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Spiritual Development (3).

My friends it is important that we realise that the reason
for the message being given by Spirit is heard by all possible is so
that more immediate attention can be given to the evolvement of
the Spirit occupying the bodies in the earth environment. It has
been a long time since many people realised this and sought the
necessary medium so as to be able to contact Spirit themselves.
The irony of this is that now Spirit is treated with suspicion by
those who encounter it.

There have been many traps laid by the usurpers of the
Spirit teachings of old. Nowadays, those who hold these truths are
considered outcasts by the very society that seeks to develop an
understanding of Spirit, is it because the need to understand is for
those other reasons we spoke of before—power and ego? This
brings us to the emotion of power, that other insidious emotion.
Yes we speak now of power as an emotion, have you never felt
power? You have, and it can be addictive also. You seek not to
share, keep your little secrets, and pretend that there is really
nothing to be discovered. Yes all are guilty of this in some way or
the other. How many have left this place of tuition because this
lust for power has not been entertained? The answer to this is that
many have. The sad thing about this type of exit is that the power
seekers, because of this seeking, cannot leave empty handed and
always seek to place the cause of their leaving far from the real
truth, usually though they do leave a little clue, notice ego, that