The Work of
Invisible Helpers
Chapter XII
(continued)
She put her finger in the man's eye and materialized it and pushed the splinter out a
little. Then the other Helper got hold of it and pulled it out.
"Oh,
darling," the man said to his wife, "she has her finger in my eye,
and I will lose the sight in that eye."
The wife
began to cry and started toward the lady Helper.
"Stay
where you are, Lady," said the man Helper, "or you will make matters
worse."
The Helper
began to massage the man's eye, and the injury was healed.
"My eye
feels fine now, and I can see well. Thank you so much," the man said.
"You put your finger inside my eye, and I felt you push the sliver out,
and he pulled it the rest of the way out. How did you do this? Then how did you
stop my eye from hurting? Who are you? There is something strange about you.
Are you human? Yes, I guess you are, for you both look like it."
"Yes,
she is human," said the man Helper. "Be good and thank God for the
help you have receive," and the Helpers disappeared from them.
Here is how a
lady with an abscess in her right ear was cured by means of spiritual healing.
She was in bed suffering greatly and asking the Lord to have mercy on her. The
Helpers found her alone in a dark room. "My dear Friend," said one of
the Helpers, "we have come to help you if you wish it."
"Oh, who
is it?" she asked and reached for the light.
"Do not
turn the light on. We can see well enough," the lady Helper said.
The man
Helper told his companion to get a towel and tie up the lady's long hair on her
head. She did this, and then she held the lady's hands while the other Helper
the lady's head on the side of the bed. He then ran his hand in her ear and
peeled all the diseased ether off. When the pus came out, she said, "Oh,
that feels so good, and my ear has stopped hurting."
"Lie on that
side and let it drain, and it will be well in a day or so," the man Helper
said.
The lady
asked the strangers to turn the light on, and one of them did.
"Pray
tell me how you got into our house," the lady inquired.
"We
walked in," one Helper replied. "We heard your prayers for help. and
we came to help you if we could."
"Oh,
thank you so much, I want to call my parents so that they can meet you,"
she said.
"No, do
not wake them up, for we must go," said the Helper. "Good-by,"
and they left.
One night a
lady was directed to a Helper when she was out in sleep to have her help her,
for she had had a second stroke and was gradually losing the use of one leg and
one arm. Her face was drawn to one side. "I want someone to help me,"
she said.
This Helper
asked her companion to help this lady.
"Go
home, and we will see what we can do to help you," he said.
When the
Helper reached this lady's home in the eastern part of the United States, they
found her in bed awake. She seemed be about forty-five years old, but she
looked much older because of her drawn face and terrified expression.
"I am
your friend," said the man Helper. "Don't be alarmed."
"I feel
that you see both my friends," said the lady. "This is the second stroke
that I have had, and I am afraid that I will become helpless and will not be
able to take care of myself. Will you help me? I am alone. I dreamed that I
asked an Angel to help me, and she told a man to help me, and I woke up."
"I am
the man, and she is the one who told me to help you," the man Helper said.
"Then
you are Angels," she said.
While the
Helper was talking to her, he was rubbing her and massaging her head. Then the
lady Helper began to act queer.
"What is
the matter with you?" he asked.
"I
cannot walk right, and my mouth feels one-sided," she replied.
"Well,
you won't be able to talk so much now or nose around so much," he told her
to tease her.
"Help
me," she said.
"When
are you going to remember that you are out of your body and stop taking on
people's conditions?" he asked.
"Oh, I
forgot!" she exclaimed, and then she was all right.
The Helper
told the lady who had needed help that she could get up. She did, and she could
walk as well as before. She thanked them for their help. They told her what to
eat and to keep on praying and that she would find the way to improve himself
both physically and spiritually.
I will now
tell you of two men whom some Helpers visited one night a few years ago. A high
Lay Sister showed the Helpers two men who had tried to kill themselves some
years before. They both had tubes in their throats. One had a glass tube and
the other had a rubber tube, by means of which they could get some nourishment.
One man had
repented his act, but the other had become very mean. The Lay Sister told the
Helpers to warn one and help the other. They went to see the bad man first.
They found that he ruled a tribe of Arabians that lived in a small town and that
he was very cruel to the people and unfair in his dealings with others.
This man
would cause people to be tied in the hot Sun and then cold spring water poured
over them. This caused them to get hotter, and they died of sunstroke. He had a
young woman tied to a post, and a man was about to pour water on her when the
lady Helper stopped him. The ruler was angry at this interference, and he spit
on the Helper and slapped her face. She was surprised at first. Then she
carefully got a good hold on him and took several cups of cold water and poured
it on his head.
"I am
very sorry, but you have brought this on yourself," the lady Helper said
to the surprised man.
The man
howled and tried to get loose. When he did, he hurried to his tent. "Kill
her," he shouted to his men.
The men tried
to shoot her, but their guns would not go off. The other Helper had told the
Salamanders to keep quiet, and so their guns would not work. The men looked
dismayed enough.
"If you
don't treat your people better, you will lose your chiefship," one Helper
told this cruel leader. "You will become a wanderer and will die in the
desert alone."
The man
promised to do better. The Helpers disappeared from him. They were told that he
would do better in the future.
The Helpers
then hurried to South America to see the man who had tried to kill himself by
drinking poison and by his throat. He had been in love with a girl, and when
she rejected his love, he decided to end his life. His life was saved, and he
greatly repented his rash act.
Finally he
became a rich man. The cut had paralyzed his esophagus, and he could not
swallow except through a rubber tube. Some of the poison that he had taken had
settled in the lower part of his intestinal tract and had caused severe
constipation.
When the
Helpers reached this man, he had had the hiccups for four days, and his body
had been clogged up all this time. His doctor could do nothing to relieve him,
and he was in much pain. His stomach was much distended, and he had a high
fever.
The sick man
was afraid that he was going to die. He had been praying ever since be had had
the last illness of a similar nature. When this poor man saw the Helpers, he
appealed to them for aid.
"Please
help me," he begged. "I do not want to die. I love my wife and
family, and I want to care for them. Oh, I am afraid to die. Help me, Lord!
Have mercy on me."
The man
Helper told the members of the family to leave the woman. The man had two
children who were twins about twelve or thirteen years old. One was a boy and
the other was a girl.
"Please
let us stay," they said. "We love our papa, and he is a real pal to
us."
"No,
dear children. You must go out," the Helper said. They went out, and he
locked the door and began to work on the sick man. He massaged the man's body
and got it cleaned out. Then he got the peristaltic movement started. After
that he took the rubber tube out of the man's throat and healed it by means of
spiritual healing.
After that
the Helper got a glass of milk and gave it to the man, and he drank it with
ease. "This is the first drink I have had for fifteen years," he
said. The Helper had the man take a bath and then get back into bed for a short
time to regain his strength.
"What
became of the woman that you loved?" the Helper inquired.
"She is
about town, but I never meet her," the man replied. "My wife was my
nurse in the hospital, and I married her two years after I got well."
The Helper
called the man's family in and told them of the law of Karma and the law of
Cause and Effect.
"Will I
have to face this suffering again when I die?" the man asked.
"No, it
is over with now, and you are a well man," replied the Helper. "Do
not ever eat meat again. You can eat all the vegetables and fruit, milk, etc.
that you want."
The twin girl
was a very winsome child. She stayed close by the lady Helper and showed her
that she liked her, and the Helper kissed her. "Oh, an Angel kissed
me," she said happily. "Now kiss my brother."
The lady Helper
did this, and then she called the twins together and put her arms around them
and let out her aura. Then both of the Helpers disappeared leaving the happy
family to rejoice over the healing of the husband and father.
Yes,
spiritual healing is possible, but it cannot always be used. There are times
when Helpers meet people who are in need of help, but they have not earned the
right to it and do not ask for it, and so they cannot be healed or helped. The
Lords of Destiny don't give something for nothing.
Many sick
people can be healed by doctors or by electric or x-ray treatments. When we are
sick, we are expected to use all material means first. If we cannot heal
ourselves by means of the right kind of food, or by home remedies, we should go
to a doctor. If necessary, we should go to a hospital for treatment. It is best
to pray for assistance also, but we should assist ourselves all we can.
There are
cases that medical science cannot cure. For instance, when a man has paralyzed
his throat, he can scarcely expect to be cured by ordinary means. All things
are possible with God. Do not hastily say that the illustrations in this book
are not real. Think it over and read your Bible carefully, and you may be
surprised at what you will find there.
The days of
miracles are not over. They are taking place right along, but very little is
said about them. Many people who have prayed for help have been healed by means
of spiritual healing. Some have seen the Helpers who came to help them; others
have heard them speak and conversed with them just as they talk to their
friends. Others have sensed their presence. I have heard of a great many
instances where sick people have contacted Invisible Helpers and told about it.
Helpers meet
many people and see strange things that happen. One night two Helper's were
sent to help a young lady who had been poisoned by her mother. Her face and
arms were covered with sores, and her tongue was almost white. She was badly
frightened and almost desperate. This young lady was suffering from arsenic
poisoning.
It seems that
the had been paying on a five thousand dollar insurance policy that was made
out in favor of the mother. The mother wanted the money, and so she put arsenic
in her daughter's powder box to kill her. The young lady used it on her face
and hands, and the would have died if help had not been given her.
The man
Helper got some cornmeal and milk and made poultices and put them on the young
lady's face and arms to draw out the poison. She was soon out of danger. The
man Helper told this young lady to move as soon as possible and let her mother
entirely alone. She said she would because she was afraid of her mother and
suspected that the had some evil plans concerning her.
Life is very
strange. Some parents will do away with their own children for money, while
others will risk their own lives to save them. It takes all kinds of people to
make a world. In the case of this girl, she had not deserved such a death, and
so her prayers were answered.
Here is what
happened one time. Two Helpers went over into the jungles of Africa and found
that it was very hot there. Some local people were out in the woods getting some
kind of fruit, and a large spitting cobra came up to them and threw his poison
on a man and a child. They began to scratch, and the poison would have soon
entered their blood streams and then to die had not instant help been given
them.
The lady
Helper picked up the child, and the man Helper took the man, and together they
carried them to a little stream of water. They washed the poison of the snake
off and stripped the infected ether from their hands, faces, and legs; and they
were soon all right.
As the
Helpers started away, they found a woman in trouble. She had been bitten by a
snake, and the people had run away and left her to die. The Helpers found a
piece of the snake's tooth in her flesh. They took it out, examined it and
found a hollow in it. It may have been the cap over the tooth that held the
venom in the snake's tooth.
One Helper
sucked the poison out of the wound while the other Helper stripped the infected
ether out of her leg. The woman opened her eyes and tried to get down on her
knees before the Helpers to pay them homage because she thought they were
Angels. Strange as it may seem, all races know of Angels, even if they have not
seen them, but not many seem to know about Invisible Helpers who have physical
bodies that they can leave at home asleep while they travel in their soul
bodies.
The Helpers
carried the woman to her home and told the local people that all three of these
injured people would get well and that they were to take good care of them. The
people were delighted to see the Helpers and grateful for their assistance.
The woods
where the berries and fruit grew were infested with snakes, and it was
dangerous to go there. The Helpers saw many human bones among the thick bushes
nearby.
The Helpers
then worked on two of the people who were sick. While they were at that place,
the Helpers saw the local witch doctor, and they saw a lot of elementals
around him.
"Can you
cure snake bites?" one Helper asked this local doctor.
"No," he said. "No human can cure a poisonous snake bite."
"Yes,
they can," said the man Helper. "Where we come from, the doctors can
cure snake bites."
"Then
you must come from the Sun God, where all things can be done," the local
doctor replied.
The Helper
was told to tell this man that if he would be just and kind to all the people
there and in the villages nearby and would help them to do better, he would be
given power over the snakes and wild beasts. The man promised that he would do
this.
"If you
do not do as you promise," said the Helper, "something in the jungle
will surely kill you."
"I will
be good and help the people," he promised again.
The Helpers
drove the elementals away from him and then they told him to follow them. They
went into the bushes and found a large snake, and one Helper told him to
pick up the snake's head. He did, and the snake did not hurt him.
The Helpers
looked into the Desire World and found the Group Spirits of the snakes and
beasts. He told them that this man was a friend and for them to forever keep
their charges from harming him. They asked these Group Spirits to give the man
knowledge to cure those who have been bitten or injured as long as he keeps his
promise. The Group Spirits said that they would do this. The man saw and heard
what took place and became a greatly changed man.
The Helpers
told this local doctor that his people would not always do as he told them,
but he must have patience with them. He said that he would, and the Helpers
left him and went on about their work. Later they went back and met this man
again, and they found that he was doing very well. He was helping the local people
in many ways.
One night
some Helpers went to help a lovely baby who was sick. Before they went to her,
they were shown a little girl baby about a year old lying in bed beside her
mother. The baby was as dainty and pretty as a little Fairy. She had fair skin,
blue eyes, and curly hair.
This baby had
a chest cold that was fast developing into pneumonia. Her mother was ignorant
of her child's true condition, but before going to sleep, she had asked God to
help her child.
The leader of
the healing work showed this baby to one of the Helpers so that she would draw
her to her, and she rushed to the baby. When the baby saw her, she raised her
hands, and the Helper's love fairly drew the baby into her arms. In that case
love caused the suspension of gravity and drew the small baby to the Helper.
The Helper
asked that the baby be healed, and then she put the beautiful child down, and
it smiled up at her as she left the room. The mother slept on, unconscious of
what was happening to her baby.
One night
two, Helpers saw a man all huddled up on a street car track, and they went to
him. He had been at a friend's house playing poker and had a large sum of
money. After that refreshments were served, and he had had something to eat and
a last drink before going home.
Someone in
the house had put something in his sandwich to make him go to sleep so that
they could rob him when he fell in the street. The whiskey that he had drunk
had a stimulating effect on him and kept him awake. Severe cramps set in, and
the man fell down and doubled up on the street car tracks, tying up the
traffic.
The Helpers
picked the man up and took on his condition.
"Does it
seem as if there is a knot in your intestines?" the man Helper inquired of
the sick man.
"Yes," the frightened man replied. "Please help me."
The Helper
rubbed the knots out of his intestines so that he could stand up, and then he
recovered and was able to go home.
"The
people where you went are not your friends," the Helper said to him.
"It is best for you to stay away from there from now on."
Here is how a
crippled lady was helped. On night some Helpers went to see a lady who was
about thirty-five years of age. Ten years before this she had contracted
rheumatism, and it had made a cripple of her. She had a husband who made a good
living and provided a good home for her. She had two children, who were about
fourteen and fifteen years of age.
The Helpers
found this lady sitting in a wheel-chair on her screened in porch, and they
began to talk to her. She told them that she had read the Bible through four
times and knew it nearly all by heart. She said she could not understand the
Bible the way the preachers and priests do.
"I
believe there is a deeper meaning to the Bible," she said. "Who are
the people who get the gifts that it tells of? How do they get them? How can
people let God know that they want them? I have done what the Bible says about
praying and asking for things, but I have received no answer. The preacher
cannot answer me. Whom must I go to now?"
"You
must change your way of thinking," the man Helper said. "You must
root out all the prejudice against everything, and treat everyone fairly. You
should stop eating meat, chicken, and fish. Instead you should eat vegetables,
fruit, fruit juices, butler, milk, and whole-wheat bread."
"I will
do that," the lady answered.
"May we
come in?" the Helper asked pleasantly.
"Will
you hurt me?" she asked.
"No, I
will not hurt you, and I may be able to help you," the Helper said.
She let the
strangers in and asked them to sit down and spoke of the warm weather.
"Come,
get up and try and walk," the man Helper said. "God may have already
healed you, but you have not tried to walk."
"Oh,
yes, I have tried lots of times, but I have not tried today," the lady
said.
He helped
her, and she stood up. "Oh, I felt a shock as you touched me," she
exclaimed.
"Get me
a drink of water, please," the Helper said suddenly.
The lady
went and got the water and forgot about herself. When she came back, the Helper
explained the Bible and his teachings and then he told her about their work of
helping others. When the Helpers got ready to go, they shook hands with the
lady.
"This
is the best visit I have had in my life, and you have answered all my
questions," she said in a happy voice, and she walked to the gate with the
strangers.
"See,
God has healed you, and you did not know it," the Helper told her.
The lady was
too startled to speak for a few seconds, and then she said, "Oh, I forgot
all about the chair, and I went and got the water, too. I thank you so much for
your help."
Chapter XIII:
Are Animals Subject
to Spiritual Influence?
The animals are our younger brothers and they are
evolving just as we are. The Angels and the Group Spirits are caring for them
and they feel the spiritual impulse that comes from the Earth Spirit, who is
confined to the Earth during six months of the year.
The
spiritual influence is at work among the animals and it is breaking down the
antagonism between the different species of the animal kingdom. The daily
papers print many interesting stories of widely different animals that become
close friends and pals. I will just mention a few of these stories of friendly
animals which I have saved because of their human interest. All of the stories
are illustrated with interesting photographs.
One shows a
lion and a hen in the lion's cage. They were constant companions for three
months. When they were separated, the lion died of a broken heart.
Another
picture shows a lioness and a white mouse in a cage together. They were living
in harmony together in England.
Another
shows a beautiful black and white cat with a robin perched on his head. The
story said, that a great friendship existed between these two widely different
creatures.
Another
picture shows a dog and a fawn with their noses together. Under the picture is
the following: "This orphaned fawn came out of the forest along the
western boundary of Glacier National park in Montana, and picked an unusual
friend, a settler's wolf dog. Now they are inseparable."
A white mare
and a shy young deer are boon companions on a farm in England. The deer was
lame when it went to the horse and made friends and found a protector.
I have a
picture of a cat sitting down with a canary perched between his paws. They were
pals and liked to be together.
Still another
picture shows a chow dog holding a cat in his paws. On the dog's head there is
a canary resting. The story says that these pets are the best of friends and
eat out of the same dish.
There are
many advanced animals now in the world and the Group Spirits of the different
species are influencing them to be friendly to each other.
People who
love pets enjoy having friendly animals and when they get advanced animals they
become very attached to them. When these people give these animals the proper
care and are kind to them they are helping them greatly in their evolution, and
the Group Spirits will give them their blessing, which will help the people
whether they realize it or not.
Invisible
Helpers often work with the Group Spirits in getting homes for animals. One
night two Helpers were directed by the Group Spirit of the squirrels to go and
get two squirrels which a man was going to kill. This man was afraid that these
beautiful animals would multiply and destroy his fine garden. He had them in a
basket-like cage. The Helpers told the man that they would take them if he
didn't want them.
"I
don't want them because I am afraid that they will become a nuisance and eat up
the vegetables in my garden," he said, and he willingly gave the squirrels
to the Helpers.
One of them
started to open the door of the cage and take the young squirrels out. The man
became excited about it. "Lady, don't take those creatures out," he
said. "Why, lightning could not catch them. They are as wild as jack
rabbits."
"They
are my friends, and will mind me," she said.
"No, no
squirrel is tame on sight," the man said. "Why, I was a week catching
them."
The Helper
opened the door and took a squirrel out and held it in her arms and petted it,
and admired it, and talked to it, and the squirrel was quiet and good. The man
stood with his mouth open and looked at her.
"Well,
one of those creatures tried to bite me," he said, "and here you are
loving it and making it like it."
A lady came
out to where the Helper and the man were and she wanted to pet the squirrel,
but the Helper told her to be very careful as squirrels will bite suddenly, so
she did not try it. The man gave the Helpers the cage and they took the
squirrels in the cage and walked away.
When they
got out of sight of the man the Helpers dematerialized most of their bodies.
One Helper carried the cage containing the squirrels about forty miles through
the air and gave them to a boy about twelve years old who loved pets. This boy
said that he would be kind to them. The Helpers were charmed with the place
where the boy lived, for where were many fine oak trees there. The Helpers then
walked a little way from the farm house and crossed a bridge over a stream of
water, and then they went up in the air and looked down.
The boy's
father's farm was a beautiful place, and his house was built upon a little
knoll overlooking his large farm. Then they looked for the Group Spirit of the
squirrels and saw him and he thanked them heartily for their help.
After that
the Group Spirit of the cats asked the Helpers to take two cats to a home that
he showed them by means of the Jupiterian Consciousness. The Helpers got the
two half grown cats, which were homeless, and took them to the house that the
Group Spirit showed them. The people were farmers and they were up milking the
cows.
The Helpers
put the cats on the front porch and then the Lady Helper knocked on the door
and a little girl let the Helpers in. One Helper told her about the two cats
and said that they would make lovely pets for her. "Do you want
them?" she asked.
"Oh,
let them in. I am glad to get them," said the child. The Helper started to
the door to get the cats. "Oh, Rover will chase them away," said the
girl, but she opened the screen door.
"Kitty,
kitty," called the Helper and, the tomcat slowly walked in, but the other
cat held back.
Then the man
Helper got behind the timid cat and gently pushed her in. "Say, Cat, don't
you want a good home?" he asked her and then she went in. The girl
accepted both of the cats and the Helpers were pleased. One Helper told the
little girl to go and get the dog, and she called him.
The dog came
in and the cats raised up their backs for fight. The Helper got the three
animals together and talked to them. I want you three to be good friends and
not fight," he said.
The dog lay
down and the cats lay down between his legs.
"What
do you think of that?" the girl said. "Why, he would kill every cat
he saw if he got a chance." The child was very happy to think the dog
would be friendly to her new pets.
The Group
Spirit of the cats thanked the Helpers and said, "Such service will never
go unrewarded."
Not long
after these same Helpers were sent to help a young goat that was about to be
killed. The people had a truck farm somewhere in Illinois and they were very
poor. They decided to kill their son's pet goat for food while the boy was
asleep. The boy was very fond of his pet and had allowed it to go into the
house. It was a brown and white kid ten months old. It was as affectionate as a
dog and followed the boy all over and understood what he said.
The Helpers
talked to the people and pleaded for the kid's life. One Helper told them that
conditions would be better for them in a few days and the kid would only make
about one good meal anyway. The people promised that they would not kill the
kid, and the Helpers disappeared from them. They were amazed at this, and the
Helpers knew that it would have a good effect on them for it would make them
keep their promIse.
Again, the
lady Helper looked for the Group Spirit of the goats, and he motioned for her
to go where he was. She went there and put her arms around this beautiful Group
Spirit and he let out his aura, which enveloped her and extended out a great
distance. The other Helper saw only the Group Spirit's bright aura for a
moment. The lady Helper was a very happy person at the end of the night. The
next morning both of these Helpers plainly remembered helping these animals and
contacting the Group Spirits.
The Group
Spirits have charge of the animals and they send out impulses to guide their
charges and influence them to do what is best for them. The spiritual impulses
are fed by the Group Spirits and they in turn send out impulses to the animals
to try to have them do better. Thus the animals are guided from without as we
were long ago before our egos became indwelling.
The Group
Spirits are very wise beings that belong to a different evolution than ours.
They look like Archangels except that they have heads that resemble the animals
that are under their charge. These Group Spirits function in spiritual bodies
which are their lowest vehicles. The Group Spirits that have charge of the
birds gather their flocks of birds in the fall and compel them to migrate to
the south neither too early, nor too late to escape the winter's cold. They
direct their return in the spring, causing them to fly at just the proper
altitude, which differs for the different species.
The Group
Spirit of the beaver teaches his charges to build their dams across streams at
just the proper angle. The bees are taught to build their hexagon cells in
which to store their honey by their Group Spirits, and the snails are taught
how to fashion their houses in an accurate beautiful spiral by their Group
Spirit.
Animals do
seem to be showing the effects of the great spiritual influence that is at work
in the world. Here is a story that illustrates this. Some Helpers were in Asia
and they met a little Mongolian girl who had some very unusual pets. She had an
angora cat, a prairie wolf, four rabbits, and a pet snake that was about eight
feet long. They were all playing together and made a very strange and unusual
picture.
The Helpers
stopped and talked with the little girl, who was about ten years old. They
asked her where she got her pets. She said that she found the wolf when it was
a baby and carried it home and fed it and raised it and now it acts as a guard
for her. One day she found the snake and talked to it and it followed her home
and had stayed there ever since.
"A lady
gave me the cat when it was a kitten," the little girl said. "One
day. it had a fight with the wolf and the snake, but I told them to be good to
the cat and the fight stopped and now they are friends. The rabbits were left
by the papa and mamma rabbit. I keep my pets all in the shed and they do not
fight any more but they will not allow anyone to come into our garden at
night."
The little
girl went on to say that one thing she liked about her pets was that they do
not let her mamma spank her if she can get to them first, for they always take
her part in any trouble. "Once when my mamma was spanking me for something
I had done," she said, "I called the wolf and he jumped right through
the window and went for my mamma. I had to plead hard for my pet's life, for my
father was going to kill him. It was my fault and I told them so, and they
finally consented to let him alone, and I was happy again."
The child
told the Helpers that when the other children fight her she either calls the
cat or the shake and they chase them away. One Helper asked the little girl if
she didn't like dolls.
"Yes,
but my playmates come first for I can make them do tricks," he said. Then
she showed the interested Helpers what her pets could do. She got on the wolf's
back and rode him about the yard. She made the snake lift himself up, hiss as
snakes do, and coil himself up. Then she called the angora cat and made the cat
sit up, walk on three legs, jump, etc. She even had the rabbits do tricks. She
had them wrestle and box and jump over a rope.
One Helper
told the little girl that she was not afraid of her pets and she went up to the
wolf and began to scratch his head and he lay down and flattened out and was
perfectly contented. She rubbed the big snake next and he coiled up and
straightened out as if he was pleased. It looked as if he were laughing. Then
the Helper saw the snake's fangs and knew that he was a very poisonous snake.
The cat came up to be petted, and then the rabbits came up for their share of
attention.
The child's
parents came out and looked on and the Helpers talked to them about the child
and her pets. The father and mother said that they had to watch her at bedtime
so she wouldn't take any of her pets to bed with her for company. Once they
found the wolf in her bed, and another time they found the snake there, and
this nearly frightened the mother to death. The mother said that she was afraid
of the wolf and the snake and feared that these creatures would turn on her and
injure her.
One Helper
contacted the Group Spirit of the wolf and asked him about these pets. The
Group Spirit said that the wolf and the snake would not harm anyone in the
family if they were kindly treated. "The only drawback is that the snake
and the wolf may some day seek mates and bring them here and have their
families," he said, "and then the people would have to get rid of the
new comers."
I think that
you will agree with me that this child has an odd assortment of pets and that
it is strange that they live peaceably together. Here is a case where a little
child is leading them just as Isaiah foretold hundreds of years ago.
One time some
Helpers were sent to a lady who lived in the northern part of the United States
to help her, as she was praying very earnestly for someone to come and help
her.
The weather
was extremely cold and she was sick in bed and could not get up, and her
husband was away in a lumber camp. The sick lady told the Helpers her troubles
and worries. She said that she had sent her little six-year old daughter to her
neighbors to ask her to come and help her. The little girl had started off at
about 8 o'clock and it was then about 3 o'clock in the morning and she had not
returned home, and her mother was nearly crazy from fear and from her illness.
The Helpers
saw four wolves at the door of the house howling. They had rushed past them to
find the mother, who had dragged herself out of bed and was trying to dress so
that she could go and look for her child, for great is a mother's love and she
knows no danger.
When the
mother saw the Helpers in her house her first thought was of her child.
"Go get my daughter before I die," she gasped, "for if the
wolves get her I will die."
The Helpers
then asked the mother where her child was and she told them where she had sent
the child at about 8 o'clock that evening. One Helper stirred up the fire,
which was low, and put on more fuel and got it well started. He put the sick
woman back in her bed and told the lady Helper to stay there until he found the
child.
"No, I
want to go with you," she said. "Those wolves may get you and if you
must go let me go and help you." You see she forgot that when Helpers are
out of their bodies nothing can injure them. It takes Helpers a very long time
to learn this.
The man
Helper saw that his companion was determined to go along, so he wrapped the
woman tightly in bed so that she could not get out and then the Helpers set out
to look for the child.
They went to
a house about a mile away and woke up the people who lived there and told them
about the sick woman and the lost child. They said that they had not seen the
child. The two men got up and dressed, and took their rifles with them and went
to look for the child. One woman went to the sick lady's home to help her. The
Helpers had told the people about the four wolves which had left the house when
they started away to get help.
The Helpers
disappeared and went up into the air so that they could see better, and they
soon saw two large fat black bears. They went down to help them for they
thought that they were in a trap. They found the child between them fast
asleep. The bears were also sound asleep. They had their fore feet together
over the child's head and their hind feet at the child's feet and they were
close to her to keep her warm.
The man
Helper touched one of the bears. "Mr. Bear, wake up," he said, and
the bear growled. "Listen, Bear, I don't want any trouble," the
Helper continued, "Just let me have the child and wake up," he said.
The bear
turned over and looked at the Helper and growled fiercely and then jumped up.
This sudden movement awakened the other bear and the child, and the second bear
growled.
"Mrs.
Lady Bear," said the Helper stepping back, "you had better make your
husband keep still for I do not want him to make any trouble. I am his friend
and am telling him so."
The lady
bear whined something and the large bear got between the child and the Helper.
The Helper told him to move over but he would not. The lady Helper tried to get
the child but the lady bear would not let her have the child, and the child
went closer to the lady bear to keep warm for it was a bitter cold night and
she was still very sleepy.
The Helper
saw at once that they would have trouble in getting the child unless they got
help. He called to the Group Spirit of the bears and asked him to help them.
If the
Helper could have taken the child without waking the bears he would have done
so. He could not because she was locked between them and in clutching after her
their claws would have cut the child badly.
The Group
Spirit explained why the bears stole the child. He said the bears wanted
children and could not have any because in their previous life they had killed
their young. So they took the little girl and would have kept her until she
should be found killed by other animals or starved or froze to death.
The Helpers
found the child about half a mile from her home. The bears followed the Helpers
when they took the child to her home. When they got there, the Helpers let the
bears into the house and shut them up in the kitchen. One Helper went out in
the yard and rang the bell to call the searchers in as they had promised to do.
When the men
came, one of the Helpers told them about the bears and told them that the bears
would not hurt them and that they were not to bother the bears. The men looked
much surprised and said that the would let the bears alone. "I shot four
wolves and I will get a bounty for them," said one of the men.
One Helper
asked the child where she met the bears.
"I was
going along, and the two bears came to me and one picked me up and carried me
off into the woods," she said.
"I
tried to get away but then I became tired find went to asleep and then you came
and got me.
"How
strange," said one of the neighbors.
One Helper
told the people that the bears would stay there and be near the little girl and
would not harm anyone that did not bother them and that they would become pets
of the child, and would follow her about, and would see that no harm came to
her.
The child's
mother hid a very severe cold and a fever and almost had pneumonia. She had a
nice home but she had no home remedies to doctor herself with. She had money
and plenty of food and fuel in the house. The Helpers worked on her, and one of
them told her that she would be all right in one day or two.
"I want
my husband to come home," the sick lady said.
"He
will be home for Christmas, the Helper assured her. He then took the lady's
hand in his and sent a thought for her husband to come home. After that he told
the lady that her husband would be home either on Sunday or, early Monday
morning.
The people
wanted to know who the Helpers were and where they came from, and the Helper
told them of their work and how they go about helping people.
"How
strange!" someone said again.
Then the
lady Helper opened the door and called the two black bears in and told them to
be good and not harm anybody or anything and to always obey the people who live
in that house. "You can go about in the woods but always come home,"
she said.
The child
went up to the bear's and they lay down, as gentle as lambs. The Helper asked
the child's mother to go up to them and she did and they looked at her in a
friendly fashion, and stood up. She petted them as they lay down again. The
Helper told the mother that these bears would not harm her or her family or her
kind neighbors but that other animals in the woods would harm them. After that
the Helpers left and went on with their work.
Three days
later the Helpers returned to see the sick lady where they had left the two
bears. Her husband was home and he was much pleased to see the Helpers who had
helped his family. "I will build the bears a house in the back yard,"
he said. "One day the bears went away and my little girl cried because she
was afraid they would not come back; but they came back before dark and
scratched on the back door and I let them in. They are so big that they take up
most of the room in the kitchen."
The wife
spoke up and said that she told the bears to stay on the back porch until they
could get a house made for them.
"What
shall we feed the bears?" she asked the Helpers.
"At
present let them get their own food but gradually give them what you eat,"
he said, "only do not give them any meat. They will eat bread, cake,
potatoes, corn, and other vegetables, etc."
The husband
thanked the Helpers and they went on.
One day two
Helpers went to New Zealand to see a baby that they had helped to come into the
world. The mother and the baby were fine. The lady showed the Helpers her pets.
She had several large rabbits. The Helpers each picked up a rabbit and petted
and admired it.
The family
dog had made friends with a skunk and they were both pets. One Helper asked the
owner how the dog happened to take up with the skunk.
"I
guess the dog got lonesome," she said, "and went where the skunk was,
and made friends with it. Then my husband made an apartment house for all of
them. They all sleep under the same roof, but in different apartments, and they
never fight. They will not allow any other animals to come around and they will
follow me about the town if I will let them."
When the
Helpers left they watched the dog and the skunk from above for a while. They
were walking along a pathway in a friendly way. The skunk looked much like a
black cat with a little white around its head. The dog was almost all white and
had short hair. He was much larger than the skunk but it was easy to see that
they were good friends.
Here is one
of the most remarkable stories that I have ever heard about a child and wild
animals, and you will realize what can be done in the future.
Some Helpers
went to the northern part of South America to help some white people who lived
in an outpost in a garrison on the edge of the jungles. The weather was very warm
and the children were playing inside the yard by electric light. It was early
in the morning, and the people were up.
One of the
children had a mountain lion and was playing with it. One child had a pet
monkey, another had a hairless dog. The fourth child had a strange animal that
the Helpers could not identify. This animal was about the size of a police dog.
The children and the animals all played together. The monkey was riding on the
backs of all of them. One of the Helpers was so amazed at these animals that he
had to take a good look to make sure just what was going on, for he was much
surprised. He asked the girl who had the mountain lion to line the animals up
side by side.
"Oh, we
do that all the time," she said, "in playing soldiers. They are the
cavalry." She called each animal by name and they came to her. "We
are going to play soldiers, so you line up," she told them.
The animals
lined up and the monkey got in front like a captain. "Forward march!"
the little girl said, and they went forward. "Trot," she said, and
they trotted along. "Break ranks," she ordered, and they walked every
which way but kept near each other. "Attention, forward, march!" the
little girl said, and the animals obeyed perfectly.
"Where
did you learn all this?" asked the man Helper of the girl.
"I
learned it from father, who is the captain here and from another man who drills
the men here,' she answered.
The child's
father came out to meet the strangers, and the man Helper asked him where he
got such an assortment of playmates for the children.
"That
is nothing strange," the man replied. The people in the jungles have all
sorts of pets from snakes to monkeys. Most of them want lions and catamounts. I
would take you to the chief's house, but it is dangerous to go there in the
dark and we would surely get killed."
The Helpers
talked to this man and he told them just where they were and what his work was.
"Where can we find the local Indian Chief?" one of them asked.
The man told
the Helpers where to find him and then told them to wait until daylight for he
had a detachment going to him that morning. The Helpers told the captain that
they could not wait and had to go. The captain was very friendly and he told
the Helpers more about the children. "Nearly all of the white children
have some kind of wild animal for a pet and their pets protect them when they
go out. No one here kills the wild animals unless they attack first, but the
jungles are dangerous all the time."
"Do not
get off the path to make a short cut," the captain said, "for you may
step into a hole or trap and be killed."
"All
right, thank you," said the Helpers and they started off.
When they
got outside of the gate they dematerialized and went to the chief's hut. They
found him drinking tea and smoking. They spoke to him and he grunted a greeting
to them. The man Helper told him what they had come for.
Do you think
I am going to call my children up to show you that they will mind me?" the
chief asked.
"I do
not mean your children or anyone else's children," the Helper said.
"I mean the animals."
"Hm!" the chief exclaimed. "Are not the animals our younger
brothers?" and the Helper said, "Yes."
"Were
you not told that I am the chief?" and the Helper said, "Yes."
"Then
the animals are my children," the chief said.
The chief's
voice woke up his daughter and she came into the room dressed in a very pretty
pajama suit and she looked to be about twenty-five years old. She spoke to the
strangers in excellent English.
The Helpers
told her what they wanted and she asked her father to call the animals so that
the strangers could see that they obey. The chief let out two yells and it
looked as if all the beasts and reptiles in the jungle came to him. There were
even alligators and crocodiles among them. The chief told the animals and
reptiles to form a half circle with the largest in the back, and the animals
did just as they were told. Just then the chief's daughter began to rock to and
fro as if about to fall. Then one Helper sprang and caught her.
"Oh,
since I have been away to school in the United States America, these things
frighten me to death," she said. "Please tell my father to send them
away. I thought he was only going to call one or two. The children have some of
the worst ones for pets and they take great joy in frightening me with
them."
"Why
don't you live in town instead of here?" the Helper asked.
"I love
my parents," the Indian lady said," and I am teaching the children
and the adults and I love my work. None of the animals, or reptiles ever bother
me but they follow me around if I don't drive them away."
There were
many different species of animals near the chief. The lady Helper kept near
her companion for she was afraid of the animals, too. "Go among them and
make friends with them," he suggested and she just looked at him.
"You don't need to go unless you wish," he said. She did not wish to
go, and remained there.
The other
Helper went up to a curious animal that he was unfamiliar with and looked at it
carefully. It looked as if it had a tail on both ends of its body. He asked the
chief what it was.
"He
eats ants and insects and is harmless," the chief said. "Nothing
hurts it, for it eats ants off of anything. We call him the benefactor of the
animals, but man has another name for him." When the man Helper started to
go farther in among the animals the lady Helper called him back.
"Go to
sleep," the chief said to the animals. "I am sorry that I woke you
up. Be good." The animals then went away.
"Do
white men ever come into the jungle?" the man Helper asked the Indian
girl.
"Yes,
sometimes a traveler will attempt to go through, the jungle alone, but he never
gets out, for he is killed by some of the animals or snakes," she
answered. "The local people do not disturb the animals unless they do something
to them."
The Helpers
did not meet the girl's mother. "Come again," said the chief, and he
went on smoking his pipe.
"Goodbye," said the Helpers and they went away.
This story
gives us a better insight on what is going on in strange places on the earth.
There are things that we cannot understand. We do not seem to realize some of
the fundamental facts of life. The animals are our younger brothers and they
are evolving just as we are. The Angels and the Group Spirits are caring for
them and the animals do feel the spiritual impulse that is radiating from the
Earth.
We respond a
little, but we should respond much more than we do. One reason why our bodies
are not more sensitized to that we can contact the inner worlds, and why we are
not more receptive to the higher teachings, is because we eat meat. We eat our
younger brothers.
Most people
do not like to be advised and they resent friendly advice. They are not willing
to give up the eating of meat, and the drinking and smoking habits that they
have carelessly formed. They are too prejudiced and hateful to others. When
they find out that they will be reborn again and again they say to themselves,
"I will not be in a hurry to study a philosophy that demands that I give
up my pleasures. I will enjoy myself a little longer and some other time I will
do better."
One night a
Group Spirit directed two Invisible Helpers to a horse that had stumbled and
broken his leg. The Helpers wondered where the owner lived and the Group Spirit
told them. They went and got the man and took him to the poor horse and, he
shot him, for there was no way for the horse to get well and he was better off
dead.
The Helpers
then carried the horse in his desire body off to the Desire World and the Group
Spirit thanked them for their help. The Group Spirit of the horse has a human
body and a horse's head. When the Helpers looked at him closely they could see
the body of the horse extending back from his shoulders and the man part seemed
to fade away, and one seemed to be looking at a real horse.
When the
Helper remembered this the next morning she remembered her great astonishment
for it seemed as if she saw a beautiful brown horse and that he walked up the
steps to the door of the house and talked to them. What really happened was
that her spiritual sight was extended while she was out of her body in sleep
and it appeared as if the Group Spirit of the horse was with them.
The Group
Spirits are very interesting. The Group Spirit of a cat has the same attitude
that the cat has. He looks and acts like a cat. The Group Spirit of the hooded
cobra has a human body and a snake's head. The Group Spirit of the canary is
the size of a human being and has a head that looks like the head of a canary,
and his disposition is gentle and friendly.
We know that
the eagle is a proud bird. Well, the Group Spirit that controls the eagles is
also proud. The survival of the fittest is the rule of the animal world, and
the Group Spirit of each species does his best to care for his charges.
One night
some Helpers talked with one of these Group Spirits who is a friend, and they
asked him about the other Group Spirits. He said that the most vicious and
deadly of the animals are the lowest in evolution and the farthest from man,
but all can be controlled by man. The domestic animals have been under man's influence
for centuries and have become much like him in their ways. Some of them have
reached the place where they are being held back until they can get human
forms.
"Do
these advanced animals sleep during this long period?" asked one of the
Helpers.
"Oh,
no. They are working on their future bodies," said the Group Spirit.
"The reason man can not tame the wild things of the hills and jungles is
because he has never had enough of them in captivity to check some of the Group
Spirit's influence over them and insert his own influence. It is man's good
influence and kindness that tames and helps the animals to progress, and it is
man's evil influence that he emanates that unconsciously starts the impulse
that causes the animals to attack man, for man is prone to kill."
"After
the changes take place on the Earth," the Group Spirit said, "animals
of all kinds will soon be tamed by man. The animals that are left will be in
pairs of all kinds, and different people will have different kinds of pets. For
instance, a child may have a pair of lions. Another child may have a pair of
cobras, or pythons, or tigers, etc. These animals will always be well able to
care for themselves."
The Helpers
then looked at several Group Spirits and especially noticed those that they had
contacted in the course of their work. They saw the Group Spirits that have
charge of the pythons, the tigers, the lions, and the polar bears. The Group
Spirit of the polar bear acted vicious and looked hard at the Helpers. Whenever
they moved he moved until one of the Helpers spoke and then he and the other
Group Spirits became friendly. The Helpers promised that they would help their
charges whenever they could.
The Group
Spirits of the smaller birds such as the robin, dove, sparrow, and canary where
especially friendly, but the one in charge of the buzzard was not. The Group
Spirit is like the animals he governs in action, disposition, etc. These Group
Spirits surely are most remarkable beings, and it gives the Helpers great joy
to contact and work with them at times.
Birds belong
to the animal kingdom, and love and care will greatly aid them in their
evolution. Here is the story of a very intelligent crow that some Helpers once
saw in India. He was owned by an elderly lady who lived in a house near a
summer resort. She and her family were English people and she had brought the
crow with her when she came to this city. It was a young bird then. She treated
it like a child and it responded to her love and care and could almost talk.
This lady
gave two programs every day and three on Sunday with her crow and charged
fifteen cents of the money of that country. The Helpers were present at one of
these programs and were amazed at what this pet crow could do.
He could
count, add, subtract, and do simple problems in arithmetic. He could jump, hop
on one foot, lie down on his back, go to bed and pull his cover up with his
bill. The lady had a little case in which she carried him for safety, and he
would lie perfectly quiet in it.
The lady
Helper was charmed with this crow and began to talk to him, and he answered her
the best he could in his way of talking. She asked the owner if she might put
the crow to bed and was given permission, but he made so much noise that the
Helper told him to come to her. He flew on her right shoulder and stayed there
until the Helpers left. The Helper also held this crow in her hands and talked
to him and he answered her the best he could.
"Your
crow will not need to come back again as a crow," said the lady Helper.
"You have developed him up to the place where he will not need a crow body
any more.
The owner
was pleased at what the Helper told her. "I would rather have the crow
with me than my children," she said. "I feel rested when I am holding
him and loving him."
Then the
Helper looked up and saw the Group Spirit of the crow. He looked like a very
fine looking man with the etheric body of a crow behind him. He thanked the
Helper for giving the lady further instructions about how to care for the crow
and how to feed him to put the finishing touches to his development. This Group
Spirit said that they all spread their blessing on all who in any way help
their charges, and he gave this Helper his blessing and made her extremely
happy.
The lady had
a number of relatives who had lost their money and were dependent upon her. She
supported her whole family with the money that she made by exhibiting her crow.
At the beginning of the show a woman came in and bought twelve tickets and gave
her a handful of metal coins and she was very grateful. After she saw what the
crow could do, the woman went away. Then she returned and went up to the lady
who owned the crow.
"Anyone
who will take as much time as you have taken to teach a crow must be good and
need help," she said. She then took a little sack of money out of the
front of her dress, and gave it to the lady. The lady joyfully thanked her for
her great kindness.
The Helpers
went home with the lady to guard her and talk to her. They entered her little
house and saw the family assembled in the dining room waiting for her. The lady
Helper assisted her in serving the dinner and carried some meat to the table.
The lady did not eat meat, but the family did.
The lady
wanted to know who the Helpers were and where they came from. They told her of
their work, and of their teachings, and she accepted the new ideas at once. She
said that a lot of fakers had been to her to buy her crow and some of them had
tried to steal him, but that she had always managed to keep him.
"Never
sell your pet and no one will ever get him away from you," said the
Helper, "although they may try."
The lady
asked the Helpers to come and see her whenever they could and she told them her
name.
One night
two Invisible Helpers were sent to help a sick polar bear in the far north.
First they saw the family which consisted of the father and mother bear and
four cubs. Two of the cubs were much larger than the other two. The young fat
bears were that year's children, while the other two cubs had been born the
previous year, but they were still being cared for by the parents.
The father
bear had been sick. He was moving about but was weak and unable to hunt for
food. The Helpers massaged his stomach and before long he became quite frisky.
The mother bear growled and the Helpers told him to out and look for some food
to eat and he lumbered off. The bear family were in a natural cave in the ice.
Then the
Helpers looked for the Group Spirit of the polar bears and they saw a stout man
of medium size with a well formed body and a head and face like a bear. He had
a beautiful etheric polar bear body behind him. He talked to the Helpers and
was very kind to them. He thanked them for all the help they had given his
charges in the past. He told them that there is not much to be learned about
the Group Spirits of the animals. They direct their charges and have a free
access to the world of Life Spirit where they can get all the knowledge that
they need. Then the Group Spirit of the polar bears put his hand on the lady
Helper and said to her, "Blessed are the ones who help their younger
brothers for their reward is great."
It seems to
me that if all men realized this that they would be more kind to the wild
animals that they contact in field and forest. Yet we are living in an age
where hunting for sport is still practiced by men who little realize the sorrow
that they are causing the animals and the Group Spirits that have charge of
them. They are also deadening their finer feelings and piling up karma for
themselves which will have to be settled for at some time in the future.
One winter
night some Helpers were sent to a house where a little canary had been burned
by his owner. The woman was an irritable, nervous person. The bird's cage was
hanging from the ceiling and the little bird felt like singing. The woman felt
cross and nervous and she told her bird to keep still and because he didn't she
took a cup of boiling water and threw it on him and went off and lay down.
The Group
Spirit told the Helpers to take the injured bird away and he showed them where
to take it. One Helper opened the door of the cage and took the poor bird out.
He was about to fall off his perch and would have died from his injuries if he
had not been healed by the Helpers. They were given this ability when they were
sent out to help all in trouble. Some of the canary's feathers fell out anyway.
The Helpers
carried the little canary to the next town and they were directed to a certain
house. They knocked on the door, and a lady came to the door. "Would you
like a little bird?" the lady Helper said to her.
"Yes,
yes, give it to me," the lady said. "Oh! He has been hurt.
The Helpers
told her what had happened to the canary and said that he would be all right.
The lady took him and put him in a cage with her little mother bird and they
became friends right away. "I have been wishing that I could have a little
mate for my bird," she said to the strangers.
The lady was
delighted to have him and thanked the Helpers, who then went away happy because
they had saved the little canary's life and found a home for him with a lady
who really loved birds.
Both of the
Helpers remembered this plainly the next morning, and they were thrilled by the
thought of seeing the Group Spirit of the canaries. His desire body was shaped
like a bird and extended beyond what looked like a man's physical body.
Several
months later these same Helpers stopped at this lady's home to see this canary.
They found that the lady had raised six young canaries and that three of them
were singers. When the Helpers went up to see the papa and mamma, birds and
their family they all made so much noise that the owner and her husband got out
of bed to see what the trouble was.
When they
saw the Helpers they got down on their knees and bowed their heads, thinking
they were in the presence of Angels. One Helper told the people to get up and
explained their work to them. They wanted to know why she was so bright and
seemed like an Angel and how they got into the house. The lady Helper told them
about the soul body and how to develop it.
The people
were much interested and said that they would like to be able to go about
helping, too. They invited the Helpers to come and see them often.
During some
floods in the south some Invisible Helpers were working to help the people to
get food. They saw some cows and pigs on a small hill surrounded by water.
These animals were very hungry and the Helpers were anxious to get them to the
mainland so that they could get something to eat.
They found
that it was hard to get them to move so they called to both Group Spirits and
asked them to give these animals the impulse to follow them. They promised that
they would take the hungry animals to dry land.
"Yes,
we will do what we can, but our charges are very weak and may drown," the
Group Spirits said.
The Helpers
got the cows together and one of them told them to follow the lady Helper. He
then went behind the cows and they managed to get across the water safely. One
of the cows became exhausted and the Helper held her head above water and
carried her to land. The Helpers got some food for the hungry cows and left
them eating and went back to get the pigs.
They had a
great deal of trouble with the pigs, for they were poor swimmers. Finally, they
got all the pigs across the water. The Group Spirit of the pigs then said that
he could take care of them now that they were near food and they ran off to
find their breakfast.
The Group
Spirit of the pigs looked like a man with a pig's head, and the Group Spirit of
the cows had a head just like a cow's but a body like a man's. They were kind
to the Helpers.
"My
charges are progressing very slowly now," said the Group Spirit of the
cows. "The cows do not get very much experience in an incarnation, and the
bulls do not learn as much now as they did in olden times when man put them to
work. The cows and pigs remain only about a year in the Desire World after
death, and are then allowed to return in a new body in order that they may get
new experiences to forward their evolution."
One of these
Group Spirits told the Helpers that their charges have had much experience in
the past and that their time is nearly up. The horses are very advanced
animals. "In a little while man will no longer need them and they will be
held out of incarnation until the mammals reach the human stage. People will
then be one step ahead, and they will function in vital bodies instead of dense
ones.
Some Helpers
were going along and saw a little, boy and a frog on the shore of a pond. They
were soaking wet, for the boy had fallen into the pond and his dog had rescued
him from death in the icy water. It was a cold day, and they were very cold and
all tired out.
The Helpers
carried the boy home and one Helper assisted his mother while she changed his
clothes to keep him from catching cold; The lady Helper took the dog into the
kitchen and wiped him dry with some clean rags that the boy's mother gave her.
She then took the bags and the bath towels outdoors and hung them on a clothes
line to freeze dry.
The Group
Spirit of the dog came down to thank the Helper for what she had done. He
looked like a fine large dog with short brown hair. He had a very intelligent
face. He was above the Helper and reached toward her and she put her arms
around him and petted him. She was very excited and delighted beyond words to
contact this marvelous Group Spirit. He was like an Angel with a beautiful
dog's head an about human size. The Helpers had met this Group Spirit before in
their work and he recognized her. This friendly Group Spirit also blessed this
Helper and this made her very happy.
The boy's
mother asked the man Helper who the lady was and he told her about the Helper
and her work with people and animals.
"I wish
I were like her," the lady said. "My humdrum life is very bad. My
husband leaves home before daylight and gets home about three o'clock in the
afternoon. We go to bed early and life is dreary for all of us. My husband is
afraid to quit, as work is hard to find."
The Helpers
told this lady about their teachings and where to get information, She wrote it
down and said that she would write. "My little boy is six years old,"
the lady said. "He always gets up when we do and takes his dog and walks a
little way with his father every day."
They had to
pass a pond and that morning the boy just had to slide on the ice, and it gave
way with him and he fell into the icy water. His devoted dog managed to tow him
to shore. The boy had been given some hot lemonade and was asleep by this time
and the dog was warm and dry and sleeping beside the stove. The Helpers left
the mother very happy.
The Group
Spirit of the dogs had an etheric dog body sticking out in back of him, and the
Helper saw it with her spiritual sight. This body started where his head joined
the body. All Group Spirits have the etheric body of the species they rule.
All animals
are subject to spiritual influences for they are all guided by their Group
Spirits and by the Angels that are in charge of them. We are told that most of
the animals have an internal picture consciousness similar to the dream state
in man. In The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception we read the following:
"When such an animal is confronted by an object, a picture is perceived
within, accompanied by a strong impression that the object is inimical or
beneficial to its welfare. If the feeling is one of fear, it is associated with
a suggestion from the Group Spirit how to escape the threatened danger. This
negative State of consciousness renders it easy for the Group Spirit to guide
the dense bodies of its charges by suggestion, as the animals have no will of
their own."
While some
students were in the Hall of Learning, which is a school in the Etheric World,
one of them asked the teacher if a dog sees a panorama of its life when it dies
as human beings do.
"Yes," he said. "All living things have this panorama and are
judged accordingly." The students were allowed to view some happenings in
the Memory of Nature, which is the Book of Life. Here they saw the lives of two
dogs, a lap dog and an alley dog.
The lap dog
was questioned first. He was asked what he did for his progression and
spiritual advancement.
"Nothing," he said. "My mistress kept me in the house and only
allowed me out when she took me for a walk and I had a chain on me. I could not
run about as other dogs do. She gave me a fine bed and good food, but I only
had a few bones. I liked them the best of all my food. I could not hide
anything. When I chewed the chairs or table legs to sharpen my teeth she
spanked me.
"She
gave me a bath three times a week. She taught me to sit up on my hind legs and
bark. She would not let me bite anybody or chase cats. I slept most of the time
and I never did feel good. Ever so often, my mistress took me to a man who
would feel me over and say I was constipated. He would force some disagreeable
water into my mouth. After a while I would feel all right for a time. When my
mistress went away I would be terribly lonesome.
"One
day she took me to this man again. I felt so bad that I did not care where she took
me or what was done. The man stuck something in me and put me to bed. The bed
was not like the one I had at home, for I could not get out. Then I came
here."
"Do you
want to go back there?" asked the Group Spirit of this dog.
"No," said the dog, and the scene closed.
Then the
students saw the life of an alley dog which had been killed by an automobile.
After this dog had viewed his life the Group Spirit asked him what he had done
for his advancement.
"I do
not know," the dog said. "I was taken away from my mother when I was
very young and carried so far away that I could not find my way back to her. I
then had to take care of myself the best I could. Many nights I went to sleep
hungry and dreamed that I bad plenty of nice bones and that I saved some of
them.
"One
day I was going down an alley and I saw a person all dressed up (a woman)
putting into a round thing something that smelled like food. After she was gone
I went up and smelled it. I wanted to get the food, but the can was too big. I
then jumped into the can and ate all I wanted. Then I tried to get out. Every
time I jumped up I fell back again. I became afraid, for I did not know when I
would get out. Then I wondered if I would get like some others like me that I
had seen about in different places that could not move but smelled bad.
"I
stayed in the round thing until I could not see, and I went to sleep and
dreamed of many things. Then I could see again and some person came and saw me.
She beat me and pushed the round thing over and I ran away crying from the
injury that I had received. I knew that I must not get in the round things as I
was too little to get out and that I must find a way to lay the round thing
down. Then I could go in and back out as I saw lots of other dogs do.
"I saw
many little people (boys) whose legs were free and they threw hard things
(rocks) at me and they hurt me. I kept away from them. The people whose legs
were covered up (woman were usually nice to me. I saw a little person all
covered up (baby) crawling in the place (road) where those things that run very
fast with that bad smelling stuff coming from the back (auto). One came toward
it and I ran out and pulled it but of the way. (He saved the baby's life). A
big covered up person began crying out loud and I became frightened and ran
away, but the little person was all right.
"Then I
met a big one like me and we became friends and he taught, me many things. He
told me how to get into the round things (garbage cans). He told me the
difference between a man, a woman, and a child and how to tell the mean ones
from the good ones. He told me that I had to fight to live. He also told me
that dogs who had no names and no friends were called alley dogs. He told me
that some dogs were too big for me to fight and that if I tried it I would be
badly hurt. I never wanted to hurt anything.
"Then
my friend told me about cats and showed me one and told me to keep away from
their front feet, as they could hurt one very badly. One day my friend showed
me a long thing (snake) that looked as if it slid on the ground. It started
after me and I ran away. My friend ran to it and got hold of it and shook it
until it stopped moving. I went back and looked at it and I felt funny. I asked
him what it was and he said that it was a snake. He told me to stay away from
them if they were big and unless I felt that I could make them be quiet.
"Life
then began to be very happy for me, for my friend kept a big dog off of me. One
day my friend ate something and he told me that he felt bad and wanted some
water. We found some and we drank. He told me to watch everything and he went
to sleep (died). Then I saw him twice in the same place. I could see through
one of his bodies but the other I could not.
"Then a
lot of people came and said, "We've got him." I ran away and never
saw him again. Then my life was harder, but I could take care of myself and
tell other dogs what to do.
"One
day some boys found me and threw rocks at me. I ran out into the street and one
of those things (autos) ran over me and I came here after I saw all I ever did
in my life."
The Group
Spirit asked this dog if he would like to live the life over again.
"Yes," he said. "I do not want to be like some dogs I have seen
with chains on them and with people."
"Well
done," said the Group Spirit, and the scene changed.
The animals
have been placed on earth for experience and they are being helped much as we
are. The Group Spirit guides the movements of each animal and helps it to provide
food for itself and others.
Each animal,
or group of animals, has an Angel who watches over the animal. This Angel is
present at the birth of the animal and is near when danger threatens. When the
animal dies the Angel either carries the desire body and the spirit of the
animal away or some Invisible Helper does this. The Group Spirit does all in
his power to protect the animal. When the animal is injured or sick the Group
Spirit suffers. When an animal is killed or burned in a forest fire the Group Spirit
suffers.
I will now
tell you how some Helpers contacted the Group Spirit of a beautiful large
yellow angora cat. In the course of their work the Helpers were sent to help a
girl who was being badly treated by, her family. This family had a lady boarder
staying with them and she had a fine large cat. There was trouble over this cat
because he made them all respect him. It was rainy weather and the lady wished
to keep him in her room with her so that he would keep clean. Someone in the
family put him out and he got his fur all dirty walking around in the mud, but
he walked about with as much dignity as ever. The lady called him and gave him
a bath in a large pail of warm soft water and dried his fur carefully. Then he
was a beauty.
The Helpers
met the owner of the cat and they were told of her troubles. The lady Helper
suggested that she pay the lady of the house one dollar a month extra for the
cat's food, and the lady said that she would do it. The Helper talked to the
cat and told him that he must go to the door and scratch on it when he wanted
to go out.
She asked
the Group Spirit to have the cat do this and he said that the cat understood
and would do as she told him. The Group Spirit had a body like a human being
and a head like beautiful yellow cat. He also had another higher body extending
beyond the man's body that looked like a cat. It was interesting for the
Helpers to see the Group Spirit of this cat and the cat at the same time.
The family
were told that they would receive a dollar a month for the cat's food and they
were much pleased and they promised to treat the cat all right from then on.
One night a
few years ago some Helpers were going over the northern part of North America
and they saw two very pretty half- grown polar bears in a trap. Their hind feet
were badly swollen but when the Helpers went to them to let them loose they
showed fight.
The Helpers
called the Group Spirit and asked him to quiet the bears so that they could
help them. The bears became very gentle and the Helpers let them out and rubbed
their legs down. They got up and began to walk around. They tried to lick the
Helpers hands and rubbed against them in a friendly way as the Helpers played
with them. The Helpers looked up and the could see the Group Spirit of the bear
and he was pleased and said, "Thank you." His head looked like a
kindly white bear's.
He told the
Helpers of a man who was caught in his own trap and had been there six hours.
"If you hurry you may save him," he said.
The Helpers
hurried off to find the man, and the bears followed them as fast as they could.
The man in the trap was about a mile away from where the bears had been
imprisoned. When the young bears saw the man they became very fierce and they
wanted to get to him but the Helpers quieted them. They got the man out of the
trap and found that his left hand was broken at the wrist, and the hand was so
badly frostbitten that he might lose it.
The Helpers
asked the trapper where he lived and he said that he lived about five miles
away. The Helpers tried to get the bears carry the man, but they would not, so
they had to help him home. When the Helpers reached the house carrying the man
and followed by the two young polar bears, the men in the house wanted to shoot
the bears, but the Helpers would not let them. One Helper called the Group
Spirit of the Salamanders, or fire spirits, and told him to make the
Salamanders keep away from the bullets until they left.
The bears
followed the Helpers right into the house and the lady Helper made them sit
down in a corner while she and her partner worked on the injured man, who had
by then lost consciousness. Everybody kept out of the room where the bears
were. They just could not understand how the Helpers could handle the bears and
make them obey them.
A hunter
came in while the Helpers were there, and when he saw the bears he tried to
raise his gun, but be was shaking so much from fear that the gun fell to the
floor. Then the lady Helper went up to the bears and sat between them, and told
the man to pick up his gun and put it away as her friends there would not hurt
him.
Then the
Helpers explained their teachings to the people, and one man said that the
philosophy was good to know for then one could catch all the bears and seals
one would want and I them and soon get rich. The Helpers told them that it did
not work that way and that the animals are our younger brothers and that man
should protect and help them instead of murdering them for material gain. Then
the Helpers left and the bears followed, and finally the Helpers disappeared
from them and went on their way.
A few days
later these same Helpers went back to see the man who got his hand caught in
the trap. They found that he was much better but the skin was peeling off his
hands and feet and face where he had been frostbitten. The man Helper told the
man to grease his skin with vaseline or goose fat.
The people
were all very much interested in the lady Helper and asked her where her pets
were. "Oh, they are out in the woods somewhere," she said.
One man then
spoke up and said that he had a bear in a cage that she could not pet.
"The bear has a broken front foot," he said. "You may fix it or
do anything you can for it."
The Helpers
went to see it and when the lady Helper saw the poor bear's foot all swollen up
and hanging limp. She became angry and went to the cage and asked the man to
unlock the door as the bear would not hurt anyone.
"You
are crazy," said the man. "I can get five hundred dollars for him on
foot."
"This
is one five hundred dollars that you are not going to get," she said.
"If you do not open the door I will break it open."
"Go
ahead," said the man, for he didn't think she would try to.
She went up and
snatched the lock off and he raised his gun. The man Helper told this man to
put his gun down as it would not go off. He snapped it five times and it failed
to explode.
The Helper
then opened the door of the cage and went in and told the bear that she had
come to heal his foot and set him free. This bear was a full-grown polar bear
and he had a beautiful white fur coat. When the Helper turned his foot around
to set it, the bear moaned. She told him that it would be over in a few
minutes.
After the
Helper got the foot set, a ray of light went from her to the bear's foot and he
licked her hand and the people watched in open-eyed wonder and amazement She
then broke the chain off his neck and she and the bear walked out. The Group
Spirit of the polar bears spoke and thanked the Helper. The Helper started
toward the house and the bear followed her and she told him that she wanted him
to behave himself, and the Group Spirit said that the bear would.
When they
got to the house the Helper told the people that the bear would not hurt them.
She told him to sit down in a corner and he obeyed, and she told all the people
if they must trap bears and seals they should kill all animals that got injured
unless they could help them, and thus save them further suffering.
"If you
fail to do this you will never catch another one," she said.
"I want
my bear," the man said to her.
"No," she said. "Had you fixed the bear's foot I would have left
him alone; but since you just let him suffer I will set him free." Then
she went over and sat down in front of the bear and patted his head, and he
rubbed his head against her. The people were astonished at her.
The Helpers
went away with the bear and they led him far away and then disappeared from
him. He stopped in dismay and looked around as if to say, "Well!" and
then he lumbered on.
These
stories are real experiences and illustrate the type of work that is being done
by Invisible Helpers in cooperation with Higher Beings and the Group Spirits
who guide and direct the animals.
There is an
island away out in the Pacific Ocean somewhere where the local people keep a huge
snake with which they test out newcomers. If the snake bites the stranger he
gets no protection, but if the snake will obey the newcomer, they will bow down
before the stranger and accept him as a God or king.
One time two
Helpers were sent to this island on a second visit. During the first visit the
Helpers were brought before this huge snake and he obeyed them, and the people
were delighted. They gave the lady Helper the name of Lady Dove of the South
Seas.
When the
Helpers walked up to where the people were they took the lady Helper up and
set her on the throne and brought the big snake out again. He raised up to
strike her and then let himself down and crawled up to her and laid his head in
her lap. After that he raised up and looked at her kindly.
The lady
Helper called to her companion and he went up to her and they both saw the
Group Spirit of this snake. He was a very fierce looking being. "Peace be
unto you, my friends," he said. "You can command all my charges. Be
kind to them."
"How
many different species have you?" she asked.
"I have
charge of seven," he answered.
"May I
turn this snake loose?" she asked the Group Spirit.
"Yes," he said, "but put him back before you go."
The Helper
came down from her seat and told the snake to follow her and he did. When he
got out of his long cage he started after two or three people and she called
him back. The snake stood straight up and lay down and rolled over and over.
The Helper told him to behave and follow her.
The grown
people were afraid and kept at a distance but the children came up to the
Helper and patted the snake. The Helper visited several of the sick people and
shook hands with all of them. She asked the ruler of the tribe if he could
handle the snake.
"No," he said and he backed away from the Helpers.
"Then
you should not be king," she told him. "If we give you the rulership
over all the snakes on the island will you be good and kind to all the people
and treat them justly and let the young girls and women alone?"
"I do
not know, but I will try," he promised.
A very dark
skinned girl about eighteen years old then came nearer. "Lady Dove of the
South Seas, I will do what you ask. I will rule the people wisely and justly,
if you will teach me. He will not do it."
"My
Child," said the lady Helper, "you will do it but I must get
permission from a friend first." She called a Lay Sister and she soon came
and brought a high Lay Brother. They asked this pretty brown girl if she was
afraid of the snake or the king.
"I am
not afraid of man, beast, or God," she said.
"You
will do," said the Lay Sister, and she called the king and took the crown
off his head and put it on the girl. She then made the girl queen of the four
islands. The Lay Sister, spoke in a loud voice and everybody on the island
heard her and saw the girl by Jupiterian Consciousness. The people were told
that the man was no longer king and that all the people must obey the new queen
and that this order applied to the animals, reptiles, and birds as well as the
people.
The Lay
Sister put her hand on the girl's head. "Thank God, I now know who I
am," she said. At that instant she was given back her spiritual sight and
hearing. This girl in her previous life had been an Initiate of seven degrees.
She had agreed to come and help these people and she will soon lead them on the
upward path.
The girl
called the snake and he went to her and she sat down and he went and put his
head in her lap. Then the Helpers walked with her up to the throne and the lady
Helper told the snake to go back to his box and he did. The caretakers opened
the head end of the box and the snake came out and crawled up to the lady
Helper and put his head in her lap again and then went back into his cage.
The Helpers
told the former king to let the new queen alone and all the other women on the
islands and to take care of his family. He was warned that if he did not do
this he would meet an early death.
The new
queen ordered that all the slaves and prisoners were to be set free. She told
the people that all were brothers and sisters in spirit. She said that in the
future there would be no forced marriages of any kind. "I will visit the
islands every day to see that my orders are obeyed," she said.
Some men
wrote her orders down on skins and then they went to the four islands to read
them to the. She caused much happiness before she came down from her throne. As
she walked down she saw a small snake about to bite a child and she told him
not to do that. She picked the snake up and rubbed its head and sent it on its
way.
"She is
truly a queen like the queens of old," said someone.
The girl
queen knew that the Helpers were out of their bodies. This girl was a white man
in her past life and died in the United States almost fifty years ago. During
that life he had been to that island both in the body and out of it, for he was
a seafaring man. He knew many of the older people who were children then.
Some
Invisible Helpers once saw the Group Spirit of the sharks. They were over on
another island in the Pacific Ocean. Some people were out in the water
swimming with wide boards and a motor boat. It was early in the morning and
they were having a good time.
A school of
man-eating sharks got between the people and the shore and began to attack them
as the Helpers came up. One of the Helpers called the Group Spirit of the
sharks and told him to make the sharks obey her. She then walked out on the
water and called the sharks to her. About forty or fifty sharks came around her
and made a floor of their backs for her to stand on. This Helper called to the
people and told them to go to shore.
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Reference: The Work of Invisible Helpers, by Amber M. Tuttle
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