Last letters from the living dead manHatch, David Patterson (Spirit)
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Last letters from the living dead man
Hatch, David Patterson (Spirit)
Spirit writings; Spiritualism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Miscellanea
THERE are in the archives of the Masters of Wisdom certain data
relative to the past and future of this country which would make
interesting reading could they be published in the newspapers at this
time of national crisis.
America is aware of her mission of democracy; but she is not aware
of another mission equally potent--that of making the world safe for
spiritual culture. I do not mean religion, as the word is ordinarily
used; but I mean the culture of the spirit of love--such ideas of love
as the world has inadequately grasped from the teachings of Jesus
of Nazareth, grasped and let fall again because those ideas were too
warm to be comfortably held by hands cooled in the material labors of
selfishness.
America has laid up for herself in the regions beyond the physical a
debt--an obligation that is not by any means a treasure in heaven, but
which, when the debt is paid, may be a real spiritual treasure. I refer
to the armies of souls who once occupied this land as free owners, and
who were expelled and disinherited by the expanding civilization which
grew up in the place of wigwam and hunting-ground.
Those souls, many of them, desire to return. Many have already
returned, and unless some way is open for them to live again the free
life to which they were accustomed in the past, they will tend to
become a destructive force. They cannot be eliminated so easily now,
when they wear white bodies and claim citizenship with you. They are
scattered from shore to shore of this wide land. You can tell them
by their eagle eyes and their high cheek bones, by their free gait
and their love of freedom. They are hard to restrain in factory and
counting-house. They are clerks with a difference and laborers with a
dream. Many of them have found entrance into the sun-lighted world as
the children of European immigrants, for they find it easier to enter
the blood of certain other races than the blood of the Anglo-Saxon, for
all the Anglo-Saxon love of freedom.
A time may come when these now foreign-blooded primitive Americans will
instinctively rebel against the restraining influences that have held
them, when they will seek to live over again the old life of nature,
even though they have to take it as the kingdom of heaven is said to
have been taken.
There is coming a time when love will be needed in this land as it has
never been needed before, when “live and let live” must become a law as
well as a phrase. Those who long for freedom with Nature can be given
that freedom. Conditions may be hard in the great cities.
I am not trying to instill fear into the American heart. On the
contrary, I am trying to insure you against fear.
Not long could the wheels of civilization stop turning. But they could
stop--for a wink of the Cosmic Eye.
America is going to be saved, and saved in the hour of her greatest
danger. What will her greatest danger be? You must think that out for
yourself.
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