All exalted lives (spiritually) moving and living in similar planes of
thought--born of their spiritual states--are attracted to each other
in spirit life for the interchange of perceptions of Truth and bearing
forward the work of illuminating such minds on Earth _as are ready_ to
receive along the lines of human progress and unfoldment, imparting
“the things they are ready to know.”
Spirits, the wise ones, do not make the mistake, as many do in human
life, of trying to _force_ upon the minds of those whom they teach the
truths or knowledge for which those minds are not prepared: “Arithmetic
first, after that geometry and higher mathematics,” is the rule in
Earth schools. So in the instruction by spirit Teachers there is
_adaptation_ to the pupil not only of the Teacher but of that which
is to be taught. There are “ministering spirits” adapted to every
condition.
I could but marvel at the wonderful workings of these principles that
govern the influence of “mind upon mind”--really _spirit upon spirit_;
so much more complex yet more potent than the “forces” and operation
of the “laws” of the material universe--“laws” so little understood,
“forces” so dimly perceived.
“Most of the people on the Earth-plane know so little even concerning
the things and forces most intimately connected with their bodily
existence: the sunshine, the air they breathe, the earth beneath them,
the sea, and the heavens of _Stars_; we must not wonder over-much that
they know little or nothing of this inner, though more real, realm of
Spirit.”
This was from the Guide. Anticipating the question that was welling up
from the mind: “Why do not those on Earth know more of these spirit
states, more of their own conditions spiritually?” The answer had
already been given, and as we passed on the Teacher said:
“Growth, unfoldment, waiting, working.”