Lord, it is good for us to be here. I pray that the same sweet spirit which has prevailed will continue with us. People require the promise of the paranormal to make sense of their lives. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, exclusively on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be built. In the interior of our consciousness, each of us has a private hall of fame reserved exclusively for the real leaders who have influenced the direction of our lives. Perhaps, instead of meekly assuming that the World we live in is so much poorer a place than we would have liked, our lives so much less meaningful and our prospects so much less promising, we shall have to try to show that the real World—a World with soul-power—is after all unsurpassably rich, and the alternative World—the World without soul-power—is nothing more than a snare and a delusion. We need to distance ourselves from all those beautiful lamentations about humanity’s sad plight. This evolution of life on Earth—and all that we hold dear about ourselves as living beings—has depended primarily on divine guidance, which provides the sources of control for self-improvement, a stable character, and a truly successful life. God determined us to be pleased by benevolent actions. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

The burden of life arises from the belief that we have neither the power nor the intelligence to solve our problems. However, it is highly doubtful that there is even one soul upon Earth, regardless of station or age, who does not have ample room for personal growth and improvement. If we are no better tomorrow than we are today, we are not very useful. The sad part of humanity seems to be the utter lack of desire, in the lives of many, to really do something about enlarging the vistas of their vistas of their existence. We must rely on the divine guidance to speak the right word into law. The word of trust executes itself. Our acknowledgement of good becomes the faith in the future, and we recognize the challenge to grow and change. The word of God is faithful and true, and protection—his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. The word of truth is based upon the changeless principle of reality. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made. Thus, our divine partnership with its divine guidance transfers the burden and lifts the load of life. Our part is to plant the right seed; to know that the law flows from the word; to know that the word is the starting point of every creation; to know that ideas are things; to know that the entire physical Universe is a thing of thought. We do not know the nation until we know its pleasure of life, just as we do not know a person until we know how he or she spends one’s leisure. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Have you ever thought much about how your leisure gives you away? I used to know a man who was head of a very large commercial empire. Beginning with nothing but ambition, he became a multimillionaire and, finally, retired as head of his successful company. He bought a large and magnificent yacht with which to cruise the World. And do you know what he did with his free time? He watched salacious stories about celebrity gossip, produced fake news, and got falling-down drunk and have to be carried to bed, unconscious, every night. He is now dead. His leisure gave him away. There was nothing there…just nothing at all. He was a one idea man. Once he was away from that idea, he was a lost soul in a white squall. He did not enjoy his yacht and travel meant nothing to him. He was a pitiful, unhappy cypher. Not because he was rich…there are thousands, millions just like him in every walk of life. It was just that his millions, which gave him access to the whole World, were worthless to him and accentuated his nothingness. When we have transferred the burden into the law, and when we have cosigned our own soul to peace, we shall have a new interest and a fresh outlook, for we shall be entering into the spirit of life, into the livingness of life, and into the joy of that livingness. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

In our individual World we have the power and the knowledge to create these individual experiences which makes life worthwhile. And there is no limit to the evolution of these experiences, for one conclusion will lead to another. This is the symbolism of the octave, which means that the end of any particular creative series is but the beginning of a new creative series. In our social and cultural evolution, in a World of competing ideas no less in the World of bodies and genes separate development is essential to success: independence and solitude are the schools of genius, privacy is needed to shelter the tender shoots of innovation, virgin minds are the seedbeds of originality. Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought content. Selection can only be effective provided that each of the hundred flowers is allowed the opportunity to bloom its own fashion, each of the hundred schools of thought is given space to mature in its own way. Provided too that, when each flower or school has undergone its test of fitness and proved itself more or less successful, there is the opportunity for new generations to take the field and start over again. Change is what it will take to bring any individual out of the dilemma of living with principles of error. For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

In general, separateness, mortality and renewal have always been the friends of evolutionary progress. The strong implications has to be that it is only in a World where it has been practicable for living things to maintain and defend the physical, temporal and spiritual boundaries of their minds and bodies, that all the beauty and variety of life and culture could have come into existence. Which means in effect that it could only have happened in a World of normal laws. There is in each one of us the will to live, to enjoy, to express and to unfold; this will is divine, and our will is in partnership with this divine will, and our mind with this divine mind. Thus, we expect and believe that all good shall come to us. As we transfer the load, a new meaning comes into life, a more spontaneous self-expression; sadness gives place to joy, and confusion surrenders itself to peace. Action robbed of friction moves without fatigue, and the endless drama of life presents us with inspiring scenes and ever-moving experiences. This is the New Heaven and the New Earth. And when that final transference shall take place from this World into the next, we shall exclaim, “Into thy hands I commend my spirit.” The evidence of the power of faith is clearly defined by the Savior. Faith in God will cause the miracle of change and set the course of action on the true purpose of life. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

Predictions made in advance may be and frequently cause someone to be in a difficult situation because reality is often unexpected, events occur even through nothing like them has ever been observed to happen in the past, unimagined contingencies do arise, seemingly absurd eventualities do come to pass. Repentance follows faith as naturally as the day follows dawn. The morning breaks, the shadows flee. Repentance is they very essence of change; it embodies the powerful principle of obedience to God’s law and discipline of self. When applied to our lives, it provides a cleansing joy which surges through us. We beseech thee, Master, to be our helper and protector. Save the afflicted among us; have mercy and compassion on the lowly; rise up the fallen; appear to the needy; heal the ungodly; restore the wanderers of thy people; feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; raise up the sick; comfort the faint hearted. Lord, who hast mercy upon all, take away from me my sins, and mercifully kindle in me the fire of thy Holy Spirit. Take away from me the heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a heart to love and adore thee, a heart of delight in thee, to follow and enjoy thee. Disgrace clings to no one after repenting, any more than feet defiled with mud of the World, come yet soiled and polluted from the cleansing bath. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6