Transcendental Communication Transcripts: Excerpts from Living Waters

 

A book by psychic Helen Greaves that begins with the description of "such a dream as I shall never in this life forget," Living Waters (1978) incorporates transcripts of transcendental communication that were the result of what Helen called "overshadowing" as she differentiated her "hearing with the soul" from chronicled automatic writing mediumship cases where there was no reported clairvoyance or clairaudience.  
 
Helen realized her unique dream symbolically manifested a prophetic message of expanded spiritual understanding for humanity.  She affirmed:

. . . as we progress into the New Age, known as the Aquarian Age, our planet will respond to different influences; to that of Aquarius, the Man, the eleventh sign of the Zodiac.  It is symbolised by 'The Man' who is pictorially represented as pouring water from a vase on to the earth.


The coming two thousand years of the New Age will see the return of the Prodigal Son — man, who has become absorbed with the material and the temporal, into re-union with his Father, the true Spirit and Creator.


As these new conditions slowly work upon the earth, as the Spirit of Man responds in oneness to the Spirit of God, so will this new Star shine in the heavens, and the New Age, and a New Jerusalem be established — the Age of Aquarius, whose symbol is the Pitcher of Water (the Living Water) poured forth upon all mankind, all races, all colours, until that time when man will cease to fight, hate and destroy his neighbour, and when truly the 'lion shall lie down with the lamb.'

She reminded about communication from the ascended realm equated with 'psychic' ability: "Every one of us is capable of such contacts . . ."  She recounted how "in moments of peaceful contemplation, I was astonished to hear repeated in my mind, the names of 'Louis' and 'Emile.'   They were obviously French and they meant nothing to me.  Until somewhile afterward the full names were given.  They were Louis Pasteur and Emile Coué."

Helen wrote about French psychotherapist Emile Coué (1857-1926):

Emile Coué was suddenly thrown into the limelight, when he demonstrated to passengers on a liner struggling through a storm at sea, that by using their collective inner consciousness to 'command' the waves to be still through deep concentration and purpose, a miracle did indeed happen!  By his famous formula "Every day in every way I am getting better and better," even organic diseases were supposed to improve.  He believed that auto-suggestion was able to effect cures in all cases.

The first Coué transcript in the book resulted after ". . . the recognized intuition introducing communication from super-physical sources grew in my mind."  Helen recalled:

I provided myself, as was my custom, with pen and notebook; and here is the contribution . . .


On reading it, and other passages purporting to be from him later, I was impressed with the conviction that here was matter of importance for the proposed book . . .

The following are excerpts from this 'Emile Coué' transcript.

"In my time on the plane of earth I was considered something of a fool, or at least a mental oddity.  For I had the insouciance to recommend that man's healing was linked with man's thought.

"'Every day I am getting better and better,' was my mantram for the sick.

"Now, however, as I re-view this clumsy expression of truth, I marvel that I dared to voice that which in the light of further experience of the Spirit, appears trivial and superficial.

"From my ignorant and imperfect knowledge, I was instructing my patients to call in a shallow way upon the God within them, to contact that Power which is the indwelling Spirit, and concerning which I knew little.  Yet, should we be surprised that in cases where the desire was sufficiently strong, and the concentrated thought of good was held as an accomplished fact, that a demonstration occurred, so that the well-being of health superseded physical ailments?

"I was not mad, as some thought me.  Maybe I deserved to be classed as a clown, for from the lower rungs of the ladder of Truth, I was expanding the doctrine of desire and fulfilment; the oft-times dire reality of selfish desire.

"'Ask and ye shall receive,' holds good from the lowest, most materialistic hankerings, upwards to the longing of the soul for union with God.  This, my Scribe, as experience has shown, is as much a snare for the worldly, as a crown for the aspirer.

"For all — all is Spirit.  There is naught else!  We live and move and have our being in the Spirit whether the personality accepts the truth or not.  The very air breathed, the food eaten, the animals, flowers and trees loved . . . all, all are Spirit.  Money, that lust of mankind, is but metal, formed through the agency of the Spirit; its value is completely man-made and thus ephemeral — as your nations are discovering today!

"Alas, for me too, only through my sojourn in this Plane of Thought, away from the cynicism of material belief and spiritual lethargy (where one is able to shed false concepts) am I learning to accept wisdom and truth as the powers of the Spirit which they truly are.  Not alone among my honoured companions do I now regret the dark shrouds of earth which rendered truth as a whipping post for the knocks of knaves.  My scribe, write this.  The soul knows!

"One's spiritual eyes are open . . .

"Progress may still be slow here also, as the clutter impeding the true voice of the soul has still to be discarded.  For, Madame Scribe, now we no longer see darkly but face to face."


"I would have fared better [during Earth life], had I possessed the knowledge and courage to teach the Spirit in man first, and the Word of Life; so that health, harmony and wholeness would be the result . . ."

This statement about "the Word of Life" reminded Helen that some weeks previously there had been a 'Louis Pasteur' interlude, as follows (excerpts):

"'In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.'                                                                                                                            (St. John 1. v.1.)

"Surely in these few succinct sentences lies the whole mystery; and in another quote from the Bible, 'He made man in his image,' is the deep explanation of the relationship between God and man.  These two quotations are related.

"For if it is a scientific fact that the human creature has developed through the ages from the first primitive animals, then a further quotation from Genesis: "God breathed a soul into man," must have its place in this mystery.

"For God, the Spirit — (or the Father) having the Word gave these creatures his gift above all other creatures — the Word — and therefore breathed into them the embryo soul.  Humanity alone can speak, and communicate by word.  Man can think and express his thoughts in words.  And man alone of all the living creatures on the earth planet, can create by the Word, and through the Word in his own limited environment.

"The Word is in man as an attribute and a part of the living creating Spirit — God."


"To those of us here, who delight in delving into the mysteries of this eternal Force which we designate Spirit, the clearing of the veils of human illusion is our greatest joy.  Such as the world terms Living Water is to us the complete cumulation of Will, Word, Love, Beauty, Power, Wisdom evolving from Oneness between Spirit, the Creator, and soul and body the created."


"The application of that energy of Living Water would resuscitate inert matter and promote an enlightened Age upon the earth planet."

Living Waters includes new transcripts with the perspective of Helen's friend Frances Banks after her transition to the afterlife (continuing the 'scripts' in Helen's 1969 book Testimony of Light).  There are also transcripts presenting the perspective of 'an Elder Brother.'  

Frances had been an Anglican nun for 25 years until, as quoted in one of the new transcripts, "I left the Community because I believed sincerely that the whole truth had not been assimilated into their religion."   The transcript continues —

"It seemed to my understanding that there existed here an ignorance of awareness of other states of consciousness, which the higher mind of man could reach.  'Grace' was all I needed, I was informed, for my work and my communal life; and up to a point this was true.  But, after a while, the idea came to be represented to me as one looking over a fence at a glorious garden of flower, shrub and tree, so that one longed to go amongst such beauty, and pluck the flowers.  True, the Grace came, as it were, by the inhalation of the scent of this spiritual vision, distilled from the presence of the Holy Spirit.  But my soul longed for greater participation in the sowing, tending and gathering of the beauty of such elevated extension of consciousness which, I felt, the higher mind of man could attain."


"I ever envisaged blossoms before the seeds had even burst their sheaths."


"Yet the seed is sown.  In the fullness of earthtime, it will germinate, and that resplendent garden of the Spirit, for which I once sought, shall become the Eden of a progressing humanity."

Helen stated one of the conclusions to be drawn from the communications that came through her as a 'channel':

In the next world, or the next state of consciousness, we are told that thought creation is immediate.  Frances Banks stressed that in her Testimony of Light.  It is a consciousness that she had to accept.  Louis Pasteur also emphasizes this facet of life in the hereafter.

The following is the beginning of a 'Frances Banks' transcript and Helen's preceding commentary.

At this stage I shall include a passage of thought from my friend, Frances Banks.  It was distilled into my mind one evening some time in the spring of last year, when I was already perplexing myself about the difficult task of writing this book, and fulfilling its theme of 'Living Waters.'  I wrote as the words flowed into my brain; moving descriptions of the wider knowledge and the greater Light to which Frances has attained.  I hope the reader will see, as I did, this gentle transformation of an erudite mind inwards towards a Spiritual Mind.  It does reveal the same intelligent observance with which Frances studied subjects on earth, yet with a compassion and a concordance that rings as Truth.

"Plurality of life, repetition of experience, advancement of knowledge in the human soul through trial and error, is shown on this plane, where truth is no longer concealed or distorted, to those sufficiently progressed to accept it, as a fact of evolution, an integral basis of the development of mind into union with Mind, even as a school for the temporary personality.  The plan of the Creative Spirit works according to the eternal Law of seeding, blossoming, fruiting.  The young soul has the seed of immortality already embedded in it.  Through successive existences in the planes of matter, it learns slowly and painfully, to climb back (as it were) to its original pristine truth, but now with added knowledge, experience, and understanding, strengthened by adversities, mellowed by compassion, and freed from the illusions of glamorous self-life, and at last arrives at the budding and blossoming stage."

The topics of one discourse "From an Elder Brother" ("from an unknown Great Soul in the Spiritual Spheres") also encompass reincarnation and spiritual enlightenment —

"Humanity's acceptance and understanding of the truth of rebirth, will be one of the memorable changes in the spiritual climate (especially in the West) of the New Age of Aquarius, now dawning on the world.  Many errors have been promulgated in this doctrine causing adverse criticism concerning it, both in the hierarchies of the established religions, as well as in the loosely formulated ideas of the ordinary man.

"The Eastern world has long accepted the tenet of rebirth of the soul, but often with misconceptions.  The Christianity practised in the west for years fulminated against the possibility of a serial life, preaching that a further survival in a Paradise (strictly for 'believers'), and that, only, after a long sleep of preparation for a Judgement Day, is the lot of all men.

"This is, as maybe, to young souls now struggling through material incarnations, a dismal prospect indeed, for it pays no heed to progress by the soul's own efforts.  Evolution on all planes is the effort of advancement from low to high, from darkness to light.  To continue such growth of the soul to a measured earth existence, followed by the spectacle of mass resurrection and judgement, and a passage onwards to some vague Eternal Life, is to Our View, as childish as the out-dated medieval concept of the Godhead as a Super man-judge is becoming to your modern civilization.

"We, who have lived, died, relived, and faced death many hundreds of times in a civilization which has now passed completely from your planet, have, as you, followed many avenues in pursuit of truth, suffered for our beliefs, and often discovered that many discarded doctrines were but veils hiding the true face of reality.  For us, slowly, and with infinite pains, release from material desires lifted us from the necessity of return to a cosmos of dense substance."


"Yet, even as indeed we may be the Elder Brethren of the human race, and able to view the present trauma of your planet with detachment, still our duty and our joy is to release to your worlds some rays of that Divine Purpose by which all creation moves to its ascendancy.

"Such a moment in the plan for your cosmos is now immanent.  These powerful vibrations of truth will make ingress into man's mind and heart as the Living Water of the Aquarian Age is poured out upon all mankind . . ."


"Nothing that was earned and accepted by the soul during the process of incarnation can ever be lost, even though in a further period of earth life, the personality (or earth consciousness) used by that soul is unaware of this advancement.  For the soul memory remains stable; and a gift or an aptitude earned or a grace received becomes an integral part of the soul."

Here are passages of another transcript "From an Elder Brother."

"For many centuries mankind has been creating a thought world.  This material planet is to them the only life, and so far have they receded from the realization of the God-power within them that they have closed the way of the Spirit, and have become more and more immured into material existence, with its troubles, its inequities, resulting in the trauma of your world today.  Man must break these chains he had bound about him.  He must step out from these beliefs that he has forged out of the power of his lower forces.  Man will need to learn that this is still a thought world; it has no permanency."


"Mind has forged the shackles for itself.  That same mind will, in this future Age, learn to cast them off and rise to its own high powers.  But only by the light of the Spirit in man, and by his willingness to work with his soul.  The soul is the instrument and purpose.  It has within it the knowledge and memory of all the lives through which the personality has struggled, failed or triumphed.  It knows the total record of all past lives.  In its realization is the pathway to be trod, the work to be done, the progress that is possible to fulfil, and where difficulties or opportunities lie.  Jesus said, 'Take no thought for your life' (St. Matthew 6. v.25) and if you listen to the inner voice which is the prompting of the soul, you need have no fear for the material morrow, for that morrow will be brought perfectly into the pattern and the purpose for which the soul descended into incarnation.  By living in the personality in the shallow materiality of the world, and with no inner guidance by prayer or meditation of the reality of the Spirit within, the way will be lost.  Like the pilgrim in your Pilgrim's Progress parable, the trials will appear unending.  Valleys of depression will dispirit confidence and progress on the true path may be forfeited, thus wasting that opportunity for advancement which is the purpose of rebirth.
 
"Seek for the peace of the Spirit, believe the truth which the Christ taught, and ask for help knowing that it will be given you.  Then will your inner self use its creative thought power for upliftment, intuition, and contact with the great Forces of Life that there may be light upon the path and a safe way."

"Breakthrough"