by Ernest L. Norman
Now friends, it is very obvious to you, that to try to give you even a small part of a thoroughly understandable concept of astrophysics, of our flight into the astral and celestial dimensions in one lesson, is of course a physical impossibility. Enough information has been given during the previous part of the lesson on which a person could devote several thousand years for study and comprehension. However, it is hoped that by now, you will have some idea of what Jesus meant when He said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”
A point which I would like to clear up a little more for you is our relationship to the astral worlds, what they are and what we are when we arrive in these worlds. As I said before, we do not assume or contact anything in our evolution which is foreign to our nature, whether we are in the astral or in the terrestrial plane, for all of the factors are combined within our psychic selves and within our psychic intellects. Whether we are bricklayers, carpenters, clerks, sailors, or whatever profession or trade that we follow on this earth, we shall find similar and compatible astral worlds and dimensions wherein we may again take up our trade and use our craft.
As was pointed out last week when Charlie the amoeba found himself in the spiritual world, he was still an amoeba but he was now in contact with certain spiritual forces and certain advantages could be obtained from these spiritual forces which he did not have in terrestrial dimensions as an amoeba. We also shall find these same advantages in the Spiritual nature. Guidance, relationship, inspiration from these different centers of UN.AR.I.U.S. are much more strongly manifested in our activities on the higher planes.
When we kick the frame, or die, we do not just cease to be, or go into some suspended state of animation but according to our development, we are most likely to find ourselves in a world which is the sum and total of our knowledge and beliefs of creation. The person who has no knowledge other than his lustful earth life will be in some sort of a purgatory; all things of which he knows about are now in a dislocated, unrelated and nonfunctional disarray. So he will go through an infernal nightmare until he succeeds in getting back into the earth world.
To those however, who possess some knowledge and have been previously conditioned in other in-between spirit lives, may find themselves in a world which may, in many respects, be quite similar to their earth worlds. The differences will be that when we awaken and are aware of our spiritual eyes, the energy forms which surround us will be somewhat different. Instead of these so-called solid atomic structures surrounding us in this earth dimension, we shall have energy forms and relationships in these astral worlds which will be vastly different. There the walls of our homes will be constructed of a radiant glowing energy substance. We shall learn, just as others do, in our progression through those different astral dimensions, of which there are many, just how to take and use this universal energy. This universal energy is revolving and involving and continuously infusing itself around us, and just as we breathe oxygen in the terrestrial dimensions, so we “breathe” the radiant energy in the astral dimensions. We shall begin to learn other uses of this energy. Instead of sitting down to a machine with a few yards of cloth to make a dress, or instead of going out and laying the brick for a new house or plastering the walls, there we learn to construct these things from the radiant energies through the directive forces of our minds. We actually learn to clothe, house and feed ourselves from these radiant energy sources through our minds. This process is a highly-developed form of psychokinesis.
Once Barney Oldfield, in one of his earlier racing days, (as an example of psychokinesis), was finishing an auto race and felt as though some part was breaking in the car. So by sheer will-power, he held the mechanism together and won the race. Immediately on crossing the finish line, the part broke in two. I was very interested in this story and at a later date came the opportunity to try it myself.
There is a part known as a voltage regulator in my car which maintains a certain balance of charging rate between the generator and the battery. Now it is a very delicately-balanced little mechanism and it came to the point a few years ago when it was no longer functioning or serviceable. Being interested in the electronic field, I would not give it up and refused to let it go. After two weeks of unsuccessful tinkering, I climbed behind the wheel and extended the mind kinetic force to the regulator. It took off and worked continuously for two years hence. You can call it coincidence if you care to, but there have been numerous similar instances.
We shall learn to use these forces directively in the astral worlds much more than we do now. The proper application of the principles of psychokinetics, or the extension of the mind forces, not only as they are unified with our higher and superconscious self, but also as they become unified with certain astral and celestial forces, may often determine the difference between life and death. There have been many instances, and no doubt many of you have had similar experiences in which it was the momentary project of these inward mind forces which actually prevented some accident.
Excerpt from The Infinite Concept of Cosmic Creation
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