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Reading 1977-1

As has been given, it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

Reading 2399-1

It isn’t all of life to live, in one experience. For, life is continued; life itself is a consciousness, a gift of an infinite influence we may call God.

Thus does man comprehend that, it is in Him one lives and moves and has one’s being; and that we as individuals may be coworkers with Creative Forces or God, or we may become egotists and thus magnify self and self’s own abilities, self’s own purposes, to such measures as to become at variance to those creative forces. Thus we shut ourselves away from the real birthright of each soul—that is, to know its relationships to this creative force or energy, and the manners or means of manifesting same by and through its daily relationships with the fellowmen.

Reading 2147-1

There is no death when the entity or the real self is considered; only the change in the consciousness of being able to make application in the sphere of activity in which the entity finds self.

Reading 2397-1

It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For, each experience is by and through the grace of Him, the Giver of all that is good, all that is perfect; that His will may be made manifest in the purposes, the hopes, the ideals of each entity. For, He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with each temptation prepared a way, a manner through which each soul may become aware of its faults, its virtues; magnifying the virtues, minimizing the faults—that one may come to the perfect knowledge of one’s relationships to the creative influences—called God.

Reading 2842-2

If one will but take that ensample as was set in Him who made himself of no estate that He might gain the more. Using, then, this life as an ensample, one may apply—even as this entity may apply—these conditions in the earth’s experience and develop toward that mark of higher calling as is set in Him—for it is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die; for one is the beginning of the other, and in the midst of life one is in the midst of death—in death one begins in that birth into which the earthly application of the inmost intents and desires has been applied in respect to will’s forces, that given by the Creative Energy, that one might make self equal with that Energy.

Reading 2954-1

It is not all of life just to live, neither is it all of fame or fortune; for you have to live with yourself a long, long while.

Reading 2730-1

Keep the oneness of purpose; yet let these conditions ever be mindful to the entity: That it is not all of life to build material, nor all of death to die—in the high or low position, social, political or financial—but rather live the full life, ever being in that position of never asking anyone to do that which self would be ashamed for the mother to see self do.

Reading 3420-1

There is ever set before this entity daily (as each entity), good and evil, life and death. Life is growth. Death is as that separation or turning about, turning away from, or the opposite of growth.

Reading 1595-1

For as given of old, there is each day the opportunity. There is each day before thee life and death, good and evil.

Then know that there is oft a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death; death meaning in this sense confusion, disturbance, unstableness, unhappiness, and those things that go to make up such influences in the experience.

Reading 1432-1

But know the truth of that which was taught by those priests whom ye heard of old, and those upon whom you made many stripes for the announcing of their faith (or had it done) that “The Lord thy God is one!” Know that their law is true. While life and death are the opposites, they are constant companions one with another. Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual or creative forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

Reading 254-17

For God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth, and as has been made manifest in the flesh with all power, all knowledge. As has been said, man must overcome through the knowledge and association of that knowledge with God’s word made manifest in the flesh. The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death. See? Any who may seek knowledge is seeking the greatest gifts of the gods of the universe, and in using such knowledge to worship God renders a service to fellowman . . .

Reading 2282-1

Know that these are in keeping. Be thou faithful unto that time when ye may be called into the broader, the greater service. For there is not death, to those who love the Lord; only the entering into God’s other chamber . . .

Hence in material manifestation the entity finds an interest in things and conditions that may be spoken of as concerning psychic or spiritual things. Let the greater interpretation of the word psychic to the self, to the souls of men, be rather as the soul forces of men than their disincarnate beings! For, as ye live and move and have thy being in and through the grace of the Creator, so may it indeed be true that whether ye live or whether ye pass into the other chambers of God’s universe, ye are indeed His!

Keep ever before thee, then, the realization that “I am His; He is mine—if I keep His ways bright before my fellowmen.”

These are the promises, then, which He so easily and so well gave, “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments, and I and the Father will come and abide with thee. Lo, I am with you always, even unto the ends of the world.”

It is not the end, then, because we pass from one room to another, from one consciousness to another. For, so is it proclaimed in that promise. Though we live in the physical consciousness, we pass—as this entity has oft—into those consciousnesses of Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; for these are but stepping stones to the greater consciousness which He would have each soul attain in its relationships with and usage of its fellowmen.

Reading 3357-1

We find that the astrological aspects mean little to the entity, yet they each have their place, which—as indicated—is relative. No urge exceeds the will of the individual entity, that gift from and of the Creative Forces that separates man, even the Son of man, from the rest of creation. Thus it is made to be ever as one with the Father, knowing itself to be itself and yet one with the Father, never losing its identity. For, to lose its identity is death indeed—death indeed—separation from the Creative Force. The soul may never be lost, for it returns to the One Force, but knows not itself to be itself any more.

Reading 2823-1

Each entity is a part of the universal whole. All knowledge, all understanding that has been a part of the entity’s consciousness, then, is a part of the entity’s experience.

Thus the unfoldment in the present is merely becoming aware of that experience through which the entity—either in body or in mind—has passed in a consciousness.

Hence there are two phases, or two means of expression from which urges arise in the experience of the entity. There is the form of consciousness attained when absent from the body, whether in normal sleep or in that sleep called death (in the earth plane). Then there is the consciousness to the soul-entity.

For, the entity finds itself body-physical, body-mind, body-soul. The body-soul is a citizen of that realm we call heaven, as much as the body-physical is a citizen of the land we call home.

These are the forms or the premises, then, through which influences arise.

Reading 900-370

. . . all life is one life, and the transition, the separation, the division, is as that given, so that even to man’s sensuous consciousness the change takes place; yet each possession possessing the power, even as in the drop of water separated, or as water congealed or expanded has its own peculiar power through the various stages of transition. Each force as manifested in the various stages, or states, being as that illustration of the various stages a life may manifest in its varied forms, either before combined in hydrogen and oxygen becoming water. Then in .a normal state representing a certain element separated by contact—cold or heat—changing form, and yet in each possessing a power, a force, all individual in itself, and only accessible when in that peculiar state.

Reading 136-18

We see in the physical world the condition in every form of life. As is taken here: We find a grain of corn or wheat that germ that, set in motion through its natural process with Mother Earth and the elements about same, brings forth corn after its kind, see? the kind and the germ being of a spiritual nature, the husk or corn, and the nature or physical condition, being physical forces, see? Then, as the corn dies, the process is as the growth is seen in that as expressed to the entity., and the entity expressing same, see—that death, as commonly viewed, is not that of the passing away, or becoming a non-entity, but the phenomenized condition in a physical world that may be understood with such an illustration, viewed from the fourth-dimension viewpoint or standpoint, see?

Reading 989-2

The earth’s sojourns also make for such close associations with why the entity from one realm of experience to another experiences the entering of those realms from the application of the entity, as we have indicated, in each earthly realm.

Then, a death in the flesh is a birth into the realm of another experience, to those who have lived in such a manner as not to be bound by earthly ties. This does not mean that it does not have its own experience about the earth, but that it has lived such a fullness of life that it must be about its business.

Reading 5005-1

Do spiritualize thy purposes, thy ideals. For it is not all of life to live nor yet all of separation of the body to die. For to be absent from the body is to be present with thy God. What is thy God? Place, position in the earth? These are naught when things of the earth may not be used. For man enters the earth with a body prepared by others before him. He leaves the earth with the body-soul he has prepared for that realm of the interbetween, and can only depend, then, upon self according to that done with Creative Forces or God’s laws. For they are perfect and are unchangeable.

Reading 5729-1

Astrological urges have become less and less a portion of the entity, for not merely material things but the controlling of material things has become the deeper urge for this entity. Hence the appearances in the earth and those that have a particular influence in the present are indicated, that the entity may take warning. Know that it isn’t all of life to live. Neither is it all of life merely to make a success socially or financially. It is not satisfying to the soul, any more than the taking of thought will gratify the appetites or longings of nature in the body itself. These must have their answer one in and with another.

Reading 254-92

For do not consider for a moment (for this might be carried on to an indefinite end) that an individual soul-entity passing from an earth plane as a Catholic, a Methodist, an Episcopalian, is something else because he is dead! He’s only a dead Episcopalian, Catholic or Methodist. And such personalities and their attempts are the same; only that ideal! For all are under the law of God equal, and how did He say even as respecting the home? “They are neither married nor given in marriage in the heavenly home but are one!”

Reading 1391-1

Yet if we learn more and more that separations are only walking through the rooms as it were of God’s house, we become in these separations, in these experiences—aware of what is meant by that which has been and is the law, as from the beginning; “Know O ye peoples, the Lord thy God is one!”

And ye must be one—one with another, one with Him—if ye would be, as indeed ye are, corpuscles in the life flow of thy Redeemer!

Reading 497-1

For, life is of the Creator—and it may only be changed, it cannot be ended or destroyed. It can only return from whence it came. As to how soon it prepares its soul, that is of the influences that may be carried to the Maker, depends upon what that soul in its environs, in its experiences, does concerning that it knows about that He, the Father, would have it do.

There is not more required than can be fulfilled in the experience of any soul. It is true that others, and individuals, may make for influences that may make for changes in the activities, but if the ideal and the soul’s longing is set in Him—only self may separate that soul from its Maker.

Reading 2911-1

Then, keep the mental attitude in that way of knowing in what there is life, light and immortality. It is not all of death to die, nor all of life to live. When there is sought that peace with Him, this may be had. For His promises are sure.

Reading 335-2

What are the ideals? What are the purposes and aims? What are the desired positions of the body, when analyzed by self? Just the accumulation of power, money, the position that comes with the accumulation of moneys? Never—or never altogether, in the basic thought of the individual—has this been true! Rather has it been builded that the necessity of having that power, or that which creates that power, is the basis of the ideals of the inner man!

It is well that the body take this into consideration, then, at this time when changes are probable, when conditions are such in the present associations that the activities, much that the body would have set, or the position the body would occupy (that is, by desire), may bring discontent, fear, an unsatisfactory feeling from within; for it is not yet all of life just to live, neither all of death to die!

Reading 2034-1

. . . there are the needs for the entity to analyze self, self’s purpose, self’s desire; realizing that it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die, but that the expression of life is a creative thing, a creative influence or force in the experience, and that there must be an ideal; ideal spiritually, ideal mentally.

Thus there are the needs for the constructive thinking, rather than that as may be a hit or miss, or a haphazard study of conditions.

Reading 3343-1

In analyzing the urges, there is the great tendency for the entity to judge according to material standards, and to depend mentally upon physical manifestations. These are well, but—with such standards and with such a measuring stick—one may easily deceive self. For we are warned that there is a way that seemeth right to a man but the end thereof is death. Death is separation, lost opportunity—in some sphere of activity in which there is a consciousness, either spiritual or material. Mind is ever the builder, for it is the companion of soul and body, and is the way that is demonstrated and manifested in the earth in the Christ.

Reading 2630-1

Thus the outcome of any development, any retardment, is according to the use the entity makes of opportunities, and the ideal with which the entity entertains those opportunities.

It is not all of life, then, to live, nor all of death to die; but what the entity does with the opportunities as they present themselves.

Reading 136-70

Life is real, life is earnest! yet it is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die—for with the thoughts and the deeds done in the mind and the body, these are that builded by the entity, or body, and must be met, and an account given of those things rendered in the body and the mind. For the soul liveth, and is a portion of the Creative Energy, and it returns to the Whole, yet reserving in itself that oneness in the ability to know itself individual, yet a portion of the Whole. What manner of man would one be that would make of that Whole its own concept, other than one with the Whole?

Reading 2438-1

In analyzing self, learn that it is not all of life to merely live, or to supply the needs of the body—in materiality. For, life is a continuous thing, an expression of Divine; and the stamp of mind upon the self is the expression of love of that Divine for the companionship of the soul as an individual, as an entity.

Reading 1759-1

Each entrance of an entity into a material experience is that it may better fit itself, through the application of an ideal in its experience, for a sojourn with that which is Creative—that influence or force in which all move and have their consciousness, their being.

Then, unless the ideal as set as the standard of an entity in any given experience is of a creative force or nature, and takes hold upon that which is constructive and creative, what must the experience be when the soul has shed material consciousness, and as it stands before its own conscience, its God, bare!

There is in the material experience that which is ever as a manifestation of that excuse of old [Genesis?], “I was aware that I was naked and hence I covered myself with leaves.” What are Thy excuses? What are thy conditions in thy activity, wherewith ye may stand as one that has sown the seed of righteousness? What is thy ideal of righteousness? Know that these can only be answered within thine own self. For thy body-physical is indeed the temple, the tabernacle of the living God; and there He hath promised to meet thee. For as the Teacher of teachers gave, the kingdom of heaven is within thee! and as ye make within thine own consciousness, through thy dwelling upon the thoughts of Him who is the Way, who is the Truth, who is the Light. And as He was asked in days just passed, “Speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.” His answer came, “Who made me to be a judge between thee and thy brother?

Reading 2080-1

These then are chosen—these urges that are indicated good and bad—that there may be an analyzing of self; that the entity may realize that it is not all of life just to live, and to enjoy the good things of material experience.

For thou art indeed thy brother’s keeper. There are those opportunities ever being presented for the real abilities which are within the experience and the consciousness of the entity. In taking advantage of, or using, such opportunities in the proper direction, the entity may make his paths straight, and know the purposes for which each soul enters a material experience; that these are not just that ye may have to hold, other than as a keeper of opportunities in hope, in love, in faith, in patience, as unto thy Maker.

It is not sufficient, then, to merely live that ye may outwardly appear as a successful individual—not too bad nor too good but to be one who, irrespective of others, chooses the better place.

Reading 3436-2

This information should be, then, as a .helpful influence if the entity will but analyze self, self’s abilities and the desires and hopes for the entity. Do not, then, allow self to become so material-minded that the judgments are measured only by the material yardstick of material accomplishments. For what profiteth a man who does gain the whole world and loseth his own soul? Or what would ye gain in exchange for the awareness of thy soul, that ye may know life is indeed eternal; and it isn’t then all of life to live, nor all of death to die.

Reading 4400-1

There is also that necessity for the individual to so attune self from the spiritual effect that must be instilled in the individual to whom such applications may be made, as would come under the supervision of the individual; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die—for in the midst of death one is in the midst of life, and it behooves one, then, that their own individual life be such that it—their life—is compatible to those tenets, those teachings, those principles, as would be set up by the application of self’s efforts toward the individuals whom one would attend.

Reading 5005-1

Do spiritualize thy purposes, thy ideals. For it is not all of life to live nor yet all of separation of the body to die. For to be absent from the body is to be present with thy God. What is thy God? Place, position in the earth? These are naught when things of the earth may not be used. For man enters the earth with a body prepared by others before him. He leaves the earth with the body-soul he has prepared for that realm of the inter-between, and can only depend, then, upon self according to that done with Creative Forces or God’s laws. For they are perfect and are unchangeable.

Reading 2573-1

While it is not all of life to live, each soul enters for a purpose. And it is not merely to gain fame or fortune, nor to be thought well of in the material plane only; but it is a real spiritual and mental experience also.

Reading 2142-1

One that may be trusted in its relationships with others, and to its own sorrow has often found another’s word is not as their bond; while for self that promised is to self as binding as were it a bond; though these must be often dissuaded in self. Well that self keep this same attitude; for as to those relationships, these make for that that will make life more worthwhile in business, social, political, economical, regions or sources of one’s experience; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die; for, as is builded in the experience of self, whether in the marital, the social, the political, the religious or the business associations, each and every individual becomes a reflection of that that individual holds as its ideal—whether that ideal be position, fame, fortune, or the aggrandizing of selfish interests, or self’s own motives or bodily desires. These become paramount in the entity’s inner self, and when these are builded upon that that is not of the ideal, they must sooner or later be wrecked upon those of discouragement, disorder, discontent, disconcerted activity, those of strained relations with friends, associates, family, and the like—for those that breed contempt must have the same as its own bedfellows.

Reading 670-1

. . . those things in which the judgments or activities of the entity may engage—either in the mental, material or spiritual ever must be governed by those things of a spiritual source or nature. For, as will ever be seen in any influence, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The environs and hereditary influences that may be said to be from the purely material sense would never answer in the activities for this entity, whether in relationship to material or spiritual things, as an answer for that to which it would bring itself in relationships with or without these conditions. For the basis in this entity’s experience must be that which is well-grounded in self from first taking counsel within self and knowing from what basis, from what standard the judgments of the activities are to be judged or governed; and these will make for the general assurance within the experiences that the outcome of whatever activity in which the entity may engage in the material sense will bring for the experience that which is worthwhile. For, it is not all of life alone to live nor all of death to die, to those that have visioned—and do vision—that purpose for which the experience of an entity is engaged in its passage through any particular experience in the earth.

Reading 4028-1

Q: Does the Doctor appreciate my putting flowers on his mothers grave?

A: This should not be as to whether the Doctor appreciates it or not. Let it be an answer to thee, to the mother. For if this is done in the right spirit, it will bring many more returns than if done purposely to please someone living. This is not the gaining of something from same, but the contributing to the memory, with the thought of love and compassion.

Reading 5122-1

Those activities of the entity should be in or around flowers. For this entity has so oft been the music and the flower lady, until it becomes second nature to work in or with those either in arranging bouquets or corsages, or even the very foolish way of sending to those who have passed on. They need the flowers when they are here, not when they are in God’s other room!

Reading 5155-1

Q: Will I overcome death in this incarnation?

A: There is no death. Death is only overcome by Him, who has overcome death. It is our promise, and when ye abide in Him sufficient to that, ye with Him, as the resurrection, may indeed overcome death in a material sense.

Reading 262-73

For He is the way; He is the life; He is the vine and ye are the branches. Bear ye fruit, then, worthy of that thou hast chosen; and He will keep that thou hast committed unto Him against every experience that may be required, that may be needed, that may come in thine attempts to show forth the Lord’s death till He come again; Death meaning that transition, that decision, that change in every experience. For if ye die not daily to the things of the world ye are none of His.