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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Transition
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[Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters]
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We know that the Truth will open your spiritual eyes and
your understanding, and you will know that what seemed to
you a loss at the time is no longer considered such. You
will learn that those who go through the change called
death are passing through a transition, the soul giving up
the body temple, which for some reason or other it can no
longer express through or bring into health. Your dear one
has not gone away. He is abiding in the heart of the
Father, and you have learned that the Father is
omnipresent. So all His children are just where their
consciousness draws and holds them, whether they are
functioning in the physical or have temporarily laid aside
the flesh body.
It will help you to know that souls keep on being
re-embodied as children until they come into the Christ
consciousness and have perfect dominion over mind and body
and affairs. Your dear one may already be building a new
body temple in which to learn more lessons to unfold the
God qualities.
In understanding the law of life and coming into the light
of Truth, we give up many of our old conceptions of God and
of ourselves and of life here and "hereafter." We find that
spiritual unity and love and expression are eternal. We
cease to grieve when a dear one has gone from our sense
sight and human surroundings.
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We enter into the inner place of light and peace, and know
that the Father is helping that one to do what his soul
requires--just as He is ever helping us.
Your hearing your dear one's voice in the night may have
been the result of your subconscious yearning and desire to
hear him and to know he was near. Or it may have been his
soul's desire and effort to reach your consciousness and
comfort you. The soul is consciousness, and those who are
spiritually awake can direct their thinking and reach those
who are near to them. His thoughts of love could reach you
during the stillness of your intellect and your faculties
could register the thoughts and report them to the
intellect; and you felt that you actually heard the voice.
This will make you to know that hearing is mental and that
the ears are but instruments to catch and radiate the
things heard to the various parts of the body consciousness.
It was not necessary for you to answer. Your dear one felt
your response. It is not wise to cling to those who have
gone from the body. It tends to bind them to past
experiences, and possibly delays their turning to the
Father for divine guidance and further progress.
Living with memories isn't fulfilling God's plan for your
life. God is life, within you, eagerly seeking unity with
other life, yearning to picture forth the health and joy
and strength and usefulness that there is in all God life.
God is love that must be converted
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into loving--loving things of the present, those about you,
the thoughts and words and works that are adding to the
wealth and peace and beauty of the world now.
Dear, would it shock you if I told you I do not believe
that those souls whom you have known as friends in the
past--and who failed to understand and conform to the
divine law of life so that they could stay with the body
and work out the divine harmony of His kingdom at the time
you knew them in the flesh--are in the least interested in
keeping up the old connections and friendships! Why, they
are no doubt awake to the fact that they lacked much in the
way of light and power and life, and they are surely much
more interested in getting at the vital Truth and its
application, so that they shall not again fall short and be
obliged to change their environment and rebuild a body
temple for further expression! These souls who pass through
the transition that is termed death are not nearly so
likely to crystallize in the past as are some of us who
stay on, looking toward the past for our interest and
happiness. They must have found it necessary to wake up and
get hold of new ideas and make new friendships, to give
them inspiration and help.
So bless the past and the old friendships, and turn from
them, knowing that they are not the vital issue now. All
that another has meant to you has left its imprint upon
your soul so that you profit by it daily. And this is all
that is of value to you.
There is no reason to suppose that a soul out of the
physical body is not aware of what is going on about
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it. At least, since the soul is consciousness, it is
reasonable to assume that it is aware of all that interests
it and which it desires to identify itself with.
One who had been spiritually awake and active in soul and
body would not be likely to fall asleep even though the
body were for some reason given up. Such a one would be on
the alert to satisfy his soul hunger and to appreciate all
that he could experience without the flesh and the centers
of physical structure which his consciousness had built.
It is a sorrow to have a loved one go through the
experience of death. But we show a greater love for our
dear one by refusing to hang on to the sorrow and by
turning our undivided attention to learning how better to
live by the divine law, and how to help others to avoid the
experience of death. Your son would not have you cling to
him in thought; nor would he wish you to come to him
through death. He is a splendid soul, and would have you
learn the Truth and live it here and now.
Instead of thinking about going to him, out of the body,
begin to be glad that he is coming into the body again, in
the splendid way all souls have of getting into the
physical--as a babe. The only way by which we shall ever be
eternally united with our loved ones is to come into the
Jesus Christ consciousness of life. Learn to keep the
divine law of life, which means the renewal and
transformation of the physical body, so that spirit, soul,
and body may remain unified, and
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the righteous self-expression in all three departments of
being may continue.
We are with you constantly, dear, to help you realize that
all is well. Your dear one did not know how to let go of
the limitations into which her mind had got, nor how to
renew and build up her body. So to her it is a rest, and an
opportunity to lay aside the body for a time and to break
the conscious connection with things going on around her,
until the divine urge within her again prompts her to build
the body temple and take up lessons here in the physical.
If your mother had gone away on a vacation and you knew she
was in loving hands, you would not be grieved or worried,
would you? Well, now, that is just what has taken place.
She is resting from the suffering and the problems that she
did not know how to manage. She is in the presence of God,
just as you are; and the best way to show your love for her
is to let go all human longing and all sense of loss, so
that this soul who welcomed you as a babe, and who has
cared for you, may rest assured all is well with you. Your
mother has just gone into a different schoolroom of life,
where the divine Father-Mother is the teacher.
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