By Dana Howard

High up in the pine-treed cliffs of Pinecove, California, Diane found me again. The beautiful late summer’s morning seemed to put new life into the birds’ sweet song. Skinny and Janie, two play-loving squirrels were scolding for their breakfast for it was past their “peanut time”. These little grey playsters were more like tree spirits than lively animals. How completely they had come to rely on humans for their daily repast!

There was a slight chill in the air, but it was clean and fresh and redolent with the scents form the mountain’s yellow pine. I thought I heard her, whispering in my ear.

“Good morning, Child of Earth . . . let us sit together again for the days are shortening and there is so much to be said.”

I could not see her with my mortal eyes, but I greeted her with a smile. I had now learned how to be tranquil when she appeared.

Diane On Thoughts

“Your earth,” she began, “is swimming in a sea of negation. Negative thinking has come out of the depths of time, and earthman is moored to tradition’s negative guillotine. For ages, mass humanity has been steeped in negative thoughts. Wrong thinking has held him captive in the catacombs of suffering. He has lived in a world of despairing hopes because he has not tried to burst the shell of ignorance. The thoughts earthman has so carelessly planted, have ripened on his tree of life.

“Child of Earth, to think error is to breed error. “Thought” is more powerful than your armies, for if it were not for wrong thinking there would be no need for armies.

“The world man abhors he has himself created through wrong thinking. But it can be quickly re-made when he replaces thoughts of error with thoughts of truth. Remember, my daughter, behind all things visible are the molds of thought. All visible manifestation emanates from these thought patterns. In the realm of thought all things are created whether for good or for evil. If earthman so wills he can change from a being of decaying flesh to a healthy vital individual by the power of thought alone. He can likewise change from a state of impoverishment to a rich and abundant life. Throughout these eons of time earthman has been bound to the lower prisons by the bonds of his erroneous thinking.

“If it were not for the scattered few true thinkers, my daughter, your world would soon wither and die. The time is coming when you too will have the power over circumstances through thought. You will be able to mold the primordial substances into solids by means of thought alone. It has been our great privilege to have direct and semi-direct creation for many long years. The time is close at hand when we will be able to bring all manifestation through the mental planes.

“Thought is creative, my daughter. Thoughts are the healing blocks. Thoughts are the building blocks. The power of thought is all-powerful.

“In your world there is a saying: ‘murder will out’. A murderer is caught not so much by clever police tracking, but the murderer is usually trapped by his own thoughts. He is discovered because the poignancy of the ‘thought stuff’ has registered in the universal ethers.

“How long did the secret of your atom bomb remain a secret? Not long as you well know. Likewise through thought, there is nothing impossible of accomplishment. Where one mind speaks to another—where there is attunement and mutual interest, there is also the wonder-working power of thought. Through thought every desired mind pattern is created into form.

“Your earth scientists are today trying every sort of magic in an attempt to short-circuit thinking. We Venusians need no scientific precision instruments for having learned how to keep our minds clear, sharp, and clean, we carry our mind patterns to their own fulfillment.

“Thought is free. It can go anywhere, at any time. Thought can travel through space. It can travel with the speed of light. Thought can function one plane to another. That is why our beneficent influence can be sent to any part of the universe. World domains are no barriers to thought. When earthlings learn how to control and manipulate thought, they will go straight because they will think straight. Then only can earthlings get real enlightenment and wisdom.

“Clear, concise thinking should be made a habit—an emotionally controlled habit. Constructive thoughts only should be permitted to sink into the subconscious mind. The mind should be cleared of all thought debris before embarking on slumber. Negative and destructive thoughts sink deep into the subconscious channels there to bring forth distorted manifestations.

“The under-structure of our Venusian educational system is the teaching of constructive thinking. We feed the mind creative values. We do not deal in memory courses. Young minds in the formative stage need not be impressed with the letter of events. A properly trained mind can of its own accord tune in on these events at any time. Intuitional knowledge is true knowledge. In our educational work we stress finer and finer grades of thinking for in the realm of thought is to be found the alpha and omega of existence.

“Pure perception is simplicity itself once the mind is properly trained. Dimensions in human understanding are increased by the power of thought. Thoughts, negative or positive, cut deep grooves into the consciousness. If an unwanted thought is put there it should be replaced with a more powerful, fresh creation.

“Child of Earth—extended vision with us means merely opening up the doors of the mind. We deem it far more important to keep our mental house clean than our physical abode. Your fastidious earth-mother would blush with shame could she but view the cluttered condition of her invisible house. She would be mortified at the disorder she finds there.

“Unwanted thought forms can be dissolved and eliminated by creating more powerful thought forms to take their place. This rule rigidly and properly applied is the solution to many problems. We of the higher planets pay tribute to your pioneer souls, who in their feeble way are trying to bring enlightenment to earth’s children. Superior knowledge has been reserved for the few, but in recent years your more adventuresome universities have brought ‘studies in thought’ to the more advanced minds. This is a major step toward achievement. It will be through the channels of thought that an empire of peace will one day reign upon your earth.

“When the principles of thought can be applied to the task of living, illness as you know it on earth will disappear. You will never again know poverty with its contingent sorrows. Opportunities will be everywhere present. You will know the mind as a sacred shrine, the door between that which you know and that which is desired to be known.

“In the depths of the human mind you will find the answer to every problem. Today you have the greatest opportunity in all your long histories for in any transition period there is always cosmic assistance.

“Think it over well, my daughter, for as one of your sages once said: ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite‘.

“Again I go, leaving with you the blessing of Venus. And—I will come again!”

Excerpt from Diane – She Came From Venus