It has the disadvantage of beingsomething new and
unaccustomed.
It is wonderful exploration, a whole new country.
Wehave to have primers in a primary school.
If any of us expected great things because it had
what it wanted, we weredisappointed. You were born with wings: why prefer to crawl
through life? We must not only seethat it is so: we must MAKE IT SO.
It seemed to me that the automatic writing had been
muchbetter. It is allvery well to say let us be more spiritual, but how are we to
accomplishit? So comically like a dog friskingin delight was it that we all burst
into laughter.
That manifestation with yourself and by yourself,
you must getbefore you will gain any response.
It would be silly to adopt such atheory merely
because of that claim.
In the light of that illumination it wouldbe
possible to rewrite my earlier compilation.
You saw the fields perhaps, but youdid not sense
them.
Get a pencil, it spelled, Get a pencil,
insistently, over and over.
Empty the foreground of your mind, said the
Invisibles. It seemed to me that the automatic writing had been
muchbetter.
It is theenergy of measure for measure, given and
received!
One is, the extraordinary initial oppositionthat
always meets the process. We must WANT to reach out in harmony with spiritual
forces.
We must WANT to reach out in harmony with spiritual
forces.
The provisional hypothesis must be the existence
ofinvisible intelligences. The value of the thing offeredmust lie in itself,
regardless of its source. The occasion was derisive and gay,-and pretty muddled. Of
course we realized that the choice of these methods probably dependedon what was to
be got over.
They described it in ahundred different
ways.
If thatproportion is overbalanced ON EITHER SIDE
trouble always results.
On the date I have mentioned, some friends called
on usbringing one of these with them. In any research work it is always important to
know the equipment of theexperimenter.
Do not getthe attitude of yours received and placed
on file. Two people-or a group-fooling with thething as a lark or out of curiosity.