Pro Life Spiritualism - Robert Bayer by Robert Bayer

Pro-Life Spiritualism Editor: Robert Bayer (2016)

Table of Contents

Spirit is Immortal Life by Mrs. J. H. Conant — p4 The Book of Knowledge by John Newbrough— p9 The Book of Jehovih’s Kingdom on Earth by John Newbrough— p11 The Jewels by Carlyle Petersilea— p13 Little Ruth by Aber and Nixon— p16 What Became of That Fetal Life? by Aber and Nixon— p19 Exegetical Spiritualism — Resurrection by J. M. Peebles — p23 The Destiny of Man by Wesley Aber— p26 Future of a Child by Edward Randall—p33 The House of the Harpy by James Hewat McKenzie— p45 The Unborn Dead by Edward C. Randall— p47 Of Birth and Death: From Whence To Where? — p53 Brought Back to Earth by The Eloists— p62 A Nurse from the Plateau by The Eloists—p64

By Walter DeVoe

Wanted: Mothers by Anonymous—p67 Bless the Innocents by The Eloists— p73 The Gift of Life by The Eloists— p75 Growing in the Spiritual Worlds by The Eloists—p78 Peace by The Eloists by —p80 Dear Souls of Light by The Eloists —p82 Lines of Light by The Eloists —p86 The Sacred Life Immortal by Robert Bayer —p89 Eternal Families of Love by Robert Bayer—p92 Pro-Life Feminism by Jeannine Parvati Baker—95 The Development of the Unborn Child by Walter and Betty—104 A Family of the Heavens by Robert Bayer—124 The Cosmic Family Eternal by Robert Bayer—128

Spirit is Immortal Life Flashes of Light Mrs. J. H. Conant (1872)

Q. Is life, or that principle of vital activity which is manifested through the human organism, spirit? If not, what is it leaves the body at death?

A. Spirit I define as something undiscernible by human sense; something which no living soul can measure or analyze. I define life to be, so far as we understand it, a manifestation of spirit. Those 4

things which our senses perceive, recognize, are the things of life, all living things, every one of them—not one dead; and they are all manifestations of spirit. That subtle power that defies the scalpel, and passes out of the body at the change called death, I believe to be spirit, co-eternal with the God-spirit, and part and portion of the divine life,—such a part as that divine life saw fit to exercise over humanity. You call it the spirit of man, the soul of man or woman. It matters not by what term it is recognized. It is the one spirit, the infinite, all-pervading—a something indestructible, without creation and without end.

Q. You consider all spirit immortal?

A. I do, most certainly. And I have most ample proofs that it is all immortal.

Q. Then animals are not at death swept into a grand chaos—the great mass of spirit—to be again worked over into some other form?

A. By no means. Here is the rock—the rock of form—upon which all classes of theological scientists split, and many of them founder; the rock of form, supposing that the form we have or behold to-day will exist forever; that the immortality rests with that, is dependent upon that. By no means is it. Forms are constantly changing, as spirit has 5

need of higher instruments through which to express itself. The instrument is made better. How is it with regard to the flowers? They are not to-day what they were years ago. And why not? Because the God that was within them called upon the God that was within the human intellect, and said, "Come, intelligence, shed your dews upon me, act upon me, bring me into a higher form of good." What was the result? Why, the husbandman went to work to make more beautiful flowers, to add new hues to their fair faces, to make more beautiful their forms, to change for the better the rose and lily, not at all infringing upon Nature or Nature's God. Immortality does not call upon the form for its power. By no means. Forms must change. You have evidence of that every day of your lives. But the immortality that belongs to the form is immortal forever and forever. There is no sudden change of those forms, but a gradual growth. If the change was sudden it would produce too great a shock in the realm of intelligence; therefore it is very slow, comes as you are prepared for it. The years throw their snows upon your brows as you are prepared to receive themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just so fast, and no faster.

Q. If spirit is not matter, is all spirit the sameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, equally advanced or perfect? If so, what benefit is derived from its manifestation through matter? A. That spirit is not matter, matter is every day proving. But that spirit is inseparably connected with matter, matter is also every day proving. Matter is the expression of 6

spirit, not the spirit; the outer bark, the foliage, the branches, not the inner, invisible life. What the advantage? Why, all intelligence can answer that question as well as we can. Of what advantage is it to you of this age that you have greater light than they who lived ages before you did? Since you require greater light, certainly it is for your advantage to have it. All the expressions of spirit through matter are not only an advantage to matter, but is also to intelligence, to that subtle force that expresses itself through the human brain, and says, "Behold, this is very beautiful or very grand." The world of matter was made for the world of intelligence. When you keep this in your mind, you will hardly wonder that matter changes its form.

Q. Is the spirit of the infant an emanation from that of the parent? and, if so, is the spirit of the parent less an individualized entity, or does it suffer any diminution or disarrangement in its powers?

A. The infant is physically a physiological result of the parents' life, but spiritually it is not. It is a spirit independent of either father or mother; you may be sure of this. It is from God, the Great Spirit, the Father and Mother, the Whole, the Universal Life.

Q. If the spirit of the infant is not an emanation from that of the parent, whence does it originate? At what period during the incubation does it take possession of the human organism? 7

A. At conception.

The Book of Knowledge Oahspe John Newbrough (1882)

And yet the depth is not full. In a stately mansion a woman of high caste is dead. And it was said she was blessed, because since not having borne children, ease and glory were at her command. And now, with curious mirth and some envy, the spirits of other women who were outcasts come to behold the newborn spirit of the leader of 9

fashion. And as they turn about, nurses come with children born from her body and her spirit, by abortion cast into heaven, even in Jehovih's face accursed: A curtain of black death that will not away, choketh her. To the left, the right, or up and down, there is nothing but the wail of sweet babes - Mother, why murderest thou me? Was I not Jehovih's gift? The woman of fashion hides but is not hidden, even the soiled outcasts are white beside her; like a woman that is crushed but cannot die, she squirmeth and writheth in the kingdom she built with her own hands.

The Book of Jehovihâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kingdom on Earth Oahspe John Newbrough (1882)

We were created in order to help rescue the world from darkness, and to rejoice in our own lives, because of such good as we can do unto others. Behold, we were orphans and castaways; Jehovih wedded us to all the world. Having, therefore, wisdom and purity within themselves, and, withal, having sufficient association to choose from, they did choose and wed for love's sake. Nor did any worldly ambition control their choice, or influence them in hope of any gain as to their wedded partners. And it came to pass that the offspring begotten of these were indeed a new race in the world, as to wisdom, love, purity and spirituality, and new also as to beauty and shapeliness, the like of which had never been before in all the world. And they were by birth so developed in su'is, that, when they were grown a little, education came to them without books. To see and to hear, either corporeally or spiritually, was all they required in order to accomplish wisely all things required unto mortals. And, with them, the heavens were as an open book; the libraries of the heavens as the sound of voices full of wisdom. And the angels of ancient and modern times came, and 11

stood by them, and walked with them, revealing the past and the future. And, yet, none of these colonies were bound by written laws, nor had any of them leaders or masters, nor any government, save the Light of Jehovih. Nor was one colony bound by the customs and commands of another colony; but all of them lived by the highest Light that came to them. Nor owned any man, woman or child anything more than the clothes he or she wore; but all things were Jehovih's, in care of the keeping of the colony.

The Jewels The Discovered Country Carlyle Petersilea (1889)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A little child had passed through the Gates Eternal, and was lying happy and content in the arms of an angel. We heard the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wail of grief, and hastened to comfort her.

She was kneeling by the grave of her baby, desolate and heart-broken; to her the child was dead she would never see it more; the heaven she believed in was too far off, too indefinite; she felt that her baby was lost to her forever.

We whispered words of hope and comfort to that sorrowing heart, placed the spirit-form of the babe within her arms, and then with gentle magnetic touches we opened the mother’s spiritual sight and she saw the babe within her arms, she felt its little hands caress her face, its little lips as they were pressed to hers, she looked into its beautiful spiritual eyes and her tears were dried. My baby! oh my baby! You are not dead but here with me.”

The jewel was a pearl, and it sent forth rays of soft and beautiful light as the angel passed it to the one on the left.

“You all know,” said the angel, “that every jewel here has its own story. Some kind and loving deed was done; if not directly to the denizens of earth, to some new-born spirit.

Some of these jewels represent the taking and caring for infants sent into spirit-life, before they ought to come, through the ignorance of parents. Other of these gems, are of those that think out inventions and improvements of all kinds for the benefit of both earth and 14

heaven. Others, for the amelioration of all suffering, and using their influence to bring those together that will give the greatest amount of happiness to each other; for happiness is heaven and heaven is happiness; and you all know that ignorance and suffering is all the hell there is, or ever will be; and it is to save mankind, both in and out of the body, from ignorance, suffering, or hell, that we all are constantly working. We also know that whenever any creature suffers there is ignorance and wrong somewhere. If the wrong has not been committed by the sufferer, it has been committed by someone; and it is to right these wrongs, and to bring all things into harmonious and happy relations, that we are constantly at work. The greatest amount of suffering known to us is caused by ignorance. To enlighten those below us in wisdom will event usually create a heaven for all, and at last all will inhabit the kingdom of heaven which is happiness.

Little Ruth Beyond the Vail Aber and Nixon (1901)

Little Ruth is one of Zelda's pupils. Perhaps this Ruth is daughter of Rachel Ann John, who is sister to N, this secretary. ("Rending the Vail," 31) It is not because this is a sister to the secretary, but because the case is one of a class of many thousands of similar cases, and because this particular case was susceptible of 16

identification by N, that the spirits, having charge of this work, chose this case to illustrate this class of conditions, and intimate to the psychic student the great schemes in the economy of Nature by which she ultimately gathers into her illimitable garners the ripened harvests of all the seeds she ever sows: and to present to mankind lessons which, being heeded, might assist Nature in working out her ultimate designs to the advantage of mankind in the coming ages.

It was not until one year after closing these sĂŠances that they got hold of the facts concerning the immediate cause of the premature transition of sister Ann. And now that the reader may have advantage of such facts as seem necessary to the case, we may be excused in retrospecting so far as we have learned.

Some eighteen years before the beginning of these sĂŠances, sister Ann married at the homestead in Washington County, Indiana, and immediately accompanied her husband to their home several hundred miles away, and they never again met her in the physical life. In due course of time there was one son of this union, who yet survives. And, later still, perhaps three years from the marriage, she had a fetal abortion, brought on by taking calomel or some other violent purgative in an over-dose, as prescribed and insisted on by a physician or some very confidential friend, which she now, in spirit,

says she "felt she ought not to take, but did so just to please"; and from the complication, blood-poison caused her transition.

And it is now said by some who were present when she was about to pass out of her body that she became both clairvoyant and clairaudientâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could both see her spirit friends within the room and could hear them talkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and thus the spirit messengers were enabled to assist her through the gates with joy and peace to her.

What Became of That Fetal Life? Beyond the Vail Aber and Nixon (1901)

1299. On the evening of the 5th day of June, 1890, at the second sĂŠance for "Rending the Vail," sister Ann made her presence and identity known in materialized form, and thenceforward, at different sĂŠances, for nearly two years she appeared, always holding in her 19

hands the appearance of an exceedingly small babe, and would claim it as "my little girl baby," but never would give any explanation, and N, never having been apprised of the cause of her death, farther than that it was some kind of fever, was unable to understand what the appearance of the little babe meant.

At the sĂŠances of 1899 and 1900 for "Beyond the Vail," sister Ann sometimes was invisible form, but did not present the form of a babe in her hands or arms. In making illustrations for this book, the spirit artist made one which is found on page 252, recognized as a good likeness, in many respects, of this sister Ann, and she said: "That is my picture." And the artist made another picture, found on page 430, which presents so many features in common with the picture of sister Ann as to lead us to conclude that the two pictures are undoubtedly pictures of mother and daughter, and after we so recognized the pictures, the spirits informed us that we had guessed the true intention of the pictures and that the picture of the child is designed as an illustration of the personality and work of one called in spirit Little Ruth, and of whom Reed speaks in his description of work in the spirit world.

If the reader will turn back and read carefully all of last above reference, he or she will be prepared to discern what has become of our fetal life in question: That just as Ruth was given in charge of 20

Little Peg, and by the assistance of Dr. Reed, got Little Peg into a cozy little home in spirit life and changed the name Margaret or Peg to Crystal, because Little Peg was becoming such a beautiful spirit, so some qualified spirit messenger was given charge of the spark of life eternal that escaped from this fetus in question, garnered it away and cared for it and named it Ruth, in designation of the messenger work it would be qualified to do. But, ere this, Ruth has grown to adult condition, passed all the schools of Zelda, and is climbing the eternal mountains of grandeur and intelligence that the spirit Thomas Paine so eloquently portrays in "Rending the Vail." (R. V., 2455-2459)

Purpose of This Case

Perhaps part of the purpose of this spirit band in presenting this case in the manner in which it is done is to further assist the psychic student and the student of medical jurisprudence who may chance to peruse these pages, in learning that,

(a) From a period exceedingly early in fetal life it contains an organized spirit entity that survives destruction by whatever cause of the fetal body.

(b) That the tiny spirit is received into the tender care of kind messenger spirits, who look after its welfare, much the same as 21

would have been the case with it in this world, had the child been permitted its natural birth alive in its physical body.

Exegetical Spiritualism â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Resurrection Seers of The Ages: Embracing Spiritualism Past And Present J. M. Peebles (1904)

During the process of death, consciousness, in the seeming, is sometimes suspended, as with those who are suddenly

ushered

into the spirit world by capital punishment, suicide or accident, and with those especially whose habits of life, given to pernicious gratification, have materialized their 23

senses, as if locked in "chains

of darkness." Those who have lived pure and exalted lives, aglow with truth and charity, do not lose their consciousness for a moment, but cognize the transition from a darker to a more illumined room in the mansions of the Father.

There are no idiots to the spiritual vision. Imbecility is caused by malformation of the physical organization. Entering the spirit world, released from ante-natal and social perversions, they immediately commence their upward march of knowledge and wisdom.

Infants are immortal from the sacred moment of embryonic existence. Uniting the alkali and acid, instantly you have the third and higher compound â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the salt. So when the positive and negative relational forces blend, then and there is the divine incarnation. Nature never takes a retrogressive step. If purposely blasted, during the gestative life, the spiritual principle remaining undisturbed, and the individuality intact, the tender riven bud is borne by matronly angels to the nursery gardens of innocence to be trained in the virtues of the spheres. Designed abortion is murder ! Multitudes will meet those offended little ones that ought to have had a natural, physical birth and the experiences of an earthly life, preparatory to a ripened entrance into the world of spirits. Prematurely ushered there, the spiritual objective being based upon the material, they are necessitated by a law of their being, to return under heavenly 24

guidance to the mediumistic spheres of sympathizing friends to gather glimpses of, and participate in, earthly struggles and victories. Identity is cognate with existence itself. It is the natural attribute of spirit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; its very impressibility. It depends not on form for recognition, but the form on it. Every part of the grain we sow is represented in the harvest. Essential spirit being inseparable substance, and ever reporting itself magnetically, we recognize it by sympathy, the same as a child in the darkness knows its mother without the aid of sight or hearing. Our spheres are ourselves extended â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our

very loves

and thoughts in telegraphic communication. When, therefore, spirits from the mortal lands meet the gone before, instantly, by sympathy, they recognize each other, and the past, with all its checkered pilgrimages, indelibly engraved on the tablet of memory, rolls in upon the consciousness with light and shadow, all in order of relations and events, in sweet, unspeakable joy and fall of glory.

The Destiny Of Man The Dawn of Another Life Wesley Aber (1910)

As the ages of time glide away, as a dream that is dreamed floats away forever into the irrevocable past, we stand in mighty hosts and watch mortals in their daily ways, how they control their actions and order their lives.

Mortal man in all the wanderings of his mind, is never satisfied with today, no matter how much he has accomplished or how great a good has come to him. He is ever looking ahead and sighing for the rising of tomorrow's sun, so that he can witness what it brings forth to him.

So much he has laid out with mathematical precision, to perform and fully accomplish that he cannot see the future unfold with a pace too swift. And this insatiate desire to do more, be more, and thus better himself and his loved ones, is as inborn within him as is the breath he breathes. This rising force is simply the result of progression, upon which is built every element which mortals possess. No man can stand still in the face of the moving power of the Universe. He either progresses or retrogrades. So that each act of a lifetime either points to one or another of these ways. And again, there are many of your world, and even of ours who have fallen into darkened conditions on account of their own choice and the backward slipping of their own footsteps, when such environments at last have tended to awaken the better part of their natures, and seeing at last into what they had fallen, their condition served as a dear lesson to them, and they at once turned their faces toward the bright sun of knowledge, and the road of progression. When this is so, they are made the better and stronger men and women for it. The chain of man's destiny is wrought together link by link, by the strong hand of Providence , as 27

the smith welds together bits of burning red-hot iron. And as the fragments of his life join each with each, to make at last the real acts of his existence so does his destiny begin to unfold itself, and lay out like a scroll to be read at will. The daily aspirations of the mortal mind that are the indwelling sentiments of the consciousness are the deeds in embryo that have birth, and at last form many links in destiny's chain.

The inborn voice of the soul which speaks in various tongues and grows into principles which actuate the deeds of a man's life, whether good or bad, forms a part of his destiny, the tiny thoughts in embryo which take vital strength and grow into shape until they become things and take their places in the mortal existence as kindness and at last form the consummation of an earthly life. But does the output of man's inner consciousness from day to day find an end of occurrence with death? Ten thousand times no! Just as he lays aside his earthly apparel (the flesh) and sinks down to rest in the evening of death, thinking his labors are finished, he scarcely loses consciousness in the last of mortal life, until his spirit eyes are looking on the light of the Immortal morning, and he realizes with the fullness of his newly awakened spirit senses that his destiny was not finished on earth, but just begun! When we are near mortals of earth we often hear one and another speaking of some person's destiny, and they usually interpret a destiny as meaning some one 28

accomplishment or another, or refer to it as some business or vocation acquired by them in earth life, saying, "Oh, it was his destiny," or "Well, she had to do her grand work, it is certainly her destiny." A man's destiny is his own precious gift from the Most High, and it accurately means the actual fulfillment of certain laws that abide for him and in his aura for the purpose of fixing his life on earth and in Spirit Spheres, just as it was originally intended to be. A great many of the first plans for mortal life and action that are laid with accurate precision are never reached by persons for whose lives they were intended for the simple reason that these persons are ever ready to neglect the impressions they daily receive and throw aside as imagination or chaff, the whispered words from spirit lips, whose messages are as signal lights along the pathway of truth, and as the guiding rays of a candle under the sheltered roof to the weary, travel-stained wanderer in the Storm of Darkness and Ignorance.

Instead of seeking to understand the governing motives of their lives, they turn their faces into the shabby and threadbare path of ignorance and failure, and then when the Hand of Death beckons them across the river and opens the gates of another existence, they wonder at their own seeming nothingness and failures, and are lost in amazement that they have not really tried to learn something of themselves long ago. How many, many of earth's people today that do not realize the building or the completion of their own destinies! 29

As man's real destiny built day by day, as the years of his life unfold, so should man strive to crowd out of his nature all the petty follies of his earthly years and grow more and more in the Image of God.

Fix your minds, Oh mortals of earth, on some of the high and mighty destinies of those who have left your earth in a blaze of glory as it were, and even as you have had the privilege to learn of them through contact with the love they have left behind, so should you order your lives, that in the law of eternal progress you could witness the upbuilding of a destiny for yourselves of which you need never be ashamed. The reason for a great deal of the hubbub and confusion of your world is because the mortal only strives to realize what is of necessity for his present wants, and tries not to build for himself a future monument of Eternal Peace. In the Heavens the usual destiny that man sees is day after day of gaining the world's goods, so that when he grows old in the years of earth his prosperity he will find him fattened in worldly gain, and Spiritual Ignorance.

The mortal who comes to realize that every happening which comes into his life is for the best, so long as he is living the principles which he feels to be right, is the man who is stepping on the high plane of Progress and attainment of success in his each and every undertaking.

Believe in yourselves or you will be the creatures of failure. If your friends believe in you, you will be a success, but the first element of your friends' trust imposed in you is your own self confidence. Your daily acts, your thoughts, your beliefs, your prejudice, your loves, and hope and fears, all join together in the eternal and form link by link, the wonderful chain of your destiny. They are but the elements which help to make you what you finally are.

How many there are in your world who are all unconsciously laying the corner stones of their destinies today; putting in the foundation principles on which their whole lives are to rest. The multitude of men go on and on up the steep hill of Earthly Fortune and never stop to pick the thorns from their bleeding feet (that come as gentle reminders that their pace is too swift), but trudge tip and tip the steep Incline of Worldly Prowess, until some day the hour of the Eternal comes and they are called to the realms of Spirits, to houses not made with hands, and find they then have nothing in keeping with this new life, only the change called death, and at this occurrence in their existence, when the last scale has fallen, and they are permitted full sight, they see at once that what would have been the greatest possibilities in their mortal destinies were completely left out and moreover alas never known ! A mortal can understand only so much as his experience up to the present time has taught him. It is impossible for him to thread his way into paths unknown, for he 31

cannot comprehend that which has never been his pleasure to be conscious of. If it were otherwise, how different would thousands and thousands of destinies be.

Future of a Child The Dead Have Never Died Edward Randall (1917)

THE orthodox teachings make no attempt to tell us what becomes of children who go out of the earth-plane in infancy. How many millions 33

of mothers have had babies too young for speech, boys and girls just able to talk and walk, sink into a dreamless sleep, and having kissed for the last time the lips of love, have seen the little bodies lowered with tender hands into the grave, and as the earth fell upon the casket have heard from the lips of ignorance "ashes to ashes, and dust to dust." With hearts without hope they have gone back to the house of sorrow, the toys, the little bed, the vacant chair, the ache in the heart, the tears that fall in countless thousands of homes, and the cries that go out in the night to know where in the vast universe the baby is, if it lives at all.

"What becomes of those who go out in infancy, you ask? "Do they develop in mind and body? Shall we know them and meet them again? Will they know us? Is there any one to comfort and care for them, and teach them?

Do they miss and seek the mother love?" These and a thousand more questions have been asked in the countless ages that have gone, and are being asked in every desolate home in the world today.

Let me tell what I have learned of those conditions through many years of speech with those in the afterlife.

I repeat what I have said before and shall say again, for it is the key to comprehension, that the infant at conception possesses an etheric form, at that moment clothed in a physical garment or flesh body. This etheric form is material, composed of matter, and as matter cannot be destroyed; it follows that etheric child-body cannot by any possibility be annihilated.

The infant etheric form by the process of dissolution passes out of the physical garment which it took on at the moment of conception, the same garment that it wore at birth, and becomes an inhabitant of the next plane of consciousness, where all is etheric, where nothing physical can enter. This change may be likened to an earth-birth. There are thousands of childless women, who never in earth-life found expression for the mother-love. These, with countless others who find their greatest happiness in doing good together with those of blood relation, attend at such a time and take and care for the little stranger in the new environment.

Let me give an instance that came under my personal investigation. It is a well known fact that children up to about three years of age are able to, and do see spirit people; some have spirit playmates. The instance I am about to relate was the passing of a little boy, only one week old, who had a sister a little under three years of age, with whom I was privileged to make an experiment. This little girl night 35

after night saw the baby boy, and described him; he was in the same room with two spirit nurses in attendance, while another woman was from time to time described as being present. Again, this three year old sister often saw the spirit-baby when she was away from her home. On various occasions I verified these statements by inquiry from those in the afterlife during our investigation, and found that what the little sister related had actually taken place. The woman who appeared from time to time was the grandmother; she, assisted by two nurses, cared for the little stranger, and on several occasions, before he could articulate plainly, prior to his fourth birthday, I heard him speak to me. This was a most valuable experience.

Children in the afterlife are cared for very much as they are here. There are those who find their greatest delight in mothering the motherless, and teaching them words of speech and wisdom; so under such unselfish care the children reach mental and bodily maturity just the same as they would if they had remained in this world.

The etheric process of development is interesting; children need mother-love no less in spirit than in earth life, and as the mother sleeps, those in charge place the etheric baby-form close to her heart, where it rests absorbing the love so necessary to its existence. We little know how close the afterlife is, how close its inhabitants 36

come to us, the influence they exert on us, or the result of our thought vibrations upon them. Then again, as the children grow, they keep in touch with us from day to day, and when we go out into the afterlife, they know and greet us as we enter the life that has no night.

There are in the next life kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities of learning just as we have here, and what is more, the inhabitants do not cease to study and increase their store of knowledge when they reach a certain age, but there are great lecture halls where the advanced ones teach the supreme laws of Nature, where all are welcome and all go, and so the secrets of the Universe are understood. There is but one aristocracy in the life to come, and that is founded on the refinement and development of character. Measured by this standard, how very poor are our very rich! I have often written that the aristocrats of the afterlife have gained their position by helping others less fortunate. They rise by raising others. Those alone stand erect who stoop above the lowly.

Here is what a sojourner in the next plane has said of the little ones:

"Many people have puzzled as to the state and condition of young children in the spirit world, and it is on that subject that I desire to speak, more particularly, tonight. There are millions of young children 37

of all ages passing into the spirit world every year. Some of them are of very tender age, while others know right from wrong. It is an interesting subject to inquire as to what they do in the spirit life. At the outset, I must tell you that there is a divine law in the spirit world, that whosoever passes into that kingdom before he has reached to man's estate upon the earth-plane, shall grow mentally to the stature of a man. You can gather from that that the 7 youngest child, even the infant which has been taken from you, will grow mentally and spiritually on the other side of life. Clairvoyants and others have often described young children in the spirit life, who have been recognized by mothers and fathers; they perhaps years after, have been somewhat astonished to hear of the child looking much older, and they have not been able to account for it. You will understand that the presentation of the spiritual form is in order that those in the flesh may be able to see them through the physical senses, and to note that they appear to be growing toward manhood and womanhood. I am afraid that many people upon your earth-plane today are neglectful of their responsibilities to their children. If God has given you such a flower as a child, it is incumbent upon you by example and precept to train that child in spiritual things, so that ultimately he will be with you in the kingdom of Heaven and will rejoice in the knowledge that you guided him spiritually when an infant. But how careless are many people with their children! They forget that the child is all the time taking note, not of what they are saying, but of 38

what they are doing. I assure you that if you are unmindful of your responsibilities toward your children, you will undoubtedly have to pay the penalty when you reach the spirit side of life."

Too little attention has been paid to the going out of children; the world has little knowledge on that subject. No greater blessing can come to the fathers and mothers of every nation and tribe than to know that children with bodies too frail to carry them through the earth-life are not lost in going from among us, but in the other life go right on with their growth and development under the care and guidance of good men and women who for love of humanity do the necessary work, and so enrich themselves.

I am impressed not to leave this subject without a word of warning to do no murder. Know that at the moment of conception out of the mass of the universal good, out of the life mass, an etheric atom, a body infinitesimal in size and perfect in form is clothed, and no matter whether the physical birth is natural or premature, that life-force so individualized has commenced its journey back to God, and all the power in all the Universe cannot change its ultimate destiny.

I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their 39

development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man, because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her "Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child murder

"They walked the valley of the dead, Lit by a weird half light, No sound they made, no word they said, And they were pale with fright. Then suddenly from unseen places came, Loud laughter, that was like a whip of flame, They looked, and saw, beyond, above, A land where wronged souls wait Those spirits called to earth by love, And driven back by hate. And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild, As she beheld the phantom of her child. 40

Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled Out into night and death, Before it reached the Mother world, Or drew its natal breath. And terrified, each hid her face and fled Beyond the presence of her unborn dead, And God's Great Angel, who provides Souls for our mortal land, Laughed, with the laughter that derides, At that fast fleeing band Of self-made barren women of the earth. Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth.

'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they, That down below us fared; Those shapes with faces strained and grey, And eyes that stared and stared; Something there was about them, gave us fear; Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.' Thus spake the spectral children; thus The Angel made reply: 'They have no part or share with us, They were but passers by.'

'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead; 'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."

"I want to tell you," a teacher in the afterlife said, "of a little waif that came to us in infancy. We taught and carefully guarded, and schooled her in the pure conditions of our sphere until she approached womanhood, but she had no contrasts, therefore she could not judge of the relative purity and delights of her environment. In order that she should be able to enjoy her home and the glories of our world, it was necessary for her to have a knowledge of earthly conditions. And so I was instructed to conduct this child back to earth from time to time. When this child first returned to earth and was among your people, she could hardly endure even to examine the gross conditions, and could not understand how people could exist in such dark, crude elements. But, as I led her along from one condition to another, over the road she would have gone had she remained on earth for the ordinary allotted period, I said to her: 'Had you lived your time in the body, you would have been in the condition in which you see these people.' I also told her that they would look gross to her when they reached the spirit state, but that in course of time they would improve enough to assume the state of purity and peace that she enjoyed. And as we journeyed on, we met one whose earthly experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training. 42

And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life. This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a reality.

"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there, unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This church house is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently the services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for here she would get the average experience of the church methods and be able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly needed on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his discourse in his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he thought essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit. But the girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the dicta of the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit world and had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods attempted by 43

the church to enlighten the people and prepare them for future realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to her so gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen, heard, or read of in the land which had always been her home that she hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and welfare required that she learned as much as possible of the earth conditions in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such earth conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more the young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In fact, it was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on this side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it; we, therefore, journeyed on."

The House of the Harpy Spirit Interaction James Hewat McKenzie (1917)

The author, travelling on one occasion through the middle astral plane, visited a city which had almost fallen into ruins, the houses on the outskirts being quite impossible of habitation, for only the walls remained; others in a better state of repair were inhabited by people of a type such as might be met with on earth in slum neighbourhoods. The atmosphere of the place was disagreeable, and in the deserted streets from time to time one could perceive what 45

appeared to be the dead bodies of new-born children, in various stages of growth. Entering one of the houses, these baby forms were everywhere to be found, let into the walls, lying on the floor, and upon the beds, so that there seemed to be no place within the rooms where one could sit down without seeing these strange creations. In these homes lived women whose lives on earth had been devoted to the procuring of abortion, and who had to suffer the annoyance of having these baby forms continually kept before them by unseen spirit operators. Before sitting down it was necessary to remove them from the chairs, and they frequently cast them out of the windows in their desire to be rid of them, but no sooner was this done than the forms were returned to the old position, for unseen eyes were always watching, and brought them back as speedily as they were got rid of. These were artificial creations used by higher spirits as object lessons to awaken the conscience, and arouse these women to the unnatural enormity of their past evil practices. This irritating lesson seldom, failed to bring them to an understanding that what they believed was dead and unknown was in reality alive and known to all.

The Unborn Dead The Dead Have Never Died Edward C. Randall (1917)

I am told that into the afterlife countless millions of children have come and are coming who have never had the advantage of a natural physical birth and earth experience so necessary to their development, but that heartless mothers by abortive acts and with the aid of dastard physicians have done and are doing countless murders, more terrible in result than the taking of the life of a man, because the unborn infant is so weak and helpless. If this knowledge shall cause any mother to spare the life of her unborn child, blood of her blood, and bone of her bone, or the physician to pause in his criminal act, sorrow untold will pass both by.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox described perhaps better than she knew in her "Ballade of the Unborn Dead" the natural and logical result of child murder.

Those spirits called to earth by love, And driven back by hate. And each one stood in anguish, dumb and wild, As she beheld the phantom of her child. Yea, saw the soul her wish had hurled Out into night and death, Before it reached the Mother world, Or drew its natal breath. And terrified, each hid her face and fled Beyond the presence of her unborn dead, And God's Great Angel, who provides Souls for our mortal land, Laughed, with the laughter that derides, At that fast fleeing band Of self-made barren women of the earth. Hell has no curse that withers like such mirth. 'Oh, Angel, tell us who were they, That down below us fared; Those shapes with faces strained and grey, And eyes that stared and stared; Something there was about them, gave us fear; Yet are we lonely, now they are not here.' Thus spake the spectral children; thus The Angel made reply: 49

'They have no part or share with us, They were but passers by.' 'But may we pray for them?' the phantoms plead; 'Yea, for they need your prayers,' the Angel said."

experience had unfolded, and the little lady said: 'That one looks different.' And I told her that this one had received a higher training. And we passed along to another place in the earth-life where there were children of the poor and ignorant, as well as of the rich and learned. And we tarried until my little charge thoroughly learned the different environments of children on earth, and the great contrast between their homes, daily life, and schooling and those in spirit-life. This child had never known anything but innocence and purity, and she was far removed from the ordinary conditions of the childhood of earth. It was long before she could, in any degree, recognize it as a reality.

"And, having learned of the methods of training in the institutions of earth, we pursued our investigations farther along; and, finally we came to where there was a great orthodox church; and there, unseen, we mingled with the congregation. She said: 'This churchhouse is not like ours at all. What is taught here?' Presently the services began. I told her to listen attentively to the minister, for here she would get the average experience of the church methods and be able to see wherein a great work, in brave hands, is greatly needed on the spirit side. Then, the minister proceeded with his discourse in his regular methodical manner, telling the people all he thought essential to prepare them to enter higher realms of the spirit. But the girl, now grown to nearly womanhood, could not accept the 51

dicta of the minister, for she had up to now been raised in the spirit world and had learned nothing that was in harmony with methods attempted by the church to enlighten the people and prepare them for future realities. Therefore the teachings of the minister seemed to her so gross, so false, so out of line with all she had ever seen, heard, or read of in the land which had always been her home that she hesitated to remain, but I told her that her future work and welfare required that she learned as much as possible of the earth conditions in which your people live, and the kind of preparation such earth conditions make for their inheritance in our life. But the more the young lady heard of the sermon the more she disbelieved it. In fact, it was so much opposed to what she knew of the conditions on this side, and so different from what preparation while on earth for entrance to and enjoyment of spirit life should consist that at my suggestion she resolved to visit those who had just left the earth-plane, schooled under its teaching, and witness the effect of it; we, therefore, journeyed on."

Of Birth and Death: From Whence To Where? The Archives of The Eloists Walter DeVoe (1933)

Let us begin your journey through eternity from the only logical starting point, conception. We could begin with the infinite vastness of the All Person because the essence of your being, your soul, is and always has been the very Person of your Creator, and for that 53

reason the essence of your being has always existed through the infinite eons of the past. In that sense your soul being has always had an existence, but in the same sense even the physical body you possess has always existed, for the atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and so forth of which it is composed have been part of your planet, your sun, your galaxy, your nebula and thence from previous stars and nebulae that have been dissipated and gone from an unfathomable and incomprehensible time long passed. Could the atoms of your physical body speak with a conscious awareness, they could tell you awesome stories of stars and planets, peoples and civilizations in the farthest reaches of space, that were born, struggled with the limitations of corpor for a time and then passed on.

Their histories long forgotten except in the minds of great gods and goddesses high now in etherea who either lived on those birth places of immortal souls or in some way had assisted with their resurrection and growth.

Yes, even if the spiritual "atoms", if we may use the poetic license to call them such, of your soul being could speak, they could tell you tales of life through the numbing distant unlimited past, of a place infinitely far away or so very close, of a time incomprehensibly ancient and yet as recent as the very now, of experience and wisdom whose comprehension and magnitude would leave even the highest 54

raised angel speechless with awe.

But wait, all of this is our fanciful imagination at play, for none of it can be. Your earthly shell cannot speak, nor can the component parts of your astral shell or soul, though that is where the Great Intelligence that created you resides; and neither can you speak of those times, for the you that you are, the self-conscious, self-knowing aware being that you are came into being at the moment of conception.

The essence of Jehovihâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Person that is all knowing and resident in the sperm, and the spark of the Divine Being that is all knowing and resident in the egg came together in a magical transformation within a star-flash of that union and at that moment a new soul was born. At that moment you were a dual being in soul: the very I AM of the All Person and a "blank slate" that was destined to be the sentient, self-aware, reasoning being that you are. Due to the maturity of our age, the you that you are became an immortal soul when those two components cleaved together in the physically primitive embryonic cell. Understand that whether your physical embryo ever reached further stages of development or not, the spiritual being that you are was already assured immortality as a soul and was destined to grow into more expansive realms forever onward. If it had not been allowed to proceed with its growth on the physical plane in the womb, 55

then it would have continued the growth the I AM ordained it to experience but on the spiritual plane instead by special dispensation. The means by which this is accomplished will be discussed in a later chapter. This then was the birth from whence you came, and this is sufficient understanding to allow us to turn our attention to the places you will be exploring in the days ahead.

Each person born as to life on earth is bestowed with three component attributes, namely a soul or spiritual nature, a corporeal or physical

being

and the

qualities of

action, movement,

self-expression, metabolism and similar manifestations of energy in motion which we call life. This is why it is said that we are born in the Creatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image, because the Great Spirit also has the same three components which are the Ever-Present All-Spirit, the infinite corporeal creation (composing our universe) and the All-motion or the manifestation of sentient Energy, the All-Life.

Since we are bestowed with those same attributes in a limited form, and since our destiny is an ever expanding comprehension and usefulness as our Creatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s "hands" in action, it is logical to begin by experiencing one aspect of creation at a time and thus allowing our infant souls a chance to grow at a tolerable rate, and at the same time provide an anchor through which our immature spirit may be nurtured until it reaches a state where it can comfortably subsist on 56

its own.

The main purpose of corporeal existence therefore is to acquire a basic appreciation of the physical aspects of creation, to provide an elementary education for our newly formed souls, which are like blank slates waiting for the experiences of life to be written upon them, and finally to provide a fetal stage for the embryonic development of our soul-selves, the spiritual being that our earthly shell merely reflects.

While it is important to put our brief sojourn on this earthly plane to the greatest possible use, and to grow in maturity and wisdom to the best of our ability before our time comes to move on, yet, in the great scheme of things, our time here is of minor importance in comparison to the eternity ahead, just as our nine months in the womb is of minor importance when compared to the perhaps 90 or even 100 years of corporeal existence. Life in the womb would probably be of great importance, indeed, to the fetus were it able to comprehend, but that nine months pales in comparison to the life time ahead. It is the same when comparing the earth life to the infinity that lies before us in the world of spirit. Were life in corpor of more importance, would not the Creator have provided greater safeguards to make our physical bodies less vulnerable to premature death as to this life? The simplest and most unexpected mishaps can snuff our corporeal lives 57

out, for the mortal body is so delicate and vulnerable. But the truth is that our corporeal existence is only like a heartbeat when compared to the infinite life ahead, and our corporeal life while important is not paramount and is not crucial to our eventual development.

And so it is, be it soon or late, the time comes for each of us. The delicate bond between spirit and corpor snaps to allow our true selves, the spiritual beings that we are, to emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon and take its rightful place in the greater part of creation. For the world of spirit is not a vague and ephemeral place. It is only the imperfect perception of your mortal senses which gives you these false impressions.

Your whole world consists of the surface of a little ball of corpor, while our spiritual world penetrates all levels of the rest of creation. We here in spirit can see, hear and feel on levels that you can only dream of, for your earthly shell handicaps the natural spiritual senses that you possess in a blunted form. We are free from your earthly drudgery. We are freer on every level beyond your wildest dreams, for we are the real inhabitants of a real world, a world that you are destined to inhabit as your true and rightful place in an infinite creation.

No two souls describe the act of passage in the same way, for no two 58

individuals perceive through the windows of their separate souls in quite the same way, and the circumstances of each transition differ in detail. Suffice it to say that everyone admits that the actual process that liberates the spirit from corpor is easier and smoother than anyone expected. Some "arrive" with such swiftness that they at first donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize that the change has taken place at all, while others make the change so gradually that they can describe every detail as a remarkable experience of joy and wonder. Realize that when we say "arrive", that no actual travel necessarily occurs, for when we speak of you being "there", while we are "here" describes not so much the difference of location as it does describe the difference of dimension, which is something that interpenetrates the same place at the same time at a differing level of vibration. This difference in state prevents you from not only perceiving us, but also prevents the interference of one level of experience with that of the other unless extraordinary conditions come into play.

Yet, in spite of the illusion of a great chasm separating us, everyone, soon or late, will make the transition called death, for all your earthly existence is merely preparation for that great event. All you experience, both good and bad, has been an exercise for your soul to build in strength and perfection so that it may be ready to stand on its own in the more refined states of thought, where your self-control 59

and will must be at a greater stage of maturity than had been required when your being was localized in its corporeal shell. For while the personality that you are is housed in its earthly shell, the dulling influence of the lower vibrations of corpor allows the "thought being" that you are to subsist with greater safety and efficiency. Realize that your lack of maturity as a young and immortal soul allows your concentration to wander, and your self control or will is seldom a dominant force in your existence. You are easily distracted by things in your environment and you are often led in your weakness to do things which are not in your best interest or in the best interests of others. You can see, however, when comparing an infant to a mature adult, that some degree of progress has been made in this regard, through oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life time. There is more self control. There is a greater understanding of how your mental powers can be applied to create and accomplish. There is a greater exercise of will to do what is right and necessary even when your lower propensities would have you act differently. Of course, there are great differences in the degree of development even in mature adults, but in most cases it is of a great enough degree to allow that individual after death to subsist in the freer and more refined state of spirit with a great enough degree of competence to keep from being a burden on the rest of the newborn in spirit who are residing on the same plane of existence. Should this newborn be too imperfect, then special provisions must be made, depending on the degree of 60

imperfection and the reason for its occurrence. The innocent soul thrust prematurely into spirit life by being killed through abortion, for example, must be dealt with in a very different manner than a person who has passed over as a result of the fruits of a life of crime. But in all cases, whether it is through natural development in a normal corporeal existence or through special corrective measures applied afterwards, every soul must reach a state of mental development that allows him or her to exist competently in a state of refined vibrations of thought, for the world of spirit requires much greater strength of personality and control of will than is required in the grossness of corporeality. Always remember our basic truth that you are in essence a being of thought. The greater totality that you are is not your corporeal shell but rather your mind, which is thought, and in thought, as a distinct portion of the All-Thought, will you live, move, and have your being for all time to come.

Brought Back to Earth Radiance The Eloists (1985)

You don't need to keep your mind closed to information of events taking place in the world. Learn all you can about the earth. Thus you will be more fully developed when you pass on to the next world. You have to go through different grades of learning, just as you do in schools. You cannot go forward into more complicated grades until you have passed those in the corporeal world. Babes who die in infancy, by abortion or other means, are brought back to earth under angelic protection to learn about the place of their birth. Earth is really a beautiful planet, and you can be grateful you were born upon 62

it. There are many ugly things about it, to be sure, created by spirits in darkness who are influencing people to harm one another and make war. This will go on until the light of the Creator takes over and comes into positive expression through many awakened souls. You don't need to tune in with anything in the news that depresses you, but you can pour light into the dark conditions as you keep your awareness with the Creator at all times.

Of the trillions of souls who need to be brought in the way of resurrection, fully a hundred million are infants, most of whom are the result of abortions and stillbirths. With the widespread acceptance of the heinous act of abortion, we have been flooded with these poor souls, and though it is true that they are without sin, yet that does not lessen the burden placed upon our workers or upon the lower heavens as a whole.

A Nurse from the Plateau Radiance The Eloists (1985)

Let us ponder for a moment on the awesome burden placed on our spiritual realms by the untimely death of so many innocent babes through the thoughtless act of abortion. The number of undeveloped souls thrust into the care of our doctors and nurses who labor on the plateaus close to the earth is far greater than your darkest imaginings. The fact that these babes are thrown upon us in greater and greater 64

numbers each year makes the scene that much more pathetic. Could we only make these selfish women realize that each soul is complete and immortal at conception, perhaps they would more carefully ponder their decision. Their basic misconception that their body is theirs to do with as they please is their first error. They had as little to do with the growth and development of their own bodies as that of the infant they carry. Both belong to the Creator that made them and He is the one to whom they must ultimately answer. If they could only realize that the soul of that poor infant is brought back to them in many cases and fetaled upon them until full term (and therefore only the earthly body may be aborted while the spirit remains), perhaps they would think again before making the fateful decision. If they could only realize that the day will come when they will pass over into our realms of spirit and there meet their rejected child face to face, though then fully grown, and be forced to justify their decisions and rectify their actions once and for all. Perhaps this is the image they need placed before them. Perhaps if they could see their child's pained expression as he or she asks, "Why did you do this to me, mother? Why did you deprive me of my life and your love? What did I do to you to be treated so?" "Why?" is our question as well. We, here on the Plateau in the hospitals and nurseries labor hard and long to maintain and revive these innocent souls, fetaling them sometimes to the natural mother and sometimes to a more appropriate soul, until they are strong enough to be transferred to the nurseries where 65

primary education can begin. This is, of course, more difficult without the corporeal body and corporeal experiences to guide them. But we will work harder and longer still, until those on earth awaken to the Light of the Creator within their souls and awaken to the love that dwells within their hearts. Until then we remain, Your loving friends.

Wanted: Mothers The Faithist Journal Anonymous (1988)

One day as my body lay resting quietly on its

bed, I decided to

plunge into hada, the lower atmospherean heavens of the Earth. closed my

eyes, visualized the soles of my feet until they

to tingle; then I felt the tingling creep up my thighs and torso.

The tingling

started

ankles, lower legs,

picked up on my fingertips and

crept up my forearms to the elbow, then to the shoulders and finally to the

top of my head.

Meditating on this a while, I heard 67

(or felt)

a loud buzzing sensation in my head and looking back at my reclining,

corporeal form.

I floated through the bedroom walls to the myself wandering amongst earthlings who inhabit they have

loved.

suddenly I was outside,

outside and soon found

the teeming billions of departed

that region closest to the Earth and to all

I talked with many of them as I wandered,

found that their aims, aspirations and beliefs than those of the people one expressed

and

were little different

might meet at the county fair.

Many

disappointment in not having been taken to "The

Saviour" and all were preoccupied with finding a permanent place to reside. (The somewhat like Manhattan

more or less

crowding of this region is

Island multiplied by many thousands of

times).

As I elbowed my way through the dense to a large open valley. The boxes, baskets

crowds, I came eventually

ground of this valley was covered with

piles of straw and similar things, each of which

contained the astral form of a tiny infant. Each in a blanket. The scene extended clear to the horizon

infant was wrapped

for as far as the eye could see,

of this region over the North American

continent.

There were millions of tiny infants, placed in little 68

groups of about a

dozen, with walkways cleared along these

between the groups. Up and down

walkways strolled a few dozen sad, tired, middle-aged

looking ladies, each wearing a grey tabard with a rope belt, and each busily trying to take care of the immediate needs of several hundred of the infants.

Needless to say, I was quite curious about this scene, and could not resist inquiring what it was all about.

"Where did all these children come from?", I inquired of the nearest lady.

"One of these babies is mine", she responded, "but I don't know which one, because I never saw it; I don't even know, whether it is a boy or a girl. I do know that if it has blue, grey or green eyes, it very probably isn't my own, because I and my lover both had brown eyes. And the new ones arriving, of course, are not mine, either, but they all need to be taken care of; they all need a mother but they only have us few."

"How did it happen", I asked, `that you never saw your own child?"

"It was an abortion", she sadly replied, "I was ashamed to let my folks find out that I was pregnant so I went to this so-called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; who 69

ripped it out and left me unconscious from shock and, incidentally, with all sorts of germs in the torn spots and I came over here shortly afterward as the result of a serious infection.

All of these kids were

aborted, and every day we get several thousand more, so we press into service every woman who comes here looking for her child. Still, as you can see, there are not nearly enough ladies to take care of all of them properly."

She continued, "They all need to be bathed more often than they are. There are so many of them and we have such meager facilities for it, and so few people to help with it; that's why the stench is so bad.

don't really mind it myself but it is so offensive to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that they always bring them here and just drop them." She added, "Most of their mothers wouldn't care enough about them to help, even if they were over here on this side; they were just glad to be rid of them. As for their fathers, I seriously doubt that many of them even believe that they have children here."

I looked out across the tremendous field with miles and miles of little bundles, all dirty, hungry, crying and squirming with loneliness and discontent.

I thought to myself, "If only every young girl who plans to get rid of her kid could come over here and see this!" 70

I wanted to help, but knew that I lacked the skill and experience to even get started; also, I knew that I had to return to my body, so what little I was able to do was just a token, like dipping out the ocean with a teaspoon. I wondered quietly whether the lower heavens over the other continents of the Earth had tremendous foundling fields like this one.

I knew that heredity is the main factor in whether one continues after death of the body, so to a certain extent, survival of bodily death comes to most as a corollary to the gift of life itself. It's a little like beauty; one gets it chiefly by choosing the right parents.

If survival

of bodily death was due to faith or to good works or piety, none of these little ones would be here. If it was a universal gift to every animal thing, the lower heavens would be a raging, howling zoo filled with creatures of every description still trying to do the things they did in corporeal life.

As such it would hardly be called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heaven.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

I wondered at the poor physical condition of many of the babies. There were cripples of every kind, deformed bodies, missing members, Siamese twins, dwarfs, blind, deaf and partly paralyzed children.

There were representatives of every, race and ethnic

group on the North American continent, but the ratios didn't seem the same as in the corporeal real world. I suppose that some ethnic 71

groups place a higher value on life and on children than they do on daughter's "reputation." Certainly, the child's religion could hardly have any effect upon its survival, particularly at the ripe old age of minus four or five months.

As I strolled through these thousands of acres of outdoor nursery, looking at the millions upon millions of abandoned children who had been prematurely cast into heaven, I marveled at the size of the task before any woman who had the courage to volunteer to help. I also wondered at the folly of our people in letting this thing happen to us. I realized that the Puritan Ethics, the antiquated concept of "marriage" and the consequent quaint ideas about "honor" and "disgrace" related to the reproductive process must carry much of the blame for this wholesale slaughter of innocents.

I remembered

hearing that in the United States of America, it is estimated that over two million such deaths at the hands of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dear motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; occur every year. The U.S.A. only lost somewhat over fifty thousand young men each year during the ten years of the Vietnam fiasco.

Eventually, I tired of this nightmare and was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness and sadness.

Bless the Innocents Radiance The Eloists (1988)

Soon we will be gone from your focus until our travels bring us back to your realm again. My hosts and I have been hard at work to strengthen the organizations that are helping the weak-minded, the undeveloped and misguided souls who continually cross the great divide. Our nurseries, most of all, are overburdened above your nation. These are part of the great change we are seeking. Your people must make the leap in consciousness from war and violence 73

to peace. They must learn peace among nations, peace in the home and peace within their inner selves. They must also put an end to the slaughter of the innocents and either accept the responsibility of parenthood or learn how to become mature adults and not become parents, through conscious choice. We can no longer tolerate the continued destruction of so many unborn babes. The hand of judgment will remain above all nations that condone such practices, and until their ways are changed, peace will not reign within their families, but they will continue to deteriorate and wallow in misery.

The Gift of Life Radiance The Eloists (1990)

Oahspe reveals to humanity the truth of your immortality, and the reality of the angelic overshadowing that has continuously, over countless centuries, labored to raise the understanding and behavior of mortals to a state that would allow them to become a blessing to themselves and to their progeny, who would inherit conditions in which they have little to say and even less control. Many of the actions taken by mortals through ignorance not only make their lives 75

a time of suffering, but also place inestimable burdens on our angelic realms. It is in that concern that we speak with you tonight, not only to impress upon you the seriousness of our plight, but to enlighten you on things to come. Life begins at conception. At that very moment you become an immortal human soul destined to progress in wisdom and power throughout eternity. This marvelous reality was not always assured in the distant past history of your race on this planet, but for many thousands of years now every soul has been guaranteed immortality at conception, regardless of one's parentage and circumstances surrounding the birth. The evolving embryo at that moment is a separate and distinct immortal being, placed in the care of another separate and distinct immortal being by the Ever-Present Creator until it can subsist unaided in the mortal realm. To terminate or abort this development for any reason constitutes murder of the earthly habitat and thus thrusts the developing soul into our spiritual realm prematurely to the will of the Creator. This is the simple truth which cannot be couched in euphemisms or more expedient phrases. The reality of the consequence is all too readily apparent to us here, and is a practice which must be reversed before any semblance of order can be restored to the lower heavens surrounding your planet. You are well aware that this issue is being hotly contested in your nation today, and it will continue to be hotly contested through the decade to come. But we tell you that the Creator's hand is over this matter and the day will come when your society will finally decide in 76

favor of life, but not before a great deal of suffering is sustained as the battle over this issue is brought to the streets of your nation. Just as your nation's civil war could not be resolved until the majority of your nation's inhabitants resolved in their hearts in favor of freedom to the slaves, so will your nation not find peace in its cities or country places until the majority resolves itself in favor of life. Until then, violence in the streets and within the home will continue to grow. The integrity of the family base will continue to crumble. The children you do raise will continue to be a disappointment both individually and collectively as constructive members of your society. Criminal activity will continue to undermine the fabric of society and the use of drugs and other forms of self-destruction will continue to thwart your efforts at reformation. Though we are already entering a period of increased spiritual light, yet amongst the masses of society it will hardly be evident until this issue is resolved. Until then, keep the light of your focus strong and stay well centered. When the minds of the masses begin to awaken there will also come great progress in disarmament, social reform and the blessings of peace. But many long and painful years remain. Sometimes this is the only way important lessons can be learned. Keep your spiritual community committed and strong so that you may ride unscathed through the turmoil and contribute something positive and helpful in the process.

Growing in the Spiritual Worlds Radiance The Eloists (1991)

Peace be with all the Creator's children on earth. Let love flow from their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives are being snuffed out of the body too soon. Too many are passing on to the other side with no preparation for further development. Our time and energies are devoted to receiving these many new souls, and trying to keep them from going back to earth again. Once they have left their physical bodies, they must go on to new experience and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us. We have great compassion for these newborn souls. Many little babies come over here from abortions, sickness and accidents. They have been 78

cheated out of their earthly experience. Not that they would have had all good experiences, but every experience, good and bad, would have contributed to their soul development. They will still grow in spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands of our Creator and give Him our faith and love. It is by His power in us that we are able to accomplish our task.

Peace Radiance The Eloists (1991)

Peace be with all the Creator's children of Earth! Let love flow from their hearts to one another. There is no time to waste. Precious lives are being snuffed out of the body too soon. This earth is a school for the education and development of souls while still in the physical body. Too many are going to the other side with little preparation for further development. Our time is taken up in receiving millions of these new souls and trying to keep them from going back to earth 80

again. Once they have left their physical body, they must go on to new experiences and spiritual awakening. It is not an easy task for us. We have great compassion for these newborn souls, especially little babies who came here due to abortion, sickness and accidents. They have been cheated out of their earthly experience, not that they would all have had good experience, but every experience would have contributed to their development as souls. They will still grow in spiritual worlds, but it will take much longer. We put all in the hands of Our Creator, and give our Faith and Love to Jehovih at all times! The Ever-Present is the captain of our ship!

Dear Souls of Light Radiance The Eloists (1992)

Be steadfast in our common purpose. As we come together at these appointed times we work to build greater harmony and continuity between your plane and ours. We seek to burst through the barriers that separate us. As we do this, it is important that your whole life, the 82

sum totality of your existence, plays a fundamental part in this process. The time spent in council is fine and good, but the preparation beforehand makes you fit tools through which we can work and that is the vital link that really "sets the stage." It is how you live, what you think, and how you serve each and every day that molds your vessel for our use. Through it all, it is not what you did yesterday, today, or tomorrow that makes the difference, but rather what habits and traits you nurture day in and day out, year by year, until they are constitutionally part of your character and personality.

We have made great strides together, no doubt, but do not let that slacken your pace. Reconsecrate yourselves, your lives and your Purpose to Jehovih each and every day and you will be answered with greater fulfillment and greater joy of soul throughout all the days of your lives here and hereafter.

We have a deep and genuine concern for your wellbeing. Since we are much older than you in years (as you count them), you are like precious children whom the Great Spirit has chosen to place under out care. All children, regardless of the circumstances of their birth and surroundings, are gifts of the Great Spirit and their presence among us should be viewed as a most sacred trust.

They are "angels to be" in time, just as you are, but their innocence 83

and vulnerability behooves us all to love, protect, and nurture them 'until they are strong enough to stand on their own. That is your obligation as their elder care takers, just as you are our responsibility as your elders even though we are separated from you by the unseen dimension that seems to separate your realm from our world of Spirit.

Every child is a sacred trust from the moment of conception, and every child from the earliest moment of development should be held in greater reverence for the sacred miracle that it is. This is not the case among too many people on your plane, and this must be changed through growth in understanding as to who we are as immortal souls, with a purpose and destiny greater than just the here and now.

The number of young souls cast upon our spirit plane prematurely every year are testimony to the fact that the people of your world are still mostly misguided and stumbling, diseased in spirit and burdened with darkness. Verily are you rising and falling, both at the same time. This must be remedied, and it will be remedied in this era of Kosmon, but it will be a laborious journey with no easy solutions.

Have no doubt that Jehovih has the solution, and it will be made manifest through the exalted Hosts of Angels who labor as the 84

Creatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands, yes and hearts on the scene. Have no doubt that they hold all of you as their most sacred trust, and they will not rest until all have been redeemed to light and understanding, to a fuller consciousness and maturity unlike any that has heretofore manifested on earth. Then will a greater peace manifest. Then will all the awakening gifts of spiritual and corporeal knowledge blend and blossom into the fullness of a blessing as it was meant to be, free of all the pain and sufferings of the past. This will be the task of the high-raised beings who are soon to follow us now that we have fulfilled our part and set the stage. All is planned; all is in concert; all is orchestrated.

Lines of Light Radiance The Eloists (1992)

The Hosts of Light are with you in focus. We come from realms that are not so far removed from your plane that we are insensitive to your earthly trials and your mortal needs, nor are we so close that we are unduly influenced by your realm's unenlightened behaviour or the inharmony and disorganization of the lower atmospherean realms. We have risen to a state in which unity of action and unity of purpose 86

under one Infinite Source is our rule and guide. We work organically under one high council and our labors being so perfectly planned and orchestrated bring us seasons of endless delight and fulfillment as only the higher, more liberated realms can enjoy.

We come to your plane to bring guidance and inspiration to those who are receptive to the Light. We work behind the scenes to orchestrate those earthly events that we can influence for an ultimate good, and to provide spiritual balm for those who suffer from those events of darkness or fate that we cannot influence.

We greet those who arrive here in both timely and untimely fashion and give assurances and instruction to those who are advanced enough to perceive our presence. When they are not, we turn them over to those hosts who are best trained to deal with souls who are diseased. undeveloped, or mired in darkness. Many of the latter are beyond our immediate help because they arrive in such great numbers at this time, especially when there are self-inflicted tragedies and wars.

These unfortunates try us all and test our resources to the limit. Most have to be left to their own devices until more opportune occasions arise at times of dan or when etherean hosts come to our assistance. It is at those times that circles of dedicated souls on earth can be 87

most useful to us, for when they are trained and well developed over many years of discipline, they can be of use to us as "batteries", "step down transformers" and "anchors", through which we can touch the lower atmospherean realms. Through our earthly intermediaries we can reach those in the lower spiritual realms even though they have already passed through the veil into our world of spirit.

Lastly, we also work with those who are young, undeveloped and innocent; those youthful souls of innocence who are thrust upon us through untimely births, mistreatment or abortion. These arrive without the sins of darkness upon them and they are cared for in a most considerate, caring and loving environment, well removed from the lower discordant realms of earth. Some are joined with an appropriate corporeal host under close supervision until they are mature enough to be taken in a state of spiritual infancy to an appropriate region for care, while others who are more mature are removed right away. But in either case all of these innocents quickly find their way to our organic heavens of the higher atmospherean realms. Though they may arrive under the most sorrowful circumstances, they are all by their innocence and virtue special gems in our plateau of Light and Love. Here they are kept in love and joy and away from all harm, where they soon mature with grace and beauty.

The Sacred Life Immortal Visions of a New Age Robert Bayer (2009)

There is a clock image before me.

It is bejeweled in green and

purple crystals. Its hands point a few minutes from midnight.

I pass

through the clock. I see mothers, a dozen or so different ones holding their newborn babies in love, smiling and very happy. A complete shifting of the vision onto a new scene: a surgery room, and screams 89

of fear and pain, and an angelic baby rises upward to be swaddled in a spirit blanket by angels who rise above with it.

I look to the grisly

settling of the operating table, mother, doctor and table and cutting instruments covered in blood. A lifeless child’s body is thrown away into a plastic bag.

I see a corridor of such scenes, extending like

into infinity when you look into 2 mirrors facing one another. Ghastly butchery after ghastly butchery. Very difficult to keep seeing. Below, and unseen to the doctors, a black network of tentacles, monstrous, control the thoughts and movements of the “doctors.” The “mother” is in a state of shock and the tentacles grip her too, in a kind of dark cocoon. I follow the trail of tentacles to a subterranean chasm of caverns.

The lightning and mood is horrific. Blood flows

everywhere. A demonic entity, goat-shaped and black winged, fiery, red coal eyes, wielding knives in both hands, “sacrifices” the children’s astral forms on the burning altar before him.

I can watch

no more. I rise up from this hell, to the earth, to the heavens … I see pure child after pure child growing up in the heavens, wise and good parents and teachers working with them, loving them, teaching them the truths of the universe they know.

Many colors of spiritual

blessings enfold them. A great gathering of these new angels is growing, very serene and very filled with the purpose of returning to earth to enlighten and strengthen all there in a new sacredness of life. Mothers and fathers of the world are coming under their beautiful mantel of love.

My guide speaks: 90

The Unseen is where the Truth of all things lie.

Nothing is hidden,

whether the light of love or darkness of selfishness, all is revealed in the spirit which is the true reality.

For decades, a holocaust of

infants has terrorized the world and burdened the heavens. The time for the repudiation of this great crime has come. No more will the murder of the innocent be allowed to continue, blackening the earth in great sin. A new conscious that all life is sacred and created with divine purpose, by the All Highest Creator, shall dawn and illuminate the mortal mothers and fathers that their highest purpose is to be in love and to love their children forevermore. Our love for you all, our mortal children, is eternal and so let us extend this love to all people, for all are our brothers and sisters, all Children of the Great Spirit, The Sacred Life Eternal.

Eternal Families of Love Visions of a New Age Robert Bayer (2010)

The blue sky is above me, with very lovely white clouds dappling it. Also, there is a kind of transparent window outlined in a section of the blue sky. I rise up to it and it opens and I pass into it. There is a rush of fast movement upward, myself and others that I can only dimly see. After a short time, and all at once, we appear out in the open, above the crown of vast white cumulous clouds. Passing a little way forward, we then look down upon a city of white and gold and silver

and crystal buildings, each surrounded by large gardens 92

and lawns. The guide asks me where I would like to go. After a short pause, I say where I can be of the most service.

He says to

follow him and we descend into a park of gardens, wide lawns divided by sections of blooming flowers and trees.

I see very young

and happy children running and playing. There are parents and teachers overseeing one or more young ones. Some of these are baby infants and are being carried and caressed.

I try to tune into

the vibrations and purpose of this uplifting and heart-warming place. I perceive that all the attending adults were childless during their mortal lives.

My guide speaks:

Yes, you perceive rightly, for all those laboring here, or rather, I should say parenting here, are fulfilling their long-held desire to be parents, while at the same time performing a great service to these little ones.

For know that their work and dedication in service is of

an eternal nature, and that they have not simply volunteered for a short time, a few days or years to these newborn in spirit. Their commitment, though not the biological parents in fact, raises them to be in truth from now on the real parents of these children for all eternity.

These are children who were discarded in their earthly

lives, whether through abortion or abuse or abandonment, and so met a tragic and far too early end to their lives on earth.

Yet behold

the Wisdom of our Heavenly Father-Mother, who joins together lives burdened with sad trials, and thereby makes and blesses a new 93

family of heaven, that shall love and support and rejoice in one another. Where before there was sadness, and pain, now there is but joy and healing in united futures of happiness together that shall always be. Here, in these gardens, you and your loved ones shall one day meet.

I smile in tears of joy and look upon the happy scenes of families in harmony and love and cheer.

Our thanks and blessings to the

Heavenly Creator!

Pro-life Feminism Conscious Conception Jeannine Parvati Baker (1986)

Arising from the Great Cosmic Song are the growing voices of feminists who respect life in all its forms--even down to the "unplanned" pregnancies. For too long the spiritual communities of

the pagans and the yogis, the two philosophies I have studied for many years, have neglected to re-vision abortion.

Lingering still is the rationalization that an "unwanted" child somehow was worse than abortion--that a "fast death" was better than an entire lifetime of feeling "unwanted" (with a personal history filled with emotional and/or physical abuse from immature, irresponsible parents). It seems to me that abortion really is the ultimate child abuse. And death, whether it be fast or slow, is still death.

In fact, I have left particular "spiritual" communities because of this basic anti-life, pessimistic perspective on abortion. It seemed to me that on the most primal level, a person has much more to learn about spirituality by accepting WHAT-IS (i.e., a pregnancy) than by forcefully "re-cycling" the soul (i.e., terminating the baby). And besides, having an abortion undermines any and all possibilities of changing the culture's basic anti-life/anti-children attitude; much less a personal miracle, wherein the reluctant parents-to-be learn to accept their coming child.

Allow me first to first turn my attention to the Yoga community wherein it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies so that they can get on with the "real" spiritual work: i.e., a meditation 96

practice. Babies are sometimes seen as a distraction to a heroic spiritual practice.

I have six children and have been practicing yoga for many years. I have received overt as well as more subtle condemnation for my "attachment to fertility" from the yogi community. Somehow being a mother is not viewed as spiritual as being able to go on solitary meditation retreats. In Yoga there are two clear paths to liberation--the sadhu and the householder traditions. The path of the sadhu is to withdraw from the world, unravel our natural attachments and transcend ignorance/suffering by realizing the source of pain: attachment to the ephemeral. From the sadhu's perspective, being sexual and reproducing is seen as adding to the load of attachments.

The path I am on is the one of householder--of being in the world, and yet not of the world at the same time. In other words, the attachment to attachment is made conscious. Rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater, householders are challenged to watch our natural attachments to our children and let them be manifest in their fullest and purest sense. It is a goal to revision this attachment with eternal eyes, not just with temporal sight.

Having babies is known to be a great opportunity to learn surrender, service, ecstasy and other qualities of the spiritual life. However, this 97

path has generally not received as much "good press" as the well known path of the hermit/sadhu yogi. Ask the man on the street what his image is of a yogi and the response more likely than not will be "a solitary and limber man, meditating on his navel in the peace and quiet of the Himalayas."

I have watched many of my yogini sisters procure abortions knowing that it was breaking the primary vow of ahimsa (harmlessness) that yogis make. They justified their actions with a con-fusion philosophy of reincarnation and "free will." In other words, they said that the soul knew "on some level'" what it was getting by choosing incarnation into a woman who did not want to be a mother just yet. Therefore "on some level'" the fetus being aborted accepts being returned back into the cosmos. Some yoginis have even had the hubris to state that their unwanted fetus was a "very advanced soul" who only needed to be incarnated for a very short time to complete its karma here on this plane of existence. Adding insult to injury they go on to state that they have done it a service by providing the soul with a temporary body to "finish up." Maybe their unwanted baby was a samurai in a past life and by being aborted (by dilation and curettage) it is completing its own slicing karma (!) I am constantly amazed at the cleverness of the mind in justifying its own desires. Calling an aborted fetus a "high soul" not needing full deliverance on earth is an example of confused yoga. 98

Yoga clearly considers abortion killingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet guru after guru condones abortion through metaphysical belief in reincarnation. "We only go around a thousand times so may as well grab as much personal enlightenment as we can!" The most liberating belief in some ways is that this is our past lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with that philosophy we will do what is best for life now and not await our next chance, next lifetime.

Which brings me to the pagan community and our heritage as women healers, the Wicca tradition. Wicca is a wise womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one who knows how to work natural forces--one who understands women's mysteries and one who can do magic (i.e. work with images realizing that energy follows thought). Amongst the pagans many abortions do occur from a point of view that calls it "freedom." Janis Joplin sang, " Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" (reflecting perhaps a bit of the sadhu philosophy) yet my pagan sisters still perceive their ability to abort non-medically (through herbs, incantations, etc.) as some kind of statement of power and control over their lives. I challenge the true Wicca to display their "control" and "power" in not conceiving unwanted babies in the first place.

Babies teach us that "control" is not as important from the spiritual perspective as surrender. We all know how babies do not recognize "personal privacy" and tend to muck around with special things, like 99

the altar, and generally interfering with "personal pagan progress." How many high priestesses will lead a ritual with a babe in arms? No, here too, children are seen as intervening an ability to raise the cone of power and draw down the moon. To my way of thinking this is the height of irony--that drawing down the moon is perceived as difficult with a baby present! Pregnancy and birth and breastfeeding seem to draw the moon down into our very bodies!

It all comes down to what our ideas and beliefs are about "spirituality." Christian writers have well documented the inconsistency of abortion with Jesus' teachings. Christianism itself is claimed by the child archetype and so lends its dogma towards the literal protection of babies as well. "Suffer the little children to come unto me," Jesus said, yet abortion misreads the word suffer literally, not in the original meaning of "allow." However, most of the older spiritual traditions, and here paganism of the west and yoga of the east are our examples (as well as ethnic Judaism), have lagged behind by not consistently denouncing abortion. My intuition says that the confusion in the public mind about witches as evil, ugly women, rather than as healers/midwives comes from abortion practices. And though yoga is quite clearly against violence and killing, this is amended for "advanced" practitioners who have the boldness to believe they are somehow above personal karma.

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Part of this confusion stems from the archetype of the Terrible Mother and the Great/Good Mother. I have had pagans and yoginis alike tell me that motherhood archetypically contains both the loving as well as the rejecting mother and to be "whole" we need to express both. Abortion seen in that light is but an extension of the natural "weaning mother." This argument is absurd in my book. The source of confusion is calling killing "weaning" or a "natural process"-- dying is a natural process, killing other humans is not part of a natural or spiritual path.

Or at least killing doesn't have to be. I am aware that plenty of killing takes place in nature. Yet if we want to arise from the jungle consciousness (and survival of the fittest myth of social Darwinism) and bring "heaven" here to Earth, as is our New Age potential, we need to set an example to the other animals/organisms on our shared planet. How ironic it is that some yoginis will forego the eating of meat out of compassion for animals, yet this same sensitive compassion is not extended to unwanted babies. Pagans also believe in karma with the dictum that what one puts out comes back three times as hard! Yet somehow abortions are set apart from that universal law. Vegetarianism and recognition of the Golden Rule and karma are part of the spiritual path and both yogis and pagans base their practices on doing no harm. I am praying for the day when these practices will

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extend to abortion as well and all of us will act consistently with these noble beliefs.

The homebirth community grows in awareness that previous abortions negatively affect natural birth. When a mother labors in a birth after having an abortion previous to the present pregnancy, she often is doing the work to birth both babies at once â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the aborted one and the baby coming now. One exaggerated argument against gynecological/medical personnel being involved in natural birth is that in their busyness and routines they might forget in an early prenatal which procedure they are doing--an abortion or a prenatal exam. Unfortunately many midwives also counsel abortions, being wolves in sheep's clothing. For the most part, medically trained perinatal professionals have accrued a lot of harmful karma and it shows in their limited ability to assist in spontaneous births without their technological tools. If on the one hand you are terminating babies and on the other hand trying to welcome them, there might be some subtle confusion. I believe babies can sense who is truly harmless and trust their deliverance into the hands that consistently support life. No amount of sadhana (spiritual practice) or pagan powers can supersede abortion in our psychic closet: Especially if those past abortions are not healed (atoned, integrated and/or understood that what happened made sense at the time but to repeatedly abort is a waste of a painful lesson.) 102

Spirituality in its essence is reverence for life. It is not denying the physical for the spiritual. Rather it is seeing the spiritual in the material and ultimately unifying our vision so that there is no separation.

The means is the end. Having an abortion in order "to get my spiritual act together" is self-defeating (Self Defeating). One of the best ways to get oneself together is by helping someone else. Each action we do on the Earth sets the stage for all future actions. Having an abortion is the strongest metaphor for separateness and non-acceptance of the unity of life there is.

Let me close with a prayer for all the babies who are here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether they be convenient or not. May we be worthy of their trust. May we prepare ourselves fully for those babies whose faces we have yet to see rising from the ground. May we witness the end of our world's confusion about personal "freedom" and "independence" and come to celebrate our divine interdependence and oneness. In the God (Us) name, may all conscious beings come to accept fertility as the blessing it truly is and through all our babies, come to know who we really are.

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The Development of the Unborn Child Conversations with Walter Walter and Betty Shepherd (2010)

Walter has told me that, during its time in the womb, the Spirit looks after the development of the new child, at birth handing over its care to the mother and then gradually to the child’s own psyche. He has also told me that during life it is the mind, with its ideas, which makes all decisions for the individual. It occurs to me that I don’t really know what all this means.

“Walter — by what mechanism does the Spirit care for the growing 104

embryo? And exactly how does the psyche influence us during life? Is it consciously, or is it through the unconscious mind?”

“These are two different questions. Let’s take the first one first. What you mean is that as the Spirit cannot touch the material body, there must be some way in which it causes the body to react. Is that right? “Yes, exactly.”

“Well, as you know by now, all energy comes from the Spirit, which is Life itself. Cells have an inbuilt desire to divide and reproduce. You could say that this idea, or instinct, is in the mind of each cell. To a cell, this would be Love of Living. The Spirit can choose which cells divide and how, by giving energy to some and not to others. In this way it can encourage some cells to form — for instance — a nose, and prevent others from growing in an inappropriate place. That’s a sort of shorthand answer. Is it good enough?”

“Well, it does give me a general idea, but I have a couple of questions. You talk about the division of cells being discouraged by the Spirit if it is not required. Yet in the case of cancer, the cells are not prevented from over-reproducing; why is this?”

“Walter was talking about what happens before the birth of the child. He has told you that when the individual life on earth begins at birth, 105

control is given to the child’s own psyche, so that the Spirit is no longer in charge. We do not think that a child has ever been born with cancer. This develops later, when the psyche is in control, and wrong ideas in the psyche itself are the main cause of it.

What else did you want to know?”

“What about genetic faults? Can the Spirit not prevent these from developing?”

“No it can’t. These are in the DNA, and no amount of love with cure them.

We have been talking about the material body. As you know, your actions are controlled by ideas in the mind. No idea: no action. A person in a coma cannot act.

Where the mind is concerned, in the early stages of the embryo the Spirit will give love (energy) to those ideas it wants to encourage and not to others. At birth, as you already know, the Spirit abrogates its power of veto, and will give love to any ideas of the mind. An idea carries the tenderness of love which gives desire, and the energy of love, which fuels the action. The result of the action is then the light of love, which as we have said before can be all sorts of things. 106

Does that give you a good enough answer to your first question?”

“Yes. The Spirit controls both body and mind by the giving or withholding of love; that is, energy.”

“Good. Then we will go on to the second question. But first, Walter wants to tell you something about the unconscious mind. In depth psychology, this is considered to consist of two parts, the Personal Unconscious, whose contents have at one time been conscious, and which is unique to the individual, and the Collective Unconscious, which is shared with all mankind. This last is usually considered to be a treasure-house of power and important potential. It has even been considered to equate with the Mind of God, or with the collective mind of Mankind, containing all that has ever been known.

The idea is not true. It is consciousness which is important. And also the Personal Unconscious.”

“But unconscious ideas do exist! They affect mood — and, for that matter, behaviour!”

“Of course they do. And it is very difficult — sometimes impossible — to reach them and change them for the better. But they exist in the 107

Personal Unconscious.

The Collective Unconscious contains the experience gained during evolution through the lower forms of life, before we became human beings at all, and also from some of mankind’s very early experiences. That is valuable in that it teaches empathy — like the boy Arthur when, as a child, Merlin taught him what it is like to be a bird, and a fish, and other things. (You told Walter you had been reading the legend of King Arthur.) When we humans are able to understand other forms of life, it is because we have been through that stage ourselves and have, as it were, a picture in the Collective Unconscious mind with which to compare anything we find out.’

“Are you telling me there are no ideas in that mind, only pictures?” “Darling, we simply don’t know what is in it! People on earth have no way of finding out, since if they had conscious knowledge of it, it would not be unconscious! And in Heaven it doesn’t exist. All mind is conscious.”

We think the Collective Unconscious must contain pictures, as these seem to influence how some artists see the world. It is also a reasonable assumption, since there was very little of what we would call ‘thought’ in the early stages of evolution, and impressions taken by the growing mind would very likely be in picture form. 108

“What about the body processes, like digestion? These are unconscious.”

“Yes. It is possible that they are controlled by a part of the Unconscious Mind. But Walter doesn’t think so. He thinks — and so do many other spirits — that the person’s own Spirit, when it hands over to the psyche at birth, retains control of the body’s internal processes. This would be a wise thing to do. You can see how disastrous it could be if the conscious mind were able to interfere with these unconscious processes. People might try to change the shape and functions of their body according to fashions and the whim of the moment, or in order to excel at some sport! So Walter thinks that love is given where necessary by the individual Spirit.”

I said I had always thought the body was programmed to operate automatically. “Is the Spirit in control of the autonomic nervous system, then?”

“Both are probably true. No doubt the systems are set up to work on their own, but if things go wrong, the Spirit can intervene.”

“But even so,” I objected, “things do go wrong — with the digestion, for example.” 109

“The digestion, like other processes, has to work within the framework of the material body — the stomach, intestines, and so on. These are subject to illness, of course. And all illness is caused by wrong thoughts in the mind, usually beyond any control by the sufferer.

Are you any the wiser now?”

“I think so. . . You were talking about the unconscious.”

“Yes. This leaves the Collective Unconscious as a sort of ancestral record, and certainly no treasure-house of knowledge. It knows what snakes and fish and frogs know — but that is nothing compared to the knowledge of humans! All knowledge, and all power, needs to be conscious, because consciousness is life and reality. This is true right through the Universe, from God to the atom and beyond. The great reservoir of knowledge and power could be the conscious mind itself, if it better understood its own Spirit.

Your second question was: How does the psyche influence us through life on earth? You really already know the answer to this. The psyche is the seat of ideas, and we are controlled by our ideas. In fact, the mind is its ideas, and without ideas we could do nothing. 110

You might say, we would be nothing.

Are you answered?”

I said I thought I was. “But it’s a new idea that the conscious mind is — or could be — the treasure-house of knowledge and wisdom. I suppose the truth is that, as things are, it isn’t!”

“That is because not many people on earth are as yet living in their spiritual bodies, although these are with them on earth. The Spirit is conscious; if you are ever to live in spiritual bodies, and not only in the material and Etheric ones, it will be consciously. If Evil is to be defeated, it will be by consciously loving Good.”

He went on: “Walter has said that most people love God in their hearts. When they come to acknowledge this, when they love him with the reasoning mind as well as in the heart, they will no longer do any evil thing. Well — will they?”

“No. That’s quite true; they won’t.”

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have we got in the journey of its life on earth?”

“Walter would say it is a toddler; perhaps two years old.”

“Good heavens! Is that all? Then will we change altogether? I have sometimes wondered whether we would end up even a different shape, as the demands of life change.”

“Not a different shape. The material body is already exactly right for life on earth, and the head has grown larger to accommodate the larger brain. Nothing more is needed. It is the psyche which needs to develop. And will — unless disaster prevents it from doing so.”

“You know,” I said, “in spite of all you have said about the psyche, I still find it difficult to know to what degree it can be equated with the mind. I mean, what is the difference?”

“The psyche is the mind and non-material emotional centre of a living person. You are not alone — many psychologists would be hard put to tell you what they think it is! During life on earth, the psyche controls, and interacts with, the electro-magnetic (etheric) part of the living body. For this reason the materialists can think of it as material, and do. They are wrong; the psyche is a spirit. In books on psychology you will read that mechanical thoughts and feelings, 112

verging on sensation of the physical body, are attributed to the psyche. But in fact, thoughts and feelings controlled by the brain and nervous system, such as fear, hunger, lust or anger, are not a part of the psyche at all, but belong to the material body.

Some are evil, and some necessary on earth; all die with the body, or are shed in the afterlife as soon as possible. What continues after death is the true psyche — creative thought and emotional feeling.

People living on earth experience the psyche as intuition, empathy, and creative imagination, and also the will which powers them.”

“Not as ideas?”

“Certainly as ideas! All the three words which Walter has just given you are functions powered by the will (love) and giving rise to ideas. Walter has already explained that while ‘creative imagination’ sounds rather grand, in fact it is the most everyday thing in the world. Some people might think they haven’t got any — but they certainly have! Without it, they would not be able to plan the simplest day. Creative imagination accounts for all actions from getting out of bed in the morning to painting a masterpiece. Knowledge and empathy tell you how to do it, and intuition tells you the likely result.

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Every act is a creation, resulting in something that was not there before, and it involves imagination because in order to know whether it should be done you have to look into the future — perhaps only a minute hence, but that is still future; the result of your action cannot possibly be with you in the present, when you are still wondering how or whether to do it! The psyche includes the desire to create (to act), and the energy of that desire (that is, the tenderness and energy of love). These two contents of the psyche are everyday things, and account for every large or small action, every day of your life. If you did not see in imagination (and where else would you see it, for it is not there in the present) the boiling water in your kettle, you would not put it on the fire, and you would not get your cup of tea! The mere sight of a kettle is not enough to tell you that water can boil.

“Well, but you would never know unless someone told you! Or unless you were the first to discover it.”

“Quite right. The psyche also includes knowledge — which, when you think about it, consists of ideas about all sorts of things. The mind of the psyche consists of its ideas — remember? — and these may come from personal experience, from some other psyche, or from a source like a book, which is the same as getting it from another person. True knowledge is experience, the truth of which has been personally discovered, or is known by intuition. Facts which you 114

get second hand are not knowledge until they enter your own psyche as known truth, and when they do this they transform the psyche itself.

Your true self includes the truth you know: real knowledge and being are the same thing.

Some people are crammed with facts they have not experienced, and which have not therefore affected their psyche. These constitute a false personal being. Once experienced, some of these facts may enter the psyche and become part of the real person, but until they do they are useless, and may be harmful. ‘I always thought that marmalade was green!’ could be said by someone who has never seen or eaten marmalade. That wouldn’t matter too much. But what about: ‘I always thought all business people could be trusted,’ or ‘I always thought all red berries were edible.’? Both ideas might lead to disaster. But far worse — and not that uncommon: ‘I always thought all foreigners were dangerous, and should be killed.’”

A thought struck me. “I went wrong over an idea, didn’t I — that discarnate spirits had all knowledge and wisdom! If I hadn’t thought that, I wouldn’t have trusted the ancestor’ spirits, and got my fingers burned.”

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“Walter is glad you realise that! You see — you have gained knowledge, and it has entered into your being. Now, for the future, you know.

All people hold some ideas which are second-hand and possibly dangerous, and some people are so full of them that they have hardly any true identity at all. You may wonder how they survive in the world. Well — heaven looks after them, and a sore trial they are to their guardian spirits!”

“I suppose they usually get these ideas from their parents, or family, or from their peers?”

“Very often. On the other hand, most families pass down good ideas to their children, and only a few bad ones, so don’t blame them for all evil.”

“The trouble at present is that young people won’t listen to their elders, for good or ill.”

“Absolutely true. But Walter thinks this will pass. It must, if the human race is to survive.

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themselves and the rest of the world, and to do this they use some ideas which are true and some which are not, creating a facade behind which they can hide their weaknesses. With this shield they feel they cannot be attacked at their weakest points, as no one will know which they are. Psychologists have called this false person the Persona, after the masks worn by actors in Ancient Greece to identify the characters they were playing. (This is still done in Japanese theatre.) The Persona does not only hide weakness; it can present a brave show, and add greatly to the stature of the personality.

In some people it is very like the real person behind it; in others it is almost entirely false.”

I said I thought most people had a Persona to some degree, acquiring it during their teen years, or sometimes even earlier, “One of the tasks of growing up — often not finished until quite late in life is to get rid of the false hits, until the face you present to the world represents as exactly as possible the true nature behind the mask.

“I think I was seventy or more before I really achieved this. And, oh! the joy when one does — the sense of release!”

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So long as the mask is not too far from reality, and can be taken off at will, it is not too dangerous and can be helpful, as the world is a hard place and few people can face it without protection. But the Persona can grow on to the person so that it cannot be taken off, and then it prevents the proper growth of the psyche, leading to self-deception and loss of identity, for in the end the person no longer knows which is the Persona and which the real self.

“Like the Red Shoes which grew on to the little girl’s feet, in that most dreadful of fairy tales.”

“Yes. Fairy tales tell us the truths. The little girl was determined to have her own way — to wear the Red Shoes, and to dance in them. She saw this as the expression of her own self. Then she couldn’t take them off, and could not stop dancing, although she was dropping with fatigue.

At death, this inability to shed the Persona causes a terrible dilemma, because all falsehood in the personality must be discarded before the psyche can join the Spirit and progress through the heavens.”

“Before the ‘Golden bowl’ of the Lustral body can be ‘broken’?”

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“Well done! Yes, exactly.”

“When the Lustral body has been superseded, does the psyche, with the Spirit of Love, then live in the Astral body.”

“Yes. That is what it is called. What it means is that the feeling part of the spirit person is then all love, and is no longer contaminated with any bad feelings.”

I had to smile at Walter’s determination that I should not use names (of bodies or anything else) without fully understanding what those names represent. As Shakespeare pointed out, the name of a thing is not its identity, merely a convenient label.

“Walter, you have said that some things are more easily learned here on earth than in the afterlife. Is this one of them — discarding those parts of the Persona which are not true to yourself?”

“Yes, it is.

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is a spirit; the brain is part of the material body. The mind part of the psyche uses the brain as a tool; it no more is the brain than a carpenter is his adze. Damage to the brain damages, not the psyche, but the connection between the two.”

“That accounts for the feeling one gets with brain-damaged people that something within them understands only too well, but cannot communicate what they know and want.”

“Yes. It is a sad fact that this was not understood until recently. People were treated cruelly for what is no more than a mechanical malfunction.

Also, much of what people believe to be intelligence is intellect, and belongs to the electro-magnetic system of the brain — which works better in some people than in others, but is never a spiritual function. Electro-magnetism is not a spirit, it is material; in the language of heaven, the Etheric body.

If the psyche stretches out to learn all it can by personal experience, or by the exercise of its intuitive knowledge of truth (which is given by contact with the Spirit of Love), then it will grow and develop, and live in its own Lustral body.

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This is the object of our experience on Earth. To allow the psyche to reach its full potential. As Walter has told you, there are certain lessons which are learned more easily on earth (though sometimes not without suffering).”

“Is that why a hard life can in some ways be a blessing?”

“Yes, it is. Some lessons can be learned only with difficulty in the continuing life in the conditions of heaven, after the death of the material body. What you do not learn now, you will have to learn later, and it may be harder — that is the simple truth. We do not stop learning just because we have finished with the physical body. And just as well, for you will agree that no one is perfect at the end of life on earth.”

“Well, that’s true enough! But why is it harder to learn in the afterlife? I would have thought that it would be easier to take things in, without the pressures of living on earth, and when you are surrounded by loving and helpful spirits.”

“Dear love, you are making the all-too-human mistake of judging others by yourself! You are so anxious to learn that you will not find it hard. But many people don’t want to give up their wrong ideas! They will fight to keep them! All the love in heaven finds it hard to get 121

through to someone who is determined not to have it.

That’s why learning can be hard in the afterlife. It is painfully difficult to give up your most cherished ideas. But every soul learns in the end. The Church Father, Origen, taught that every person in the world, however evil, would be saved in the end, and this is the blessed truth. Thanks be to God!

“So Walter, can I summarize what you have told me.

On earth, the psyche is both thought and feeling, for the two cannot be separated. It is also the individual self — which presumably consists of thought and feeling?”

“Yes. And while on earth, temporarily of sensation.”

“So Descartes was not too far wrong when he said: ‘I think, therefore I am’?”

“Walter believes he put too much emphasis on thought and forgot feeling.”

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material.”

“Yes.”

“In the heavens, thought and feeling gradually become entirely loving; the psyche then joins with the individual Spirit to live in the Astral body. This — the ‘Pitcher’ of Ecclesiastes — is eventually superseded, and the psyche and Spirit, thought and love together in the Glorified body, return unto God who gave life to them.”

“Good. You have understood. The glorified person will retain personality — all the good things gained by each of us during life on Earth and in the heavens, and will return to God bearing this treasure.”

“Dare one say — by which God will be enriched?”

“That is the hope of the spirits of heaven.”

“What a wonderful thought!”

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A Family of the Heavens Visions of a New Age Robert Bayer (2013)

Upon the lower astral planes, there is a chasm that serves as one of the avenues to the hells far below. A number of years ago, I walked across this gorge of hell upon a White Bridge. And I was doing so 124

now though not with any great relish.

At this time I became very

focused and clear in mind, careful to not allow the slightest trace of fear or doubt enter my mind, no matter what I might encounter. For it is natural to assume that in these sundry, dark places of spirit, any weakness or negativity would only attract far worse. And so I walked upon the White Bridge spanning these depths. Fire and Back plumes cascaded upward, fashioned by the hate and fear of the denizens below. This time the bridge descended gracefully downward with me athwart it. I heard my unseen guardians caution me to stay upon the bridge at all times.

As I descended, the

delirium of screams rose in volume and intensity of emotion. Shadows of many shapes, faces of many kinds of anguish passed by but did not touch me nor did they seem aware of me. So I managed to stay outwardly calm, because there was no alternative. At last we reached the bottom of the pit, and at first I could see nothing. I wondered why I was even here. I became aware of the great vastness of the black plateau, whose ravines and caverns stretched for what seemed thousands of miles. Being alone, what purpose could I possibly serve by being here? My guides said quietly but reassuringly to watch and wait. And so I did and my spiritual eyes became gradually used to the dim light and I found I could see a bit ahead.

I heard next some pitiful weeping, and so walked a few

steps forward and found that there was a young girl, perhaps ten years old, who was on her hands and knees crying most bitterly. She 125

was so forlorn and in pain that my heart immediately went out to her and as it did, I found that I instantly knew by reading her spiritual vibrations, just what was the cause of her predicament.

Her parents

had never wanted a child and had resented everything extra parenting required, and especially being of meager resources, resented and over time, developed a hatred for this pleasant girl, who in their twisted view, was causing them so much extra work and financial costs. They constantly scolded and punished her, often quite sadistically. And so her heart and spirit were at last broken and one day she cast herself into a stone quarry and so ended her life. Being a suicide she had just arrived here and was hardly less anguished now than before the suicide. As I have stated before, my heart instantly went out to her and I made an inner pledge to the Creator of Universe at that moment, that this girl, I and my soul-mate would take on and love as our own daughter from this point in eternity onward, no matter what. For love begets love, of that I was certain. Also, having no children on earth of our own, it seemed even more fitting to do just this.

She rose up

almost immediately as the force of my parental love flowed to blend with her and greeted me quite hopefully. I felt something cosmic click in our destinies, and there was in that hell an exchange of smiles and greetings as cheerfully done as in a neighborhood park. Her name was Sally.

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Just then, a great Star Sphere of Light next appeared with my Eternal Soul-Mate, Joyce, within it, and quite an entrance of brilliance and angelic beauty she was. Both Sally and I were amazed but delighted and in seeing her welcoming smile, and the opening of her beckoning arms, we entered her craft.

All three of us then

embraced warmly and with deeply gladdening hearts. We were together, a family! At long last!

In hell now yet in the heavens so

happy, we knew now, for all time.

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The Cosmic Family Eternal Visions of a New Age Robert Bayer (2015) I am walking down a long corridor, very white and very bright, with gold framed works of art along its walls. Each of the pictures is marvelously vivid, beautiful, empowering to gaze at,

representing

various unique Symbols of Sacredness: Rose, Star, Jewel, Rainbow, Sunrise, Waterfall and many more. There is a Golden Door at the end of the corridor, glowing with a radiance of sparkling golden 128

particles. Above it is an arch inscribed with the words: <Love is Our Eternal Truth.> As I reach for the doorknob an angelic hand takes mine and pulls gently through to another dimension and realm. I am standing upon vast garden lawns that are roofed by a very beautiful transparent glass pyramidal dome, tessellated in many pleasing geometric shapes which fit together perfectly. The blue azure skies and golden sun are above all of this. The glass pyramid seems to be generating a very lovely positive energy, a blend of crystal, emerald and amethyst colors, with which it lightly gleams and radiates. I give these environmental details now but what really got my immediate attention were children soaring in ecstatic joy and laughter many meters above the garden. Down below them, their parents and other family members laughed with them, while encouraging and exchanging pleasantries with their kids. It all looks like a family-outing picnic of some special holiday. I feel their heavenly happiness together and rejoice for them. A guide standing next to me speaks: <These are the Families of The Chosen. Almost all of the children here have been adopted by childless couples since their passing over from the spirit world.

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parents who rejected or aborted them or who are now bound in dark hells for past evil acts where they shall someday learn to walk the spiritual path of ascension.

But it is the Will of the Creator that all

Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children shall find love in the heavens even if unloved in their mortal life. This is their new glad beginning of their very new, very real immortal lives.

Many workers and teachers of the heavens are

continuing to labor to bring together those whom are destined to be part of the Cosmic Family Eternal. Our reward is simply to see these families united in angelic love and jubilation, eternally so.> Looking all around me, I once again hear their laughter, see their smiles and happy play together, and feel their deep uplifting love for one another.

Yes, this is heaven. Yes, this is Eternal Love.

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