The recognition and control of your own body of feeling and emotion is one of the very first lessons to be learnt, if you would develop spiritual insight, because your feelings, if uncontrolled, are going to cause a storm. Do you remember the story of the disciples on the Sea of Galilee? As their Master slept in the boat beside them, a great storm arose, and in their fear they called upon the Master, who rose up in the boat and commanded the waters to be still and the storm to subside. The boat is a symbol of the soul; the water, of the emotions; and the Master is the Christ, the spirit within, which alone can control the storms of emotion. You see from this that to protect yourself from adverse and disturbing thoughts, and to control your emotional body, you too must seek the love of God, the love of Christ. You must pray for, and strive to become this gentle love.

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Violent emotions are as destructive to the higher bodies as the pure, lovely emotions are constructive; for the latter contain the creative power of God, while the violent emotions contain the destructive power. This is the reason why we stress the necessity for control of your emotions as the first step towards conscious contact with the inner worlds.

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Light is another word for life, that is all. Life is God.

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You often wonder whether the spirit people eat. Why should they not eat? We certainly eat, not flesh of animals, but fruits that grow in the spirit world. Life in our world is perfectly natural. We are not yolkless , Shelley’s eggs! We are perfectly normal people with bodies and homes and gardens and all the things which we need. We live a perfectly natural, normal life. You think that we have no body but you are wrong; we have etheric, astral and mental bodies, but you cannot see them. You too have other bodies and the more evolved you become, the more you develop the higher bodies.

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Remember that with you as with us, it is the quality of the consciousness of the soul which decides where the soul will find itself, either during the sleep state or after shedding the physical body.

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Subconsciously, most of you long for a better world. You feel in some way attached to this life of spirit, and rightly so, for it is your true home. You have come from this world of spirit to live in the flesh, where you are imprisoned until you learn to free yourself.

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You have one particular teacher or guide, who may be attached to you through a number of lives … if you will try to listen to your guide, who comes on a higher level than the helpers, he will speak through the voice of your higher self, which is your conscience, or, as it is sometimes called, the voice of God.

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We would suggest that you practice breathing. We mean conscious breathing in of the light, of the life of God; and the conscious breathing out of love to mankind.

‘Breathe on me, Breath of God’ says the old hymn. Breathe in God. Breathe out God’s love. Breathe out God’s blessing to all human life.

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Within man’s heart is the golden sun, his spirit, which can rise on wings into realms supernal. All of you have the power so to fly, and must learn to use it.

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Let aspiration come first, then prayer and correct breathing, and surrender to God. What is the next requisite? It is to learn to live daily a serene and tranquil life. We do not mean you should become too serious or solemn; if you do, you will chain yourself to the heaviness of the earth’s atmosphere. Be very still and quiet, but also have the joy of the spirit singing within you and laughter on your face.

~ White Eagle, Sunrise, a book of knowledge and comfort for the bereaved