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ways in which the Creator accomplishes His purposes, in silence and in power, then he becomes an enabler in the universal plan of love and salvation under God's providence. Such a person will not be in danger of falling into error. No one can, of himself, have unlimited Knowledge and wisdom." Raphael gently called our attention to what was now taking place in the animated color- tableau, which at this moment portrayed the three figures in a garden. The husband and wife had evidently had a falling out. The husband was gesticulating wildly, giving unrestrained expression to his emotions. We could hear their voices. He was hurling accusations at his wife, which, although | could not understand them, seemed to have something to do with the child. The child continued playing, and paid little heed to the heated argument going on between his parents. "Watch, now," said Raphael, “and you will see the effect of anger on the bodies and souls of these unfortunate people." The man's invectives grew stronger as he mercilessly blamed his wife for imagined faults and shortcomings. He was infuriated, while she maintained a stunned silence. As | was watching the figure of the man, the outlines of his body became distorted, as if altered by some rough force. The harmony of the lines was badly disturbed. The inner spiritual body lost its snow- white splendor. It turned darker, emitting spasmodic showers of muddy fragments that penetrated the other bodies, agitating them with abrupt changes of brightness, form and texture. The husband was shouting now, while his poor wife was in tears. His spiritual body, at first spotted and flecked, was now almost dark brown. His whole being was saturated with this unsightly coloration, and his figure seemed to be shrunken and deformed. She outer, material body, although the vessel containing all the other bodies whose beauty and radiance had been so badly affected, suffered the least damage of all. Now, waves of this dark disharmonious life-energy could be seen emanating from the man, going out in ever- broadening circles ail around him. They penetrated the woman who soon took on the same characteristics, her life-force growing darker, and her spiritual, cosmic and astral bodies becoming distorted. "What you are seeing," explained Raphael, "happens to every human being who allows anger to enter into his consciousness. His life-energy becomes dim and disfigured. This disorientation spills over from the spiritual body to all the other bodies, right up to the material body, and all suffer thereby. The life-energy of every single being is, through his environment, intimately bound up with the life-energies of other beings of his kind, and therefore he will be helped by the brothers, if he lives a good, well-disciplined life, but he does harm to all other members of the human race, if he lives a bad life with no sense of responsibility toward his fellow man. All creation is at every moment in a lively reciprocal relationship with all other parts of creation. All exists in reality, and the finer the reality is, the more it is imbued with life. Thought, and its forms, and that which you call fantasy or imagination, has a reality or expressive power greater than matter alone can possibly possess. | would add that those persons still bound to materialistic thinking would be astonished to learn how great an influence their thoughts, feelings, and emotions have on the energy of the material elements of their environment. But, since they view everything through the lens of materialism, they create for themselves an illusion which makes matter appear to be very real and solid, and ee Lie ee Dee ee ttn ad 2. Meanwhile,the husband in the scene continued in his tirade, and the aforementioned energy contagion of bad will now flooded over the child, although he continued to act as though he paid no attention to the strife going on between his parents. The surrounding plant world now gave evidence of coming under the influence of the dark disorder of successive waves of ANGELS IN STARSHIPS 54 www.cosmic-people.com 54 every finer reality, inconsequential and empty. www.cosmic-people.com