by Ernest L. Norman

One more point that should be strongly emphasized: hallucinations can be, and often are, disincarnate entities, or, in other words, dislocated or misplaced astral people, living in one of those nether worlds where, through frequency attunement, they try to live their own hallucinations through some unsuspecting earth person. Mental institutions are filled with such victims who believe they are ‘Josephine’, ‘Napoleon’, ‘George Washington’, etc., etc; they even adopt mannerisms associated with these historical figures. Yes even physical disturbances and diseases can be recreated or vicariously attuned and made manifest in the physical body; even death can be ‘relived’. This is indeed a sad ending for what might have otherwise become a very wonderful person—a person progressively instituted to creatively oscillate with the Infinite.

The warning here is obvious; likewise the importance of the knowledge contained in UN.AR.I.U.S. is even more strongly emphasized. It is a life preserver in a vast sea of probables and improbables, harmonies and inharmonies, vices and vicissitudes; yes, even the complexity of life itself as it is generally lived, becomes defeatist in purpose, useless in any attainment which always terminates in death; for such are the material worlds and which can be truly said to be, in respective comparison to the higher worlds, one of the many pits of hell. You, as a student, here at this time and place, have arrived at the turning point in the most serious crisis of your life. It will turn either downward or upward. It will move, just as do all other cyclic forms in the Infinite Cosmogony.

You, as a human, have that great preconceived difference from all other forms of life—that is; your ability to control your direction and your destiny. You do this either by lack of knowledge which will give you retrogressive motion or with knowledge which gives you the progressive motion; that is the determinant in every human life—the determinant which relegates you either to Heaven or hell.

In a final analysis, however, it should clearly be indicated that when you have reached that time in your life when you begin to work out your past lives, you should not resist the scenes or flashbacks which you may have. It is most necessary that they should reappear at the correct time or with the proper in-phase or out-of-phase motion, whereby the negative content is cancelled out, and they will no longer have a pernicious effect upon you. There will also occur at that moment, a more distinct polarization of that past lifetime experience with the Superconscious or the Higher Self. When such a flashback and workout occurs, it will have unmistakable symptoms and results. It will usually appear more vivid and real than even the present life about you. It will also cause great emotion and a flood of tears. Afterward you will have a wonderful sense of relief, a feeling of buoyancy or lightness; you will be able to look back and remember that past experience, who you were at the time, etc., without emotion and without recrimination, only a firm feeling that you’re glad it is over and it won’t happen again.

Thus it will have no more effect upon you, even if you should see yourself as some historical personage in the past. The self-importance of that realization will pass with the working out; you will not necessarily feel flattered; neither will you use this knowledge as a crutch to bolster up a constantly deflated ego. Instead, you will have a passive view of those past lifetimes and their experiences when they have been so correctly worked out. More specifically speaking, any person who comes back to work out past lifetimes, does so on the basis that it is a preconceived plan which he has worked out for himself while in the spiritual worlds, before he incarnated. Also, at that time he enlists the aid of the spiritual organization which is working with the earth plane during that period; thus it will be, he will again be born into the material world. He will live his life until the proper time when he meets the necessary catalyzing agencies in his earth plane life, and at the proper moment, the Advanced Personalities, Scientists, Doctors, Teachers, etc., will bring in the necessary instrumentation. They will psychokinetically project the necessary power and picture impulses which will enable the mortal mind to go back through time and space, so to speak, and see himself as he was and what he was doing; yes, even thousands of years ago. Yes, this is indeed different than hallucination; and after you have passed through one or more experiences in ‘working out’ the past, you will learn to recognize what has taken place—not the inception of some vague energy image, nor the self-constructed thought form body called the ‘alter ego’ by the psychologist, but rather each workout will be an unmistakable event in your life, most often followed by others in rapid succession, each one different but always with the same soul-cleansing action.

This is the true repentance and redemption, spoken of by the religionist, but never attained by any mortal man until he reaches that certain threshold which has been so often spoken of in the works of UN.AR.I.U.S.—that place where the individual has, in his spiritual life, caught glimpses of the vast interplay of the Supercosmic worlds. He has walked the streets in the Heavenly cities and has read his own akashic which he has written for himself in his past lifetimes; and often he has used the blood of his fellow man for the ink in his pen of life. So he will come to the threshold, to his time of repentance, not at the behest of some religious evangelist; neither will he grovel on the floor nor on the sawdust before the altar. His is a repentance reached and found when he compares the brilliance of the Infinite future with the sordid darkness of the material past. He will see the necessity for rebuilding himself, to reconstruct an entirely new kind of body in which he can live as he journeys into the Immortal future. He will see the glowing forms and faces of those who have already accomplished some of that purpose. And while he is still viewing these people, while living in his lower astral body, he will see them as radiant Angels, hardly knowing that these radiant Beings are also looking up to even higher worlds.

And so his quest for life begins; yet most properly from his last earth life, and after completing his plans and preparations, he will again seek the moldy fields of earth and from the cradle launch himself afresh into a world well known by himself, yet not recognized by eyes that feed afresh upon a world that’s filled with childish lore. And as the days pass he is molded more and more into the likeness of all the things he was and did in those long past days. He apes the forms and motions of his fellow man, but always has he thusly been so conformed; and so he meets the stranger, a friend he may have known upon some ‘Hill of Calvary’ or have seen him as a Light among the Heavenly hosts; and then from deep within, the hidden purpose of his life springs forth. Again he sees his past, not once but in a thousand times, and in a thousand different ways, the scenes of life come flooding back, the days and acts and deeds of yesteryears and long-forgotten lives, stand stark and clean and bright against the blackness of the doom they prophesy for those who live for them alone.

And as he weeps, the flooding Light of Infinite Life streams through the fabric of his soul; a Light that cleanses, a Power to purify all deeds, yet leaves in knowledge, the image of their transgression, a silent warning of the earthly life. But with this knowledge there comes a strength, a will and purpose, and the understanding lives; and powered with this knowledge, this soul will reconstruct himself, and from the sordid past, becomes a radiant thing, its garment white against the Infinite Light; it seeks and finds a Heavenly Host.

Excerpt from Tempus Procedium

See Part I here.