Good Morning Garden

Pass a test in Spiritual understanding, and never again throughout eternity will that particular task have to be done. You attitude should be:

I am going to live forever; in a thousand years from now I shall still be alive and active somewhere; in a hundred thousand years still alive and active somewhere; and so the events of today have only the importance that belongs to today. Greet the unknown with a cheer, and press forward joyously, exulting in the great adventure.

Armed with this philosophy, and really understanding its power, you have nothing to fear in life or death – because God is All, and God is Good.

Now may the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus… make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight… (Hebrews 13:20-21).
When we realize and truly accept that our spiritual selves, our consciousness, will live forever, it radically changes every aspect of our lives for the good. It frees us from the bondage and limitation of time and empowers us to rise above the challenges, doubts, fears and anxieties which can rob us of our joy, peace and hope.

In school,
Z gardener

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Some thought should be given to the fate of those who commit suicide. The majority of those who take their own lives are so terrorized at the time that they are not entirely responsible for the act. Such people fare on the other side like anyone else. Conscious and intentional self-destruction is a refusal to meet the problems of life, and obviously it cannot be possible to do that successfully. These persons are apt to find themselves in a confused mental state. Of course, they can be greatly helped by prayer, as can all others., Ultimately they have to face all over again precisely the kind of problem from which they have run away.

Like as a Father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. (Psalm 103:13-14).
…the goodness of God endureth. (Psalm 51:1).

Life can seem so unbearable for some that death appears preferable. Or, for some who are facing a terminal illness filled with pain for them and those they love, death can seem a logical and selfless option. Regardless of the reason, suicide most often results from the loss of hope.

In prayer and hope for them,
Z gardener

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Will you meet your relatives and friends when you go over? Where there is a strong emotional link either of love or hatred there is likely to be a meeting. Where there is a strong link of genuine love there is sure to be a meeting. Where there is no particular feeling between two people there will not be a meeting. There is a real danger that if you allow yourself to indulge in hatred of anyone, you will meet when you have both passed over. To prevent this happening, destroy the link by ceasing to hate.

The so-called dead are very sensitive to our thoughts, and for this reason excessive grief is to be deprecated. It saddens them and prevents their focusing their attention as they should upon the new life that they are starting. Of course, it seems very hard to tell people not to grieve when one whom they have dearly loved passes out of sight, but remember that if there is a link of love you will certainly meet again, and that nothing that is good, or beautiful, or true, can ever be lost.

We can pray for those who have passed on, and indeed it is a sacred duty to do so. The practice was generally discontinued after the Reformation because it had been greatly abused and commercialized, but, nevertheless, it is an excellent practice in itself. Realize peace of mind, freedom, and understanding for them.

In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2).

When we accept the truth that “as below, so above,” we realize one of the most important reasons to love and not to hate. We also begin to understand the true importance of forgiveness, being non-judgmental and of repentance. We could not possibly think that being mean, selfish and unforgiving in this life would prepare us for bliss in the life to come.

Building for the future,
Z gardener

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Perhaps the most startling change that the discarnate has to meet is the fact that thought is the normal means of communication, and therefore there is no deception. You pass for what you are and that is the end of matter.

What is it that determines the kind of place to which you will go after death and the sort of people among whom you will find yourself? You will go to the sort of place and be among the sort of people for whom you have prepared yourself by your habitual thinking and your mode of living while on this earth. Remember that death makes positively no change in you; you are just the same person that you were before it happened. No one “sends” you anywhere. You naturally gravitate to the place where you belong.

You do not “meet God” on the next plane any more than you do on this plane. Of course, He is fully present on the next plane just as He is on this plane; but there as here He is to be contacted only in one’s own consciousness. Heaven is that perfect state of consciousness in which one is in full realization of the divine Presence. If you can reach to that level of consciousness while still in this world (and a few have succeeded in doing so), you are in heaven now and your awareness of God will be intensified after death.

However, there are some very unpleasant localities in the next world and people whose minds are chiefly given up to hatred, deceit, or sensuality, will find themselves in such places. These are the places referred to as “hell.”

Consider the man or woman who lives wholly for the body and is dominated by it. Physical cravings, being part of the mentality, are, of course, carried over to the next plane, but there is no physical body through which these appetites may be satisfied, and so the victim is tormented by desire but unable to satisfy it, until, in the course of time, these desires fade out by starvation. This is the natural punishment for allowing the physical body to assume control, and surely it is punishment enough.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens (2 Corinthians 5:1)

In truth,
Z gardener

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There is absolutely no reason to fear death. The same God is on the other side of the grave as on this side. However, most people do fear death, partly as fear of the unknown, and partly as the result of false teaching. Actually there is no death in the sense of extinction.

To understand death, you have to realize that you really possess not one body but two. You have not only the physical body, but also a second body made of a form of energy too fine to be seen. This etheric body interpenetrates the physical body as air fills a sponge. There are people who can see the etheric body because they have the power of contacting much finer vibrations than can be perceived by the ordinary physical senses.

It is this etheric body that is the repository of all your thoughts and feelings. It is the “psyche” of the psychologist. That is why personality survives death; because it resides in the etheric that passes over intact, and not in the physical that breaks up into decomposition.

During sleep, trance, and under anesthesia, when the etheric may leave the physical body, it remains attached to it by an etheric ligament called in the Bible the Silver Cord. The cord is so elastic that the etheric body can go very long distances and still remain attached to the physical corpus.

Death is the severing of the Silver Cord. When the Silver Cord is severed, an individual falls into a state of unconsciousness that may last for minutes, days, or even weeks. Then he wakens as from sleep, and his new life has begun.

The next world is actually all around us here. The so-called dead are carrying on their lives here where we are now, but in their own world and in their own way. The reason we do not see them around us or collide with them is the same reason that one radio program does not interfere with another—they are on different wavelengths.

…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me…(Psalm 23).
The fear of death is as natural as the love of life or the fear of the unknown. Yet when we truly understand and accept that death is not the end of our lives, we can then move past our fear, or at least be more comfortable with it. When we place our faith in God, and in the words of the Bible, we can then begin to understand and thereby embrace this truth.

Living in the now while preparing for then,
Z gardener

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Regeneration means building a new mentality; that is, creating a new soul in place of your present one. It does not mean merely improving your present self—it means producing (through the power of God, of course), a new self.

If you do this, everything else in your life will rapidly change for the better. Other people will become much more friendly to you. Because your soul will be filled with peace, you will radiate peace, and other people will get it intuitively. Everybody likes peace and harmony and they are attracted to any source from which it comes.

Naturally you cannot radiate peace if you do not first possess it within yourself. You cannot radiate anything from the outside. To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.

True peace of mind is the short cut to regeneration. The Master said,

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you (John 14:27).

In order to rebuild our soul and become a new creation, we must lay the old soul down and leave it behind. Before that can happen completely, it is best to confess and repent of those weaknesses, shortcomings and hurts that weighed down our old soul. Unless we honestly face our weaknesses and resolve, to the best of our ability, those things done and left undone, we will remain shackled to them. Failure to do this will impede and obstruct the development of our new soul and we will be drawn back into our old selves until they are resolved.

Being new,
Z gardener

Author’s note – A great soul and mind has joined us in the Good Morning Garden today. He has given his life, wealth and consciousness to world peace and bringing together all the souls on our precious earth. Pray for him, that his inner peace will grow and shine so brightly that the world will see its light. We need it. Welcome to the Garden my brother, and thank you for taking care of us all.

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When you are praying for your true place, it is well to remember that the full demonstration may not come in one move, but more likely after a series of stages.

Now, If you despise these intermediate steps, and think “this is a little better, but it is not really what I want,” you will keep the demonstration back. Neither should you accept a small improvement as being all that you can hope to get. The scientific attitude is to see the stepping stone as stepping stone;to bless it, and give thanks for it, and to continue praying for the next step.

For precept must be upon precept…line upon line, here a little, and there a little (Isaiah 28:10).

How wonderful it would be, we might think, if total spiritual consciousness could come to us in one fell swoop. How great if we or God could wave a magic wand and “poof”, we would be fully developed spiritual beings. Well, that is not the way it works and there are many good reasons for it. How great would it be if a five year old got a driver’s license or if a newborn could run before it could see? The obvious answer is “not good”.

Crawling to walk; walking to run; running to fly,
Z gardener

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We do not have to create good. We do not have to persuade God to be Love, or Life, or Truth, or Intelligence. We do not have to ask Him to remember us. We could not ask for any good. Fundamentally, evil is a false belief about the power and availability of good.

If we draw down the shades in every room in a house, that house will be in darkness, and is likely to become damp and unhealthy as well, no matter how brightly the sun may be shining outside. Salvation consists in raising these shades and opening the windows—then He does the rest.
…walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8).

It seems it would be so easy to just raise the shades and let God’s light fill our lives. But, the truth is that it is very hard. You see, the physical world teaches us a false reality that effectively blinds us to the truth. This world whispers in our ear that reality is what we see, taste, touch and smell. In fact, reality is spiritual in nature and unlimited by the physical plane.

Keep feeling,
Z gardener

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