A Revolution of the Soul
When the world understands its spiritual importance there will be a revolution mightier than all the revolutions of war and blood. It will be a revolution of the soul and, all over the world, people will claim what is their due - the right to enjoy to the full the liberties of the spirit. Away will go every restriction which has put fetters on them. Allegiance not to a Creed, not to a Book, not to a Church, but to the Creator of life and to His eternal natural laws.

In all countries a mighty force of the spirit will be felt, for there is a great work to be done to counteract the selfishness and the ignorance of your world. In time it will conquer, but, in the process, there will be much travail. Plenty of workers have come to take their stand at your side. There are those who are known to you, those who are bound to you with ties of blood and others who are attracted to serve you out of the love that they bear for you. When you think of those whose names you know, try to realise the countless host of the unknown, who serve without any desire to be known or recognised, but who give their power to be used.

The world will not be converted in a blinding flash. Gradually, the light of spiritual truths will break through, as more people become aware of the great knowledge and more instruments are available for the power of the Creator to use. The things of the spirit require careful nurture and progress.

Each soul that moves out of darkness into the light, out of ignorance into knowledge, out of superstition into truth, is helping to advance the world, for each one of these is a nail that is driven into the coffin of the world's materialism. What we must all learn is that there are two forms of development. You can unfold that which is of the soul and you can unfold that which is of the spirit. One is the development of only the psychic faculty, and the other is soul-growth. Where you get the development of the psychic without the spiritual, there you have a low plane of vibration. When you get a combination of both, then you have not only a great medium but a great man or great woman.

Those who strive to live against the law reap for themselves the results of bitter harvest. Those who live with the law reap a harvest of happiness and plenty, in the things of matter and in the things of the spirit. Through all the darkness that prevails, do not abandon hope, but be assured in the knowledge that those who work with you for the upliftment of humankind, who strive to bring better conditions into your world of matter, will prevail, for the power that is on their side is the mightiest power in the universe. You will not achieve that which is worth achieving without travail, without sorrow. The world must learn its lessons in the only way it can learn them. As the light of the spirit breaks in on the world, so its rays disperse the darkness of materialism.

Be dissatisfied with what you have already received, because only through discontent and the desire to reach out can greater knowledge come. He who is satisfied stagnates; he who is discontented blazes a trail towards greater freedom.

There is no ready-made plan. There is no prepared, cut-and-dried system. The world has to learn that behind what it regards as the manifestations of life, there is the eternal reality of the spirit, that the children of matter are not only worldly beings, but spiritual beings expressing themselves through bodies of matter.

As this message spreads throughout the world, it will mean the end of all separateness between peoples. It will mean the end of national barriers. It will mean the end of race distinctions, class distinctions, colour distinctions and all the distinctions between churches and chapels, temples, mosques and synagogues, for gradually all will learn that they have a part of the Creator's truth and that the part enshrined in the heart of every other religion in no way contradicts that portion which is precious to them.

Why do some prefer the darkness when they could have the light? Why do they prefer ignorance when they could have knowledge? Why do they prefer superstition when they could have wisdom? Why do they prefer the dead bones of a creed when they could have the living truth of the spirit? Why do they prefer the dust of theology when they could have the waters of spiritual wisdom? There are souls blindly groping in self-imposed darkness, chained when they could be free, servile when they could easily be men of freedom. Some have worn their chains for so long that they are afraid to discard them. A bird that is in a cage for a long time is afraid that it cannot fly when it is released.

But after the storms and the winds have blown through the world there always comes the new life of the spring. When the snow lies on the ground and all looks very bleak, you are not able to see the freshness of the spring. But it comes. And gradually, as the great sun of life moves through the heavens, so the majesty of life comes to its fullest. Throughout the whole world of matter there is a great cloud of discontent. There will come the spring of dreams and the summer of fulfilment.

It will come quickly or slowly depending on how the population exercise their free will. But wherever in the world of matter one man strives to uplift one other man, then behind him there are a thousand spirits who try to make his victory a greater one. No effort for good can ever be lost. No desire to service can ever be wasted. There must be pioneers who hack through the forest and makes the path a little easier for those who follow. Gradually the path is beaten down and worn smooth. If, between us, we can in one case bring happiness where there was unhappiness, knowledge where there was ignorance, then at least we shall have done some service. You will find that the knowledge you have gained and the wisdom you have learned are of greater value to the life of your immortal soul than the few things that the body of matter seeks in the world of matter.

There are three great problems in the world of matter. One is ignorance, another is sorrow, and the third is poverty. These three things you will always have until knowledge of the spirit is joined with politics and the children of earth think and live as the new knowledge shows them.

The tide of victory rolls on. The old order dies, giving place to the new. The new world is coming. But do not think that, because of this victory, there will be no more dark places. There will still be much shedding of tears. There will be many aching hearts. There is great sacrifice to be made. That which is a part of the Creator cannot be achieved without sacrifice. You cannot build up unless you tear down. In times of great material disaster, the people of your world begin to examine the foundations of the things of the spirit. When all the things of matter have failed, they look for a reed to clutch, and they look into the systems that have been tried and found wanting.

Then the truths of the spirit begin to emerge, and they begin to build their new world - a world where the laws of the Creator begin to play their proper part. Until you do that, there will always be great troubles. The world will never become perfect, because the nearer perfection it becomes, the more will it realise the perfection in front of it.