The meaning of purpose and its application was stated many times in many
ways. One of the most characteristic of these expressions came from a
famous humorist.
“There are things brewing here and among you there,” he said, “that are
going to make the wars of the tribes of Hohenzollern, Hapsburg and
Mephisto look like a village prayer meeting. The carnage of Verdun and
Mons and the whole show since his little nibs was assassinated is a
picayune proposition compared to the losses of time, purpose, force and
saving grace that we’re all going to feel, if we can’t wake you people up
to pull together against the devil’s crew.”
Some one asked whether a husband and wife, not too congenial in this
life, were together there, and was told that he was “flocking with birds
of his own feather,” and that she had “peacefully and tranquilly found
her own.” Another member of this family group was with neither of the
others, it was said, “because she found her very own, for which they were
only a substitute.”
“Have you seen Jim? Is there any feeling about his wife’s marrying
again?” was a question which will interest many persons.
“Jim is here and very happy. He has no resentment, and wishes Alice to be
happy. They are both of the forces of progress, but not of just the same
purpose. They harmonize, but do not touch.”
Again, some one asked whether one party to an uncongenial marriage
regretted the other’s rejoining him so soon.
“She didn’t,” was the reply. “He hasn’t seen her yet, and won’t. He is
willing to work with her purpose, but not eager to touch her force.”
“What about Laura?” a woman asked.
“She is coming to us soon, but do not be afraid, dear. She will be
tenderly met and guided, and will be much nearer you all, much happier
and more helpful, than she is now. Never grieve again for death. It is
birth, and so happy.”
Within a few weeks, this came to pass.
When I asked Mary K. for a message for a mother bereaved by war, she
said: “Tell her we will send for her when he has grown accustomed enough
to talk to her. Tell her that he is cared for tenderly and guided, and
that she must not grieve. She hurts him and herself. Make her understand
that she can help him by knowing that he lives and loves her and is near
her, and that it is part of her work as a mother to help him in this ...
to find his purpose more quickly through her love.”
We were afterward told that he had not yet learned the “free communion,”
but that from the moment his mother began to “lift her spirit to meet
his,” this young man’s development was hastened.
Frequently, when telling about these revelations, I have been asked:
“What do they say about reincarnation?”
“There is no possible reincarnation,” Mary K. said, when I referred
the question to her. “That is a dream of the Orient. The idea of
reincarnation is regressive. Not destructive, but deterrent. Not
progressive. It is born of bodily desire.”
“Is it like the desire of old men for youth?”
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