by Ernest L. Norman

To Ruth: You were speaking of personal identities and that there were many thoughts which have been passing through your mind and especially leading up to the particular point; when one becomes wise in the ways of the Infinite. If one uses identity as a personal entity in relationships which would inflate the ego or would further stimulate the person to greater efforts in directions which could be called such ways and manners and means of acquiring personal gains (and when I speak of personal gains, I mean such things as are most valuable to the egocentric and, in particular, to his sense of well-being and importance to himself), he becomes a small planet. In his own orbit he is revolving around the seat of the throne of all intelligence, and so, it seems to him that he is only waiting a suitable opportunity when he, in his super-egocentric consciousness can rush in, at the most opportune moment, and occupy this seat of Infinite Wisdom.

Unfortunately for him at least and fortunately for the rest of humanity, such a condition never happens. For, in the sense of infinite proportions, those who are most concerned with their own position and in a way and manner and means whichcan be equated from such superficial or reactionary values from the subconscious which are stimulated from past lifetimes—are living in bestial forms of consciousness which are much akin to those of the beasts of the fields and forests upon which he preys for his food. Thus, identities become relevant and valuable to him. His name is inscribed in his holy of holies; he worships at the altar of his own false superstructures which he considers the most valuable thing in his possession, namely, how much better he is than his neighbor. He must drive a better car; he must live in a better house; he must do so-and-so so much better; yet he knows, just as he is doing these things, that they are only relative and for one person such as himself, who is thus doing these things and concerning himself with the attributes of the material life, that there are many thousands more who are in similar conditions perhaps better—some perhaps less so. But all are reacting from these same constituents of reactionary values which have been so firmly posed in that urge and that struggle for survival from the more primitive days of his existence, and one of the last surviving bastions, shall I say, of these various karmic structures which are necessary for his existence on the physical plane is his own personal identity.

However, please do not misunderstand what I am about to say. We are separating in the common tempo of living as it is expressed by the materialist and in the centralization or self- focusing of all objectivism to that point in evolution where such objectivism and focusing and such relationships assume infinite proportions; where he can realize that all acts of consciousness, which he performs within the dominion of his own perspectives are, in themselves, multiplied seven times seven as useful and added constituents of intelligent energy formations which, shall we say, like rays from the sun, permeate and warm the lower regions which are lacking in these necessities of life. While the sun seems to give the life-infusing rays which enable plant and animal life to function upon the earth yet, the earth itself and all forms of life could easily cease to exist and in a moment’s notice were it not for the great influxes of intelligence which stem into all of these forms of life from the higher dimensions. All of these things do not say that “I am John Jones,” or that “I am Bob Smith.” They are concerned only that they are elements of Infinite Consciousness and, as such, are most content and happy to live in the warm rays of that Intelligence.

So it matters not, little Sister, that you are traveling in the company of One who perhaps, and I could very easily affirm what you have established in your mind as you have seen Him traveling in the Higher dimensions as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, as you more properly know Him—the scientist from Lemuria who has created the living flames for those who are now known as the Parsees, and only 124,000 of them remain in the earth-plane consciousness and, that you met one of these in a brother priest in the Temple of Flame about two years ago, did you not?

You see, Lahamahasa knows many things. Who is Lahamahasa, you say? He is one who has had the privilege of keeping company of One, just as you are so keeping company with Him at this present time. You are performing a very valuable and functional purpose in the world with Him; and may I say to you that the last thing which would be conceivable in the mind of Him whom you call husband is that He would wish to demonstrate supernormal phenomena power to anyone. And, although you know He could do these things quite easily (and He does them at all times with His students and to those who come in contact with Him) yet, even the very nature of their intelligence is changed also, so they do not think that it  is miraculous; but, as you suggested too, it is an activation into consciousness, of that which they know in the higher self.

Yes, little Sister, I can assure you that even those who are called Masters and who are worshiped and venerated by more than nine hundred million people who call themselves Christians, that these people in themselves, have been taught and taught by the Lemurian Masters. For it is the planet Lemuria itself which is one of the great Centers of learning for hundreds of millions of terrestrial planets in the great universe and that many of those who journey through the starry pathways in the sky in the flying saucers, as they are called, are being taught by the Lemurians into the higher sciences of life. Yet rest assured that in the common understanding of energy and that as the world in itself has its own basic frequency — if I can thus speak so — it would, in effect, be quite impossible for any regeneration of such harmonic structures which would be conducive to a higher way of life than that which you have or are presently seeing life so expressed on the earth, that the billions of people who swarm the little planet are merely in the very lowest and elemental stages of manhood. They are no more — or no less — than they have been for hundreds of thousands and even millions of years.

And the earth shall remain thus and so, passing through cycles which to some degree create a rise or fall of certain civilizations or epochs of time wherein certain differentiations of intelligence are manifest. Thus it was in the days of the Romans, the Greeks, the Carthaginians, the more primitive Hindu and Assyrian civilizations, even the Inca and the Mayan and those whom the Lemurians left behind in the Atlantean epoch. And, each time they have come and each time they have gone, they have left behind them the pure dispensation of life; yet, you can easily see how the more primitive and savage forms of mankind which surround you, have succeeded in destroying these things.

Even today, your leaders in the White House, as well as the most common citizens in your great country, are shaking in their boots at the prospect that war is imminent because of a crisis which has arisen over a few hundred square miles of territory. Simply because a few people refuse to let their egos be deflated, they must make hundreds of millions of people suffer great physical distress and a possibility of physical destruction and termination of the present of their reincarnative pattern; yes, even possibly rendering your planet untenable for mankind for a hundred or more years until it cools off simply because they are not grown up. They are still savages traveling through the jungle trails.

You call them “President”, you call them “Congressmen”, you call them other leaders but they are still savages. They have better ways of butchering their fellowman, but they are still savages. You are indeed fortunate that you are traveling in a small sphere or globe of energy through this material world which shields you to a great extent from the austerities which most people suffer in that karmic world which is about you. You are most fortunate to be bathed in that Radiant Effulgence of Light which comes from the Higher Planes at all times and to have at your disposal and within your hands the key to Heaven and hell if I can put it so. What other person on the earth holds such a position? No, there is nothing in the mind of Him who serves the Infinite and who walks by your side in that terrestrial plane that He cannot contact, that He cannot do, if He so desired it so.

Yes, it is a problem which has come to many who have visited this little planet, and even as the One called Jesus hung on the cross, He was sorely tempted to put aside His material disguise and to call upon the powers of the Higher Worlds to deliver Him. Yet He knew even then that in His great plan, in order for anyone at all to believe in Him for a period of two or more thousand years, that they could only do so under a blood-smeared banner of hate and lust, so low is the consciousness of those who call themselves the priests and who are supposed to be dispensing His brotherly love. And yet, we will not have it so at this time, nor will He have it so who is there with you, and we respect Him in His wishes, and admire Him in His fortitude for donning the mantle of flesh and enduring the vicissitudes of the material world. Yet, it is there that a supremacy of wisdom and knowledge must assert itself as it  is doing and proving itself to the fortunate few who have prepared themselves for His coming.

He has no wish nor desire to tell the world that He is so-and-so, except that He realizes that there may be a few who must know His name, as it is called and believe for the sake and the knowing that they have seen Him and talked to Him in other worlds and in other different times. And when they do so, the Light is let into the windows of their lives and they are changed as you have seen them changed — and as you have been changed. For these are the men who have taught others on your world, the things which they have left behind them and for which men worship and venerate them to this very day. Yet the greatness of this is contained in the reticent way in which they have merged themselves into the Infinite Consciousness and that no man knows who they are to this day save possibly you and your husband. Nor, if they do so, they have an inkling.

Again, I can only repeat what others have said before me. Rest assured, as I know that you shall do, that whatever He came to do will be completed at this time and in this cycle. For if you know Him as I know Him, it would be to know many others who are spoken of in hushed whispers. Yet, look not upon Him and the frailties of the flesh in which He must express Himself through the world, for that is the way He has chosen, and that is the way it must be, simply because of reasons best known to Himself in the variances and in the valences of certain psychological values (if you can call them such) which enable Him to maintain a vehicular form of flesh on your earth. And yet the cycle must swing both ways and so He finds Himself today, perhaps in the most difficult of all positions; to maintain something in a material world which is entirely foreign to His nature, which He does not believe in, yet He must fully understand and work with. How else could it be? No, I shall not say that He does not believe in it for there are those who may read these words later who would not understand what I mean. Do you know? (Yes, I do.) He does not believe in them simply because they are contrary to a higher form of life; but He understands thoroughly that in the development of an embryo spiritual person, these are all additives; they are condiments and they are constituents which, like the foundation and the building blocks in a building, must be laid before the tower and the belfry wherein the bells are hung. But even that and the words which I must use are but crude facsimiles perhaps, of what I am trying to convey to you. Yes, indeed, dear Sister, yours is a most important position, but treat it always with the greatest respect and dedication of purpose, and, as I can only stress what you well know by now, perhaps these words are superficial. But I can only stress their importance; that He must be shielded as far as possible and especially, must He be given love and understanding.

To you, because you now have ascended and you are taking your position in the creative scheme and movement of things which are progressing forward and you are ceasing to be the reactionary individual who was working out karma a few short years ago, indeed, be very careful when you feel any intemperance coming to you, that you will know, that is what our friend, Jacobi (Einstein) spoke to you about many times perhaps a bit forcibly.

Perhaps Lahamahasa may or may not be able to visit with you in the future. I hope that I shall be able to continue a series of narratives in the more philosophical vein of teaching which would perhaps be understandable even more so to those who were sufficiently indoctrinated into the higher concepts of energy formations. Such things must always be made necessary to those and these things must always be continually added. You will not, in your span of lifetime, see — nor has the world seen, since the Lemurians — a way of interpretation of life  such as is expressed from these Higher planets; because, in Lemuria itself, one finds a way and an outlet for what we know as the dynamic and the motivating, the moving forces of the Infinite Creation as it concerns mankind individually and collectively.

And, I have only one little observation left which I may be permitted to make at this time; that I am wondering, within myself, just what is conceived to be the terminating point — how far the physical body can be projected into the Spiritual World and still survive in its form. To me, these things are very interesting. I have much to learn. I have learned much since I came into contact in the past few thousand years and there is, indeed, much more to learn, for learning becomes a part of one’s self when truly learned. When truly observed, these things do become part of one’s self, functional, useful and purposeful. How can one prattle about things he does not understand? Yet many in your world and time are so doing. False prophets and teachers they are called by Christian dispensations.

Yet, perhaps I, too, at one time was guilty of these things. I sat in my Temple; I walked up and down in front of the great idols and chanted the mantrums and waved the incense, and called the people to worship. But that was a long time ago and now I  have learned much better. Yet this is indeed only a form or an outgrowth of such various religious systems and cultisms which are practiced by those who do not understand.

Only one little bit of advice if I may interject; there is some note of caution that I would carry to you at this time; that it is best to approach the seat of learning, and when I say that, I mean when you call upon Him who is in contact, that this is done with purpose, it is done judiciously; it must not be promiscuously. He has much to give, much to teach, but He cannot throw what He has away. You are very worthy of learning all of these things, but in the future it must be observed that there must be a better time, a better purpose; that, whenever the thoughts seem to flare up, may I suggest somewhat more regular sessions wherein certain contacts can be attained and achieved without the necessity for Him to have to bob in and out as it were. (Yes, indeed.) It is something which is quite difficult but which He is quite accomplished at doing; yet there is just so much that can be done in one cycle. Too, it would be of great importance to you to have, as we do tonight, a manner and means in which these things could be perpetuated for others to enjoy them just as you are doing. If you need to, buy such suitable mechanisms which will give the greatest comfort to these dispensations. Remember, dear Sister, there are no limits to the contact this Mind can make. And a great deal of this depends, of course, upon how receptive you are, and what kind of a vehicle you, yourself, make to the outside world in these dispensations.

To Him, all those who are receptive, are worthy. He does not discriminate; yet He knows in the consciousness of the earth world how destructive these entities are. Am I speaking above the level? (No, I understand.) You have about one-half an inch of tape left? Did I get the correct amount of tape, Sister? (Yes.) I wish to show you that I do not see with the physical eye; to show you that someday the physical eye, the five senses, can be entirely supplanted by a higher form of intelligence. And that vibration, as it is concerned in such reactive processes as are associated with the five senses, is strictly something which we have learned to use with the five senses; but it does not necessarily prove that such things are nonexistent but perhaps five hundred or five million different kinds of senses. You will find that is true when you pass into the spiritual, just as the One who lives with you has found.

And in this proportion of contact through the mind with an infinite proportion of intelligent wave forms which you call the Spiritual Worlds, He is in a sense using five million senses, is he not? Five different points of contact with your different five senses means only a certain set of vibrations can be intercepted and relayed to the subconscious. With Him it means that five million or even more different forms of consciousness are intercepted and relayed to the surface of His mind. This is simple mathematics. You will find that it is true. And now I see that, as in the terminating point of all consciousness of your earth, the nine hundred feet of tape around the reel has almost exhausted my little stay. If I have added one note of harmony to your life, I am most grateful and I am your humble servant, Lahamahasa.

Excerpt from Tempus Interludium, Vol II