Sunday, July 28, 2013

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The Rebirth of the Republic and the Rise of the Meek

The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
• Historic progress towards freedom made in last six weeks alone
• Return of the US to the gold standard close at hand
• A world of transparency and disclosure rapidly emerging
Get ready. Our world is about to undergo a total and complete metamorphosis. Despite what you see on the nightly news channels and mainstream newspaper headlines, the world we have grown accustomed to is going to be transformed from top to bottom. Spectacularly! Magnificently!
In fact, our world has already been deep in the throes of change now more than any other period in the recorded history of mankind – bar none.
As many anxiously await a series of major events to unfold, most particularly the Global Currency Reset to be implemented, we must always be mindful of the overall big picture.
In assessing the big picture, we can truly appreciate the unprecedented amount of progress which has been made, and continues to be made, towards the liberation of the human race just within the last few weeks alone. It is truly astounding to see.
At this stage of the game, it is clear the mindset of the world has escalated into a very high state in order to prepare itself for an impending, global event of the greatest magnitude. There clearly are many, many signs indicating a strong sense of urgency is stirring within numerous countries as a brilliant, grand plan is coming more and more into focus with each passing day and in each passing hour.
The grand plan we are witnessing now is nothing less than historic. Yes, historic.
Let’s take a quick review of what has transpired over the last six weeks or so:
–  June 7 – 9th: President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jingping meet in Palm Springs, California for negotiations on the Basel III accords, the Global Currency Reset and the Restoration of the Republic.
– June 27th: The United Nations Security Council votes 15 – 0 to lift Chapter 7 sanctionsagainst the country of Iraq after nearly 23 years of hardships on the Iraqi people. This is Iraq’s biggest achievements since the ouster of Saddam Hussein a decade ago, allowing Baghdad to regain control over its own currency, oil and economy.
– July 10th: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew meets with a Chinese delegation to work out final details of the Global Currency Reset.
– July 11th: An updated version of the Glass – Steagall Act is reintroduced for vote in the US Senate led by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.)which would require all the major, “too-big-to-fail” banks to be completely overhauled and downsized.
– July 15th: The Iraqi Stock Exchange opens for international trading for approximately two hours to test if their system interfaces correctly with NASDAQ. In order for the ISX to conduct international trading, the logical next step is for Iraq to revalue their dinar in order to have an internationally recognizable currency.
– July 18th: Confirmed reports emanating out of the United Nations (UN) insist the revaluation of the Iraqi dinar was announced within the UN itself by two foreign countries, one of which may have been the delegation from Iraq.
– July 20th: Fox News briefly reports US Secretary of State John Kerry offering confirmation of the adoption of the Basel III banking regulations.
– July 21st: Numerous reports of banks across the US, and apparently some in the UK, announcing to their customers various down times for system maintenance including the international service known as SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications).
– July 23rd: More rumblings coming out of the UN as a growing chorus of impatience continues to swell amongst some its member nations who openly question why the Global Currency Reset has not been enacted yet.
By any stretch of the imagination, the sheer number of astounding events listed above marks nothing less than a complete changing of the guard. These kinds of developments would not even happen, if the old regime was still in charge. We simply have not seen this kind of significant activity on both a national and international scale ever, ever before.
Stage is Set for a Return to the Gold Standard
What should we expect to see next?
One of the most important final steps most anticipated is some kind of acknowledgment that the United States has returned to the gold standard. Whether it comes in the form of a formal announcement remains to be see. It has been nearly 41 years since President Richard M. Nixon removed the US from the gold standard, setting the stage for hyper-inflation of the dollar and the manufactured global financial crisis of 2007.
Make no mistake about it, the current world-wide financial crisis was totally engineered by the international bankers, the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke in collusion with the George W. Bush, Jr. administration in order to bring about their frightful New World Order agenda. Instead of succeeding towards that objective, it had just the opposite effect of mobilizing and waking up a world-wide resistance force which has stood tall to stop the NWO dead in its tracks.
As we outlined in our previous article, “At the Precipice of a Brave New World,“ a return to the gold standard seems to be assured for the United States from all of the blatant symbolism alone found on the new $100 bill due to be released on October 8, 2013.
There was an air of high expectation on July 17th, when US Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, appeared on CNBC’s “Delivering Alpha” conference. Many had anticipated Secretary Lew would take the opportunity to formally announce a return to the gold standard. Alas, he did not. However, it appears that announcement is still very much in the cards.
A Heightened Need for Security
Nonetheless, the lingering question remains, why has the Global Currency Reset not happened as of yet, despite many sensing it is so very, very close?
And the simple answer to that question is one word, and one word only – security.
We must realize how much monumental hard work has been invested into this process, by a wide assortment of people from a variety of entities. These entities come from across the spectrum, many of which have banded together and include: the Chinese elders; the Chinese government; Russia; the BRICS alliance; the United States Treasury; the US Military; the US Supreme Court; the World Court; the IMF; the World Bank; the Iraq government; a number of other foreign governments; and the numerous banks involved, among many others.
After decades of slow but steady progress, no one who has worked so tirelessly on behalf of the people of the Earth desires to see their hard fought efforts sabotaged at this late stage of the game. No one, that is, except for the ever-shrinking cabal opposition.
Democracy vs. Republic
Democracy vs. Republic
Apparently, the Chinese elders have insisted there be a total restoration of the Republic in the US when the new asset-backed, Basel III financial system is implemented, to ensure it will be completely safe and secure. Otherwise, chaos could be unleashed by an evil cabal who is hellbent on taking the whole world down with them.
The Chinese have long held a reputation for being extremely thorough and infinitely patient. They are unwilling to risk anything without the necessary safeguards firmly in place. Therefore, it is highly likely we may see a Restoration of the Republic go hand-in-hand with the Global Currency Reset. Believe it or not.
Appearances can Be Deceiving
Many may also be wondering why would all of these global institutions be co-operating now, to allow a new asset-backed economic system to be installed after benefiting so richly from the old corrupt debt-based system?
The answer to that question is two-fold:
1) Realize this has been a long and drawn out struggle. Decades and decades of groundwork has been laid out through the legal route and by sheer force which has backed the cabal into a very tight corner they can no longer remove themselves from, despite all their futile efforts. In addition, their source of funds used to finance all their dirty deeds has been systematically cut off, one by one.
2) Despite the nefarious reputations of many of these global institutions –– most particularly the major banks –– it is important not to paint them all with a broad brush. There are white knights or white hats strategically placed throughout every one of these establishments who are working in secret from the inside to turn them around. While still many others serving within the ranks of the cabal have been offered deals they simply cannot refuse, ie: long jail sentences, bankruptcy, and/or something far worse.
In other words, we have arrived at checkmate time. Game over.
Along with security, two other key words are clearly defining these times we are living in – transparency and disclosure. What we are now seeing is the same old nasty tricks which used to work so well in the old days, no longer do because the people of the world are waking up. And as they wake up, they are saying – enough is enough.
And we can clearly see across the planet, from far and wide, people are waking up in droves. They are standing up to be counted through protests; demonstrations; Occupy Wall Street; the Arab Spring; Egypt; Greece; Brazil; Spain; alternative media; blogs; social networks; and on and on. And they are shouting it out to anyone who can hear them – “we have had enough of the corruption, lies and greed.” The time has come to change the rules of the game.
The new Basel III banking system is preparing the world for a totally transparent global economy built upon real, tangible assets. No more stashing trillions of ill-gotten gains away in some secret Swiss, Vatican Bank or offshore accounts. No more black budgets where other untold trillions are funneled down black holes to finance unending black operations. No more nuclear threats, no more war on terror, no more using warfare for global conquest.    
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When the button for Global Currency Reset is finally pushed, our world will never, ever be the same again.
Trillions upon trillions of fraudulent debt will be instantly wiped off the books. Massive amounts of money will flow through the World Global Settlements to repay countries who have been robbed blind by the international banking cartel, including the US. And still more multiple billions will finally be made available to underwrite massive global humanitarian projects. What is waiting in the wings ready to be distributed to humanity is truly staggering.
Once the parasites are fully removed from the system, which has been ongoing for years and has picked up momentum this year and last, we will see the floodgates open to a bountiful number of changes.
If you knew the amount of planning, preparation and strategy which has gone into rescuing the world from a total take-down, it would boggle your mind. Programs such as Global Currency Reset, the World Global Settlements, the Global Collateral Accounts, NESARA and more were not some sort of random idea or initiative somebody thought up a few years ago. Rather, they have been part of an overall grand scheme in the works since the end of World War II to restore complete sovereignty and peace to a chaotic planet and human race in crisis.
Anyone with a conscious and a heart, can easily see the world is in trouble. Big trouble. There are far too many people living in poverty and misery and the world is drowning in a sea of debt. People are demanding sweeping changes to the system. Yet we must realize, nearly all of humanity’s profound problems we see right now can be quite easily solved as long as there is a will. And, the good news is –– that will has been found. And soon you will see it and find it within you too!
The Founding Fathers Rise Again
It only takes a very small percentage of dedicated, passionate people to a have a great effect upon the world.
Remember, during the Revolutionary War in the American colonies in the late 1700′s only 3% of the population actually entered into the conflict and only 10% actively support the 3%. Yet the outcome effected every single person in America and untold future generations of people still to be born. And it became a global phenomenon blazing in the hearts of those who longed for the ideals of freedom.
The Founding Fathers drafting the US Constitution
The Founding Fathers drafting the US Constitution
Our Founding Fathers who drafted the brilliant documents known as the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and finally the US Constitution, were some of the most illustrious men who have ever lived, not only in this country, but anywhere in the world. And their great work is about to be reborn yet again. Yes, it is time for an encore!
Some of these men were mere simple farmers, doctors and statesmen yet they came together in an almost Divinely-inspired mission to lead their country out of the depths of bondage to create a new nation which became a beacon of light to the world. Many paid with their lives but their sacrifices were not in vain. The nation which they founded was the united states for America –– a republic, not a democracy, as the media and educational system would have you believe.
Since the war of 1812, there has been an all-out assault on our country by the international banking cartel to steal the hard fought freedoms and values established by the Founding Fathers. The British Crown never gave up their desire to rule over America and eventually they succeeded by controlling our money supply through the City of London bankers, the Federal Reserve, in cahoots with the Vatican and numerous Popes.
Forget about all the phony baloney you have read about in the history books –– “history is written by the winners,” it has often been said. All wars are about money. Nearly all political assassinations such as Abraham Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, etc. were about controlling the supply of money and maintaining absolute power.
You have been told a pack of lies about your history. Now is the time to begin to know the true heritage on planet Earth and its people.
Soon you are going to learn of the many brave men and women who have put their lives on the line once more to save the world from total annihilation to bring us to the point of emancipation. You will learn about completely anonymous people who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes and have never received any kind of recognition, whatsoever.
Some of these great people have long since passed away. Some have passed away only recently. But eventually, all will be remembered and duly honored for their service to not only the US, but the entire human race. Still others may simply prefer to remain completely unknown, their selfless acts of heroism to be forever silent and unacknowledged.
The End is Just the Beginning
Make no mistake about it, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle. And all the kings horses and all the kings men will never be able to put him back in again.
With the adoption of the Basel III accords by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller; with the impending reimplementation of the gold standard and the very vital Glass-Steagall Act; with the introduction of new money in October and rebirth of the US Treasury, all the pieces are falling into place.
Combined those major steps with the intense negotiations ongoing between the US and China and the swift action underway in Iraq, then we can truly say we are nearly set to light the fuse. Victory is within our grasp.
Have faith all is unfolding in perfect order. Do not buy into the fear-mongering mainstream news headlines. Many of the more controversial news stories of the day are now being quickly exposed as fake or propaganda, or at the very least, completely baseless.
The news media is an integral part of maintaining the illusion and they can no longer keep up the facade. Their days as gatekeepers of the flow of information are numbered as the Restoration of the Republic begins to unfurl.
Do not misjudge a world uniting as one to stand in resistance to a wicked force such as the New World Order as somehow a part of the problem. Amazing alliances have been formed which have never existed before. The human family is coming together in order to create a new Earth, and a new Heaven. A true Golden Age for one and all. We are all in this together.
You may be shocked to ultimately learn we are all connected, we are all a part of the same whole. A part of God. A part of the Divine Creator.
Appreciate what has happened thus far and not frustrated with what has not.
Remember the immortal words of the late John F. Kennedy –– ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.  
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Each and every day we move ever closer towards our freedom. Each and every hour our world is transforming. And each and every moment we are discovering the power which lies deep within us.
And through all the struggles, all the trials and all the tribulations we are witnessing the fulfillment of the great prophecy –– and the meek shall inherit the Earth.
By Scott Mowry, Miracles and Inspiration -  July 26, 2013
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Pope Francis: Brazen Brazil Speech Speaks Volumes

Hundreds of thousands of people cram onto Copacabana beach in Rio for the pope's vigil service. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Hundreds of thousands of people cram onto Copacabana beach in Rio for the pope’s vigil service. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Stephen Cook: Pope Francis delivered the longest and possibly most important speech of his Papacy so far last night in front of a huge crowd who gathered on Rio de Janiero’s famed Copacababa Beach.
It’s already causing controversy. In it, he implicitly criticised his predecessor and also called on the world to show ‘”love, forgiveness and mercy” and to reach out to the poor. Yet much of what he says will make deeper sense to us lightworkers around the world, especially if we look at the bigger picture based on our understanding of him as what Archangel Michael described as an overlighted soul and read between the lines. He even referred to St Francis in his first few words…
What also struck me was the final section of the speech (which included the Vigil, which I’ve run in full below) where he spoke to of the many major protests currently sweeping the world:
In your young hearts, you have a desire to build a better world. I have been closely following the news reports of the many young people who throughout the world have taken to the streets in order to express their desire for a more just and fraternal society – (and here in Brazil), they have gone out into the streets to express a desire for a more just and fraternal civilization. These are young people who want to be agents of change.
I encourage them, in an orderly, peaceful and responsible manner, motivated by the values ​​of the Gospel, to continue overcoming apathy and offering a Christian response to social and political concerns present in their countries. But the question remains: Where do we start? What are the criteria for building a more just society? Mother Teresa of Calcutta was once asked what needed to change in the Church. Her answer was: you and I!

Pope Francis walks around the Varginha favela in Rio de Janeiro, a community of 1000 people which for decades was under the sway of narco-traffickers. Photo: AFP
Pope Francis walks around the Varginha favela in Rio de Janeiro, a community of 1000 people which for decades was under the sway of narco-traffickers. Photo: AFP

Pope Tells Brazilian Church to Keep it Simple and Reach Out to the Poor

By Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro, The Guardian- July 28, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/pope-brazil-church-message-poor-rio
Pope Francis drew hundreds of thousands of flag-waving faithful to Rio’s Copacabana beach on Saturday for the final evening of World Youth Day, hours after he chastised the Brazilian church for failing to stem the “exodus” of Catholics to evangelical congregations.
Francis headed into the final hours of his first international trip riding a remarkable wave of popularity. By the time his open-sided car reached the stage for the vigil service on Saturday night, the back seat was piled high with football jerseys, flags and flowers tossed to him by adoring pilgrims lining the beachfront route.
The vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasizsed throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.
In the longest and most important speech of his four-month pontificate, Francis took a direct swipe at the “intellectual” message of the church that so characterised the pontificate of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Speaking to Brazil’s bishops, he said ordinary Catholics didn’t understand such lofty ideas and needed to hear the simpler message of love, forgiveness and mercy that he said was at the core of the Catholic faith.
“At times we lose people because they don’t understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people,” he said. “Without the grammar of simplicity, the church loses the very conditions which make it possible to fish for God in the deep waters of his mystery.”
Francis asked bishops to reflect on why hundreds of thousands of Catholics had left the church for Protestant and Pentecostal congregations that have grown exponentially in recent decades, particularly in Brazil’s slums or favelas, where their charismatic message and nuts-and-bolts advice has been welcomed.
According to census data, the number of Catholics in Brazil dipped from 125m in 2000 to 123m in 2010, with the church’s share of the total population dropping from 74% to 65%. Over the same period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals skyrocketed from 26m to 42m, increasing from 15% to 22% of the population in 2010.
Francis offered a breathtakingly blunt list of explanations for the “exodus.”
“Perhaps the church appeared too weak, perhaps too distant from their needs, perhaps too poor to respond to their concerns, perhaps too cold, perhaps too caught up with itself, perhaps a prisoner of its own rigid formulas,” he said. “Perhaps the world seems to have made the church a relic of the past, unfit for new questions. Perhaps the church could speak to people in their infancy but not to those come of age.”
The Vatican said Francis read the five-page speech in its entirety to the 300 or so bishops gathered for lunch in the auditorium of the Rio archbishop’s residence. He was due to speak to the bishops of Latin America on Sunday before heading back to Rome, said the Rev Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.
Copacabana beach was overflowing for the final vigil on Saturday night. Local media, citing information from the mayor’s office, said 3m people were on hand for the vigil – three times as many as at the last World Youth Day vigil in Madrid in 2011.
Rio’s mayor estimated as many as 3m people might turn out for Sunday’s culminating Mass. (Stephen: The Vatican was more conservative, estimating around 1 million people were actually there)
The Argentinian pope began his day with a Mass in Rio’s beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentinian pilgrims on Thursday.
In those remarks, he urged the youngsters to make a “mess” in their dioceses and shake things up, even at the expense of confrontation with their bishops and priests.
“We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel,” Francis said in his homily on Saturday. “It’s not enough simply to open the door in welcome, but we must go out through that door to seek and meet the people.”

Pope Francis - rio vigilPope Francis: WYD Prayer Vigil (full text)

From Vatican Radio – July 27, 2013
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/28/pope_francis:_wyd_prayer_vigil_(full_text)/en1-714565
Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis to Brazil
Address of the Holy Father
Vigil with Young People
(Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2013)
Dear Young Friends,
We have just recalled the story of Saint Francis of Assisi. In front of the crucifix he heard the voice of Jesus saying to him: “Francis, go, rebuild my house”. The young Francis responded readily and generously to the Lord’s call to rebuild his house. But which house? Slowly but surely, Francis came to realize that it was not a question of repairing a stone building, but about doing his part for the life of the Church. It was a matter of being at the service of the Church, loving her and working to make the countenance of Christ shine ever more brightly in her.
Today too, as always, the Lord needs you, young people, for his Church. Today too, he is calling each of you to follow him in his Church and to be missionaries. How? In what way? Well, I think we can learn something from what happened in these days: as we had to cancel due to bad weather, the realization of this vigil on the campus Fidei, in Guaratiba. Lord willing might we say that the real area of ​​faith, the true campus fidei, is not a geographical place – but we, ourselves? Yes! Each of us, each one of you.
And missionary discipleship means to recognize that we are God’s campus fidei, His “field of faith”! Therefore, from the image of the field of faith, starting with the name of the place, Campus Fidei, the field of faith, I have thought of three images that can help us understand better what it means to be a disciple and a missionary. First, a field is a place for sowing seeds; second, a field is a training ground; and third, a field is a construction site.
1. A field is a place for sowing seeds. We all know the parable where Jesus speaks of a sower who went out to sow seeds in the field; some seed fell on the path, some on rocky ground, some among thorns, and could not grow; other seed fell on good soil and brought forth much fruit (cf. Mt 13:1-9). Jesus himself explains the meaning of the parable: the seed is the word of God sown in our hearts (cf. Mt 13:18-23). This, dear young people, means that the real Campus Fidei, the field of faith, is your own heart, it is your life. It is your life that Jesus wants to enter with his word, with his presence. Please, let Christ and his word enter your life, blossom and grow.
Jesus tells us that the seed which fell on the path or on the rocky ground or among the thorns bore no fruit. What kind of ground are we? What kind of terrain do we want to be? Maybe sometimes we are like the path: we hear the Lord’s word but it changes nothing in our lives because we let ourselves be numbed by all the superficial voices competing for our attention; or we are like the rocky ground: we receive Jesus with enthusiasm, but we falter and, faced with difficulties, we don’t have the courage to swim against the tide; or we are like the thorny ground: negativity, negative feelings choke the Lord’s word in us (cf. Mt 13:18-22).
But today I am sure that the seed is falling on good soil, that you want to be good soil, not part-time Christians, not “starchy” and superficial, but real. I am sure that you don’t want to be duped by a false freedom, always at the beck and call of momentary fashions and fads. I know that you are aiming high, at long-lasting decisions which will make your lives meaningful. Jesus is capable of letting you do this: he is “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6). Let’s trust in him. Let’s make him our guide!
2. A field is a training ground. Jesus asks us to follow him for life, he asks us to be his disciples, to “play on his team”. I think that most of you love sports! Here in Brazil, as in other countries, football is a national passion. Now, what do players do when they are asked to join a team? They have to train, and to train a lot! The same is true of our lives as the Lord’s disciples. Saint Paul tells us: “athletes deny themselves all sorts of things; they do this to win a crown of leaves that withers, but we a crown that is imperishable” (1 Cor 9:25).
Jesus offers us something bigger than the World Cup! He offers us the possibility of a fulfilled and fruitful life; he also offers us a future with him, an endless future, eternal life. But he asks us to train, “to get in shape”, so that we can face every situation in life undaunted, bearing witness to our faith. How do we get in shape? By talking with him: by prayer, which is our daily conversation with God, who always listens to us. By the sacraments, which make his life grow within us and conform us to Christ. By loving one another, learning to listen, to understand, to forgive, to be accepting and to help others, everybody, with no one excluded or ostracized. Dear young people, be true “athletes of Christ”!
3. A field is a construction site. When our heart is good soil which receives the word of God, when “we build up a sweat” in trying to live as Christians, we experience something tremendous: we are never alone, we are part of a family of brothers and sisters, all journeying on the same path: we are part of the Church; indeed, we are building up the Church and we are making history. Saint Peter tells us that we are living stones, which form a spiritual edifice (cf. 1 Pet 2:5). Looking at this platform, we see that it is in the shape of a church, built up with stones and bricks.
In the Church of Jesus, we ourselves are the living stones. Jesus is asking us to build up his Church, but not as a little chapel which holds only a small group of persons. He asks us to make his living Church so large that it can hold all of humanity, that it can be a home for everyone! To me, to you, to each of us he says: “Go and make disciples of all nations”. Tonight, let us answer him: Yes, I too want to be a living stone; together we want to build up the Church of Jesus! Let us all say together: I want to go forth and build up the Church of Christ!
In your young hearts, you have a desire to build a better world. I have been closely following the news reports of the many young people who throughout the world have taken to the streets in order to express their desire for a more just and fraternal society – (and here in Brazil), they have gone out into the streets to express a desire for a more just and fraternal civilization. These are young people who want to be agents of change.
I encourage them, in an orderly, peaceful and responsible manner, motivated by the values ​​of the Gospel, to continue overcoming apathy and offering a Christian response to social and political concerns present in their countries. But the question remains: Where do we start? What are the criteria for building a more just society? Mother Teresa of Calcutta was once asked what needed to change in the Church. Her answer was: you and I!
Dear friends, never forget that you are the field of faith! You are Christ’s athletes! You are called to build a more beautiful Church and a better world. Let us lift our gaze to Our Lady. Mary helps us to follow Jesus, she gives us the example by her own “yes” to God: “I am the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me as you say” (Lk 1:38). All together, let us join Mary in saying to God: let it be done to me as you say. Amen!

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Thank you Steve and your Guides for this eloquent piece of inspiration!
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Entering the Mental Plane – Part 1

Mental Plane 22The nearest equivalent we have to the Fifth Dimension is the plane of the afterlife that corresponds with it: the Mental Plane. Archangel Michael said to me in a personal reading recently that I was in the Fifth Dimension and I replied:
Steve: How could I be Fifth Dimensional and not have had sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi?
Archangel Michael: You are looking to the Fifth Dimension as simply being one place or another and you do not know that you are not in training and that you are … on the verge of samadhi.
So it is a preparation and those preparation phases … as we have said, there are many levels to each dimension. (1)
So the answer to the puzzle was that I am, or we are, in the first level of the Fifth Dimension. If this is the case, then it suggests that we can also look at the first subplane of the Mental Plane, about which a certain amount is written, to get some clues as to Fifth Dimensionality.
I say a certain amount is written because, by the time travellers have passed through the Astral Plane and into the Mental Plane, they feel less of a desire to communicate back to their loved ones on Earth.
Julia Ames explains:
“It is with us as with immigrants to my former country. When they arrive their hearts are in the old world. The new world is new and strange. They long to hear from the old home and the post brings them more joy than the sunrise. But after a very little time the pain is dulled, new interests arise, and, in a few years, sometimes in a few months, they write no more.
“With us here the change is even more rapid. For the new life is more absorbing and the survivors constantly recruit our ranks. When the family circle is complete, when those we loved are with us, why should we trouble to communicate? The whole planet with its 1,500,000,000 inhabitants is full of strangers, our life lies on our own plane. Therefore, do not think that what I said of the eager, passionate longing of those on this side to communicate with you is true of any but those in the midst of whom I was when I wrote [earlier].” (3)
Consequently the literature on the planes above the astral gets smaller and smaller as we progress.
Eventually we’ll hear about the Second Death, (2) which is the elimination of all traces of the astral from us, during which we experience our complete anchoring in the Mental Plane. My guess is that this experience is similar to our Ascension, but it is only a guess. We shall look at that experience later in this series of articles.
Other names for the Mental Plane are “Heaven,” (4) “the Creative Sphere,” (5) “the plane of thoughts,” (6) the “Devachan,” (7) and “the world of spirit.” (8)
But we do know some things about the first subplane, which would correspond to the first level of the Fifth Dimension that we’re in presently.
The Mental Plane vibrates at a higher frequency than the Astral Plane as A.D. Mattson attests to:
“I have taken a number of trips out into the mental plane and it is most interesting. You get there before you know it whereas in the astral plane you are conscious of your going. / This is due to the difference in the rate of vibration of the two planes.
“For example, if you can send a thought around the world in no time at all, this can be compared to the mental plane. If you send a picture around the world, it takes longer than the thought – and this can be compared to the astral plane. In the astral body, you are slower when you are moving because you are moving through denser atmosphere – denser vibrations but not as dense as the physical world.” (9)
Mike Swain also speaks of “the more rarified mental level.” (10)
Arnel calls the first subplane of the Mental Plane “Sphere Five.” Of it he says:
“It is a critical sphere where attunement has to be made in a man’s various traits and all unharmony done away. … It is a kind of sorting-room, as one should say, wherein are the inhabitants, in the course of their sojourn there, classified into their proper groups, and proceed onwards in that special branch of service for which they most properly are fitted.” (11)
Is this not a good description of what we’re going through now? All unharmony is being done away with and soul groups are forming dedicated to various missions.
(Continued in Part 2. You’re welcome to read ahead – if the next instalment has been composed!)

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, July 16, 2013.
(2) See “The Second Death” at http://goldengaiadb.com/The_Second_Death
(3) Julia [Julia T. Ames] through W.T. Stead, medium, After Death. A Personal Narrative.New York: George H. Doran, n.d.; c. 1914 175-6.
(4) Philemon [Archdeacon Wilberforce] in Henry Thibault, Letters from the Other Side. [Letters from Archdeacon Wilberforce or “Philemon.”] London: 1919, 45.
(5) Frances Banks in Helen Graves, Testimony of Light. London: Churches Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, 1975; c1969, 131.
(6) Nikola Tesla in Carl Japikse through medium Robert Leichtman. Nikola Tesla Returns.Columbus: Ariel Press, 1980, 58-60.
(7) Sigwart in Joseph Wetzl, trans., The Bridge Over the River. Communications from the Life After Death of a Young Artist Who Died in World War One. Spring Valley: Anthroposophic Press, 1974, 28.
(8) Silver Birch in Silver Birch Anthology. Ed. Wm. Naylor. London: Spiritualist Press, 1974; c1955, 57.
(9) A.D. Mattson in Ruth Mattson Taylor, ed., Witness from Beyond. New Cosmic Concepts on Death and Survival from the Late A.D. Mattson, S.T.D., through the Clairvoyant Margaret Flavell Tweddell. Portland, ME: Foreword Books, 1975, 42-3.
(10) Mike Swain in Jasper Swain, From My World to Yours: A Young Man’s Account of the Afterlife. New York: Walker, 1977, 77.
(11) Arnel in G. Vale Owen, medium, The Life Beyond the Veil. Book III: The Ministry of Heaven. New York, 1921, in Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Many Mansions. (London, etc.: Rider and Co., n.d., 59.
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Entering the Mental Plane – Part 2

Ascension 312(Continued from Part 1.)
Yesterday we introduced the First subplane of the Mental Plane. We suggested at that time that the first subplane of the Mental Plane was comparable to the dimensional level we’re in at the moment, which is the first level of the fifth Dimension.
Today we continue to look at its characteristics and our experience of it.
Philip Gilbert suggests that we do not become exceptionally bright all at once on our arrival in the Mental Plane but grow into it:
“Having progressed out of the ‘astral’ or ‘plane of illusion, a being becomes little by little more radiant because the form is gradually ‘at-oneing’ itself with creative force.” (1)
This again mirrors our process of becoming ever more brilliant, so to speak.
Philip called the astral the “plane of illusion”; Sigwart calls it “the dream condition.” His sentiment is often echoed by others:  “My true life has begun now; the dream condition has ended.” (2)
Nikola Tesla compares the Astral and Mental Planes: “The plane of thoughts is much more refined and powerful than the astral plane. It’s free of the emotional, sentimental swill most people thrive on, but which must be transcended.” (3)
Passage from the Astral to the mental Planes is often accompanied by or caused by spiritual realization. Spirit guide Silver Birch said:  “When spiritual realisation dawns they are dead to the astral world and they begin to live in the world of spirit.” (4) The world of the spirit is the Mental Plane.
Mike Swain informs us that “when you wake on the mental plane, you will realize that you are and always have been a son of God.” (5) This realization of who we are is the purpose of life and will unfold more and more as we progress from one sphere to the next.
Usually a person throws off the fascination with his desires that characterizes life on the Astral Plane immediately before transition to the Mental Plane. Frederic Myers describes it:
“The hour comes when his spiritual perceptions awaken, when he seeks to escape from the memory-dream, when, in short, he realizes his own increased intellectual powers, and, above all, his capacity for living on a finer plane of being. Then he passes from the State of Illusion and enters upon an existence which few communicating intelligences have ever attempted to describe to man.” (6)
Philip Gilbert describes his existence on the Mental Plane in terms that should be familiar to us,  as glowing and ecstatic: “My consciousness seems to be more and more in that luminous glow which is an ecstacy.” (7)
His further description of his experience of life should be of interest to us, who will soon be in it:
“There are hardly words to give the nature of my new experience – I glow; the body which is the static ME is a form still; very powerful but composed of light irradiated particles – it is of the nature of flame.
“But this flame is creative. It can be moulded by my Ego at will or consolidate into an ordinary astral shape or blend in an ecstacy of mutual comprehension with others like me or with the more advanced.” (8)
Frances Banks describes an aspect of life which is very similar to what has been promised us: freedom from drudgery. Frances found herself drifting towards the Hall of Learning.
“We are free, of course, to follow our own pursuits. There are no college rules or compulsory attendances but I, for one, find myself at the Halls of Learning almost continually.” (9)
Former journalist W.T. Stead says that there is no need to work on the mental Plane.
“Many of us carry on with our same work as on earth. Here we have no need to work in order to obtain daily livelihood, we work here solely for spiritual refinement and progress; at the same time we keep in touch with our earth interests as a form of recreation.” (10)
There is no need for sleep. Arthur Conan Doyle tells us that one can sit for days and chat.
“Here you can talk for days for there is no night. It stays light all the time, and you do not need sleep. It is like one long sunny day. The only word to describe it is Paradise, for nothing on earth is remotely like it. (11)
“You may sit at the side and chat to your acquaintances, for no one here would think of snubbing you as on earth. Indeed they are all too ready to speak and invite you back home to partake of refreshments.” (12)
And finally the most obvious feature of the mental Plane, as it is of the fifth Dimension, is unitive consciousness, the consciousness that all are One. Frances Banks describes it:
“That which I am learning here, in this wider state of consciousness, is a joyous apprehension of the vast wonder of the unity of Creative Mind in which all, ever atom, every soul-fragment, every Group Soul, every creative thought, is One.” (13)
Tomorrow we’ll continue with our overview of the first level of the Mental Plane.
(Continued in Part 3.)

Footnotes

(1) Philip Gilbert through Alice Gilbert, medium. Philip in the Spheres. London: Psychic Book Club, n.d., 67.
(2) Sigwart in Joseph Wetzl, trans., The Bridge Over the River. Communications from the Life After Death of a Young Artist Who Died in World War One. Spring Valley: Anthroposophic Press, 1974, 35.
(3) Nikola Tesla in Carl Japikse through medium Robert Leichtman. Nikola Tesla Returns.Columbus: Ariel Press, 1980, 58.
(4) Silver Birch in Silver Birch Anthology. Ed. Wm. Naylor. London: Spiritualist Press, 1974; c1955, 57.
(5) Mike Swain in Jasper Swain, From My World to Yours: A Young Man’s Account of the Afterlife. New York: Walker, 1977, 88.
(6) Frederic W.H. Myers through Geraldine Cummins, medium. The Road to Immortality. Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F. W. H. Myers [Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901]. Located athttp://www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/cummins/cummins1.html, n.p.
(7) Philip Gilbert in Alice Gilbert, medium, Into the Everywhere. Tunbridge Wells: World Spiritual Council, 1968, 7.
(8) Ibid., 8.
(9) Frances Banks in Helen Graves, Testimony of Light. London: Churches Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, 1975; c1969, 143.
(10) William Thomas Stead, The Blue Island. Experiences of a New Arrival Behind the Veil.Estelle W. Stead and Pardoe Woodman, eds. London: Rider, n.d. 132.
(11) Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Thomson, Life in the Hereafter: Automatic Writings and Dictation from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Jane Seymour, Catherine of Aragon, 17.
(12) Ibid., 21.
(13) Frances Banks in TOL, 144.
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Entering the Mental Plane – Part 3

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Sir Alvary Gascoigne
(Continued from Part 2.)
Two features of entering the Mental Plane which, while not being surprising, are still very unusual are the reunion that takes place with one’s own greater Self and the drawing together of the soul group.
While many of us are experiencing the drawing together of the soul group, we may need to wait till after ascension before we experience a reunion with the greater Self (I don’t know).
Today’s let’s look at that reunion. Description of it are only to be found in Cynthia Sandys’ Awakening Letters. A sample of only two from the same book suggests that we approach the subject with a degree of caution and discernment.

Re-uniting with the Greater Self

Father Andrew Glazewski was a much-loved Polish priest, mystic, scientist and musician, who communicated telepathically with English psychic Cynthia Sandys in 1973. He met his higher Self and did not at first recognize him.
I’m not sure if this is the ascended Self that one meets when one enters the Second Heaven, or second subplane of the Mental Plane.
Notice that he meets himself as if he were outside of himself; i.e., an object.
“Now I want to speak about the greater self. This was a discovery for me of enormous importance. I had always glimpsed the possibility of there being a more advanced Andrew somewhere, but he was so elusive. I didn’t really know how or where to look for him – then we met!
“I was slightly embarrassed. I was a new boy. He was myself grown wiser, but how were we to co-operate? He was tall – I am short. He was strong and athletic – I was wrinkled and puny. He was like an elder brother and yet he was like himself and then he looked at me and took me in his arms as you would a small child and breathed on me – that was all, and I, Andrew, became as one with this great being.
“It is beyond understanding or explaining but it is true. We are only a very small reflection of the self we leave outside the earth body and, when we have accepted death and entered into the majesty of passing out of the physical, this wonderful enlargement of mind and spirit is awaiting us.” (1)
Diplomat Sir Alvary Gascoigne also made contact with his greater Self in this first subplane of the Mental Plane. His son Douglas had made contact earlier.
The discussion between him and his greater Self seems to suggest that full reunion awaits the Second Death, which would suggest that that greater Self is the ascended Self.
“I had no idea about our greater selves. Douglas has made complete contact with his, but most of us are broken pieces; the earth life body seems only to have held a small part of me and there is a much nicer Joe [nickname of Sir Alvary] – in fact, far too nice a Joe, who is waiting for me, the imperfect Joe, to take over.” (2)
“Though D. [Douglas] has only been over a short time, he is already united to at least a part of his greater self and this part spoke through him.” (3)
He describes his experience at length. He mistakes himself for his brother Oliver.
“Suddenly, as the sense of expansion grew, I was conscious of a being beside me fashioned in some ways on the same mould. I turned and looked at him and I said at once, ‘Oh, you must have been my brother Oliver whom I never saw in earth life.’
“‘No,’ he replied, ‘I am yourself.’
“’But,’ I stammered, ‘I’m still me. What do you mean?’”
“’Yes, and I’m still you and myself, one and the same. I have been your light reflection all through your earth life and now we can be re-united.’” (4)
The thought initially disturbs Sir Alvary.
“I wasn’t at all sure I was in favour of this getting together and said so. He merely laughed and said, ‘Don’t quarrel with your hands and feet and you’ll be a much more complete Joe if we are united.’” (5)
Nonetheless he gamely ventures on. His greater Self reveals that the process will take time, suggesting that he is indeed talking about what we would regard as post-Ascension.
“Well, how do we do it?’ I asked.
“’Don’t be in a hurry. You must learn to accept me first as your shadow or reflection. But I only reflect the highest in you.’
“This disturbed me greatly. ‘There isn’t very much of the higher as you call it in me.’
“’Well, I find there is,’ was the unexpected reply; ‘I am the result of your effort and industry and uprightness, together with your fundamental love for the people around you. Oh, I know, lots of them irritated you beyond bearing, but you did bear with them and all that has built up an entity which is me. Now you see I am entirely you, so you can’t throw me out or brush me off. I am you cleaned up and ready to receive the higher vibrations: how do you take that? I’m a sort of bank balance on the credit side.’
“’Well, I’m awfully glad to hear that I have a bank balance and of course I accept you as part of myself; I suppose as you are the upper boy you’ll take command.’
“I didn’t like the idea of jettisoning my way. But he only laughed and said, ‘Trust me. I won’t usurp your will. We can co-operate quite easily.’
“And so the oddest sort of marriage began between the two me’s, and I found I was enormously but enormously changed, stronger, happier, richer by far in understanding and in correlating events and the purposes behind them. And so I was able to take on these missions to and from Everest and Chartres, which the lesser Joe could never have undertaken.” (6)
This meeting of one’s higher Self as if it were an object and merging with it later stands alone in the literature of the afterlife and, since it’s found in only two examples in one book, we may need to accept it provisionally, as we’ll have to do with much that is novel and strange in the times ahead.
Tomorrow we’ll look at the reunion with the group soul that begins in the first subplane.
Continued in Part 4.)

Footnotes

(1) Father Andrew Glazewski in Cynthia Sandys and Rosamund Lehmann, The Awakening Letters. Jersey: Neville Spearman, 1978, 92.
(2) Sir Alvary Gascoigne in AL, 112.
(3) Ibid., 59.
(4) Ibid., 168-9.
(5) Loc. cit.
(6) Loc. cit.
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Entering the Mental Plane – Part 4

William Stead, medium for Julia Ames
William Thomas Stead, well known journalist and spiritual researcher in his day
(Continued from Part 3.)
Many of us are experiencing the reconvening of the soul group prior to Ascension.  The members of the Nova Earth Foundation team are privileged to be able to ask Archangel Michael or our other guides about our connections.
We’ve found that we’ve been in all manner of connection and relationship together in other lifetimes – siblings, spouses, spiritual companions, etc., during lifetimes with Jesus, St. Francis, in Atlantis, and so on.
I’m sure the same will be found by others as their soul groups also coalesce.
Frances Banks and Donald Macleod encountered their soul group while still in the Astral Plane or on visits to the Mental Plane, but visits like these may be exceptional. Or they may prove the spur to arouse the individual from a happy life on the plane of desires, kindling the urge to progress.
Let’s listen to afterlife residents describe the coming together of their soul group. This section is so large that we’ll need to make two articles out of it.

Re-uniting with the Group Soul

Archdeacon Wilberforce describes the bonds that tie people together in groups on the other side of life.
“All who are in the sphere of love and light dwell in families, communities, groups, the binding force of which is love, love alone, sympathy, mutual affection. There you have less one-sidedness than on earth. It is a world of mutual loves and affections and pursuits.” (1)
Journalist William Stead tells us that personality subsides and impersonal love binds all on the first subplane of the Mental Plane. Notice the tie between impersonal love and unitive consciousness.
“Those who stand the tests … pass to another and altogether different and lighter land – and each becomes impersonal. Impersonal in the sense that they are no longer Jack Brown and Madge Black; they are now pure spirit people and their former love, which had been a personal and individual thing, is no longer for one but equally for all. All are alike to all. The purest tissue of God Love binds one and all.” (2)
Independence means less and less to us on the higher spirit planes, “Magnus,” a pseudonymous member of “Imperator’s” (Malachi’s) group, tells us.
“In spirit-life we do not talk of independence. That is a fallacy of earth. Spirits are in union and communion mutually interdependent. They are joined in rapport with those from whom they have learned, or to whom they have taught somewhat.” (3)
An anonymous teacher makes implicit reference to the Second Death, which we’ll look at in a later article (not necessarily in this series), as being an important factor in the drawing together of the group.
Frances Banks during her time as a nun
Frances Banks during her time as a nun
“Men will lose all the shells of unwanted matter accumulated around them … of a soul kind … and will become a spiritual and blessed company of brethren.” (4)
The Second Death is when “the shells of unwanted matter” will fall away, just as Ascension will see the remnants of our lower dimensionality fall away from us.
Donald Macleod was approached by members of his soul group while he lay relaxed on the Astral Plane:
“As I lay entranced,  soaking in the reflected glory of the heavenly fields, I was approached by a number of souls. They greeted me kindly and told me that they were members of my group.” (5)
Frances Banks was also contacted while she was working in a rest home in the higher Astral and taken for a visit to her soul group on the lower Mental.  Her description is of enough interest to cite at length.
“Do you recall that in the early communications from the Rest Home to which I first graduated for service, I recounted the story of a certain doctor, the surgeon who had, whilst in the earth body, fallen victim to drug addiction? You remember that, with him, I visited a Group and was in communication with a number of advanced Souls.
“On several visits I met and communed with these Minds which have reached high standards of consciousness and wisdom. Sometimes they patiently explained Group workings to me. One, a fine and illumined Soul instructed me: ‘Seek for your own place. Ask that Light may open your mind to that which is for you, that your vibratory rate may be increased to respond to the vibration of your Group, that you may become aware of them, for they are very close beside you.’ …
“Suddenly, as I looked upon my old friend, Father Joseph, when we were attending a patient in the Home, I beheld, not the usual brown habit with which I have always associated him, but a ‘surround’ of glorious blue which clothed him. It seemed that I looked right into him. My inner eyes were opened. I knew. His smile was gentle but all understanding as he said: ‘My child! Welcome home!’
“The words were sufficient, the contact was made. It had been necessary for me to await enlightenment, but he had always known. I found it difficult to leave the Home and Mother Florence where I had been so happy. But the prospect of progress was inspiring.
“Besides, I was comforted by learning that Mother Florence would be visiting the Group to which I was going from time to time, as she too was one with it, yet perforce chose to remain at her duties in the Home until all her ‘flock’ had been safely welcomed to this side of life.” (6)
Sometime after her visit, she joins her soul group permanently.
“I cannot make explicit to you the ‘mechanics’ of my move to the Group, partly because I yet am not entirely cognizant of all that occurred myself, and partly because there is no pocket of thought in your mind which could ‘receive’ such information.
“This I can offer for your consideration and that of the readers: whilst I was meditating in my golden garden, I found myself ‘transported’ back to that Temple of Learning where once before I dared to penetrate. Only this time, Father Joseph (I now know him by another name) was with me.
“Together we joined a cluster of entities about a Teacher. Immediately I experienced a rise of consciousness, an upsurge of joy, a mingling of unity and harmony which coloured my whole being. I cannot explain this in any other terms though I doubt whether they will have the same connotation for you.
“I knew this was right for me. I had come into my own. There was no definite acceptance, the entire operation was unobtrusive and simple, yet I had the conviction that all was well, that I was amidst my fellow-travellers on the Way.
“‘What is this Group called?’ I flashed silently to Father Joseph. He smiled.
“‘What have you always sought, my child – Reality!’” (7)
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Freederic H. Myers, President of the Psychic Research Society
Psychic Research Society president Frederic Myers contrasts those who still cling to individuality with those who are drawing closer to their soul brethren. He predict that the group will draw closer and closer together until it functions as one.
“On the lower rungs of this ladder of consciousness dwell those souls who still cling to human habits of thought, to the earthly personality, to their own individual line of thought.
“The higher the ego climbs on the ladder of consciousness, the nearer it draws to other kindred souls. I have already told you that there may be a thousand, a hundred, or merely twenty souls all fed by one spirit. Their consciousness of comrade-souls increases on the higher levels of existence.
“In time they are able to enter into the other souls’ memories, perceive their experiences and be sensible of them as if they were theirs. Mind becomes communal in the last stages, for the spirit, the unifying principle, is tending all the time to produce greater harmony, and therefore greater unity. These various individuals are merging more and more, becoming one in experience and in mind, and thus attaining to undreamt-of levels of intellectual power.” (8)
Some people wedded to individuality may not accept Myers’ arguments, but the soul-group connection melts the selfishness we built up on Earth.
“Men and women may not care to accept these statements of mine. They long either for an indestructible individuality in the Hereafter or for a kind of spiritual swoon in the life of God. You will perceive in my analysis of the group-soul that we are individuals and members of one whole.
“And when you come to the Fourth [higher Astral], and more particularly to the Fifth stage [lower Mental], you will realize how fine and beautiful is this brotherhood within the one being; how it deepens and intensifies existence; how it destroys the cold selfishness so necessary to an earth life, where one living creature must continually destroy another’s manifestation in matter in order to maintain its physical life.” (9)
Myers describes how his life on Earth was spent half as an individual and half as member of his incarnated soul group.
“Here, in the After-death, we become more and more aware of this group-soul as we make progress. Eventually we enter into it and share the experiences of our brethren. You must understand, therefore, that existence for my soul — as separate and apart from my individual ego — is dual. I lived two lives, one in the world of form, and one subjective, in the community of which I am a member.” (10)
He introduces the notion that sometimes we may reincarnate and take on karma for the group.
“When I was on earth I belonged to a group-soul, but its branches and the spirit — which might be compared to the roots — were in the invisible. Now, if you would understand psychic evolution, this group-soul must be studied and understood. For instance, it explains many of the difficulties that people will assure you can be removed only by the doctrine of reincarnation.
“You may think my statement frivolous, but the fact that we do appear on earth to be paying for the sins of another life is, in a certain sense, true. It was our life, and yet not our life. In other words, a soul belonging to the group of which I am a part lived that previous life which built up for me the framework of my earthly life, lived it before I had passed through the gates of birth.” (11)
(Concluded in Part 5.)

Footnotes

(1) Philemon [Archdeacon Wilberforce] in Henry Thibault, Letters from the Other Side. [Letters from Archdeacon Wilberforce or “Philemon.”] London: 1919, 96-7.
(2) William Thomas Stead, The Blue Island. Experiences of a New Arrival Behind the Veil.Estelle W. Stead and Pardoe Woodman, eds. London: Rider, n.d., 147.
(3) Spirit communicator Magnus in Stainton Moses, More Spirit Teachings. Spirit Writings. Electronically published by Meilach.com.http://www.meilach.com/spiritual/books/morest/mst02.htm, n.p
(4) Anonymous teacher of the White Eagle Lodge in Paul Beard, Living On. How Consciousness Continues and Evolves After Death. New York: Continuum, 1981, 127.
(5) Donald Macleod in P.I. Phillips, Here and There. More Psychic Experiences. London; Corgi Books, 1975, 16.
(6) Frances Banks in Helen Graves, Testimony of Light. London: Churches Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, 1975; c1969, 140.
(7) Ibid., 140-1.
(8)  Frederic W.H. Myers through Geraldine Cummins, medium. The Road to Immortality. Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F. W. H. Myers [Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901]. Located athttp://www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/cummins/cummins1.html, n.p.
(9)  Loc. cit. There is no consistent way of referring to the various planes of the afterlife, which is frustrating.
(10)   Loc. cit.
(11)   Loc. cit.
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Entering the Mental Plane – Part 5

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A soul group gathers on the higher planes
(Continued from Part 4.)
The life of the group transcends all divisions, including planetary locales.
“The actual construction of the group-soul must be clearly visualised. Its spirit feeds, with life and mental light, certain plants, trees, flowers, birds, insects, fish, beasts, men and women; representatives of living creatures in varying states of evolution. It inspires souls who are on various planes, various levels of consciousness in the After-death. It feeds, also, creatures on other planets.
“For the spirit must gather a harvest of experience in every form. Gradually these intelligences evolve and merge. The experience necessary to the spirit is completed when all the souls necessary to the design have reached this Fifth plane [First Heaven]. Once they become sensible of their oneness and their individuality they may go forward to the Sixth plane [Second Heaven].” (1)
He discusses what appears to be the Second Death, perhaps equivalent to our Ascension, separating the two spheres of the first and second subplanes:
“There is, then, a breaking of the threads, a casting away of the dross of emotional experience, a sifting and changing on the part of all these souls.” (2)
Frances Banks was a nun for a time on Earth and so has already a strong “belief in Group Work and in the evidence of Group Souls.” (3) She suggests that we are members of many soul groups.
“We are, to my limited knowledge, all members not of one Group but of many, and the many make up the Great Group or the Great Soul Being in which we live and move and have our being … and these great Beings unite to form further great Group Souls or Divine Beings in the Divine Company of Heaven.” (4)
She describes the higher beings in charge of the groups.
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A soul group gathers in the American southwest, mid-assignment
“In the guidance of these Groups are great Beings, watching over the progress of their cell-like clusters of souls.
“They work on higher mental Rays of influence, for although I know very little about them as yet, I have questioned many souls who have contacted them and worked amongst them.” (5)
And she describes their work and its impact.
“These Soul Groups are extensive, yet concentrated in their classes and workshops. They realize more than we can possibly do the Divinity inherent in every particle of the Cosmos.
“They are able to study Divine Laws beyond our understanding. They commune together with and in the Mind of the Higher Beings whose Soul Group they constitute.
“They work for progress in Divine Imagination and they work as Divine Inspirational Groups. They inspire lower groups with their findings, for they still contain the lower groups within their Centres as cell-points in a vast, intricate and beautiful organism.
“Amongst them are philosophers, scientists, researchers, priests, teachers. They are parts of Groups which influence and impress such movements on earth as Psychic Research, Healing movements, Religious Co-operation, the advancement of Science and all movements intended to bring Light upon future worlds.” (6)
Donald Macleod describes the work of a medical soul group. Like Frances Banks, he met Louis Pasteur in the course of observing the group.
“For the last few years I have been one of a band who have been working on the cause and treatment of cancer and, in the fullness of time, we will give our reports and findings to mankind. It will interest you to know that Pasteur, Dr. Schweitzer, Madame Curie, David Livingstone, and some of the people who are working on this project are here. Others are working on heart disease, leukemia and other chronic illnesses.” (7)
Everything inspiring originates from the work of the soul group, she says.
“All great aspirations, revelations and divine whisperings of intuition originate in and through the Spirit of the Group to which one belongs, i.e., the Highest Point of the Group.
“Thus, family sacrifices, family peace, love, harmony all originate from the Group Soul of the family; in the same way, great aspirations for service and for imparting knowledge to others and for the guiding and enlightenment of our fellows comes from the Great Spiritual Being who is the Centre Group Spirit of that particular group.” (8)
Group souls are at the forefront of all great movements and actions, she says.
“Group Souls preside over universal movements, over great causes and thus members of one Spiritual Family are often attracted to each other by mutual interests, by a special life work, as well as by external links. They work together, may indeed share their lives in partnership, or may only meet occasionally as they work in some particular project.” (9)
Their advance is unified, Banks tells us.
“The Group itself is made up of souls at all levels of consciousness, from the highest to the mediocre, but the Spirit of the Groups only Itself advances as the younger and less knowledgeable members make progress.
“It is a unified advance. No member of the Group can pass beyond the call and communication of other members. When the Group itself advances into the Divine Company, then there will be no ‘stragglers.’
“But, as I am instructed, such an experience is far beyond the Group consciousness at this stage.” (10)
Banks informs us that everyone is always progressing back to God. Individuals wanting to progress into a group cannot do so until their expansion matches at least the group’s fringes.
“All is expansion here, but expansion in stages. This Law is exact. No entity can propel itself forward into a Group until its emotional, mental and spiritual expansion at least is comparable with the fringe of that Group’s awareness.” (11)
Moreover there is no way to fool the members of the group.
“Here, illusion, glamour and self-deception are of no avail. One reveals what one is. One advertises oneself even in one’s apparel. The mask has been shed with the physical body. The developing Light body, its dimness or brilliance, is apparent, especially to members of the Group to which the quality of such Light permits graduation.” (12)
Notice that their light body, like ours, is developing in this first stage of the Mental Plane. Ours is developing as we enter the Fifth Dimension and will probably be fully developed with our Ascension, which for me is the equivalent of the Second Death on the spirit side.
Sometimes members of the group become separated but rejoin them on the other side.
“Sometimes, by what appears to be a perverse fate, members of the same Group are separated, born into the apparently wrong camps. Their lives become tragic, often futile in their repeated efforts to rejoin their similar companions and their rightful work. Strangely enough many never find their right niche. Often they live and die as outcasts.
“But, as the entire complement of a Group Soul is never in complete incarnation at the same time, i.e., there is always an integrated part of the Group on this Side, the outcasts, after their transition here and after they have gained consciousness of their state and have attained to at least some measure of Light, rejoin their own Groups.” (13)

In Conclusion

This then is a preview of the full coalescence of the soul group, which we can expect to happen in the next few months as we pioneer a new form of Ascension – Ascension in and with the physical body.
Our soul groups have always been important to our work. We have incarnated as a group over at least thousands of years and perhaps millions. According to what Archangel Michael has told me, our soul groups have existed even when we inhabited other kingdoms.
What I’ve been exploring in this series of articles is some of the similarities between the first stage of the Fifth Dimension which we’re apparently in now, according to Archangel Michael, and the first stage of the Mental Plane, which is the correlate of the Fifth Dimension on the spirit side of life.
The main similarity is that we can be in the first subplane of the Mental Plane and not have gone through the so-called “Second Death,” which I believe is the correlate of our Ascension. I’ll write an article or a series on the Second Death soon, to compare its features with Ascension.
I may look at more similarities between the “First Heaven,” as this subplane of the Mental Plane is called, and our own current stage of development. But in order to keep this series from getting too long, I’m going to stop here for now.

Footnotes

(1) Frederic W.H. Myers through Geraldine Cummins, medium. The Road to Immortality. Being a description of the after-life purporting to be communicated by the late F. W. H. Myers [Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901]. Located athttp://www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/cummins/cummins1.html, n.p. The First heaven is the First Subplane of the Mental Plane and the Second Heaven is the Second Subplane of the Mental Plane.
(2) Loc. cit.
(3) Frances Banks in Helen Graves, Testimony of Light. London: Churches Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, 1975; c1969, 114.
(4) Ibid., 115.
(5) Ibid., 116.
(6) Loc. cit.
(7) Donald Macleod in P.I. Phillips, Here and There. More Psychic Experiences. London; Corgi Books, 1975,, 10.
(8) Frances Banks, TOL, 118.
(9) Ibid., 139.
(10) Ibid., 119.
(11) Ibid., 135.
(12) Ibid., 135-36.
(13) Ibid., 139.
by Steve Beckow