The Mystic Scroll E-Book

Helen van Anderson

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Helen Van Anderson with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

The Mystic Scroll

Helen Van Anderson

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

THIS message is sent forth to the faithful hearts and willing ears of those who are eager to be and to do. The Text Book so long promised and so long waited for is now ready for you. It is what you need and what you have earned by your faithfulness. Yes, Beloved, most closely have the silent watchers of your progress looked for the signs that you were ready for farther steps in the knowledge of mystic truths. Though some of you have lagged by the wayside and some have murmured at the long delay, yet the majority have been able to stand the test.

They have lived prayerfully and carefully keeping in mind and practice the living truth of the Success Club Degrees. Because of this the time has come for more definite and practical instruction that you may still farther advance in the understanding and practice of the mystic law of life.

In a series of plain, simple lessons, simple as to form, yet profound as to contents, you will be shown, O, Beloved, the way of blessedness and peace, for in these are the germ seeds that may blossom into the true flowers of health and happiness and prosperity.

Heed, you faithful, and be steadfast in perseverance, you that are longing for the Great Guidance. There has been woven into the texture of this book that which will vivify whosoever hath wrought truth into the fabric of his daily life. For this he shall be called one of the weavers of the Great Pattern.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. H. V-A.

D E D I C A T I O N

“Cling thou to Me!

Clasp Me with heart and mind! so shall thou dwell

Surely with Me on high. But if thy thought

Droops from such height; if thou be ‘st weak to set

Body and soul upon Me constantly.

Despair not! give Me lower service! seek

To read Me, worshipping with steadfast will;

And, if thou canst not worship steadfastly.

Work for Me, toil in works pleasing to Me I

For he that laboreth right for love of Me

Shall finally attain! But, if in this

Thy faint heart fails, bring Me thy failure! find

Refuge in Me 1 let fruits of labor go.

Renouncing all for Me, with lowliest heart.

So shall thou come; for, though to know is more

Than diligence, yet worship better is

Than knowing, and renouncing better still.

Near to renunciation very near

Dwelleth Eternal Peace.”

Song Celestial.

To

The Members of

The Mystic Success Club

this Book is lovingly

inscribed by

Helen Van-Anderson

CHAPTER I

The Necessary Preparation for the Mystic Life, and the True Foundation for Health

“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”

Beloved: You have already started in the mystic life, the beginning of which is trust, and the end, peace. Out of these come all blessings. The Degrees taught you prayers and thoughts for daily and nightly use. Your faith grew and you knew the joy of spiritual sonship and daughtership. The Father became a Friend, a Counselor, a Guide and the Center of the great unseen forces.

Into your heart came the sweet whisper, “O, my Beloved, thee I embrace and enfold, thee I hold and bless to the days everlasting.” But still you did not see a reason for the joy, nor know why you were kept day after day for thirty days on one Degree.

No more does the child understand the reason for its long lisping and repeating of the words that shall at last become language. The teaching given in the Degrees is necessary through the years, but at first its main value is as training.

Did you not grow as the seed unfolds, as the child grows? Listen, Beloved; know this: he who would be as the strongest must first be as the weakest. He who would be the master, must first be servant. To attain the great faith and splendid courage is to be willing to be nothing in order to become all. Here gleams a golden thread from the Ancient Wisdom. Think over it well and diligently. You are a being on the one side, weak, ignorant, dependent on every wind that blows; on the other side, you are strong, wise, intelligent.

The first aspect of yourself you know; the second, you but vaguely dream of as a possibility.

On your weak side you are subject to fears, sorrows and grievous troubles of all kinds, but this side is not that which God gave you, for as Timothy says: “God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, and of power, and of a sound mind,” and this, Beloved, represents the strong side.

It is God who hath given us love, power and a sound mind. You know this to be true because you have had times of loving, of being powerful, and of using good judgment. You know what it is to be loving, you know that in the loving state everything and everybody is most pleasing in your sight. You see beauty and goodness everywhere. You are trustful, hopeful, kind, just and true.

When you are loving it is easy to do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and you know that with this love there is power; the power that makes it possible to overcome temptations, to be strong, instead of weak; power to undertake tasks and perform them; power to help others to do things that are noble; power to conquer obstacles, to meet difficulties of any kind.

A sound mind goes with all these, and when you think of this wonderful side of your being you can understand something of God’s great intentions concerning you. Would He have put the capacity of love into your soul if He had not intended you to love? Would He have given you the marvelous powers that are truly Godlike had He not intended you to use them? Would He have given you that wonderful balance wheel called sound common sense if it had not been a part of your privilege to exercise it? You can see now exactly what the training of the Degrees was intended to do for you.

In the first you were taught receptivity. This is very important always. It is a child-like state and therefore the first step toward becoming as a little child who can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. You were given prayers that would make you child-like, that would create within you a consciousness of connection with, and reliance upon, the Heavenly Father. These prayers were not only intended to make you receptive to greater knowledge from higher spheres but to keep your attention fixed with expectancy upon the idea of receiving from God the peace and joy and faith which the Spirit alone can give.

[Expectant attitude] This expectation which causes you to turn to the Source of all good is one of the surest means of increasing your faith.

Faith, Beloved, you must have. All things are done through faith. At first it may be but the faith which demands only little things, yet with every answer to the faith that inspires the believing prayer, there is an increase of the faith that is illumined with knowledge faith that is illumined with knowledge.

When, through faith, you have been able to stand in the midst of hard and pressing conditions as the victor, you have a deeper, more trustful, more glorious faith to meet conditions that oppress you in another form.

The experiences of the soul in passing through this world have been fittingly compared to a journey along the highway of life. Now, you know it is not possible to take a journey of any length without passing through valleys, climbing mountains, crossing streams, going through the desert. You know it is not possible to take a journey without meeting obstacles of one kind or another and being obliged to face all manner of dangers and emergencies.

It is the same in this pilgrimage of the soul. Through the dark valleys of human experience it must go. From the mountain peaks of grand moral achievement or high and noble self-sacrifice, the soul may look afar upon beauties as well as upon obstacles, yet having gained the mountain top, it finds strength, courage and enthusiasm to descend into the next valley and climb up the next mountain.

In your journey through the experiences of every day, Beloved, you are, therefore, to remember that through all the valleys you need have no fear, for God is ever with you, if you will, and His love is the rod and staff that shall comfort you.

The meaning of this valley as applied to the earth, is of a depression in the land, a place of narrow outlook, of shadows. It may be illustrated in your journey as a place, or condition, rather, in which you are hedged about with barriers, in which you may be depressed or afraid or ill, even unto death. How precious then, the comforting words of the singer of that beautiful Psalm beginning: “The Lord is my Shepherd.”

Can you not see how inspiring these words are in placing before your mind and within your heart the picture of the true relationship between you and God, your Father?

Do not fail to learn this 23rd Psalm, and keep it within your heart and mind repeating it many times a day, not only that it may make you more trustful and child-like, but that it may recall to your mind the great and mighty truth that you are not in this world alone, but that you have a Guide Who accompanies you on every day’s journey, Who leads you into the fields of refreshment where there are cool, crystal waters, Who restores your soul when it is weary, Who leads you into the paths of peace.

All this helps you to realize the strong side of your being, the God-side, which is love, power and a sound mind. Even as a child develops strength in its physical body by using its body, so you, Beloved, develop your spiritual side by using the qualities belonging to that side.

When you make a place in your heart for love there will be no room for fear, for perfect love casteth out fear. The exercises which you have been given for daily practice cultivate this spiritual side and cause it to grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ, the Pattern.

It matters not how long it may take for the perfected work, it is necessary to make the right beginning. Day by day, Beloved, you are to grow strong in the faith and practice of the love life. You are to have that supreme trust in the goodness of God which will enable you at all times to be filled with the peace of God.

Let go of your fears, your fears of poverty. Why should you be afraid that you will be left without anything? Why should you be afraid that anything can happen to you, the child of God! It is only when you are living on the dark or weak side of your nature, Beloved, that you can have fears.

Whenever you find yourself afraid of anything, stop, and say, even aloud:

[Freedom from fear]

HOW CAN I BE AFRAID? HAS NOT GOD, MY FATHER, GIVEN ME THE SPIRIT OF LOVE? NO, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING – FROM THIS MOMENT I SEE MYSELF AS A NEW CREATURE BECAUSE I AM DETERMINED TO SHOW FORTH THE LOVE AND POWER AND SOUND MIND THAT GOD GAVE ME IN THE BEGINNING AND INTENDED THAT I SHOULD INCREASE BY USING. NOT ONLY WILL I CAST OUT FEAR OF ALL THINGS, OF ALL CONDITIONS, BUT I WILL SEE IN ALL THINGS THAT WHICH IS GOOD. THE LOVE IN ME SHALL BE LIKE A WHITE LIGHT, SHINING INTO THE DARKNESS OF POVERTY, OF SICKNESS, OF ANGER OR STRIFE, AND IT SHALL MELT AWAY ALL THAT IS EVIL.

If you will say this, Beloved, every day and every hour, if necessary, you will find yourself growing strong and healthy and trustful. It is the speaking of words concerning your God-nature that will enable your God-nature to conquer the lower or human nature.

Paul called this the putting off of the old man with his former conversation and deeds. Jesus called it the denying of self, and among the great Masters who have given us pearls of truth, it is said, the “sword of the wisdom of soul which shall cleave asunder the ignorance and doubt” shall be made to come and dwell in your heart if you are faithful in your practice of forgetting the self.

This is the real foundation for health, for until the mind is calm and the heart free from fears, there can be no real or abiding health.

[Your spirit is always perfect]

It is the spirit which is God’s child, and you are His child. As spirit you are not sick and cannot suffer from any sickness or imperfection. God is your health because His spirit is your spirit, His health is your health. To live the Godly life is to establish health. No matter what your body may show forth, your spirit is always perfect, always whole and sound. To know this with that faith which is absolute and cannot be shaken is to be able to lay hold upon the mighty promises.

Take your Bible, Beloved, and look up every reference to health. You will find there are many, and each one will teach you the truth of the spirit and the power and the love of God. Many grievous diseases have been helped by these words: “Bless the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His benefits Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases.”

Your iniquities can be forgiven when you know you are His child, and begin to live as His child. Your diseases can be healed when you begin to know that you are spirit, and live in the consciousness of spirit, for through the Spirit of God your body may be healed of its diseases.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Jesus Christ. This is the corner stone of Health, Happiness and Prosperity.

CHAPTER II

The Unseen Forces

“Thou art ruler of the world, man;

thou hast many under thee.”

Even from the moment that you came into the world an innocent little child, Beloved, you were surrounded and accompanied in all your experiences by great unseen forces that attend the soul. The soul itself gives them power to act for good or evil, so when you were only a child, you were, through your power of choice, developing forces within which would help or hinder you to become a good, holy man or woman. When you were old enough to choose between right and wrong, every time you made a right choice these forces in your soul were strong and more able to help you. Every time you yielded to a temptation they became weak and more in accord with your own weak will. If you were conscientious, always trying to do right, the forces became like guardian angels, watching over you, whispering to you, and in many unseen ways helping you to do the right, thus leading you into the path of light, which is knowledge of truth.

But if you were weak in your will to do right, swayed hither and thither by any passing impulse or outward influence, the forces followed your own weak will and led you into confusion and darkness.

By this you will see how important it is, even from babyhood, to know and love the right, to have a high moral standard and aim for right conduct, and to be moved by right and pure motives. It is often because of your weakness of will to do right and to look for that which is beautiful and just and holy that you have yielded to the guidance of your weak side and have, therefore, misdirected these wonderful indwelling powers that are as much a part of your equipment for life in this world as the members of your body your hands, your feet, your eyes, etc.

There is another thing that I want you to understand in regard to the unseen forces. THERE ARE FORCES OUTSIDE AS WELL, AS WITHIN THE SOUL, AND THE KIND AND QUALITY THAT ARE WITHIN ATTRACT THE KIND AND QUALITY THAT ARE WITHOUT.

For example: if, through an earnest desire to do right you have cultivated the forces for good in your own soul you will attract the forces for good that are in the great unseen or psychic world, for just as surely as the soul develops a strong will, either for good or evil, it attracts forces that are strong either for good or evil.

These forces either within or without may be forces of intelligence, of love and good will, or forces of ignorance and ill will, for you must remember, Beloved, that man should have dominion over everything in creation that is lower than himself, because God intended that man or the spirit in man should be the most intelligent, the most powerful, and therefore the master of that which is less intelligent, less powerful than himself.