For anyone who might be interested, I put this excerpt in the Personal column
of our local paper for Good Friday. It seems to me that Traditionalism creates
obstacles and obscures the more optimistic view from those who should receive
it…
Extract from “WHAT DOES RESURRECTION MEAN FOR THE SOUL”, spoken by the spirit
of the Scribe in the Bible (Mark 12:28-34) through the deep trance mediumship
of Miss Winifred Moyes at the Greater World Christian Spiritualist Circle on
Easter Sunday, April 13th 1941.
"This is the time of resurrection; in the degree that you can sacrifice - then
indeed it shall be Easter for you…
"You cannot sorrow for yourself when you have stemmed the sorrow of another.
The great law of service works on faithfully for everyone. Those even in their
deepest sufferings can link up with Jesus the Christ and face the fiercest test
unafraid, knowing that they shall never see death, but glorious life and a love
that shall close every wound in heart and mind and body.
"There are those who criticise, but when their body is no more, the
consciousness of opportunity utilised or of opportunity thrown away will come
to them. But in that next stage, God, in His great mercy, will send to them the
teachers and the leaders, and they will be seekers and will seek until they
find - and they shall find, after the transition, their resurrection in very
truth.
"The workers are blessed and in the measure that they have striven so Divine
protection is around them. The message to everyone is that if only they will
take Christ at His word, if only they will trust Him, they shall find that what
has been uttered by the Sacred One is true: 'He that believeth on Me shall
never see death': but immortal life shall be opened to them for evermore.
"At this Easter-tide pray that in very truth the Garden of Gethsemane and
Calvary shall be forgotten and that you will look forward with hope, with an
ever-growing faith; so that when the River of Life is crossed, you shall find
marked upon you the sign of honour that shows that you were shepherds, and that
the sheep hearkened to your voice."
