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God’s Other Door

Reading 1472-2

Q: Does death instantly end all feeling in the physical body? If not, how long can it feel?

A: This would be such a problem; dependent upon the character of which unconsciousness is produced to the physical reaction—or the manner in which the consciousness has been trained.

Death—as commonly spoken of—is only passing through God’s other door. That there is continued consciousness is evidenced, ever, by the associations of influences, the abilities of entities to project or to make those impressions upon the consciousness of sensitives or the like.

As to how long—many an individual has remained in that called death for what ye call years without realizing it was dead!

The feelings, the desires for what ye call appetites are changed, or not aware at all. The ability to communicate is that which usually disturbs or worries others.

Then, as to say how long—that depends upon the entity.

For as has been given, the psychic forces of an entity are constantly active—whether the soul-entity is aware of same or not. Hence as has been the experience of many, these become as individual as individualities or personalities are themselves.

Q: If cremated, would the body feel it?

A: What body?

The physical body is not the consciousness. The consciousness of the physical body is a separate thing. There is the mental body, the physical body, the spiritual body.

As has so oft been given, what is the builder? mind! Can you burn or cremate a mind? Can you destroy the physical body? Yes, easily.

To be absent (what is absent?) from the body is to be present with the Lord, or the universal consciousness, or the ideal. Absent from what? What absent? Physical consciousness, yes.

As to how long it requires to lose physical consciousness depends upon how great are the appetites and desires of a physical body!

Reading 2174-2

In Him, the Christ, as manifested in Jesus, ye find this—the first, the greatest commandment—“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God (that as manifested in self as life itself), and thy neighbor as thyself.”

That which brings these both in awareness is that so well and yet so badly named love. God is love. An individual entity, each soul, each entity, each body, finds the need of expressing that called love in the material experience; from its first awareness until its last call through God’s other door—the need of love, expressed, manifested, by self and from others.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap—this again becomes the foundation of what self, as well as others, may expect. If ye would have friends, show thyself friendly; if ye would have love, love ye one another. These are unchangeable. They do not alter. Man alters them only in the application—as to whether it is to satisfy the ego or the animal, or the flesh, or the mind.

These expressions, then, to self, as is experienced in motherhood, give the greatest glory manifested in the earth.

Reading 2927-1

Q: What journeys should I take for pleasure, which would be most interesting to me in this life?

A: These should be chosen from the promptings of that as would be contributory to meeting some of the hobbies of the entity, and in its relationship to the general contribution of knowledge to the universal activity.

Let that mind be in thee which was in Him, who gave, “I and the Father, God, are one.” So become ye in thine own mind, as ye contribute, as ye attune thy inner self to those greater ideals; for it is not all of life just to live, nor yet all of death to die. For, they that put their whole trust in Him have passed from death unto life. And to such there is no death, only the entrance through God’s other door.

Reading 3954-1

Yea, pray oft for those who have passed on. This is part of thy consciousness. It is well. For, God is God of the living. Those who have passed through God’s other door are oft listening, listening for the voice of those they have loved in the earth. The nearest and dearest thing they have been conscious of in earthly consciousness. And the prayers of others that are still in the earth may ascend to the throne of God, and the angel of each entity stands before the throne to make intercession. Not as a physical throne, no; but that consciousness in which we may be so attuned that we become one with the whole in lending power and strength to each entity for whom ye speak and pray.

For, where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is in the midst of them. What meaneth this? If one be absent from the body, He is present with His Lord. What Lord? If you have been the ideal, that one to whom another would pay homage, you are then something of the channel, of the ideal. Then thy prayers direct such an one closer to that throne of love and mercy, that pool of light, yea that river of God.

Reading 5749-3

Q: Discuss the various phases of spiritual development before and after reincarnation in the earth.

A: This may be illustrated best in that which has been sought through example in the earth.

When there was in the beginning a man’s advent into the plane known as earth, and it became a living soul, amenable to the laws that govern the plane itself as presented, the Son of man entered earth as the first man. Hence the Son of man, the Son of God, the Son of the first Cause, making manifest in a material body.

This was not the first spiritual influence, spiritual body, spiritual manifestation in the earth, but the first man—flesh and blood; the first carnal house, the first amenable body to the laws of the plane in its position in the universe.

For, the earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds!

And man’s development began through the laws of the generations in the earth; thus the development, retardment, or the alterations in those positions in a material plane.

And with error entered that as called death, which is only a transition—or through God’s other door—into that realm where the entity has builded, in its manifestations as related to the knowledge and activity respecting the law of the universal influence.

Hence the development is through the planes of experience that an entity may become one with the first cause; even as the angels that wait before the Throne bring the access of the influence in the experience through the desires and activities of an entity, or being, in whatever state, place or plane of development the entity is passing.

For, in the comprehension of no time, no space, no beginning, no end, there may be the glimpse of what simple transition or birth into the material is; as passing through the other door into another consciousness.

Death in the material plane is passing through the outer door into a consciousness in the material activities that partakes of what the entity, or soul, has done with its spiritual truth in its manifestations in the other sphere.

Hence, as there came the development of that first entity of flesh and blood through the earth plane, he became indeed the Son—through the things which He experienced in the varied planes, as the development came to the oneness with the position in that which man terms the Triune.

Q: Describe some of the planes into which entities pass on experiencing the change called death.

A: Passing from the material consciousness to a spiritual or cosmic, or outer consciousness, oft does an entity or being not become conscious of that about it; much in the same manner as an entity born into the material plane only becomes conscious gradually of that designated as time and space for the material or third dimensional plane. In the passage the entity becomes conscious, or the recognition of being in a fourth or higher dimensional plane takes place, much in the same way as the consciousness is gained in the material.

For, as we have given, that we see manifested in the material plane is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.

In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He—who entered into materiality.

Reading 262-52

Q: Explain how so called good and evil forces are one.

A: This has just been explained. When there is delegated power to a body that has separated itself from the spirit (or coming from the unseen into the seen, or from the unconscious into the physical consciousness, or from God’s other door—or opening from the infinite to the finite), then the activity is life; with the will of the source of that which has come into being. As to what it does with or about its associations of itself to the source of its activity, as to how far it may go afield, depends upon how high it has attained in its ability to throw off both negative and positive forces.

Hence we say, “The higher he flies the harder the fall.” It’s true!

Then, that which has been separated into the influence to become a body, whether celestial, terrestrial, or plain clay manifested into activity as man, becomes good or bad. The results to the body so acting are dependent and independent [interdependent?] (inter-between, see) upon what he does with the knowledge of—or that source of—activity.

Reading 390-2

Q: Would it be better if I gave up all thoughts of marriage and children?

A: The opportunity will come; for, to build the home—those that make for the cherishing and directing of the lives of those that may be lent to a union of love in the body—is to be a handmaid to the Creator.

For, the home becomes—to such that conduct their lives in that direction—as an outer door to the heavenly home.

For, as man and woman pass through God’s other door from experience to experience, those that have been directed by thine hand will make for the blessings of the efforts put forth in the home.

Reading 1246-2

Q: Must I go on living?

A: Life is eternal. It is in Him, and merely to change through God’s other door has only changed the outlook. But as we prepare the self for the vistas of the various consciousness upon the stages of development, we become a part of that—if our pathway is being led aright.

Q: What should my next step be in order to be of service to one and meet my financial obligations?

A: These become rather conflicting in their import, but know—O child of light—the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, “The silver and the gold are mine, saith the Lord.” He knoweth what thou hast need of. Be willing to put thy service to thy fellow man, thy service in a commercial world, into His hand. For God alone giveth the true increase. Fear not, if ye are in the Lord’s hands! Fear rather if ye have slipped from same.

Reading 262-57

Q: Does the truth, “By becoming aware in a material world was the only manner through which spiritual forces might become aware of their separation from spiritual surroundings” show that the reincarnation of those who die in childhood is necessary?

A: As the awareness comes by separation (which is being manifested in materiality as we know it in the present), there is the necessity of the sojourning in each experience for the developments of the influences necessary in each soul’s environ, each soul’s attributes, to become again aware of being in the presence of the Father. Hence the reincarnation into this or that influence, and those that are only aware of material or carnal influences for a moment may be as greatly impressed as were a finite mind for a moment in the presence of Infinity. How long was the experience of Saul in the way to Damascus? How long was the experience of Stephen as he saw the Master standing—not sitting, standing? How long was the experience of those that saw the vision that beckoned to them, or any such experience?

When one considers the birth of a soul into the earth, the more often is the body and the body-mind considered than the soul—that is full-grown in a breath. For, did the Father (or Infinity) bring the earth, the worlds into existence, how much greater is a day in the house of the Lord—or a moment in His presence—than a thousand years in carnal forces?

Hence a soul even for a flash, or for a breath, has perhaps experienced even as much as Saul in the way.