The Return of the Christian Era
The Book of Enlightenment - A guide to a better life
Sunday 14th February 1937
The return of the Christian era is the subject that we are about to discuss. In many ways the influence of God penetrates the intelligence through the receptive abilities of spiritual and material kind. It will be noticed the tendency of material kind to pause to realise the necessity of compliance and the acceptance of the influence of God. Thus dawns the realisation of Power above the Power of material kind, the awakening of Christianity. So endeth the introduction.
In the past many things thou hast written yet failed to understand. The time fast approaches whence thou must no longer fail but realise the necessity to understand. Thus we will endeavour in the language of thine own making to explain some of the things which to thy material mind remain a doubt a question. To many the word reincarnation explains satisfactorily that which thy desire to believe. Let me assure you with certainty the true meaning of reincarnation. Reincarnation is as ever but not as many among ye so desire to think the return of the flesh as flesh in the flesh a personal flesh. 'Tis foolish to expect the return of the personal spiritual self to govern and control a material as self. This is as ever has been the truth and the only truth of reincarnation a material or spiritual governed guided or controlled as I control the medium before ye. In the word the truth of reincarnation it has been spoken that the flesh doth recognise or partly recognise strange surroundings and words of the past. The truth is that the subject registers the kindred feeling of recognition with the influence of the power that guides the activities of their material sojourn, many partly register faithfully while the majority fail to understand.
Let us realise and recognise if only for a short while the thoughts of the influences that dwell under the Power of God Almighty. Reincarnation if returns in the flesh where thou didst dwell the spiritual influence or self whilst the body did decay? It needeth not the mind of greatness to realise that reincarnation can only be but accompanied by the return of a spiritual self to govern what? a clay? a body? For has it not been spoken by the words of Power that my body and thy body was and is but as the dust. Thy spiritual soul lives on never to decay but to progress from sphere to sphere in accordance with the desire of thine own acceptance. The days of darkness are fast drawing nigh the dawn of light will soon shine clear in the eyes of those who wish to behold the truth of the Power of God. Storm clouds will brazen forth the clarion of death to many but the sun again will shine bringing light and realisation unto those true believers in the Power of God Almighty. Pray ye my friends that the knowledge of the greatness of Gods Power shall be thine in a language that thou and thine must fail not to understand. God and the mighty Power of God not the power of the flesh, flesh is but the soil of the material sphere. Cast aside thy material greed and cleanse thy Soul for it is thy Soul that is the flower of thy polluted flesh, shed thy earthly soil of sin and cleanse thy material mind in preparation for the words and the Power of the Influence of God.
So endeth my first endeavours to enlighten thee on one of the many subjects of which to thee I must speak.
In our endeavour to comply in with the words of Power to cleanse our souls these words must at all times in the hour of joy or agony and pain on our lips and in our minds must linger the sweet refrain of those beautiful words "Shepherd of Souls". Grant to me and those who fail to understand the Power and the wisdom to understand. Ye whose faith doth remain unshaken, ye whose faith at all times endeavours to comply shall not those words sing in vain. God and the Power of God hears the voice not of the flesh but of the Soul of those who desire the light of God.
In my second endeavour to make more clearly understood the meaning of the first lesson I briefly outline a few thoughts that I hope will bring to you enlightenment.
First it is necessary for those who desire the true understanding to cast aside materialism that shining armour and garment of greed or sin in preparation to the acceptance of the knowledge that we desire. We must at all times attentively endeavour to comply. Fear and doubt are but the warmth of a material shroud a garment resisting the Power of God casting a slight upon the powers of our influence and energy. Materialism is but an overrated self a light enlarging upon the powers of self casting aside the very acceptance of the predominating and controlling forces of God. For in thy weakness thou dost fail to recognise and realise that without the Power of the reincarnated controlling force governed and guided by the Powers of God thou wouldst indeed be but a mass less than the dust a mass of uncontrolled germal life a life uninspired an ungoverned without the intellect of a newly born child. 'Tis then not hard to realise the necessity to understand the wisdom of preparation and compliance in accordance with thy desire to elevate thy Soul and thyself which is thy Soul to the perfection as desired by the Power of God.
Ye who are faithful and ye who trust and whose faith cannot be shaken fear not to tread towards the path of righteousness. Ye who linger by the wayside sacrifice the beauties of Heaven to enjoy the garments and desires of the flesh. Let not the thought of the flesh or material self enter into the fields of our desire for progression. It is the flower of the soil the product that is the concern of God and as the disciples of Power ye who would progress in accordance with thy original intentions must realise the necessity not only for thyself but for thy God that material is but the soil of evolution. The necessity to cleanse thy Soul regardless of the discomforture of the body. Enshroud thy material self with the desire of materialism and thou dost as ever endure the pains of enlightenment until it shall dawn upon the dormant material and spiritual intelligence the wisdom to realise the Power of God to recognise and to accept that which God so desires as God shall desire.
In the preparation for our future endeavours first no one or any member shall partake of meat of the flesh for four hours before any meeting or circle of enlightenment no member shall bring into the circle of Power material thoughts but enter with thy soul and thus and then only shall thou be permitted to see the light of God. Cast aside thy garments of the flesh thy garments of sin let it be thy soul that enters the garden the Kingdom of God. Defile not the sunshine of love with thy material self live thee at all hours with but the one desire to cleanse thy material self in accordance with the acceptance of the Power of thy intentions the house of truth the house of knowledge unquestionable knowledge accepted by those who desire to shine in the eyes of the Power of God. Grant to ye the wisdom to comply. I Leverious have spoken and return from whence I came.