Letters from a living dead manHatch, David Patterson (Spirit)
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Letters from a living dead man
Hatch, David Patterson (Spirit)
Spirit writings; Spiritualism
I shall try to tell you--or some of you--when and about where to look
for me again. Oh, don’t be startled! It will not be for some time yet.
An early date would necessitate hurry, and I do not wish to hurry.
I could probably force the coming back, but that would be unwise,
for I should then come back with less power than I want. Action and
reaction being opposite and equal, and the unit, or ego, being able
to generate only so much energy in a given time, it is better for me
to rest in this condition of light matter until I have accumulated
energy enough to come back with power. I shall not do, however, as many
souls do; they stay out here until they are as tired of this world as
they formerly were tired of the earth, and then are driven back half
unconsciously by the irresistible force of the tide of rhythm. I want
to guide that rhythm.
Since I have been here one man whom I know has gone back to the earth.
He was about ready to go when I first found him. The strange part of it
was that he himself did not understand his condition. He complained of
being tired of things and of wanting to rest much. That was probably
a natural instinct for rest, in preparation for the supreme effort of
opening the doors of matter again. It is easy to come out here, but it
requires some effort to go _from_ this world into yours.
I know where that soul is now, for the Teacher told me. I had spoken
to the Teacher about him, but he already knew of his existence. It was
rather strange, for the man was one in whom I should have fancied that
the Teacher would have taken little interest. But one never knows.
Perhaps in his next life he may really begin to study the philosophy
which _they_ teach.
But I was speaking of the larger leisure out here. I wish you could
arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want
you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as
valuable as the active conditions. It is when you are passive that
we can reach you. When your mind and body are always occupied, it is
difficult to impress you with any message of the soul. Find a little
more time each day for doing nothing at all. It is good to do nothing
sometimes; then the semi-conscious parts of your mind can work. They
can remind you that there is an inner life; for the inner life that
is “capable” to you on earth is really the point of contact with the
world in which we live.
I have said that the two worlds touch, and they touch through the
inner. You go in to come out. It is a paradox, and paradoxes conceal
great truths. Contradictions are not truths, but a paradox is not a
contradiction.
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