All over the world in which you live, there are untold thousands and millions of human beings, not only those that are now here, but those that have come many times in the past before – and those that will come in whatever future that lies ahead. It is a great struggling mass, a seething cauldron of worry, worry, worry; blindness, indifference, cruelty, fear, with a little, here and there, of light and understanding flickering in the darkness of it all.
Love, my friends, is the great initiation, the great initiation in the Order, the Great Mystical Order, of which all mankind is a member, called the White Brotherhood. I know you have heard of the White Brotherhood many times in the past. People talk of the White Brotherhood as though it were something they did not have any attachment to but everyone has a direct membership in it. For this White Brotherhood is meaning the Brotherhood of the Light, the Light out of which you and I have come, into which we will return in due course. But, never will we return to it until we have learned our personal lessons. Thus you must give up a feeling of hopelessness, of insecurity and the uselessness of it all; for there is no uselessness. No matter how many times we may have to return to the physical world, let us try to recall each time that it is another step, another degree in the great initiation, the great Order of the Light.
Now, opinions are beautiful things. How else can man come to learn except by making judgments, by making inferences and confirming actions that are going on in the seeming extraneous world? And, as you as an individual find it to be, that*s the way it is; that is the truth. That is the last word in truth for you. And when another comes to you or you go to them, it is your duty to listen, to listen in love, in the will to understand. And we cannot do that if we are simply listening and impatiently waiting until the other gets through so we can come right in and show them how clever we are. More than they, we are going to shine the light of our wisdom in their eyes. Yes, we are going to wake them up to our Light, our great wisdom. This is the fatal mistake. For if your light does happen to be greater or brighter than theirs, you will blind them if you shine it directly in their eyes. You will put them back to sleep in fear because they cannot comprehend your better understanding, your brighter light. So let us cut our light as we move around among our fellow man.
Why, why all this caution and careful approach? Because we are dealing with ourselves; you are me. How am I going to treat myself? How do I want to be treated? If I attack you violently it is because I make a very definite sign that I hope you will attack me violently. It is my masochistic nature, that will cause me to attack you in the hopes that you will attack me. When I approach you with love, I am hoping that you will approach me with love. Because I feel love. When I feel violent, I am asking you for violence when I approach you with it. But you see, my friends, if we do not know this we walk blindly into all manner of difficulty. If all those who are acting as teachers and helpers would put out the words, “Let us come together so that we can exchange our views.” The teachers are carrying the Light and if they become offended with one another; if the teachers fight among themselves, what can we expect from the pupils? My friends, in the years we have been using this man’s body to speak to people still in the physical world, I would, if I was capable of emotional attachments, I would be sorry to tell you, I would be pained to tell you that in all these years I have found this condition among teachers — teachers! Proclaimers of the Truth. Upholders of the Light.
Where are we in sanity? Everybody is criticizing everybody else. The simple answer is to stop. To put your ego in the back. To set aside your feelings of personality. You are not looking for personality, you are looking for truth. If there are material scientific minds desiring to get together, they know there is a material problem to be solved. But if their personality, their ego is all wrapped up in emotional jealousy and feelings of frustration; feeling that what they know is not really the truth, that somebody is going to belittle them if they say something, how much do you think you would have achieved today in your matter world? This condition does not exist in the scientific world nearly as much – a little – but not nearly as much as among the teachers of philosophy, metaphysics and occultism. But as I said before, if I was emotional I would become attached to all this and I would feel very violent about it, I would froth a little bit at the mouth. I would cause the blood pressure to go way up here and do what you Americans call, “Blow the top”, but you see, my friends, it does not matter. Because in the scheme of existence, the scheme of your own being, all of it will stop. It does not need my raving about it. It does not need any violent approach from me. No criticism, unless constructive Ideas can be interwoven. And I have only one constructive idea, and I speak to the teachers. What is it? Simple! To understand the meaning of love. It is the basis of freedom my friends, for it means itself, complete understanding.
If I come to you as Yada, thinking I am a thing called Yada, what the ultimate nature of this something called me is, I have no way of putting into words. Perhaps you do. I don’t know. How are you going to know what, not who, because I am not who, or neither are you who (that is a good one – youhoo!) I am what, but what Is the what of me? In the Christian teachings I would perhaps be what is called a spirit – that is, when they look upon me in a more favorable way. A spirit or a soul. Not so favorable: an imp of darkness. An emissary of Satan. Poor Satan! In other teachings I am an astral shell. In other teachings I am a spook, a ghost, a shade – a shade, but no one has pulled me down yet! How do you like my humor? This is because I have been with you American people so much now. I have caught to your wit.
It was not too long ago that I had a talk with my very helpful “mid-wife”, Dr. Mead Layne, the man who gave us voice again to your world. He said to me, “Yada, I do not want to seem foolish or facetious, but we live in a world where man likes to make experiments,” and I think this is very good. How else are we going to learn? And he said to me, “we have a machine in my world that is called a radar and I’m going to tell you how this works.” He said, “I am thinking to get one and perhaps it might be that I could ‘pick you up'”. And I said to him, “What will this do for me?” He said, “This would make you a bip.” This is beautiful! This is something I have never been before. And so I will give myself to being a bip if it is possible. For undoubtedly I have been a bip many times in the past. When people call me these various things, I agree with them for I have been all of them.
My friends, life is your personal initiation into the light; it should be felt as a thing of grandeur. Now I know some of you will think that you, Yada, can say that because you are out of the physical world. You do not have our problems to deal with. You do not have the physical body to contend with. But I did. I know what it is. I have suffered untold agonies in a physical structure. I have also suffered untold Joys in it. But when I got to understand the laws of life, I saw the Joy of agony. I can see, in other words, what you Americans would call the “trick of it”. It is a trick. And you are the magician. But you are playing “slight of hand” with yourselves. Even as I did. It is necessary to come to this realization. One needs a very heavy dose of patience, knowing within themselves, if they can know nothing else, that even this will pass.
A great King in the past history of your world had this engraved in gold upon a scepter he carried. “Even this shall pass”. Who was that? I will not tell you who it was. Why should a spook tell you. It Is not important that you know who, merely what he said. To tell the thing is important, but to tell the source is not necessary. It is not, for instance, important for you to know anything about Yada, for I am not Yada. Were I to give you the name of the King it would not be the King. Do you understand, my friends? How am I not Yada? Because I have had many, many other tags put upon me when I was here before. I use the title, the label, Yada, as something more convenient. It is easy to remember. And knowing how difficult it is for the human mind to remember very much, we must take the simple things. You in your world, you are living in such complicated steps, it is a marvel that you remember anything. Not that you forget so much.
It is said that your scientists and medical men after great effort; much study of created conditions in your environment have caused the human being to live a few years longer than he did fifty or seventy-five years ago. How much longer? I do believe the so-called average age for making the change is 67. And this earth from its point of concept, from its very beginning is 7.25 billion years! 67! You, the human body, should continue to function in good order for 250 years. There is no reason, barring alleged accidents, no reason for you to die at that age. Nor any other age – if you know how. But there is the trick. You already know that this is a chemical body. You know that in order to keep it in balance you must put the proper chemical compositions in it. Is that not so? But you cannot stop there, because chemical compositions are not something in themselves. In their inner nature, they are the essence of mind substance or consciousness. You may eat the best of foods, the most balanced, the most nutritious, if this here (head) is uncontrolled, you will turn those nutritional substances, those properly balanced chemicals, into unbalanced chemicals. You will eventually cause a breakdown in the magnetic field that holds the cellular structure together, the whole body. It will cause a more rapid dissipation of the vital forces that hold the cells together. This is the origin of all diseases. Not in chemistry per se, in consciousness per se.
You built this physical structure, my friends, you do not think you are going to escape the responsibility of it by blaming the creation of it on a God, eh? You are He. You built it. Now I know there are a great many people, when I say you are God, become upset. Let us leave the word God out. Because there are many gods. The word god is meaning nothing – spelled backward it means dog. My friends, Creator, Creator, that is meaning something. And you are It. But if you do not comprehend this you will not act like it. How is it, to act like the Creator? In humility, in love, in understanding; to be of service to your fellow man. It is simple. But many people, when you use the word God and say, “you are He”, they feel insecure within. For many thousands of years the word God has meant fear. People have been taught to fear God, fear his violent and wrathful nature. “You are a squirming little worm crawling on a moat in the vastness of things. You God – Ha! Such a fantasy!” My friends, it will remain a fantasy if you do not do something about it. And what can you do about it? You seek to know consciously if you are not. This is your work. This is the initiation. But if you are in fear and trembling, you will be a worm; and that is where you belong, crawling on the ground. But to feel that you are the Creator, is to find within yourself a feeling of grandeur. A feeling of responsibility for your acts. You will not longer wait for someone to take the burden of your mistakes upon their shoulders. You will no longer be waiting for the coming of a Christ or a Buddha or a Zoroaster, for you will know you are He. The resurrection is here.
What does it take to teach you this? Is it necessary to build temples of brick, steel and stone, wood? It is useless, it is a vanity, a vanity born out of our blindness. This is the living temple of the living God, or Creator (the body). We do it honor by treating it naturally. According to your measure, your measure, and all around this room and around the world. Each and every one of you are distinctly different. And yet you have that divine quality of oneness within you. My friends, I do not come to speak to you from the world of the dead, but from the world of the living. You do not die. That is a part of the great illusion, the illusionary world in which you live. Now, where lies reality? Right here, in the eternal nowness of my being, I find all the reality there is. This alone should tell us waiting is a vanity – all it does is to enable us to decay. Stagnate. Many people complain because they are what you call in your English language – fat. Fatness of the body can be corrected, but when you get fatness of mind, it is taking much hard work to cut through the layers of fatty tissues in the mind to find yourself again.
I will stop talking now because while I like to hear my voice – I did not come for that principal reason. I want to hear yours. Why – so I can compare it with mine and realize how much better mine is than yours. Perhaps! Yes, my friends, we do love ourselves, but we haven’t been taught to love ourselves properly. Then the love becomes a vanity, a boastfulness, a feeling of self-aggrandizement. But as we come to properly understand, humility comes and we work in the Joy of life knowing that we are walking in the light. I listen to you please!
“Will you incarnate again sometime?” asked a guest.
I would like to say something in that direction concerning myself, but — it is not modesty that forbids me, oh no, for modesty is a vanity. If you say to me, “You are a wonderful person,” I am going to bow and thank you and appreciate that you are so smart as to see that. But there are other reasons that restrict me – if you do not mind. I will talk about reincarnation, if you are interested. But for myself – I will talk about pieces of myself called you – it is more interesting.
“What is the average length of time between so-called death and re-embodiment?” asked another guest.
Is there any dynamite around here? For what I am going to say will be like lighting the fuse. My friends, I do not want to intrude on what you feel is true. I do not have any desire to change your opinions, your ideas, your truths. My truths are not any greater than your truths. My truths are what I have gathered from my personal experiences called living. If you will accept my truth on those grounds, not comparing them with what you are being taught by somebody else, or what you feel personally to be so, merely looking at them to see if you can use them, if they make reason to you, if they have logic to you. I have said many times and I will say it again — I do not say anything. I make sounds, I make noises, you, according to your environment, take these noises and form them into thoughts, ideas which you may be able to use to your advantage, your Joy, your pleasure, or may not. I do not know. On those grounds I will talk about that.
Q: Some teachers say that you reincarnate within 72 hours after passing out of the body. I’d like your opinion, Yada.”
My friends, listen closely please. Not that it is going to be of any staggering importance; I’m not going to give you staggering revelations. The only things that stagger us is the thing that we permit to, emotionally. Let us observe with emotional detachment. From my experiences, the individual returns to the earth by his own desire, wrought out of his own needs to express himself in certain environments in order to get a better understanding of life. Now, you may go from here today, tomorrow, 10 years from now, a thousand years from now, if you could stay in the body that long. But, you may return in anything from one day to over or beyond 1,000, 10,000 years from now. 10,000 years from now! Why not? There is a little confusion in some of our thinking. We are trying to put conscious activity with what is called time. The element of time. My friends, there is no such thing as an element of time, as an entity extraneous from yourself. It is not an extraneous condition, time, as space, is a state of your own consciousness, it is without the property of measurement. It depends entirely upon the feelings of that individual, the necessity he finds within himself and no more. Do not write this down as the last word in truth, please. If you doubt what I am saying, and I hope you do, then you will be doing what you should do – going in every direction to seek the truth of it. I am not your last, nor your first, nor your middle word in authority. I am only my own authority. And so should you be. If you have taken unto yourself a teacher, it is because you need one – we all need one. Pay attention to what he or she is saying. Make note of it in your consciousness. Dwell upon it. Take it into the silence. Take it into the loneliness of your own being. And then take it all over to various other parts. Then come back to your teacher and, no matter what you have come to in conclusions in yourself, say to him or to her, “Honored one, I am deeply grateful to you for these teachings.”
You here in the Western half of the world have not been taught to honor yourselves, how are you going to honor another? You have been listening from the temples to the talks of love, but nobody in your Country seems to know very much about what it is meaning. You go to the temples, then go home from the temples where you are forgetting everything you were taught; fighting among yourselves, being depressed, being anxious, being all stirred inside. For 2,000 years you have been taught Christianity. Have you? No! You have been taught churchianity. How could you get anything from that? The true mystical Christian teachings you have never gotten, unless you have personally sought for it yourself outside of the temples. And this is how it should be. Truth lies not in the temples, it lies in your temple.
To return to the term called reincarnation. I bring you this thought – One has many, many physical experiences or reimbodiments, but there is, from my understanding, 66 mystical rebirths. But remember my friends, I am speaking in mystical terms. The 66 mystical meanings, the mystical, meaning that you come back in one of these times with knowledge of having the light, of being aware of your own being – of your own divine nature. Consciously mindful of the Christhood within. This is what you would call, if one returned to your earth knowing a great deal of music for instance, you would call him a musical genius. And so with spiritual pursuits, you could be in a period, that expression, at that so-called period of time, a genius in understanding of life. This does not mean that you would be a Master. This does not mean that you would be an Avatar. This does not mean that you would become the anointed one in that lifetime. It simply means that you have come back in this period of time with a great deal of inner understanding. You go away again and when you return the next time you may not have it at all. You will have no conscious awareness of it. It will be there, but the sereneness of it is not in what you would call space-time. It is in consciousness. Do you want to prove whether it is so? There are many forms of control of another’s mind. Why is this possible? It is because there is no such thing as another’s mind. There is only my mind. Capital “M”. My in your English word – My mind. And I am only where my consciousness is. No place else, for there is no place else. I come back to learn. Perhaps in this higher grade of understanding, in the attainment of it there were yet certain things on the grades below that I had passed beyond because I did not need to know them at that time. Now I can better comprehend them, so I come back in the next lifetime prepared to listen more closely to that.
My friends, if this makes reason to you, try to work with It. Do not try to put it on somebody else and do not go away from here and say-if you accept it- “Oh I heard a great one say – is called Yada – he is telling me these things.” No, say you said it. Because if you accept them, it is because you know it – my words are only causing a reawakening, stimulation of what is called “the recall mind”. I am using a very lot of English words – I must use these – I have no other choice. But such terminology – there is no concreteness of it, so you be very careful about words. Do you want to say something concerning what I have been saying?
“Then there is no creative law which determines any particular space of time relative to one’s being reincarnated?” inquired a guest.
No, sir, according to my understanding. None at all, except the inner need for that individual to express, and, in that particular kind of expression, learn what it is necessary for him or her to learn. Would you care to deny me? Would you care to say, “no”, I am coming to learn too – eh? Perhaps what you say will give me awakening. You may drop a gem of wisdom for me, even though you may not be aware that you are – I come up back of you and grab it, if I am awake. But, if I am afraid of you, if I distrust you, if I believe that what you are teaching is foolish and silly and without any meaning, then I will not be alert and you will be strewing gems all over the place and I would be going around hungry and a pauper, because of my stupidity and my blindness. So you give me gems please, eh?
“Have you a formula for defatting the brain to attain to 250 years? That’s a good one isn’t it?”
That is a good one, and it will be a better one if I can answer it! All that I have been saying. But you may cast out all of the sounds that I have been making and try to hold on to one or two, which is this: Not to have tolerance – tolerance means you can barely understand and agree with another. You can barely stand what they believe. This is tolerance. But to understand, to love, this is the first step; but you cannot do this unless you take the real first step – and what is that? Emotional control. Emotional detachment. This is necessary my friends. If you, without this, should take on what is called Yoga practices, you start taking conscious control of the breath. You start to cause this breath to consciously work upon the Kundalini forces at the base of the spine. You start to stir that force or that “snake” into action. You bring it up to here (head) feeling that you are going to get samadi. You’ll get samadi – and samadi will get you. Because why? Because without this emotional control, all of the inner, the so-called inner things that lie in the so-called unconscious self will come rushing to the surface when you try to go into these higher states of consciousness, without being prepared. All of the sufferings of past lifetimes as well as this one, will appear as monsters to you. They will attack you. My friends, you see how much it is necessary for emotional control?