animals.
'n the wild state you get animals who are diseased or
stunted, or who ha$e been in(ured in some way, or e$en
those who ha$e some disease su"h as "an"er or lung trouble
and they (ust ha$e to drag out a miserable e6isten"e. )up3
posing an animal breaks a leg, then it has to li$e out a really
miserable e6isten"e until it dies in pain and star$ation, yet
any herd animal would be "ared for immediately.
'f no one killed any animals then soon the world would be
o$errun with animals of e$ery type. -here would be "attle in
large numbers, and the greater the number of "attle then the
greater the number of predator animals whi"h ,ature her3
self would pro$ide to keep down the number of "attle.
'f humans eat meat, then it0s to their ad$antage to kill an
animal painlessly and &ui"kly. 'n killing an animal for food
one is also keeping down the numbers of animals and keep3
ing them in "he"k so that in growing to un"ontrollable
numbers and in running wild the sto"k does not be"ome
downgraded.
,ow whether we like it or not, humans also ha$e to be
kept in "he"k so far as their numbers are "on"erned. 'f there
are too many humans then ine$itably there is a big war or a
serious earth&uake, or some sort of plague or illness whi"h
"arries off large numbers of humans. -hat is (ust the Gar3
deners of the +arth thinning out the ranks, "utting down on
surplus people# people, after all, are (ust animals of a
different type.
And all the people who fairly yowl with anguish at the
thought of a person eating a pie"e of beef, well, how about
eating a li$e lettu"e4 'f one eats a pie"e of beef or "hi"ken
the original owner of the flesh is no longer able to feel the
bites, yet people go and eat li$e lettu"e, eat li$e pears, so how
do they re"on"ile their so3"alled humanitarian prin"iples4
)"ien"e, "yni"al and s"epti"al though it be, has now dis3
"o$ered that plants ha$e feelings, plants will grow better
when they are tended by people who are sympatheti" to
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them. 1lants respond to musi". -here are instruments whi"h
"an indi"ate how mu"h pain a plant is enduring. /ou may
not hear a "abbage shriek when you tear off its outside lea$es
3no, be"ause it has no $o"al "hords and yet there are instru3
ments whi"h "an re"ord that shriek of pain as a burst of
stati".
-his is not fairy tale stuff, it0s a"tual fa"t, it0s stuff that has
been in$estigated and pro$ed and pro$ed again. 'n resear"h
laboratories in Russia, +ngland and the 7.).A. it has been
pro$ed.
2hen you pi"k some berries and stuff them in your
mouth, well how about the feelings of the plant4 /ou don0t
go and tear a lump off a "ow and stuff it in your mouth do
you4 'f you tried to the "ow would soon ob(e"t, but be"ause
a plant "annot make its pain known you think you are a (olly
wonderful humanitarian when you eat plants instead of
meat whi"h "annot feel the pain of being eaten.
;uite frankly ' belie$e that $egetarians are a lot of "ranks
and "ra"kpots, and if they would only "ome off their stupid
attitudes and remember that the Gardeners of the +arth
designed their bodies for "ertain food, then they would be a
lot better in their mental health.
'f you ha$e a "ar you wouldn0t drain the sump and fill it
up with water, would you, and say you "ouldn0t possibly use
oil be"ause it might "ome from the +arth somewhere and
hurt somebody underground. 'f you try to run your body on
food for whi"h it is not designed you are being (ust the same
as a person who won0t use oil in the sump of his "ar but
instead uses salt water.
'f we are going to be logi"al and if we are going to say that
$egetarianism is good, then how about the pra"ti"e of using
"ut flowers in one0s rooms4 1lants are li$ing entities, and
when you "ut flowers you are "utting off the se6 organs of
the plants and sti"king them in $ases, and a"tually humans
would be sho"kingly unhappy if their se6 organs were "ut off
and stu"k in $ases for some different ra"e to en(oy.
Let me digress here to say that when ' was in hospital '
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re"ei$ed a $ery pleasant surprise. A group of $ery kind ladies
as far away as the 1a"ifi" "oast of the 7.).A. had wired to a
florist in the "ity of )aint <ohn to ha$e some plants deli$ered
to me at the hospital. ' appre"iated it $ery mu"h indeed.
-he ladies did not gi$e any address but ' was able to lo"ate
them9
A personal "hoi"e?' do not like "ut flowers. 't seems to
me su"h a pity to "ut them off. 'nstead ' $ery mu"h prefer a
"omplete plant, here one has a li$ing thing whi"h is growing
and not (ust dying. ' often think people who send great
bun"hes of "ut flowers?well, why not "ut off the heads of
small "hildren and impale them on sti"ks and put those in a
room9
%a$e you e$er thought of the state this old +arth of ours
is in4 't0s &uite a mess, you know. Compare it to a garden.
,ow, if the garden is properly maintained there are no
weeds or anything like that, all pests are kept in "he"k, there
is no blight on the trees and the fruits are full and healthy.
1lants ha$e to be thinned out, the si"kly ones ha$e to be
remo$ed. +$ery so often fruit trees ha$e to be pruned, some3
times there are grafts taken. 't is ne"essary to "arefully
super$ise the garden and to pre$ent "ross3pollination be3
tween undesirable spe"ies. 'f the garden is maintained as it
should be it be"omes a thing of beauty.
But let the gardeners go away, let the garden remain idle
for a year or two. 2eeds will grow and will "hoke and kill off
the more deli"ate plants, un"he"ked pests will "ome, and
blight will appear on the trees. ,o longer will there be
round, film fruits, but soon they will be shri$elled, wrinkled
up with all sorts of brown spots. A sadly negle"ted garden is
a tragi" sight.
*r let us go from the garden to li$esto"k. %a$e you e$er
seen wild ponies on a moor, or wild "attle where the gra8ing
is poor4 -hey be"ome stunted, some of them suffer from
ri"kets, many suffer from skin diseases. Generally they are a
pretty patheti" sight, little dwarf "reatures, unkempt and
$ery, $ery wild.
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Look at a well maintained sto"k yard. %ere you see pedi3
gree animals "arefully bred, faults bred out of them in fa"t.
/ou get fine pedigree horses or e6"ellent pedigree "ows# they
are healthy, they are large and substantial looking, they
appear glad to be ali$e, and you "an look at them with
pleasure knowing that they are not going to start away from
you in fright. -hey know they are looked after.
,ow think of the +arth, think of the people here. -he
sto"k is getting poorer and poorer. 1eople are be"oming
more $i"ious, people are listening to more depra$ed .musi"!
and wat"hing e$er more obs"ene pi"tures. ,ow it is no
longer an age when beauty and spirituality "ount, no longer
do people lo$e good musi", lo$e good pi"tures, e$erything is
being torn down. /ou "annot get a great man without some
moroni" "lot trying to say unkind things about him. *ne of
the greatest men of modern times, )ir 2inston Chur"hill,
probably sa$ed the world from being under the "loud of
Communism, yet e$en )ir 2inston Chur"hill had his de3
tra"tors (ust be"ause of the spirit of e$il whi"h per$ades the
atmosphere nowadays.
-he garden whi"h is the +arth whi"h is our world has
gone to seed. 2eeds grow apa"e. /ou "an see them in the
streets with their long hair and dirty "omple6ions, and if you
"an0t see them you "an (olly well smell them yards off.
-he ra"es need pruning, sto"k needs replenishing and soon
will "ome the time when the Gardeners of the +arth "ome
ba"k for their periodi"al inspe"tion and find "onditions here
to be &uite intolerable.
)omething will be done about it. Mankind will not be left
to go to bad seed as it has of late. -here will "ome a time
when all the Ra"es of Man will unite, when there will no
longer be bla"k people and white people and yellow people
and red people# the whole world will be peopled by .the Ra"e
of -an!, and that will be the predominating "olour?tan.
2ith the "oming of the Ra"e of -an there will be mu"h
fresh life in(e"ted in the human ra"e. 1eople will again $alue
the better things of life, people will again $alue spiritual
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things and when mankind gets spiritual to a suffi"ient degree
it will be possible for mankind on"e again to talk by tele3
pathy with .the Gods!?the Gardeners of the +arth.
At present Man has sunk in the slough of despond, sunk in
his own la"k of spirituality, sunk so low that his basi" $i3
brations are redu"ed to su"h an e6tent that he "annot be
heard telepathi"ally by any "reature higher, not e$en by his
fellows. But the time will "ome when all that will be rem3
edied.
' am not trying to sell you Buddhism, nor Christianity,
nor <udaism, but ' am saying &uite definitely that there will
ha$e to be a return to some form of religion be"ause only
religion "an gi$e one the ne"essary spiritual dis"ipline whi"h
will "on$ert an unholy rabble of humanity to a dis"iplined
spiritual group of people, who "an "arry on the ra"e instead
of ha$ing it ploughed under and a fresh set of entities pla"ed
here.
,ow, in the present state of dissonan"e, e$en Christians
fight against Christians. -he war in ,orthern 'reland be3
tween Catholi"s and 1rotestants?it doesn0t matter who is
right or who is wrong, they are both alleged to be Christians,
they are both alleged to follow the same religion. Does it
matter whether one se"t "rosses himself with the left hand
while another does it with the right hand4 't0s mu"h the
same as one of the stories in Gulli$er0s -ra$el!s where the
people of one mythi"al "ountry went to war about whi"h
end of an egg should be opened first, the small end or the
broad end9 %ow "an Christianity possibly try to "on$ert
other nations, other religions, when Christians fight against
Christians, be"ause both Catholi"s and 1rotestants are
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C%A1-+R -+,
-he gem "annot be polished
without fri"tion, nor Man
perfe"ted without trials.
Breakfast was soon o$er. *ne doesn0t take long to "on3
sume a breakfast "onsisting solely of one fifty gram boiled
egg, one pie"e of bread, and fi$e grams of butter. -he two
"ups of tea permitted did not take long .going down the
hat"h! either.
-he *ld Man pressed the button on the left3hand side of
the bed and a motor whirred, and the ba"k se"tion lifted up,
to a forty3fi$e degree in"lination. .*h9! smiled Cleo, .'
do lo$e it when that thing goes up.!
.2ell, ' ha$e to work now, and you wret"hes mustn0t dis3
turb me again. /ou know what fun we had yesterday, don0t
you4!
-he end of Miss Cleo0s tail twit"hed with amusement, and
she sauntered off to her a""ustomed pla"e on the windowsill
right o$er the radiator.
.2hat fun yesterday4! asked Ra0ab. .' don0t remember any
fun yesterday.!
-he *ld Man looked up and said, .' tried to do some of
the book in the afternoon, and at Cat -addy said ' mustn0t
do it. )he said ' didn0t look well enough and when '
wouldn0t stop she told me again and then she kept (umping
at me and slapping me.!
.Good for her,! said Ra0ab, .she0s (ust looking after you.!
./es, sure she0s looking after me, but she kept on (umping
at me and trying to push things out of the way, she tried to
sit on my "hest so ' "ouldn0t work, and if ' don0t get on and
do this book who is going to pay all the do"tor0s bills4!
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-he *ld Man thought with "onsiderable gloom of all the
people still making money out of him# )e"ker S 2arburg,
for instan"e, first published -he -hird +ye?oh, about
fifteen years ago, they published it in hardba"k form and
then they sold the rights to a paperba"k firm, and e$er sin"e
)e"ker S 2arburg ha$e been taking fifty per "ent of the
royalties on the paperba"k edition. And the same thing
happens with Doubleday in the 7.).A. -here are other
publishers who are dipping their hands in and, as the *ld
Man said, it0s no wonder he ne$er had any money when
there were so many people, in"luding the ta6 "olle"tors, who
were trying to get a share of the money that he earned.
-he *ld Man thought always in the kindest of
terms about Corgi of +ngland be"ause throughout a long
asso"iation there has ne$er been any disagreement, ne$er
one word of dispute between Corgi and him. %e thought
with "onsiderable affe"tion of his Agent, Mr. A. ). Mnight of
the firm of )tephen Aske, a painfully honest man who has
always done his best and, as stated, the *ld Man had a
"onsiderable affe"tion for him. -hat all "ame about be"ause
a former Agent with whom the *ld Man was dealing said,
.'f you know of a better Agent, find him.! And the *ld Man
did (ust that?Mr. Mnight.
But now was the time to work on"e again, the time to pass
on a few more bits of information to people who would ap3
pre"iate it. -he *ld Man turned o$er his papers and at Cat
-addy raised her head and glowered, and sent the strong
telepathi" message, .,o larks now, you "annot do too mu"h
at on"e or this time Cleo and ' will both (ump at you.!
%a$ing said that she "urled up "omfortably and awaited
further de$elopments.
;uite a lot of &uestions "ame to the *ld Man, &uite a lot
of letters. 1eople wanting things, wanting help, wanting sug3
gestions, but most of the people wanted the *ld Man to
agree with them so they would be (ustified in their own
minds. )o many people wrote in about lo$e affairs, asking
the *ld Man to de"ide between that person or some other
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person, asking if they would be happily married, and all the
rest of it, but most of the people did not want any ad$i"e
that meant doing anything, they (ust wanted to be told that
they were doing satisfa"torily and needn0t make any more
effort, they wanted to be told that fate was too hard on them
and that they were worthy of the deepest sympathy and (ust
gi$e up and don0t do anything, you "an0t fight against fate.
/ou "an, you know, if you want to.
1eople "ome to +arth with a $ery "arefully worked out
plan of what they are going to do. -hey are fired with en3
thusiasm and determination, they know e6a"tly how su"3
"essful they are going to be in the forth"oming life. )o they
set out on the (ourney to +arth like Crusaders full of 8eal.
2hen they get down to +arth, and when they ha$e a few
years e6perien"e behind them, inertia or lethargy sets in,
they get disillusioned with life whi"h is a more polite way of
saying downright la8y, whi"h is a"tually the truth. 1eople
try to e$ade their responsibilities, try to shirk the plan whi"h
they, and they only appro$ed be"ause, remember, nothing is
for"ed upon a person, a person "omes to learn "ertain things,
to e6perien"e "ertain things, but they are not made to. 'n the
same way a student who goes to a 7ni$ersity ? well, he
didn0t ha$e to go, he doesn0t ha$e to learn "ertain things
unless he wants to. 'f he doesn0t learn then he won0t get the
desired &ualifi"ations and that0s all there is to it# it0s his
"hoi"e.
1eople ask for ad$i"e and guidan"e, they absolutely $ow
that they wil= follow the ad$i"e, but then they go on in their
most errati" way, a way that is something like trying to dri$e
a pig to market. %a$e you e$er dri$en a pig to market4 ,o4
2ell, it0s like this# you ha$e two long sti"ks in your hands
and you get behind the pig, and then you try to dri$e him
forward in a straight line and the sti"k in ea"h hand is to
gi$e him a little tap if he doesn0t keep to the pres"ribed
"ourse. ,owadays, of "ourse, pigs get dri$en in tru"ks to
market whi"h is altogether too easy, but people try to do
e$erything e6"ept the ob$ious. 1eople "annot understand
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that the 1ath is here, right beside them, right in front of
them, the 1ath is within rea"h. 1eople won0t belie$e that,
they think they ha$e to tra$el to some e6oti" "ountry and
seek the 1ath there, they think they ha$e to go to -ibet and
get a Guide, or be"ome a Buddhist. -he number of people
who "laim they ha$e -ibetan Lamas as Guides?well, there
(ust isn0t the population in -ibet. And the number of people
who write to me and tell me that they are going to -ibet to
study in a Lamasery indi"ates that so few people really read
the -ruth# they "an0t go to -ibet, the Communists are there,
the Lamaseries are "losed. 't0s (ust silly to think that be"ause
a person is all fired up with enthusiasm that he "an go "harg3
ing off leaping a"ross the o"eans and landing with a plonk in
Dar(eeling, and then making his way on an outstret"hed red
"arpet to the nearest Lamasery. 2hat do you think the Com3
munists are there for4 -hey are there to stop religion, they
are there to kill off lamas, they are there to ensla$e inno"ent
people, and they are doing it be"ause there doesn0t seem to
be anybody who is going to lead the -ibetan people out of
the wilderness, out of the darkness of Communism and into
the light Ksu"h as it isL of the free world.
't should be emphasi8ed on"e again that if people seek
ad$i"e and re"ei$e ad$i"e, and then ignore ad$i"e, then they
are mu"h worse off than if they did not seek help in the first
"ase be"ause when the 1ath is pointed out to them, when
they are told what they really should do after ha$ing in$ited
suggestions, then, well, they add a bit more to their Mharma
if they do not do it. )o if you do not want to do anything
about your state, about your dissatisfa"tion, do not seek ad$i"e,
otherwise you are (ust adding on a bit to your own load.
,ow here is another &uestion# .-he idea has been gleaned
that efforts to bring about healing of the si"k may be ill3
ad(usted, interfering with the Mharma the patient is working
off, and su"h helper may be subse&uently burdened with the
patient0s Mharma. 'f this was true, what about the pra"ti"ing
physi"ian, what a load of Mharma he must get. 's one sup3
posed to try and help and heal or not4!
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1oor old Mharma takes a beating on"e again9 ,ot e$ery3
thing is due to Mharma, you know. 1eople tell me that ' must
ha$e a terrible Mharma to ha$e su"h a diffi"ult life, but it0s
not that at all. or e6ample, if you go out and do some hard
work, dig a dit"h or run a mile, that may be hardship to
some people but you may be doing it be"ause you like it or
be"ause you are studying something. /ou may dig a dit"h to
see if you "an dis"o$er some better way of doing it.
Many people "ome to this +arth with a definite plan that
they will ha$e a spe"ifi" illness, it might be -.B., it might be
"an"er, it might e$en be "hroni" heada"he. ,o matter what
it is, that person "an "ome with a definite plan to ha$e some
definite illness. A person may "ome as a mentally si"k person
and be doing an e6tremely good (ob of studying mentally
si"k people. 't doesn0t at all mean that be"ause a person is
mentally si"k that they are burdened down with Mharma# on
the "ontrary, they may be "oming so that they "an study at
first hand mentally si"k people and then when they return to
the *ther )ide they "an help through the astral world those
who are si"k upon the +arth.
A physi"ian or surgeon is in a spe"ial "ategory. %e "an
help those who need to be helped, he "an operate on those
who otherwise would die, and the sufferer, if he or she "ame
with the intention of studying illness, would be able to study
how the suffering of su"h illness may be alle$iated.
Let me make this statement# so3"alled .faith healers! do
tremendous harm by setting up "onfli"ting $ibrations. -he
faith healer may be full of good intentions, but then the road
to %ell is pa$ed with good intentions, people say, and unless
the faith healer knows the e6a"t "ause of an illness it is
definitely, definitely harmful to start up all this so3"alled
healing business. 't (ust sets up a (angle in the aura whi"h, all
too fre&uently, makes the "ondition worse.
'n these .mira"le "ure! "ases it is sadly all too fre&uent that
the person did not ha$e the illness in the first "ase, but
merely had a neurosis. )ome people "an delude themsel$es
for years, they "an go into a state of auto3hypnosis?yes,
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they0$e got "an"er, yes, they0$e got -.B., yes, they0$e got
e$erything. -hey "an go to a do"tor0s waiting room, hear a
few other patients dis"ussing their symptoms, and then the
neuroti" person "opies the whole bun"h and gets one .illness!
after another. ,ow, if a faith healer "an "ome along and
."ure! that often there is a serious breakdown after it. ;uite
frankly ' ha$e no time and no patien"e with these faith
healers.
'f you are ill go to a re"ogni8ed do"tor. 'f you need other
spe"iali8ed attention a &ualified do"tor will ad$ise it and tell
you where and how to get it, but to (ust send a sum of money
to somebody who ad$ertises in the Tom Cat Times about
faith healing ? well, that really is insane.
A re"ogni8ed do"tor naturally does not add to his Mharma
in helping to "ure the si"k. -his business of Mharma is so
dreadfully misunderstood. 't doesn0t at all mean that if you
are going to help a person you are going to take all his hard3
ships on to your own ba"k. 't means that if you do an ill
ser$i"e to a person, then you ha$e to pay ba"k. 'f, through
your $i"iousness, or your $iolent temper let us say, you shoot
a person and impede the a""omplishment of the task whi"h
he was doing, then you ha$e to pay by ha$ing your own path
impeded. orget about hellfire and damnation be"ause there
is no su"h thing, no one is e$er, e$er abandoned, no one is
e$er, e$er "ondemned to torments. -he only suffering and
torment that you will e6perien"e when you lea$e this +arth
is when you enter the %all of Memories and see what stupid
things you ha$e done, and that is easily o$er"ome# if you
really do your best now while you are still upon +arth, you
"an be assured that your $isit to the %all of Memories will
not be so bad after all. *f "ourse your fa"e will be red, but?
well, no wonder, eh4 -hink of some of the things you ha$e
done, think of some of the things you ha$en0t done.
%ere is a &uestion about telepathy. .Could more detail be
gi$en regarding the means of rea"hing the o"ta$e for tele3
pathy between animals and Man. %ow "an "at wa$elengths
be inter"epted, for instan"e4!
'f you want to talk telepathi"ally with animals you ha$e
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to be in "omplete rapport with those animals, you ha$e to be
able to think as they do, you ha$e to lo$e them, and you
ha$e to treat them as e&uals. Most people regard animals as
some inferior spe"ies of life, they think of animals as dumb
"lu"ks or dumb "reatures who (ust "annot speak and, there3
fore, ha$en0t any brains. Let me tell you that many humans
think that deaf humans are mentally bereft. 'f you had e$er
been deaf, or if people thought you were deaf, you would
often hear them dis"ussing you, saying, .*h, he0s a bit weak
in the head, he doesn0t know what we0re saying, don!t bother
with him.!
Animals are in e$ery way the e&ual of the human animal,
they are (ust in a different shape, they think along different
lines, and be"ause they think along different lines their basi"
wa$elength is different.
But let me gi$e you another "ause for thought# "an you
telepathise with a fellow human4 ,o4 Do you know why4
-hroughout the years humans ha$e distrusted humans,
humans try to "on"eal their a"tions from humans. -here is
always more or less the intent of de"ei$ing fellow humans, so
you try sub3"ons"iously to make the wa$elength of your
thought transmission at $arian"e, with the thought trans3
mission of other humans then they "an0t pi"k up your
thoughts. 'f there was true .brotherly lo$e! on this +arth
e$eryone would be telepathi" to ea"h other. 't is only
humans who are not telepathi", or rather, only humans who
"annot use telepathi" ability.
' speak to my "ats &uite as distin"tly, &uite as easily as '
speak to any human. ' speak to that Big at Cat -addykins
and she gets my message with absolute "larity and ' re"ei$e
her reply, and often the Beauty ;ueen Cleo will "ome rush3
ing out of another room so that she "an take part in any
dis"ussion. 2omanlike she likes to ha$e the last word.
'f you want to talk telepathi"ally with animals you ha$e
to lo$e them, you ha$e to treat them as e&ual, you ha$e to
reali8e that they think rather differently from humans but
they are no less intelligent be"ause of that.
An +nglishman and a )paniard "onstru"t their senten"es
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differently, but then so do a German and a ren"hman. -he
basi" message is the same, but the a"tual "onstru"tion is
different. 't is e$en more so between human and "at. /ou
also ha$e to take into "onsideration that the "at0s $iewpoint
of things is different from that of a human. )o unless you "an
think as a "at mu"h of the messages you would re"ei$e would
be somewhat in"omprehensible to you. As an illustration, '
was gi$en a message about something ' wanted?this was
when ' li$ed in Montreal. ' got an a"tual pi"ture of the shop
where the arti"le was for sale, but, of "ourse, the pi"ture was
from a "at0s3eye $iew of a few in"hes from the ground, and
from that pe"uliar angle ' (ust "ould not get the name of the
shop be"ause of the e6treme elongation of the letters of the
name seen from near3ground le$el. *nly when the "at,
spe"ially to oblige me, (umped on top of a "ar "ould ' a"tu3
ally read the name through the "at0s eyes. /es, ' got the
arti"le and it was &uite satisfa"tory.
-here are many su"h instan"es. ' wanted something for
resear"h and no shop "ould supply me, so Miss -addy, our
highly gifted telepathi" "at, sent out a general "all on the
"ats0 telepathi" wa$elength and we re"ei$ed the desired in3
formation from a ren"h3Canadian "at. )o here in ,ew
Brunswi"k we ha$e re"ei$ed a message from a "at in the
1ro$in"e of ;uebe", and an urgent telephone "all really
truly did lo"ate the thing that ' wanted. ' had no idea where
to get it, but by "onta"ting "ats ' was soon in possession of
the arti"le.
' ha$e a friend li$ing many thousands of miles away and
through re"ei$ing telepathi" messages he has been sa$ed
mu"h trouble. Miss -addy was in tou"h telepathi"ally with
a "at who li$es near my friend, and this "at who was &uite a
good telepath himself was able to inform -addy of "ertain
things. -hen ' got in tou"h with my friend and ga$e him the
information, and he "onfirmed that e$erything was a"tually
as ' said.
'f people would pra"ti"e telepathy they "ould soon put the
telephone "ompanies out of business. 1erhaps you and '
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should get together and set up a spe"ial telepathi" telephone
"ommuni"ations system and make oursel$es ri"h9
%ere is another &uestion whi"h possibly is a little belated
and, like most other things in this book, will be out of pla"e.
Before ' say about the &uestion let me say something
else A?
'n this book ' ha$e deliberately had &uestions .higgly3
piggly!, otherwise too many people would (ust run to that
&uestion in whi"h they were interested, or that se"tion in
whi"h they were interested, and ignore the rest of the book.
-hey would then write and "omplain to me that ' had not
dealt with su"h3and3su"h a thing whi"h they had not read
be"ause they forgot to turn the pageA
%ere is the &uestion# .'t is the spirit that sur$i$es, isn0t it4
,ow when a person has a mental affli"tion does that mean
that it is more than a physi"al impairment, something that
will not be left behind when we pass into another e6isten"e,
or will a person automati"ally be free of it as soon as the
spirit gets out of the body, (ust as one wouldn0t feel a broken
leg, for instan"e, on the astral plane.!
Many people "ome down here with a deliberate mental
affli"tion. -hey "ome down to see at firsthand what it is like
to be mentally impaired. 't doesn0t mean that their Mharma
is faulty at all, that is nothing to do with it. /ou might say
that a horse who has a handi"ap in a ra"e has Mharma, and
that would be absurd, wouldn0t it4
'n some ra"es ' understand that horses who are "onsistent
winners ha$e a handi"ap in that they ha$e to "arry "ertain
weights whi"h are assumed to slow them up a bit and gi$e
other horses a "han"e. Mind you, ' know $ery little about
horses, ' ha$e ne$er yet found the brake pedal on a horse,
but ' do know whi"h is the front end and whi"h is the rear
end. -he front end bites and one also has to a$oid the rear
end for $arious other reasons whi"h we need not detail.
,o horse would be a""used of ha$ing Mharma when it
"arries handi"ap weights. 'n the same way no human would
be a""used of ha$ing Mharma when he or she "omes to this
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+arth with a deliberate derangement or malfun"tion of some
organ, and if a person should "ome here as a ra$ing lunati"
that would ha$e no effe"t whatsoe$er on the astral body.
-he insane part is shed when the astral body .goes home!.
'n addition to the "lass of person who "omes with a delib3
erate affli"tion that he may study the matter, there are those
who, through mis"han"e, are in(ured perhaps through a
mother ha$ing a faulty diet, or possibly through a midwife
or do"tor using instruments in a faulty manner. or an illus3
tration let us say that a do"tor uses instruments and damages
the skull, then the person may ha$e a definite mental impair3
ment as a result of that damage. But it0s not ne"essarily the
person0s Mharma .paying him ba"k!. 't "ould be an a""ident,
a mis"han"e, and nothing more. ,or does it mean that the
poor wret"hed do"tor has got a load of Mharma added be3
"ause some things are a""idents, and it does not mean that if
a person has a definite, una$oidable a""ident, he is going to
be saddled with Mharma. -here is su"h a lot of miss3
"on"eption about Mharma.
-he person who "omes down and is in(ured through a
"omplete mis"han"e gets ."redits! be"ause the failure of that
life was not of his making. 'f he is $ery badly impaired, that
is, if he is what we term a human $egetable, then the astral
itself will go and take up residen"e elsewhere, and the
human $egetable will then "ontinue to ti"k o$er throughout
the rest of the life, getting neither better nor worse.
-here is no way known on +arth whereby an a"tion on
+arth "an make an astral entity insane. -he nearest one "an
"ome to it is when one takes drugs e6"essi$ely. 'f one takes
drugs to e6"ess, then the astral entity is $ery definitely
affe"ted, not to the e6tent of being $iolently insane of "ourse,
but it does "ause a bad ner$ous "ondition, and that has to be
"ured by &uite a long so(ourn in an astral hospital.
Mu"h the same "onditions pre$ail when a person is a real
out and out al"oholi" be"ause through his drunkenness he
has loosened the bonds between the astral and the physi"al
and has a"ti$ely en"ouraged lower grade elementals to
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atta"k the )il$er Cord, or e$en to take o$er the physi"al
body "ompletely. -his "auses a $ery se$ere sho"k to the
astral and, again, while it does not "ause insanity it does
"ause sho"k. -he sho"k is akin to that whi"h you would
e6perien"e if you were asleep and a whole gang of rowdy
kids beating drums and sounding trumpets (umped on your
bed, not (ust appeared in your room, but a"tually (umped on
your bed. /ou would suffer a se$ere sho"k, your skin would
be"ome pallid, your heart would ra"e and you would get
palpitations, and generally you would begin to shake all
o$er. 2ell, when you had beaten up the kids and tossed
them out you would be perhaps an hour or two before you
fully re"o$ered. But if your astral body had got into this
"ondition through an al"oholi" state or through e6"essi$e
taking of drugs, you might be se$eral years in the astral
re"o$ering from it.
-hat brings me to another &uestion whi"h is, .2hat is this
about powers that li$e on the astral plane at times affe"ting
the )il$er Cord!4
Let us $isuali8e the pre$ailing "onditions. )uppose we
were sitting on top of a building, perhaps in a $ery beautiful
pent house, with a ni"e roof garden# we were lolling at ease
but at the same time keeping "onta"t with a person right
down on the ground le$el, we were keeping "onta"t through,
if you like, a pair of telephone wires "onne"ted to a headset
on us and a headset and mouthpie"e on the person right
down on the ground floor. 2e are pi"king up his impressions
and listening in to all that he says and hears. *ur telephone
wires are su"h that they "an pass through trees and walls
without being disturbed, but they "an be disturbed by a "er3
tain type of entity.
Down below, also, there is a gang of hoodlum kids, yelling
whooping around. -hey keep on trying to "at"h this tele3
phone "able, and when they do "at"h it they try to break it
or e$en lay it on a stone on the ground and gi$e some hearty
bashes at it with another stone. Although they "annot break
it, they "an "ause "onsiderable bruising and disturban"e. 't
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also impedes the poor wret"h who is trying to talk and mo$e
about.
,ow let us put it in astral terms. 2e are down here on the
+arth?unfortunately?and our )il$er Cord stret"hes
upwards to the astral world. 'f we are weak or afraid, that is,
if our authority is not respe"ted, then any low grade elemen3
tal through whose territory our )il$er Cord passes "an take a
grab at it and do to it, or try to do to it, mu"h the same as the
"hildren on +arth tried to do to the telephone wires. 1erhaps
they "annot a"tually tou"h it, but they "an impress signals
upon it by magneti" indu"tion in (ust the same way as one
"an speak into a mi"rophone atta"hed to a tape re"order and
our messages spoken into the mi"rophone are magneti"ally
impressed on the tape whi"h is passing through the re"ord3
ing head. ,ow supposing we are making a tape re"ording#
we are busy doing our best di"tion, making our best "om3
position, and we are &uite proud of the (ob we are making,
and then someone sneaks up behind us and shouts .B**A!
into the mi"rophone. 't "auses a disturban"e, it shakes us
"onsiderably, and it leads to irritation on the person0s part
when listening to the re"ording.
'f "hildren respe"t one?and for that one has to really
s"are the daylights out of them?they will not do su"h things
as to try and shout into mi"rophones, et". 'n the same way,
one must absolutely and utterly show that one is not a bit
afraid of the elementals. -he elementals work hard at trying
to make astral tra$elling humans afraid of them, they blow
themsel$es out, they put on their fier"est looks and they
utter the most outlandish "ries one "an imagine. A"tually,
the lower astral, the world of the elementals, is $ery mu"h
like the really insane ward at the lo"al hospital. %owe$er,
pro$ided one maintains dis"ipline, and it0s easy, and pro3
$ided that one is not afraid of these stupid elementals, and
that is easier still, then there is ne$er any "ause to worry
about interferen"e from astral entities. Remember that
nothing whate$er "an upset you or disturb you or hurt you
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unless you are terrified. 'f you are terrified, then your own
state of fright, and that only, will "ause your "hemi"als to be
upset. 'f a person re"ei$es a bad fright it upsets one0s di3
gestion in the physi"al, and?well, that0s all there is to it
you really "annot be hurt, but you "annot be e$en disturbed
if you refuse to be frightened or intimidated.
,ow here is a &uestion whi"h was asked by a mother. -he
&uestion is, .2hen "hildren go to the *ther )ide do they
grow up or do they stay as "hildren4 %ow do the parents
know their "hild4 Do they grow before their eyes4!
Mother, no, ' won0t mention your name be"ause ' did not,
ask you in time, and ' will not mention any name e6"ept
with the person0s a"tual permission. )o ? Mother, you0$e got
it all wrong. ,ow read this "arefully# people are on the
*ther )ide, that is, in the astral. -hey are not "hildren, and
they are not old people, they are of (ust what one might term
an a$erage, indeterminate age, be"ause on the *ther )ide
years are different. But, anyway, this person, an adult let us
say, de"ides to go ba"k to +arth# he "annot go ba"k as a fully
grown adult, "an he4 %e has to go through the usual "han3
nels, one might say, and so this person goes to sleep and
when he wakes up he is in the pro"ess of being born as a
baby.
-hen he grows a bit and, let us for the purpose of this
illustration say that, when he is?oh, what shall we say4?
when he is ten years of age he dies and is buried. -he astral is
released from the body and goes ba"k to the *ther )ide
where he says, in effe"t, .2ell, that was a short stay, thank
goodness. ,ow what do ' do ne6t4! *n the *ther )ide he is
not a "hild any longer, but supposing that for some $ery,
$ery important reason he has to get in tou"h with those who
were his parents on +arth, it would be no good gi$ing them
the impression of himself as an adult, as one perhaps older
than the parents. )o he impresses upon their sub3"ons"ious
sight a $ision of himself as a "hild, and the fond parents
re(oi"e at ha$ing seen the spirit of their ten year old boy who
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"ame all the way from %ea$en to say, .%i folks,! or whate$er
it was that he wanted to say.
-here are many authenti" "ases where people ha$e mat3
eriali8ed ba"k on +arth for some spe"ial reason, and, of
"ourse, if they want to be re"ogni8ed, and that after all is the
main reason for materiali8ing, then they ha$e to materiali8e
in a pattern whi"h is readily re"ogni8able to the people who
knew that person before his death. )o always the person
materiali8es as a $ery healthy spe"imen of the age group to
whi"h he belonged when he passed o$er. %e always looks
more beautiful than the +arth3"hild was, and that re(oi"es
the parents0 hearts.
'f the parents really do lo$e .the "hild! they "an meet in
the astral, and first .the "hild! appears as (ust that, as the
identi"al "hild whi"h died to +arth and was reborn to the
astral. But as soon as the parents "an re"ogni8e this, then
the ."hild! reappears as his natural self.
/ou must remember that although you ha$e a mother
and a father in this life they are not ne"essarily the same
mother and father you will ha$e in si6 hundred years time.
/ou may ha$e been the mother or the father, depending on
your se6, of "ourse, in a pre$ious life. A"tually people on
+arth are (ust like a lot of a"tors "oming to a stage# they take
their "lothes to suit the role they are going to play. )o if an
entity has to learn something as a woman it would be useless
for that entity to "ome to +arth as a man, so instead
she "omes as a woman, and as a woman to a "lass whi"h
will enable her to learn those things whi"h she "ame to
learn.
.' wonder how it is that so many beings "ome to this world
for the first time and en"ounter hunger, po$erty, in(usti"e,
et"., when they don0t ha$e any pre$ious debts and be"ause
Mharmi" (usti"e shouldn0t be negati$e for them.!
2ell, they ha$e to "ome somehow, ha$en0t they4 't is
impossible for a person "oming to +arth for the first time to
"ome as a king or a &ueen. /ou "an say they are .new boys!.
,ew boys at s"hool, you know, the newest of new boys, most
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times ha$e rather rough "onditions, they are usually set
upon by older boys and until they ha$e .worked their way in!
they are not ne"essarily popular with the tea"hers either.
'f one sets out as an apprenti"e one gets all the worst (obs
to do, "leaning tools, "leaning e&uipment, sweeping floors
and all the rest of it, and be"ause they are only apprenti"es
they do not ha$e mu"h money, they might e$en feel hungry
on o""asion. 't doesn0t mean that their Mharma is at fault,
be"ause if they ha$e (ust "ome to +arth for the first time,
then they don0t ha$e mu"h Mharma, do they4
But we ha$e to start somewhere. A person "omes to the
+arth3bound for the first time, and nearly always that person
is a member of some sa$age ra"e, some really sa$age tribe
where he gets the rough "orners kno"ked off and gets some
training, no matter how rudimentary, of how humans go
on.
't is unheard of for a person to "ome to, let us say, +urope
or ,orth Ameri"a, as a first in"arnation. %e might "ome as a
member of one of the sa$age ba"kward tribes su"h as in
Afri"a or Australia, one of those pla"es where so3"alled "i$i3
li8ation has hardly tou"hed. -hen he has to li$e a""ording to
the e&uipment he has, that is, is he a good natured person or
is he nasty natured4 'f he is good natured then he will get on
&uite well. 'f he is unpleasant he wouldn0t get on in any
so"iety at all. )o, e$en in the $ery sa$age tribes a good
natured person makes out better than a bad natured
person.
Later the person in"arnates into more and more ad$an"ed
so"ieties. By that time, of "ourse, he has a"&uired a bit of
Mharma, not merely against him but also in his fa$our. )o
many ha$e the utterly foolish notion that Mharma is op3
pression, and it0s not so at all. 't0s like a bank a""ount. 'f you
do a person good, then you ha$e money in the bank. 'f you
do a person some ill, then in effe"t you ha$e lost money from
the bank and so you are in debt. 'f you are in debt you ha$e
bad Mharma. 'f you ha$e money in the bank, then you ha$e a
"redit balan"e and that "redit is good Mharma. 'f you ha$e
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good kharma you "an do things that you want to do and you
"an also trade on your good kharma so long as you do not do
so mu"h .horse trading! that your good kharma or your
"redit balan"e disappears and you get into debt, be"ause
then you0$e got to work hard to get out of debt.
.'t is said that we rein"arnate many times but the time we
stay in the astral plane $aries a""ording to the degree of
e$olution we ha$e rea"hed. -he number of people will prob3
ably ha$e to de"line or be stabili8ed in the future, so what
happens to all the souls who "annot "ome down to this mat3
erial world to "ontinue their rein"arnation4 *r will they
ha$e to remain in the astral for longer than their kharma
really permits4!
But there again, you see, this talk about kharma. 1eople
do not ha$e to rein"arnate be"ause of their kharma, they
rein"arnate be"ause they want to learn something more. /ou
don0t ne"essarily go to "ollege to pay somebody else, you go
to "ollege be"ause you want to learn something. 'n (ust the
same way you "ome to +arth be"ause you want to learn
something. 'f you wanted to pay off kharma, then you "ould
pay off kharma by staying in the astral. -here is a lot to be
done there, and in doing good for others you do pay off
kharma, but if you (ust stay in the astral?well, you remain
.as you were!, and you are perhaps a drop3out from the
s"hool of +arth. 'f you want to progress more you "ome
down to +arth and ha$e some additional lessons in hardship,
in toleran"e, in patien"e and all that sort of thing. Get this
&uite "lear, you do not "ome down to +arth (ust be"ause
someone else says you ha$e to, you do not "ome down to
+arth and ha$e some suffering (ust be"ause you ha$e mis3
beha$ed yourself. /ou "ome to learn, and if "onditions are a
bit hard then it0s no good blaming poor old kharma for it, it0s
what you "hoose yourself, it0s the "onditions you set up for
yourself. -oo many people take a rather pe"uliar satisfa"tion
in saying, .*h, ' "ouldn0t help it, my kharma was against
me.!
*f "ourse there is kharma, but then of "ourse there are
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bank a""ounts. 'f you ha$e something to sell or something
whi"h other people want, then you "an get in money. 'f
other people ha$e something that you want, then you ha$e
to pay out for it and that means that you lose money. 'n the
same way with kharma, if you do good to others then you
are banking good kharma, but if you do ill to others then you
are losing your good and getting a debit of bad kharma
whi"h has to be paid off sometime somewhere, not ne"ess3
arily upon this +arth. Remember there are &uite a lot of
different worlds, and you will go to different worlds (ust as at
s"hool you had to go from "lass to "lass or grade to grade.
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C%A1-+R +L+B+,
A man has to hold his mouth
open a long time before a
roasted partridge flies into it.
-he *ld Man snorted in the throes of pre3o""upation, all
these letters, all these &uestions, how to put within the
"ompass of one book answers whi"h would really help
people, be"ause that is the purpose of a book, isn0t it4 -o
help or to amuse. And this isn0t an edition of "omi" "uts, it0s
meant to help, so let0s get on with the first &uestion.
.' am not at all "lear on this Mharma business. )o e$ery3
thing we do affe"ts someone else, does it4 2e must get an
awful lot of Mharma without knowing why we0$e got it.!
,o, that is not true at all. 1eople ha$e the weirdest ideas
about Mharma, perhaps they ha$en0t read my books prop3
erly. ' sometimes get a letter from a person who writes so
happily, .*h, Dr. Rampa, ' read I2isdom of the An"ientsJ
last night, tonight ' am going to read IChapter of LifeJ. '
managed to go through I/ou P ore$erJ in two hours.!
2ell, of "ourse that is (ust a waste of time, it doesn0t do
anyone any good, and it doesn0t do an author any good to
know that his books are being skimmed like that. -hese
books are meant to be studied. Mharma is of $ital import3
an"e to all of us, and in my books you ha$e an opportunity of
knowing what Mharma is all about. 't means, in brief, that if
you do something wrong you pay for it. 'f you do something
good, something pays you. As ' ha$e said before, it is like a
bank a""ount. /ou are like a storekeeper who has good and
bad on the shel$es. 'f you sell something that is good then
you get paid by good, if you sell something that is bad you
get paid by ha$ing an o$erdraft. ,ow get this &uite "lear#
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whate$er you do does not ne"essarily and automati"ally
ha$e an effe"t on any other person or "reature. 't depends
entirely upon the "ir"umstan"es. 'f, for e6ample, you take a
dagger and sti"k it into a person, then, of "ourse, you are not
doing a good deed, are you4 'n that ease, then, you would
ha$e Mharma against you. But if you do something whi"h has
an effe"t, a bad effe"t upon a person you ha$e ne$er heard
of, an effe"t whi"h you "ertainly did not anti"ipate, then you
do not ha$e to "ome ba"k and pay off that person. ' ad$ise
you, though, to read my books more thoroughly and then
you will know a lot more about Mharma.
;uestionA .2hat are we doing down here, anyhow4
2hen we lea$e here what is our ob(e"ti$e, not (ust playing
about in the astral, but what do we really want to do in
the end4!
-he *$erself "annot of itself e6perien"e desire, suffering,
pleasure, et"., as we know it on Earth, and so it is ne"essary
for the *$erself to ha$e some other method of gaining
knowledge. 1eople upon +arth are (ust e6tensions of the
*$erself whi"h "an gain knowledge. or e6ample, suppose
you ha$e a bag and you "annot get inside the bag and you
"annot see inside the bag. 'f you "an get it open enough to
get your hand in, your hand, whi"h is an e6tension of your
other senses, "an feel around inside the bag and "an .tell! the
brain what there is inside. 'n mu"h the same way the *$er3
self gains information through the e6tensions "alled human
beings.
2hen the *$erself has suffi"ient knowledge, when the
*$erself is so ad$an"ed that no more knowledge on the
+arth "y"le is desired, then it "alls home all the puppets
whi"h are humans, and they all merge again into the *$er3
self, they be"ome united in .*neness!# that is the ultimate
form of e6isten"e be"ause although it seems to be (ust one
entity, ea"h part of the entity li$es in rapport with the other
part. /ou ha$e heard of twin souls?well, on the +arth plane
it is impossible for twin souls to get together, but when they
return to the *$erself twin souls are reunited to form a
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perfe"t whole# and they li$e in a state of $ery great bliss until
it o""urs to the *$erself that perhaps there is yet a higher
form of knowledge whi"h "ould be in$estigated. And then the
*$erself sends out puppets, not on the +arth plane, but on
some super, super plane, and the whole "y"le is repeated. -he
puppets gather in the knowledge throughout a period whi"h
to us is eons of time. Again, when suffi"ient e6perien"e or
knowledge has been garnered the *$erself "alls in the
puppets, twin souls are again united in an e$en greater state
of bliss.
,ow here is a &uestion from Miss ,ewman. )he says,
.%ow should animals be destroyed so that death is painless
and their astral body is not harmed4!.
-he best way is to in(e"t some drug whi"h "auses the
animal to lose "ons"iousness, and then the method of dis3
posing of the animal is not so important be"ause there would
be no pain. 'f an animal is made un"ons"ious first, then it
"an be killed by some $ery rapid death3produ"ing drug and
that does not "ause pain for the astral nor for the *$erself.
-here is only distress to the astral when the physi"al is tor3
mented by a slow killing.
,ow here is something, this is a &uestion from a young
man whom we "all .Argie!. %e will re"ogni8e himself. %e is a
remarkably brilliant young man who is his own worst
enemy. %e is a young man with truly unusual talents, and he
is not using those talents to the best ad$antage be"ause he
wants to rebel against all authority. Argie has had a rough
time, mostly of his own making. 2e will gi$e two &uestions
from Argie. -he firstA
.Genius in "hildren # how does a "hild be"ome a genius4!
'n most "ases the entity on the *ther )ide, before "oming
ba"k to +arth, reali8es that there is some spe"ial and spe"ifi"
task to do. 't reali8es that after a "ertain number of years it
Kthe entityL may lea$e, and may perhaps lea$e a ."aretaker!
in its pla"e, so the entity makes plans whereby it "omes down
to +arth and is born into a body with a memory and an
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ability to do that whi"h has to be done. or e6ample, an
entity may de"ide that something has to be done about a
"ertain form of musi", so it "omes down with a memory of
that almost inta"t. -hen, (ust about as soon as it "an speak or
mo$e of its own $olition, the entity finds it "an "ompose or
play, and then it is said, .2e ha$e a genius, we ha$e an
infant prodigy.! Most times the poor wret"hed "hild is stu"k
in front of a "ine "amera or something, or dumped on a stage
to make money for people who do not know what it0s all
about, and the "hild is so busy making money that the in3
herited memory peters out.
'n those "ases where there are no stage shows and no "ine
shows the "hild may play di$inely, and may "ompose e6&uis3
ite musi", and then when he rea"hes a "ertain age, let us say
twenty years of age, the entity reali8es that his task is done
and he lets some other entity take o$er while he, the original
o""upant, mo$es on. -his is "alled transmigration of souls,
and it is far, far more "ommon than is generally supposed.
Argie has a se"ond &uestion, and here it isA .2hy do
,egroes rarely need tuition to play musi"al instruments4!
,egroes are a spe"ial type of people. -heir basi" $i3
brations are su"h that they are .in tune to the musi" of the
spheres!. *ften a ,egro "an hum musi" whi"h he has ne$er
heard before, often he "an (ust pi"k up a musi"al instrument
and play it be"ause that is his basi" make3up.
/ou get "ertain "lasses of people su"h as ,orth +uropeans
who are $ery "old and $ery analyti"al. -hey are $ery frigid
in their attitude. -hat is their make3up. But if you get the
Latin type of people they are warm in their make3up, &ui"k
to smile, &ui"k to pass a (oke. -hey "an see the funny side of
things 3 parti"ularly if the misfortune happens to someone
else. -hat is their make3up.
,egroes, for many years, ha$e had a hard life, a life of
perse"ution, and the only thing whi"h has sustained them
has been their musi"al make3up, their ability to deri$e "on3
solation and sola"e from .religious musi"!. As su"h it is part
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of their birthright, part of their heritage, part of their basi"
make3up. ,egroes are usually $ery, $ery musi"al be"ause
their basi" fre&uen"y is su"h that they sub3"ons"iously pi"k
up musi" from other sour"es in mu"h of a way similar to the
poor wret"hed man wearing a hearing aid who sometimes
pi"ks up transmissions from the lo"al radio ta6i "ab
"ompany9
2ell, let0s get on with it# here is a &uestion, .' am a lo$ing
mother of a fi$e year old boy, and your books, true as they
are, s"are me for what my son and all the other young "hil3
dren will ha$e to suffer owing to e$ents bigger than them3
sel$es. ' "an see him torn into pie"es by atomi" bombs and all
grim pi"tures like those. %is life lines on both his hands are
abruptly interrupted at an age of about thirty to forty. ' "an
find some "onsolation in your books for what "on"erns my
death, but has e$er a mother of any religion re(oi"ed at the
death of her only son4!
,ow, you are pre3supposing that your son will ine$itably
be killed or maimed in a forth"oming war, but remember
that if you gi$e him a good edu"ation and let him spe"iali8e
in something he "an be one of those prote"ted. 't is a sad
thought that ."annon fodder! is usually the person who is
easily repla"eable, whereas if a man is a spe"ialist of use to
his "ountry he will be prote"ted. )o gi$e your son a really
good edu"ation. And in the matter of the hand lines, please
be assured that if these are the only indi"ations of the ter3
mination of his life, then they mean nothing e6"ept possibly
a "hange of "areer. /ou should ne$er take it as definite that
death will o""ur unless there are about se$en "onfirming in3
di"ations. -oo often palmists are guilty of "riminal
negligen"e in saying that a person is going to die, et"., et".,
when it (ust means that they are going to "hange (ob and
"hange lo"ation.
./ou always state that death and after death are painless
apart from the suffering at our own (udgment, but in the
Bardo -hodol and spe"ifi"ally in the Chonyd state the
suffering seems to be atro"ious.!
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-he Bardo -hodol was not written in +nglish, it was (ust
translated into that language by some "reepish Christian
who altered things a bit to make it tie in with the Christian
belief of hellfire and damnation. -here is no hellfire and
damnation, that is all a mis"on"eption fostered by priests to
bolster up their own power in mu"h the same way as some
misguided parents frighten their "hildren by threatening to
"all in a poli"eman if they don0t beha$e. *f "ourse we are
not happy when we are (udging oursel$es, it really does gi$e
us a pain when we see what stupid "lods we ha$e been. -he
self3"ontempt "an be &uite hellish, in fa"t, and well (ustify
the des"ription of .hellfire!. As one who has total re"all ' tell
you most emphati"ally that there is no torture, no atro"ious
pain, no fero"ious suffering.
.)pirits who haunt old houses, ha$e they not been reborn
yet4!
)pirits who haunt old houses ha$e nothing to do with
"urrent entities. or e6ample, a person dies in tragi" "ir"um3
stan"es, and mu"h energy is generated, but the person "an go
to a "ompletely different plane and e$en be reborn while the
energy whi"h was generated will be dissipated in the form of
hauntings. 't!s mu"h the same as heating a pie"e of metal#
the heat remains in the metal, although gradually fading# for
&uite a time after the sour"e of heating has been remo$ed.
%ere is a thought for you?it is &uite possible for a person
who dies in e6tremely diffi"ult "ir"umstan"es to ha$e his
energy as a thought form whi"h haunts a pla"e, and e$en to
haunt the new3born in"arnation who "aused all the trouble
in the first "ase4
.Are humans e$er reborn as animals4 -he Bardo seems to
be pretty in"oherent in the matter, or maybe ' don0t under3
stand.!
,o, humans are ne$er reborn as animals, and animals are
ne$er reborn as humans. ,othing that you "an do "an turn a
"abbage into a "ow, nor "an you "hange a rhino"eros into a
rose, but ' ha$e dealt with this enough on pre"eding
pages.
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.2hat is ner$ous for"e, anyway4 2hat0s the good of tell3
ing us about ner$ous for"e if we ha$e no idea what it is4!
,er$ous for"e is the power whi"h generates the etheri",
and ner$ous for"e properly dire"ted "an rotate a paper "ylin3
der, as ' say in one of my books. +$erybody, whether animal
or human, is a generator of ele"tri"ity, e$en the +arth has its
magneti" for"e, its magneti" field if you prefer to "all it that.
And (ust as a radio programme has to ha$e a "arrier wa$e to
support it, so does a human ha$e to ha$e an etheri" "on3
sisting of ner$ous for"e or energy whi"h propagates the aura.
-his in its turn originates from "ertain "ells in the brain. -he
food we eat goes into the blood, and some of that food well
mi6ed with o6ygen goes to highly spe"iali8ed brain "ells, and
pro$ides the food for the generation of an ele"tri" "urrent
whi"h powers the thought impulses. -his is ner$ous for"e. 'f
you find it diffi"ult to belie$e, remember that you "an get a
de$i"e "onsisting of a 8in" "ase with a few "hemi"als and a
"arbon rod inside it. 'f you "onne"t that to a pie"e of wire
inside a glass bulb from whi"h air has been withdrawn you
get a light, don0t you, an ele"tri" light. )o you get ele"tri"ity
from "hemi"al rea"tion, and in the human you get ele"tri"ity
from "hemi"al rea"tion pro$ided by the food we eat.
' ha$e a letter here from Mr. %. Mr. %. writes, .' ha$e
en"losed two &uestions whi"h you may "are to answer. '
would be $ery interested in the answer to &uestion one, and
would like to e6pand it a little. 'n addition to the matter of
personal responsibility, whi"h ' think $ery important, ' am
"onfused on the matter of personal identity. -his really boils
down to the definition of the word I'J. 2hile ' "an see that
in many ways I'J am not the same I'J that ' was twenty
years ago and presumably will not be the same as twenty
years hen"e, yet ' retain a sense of identity between these
$arious '0s.
.%owe$er, if an *$erself "an operate ten puppets what
happens to the sense of I'J, and when all puppets are dead
does the *$erself then "ontinue to operate ten astral
puppets, and "ontinuing the thought into the future, what
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happens if the ten puppets half su""eed in liberating them3
sel$es4
.*n a more parti"ular note ' ha$e often wondered why it
was ne"essary for you to pi"k su"h an arduous route for your
(ourney to the 2est. 2ould it not ha$e been possible for you
to go to a uni$ersity in 'ndia or +urope, and "ould not funds
ha$e been deposited in the 2est for your use4 Many of your
troubles seem to ha$e stemmed from a la"k of money.!
2ell, Mr. %., let0s see what we "an do to answer your
&ueries. A"tually ' think most of them ha$e already been
answered in this book or in pre$ious books, but let us write
you an imaginary letter.
.Dear Mr. %. /ou really are in a state of "onfusion, aren0t
you4 Mu"h of your "onfusion arises from the fa"t that one
has to write in three dimensional terms and attempt to de3
s"ribe the operation of an *$erself working, say, in a nine
dimensional plane of e6isten"e.
./ou say that you think a puppet loses personal identity.
But of "ourse, if you think about it, that is not the "ase.
.Look at that matter like thisA orget all about anything
outside the body, and assume for the purpose of this e6plana3
tion that the body is I"ompartmentalJ. -he brain, then,
represents the *$erself and e$eryone knows that the brain
dire"ts the hands, the fingers, et". -he fingers represent
puppets and the brain "an suggest that the fingers do some3
thing, but the fingers are still separate entities or separate
indi$iduals, they "an feel and they "an be"ome highly skilled.
'n fa"t at times they seem to work of their own $olition.
.-he heart is another me"hanism whi"h "annot be "on3
trolled Ke6"ept in abnormal "asesL by the brain?*$erself, be3
"ause if the brain, representing our *$erself, got in a bad
temper, then "on"ei$ably it "ould stop the heart from beat3
ing and that would destroy the entire me"hanism of brain3
*$erself and the organs3puppets. )o, you see, the a"tual
*$erself pro$ides the substan"e from whi"h the human
astrals are made, and ea"h entity or human body has full
"ontrol and full "hoi"e of a"tion always pro$ided that su"h
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a"tion will not (eopardi8e the *$erself3human organism.
.-ake a big firm with many bran"hes. -here you ha$e a
"hairman of the Board of Dire"tors or a 1resident. /ou ha$e
many departmental heads, and many general managers to
staff all the distri"t bran"hes, and all these people work with
their own responsibility while working within the frame3
work of "ompany poli"y. -hey do not ha$e to tell the "hair3
man of the Board of Dire"tors e$ery little thing, nor do they
ha$e to telephone him e$ery moment about de"isions whi"h
they are &ualified to make.
.-he "hairman of the Board of Dire"tors or the 1resident,
"all him what you wish, represents the *$erself, and all the
departmental heads and managers are the puppets.
./ou ask what happens when the puppets die, is the *$er3
self, deri$ed of its ten or so puppets, immobili8ed, you say.
Let me ask you a &uestion# what happens if one of the
bran"h managers retires or is remo$ed for some parti"ular
reason4 -he firm or bran"h does not "lose down. 'nstead a
fresh manager, or puppet, is appointed. And anyhow in this
"hapter and possibly the "hapter before ' ha$e already dis3
"ussed how puppets return to the *$erself.
./es, ' "ould ha$e taken an easy way. ' "ould ha$e gone to
a uni$ersity, ' "ould ha$e had sa"ks of gold all around
me, but tell me, Mr. %., what sort of knowledge would '
ha$e gained then4 ' would be the refle"tion of other peoples0
knowledge, some of it whi"h is, admittedly, faulty. ' would
not ha$e gained the knowledge of life whi"h ' ha$e at pre3
sent and whi"h is $ery painfully firsthand, belie$e me.
1eople who go to a 7ni$ersity and learn e$erything the soft
way merely learn the opinion of others from printed pages
whi"h may be years out of date. 'n a 7ni$ersity a student
may not dare to &uestion the pre"epts of another. *ne is
taught that it is impossible to do a thing e6"ept in the way
spe"ified in the te6t book, but the people who ha$e not been
to a 7ni$ersity (ust go ahead and do the impossible thing
anyway.
.Roy"e of Rolls3Roy"e, +dison, ord, and thousands of
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other $ery intelligent men did not go to a 7ni$erse, so they
did not know that the thing whi"h they wanted to do was
IimpossibleJ, they did not know that su"h a thing was
IimpossibleJ be"ause they la"ked the edu"ation K9L to read
the te6t books whi"h really are the opinions of other people.
And so Roy"e, +dison, ord and others (ust went ahead and
in$ented the things whi"h te6t books would say were Iimpos3
sibleJ. )o attendan"e at a uni$ersity "an be a drawba"k.
.-hat should straighten out a few &uestions for you, Mr.
%., and ' hope that you now find your thoughts are more
settled.!
Another &uestion asks why we ha$e illness and how would
it be possible to dete"t illness through the aura. 2ell, illness
and disease "ome either from within or without. 2hen it
"omes from without a germ or $irus "an be "aught from
another person and it is not the .fault! of a body that "at"hes
it.
2hen we ha$e a "ase of illness from within, that is, when
the disease "omes from within, the body "hemi"als are
affe"ted be"ause e$erything "omes from thought, what the
ele"tri"ians "all ele"tro3moti$e for"e "omes into play.
-hought is ele"tri" impulses. 2hen we think we generate
ele"tri"ity. -he ele"tri"ity is thus the ele"tro3moti$e for"e
whi"h "auses our mus"les to work, or e$en upsets our body
"hemistry. 'f a person is frustrated, worried, sad, bad tem3
pered, et"., or has an abnormal emotion, their thoughts gen3
erate an ele"tri" "urrent whi"h is defe"ti$e. 't may not ha$e
the ne"essary "orre"t wa$e form, and be"ause the ele"tri"
"urrent is defe"ti$e it "auses wrong messages to go to the
glands and the glands0 se"retion "hange to "ope with the
wrong thoughts and the wrong messages "aused by those
wrong thoughts. After a time the most sus"eptible part is
affe"ted by the "hanged se"retions, or "hanged "hemi"al bal3
an"e of the body. 't may be the mus"les that are affe"ted,
and so one gets, perhaps, mus"ular dystrophy, or it might be
something to do with the bones, it might be arthritis, or, if
some wrong message "auses a disturban"e in the stoma"h,
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the gastri" (ui"es may be"ome too a"id, too strong, and then
we might ha$e an ul"er. Closer to home, if the messages are
too lo"ali8ed and affe"t the brain, then there might be a
brain tumour.
'f the "hemistry "an be studied then it "an be "orre"ted by
hormone treatment or some other appropriate treatment
and the disease "an be "ured if it is "aught in time. 'f too
mu"h damage has been done, then it "an0t be "ured but "an
be alle$iated. -he person should remedy the thing or
emotion that "aused the damage in the first pla"e by getting
a more balan"ed outlook, by "ontrolling the emotions, or by
a "hanged set of "ir"umstan"es su"h as fresh (ob, fresh part3
ner, et".
All these things "an be seen in the aura. 2hate$er
happens to a body "an be seen in the aura. Looking at the
aura is like looking at radar pi"tures. /ou "an see land or a
storm disturban"e whi"h is &uite beyond ordinary sight.
2hether an illness starts from .within! or .without! it "an
be dete"ted from the aura. 'f one "at"hes an infe"tion from
some other person then it takes a "ertain time for that illness
to manifest substantially in the physi"al, yet in the aura at
the e6a"t instant when the infe"tion took pla"e it shows &uite
"learly, it shows like lines of stress.
'f the illness is "aused from .within! then a periodi"al
e6amination of the aura will show the danger of an illness
&uite a long time before the body is seriously affe"ted, and so
the illness "an be "ured almost before it has be"ome appar3
ent.
'n "onne"tion with this, ' ha$e been working on su"h a
matter for a whole lifetime and the biggest diffi"ulty has
been getting people to part with their "lothes. -here was a
"ertain noble lady in +ngland with whom ' was dis"ussing
the matter. 2e were only talking about it, and this $ery
noble lady, who had been married and has a family of her
own, said, .*h /ou want nude bodies. Most definitely '
should do e$erything to oppose anything whi"h re&uired a
woman to remo$e her "lothing or to e6pose "ertain portions
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of her body.! ', with great restraint, refrained from remind3
ing the noble lady that e$en she had to e6pose a "ertain
portion of her body so that her babies "ould be born.
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'f you don0t belie$e in others
how "an you e6pe"t others to
belie$e in you.
-he *ld Man lay ba"k on his bed. -he e$ening sun was
(ust setting behind the low hills sending its last rays gleam3
ing on the pla"id water of the )aint <ohn Ri$er.
*ff to the left the paper fa"tory was still bel"hing out
furious "louds of smoke and steam as it did twenty3fours a
day, obs"uring the sky and polluting the atmosphere. 'nto
the ri$er poured all the waste produ"ts making an in"redible
sten"h in the air of )aint <ohn, a sten"h about whi"h e$ery3
one "omplained, and about whi"h no one did anything.
-he snows were melting fast. -his was spring, the start of
spring, but now with the fast setting sun dipping behind the
hills birds were s"urrying along in dro$es hurrying to get
home to their per"hes while the light yet held.
Dire"tly below the window )in(in, a telepathi" "at, was
singing a lonely song, in$iting all the "at ladies of the neigh3
bourhood to "ome and be wel"omed by him. %is $oi"e rose
and fell, &ua$ering with the intensity of his emotion. rom
time to time he stopped, raised his head high, and e$en sat
upright on his ba"k legs like a rabbit while he listened in3
tently for any "alls that his in$itation was being a""epted.
Disappointed that he had no su"h intimation, he dropped to
all fours again and with his tail twit"hing with emotion he
started all o$er again like an old3time London "ostermonger,
"rying his wares, but nothing of .any old iron, any old rags!#
this was a different "ryA .lo$e for free, "ome &ui"k, '0m wait3
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Cars dro$e up with a roar and a "latter and store keepers
and their assistants dro$e into the parking lot with mu"h
elan and got out of their "ars with great slamming of doors
and "alling of .Goodnight?goodnight!, before hurrying up
the steps in the "onstant fight to get room in the ele3
$ator.
-he *ld Man lay ba"k and thought of the past, thought
of the diffi"ulties of this life, thought of the few, few
pleasures and the many, many hardships. A hard life, yes, he
thought. But, praise be, the last time on this round, the last
time on this +arth. And now, he thought, ' ha$e (ust about
"leared up all that has to be done, "leared up all those empty
"orners, turned out the atti"s, e$en tossed out the garbage.
.,ot so, not so,! said a most familiar and well3lo$ed $oi"e.
.-he task is not yet ended, you ha$e done more than you
"ame to do, but?the task is not yet ended.!
-he *ld Man turned on his side and there right "lose to
him was the super3astral figure of the Lama Mingyar
Dondup, smiling and with a brilliant gold radian"e. ./ou
&uite startled me,! said the *ld Man, .and ' wish you0d turn
your lights low, it reminds me of when ' was in +ngland, in
London.!
.*h, what was that4! asked the Lama Mingyar Dondup.
.'s it something whi"h ' do not know4!
.' think it must be,! said the *ld Man, .let me tell you
about it. ' was in a building in )outh Mensington late at
night, and ' was sitting in the dark thinking, (ust thinking
o$er things, (ust meditating, and for some reason ' had not
pulled the blinds. )uddenly there "ame a tremendous kno"k3
ing at the door down below. ' started ba"k to awareness and
went down to see what was the "ause of the "ommotion.
-wo big beefy London bobbies were there.! .)ir,! said one?a
sergeant ' saw by his stripes?.what are you doing in this
building4! .Doing4! ' replied. .' don0t think ' was doing any3
thing. ' was (ust sitting thinking as a matter of fa"t.! .2ell,!
replied the )ergeant, .we were "alled here in a great hurry
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be"ause you were shining $ery bright lights out of the
window.! .*h,! ' replied, .' most "ertainly was not, but if '
had been is that a "rime4!
.-he sergeant looked at his subordinate, and shrugging his
shoulders said, I2ell, it might be, you know. /ou might be
signalling to a "rime gang to show that the road is "lear or
something.J -hen he "ame to a de"ision. I' want to sear"h
the pla"e.J ' said, Iha$e you a sear"h warrant4J I,o,J he
replied, Ibut if you do not gi$e me permission to sear"h the
pla"e ' "an lea$e the "onstable here to wat"h you while ' go
and get the ne"essary warrant.J !
.)o ' (ust shrugged my shoulders and said, IAll right, go
where you like, look where you like.J )o the two poli"emen
wandered around, looked at e$erything, and most e6tra3
ordinary of all, they pulled out the drawers of my desk and
looked inside. ' don0t know what they thought they would
find there. But anyway, after about three &uarters of an hour
they appeared satisfied, and as they were lea$ing the ser3
giant said, IDon0t do it again, sir, please. 't makes too mu"h
work.J And off they went.!
-he Lama Mingyar Dondup laughed, .2hate$er you do,
Lobsang,! he said, .you seem to attra"t the wrong sort of
attention. ' "an0t think of anyone else who would be almost
arrested (ust for showing his aura when he was thinking.!
-he *ld Man was looking a bit gloomy as he said, .)o you
think my task is not finished, eh4 2hat ha$en0t ' done
now4!
-he Lama Mingyar Dondup replied, ./ou0$e done e$ery3
thing. 't0s not a &uestion that you ha$e left anything
undone. /ou ha$e done more, mu"h more than you "ame
here to do, but it so happens that through the failure of
others there is still more to do.!
.2hat4! asked the *ld Man.
-he Lama Mingyar Dondup looked down his nose and
tried not to smile as he said, .-here may be another book to
make the twelfth. 2e shall ha$e to think about it. 't would
"ertainly be appre"iated. But there is another little task
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whi"h has to be done, something in "onne"tion with an in3
$enation whi"h may yet burst upon this startled world.!
or some time the *ld Man and the Lama Mingyar
Dondup dis"ussed things, but this is not the pla"e to dis"lose
all that was said. -he *ld Man, si"k almost to death, and
with e6penses mounting through medi"al bills, and other
$ital e6penditures, wondered how he was going to sti"k it for
e$en a few months longer. At last the super3astral of the
Lama Mingyar Dondup faded, and the failing daylight took
o$er on"e again.
-ime. 2hat a strange thing is this artifi"ial time. *ne
"ould tra$el from the astral world here and ba"k in the
twinkling of an eye, and yet down here on this +arth one
was bound by the "lo"k and by the motion of the sun
"ontrolling the "lo"k. %ere in ,ew Brunswi"k the sun was
setting. A few thousand miles away <ohn %enderson would
still be busy at his work about in the middle of the afternoon.
,ot so far away Baleria )oro"k, that paragon of loyalty and
e6a"titude, would probably (ust be lea$ing her offi"e and
probably thinking of her tea. /es, most "ertainly, thought
the *ld Man, Baleria would be thinking of her tea be"ause
one weakness was that she thought too mu"h of food9 .' shall
ha$e to talk to her about her diet,! thought the *ld Man to
himself.
'n the other dire"tion the 2orst Mann ladies would prob3
ably be at home $ery late in the e$ening, perhaps listening to
the radio, perhaps studying, and perhaps one of them (ust
about to go on night duty.
But here the ladies -addy and Cleo were ha$ing their
e$ening play, "hasing around with a fa$ourite toy, and the
fa$ourite toy was a ni"e, soft, woolly belt from a dressing
gown. -he *ld Man thought of -addy and Cleo, thought of
how sin"e they were born they had been treated as human
"hildren, how e$erything had been done to make them feel
that they were entities as important as any humans, and the
task had been most fruitful, the results had been most grit3
filing, for these two little people were indeed real people.
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rom midnight until midday Miss Cleo was mentioned first,
but from midday until midnight Miss -addy0s name was
mentioned first and so they were assured of &uite e&ual
treatment without any tra"e of fa$ouritism.
Miss -addy, ample, plump, and "omfortable looking,
lo$es to "rou"h down behind one of the s"rat"h pads while
the e6tremely beautiful, $ery slender, $ery gra"eful Miss
Cleo boun"es up and down and does wildly improbable
feline gymnasti"s.
But the night was growing darker, the air was growing
"older and there still was a nip of frost about. *utside the red
of the thermometer was dropping, outside people on the
road were well muffled up.
-he *ld Man had been looking forward to this day, the
day when the ele$enth book would be ended and he "ould
push aside all thoughts of writing and say, .,e$er any more,
it0s all o$er, no more writing, my time on +arth has (ust
about finished.! But now with the $isit from the super3astral
of the Lama Mingyar Dondup?well, the *ld Man thought,
isn0t one0s task e$er ended is one dri$en along like a ri"kety
old "ar until it finally falls to pie"es4 '0m (ust about in pie"es
now, he thought. But there it is, what will be will be, and
when a task has to be done, it will not be done unless there is
someone there to do it. )o, thought the *ld Man, ' must try
to hang on a little longer, and as for writing another book,
who knows4 't might be good to make the number in +ng3
lish up to twel$e. %e thought, .' would like to tell e$eryone,
e$eryone throughout the world, that all these books are true,
e$erything related in these books is true, and that is a
definite statement.!
)o we "ome to the end of what is not a perfe"t day after all
be"ause the task is not ended, the final battle is not yet won,
there is more to be done, and little time and little health
with whi"h to do it. 2e "an but try.
%ere and now let me offer my most grateful thanks to
Mrs. )heelagh Rouse, alias Butter"up, for the immense "are
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and work she has de$oted to typing my books, "are and work
whi"h is appre"iated perhaps more than she knows.
Let me offer my thanks to Ra0ab for the e6treme "are and
a""ura"y with whi"h she has "he"ked e$erything and made
truly worthwhile suggestions. )he has aided my task.
And finally, but by no means least, let me thank Miss
-adalinka and Miss Cleopatra Rampa for the en3
"ouragement and entertainment they ha$e gi$en to me.
-hese two dear little people ha$e made it worthwhile to
"ontinue a little longer for ne$er in the whole of their four
years of life ha$e they shown any spite, any bad temper, and
not e$en any irritation. 'f humans were as e&uable and
sweet3natured as these two there would be no trouble on the
+arth, no wars. -hen it would indeed be the Golden Age for
whi"h people must yet wait.
And so at last we "ome, in this book, to the time when we
"an say .-he +nd!.
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