1410 AUTOMATIC WRITING, c. 1920   Manek. Manek is the name of the old introducer of the writing. Let us get rid of him at once. My name does not greatly matter. I am a spirit of the higher realms not present on the earth, but communicating from above. First, let me tell the purpose of the script. It is to open a first means of embodied communication with the other worlds. There can be other means, but this was the readiest at the time. In all respects it was the most suitable. As a beginning only. The object now is to introduce the wider knowledge of past, present and future beyond the range of the present terrestrial mind—That is all today—   1411 AUTOMATIC WRITINGS,

1400 AUTOMATIC WRITINGS, c. 1914 (FIRST SET)   [1]   Nothing is new in the world—What do you mean by new—New, in a sort of way, in relation to what is expressed within your knowledge—Let it go—All is well—That is too rigid a way of putting it—Why—Of all—That is a delicate question—I don't think I shall—You settle that yourselves—What of him? To you? What is he to you? Why does the Trinity need Abdul Baha—Need? then how can you act— Too much pliability to the infinite. He is too much in contact with past worlds of beings who seek to fulfil themselves in him and prevent the final formation of certain things which would otherwise take a shape powerful for action.—That

1353 RECORD OF DRISHTI, 30 JULY 1927   July 30th 1927 1. Ch.l. [Champaklal] lolling and rolling in a chair trance- awake. Intimation. "The most material will now be conscious." 2 A palm-tree of inordinate length growing from the bottom of the side of a well, climbing up and emerging above the earth level. All below now open (the subconscient awake). The palm-tree indicates the victory of conscious life and awakened spirit. 3. One in a cap stan

1345 NOTES ON PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION c. JANUARY 1927   4 mistakes— 1. Began on a mistaken or merely theoretic knowledge—about absorption from outside 2. Giving up of food is not the condition for finding the secret, it is the result of finding the secret. 3. Cessation of hunger, feeling fed, refusal of food by the body not a sign; it proceeds from the body vital, not from the body substance 4. The entire secret can be found and made effective only when the body is brought into the right cond

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