coming through, to make them feel that there is something wonderful to look forward to and how to prepare for it. That is what we want to do, to bring a greater understanding of God's will and purpose and wisdom into the world. We want to make people see and be, in consequence, different people, happier people.

It is such a big task, and I don't think people understand how tremendous it is, We love to come. We love to communicate. We love to be able to talk, to uplift and advise people if we have the opportunity. Yet so many people says 'OH! It is wrong, you shouldn't do this.' It is all so stupid. They just don't understand. It is so strange to me, because it is the most natural thing. There should be no fear of death, it should be something to rejoice and be happy about, something to celebrate when people pass over from your world to this. People who are left behind, naturally they are sad. It is natural and human to miss the presence of people you have known and loved.

But it is really a time for rejoicing, not a time for sadness and a time for black and depression. If only people could understand this they wouldn't feel the same way about things, they would be happier, they would rejoice when someone who has, perhaps, suffered a great deal, has been given the entry into this world. People are so immersed in material things, they are so full of material thoughts and ideas that they don't seem to appreciate or realize the nearness of us, we who once were in your world. You know, after all we are no different in a sense. We are still in some ways very much the same. We may have progressed, and indeed, many of us have progressed, but we still retain thoughts of love and memory and we still would like at times to make communications.

Everyone, I think, you might say here, when they realize the possibilities are thrilled at the idea but it is a great disappointment when some want to communicate with people on earth and those people are not very interested. They don't know it but it is a great disappointment not to be able to do it. Lots of people even who understand, or profess to understand, about this subject havn't really got the full realization of what it entails, and what it can do. So many people just skim the surface. They think because they have had experiences with seances and mediums, and they have had particular, perhaps, evidence for themselves that that is all there is to it. Actually it is just skimming the surface, because underneath there is so much that could be of real benefit.

After all we do not make this tremendous effort just to come back only to give people a momentary pleasure or comfort, or to tell them something that will be nice for them to listen to in regard to their Repeated...? coming through, to make them feel that there is something wonderful to look forward to and how to prepare for it. That is what we want to do, to bring a greater understanding of God's will and purpose and wisdom into the world. We want to make people see and be, in consequence, different people, happier people. It is such a big task, and I don't think people understand how tremendous it is, We love to come. We love to communicate. We love to be able to talk, to uplift and advise people if we have the opportunity. Yet so many people says 'OH! It is wrong, you shouldn't do this.' It is all so stupid. They just don't understand. It is so strange to me, because-it is the most natural thing. There should be no fear of death, it should be something to rejoice and be happy about, something to celebrate when people pass over from your world to this. People who are left behind, naturally they are sad.

It is natural and human to miss the presence of people you have known and loved. But it is really a time for rejoicing, not a time for sadness and a time for black a.ad depression; If only people could understand this they wouldn't feel the same way about things, they would be happier, they would rejoice when someone who has, perhaps, suffered a great deal, has been given the entry into this world. People are so immersed in material things, trey are so full of material thoughts and ideas that they don't seem to appreciate or realize the nee€.rness of us, we who once were in your world. You know, after all we are no different in a sense'! We are still in some ways very much the same.

We may have progressed, and indeed, many of us have prcgressed, but we still retain thoughts of love and memory and we still would like at times to make communications Everyone, I think, you might say here, when they realize the possibilities are thrilled at the idea but it is a great disappointment when some want to communicate with people on earth and those people are not very interested, They don't know it but it is a great disappointment not to be able to do it Lots of people even who understand, or profess to understand, about this subject havn't really got the full realization of what it entails, and what it can do. So many people just skim the surface.

They think because they have had experiences with seances and mediums, and they have had particular, perhaps, evidence for themselves that that is all there is to it, Actually it is just skimming the surface, because underneath There is so much that could be of real benefit. After all we do not make this tremendous effort just to come back only to give people a momentary pleasure or comfort, or to tell them something that will be nice for them to listen to in regard to their personal lives or the future. All that may to some extent have its place but it is by no means the most important thing.

The important thing is to make people realize that they themselves while yet on earth with this knowledge and experience can achieve a great deal, not only in regard to themselves but more important still as far as other people are concerned, as far as the world is concerned, and if only they would put into practice these things of the Spirit that we endeavour to teach and to express, then their whole lives could be changed. They could be changed as individuals. Their outlook would be happier and different, and they would feel the urge to work and to serve, and truly be spiritually minded and Spiritually desirous of doing the right things. The things that are good while yet on earth.

In other words it is wonderful to have this knowledge and this realization„ but unless one does something about it, unless one exerts oneself, unless one endeavors to uplift others and take away a lot of the misconceptions that have arisen through ignorance in your world, unless one makes use of this Truth in a real way so that it may change eventually the whole thinking of the world, and in consequence bring a greater understanding and realization of the purpose of life. It could do so much that is good if only people would make the effort and take the opportunity that is offered to them. So many spiritualists, particularly, are only sort of experiencing on the surface. They have not delved. They have not received from our side the things that they should and would receive if they approach it in the right way and not just be content with these mundane things.

So many people make the habit of going to meetings, just for the sake of receiving a message which invariably when analysied has very little bearing and importance on themselves or their lives. It seams to me that people are content with the unimportant things and don't delve and make the effort to understand and do something about it. It is a great pity. I don't like this word Spiritualism very much but it is the basis of all Truth, without it there could be no Truth, no religions. lndeed, the whole history of life, the whole history of religion, no matter what religion it may be, there is this fundamental truth of communication between the so called living and the so called dead. Without it there could be no religion, there for it amazes me very much when there is opposition, When people say 'OH! I don't believe that, it is not possible,' they don't seem to understand that the very basis of their own particular brand of religion is based on the assumption that there is a life after death. If it were not for people who have returned and who have communicated and made themselves known to people on earth, there could be no religion of any description.

Man's underlying desire for knowledge, for the realization of something beyond your world in it's self, you would have thought, would have made the vast majority, if not all people, desire to find out, to seek. It has been said: 'Knock and it will be opened to you'. Yet you have people all the time who quibble about it, and when it comes to actual, possibility of communication, they fight shy of it. The whole point is surely that people do not realize that is a sense they are living two lives while on earth, that they have a Spiritual life which is invariably with the majority of people lying almost dormant, having no activity, no opportunity of expressing itself. They know they have a material body.

They know they have a material life and they live it and they try to extract from it everything that they can... all manner of things good and bad for that matter, but what they don't realize is that there is a Spiritual body and a Spiritual power of which they are ignorant and if they would allow that power to express itself and make itself known and felt tbrough the physical body while yet on earth, they would not only change the course of their own lives they would not only become different people and better people, but they would have an influence on others for good. So many people confuse issues. They think that to be Spiritual they have to be religious which is quite untrue. Actually religion as such has very little to do with true Spirituality because you can be a completely different person through Spiritual endeavour and Spiritual expression without necessarily having to be attached to any particular religious body or organisation. A lot of people ask where ordinary orthodox religion comas in. It doesn't come in anywhere, because It doesn't exist. Over here as you progress, as you become wiser and more understanding you realize that the basic things of life in themselves are simple. All these complexities that man has built through his ignorance and foolishness, these things soon disappear once you gain the initial wisdom and experience,you soon discard those things.

Those things are purely material. Man has created those things because in the past ages he thought it was necessary. In fact it is through fear fundamently, that the ideas that man have about religion were created. This is a man made thing. After all, all religion, fundamentally, is obviously man made. It is certainly not inspired from this side. It's, you see a person for instance, you take Christ, he comes into the world with a great mission, a great Soul who is able to express great wisdom and great teachings, but He didn't come into the world to found a religion, man founded a religion. Man created all the creeds and the dogmas, not Christ. We don't mention ordinary religion and we don't mention church going, because as far as we are concerned, as you become wiser in these things you realize the immensity of the power of God. I use this term in a sense loosely, because God is not a person. You cannot confine God in a physical body or a Spiritual body in the narrow sense. I mean God is creation, creative force behind all life it is not a personality. There, again, man has created this weird idea of an individual who knows all things and sits on a great throne. All these things are mans idea. Christ himself was a great Soul.

A great insight into the wisdom of the ages He knew all these Truths and He was able to express many things and perform what the world terms miracles. But then there are no such things as miracles if the sense, they are merely things that happen, that people do not understand, because they do not understand Spiritual law. If they understood Spiritual law they would realize that all things are natural. When people don't understand something and something unusual happens it is refered to as a Miracle. Even Christ Himself turned to the woman who touched the hem of His garment and said: 'Thy faith hath made thee whole.' In other words He knew and He realized that if one had sufficient faith within oneself and the realization of these things nothing would be impossible.

'By faith ye can remove mountains.' You see the whole thing is that people have twisted and they have created in their own way, in their own image a reflection of God,you might say because they have created a man made God. It is nothing to do with the true God and the true Spiritual force underlying all life. Christ always said the Truth was simple. And it is simple when you get down to the fundamental, but man has created complexities around it and built all manner of things which have confused the simiple Truths.

Churches aren't necessary as such. God doesn*t want Churches. God wants people, and people who live and follow, and do the things of the Spirit. Churches in themselves are useless. They just don't convey. And how can they convey the wisdom of God? God is not concerned with buildings. God is concerned with people. God is concerned with the way the people live and the way they react towards each other, and how they serve humanity and do the will of God, God is not concerned with creeds nor dogmas. God is concerned with His creation.

He didn't create Churches, man created them; Unfortunately, the greatest barrier to Spiritual freedom and Spiritual realization are the creeds and the dogmas, they are the very things that obscure God. They obscure His wisdom. Anyone would think because of the creeds and the dogmas and the Churches in particular that wisdom and enlightment and Spiritual achievement and attainment stopped two thousand years ago. It is ridiculous, because the power and the love of God is all the while there, and there are great Souls who are evolving and doing great works, and trying to follow not only Christ, but other great teachers, Christ Himself said: 'Greater things than these shall ye do'! Christ realized the power within man, and what could be achieved by the Holy Spirit within man, and that power is only limited because of man in his outlook, because he does'nt realize.

Because he is confined in so many different ways by worn out creeds and dogmas that obscure Truth. Actually I have now no time for Church, I began to realize when I was on your side, as you know I was a Catholic by upbringing, I was not perhaps a good Catholic as the term is used, but I began to realize that there were things far, far beyond the Church's teachings. That's why I became interested in psychic things. That's why I became interested in spiritualism as such, and I found a great deal of Truth in it. I realize that there are complexities and difficulties, but that is only because man himself isn't sufficiently evolved yet awhile to appreciate and understand and to develop on to a higher level, but the point is this: It is man himself that has within himself the possibility of greater things and the more free he is of out worn creeds and dogmas the more he is able to utilise the intelligence that he has, the intelligence that is given to him freely, because it is a gift of God.

Then he begins to see the falsity behind a lot of these narrow minded creeds and dogmas that were founded centuries ago for people of an ignorant age. These people hadn't developed very far, and it suited them to believe some of the ridiculous things that were told them. In any case it impressed them, it kept them down, you know, always the Church has been behind wealth and power to suppress the poor, it's been used, its always been a lever to keep the people in subjection.

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