"The efficacy of prayer has already been proven, but there are wrong prayers just as there are right prayers. Selfishness and self-pity have no place in right prayer. Each demand made upon Life, then, should be in order to better serve the purposes of God. Each benefit of freedom which you seek should enable you to more effectively serve his holy cause.

"The process of thinking your way clear can also be employed, and this is doubly effective if you can make yourself to know that it is God thinking through you the thoughts of his immortal freedom. As you think yourself free from human entanglements, you will find new vistas opening before you. Leonardo da Vinci and many of the great painters of the world, in their reveries, did contact the higher etheric realms and angelic levels. They drew forth from their inspirations and meditations benefits preserved by mankind to the present hour.

"The will can be altered from the human to become divine, and indolence can be thrashed but is best dispensed with by a firm but gradual leading. You know, precious ones, when you have a sense of being driven, the human is apt to rebel. People often rise up in wrath and indignation at even a hint of tyranny. Whether or not this is right, I wish to point out that mankind have a great momentum of resistance against being told what to do. Unquestionably, this trait causes untold misery to people who would otherwise have the benefit of wise experience; but unfortunately, they must suffer bad experiences themselves in order to learn.

" . . . Remember, precious ones, that few unascended individuals are perfect. I realize some of you may take issue with me on this and say that none are perfect. I happen to know, however, that just prior to the ascension some unascended ones are finally perfected. But, inasmuch as the masses are not, do not expect too much from anyone but give everyone the benefit of the doubt, all the while remaining alert so that you be neither self-deceived nor deceived by others."