From this point on, the more prestige minded the man, the more complicated the devices he thought up in an effort to ease some of his worldly belongings over the dividing line. The pyramids of Egypt, and their contents stand today as an enduring symbol of man's longing for a materialistic immortality.

Is twentieth century man more advanced in his thinking? ... On Wednesday, May 8, 1963, The Montreal Gazette recorded the Vatican Radio as saying of Communism "It is a religion whose gospel begins with the words, "In the beginning was matter, and matter was God"- unquote.

While Theology has a gospel that starts with the words "In the beginning was God, and God created matter" ...Is this not rather like arguing over which came first -- the chicken or the egg?

As in the story of the three talents, and the adjunct to use them or loose them, when Supreme Being gave Nature the energy to create her evolutionary process, the good servant used this spark wisely and produced mankind of her own industry. Death is simply the separation of our divine energy from the substance evolved by Nature as a factory for producing the Natural energy which is required for furthering the species.

For the uninitiated, this partition normally takes place at the time of death -- or that time when the body can no longer produce natural energy in the required amount. It is a momentary procedure. By Natural Law, any creature considered to be a poor investment energy-production-wise is destroyed. Thus, by the rule of the survival of the fittest, mankind evolved.

During life, the energy released by our pulsating thoughts has been captured within our magnetic field in the form of color and; these colors have been reflected in the spiritual aura. At the time of death, the natural aura, (usually very faint by this time) goes out like a light, leaving the spiritual aura drenched with its reflection.

The length of time necessary to free the spiritual aura from the dross of its natural thought reflection may be likened to spending a period of time in quarantine, purgatory, the outer darkness. There are many terms to describe this state of being, however, it amounts to a period of isolation until such time as the purified spirit is free of discoloration, and can proceed through the six further stages of spiritual evolution, or astral ascension, on return to Source.

Technically speaking. the coloring which represents carnal thinking, being natural, must be returned to Nature to replace her energy investment. From birth, each human being has consumed Nature's products, in the form of food, clothing, housing etc., and practical Mother Nature has to have her bill stamped "Paid in full" before the spiritual entity can be released. While we have made daily "interest" payments in released energy, the principal hasn't been touched. Nature's fondness for mankind is simply in his practical worth of energy dividends. That is why I have said before, if Science should succeed in creating imbalance, that is, prolonging life beyond natural fitness requirements, either in the newly born or the aged, our species would be doomed because Nature just wouldn't put up with it.

Again considering the pyramids of Egypt; whom do you think was better prepared to sever energy-clogging earthy ties; the thousands of slaves who died on construction work, or the departing Pharaoh's to whom prestige meant so much? And again; who had the larges natural debt owing? The common people who consumed little and produced much; or the King, who "borrowed" fabulous amounts of natural wealth, expending little effort.

The development of Ego was intended to incite mankind into higher natural energy production. As Nature cannot comprehend Deity, she being on a slower sonic range, has no alternative but to obey Omnipotence without question. The more energy man has to eject from the aura after death the better it pleases Nature --dividends! dividends! dividends!

The preconscious mind, now an inert mass, does not have to suffer -- it is dead. Therefore, in payment for its earthly education, the spiritual mind must meet the price that the accumulative animal action-reaction effects have caused. Westerner's have much to learn from Oriental facets of religion in this respect. Many Buddhists and Hindus spend the larger part of their lives in renunciation of all that is material(Low consumption) in order that spiritual progress will be unhampered. Thus the "Laughing Buddha" who sits above my desk, says happily "I AM AWAKE!" (He is also quite partial to having his belly rubbed.)

The harmony we advocate teaches full enjoyment of all reasonable material things. It decries wasteful consumption, evokes equality of distribution, demands full energy output for products consumed. But most of all, requires that the greater part of one's actions be directed by the spiritual vibrations, which, being of a separate source, do not represent debts to Nature. In this way, on transition, it is easy to discard material inclinations and surge forward to the next state of being uninterrupted. Technicalities aside, it works like this. The comfort or anguish during the period immediately following transition depends largely on one's attitude towards departure. If your heart is at peace it can represent the moment sublime: If, having known the Perfect Love which casteth out fear, one is eager to partake of eternity, or it can be resisted, which requires an exhaustive energy output in a vain attempt to procrastinate.

It is not at all uncommon for a spiritual entity to manifest itself in earthly form for months, years or even centuries after transition. This ,depends on the degree of resistance that was being expended at the time of its transition. Perhaps England's Queen Anne Boelyn is one of our most notorious examples. Infuriated at the injustice of her early demise, Anne didn't intend to take this state of affairs lying down, so, tucking her head underneath her arm, she walks the Bloody Tower in a regular protest march. Unfortunately this was quite wasted on Henry, who operated strictly on his five carnal senses, and only the common folk witnessed the lady erasing her anger.

Even as the Bluenose ghost types, of Canada's eastern coastline, came back to check and recheck on pirate hoards, reliving over and over again the last preconscious thoughts of greed: Reluctant to leave such treasure behind, ever seeking to guard it from enemy intrusion.

Remorse takes on odd facets. There was the lady who had a heart attack as she saw her young grand-daughter drowning, and relived this scene visually on numerous occasion before eradicating her guilt feeling at having left the child unattended. Poltergeists are those rare specimens who eject remorseful energy with such fury that it is impossible to ignore them. These would be people anxious to draw attention to themselves, or ones who passed over in such a flaming fit of rage that they must continue to vent their feelings of injustice after transition.

Not too long ago there was the case of the parson's housekeeper who went into her deceased employer's bedroom and saw him sitting on the edge of the bed tying up his shoelaces in his former fastidious fashion, then, gathering up imaginary letters from his writing desk, he hurried off to mail them. Bound by routine, and governed by habit the dear old soul could not consider departure improperly dressed, or without attending to his last earthly chores, and these had been the last throughts in his mind. It might many years of repeating these trivial actions before he was free of the idea.

Not all remorse is reenacted by manifestation. Where a still living person is closely involved in another's remorse, this is often transmitted in spiritual dreams when the preconscious is asleep and ego off-guard. This can only occur when two persons have been operating on a sympathetic wave-length. It is also possible to recognize the vibrations of a departed person in a room at a quiet time of day.

During World War II, my young husband Edward Forster, was burned to death in a plane crash near Alexandria, after which we kept regular contact for nearly ten years. He was appalled at the manner of his death and concerned about the disfigurement (he was twenty-one at the time, newly wed, intelligent, well educated and very handsome) and these had been his dying thoughts. After a great deal of suffering over this frustration, this period subsided, and he began to feel angry in©stead at the ridiculous wastage of his carnal self in the prime of its vitality. Self-pity wrung him mercilessly -- but the hell was of his own making. Gradually he came to realize this, paused,fretting long enough to peer beyond the outer darkness into the distant glow of a new and beautiful world in the distance. That was the end of our communication ... except once, when in Astral Travel, I was permitted to peek in and say "Hello" to my dear departed husband.

The dearer earthly ties have been, the harder it is to part with the remnants of natural energy. The spirit cannot see beyond Earth's atmosphere 'till natural thought reflection is exhausted.Every young man who died in battle had to undergo this awful rage at the wastage of youth in the utter stupidity of war. Transitioncomes more gently to the aged.

The person who has spent a lifetime in acquiring natural facts feels the same reluctance to depart, the ego-reflection hating to proceed to where natural factual accumulation is no longer a prestige factor. How fall the mighty when Spirit says "Never mind your intellectual accomplishments now, how do you rate in spiritual accomplishments? Have you practised what you've preached? The longing to present OUR TRUE ACCOUNT is overwhelming. To embrace an entirely new Scale of Values and to grasp the Value of the Scale on such short order might be viewed by some as "hellish." All that precious lie energy WASTED !!! Energy spent in self-pity, fear, habit, hate, and self-pride has to go. Inability to reject ingrained habit grips the soul -- rather like in the olds school joke about the drinker who went beyond and was given a bottle with a hole in the bottom by a waitress without ...

The energy expended in remorse must be mathematically equal to the emotional energy released in aurotic discoloration. From the time of birth every thought has been recorded; not the slow waves of conscious thought, rather the faster l.B.M. type sparks from the preconscious, of which an individual could be totally unaware. This is why the preconscious must be thoroughly sorted out at the first possible opportunity and the emotional firing mechanism reset. Until the completion of repentance techniques, the spiritual mind's vibrational capacity is slowed down to the degree of discoloration. The red colors of anger, hate, tension etc., hamper it most, being the slowest of all the vibrational wavelengths. This purification process goes through the whole spectrum of the aura colour, band by band, 'till the aura is perfect. Throughout this whole period there is no ability to communicate with fellow spiritual beings, thus the term spiritual isolation.

As in life, it is not easy to discard old ideas and embrace broader concepts of reality; so it is in death. The familiar surroundings and Earthy ideas are not easily discarded. Deep longings and unfulfilled desires figure prominently in this post transition period. Children have no such problems if they die young, for the preconscious is uncluttered, and again we are reminded ... except ye become as little children ye shall not see the kingdom of heaven.

All that burns in hell then, is separative consciousness. When a short enough frequency has been achieved, the newly ascended spiritual entity can communicate with its Guide, (who actually takes one step down the vibrational scale and assists the assignee to ascend). To those who have spent much time in meditation it will be like the reunion of old friends, one having perfect confidence in the other. In fact, the people who understand deep meditation will find this chapter largely unnecessary. In life they will have already undergone the first stages of reckoning, and taken strides towards reparation and the development of selfless motivation.

Imagine sitting through a movie of your life run backwards: That is starting at the last thoughts before death, only with the former Ego that excused every action backing down on its decisions when faced with cold facts. As background music, imagine a soft intonation of the General Confession -- we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ... omission and commission is the equalizer we have little earth time left to make recompense. The Sin of Silence killed the First Atlantis.

With a few heartwarming exceptions, we arrive at the "Pearly Gate" armed with perfect tales of self-justification for every action committed. These stories run the gamut from circumstances, provocation, being misunderstood, personal injustices, lack of perception, parental malingering, inability to control the mind, irrepressible drives, etc., to hunger, lack of material wherewithal, ignorance, and so on. These are directed to the waiting room.

Initial comments from readers of THE INNER POWER were invariably ... "Yes, the world needs this book, many people are making these mistakes". But rarely "I am making these mistakes". Married women frequently blame their husbands for their inadequacies. Husbands blame wives. But at the time of reckoning each one will stand alone, and have to face individual errors. This serves to emphasize the importance of happy marital relationships and the responsibility of parenthood.

Jesus taught "Turn the other cheek". Simple obedience to this rule without questioning the natural logic, as so many do, will keep your aura bright. Violence escalates abomination and desolation. The offender alone will be responsible for his recorded offences. In my opinion, Jesus' dying words from the cross have been misinterpreted. He actually said "Father, I forgive them, they know not what they do" -- and was thus himself absolved. Had Jesus died with resentment on his mind it would have reflected on no-one but himself. Myth mirrors many such stories, such as the story of Socrates on his deathbed insisting that he pay his social debts.

About this point revolves the whole crux of forgiveness. The scenes we watch portraying our former lives on Earth will repeat themselves endlessly until we have learned to forgive, then as far as we are able to pay our social debts. In eradicating this aurotic blot, our own forgiveness is automatic. For as the spiritual load is lightened, its frequency quickens as this bond slips away.

THE QUICKENING involves ejecting error from the negative aspects in the red band of the aura in our spiritual ascension. What of the pleasure we will find in reliving the whole Circular Rainbow Energy Bands (the Bando's) of the loving, worthwhile items of our lives.

This is where the importance of acquiring an equal measure of spiritual worth for natural capacity becomes obvious. The person who thinks faster releases more energy in thought, builds up aurotic coloration at a faster rate of speed, and therefore has more on the debit side of Mother Nature's ledger to repay. Here again an example of the awful wastage of practices which advocate quantity before quality in humanity which downgrades our specie because where there is little energy expenditure there is not much to take home to Source when the final planetary reckoning is over.

We use a teaspoon, a cupful and a gallon measure of natural talents to show how the system works. The intellectual who has been content to serve only natural desires like gaining staus or money making, will find that "hell" can be a torturous experience. Realization can come with a sharp, cutting clarity, with auric sparks flying off in all directions. Reparation too will be swift and forceful. For the school to which this Spiritul Being has been sent will have given it some of the personality coloring of its natural counterpart and a better understanding of The Master's lowest order of vibration. In the after life no thought of any value is wasted.

Loliad, while on Earth, had the greatest thirst for knowledge that has ever been scribed. He simply aspired to know all there was to know about everything. His biography will later illustrate the lengths to which this search took him. Upon death he found that there were three of him. After reparation and repayment of Nature's dues, he was left with little else to sustain him than this desire to keep learning; it has since taken him through the seven levels of enlightenment in record time. He finally reached one of the highest states possible in any world and graduated as a member of The Inner Council, to be chosen as Director of spiritual matters on Earth. How fortunate Lee doesn't have a head these days, can you imagine what a giant sized headache his would be?

Thus heaven is what you want of it in terms of internal progression. To some the first post-mortem level of understanding might be all they require, a pleasant lazy resting place for perhaps thousands of years. Whereas others will quickly investigate every detail of the first level, and be eager to proceed. Here another Master Touch evidences itself: The insatiable curiosity reflection that was formerly Nature's tool, will urge the earth-type spirit to new heights of endeavor. It is within the fourth vibrational field of activity that one first meets people who have inhabited weird animals on unknown planets ... my Vringgian friends among them.

On Vringg the curiosity quotient is not as keen as that of Earthlings and who are content to ascend at a more leisurely pace. Not so the X'ians,whose spiritual counterparts profit greatly from the former diligence of their physical selves.

Earlier we were discussing the period of isolation during which, as if in a dream, its former life revolves around the newly separated spirit like a garment. This period continues until all the natural energy has been released and the ascended spirit is left with the total sum of its worthwhile characteristics as the product of its Earthly visit.

For this uniqe entity, Earthly schooling is now over. All the aching longings and regrets over time wasted is of no avail. Now the awful price of error is fully realized. One spirit might find itself the possessor of a teaspoonful of worth, knowing that on Earth a gallon measure of resources had been at its command ... but every last tear of anguish will only bring the final realization that there is no-one to blame but Self and repentance is the exit.

A second essence of cupful capacity, might have retained, even multiplied this whole cupful of potential if life has been spent wisely. The third, perhaps with a teaspoonful of Earthly potential, would suffer but little, being unaware of the stakes involved. Like a child, blissfully ignorant of what might have been.

Most terrible of all is the plight of the apathetic who expended and received little. Regardless of potential, Earthly education will have left these people with little to show on either side of the ledger, and years of heavenly experience will be pale in comparison to what might have been, as if they peer through a glass darkly, not face to face.

Suppressed natural desires figures prominently in the isolation period. To the underprivileged it can represent the fulfillment of unfilled life desires. The lame become "mental" athletes if they have so wished, the blind see, the hungry feast; all this for as long a time necessary to satiate the longing.

Lee once took me to visit my grandmother many years after her death. This was strictly for training purposes, it is not normally acceptable to favour blood ties or human relationships, but I was young at the time and had not yet progressed to this point of acceptance.

Grandmother had lived a very gruelling existence. We found her in the setting of a perfectly appointed country cottage, quite the reverse to her physical London-slum environment. She sat relaxed ona couch in her best navy blue dress with a white Peter Pan collar, her hair beautifully groomed. Naturally, Gran had been quite an untidy person (both Mother and myself likewise), but had spent her lowly life in faith and integrity, never missing her prayers, never doubting. After transition she lingered to enjoy the suppressed wish for a country cottage with everything immaculate. Our greeting needed no words. Mutual recognition flowed between us bringing indescribable pleasure, for she knew that I was not one of the mental images of her own creation. But had reached out across the vibratory barrier, and, for a brief moment, had parted death's veil. In any communication of this particular astral aspect,it is the persons till living on Earth who speeds up their thought vibrations, never the departed one slowing down to a lesser vibratory scale. There is a very simple scientific explanation for this.

I remember Mr. Jones. He was dying of cancer and science protracted his suffering by intravenous feedings in the guise of humaneity; an exquisite torture. A few weeks before his departure"Jonsie" told me how, sleeping or waking, clear headed or delirious with pain, he could not get the thought of ham and eggs out of his mind. Within twenty four hours after his transition I watched him eating the endless platefuls of bacon and eggs which had saturated his emotional aura.

Euthanasia is a matter to be decided between the patient, the doctor, and Spirit. A good personal friend, A Catholic Bishop chose his own timing for departure. Tomorrow, self-euthanasia, controllable by will, during sleep or meditiation will be common circumstance; the natural acceding to the spiritual when the minds are in harmony ... to sleep, perchance to dream will be the attitude. It would be possible to regale you with endless tales of this type. The joy, the fears, the remorse. Each serves to illustrate the importance of attitude as one approaches transition. Rise to meet it gracefully. Sudden death can be a shattering experience or met with the Perfect Love which casteth out fear.

Recalling Buddhist monks freely rejecting natural life, it is easy to understand the tranquillity of their passing in spite of horrendous circumstances.

All preparatory efforts will be amply rewarded. Ascend the master of your emotions, with crippling carnal instincts under control. Discard the anger that tormented Anne Boelyn, the greed that gripped the pirates, the grandmother's guilt, the parson's rigid prison. The agonies of a young life lost that hampered the young airman.

The mind will want to cling to Earthly matters only if its wealth is stored in the physical realm. It is therefore a wise procedure to make arrangements for the disposal of physical possessions in such a manner that the distribution can bring nothing but emotional satisfaction, goodness and enlightenment on a global scale.

A World-wide depository, authorized to make distribution of assets according to the greatest need, regardless of the source of contribution, is the solution. This affords economy of operation, foolproof legislation, and a quorum of the Earth's top capabilities on its staff. Concerted effort could then be directed at each problem according to its degree of gravity. Under its jurisdiction would come such items as birthrights, population planning, increased food production, motherhood clinics, reform for reformatories, programmes for world unity.

Under this programme a man and wife are counted as one, to enjoy in either's lifetime the greater part of the rewards of their efforts to Caesar. Being truly rich, their children would have had a loving home life, and know self reliance and diligence. A noble and sufficient inheritance. On departure the parents can add further to the security and education of their children, by contributing their total material wealth to the cause of equal distribution of worldly goods as a gift for all children. This is the sane way to ensure the peace and continuity of our species.

There might be some who, nodding in agreement with these fine ideals, seek to hold something back. Calling a son aside, the parent might suggest a large gift before transition, with the remainder of the estate being willed to the World-wide fund. In such cases it would be better for the father to leave everything to his son honestly, which holds hope, rather than teaching the lad subtlety and deviation of purpose. For this burdens the son with the same problem on his own demise and once again curses the future generations with the sins of the fathers. Preconscious awareness of a possible inheritance competes with true father-child relationªships. The father must be revered for himself, not loved for his potential generosity. Removing this possibility frees children of questioning.

In the post transition world, all children will born with equal opportunity. This is the basic truth which gives Honest Communism its power over democracy, for there is no institution capable of survival which is not founded on the solid rock of Justice: Social, Natural, and Spiritual. Civilization struggles to achieve this end result and nought can prevail against this Day of The Lord. Half measures are but delaying tactics. One should either say"I do not have the strength to go all out and part with my fortune gladly in the cause of humanity", and accept the responsibility; or give ALL. Giving has to be a state of mind, how much you have to give is insignificant, the widow's mite sufficed. Deceiving your self as to motivation is spiritual retardation. Omnipotence is not deceived.

All that remains for discussion then, is the disposal of one's carcass. Tibetans use vultures for this purpose. Westerners prefer maggots. Same difference in the end, all are soil nourishers and soil nourishment is the key to revitalization. This is told in the folk song "On Ilkley Moor . 'thout 'at."

It is a matter of little consequence except to the bereaved. Do-it yourself programs will find ready acceptance once the discarded body is brought into its proper perspective of spare parets and recyclable nutrient. It is legal in Ontario to bypass the undertaker and build your own box. The cost for a coroner's inspection of the body is about $10.00, wood and nails would be about another $7.00. Fifty dollars covers the cost of cremation. A professional undertaker would charge about $800.00 for a similar service, which would of course include suitable ceremony.

There might possibly be some fleshy items suitable for donation to hospitals ... let nothing useful go to waste. It is equally wasteful discard clothing or household equipment suitable for the needy.

Throughout these transition preparations, don't hide your transition trousseau in a trunk. The "Brides of Christ" walk with pride, their step light, their heads held high their smiling lips and sparkling eyes telling the world "We you in love with LOVE" and lovers will understand. Start trying your new auric gown on now for size, until it is worn with effortless grandeur. For after all, tomorrow is but a brief moment after yesterday.