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The Playing of the Instrument

The Book of Enlightenment - A guide to a better life

Saturday 22nd February 1936

To learn to make the strings respond to vibrations to produce music or something you all understand it does not avail ye much to possess an instrument if it must lay unused in a case. It is startling to realise that every material and many spiritual does not recognise or realise they possess an instrument that could play this wonderful chord. As I gaze upon the majority with the light of better understanding it brings to me the knowledge of how many instruments lie unused for the time of a material life. It is sad to realise also how many instruments are applied to the reception of a force unrecognised as such.

During periods of our investigation does come to our knowledge the necessity of compliance in accordance to desires to which we would desire to receive. We now recognise the various spheres of progression shall we also realise that the possession of the instrument mentioned or the faculties must advance in accordance with your own ability to receive as in a school of music the fundamentals necessary to enable you to understand the instrument you desire. It is necessary for you to first endeavour to learn the use and the necessary chords the meaning and the names to enable you to understand the higher signs that make it possible for you to bring forth the music in your possession that you desire. The master of the instrument without the love of the instrument can produce and does produce music in accordance with what has been written but lacks the love and so fails to bring out the beauty that lie hidden.

Not much thought is given to the ease of control by forces little removed from the earthly spheres forces in possession of little more or less than perhaps you possess. Easy to remain a subject of such control if you desire no better. Realise then the highest desire to become a master of reception something of Power recognised by material and spiritual.

1. Learn how Power must be used because it will bring enlightenment to your less fortunate brother something more powerful than material.

Material is only the beginning of your progress towards an end.

Like all your religions your endeavours are acceptable as long as they do not interfere with material inclinations. Changing your religion to coincide with your desires choosing a religion that does not intrude upon your own personal desire. Those gentle pious law abiding material subjects as it does not interfere with material comfort recognising the influence of God and the desire of God.

First self, second God, what you will as long as it does not interfere with self.

Ye desire not to stray but to progress pause to consider many things ere ye place the instrument ye possess in the hands of your teachers that endeavour to supply chords to instruments. Who shall we go to for knowledge, Mother Father Sister Brother friend or foe who have just left the material plane or shall I knock on the door of the Professor who has travelled through the spheres or at the door of the novice. It is for you to decide. How much material interference will be demanded by the Professor this it is your choice.

Think of your material schools not in your material vicinity but a school of worlds would you send your child among uncultured savages or to a College of repute of your own desire and knowledge it is applicable only with the sphere of your own desire and knowledge. The child of the savage would be lost in the school of the Professor and visa versa. We must travel for knowledge or we are savages an instrument trying to with uncultured fingers to make the chords.