THE TITLE

To save a lot of later questions, let

me say now that Man is one tenth
conscious, the other nine tenths deal
with the sub-conscious and all that
which comes under the heading
acial Memories! and the "ccult#
This boo$ is about %"&, not 'ust
about one tenth of you, but also that
which goes
(eyond the Tenth#




) *+E,I)L LETTE
-ear eader,
.or over a decade you have been writing to me from
all over the world, even from the other side of the Iron
,urtain, writing to me some thirty or forty letters a
day, letters which I have conscientiously answered#
(ut quite a number of you have written to say that an
)uthor of boo$s such as mine belongs to the eader,
saying that an )uthor such as I cannot end with nine
boo$s but must go on writing until reasonable ques-
tions are answered#
To that I re/lied by writing to several re/resenta-
tive /eo/le with this question0 1ell, what -" you
want in the tenth boo$2 Tell me, tell me what you
want, tell me what I3ve missed in other boo$s, and I
will write that tenth boo$#!
*o as a result of the letters I have received in answer
to my questions, I have written this boo$ which you
are about to read#
*ome of you, no doubt, will say that it is re/etition
here and there# I can only re/ly that it is the unani-
mous request of my +anel of eaders! or it would
not be in this boo$, and if you thin$ it is re/etitious in
/laces, well, it might serve to refresh your memory#
"ne question I am as$ed in /articular is, "h, -r#
am/a, visit me in the astral, cure me of this, cure me
of that, tell me who is going to win the Irish *wee/-
sta$e, come along to our 4rou/ Meeting in the astral#!
(ut these readers forget that there are only 56 hours
in each day0 they also forget the difference in time
7ones, etc#, etc# Even more im/ortant, they forget that
although I, in the astral, can see them clearly when I
want to, yet they may not always be able to see me,
although an astonishing number of /eo/le have
written to me confirming e8actly astral visits, tele-
/athic contacts, etc#
1ell, it3s not intended that this shall be a long letter,
so let us get on with the boo$ itself, shall we2

T# L"(*)94 )M+)









,H)+TE "9E
THE soft summer night sighed gently, and whis/ered
quietly to the nodding willows fringing the *er/ent
Tem/le# .aint ri//les undulated across the /lacid
la$e as some early-rising fish sought the surface in
search of unwary insects# )bove the hard, high moun-
tain /ea$s, with the everlasting s/ume of snow flying
banner-wise from it, a solitary star shone with glitter-
ing brilliance in the luminescent s$y#
In the granaries faint squea$s and rustles betrayed
the /resence of hungry mice foraging in the barley
barrels# *tealthy footste/s and two glaring eyes as
1atchman ,at a//eared on the scene brought a
scuffle of scurrying mice and then utter silence#
1atchman ,at sniffed around sus/iciously, then,
satisfied, 'um/ed to a low window and sat loo$ing out
at the fast-a//roaching dawn#
.lic$ering butter-lam/s hissed and s/at and mo-
mentarily flared brighter as night-duty acolytes re-
/lenished their su//lies# .rom some inner tem/le
came a subdued murmur and the tiny tin$le of differ-
ent silver bells# "ut u/on a high roof a solitary figure
stood to greet the coming dawn, hands already clas/ed
about the nec$ of the Morning ,all trum/et#
*hadowy, indistinct figures a//eared at some bac$
entrance and gathered to march down the mountain
trail towards a small tributary of the Ha//y iver
from whence came the water su//ly for the needs of
the +otala# )ged men, hus$y men, and mere wis/s of
:
boys, members of the *erving ,lass, marched in age-
old /rocession down the mountain-side carrying hard
leather /ails to di/ in the river and then laboriously
manhandle u/ to the $itchens and storage tan$s#
The downward tri/ was easy, a half-awa$e throng
still bemusedly thin$ing of the 'oys of slee/# (y the
little well, so constantly filled by the tributary, they
stood awhile chatting, e8changing gossi/ gleaned
from the $itchens the day before# Lounging, $illing
time, /ost/oning the inevitable and hard climb u/
the mountain-side#
"verhead night had already given way to the
a//roaching day# The /ur/le curtain of night had
fled to the 1est before the advancing dawn, the s$y
no longer showed the brilliant, hard /in/oints of
light which were the stars in their courses, but instead
was luminous with the rays of the a//roaching sun
stri$ing through tile lower levels and lighting u/ the
undersides of the slight alto-stratus clouds which
scurried above# The mountain /ea$s were now tinged
with gold, a white gold which threw rainbows from
the blowing snow at the /ea$ heads, and which made
each mountain to/ a//ear as if it were a living foun-
tain of iridescent colour#
*wiftly the light advanced and the ;alley of Lhasa,
hitherto in the /ur/le shadows of the night, lit u/
great flashing gleams shone from the golden roofs of
the +otala and reflected also from the <o =ang
,athedral in Lhasa ,ity# )t the foot of the +otala
near the colored carvings a little grou/ of early risers
ga7ed u/ in awe at the scintillating lights above them
thin$ing that it must be a reflection of the s/irit of
the Inmost "ne#
)t the foot of our mountain /ath, however, the
serving mon$s, quite immune to the glories of nature,
stood chatting, $illing time before ta$ing u/ their
burdens and /roceeding u/hill# The old mon$, (ig
Ears, stood u/on a flat roc$ and ga7ed out across the


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la$e and the nearby river0 -id you hear what the
traders were saying in the city yesterday2! he as$ed a
younger mon$ standing beside him#
9o!, re/lied the younger one, but the traders
always have wonderful tales to tell# 1hat did you
hear, "ld "ne2!
"ld (ig Ears wor$ed his 'aws around a bit and
wi/ed his nose on the end of his robe# Then he s/at
e8/ertly and with /recision between two filled
buc$ets# I had to go into the city yesterday!, he said,
and there in the *treet of *ho/s I chanced u/on some
traders dis/laying their wares# "ne of them seemed to
be a $nowledgeable sort of man, 'ust li$e me, in fact,
so I tarried in my tas$ and tal$ed to him#! He sto//ed
a moment and chewed around his 'aws again, and
loo$ed at the ri//ling water# *omewhere in the dis-
tance a small acolyte had thrown a /ebble and hit a
frog, and now the frog was croa$ing in astonished
com/laint# ) $nowledgeable man he was, a man who
had traveled to many strange /arts# He told me that
once he left his homeland of India and traveled
across the great waters to Meri$ee# I told him that I
had to see about new buc$ets because some of ours
were worn out, and he said that in Meri$ee no one
had to carry buc$ets of water u/ a mountain /ath#
Everyone has water in their houses, he said, it runs
through /i/es# They have a s/ecial room, where they
get a lot of water, called a bathroom#!
The younger mon$ started with sur/rise and said,
1ater in their houses, eh2 )nd in a s/ecial room too0
eh2 That sounds too marvelous to be true, I wish we
had something li$e it here# (ut of course you can3t
believe all these travelers3 tales# I once heard a trader
telling me that in some lands they have light as bright
as lightning which they $ee/ in glass bottles and it
turns the night into day#! He shoo$ his head as if he
could hardly believe the things he had heard, and the
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ousted as the teller of tales, resumed, %es, in the land
of Meri$ee they have many wonderful things# This
water, it is in every house# %ou turn a /iece of metal
and the water comes gushing out, hot or cold, which-
ever you want, as much as you want, whenever you
want# It3s a great miracle, by (uddha3s Tooth, he said#
I certainly would li$e some other way of getting
water u/ to the $itchens# Many a long year I3ve been
doing this, carrying and carrying water and nothing
but water, I feel that I3ve wal$ed my feet and my legs
right down to the $nees and I!ve got a /ermanent tilt
to the side through fighting against the mountain3s
/ull# *till, water in every room2 9o, it is not /oss-
ible@!
Together they la/sed into silence, and then started
into alertness as down the /ath strode one of the
4uardians of our Law, the +roctors# The immense
man strode along, and each one of the mon$s found
urgent business to attend to# "ne /oured out his /ail
of water and refilled it, another /ic$ed u/ two /ails
and hurried u/, striding along the mountain /ath#
*oon all the mon$s were on the move, carting water,
the first round of the water carriers for the day# The
+roctor ga7ed around for a few moments, then he too
made his way u/ the mountain /ath after them#
*ilence, com/arative silence, fell u/on the scene,
disturbed only by faint chanting from the mountain
to/ above and by the slee/y /rotests of some bird who
thought it was rather too early to get u/ and go about
the business of the day#

"ld Mrs# Mac-unnigan cac$led as if she had 'ust
laid an oversi7e egg and turned to her friend Mrs#
"3.lannigan# 9o more of these lectures for me,! she
said, telling us that the /riests of Tibet can do tele-
/athy# 1hat nonsense@ 1hat will they as$ us to
believe ne8t2!
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trum/eter at his best and remar$ed, 1hy can3t they
use tele/hones li$e the rest of us, that!s what I want to
$now@!
*o the two ladies went their way unaware that they
were the other side of the coin!0 mon$s in Tibet
could not believe houses could have running water in
rooms and the two 1estern women could not believe
that /riests of Tibet could tele/athise#
(ut are we not all li$e that2 ,)9 we see the other
fellow3s! /oint of view2 -o we reali7e that what is
common/lace HEE is the strangest of strange THEE
Aand vice versa2
"ur first request is about life after death, or death,
or contact with those who have left this life# .irst of
all let us deal with a /erson who is leaving this Earth#
The /erson is very, very sic$ usually, and death!
follows as a result of the brea$down of the human
body mechanism# The body becomes untenable, in-
o/erable, it becomes a clay case enshrouding the
immortal s/irit which cannot bear such restraint, so
the immortal s/irit leaves# 1hen it has left the dead
body, when it has left the familiar confines of the
Earth, theAwhat shall we call it2 *oul, "verself,
*/irit, or what2 Let3s call it *oul this time for a
changeAthe *oul, then, is in strange surroundings
where there are many more senses and faculties than
those e8/erienced on Earth# Here on Earth we have
to clom/ around, or sit in a tin bo8 which we call a
car, but unless we are rich enough to /ay airfares we
are earthbound# 9ot so when we are out of the body0
because when out of the body, when in this new
dimension which we will call the astral world!, we
can travel at will and instantly by thought, we do not
have to wait for a bus or a train, we are not ham/ered
by a car nor by an air/lane where one waits longer in
a waiting room than one s/ends on the actua> 'ourney#
In the astral we can travel at any s/eed we will#

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1e will! is a deliberate /air of words, because we
actually will! the s/eed at which we travel, the height
and the route# If, for e8am/le, you want to en'oy the
wondrous scenery of the astral world with its verdant
/astures and its lushly stoc$ed la$es, we can drift as
light as thistledown 'ust above the land, 'ust above
the water, or we can rise higher and soar over the
astral mountain to/s#
1hen we are in this new and wonderful dimension
we are e8/eriencing so many changes that unless we
are very careful we tend to forget those who mourn us
on that awful old ball of Earth which we have so
recently left, we tend to forget, but if /eo/le on Earth
mourn us too fervently then we feel ine8/licable
twinges and /ulls, and strange feelings of sorrow and
sadness# )ny of you who have neuritis or chronic
toothache will $now what it3s li$e0 you get a sudden
vicious 'er$ at a nerve which nearly lifts you out of
the chair# In the same way, when we are in the astral
world and a /erson is mourning us with dee/ lamen-
tation, instead of getting on with their own affairs
they hinder us, they /rovide unwanted anchors!
which retard our /rogress#
Let us go 'ust a little beyond our first days in the
astral, let us go to the time when we have entered the
Hall of Memories, when we have decided what wor$
we are going to do in the astral, how we are going to
hel/ others, how we are going to learn ourselves, let
us imagine that we are busy at our tas$ of hel/ing or
learning and then 'ust imagine a hand 'er$ing at the
bac$ of our nec$Atwea$, twea$, twea$, and /ull,
/ull, /ullAit distracts the attention, it ma$es learn-
ing hard, it ma$es hel/ing others very difficult be-
cause we cannot add our full concentration or atten-
tion to that which we should be doing because of the
insistent tug and interference caused by those mourn-
ing us u/on the Earth#
Many /eo/le seem to thin$ that they can get in

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touch with those who have /assed over! by going to a
bac$street medium, /aying a few dollars or a few
shillings and 'ust getting a message li$e having a
tele/hone answered by an intermediary# 1ell, even
this tele/hone business0 try tele/honing */ain from
,anada@ Try tele/honing England from &ruguay@
.irst you have the difficulty that the intermediary,
that is the tele/hone o/erator on Earth, or the
medium, is not familiar with the circumstances, may
even be not very familiar with the language in which
we desire to s/ea$# )nd then there are all sorts of
hisses, clic$s, and clun$s on the wire, rece/tion may
be difficult, rece/tion, in fact, is often im/ossible# %et
here on Earth we $now the tele/hone number we
desire to call, but who is going to tell you the
tele/hone number of a /erson who recently left the
Earth and now lives in the astral world2 ) tele/hone
number in the astral world2 1ell, near enough,
because every /erson on every world has a /ersonal
frequency, a /ersonal wavelength# In 'ust the same
way as the (#(#,# radio stations, or the ;oice of
)merica stations in the &#*#)# have their own fre-
quencies, so do /eo/le have frequencies, and if we
$now those frequencies we can tune-in to the radio
station +";I-E- atmos/heric conditions are suitable,
the time of the day is correct, and the station is
actually broadcasting# It is not /ossible to tune-in and
be infallibly sure that you can receive a station for the
sim/le reason that something may have /ut them out
of action#
It is the same with /eo/le who have /assed beyond
this life# %ou may be able to get in touch with them if
you $now their basic /ersonal frequency, and if they
are able to receive a tele/athic message on that
frequency# .or the most /art, unless a medium is
very, very e8/erienced indeed, he or she can be led
astray by some nuisance-entities who are /laying at
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what the caller! wants#
That is, su//osing Mrs# (rown, a new widow,
wants to get in touch with Mr# (rown, a newly-freed
human who has esca/ed to the "ther *ide, one of
these lesser entities who are not humans can /erceive
what she wants to as$ Mr# (rown, can /erceive from
Mrs# (rown3s thoughts how Mr# (rown s/o$e, what
he loo$ed li$e# *o the entity, li$e a naughty schoolboy
who didn3t get the disci/line that he sadly needed,
can influence the well-meaning medium by giving
her a descri/tion of Mr# (rown which has 'ust been
obtained from the mind of Mrs# (rown# The medium
will give startling /roof ! by describing in detail the
a//earance of Mr# (rown who is standing by me
now!# 1ell, the very e8/erienced /erson cannot be
deceived in that way, but the very e8/erienced /erson
is few and far between, and 'ust does not have time to
deal with such things# .urthermore, when commerce
comes into it, when a /erson demands such-and-such a
sum for a mediumistic sitting, a lower vibration is
brought into the /roceedings and a genuine message
is thus all too frequently /revented#
It is un$ind and unfair to let your sorrows harm
and handica/ a /erson who has left the Earth and
who is now wor$ing elsewhere# )fter all, su//osing
you were very busy at some im/ortant tas$, and
su//osing some other /erson whom you could not see
$e/t 'er$ing at the na/e of your nec$ and /rodding
you, and blaring silly thoughts into your ears, your
concentration would go and you really would call
down all sorts of un$ind thoughts u/on your tor-
mentor# (e sure that if you really love the /erson who
has left the Earth, and if that /erson really loves you,
you will meet again because you will be attracted
together when you also leave the Earth# In the astral
world you cannot meet a /erson whom you hate or
who hates you, it 'ust cannot be done because that
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that cannot be# "f course, if you are doing astral
travel you can go to the L"1E astral which is, one
might say, the waiting room or entrance to the real
astral world# In the lower astral one can discuss
differences with some heat, but in the higher regions
Ano#
*o remember this0 if you really love the other
/erson and the other /erson really loves you, you will
be together again but on a very different footing#
There will be none of the misunderstandings as u/on
this Earth, one cannot tell lies in the astral world
because in that world everyone can see the aura, and
if an astral-dweller tells a lie then anyone in sight
$nows about it immediately because of the discord
which a//ears in his /ersonal vibrations and in the
colours of the aura# *o one learns to be truthful#
+eo/le seem to have the idea that unless they have
a lavish funeral for the de/arted and go into ecstasies
of sorrow, they are not showing a /ro/er a//reciation
of the deceased# (ut that is not the case0 mourning is
selfish, mourning causes grave interference and dis-
turbance to the /erson newly arrived in the astral
self-/ity sorrow for oneself that one has lost a /erson
who did so much for those left behind# It is better and
shows greater res/ect and thought to control grief and
avoid hysterical outbursts which cause such distress to
/eo/le who have really left#
The astral worlds Eyes, definitely /lural@F are very
real# Things are as real and as substantial u/on those
worlds as they a//ear to us to be here on this Earth,
actually they a//ear more substantial because there
are e8tra senses, e8tra abilities, e8tra colours, and
e8tra sounds# 1e can do so much more in the astral
state# (utA
-r# am/a, you have told us so much about the
astral world in your boo$s, but you haven!t told us
enough# 1hat do /eo/le do, what do they eat, how do



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they occu/y their time2 ,an3t you tell us this2!
Most certainly I can tell you because I have eidetic
memory, that is, I can remember everything that
ever ha//ened to me# I can remember dying and
being born, and I have the great advantage that I can
astral travel when fully conscious# *o let us loo$ at this
matter of the astral worlds and what one does#
In the first case there is not 'ust one astral world,
but many, as many in fact as there are different
vibrations of /eo/le# +erha/s the best way of reali7ing
this is by considering radio0 in radio there are many,
many different radio stations in all /arts of the world#
If those stations tried to share a common wavelength
or frequency there would be bedlam, everyone would
interfere with everyone else, and so radio stations
each have their own se/arate frequency, and if you
want the (#(#,#, London, you tune-in to those fre-
quencies allotted to the (#(#,# If you want Moscow
you tune-in to the frequencies allotted to Moscow#
There are thousands of different radio stations, each
with their own frequency, each a se/arate entity not
interfering with the others#
In the same way astral worlds are different /lanes
of e8istence having different frequencies, so that u/on
astral world H, for e8am/le, you will get all /eo/le
who are com/atible within certain limits# In astral
world % you will find another set of /eo/le who are
com/atible within their own limits# Lower down, in
what we call the lower astral, there are conditions
somewhat the same as on the Earth, that is there are
mi8ed ty/es of /eo/le, and the average /erson who
gets out of his body during the hours of slee/ and goes
astral travelling, he goes to that lower astral where all
entities may mi8# The lower astral, then, is a meeting
/lace for /eo/le of different races and different creeds,
and even from different worlds# It is very similar to
life u/on Earth#
)s we /rogress higher we find the frequencies be

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coming /urer and /urer# 1hereas in the lower astral
you can have an argument with a /erson and tell him
you hate the sight of him if you want to, when you get
higher in the astral /lanes you cannot, because you
cannot get /eo/le who are o//osed to each other# *o
remember that the astral worlds are li$e radio stations
with different frequencies, or, if you wish, li$e a big
school with different classrooms, each succeeding class
being higher in vibration than the one before, so that
class or grade "ne is a common denominator class, or
astral world, where all may meet while the /rocess of
assessing their ca/acities goes on# Then as they do their
allotted tas$sAwe shall deal with that in a momentA
they become raised higher and higher until even-
tually they /ass out of the astral /lane of worlds alto-
gether and enter into a state where there is no longer
rebirth, reincarnation, and where /eo/le now deal
with much higher forms of being than humans#
(ut you want to $now what ha//ens when you die#
1ell, actually I have told you a lot about it in my
/revious boo$s# %ou leave your body and your astral
form floats off and goes to the lower astral, where it
recovers from shoc$s and harm caused by living or
dying conditions on Earth# Then, after a few days
according to Earth time rec$oning, one sees all one3s
/ast in the Hall of Memories, sees what one has
accom/lished and what one has failed to accom/lish,
and by assessing the successes or failures one can
decide on what has to be learned in the future, that is,
shall one reincarnate again right away, or shall one
s/end /erha/s si8 hundred years in the astral# It all
de/ends on what a /erson has to learn, it de/ends on
one3s /ur/ose in the scale of evolution# (ut I3ve told
you all about that in /revious boo$s# Let me mention
another sub'ect for a moment before saying what
+eo/le do in the astral world#
) very /leasant lady wrote to me and said, I am so
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with no one to hel/ me, no one to direct me in the
+ath that I should ta$e# %ou, in Tibet, had the Lamas
who directed the consciousness of a dying /erson# I
have no one and I am so frightened#!
That is not correct, you $now# 9o one is alone, no
one has no one!# %ou may thin$ you are alone, and
quite /ossibly there is no one near your earthly body,
yet in the astral there are very s/ecial hel/ers who
await by the deathbed so that 'ust as soon as the astral
form starts to se/arate from the dying /hysical body
the hel/ers are there to give every assistance, 'ust as in
the case of a birth there are /eo/le waiting to deliver
the new-born baby# -eath to Earth is birth into the
astral world, and the necessary trained attendants are
there to /rovide their s/eciali7ed services, so there is
no need for fear, there should never be fear# emem-
ber that when the time comes, as it comes to all of us
for you to /ass from this world of sorrows, there will
be /eo/le on the "ther *ide waiting for you, caring
for you, and hel/ing you in /recisely the same
manner that there are /eo/le on Earth awaiting the
birth of a new baby#
1hen the hel/ers have this astral body which has
'ust been se/arated from the dead /hysical, they treat
it carefully and hel/ it with a $nowledge of where it
is# Many /eo/le who have not been /re/ared thin$
they are in Heaven or Hell# The hel/ers tell them
e8actly where they are, they hel/ them to ad'ust, they
show them the Hall of Memories, and they care for
the newcomer as they, in their turn, have been cared
for#
This matter of HellAthere is no such thing, you
$now, Hell was actually a /lace of 'udgement near
<erusalem, Hell was a small village near two very
high roc$s and between the roc$s and e8tending for
some distance around was a qua$ing bog which sent
u/ gouts of sul/hurous va/ors, a bog that was always
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those far-off days a /erson who was accused of a crime
was ta$en to this village and went through Hell!# He
was /laced at one end of the bog and was told of the
crimes of which he had been accused, he was told that
if he could cross the bog unharmed he was innocent,
but if he failed and was swallowed by the bog he was
guilty# Then the accused was goaded into actionA
/erha/s a soldier /o$ed him in a delicate /art with a
s/earAanyway, the /oor wretch ran through Hell!,
through all the swirling fog of sulfur and brimstone
fumes, along the /ath surrounded by boiling /itch,
where the earth qua$ed and shoo$, ins/iring terror in
the strongest, and if he reached the other side he had
/assed through the valley of Hell and had been
/urged of any offence and was innocent again# *o
don3t believe that you will go to Hell# %ou won3t
because there is no such thing# 4od, no matter what
we call Him, is a 4od of $indness, a 4od of com-
/assion# 9o one is ever condemned, no one is ever
sentenced to eternal damnation, there are no such
things as devils who 'um/ u/ and down on one and
/lunge /itch for$s into one3s shuddering body# That
is all a figment in the imagination of cra7ed /riests
who tried to gain dominance over the bodies and
souls of those who $new no better# There is only ho/e
and $nowledge that if one wor$s for it, one can atone
for any crime, no matter how bad that crime seems to
have been# *oAno one is ever e8tinguished!, no one
is ever abandoned by 4od# Most /eo/le fear death
because they have a mur$y conscience, and these
/riests who should $now better have taught about
hell-fire and eternal torment, eternal damnation and
all that, and the /oor wretched /erson who has heard
those stories thin$s that immediately he dies he is
going to be sei7ed by devils and horrendous things
wrea$ed u/on him# -on3t believe it, don3t believe it
at all# I remember all, and I can go to the astral at any
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there is no such thing as eternal torment, there is
always redem/tion, there is always another chance,
there is always mercy, com/assion, and understand-
ing# Those who say that there is Hell and torment,
well, they are not right in the head, they are sadists or
something, and they are not worthy of another
thought#
1e fear to die for that reason and for another0 we
fear to die because the fear is /lanted in us# If /eo/le
remembered the glories of the astral world they
would want to go there in droves, they wouldn3t want
to stay on this Earth any longer, they would want to
shir$ their classes, they would want to commit
suicide, and suicide is a very bad thing, you $now, it
hurts oneself# It doesn3t hurt anyone else, but one
becomes one of life3s dro/-out3s when one commits
suicide# Thin$ of it li$e this0 if you are training to be
a /rofessional /erson of some $ind, a lawyer or a
doctor, well, you have to study and you have to /ass
e8aminations, but if you lose heart half way through
you dro/ out of your course and then you do not
become a lawyer or a doctor, and before you can
become a lawyer or a doctor you have to cease being a
dro/-out and get bac$ into the class and study all over
again# )nd by that time you find the curriculum has
changed, there are different te8tboo$s, and all you
have learnt before becomes useless, so you start at the
bottom again# Thus it is that if you commit suicide,
well, you have to come bac$, you reincarnate again,
which is 'ust the same as entering college for another
course, but you reincarnate again and you learn all
the lessons all over again right from the start, and all
you learnt before is now obsolete, so you3ve wasted a
lifetime, haven3t you2 -on3t commit suicide, it3s
never, never, never worth it#
1ell, that has ta$en us quite away from what
/eo/le do in the astral# ) lot de/ends on the state of
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that /erson is /re/aring for# (ut the astral worlds are
very, very beautiful /laces, there is wonderful scenery
with colours not even dreamed of u/on the Earth,
there is music, a music not even dreamed of u/on the
Earth, there are houses, but each /erson can build his
or her house by thought# %ou thin$ it, and if you
thin$ hard enough, it is# In the same way, when you
get to the astral world first you are quite na$ed 'ust as
you are when you come to the Earth, and then you
thin$ what sort of clothes you are going to wear0 you
don3t have to wear clothes, but most /eo/le do for
some strange reason, and one can see the most re-
mar$able collection of garments because each /erson
ma$es their own clothes according to any style they
are thin$ing about# In the same way, they build their
houses in any style they are thin$ing about# There are
no cars, of course, and no buses, and no trains, you
don3t need them# 1hy be cluttered by a car when you
can move as fast as you wish by wishing2 *o, by
thought /ower alone you can visit any /art of the
astral world#
In the astral there are many 'obs that one can do#
%ou can be a hel/er to those who are every second
arriving from the Earth, you can do nursing, you can
do healing, because many of those who arrive from
the Earth are not aware of the reality of the astral and
they believe whatever their religion has taught them
to believe# "r, if they are atheists they believe in
nothing, and so they are enshrouded in a blac$, blac$
fog, a fog that is stic$y and confusing, and until they
can acquire some sort of understanding that they are
blinded by their own folly they cannot be hel/ed
much, so attendants follow them around and try to
brea$ away the fog# Then there are those who counsel
the astral /eo/le who have to return to Earth# 1here
do they want to go, what sort of /arents do they want,
what sort of family conditions, a rich family or a /oor
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do the tas$s which they /lan to do2 It all loo$s so easy
when in the astral world, but it is not always so easy
when one is on the Earth, you $now#
In the lower astral /eo/le often eat, they can smo$e
also if they want to@ 1hatever they want to eat is
actually manufactured from the atmos/here by
thought, not so ama7ing when you thin$ of /rana
which is believed in im/licitly on Earth# *o you can
eat what you wish, you can drin$ what you wish also,
but actually all that is 'ust folly because one is acquir-
ing all the energy, all the sustenance from the atmos-
/heric radiations and eating and drin$ing is 'ust a
habit# "ne soon shuc$s off those habits and is the
better for it# %ou can ta$e it, then, that one does
much the same in the lower astral as one does u/on
the Earth#
%es, Mrs# *o-and-*o, there is a se8 life in the astral
as well, but it is far, far better than anything you can
ever e8/erience on the Earth because you have such
an enhanced range of sensations# *o if you have not
had much of a balanced se8 life on Earth remember
that in the astral you will have, because it is necessary
to ma$e a balanced /erson#
"f course the higher one rises in the astral worlds,
that is the more one increases one3s /ersonal vibra-
tions, then the better the e8/eriences, the more
/leasant they become, and the more satisfying the
whole e8istence becomes#
Many /eo/le on Earth are all members of a grou/#
%ou may have for e8am/le Eand for e8am/le onlyF
ten /eo/le who together really com/lete one astral
entity# "n the Earth we have these ten /eo/le, and
/erha/s three, four, five, or si8 die0 well, the /erson
who is in the astral does not become really com/lete
until all the grou/ are united# It is very difficult
e8/laining such a thing because it involves different
dimensions which are not even $nown u/on this Earth,
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/erson, a /erson who, of course, is absolutely se/arate
from you, you may have thought how com/atible
you were with that /erson, you may feel a sense of loss
when that /erson goes away# 1ell, quite /ossibly that
/erson is a member of your grou/ and when you die
to this Earth you will be united together as one
entity# &/on the Earth all these /eo/le are li$e ten-
tacles reaching out to get different sensations, differ-
ent e8/eriences during that brief flic$ering of con-
sciousness which com/rises a lifetime u/on Earth# %et
when all the members of that grou/Awhen all the
tentaclesAare /ulled in, one has in effect the e8/eri-
ence of /erha/s ten lifetimes in one# "ne has to come
to Earth to learn the hard material things because
there are no such e8/eriences in the astral world#
9ot everyone is a member of a grou/, you $now,
but you /robably $now whole grou/s of /eo/le who
'ust cannot manage without each other# It may be
members of a big family, they are always dashing
around to see how the others are doing, and even
when they marry they still have to forsa$e their
/artners at times and rush bac$ home as if they are all
going in li$e a lot of chic$ens under the old hen@
Many /eo/le are individualists, not members of a
grou/ u/on the Earth, they have come to do certain
things alone and they rise or fall by their own efforts
on the Earth# The /oor souls often have a very bad
time indeed u/on the Earth, and it doesn3t necessarily
mean that they have immense $harmic debts because
they get suffering, it means that they are doing s/ecial
wor$ and incurring good $harma for a few lives to
come#
eally e8/erienced /eo/le can tell what other
/eo/le have been in a /ast life, but don3t believe the
advertisement you read where, for a small sum of
money, you can have all your /ast incarnations told#
-on3t believe that for a moment because most of these
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demand money for such a service, then you can be
sure that they are fa$es, because the really trained
/erson does not ta$e money for these occult /ur/oses
as it lowers the /ersonal vibrations@ It is such a tragic
thing that so many advertisements a//ear which are
arrant fa$es# +eo/le flit about e8amining the )$ashic
ecord or loo$ing into the /ast to see what you did
wrong, or loo$ing a bit forward to see what you did
right, /rovided you /ay enough money# )nd then all
these cults who teach you the Mystery of the )ges
/rovided you /ay a monthly sum for the rest of your
life# *ome of these are 'ust ordinary commercial
corres/ondence colleges, they want your money, /os-
sibly they might do you some goodAthey might teach
you not to believe all advertisements, for e8am/le#
(ut my own /oint of view is this0 if a /erson adver-
ti7es in glamorous terms what he or she can do for you
for a small outlay, well, be sus/icious# If these /eo/le
could do it they would do it for themselves and get
money and /ower that way# The fact that they have to
run a corres/ondence course or do this or that service,
ma$es them, in my o/inion, sus/ect, and I sincerely
wish that there was some way in which these adver-
tisements could be censored and controlled# There
are many, many /eo/le who are utterly genuine, but
my own /ersonal e8/erience is that it is rare indeed
for such a /erson to advertise# emember also that
/eo/le who ma$e these wondrous claims about how
they go into the astral for you and loo$ at all your
records, etc#, etc#, well, you can3t /rove them really
wrong, can you, 'ust the same as you can3t /rove them
right# *o, 'ust to be on the safe side, it is far better not
to bother with /eo/le who advertise as such, but
instead meditate, because if you meditate you can get
the results you want# %ou $now yourself better than
any other /erson, and most assuredly you $now your-
self better than a /erson who is going to charge you a
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all he does is to /ut a /re-/rinted form in an envelo/e
and mail it to you under the heading of *trictly
+rivate and +ersonal!#
Here is another sad little e8tract from a letterJ
I recently lost a friend of many years, my little /et
died and I am bro$en-hearted and wondering# My
/arish /riest told me that I was a bad woman to dare
to suggest that animals have souls, he said that only
humans have souls, and more or less im/lied that only
those humans who belong to his own branch of the
,hurch# ,an you give me any ho/e that I will see my
beloved /et in another life2!
*ome /riests are real 'ac$asses, you $now# They are
astonishingly ignorant men# It always ama7es meA
well, let us ta$e ,hristiansA,hristians almost go to
war as to which sect is the true sect, ,hristians /reach-
ing ,hristianity do not show ,hristianity to ,hris-
tians of another sect# Loo$ at the +rotestants and the
,atholics, you would thin$ they had bought u/ all
the front row seats in Heaven the way they go on#
,atholics seem to thin$ that +rotestants are evil
/eo/le, and +rotestants are quite sure that ,atholics
are evil /eo/le# (ut that3s not a matter of discussion
at /resent#
.or centuries asinine /reachers have taught
that Man is the ultimate in develo/ment, they have
taught that there cannot be anything higher than
man$ind, and man$ind alone has a soul /rovided
that they be of this or that s/ecific religion@
I say to you with absolute $nowledge that, yes,
animals also go to the astral world, animals have the
same o//ortunities as humans# I say to you, yes, you
can meet beloved /ets again, not merely when you
yourself die to this Earth, but now in astral travel to
the 7one in which those animals are#
"nly an utter fool, only a com/lete and absolute
ignoramus such as a /riest of some derelict, decadent
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so to s/ea$, on souls# ,onsider this0 &#.#"#s are real,
there are other /eo/le in s/ace, /eo/le so highly
evolved, so highly intelligent, that intelligent humans
now are by com/arison to these s/ace /eo/le as stu/id
as a dress sho/ dummy, you $now, one of those /laster
or /lastic figures standing stiffly in the dress with
some hideous froc$ stuc$ on over it#
"ne of the reasons why religious bodies deny the
e8istence of &#.#"#!s is because their very /resence
shows that Man is not the ultimate form of evolution#
If the /riests are right and Man is the ultimate form
of evolution, then what are these /eo/le in s/ace2
They are real /eo/le, they are intelligent /eo/le, and
some of them are s/iritual /eo/le# They have souls0
they too go to the astral worlds 'ust as do humans, 'ust
as do animals, cats, horses, dogs, etc#
;ery definitely, very em/hatically, and s/ea$ing
with the utter $nowledge of one who does astral travel
as a matter of course, let me tell you this0 yes, my
friend, your /et lives in another s/here, lives in good
health and in better sha/e, even more /leasant to loo$
at, /erha/s even missing you, but now with the $now-
ledge that you can meet again, for, as in the case of
humans, if you really love your /et and your /et really
loves you, you can and you will meet again#
Let me tell you that Mrs# .ifi 4reywhis$ers, my
truly beloved friend, left this Earth some time ago0
she is still my beloved friend and I can visit her in the
astral# )nd Miss =u3ei also left this world when she
was badly u/set by another attac$ of /ress /ersecu-
tion# Miss =u3ei was ill at the time and these moronic
/ress /eo/le thundering around u/set her, andAwell
Ashe left me# I was sad, sad for myself, sad that I
could no longer cradle her in my arms, but glad that
she had relief from the sorrows and utter miseries
which she and I had endured together on this Earth# I
tell you, I meet her in the astral, so I am in a very,
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wrong, man$ind is not the e/itome of s/iritual de-
velo/ment# *ome animals are far more s/iritual than
Man@
Let us close this cha/ter, then, with a re/etition of
that statement# I re/eat, yes, all you who grieve for
those little /ets who have left this Earth and gone on
beyond grieve no more, for if you love your de/arted
/et and that /et loves you, you will be together again
beyond the confines of this Earth 'ust as Mrs# .ifi
4reywhis$ers and the Lady =u3ei and I meet so often
in the astral, and as we shall be together on a much
more /ermanent basis whenAmay it be soonAthis
life on Earth ends for me, and when there is a cessa-
tion of /ress /ersecution and hostility, when there is a
cessation of /ain and misery which long drawn out
illness causes#






















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,H)+TE T1"

THE old man shifted wearily in the uncomfortable
wheelchair# 9o s/rings,! he muttered, even a baby
carriage has s/rings, yet the ones who are sic$ have to
'og along as comfortlessly as in a farm cart@!
It had been a cheerless day, and one which was far
from ended# Letters, and M"E letters# )ll of them
1)9TI94 %ou are my father and my mother,! said the
letter from )frica, and I love you li$e my best girl
friend# 9ow I want to come and tell you so# 1ill you
send me a free return tic$et so that I may2 )nd at the
same time send the fare so that I can see my sister who
lives in Los )ngeles# I shall e8/ect this by return and
will $iss the dust at your feet! The old man sighed
ruefully and set the letter aside# Thin$s I3m a
millionaire, does he2! he as$ed the Little 4irl ,at
/urring alongside#
"ld Maggie was out of the mental hos/ital again
and had resumed her barrage of unwanted love
letters# ?ld Maggie@ The woman who 'ourneyed to
this ,anadian sea/ort and told /eo/le she was em-
/loyed by the old man@ *aid she was em/loyed by
himAran u/ a bill for a hundred and si8ty-eight
dollars in his name and sent a frightened hotel
manager to the old man for the money# Money which
was not forthcoming# I have never even *EE9 the
woman,! said the old man, and she deluges me with
letters which I tear u/# 9o, I have no wor$Aor
moneyAfor her#! *o "ld Maggie cheerfully admitted
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de/orted bac$ to one#
Mrs# Horsehed3s letter, too, was a bother# Twenty-
two /ages of it# )ll questions# Kuestions which would
need a boo$ to answer, THI* boo$, Mrs# Horsehed#
-ear, dear@ Mrs# Horsehed, the lady who had things
written to her in words of one syllable and who *TILL
managed to read the wrong meaning in everything@
%es, the old man was weary# The day was long and
the letters were longer# "utside the summer weather
of dee/, dee/ fog swirled blac$ly, smearing windows
with a greasy scum, and hiding the ramshac$le build-
ings near the waterfront# *omewhere out in the fog a
shi/ hooted mournfully, as if in des/air at having to
enter this moribund sea/ort where the water stan$ to
high heaven with the discharging effluvia of a nearby
/ul/ mill# The old man grunted +.)H, what a
stench@! and turned to signing the letterAall forty-
three of them#
The Little 4irl ,at stood u/, arched her bac$ and
said )rrh@! before going off to her tea# The Littlest
4irl ,at was still abed recovering from a chill easily
induced by the dam/ fog and intense humidity of
these summer days# The wheelchair groaned in dis-
may beneath the two hundred and si8ty /ounds of
weight as the old man turned to switch on the lights#
Lights,! he muttered, lights, are they really necessary
at five in the afternoon of a midsummer3s day2!
The years bore down heavily, years of suffering,
years of sorrow, years made even more sorrowful by
the cowardly men of the /ress who always /rinted
liesAbeing strangers to the TruthAand who never
dared afford an o//ortunity for a re/ly to their
columns# ,owardly men, des/icable men, who live by
/andering to their readers3 worst emotions, who drag
down culture instead of hel/ing it u/#
The dreary evening slowly wore on# The faintest of
faint glows showed that somewhere outside the fog-
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crawling glimmers, li$e fireflies afar, showed that late
wor$ers were ma$ing their slow way home behind
straining headlights#
)t last it was late enough to retire# The old man
trundled his wheelchair to the side of the hard, hard
bed and climbed in# 1ith a sigh of relief he settled
bac$# 9ow for freedom,! he thought, freedom to
wander at will throughout the world by astral travel#!
.or some moments he rested, lost in thought, then,
the night3s 'ourney decided u/on, he rela8ed for the
/re/aratory stages#
*oon there came the familiar slight 'er$, almost a
start as if one had been frightened, and with the
slight 'er$ the astral body shoo$ free from the /hysi-
cal# *hoo$ free and drifted u/wards, higher and
higher#
The fog was all around the harbor# ) few miles
further out the fog# thinned and was gone# )t the
air/ort the lights were on and the infrequent aircraft
were still able to ma$e their landings# "ut in the (ay
of .undy a large oil tan$er rode at its moorings, rode
at anchor, its riding lights swaying slightly as the shi/
heaved to the change of the tide# )board the oil shi/
men were still /laying, gambling with /ac$s of cards
before them, and /iles of money on the floor# They
seemed ha//y enough, although im/atient to get
ashore to whatever entertainment this /oor /ort
could offer them# Entertainment2 1hat sort of enter-
tainment does the average sailor want2 )nd that can
be found in even the /oorest of /orts, and the /oorer
the /ort the chea/er that form of entertainment,
although /ossibly the dearest in the end@
The old man, not old any longer now that he was
not encumbered by an ailing body and a crea$ing
wheelchair, drifted along across the (ay of .undy# He
sto//ed awhile at the little town of -igby nestling
between hills, a quaint little /lace, one which it
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colours are rather different# It3s li$e ta$ing off smo$ed
glasses and seeing things as they are#
.rom -igby, on to %armouth to loo$ at that little
/lace with its narrow streets and crowded houses#
*eemed to be 'ust one main street with a few scattered
houses around# )ndAoh yes@Aa shoc$ingly cra7y
woman lived down there@
Move on, move on to Halifa8# ) slight /ause, and
the ground blurred beneath, blurred with the s/eed
of travel# )nd then the lights of Halifa8 came swiftly
into view# Halifa8@ 1hat an unfriendly city, what a
horrible city, was the /ersonal o/inion of the old man
floating above# He thought for a moment of that
stu/id old biddy at the air/ort who said she was a
good ,atholic, and they didn3t want heathens in clean
Halifa8# *till, that3s in days gone by# Today is today,
and tomorrowAwell, a few miles further on and we
shall be in tomorrow# *o a circle around Halifa8,
/assing the big +aragon buildings, /assing over the
9aval *tation and the (edford (asin, seeing the lights
atwin$le on the wooded slo/es flan$ing (edford
(asin# The lights of the rich /eo/le, the ones who
could 'ust buy and order what they li$e, the ones who
could get medical attention and not count the cost#
9ot li$e the old man who, because he was so sic$,
couldn3t get insured with the (lue ,ross or the 4reen
*hield, or whatever it is# They all seemed to want
their ca$e and eat somebody else3s# *o the old man
could not afford medical attention in young, bustling
,anada, and so he suffered because of lac$ of money,
because of lac$ of medical attention which he could
not afford#
*o thin$ing he rose higher and higher, rose u/ to
where he could see the sunlight and s/ed on across
the )tlantic# *oon a satellite came hurtling by, a
satellite reflecting bright silver as it caught the rays of
the sun# (ut the old man wasn3t bothered by satel-
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common, too usual#
He s/ed on and overtoo$ an )ir ,anada /lane
shrie$ing its way across the )tlantic bound forA
where2 *hannon2 +restwic$2 "r /ossibly going
straight to I#e (ourget in .rance# )stral travel has
many advantages# The /lane was overta$en, and
/assed with no more than a glance in the cabin
windows where all the tourist and economy /assen-
gers were sitting, three abreast, on both sides of the
aisle, with a blue light which simulated night shining
dimly down u/on them# *ome were there with their
mouths wide o/en# )nd there along the other aisle
was a woman with her mouth wide o/en and her s$irts
u/ round her thighs, sound aslee/ she was, oblivious of
the interested ga7e of the young man beside her who
was wishing that there was more light#
In the /ilot3s cabin the ,a/tain at the controls was
smo$ing his /i/e and loo$ing li$e a /lacid old cow
seen in an Irish field# His co-/ilot, sitting beside him,
was loo$ing bored to tears# )nd the flight engineer,
behind them and to the right, was holding his head in
his hands as if life was 'ust too too insu//ortable#
"n s/ed the old man, far outstri//ing the s/eed of
the /lane, the /lane which was lumbering behind at
/erha/s si8 or seven hundred miles an hour# )nd
soon, over the curve of the hori7on, came the loom of
the lights of London and the flashing beacon which
was London )ir/ort#
Here, in London, the streets were by no means
deserted although it was about two o3cloc$ in the
morning, a fine morning too# (usy wor$ gangs were
moving about swee/ing the streets, clearing u/ the
litter, and here and there manholes in the streets
were o/ened and little frames with red flags above
them /revented the unwary from falling down# Here
were the sewer men carrying out their nightly ins/ec-
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(ut how London has changed, the old man
thought# This great building stretching u/ and u/@
(ut then he remembered# "h, yes, of course, that is
the new +ost "ffice Tower, su//osed to be the highest
in England# Thoughtfully, interestedly, he circled
around it and saw the men inside more or less $illing
time# Things weren3t very busy at this hour of the
night# )nd then the old man moved on, on through
;ictoria *treet#
) train was 'ust coming into the station and weary
/assengers were /ic$ing u/ their luggage, and stretch-
ing cram/ed legs# In the ta8i ran$s the cab drivers were
wa$ing themselves u/ from a light do7e, starting their
cabs, and waiting for the fares#
(ut the old man drifted along, loo$ing at familiar
/laces in ;ictoria *treet, and then he s/ied an im-
mense new building, the windows of which over-
loo$ed the gardens of (uc$ingham +alace# 1hat bad
taste,! he thought, what bad taste@ That these build-
ing /romoters should intrude u/on the /rivacy of the
oyal .amily who have done so much for England,
even against the active o//osition of the /ress who
always ta$e any o//ortunity, no matter how un-
'ustified, of /ic$ing faults with the oyal .amily# )
family who has done more for England than any other
Englishman or woman#!
(ut down below red double-dec$er buses still roar
through the streets carrying night wor$ers to or from
their nightly shifts# +erha/s this little 'aunt to Eng-
land should come to an end now0 there is so much else
to see# (ut, before leaving England, let us loo$ along
the length of .leet *treet again and read some of the
early morning headlines# Here it says that the /ress of
England are having a very bad time financially, they
cannot /ut u/ the /rice of their /a/ers for /eo/le will
not /ay any more# *i8/ence for a news/a/er@ ) lot of
money for /a/er into which one wra/s one3s fish and
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news/a/ers, the whole bunch of them together,
they3re not worth a half/enny# )nd the sooner they
go ban$ru/t the better for the world, for they
generate hate between nations and between /eo/les#
,an anyone truly say the /ress have ever done any
good23
*o thin$ing the old man turned his thoughts south-
wards, and in the astral flight too$ a wide swee/
straight over the English ,hannel# *traight over
+aris, he went, where he 'ust gave a /assing glance at
the home of de 4aulle the troublema$er before
s/eeding on to *outh )merica, to the iver +late, to
the land of &ruguay, Montevideo#
Here in Montevideo the time was about midnight#
The streets were still thronged# -emonstrations were
in /rogress# *tudents were rioting and even as the old
man watched from a few feet above the city a lusty
student hand /ro/elled a large roc$ straight through
the face of a cloc$ standing on the sidewal$ by a
familiar bus sto/# There was a shattering of glass and
a +.H&T@ )nd a shower of s/ar$s, and the face of the
cloc$ grew dar$, no longer did it indicate the hours,
the minutes, and the seconds#
)round the street corner a gang of grey-uniformed
/olice swirled, stic$s in their hands, ca/s awry, arms
outflung to catch any student who came within their
reach# The old man floated along thin$ing of what
could have been the future of &ruguay# It could have
been a wonderful /lace# It could have been the
4arden of *outh )merica, su//lying e8otic fruits to
the rest of the world# It could have been the *wit7er-
land of *outh )merica, loo$ing after the money and
the financial interests of the whole of 9orth, ,entral,
and *outh )merica# (ut the &ruguayans were un-
equal to the tas$s before them li$e a man who has
never had an illness before and so, not immuni7ed,
falls /rey to the first slight sic$ness# &ruguay, with
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storms ruffled their a//arently calm surface#
The old man thought of a year or so before when
he had visited the astral world, and consulted the
)$ashic ecord of the /robabilities and saw what
should have been for &ruguay# The interior of
&ruguay is arid because the &ruguayans had cut
down all the trees, and the land in the interior is
almost barren, almost desert, without water, without
vegetation, and seems to be only sunba$ed earth
which, drying and /owdering, blows away at the first
/uff of wind# The )$ashic ecord of +robabilities
showed that the &ruguayans should have floated a
loan in neighboring countries, and should, by care-
fully controlled atomic blasts, have e8cavated a great
basin /erha/s thirty miles by fifty miles in the center#
It would have filled from dee/ wells because the water
is there, below the surface# It would have filled, and
would have been a wonderful la$e, or lagoon, bring-
ing life to the Land of &ruguay# Then there would
have been trees /lanted all around the shores of the
new la$e# )nd the trees would have brought new
atmos/here to a devitali7ed 7one# *oon the land would
have flourished, it would have been lush /asture land,
rich orchards, and land which would have been the
4arden of *outh )merica#
The ecord of +robabilities showed that there
would have been a canal leading from the center of
the country along to Maldonado where there is such
very dee/ water and such a very beautiful curve to
the shoreline, that it is indeed a natural harbor# The
main harbor should have been there, at Maldonado,
because the /resent harbor at Montevideo is silting
u/, and the whole of the iver +late is now a shallow
stretch of water, dredged constantly in the ever-shift-
ing sands#
(ut the old man floating above, loo$ing down,
thin$ing of all these things, shoo$ his head with
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measured u/ to those things which were /robabilities
for them and which would have led them so /rofitably
to greatness# The ecord of +robabilities showed that
in years to come )ustralia would have been im/ressed
by such a successful scheme, and would have co/ied
the scheme in the dead heart of )ustralia# 1here the
furnace-li$e desert dries u/ everything# (ut )ustralia
could be o/ened u/ as &ruguay could have been
o/ened u/#
The old man had seen enough of &ruguay# )nd so,
with 'ust a farewell wave, he lofted higher and higher
and s/ed with the s/eed of thought across the face of
the world# )cross oceans, across lands, to another
destination#
I want you to tell us more about astral travel, how
we can do it# %ou3ve written about it in You-For-
ever! and in other boo$s, but tell us again# %ou can-
not tell us too much about it, tell us how we can do
it#!
*o go the letters# *o go the demands# Tell us about
astral travel#!
)ctually, astral travel is the sim/lest of things, so
sim/le that it is sur/rising that /eo/le cannot do it
without trying# (ut we must also remember that
wal$ing is sim/le# 1al$ing is so sim/le that we can
wal$ in a straight line, or follow a curved /ath, and
we do not have to thin$ about it at all# It comes
natural to us# %et on many occasions a /erson has
been very ill and confined to bed for some months,
and the sufferer has then forgotten how to wal$# He
or she has forgotten how to wal$, and has had to be
taught all over again#
It is the same with astral travel# Everybody could
once do astral travel, but for some strange reason they
have forgotten /recisely how to do it# How do you
teach a /erson how to wal$2 How do you teach a
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How do you teach a /erson to travel in the astral2
+ossibly only by recounting the ste/s and the /rocess#
+ossibly only by being what some would call re-
/etitious can one induce a /erson to teach his or her-
self how to get again into the astral#
*u//ose you have a s/onge, an ordinary big bath
s/onge will do, and then you call it the body# *u/-
/ose you fill the holes in the s/onge with a gas which
clings together# That is, it doesn3t dis/erse li$e most
gases do, it hangs together li$e a cloud# 1ell, this gas
you can call the astral# It is now in the s/onge, so you
have one entity inside another# The s/onge re/resent-
ing the body, and the gas filling the otherwise em/ty
s/aces in the s/onge and re/resenting the astral body#
If you sha$e the s/onge you may dislodge the cloud of
gas# In the same way, when your body gives a little
'er$ under controlled conditions the astral body
'um/s free#
The best way to /re/are for astral travel is to thin$
about it# Thin$ about it very seriously from all
as/ects, because as you thin$ today so you are to-
morrow, and what you thin$ about today you can do
tomorrow# )s$ yourself why do you want to do astral
travel# )s$ yourself honestly# 1hat really is your
reason2 Is it merely idle curiosity2 Is it so that you
can s/y on others, or do you want to fly through the
night and /eer into bedrooms2 (ecause if that is your
ob'ective you would be better off without astral
travel# %ou must be sure that your motives are right
before you do astral travel, or even before you try to
do astral travel#
Then having assured yourself that your motives
will stand the strictest ins/ection, /re/are the ne8t
ste/# 1hen you go to bed, alone, ma$e sure you are
not tired# Ma$e sure that you are fresh enough, that
you can stay awa$e# Everyone can do astral travel, but
the ma'ority of untrained /eo/le fall aslee/ in the
/rocess which is very annoying indeed@ *o go to bed
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before you are tired and rest in any way comfortable
in your bed, and then THI9= that you are moving out
of your body# Let yourself become com/letely re-
la8ed# Have you a tension in your big toe2 -oes your
ear itch2 Have you an ache in the small of your bac$2
)ny of these will indicate that you are not truly
rela8ed# %ou must be truly rela8ed, 'ust as a slee/ing
cat is rela8ed# )nd having been quite sure that you
are rela8ed, imagine that something! is coming out of
your body# Imagine that you are the gas see/ing out
of the s/onge# %ou might e8/erience a little tingling,
you might hear some short, shar/ crac$les, or you may
get /ins and needles! in the bac$ of your nec$# .ine@
That means you are coming out# 9ow be very very
sure that you $ee/ still# It is utterly necessary that you
do not /anic, it is absolutely vital that you do not feel
fear because /anic or fear will sla/ you bac$ in the
body and give you quite a fright# It will also effec-
tively /revent you from consciously astral travelling
for about three months#
)stral travel is normal# It is utterly, utterly safe# 9o
one can ta$e over your body, no one can harm you, all
that can ha//en is this0 if you are frightened un-
/leasant astral entities will smell or see the colour of
fright, and will with the greatest of glee try to
frighten you more# They cannot hurt you, they can-
not hurt you at all, but it does give them great
/leasure if they can frighten you so much that you are
chased bac$ into your /hysical body#
There is no secret in astral travel, it 'ust needs
confidence# It 'ust needs the firm $nowledge that you
are going to do astral travel while you are fully
awa$e# )nd the best way to start about it is to imagine
that you are travelling, imagine that you are out of
the body# This word imagination! is badly misused#
+erha/s it would be better to say /icture!# *o, /icture
yourself leaving your flesh body, /icture yourself
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inches above the recumbent flesh body# )ctually
/icture yourself doing it, actually form the strong
thoughts that you are doing it, and sooner or later you
will do it# %ou will find, with the greatest ama7ement,
that you are floating there, loo$ing down u/on a
/added, whitish-green, flesh body# +robably it will
have its mouth o/en, /robably it will be snoring away
because when you are out it doesn3t matter at all if
your flesh body goes to slee/Awhen you are out# (e-
cause if you get out while the body is awa$e, you will
remember the whole e8/erience#
This is what you have to imagineJ %ou are resting
com/letely rela8ed on your bed in any /osition which
suits you /rovided it is comfortable and rela8ed#
Then you thin$ of yourself, slowly edging out from
the flesh covering, from the flesh body, slowly edging
out and rising and floating a few inches or a few feet
above the flesh body# -o not /anic even if you do get
a few sways and tilts because you ,)99"T (E H&T#
%ou cannot be hurt at all, and as you are floating you
cannot fall# 1hen you have got to that stage, rest
awhile# <ust $ee/ still, you don3t need to feel /anic
nor trium/h, 'ust rest /eaceably for a few moments#
)nd then, if you thin$ you can stand the shoc$, and
de/ending on what sort of a body you3ve got, ga7e
down on the thing you3ve left# It loo$s all lo/sided, it
loo$s lum/y and heavy, it loo$s an untidy mess# 1ell,
aren3t you glad to get away from it for the time
being2
1ith that thought you should ta$e a loo$ at the
world outside# *o will yourself to rise, will yourself to
float u/ through the ceiling and through the roof#
9o@ %ou won3t feel anything, you won3t get a bum/
or a scra/e or a 'ar# <ust will yourself to float u/, and
/icture yourself so floating#
1hen you get out through the roof sto/ when you
are about twenty or fifty feet above and loo$ about
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)nd you can rise by thin$ing that you are rising#
Loo$ about you, loo$ at your surroundings from a
view/oint that you have never seen before so far
as you can remember, get used to being out of the
body# 4et used to moving around# Try floating
around the bloc$# It3s easy@ %ou 'ust have to tell your-
self where you are going, and you 'ust have to tell
yourself how fast you are going, that is, do you want
to go along slowly as if blown by the bree7e, or do you
want to go there instantly2
+eo/le write and say they have tried everything
they $now to do astral travel but, for some reason or
other, they did not succeed# ) /erson will write and
say, I had a strange tic$ling in the bac$ of my nec$# I
thought I was being attac$ed and it frightened me#!
)nother /erson writes in to say, I seemed to be lying
on the bed without the /ower to move, I seemed to be
loo$ing through a long red tunnel with a glimmer of
something which I cannot describe at the end#! )nd
yet another /erson writes, "h, my goodness me@ I
fell out of my body, and I was so frightened that I fell
bac$ in again@!
(ut these are /erfectly ordinary, /erfectly normal
sym/toms# Each of these sym/toms can occur when
you are getting out consciously for the first time#
These are good signs# *igns that you are able to astral
travel consciously# *igns that you have your hand on
the door, so to s/ea$, and the door is slowly o/ening#
(ut then you ta$e fright right on the threshold of this
wonderful e8/erience, you /anic, and bac$ you go
into that dam/, miserable clay case again#
"nly fear can cause you any real difficulty# Every-
thing else can be overcome# (ut fearAwell, if you
will not master your fear of the a//arently un$nown,
what can one do for you2 %ou have to ma$e some
effort yourself# %ou can3t /ut some money in a slot
machine and get some /re-/ac$aged astral travel $it,
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1ell, when you get a tic$ling sensation it means
that your astral body is actually freeing itself from the
/hysical body, and for some /articular reason the /ro-
cess is causing a tic$le which is, after all, some slight
form of irritation# It 'ust means that you have not
been doing astral travel very often, because with
/ractice the se/aration of the two bodies becomes
easier and easier#
<ust by way of digression let me tell you this0 I was
writing this cha/ter on astral travel, and I su//ose I
was thin$ing about it too intensely or something# )nd
immediately I found myself floating above this build-
ingA-right outsideAand loo$ing down# ) member of
my household was 'ust coming u/ the road carrying a
load of groceries@ I saw her come in and have a mild
listen at my door to see if I was wor$ing or not, and
then undecided she /assed on to another room# I
loo$ed about and thought, "h,my goodness me@ I3m
shir$ing@! )nd dived bac$ again straight into the
body, and carried on wor$ing# (ut it 'ust shows that
when one is /racticed in astral travel it is no more
difficult to get out of the body than it is to leave a
room by o/ening a door and ste//ing out# )ctually
it3s less effort# It is far less effort#
1hen a /erson is reclining and then suddenly feels
/araly7ed, that is a /erfectly normal sign, there is
nothing wrong with it# It 'ust means that the se/ara-
tion of the two bodies is /reventing /hysical body
motion, and the so-called /aralysis is a misnomer
really# It is 'ust a strong /hysical disinclination to
move# "ne often, at the same time, seems to be
/eering through a long tube, it might be a red tube,
or it might be a blac$ or grey tube# (ut it doesn3t
matter what colour it is, it is a good sign, it shows you
are getting out#
The biggest thing to fear is fear itself, because all
these things are /erfectly ordinary# There is nothing
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way to /anic, well, you come straight bac$ into the
body with a real clun$!, and if you come bac$ in
misalignment, then you3ll have a sic$ headache for
the rest of the day, until you go to slee/ again and
relocate your astral in the /hysical#
It sometimes ha//ens that one gets slightly out of
the body and then a swaying motion is e8/erienced#
That3s all right, too# It 'ust means you have not
learned how to handle the astral body /ro/erly# %ou
can thin$ of it as a /erson learning to steer a motor-
car# %ou get in the wretched thing and give the wheel
a turn, and turn too far# *o you turn the other way,
and you find you are turning too far that way# *o you
/rogress in a sort of * curve until you learn to manage
the steering /ro/erly# It is /recisely the same with the
astral# %ou start emerging from the body and then,
when you are a few inches out, you sort of lose your
nerve, you do not $now how to get it out a foot, two
feet, etc# )nd so you stay there swaying# The only
thing to do is to visuali7e yourself as "&T@
%es, no doubt much of this a//ears to be re/etition
to you# -eliberately it is re/etition because you need
to get this firmly established that astral travel is quite
normal and quite easy, and not at all dangerous# The
only thing to fear is of being afraid# )nd you need
only fear being afraid because it /uts bac$ your /ro-
gress# It3s li$e loc$ing on the bra$es hard# "nce you
are in a state of fear you are not in control of yourself,
and your body chemistry gets 'angled# *oAdo not be
afraid, because there is no cause whatsoever to fear
anything in the astral#
It really is a su/erb, a glorious, e8/erience to 'ust
get out of your /hysical body and float along in the
air# %ou do not have to do long 'ourneys, you can let
yourself 'ust drift, /erha/s thirty or forty feet above
the ground# %ou will feel a gentle rise from air
currents, es/ecially when you /ass over trees# Trees
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draught, and if you let yourself float and maintain a
constant height over a clum/ of trees when in the
astral, you will find that your vitality im/roves very
greatly# (ut this astral travel is a /leasure which has
to be a//reciated# There are no words which can
adequately describe it# %ou are out of the body and
you feel free, you feel as if you had been recharged
with life# %ou feel as if you are s/ar$ling all over, and
it is one of the best e8/eriences of all# It can be your
e8/erience too, you $now, if you really want it#
Thousands of /eo/le have written to me saying how
sur/risingly easy they now find astral travel, telling
me of their travels, and telling me that they have seen
me on their astral travels# 1hat these /eo/le can do,
you can do also#
(ut let us go into the matter a little further to try
to find out what is /reventing you from en'oying this
wonderful e8/erience#
.irst of all, do you slee/ alone2 That is in your own
room# (ecause if you share a bed with someone else
then you may find it a bit difficult# There is always
the fear that another /erson turning over will disturb
one3s astral flight# *o, while initiating astral travel,
you should always be alone, quite alone in your room#
"ne cannot, for e8am/le, easily /ractice astral travel
when one lives in barrac$s with a lot of other men or
a lot of other women# 9or can you easily start astral
travel if you have 'ust been married@ %ou have to be
alone, you have to $ee/ your mind on astral travel
and then you can do it#
.rom letters it a//ears that the greatest vice of
those who are trying to astral travel is im/atience#
9orth )mericans in /articular want instant astral
trave!3# They are not /re/ared to wait for it, nor to
wor$ for it, they have no /atience# They want a thing
faster than fast and quic$er than now# 1ell, it3s not
done in that way, you have to be in the right
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you had been in bed a long time you would have to
e8ercise /atience while you were relearning to wal$#
Have /atience, then, and have faith that you can do
this thing# ;isuali7e yourself floating above your body
because imagination! is a most /otent force# )nd if
you can get yourself started, well, the rest is utterly
sim/le# )stral travel is the sim/lest thing that we can
do# Even breathing needs some effort# )stral travel
needs the absolute negation of effort#
)fter im/atience the ne8t great fault /reventing
one from getting into the astral state is over-tiredness#
+eo/le fla/ about all day, rushing about li$e a hen
with its head cho//ed off, dashing to the cinema or to
the su/ermar$ets and cavorting around the country#
Then, when they are nearly dro//ing with tiredness,
they get in bed and thin$ they will do astral travel#
1ell, they do, but they are so tired that they go to
slee/ and forget all the traveling or rather forget all
the e8/eriences of that travel# Ma$e no mista$e about
it, you do astral travel when you are aslee/, the tric$
is to stay awa$e and do it, and it is 'ust a $nac$ which
one has to acquire as one gets the $nac$ of breathing#
The doctor sla/s one3s bottom when one is born and
one draws an outraged breath so that one can yell in
/rotest, and breathing is started# 1ell, I can3t come
and sla/ you all on the bottom to start you astral
traveling@ (ut it really is a sim/le matter and needs
'ust a little $nac$#
Im/atience and over-tiredness, then are the two
great causes of failure to remember# There is another
causeAconsti/ation#
If you are consti/ated you are usually so gloomy
that the /oor wretched astral form is im/risoned in a
congested lum/ of clay# ,onsti/ation is the curse of
civili7ation, and /erha/s as it is so im/ortant for our
astral travel studies that one be not consti/ated, we
should devote a whole cha/ter to health things# *oA
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consti/ation# 1hen you get garbage out of your body
you will find that you are so much freer that you can
get into the astral#
*omeone wrote to me and said, (ut loo$# )ll these
astral bodies that you say float around by day and by
night, why don3t their *ilver ,ords get entangled,
why don3t they collide2 %ou say that thousands of
/eo/le leave their bodies and soar u/wards li$e bal-
loons on the end of a string# How can this be without
ho/eless tangling occurring2!
The answer to that is easy0 everyone has a different
frequency, every /hysical body has a certain fre-
quency and the astral body has a frequency severalA
well, I3m not musicalAbut let me say Loctaves3 higher#
The astral body is obviously on a harmonic of the
/hysical body, but the vibration is many million
times faster than in the /hysical body# Everyone has a
different frequency, or different rate of vibration, and
if you get the (#(#,#, London, on your radio, you get
the (#(#,#, London# %ou do not get adio Tur$ey or
adio +e$in on that wavelength or frequency#
"ne could say that the frequencies of radio stations
do not interfere with each other, and in the same way
the frequencies of different astrals do not interfere
with each other so they cannot collideAso there is no
tangling, no confusion# "n a busy street in a busy city
you will have /eo/le bum/ing into each other, and
either a/ologi7ing or scowling, according to their
ma$e-u/, but such things never occur in the astral#
There are no collisions# The only ones that can come
close to each other in the astral worlds above the
lower astral are those who are com/atible# %ou cannot
have discord, and a collision is usually a discord, is it
not2
Everyone $nows that many /eo/le say, This /rob-
lemAI can3t deal with it now, I3ll slee/ on it# I shall
have the answer in the morning! 1ell, that3s fair
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lem into the astral world and if they can3t solve it
themselves there is always someone available who can#
)nd then if they can3t do conscious astral travel, they
still come bac$ with some memory of how the /rob-
lem can be solved# +eo/le li$e great musicians go to
the "ther *ide and go to a 7one above the lower
astral# They hear this wondrous s/iritual music, and
then, because they are basically musical, because they
have musical /erce/tion, they memori7e it# )nd when
they awa$en in the morningAor they might even
wa$en s/eciallyAthey rush to a musical instrument
and, as they thin$ com/ose!# *ome great com/osers
$e/t /a/er and /encils by the bedside so that if they
wo$e u/ with ins/iration! they could write down the
musical notation immediately# This is stuff they have
learned in the astral, this is music which they learned
in the astral# )nd it is a legitimate use of astral
travel#
) great inventor may have seen something in the
astral, but /ossibly he didn3t do astral travel con-
sciously# *o when he awa$ens in the morning he has a
wonderful idea for a new invention!, and he rushes to
his noteboo$s and he writes down s/ecification and
draws squiggles# )nd thenAwell, he has invented
something which the world has wanted for quite a
long time#
Many highly successful businessmen use astral
travel consciously or unconsciously# This is how it
wor$s0 a man who is very successful at interviewing
decides that he has a very tough /erson to see on the
morrow# *o when he is in bed he goes through his
routine and he tal$s to himself, and says what he /ro-
/oses to say to his /ros/ect! when he meets him to-
morrow# He antici/ates the ob'ections and arguments
of the /ros/ect and he refutes them as he lies there in
bed# Then he falls aslee/# His astral has got the idea
and when the /hysical body is aslee/ the astral gets
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/ros/ect, and tells the /ros/ect what is going to be
said on the morrow and also tells the /ros/ect what
action the latter should ta$e#
"n the morrow at the interview the two greet each
other li$e old friends, they are sure they have met
before# They find they are getting along famously,
and the successful interviewer /uts over his /oints to
the /ros/ect and really does get the action desired# It
is sim/le, highly successful, and entirely legitimate#
*o, if you want to get success in business or loveA
well, go in for astral travel# %ou get your word in first#
%ou get the action you desire firmly im/lanted into
the /ros/ect3s mind#
) lot has been said about getting out of the body,
and you can get out of the body# "nce out you can
always return# I su//ose never in history has there
been an authentic case when a /erson could not get
bac$# %ou can get bac$ all right, but you want to get
bac$ in the most /leasant conditions because if you
get all sla/-ha//y and 'ust 'um/ into your clay case
you can get a headache#
1hen you are coming bac$ from your astral travel
you see your flesh body lying there on the bed,
usually in a contorted attitude# Eyes shut, mouth
o/en, limbs in wild abandon /erha/s, and you have
to get into that body# ;isuali7e yourself lowering, and
lowering, and lowering# "h@ *o gently@ Then when
you are 'ust barely out of contact, /ut your own limbs
in /recisely the same attitude as that of the /hysical
body# )nd then let yourself be absorbed into the body
li$e moisture being absorbed by blotting /a/er# %ou
are in the body Eit3s a cold and clammy thing indeedF
but you are in and there has been no shoc$, no 'er$,
no un/leasantness# (ut su//osing you were clumsy
and you got in with an awful 'er$# Then you3ll find
that you3ve got an awful headache, you3ll find that
you feel sic$# There is only one thing to doAno
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one /ossible cure and it is thisJ
%ou must lie still with your feet together and your
hands together, and you must let yourself go to slee/,
even though it be for a few moments onlyAgo to slee/
so the astral body can ease out of the /hysical body
and then sin$ down and relocate e8actly# 1hen it is
relocated e8actly you have a sense of wellbeing and no
headache# )ndAthat3s all there is to it@
In this cha/ter quite a lot has been said about astral
travel, far more than need have been said# (ut the
whole idea was to re/eat things from different angles
so that you could /erha/s gras/ the underlying state-
ment that it is so very, very easy# %ou can do it
/rovided you do not try too hard# %ou can do it /ro-
vided you have /atience# %ou cannot go along to a
tic$et agency or travel agency and 'ust boo$ an astral
flight, you $now# *ome of the flights cost a lot of
money, but in the astral world it3s all free# )nd you
can have itAfor freeAif you have /atience and are
not too tired#
*o go to it# It truly is a wonderful, wonderful sensa-
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CHAPTER THREE

<"H9 TH"M)* was a fine, u/standing young member
of the little 1elsh community# ) loyal, vociferous
member of the 1ales for the 1elshALoo$ you!
Movement, he was an ac$nowledged leader of the
grou/ who shouted invective when the +rince of
1ales to-be a//eared in the +rinci/ality# Loud and
shrill he was, indeed, when he translated strange
bardic oaths into the English language and hurled
them at the heads, or ears, of English tourists harm-
lessly visiting the *eat of 1elsh ,ulture#
-own at the Lee$ and -affodil! he threw a /retty
-art at the heart of the English Tyrant, 1hateffer,
loo$ you,! as he sto//ed for a moment or so from his
endless beer imbibing# Many were the tales he told of
English atrocities as he waited for his unem/loyment
benefit /rovided free by a /arsimonious England#
(y night he would steal out with a /aint-/ot and
brush and, first ma$ing sure he was unobserved, /aint
witty remar$s on any convenient wallAalways against
the English, of course# (ut one day he a//eared at the
Lee$ and -affodil! loo$ing grim and glum as well as
morose and moody# 1hat is it that ails you, <ohn
Thomas2! enquire a friend# %ou loo$ $ind of
1ilted@!
<ohn Thomas sighed and groaned and wiggled his
ears# )h, woe is me@! he e8claimed, rolling his eyes
heavenwards but $ee/ing a tight hold of his tan$ard#
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more from the filthy English, now I shall have to wor$
in the Land of my .athers@! He turned away and
quic$ly grabbed the filled tan$ard of a man whose
attention had been distracted# -raining the stranger3s
first, then his own, he hastened away#
9e8t day, with heart-felt lamentations, he too$ a
'ob as a tourist bus driver and was henceforth $nown
as Thomas the (us# *adly, sadly, he drove English
tourists on their e8cursions, answering their questions
with a /leasant smile, but holding blac$ murder in
his heart# -ays wore on and Thomas the (us wore
out# More and more morose he became, loo$ you, and
no longer was his voice raised in song# 9o longer did
he raise the tan$ard for even gift beer# He grew
lethargic, listless, languid, and la7y# 9o longer did he
daub graffita on the walls at night, no longer did he
ob'ect or raise a commotion when, being detected in
short-changing his tourists, an Englishman sang,

Taffy was a 1elshman
Taffy was a thief,
Taffy came to our house
)nd stole a round of
beef#!

It is under the weather that I am indeed! he quoth
to a crony, and I feel that my shadow is more sub-
stantial than I myself am, /erha/s I should hie me
forth and consult "ld 1illiams the Med#! "ff he
tottered on sha$ing limbs and /ainfully hauled him-
self u/ the three ste/s to 1illiams the Med#
-r# 1illiams soon dis/osed of the other /atients
and called in Thomas the (us, e8claiming, 1ell,
what is it with you, my man2!
"h, -r# 1illiams,! e8claimed Thomas the (us, I
can sing no more and I cannot raise my tan$ard#! He
loo$ed about furtively and then in a cons/iratorial
whis/er mumbled, That3s not all I can3t do either#!
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1illiams said, %es, my man, I $now e8actly what is
wrong with you# )s Thomas the (us you are crouched
over your controls and it has constricted your bowels#!
His voice rose to an angry roar, %ou are consti/ated,
my man, ,"9*TI+)TE-Afull of useless rubbish#
1ould you have rubbish in your house2 1ouldn3t
you ta$e it outside for the sanitary attendant3s atten-
tion2!
Thomas the (us hung his head in shame, and he
mumbled, %es, my bus goes every day but I only go
once a wee$#!

I received many many letters, thirty or forty a day as
I have already stated, and a sur/rising number are
about medical /roblems# Many /eo/le, women
es/ecially, do not feel very ha//y about going to see a
doctor and discussing some of the more common and
/erha/s embarrassing illnesses,dysfunctions, or com-
/laints, so they write to me# In this cha/ter I am
going to deal with one or two health /roblems, but
the first one of all isAconsti/ation@
This is /robably the most insidious com/laint or
Illness ever to afflict man$ind# "ne ta$es action about
other ty/es of illness# If you have bad toothache you
have the wretched thing yan$ed out# If you have a
bro$en leg you have the bones set# (ut consti/a-
tionA@ +eo/le seem to thin$ it is li$e the /oor,
always with us#
Many /eo/le /lace great faith in the wise words of
doctors, but doctors are often in the hands of the
/harmaceutical manufacturers# The common cold,
and even more common consti/ation, are what one
might term the bread and butter! illnesses of the
/harmacists# (illions of /ounds or dollars have been
and will be s/ent on cures! for colds and consti/a-
tion# 1ell, the doctor abides, or should abide, by two
ancient laws, the first of which states that the art of
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9ature cures the illness# The second is 'primum non
nocere' which means first do no harm!# 1hatever a
doctor does, then, should be in accordance with those
two laws, the firstAgain the /atient3s interest and
ho/e that 9ature will cure the illness, and secondA
do no harm# &nfortunately, in the o/inion of many
/eo/le the doctor is doing a great harm when he
omits to warn /eo/le of the dangers of consti/ation#
,onsti/ation interests us who want to do astral
travel for the sole reason that if a /erson is habitually
consti/ated it is not /ossible to do conscious astral
travel while one is fully awa$e# *o, if you want to go
out on astral 'ourneys ma$e sure that your inside is all
right first# Inner cleanliness is im/ortant, isn3t it2
The very ancient ,hinese medical records indicate
that early ,hinese leaders, em/erors and em/resses,
and great warlords, used clysters to ma$e sure that
their interior was at least as clean as their e8terior# )
common name for clysters nowadays is enema, so let
us use the common name because clysters rather
reminds one of the cloisters in some old church and
we are far removed from that when we deal with
enemas > The very early ,hinese used narrow bamboo
tubes fitted into larger tubes, and that had a /iston
which /ro/elled the herbal solution into the intes-
tines#
The Egy/tians as well got into the act, /ossibly
they got the idea from the ,hinese# (ut round about
lC?? (#,# the Egy/tians were using enemas as an
ordinary routine method of treating ill health# The
idea was, if you have a /ain inside you get rid of all
the waste /roduct which /robably causes it# *ome of
their enema solutions were distinctly messy, oil and
honey blended together was quite a common matter@
In .rench times, in about l6?? or so, enemas were
very much in use# *oon after that the enema became a
fashionable method of treating illness and many very
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In England, also, the leading families had wonder-
ful enema syringes manufactured so that the /atient
sat over a hole in a wooden bo8 and then a very ornate
enema syringe was /laced in /osition, and the handle
/um/ed which in'ected a carefully /re/ared liquid
into the bowels of the sitting /atient# )fter which the
/atient arose and de/arted in great haste so that the
load could be discharged# (ut fashions change# It3s not
now so fashionable to use the enema# "ne goes instead
to the local drug store and gets a /ac$et of this or a
/ac$et of that, and either swallows, suc$s, chews, or
drin$s some no8ious concoction which all too fre-
quently gives one a bad /ain and violent e8/ulsion,
and really does nothing to cure the com/laint# -oes
nothing to overcome that which caused the consti/a-
tion# It seems now that /eo/le want to cure the
sym/tom without curing the root cause which, of
course, is too cra7y for comment#
%es, medical treatment undergoes cycles of /o/u-
larity and un/o/ularity# It used to be that /eo/le had
their tonsils removed as a fashionable thing# Then it
became the fashion to have the a//endi8 removed,
and now it is the fashion for women to have hysterec-
tonlyAof which, more later#
(ut it was a very bad change in fashion when
enemas were discontinued because a correctly a//lied
enema can do wonders in overcoming consti/ation,
not merely the system but the lac$ of health which
causes the consti/ation in the first case# Many /eo/le
are consti/ated because they do not drin$ nearly
enough water# "ne really must drin$ loads and loads
of water if one is to be healthy, because we eat food
and it gets churned into a /aste inside and then as it
/asses through the intestines nutritious substances are
e8tracted from the /aste and, inevitably, moisture also
is e8tracted# *o by the time all the unwanted residue
from the food gets into the descending colon it be-
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screwing-li$e motions of the colon, and if the mass is
too hard then it cannot be e8/elled, or if it is e8/elled
it causes /ain and irritation# The only way to ma$e
this mass easily removed is to be sure tllat there is
adequate moisture in it so that it remains as a /liable
/aste# T oo many of the commercial la8atives on the
mar$et today are irritants, that is the action of the
chemical in the la8ative irritates the bowel and ma$es
it twitch# *ometimes it irritates the bowel so much
that moisture is drawn from the blood stream through
the wall of the colon and saturates the mass of residue#
)nd that causes dehydration@
Many of you have written to me about this very
/roblem, and so the best thing to do is to treat first
the original condition by means of a self-administered
enema and then, when that condition has been re-
stored to normal, by a very carefully selected la8ative
when needed# +erha/s, to save another avalanche of
letters about this /roblem, we should go into some
more detail# *o here it is#
+eo/le nowadays eat artificial food, manufactured
food, and frequently it lac$s bul$# If a /erson ta$es
food and there is not enough residue to fill the
intestine, the motion of the intestine cannot /ush
forward the residue which we desire to e8crete# *o it is
quite essential to have a suitable diet# The diet must
inelude bul$, bul$ enough to fill the intestine to its
normal si7e so that the s/asmodic twitching of the
intestine can move forward that residue# Then the
food should have roughage!, which stimulates the
bowel without irritating iMt, in muNeh the same way as
suitably a//lied massage can stimulate the body with-
out irritating it#
.urther, one must drin$ a lot of water so that there
is an adequate water su//ly to $ee/ the blood at its
correct thic$ness Eor densityF, and enough water to
$ee/ the $idneys active, and enough left over to $ee/
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follows a normal, sensible diet, /lenty of fruit and
/lenty of vegetables, the bowels should not trouble
one unduly# (ut too many /eo/le /erch on drug-store
stools li$e a lot of broody hens while they crouch over
a /late and absolutely shovel food into their mouth,
ladling it in as quic$ly as /ossible, hardly ta$ing a
bite but swallowing as fast as they can# )ll this mess
gets inside the stomach, and the /oor old stomach
has to wor$ even harder brea$ing u/ the stuff#
Then after one has had this meal one rushes out to
catch a bus or do sho//ing during the lunch-hour
brea$# The bowels during the day get tired of inform-
ing their owner that they want to get wor$ing, and so
the im/ulse gets slower and slower and wea$er and
wea$er# Many /eo/le do not devote enough time to
the calls of 9ature, and /eo/le li$e bus drivers, for
e8am/le, who are crouched u/ in the driver3s cabin,
constrict their intestines and so consti/ation is almost
an occu/ational ha7ard of bus drivers# +eo/le seem to
thin$ that bowels should only wor$ when THE% want
them to wor$, and they also thin$ that there should be
instant delivery!#
9ature doesn3t wor$ that way# %ou have to give
9ature time to wor$ /ro/erly and if you abuse
9ature, if you abuse your natural functions, you are
going to /ay for it with bad health, a bad tem/er, and
a bad ban$ account#
9ow, you $now what an enema is2 %ou can get
from a drug store a suitable rubber bag with a length
of tubing that has a no77le at the end# 1ith any
decent enema bag there will be instructions for use,
and it is very very seriously suggested that you shall
use an enema for a few times to get your health in
good condition because when your intestines have
been reconditioned, then you should not again suffer
from consti/ation unless you have some grave disease,
in which case you should be in the care of your
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re/lace your family doctor# I am not /rescribing what
one might term medical treatment# I am, instead,
trying to save you a lot of misery by telling you some
elementary facts which everyone should $now, and
which, if /eo/le would listen, would save them years
of illness and much e8/ense with a doctor who really
has more im/ortant cases to attend to# *o, will you
remember that# I am not /rescribing medical atten-
tion for /eo/le with serious illnesses, I am suggesting a
treatment, a routine which will hel/ you to $ee/ good
health# )nd that meansAavoiding consti/ation#
It is always safe to give an enema, and the best
/osition is when the /atient lies /erha/s on a towel
on the bathroom floor# Lie on the left side with your
$nees drawn u/# %ou can administer the enema
yourself without any difficulty# If you have some
really bad consti/ation trouble it is a very good idea
to have a half ounce of tincture of myrrh and about
fifteen dro/s of tincture of Echinacea# These should
be added to a quart of water which is at a//ro8i-
mately body tem/erature# +ut this in your enema bag
and in'ect it into the bowels# =ee/ it in as long as you
can, and the mi8ture will saturate the hard mass
within the bowels and ma$e it soft so that it may be
/assed without any /ain#
)fter you have e8/elled the first lot, have another
enema in'ection, but this time with a quart of body
tem/erature water to which only fifteen dro/s of
Echinacea has been added# That means you do not
have the tincture of myrrh with the second enema#
This second in'ection will hel/ you get rid of any /us
or catarrh which is lodged within your lower bowel#
%ou may be interested to $now that many /atients
who cannot ta$e food through the mouth and throat
can be fed /er rectum!# ) nourishing liquid food is
very slowly in'ected and retained, and that nourishes
the body# emember, the more quic$ly you in'ect
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e8/elled# )nd if you want to retain a healing liquid
for some time, then the enema should be given very
slowly# 9aturally you will only in'ect liquid food
under orders of your doctor#
9ative tribes throughout the world have their own
cures for consti/ation# The natives of *outh )merica,
s/ecifically in the interior of (ra7il, gave us one of our
most famous la8ativesAcascara, or, as it is correctly
termed, cascara sagrada, the sacred bar$# 9atives of
(ra7il go to their witch doctor when they are con-
sti/ated and get a /iece of the sacred bar$ which they
then chewAand a ghastly taste it has, too@ )fter they
have chewed for a bit they discreetly retire into some
dense bushes and are not seen again for some little
time# 1hen they do a//ear they are much better in
health, but /ossibly a little /ale from all the events
which have ha//ened# *acred bar$ 'ust chewed has a
most devastating effect, but now it has been tamed by
chemists, and it can be obtained in very suitable
graded doses#
1hen you have got your interior freed from clog-
ging waste you should chec$ your diet and alter it as
and when necessary, and you should then ensure
regularity of bowel movements by eating /ro/erly
and by ma$ing a habit of attending to the calls of
9ature# 4o at the same time each day, never mind if
for a day you cannot get any result, still sit there and
thin$ about it# If you ma$e an absolute habit of it and
show 9ature that you are there ready and willing,
9ature will oblige if you are there ready and will-
ing!#
The best la8atives that you can ta$e are the herbal
ones# %ou can get cascara sagrada in tablets or in
liquid, and you can get senna in tablets or in liquid#
These will /roduce the desired action without /ain#
*ome of the other chemical concoctions on the mar$et
are really dreadfully dangerous, but one could call
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faith! moves mountains#
"h, yes, and do not forget this it is useless to ta$e a
la8ative unless you drin$ enough water# 1hat is the
use of ta$ing a la8ative which can cause bowel move-
ments when the stuff you want to move is too hard to
be moved2 It is an utter essential that when you ta$e a
la8ative you drin$ a lot of water, otherwise the
la8ative will 'ust cause /ain without /roducing any
good result# emember, you cannot drin$ too much
water# If you try to drin$ too muchAwell, you 'ust
find that you can3t#
*o, your health de/ends very largely u/on having a
clean interior# If you have a clean interior then you
can get on and do astral traveling#
)nother thing which I have been as$ed to write
about by many women is the change of life, the
meno/ause# Many women fear this worse than death,
they thin$ they will go insane or something# They
have listened to truly fantastic tales and they fear the
worst without $nowing anything about it# The meno-
/ause is a time of change, but you had a change when
you became adolescent# ) woman doesn3t become a
child-bearer overnight0 what ha//ens is that a girl
child ambles along in childish ways until she isAwell,
it varies with the individual, twelve, thirteen, four-
teen years of ageAand all the time she is aware of
strange things ha//ening inside her# Her attitude to
life changes# Her body changes, too, because at a
certain time of her life various new chemicals are
being manufactured by the body and released into
the bloodstream# The girl then finds she has her first
/eriod, and after she has had her first /eriod she is
ca/able of bearing a child#
(ut this changing from childhood to adolescent
means that all sorts of chemicals are /ouring into her
blood, /re/aring her for motherhood, ma$ing her one
of the /ossible child-bearers# (ut then, at a certain
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dies out or dries u/ and the woman all too often feels
that she is now useless, feels that she cannot have a
child any longer so everything will be different# *he
feels that she won3t have any se8 life# It3s cra7y, of
course# Many /eo/le have the ha//iest time of their
life when they have entered the meno/ause# Many
/eo/le find they become great artists or great designers
or great musicians after the child-bearing age is over#
9ature ta$es away the child-bearing /otentialities, but
all the energy, all the initiative, everything, can then
go into other things# )rt, being a good wife, etc# (e-
cause when a wife is bothered with small children then
she is not necessarily a good wife to her husband# )fter
the meno/ause she can be, and women can have the
ha//iest time of their life after the meno/ause#
1omen as$ me how they should behave at the
meno/ause# The answer is, remember you are under-
going change, you are li$e a car which for years has
been running on /etrol and suddenly it has to run on
/araffin# 1ith ad'ustment it can be done quite satis-
factorily# emember that the meno/ause is utterly
natural, every woman gets it, and the only ones who
are badly effected are those who worry too much#
There is no need to bother about it# eali7e that
changes are ta$ing /lace# eali7e that if you $ee/
calm about it the changes will be effected more
quic$ly# %ou may have rather more headaches than
average, average for you that is, when the meno/ause
is ta$ing /lace, but that will /ass# *oon things will
level out and you won3t get any feeling of strange-
ness any more# %ou won3t get any monthly dis-
turbances any more either, you3ll be ha//ier# Many
/eo/le /ut on a little weight after the meno/ause be-
cause the various chemicals which have now been
sto//ed made a /erson quite attractive and burned
u/ e8cess fat# 1ith the sto//age of those chemicals a
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suitable e8ercise, you can control that, and loo$ even
better# -o not under any circumstances believe "ld
1ives3 Tales, who tell you that you3ll get as fat as a
/ig, you3ll enter a mental home, you3ll have a beard
and a moustache, and all that rubbish#
The meno/ause is natural, it3s quite ordinary, but if
you do get too u/set or disturbed your doctor can /re-
scribe suitable hormone treatment for you# 9ow, you
cannot /rescribe hormones for yourself because there
are many different ty/es of hormones and if you ta$e
the wrong ty/e they will not do you a bit of good# If
you find life too insu//ortable during the meno/ause
stage, see your doctor, tell him straight out that you
want something done about it# Many doctors, sad to
say, thin$ that the meno/ause is so ordinary that it3s
'ust a waste of time, it3s 'ust childishness for a woman
to com/lain, and if your doctor is li$e that, then you
tell him straight out what you want and see you get it#
)nd if he won3t give you hormone treatment, go to
some doctor who will because doctors are two a
/enny, you $now#
1hile we are on the sub'ect of women3s com-
/laints, let us refer to that o/eration $nown as
hysterectomy# 9ow many women are having hysterec-
tomy without $nowing what it3s all about# Hysterec-
tomy is almost a status symbol with some women 'ust
the same as wearing these comic /lastic helmets is a
status symbol in ,anada or the &#*#)# Men who want
to be $nown as rugged he-men wear a silly little
/lastic helmet of varying colors to denote their grade
Asuch as building, scaffolding, digging ditches, or
gardening Eyes, even gardeners wear funny little hel-
mets over here@F
*o women, then, are using hysterectomy as a status
symbol# It3s the newest form of thing 'ust as /eo/le
had their tonsils out, then they had their a//endi8
out, now they are having their ovaries out# Many
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well@ Awill not bother about birth control, instead
they have hysterectomy, which is the removal of the
womb and ovaries, and then they 'ust can3t have any
babies any more# *o they can have as much se8 as they
want, and everything is quite safe#
It3s not as easy as all that# Hysterectomy is a very
bad thing indeed unless one has a very definite
disease# If your doctor tells you that you have a disease
and you need hysterectomy do not 'ust ta$e his word
for it, go and see another doctor and get his o/inion#
egrettably, it3s an easy matter to tell a woman to
have an o/eration# It doesn3t hurt the doctor and it
brings in some money, you $now, and doctors are
becoming more and more businessmen# They have to
live, they have to /ay for e8/ensive cars and establish-
ments, and if a woman is willing to /ay for an o/era-
tionAwell, it doesn3t hurt the doctor# %ou will under-
stand that I have no faith in these 1estern doctors#
Having had some e8/erience of them in ,anada I
thin$ they are nothing but glorified butchers# (ut
bac$ to our hysterectomy#
If it is quite essential for you to have the o/eration,
remember that it is in effect an artificial meno/ause,
an artificial change of life# %ou are not a useless cab-
bage after it# %ou can lead a /erfectly normal life,
and the only difference in your outloo$ is that you
cannot have babies any more# It is very very wrong,
though, for a young woman of, let us say, twenty-five
to thirty, to have hysterectomy as a form of birth
control, because a woman of forty or fifty has lived a
normal se8 life and her body and "verself have
become matured accordingly, (ut if before any matur-
ing occurs the drastic o/eration of hysterectomy ta$es
/lace, then the woman doesn3t have any of these
e8/eriences which come with /eriods, etc#, etc# If
9ature wanted women to have a change of life at
twenty-five years of age, 9ature would have arranged
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9ature 'ust for stu/id, idle, whims, but only when
there is gross disease which cannot be cured by other
means#
*o, ladies, if you have to have hysterectomy, act as if
you had had a serious o/eration and a change of life
at the same time because that3s what it is# emember
that with a normal, natural change of life the cessa-
tion of flow of various chemicals has ta$en /lace over
quite a length of time, but if you have had hysterec-
tomy then you get a quite drastic cessation of flow and
a difference of chemical out/ut# That is why some
women get a bit /eculiar! when they have had
hysterectomy# (ecause everything has been too drastic
and they did not $now what to e8/ect# 1hat to
e8/ect is thisJ you have to recover from the /hysical
shoc$ of the o/eration, and you have to get used to a
difference in your chemical com/osition# %ou have to
reali7e that for a time you will feel disorientated, lost,
unsure of yourself# %ou may be trembly, you may
have headaches, you may have vague /ains in the
lower /art of your body# (ut, if you will let them,
they will /ass and you can do normal things again#
%ou can en'oy se8, you can en'oy s/orts#
(ut it all de/ends u/on your attitude, u/on your
frame of mind, because as you thin$ so you are#
"ne of the big causes of hysterectomy, frigidity,
etc#, in womenAwell, a man wouldn3t have hysterec-
tomy, now, would he2@Ais that /arents of the old
school! often told their children horrible things about
se8# Mothers a few years ago taught their daughters
that se8 was terrible, horrible, des/icable, disgusting,
and 'ust about everything in that line with a result
that they /reconditioned the daughter to abhor se8,
/reconditioned the daughter to be the one res/ons-
ible for failure in marriage#
I $now a woman who was so utterly terrified about
se8 by her mother that although she is now in name a
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band3s body and he $nows the same about her# He is a
good natured fellow without any drive, without any
ambition, as one would e8/ect from the fore-
going, and these /eo/le live a life as e8citing as a
lettuce and a cabbage living together in the same
shelf of the free7er# I mentioned se8 once to this
woman, and she nearly threw a fit with embarrass-
ment, horror, and shoc$, and in my considered
o/inionAshe is 'ust about insane because of the fear of
se8# *he is always afraid of being ra/ed#
It is a tragic thing that mothers shall give daughters
such a wholly false idea about se8# (ut not only
mothers are to blame# Many /eo/le who claim to be
occultists tell others that se8 is unclean, se8 sto/s one
from /rogressing in occult studies# 9othing can be
further from the truth# There are certain /eo/le who
need se8, and there are others who do not# %ou can-
not class humans all in one bunch, what suits one
grou/ does not suit the other# )nd I state quite
definitely that there is no harm in se8, but only good,
/rovided the /ractitioners of the art are in love with
each other# If they are not in love then the se8 act is
nothing but elimination the same as other elimina-
tions of the body#
&nfortunately certain ,hurches, notably the
,atholic ,hurch, teach a lot of rot about se8# *o far as
I have been able to determine the ,atholic ,hurch
was started by a lot of old men who were scared stiff of
women, but they were not so scared of other men and
small boys@ That may shoc$ some, but if any of you
are shoc$ed then get down to a bit of study and find
out for yourself# If you have some money go along to
the ;atican, and if you can thin$ of a good enough
story you will be able to see some of the boo$s, history
boo$s, in the Libraries# )nd in connection with this it
amuses me immensely to $now that in the ;atican
there is the biggest collection of erotica, or /orno-
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)nd yet the ,atholics /reach against se8#
*e8 is normal, se8 is natural, se8 is utterly necessary
to some /eo/le, and anyhow what right has a ,atholic
/riest to dictate to other /eo/le2 How can a ,atholic
/riest, an unmarried man, tell a married woman what
she should or should not do2 He3s tal$ing about
things of which he $nows nothingAor should $now
nothing if he truly is a ,atholic /riest#
+erha/s we should start a cam/aign against breath-
ing, let us tell some of these ,atholic /riests that they
commit a mortal sin every time they draw a breath, or
every time they attend to the calls of 9ature# (y the
loo$ of some of them they don3t commit many mortal
sins, do they2 %ou3ll gather from this that I do not
li$e ,atholic /riests, and that is /erfectly correct, I
thin$ they are a bigoted lot# Instead of research to
find anything out about the (ible, to find out any-
thing about the .ounder of ,hristianity, they 'ust
swallow the (ible loc$, stoc$, and barrel# Ta$e that
old tale about )dam and Eve, the *er/ent and the
a//le0 well, according to Eastern Teachings the *er-
/ent becomes the male organ, and the a//le is the
container which holds the seed# )nd if you read some
of the (ible in the light of Eastern $nowledge you
will agree that there is quite a lot in the Eastern way
of thin$ing#
Moses was found in the bulrushes0 sure he
was found in the bulrushes# (ut he was /laced there
by the 4ardeners of the Earth, that is the /eo/le who
are $nown as &#.#"# /eo/le, to be found# )nd later
in life Moses ascended into the Mountain, Moses did
a lot of strange things# (ut if you re-read the relevant
cha/ters you will find that Moses ste//ed u/on a
terraced floor0 did he do that on a mountain, or did
he ste/ into a flying shi/, a &#.#"#2 Moses had a od
of +ower0 it wasn3t made on Earth, you $now, it was
made on another world# Moses was, in fact, another
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1e will deal more with that ty/e of thing in the
ne8t cha/ter, but I want to /ut on record that for
sheer bigotry and ignorance the oman ,atholic
/riest is hard to beat# I $now, I3ve met loads of them#
)nd I don3t li$e any of them@ I have tried to discuss
religion with them sensibly and with an honest desire
for $nowledge, but the ,atholic /riest always loses his
tem/er, fiddles with his collar, turns red, and bolts#
*o much for ,atholic /riests@
9ow, I get frequent letters from /eo/le who are
interested in drugs li$e L*-, mari'uana, /eyote, and
all the rest of the 'un$# ) sur/rising number of such
/eo/le write to me from /risons throughout the
&#*#)# They as$ me what I thin$ of L*-, what I
thin$ of mari'uana, and all the rest of it, and it might
be interesting to /ut my definite o/inion down hereJ
L*-, mari'uana, /eyote, and all these drugs are
terribly, terribly harmful to the "verself# If you want
to in'ure yourselfAwell, that3s your own choice, but
it is not a good thing to in'ure your "verself because
down here you are only one tenth conscious, so you
don3t $now what the other nine tenths want# -rugs of
this ty/e tangle the *ilver ,ord, ma$e de/ressions and
twists in the aura, and leave harmful scars on the
astral body# There is no sense whatever in in'uring
your body 'ust in search of fresh sensations which are
false sensations, anyhow# The only use for any of these
drugs is in the hands of qualified medical researchers
who can be assumed to $now what they are doing or
they wouldn3t be qualified medical researchers#
My advice isAand this advice never variesAstay
away from drugs# If you have to have medical atten-
tion requiring drugs, see your doctor# (ut don3t
meddle with drugs yourself, you will be doing more
harm than you can imagine /ossible# *oAthat brings
us on to another sub'ect#
Many /eo/le seem to thin$ that they are com-
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from a lady who was of the o/inion that she could not
ma$e any s/iritual /rogress, any occult /rogress, be
cause she had a /hysical infirmity# *he was most
distressed thin$ing that she had sinned greatly in hav-
ing a body that was not /erfect#
-o you $now, the really healthy /erson 'ust cannot
do any occult wor$ at all@ Loo$ at some of the foot-
ball /layers, the baseball /layers, and all those /eo/le
'ust loo$ at a /hotogra/h of them# They might be
lum/s of meat, but too many of them seem to be lac$-
ing in the to/ storey# <ust loo$ at those /hotogra/hs
of /o/ular /layers, and e8/ress your own o/inion@
Kuite seriously, though, I tell you that so far as I
am aware one has to have some infirmity before one
can be really /sychic# The 4reat "racle of Tibet was
a sic$ man, a very sic$ man indeed, and a very
accurate one in his /ro/hecies# If you dig down in
research you will find that all occultists who are
genuine have some /hysical disability which increases
their rate of vibration u/ to a /oint where they are
able to /erceive, either by clairvoyance or tele/athy
or some other way# That3s something for you to thin$
about# Many times a /erson has an infirmity or ill-
ness, not because he or she is wor$ing out $harma but
so that he or she can have the /ersonal vibration in-
creased to such an e8tent that higher frequencies may
be received, and occult /henomena may be e8/eri-
enced#
+eo/le write to me and say that I must have a
terrible $harma to wor$ out because I have had
coronary thrombosis, T#(#, and a few other com-
/laints, and because I have truly had such a terribly
hard life# (utAno, no it3s not wor$ing out $harma at
all, it is for the /ur/ose of doing a s/ecial tas$# *o
/lease do not write again telling me I must have been
very wic$ed in a /ast life or I would not have suffered
so much in this@ I $now what I was in a /ast life, I
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)nd I would get there a lot faster if there were more
/eo/le to hel/# I have tried to do a s/ecial research in
the matter of the human aura, I have tried to /roduce
a s/ecial device so that anyone can see the aura, but
always there is the question of money# If one tries to
get money for researchAthen one is automatically
sus/ect# I have tried to get /eo/le to study, but there
again /eo/le are scared stiff of being /arted from any-
thing between their shoes and their hat#
(ut I do assure youAno@ I am not wor$ing out
$harma# Instead I am doing a s/ecial tas$#
It is unfortunate that so much about human bodies
enters into that tas$ because always there is the
thought in /eo/les3 minds, "h@ He wants money@
"h, he wants se8@3 1ell, in the latter they are quite
wrong@ (ut it does give me an o//ortunity of saying
that the so-called /romiscuous 9orwegians, or *can-
dinavians, are quite right in their attitude towards
se8, quite right in their attitude towards the human
body# )fter all, ,hristians claim that the human body
is made in the image of 4od, and then they go and
s/oil everything by being afraid to show the image of
4od# The *candinavians are not li$e that, they are
more broadminded, as are quite a number of Euro-
/eans and, of course, the <a/anese# (ut )merican
/eo/le, or rather 9orth )merican /eo/le, are really
frightfully immature when it comes to human bodies
and se8# They don3t $now what love is, all they want
to do is sit in a convertible under the light of the moon
and 9E,=# They want to /o$e and /rod and squee7e,
and stir u/ all the emotions while denying 9ature the
last emotion of all# )nd in doing this nec$ing! stunt,
they build u/ frustration, misunderstanding, and un-
ha//iness# However, 9orth )merica is a young con-
tinent yet, and I loo$ u/on them as toddlers e8/eri-
menting with themselves and with others, and 'ust
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In ordinary se8, for instance, even with a married
cou/le who may be staying with their /arents, they
are afraid to ma$e love in case the /arents will hear@
1ell, good gracious me, if the /arents hadn3t done
the same thing sometime before there wouldn3t be
this married cou/le now, would there2 1hich brings
us bac$ to what I said before# There is nothing wrong
in se8, /rovided it is done with love# )nd the /eo/le
who /reach against se8 are /reaching against the
strongest thing in human life, and in my o/inion they
are 'ust crac$/ots#
I have 'ust received a letter which as$s me about
/eo/le who are dying# Is it true,! the letter as$s, that
/eo/le often smile when they are dying2! %es, they do#
)nyone who has had much to do with the very ill and
the dying can testify to this0 most /eo/le when they
are at the /oint of death smile and loo$ ha//y# They
loo$, in fact, as if they are 'ust being met by loved
onesAwhich is indeed the case@ 1hen your time
comes to leave this Earth, then, be of good cheer, for
you will be met, you will be hel/ed, and there is
nothing whatever to fear# "n the "ther *ide of this
life, at the "ther *ide of the curtain we call death!,
there is ha//iness, light, and 'oy# (ut wait for itA
wait for it# %ou cannot die before your time, and if
you try to you will get sla//ed bac$ here in worse
conditions# It3s worth waiting for, though, it is a very
/leasant e8/erience as soon as you have left this
Earth#
I have said quite a lot about doctors, said they are
two a /enny# %es@ The average sort of doctor nowa-
days is 'ust a businessman, he is out to get a living, he
is out to ma$e as much money as he can# *o if you
consider you have some illness which needs treatment
you should search around a bit and find a good
doctor, find the best general /ractitioner you can#
The general /ractitioner! differs from the s/ecialist
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ty/e of illness# %ou will hear re/orts of doctors if you will
ma$e enquiries, enquire of your friends, enquire
about a doctor at a sho/ or sho/s, and if you find you
cannot get on with the first doctor, well, good
gracious me there are /lenty of them# Try another@
%ou should be warned, though, that when you have
found a good general /ractitionerAhang on to him,
he3s worth his weight in gold and /latters of dia-
monds# 1hen you have your good general /racti-
tioner let him tell you if you need the services of a
s/ecialist# He $nows the human body, its functions,
and its malfunctions better than you do# *o get to
$now a good general /ractitioner, get to $now him
and trust him, tell him all your sym/toms#
9ever use your druggist as a /rescribing agency# )
druggist may be e8ce/tionally good as a druggist, but
he is not necessarily qualified to be a general /rac-
titioner# *o your doctor should be the one to diagnose
and the one to /rescribe, and the druggist is the one
who fills the /rescri/tion#
I am going to ma$e myself frightfully un/o/ular
here# I am going to advise you that if you are ill,
definitely your best choice is an orthodo8, common or
garden general /ractitioner# )void s/iritualistic
healers and others who do not have scientific training#
because, 'ust for a sim/le e8am/le, it is utterly easy to
hy/noti7e a /erson into believing that he does not
have such-and-such an illness or such-and-such a
sym/tom# %ou can cure! that illness, but unless you
$now enough about bodies and medicine to get down
to basics you can easily start u/ a far worse illness# (y
meddling with s/iritualistic stuff, or hy/notic healers
who do not have medical training, you can turn an
ordinary harmless lum/ into cancerous tissue# *o be
very sure that if you are ill you go to an orthodo8
general /ractitioner who has the necessary medical
training#
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s/ecialties, so for your reference let us mention 'ust a
few of the more common ones in al/habetical order#

)LLE4% is the study of altered reactions of the
body to certain substances#
)9E*THE*I"L"4% is the medical s/ecialty of
administering anesthetics, in other words, $ill-
ing the /ain#
-EM)T"L"4% deals with s$in diseases#
E9-",I9"L"4% relates to the study of the
glands and their internal secretions#
4)*T"E9TE"L"4% relates to stomach
and intestines#
HEM)T"L"4% is the science of the blood#
9E&"L"4% deals with the nervous system#

It3s hardly worth mentioning "bstetrics and
4ynecology or "/hthalmology, because everyone
$nows that the first is to deal with babies, etc#, or
rather their /roduction, the second with female
diseases in general, and "/hthalmology deals with eye
troubles#
The nurse in the hos/ital says E#9#T#! meaning
Ear, 9ose, and Throat# If she was correct or high-
brow, she would say, "tology, Laryngology, and
hinology!

+E-I)TI,* is the medical science of dealing
with children3s diseases#

)gain, anyone $nows what +hysiatry is, which is
not to be confused with +sychiatry# +hysiatry is the
science of /hysical reconditioning and rehabilita-
tion#
The +roctologist could almost get an advanced
9aval ran$, because un$ind /eo/le refer to the +roc-
tologist as the ear )dmiral! because he ins/ects the
rear# That is diseases of the anus and rectum#

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+*%,HI)T% is the science of mental diseases#
)-I"L"4% is H-ray wor$#
TH"),I, surgery is surgery within the chest
cavity#
&"L"4%-for our last one-which deals with
anything to do with the urogenital tract, that is the
$idneys, the bladder, and the se8 organs#

*o now you have some nice big words, and you
$now what your general /ractitioner means if he
should tell you or one of your friends that you should
see a *o-and-*o!#



























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,H)+TE ."&

THE night was cold, bitterly cold# "n the shrubs
across the road a thin layer of snow glistened and
s/ar$led, giving a ,hristmas ca$e effect to little /lants
and small a//le trees# .urther across a small garden
/atch, a heavy diesel locomotive chugged and roared
away as it waited for a distant signal to give the )ll
,lear! so that it could drag its long, long line of
freight cars on to 9ew %or$ carrying thousands of
new automobiles from -etroit, across ,anada, and
again into the &#*#)#
.urther u/ the hill a horrendous clamour eru/ted
u/on the shuddering air as a recorded carillon of bells
blasted from a modern church stee/le with such
volume that everything seemed to tremble and
crouch in fright# .rom the nearby hotel came the
sounds of late-night revelry as ti//lers celebrated or
bemoaned their luc$ that day at the local race-trac$#
1ell-$nown boo$ies were smiling with 'oy, for that
day there had been a $illing!# The tal$ came clearly,
the clatter of bottles and glasses was shar/ u/on the
night air, and the rattle and tin$le of the cash
registers were a continual reminder that someone, at
least, was en'oying /ros/erity#
)cross the long bridge s/anning the railroad trac$s
/eo/le returning from late duty in sho/s and factories
s/ed homeward in gay abandon, oblivious of the ris$
of /olice s/eed tra/s# .urther to the left a neon sign
blin$ed on and off, with mindless robotic regularity,

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tinging the snow, now blood red then green then red
again#
In the frosty air the stars shone hard and clear, not
a wis/ of cloud obscured the s$y, not a strand of
smo$e im/eded the light from the now rising moon#
The air was cris/, cris/, and almost tin$ling with a
layer of frost#
The old man, sitting motionless in the chea/ and
sha$y wheelchair, suddenly moved and /ushed the
window wide o/en# The chilly air was li$e a tonic,
li$e a breath of new life after the heat of the day, and
the old man was immune to the cold but could not
stand the heat# *itting in the wheelchair in his
/y'amas, for the night was advanced, he wheeled his
chair to a covered ob'ect beside the window# Ta$ing
off the cloth covering, revealed a /owerful telesco/e#
Kuic$ly /ushing it in /osition, he /re/ared to focus
on the little /oints of light such illimitable distance
away#
-o you want to free7e us all to death2! mildly
enquired a voice from another room#
This is not cold,! said the old man# Tonight I
thin$ we shall be able to see the ings of *aturn very
clearly# -o you want to come and loo$2!
.or a moment there was a rustling and a bustling,
and then, first a chin$, and then a growing amount of
light as a door was o/ened in bac$ of the old man3s
room# Mrs# "ld Man came through and shut the door
behind her# *he, /oor soul, was well wra//ed u/, and
even had a blan$et over an overcoat around her
shoulders# The old man bent over his telesco/e,
staring to focus in the general direction of the /lanet
*aturn#
*uddenly his attention was distracted by some-
thing# Kuic$ly moving the telesco/e he re-focused on
something, and tensed with rigid concentration#
1hat is it, what is it2! as$ed Mrs# "ld Man# Is it
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The old man sat silent, his fingers moving over the
focusing of the telesco/e# Kuic$, quic$,! he said, be
ready to /ut your eye here as soon as I move# This is
something you3ve wanted to see# eady2@!
%es@! said Mrs# "ld Man, and got ready to loo$ as
soon as the old man himself had got his head out of
the way# *he /eered through the telesco/e, u/ into the
night s$y, following the /ath of a long bar li$e a
dumb-bell, sliding across the s$y, a dumb-bell lit at
both ends, and between the two lights a whole series
of flic$ering, blin$ing, twin$ling, ever-changing
colours# *he breathed hard, I3ve never seen anything
li$e this@! she e8claimed# (ut then, as she loo$ed, the
ob'ect came close overhead, and with the telesco/e
she was loo$ing right u/ underneath# ) thing li$e a
door o/ened in the ob'ect, and from the door came a
number of bright vehicles, glistening globes# They
shot out of what was obviously a mother-shi/, and
then e8tinguished their lights and disa//eared in all
directions# The mother-shi/ then e8tinguished her
lights, hovered for a moment or two, and then shot
heavenwards and was seen in dar$ silhouette diminish-
ing in si7e against the bright night s$y#
The noise continued from the hotel# 9o one had
been disturbed# ,ars continued to s/eed across the
railroad bridge# The returning travelers were too
intent u/on their driving# In the cab of the great
diesel locomotive the engineer smo$ed his cigar and
read his news/a/er by the cab light, oblivious of the
great shi/ which was there for him, and for anyone
else, to see# To the left the mindless, robotic neon sign
changed from green to red to green and red again#
The world went about its business, loo$ing down at
the wor$s of Man, ignoring the strange things that
flew in the night s$ies as they had flown for centuries
/ast, and would fly for years to come until, in the end,
the /eo/le from s/ace decide to land on this Earth
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They have been here before, you $now# Earth is
li$e a colony,, Earth is a testing ground, a seeding
/lace where different ty/es are /ut together so that
the 4ardeners of */ace can see how they get on
together# -on3t believe all the rot about 4od being
dead# 4od is very much alive, and 4od is using this
Earth as a testing ground, and letting little humans
learn u/on Earth for the much greater things that
will ha//en in the life to come#
The little town, /erched slee/ily on the side of the
/lacid river, bas$ed in the late afternoon sun#
*ho//ers slowly meandered along the street, window-
ga7ing first, and then having a not too strenuous
mental fight that they should decide what could be
afforded and what could not#
The stores and the su/ermar$ets were not at all
crowded for this was a slac$ day in the sho//ing wee$,
but /eo/le wandered about more as an e8cuse to be
out in the sunshine#
-own by the coal wharf men were unenthusiastically
dealing with the self-unloader of a coal shi/ moored
alongside# There came the desultory and staccato noise
of a bulldo7er shoveling mounds of coal, ready to be
loaded into an endless stream of truc$s and ta$en to
great factories nearby#
<ust off the /ar$ing lot a mongrel dog of indefin-
able ancestry /awed lethargically among the refuse# )
well-aimed /otato caught him on the flan$ and he
rushed off howling, showing the only turn of s/eed
seen in the little town that day#
-own by the river3s edge some boys were /addling
Awithout ta$ing their shoes and soc$s off@ They had
an old wrec$ed boat, with the timbers rotten and
worm-eaten, and they were la7ily engaged in /lay
having to do with Morgan the +irate# "n the other
side of the street the man in the radio sho/ was 'ust
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blasting volume of sound which normally /oured
from that area#
*omeone, /ossibly a housewife, /ossibly a farmer
from further inland, ga7ed without curiosity u/ into
the s$y wondering, no doubt, if the weather would
$ee/ u/ so that the cro/s could be harvested# 4a7ed
u/-and fro7e into shoc$ed immobility# +assers-by
loo$ed at him for a moment, and smiled to them-
selves, then turned and loo$ed u/ into the s$y# They
too became shoc$ed# More and more /eo/le ga7ed u/
into the hot s$y, ga7ing, gesticulating, /ointing, a
babble of sound arose# ,ars screeched to a halt and
drivers and /assengers /oured out to loo$ u/wards#
.rom the river3s ban$ the boys sto//ed their /lay
and loo$ed u/# "ne tri//ed and fell bac$wards into
the water filling the old wrec$ed boat# %elling with
alarm, he lea/ed to his feet and he and his com-
/anions raced for the mar$et square with water
squelching from their shoes, and with the one boy
dri//ing water from the seat of his /ants#
) man dashed into a house, and was gone but a
moment before returning with a /air of binoculars#
.everishly he /ut them to his eyes and with trem-
bling fingers focused# The babble of tal$ increased#
Kuic$ly the glasses were snatched from him and
/assed from one /erson to another as they all ga7ed
u/#
High in the s$y, beyond the height at which
aircraft would fly, there hovered a large silver /ear-
sha/ed ob'ect, with the larger /art /ointing down
and the smaller /art /ointing u/# It hovered there,
huge and in some alien way, menacing# That3s not a
balloon@! said one man who had recently returned
from the )ir .orce# lf it was a balloon the larger /art
would be at the to/ instead of at the bottom#!
%es@! e8claimed another, )nd it would be drifting
with the wind# Loo$ at those high alto-stratus clouds
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The little town bu77ed with consternation and
s/eculation# High above, unmoving, inscrutable,
hovered the enigmatic ob'ect# 9ever varying in /osi-
tion, ma$ing no motion, no movement of any $ind#
*lowly the day came to a close with the ob'ect there as
though glued to a /icture of the heavens itself, there,
unmoving, unchanging# The moon came u/ and
shone across the countryside, and above in the moon-
light the ob'ect loitered# 1ith the first early dawn it
was still there# +eo/le who were /re/aring to go to
wor$ loo$ed out of their windows# The ob'ect was
still there as if a fi8ture, and then, suddenly, it
moved# .aster and faster it went, straight u/, straight
u/ into s/ace, and disa//eared#
%es, you $now, there are /eo/le in s/ace shi/s who
are watching this world# 1atching to see what ha/-
/ens# 1ell, why do they not come and tal$ to us li$e
sensible /eo/le would2! you may as$, but the only
re/ly is that they are being sensible# Humans try to
shoot them, and try in any way to harm these &#.#"#s,
and if the &#.#"#s, or rather the /eo/le within them,
have the intelligence to cross s/ace, then they have
the intelligence to ma$e a//aratus which can listen to
Earth radio and Earth television, and if they watch
Earth televisionAwell, then they will thin$ they have
come to some vast mental home, because what could
be more insane than the television /rogrammers which
are foisted on a suffering /ublic2 Television /ro-
grammes which glorify the unclean, which glorify the
criminal, which teach se8 in the wrong way, in the
worst /ossible way, which teach /eo/le that only self-
gain and se8 matters#
1ould you dive into a fish tan$ that you could
discuss things with some worms at the bottom of the
tan$2 "r would you go to a colony of ants laboring
in one of these glass tan$s designed to show the wor$
of the ants2 1ould you go in there and tal$ with ants,
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into some glass hothouse and tal$ to some e8/eri-
mental /lants, as$ them how they are doing, saying,
Ta$e me to your leader2! 9o@ %ou would watch and
if an ant bit you you3d say, */iteful little things,
aren3t they2! )nd be careful that you didn3t get bitten
in the future#
*o the /eo/le of s/ace, whose one-year-old children
would $now more than the wisest man on this Earth,
'ust watch over this colony#
) very few years ago I lived in Montevideo, the
ca/ital of &ruguay, a country which in *outh
)merica lies between )rgentina and (ra7il# Monte-
video is u/on the iver +late and shi/s of the world
/ass by going to io de <aneiro or to (uenos )ires, or
come into the +ort of Montevideo# .rom my ninth
floor a/artment I could loo$ out across the iver#
right out to the *outh )tlantic beyond the confines of
the iver# There were no obstacles, no obstructions,
to the view#
9ight after night my family and I used to watch
&#.#"#s coming from the direction of the *outh +ole
straight over our a/artment building, and coming
lower so that they could alight in the Matto 4rosso of
(ra7il# 9ight after night, with unvarying regularity,
these &#.#"#s came# They were seen not 'ust by us,
but by a multitude of /eo/le, and in )rgentina they
are officially recogni7ed as &n$nown .lying "b'ects#
The )rgentine 4overnment are well aware that these
things are not the /roduct of hysteria or a fevered
imagination, they are aware that &#.#"#s are of sur-
/assing reality#
The day we landed in (uenos )ires a &#.#"# came
in and actually alighted at the main air/ort# It stayed
for several minutes at the end of a runway, and then
too$ off at fantastic s/eed# I was about to say that all
this can be read in the /ress re/orts, but that is no
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alter things to suit themselves or to get more readers,
and I have no faith whatever in anything which is
/rinted in the daily /ress# *o, instead, I will say, that
this &#.#"# landing is the sub'ect of an )rgentinean
4overnment e/ort#
Having seen these &#.#"#s night after night, and
seen how they can change course and maneuver, I
state em/hatically that these were not satellites flash-
ing across the s$y# The times that satellites can be
seen varies, and is $nown to the minute0 the times
that we saw these other things were different, and in
addition we have also seen the satellites# The night
s$y of Montevideo is remar$ably clear, and I had a
very high-/ower telesco/e of the ty/e used by the
*wiss ,ustoms "fficials which ranged from forty mag-
nification u/ to three hundred and fifty#
This world is under observation, but we need not
be u/set by that# It is sad indeed that so many /eo/le
always fear that those who observe wish to do harm#
They do not, they wish to do good# emember that
there are ages and ages going bac$ into history, and
various civili7ations and cultures have a//eared and
disa//eared almost without trace# emember the
civili7ation of Lemuria, and the great civili7ation of
Minoa# 1ho has been able to e8/lain the enigmatic
statues of Easter Island2 %es, someone once tried to
and wrote a sort of a boo$ about it, but it3s not
necessarily accurate, you $now# "r, if you want to go
to another stage, how about the Maya /eo/le2 ,an
anyone say what ha//ened to the Mayan civilisa-
tion2
Each of these civili7ations was a fresh culture
/laced u/on the Earth to liven u/ stoc$ which had
become dull and, what I can only term, denatured!#
There is also a very, very ancient theory, or legend,
that countless years ago a s/ace shi/ came to this
Earth and something went wrong with the shi/, it
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women, and children, were marooned here, and they
started another form of civili7ation#
It is e8tremely fortunate that the Hebrew boo$s of
the "ld Testament had been translated into 4ree$
long before ,hristians came u/on the scene, because
the early ,hristians, 'ust li$e the /resent-day ones,
tried to alter things to their own gain# 1e can, then,
find out a lot about ancient history from the Hebrew
(oo$s which have not been tam/ered with by ,hris-
trinity, but even they leave us uninformed about the
Mayas, the Easter Islands, and the Etruscans# These
were civili7ations which flourished more than B???
years (#,# 1e can $now that because Egy/tian hiero-
gly/hs can be traced bac$ to the year B,??? (#,#, and
some of these, traced u/on tem/le walls and in tombs,
give information about earlier and very great civilisa-
tions# &nfortunately around about two hundred years
after the start of ,hristianity $nowledge of much of
this had been lost because of the manner in which
,hristians altered history to suit themselves, and be-
cause, with the rise in /ower of ,hristianity, Egy/tian
tem/les were closed down and no longer were there
educated /riests who could understand the hiero-
gly/hs# )nd so for several hundred years history re-
mained in dar$ness#
Later research indicates that many thousands of
years ago a great ace suddenly a//eared in the
Land of the Two ivers!# These /eo/le, now $nown
to us as the *umerians, have left little of their re-
corded history# )ctually, according to the )$ashic
ecord, the 4ardeners of the Earth decided that the
stoc$! on Earth was becoming wea$ened by inbreed-
ing, and so they /laced u/on the Earth others who
also had to learn# These others are $nown to us as the
*umerians, and a /articular branch of the *umerians
Aalmost li$e a familyAbecame the *emites, and they
in their turn became the earliest form of Hebrews#
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The =ingdom of *umeria was a truly mighty
$ingdom, and brought to this Earth many advance-
ments in culture and science, and many different
/lants# ,ertain branches of the *umerian culture left
the founding city and moved to Meso/otamia in
round about the year 6??? (#,# In addition they bred
and gradually /o/ulated areas of high culture# It is
interesting to $now that when )braham moved with
his herds from the ,ity of &r in Meso/otamia and
went to +alestine, he and those with him brought
legends which had been family history for thousands
of years# They brought with them stories of the
4arden of Eden, a land which lay between the Tigris
and the Eu/hrates# This had been the common
ground of many, many tribes and /eo/le who had
been e8/andingAas their /o/ulations increasedA
over what is $nown as the Middle East# Eden!, by the
way, actually means a /lain!# The (oo$ of 4enesis
was merely a digest of stories which had been told by
the /eo/le of Meso/otamia for several thousand years#
Eventually civili7ations became absorbed# *o it was
that the *umerian civili7ation, having leavened the
stoc$ of Earth became absorbed and lost within the
great mass of Earth /eo/le# )nd so, in different /arts
of the world and in different times, other leavening
cultures! had to be set down, such as the Etruscans,
the Minoans, the Mayas, and the Easter Island
/eo/le#
)ccording to the old legends the Twelve Tribes of
Israel do not altogether refer to the /eo/le of Earth,
but instead mean one tribe which was the original
/eo/le of the Earth, and the eleven tribes!, or cul-
tures, which were /ut down here to leaven the
original which was becoming wea$ened by inbreed-
ing#
,onsider, for your own amusement, various tribes#
the blac$ /eo/le, the yellow /eo/le, the white /eo/le,
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Earth inhabitant and which are descended from the
Mayas, the *umerians, the Etruscans, and others2 It
ma$es interesting s/eculation# (ut there is no need to
s/eculate because, I tell you very seriously, that if you
will /ractice what I have tried to show you in all my
boo$s, you can do astral travel# )nd if you can do
astral travel you can $now what is ha//ening, and
what has ha//ened, through the )$ashic ecord#
The )$ashic ecord is no television show where we
are interru/ted by a few words from our s/onsor!0
here we have the utter truth, here we have absolute
e8actitude# History as it was, not as it was re-written
to suit some dictator who did not li$e the truth of his
early life, for e8am/le#
(y visiting the Hall of the )$ashic ecord you can
find the truth about the -ead *ea *crolls, those
*crolls which were found in >:6G in certain caves by
the -ead *ea in a district called Kumran# This
collection of *crolls belonged to a certain "rder of
<ews who, in many ways, resembled ,hristians# They
had a man at the head who was $nown as the Teacher
of the ightful 1ay# He was $nown as the *uffering
*on of 4od, who was born to suffer and did for
humanity# )ccording to the *crolls He had been
tortured and crucified, but would rise again#
9ow, you might thin$ that this refers to the Leader
of ,hristianity, <esus# (ut this Teacher of the ightful
1ay lived at least a hundred and fifty years before
<esus came to the Earth# The evidence is definite, the
evidence is absolutely /recise# The *crolls themselves
were /art of a Library of this /articular <ewish sect,
and the Library had been endangered by the
omans, and some of the <ewish mon$s had hidden
certain *crolls, /robably the only ones that they had
time to save#
There are various ways in which science can de-
termine the age of any re/utably antique ob'ect, and
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the tests indicate that they are about five hundred
years older than ,hristianity# There is no /ossibility
that they were written after the advent of ,hris-
tianity# It follows from this that it would /ay to have
a really sound investigation into the (ible and all
religious /a/ers, because the (ible has been trans-
lated and re-translated many, many times, and even
to the e8/erts many of the things in the (ible cannot
be e8/lained# If only one could overcome religious
bias, religious /re'udice, and discuss things o/enly,
one could get down to basic facts and the history of
the world could be set right# There is, I re/eat, a good
way, and that is to consult the )$ashic ecord# 9ow,
it is /ossible for you to do this if you first become
/roficient in astral travel, but if anyone tells you that
he or she will go into the astral for you and loo$ at the
)$ashic ecord /rovided you /ay him or her a
certain sum of money, consider him to be a fa$e,
because these things are not done for money#
I ho/e I have said enough in this cha/ter to
indicate that the &#.#"#s are real, and they are not a
menace to anyone on this Earth# The &#.#"#s are
merely the 4ardeners of the Earth who come here
from time to time to see what is ha//ening to their
stoc$, and they have been here so much more fre-
quently, and in much greater numbers recently be-
cause man$ind has been /laying around with atomic
bombs, and ris$ing blowing u/ the whole dum/#
1hat a terrible commotion there has been about
&#.#"#s, hasn3t there2 %et, &#.#"#s are mentioned
very e8tensively in the 4ree$ Legends and in the
eligious (oo$s of many different forms of religious
belief# In the (ible &#.#"#s are mentioned, and there
are many re/orts in ancient monasteries, such as,
1hen the mon$s were sat down to lunch at midday,
having their first meal of meat for many wee$s, a
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&#.#"#s have been showing increasing activity dur-
ing the /ast fifty or si8ty years because the /eo/le of
Earth have been showing increased hostility towards
each other0 thin$ of the first 4reat 1ar, thin$ of the
second 4reat 1ar in which /ilots of all nations saw
what they called .oo .ighters!, which were indis-
/utably &#.#"#s watching the /rogress of battles#
Then ta$e the matter of airline /ilots# It doesn3t
matter which airline, it doesn3t matter which country,
because airline /ilots all over the world have seen
many strange and even /ossibly frightening &#.#"#s#
They have tal$ed about it e8tensively, too, but in
many 1estern countries there is a heavy censorshi/
about such things# .ortunate it is, too, or the /ress,
with their usual distortion, would twist everything u/
and ma$e the harmless into something horrendous#
It has usually been said, "h, well, if there arc
&#.#"#s why have not astronomers seen them2! The
answer is that astronomers have seen them, and have
/hotogra/hed them, but again there is such a censor-
shi/ that /eo/le in /rominent /ositions are afraid to
tal$ about things they have seen# They are afraid to
tal$ for fear of getting into trouble with the athori-
ties who do not want the truth $nown# They are
afraid to tal$ because they fear that their /rofessional
integrity will seem to be in doubt, for /eo/le who
have not seen &#.#"#s are e8tremely virulent in their
hatred for those who have#
*o the /ilots who fly the airlines, whether in a
commercial ca/acity or in connection with the armed
forces, have seen and will continue to see &#.#"#s but
until the moronic governments of the world enlarge
their attitudes, not much will be heard of those
sightings# The )rgentine 4overnment is surely one of
the most enlightened in that they officially recogni7e
the e8istence of &#.#"#s# They were, in fact, the first
country in the world to recogni7e &#.#"#s as actuali-
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information for various reasons# In the first case, the
,hristian belief seems to be that Man is made in the
image of 4od, and, as nothing is greater than 4od
nothing can be greater than Man who is made in the
image of 4od# )nd so if there is some sort of creature
who can ma$e a s/ace shi/ which can go through
s/ace, visiting different worlds, then that must be
hushed u/ because the creature may not be in the
sha/e of Man# It3s all distorted reasoning, but things
will change in the not too distant future#
Then the military clique cannot ac$nowledge the
e8istence of &#.#"#s because to do so would be to
admit that there is something more /owerful than the
military clique# The ussian dictators, for e8am/le,
could not admit the e8istence of these &#.#"#s be-
cause to do so would lessen their own stature in the
eyes of their /eo/le# 9ow all the good little ,ommies
Aif there are any good ,ommiesAthin$ that the
leaders in Moscow are omni/otent, infallible, and the
most wondrous things that ever a//eared on Earth# *o
if a little green man, three or four feet high, should
be able to travel from world to world, and not all the
resources of the great Moscow leaders could shoot
down the little green man, then it would show that
the little green man is more im/ortant than the
,ommunist /owers, and that would never do for the
,ommunists# *o, everything about &#.#"#s is banned#
+eo/le also say that if there were &#.#"#s, the
astronauts or cosmonauts or whatever they call them-
selves would have seen them# (ut that3s not at all
accurate, you $now0 consider thisAthese fellows who
have been in s/ace have 'ust been u/ a bit higher
than any other humans on Earth# They have not
really been in s/ace, they have 'ust been in a rarefied
atmos/here# They are not in s/ace until they go
behind the ;an )llen belts of radiation, and they are
not truly in s/ace until they have gone to the Moon
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&#.#"#s because if there had been the s/ace men
would have seen them, is much the same as saying, as
you ga7e out on the ocean, that there are no fish in the
ocean, if there were you could see them@ %ou get
chilly loo$ing fellows who sit by the side of the sea for
hours trying to catch a fish# It3s a full-time 'ob with
themAtrying to catch a fish# )nd yet there are
millions of fish in the sea# They are hard to see,
though, aren3t they, if you 'ust ta$e a glim/se at the
ocean2 In the same way, if you are shot u/ into the
rarefied atmos/here a hundred or so miles above the
surface of the Earth, and you loo$ out of a little hole
in your tin canAwell, you don3t see a whole /roces-
sion of &#.#"#s# .or one thing you are too uncomfort-
able, and secondly you don3t have much of a view
there#
(ut wait a minute, though# If you have listened-in
to the astronauts radioing bac$ to Earth you will have
heard, or remembered that there have been references
to these &#.#"#s seen by astronauts, but in all future
re-/lays that reference has been carefully censored
and deleted# The astronaut in the enthusiasm of the
moment has mentioned &#.#"#s# )nd also mentioned
/hotogra/hing &#.#"#s, and yet in all later re/orts
such references have been denied#
It seems, then, that we are u/ against quite a bad
/lot, a /lot to conceal a $nowledge of what circles the
Earth# ) /lot to conceal the very real e8istence of
&#.#"#s# In the /ress and in various /seudo-scientific
'ournals there have been references to &#.#"#s in the
most scary terms, how wic$ed these things are, how
dangerous, and how they do this or that# )nd how
they have got a tremendous /lot to ta$e over the
Earth# -on3t believe a word of it@ If the &#.#"#
/eo/le had wanted to ta$e over the Earth they could
have done it centuries ago# The whole /oint is, they
are afraid that they will have to ta$e over the Earth
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ing too much hard atomic radiation#
These s/acemen are the 4ardeners of the Earth#
They are trying to save the Earth from the Earth
/eo/leAand what a time they are having@ There are
re/orts of many different ty/es of &#.#"#s# 1ell, of
course there are@ There are many different ty/es of
aircraft u/on the Earth# %ou can, for e8am/le, have a
glider without any engine# %ou can have a mono/lane
or a bi/lane# %ou can have a one-seater aircraft or a
two-hundred-/lus-seater aircraft, and if you don3t
want noisy aircraft then /resumably you could get a
s/herical gas balloon or one of those very interesting
things made by 4oodyear# *o, if you had a /rocession
of these contra/tions flying over dar$est )frica, the
/eo/le there would be most ama7ed at the variety,
and would no doubt thin$ that they came from
different cultures# In the same way, because some
s/ace craft are round, or elli/se sha/ed, or cigar
sha/ed, or dumb-bell sha/ed, the uninformed /erson
thin$s they must come from different /lanets# +os-
sibly some of them do, but it doesn3t matter in the
slightest because they are not belligerent, they are not
hostile# They are manned by quite benevolent
/eo/le#
Most of these &#.#"#s are of the same /olarity! as
the /eo/le of the Earth, and so they can, if they wish,
alight on the surface of the Earth or dive beneath the
surface of the sea# (ut another ty/e of &#.#"# comes
from the negative! side and cannot come close to the
EarthA/erha/s I should say cannot come close to the
Earth3s surfaceAwithout disintegrating in a violent
e8/losion with a tremendous cla/ of thunder, because
these /articular &#.#"#s come from the world of anti-
matter# That is, the o//osite ty/e of world from this#
Everything, you $now, has its equal and o//osite#
%ou can say that there is a se8 thing in /lanets, one is
male and the other is female, one is /ositive and the
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matter# *o when you get re/orts of a tremendous
e8/losion or see a vast fireball /lunging to Earth and
e8cavating a huge crater, you may guess that a &#.#"#
from an anti-matter world has come here and
crashed#
There have been re/orts of so-called hostile! acts
by &#.#"#s# +eo/le, we are told, have been $id-
na//ed# (ut do we have any /roof whatever that any-
one has really been harmed2 )fter all, if you have a
Ooo and you want to e8amine a s/ecimen, you /ic$ u/
a s/ecimen and bear it away# %ou e8amine it# %ou
might test its blood, you may test its breath content,
you could H-ray it and weigh it and measure it# 9o
doubt all those things would a//ear to be very
frightening and very tormenting to the ignorant
animal involved# (ut the animal, when carefully
re/laced, is none the worse for this weighing and
measuring, none the worse at all# In the same way, a
gardener can e8amine a /lant# He doesn3t hurt the
/lant, he is not there to hurt /lants, he is there to
ma$e them grow, ma$e them better# *o he e8amines
the /lant to see what can be done to im/rove it# In
the same way the 4ardeners of the Earth occasionally
/ic$ u/ a s/ecimen, a man or a woman# 1ell, all
right, so they measure a human, e8amine him or her,
do a few tests, and then /ut the human bac$ into the
human surroundings# )nd he or she is none the worse
off for it, it3s only because they are scared silly that
they thin$ they are any the worse off# &sually# they are
so frightened that they concoct the most horrible tales
about what ha//ened to them, when, actually, no-
thing unusual whatever ha//ened#
This world is being watched, and it has been
watched since long, long before the dinosaurs thun-
dered across the face of this Earth# The world is being
watched, and it will be watched for quite a time, and
eventually the /eo/le of s/ace will come down here#
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volent teachers or guides# ;arious countries now send
what they call a +eace ,or/s to what are alleged to be
under-develo/ed countries# These +eace ,or/s /eo/le
Awho usually are in need of some form of e8cite-
ment, or they can3t get some other ty/e of 'obAgo out
into 'ungles and teach bac$ward! /eo/le the things
which they really do not need to $now# Things which
give them false ideas and false values# They get shown
a film of /erha/s some film star3s marvelous /alace in
Hollywood and then they all get the idea that if they
become ,hristians, or +eace ,or/s +atrons, they also
will have such a marvelous edifice in which to live,
com/lete with swimming /ool and na$ed dancing
girls#
1hen the /eo/le from s/ace come here they will
not behave li$e that# They will show /eo/le by
e8am/le how they should go on, show them that wars
are not necessary, show them a true religion which
can be e8/ressed in the words, -o as you would be
done by#!
(efore much longer governments of the world will
have to tell the truth about &#.#"#s, will have to tell
about /eo/les from outer s/ace# They $now already,
but they really are scared to let the /ublic $now# (ut
the sooner they do let the /ublic $now, the sooner it
will be /ossible to ad'ust, to /re/are, and to avoid any
untoward incidents when our 4ardeners return to
this world# +eo/le write to me about the so-called
Men in (lac$!# 1ell, that is news/a/er, or 'ournal-
istic license# It 'ust means that there are outer s/ace
/eo/le here u/on the Earth observing, recording, and
/lanning# They are not here to cause trouble for any-
one# They are here so that they may gain information
with which they can best /lan how to hel/ the /eo/le
of the Earth# &nfortunately too many Earth /eo/le
react li$e mad animals, and if they thin$ they are
being attac$ed they go berser$# If one of these Men
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attac$ed, then obviously he has to defend himself# (ut
unfortunately his defense is often distorted to a//ear
to be an original attac$ when it3s nothing of the
sortJ
There are many ty/es of &#.#"#s# There are many
sha/es and si7es of /eo/le within those &#.#"#s, but
these /eo/le share one thing in common0 they have
lived a long time, longer than the /eo/le of Earth, and
they have learned much# They have learned that
warfare is childishness# They have learned that it is
far better for /eo/le to get on together without all the
quarrelling# They have learned that Earth has a//ar-
ently gone mad, and they want to do something to
bring the /eo/le of Earth bac$ to sanity, and to sto/
e8cessive atomic radiation# )nd if they cannot sto/
that /eacefully, then Earth will have to be in quaran-
tine for centuries to come, and that would hold u/
the s/iritual develo/ment of great masses of /eo/le
here#
*o, in conclusion, do not fear &#.#"#s, for there is
nothing to fear# Instead, o/en your mind to the $now-
ledge that before too long the /eo/le of this Earth
will have visitors from s/ace who will not be bel-
ligerent but who will try to hel/ us as we should hel/
others#














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,H)+TE .I;E

I. you could see the letters I receive, and $ee/ on
seeing them over more than a decade, you would
come to one inesca/able conclusion0 readers are queer
/eo/le@ 9ot you of course, but all the other readers
or rather some of them, because some are very, very
nice indeed#
"ne constant ty/e of comment I get is that I should
send more co/ies of my boo$s free to +ublic Libraries#
+eo/le write in and tell me they cannot afford the
/rice for my /a/erbac$ boo$s, and they can only read,
they tell me, if I su//ly them free to Libraries#
1ell, I am not much in favour of that idea# )n
)uthor ma$es his only living from royalties on boo$s#
If I write a boo$ I get ten /er cent of the /rofit, ten
/er cent in some countries, seven /er cent in others,
and always on the lowest selling /rice# If a boo$ is
sent from EnglandAwhere it is very low /ricedAto
)merica, where it has to bear the cost of carriage, etc#,
I do not get the royalties on the higher )merican
/rice# I get the royalties on the lower English /riceA
royalties on the /rofit, mind you, after all e8/enses
have been ta$en off by the +ublisher# I also have to
/ay an )gent, or two )gents, and sometimes from my
ten /er cent I have to /ay twenty /er cent in )gent3s
fees# Then there are ta8es, and an )uthor, all too
frequently, encounters double ta8ation# That is, he
/ays full ta8 in one country, and then has to /ay ta8
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me, that $noc$s all the gilt off the gingerbread, and
you end u/ with hardly any bread! at all#
In addition I have to /ay quite a lot of other
ThingsAstationery, envelo/es, stam/s# )nd let mc
remind you, also, that an )uthor who answers letters
is the worst /aid man in the world# ) buc$ navvy who
leisurely digs a hole in a road is /aid for his wor$, he
is /aid for his time# ) lawyer is /aid for his time and
his s$ill, so is a doctor# (ut /eo/le write to an )uthor,
actually demanding this or that service, or this or that
gift, and nine times out of ten they do not even en-
close return /ostage# If they do it is all too frequently
/ostage from another country# .or e8am/le, /eo/le in
)merica who send stam/ed addressed envelo/es, /ut
)merican stam/s on which, of course, cannot be used
in a *overeign *tate such as ,anada# *o what is one to
do then2 +ay the cost of the stationary, the /rinting of
the letter heading2 *ome letters have to be ty/ed0
that again costs money# )nd the /ostage has to be
met# *o, as you will agree, /eo/le write to an )uthor
and e8/ect all for nothing# I actually had a /erson
write to me and tell me that he had bought one of my
boo$s0 as such he was entitled to my whole services
he told me# He said that he had read in the bac$ of
the boo$ that I was as$ing /eo/le to write to me# It
never entered his head that I was as$ing /eo/le 9"T
to write to me@
)s an )uthor I de/end u/on royalties, and if
/eo/le borrow boo$s from the +ublic Library I do
not get any /ayment# )nd yet the ones who borrow
from a +ublic Library are the ones who are most
demanding in their questions and requirements# I
have had a /erson write to me and tell me that she
had read one of my boo$s, and you may now send me
com/limentary autogra/hed co/ies of all your boo$s,
and I want an autogra/hed /hotogra/h of you!# 1hat
would you re/ly to that, dear eader2
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highly amused at the behavior of a little grou/ of
/eo/le in )delaide, )ustralia# I call them the )/es
of )delaide!# These are a little gang who have been in
trouble, it seems, with the /olice# 9ow I had someone
write to me, telling me various things in confidence,
and as$ing did I recommend these /eo/le# I wrote
bac$ and said, 9o, I did not# *ince then I have had
do7ens of obscene letters from these /eo/le, and every
so often I get, /erha/s, nine or ten which say, I
hereby disconnect from you#! It stri$es me as rather
amusing because we have never been connected, so
how can one disconnect that which has never been
connected2 I am informed that this gang have a re-
quirement now that anyone who 'oins them E/oor un-
fortunate soul@F has to /ut a name, any name, to one
of these /re-ty/ed sli/s and mail it off to me# 1ell, it3s
good for the /ostal authorities# It3s also very good for
the /olice, because I mail the whole lot bac$ to the
/olice at )delaide, com/lete with the envelo/es, so
they can $ee/ a file of these names and the hand-
writing, as those /olice have informed me they are
investigating this little gang# I await develo/ments
with the greatest of interest# *oA)/es of )delaideAI
send you my greetings, and I am still /u77led how we
can be disconnected when we have never been con-
nected#
)nother /erson in ;ancouver wrote to a friend of
his Ewho /rom/tly informed me@F saying that Lob-
sang am/a could not be genuine because in one of
his boo$s he says he does not li$e the Irish ta8 col-
lector@!
%et another from ;ancouver heard that I was /oor,
very /oor, and this good lady /rom/tly said that I was
obviously a fa$e if I was /oor, because if I was
genuine money would come to me and I would be a
millionaire# It did not occur to her, a//arently, that
there are some things more valuable than gold or
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because a /erson who really can hel/ others in the
occult does not ma$e a charge, he does not /ut things
on a commercial basis# If /eo/le want to ma$e a gift
of money to hel/ outAwell, that is acce/table, but
such /eo/le are rarer than hen3s teeth#
There are com/ensations, though# There are very
many nice /eo/le who write# I have had a letter tell-
ing me that a noted *eer! is of the o/inion, and has so
stated /ublicly, that Lobsang am/a has done more
for the occult world than any other /erson on or off
the Earth!# Kuite a nice com/liment, eh2 ,ertainly it
is one which I very greatly a//reciate because, what-
ever some /eo/le thin$, I am trying to do a 'ob in
hel/ing others $now what all this is about, in this life
and after this life#
%es, there are com/ensations, there are good
/eo/le# More than a decade ago, when I first came to
,anada, I had a letter from a woman and by /sycho-
metry I 'udged that this was a nice /erson and
genuine# *he as$ed if she could come and see me#
1ell, at that time I had a carAnow I have a wheel-
chair, and I can3t afford a carAso I decided that I
would drive to her house and 'ust give her a sur/rise#
I did so, and I found a very nice woman indeed# Mrs#
;aleria *oroc$# -uring the /ast ten years the friend-
shi/ and /ersonal li$ing between her and my family
and I has grown to its /resent stage that she is
acce/ted, not 'ust as a friend, not 'ust as someone who
writes, but as one of the family# *he writes, but we
have met her on very many occasions, and wherever
we have lived in ,anada she has visited us# *he even
visited us when we were in Montevideo, in the
country of &ruguay#
Last night I had a really long-distance call from
Mrs#;aleria *oroc$, a tele/hone call because those
unmentionable mail men are on stri$e here in
,anada# *o Mrs# *oroc$ made this tele/hone call, and
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li$e to have a few questions answered# *o I wrote
down her questions and I told her that I would
answer her in this boo$ if she agreed to have her
name as the one as$ing the questions# (y the way,
Mrs# *oroc$ is the /erfectionist in English who shud-
ders so violently when she reads my distorted form of
/rose, and sometimes when she /eruses /roofs and
sees grammatical errorsAwell, she turns /ositively
/ale@ (ut now, let us send a greeting to Mrs# ;aleria
*oroc$ and deal with her questions#
The first question a isJ How can one overcome
fear2!
.ear2 %ou must $now what you fear# 1hat do you
fear2 -o you fear the &n$nown2 &ntil you $now
what it is that you fear you cannot do anything about
it# .ear is a harmful thing, it is a shameful thing, it is
a thing which stultifies /rogress# How to overcome
fear0 the best way is to thin$ of that thing which you
fear# Thin$ about it from all angles# 1hat is it2 1hy
should it affect you2 1hat do you thin$ it can do to
you2 Is it going to in'ure you /hysically2 Is it going
to in'ure you financially2 1ill it matter in fifty year3s
time2
If you carefully analy7e your feelings, if you care-
fully go into the sub'ect of this 1hy-do-I-fear2! you
will surely come to reali7e that there is nothing to
fear# I have yet to find anything which can ma$e one
fear if one really goes into the matter#
-o you fear the /olice, or our old enemy the Ta8
,ollector2 -o you fear things in the astral world2
1ell, there3s no need to because I state most
definitely that if you analy7e this ob'ect, or this con-
diction, or this circumstance which causes you to
e8/erience fear, you will see that it is a harmless thing
after all#
-o you fear /overty2 Then what do you fear2 Ta$e
it out of its dar$ closet# Is it your s$eleton in the
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the /roblem from all angles# %ou will find that fear
vanishes, and always remember that if you do not
fear, then nothing in this world or off this world can
harm you# )nd believe me when I say that /eo/le off
this world are a lot $inder than the /eo/le on this
world#
9ow, we come to the second question, which isJ
How does one $now when one is doing right2!
Every /erson, every entity on this world or off this
world has a built-in !censor!, a /art of the mind which
enables a /erson to $now if he or she is doing right# If
a /erson gets drun$ or under the influence of drugs,
the censor is tem/orarily stunned, and the behavior
of a /erson who is drun$ or is under the influence of
drugs can be very bad, and can be far worse than
would be the case if the /erson3s /ersonal censor was
in wor$ing order#
%ou can always tell when you are doing right# %ou
feel right# If you are doing wrong, then you have an
uneasy feeling that something is not as it should be#
The best way to be sure of $nowing if you are doing
right or doing wrong is to /ractice meditation# If you
wra/ yourself in your meditation robe you insulate
yourself from the rest of the world, and your astral
form can become disengaged from outside influence
and can give you enlightenment direct from the
"verself# If you meditate, you see, it3s not 'ust a lum/
of /roto/lasm giving you ideas0 when you meditate
you actually receive confirmation of your good or bad
from your "verself# )nd so I say to youAif you are in
doubt, meditate, and then you will $now the truth#
Mrs# *oroc$, now you have as$ed me something@
%ou as$, How can one develo/ E8tra *ensory
+owers2!
1ell, sad to say some /eo/le never do# <ust the
same as some /eo/le can never /aint a /icture, some
/eo/le cannot sing a songAor if they do they are soon
told to shut u/@ *ome /eo/le cannot do E#*#+# be-

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cause they are so sure that they cannot do E#*#+# (ut
if one is willing to try, E#*#+# is easy# %ou cannot
normally do the whole bunch, you $now0 tele$inesis,
tele/athy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, /sychometry,
and the whole lot# If you3ve been trained in E#*#+#
from your seventh year u/, then you can do it#
(ut, assume now that you want to learn to do some
form of E#*#+# 1e have to s/ecify something, so let us
say /sychometry is your choice# %ou are an8ious to
/ractice /sychometry# 1ell, you have to have e8er-
cises 'ust as if you are learning to /lay the /iano, you
/ractice the scales, and you go on /racticing those silly
scales day after day, wee$ after wee$# )nd even when
you are an accom/lished musician, you still have to
/ractice scales#
Let us get bac$, though, to this /sychometry# %ou
want to learn /sychometry so the best thing to do is to
have a wee$ or two 'ust saying to yourself in a /ositive
manner that you )E going to be /roficient at /sycho-
metry Eor clairvoyance or clairaudience, or whatever
it is you wishF# %ou visuali7e yourself /utting your
hand usually the left hand, on an ob'ect, and you
visuali7e yourself getting a clear /icture, or a clear
im/ression about that ob'ect#
.or one or two wee$s, then, you fill your wa$ing
hours with thoughts that you are definitely going to do
this# Then, after /erha/s fourteen days, you wait
until the mailman has been, and you ta$e a letter
which he has delivered, and you 'ust gently rest your
left hand u/on itAbefore you o/en it, of course# est
your left hand u/on it# ,lose your eyes, and sit in any
rela8ed /osition# Let yourself imagine Elater it will
really be soF that you can feel some strange influence
coming out from the envelo/e and tic$ling the /alm
of your hand and your fingers#
(y this time you should be getting some sort of
sensation in your left hand# 1ell, 'ust try to let your
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get# .irst it will be crude, it will be utterly rudi-
mentary# %ou can classify the letter as good! or bad!#
%ou can classify it as friendly! or unfriendly!# Then
o/en your letter and read it, and see if your im/res-
sion was correct# If you were correct then you will
succeed ra/idly, because nothing succeeds li$e success#
.irst of all try with 'ust this one letter, that is on
one day# 9e8t day try two or three letters, or, if you
wish, stic$ to one only, but this time try to feel! what
the letter is about# +ersevere with it, and as you
succeed you will go on to much better things#
1hen you are /roficient in /sychometryAand it
only ta$es /racticeAyou will be able to actually
visuali7e, or even actually see the /erson who wrote
the letter, and you will $now the gist of it without
o/ening the envelo/e# It is a sim/le matter, and it
merely needs /ractice# If you are learning to touch-
ty/e and you /ee$ at the $eys, you are /utting
yourself bac$# %ou have to learn to ty/e without
loo$ing at the $eys, and as you ma$e /rogress and hit
the right $eys in the right sequence, you get con-
fidence and you can go faster# It3s the same with
/sychometry0 as you ma$e correct guesses!, which are
really correct im/ressions, it strengthens your con-
fidence, and with strengthened confidence you find
that you are /rogressing faster and faster and becom-
ing more and more accurate, and more and more
detailed# It is hard wor$, though, you have to /ractice,
and /ractice, and /ractice# )nd you have first to be
alone when you are doing it, otherwise, if there are
/eo/le about chattering li$e a load of mon$eys, they
will distract you and you will never do it# *o, /ractice,
and /ractice alone until you are /roficient# )nd when
you are /roficient you can do it with your hands or
your feet, or you can even sit on a letter and $now
what3s inside@
*till dealing with Mrs# *oroc$, we have her final
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learned well enough so we don3t have to come and
start all over again2!
(elieve me that when you get a lesson which you
.EEL has sun$ in, it has indeed sun$ in# %ou want to
remember that when you leave this world you leave
all your money behind you, you leave your clothes
behind you, and this low-vibration /hysical body as
well# (ut what actually goes with you in /lace of a
ban$ account is all the good that you ever learned# *o
if you have had a lesson or two, that goes with you,
and you have the results of that on the "ther *ide#
*u//osing you are having difficulty with some man0
you decide on a certain course of action to bring him
to heel!, and then you wea$en when the time comes
for you to im/lement that course of action# 1ell, that
sets u/ a negative, it sets u/ a blac$ mar$ against you#
If you have decided to do a certain thing which you
believe to be right, then you must at all costs do that
thing which you believe to be right# If you start to do
it, and turn bac$, then it acts as a negative, it acts as a
barrier, and as some great difficulty which later has to
be overcome#
To answer your question, thenAhow to ma$e sure
that you learn your lessons well enough so that you do
not have to come here again# -ecide u/on what you
believe is a correct course of action, and having
decided u/on that correct course of action, let no-
thing divert you from your course# Then you will be
doing right, and you will not have to come and learn
it all over again#
%ou can also /ractice the old immortal lawA-o as
you would be done by#! If you do that, then you have
learned the great law of all, and you do not have to
come bac$ and start all over again#
*o, let us say goodbye to Mrs#;aleria *oroc$ on
these questions, and turn to something else, shall
we2
Kuestions, questions, questions@ )ll rightAwhat

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is the ne8t question2
%ou write in your boo$s about two *iamese cats
one called =u3ei and one called .ifi# 1hat ha//ened
to them2!
The Lady =u3ei is not u/on this Earth any more#
*he was doing very well, but then I was the victim of
a wholly un'ustified, entirely unwarranted /ress
attac$ and the Lady =u3ei, who, li$e me, had had a
very hard life, was not able to /ut u/ with any more
sorrow or /ersecution# )nd so the Lady =u3ei /assed
away from this Earth# I visit her in the astral and she
visits me# Mrs# .ifi 4reywhis$ers also has left this
Earth, but she was old and blind# *he was gravely
handica//ed by the beastliness of humans# *he is not
handica//ed no longer, for she can see# )nd she has a
very, very sweet nature0 I visit her, too, in the astral
and she visits me# These two have their re/resenta-
tives! here, one is Miss ,leo/atra, a seal /oint
*iamese, and I must say that she is the most lntel-
ligent animal I have ever met# If one were awarding
I#K#3s one would /lace her I#K# rating very, very high
indeed# *he is brilliant# The other re/resentative! is
Miss Tadalin$a, and she is a blue /oint *iamese# *he
is e8ce/tionally $ind-hearted and most maternal# *he
comes into my room at night and really loo$s after
me, and they both are the finest of all com/anions
during the long, slee/less hours of dar$ness#
9ever let anyone say that humans are su/erior to
animals, for these twoA,leo/atra and Tadalin$aA
have /ersonalities which in a human, would raise
them to sainthood, and that is truly meant#
)nother /erson writes, In one of your boo$s you
im/ly that the ,hristian religion is brea$ing down,
and there will be trouble in the ;atican in years to
come# -on3t you thin$ the ,hristian religion will
conquer all2!
)ctually, it3s not what I thin$0 that doesn3t matter#
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+robabilities# )nd according to the )$ashic ecord of
+robabilities, the ,hristian religion will /ass away#
)lready ,hristians EI am a (uddhist@F are saying that
4od is dead, or 4od doesn3t care, or some such rot#
(ut 4od is 4od no matter what you call Him# There
is a *u/reme (eing no matter what you call Him#
) great wea$ness of ,hristianity is that +rotestant
fights against ,atholic, and ,atholic fights against
everything else, and they are all so frightfully sure
that there is no way to Heaven e8ce/t through the
door of their own /articular little ,hurch# The e-
cord of +robabilities says that before too long the
,hristian religion will end and a com/letely fresh re-
ligion will come into being# Many /eo/le believe that
there are more ,hristians than any other religion u/on
this Earth# That is nonsense which can be shown by
visiting any +ublic Library and consulting a ma/
which gives com/arative religious numbers#
The ,hristian religion will end, then, and a com-
/letely fresh religion will ta$e its /lace in which some
of the /riests, most of the /riests, will have a far
greater understanding of /eo/le than do the /resent
,hristian /riests, who are scared stiff to discuss any-
thing and who can only tal$ in /latitudes or /arables#
It3s easy for a /riest, with an absolutely assured in-
come, to /rate on to some /oor im/overished sufferer
about, 4od will /rovide#! (ut it3s not so easy when
you are the /oor im/overished sufferer# 1ith the ne8t
religion there will be many, many im/rovements#
)bout time, too, isn3t it2
In /assing, and this is entirely my own comment, I
really am highly amused about the *alvation )rmy0
these /eo/le used to be wonderful to the /oor, but my
own /ersonal e8/erience is that they are not so
wonderful now# 9ow you get little men and women
who, to me, seem to be arrant hy/ocrites lording it
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$now what it3s li$e to be forced to live for a short
time in a *alvation )rmy hostel and to have a little
squirt of a man order me about# I $now what it3s li$e
to have a little runt squeal, *ing, my man, you have
to sing and /ray before you have your sou/#! Let me
re/eat that many years ago the *alvation )rmy did
wonderful things for the /oor, but during the last
twenty-five years they seem to have changed such a lot
that it3s about time they were disbanded and set to
digging ditches, or something, so they would $now
the other side of the coin# That is my /ersonal o/inion
based u/on more than one actual /ersonal, /ainful,
e8/erience of the *alvation )rmy#
eference to an army of any $ind, good, bad, or
very indifferent, brings our ne8t question into its
logical /osition# ) questioner wrote, 1hat is wrong
with this world2 1hy have we failed, where have we
failed2 How is it that everyone3s hand is against
everyone else nowadays2 ,an you e8/lain that2!
%es, I thin$ so# I thin$ there is no /roblem in
e8/laining actually# It!s a brea$down in disci/line# )n
army is only an army so long as it has disci/line#
1hen disci/line fails an army becomes a rabble# (ut,
let us loo$ at it rather more closely#
Every /erson, every community, whether it be a
hamlet, a village, a town, a city, or a country, and
every world also, has a choice of the right +ath or the
wrong +ath# It3s li$e a continuous e8amination# -o
/eo/le $now the answers2 ,an they ma$e the right
decision, the right choice2 ,an they ta$e the right
+ath2
1ell, the /oor old Earth too$ the wrong +ath, and
what could have been the negation of the )ge of =ali
in which all the horrors, frustrations, etc#, of the )ge
of =ali would have been cancelled out, instead of that
the Earth too$ the wrong +ath and the )ge of =ali is
u/on us in full force#
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Men were sent to the fighting forces and because of
avaricious munition ma$ers and others of that il$,
women were beguiled into cutting their hair short,
/utting on trousers and entering the factories, ta$ing
over the 'obs formerly held by men# 1omen went to
wor$, women sought what they blithely called
equality with men!# )nd what utter nonsense that is@
Men and women are different0 no man has ever /ro-
duced a baby, and no woman has ever fathered a
baby# They are quite different# Each designed for
their own /ur/oses in life, in evolution# The 'ob of
the woman was /robably far more im/ortant than that
of men, women had equality, women have always had
equality# The su/reme 'ob of women was to loo$ after
the family and to train the children to be good
citi7ens and good /eo/le# 1hen the woman was at
home loo$ing after the family the world was a far
better /lace, there were less crimes, less stri$es, less
civic disturbances# 1omen stayed at home, main-
tained home disci/line, and saw that the rising
generation had the necessary training and the neces-
sary disci/line with which they, in turn, would ta$e
over#
(ut then women entered the factories, entered the
sho/s, they drove buses, did everything# )nd what
ha//ened2 %oung children were shoved out into the
streets to /lay, to loo$ after themselves# %oung chil-
dren, almost as soon as they could totter, were left to
fend for themselves and go to a drug store for a
hurriedly snatched meal# The wea$er characters
among these young /eo/le, these quite young chil-
dren, were soon dominated by stronger and harder
and more vicious characters in the community# *oon
children were racing about in gangs li$e /ac$ rats#
There is no longer a res/ect for law and order# )
/oliceman is an ob'ect of derision# Everything is done
by children to brea$ the law, they lie, they steal, they
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wonder what is to ha//en ne8t#
+arents no longer have any real authority over
their children# ,hildren stay out at all hours of the
day and night, they are not res/onsible to anyone#
These children flaunt the authority of teachers, and
they behave li$e mad things# They grow u/ to be
gangsters and assassins, and, in my considered
o/inion, the whole res/onsibility is that of /arents
who are so busy amassing money that it is an
economic necessity that husband and wife both wor$,
and thus the children, the future race, are neglected#
)s husband and wife both wor$ there is more money
available, so manufacturers /ut on e8tra shifts of
wor$ers to ma$e more goods, to ta$e some of the
sur/lus money# The goods are carefully made so that
they last a certain /redictable time only, or utterly
lying advertisements /reach that it is absolutely
necessary to have this or that /roduct to be in!# ,ars
are altered year after year in only their tinny details0
they are altered to ma$e last year3s cars com/letely ob-
solete fashionwise# %et underneath there is the same
old clon$er rattling along, the same old engine which
really hasn3t im/roved much over the years# )ll that
matters to /eo/le now isAare they $ee/ing u/ with
the <oneses (etterAcan they go one ste/ ahead of
the <oneses2
The world has gone mad, and it3s all because men
and women want to ta$e a country and squee7e it
li$e a lemon!# Here in ,anada a member of the Mail
,arriers &nion, or whatever they call themselves,
who have gone on stri$e causing distress and hardshi/
for many because they want a thirty /er cent increase
in their already lavish wages, has gone on the radio
and actually broadcast Ein by no means cultured
tones@F that the country is li$e a lemon and the
&nions are going to squee7e the last dro/ of 'uice out#
1ell, as long as that attitude /revails the country,
and the world, has little ho/e#

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The only thing to save the world now is a return to
sanity, a return to the reali7ation that the man should
be earning the living and the woman should be the
mother, the woman should stay at home doing the
most noble tas$ of all, instilling disci/line and
s/iritual values into children who later will become
adults and so in their turn will have to /ass on $now-
ledge and training# The world lac$s religion# *o many
religions are busy fighting against each other# The
,hristian, for e8am/leAwell, it should be that ,hris-
tianity is ,hristianity# Instead, the ,hurch of Eng-
land and the ,hurch of ome hail it as a great
s/iritual victory when they can s/ea$ /olitely to each
other# They are all ,hristians, aren3t they2 1hat is
wrong with them, why do they treat members of any
other sect as criminals, as /eo/le bound for Hell2
1hat does it matter if a /erson is a <ew, a ,hristian, a
(uddhist, or a Hindu2 They all believe in their own
form of religion, don3t they2 )nd as such their own
form of religion should be res/ected# It seems that the
,atholic world is much the same as ,ommunism0 the
,ommunists try to inflict their belief on everyone
regardless of the other /erson3s wishes# The ,atholics,
also, try to force their religion down another /erson3s
throat and they utter direful threats of eternal torment,
eternal damnation, and all that rot# (elieve me when I
say that there is no such thing as Hell, believe me
when I say that all roads lead the same way Home# %ou
have to die whatever your religion# %ou will die if you
have no religion 'ust the same as the +o/e himself# )nd
all that matters is, have you lived your life according to
your own /ersonal belief2 %ou won3t find a fat /riest
ready to answer for your sins after# He won3t ta$e the
blame for anything# %ou are strictly on your own#
1hat you do and what you do not is not your own re-
s/onsibility entirely, and you answer to yourself only,
not to an avenging 'udge who is going to sentence you
to an eternity in Hell# 9o@ There is nothing li$e that#

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%ou critici7e yourself, and, believe me, there is no
harsher critic of your actions that yourself#
(ut everyone gets a chance, and a fresh chance and
another chance after that# This is getting away from
our sub'ect, however#
1e need s/iritual disci/line# ) religion is a useful
thing for inculcating s/iritual disci/line /rovided the
religious leaders are not fighting among themselves#
)ll the /resent day religions fall down on the 'ob, and
so all the /resent Earth religions shall, before too
long, /ass away li$e shadows disa//earing in the
night, and a fresh religion shall come to this Earth
which shall hel/ lift /eo/le out of the dar$ness and
the misery into which they have now sun$#
(ut the time is not yet# The .inal (attle is not yet#
.irst there is more suffering, more disturbances in
this, the )ge of =ali, disturbances caused by 1orld
1ar > in which women deserted their homes and
their children and left those children to run wild on
the streets# If you get a wonderfully $e/t orchard, an
orchard on which great care and endless e8/ense has
been lavished, and you suddenly withdraw all care
from that orchard, everything soon becomes third-rate#
The fruit no longer has the bloom and the fullness of
constant care, instead that fruit becomes wrin$led
and bitter# +eo/le are getting li$e that# +eo/le are
now of inferior stoc$, and soon there will have to be
the leaving /rocess again so that fresh blood is
brought to the Earth#
(ut first there will be more suffering# .irst the
whole world will be engulfed by a form of ,om-
munism# 9ot the ,ommunism of ,hina where even
cloc$s and cars are su//osed to run by the illustrious
thoughts of ,hairman Mao Tse Tung, and where,
a//arently, if a /erson has some interior obstruction
he 'ust thin$s of old Mao Tse Tung, and there is such
a disturbance that everything is cleared away im-
mediately@

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*o Earth is in for a sic$ener, Earth is in for a bad
time, let3s face it fran$ly# Everything is going to be
engulfed in this form of ,ommunism# Everyone will
be given a number, they might even lose their names
and identities# )ll these stri$es are going to /rice
things out of e8istence# The &nions are gaining more
and more /ower, and eventually they will ta$e over
that will be a ma'or ste/ towards the ruination of the
Earth# Eventually the /ress lords, li$e the robber
barons of old, will mobili7e their /rivate armies of
/ress wor$ers and they will go to even lower de/ths in
their attac$s on /eo/le, attac$s which are so difficult
to stand against when even the meanest ty/e of
re/orter can write things in the columns of his /a/er
and the attac$ed /erson has no redress whatever#
This isn3t 'ustice# This isn3t fair# )nd it3s this ty/e of
sub-human /erson who is ruling the Earth today and
will bring the Earth down even lower and lower#
&ntil, having unnecessarily touched roc$-bottom in
this, the )ge of =ali, the indomitable s/irit e8isting
in some /eo/le will shudder with the shoc$ and the
shame of what has fallen u/on the Earth, and the
s/irit will revolt and will ta$e action which will
enable Earth and the /eo/les of Earth to rise again#
(ut it may be necessary for the /eo/les of s/ace, the
4ardeners of Earth, to come and give assistance#
This is the )ge of )ssassination# ) great religious
leader, Martin Luther =ing, was assassinated# He was
a good man and had much to give to this Earth# )s for
the others, wellAthey were 'ust /olitical /eo/le and
EI do not want to tread on anyone3s toes@F history will
/rove that these were dwarfs raised to giant stature
only by the a//alling /ower of their advertising
machine, an advertising machine which blew out a lot
of stin$ing hot air and made dwarfs a//ear li$e
giants, 'ust as you can get a toy soldier and by /lacing
a light behind him you can ma$e his shadow giant-

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si7e on the wall behind# (ut here, too, the toy soldier3s
shadow is a shadow only, something without sub-
stance, something that soon will be forgotten# Martin
Luther =ing was no shadow# He was a good man,
wor$ing for the good, not only of coloured /eo/le but
of /eo/le of all colours throughout the world# .or, in
/ersecuting blac$s, or browns, or reds, or yellows, the
white /eo/le who are doing the /ersecuting are
/lacing a terrible amount of =harma u/on them-
selves individually and collectively, and whatever
they are doing now to the coloured /eo/le will have
to be atoned for in suffering and toil and humility#
There would still be time to save this Earth from
its degradation, from its shame, if only women would
return to their homes and loo$ after the children and
see that those children had /ro/er training, because it
is the lac$ of training which ma$es it /ossible for
assassins to go about their filthy wor$# It is the lac$ of
training which enables race riots to ta$e /lace, and
looting, and ra/e# These things were not common in
the days when women had more than equality at
home0 when she occu/ied the su/reme /lace of
honor as Mother to her family#
It would be much, much better if the criterion of
womanhood could beJ How well behaved are her chil-
dren2 How contented is her husband2 How useful is
this woman to the community2 Is she an e8am/le to
others2 If so she is a woman to be /roud of# 9ow, sad
to say, a woman is 'udged by her mammary develo/-
ment, whether they stic$ u/ or down, how accessible
they are, and how many husbands she has had# *e8 is a
wonderful thing, but this isn3t se8# The /eo/le who
go in for this ty/e of thing are immature# They don3t
$now anything about love, but only about the most
functional as/ects of /rocreation, and then, interest-
ingly enough, most of these se8 queens are as im-
/otent as a eunuch who has been treated twice by
mista$e@

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If all of us could issue a /rayer that a 4reat Leader
would come to Earth and hel/ to straighten out the
mess, that 4reat Leader would come, not with flam-
ing sword and embattled hosts because wars never
settle anything, wars 'ust ma$e misery, wars ma$e
more troubles# It3s not necessary to have any of those
things# The way of /eace is the best, and the best way
to get /eace is to get women bac$ in the homes teach-
ing decency to the male members of the family# They
can do it, you $now# emember the old saying2 )
woman who is good is very good, but a woman who is
bad is worse than any man could ever be no matter
how bad#!

























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,H)+TE *IH

) +)LE sun shone wanly down through a widening
ga/ in the slowly dis/ersing clouds# The mountain
heads were invisible, hidden in white fleecy softness
which billowed, cleared, and descended again as if
reluctant to loosen its all-enshrouding gras/ of the
stee/ mountain-sides#
(elow, the ;alley of Lhasa was gleaming, newly-
washed by the recent torrential down/our# Innumer-
able frogs sat on the ban$s of the la$e, croa$ing away
in than$fulness for the flood of insects who had been
washed from the leaves of distant trees, and then
fallen, willy-nilly, into the ever-waiting mouths be-
low#
The willows sighed and rustled gently as the rain-
dro/s tric$led down from the to/most leaves, and
then san$ with soft musical /lo/s! into the waters of
the la$e# The golden roofs of the +otala gleamed
whitely under the subdued sunlight, and from the
,ity of Lhasa there s/rang a rainbow which began at
the <o =ang ,athedral, are arced all the way u/ into
the clouds#
The formerly deserted Linghor oadAthe ing
oadAwas now filling u/ with /eo/le again# They
had vanished into any available shelter when the
rains came teeming down, almost drowning the
countryside and swelling the river, ma$ing it almost
burst its ban$s# Even now, great torrents of water
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level of the la$es and the marshes cre/t u/# 1ith
little gurgling moans land which had been dry, and
even /arched, for wee$s /ast now greedily absorbed
the une8/ected su//ly of rain water#
"n the Ha//y iver the boatman, astride his
inflated s$in ferry, was loo$ing an8iously at the s$y,
worrying lest fresh torrents of rain should ma$e it
im/ossible for him to cross the river# .or a s$in boat
leaves much to be desired in the way of safety, and it
is so easy to slide off and /lummet into the water#
.errymen, li$e sailors the world over, rarely $now
how to swim, and this ferryman had no conce/tion of
that art#
(ut the oad was filling u/ again# Household
mon$s going about their tas$ of getting su//lies from
the Mar$et +lace of Lhasa# 1ater-bearing mon$s
scam/ering down the roc$y /ath to the little well,
now overflowing, and then trudging slowly, tiredly
u/ that /ath again carrying the essential water, for
the +otala and for ,ha$/ori too, for ,ha$/ori,
although much smaller in /o/ulation, used for its si7e
a vast amount of water because of the /re/arations of
herbs and other forms of medical treatment#
"n the oad lamas went about their business#
High Lamas with their retinue of waiting-mon$s, and
others who disdained the tra//ings of ran$, rode on
in solitary s/lendor or with 'ust one attendant
following# Traders, with grunting ya$s, made their
slow way through the 1estern 4ate and on the last
stage of their 'ourney to Lhasa# Traders avid for
/rofit, but avid for tal$# )vid, too, for the o/en-
mouthed wonderment with which some of their
stories would be heard@
.rom the other direction, from the ,ity itself, other
traders were setting out, setting out to climb the
mountain /asses and to ma$e their slow way through
snow-laden roc$ surfaces where a sli/ would mean
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eventually, in days or wee$s, reach India, reach
=alim/ong, and other trade centers# )bout to /ass
each other, arriving traders and de/arting traders,
would e8change a shouted conversation, giving the
state of the mar$et, the latest news, the dis/osition of
the /eo/le#
(y the side of the +arbo =aling, beggars sat, moan-
ing and calling for alms# ,alling for all the blessings
/ossible on those who gave, and all the maledictions
imaginable on those who refused to give# Tourists and
/ilgrims thronged the road, going right round the
+otala, and circling the la$e and the great roc$ in
which were carved religious figures, and which were
$e/t gaily coloured# +ilgrims and tourists, the doves,
and among them the haw$sAthose who /reyed u/on
the /ilgrim and the tourist, those who sold horosco/es
saying that each horosco/e was /ersonally /re/ared
under the direction of a High Lama# )nd all the time
those horosco/es had been bought in bul$, after have-
ing been /rinted in India#
Here, /erched u/on a convenient roc$, stood an
old man, calling forth to the tourists, Loo$ at this,
loo$ at this@! he quoth, Talismans and charms which
have been /ersonally seen and blessed by the Inmost
"ne# This will save you from the -evils which afflict,
this will save you from the illnesses which lay one
low!
He loo$ed about, eager to s/ot a gullible /erson
who would fall for that line of tal$# ) little distance
away a woman stood, whis/ering to her husband,
(lessed by the Inmost "ne@! she whis/ered# That
must indeed command a high /rice,! said the hus-
band# (ut we must have it@ I am with child and we
need a good Talisman now to ma$e sure that our
child is born under ha//y aus/ices#!
Together, they moved towards the *eller of Talis-
mans who, seeing their eagerness, moved towards
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little glove of willows, so that he could discuss the
/rice and get all that the mar$et would bear!# Hav-
ing made their /urchase, the husband and wife
wal$ed away hand in hand, smiling contentedly,
thin$ing that now they had /rotection bestowed by
the blessing of the Inmost "ne of the very sacred
Talisman# )nd the *eller of Talismans2 He hurried
away to ta$e u/ his /ost again, and tell the old, old
tale of the Talismans and the ,harms that would
bring good luc$#
Tell me,! said the letter, where can I get a really
good Talisman that will bring me good fortune and
/rotect me from ill2 I have seen many advertisements
in the *o-and-*o Maga7ine, but I do not $now what I
should buy#!
1ell, the best thing is to buy none# 9one of these
Talismans or ,harms are worth anything at all#
9ow, let us be reasonable about this0 if things are
'ust mass-/roduced, stam/ed out by the thousands,
/robably untouched by human hand, they can have
no effect at all# 1hen, in the Lamaseries, I was taught
that the only way to ma$e a good Talisman or a good
,harm was to ma$e it /ersonally, and imbue it with a
/ersonality, or thought-entity# I state em/hatically
that any commercially made charm or talisman is 'ust
a waste of money#
Let me tell you a sim/le little storyJ *ome time
ago I received a small /ac$et from a man in the
&#*#)# He wrote to me as well, and said that he had
sent me a /iece of bar$ from a very s/ecial tree in
Ireland# He said it was guaranteed to bring 4ood
Luc$ and /rotect me from evil#
The /iece of bar$ came to me in a s/ecial envelo/e,
and there was a folder with it# There was also the
/icture of a small tree# The folder went on to say that
for over three hundred years /ieces of bar$ had been
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world# 1herever there were /eo/le, said the folder,
these /ieces of bar$ had been sent# Thousands of
/ieces, millions of /ieces#
9ow, I as$ you, what sort of tree can su//ly bar$
for three hundred years and not die2 1hat sort of
tree can su//ly millions of /ieces of bar$, and $ee/
on healing and growing2 I turned the thing over in
my hands, and by /sychometry I came to the inesca/-
able conclusion that someone was /ulling a fast one!
by buying u/ bar$ from trees which had been felled,
and with a /unch cutting out /ieces about the si7e of a
half dollar, and sending them all over the world# The
/rofit must have been truly enormous# 1hat a /ity,! I
thought, that I am an honest man# That3s the way to
raise money for research@! (ut, sadly enough, honesty
/revails, and it always will in the end, you $now@
There is no virtue! in charms or talismans which
have been mass-/roduced, either by stam/ing out of
metal, or casting in metal, or /rinting# They are quite
useless# The only talismans or charms which have any
use whatever are those which have actually been made,
and a thought-form built into each individual charm#
It can be done, and it is done# (ut it cannot be done
on a commercial basis because the time alone would
ma$e a charge of a cou/le of hundred dollars utterly
necessary#
+erha/s I should e8/lain here that am/a Touch-
*tones are a different thing altogether# They are not
charms, they are not talismans# They are s/ecial
devices which are used by one owner, and which
quic$ly generate great force, and which hel/ that one
owner# They cannot be used by two /eo/le, and, as
thousands of letters testify, they really do wor$# (utA
they are not talismans, they are not charms0 they are
something absolutely different#
This and That Maga7ine have all these advertise-
ments about the *tar of This, or the *tar of That, or
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have to live, and they should rememberA,aveat
em/tor!Awhich means, of course, Let the buyer be-
ware!# Maga7ines ma$e their income from advertising,
and I assume that the )dvertising Editor of a maga-
7ine reads the advertisements with his eyes shut if
there is any /ossibility that they won3t really be
suitable# emember, then, that if you go and buy a
talisman or charmAwell, you have done some good to
someone, /ossibly, in turning over some good money
for a bad ob'ect#
It really is a fact, however, that if one wants a
talisman or charmAcall it what you willAit can be
made if you $now how, if you have the time, the
/atience, and the determination# %ou do not get it
made overnight# It ta$es time, the time de/ending
u/on the effect you want#
%ou will have heard of curses /ut on old Egy/tian
tombs, or certain artifacts of antiquity which have a
s/ell or curse u/on them# These things are real, they
are not 'ust imagination# 1hat ha//ened was that
/eo/le who $new how to set about it made a thought-
form, and magneti7ed it! to the ob'ect to be /ro-
tected# The thought-form comes into action when cer-
tain conditions are /resent# That is, if a /erson is
trying to steal the artifact, thoughts are emanated
from the would-be thief, and those thoughts trigger
the /re-conditioned automatic res/onse of the
thought-form# *o the would-be thief dro/s dead of
a//arent heart failure, or something li$e that#
It is a long and com/licated /rocess, and one which
cannot be du/licated by mass-/roduction methods#
.rom which it is very obvious that a lot of those silly
little charms which are advertised are not worth
buying unless you want them for a tal$ing /oint#
9ow there is an interesting questionJ *ince living
in an a/artment building I have not been so well# )n
old country woman told me that it was because I lived
off the ground# Is that really true2!

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%es, it is@ It is very, very true# Let3s loo$ at the
/roblem, shall we2
The Earth, in one sense, is a magnet# It is a ball
which contains magnetic forces of varying degrees of
intensity# )nyone $nows that there is a 9orth +ole
and a *outh +ole# +eo/le are taught that from earliest
schooldays# (ut not so many $now that continental
masses and islands, and, in fact, everywhere, have
their own /articular amount of magnetism# It is
easily measured that gravityAa form of magnetismA
is different in various /arts of the world, and it is
constantly measured that magnetism is different
everywhere# *hi/s3 com/asses, for e8am/le, can read
differently in the varying /orts throughout the world,
and on many coastlines one can see two white cones,
usually of /yramid sha/e, and so sited that when
viewed from a certain distance and a certain /osition
at sea they form 'ust one a//arently solid bar of
white# *hi/s maneuver in a /ort to line themselves
u/ with these two mar$ers, and when an imaginary
center line, drawn from the stern through the bows,
e8actly meets the two white mar$ers, which now
a//ear as one, then the com/ass aboard the shi/
should read a certain heading# If it does not, small
ad'usting magnets are /ut in a bo8 beneath the
com/ass to /ull or /ush the com/ass card to the
desired /osition#
This ad'usting the com/ass! is also carried out on
aircraft# )dmitted, a com/ass may be affected by the
nature of the cargo of a shi/, but even when that is
com/ensated for the magnetic variation of different
land masses must also be ta$en into account#
The different intensities of magnetism affect
/eo/le# +eo/le have a lot of iron in them, as well as
other minerals and chemicals, and a /erson living in
an area of high magnetic density will react differently
in his thoughts from a /erson who lives in a low
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%ou can say that 4ermans andAwho shall we
say2A)rgentineans are quite different in their ma$e-
u/s, in their reactions, and quite a lot of that is due to
the magnetic /ull e8erted u/on the 4erman in 4er-
many, and the )rgentinean in )rgentina# The nature
of the food eaten and the amount of iron inta$e also
should be ta$en into account# )nd, whereas a 4er-
man could live in a/artment buildings without any
really serious health effects, the average )rgentinean
citi7en would feel crushed and de/ressed in similar
conditions because the magnetism, or rather, the
degree of magnetism, in )rgentina ma$es for a free
ty/e of /eo/le who will not be regimented so much as
the 4ermans in 4ermany# "bserve that I say 4er-
mans in 4ermany!# That is to indicate that when a
4erman leaves 4ermany or an )rgentinean leaves
)rgentina, they come more under the influence of the
magnetism of the country in which they will then be
residing#
)nything is affected by the basic magnetism of the
country# Every creature of Earth needs to be in
contact with the Earth currents# The Earth currents,
of course, are the /articular degree of magnetism in
that area# If a /erson is denied access to contact with
the Earth, his health deteriorates# ecent studies have
/roved most conclusively that /eo/le who live in a/art-
ment buildings, and who have little access to a garden
or /ar$ where there is natural, un/aved ground,
suffer from nerve conditions and generally /oor
health# Everyone $nows that the /eo/le who live in
the country are stronger and in better health than
those who live in the city#
In the country a /erson can go out and wal$ in the
fields, can get in contact with good, clean water#
1hereas, in the cities, everything is /aved over with a
mi8ture of tar and stone or artificial stone, materials
which tend to insulate the human body from the
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In certain languages there are stories of giants who
went to war and who were on the /oint of being de-
feated in battle# The giants then lay down on the
ground for a few moments, and 'um/ed to their feet
as giants refreshed!# In other words, they /ic$ed u/
energy from the Earth currents and by lying down to
/ic$ u/ that energy they /ulled a fast one over their
enemies@
Everyone who desires good health should be able to
get out in the country and be able to ta$e off their
shoes and stoc$ings and wal$ about on the good, cool
earth# If /eo/le did that there would be less illness,
less frustration, less tension#
1hile on this sub'ect of Earth currents, one might
mention the /osition in which one should slee/# 9ow,
/eo/le are not rubber stam/ im/ressions# 9ot all
/eo/le are ali$e# (ut all /eo/le can benefit to an
astonishing degree by slee/ing in such a /osition that
they derive the ma8imum gain from the natural
Earth currents#
The best way to do this is to set aside a month for
e8/eriment# .or one wee$ have your bed facing
9orth, and ma$e a careful day by day note of how you
sle/t and how you feel with the bed facing 9orth# .or
the ne8t wee$ have the bed facing, say, East, and
again ma$e careful notes of how you feel# 1ith fol-
lowing wee$s, try slee/ing with your head to *outh
and then to 1est# )t the end of a month you will
have a very good idea of which direction suits you,
and if you then move your bed /ermanently to that
/osition you will find that fortune! will smile u/on
you, and you will feel better in health# If you have
been using a double bedAwell, you will either have
to be counted out of this e8/eriment, or you will have
to have a single bed#
It used to be thought that being in contact with the
sea had the same ty/e of effect u/on humans, but that
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contact with the sea because usually the air is better
and more healthful# (ut the magnetic currents of the
sea are quite different from the magnetic currents of
the land, and while it does no harm to go and dun$!
yourself in the sea, do it for /leasure only, and not
with the /articular intention of deriving health bene-
fits from sea magnetic currents# %ou may get some
benefit from getting a good salt solution around your
/ores, and you will get a lot of benefit from the
fresher air which usually blows over the sea# (ut then,
you might get a load of dirty oil from some filthy oil
shi/, or as where I live now, foul effluvia and floating
debris from a /ul/ mill which discharges all its waste
into the river, and so it flows on /ast my window into
the sea, with a stench which is truly an abomination#
)nother /erson writes inAHow are we only one-
tenth conscious2 If we are only one-tenth conscious,
how do we manage to /addle around as we do2!
The answer is that we 'ust )E one-tenth conscious#
)fter all, you can have a car and you can move
around at ten miles an hour# %ou can even have a
thing fitted to limit your s/eed to a /redetermined
amount, and then, although the car is ca/able of
much more s/eed, you are limited to that to which
the car has been /reconditioned# The human limit is
one-tenth conscious# If one could get one-and-one-half-
tenth conscious, then one would have a genius, but all
too often if a /erson is su/er-bright in one direction
he glows remar$ably dimly in some other direction#
*uch as a man who is a brilliant inventor, an abso-
lutely su/erb brain in, let us say, electronics, and yet
in other ways he is so stu/id that he has to be led
around, and dressed, and fed, etc# I $now such a
case#
The one-tenth consciousness is something li$e a
tele/hone o/erator who sits at a switchboard with ten
tele/hone lines in front of her# *he can only deal with
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are nine-tenths sub-conscious# *ub! because it is be-
yond our conscious reach, it is beneath our conscious-
ness# The "verself is above our consciousness, and the
consciousness can be li$ened to the amount of an
iceberg which shows above water# "nly a little of an
iceberg shows above water, the great mass of it lies
submerged beneath the surface, in 'ust the same way
as the great mass of human $nowledge lies submerged
'ust beneath the threshold of consciousness# Hence the
name sub-conscious!#
&nder certain conditions the sub-conscious can be
ta//ed# It is /ossible by the a//ro/riate /rocesses to
get in touch with the sub-conscious and find out what
it $nows, and what it $nows is this0 it $nows every-
thing that has ever ha//ened to that entity# That
entity!, /lease, not 'ust that /articular human body@
(y really getting down to the sub-conscious one
engages in a /rocess li$e getting down into the
basement of some great Library or some great
Museum, and seeing the vast array of things which
are stored but which are not on show# Museums, you
$now, have more things concealed than they have
dis/layed#
Ta/ the sub-conscious of a human, and you can
find out all about anything that has ever ha//ened to
that human# %ou can follow the life in reverse# %ou
can ta$e the /erson now aged, let us say, seventy
years, and you can ta$e them bac$ si8ty, fifty, forty,
and so on right bac$ to the moment of birth, right
bac$ to the moment when that /erson was born to
this Earth# )nd if you then change technique, li$e a
car changing gear, you can follow the sub-conscious
beyond birth, you can find the moment when the
entity actually entered the body of the unborn baby#
%ou can find out what the entity did before it entered
the body of the unborn baby# )nd if your reason is
sufficiently good, you can find out what that /erson
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before that, and that, and so on#
) warning0 do not believe all the advertisements
which claim that Madame -ogsbody will do all this
for you for a fee of one dollar# These things cannot
be done for money, they cannot be done for idle
curiosity# It needs a lifetime of study and a serious
/ur/ose# It is not a circus turn# *oAdon3t waste your
money@
I am one of those who can do this# I can do it for
myself, also, and I $now a sur/rising amount about
myself, going bac$0 and bac$, and bac$#
(ut let me issue another warning0 don3t believe all
these /eo/le who wear a shawl around their heads or
say they will visit the )$ashic ecord for a few
dollars, or a few hundred dollars, and come bac$ with
all the $nowledge# If they could do this, they would
not be doing it for money, they would $now better#
(ut if you /ay your money down, they will come
bac$! with suitable histrionic effects and tell you that
you were ,leo/atra or 9a/oleon or "ld =aiser (ill or
,astro3s grandfather, or even de 4aulle3s uncle# They
usually try to find out who you would li$e to be, and
then they come bac$! with a great sha$ing of head,
and a great /ursing of li/s, and all the other effects,
and tell you all that you have told themAbut they are
careful to use different words# 9o, madam@ The
world is over-stoc$ed with those who have been ,leo-
/atra# 9o, sir@ The world is over-stoc$ed with those
who have been *t# +eter or *t# <ohn, or *t# *omebody
Else# )nd anyhow, what does it matter who you were2
%ou were someone, quite definitely, but what does it
matter2 %ou now have a different name, you now
have a different body, you now have a different tas$
in life and it doesn!t do to dwell on /ast glories# The
/ast does not matter# The /ast has made the failures
of the /resent# )ll you can do now is to live a decent
life in the /resent to ma$e a better future#
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and avoid dealing with those who advertise that they
will do this, that, and something else if you /ay them
enough# If you want to $now about yourself, and you
have sufficient reason, you can always do it by astral
travel# If you want to $now something then try
meditation# There is a cha/ter about it in Chapters of
Life.
In meditation you have to insulate yourself against
Earth currents, because if you have Earth currents
circulating around, then you thin$ about Earth
things, you thin$ Earth-wise!# )nd you don3t want to
do that, you want to be able to control the sub'ect of
your meditation# *o the first requisite for meditation
is that you avoid our old friend consti/ation Eoh@ it3s a
very im/ortant sub'ect@F, and you /ut on a medita-
tion robe# This is nearly always of blac$ material, and
it must cover you from head to foot# It must actually
cover your head, and cover most of your face# %ou
don3t have to suffocate yourself, of course, and if your
meditation robe is /ro/erly designed you won3t# (ut
the whole /oint is that you have to be insulated by
this blac$ cloth from outside influences# %our body
must be /rotected from sunlight, because sunlight
will colour your thoughts, and you don3t want your
thoughts coloured# %ou want to thin$ your own
thoughts, and have your own thoughts under your
own control#
If you loo$ in Chapters of Life you will find a
/icture of a mon$# 1ell, if you are handy with a
needle and thread, ma$e u/ a thing li$e that, but be
sure it3s big enough# It doesn3t matter if it3s li$e a tent,
or li$e a sac$0 you are not going to be a fashion model
in it, that!s not its /ur/ose# Its whole and only
/ur/ose is to cut off e8ternal influences, so the fit
doesn3t matter and the larger it isAwithin reason, of
courseAthe more comfortable it will be# %ou should
$ee/ this meditation robe for meditation alone, and
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when you are meditating# %ou should also $ee/ it
safely away so that no one else can use it, and no one
else can touch it, because if another /erson touches it
and tries it on, you have that other /erson3s influence
in the robeAwhich you are trying to avoidAand so
you have another obstacle#
(y meditating under this insulated, isolated con-
dition, you are immune to outside influences# Thus
you can get really down to the heart of the matter in
which you are interested# %ou can ta$e yourself
through the various stages of meditation, going
dee/er and dee/er and dee/er, so that in the end you
can be meditating in such a state that you are floating#
)nd when you have reached that stage you can $now
quite a lot about what goes on beyond the tenth# (e-
yond the tenth of consciousness, and into the nine-
tenths of sub-consciousness# emember again,
though, that this sub-conscious! does not mean that
this /articular /hase of consciousness is inferior# The
word sub! usually means inferior!, but in this sense it
is ta$en to indicate that which is below the threshold
of consciousness, whereas su/ra would indicate that
which is beyond, or above, the threshold of conscious-
ness#
*o the sub-conscious relates to everything that a
/erson $nows or has $nown, or has e8/erienced at any
time since that /erson first became an entity# Ta$ing
the /resent as our datum line, we can say that all that
is /ast, or all that is stored, is below!# 1hereas, all
that which is to come and which has yet to be e8/eri-
enced on this Earth or in the ne8t world, is in the
su/ra-consciousness!, which is, therefore, above our
datum line#
)ll right@ *o now you $now a bit more about our
title of Beyond the Tenth# 1e deal with, and have
dealt with things which /eo/le $now without $now-
ing why, and the things which /eo/le can do
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cannot# To witAastral travel# )nyone can do it@
)nyone can do it with a bit of /atience and adherence
to a few sim/le rules, but /eo/le say, oh, I couldn3t
/ossibly do that@! eally, they are afraid to ma$e the
attem/t, but youAdear eaderAma$e the attem/t,
because it truly is a wonderful, wonderful e8/erience
to be soaring and sailing above the surface of the
Earth, /laying with the wind, causing birds, who can
see the astrals of /eo/le, to fairly shrie$ with ama7e-
ment# %ou try it# %ou3ll find it3s the most wonderful
thing that has ever ha//ened to you#
"f course there is far more to this soaring above the
Earth business than 'ust /lay# "ne can go to any /art
of the world, as I have already told you, but that is
not the e8tent of it0 there is moreAmuch moreAthan
this#
If one meditates, if one becomes really /roficient at
meditation, and one combines that with astral travel,
one is not limited to the face of the Earth# =ee/ this
in mind0 when doing astral travel we are not in a flesh
body, we are in a body which can /enetrate materials
which, to the flesh body, would be solid# -o you
understand the im/lications of that2 It means that
one can sin$ downwards at a controlled rate, sin$
down through the Earth and through solid roc$# "ne
can see with /erfect clarity, although to a flesh body it
would be com/lete and utter dar$ness# "ne can sin$
down and see /erha/s here a giant figure which was
tra//ed half a million years ago and became em-
bedded in what is now solid coal# In this solid coal,
then, there is a giant figure intact, /erfectly /re-
served, as mastodons and dinosaurs have been /re-
served intact#
.or years scientists have thought that the advent of
humans, or humanoid races, on the Earth was fairly
recent# (ut they have now come to the conclusion
that humanity on Earth is much, much older than
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can tell us that, our travels can indicate to us this0
after thousands and thousands of years the Earth goes
into a sort of /eriodic convulsion during which the
whole surface of the Earth trembles, during which
waters receed here and waters rise there# The surface
of the Earth seems to boil and seethe, and every trace
of the 1or$s of Man u/on the Earth rises u/ and falls
down, and gets buried hundreds, or thousands, of feet
below the surface of the Earth# Housewives will
understand when I say it is similar to ma$ing a big
ca$e0 you have a basin full of all sorts of unmi8ed
ingredients, and then you insert a big s/oon from the
bottom and raise u/, gradually mi8ing everything so
that all the com/onents, all the constituents, are dis-
tributed throughout the ca$e mi8#
*o, every half million years, or so, the Earth gets rid
of unwanted stoc$ and /re/ares the surface of the
Earth for the ne8t bunch, who, it fondly ho/es, might
be more successful# Life on Earth is old, the )ge of
the dinosaur and the mastodon and all those creatures
was 'ust the start of yet one more e8/eriment, 'ust as
in thousands of years to come, this Earth will end as
we $now it at /resent# The whole surface will seethe
and bubble, and the cities and 1or$s of Man here
will tumble down, and be buried thousands of feet
below the surface so that anyone coming to Earth
would say it was a new world which had never been
inhabited#
It ta$es a lot of e8/erience to do this ty/e of astral
travel# (ut I can do it, and I can tell you that you can
do it also if you will /ractice sufficiently, if you will
have faith in your own ability, and if you will remem-
ber that you cannot do it to bring bac$ messages for
other /eo/le at so many dollars a visit@
I have seen dee/ down in the )rctic ice, hundreds
of feet, or even thousands of feet below the surface,
strange forms# ) different form of human, a /ur/lish
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/resent-day humans# +resent-day humans haveA'ust
for e8am/leAtwo breasts and ten fingers# (ut I have
seen /ur/le /eo/le entombed absolutely intact, and
they have had eight breasts and nine fingers on each
hand# +robably some day research will e8hume some
of these /eo/le, and then there will be a nine-day
wonder about it all# *ome day there will be an atomic
digging machine which will be able to e8cavate the
ice, and show some of the /eo/le and some of the
cities buried incredibly dee/ in the ice, cities of a
/eo/le who lived and wal$ed the surface of this Earth
hundreds of centuries before there was any recorded
history whatever on this Earth#
This was a time when there was only one continent
on the Earth, and all the rest was water# 1hen *outh
)merica and )frica were one, and when England was
'ust a /art of mainland Euro/e0 when Ireland was
'ust a mountain /ea$ stretching milesAyes, milesA
u/ into the very different air# )t one time all the
world of land was one mass e8tending from the 9orth
+ole to what is now the *outh +ole# It was li$e a
bridge lin$ing one side of the Earth to the other#
)ustralia, ,hina, and )merica, all were one, all
'oined to what is now )frica and Euro/e# (ut in the
earth-sha$es, in the shivering tremors which threw
down civilisation and threw u/ fresh earth and roc$s
to hide that civili7ation, and because of centrifugal
effects, that one solid mass, that one continent of
Earth, bro$e u/# )nd as the Earth shivered and
trembled, the seabed cre/t along, ta$ing bits of land
with it, land which became )ustralia, )merica,
Euro/e, )frica, and so on#
1ith /ractice in astral travel, with considerable
/ractice in meditation, and combining the two to-
gether, you can actually see all this as if you were in
that item beloved of the *cience .ictioneerAa time
machine# There really is a time machine, you $now, a
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)$ashic ecord, wherein everything that has ever
ha//ened to this Earth is recorded# It!s li$e having an
endless number of cine cameras recording everything
that ever ha//ens, day or night, and blending them
all together into one continuous ever-running film
which you can ta/ into! by $nowing how, and by
$nowing the age at which you desire to loo$#
It is truly a fascinating thing to see a civili7ation
u/on the Earth, a flourishing civili7ation, but one in
which the /eo/le are very different from the humans
whom we now are accustomed to see# In this /ar-
ticular civili7ation, for e8am/le, /eo/le moved about
not in motor cars, but on what may well be the origin
of the old story about the flying car/et0 they moved
about on /latforms which loo$ed for all the world li$e
mats# They sat cross-legged on these things and, by
mani/ulating a little control which loo$ed li$e a
woven /attern, they could rise and soar off in any direc-
tion# In the ecord we can watch all this, and then as
we watch we have an effect 'ust as in some clumsy /er-
son were sha$ing a ,hess board on which all the men
were set u/ for a good game# )s the chess-board men
would tumble so did the /eo/le of the then-Earth
tumble# The Earth itself yawned, great ga/ing chasms
a//eared, and buildings and /eo/le to//led in, and
the Earth shuddered and closed u/# )nd after a time
the heaving and rolling of the surface ended, and the
Earth was ready for the ne8t cro/!#
In this form of astral travel, also, one can go dee/
dee/ down into the Earth, and one can see /erha/s in-
tact artifacts of that )ge, or remnants of large build-
ings# "ne can go to )rctic or )ntarctic regions, and go
dee/ down and find /eo/le and animals who have been
quic$-fro7en to death, and because of the cold and the
quic$ness of the onset of the cold, they have been
/reserved utterly intact as if they merely sle/t and
waited a sha$ing hand to awa$en them#
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ments, different nostrils, because the atmos/here of
the Earth a few million years ago was very different
from what it is today# +eo/le of today would not be
able to live in the atmos/here of those times, 'ust as
/eo/le of those times would not have been able to
breathe the atmos/here which we now o/timistically
call clean air!# Then there was far more chlorine, far
more sul/hur, in the air# 9ow we get the stin$ of
/etroleum fumes#
)nother thing that you can see, and which you, li$e
I, will no doubt find fascinating, is that /etroleum is
unnatural to this Earth# +etroleum is not native to
this Earth# (y the )$ashic ecord, a /lanet collided
with this Earth and caused this Earth to sto/ for a
moment, and then s/in in the o//osite direction# (ut
the collision disintegrated the other /lanet, and much
of its seas /oured down through s/ace on to this
Earth# The seas of that /lanet were what we call
/etroleum# It /oured down and saturated the Earth
and san$ into the Earth, and went on down until it
found a level and a strata which it could not /enetrate,
and there it lay and collected, and awaited the coming
of humans who would one day /um/ it u/ and
invent a /erfectly horrible machine or machines,
which would use this /etroleum# 1hen all the
/etroleum has been used u/ there will be no more
made, because, as I have said, it is 'ust s/illage from
another world#
Have I said enough to really induce you to /ractice
astral travel2 It3s a wonderful thing, and what we
might term mundane Ebecause it deals with the
EarthF astral travel and meditation combined can
show you all you could ever want to $now about this
Earth# *o, why not try it2 1hy not have faith and
/atience, and really get down to /racticing astral
travel2

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CHAPTER SEVEN

(efore I started to write this boo$ I thought I would
/ay heed to all the thousands of letters which I had
received demanding a boo$ about herbal treatment#
How could one cure this com/laint, or alleviate that
disease2 I s/ent almost eighteen months trying to find
a re/utable firm, one in each in the main countries,
who would su//ly the herbal treatment which I
would recommend# I wrote to Messrs# 4rassroots P
issoles in England, telling them that I was going to
write a boo$ about herbal treatment and as$ing them
if they could or would su//ly the herbs which I
would recommend under the correct herba> name# I
received a bland re/ly, which gave me /olitely to
understand that they, and they only of anyone in the
world, $new anything about herbs, and they were not
/re/ared to de/art from their system of calling a rose
by another name, so to s/ea$, by giving said rose a
number@
I wrote to Toadstools and )//lesauce Inc#, of
&#*#)#, and as$ed them the same thing# The re/ly
was delightfully evasive, and they said they would
send me their latest catalogue giving the names of the
/articular concoctions which they /ut on the mar$et#
*o I tossed their literature! in the trash can, and
decided to write something else# The result is in this
boo$ so far, a boo$ which is based wholly on answer-
ing the questions you as$ about (eyond the Tenth!#
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about herbal treatment when I cannot get a reliable
su//lier of those herbs2 If I tell you that herb H%O
will cure you of whatever it is you are suffering from,
then I am morally bound to tell you where to obtain
herb H%O# &nfortunately the herbal su//liers with
whom I have been in contact merely want to say,
Ta$e our +ills 9umber >5B to cure your flatulence,!
etc# That3s not good enough for me# It3s not good
enough for you# %ou want to $now what you are
ta$ing, you want to $now what is in +ill >5B# ,ertain
herbs are very, very effective when ta$en in their
/ure or unadulterated form, but if one is going to /ut
a chea/er ty/e of herb in with it, then not only is the
/rice chea/er, but the final /roduct is unsatisfactory#
It seems the most astonishing thingAastounding
would be a better word, /erha/sAthat su//liers of
herbal treatment will not be straightforward and
su//ly the actual herbs which one recommends, but
instead want to give them some silly number or some
fancy name li$e Eastern ,ow3s (reath!# I wrote to a
small firm in England who were o/timistically ad-
vertising Eastern herbs, but the good lady at the head
of the firm hadn3t the manners to re/ly to my letter#
*o that was another good idea lost# )ll I wanted was
to ma$e sure that youAmy eadersAcould have the
assurance that if I recommended herb H%O you could
/lace an order and get herb H%O# I did not want any
commission or financial interest# I was thin$ing of my
eaders only#
(ut, as I have said, I 'ust cannot recommend a
suitable source of su//ly, so for the herbs I am going
to recommend in this cha/ter I advise you to consult
your ,lassified Tele/hone (oo$s and really sha$e u/
any herb su//lier in your area# If I say a certain herb,
then I mean that certain herb, I do not mean an
adulterated substitute with a fragrant name or a
number, and if the firm you contact first cannot su//ly
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)nother difficulty is that what is a common herb in
England is un$nown in ,anada, and what is an
everyday sort of /lant in ,anada has never been
heard of in the &#*#)# )nd what can you do in the
*/anish world where they translate buttercu/ as
/o//y@ In Living with the Lama I gave the name of
(uttercu/!, yet in the */anish editions the name was
distorted to +o//y! because some of these */anish
countries are quite unaware of a buttercu/#
It3s all very strange, you $now, that herbs have
a//arently fallen into disre/ute# 9owadays the doc-
tors and the chemists li$e to grub about with messy
chemicals made of urea or some other no8ious sub-
stance, whereas all they have to do is to go to the
(ra7ilian forests where they can get 'ust about any
herb or /lant in the world# Two hundred years ago a
-octor of Medicine in any Euro/ean or English
country had first to /ass an e8amination in astrology,
because astrology has great bearing on the effects of
herbs, and then had to have a /rofound $nowledge of
the herbs themselves# He had to $now how to erect a
horosco/e, and he had to $now how and when herbs
should be gathered#
"ne could see the -octor of those days stealing out
at night under the light of the moon, carefully con-
sulting a chart in this hand to $now e8actly when a
/articular herb should be dug u/ or when certain
leaves should be stri//ed from the branches#
In the "ld *chool of Medicine astrology and herbs
were absolutely ine8tricably entwined# Herbal treat-
ment was sym/athy and anti/athy!# ) disease caused
by the bad effects of a /articular /lanet could be
cured by the use of herbs which were under the
favorable influence of that same /lanet# They called
that the *ym/athetic ,ure, and if you had ever tasted
some of the herb teas they used you would agree that
a great deal of sym/athy was needed for the /atient@
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be cured by a herb which was anti/athetic to the
/lanet causing the illness#
I used to be the thing! to loo$ at the /atient, to con-
sider what his astrological influences would be, and
frequently a horosco/e was cast showing the malefic
as/ects u/setting the /atient# Then the herb doctor
would turn to his charts and boo$s, and from his
usually com/letely lavish stoc$ he would /roduce
herbs which would cure the illness within a matter of
hours#
If one wants to do herbal treatment really effec-
tively it has to be in con'unction with astrology, be-
cause every /ersonAwhether they believe it or notA
has a ma$e-u/, which is affected by astrological in-
fluences# If you want to be modern you will forget
about astrological influences and call them cosmic
rays!, or something li$e that0 but they are the same
thingsAastrological influences# +eo/le who are born
in the summer have a different chemical com/osition
to /eo/le who are born in the winter, and what
would have a strong effect u/on the /erson born in
the winter might have a mild effect only on the
/erson born in the summer, and vice versa#
If we were going to set u/ as /ractitioners in herbal
medicine, seeing our /atients and all that, we would
have to consider the astrological signs of each /atient
and the signs at the time he first noticed the illness,
because humans have varying amounts of metal in
them and they can be referred to as /articles of
different grades of iron differently affected by various
magnets# The /lanets, of course, being the magnets#
<ust to give you an idea about herbal treatment as
confined to astrology, let me remind you that if a herb
is under the domination! of the *un it can cure
illnesses of the Martian ty/e of /erson# Mars /eo/le
have their own /eculiar illness, or rather, illnesses
/eculiar to Mars, 'ust as <u/iter /eo/le have illnesses
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If a herb under the domination of ;enus is used for
<u/iter /eo/le, it will cure the illnesses /eculiar to
the <u/iter /eo/le, and herbs which are e8alted! by
<u/iter will cure those illnesses which may be termed
Moon-ty/e illnesses!# If you were really going into
the sub'ect you would say, %es, that is because
<u/iter reaches its e8altation in the sign of ,ancer,
which is the House of the Moon#!
%ou may be amused or interested to $now that
among the herbs ruled by the Moon are cabbage,
cucumbers, cress, lettuce, /um/$in, watercress, and
many others# (ut we are not going to study astrology,
instead let us consider some common or garden ill-
nesses about which a sur/rising number of /eo/le
write to me# I am going to ma$e very clear to you that
if your condition is serious, then you should consult
your family doctorAyou $now, the good old 4#+A
and if your illness does not ra/idly res/ond to any
herbal treatment, then see your family doctor# "n the
other hand, if your family doctor has had an attem/t
at curing you and has not made the e8/ected im-
/rovement, then try herbs0 herbs were in e8istence
long before the family doctors of the world@
It has 'ust occurred to me that many of you
throughout the world will not be able to get in touch
with a local su//lier of herbs, so I am going to give
you two names and addresses, one in England and one
in 9ew %or$# If you write to these /eo/le they will
only be able to su//ly their own mi8tures or concoc-
tions, but both firms are e8tremely reliable# Here
they areJ

Messrs# Heath P Heather Ltd#
*t# )lbans, Hertfordshire,
England

E*/ecial noteJ The /erson to whom you should write
is Miss <oan yderF and a convenience to you is that

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you can write in either English or */anish, they
understand both languages /erfectly#
The second address isJ

=iehl3s -rugstore,
>?: Third )venue,
9ew %or$ B, 9#%#, &#*#)#

E*/ecial noteJ The head man is Mr# MorseF

In both cases you should also remember to enclose
am/le return /ostage, because all these /eo/le are in
business to ma$e money, and as I very well $now the
cost of stationery and /rinting, the cost of having
things ty/ed, and then the final straw of the mai>
charge is 'ust too much# %ou can send am/le /ostage
by International e/ly ,ou/on0 your /ost office will
tell you about that# It is useless to write from )merica
to England enclosing )merican /ostage, because
)merican stam/s are of no use whatever in England,
'ust the same as English stam/s cannot be used in the
&#*#)# *o, if you e8/ect a re/ly, Eand you must do or
you wouldn3t be writing in the first case@F remember
the elementary courtesy ofAE>F +roviding am/le re-
turn /ostage in the form of International e/ly
,ou/ons# E5F +ut you full name and address on your
letter, not merely on the bac$ of the envelo/e#
Euro/ean customs are different, and in England it is
the common /ractice to /ut the address of the sender
at the to/ right-hand side of the letter itself, because
English /eo/le toss out the envelo/e@ EBF -o not get
im/atient if you do not get a re/ly by return because
these firms are very busy firms, and, anyway, the
ordinary transmission from country to country ta$es a
certain amount of time#
1hen I am referring to a herb or treatment, then,
I will confine myself to that which can be obtained
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about the astrological /art@
"ne of the most common queries I get isJ My
husband is alcoholic# He is the $indest man alive
when he is sober, but that is becoming more and
more infrequent# I shall have to divorce him# 1hat
do you advise2!
It is a very sad, sad thing indeed that this business
of drin$ has been allowed to continue# -rin$ defin-
itely harms one!s "verself, and if /eo/le did not drin$
they would not become alcoholic@ The alcoholic state
is not so much a vice as an illness, or dysfunction#
1hat ha//ens is that the blood of the alcoholic-ty/e
of /erson is defective, and it becomes very, very
greatly harmed by the action of alcohol# (lood cells
become changed, and a chemical change ta$es effect#
) /erson who is alcoholic is a very, very sic$ /erson
indeed, and no matter what anyone says, it is my
e8/erience that there is no cure for the alcoholic, no
cure that is feasible# If a /erson is alcoholic he or she
would have to be confined to a desert island in the
ho/e that the blood might /ossibly become more
normal in time#
If it was generally recogni7ed that the alcoholic was
a sic$ /erson with a blood disease, then doctors as a
whole might give them some research attention# 1ith
adequate research there is every reason to su//ose
that a cure could be found for this truly distressing
condition# The alcoholic drin$s in order to live# He
has a com/elling urge to drin$ because he senses that
there is something missingAand there is# His blood is
different, and his blood can only be maintained by
the continued a//lication of alcohol to the blood-
cells#
There are no herbs that can hel/ the alcoholic# The
only way that one can hel/ the alcoholic is for him to
enter a hos/ital, or other institution, where he can
receive constant su/ervision and constant attention#
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that one of the /arents or one of the grand/arents has
been alcoholic, and so the /erson who is now born
alcoholic-/rone has a blood condition which could
manifest itself after the inta$e of a certain amount of
alcohol# It might be a thimbleful of alcohol that is
required to trigger the reaction, or it might be a
quart, no one $nows# (ut when the reaction has been
triggered there is no way of reversing it, and the
/erson, instead of being alcoholic-/rone, is instead a
full-blown alcoholic#
It should be a law that alcoholics should register
with a Medical (oard# )nd then the children or
grandchildren of an alcoholic /arent or grand/arent
should be warned never to touch alcohol# )s long as
they don3t touch the stuff they will, obviously, not be-
come alcoholic# *o, in this case, /revention is the only
cure#
)lcoholics should not get married, and, as I have
'ust stated, they should enter a hos/ital or institution
so that they can be treated in accordance with any
new develo/ments which have been discovered# (ut
let me say this in defense of the alcoholic0 he is a sic$
man# %es, he becomes vicious at times, he becomes
uncaring, but he has a deadly illness, an insidious
illness, and it won3t hel/ him at all to rant on at him,
it will 'ust drive him to des/eration# Instead be firm
with him, and tell him that his cure lies in his own
hands by giving u/ alcohol# If he understands the
/roblem, and if he has any will-/ower left, he can do
much to alleviate the conditionAfor e8am/le, suc$
boiled sweets# That will hel/# *o, that is the best I can
tell you about how to treat alcoholics#
) sur/rising number of /eo/le write about asthma#
)sthma can ta$e various forms, and if a /erson has
asthma he should go and see the doctor, see the
4eneral +ractitioner, who will then, if necessary,
refer the /atient to a s/ecialist# There is bronchial
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asthma, and they can be alleviated by the necessary
medical or herbal treatment# I do not have =iehl3s
catalogue here, but I can tell you that Heath P
Heather have herbs for the relief of asthma, so there
is no /roblem in connection with that#
.or those who are interested, hysso/ is a very good
/lant indeed for those afflicted with asthma# The best
/lace from which to obtain the hysso/ herb is Italy,
because hysso/ from Italy is more /otent than from
anywhere else# The "ld +eo/le too$ hysso/ which
was boiled with a mi8ture of honey and rue, and then
they dran$ the stuff# It gave instant relief from coughs
and from shortness of breath and whee7ing# Having
ta$en the mi8ture I am not going to tell you that it is
/leasant, but I will tell you that it wor$s@
)nother form of asthma is that of nervous origin#
"ften children will get so enraged about something
that they will go /ur/le in the face, and they will
have a real attac$ of shortness of breath followed by
whee7ing# The startled /arents will, of course, say,
"h@ He has a bad attac$ of asthma, get the doctor
quic$@! The child hears that, so whenever he gets in a
bad tem/er after he throws a fit of tantrums which
comes out as a fit of asthma# He learns that if he has
asthma! all his sins are forgotten, or forgiven, and he
gets whatever he wants# Many children use asthma! as
a wea/on against /arents# "ften the first attac$ of
asthma occurs in early childhood, long before the
/arents reali7e that the child can understand what
they are tal$ing about although he has not yet
learned to tal$ himself# *o, do not tal$ about such
things in front of small babies, and find out from your
doctor whether your asthma sufferer! really has an
organic com/laint or not# If he hasAcure him# If he
has not, then /ersuade him that he hasn3t by abso-
lutely ignoring these tantrums#
Many elderly /eo/le send in letters about arthritis
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cure those two com/laints although you can very
greatly alleviate them# To start with, no one really
$nows what causes arthritis# It is /ossible to obtain
herbs which can give relief to both conditions# Herbs
by the name of motherwort, bitter root, and /rimrose
can greatly assist in overcoming rheumatismsAyes,
there are different $inds of rheumatisms@Aand
alleviating osteo-arthritis# +robably you will not be
able to obtain the herbs locally, so here you get in
touch with one of the two firms mentioned#
Many cases of arthritis and rheumatism can get
great alleviation by moving to a different district# It is
/ossible that the water su//ly is not suitable for you#
It is /ossible that the water has too many minerals, too
many hard substances, and these are conveyed
through your blood-stream to various 'oints where
they lodge and cause /ain# Many /eo/le who have not
been able to move from their district have secured
mar$ed im/rovement by getting a water filter and
filtering all water before drin$ing it# That ta$es from
three to si8 months before you observe any really
mar$ed im/rovement, but it3s worth it, isn3t it2 The
cost of a little water filter really can give you great
relief#
The things /eo/le as$@ )ll about their $idneys, all
about the se8 life, etc#, etc# (ut, first of all, let!s deal
with $idneys#
9owadays, with the horrible artificial food and
chemical /re/arations which are being /laced u/on
the mar$et in greater and greater /rofusion, /eo/le
find that their $idneys are giving trouble# *o if you
have $idney trouble, the herb motherwort is of very
real value# It will hel/ by clearing out your $idneys
and by ma$ing you generally much, much better#
If you have $idney stones Eand you are in no doubt
if you have $idney stones@F you will find that /arsley
/iert is a truly wonderful herb# The ancient name for
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which can be obtained in different forms from the
sources mentioned, has the truly invaluable /ro/erty
of causing $idney stones to crumble and turn into a
form of gravel which can be /assed without surgical
intervention#
%ou would hel/ your $idneys enormouslyAand
hel/ overcome arthritic and rheumatic conditionsAif
you would drin$ a lot of barley water# Here is the best
way to ma$e barley waterJ
*immer /earl barley with /lenty of water until it is
quite soft, then strain off the water which will be
cloudy# If you want to ma$e it more /leasant you can
mi8 it with lemonade or orangeade made with fresh
lemons or oranges Ethe 'uice and a few slivers of rindF
to which you add sugar and boiling water# 1hen you
have the barley water, then flavor it with the lemon
or orangeade and you will find it is very refreshing
and /leasant to drin$# %ou cannot drin$ too much of
it, it is most beneficial#
) s/ecial noteAsometimes the barley water
a//ears bluish-/in$ tinged, which causes some /eo/le
to thin$ there is a defect# That is not so0 if this occurs
it is quite normal# -rin$ as much as you conveniently
can of this barley water, and in a sur/risingly short
time you will find that your $idneys are much better
and that you really feel better# )t the same time as
you are having barley water treatment, avoid white of
egg# The yol$s can be ta$en, but avoid the white of
the egg, you are better off without that in any case#
Many /eo/le nowadays have nerve troubles# The
/ress of civili7ation, the constant bustling to and fro,
and all the discordant noises to which we are sub-
'ected, fray the nerves, cause headaches, cause a feel-
ing of tension and frustration# 1ell, there is no need
to let it go on, you $now, because an e8ce/tionally
fine herb is that $nown as valerian# It varies a bit in
name in different /arts of the world, so the Latin
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nerve medicine!# It has a most wonderful effect u/on
the mental and nervous system# If you are irritable
and have a dee/-seated restlessness, then you should
combine valerian with /assiflora#
These two herbs combined will hel/ those who
suffer from insomnia# Ta$e a dose of the tincture,
de/ending on your state, from five to si8ty dro/s#
This is a /air of herbs which will be of great assis-
tance in calming the alcoholic# 4ive him a good dose
of the stuff and it will calm him down quite a lot, and
if you have menstrual /ain, well, ta$e a dose as well
and it will ease your /ain#
I am often often as$ed about diabetes# 1ell, if a
/erson has a diabetic condition they must adhere to
the treatment /rescribed by their doctor, usually that
messy insulin stuff# (ut you can get relief from the
herb buchu# )s it varies in different /arts of the
world, here is the Latin nameJ barosma crenata# Its
action is to remove gravel which is caused by uric
acid# 4entlemen will also be interested to $now that
this is a very beneficial treatment for chronic /rostatic
diffculties, when they are waiting to have an o/era-
tion, or when they have refused to have an o/era-
tion#
1e have already dealt with consti/ation in another
cha/ter# (ut there are so many ways of treating con-
sti/ation, and I am going tn /ut it to you that you
should $ee/ on herbal treatment for consti/ation#
Herbs are natural, herbs hel/, whcreas if you are going
to use some of these fearsome chemical /re/arations
you are going to end u/ with a case of severe internal
inflammation# Try cascara, try syru/ of figs, try senna,
try anything of that ty/e, and if you want something
which wor$s without /ain but which also deserves the
title of faith /ill!, then you should try the /ills which
Heath P Heather label >>5!# They really wor$# (ut
while on that sub'ect, do not be too an8ious to ta$e
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consti/ation because they rcally scour one out, and if
you have to ta$e the /owdered concoctions ma$e sure
you don3t have to go to wor$ the ne8t day# %ou may
be so busy! that you haven3t time to@
There is little /oint, really, in adding to our herbal
comments because some herbs are common to one
/art of the world and are quite un$nown in another#
The firms mentioned obviously are out to ma$e
money, and so that they may the more easily do that
they have an advisory de/artment to which you can
write for information as to which of their /re/ara-
tions will best suit your needs# It is better to do that if
you are in doubt, and it is better to deal with one
firm rather than to sho/ around! for someone who
may be slightly, slightly chea/er# The two firms
mentioned, and in whom I have no interest, financial
or otherwise, are reliable firms who can really be
trusted# I am not advertising them for /ayment# I am
giving you the names because I cannot give you the
names of any re/utable su//liers of the raw herbs#
*o, I ho/e that these comments will be of some
benefit to you#
+eo/le seem to have a sur/assing interest in /ro-
/hecy!# They want to $now what is going to ha//en
to where, when# I said that /art of )meriea would
submerge# %es, of course it will, but /eo/le want to
$now how and when# They seem to thin$ I can tell
them to ten seconds or so, but I cannot because so
much de/ends u/on )mericans#
-ee/ under the +acific "cean, off the )merican
coast, there is a very serious flaw, a fault in the Earth3s
crust# ,onsider two boards, one is 'ust barely over-
la//ing the other along one edge# They are safe
enough /rovided no one gives them a sha$e, but
when one does give a board a sha$e, dis/lacement
occurs, and down they both dro/ with a real clum/!#
"ff the coast of )merica this fault in the seabed is
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another, and an earthqua$e could dislodge the u//er
edge and cause it to slide down, giving a quite
un/leasant tilt to the nearby )merican coastline,
stretching along the +acific ,oast and affecting from
.lorida to 9ew %or$# )n earthqua$e could do it#
)way out in the 9evada -esert, )merican scien-
tists who should $now better are detonating atom
bombs in the earth# They are causing earth tremors#
9ow, I cannot forecast when some /articularly
moronic scientist will detonate a bigger-than-intended
bomb and sha$e the fault loose# If he does, he might
find his feet getting wet# (ut this will occur eventu-
ally# It may not occur for five years, or fifty years# The
/robabilities are that it will be some time within the
two limits, that is between five and fifty, but these are
things which cannot accurately be forecast because
the difference between five and fifty in Earth time is
so infinitesimal in greater time that one would have
to have a whole string of noughts following a decimal
/oint# The /robabilities are, though, that if )meri-
cans $ee/ on meddling with atom bombs about which
they $now nothing, they will do immense damage to
the whole structure of the world#
If )mericans want to be safe they should move to
higher ground, /articularly round about the oc$ies#
It must also be understood that the )merican
authorities are well aware of the dangers in this fault,
but )merica is a /olitically influenced country, and
the ,alifornia area is a very wealthy area indeed#
There are some fantastically rich e8/loiters of land
develo/ment, and if the 4overnment should quite
reasonably declare that certain areas are not fit for
habitation because of the ris$ of earthqua$es and
eventual subsidence, then the real estate s/eculators
would raise such a howl of wrath that the )merican
4overnment would to//le because )merica is ruled
by the )lmighty -ollar, and a few thousand cases of
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s/eculators or to the /oliticians#
Many, many geo/hysicists have warned the
4overnment about the dangers in ,alifornia, but
they have been shut-u/! with great effectiveness# I
invite them to try to shut-u/! me# I state em/hati-
cally that )merica is in grave danger on the coasts
because no one is ta$ing any thought to the future#
9o doubt there will be a nice elief .und for those
still alive, but if some of these detonations in the
9evada -esert could be sto//ed now, then a elief
.und later would not be required#
In the meantime I can only advise /eo/le to move
to higher land when /ossible# Ma$e a /lan to move
about five years from now, and ho/e that the earth-
qua$e won3t occur for another fifty# In connection
with this, many, many e8/erts are stating that a great
,alifornian earthqua$e is overdue# *oAyou have
been warned#
+eo/le write to me telling me that in Chapters of
Life I made certain /ro/hecies, but I did not mention
)ustralia or )frica or this or that country# 9o, of
course I didn!t@ I $now a lot about a lot of countries,
but I did not set out to com/ile a guided tour of dis-
asters or changes# I merely gave basic indications#
However, let3s have a loo$ at )ustralia#
)t /resent )ustralia is a vast continent s/arsely in-
habited merely on coastal regions# )ustralia could
ta$e a billion more /eo/le and hardly notice it, but
the heart of )ustralia is arid# There is not much life
there, there is at /resent no /ossibility of cultivating
the desert areas# In many years to come the dead heart
of )ustralia will be e8cavated by controlled atomic
blasts# There will be a large la$e made in the center
of )ustralia, and it will fill u/ quic$ly from great
masses of fresh water, dee/ beneath the earth, which
now has no fissure through which it may reach the
surface# In years to come the interior of )ustralia will
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com/leted its ban$s will be fringed with trees and
bushes im/orted from (ra7il, and the whole climate
will change as soon as the trees get rooted# .or trees
contribute materially to the im/rovement of a
climate# The country will become /astoral in its
interior, there will then be adequate water, and the
more the trees grow, the more water there will be in
the form of rains#
In the far distant future )ustralia, ,anada, and
(ra7il will be the leading countries# (ut )ustralia,
li$e ,anada, has to mature first because both are
immature, and even childish, and they will have
much suffering because it a//ears that only suffering
can teach# +eo/le do not learn by $indness, but only
through /ain and misery# ,ountries which have
things too easy, and have too high a standard of liv-
ing, 'ust cannot, or will not, learn, and those
countries have to be brought down so that by suffer-
ing and starvation, and by stri$es and strife they learn
the bitter lessons of life and eventually will do some-
thing to im/rove matters#
In the years to come )rgentina will flourish# In the
years to come )rgentina will get bac$ the Maldives
which will later be used as a scientific research base
for wor$ in connection with &#.#"#s and the )nt-
arctic# )t /resent )rgentina is having a very bad time
indeed, but )rgentinos should ta$e heart from the
fact that these are as the birth /angs of a far greater
country# In years to come )rgentina will be a very
great, very im/ortant country indeed, with a most
stable 4overnment and a most stable economy# The
)$ashic ecord of +robabilities indicated that
&ruguay, the ne8t door neighbor of )rgentina,
would have occu/ied that coveted /osition# &ruguay
was going to be the 4arden of *outh )merica, it, too,
was going to have a la$e in its interior which would
vivify the arid land and ma$e it fertile and ca/able of
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country which has, u/ to now, had no suffering, and
so the /eo/le of &ruguay were not able to measure u/
to the standard of integrity which would have been
demanded# 9ow they are having stri$e after stri$e, and
the whole country seems to be on stri$e, and the
course of evolution does not delay 'ust while one
country settles its internal dis/utes# Thus, the law of
+robabilities moves on, and )rgentina ta$es the much
greater /lace of small &ruguay#
)rgentina, then, and (ra7il, will be the great, great
forces in *outh and ,entral )merica, with /erha/s a
/re/onderance of success going to )rgentina because
the tem/erature in that country is more suitable to
/romote human activities# The tem/eratures in
(ra7il are too equatorial to enable anyone to dis/lay
any great energy#
+eo/le write to me about )frica, what do I thin$ of
)frica# )frica is a continent of turmoil, a continent
enraged internally by the onslaughts of clandestine
attac$s by ussian and ,hinese ,ommunism, attac$s
which can ruin the continent3s integrity# .or years
there will be s/lits and dissensions in )frica, and the
hodesia of today, with its hatred of everything and
everybody, will be swe/t away# In later years the
whole of )frica will revert to its original status of the
(lac$ ,ontinent!# It will be ruled by colored /eo/le,
it will be inhabited by colored /eo/le, and any
white /erson there will be there on sufferance only#
There will not be /o/ulated cities of white /eo/le as
at /resent, they will all be colored#
(ut even later in history the whites and the blac$s
will get together again, but on a more amicable basis,
and eventuallyAas I have said in other boo$sAthere
will be but one color u/on the Earth which will be
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,H)+TE EI4HT

1ELL,! said the "ld Man, attem/ting to straighten
out some of the $in$s in his bac$ and wishing that
wheelchairs weren!t so horribly uncomfortable, here
is another cha/ter finished# )re you going to read it
and see what you thin$2!
.or some time there was silence, bro$en only by
the sound of rustling /a/ers# Then, at last, came the
noise of a bundle of /a/ers being thum/ed down on a
table#
(ut@! said Mrs# "ld Man, you said you were going
to mention a cure for toothacheAyou $now a lot of
/eo/le have as$ed about these things so why not tell
them how to get rid of toothache2!
The "ld Man sighed, and said, If /eo/le have got
things wrong with their teeth the only cure is to have
the wretched tooth out# I never did believe in silly
things li$e fillings#!
Mrs# "ld Man sniggered to herself, and re/lied,
9o, but you don3t have any teeth either, or at least,
none worth mentioning@!
The "ld Man loo$ed a bit glum as he felt the few
remaining teeth with his tongue# *till,! he thought,
there are no fillings among them, and I would have
had more if I hadn3t had my 'aw smashed so badly#!
)loud he said, )ll right Let3s tell them something
about how to cure toothache!
Modern science Eof course, that should be modern
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9ature3s remedy for toothache# Modern medical
science often /rescribes an entirely artificial substance
which has the most unfortunate vice of sensiti7ing! a
/erson against it# )s it seems to me to be an invention
of the -evil I will not mention its name, but there is
one quite infallible natural cure for toothache#
4o to your drugstore and obtain a small bottle of
oil of cloves, and then, when you get home, get a little
ball of cotton wool and /ut a dro/ or two of oil of cloves
on itJ 4ently rub the gum surrounding the offending
tooth with the oil of cloves, and if the tooth has a
cavity /ut a small amount of cotton wool, soa$ed in oil
of cloves, so that it rests in the cavity# 1ithin seconds
your toothache will sto/#
%ou should obtain the best grade of oil of cloves
that you can, because the better the gradeAthe more
unadulteratedAthe quic$er the relief#
"ld country /eo/le often $ee/ a few coo$ing cloves
in a 'ar, and at the first sign of toothache they /ut a
clove on the offending tooth and bite down so that the
clove is crushed and the oil inside covers the tooth#
This is one of the oldest, and still one of the most
modern, cures for toothache#
9o matter that this is very efficient, you still need
to go to your dentist to find out what really caused the
toothache, because you can3t $ee/ on dun$ing a bad
tooth in oil of cloves, can you2 The best thing is to
have the wretched thing out@ Incidentally, I always
wonder why dental treatment is such a brutal affair# I
have never yet had any /ainless dental treatment, and
it does seem to be an area which could do with a lot of
research# If I had a lot of money, and so could get my
auric machine going, dentists would be able to see
much more clearly what is wrong with teeth, and how
to get them out /ainlessly# 1hat I had visuali7ed was
a thing li$e an instant-/hotogra/h camera which
would ta$e a /hotogra/h of the aura of a /erson so
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the aura which are im/ortant, you $now# the bright-
ness of the colours and their /articular striations# If
one loo$s at an aura, and one sees the colour of a
disease, then, given suitable a//aratus, it would be
quite /ossible to cure the disease before it really got a
hold# "ne would cure it by a//lying the necessary
contra-colours which would change the degraded!
colour of the illness, and so, by sym/athetic reaction,
the /erson would be cured from the aura to the
/hysical body#
This is not a wild /i/e-dream# It is a thing which
really wor$s# It is a thing which doctors should
investigate# &nfortunately medical treatment is a
hundred years or so behind the times, and if doctors
would only get down to business and investigate new
ideas instead of saying, That is im/ossible, )ristotle
did not teach it,! then, no doubt /eo/le would not
suffer /ain so much#
.or those who desire to e8/eriment with the auraA
and who have some moneyAlet them try buying one
of those reasonably chea/ television cameras, and
connect it to a television set# The camera should be
set to receive and transmit much higher frequencies
Ethat is, a higher /art of the s/ectrumF than is usual for
/ictures# )nd if the ad'ustment is carried out cor-
rectly the onloo$ers can see a fu77y re/roduction of a
human body with various gray strea$s and lines and
sworls around the body#
If /eo/le want to e8/eriment with a camera, and
they have some $nowledge of chemistry, it is /ossible
to ma$e sensitive material which can record a much
higher frequency than that normally used in ortho-
do8 /hotogra/hic wor$# This also wor$s because I
have ta$en /ictures of the human aura, and I have
destroyed such /ictures because it gets utterly mono-
tonous when some scientist says that such things
cannot be, therefore the /ictures must be fa$es!# )
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when a /icture has been /roduced in front of him, he
still thin$s there is some tric$ somewhere, and it does
a//ear to me that the world is not yet ready for auric
/hotogra/hy# It needs to have the scientific geniuses!
educated for a few years more#
*ight, and sound, and touch are very interesting
sub'ects, you $now# They are all /art of the same
s/ectrum of vibration# -o you ever sto/ to thin$
when touch becomes sight or sound2
If you are touching a thing you get a very crude
vibration which im/resses that /art of your body with
which it is in contact that here is a sub'ect of some
/articular com/osition, that is, density# %ou can also
see such a thing# (ut then, do you reali7e that you
cannot see a sound wave, nor can you hear the thing
which you see# If we go from our touch /oint of view
u/wards on the scale of the s/ectrum, we hear a
sound# That sound may be of a low note, that is
almost on the touch scale, or it may be a high note
which is almost into the sight scale# 1hen your ears
fail to res/ond to certain vibrations because they have
gone too high, then your sight ta$es over# %ou may,
for e8am/le, see a dull red# (ut, 'ust thin$ about
sight in your ne8t meditation#
1hen you see a thing you do not touch that thing#
It may be in a glass bottle, it may be billions of miles
away in s/ace# (ut yet the thing which you see is
touching you or you would not be able to /erceive it#
%ou can only see an article when that article is vibrat-
ing so much that it is continually throwing off /ar-
ticles of itself and generating vibrations which cross
s/ace and everything else to reach you# (ut these
vibrations are so frailAso wea$Athat even a sheet of
blac$ /a/er can cut them out, while the coarse
vibrations of sound can /enetrate even a stone wall#
"ne could say that this life and the astral life are
re/resented in this manner# The coarse vibrations of
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and higher vibrations of sight would re/resent the
astral#
There are many senses available to us in the astral
which we do not even $now about when in the
/hysical# +eo/le write to me and they as$ how is it
/ossible for a fourth dimensional /erson toAwell, as
an illustrationAdro/ a stone into one3s living room# I
thin$ the /erson who wrote had 'ust read an account
in a news/a/er about a haunted house wherein stones
were thrown into loc$ed rooms# The answer to that is
that in the third dimensional world of the flesh we are
only able to /erceive in the dimensions of the flesh,
and if there was an o/ening somewhere else, the flesh
body3s eyes would not be able to /erceive it#
Let us assume that humans can only loo$ down, or
they are two dimensional# *o, as they can only loo$
down they cannot see the ceiling above# (ut if a
/erson outside the room can /erceive that there is no
ceiling there, then that /erson can easily toss a bric$
in to the /erson who cannot loo$ u/# That is rather a
crude way of e8/laining it, but what really ha//ens is
that every room, or everything on Earth, has another
o/ening, another a/erture, which humans on Earth
cannot /erceive because they lac$ the necessary organ
with which to /erceive that dimension# %et a /erson
who is in a fourth dimensional world can ma$e use of
that o/ening and /ass things through it into what, to
the third dimensional inhabitant, is a closed s/ace#
This ty/e of 'o$e! is often /layed by lower entities
who li$e to /ose as /oltergeists#
1e must not forget the lady who wrote in and
as$ed me if I could e8/lain in sim/le terms the
nature of tele/athy# *he had read my other boo$s, but
a//arently this sub'ect of tele/athy had her com-
/letely baffled# Let3s see what we can do, shall we2
Even scientists now agree that the brain generates
electricity# There are medical /rocedures in which
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on the head, and four squiggly lines indicate four
different levels of thought# .or some strange reason
these four squiggly lines are given 4ree$ names,
which doesn3t concern us at all# (ut the brain
generates electricity, and the electricity varies accord-
ing to what one is thin$ing in much the same way as
if when one is s/ea$ing into a micro/hone, the words
generate a current which continuously varies in in-
tensity according to what is being said# In a ta/e
recorder, for e8am/le, one s/ea$s and one3s s/eech
im/resses minute magnetic currents on a s/ecially
/re/ared ta/e# )fterwards, when the ta/e is /layed
bac$, one obtains a re/roduction of the original
s/eech# The human brain generates an electric cur-
rent which other brains can /ic$ u/, in much the
same way as the ta/e on a ta/e recorder /ic$s u/ the
minute im/ulses from voice vibrations which are
transferred to electric im/ulses#
1hen you thin$, you broadcast your thoughts#
Most /eo/le are immune to the noise of the thoughts
of other /eo/le, and fortunately so because everyone
is thin$ing something all the time, and unless /eo/le
were immune to that continuous, non-sto/, never-
ending noise, one would go quite round the bend!#
(y s/ecial training, or by a flu$e of 9ature, one can
tune-in to thoughts, because, as our brains generate
electricity, so they are able to receive electric im/res-
sions# It is a form of tele/athy which $ee/s the body
in touch with the "verself, the tele/athy in this in-
stance being a very s/ecial ultra high frequency
current going from the brain of the flesh body, by way
of the *ilver ,ord, and on to the "verself#
(ut, to re/ly in the sim/lest /ossible terms to the
question, How does tele/athy wor$2! it is necessary
only to say that every brain acts as a radio transmitter
and radio receiver, and if you $new how to switch on
your receiver you would be inundated with every-
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those with whom you are com/atible far more easily
than you can /ic$ u/ the thoughts of those with
whom you are not com/atible# )nd a good e8ercise is
to guess! what a /erson whom you $now well is going
to say ne8t# If you guess! for some time, you will soon
discover that your successes are far outstri//ing the
laws of chance, and when you begin to reali7e that
you are well on the way to tele/athic communication
with the /erson with whom you are com/atible# Here
again, it is a matter which needs /ractice and
/atience, and when you are tele/athic you will wish
you were not, because life will be a constant babble,
what with humans and animals all the time tal$ing to
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CHAPTER NINE

"utside the window the noise and the clamor were
continuous# High-s/eed /neumatic hammers were
drilling holes many feet into the old roc$, a roc$
which used to be the site of many fine old houses# In
years gone by the wives of sea ca/tains lived here, and
$e/t their nightly vigil of the sea, waiting for their
men to return home, home to the haven of the harbour
with the ever-burning light bec$oning from the house
windows# "ne fine old house, towering above the
others, had stood /roud for years, and in its declining
days the ghost of the old lady who had watched, and
watched in vain, for the return of her beloved hus-
band, had become well $nown# 9ightly she stood at
the /ort side window, with her hands holding aside
the dra/es so that she could see the more clearly#
9ight after night, in ghostly outline, she stood there,
/eering, /eering, see$ing the man who never came
bac$ to her, the man whose body lay beneath the
surface of the ocean a thousand miles from home#
9ow the house was down, demolished# The whole
street of houses was down, and the voracious drills
and hammers were biting at the living roc$, tearing it
u/ in great chun$s to ma$e way for the /rogress of
civili7ation# Here would be a great road, an artery of
the community# ) road s/anning the city, s/anning,
too, the river, lin$ing one side to the other by a new
bridge# The clamour was continuous# Immense bull-
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shovels gouged into the soil, truc$s rattled and roared
at all hours of the day and night# There was the
shouting of men, and the bar$ing of dogs, and /eace
had fled long ago#
The "ld Man bent over the letters from readers,
and set aside the last one# Mrs# "ld Man loo$ed u/,
/erha/s with a sigh of relief to see that wor$ was
coming to an end# Then she rose to feed the Little
4irl ,ats who had come bustling in to say that it was
their teatime, and could they have their food in a
hurry, /lease, because they had thought a lot and
were very hungry# *o Mrs# "ld Man went off with a
cat on each side#
The "ld Man turned to (uttercu/, (uttercu/
who, in */anish, was mis-named )ma/ola# (utter-
cu/,! said the "ld Man, it doesn3t matter that there
has been a mail stri$e, we3ve done some good wor$ in
answering all these queries, haven3t we2!
(uttercu/ loo$ed /leased to thin$ that wor$ was
coming to an end for another day, %ou only started
this fourteen days ago,! she said, and now the boo$
is finished in record time#!
%es,! re/lied the "ld Man, but you3ve ty/ed seven
thousand words a day, haven3t you2 )nd now we3ve
come to an end#!
(uttercu/ smiled with /leasure at the thought#
1ell, in that case I will 'ust ty/e

THE E9-!

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KINDNESS TO PUBLISHERS DEPARTMENT

TH"&4H"&T the years since The Third Eye first
a//eared I have had a tremendous amount of mai>
and u/ to the /resent I have always answered that
mail# 9ow I have to say that I am no longer able to
re/ly to any mail at all unless adequate return
/ostage is enclosed# *o /lease do 9"T send letters to
my +ublisher for forwarding to me because I have
as$ed my +ublisher not to forward any letters#
+eo/le forget that they /ay for a (""=, and 9"T a
lifetime of free /ost-/aid advisory service# +ublishers
are +&(LI*HE*Anot a letter forwarding service#
I have letters from all over the world, even from
well behind the Iron ,urtain, but not one in several
thousand /eo/le encloses return /ostage, and the cost
is so much that I can no longer underta$e re/lies#
+eo/le as$ such /eculiar things, too# Here are 'ust
someJ
There was a very des/erate letter from )ustralia
which reached me when I was in Ireland# The matter
was Ea//arentlyF truly urgent, so at my own e8/ense I
sent a cable to )ustralia, and I did not even receive a
note of than$s#
) certain gentleman in the &#*#)# wrote me a
letter -EM)9-I94 that I should immediately write a
thesis for him and send it by return airmail# He
wanted to use it as his thesis to obtain a -octorate in
"riental +hiloso/hy# "f course he did not enclose any
/ostage, it was merely a somewhat threatening de-
mand@

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