The Work of
Invisible Helpers
Chapter VIII
(continued)
By this time the, dog was healed of his injuries and was barking and wriggling in her arms.
The Helper told the mother to wash the dog, and she would take care of her boy,
while she was busy. The mother said that the boy was still bleeding from his
injuries.
Then the
Helper went to the little boy and picked him up, and he became well. She took
the wet bandages off the boy, and his skin was smooth and white underneath. The
father stood near by and looked at the Helper in amazement, and his eyes bulged
out as if they were paralyzed.
"My God,
who are you?" he asked the stranger. "Are you an Angel or a human
being?"
"Yes, I
am an Angel to you," she said, "and I am taking the part of an Angel
to the boy, but I am human."
The mother
came in with the freshly washed and hastily dried dog. It jumped from her, ran
to the boy, leaped into his bed, and snuggled down, and they were both happy.
The boy and his dog were pals and couldn't bear to be separated.
"Leave
them together," advised the Helper, "and tell the doctor to let them
alone, and they will be all right."
Then the
parents began to ask a great many questions, and the Helper explained her work
and told them about her teachings.
"You are
my Angel," said the boy. "Will you make the doctor stay away?"
The Helper
hugged the little boy and let out her aura.
"Come
now. We must go," said the man Helper, who had not materialized.
The Helper
disappeared and the people said, "surely she was an Angel!"
After that
the Helpers went on with their work.
My next story
is about how a man saved a snake. One day while a man was at work, he walked
along a by-path, and a snake five or six feet long ran out to bite him.
"Go
back," the man cried, and he jumped away, for it frightened him by its
sudden appearance. After the man got himself together, he said to the snake,
"Buddy, I, am your friend. You should not bite me."
The snake
wriggled around within striking distance, and he was afraid to move. At first
he did not know what to do, for his reason seemed to leave him. Then he looked at
the snake to see what kind it was and realized that it was a ground rattler.
Then the man called the Group Spirit of this snake and asked what he should do.
"Walk
down the path about fifty feet and you will find a box," said the Group
Spirit. "Put the snake in there, and call the police to take it away. It
will not hurt you."
The man went
on and the snake followed him. Several men saw the snake and ran away to a safe
distance, calling to the man that there was a snake behind him. "I know
it," the man said, "and it is a friend of mine."
When the man
came to the box, he reached down, picked up the snake and put it in the box,
and told it to stay there. Then he called the police, and they came to see
about it. One policeman said that the snake must have come out of an old
building about half a block away that was being torn down. He asked the man how
the snake got in the box, and he was told all about it.
The policemen
didn't want to get very near, for they saw that the, snake had a large head and
some very sharp fangs. The man told the Salamanders to remain quiet, for he saw
that the policemen wanted to shoot the snake. They spoke of it, and the man
said, "Go ahead," for he knew that they could not. They tried several
times.
"We will
take him to the park," one of them said. They did this, so the snake's
life was saved, and no one was hurt. The man went back to work as if nothing
had happened.
Here is a
different kind of snake story. As some Helpers went along one night, they saw a
house on fire. The house had a snake den under it, and the heat from the fire
had frightened the snakes out. Their way of escape through the basement was cut
off, and they slid through the house and went up on the roof, which was not
burning at that time.
The house was
at the city limits, and by the time the fire department reached the place, the
house was destroyed and the snakes were dead. The only thing the Helpers could
do was to carry the snakes in their desire bodies to Group Spirit. One Helper
did not care to do that until her partner told her that the snakes would not
bite.
"Yes, I
am out of my body, and they cannot bite me," she said.
The snakes
wrapped themselves all over the Helpers. It bothered the lady Helper at first,
but the vibrations from the Helpers soon quieted the snakes, who had died from
the flames, and the Helpers went to the Desire World with them. They found the
Group Spirit of these snakes in much pain.
"Do you
suppose I can help him?" the lady Helper asked her companion.
"I do
not know, but you can try," he answered.
The lady
Helper cautiously went up to the Group Spirit and put her hand on him. "I
am sorry that your charges got burnt up," she said.
The Group
Spirit straightened up at once and turned to her.
"Thank
you," he said. "I can help you, but I cannot help myself. I give you
my blessing for your help."
Then the
Helpers left and went somewhere else to be helpful.
One night
during a drought some Helpers were passing over the northern part of the United
States, and they found a mama bear and her cub, and a cow and her calf looking
for water. The calf and the cub were tired out and had lain down, and the
mothers were standing beside them.
The Helpers
had just passed over some water and wanted to take the thirsty animals to it.
The trouble was how were they to take them! "I will take the cub, and you
take the calf," said the man Helper.
When the
Helpers started to pick up the cub and the calf, the bear and the cow objected,
and war broke out. The Helpers put the young animals down, and the man Helper
began to talk to the mothers.
"You
mothers come here," he said, and they came nearer. "Listen. I came
here to help you save your babies, but if you have to fight, I will have to let
you alone. There are only two of us, and we can't carry all four of you at the
same time. I will tell you what I will do. I will stay here and let her carry
the children to water and then we will take you both to the water. Then we can
go quicker.
They grunted their
consent, and the lady Helper picked up the cub and started off. The bear
growled and jumped at her, and she nearly dropped the cub. Her companion told
her to go ahead, and she carried the cub to water, set it down, and came back.
"Pick up
the calf and go ahead," said her partner.
She did that,
and the cow tried to follow her, mooing. She carried the calf to where she had
left the cub, put it down, and returned.
"The
best way to carry the mothers is to suspend gravity, and they will float along,"
said the man Helper.
They did
this, and one took the cow and the other took the bear up from the ground. The
cow began to kick and moo, and the bear struggled and growled because she
couldn't keep her feet on the ground. They were not accustomed to being carried
rapidly through the air. The Helpers went as fast as they could with the cow
and the bear and got them to the water.
They seemed
dizzy at first but soon made for the water and moaned while they drank. After
their thirst was satisfied, they came back to where the Helpers were, for they
recognized them as friends now. They licked the Helpers' hands in gratitude.
The Helpers saw that the animals were all right, and they went on.
Mr. Max
Heindel discusses the subject of suspension of gravity briefly in his book Freemasonry and
Catholicism. He even tells us that certain people can suspend the law
of gravitation for a certain definite purpose in order to rise in the air while
in their dense bodies. I will quote what he says. "Stories are told of
Initiates having overcome the law of gravitation in order to rise in the air at
certain times for a definite purpose, while still in the dense body. Initiates
are also taught how to suspend the law of levitation when they are in their
soul bodies, and how to pass through the nine strata of the earth."
Invisible
Helpers, when out in their soul bodies on definite work, are endowed with
authority to accomplish this work and often suspend the law of gravitation, in
order to carry heavy objects through the air, when it is necessary to save the
lives of persons or animals. This is done frequently by Invisible Helpers in
the course of their work.
One June day
some Helpers found two baby bears in traps. They took them out and found that
one cub was dead. The live cub was healed of its injuries and stayed close by
its mamma. The spirit of the other cub was lying beside its body, which was
still warm. Its mother was going away. The cab was frantic at being left behind
by its mother. The Helpers quieted it, and the lady Helper picked it up in its
desire body and caught up with its mother.
The mother
bear saw her cub, for animals have psychic sight, and she became very fierce
and started to fight the Helper because she had her baby. The Helpers had a
hard time quieting the mother bear. The cub began to squirm and wanted to go to
its mother. The man Helper told his partner who had the cub to keep on holding
it but to take it to its mother. The bear reached for it and fell over to the
ground, looking dismayed enough.
"Listen,
Mrs. Bear," one Helper said to her. "Your baby is dead, and we are
out of our bodies; so you cannot get hold of us, as we are the same as air. You
can see us, but you cannot touch us. This friend of yours only brought your cub
to you so you can see it for the last time. She is very fond of you and and she
does not realize that you do not understand. If I had taken a second thought, I
would not have let her come to you and get you all upset."
He began to
rub the mother bear's head. She lay down, and he began to gently scratch her
head and neck. Then he motioned for the other Helper to take the cub to the
Desire World. The Helper took it to the Group Spirit, who has charge of the
bears, left it, and came back.
By this time
the mother bear was in a good frame of mind. The Helper had asked that the
memory of her cub be erased from her mind, and it was. The Helpers left the
bear happy, for she had forgotten her cub. Perhaps this same cub will be sent
to her again, and she will have the opportunity to raise it next time. Her
mother love was strong, and she wanted to keep her cub, but she was powerless
to keep it out of the hidden trap. The bear and the cub will recognize each
other in the future, for they seemed to be much attracted to each other.
The bears are
evolving on this planet and are here for experience the same as we are.
One night two
Helpers saw a beautiful black panther caught by his tail in a trap in the
Belgian Congo in Africa. The tail was half in the trap; so the panther could
not turn around and chew it off. His red eyes shone like two balls of fire as
the Helpers came nearer. When they materialized and, walked toward him, he
became very, fierce and rose up at them.
"Mr.
Panther, I know you are hard to get along with," the man Helper said,
"but you must be friendly to us so we can set you free. I know you want
your tail, and you want to go free, so be good."
The Helpers
went nearer, and he was quiet. One Helper opened the trap and took the
panther's tail out and wrapped some leaves around the injured part. The panther
became very friendly, but he was still a panther and had to be watched.
"Why do
you always say Mr. or Mrs. to the animals?" inquired the lady Helper.
"They
all like to be honored, and I do it to please them," he said.
Another night
a dog attracted the attention of two Helpers and saved the life of his master
and his injured master shut up in the kitchen of a house. The Helpers were
going along through the air low down, and they saw a police dog running towards
them. He jumped up and barked and then ran back.
"Let us
go down and see what is the matter," said one of the Helpers.
They went
into the farm house and saw a very sick man groaning on his bed. There was no
fire, and there were many dirty dishes about. They heard a dog whining in the
kitchen. One Helper went to the kitchen and came back and told her companion
that the dog was hurt and all swollen up.
"When I
get through with the man, I will look after the dog," he said. "You
make a fire and clean up the house a little."
The man had
pneumonia, and the Helper worked on him and gave him some relief. This man told
the Helpers that his wife and daughter were away and that he had got wet while
at work in the fields and had taken sick. "My dog got into a fight two
nights ago and came in bleeding, but I was too sick to look after her," he
said.
The Helper
went to the kitchen and saw at once that the dog was about to have a family and
was badly cut up. He thought she must have had a fight with a wolf. He gave
this dog some milk and tied up her injured legs and rubbed her to give her
strength, for she was in a much weakened condition. The lady Helper held her
head, and the man Helper began to rub hard on her stomach and downward. After a
while the dog had five little puppies.
The Helpers
cleaned up the kitchen, washed the dishes and prepared some food for the man
and his dogs. Then the Helper smilingly told the sick man that he had five
grandchildren in the kitchen, and he smiled, too.
After that
the Helper told the man that he could get up and keep the fire going and that
his wife would be home the next day. This Helper bad already sent thoughts to
the wife to return, as she was needed at home.
One Helper
let the papa dog in to see his wife and children. He looked as if he meant to
say, "Well, five of them!" He touched his mate's nose, and she said
something to him. The Helper said he guessed she said, "Are you glad John,
dear?" Then he lay down on the bed the Helpers had made for him.
This Helper
told the man that he had that dog to thank for bringing help. If the dog had
not attracted the attention of the Helpers, the man and the dog in the house
would have died.
"You
ought always to be kind to your dog," the man Helper said.
"I
will," promised the grateful farmer. This man asked the Helpers many
questions, and they told him about their work and their religious teachings.
A few days
later the Helpers stopped by to see this man again. His wife was home, and the
house was neat and tidy. The mother dog and her puppies were in the kitchen,
and all were doing fine. Either the puppies' eyes were not yet opened or else
they were very sleepy. The man's vital body had begun to get its color back,
and he was recovering. The Helpers did not wake up the family but went on when
they found that their help was not needed.
Here is a
lovely rabbit story. One night while in the central states two Helpers saw a
rabbit family almost ready to die for lack of water. There was the mother, the
father, and four baby rabbits. The Helpers wanted to help the poor little
things to get water to drink. They looked around for water and saw some a long
way off. One Helper coaxed the mother and father rabbits to him and told them
that he was going to take them to where there was some water.
"I do
not know whether you drink water or not, but I know you need juicy, green food
and that all this dry earth is not good for your babies," said the man
Helper. "I will carry one of you and two babies. She will take the other
one and two babies.
The mother
rabbit talked to her husband, then she called her babies, and they all went to the
HeIper. The other Helper began to gently pet the little rabbits.
Just before
this, the Helper paid close attention to the parents to see if he could
understand them. It seemed as if she said, "Do you think they are fooling
us to catch us?" The father rabbit said, "No, if they were, could
they not catch us now? She has our babies."
It was then
that the mother rabbit called them and hopped up to the Helper. He picked up
the father and two baby rabbits and gave them to his partner. He wiggled and squirmed,
and she told him to keep quiet so she wouldn't drop him. Then he quieted down.
The man Helper told her to dematerialize all but her hands and chest where she
held the rabbits up against her. Then he took the mother and the other two
babies and did the same thing, and they carried them to water about ten miles
away and put them down on the damp ground. The rabbits all flattened out as if
they were dead.
"Oh,
they are dead!" the lady Helper said. "We should not have brought
them."
"They
are not dead," her partner replied. "They have gone to sleep,"
and he began to rub them and talk to them. Soon the father rabbit said,
"Huh!" or what sounded like it and began to jump around. In a little
while the rest became well and lively. The Helpers left them after they saw
that there were no animals around that would harm them.
Soon after
this these same Helpers found a fawn standing beside her mother, who was caught
in a trap. They took the deer out of the trap and did what they could for her
and let her go, but they kept the fawn and carried her to a farmer who lived in
the southern part of Canada. He had a daughter who was about twelve years old.
The farmer
owned a police dog and two collie dogs. When the farmer saw the fawn, he was
surprised. "The dogs will kill it," he said.
"Get the
dogs," said the man Helper.
The farmer
called them, and the fawn ran to the Helper, who put her arms around its neck,
calling the Group Spirits of the dogs and the deer to ask them to make all
animals and dogs be friends to the deer, and they said they would. The dogs
came up and lay down beside the deer, which looked them over and stopped
trembling.
"Well,
what do you think of that!" exclaimed the farmer.
"Lady,
who are you, and how do you do it? That police dog kills everything he comes
to. Why, he even fights the collies."
"He is
just as mean as he ever was, but he will be friendly to all on this farm,"
the Helper said.
"Here is
ten dollars for the deer," the farmer said. "My daughter has been
wanting one for a pet for a long time."
The Helper
shook her head and refused the money.
"Go and
get your daughter," the other Helper said.
The farmer
got her up, and she came. When she saw the deer, she ran to it and hugged it
and wanted to take it into the house away from the dogs. The man Helper told
her that nothing would hurt the deer. She thanked the Helpers for her new pet.
"Why did
you take the fawn away from her mother?" asked the lady Helper of her
partner.
"The
Group Spirit told me that the mother would die soon as her time is nearly up.
So they wanted to place the fawn in a good place so she can advance," her
partner replied.
The Helpers
told the farmer that as Invisible Helpers it was their work to help everything
that was alive.
"I have
a sick cow. Maybe you can help her," the farmer said.
The Helpers
followed him into the barn, and they found the cow lying down. A big snake had
milked her dry. One Helper made the snake come out of its hiding place and told
it to go away and never come back. It started on its way down the road. The
Group Spirit of the snake cooperated, with the Helper and gave the snake an
impulse to leave the place.
The Helpers
began to rub the cow and she began to moo. When a Helper touched her milk-bag,
the cow became quiet, and the Helpers worked on her until he was healed.
"Your
cow will be all right in a day or so," he said to the farmer. "Put
about four hogs in the barn and the barn lot, and they will keep the snakes
away. Cow snakes are not dangerous, but they will suckle a cow to death."
The Helpers
then left and went down the road to see how far the snake had gone. It had not
gone far when a milk truck came along and ran over it and killed it. So the
snake was soon punished.
One night,
while some Helpers were passing along, they saw some children with two rabbits
in a basket. They soon saw that the rabbits were sick and that the children
were taking them back to the original owners to find out what was the matter.
The Helpers went with the children to a house nearby, and one Helper asked the
lady who came to the door if they might come in with the children, and she
said, "Yes."
Here at this
house they saw two more rabbits that were in a box, and they looked sick, too.
The visiting children took their rabbits and put them on the floor, and they
didn't care to hop around or eat. It seemed that the rabbits were sick when
someone in that family had given them to these children, who were distressed
about them because they were fond of pets.
One Helper
got down on the floor and looked at the rabbits. Then she called the Group
Spirit of the rabbits and asked him what to do for them. He said that the
rabbits were constipated because they had not been fed the right kind of food.
He told the Helper to massage their abdomens. She did this and the rabbits were
soon all right.
She told the
children to feed their rabbits on carrots, cabbage, greens, etc., and to let
them outdoors where they could exercise and play. She told them that their pets
would not run away but would become very tame. The children were much pleased
and started home with their little brown and white rabbits.
The rabbit
Group Spirit is a very beautiful, gentle Being with a body like a graceful man,
a head like a rabbit, and an etheric body of a rabbit extending out behind him.
Not long
after this these same Helpers saw a fine, dark brown horse in a barn. This
horse looked sick and not very well cared for, and his master said that he
didn't eat well and seemed to be short of breath. The Helpers found out that
the horse had bad too many oats to eat and needed green grass, sunshine, and
exercise.
The Helpers
coaxed the horse outdoors and put him in a pasture. They told the owner to let
him stay there several weeks and he would be all right.
"Thank
you very much for your help," said the owner.
Here is an
interesting story about some white doves and a brown and black tiger cat. Some
Helpers met a lady sitting on a porch late one hot night. She told them what
was worrying her. She lived in one room on the ground floor of a house and
boarded with the lady who owned the house. She had two lovely doves and a
beautiful pet cat. She went to work early and came home late, and she kept her
pets shut up while she was gone. They were showing the effects of confinement,
and she was worried but didn't know what to do. She did not dare leave them out
alone all day, and she didn't want them to die.
This lady
asked the lady Helper what she could suggest, and they talked the matter over.
The lady wanted to make some arrangements with the landlady to let her pets out
for air and exercise. She thought of helping the lady out with her work in some
way in exchange for her care of the pets.
"It
would be better for you to pay your landlady fifty cents a day to feed and look
after your pets while you are gone," said the Helper. "She can put
them outdoors for an hour in the shade."
The lady had a large cage for the doves. The lady Helper went
to the cage and opened the door to get the doves out.
"Don't
take them out, as they will fly away in the dark, and I will lose them,"
said the owner.
The Helper
looked at a dove and then she looked for the Group Spirit of the dove, and she
saw him. He let out his marvelous white aura, and he was gloriously beautiful
to see. He was only a little less beautiful than an Angel, if a comparison can
be made. The Helper was charmed and delighted. As she looked it seemed as if the
body of the Group Spirit grew and took on a beautiful white light like feathers
springing out miraculously. It is quite impossible to tell you of the beauty of
this Group Spirit.
"Yes,
my Friend," said the Group Spirit to the lady Helper.
"Take
them out, and I will straighten them out through you.
The Helper
took them out of the cage and held them in her hands, and then they flew to her
shoulders. The lady to whom they belonged looked on in surprise. The lady
Helper rubbed the doves from their heads to their tails, and they became
stronger.
The cat came
in and rubbed against the Helper and was very friendly. After that the Helper
went with the lady to see the landlady and ask her to take the doves outdoors
in their cage and leave them for an hour every day.
"I will
willingly do it," said the landlady.
They all
went out into the yard to select a place to put the cage.
While all
the people were out in the yard, a man came sneaking along and tried to slip
into the lady's room through the door, which was unlocked. She saw him, and she
became very much excited. "Oh, all I have is in my room. What shall I
do?" said the owner of the pets.
"You
stay back, as he may have a gun," the Helper said. "I will chase him
off."
The Helper
went up behind the man and took him by the neck and shook him. As soon as he
could get loose, he ran away as fast as he could. Then, the landlady showed the
Helpers all over her house and took them down into the basement. When they came
back, the cat was gone, and the Helper called him.
"Kitty!
Kitty!" he called, and then she had a big surprise, for instead of the
right cat, a poor half-starved mother cat came to her, and then a lot of
little, three-colored cats came from various directions. The Helper felt a
little dismayed to think that she had gathered up, such a lot of cats. The
landlady gave the Helper plenty pf food; and she fed all the cats and let them
go. After that the Helpers went on, leaving the two people wondering who they
were.
Here, is
another bird story that shows how Helpers assist animals and birds. One spring,
several men were standing underneath the raised street level near a large
building which stands near a river. It was a cloudy, hazy day and darker than
usual in this driveway. A sparrow got lost in this large, dark passageway, and
could not find her way out.
The Group
Spirit of the sparrow called a certain Helper by name and said. "Go get in
my charge and take her out so that she can go to her youngsters."
"That
bird will either starve to death or get run over by one of those trucks, if she
does not get out," said a man who was near by.
"No. I
am going out there and get her," said the Helper.
"You
couldn't catch that bird in a thousand years," said another.
They all
laughed as the Helper started out to get the sparrow. When he reached the bird,
he stooped down and held out his hand and called to her. The bird flew close to
him and then jumped onto his hand, and he carried her back to the men. He told
them that as long as he held the bird, it would not fly away, but that none of
them could catch or touch it.
Then the
Helper put the sparrow on his shoulder, and stayed there. A man reached for
her, and she flew away and lit on the ground. A man started after her, and she
flew back to the Helper, who then carried her to the next street and let her
go.
The men
could not understand how this was done. The Helper told them that as long as
they or anyone else has hate, malice, or prejudice in then, they can never hope
to pick up wild birds and animals.
One night on
the way back from Egypt two Helpers started to cross the jungles in Africa, and
they saw two pythons fighting a boy and a large male lion. The Helpers came
down quickly, and the man Helper told his partner to help the lion while he
helped the boy.
The man
Helper made the snake that had the boy turn him loose, and the snake subsided.
Then this Helper went to the lady Helper, and together they freed the lion and
made both of the large snakes go away.
"What
were you doing with the lion?" one Helper asked the boy.
"He is
my lion, and he lets me go every place, and he fights and hunts for me,"
the boy answered. "He carries me, along fast, and he jumps with me on his
back." The boy motioned as he talked.
The boy
seemed to be about ten years old. The Helpers rubbed the lion, and he was soon
all right. One Helper told the boy to scratch the lion's head and neck and comb
his hair out, and he showed him how to do it. The boy said that he would.
The boy got
on the lion and went away, and the Helpers followed them until they reached the
village where he lived. The lion was wild, but he obeyed the boy. The boy's
parents said that their boy had found the lion in the jungle, and he had
followed him home, and that they had been friends for three years. The Helpers
were very much interested in this strange friendship.
One night
two Helpers were shown a picture of a bull in trouble. He was running along
with his head up and his mouth open as if he had something in his throat. The
Helpers were sent to save his life. They hurried to the place and saw that he
had part of an ear of green corn in his throat. As he had been eating the
kernels it slipped and went into his throat, and he could scarcely get any air
to breathe. The poor bull tried to cough it out, but it stuck tight.
One Helper
went to the bull and told him to stand still. Then he reached his hand down the
bull's throat and got the cob and brought it out. "Well, old fellow,
you're all right now, but a little more, and they would have made meat of you
by tomorrow," the Helper said to him.
The bull
showed his relief and appreciation and was friendly to the Helpers. The Group
Spirit, who has charge of the cattle, had called the Higher Ones, and asked
that help be sent to save the bull's life, and they had sent these two Helpers
to remove the cob from his throat. All life waves are dependent on each other,
and should help each other and not cause harm, for otherwise the individual
egos are held back in evolution.
Another
night some Helpers were going along and they met an alligator creeping on the
street in front of a store It was about three or four feet long, and as it
acted vicious, the people nearby were afraid of it. This alligator belonged to
the owner of a store. It had slipped out without being missed.
The Lady
Helper stooped down to pet it, and it caught her hand in its large mouth. The
people who had gathered around to look at the alligator thought that she had
lost her hand. She did not try to jerk her hand out but told the alligator to
let go. It released her hand and stood still. The owner came and shouted to the
Helper to get away, as the alligator was vicious when outside without its
muzzle.
"You
should keep it in a cage or chained," the Helper said.
"It has
about taken possession of the store, and I wish that I could sell it," the
man said. "It is the only one I have left out of fifty babies, and now it
is too large to sell."
"I will
take it away for you," said the man Helper.
"I will
be very glad to have you do it," said the man.
The Helpers
took the alligator inside and tied it up after a good deal of trouble. Then
they ran a pole through its feet and slipped out the back way and carried it to
the everglades where they let it loose in a swamp so that it could take care of
itself.
In the
following story several animals were helped.
Some Helpers
came upon six large crocodiles that had eaten something that had made them
sick. They did not show fight but some others did.
"Listen, Crocy," the man Helper said to some of the others, "I
came to help your friends, or brothers or sisters. If you, eat them, you will
die, too."
The Helpers
had to keep the crocodiles moving until they could get them quiet. They were
from twelve to fifteen feet long and very large. Soon the Helpers began to work
on the sick reptiles, and they massaged their intestines with their hands
inside them. The crocodiles wriggled and opened their mouths as if trying to
laugh, and a lot of green stuff came out, and they soon got frisky. The lady
Helper began to play with them.
There were
three large pythons watching the crocodiles. One of them ran out and caught one
of the crocodiles, and a terrific fight was on. The crocodile flopped around
and caught the snake about halfway from his head, closed his jaws, and the
fight was over. The crocodiles ate all of the snake except the head. One Helper
led the six crocodiles out to where the other two snakes were, and they ran
away.
The Helpers
left there and went on, and in a short time they came upon a black panther in a
trap. They had a hard time making him believe that they meant well by him. The
Helpers finally got him to understand, and they set him free. Afterwards they
healed his foot.
These
Helpers then came upon some hunters who were about to shoot a large gorilla
that was badly wounded while trying to get out of a big steel trap.
"Don't
shoot my friend," the man Helper said to them. "He will not hurt you
if you don't bother him."
"Why,
man, you are crazy with the jungle heat if you think he will not hurt us,"
said one of the hunters as he aimed his gun to shoot the gorilla.
The gun
clicked but did not go off. You see the Helper asked the Salamanders to remain
quiet to save the gorilla's life. The Salamanders are Nature Spirits that cause
fires. The hunter looked surprised and became nervous.
"Do not
be alarmed," the Helper said. "He will not hurt you."
Then he
asked the lady Helper to go up to the gorilla and quiet him so that he could
remove the trap from his foot.
The lady
Helper talked to the gorilla as she went up to him, and he picked her up,
looked her over, and then gently put her down. The hunters turned their heads
because they did not want to see her torn to pieces. The other Helper took the
trap off and bent it all up. He then put some soft mud on the gorilla's
bleeding foot. It soon got dry and fell off, and his foot was healed. The mud
was merely a medium for the healing force which the Helper directed on the
injury. This healing force comes from God and is used by the Invisible Helpers
in their work with people and animals.
The four
hunters looked on in amazement while all this was taking place. "What kind
of people are they?" one of them said.
The gorilla
picked the lady Helper up as if she were an apple. He wanted to take her home,
and she let him do it. They went to a village of gorillas, and they were well
received.
Suddenly
they heard a baby gorilla cry out, and everything rushed for it. A large snake
had caught it. One big gorilla caught the snake and pulled it to pieces before
the Helpers could move. Then this gorilla picked up the child and slapped it.
The baby gorilla cried and ran to its mother, climbed up on her, and stayed
there.
The hunters
had come to that place to get a baby gorilla, but they gave up the idea. They
asked the Helpers to see them to their camp, and they said that they would
leave that place. The Helpers took them to their camp before they went on with
their work.
One night
the Group Spirit of the beavers told some Helpers about two baby beavers that
needed help. The parent beavers had been caught in a trap and killed. This
Group Spirit told the Helpers where to locate them and where to find a new home
for them.
The Helpers
found the babies and carried the little orphans to a farmer, who wanted them
for pets for his two children.
"My dog
has puppies, and maybe she will take them," the farmer said.
The Helpers
carried the baby beavers to the mother dog and she looked them over and made a
noise is if to say, "I will take them," and they started to nurse
her. The dog solved the question about how to feed the beavers, and the farmer
was delighted, for he knew his children would be very glad to have some new
pets.
The Helpers
left them all happy and went on. Few of us realize how the Group Spirits and
Helpers work together to give assistance to both human beings and their younger
brothers, the animals.
Here is a
story about how a bear was released from one trap and a man from another. One
afternoon a man who is a Helper lay down and went to sleep and then went out
helping people. He went up in the northern part of the United States and saw a
fine half-grown bear In a trap. When the Helper went up to him, the bear showed
fight.
"Fellow, I came to help you, but you must keep stiff," the Helper
said to the poor bear. The bear soon quieted down, and the Helper set him free
and healed his right foot. The bear licked his hands to show his appreciation.
"You
had better go on before someone comes along that would shoot you," the
Helper advised the bear.
The bear
looked at the Helper, as if to say, "Well, I had better go, as you are
going, too."
"Yes," said the Helper, "I am going but not your way."
The bear
went off, and the Helper disappeared and went high up in the air and looked
around until he saw a man sitting In the snow. The Helper went to him and saw
that his left foot was caught in a steel trap and a dead bear was beside him.
It looked as if there had been a terrific fight, for the man's clothes were
torn. The imprisoned hunter was blue with the cold.
The Helper
asked the man where be lived, and he told him that he lived about ten miles
away, to the southeast, and then he became unconscious. The Helper got the man
out of the trap, picked him up, and carried him to his home. The man's wife met
the Helper at the door and soon had a bed ready for her husband. They undressed
the hunter and put him into it.
"Oh, he
will lose his foot," the wife said.
"No, he
will get well, but he will never trap again," replied the Helper. He took
some warm water and washed the frozen blood off his leg and wrapped it up, and
then he healed his injured arm.
"Keep
him in bed for about ten days," the Helper said.
He then went
and found the hunter's gun and the dead bear and took them to the woman.
"Do you
think I will be able to get my husband to move to town?" the wife asked.
"We have enough to live on for the rest of the winter."
"Your
husband will move to town for good, as he is cured of his desire to hunt and
trap animals," said the Helper.
"Oh, I
am thankful, for I always worry until he gets back," she said.
Here is how
a hungry stork was fed. Some Helpers were going along one night, and they saw a
stork sitting on some eggs. The stork was hungry, and one of the Helpers wanted
to feed it. A lady who was with the Helpers tried to make the Helper go on and
leave the stork.
"Let it
hunt its own food," she said.
"You
can go on, and we will try to catch up with you," said the lady Helper.
"I am
going, too," said the man Helper.
"Go
ahead," said the lady Helper. "I will stay here and feed the
stork."
Then the
others helped her, and afterwards they all went on together.
The HeIper
went out in search of food for the stork. She asked a lady for some meat, and
this lady said that she only had some bacon. She then gave the Helper four
slices of cooked bacon, which she took to the stork, and it went down in a
hurry.
The other
lady Helper said that she had some cornmeal at home, and she materialized some
and got some water and mixed it so the stork could eat it. The lady Helper
passed a good test that time. Her actions showed that she was more anxious to
help than to go to the meeting.
One time a
Helper found an Arabian horse that had wandered away while eating grass. She
talked to him and asked him where he lived, and the horse looked as if he
wanted to tell her. She contacted the Group Spirit who has charge of the horses
and asked him where this horse lived, and she was shown by means of the
Jupiterian Consciousness. She got on the horse's back and rode him back home.
The Arabs
became excited when they saw a stranger riding into their camp on the chief's
daughter's horse. The horse belonged to an Arabian girl who was about fourteen
years old. She became much excited when she saw a stranger with her horse, for
he was considered a mean animal by the other people in the camp. The Helper
told the girl what had happened to the horse and that she was returning him to
her. The girl was pleased because her horse had been brought home to her, and
the Helpers left all the tribe happy.
If the
Helper had not found this horse when she did, a man who was about to steal him
would have caught him and sold him to another tribe. This would have caused a
war between two tribes. And if the Group Spirit had not quieted the horse, the
Helper would have given it up as a bad job and let him alone.
The sorrow
and misery that hunters cause cannot possibly be imagined. Here is a story of
some work done by invisible Helpers a few years ago. That night these Helpers
were sent to help a brown bear that had been shot in the right hip by a hunter.
The bear then got away and went as far as he could and fell. He was trying to
get up and go on, but could not because of the great pain. The Helpers were
shown this by means of the Jupiterian Consciousness.
The Helpers
went to the bear, and when the bear saw them, he rose. One Helper said to the
bear, "We have come to help you," and he lay down.
"You
rub the bear's head while I examine his injury," one Helper told the
other.
The bear had
put mud into the hole to stop the flow of blood. Then the Helper started to get
the mud out of the bear's hip, he turned around as far as he could to stop the
Helper because this hurt him.
"Be
patient just a little longer, Buddy, and it will be over," the man Helper
told the bear.
The lady
Helper sat down and took the bear's head in her lap while the man Helper got
all of the dirt out of the wound.
"Listen, Buddy," he said, "I have to get that bullet out so you
can walk, and it is going to hurt. Don't you hurt my partner. Understand, I
want you to keep still."
The bear
settled down with his head in the Helper's lap and the other Helper put his
finger below the bullet, materialized it again, and pushed the bullet out. The
bear lay still, but he groaned, and the other Helper cried. "Why do men
shoot animals and let them get away and suffer?" she asked.
"It was
not the hunter's intention to let him get away," the other Helper
answered.
After the
Helper had removed the bullet, the bear was healed by means of spiritual
healing that comes from God.
Then the
Helper looked the bear over carefully. "All right, Buddy," he said.
"You are as good as new, only a little of your hide is gone. It will grow
back in time."
The bear did
not want to take his head out of the Helper's lap. He was comfortable and
contented. He looked up at the speaker as much as to say, "Why don't you
keep still? Can't you see that I am resting? I don't get petted often."
The Helpers made the bear get up, and he followed them as if nothing had ever
happened to him. Later they disappeared from him. Without his help the bear
would have died of hunger, thirst, and the injury.
Another time
these Helpers came upon two bear cubs. One was dead, and, the other was dying
from starvation. One Helper picked up the dying cub and asked the other Helper
if he couldn't do something for it.
"No,
for it will not live long," he said.
The lady
Helper made the little cub as comfortable as she could and started to look for
its mother. The Helpers found a trap fastened to a tree with blood all over it
and on the ground. This showed that a struggle had taken place there and that
the mother must have been thinking of her children. They did not find the
mother. The hunters had carried the mother bear off after killing her, and the
cubs had starved from lack of food.
When the
mother is reborn, maybe she will get her cubs back again. If so, let us hope
that they will not be the victims of savage hunters who mistreat their younger
brothers.
Here is how
two elephants were saved by Invisible Helpers. One Monday night some Helpers
were sent to save a mother elephant and her baby from a python. They hurried to
the place and saw that the snake had one coil of its body on the baby
elephant's hind leg to hold it while it was trying to coil around the
elephant's trunk. The snake had pulled the mother down to her knees, and she
was moaning loudly. The snake could not crush the large elephant, but it could
kill her or injure her so that she would not be able to help her baby. After
that the snake could have crushed the little one and eaten it.
The baby
elephant seemed to be only about two days old. The snake seemed to want to
crush the elephant's trunk so that she would be powerless to do anything with
it and would in time starve to death.
The man
Helper went to the snake and touched it. "Say, fellow, why kill them both
or cause the death of both of them? Let them go," he said.
The snake did
this quickly, and before the Helper realized it, the snake had two coils of his
body around him.
"Listen, fellow," the Helper said, "you cannot get a meal here,
so let me go.
The snake
struck at the Helper with his head, and the Helper disappeared but came back
and touched the snake and made it be quiet. Then he sent it off into the woods.
While this
was going on, the lady Helper, had quieted the baby elephant and was playing
with it.
"Why do
you play so much?" her companion asked. "Didn't you see how much
trouble the snake was making me?"
"This
poor little baby needed my care," she answered, and she leaned over it,
and it got as close to her as possible.
The man
Helper then examined the mother's trunk and saw where the snake had bitten her
and where she had shaken him off. The Helpers healed her injuries and quieted
her as she was trembling with fear. The baby was quite small, and the mother
had not fully recovered from giving it birth. The Helpers did all they could
for her and then sent her on her way with her baby.
One time a
man who lived in or near Arabia bought a baby zebra to roam over his estate, as
he loved animals. The zebra was too young to be taken from its mother, and it
got sick. The man took the zebra to a boat landing as he was going to cross the
Persian Gulf. He had been on the road two days, and the food that he gave the
zebra made it constipated, and its little stomach was swollen. The little zebra
had given up and was lying down when the Helpers arrived on the scene.
The man who
owned the zebra was talking to the captain of the boat who had refused to allow
him to take the sick animal on board. The captain was afraid that the zebra had
some kind of disease and might start an epidemic, for the zebra had some slimy
saliva running out of his mouth.
"This
zebra has no disease," the lady Helper said to the captain. "He has
been fed the wrong kind of food and was too young to be taken from his mother.
I will have him all right in a little while."
"Let's
see you do it, for it is nearly dead now," said the captain.
The Helper
picked the zebra up in her arms and worked on his intestines and stomach. In a
little while the zebra eliminated some waste matter, and then it vomited. In a
little while the baby zebra became frisky and began to follow the lady Helper.
"Hmmm!
You must be a superhuman animal doctor," said the captain. "You just
took it in your arms and tickled its belly, and it became all right." He
could not see her hand inside the zebra's body.
"Bring
It on the boat, as we leave in five minutes," the captain said.
The lady
Helper picked it up and carried it on the boat, and the captain stood still and
looked with his mouth wide open. He had expected to see the zebra fight to keep
from going on the boat as all animals do, but instead it lay in her arms like a
baby. The Helper put it down on the deck, and as it followed her, the people on
the boat gathered around to watch it. The Helper advised the owner to take the
zebra to his stateroom so that it would not get hurt, and he did. He thanked
her and wanted to pay her, but she refused to take anything and said that she
had enjoyed helping the little zebra.
The man
looked at her as if to say, "She's foolish not to take the money."
"Always
be kind to animals," she said as she left him looking, at her and
wondering if he had heard right.
Here is a
story of how a dog's life was saved. Some Helpers went to a place where they
saw a dog in trouble. Some men had put a steel trap on a fine collie dog and
then had rowed out to deep water and had thrown him overboard. The dog began to
struggle for his life. The trap was attached to a chain which was weighted down
with a stone.
The Helpers
came down on the water and went up to the dog as if they were swimming. The
lady Helper got the dog in her arms and held him while the man Helper took the
trap off his head so he could breathe better. Then the Helpers went to shore
with the poor dog. It was near daybreak, and the water was very cold. The dog
was shivering. The lady Helper stood against a hill with the dog dose to her to
keep him warm.
One of the
hunters cursed the lady Helper and said that he would shoot the dog. She picked
the dog up and put him behind her, and her partner told the Salamanders to keep
quiet. You see, no fires can be lighted and no guns can be shot off without the
help of the Salamanders, who are Nature Spirits.
The hunter
raised his gun to shoot the Helper as she stood in front of the dog with her
arms stretched out sideways. His gun did not go off, and he became frightened
after he examined his gun and found that it was all right
The other
hunter had his gun pointed at the man Helper, and when the first man became
excited, the Helper stepped up to this man and took his gun and threw it into
the sea.
"Let's
give them a good beating," said the first hunter and started to do it.
One hunter
struck at the man Helper, and his arm stayed in the air. The other man hit at
the lady Helper, and his arm became locked so that he could not move it. The
hunter who had tried to strike the man Helper started to run, and his feet
stayed apart. The lady Helper went up to them and shook them until they begged
for mercy and promised to behave themselves.
The hunters asked
the Helpers to go with them out of the woods, but they refused. The Helpers
told the men about their work and how they look after human beings and animals.
The hunters told them that the collie would not learn to hunt and they became
angry with him and so decided to drown him.
Collies are
not hunting dogs, as some breeds of dogs are, and he did not understand what
they expected of him. Collies learn how to care for sheep and cattle, and they
are often faithful friends and guardians of children and grown-ups, but hunting
is not their specialty. The men were hunters and trappers, and wanted a dog to
help them with their savage and ruthless business of tracking down the poor
wild animals of that region. One Helper took the coat of one of the hunters and
wrapped the wet dog in it and carried him to one of the eastern states. It was
early morning, and they saw some people on a farm goring to the barn to milk
their cows.
The Helpers
walked up to the farmer's wife and asked her if she would like a collie. She
was very glad to get him and promised him a good home. Thus the dog's life was
saved, and the men had something to think about which may prevent them from
being quite so hard and unfeeling towards animals. Let us hope so.
Chapter IX
How Helpers Work
with the Dead
We will now consider some proof that we do not end our
existence when our spirits leave our physical bodies in what is commonly called
death, but that we transfer our consciousness from this world to another and go
on living, clad in finer vehicles which cannot be seen with ordinary physical
sight but are just as real as bodies composed of flesh and blood.
If this is
not true why did the prophets of old tell humanity of Heaven and Hell and how
to live to enjoy the delights of Heaven and avoid the miseries of Hell?
All
Christians believe that there must be a Heaven, where those who lived worthily
may go and that there is a place of punishment where evil doers must stay. From
what evidence I have secured it seems to me that most people do not give much
thought to what will happen to to them after death. Many appear to leave this
more or less to chance but go on trying to be reasonably good in order to fit
themselves for Heaven.
Many people,
when confronted with the question of whether we live after death or not, say
that no one has ever come back after he died to prove that he still lived on.
This is not true, for we have all lived before, without a single exception. We
have lived many lives. We have occupied all race bodies and we have all taken
part in the civilizations of the past. The trouble is we can't remember all
that has happened to us. Most of us remember nothing of our babyhood and little
of our childhood. It is not surprising that we cannot remember a period a thousand
years ago when we were here before in other physical bodies.
Many
advanced Esoteric students have seen some of their past lives. Some have been
shown this by means of the Jupiterian Consciousness while out of their bodies
in sleep and have remembered it on awakening the next morning. Others, still
more advanced, have been given this knowledge in full waking consciousness.
They do not merely believe that we live after death, but they know that this is
absolutely true.
I will
present for your consideration some proof that we live after death. It is
positive proof to the students who saw and talked with these so-called dead
people, but it will not be proof to you. I hope, however, these stories will
awaken your interest in this subject and that you will seek to know the truth
for yourself, as that is the only way you will know it. If you wish, you can
get similar proof for yourself and then you will know and all doubt will
forever leave you concerning life after death.
Some Helpers
have been investigating what happens to various people after death. They wanted
to know about the effects of embalming the body soon after the spirit leaves
the dense body. By talking with various individuals who had passed on they
learned that in every instance where the body was embalmed during the first
three days the person felt the pain and suffered from the injury and was burned
by the embalming fluid.
A lady once
asked one of these Helper's if the one who died would suffer from the cold if
placed on ice and kept there for three days before burial. She was told that
the person does feel cold at first but that he soon gets used to it and then
puts all his attention on seeing his life's panorama, which is not interfered
with by cold but is lost when the person's body is embalmed immediately after
death. I will tell you the whole story.
Some Helpers
were sent to a certain place to help a man who had died about three days
before. They found him standing beside his body in his desire body. This man
had died suddenly of heart trouble in a hospital, and the authorities delayed
taking him to an undertaker because his wife had gone to the next city some
miles away and left no address behind.
They put his
body in a morgue and kept it there until his wife returned. When the man's wife
wrote to him on the same cold day that she was gone, the people of the hospital
opened the letter. They found out where she was and had the police of that city
go and tell her of his death. She returned home on the afternoon of the third
day and had the undertaker go and get his body.
When the
Helpers saw him the next day, he had been embalmed and his body was laid out
for burial, and he was there beside it. One of the Helpers, not knowing what
had happened to him, asked him if it hurt him when the undertaker embalmed him
and she was startled at his reply.
"Why,
no, that did not hurt me. I felt cold for a few minutes when they put me in the
morgue, but that soon passed away. Then I began to see my life from the time I
got this way until it stopped when I was born. Am I really dead or in a trance?
Will I wake up?"
The Helper
told this man that he was dead as man calls it.
"That
is strange," he said. "Why did I see in picture form all that I have
done in my life? I have done several things that I am ashamed of now that I
have had them shown to me.
Then the
Helper told him that the pictures that he had seen were his life record and
that when he left that place he would go to a place where he would have to
atone for all his wrong-doings.
"I am
sorry for the wrong things that I have done and I will not do them again,"
the man said.
The Helper
asked, him why he was staying beside his body, and be said that, he wanted to
see his funeral. He told her that he had been an average man and had done some
good and some bad things but that he loved his family and was good to them.
"I had mean streaks sometimes and did wrong," he said. In a little
while he spoke again.
"You
are the first people that I have been able to talk to," he said. "Are
you dead as I am?"
"No, we
are not dead," the other Helper answered. "Our bodies are asleep at
home." The Helper then told the man about his teachings.
"I
heard of these teachings," he said, "'but I paid no attention to them
and thought they were bunk."
Alas! how
many more people have contacted the Esoteric teachings and turned carelessly
away, not realizing the wonderful opportunity that came to them. At death they
will realize their loss and find out that the teachings given out by the Elder
Brothers are true.
From there
the Helpers went to the bedside of a man who was about to pass on, and they
materialized and one Helper told the man to tell his wife not to embalm him and
she was amazed when he said, "I want to be embalmed so I will be really
dead and not in a trance."
"I am
very sorry, but you will have your request granted," she said.
The man
passed on after the Helpers left and the undertaker had him embalmed an hour
afterwards. The next night the Helpers went again to see him and he told them
he went through more pain than he did all the time that he was ill.
"The
undertaker cut both my arms," he said, "and put one end of a rubber
tube in my left arm and the other in the pail. He used a large syringe and
pumped some strong liquid into my arm and into my body. It burnt me terribly
and then I froze and I am still cold and in pain. Can't you do something for
me? After I first died I began to see what I had done during the few minutes before
my death. I saw myself talking to both of you and heard what you said about
embalming. Then I began to burn. I tried to tell the undertaker that I was not
dead but he did not see me and paid no attention to my pleading to be let
alone. When I touched his hand my hand went right through him and he kept on
until he was through."
Then the
lady Helper told the man that his life record was lost because he did not get
to review it clearly, as the embalming fluid had destroyed the seed atom in his
heart.
"That
must be true because the pictures went so fast that I could hardly make them
out and I was burning so," the poor man said.
The Helper
told him that this was caused by the embalming fluid pushing the blood out
quickly before it became congealed. The Helpers were in their desire bodies and
so the man could see them, but his wife and relatives could not. They heard the
man's wife talking to her friends and relatives. "I wonder if I did right
when I allowed my husband to be embalmed," she said. "I have felt
nervous over it ever since, and when I go in the front room I feel his
presence. I wonder if he is in there!"
The Helpers
went out and materialized what appeared to be physical bodies, and knocked on
the door, and the wife came to the door and let them in. "Oh, Lady, please
tell me this," she said. "Did I do right to let him be embalmed? I
believed you but I thought I had to carry out his last request."
The lady
Helper looked at her partner expectantly. "No, lady, you did wrong and
went against your better judgment," he said. Your husband is in the room
beside his body.
"Oh,
God have mercy on me. I did not know," she said, and then she fainted. The
people in the room ran to pick her up and the man Helper told them to let her
alone. After the wife had formed and stood beside her body she looked at the
Helper.
"Come
with me," he said.
"I am
on the floor," she replied. "No, I am here. What is wrong?"
"That's
all right. Come on with us," the Helper said. He then led her into the front
room and when the wife and her husband saw each other they ran to meet quickly,
and he told her that the strangers were right and that he wished now that he
had listened when they tried to save him all this suffering. "Don't ever
be embalmed," he said. "It hurts, It burns and freezes one, and I am
still cold and suffering."
The wife
told her husband that she felt his presence.
"I
tried to tell you when you were asleep," he said, "but you would
always wake and get up."
"Are
you dead?" she asked.
"The
strangers told me that I am what man calls dead but that I am not dead,"
he said.
"Am I
dead and are you both dead?" the wife asked the Helpers.
"We are
not dead and you have fainted" the man Helper replied.
Then the
wife said goodbye to her husband and he told her to listen to their new friends
and be a good woman. One Helper carried the wife in her desire body back to her
physical body and told the people to pick her up and put her on the bed. Then
she came to and told them what had happened. Naturally the people looked
surprised and aghast.
One Helper
told the man to will himself well and that nothing would hurt him. He did and
he was all right immediately. The so-called dead man thanked the Helper, who
then told him that someone would be there to take care of him and to go with
them, and he promised that he would. When the Helpers came out into the next
room the wife was speaking about the strangers.
"Surely
they are Angels disguised as humans," she said.
"No, we
are only servants of humanity," one Helper told her.
"I will
stop every one I can from being embalmed from now on," the lady said.
The next
morning both Helpers remembered meeting both of these two men who had passed on
in death, and they knew that they were just as much alive as ever.
One
afternoon a certain student went to sleep and he went out west where there were
serious floods but he found nothing that he could do. He saw lots of water,
some dead cattle, and a few snakes. He met an undertaker in a town and he
talked to him. The man said he had fourteen bodies that had been found. The
student asked this man if he had embalmed the bodies.
"Yes," he said. The student went in and explained about embalming and
the undertaker laughed at him. "Do you think I am going to let fifteen
dollars a body slip away from me?" he asked.
The student
took his hand and asked that the undertaker might be shown the truth of this by
means of the Jupiterian Consciousness while he talked to him, and he related
several cases to him that he had seen. Then the man saw by means of the
Jupiterian Consciousness, which is much like moving pictures. The man turned
pale and began to tremble. "What have I done?" he exclaimed.
"Why, I have destroyed their view of their life records. How can I undo
that?"
The Helper
told him that he could undo it by keeping the rest of the bodies that he should
get on ice or in an electric refrigerator until they are to be buried. He promised
that he would do this, and the Helper told him that he would return that night
with a friend and explain how he could make an ice casket to keep the bodies of
the dead in.
That night
two Helpers met the undertaker, and one of them materialized a lecture on
after-death conditions that she had written, and copied it for him. She then
told him how he could make an ice box or have an electric refrigerator for
regular use. He asked many questions and she answered them all. She told him to
charge a little more for his funerals to make up for the loss if he liked but
not to embalm a person under any conditions before three and one-half days had
passed after death, even if the body was to be shipped outside the town.
"If the
people want the body left at home undisturbed," she said, "let them
have it, for in the end you will not lose anything."
"I
will," the undertaker promised.
This is one
of the most remarkable stories that I have heard about the work of Invisible
Helpers with the dead. That undertaker received proof that we live after death
and he was willing to cooperate with the Helpers after being shown.
One morning
a Helper awakened and remembered carrying a beautiful baby away in his desire
body. Two Helpers had been sent to a house where a baby lay dying. The mother
stood over the bed with her head bowed. She was crying in her sorrow over
losing her baby. The doctor stood on one side and one of the Helpers took her
place on the other side.
When the
baby boy left his body by way of his head, he formed on the bed and stood up.
The Helper noticed how bright and intelligent he was and she admired his
beauty. She held out her arms to the baby, who had left his body permanently,
and he came to her and, she carried him away to the children's place in the
First Heaven, where someone took charge of him.
Before the
Helpers left the house they heard the heart-broken mother say, "This baby
was the best of all." They were not permitted to say anything to the
mother as she had a lesson to learn through the baby's passing on.
Here is a
story about a man who took his own life. One day a student who is a Helper was
standing in the driveway of a large building. An employee who worked in the
building jumped out of a nine-story window, and fell on the pavement below
about ten feet from where the other man was standing.
The student
was so startled that he could not say anything. He watched the man take shape
beside his dead body, which formed from the head down. The head formed, then
the shoulders and upper part then the chest and arms, then the hips and hands,
and then the legs to the feet. Both sides of the body formed evenly. When his
body was completely formed, the student spoke to him. "Say, fellow, why
didn't you jump out of one of the windows in the court, or on the other
street?"
"I was
so worried that I thought any window would do if it was high enough. I started
to jump but the ground came up to me too fast. What has happened? Am I dead or
jolted out of my body?"
"No,
fellow, you are dead as man calls it," said the student.
"I
thought death ended it all," the man said.
"No it
does not end everything," replied the student. "You can only end your
troubles by living the right kind of life, and must also be a useful one, too.
What caused you to kill yourself?"
"Domestic trouble. All my wife wants is money, fine clothes, and a car,
and I couId not give her these things," he said.
The student
talked as fast as he questioned the man because he knew that his body would soon
hurt him, and it did. The man began to cry because of the pains in his head,
arms, and legs. In fact his entire body hurt him because when he fell he struck
the right side of his head, his right shoulder and arm first and crushed them
badly. The man asked the student to stop the pain. The Helper told him that
there would soon be someone there who would stop his pain.
Then a
number of people found his mangled body and covered it with sacks and sent for
the coroner. The man's wife came and became hysterical. The student asked a man
to take his place and he went to a quiet place and slip out of his body and
went to where the wife stood and told her to stop her foolish ways. as she was
the direct cause of her husband's death and that the one thousand dollar life
insurance would go very far with her. She had no children.
When his
wife came the suicide went up to her, and seemed much surprised when she did
not notice him. "I must be dead and yet I am not. I don't
understand."
The student
told him that someone would come and explain everything to him. The man wanted
to know how the student could see and talk to him and the others could not. The
student told him that he would know later. Two Lay Sisters came in their higher
vehicles and told the man to will himself well and he would be all right. Then
they took the poor suicide to the lower Desire World where Purgatory is
located.
Animals are
our younger brothers and they also live on after death, and are reborn
regularly into new bodies to gain more experience to help them to evolve. They
come to rebirth oftener than human beings. Here is an interesting story that
tells how a dead horse and his young master were parted by death.
One night
two Helpers met a boy in a pasture in one of the western states. The boy had
broken a leg and was unconscious. near him lay the body of a horse which had
broken his neck and died. The spirit of the horse was standing in his desire
body beside his dense body. The Helpers felt the horse's body, and it was still
warm, they knew that he had just died. He seemed to be very much frightened.
"How
did it happen?" one of the Helpers said to the boy.
"What
do you mean?" asked the boy.
"Your
horse is dead," the Helper replied.
"No,
Tom's not dead," said the boy, "for we have been playing here.
Something must be the matter, though, for Tom is lying on the ground and I am
here. No, he is here, too. What is the matter?"
"While
your horse was running, he stumbled and fell and broke his neck," the
Helper said. "In falling he threw you off and you broke your leg and
became unconscious.
"Am I
dead, too?" the boy inquired.
"No," said the Helper. She then asked him where he lived and he told
her that he lived about five miles down the road. "I was going up to a
lady's house on an errand for my mother" he said. "My parents are
going to town at sunrise."
The day was
just breaking as the Helpers talked to the injured boy. The Helpers went to the
boy's home and told his mother and she and her husband went after him with
their car.
When the
mother saw her son she began to scream. "He is dead." This brought
the boy to. The horse followed the boy to the car and licked his head with his
desire body tongue, which the Helpers could see but the parents could not. The
people left and the horse whinnied after the boy and looked at the lady HeIper
as if to say, "What has happened?"
The Helper
called him by name and he went to her and she picked him up. He folded up his
long legs neatly and laid his head on her shoulder and she carried him to the
Desire World and left him.
The Group
Spirit who had charge of this horse said that the boy and this horse had been
pals ever since the horse was born. Then the Helper asked the Group Spirit if
all the Group Spirits have what look like human bodies and if they are all
fierce.
"All
have human bodies and all were once fierce, but as man tamed the different
animals by kindness they lost their fierceness," be said, "but they
always retain their strength according to what they rule or control. The human
form is is the goal."
Here is a
story about the death of a Lay Sister who died several years ago in South
America not far from the jungles. Two Helpers were sent there and when they saw
her they remembered that they had met her before and had worked with her
several times.
This lady
had a husband and three daughters. Two of the daughters were her own and one
was an adopted child. This adopted daughter was an advanced girl with a sweet
and gentle disposition. The lady had rectal trouble caused by the birth of her
last child when she was not properly cared for. An abscess developed, and
caused her death twenty years later.
The mother
was at home alone and the family were away on a vacation when she was taken
seriously ill. She sent out a mental call to her adopted daughter and told her
to tell the rest of the family to return home as she was about to pass on.
The father
and the three daughters reached home Sunday morning before the mother lapsed
into unconsciousness, and the Helpers went there that night. The dying mother
told her family what to do and how they were to bury her after three days. She
said that she had lived on raisins and dates for nine days as she was not able
to cook any food, and her neighbors were too far from her to call them. She
told her family that she was told to send for them as she was about to pass on.
This lady
had died a few minutes before the Helpers arrived and was standing in her
shining soul body which appeared like a flowing white dress. Her beautiful soul
body was very brilliant and luminous. The lady hugged and kissed the lady
Helper.
"This
is the way I want you to be and appear to all who can see you," she said.
The husband
took his wife's death very hard, and cried over her loss. He had been a good
husband to her and a good father to the daughters. The whole family loved each
other very dearly.
The Helpers
left with the Lay Sister and she asked them to look after the girl Lay Sister
and to come often to the Desire World (Heaven) to see her. "I hope we will
meet and be friends in our next life" she said, "and that we will be
reborn at about the same time. Then there will not be much difference in our
ages.
"Will
twenty or thirty years make any difference in the time of birth?" asked
one of the Helpers. She said, "No." The lad said that she liked the
Helper for many reasons. She shook hands with one Helper and kissed the other
one and went on. She told the Helpers that there was no need of her staying
with her body as her retrospection was over and it hurt her to see her family
crying.
Now, does it
not seem wonderful to think that Helpers could have this experience and could
remember meeting this dear friend and how they promised to be friends of hers
in their next life when they are reborn again? Does this not make you feel sure
that we live after death and function in finer vehicles which can ascend to
other planes of consciousness?
The next
story tells of a man who was not prepared for death. One night a man went to
see an acquaintance who was very ill. Before he left he told him that he would
see him on Friday night. During the next day the man heard that the sick man
had passed on. That night this man and a friend of his went to his home. They
went in their desire bodies, for they worked at night as Helpers.
They found
the man in his home, standing by his body. "Well, I am here," the man
Helper said.
The
so-called dead man jumped nervously and looked at the visitors. "What has
happened to me?" he asked.
"Man,
you are dead," said the Helper.
"No, I
am not," the man said, "but the undertaker hurt me greatly and he
made me very hot. I felt as if I was on fire inside. Now I am so cold that I
can hardly move.
"Well,
if you are not dead," said the Helper, "just wait until next
Wednesday and they will plant you six feet in the earth and you will never make
any more fuss on this earth."
"Are
you dead?" asked the man.
"No, I
tried to tell you, how to avoid being this way (embalmed) but you laughed and
said that I was crazy," answered the Helper. "When old man Burns gets
you he, will singe you over the coals and you will be a nice boy until you come
back."
The man was
good natured and so he smiled. "Yes, Man," he said. "I guess he
has got me, for I cared very little for churches." Then he saw the other
Helper. "Look at that Angel back of you. I wonder if I can get her to fix
things for me. I have not been so overly bad and I have been good in some ways,
too.
"There
she is. Talk to her," said the man Helper.
"Lady
Angel," the man said. "Can you see somebody and get them to let me
off? I have not been so bad."
"There
is a law which no one can change and that law is called the Law of Cause and
Effect," she said. "It is known to you as "We reap as we
sow."
"'Am I
really dead?" the man asked.
"Yes,
you are dead as man knows it," she said.
"Will I
burn forever?" he inquired, and the Helper answered, "No, for no one
burns forever. One is only punished for what he has not made restitution
for."
"Will I
ever get to Heaven?" he asked, and the Helper said, "Yes, in time.
"Why is
it that they say that when a man dies he knows nothing?" inquired the man.
"I am just as alive as I ever was only I can't make anyone hear or see me.
The lady
Helper told him that in all cases where she had viewed a body soon after death,
the owner of the body was there beside it just as he was and heard everything
that was said by the persons near his body.
"Oh, if
I had known that I would have left unsaid many things that I have said. What
must I do to do better?" he said.
The Helper
told him to promise God that, if he would give him another chance he would do
better and make right all the things that he had not made right while he was in
his body. When the Helpers left him he was happy, for he fully understood his
condition, but he cried when they had to go away and leave him alone.
One November
night two Helpers were told to go and get a mother and the three sons who had
drowned in a river between two European Countries. When the Helpers got there
the egos of the mother and her three sons were on the river bank. The sons were
lying across the mother's shoulders. She was standing and looking in amazement
at her body and her sons bodies.
"I am
very sorry at what befell you," the man Helper said.
"What
has happened?" she asked. "I don't understand."
"You
are all dead," the Helper told her.
"No, I
am not dead but my body is in the river," she said. "No I am here.
No, I am there. What is wrong? I have been five days getting to the river with
my oars. I got the boat and started across and the soldiers began to shoot at
us. A lot of little bullets hit the boat but it kept on going. Then one big
bullet cut the rear part of the boat off and we slid into the water and we got
choked and here we are."
"You
are in the state that man calls dead," the Helper said. "If you are
not dead ask that soldier the way to the relief station."
The mother
went to the soldier and began to talk to him but he paid no attention to her
because he did not see her in her desire body. She looked at the Helpers in
surprise. Then the Helper told her to go and ask the policeman. She went and
spoke to him but he paid no attention. "Touch him," said the Helper.
She touched him and her hand went through him and she jerked it back.
"Do you
believe me now?" the Helper asked.
"No,
but something is wrong," she admitted.
"Where
do you want to go?" the Helper asked.
"I want
to go to some relatives on the other side of town," she said.
"Come,
I will go with, you," he said, and they started off.
"Wait," she said, "I cannot go so fast. The people are in the
way and they walk over me and yet I do not all." She rubbed her, hands
over her eyes as if in a daze and said, "I can't go so fast."
"Will
that you can keep up with me," he told her. Note: Invisible Helpers travel
with the speed of thought. When they want to go somewhere they will themselves
there. Since the newly dead are unacquainted with the Esoteric laws, they have to
be instructed.
They went on
and she jerked back several times, trying to dodge people but they kept on and
passed through people as they came to them. They reached the place where she
wanted to go and the Helper told her to knock on the door. She tried to knock
but her hand went through the door and she jerked it back. She spoke to the
lady Helper Who was at her side. "Lady, what is wrong? I am not dead. Am I
dreaming?"
The man
Helper took the lady's hand and told her to will herself through the door. She
went through with the Helpers and they found a woman sitting on a chair talking
to a man.
"Go and
tell your relative what you want," he said.
The poor
lady went up to the woman in the chair and began to talk but she paid no
attention to her and kept talking to the man. The Helper told her to touch this
relative, but even then she did not notice her.
"My
dear, you really are dead as man knows it" the lady Helper told her, and
she said, "No, no. I must be in a nightmare." I go through people. I
talk to them and they do not hear me. Well, I must be dead! I thought when
people died that they knew nothing and that they go on to where they are going.
Where am I going now with my children? I must find a place for them to sleep.
Oh, I left my money in my belt on me. No, it is on my body."
"You
will not need any money now for a while," said the Helper. "Come, I
will take you to a place where you can stay."
"Can my
children stay there, too?" she asked.
"No, I
have another place for them," he said.
"Oh!
They have never been away from me and I love them dearly. Can I go and see
them?" she asked, and the Helper said, "I do not know."
The Helpers
took the poor lady and her three sons to the Borderland. "This lady will
show you where to stay and I will take the children where they are to
stay," he said.
The mother
kissed her children and told them to be good boys and obey others as they
obeyed her. She said that she would pray for them.
The lady in
charge of the Borderland was pleased with this mother. "Few mothers come
to me in complete forgetfulness of themselves and their punishment," she
said to the Helpers. "People are, generally, thinking of themselves. This
mother shows great love for her children. She could have saved one child and
herself, for she was a good swimmer, but she preferred to die with them. She
tried to swim with all three of them holding on to her, and the four sank. The
father was killed in battle."
After that,
the Helpers took the children on to the place in Heaven where the children go,
and they soon began to play with the other children.
The Helpers
then went back and got a man who had been shot and 'thrown In the river. His
body was very poor and thin from lack of food. He said his chest hurt him and
that he was sick and hungry. The lady Helper told him to will himself well.
"I have
been dodging the soldiers," he said, "and they found me because I ran
out of food and was sick and they shot me and threw me into the river."
The Helpers
told this man to go with them and took him to the Borderland and left him.
Here is the
after-death story of a child. One Monday night while going over the
northwestern part of the United States two Helpers saw a boy standing on a
railroad track. They came down to see what was the matter with him. They soon
saw that he was in his desire body. One Helper asked him why he was there.
The boy said
that he did not know but that he hurt all over as if some one had torn him
apart.
"How
did it happen?" asked the Helper.
"My
mother sent me to the store," the boy said, "and then I was to go to
a lady's home after school. It was about four o'clock and the four-twenty PM
express comes past every day and I like to watch it, as it does not stop here.
I saw it coming and I started across the track to see it from the other side.
When I reached the middle of the track I became paralyzed with fear and could
not move. The next thing I knew was that I was standing there and was full of
pain."
"Why
didn't you go home?" the Helper asked.
"I
did," said the boy, "and spoke to my mother but she didn't answer me.
I heard her say that she hoped that I would burn. I tried to put my arms around
her, but they went through her."
"Why
did you come back here?" the Helper said.
"I was
drawn back here," he said.
"What
did you do when the trains came by?" the Helper inquired.
"I got
off the track," he answered,. "but once when I was nodding, one train
ran over me, but I did not feel it."
By this time
the boy could talk better. The Helper asked him where he lived and to take them
to his home. The boy led the way and one of the Helpers knocked on the door and
the mother hurried to the door.
When she saw
the lady Helper she turned pale. "Tell me quickly," she said, and her
voice sounded strained.
"I am
sorry but your boy was killed by the four-twenty train," the Helper said.
"Where
is his body?" the mother said in a dry voice.
"Along
the railroad track," replied the Helper.
The mother
got a sheet and a blanket and a lantern and called her husband and went to pick
up her boy.
"You
had better call the coroner as you may get into trouble if you move him,"
said the Helper.
"God
let him get killed," she said in a hard voice. "I suppose I have to
ask someone to let me pick him up."
The Helpers
went and got the coroner and he came with six men and they picked up all the
pieces of the boy's body that they could find. The mother went home and sat
down and gazed into space.
"Pray,
my friend," said the man Helper, "and God will give relief to your
aching heart."
The mother
looked around to see who was speaking but she could not see the Helper. Then
she broke down and cried. He told the lady Helper to put her hand on the
mother's head and let her aura fully out to give her strength.
The poor
lady saw the Helper. "Oh, Angel!" she said. "I wondered how you
knew where my son was. Can you take me with you? I am the same as dead. My
desire for life is gone with him. I am old and I cannot have any more children.
I was forty-nine years old when he was born."
"No, I
cannot take you but you will be all right and you may get another child if you
ask God for one," the Helper said. The mother of the dead boy followed her
to the door and saw her rise up and disappear.
When a
person dies during childhood he frequently remembers that life when he is
reborn in a new body because children who die before the age of fourteen do not
journey around the entire life cycle which makes it necessary to build a
complete set of new bodies. Instead they pass into the upper regions of the
Desire World and there they wait for an opportunity to return to earth in a new
body. Young children usually are reborn in from one to twenty years. When they
return they bring the old mind and desire body with them, and many times they
can tell strange stories about their lives just past. Young children do not go
to Purgatory as adults do after death but are taken to the Borderland and then
someone takes them to the First Heaven where some relative or motherly person
takes delight in caring for them.
Mr. Max
Heindel in his book, The
Rosicrucian Cosmo- Conception, says, "The extreme plasticity of
the desire stuff makes it easy to form the most exquisite living toys for the
children, and their life is one beautiful play; nevertheless their instruction
is not neglected. They are formed into classes according to their temperaments,
but quite regardless of age. In the Desire World it is easy to give object
lessons in the influence of good and evil passions on conduct and happiness.
These lessons are indelibly imprinted upon the child's sensitive and emotional
desire body, and remain with it after rebirth so that many a noble life owes
much of it to the fact that he was given this training."
As far as I
have been able to learn, all children go to school while in Heaven awaiting
rebirth, and a great many of the children who are living also go there at night
while, out of their bodies in sleep. Much help is given all children both with
and without physical bodies. They have lessons in school subjects and in music
and art and other subjects.
Their
teachers are partly living teachers and partly teachers who have died and are
resting between lives. Many of these teachers are Lay Brothers, and Lay
Sisters, and some are Liberated Ones.
When the
teachers want illustrative material they can create it by thought and make
books and the finest maps and living toys. The children are taught how to model
such toys and take great joy in doing it. I heard of one case where a child
remembered that she went to school at night and knew who her teacher was and,
that she also had a teacher who was giving her violin lessons.
At one time
a Lay Brother provided an entertainment for a roomful of earth children. He
made a cute pony of desire stuff and had it do tricks for the delighted
children. Then he called up some of them and gave them complicated problems in
arithmetic which some of them answered correctly, and he complimented them on
their ability. The teacher had refreshments made of the same desire stuff, and
the children partook of them sitting in their seats.
Another time
a Helper saw a class of children out in a meadow painting pictures while in
Heaven. One girl about fourteen wanted to paint her friend's picture. She
seemed to have all she needed and in a short time she had a good portrait of
the other girl on her desire stuff canvas. Life is a great school and we come
here for experience, and we get much help in all the worlds in which we
function.
If we wish
we can take part in this great work of helping children and adults and thus we
can begin paying off our debt of destiny for all the help that has been given
to us through our countless lives since the God of our Solar System sent us out
as Virgin spirits to gain experience and knowledge.
One time
some Helpers attended a young child's funeral and saw the child by its white
coffin. They looked into the coffin and saw the lifeless physical body of the
child and then they turned their attention to the living child in her desire
body. She was not afraid, for she said that two very pretty ladies had been
there talking to her. They were Lay Sisters who are Helpers. This child could
not understand why she could not make her mother know that she was well and
happy. She said that she had seen her playmates and played with them and that
they saw her.
This little
girl, who was about four years old, had caught cold and then developed
pneumonia and died in three days. She told the Helpers that the man hurt her
when he put something in her arm and made the other arm bleed. That was when
the undertaker embalmed her body. She said that she burned inside and got cold
and stayed that way until the pretty Angels came and warned her and stopped her
body from hurting and that she had been happy ever since.
The mother
and other people were attending a church service where they were saying an
early mass for the child. The lady Helper noticed a little group consisting of
a lady and three young children. They kneeled and prayed and stood up and sat
down during the service. Several of the children present saw the Helpers and
told their mothers who turned pale.
One little
girl talked to the lady Helper until her mother made her stop. Then she held
out her hand to the Helper, who was not materialized, and the Helper took it.
This child seemed to be about three year's old. "Oh, Mamma," she
said, "look at the two Angels. One is a very pretty lady."
"No,
hush," answered her mother.
"But
Mamma, she is so pretty," said the child. "May I go to her?" and
she held out her hands to the Helper who stood near her.
"No," said the mother.
Later the
ego of the child was taken to the Heaven World by the Lay Sisters.
When an ego
who has built up a sin body dies as a child, the sin body stays in the lower
Desire World while the ego is being taught in Heaven, and when it returns to
rebirth, this sin body will try to influence the child to do wrong. Many normal
children are difficult to control and teach, because they have sin bodies that
cause trouble.
During some
severe floods several years ago two Helpers went down south to do what they
could to help the people and animals there that were in trouble. They met an African-American man in great trouble. A week before he had taken his wife to a hospital
in another state. He then returned home and was taking care of his two children
and working on his farm. They began coming up and he watched it from his house.
He decided
that he had better send his children up to his brother's home over the hill
about four miles away, for he was afraid of the water. He sent his children off
and told them to stay for the night. The boy and girl between the ages of ten
and twelve started off. They had to go through some lowland to get to the hill.
After they got out of their father's sight, the water came up very rapidly and
the children were drowned.
After the
father had sent his children off he became panic-stricken for fear that they
would not be able to get through the hollow which surrounded his farm. He went
into his house and closed the door and prepared to wait until someone would
come and get him. When the water got near his house he went out and set his
horses and cattle free. During the night, the water came into his house and he
went upstairs and sat by a window. He saw his chickens floating away dead. When
the water came upstairs up into the attic. There he stayed four days.
When the
Helpers found him he was lying on two boards. He had a high fever and was
suffering from double pneumonia. The man saw the Helpers come into the attic,
for his spiritual sight had come to him.
"Oh,
Angel," he said to the lady Helper, "save my children. I sent them to
my brother four days ago and the water came up soon after they left. I have
dreamed about them and they told me that they were safe and happy, but I do not
know."
One Helper
asked someone at a distance if he could save the sick man and was told that he
would pass on soon but that he could comfort him. The man Helper took the man's
hot hand and made thought forms of his children, and these thought form children
told him that they were safe and well. The egos of his children were then in
Heaven where they were happy and all right. After the sick man saw what he
thought were his children he was much relieved. "Lord, I am thankful that
they are safe," he said, and he died in peace.
The Helper
looked to see where the bodies of these children were and they were in each
other's arms dead. The water had carried them about a mile down the hollow and
they had lodged against some bushes.
After the
man passed out, the Helpers took him to the Borderland and he stayed there
until his retrospection was over. He did not see his children again. The Helper
was allowed to make thought form children resembling his own to comfort him in
his last moments of his earth life. Let us hope that these egos will be
reunited in a future life and that conditions will be far more favorable so
that they may live in safety and not have their lives cut short by a flood or
anything else.
One November
night, two Helpers went to see an old man who had been brought up in the south.
He was about to pass to the other side. When they reached his home the man was
talking to his wife. I wonder if I will have any stars in my crown," he
was saying.
"I do
not know," she said, "but I hope so."
"Then
the man held up his hand to stop her from talking as he caught sight of the
strangers. "The Angel has come for me," he said, "and I am ready
to go, but I do not see any crown. Angel, where is my crown? Our old
maid told me when I was a child that if I lived a good life I would have a
crown with stars in it when I died."
A voice told
the man Helper to make a crown for him of desire stuff and put stars in it. The
Helper made the man a beautiful one and gave it to the lady Helper and she
showed it to the sick man. He became very happy. He told his wife that the
Angel had his crown. Then the man Helper told his partner to ask the man three
questions.
"Have
you been redeemed?" she asked.
"Yes," he answered, "I have been a Christian for forty
years."
"Have
you been baptized?" she asked, and he said, "Yes."
"Have
you been made to bow low?" she asked, and he said,
"Yes."
Then the
dying man said that forty years ago, his mother's maid had taught him bow to
pray and how to be a good boy. He told how he had rebelled against the way the
people treated the African-American people, and spoke against it. He was quietly asked
to leave the church and finally his people drove him out of town and he went
north and found work and did well. Four years later his sweetheart came to him
and they were married. Later they had four children who grew up and married and
had children of their own.
"Yes,
Angel," he said. "I have been made to bow low and shed many tears.
Will I go to Heaven? And will I see our maid?"
The lady
Helper was told to tell him that he would. He said, "Goodbye," and
passed out.
"John,
I will follow you soon," said the man's wife.
After the
good old man formed in his desire body the Helper put the bright crown on his
head and carried him to the Borderland which lies between the three lower
regions of the Desire World which is called Purgatory and the three higher
regions which are commonly spoken of as the First Heaven in some Esoteric
philosophies.
The lady in
charge of the Borderland showed the Helpers where to take him in the First
Heaven for he did not have to go to Purgatory because he had no sins to be
punished for and he had cleaned up the seed atom in his heart. Here he met the
maid with her crown and she grabbed him as if he were still a child. "My
son," she said, "here is your home."
He had the
most beautiful home that the Helpers had ever seen. There these extremely happy
egos will enjoy their well-earned rest.
You see
these people had lived very good lives and had believed that they would have
stars in their crowns when they died and they were rewarded with them. We may
be sure that the old man had built up a beautiful soul body by service to
others. This was really his ticket to heaven, for when an ego is taken to the
Borderland the person in charge only has to take one look. We know whether he
must go to Purgatory or to Heaven. If an ego has a desire body filled with ugly
spots and homely, murky colors he must go to Purgatory. If he has a beautiful
shining soul body built up of delicate shades of pink, blue, lavender, and gold
and free from spots, he can go right on to the First Heaven and enjoy his rest
there.
Everybody
gets to Heaven in time, but an ego may spend many years in Purgatory after
death before he is allowed to rise to the First Heaven. If he has done little
good in his life he will have little to enjoy in this lovely place.
One night
some Invisible Helpers were told to go to Purgatory and try to help a man. A
Lay Sister showed them the man by Jupiterian Consciousness so that they could
recognize him. They went there and saw a man writhing in pain and calling
loudly to the Lord to have mercy on him. It looked as if his desire body was
covered with large bubbles, and various persons were pulling them from all over
the world.
One of the
Helpers spoke to this man in a loud voice to attract his attention and he
stopped and looked at her. "Please don't punish me any more," he
said, "but tell me what I must do to get out of here. I am sorry for what
I have done and I will do better."
The Helper
told him that he must clean up his seed atom. He asked what that is and she
told him that the seed atom is an atom that he had had ever since he left God
and that it is his record book in which all his life records are kept. She told
him that the orthodox people know this as the book of the Lamb of God in which
is kept the record of each human being, and to clean it up one must promise God
that he will live a better life and make right all the wrong that he has done.
"How
can I do that when I am to be here forever?" the man said.
The Helper
then told him all about rebirth and how each one is given a chance to do better
in another life. Then the light of understanding broke over his face and he
prayed hard and asked for another chance, and he promised that he would do
better and make right the wrong he had done to others. Great drops of what
looked like perspiration stood on his face and he moaned and said, "Mercy,
Father, have mercy on me." and his head fell forward.
"Oh, he
has died!" said the lady Helper and tears came into her eyes. He had not
died, but he had willingly resigned himself to his punishment. He had decided
to pay off his debts and was allowed to go forward. By his suffering in
Purgatory and by his ardent prayers to God he had paid off his last debt and he
went to sleep to ascend to Heaven. Now when he comes back to life he will be a
much better man, or rather a woman, for we usually alternate bodies from life
to life. He will come back with a keen desire to help all mankind.
Here is an
interesting experience that two Helpers remembered one morning. They went
somewhere and saw a dead man sitting near some red velvet drapes, in an easy
chair near his body which was laid out in a coffin nearby. The man was in his
desire body and looked just as he did when alive, only he was badly frightened
and did not understand what was happening to him. He had been dead for two
days.
The Helpers
were anxious to get the story of his experience after he had died because they
wanted to help the living avoid his terrors. The man told them that he had died
from pneumonia and that he still had difficulty in breathing. One Helper told
him to think himself well and that he would be able to breathe easily. He did
it and smile. "That is funny, but I am all right now," he said.
Then the man
wanted to ask some questions. The man Helper asked him to wait a minute and he
would answer his questions after he had asked him some questions. In telling of
his after-death experience he said that he had been well-to-do and had good
medical care but the doctors kept on giving him hypos and this jerked him back
into his body and the pain it caused was awful. Finally the man gave up and
died, or left his body. Then the undertaker cut his arms and put the embalming
fluid in one arm and ran the blood out of the other arm.
The man said
he stood right beside his body and felt all the pain just as if he had been in
it and that he tried to tell the undertaker that it hurt but could not make him
hear. He said he looked at his life from the time he got out of his body until
the undertaker came and started to put the fluid into his body. Then the
pictures and events went so rapidly that he could not see them well. He felt as
if he were on fire for a few minutes, and then he felt as if a piece of ice had
been wrapped around him.
The Helper explained
to him how the embalming fluid made him feel cold and that after three and
one-half days he would not feel it any more. After that the man asked the
Helper if he were really dead and he was told that as far as man was concerned
be was.
"I thought
one went to Heaven or Hell as soon as one died," he said.
The Helper
then explained his teachings to him and told him that he must view his past
life and then after three and one-half days. He would go to the lower Desire
World and be purged of his lower desires and bad habits and finally he would go
to the First Heaven. This man was a so- called Christian man and a hard
businessman as well. He was a teacher in the Sunday School and his class had
come that night and had held a short service over his body as he was laid out
for burial the next day.
"I am
tired," he said, "and I would like to go where I am going as no one
cares for me and no one can see or talk to me although I am just as much alive
as ever. I have a little girl and I love her very dearly."
"Do not
worry about her," said the Helper. "She will get all that is due
her."
"Death
is altogether different from what I read about it and what I have been taught
to believe and what I really believed myself," he said.
A knowledge
of true conditions would have greatly helped this man.
One night
some Helpers were sent to see a family who were weeping over a loved one.
"I have had been sent to help a minister who had died two days before. The
man was standing beside his body and when the Helpers entered the room where
his body lay he saw them. "Are you the Angels who have come to take me to
Heaven?" he asked.
"No, we
came to talk to you," said the Helper. "Have you lived a good
Christian life, and have you been kind to all human beings and to the
animals?"
"I have
been good to all white people but I have not been good to Indians or African-American
people," he said. "The Indians and African-American people cannot go to the
same Heaven anyway."
"Why
not?" asked the Helper. "Are they not human?"
"Yes," he answered, "but they are of a lower grade. The African-American people make good servants but the Indians are not good for anything."
"How
long have you been a minister?" the Helper asked.
"I have
been a minister for twenty-five years," he said, "and I am forty-nine
years old."
"Do you
believe in the Bible?" inquired the Helper.
"'Yes,
I believe it from cover to cover," he said.
"Do you
believe that God stopped the Sun for Joshua so he could win his battle?"
the Helper asked and the man said, "Yes."
"God
did not do that," she said, "as it would have thrown the Universe
into chaos."
"I
cannot help that," said the man. "If it were not true, it would not
be in the Bible. You cannot prove that God did not stop the Sun."
"My
Friend," said the Helper, "you will have to spend much time in
Purgatory before you, go to Heaven and then you will stay only a short time in
Heaven."
"I did
what I thought was right," replied the man. "My sermons were laid out
by the year by the Church Council and I had annual sermons for Christmas,
Easter, and other special occasions. I graduated from a university about
twenty-five years ago and I have been preaching ever since."
"Were
you not told that all humanity came from God, and that God is no respecter of
persons?" the Helper asked.
"Yes," he replied, "but that means white people and they are
better than the rest. Ministers must be above the lower class of white people,
too."
The Helper
called a friend of hers, by means of thought, and was permitted to show this
man that Joshua did not stop the Sun. She took hold of the man's hand. "My
Friend," she said, "look back over the space of time and see what
Joshua did do and say."
They looked
into the Memory of Nature and saw two armies with the soldiers all arrayed in
their glittering armor with spears, swords, and battle axes. They were in a
valley and the men were so numerous that they looked like bees. Joshua was
standing on a high hillside with some of his officers. "We will lose the
battle if the Sun goes down," he said, and then he walked a little way
from his officers and stopped and began to pray. "Oh Heavenly Father! Help
your servant that we may win this battle before the Sun goes down."
They saw a
very High Being come forward and it looked as if he were on a white horse. He
stood high over Joshua and Joshua fell to the ground and spoke to him.
"Have mercy and help me." Then another High Being came. This High
Being was a Liberated One and his aura was so bright that it looked like the
Sun." He stood between the Sun and Joshua and his aura spread out as far
as they could see. His bright aura completely hid the man on the horse and the
real Sun.
Then they
saw Joshua's enemies turn and run away, leaving their dead and wounded.
Joshua's army went after them. After Joshua won the battle, the Liberated One
slowly drew in his aura and it was dark. The minister and the Helpers saw the
Liberated One go away.
"Well,
I was wrong," said the man.
"How do
you know that you were wrong?" asked the Helper.
Then the
minister told what happened after he died. "As I was standing here,"
he said, "I saw my life from death to birth and all I did. I passed out
shortly after I went to bed at nine P.M. and my wife did not come in to call me
until nine A.M. When I failed to appear at breakfast time she came and found
me. I had seen my whole life during the night. I did not really think I was
dead until I heard the doctor say, "He has been dead only twelve
hours." Then the undertaker came to embalm me and he hurt me. I heard them
say that I died of a sudden heart failure. But I am not dead. The Bible says
that when one dies there is no more of him."
"Yes,
the Helper replied, "but that means that the dense body dies." The spirit
lives on as you now see. After you have been punished for your sins and for all
the harm that you have done you, will go to Heaven for a short time. Then in
time you will be reborn to reap what you have sown.
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Reference: The Work of Invisible Helpers, by Amber M. Tuttle
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