(p.11)

SEVENTH DAY

DOUBT

            Ques. I have waited half-an-hour without response. Why do I receive nothing?

            Ans. Because you are hesitating and do not trust in us. You think we cannot give you the highest. You wish for a message from Jesus Christ, and know not that we are his instruments to work redemption among those who seek us. We cannot impress your brain or give power to your hand. You doubt and confuse all which we say to you; you cannot lend us your mind, and we cannot impress it in this state. You must think, but must not be unsympathetic with those who would help the world through you.

            Ques. How do I know you can help the world? Look at the multitude of faiths and sects. What good comes of them?

(p. 12)

            Ans. You shall see your answer in a flood of light ere long. Man perishes for want of faith. He will not trust us who know better than he does the ends of human life, to show him that faith is well founded in realities. We live and move and have our being in the heavenly mansions of the just, and ye are in semi-darkness, our dear ones and our friends. We speak to you, we weep for you, we crave your hearing, but ever and anon ye say of us, “Their lives are not; they are our own thoughts taking human shape.” If you will lend us your mind we can impress it with thoughts and words which are foreign to it, and with ideas which are unknown to you.

            Ques. How shall I lend you my mind? I cannot understand the process. Did you write or did I write those lines on “Love,” “Prayer,” ‘‘Individuality”?

            Ans. We helped you. We resolved your thoughts into words and gave expression to our own knowledge through them, as much as we could, but your own personality intruded many times.

            Fear not evil, for in this work no evil shall come, and the proof thereof shall be in your own life, and in your increased love for all around you. The curse of riches shall depart from you, and you shall not misspend your time in seeking them.

            God is faithful; He is no arbitrary tyrant, nor evil demon glutting himself with blood and cruel practice as do men. He cannot behold your earnest prayers for light, and give you darkness, or withhold the light. But desire truly light and truth, and let not your desire take any preconceived shape, then shall not evil touch you in this work.