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Our treasured<br />and loyal friends:<br />

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No earthly possessions can make <br />you feel as rich and content<br />

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as spiritual knowledge, for<br />earthly possessions give transitory joy<br />while spiritual knowledge gives eternal joy <br />

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Life has many facets.<br />In order to control our lives, <br />we must<br />become aware of the <br />cause of all things.<br />

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We have endeavored<br /> to give you the basic knowledge of God – Light which centers you and thus know<br />your ONENESS with our Creator and with all <br />of His Creation<br />

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Until men attain this understanding <br />they will continue to create situations which <br />lead to personal tragedies for themselves<br />and to wars between nations.<br />

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Love is all there is.<br />To understand the meaning <br />of love <br />is man’s eternal lesson<br />

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The human race has reached the stage where<br /> love put into practice is the only hope for<br /> human survival<br />

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That is why you must now extend what you <br />have learned to others through your way of life,<br />in your home and in your social and business contacts<br />

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Just as a tree obtains its strength from its<br />invisible roots, so does man obtains his strength<br />from his invisible spiritual Self<br />

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There never can be progress in the visible universe<br />without the power of the invisible Self<br />

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That is why we <br />have endeavored <br />to teach you<br />WHO YOU ARE<br />and WHAT YOU ARE <br />and to aid you in unfolding <br />your desire to fulfill<br />YOUR PURPOSE ON EARTH<br />

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Our desire and purpose is to impart to you the knowledge <br />God has bestowed upon us to give to mankind at this crucial period<br /> of his unfolding <br />so that peace and <br />happiness can become a permanent way of life for all men.<br />

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Some day, perhaps some far distant day,<br />man will comprehend this Divine Message from God.<br />

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We pray that we may live to see it accepted in all its fullness<br />Should we not, however, we know in our deepest depths that the<br />day will come when man – in – the – mass WILL understand<br />God’s great Message<br />

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There will be times when you<br />may feel that you have even lost<br />contact with God<br />because many experiences<br />come that try man’s Soul.<br />

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God’s greatest messengers have known such moments.<br />At the hour of Christ’s crucifixion He, too, felt that as He cried:<br />“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”<br />

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No man ahead<br /> of his day <br />has had <br />an easy road <br />and crucifixion <br />has been<br />the lot of many<br />Cosmic Messengers<br />

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Laotzu slipped away from the world of man when he could <br />no longer stand the “crowd’s” indifference<br />

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That is how you will sometimes feel as we, too,<br /> have sometimes felt, for we have never spared ourselves.<br />It takes great courage <br />and fortitude to continue<br />to give God’s Message <br />in the indifference<br />of the “crowds”<br />

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However, the desire to slip away is only fleeting<br />for with the dawn of a new day, <br />inspiration is born<br />

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It always seems <br />that God <br />has especially sent messages at these crucial<br />times to renew our strength.<br />

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It is not easy to keep <br />strong when one sees <br />such destruction taking <br />place in the world of man as<br />we have seen these<br />past years.<br />When you know that all this<br />could change if man would <br />only awaken to the CAUSE<br />of his “sickness”<br />It is hard not to feel frustration<br />because of man’s blindness.<br />

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Do as we do when you feel that man is completely blind<br />Go within yourself and commune with God<br />

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This is the one and only place where <br />a renewal of strength can be found.<br />Only in the sensed – world <br />of man are you a voice<br />crying in the wilderness<br />

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“I dearly love our beautiful green<br />Blue Ridge Mount<br />and every precious living thing which grows upon it, and on its very <br />top where we, together,<br />Live without count<br />I will with my <br />beloved Lao work<br />until we eternally<br />Live within it.”<br /> Walter<br />Doctor Russell<br />wrote the following<br />poem to me on <br />the occasion of our<br />wedding anniversary <br />on July 29, 1962.<br />Somehow we felt you <br />would treasure it . . . <br />Had you not been one<br />in thought with us,<br />you would not have<br />desired our teachings.<br />Paintings are from Mario Dunguay, www.mariodunguay.com<br />Thanks to Mario Dunguay for being with Walter & Lao Russell, also a messenger of Light <br />through his Art.<br />

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Extracted from the<br /> original & out of print Walter & Lao’s<br />Home Study Course<br />III Edition (1950)<br />