Reaping the Harvest
The Book of Enlightenment - A guide to a better life
Tuesday 1st February 1938
As ye shall reap the harvest of the seeds that ye sow these seeds are varied many planted carelessly thoughtlessly oftimes producing a harvest in plenty, but is it the fruit that which ye desire. In the majority the seeds thus scattered produce not the results that ye desire. It is written as ye sow so shall ye reap some seeds may fall upon the fertile soil and some may fall upon stony ground there to be scattered by the breezes there to mature enstrangling our efforts to cultivate but continue to grow at random. From material gardens we visualise a similar condition as that described in your material midst. Let us pause to analyse the seeds that we possess, if ye should care to do so we shall find many there that would not be acceptable in the garden of love and harmony. There is the seed of selfishness this seed is often disguised and very often misplaced it is apt to spring up unintended and undesired but know ye now that through the material eyes each and every seed has its influence and influence is that which ye seek that which is acceptable. As I gaze into the spheres of the vast majority there are the seeds that are scattered thoughtlessly multiplying within the sphere within their own realm. I recognise the attendance attached to such seeds as an evil force a force that is influencing the majority forces lower than the material conception of Hell more vile more wicked lower than the vilest creature insect or reptile that the said material is so ready to despise. First before ye venture to visualise such influences is it not advisable to gaze in the moments mentioned into the mirror of reflection for so by doing we are thus permitted to adjust our miscomings if we are to remain in a position to adjust the deeds and influences of others. It is a simple very simple task to plant the tiny seed that one desires within the soil of perfection and results would be the more gratifying to one self and our God in the work of progress evolution and development. It is necessary to forget the very existence of materialism. We are here for a purpose and that purpose is not to harbour or accumulate that dreadful vile influence or harvest but grow in accordance with the grand and glorious correction of the garden of scattered seeds and bring to them the influence of desire to appease God and to cast aside the temptations of unrulyness. Ye in whatever sphere ye may exist be that sphere a material or spiritual sphere ye dwell in the sphere of your own desire that which ye accumulate and produce is to the future sustenance of your own Power. Ye who are materially strong in your love of self grow but the fruits of self live with self eat with self undernourished unsatisfied experience but one of your own desires. That which ye produce in the cause of God with faith and trust from your face shines the light of holiness, the smile that never leaves thy face knowing that dost produce the harvest that will bring everlasting life, everlasting beauty strength and development. But ye whose forces are enshrouded by the darkness it is but the weed thou hast sown engulfing thy tomb of thine own making thou but support the hellish desire to sink to eternal self and darkness where such contaminated souls must rest till thy realise the necessity of compliance.
"Ye who would a blossom be
Let thy steps carefully
Oh the path is straight and clean
Lift thy voices and let us cheer
We must journey forth let us be gay and bright
For thee oh Lord it is a glorious fight
We fight to live not to die
There is salvation for you and I
If you these words do not forget
Then it is not too late as yet.
Let us see how the various seeds in the garden grow. Have you realised the progression and development of the formation of the material body. I think you will agree that this is a subject that the majority of ye who dwell in the material sphere will find interesting and very enlightening. One does at times become conscious of the necessity to pay a little more attention to the seeds thus developed therein to assist in the evolution or cleansing of the spiritual that is to follow. This is the acceptance of many but have ye paused to recognise and realise the innumerable seeds that have been scattered and allowed to develop not for thy support but for thy condemnation. There were seeds in thine sphere given unto ye by the Influence of God, good to assist to strengthen and prepare ye for thy journey ample for thy needs. These seeds are consumed carelessly thoughtlessly every day every minute when each of those wasted moments could have brought unto ye fruits of life. Ye who have scattered such seeds under the influence of evil have but to strengthen thy determination to produce from the supply thou art still privilege to hold to grow and to multiply to reinforce with the strength of thy endeavours. March onward tighten thy belt to overcome the destruction of the evil that robs of the Power to live, recognise the very food that enter thy lips is the foundation of thine own development influencing the germal existence by their own activities by the influence that fans and promotes that which ye wish to produce if it is of evil. None will say ye nay, it is of thine own asking and seeking have the strength of self condemnation or refrain from the evil thoughts that tempt thee to condemn thy God for dost thou realise everything within the Spiritual or material recognise the advantages of development and progression.
This is a very wonderful subject one that I am afraid is given very little consideration. We refrain from acknowledging the idea of a component self and desire to think we are one. It is but a childish thought an undeveloped thought.
In thy material sphere thou hast an abundance of facts to prove without a doubt that thou art but an assembly of many. Ye speak of "here today gone tomorrow", and it is true the very air we breath that leaves thy body contaminates promotes or retards. Learn to build and to grow the flowers that would support the influences the words of enlightenment ye are then privileged to rise and be the bearers of the words of truth. I ask ye one and all to join in harmony and prayer to let the sunshine of Smiles bring joy to those who gaze upon ye a moment of living faith and trust in God.
Be ye so low as to condemn thine own Soul then recognise ye have been guilty of scattering the seeds that burden thy progression. It is thy duty to God and thy fellow men to cast aside the weeds thou hast accumulated and to sweeten thy growth with thine own mind not to protect thine own Soul but to appease thy God and to assist the coming generation who are to enjoy that which thou hast so thoughtlessly squandered, the fruits that should moisten and enlighten every living assembly.
Ye who suffer because thine eyes are blinded undeveloped scorched by the blast of the very fruit of thine own condemnation unable to heed the protecting cry of the influence of love and truth, thou hast enshrouded thyself in the evils of darkness through the neglect to share the fruits of thy labours with the desire to help those that are sick in mind and body. I speak not of the material body that is but a germal existence that can be cast aside and dematerialised in an instant. Ye who desire to live in a material sphere with the Grace of God can continue to do so with the help and advice of the Lord our God. Why ye suffer why ye weep may not to the material mind be of thine own seeking but it was the seed that was conceived within the material mind that has controlled the very existence of the fruits of condemnation through the lack of better understanding. It is evil to enjoy the privilege of the light of God and in thy mind desire the shadows of Hell. Thou art then but what shall we say an unwelcome guest in the Sphere of purity an undeveloped flower in the garden of perfection. Wouldst thou with thy contaminated desires welcome the taste of the beauty of life when thou wouldst fail to understand suspended in a sphere a thief thence to return to the garden of contamination to partake of the sins of contamination like an explosion cast thyself into the darkness where thou so long desire to dwell.
I leave thee for a while to journey back to the Sphere of love light and perfection.