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SwannanoaHome of The Wal te r Russell Foundation.
1954 Mw3
J^etter
D R . W A L T E R RUSSELL
L A O
RUSSELL
oStudents and
dreaders
the World
Jiost Vital
M^eSSaye
With
J4omeStudy
Course
J etails
O u r Treasured Students and Friends:
Once again we can know our personal unity
w i t h
you
through the medium of our annual News Letter, for that is what
i t has become, as much as we
would
l i k e to send you the
i n t i -
mate details of our work and l i f e more frequently.
We know how you look forward to receiving news about the
progress of God s grea t Message of THE
D I V I N E
I L I A D for
we remember always that those, l i k e you, who are sharing this
new knowledge
w i t h
us, hunger for the time when through the
daily l i v i n g of the great law of R H Y T H M I C B A L A N C E D
INTERCHANGEwhich is the keynote as you know of The
Divine
I l i a d Messagemankind w i l l at long last know the peace
and happiness
which
al l men so deeply desire.
O u r
last mutua l intercommunication was at Christmas
time
when we
sent
Doctor s pencil study of The Chr ist
C h i l d
to
a ll
students of The Home Study Course and received
f r o m
them
f r o m
al l over the
w o r l d
their commendation of the drawing and
details of thei r personal transformations throu gh the new
knowledge contained in the course. We
w i l l
share some of these
letters
w i t h
you on f o l l o w i n g pages.
I n
the 1953 News Letter we t o l d you of a special edition of
The KusseU Cosmogony which we printed for science and as a
thirteenth
unit for those students of the Course who had com
pleted
the twelve units of the Course. These books were issued
as the f i r s t
step
for a special purpose which we could not dis
close at the time, but can disclose it now.
O u r keynote of the 1953 August Classwas the study of The
Wave as the basis of Creation and that was the second
step
in
our purpose of preparing our students for the great w o r l d
catastrophy
which
w i l l inevitably destroy the entire human race
unless new knowledge and practice of the universa l La w of
Love comes w i t h i n
mass
human consciousness w i t h i n the next
seven
years
to
change
our
basis
of human relations. You m i l
remember that we stated two
years
ago that the human
race
had
b u t
nine
years l e f t
in which to turn right about face in its
human relations else i t would peri sh. We can now say more,
for
the t ime has now come in which we are enabled to say t ha t
mankind persists in using atomic fission to
k i l l
his neighbor,
or
for use in industr y, he
w i l l f i n d
that he
w i l l
not only exter
minate his enemies but himself as
w e l l
for radioactive fission
w i l l gradual ly destroy our atmosphere.
Th e
keynote of our 195i August Class is a clarification of
the great mystery of L IFE and DEATH The w o r l d needs t
comprehend this principle now for mankind is commi tti ng su
cide by radioactive fission. Likewise he is dest roy ing his plane
I t has taken many years to prepare our students to compre
hend this subject and remove it f r o m mystery to naturalness.
We have long told you that your new cosmic knowledge
wi
alone save the world Knowledge must spread like seed W
have ever stated that you must be the seed
I t may be that yo
w i l l now see the deeper meaning which lies back of those state
ments as your new knowledge multipli es to a tremendous poten
t i a l
as you now raise your voices during these next seven
year
to prevent the destruction of our beautiful Mother Eart h an
a l l l i f e upon it.
We
have been a Lone Voice crying in the wilderness t
warn the w o r l d of its self-made doomself-made through gros
ignorance. Ours must no longer be a Lone
Voice.
I t must b
YOUR VOICE
w i t h
ourslegions of youfrom al l over th
w o r l d rising in vigorous protest against the use of atomi
fission for any purpose. The w o r l d w i l l not believe a Lone Voic
fo r
it always crucifies any messenger of new knowledge which i
beyond man s present day comprehension, but it
w i l l
listen t
the multitudes whose
multiplied
power is back of a weight
idea.
F or
eight years our Lone Voice has been warning th
w o r l d of the turn which w i l l come in the tide of human aff air
as of August 1954. The false prosperity of the
deficit
financin
of
the
past
twenty
years
was a louder voice than ours. Our
could not be heard while wages rose to unknown heights, and
vast new fortunes loomed on the new horizon of radioactiv
fission
for industry.
August
of 1953 came however, and the tide did turnun
noticeably
at f i r s t but
w i t h
an acceleration
which
is now o
National
recognition and concern. Even now that which is hap
pening to the
w o r l d
is not understood. Some deem it as but
temporary affair but soon the w o r l d w i l l awaken to the traged
of real ization that the time has come for mankind to pay for hi
grievous errors in making enemies to
k i l l
and to be
k i l l e d
b
them,
and of destroying this planet as a water making machin
b y cut tin g down 25 b i l l i o n more
trees
than necessary for norma
balance, and for using radioactive death to aid
l i f e . The huma
race will
never again have peace or know happiness for
itsel
until it has learned how to give peace and happiness to it
neighbor The c i v i l i z a t i o n
which
man has made to date has been
7/25/2019 Dr. Walter Bowman Russell: 1954 Newsletter
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chance
his errors and he is not tak ing that chance. In
right
way he is taking the wrong way and
bigger and better bombs to k i l l both his enemy and
at the same time.
Ignorance
has brought about man s self-destruction many
Knowledge alone can
save
the human family from another
We have that knowledge that the human race needs for its
from the
death
which it is
fast
approaching and we
you to have it.
Mankind w i l l never turn his
eyes
to the L i g h t of a
truthful
y of
l i f e
while
he prospers heavily
f r o m
his old habits of
wealth by destroying his neighbor's empire to b u i l d his
A n d now the human race is hastening its destruction
radioactive fission or atomic energy. Whether using
or indust ry or for war i t w i l l destroy the human race and all
upon this planet unto its last blade ofgrass and its last drop
Y o u w i l l recall that ai r f l i g h t was denied for years after
Wright Brothers had actually
f l o w n .
Alexander Graham
barely
escaped
being adjudged insane. Knowing that hu
n
nature resists knowledge which departs
f r o m
the convent
you must not expect us to stop the
w o r l d f r o m
using atomic
u n t i l
i t has suffered much anguish
f r o m
its use.
ur
August students must fully know the
mystery
which
e principle of
death
which
radioactive
fission is.
must all know
that,
and
many
more
mysteries
which man
now pay
heavily
for not knowing. These we w i l l
t e l l
of
f u l l y in our announcement for the August student gather
RegardingOurLaboratory
Last year's August class knew that we intended starting a
here to prove our contention that radioactive fission
destroy the earth's atmosphere and its water and to meet
er problem when i t becomes unbearable. The 44 bombs
work by start
a long term drought cycle and over two
m i l l i o n
square miles
and dust bowls.
Y o u remember Dr. Shigco Okubo of The
University
of
who attended the class. You w i l l be delighted to know
b r i l l i a n t physicist so v i v i d l y realized the danger to the
t hrough ignorance of what man is doing to it tha t he re
f r o m the universi ty and came here to
work
w i t h Doctor
which
started w i t h
no equipment but is now rapidly acquiring it piece
piece, as we can
afford
i t , and through donations by our
items
which
they acquired f r o m us.
W e
feel that the work of this laboratory
w i l l
solve the
w o r l d
problem of today, yet we must work slowly for we
not have the advantage of grant s or endowments which
laboratories have.
W e do not
mind
the hard way however, for the
import
of
work transcends its
difficulties.
Happenings t Swannanoa
This last year's
inspiring
incidents and its host of interest
and distinguished visitor s
would i l l
up thi s enti re News
if we could spare the space. We must however,
t e l l
you
of a few in order tha t you can
l i v e
your lives
w i t h
us in
imaginations.
First
we must
t e l l
you about Mr . and Mrs .Michael Tbuma
distingushed visit ors
f r o m
Lebanon, inAsia. This inspiring
le were national ly sponsored vis itors who were being con
gh the count ry to meet it s interest ing people and
v i s i t our Nat ional Shrines. I t was our pleasure to enter tain
them at luncheon the day f o l l o w i n g their luncheon at The
White House. They
t o l d
us many things they
l i k e d
about our
country,
and how deeply they were impressed
w i t h
Swannanoa.
Among the things they t o l d us about Lebanon was the fact that
i t was K a h l i l Gibran's country, and they l e f t w i t h us an excel
lent
photograph of that great poet's birthplace.
Another distinguished visitor for a few days was Dr. D. G.
V i n o d Indian mystic, who came
because
he had heard much
about our work in India and he desired to study i t
w i t h
us to
take home f i r s t hand information. I t may be that another coun
t r y w i l l spread The Russells teachings as so many other coun
tri es are doing al l over the
w o r l d .
Y o u must know also that Dr . Shigeo Okubo brought
w i t h
him his beautiful Chinese wif eFun g Ka iand his three
lovely children to add to the happiness of our growing Swanna
noa f a m i l y . They are l i v i n g in the cottage near the water tower.
Working
w i t h
Dr. Okubo are our treasured students, Mr . and
M r s . Jay Kat z, who are
w i t h
us for some months, sharing very
l o v i n g l y in the manyworkneeds of our shrine.
A l l of of the older students w i l l be delightfully surprised
when
you go out to the stables and greenhouse to see that over
grown region also nleared for
acres
and^ a~wcFntierful vegetable
garden and many dwarf
f r u i t
trees planted to
f o r m
the nucleus
o f a great formal garden which is the vision of our beloved
students, Mr . and Mrs.
Arthur Jones,
w i t h their daughter
Wendy, who have
joined
our Swannanoa f a m i l y for the rest of
their
lives. They are
l i v i n g
i n the Blue Ridge Cottage, near
the swan pond.
Easter Sunrise Service
Perhaps the outstanding event of the spring season was the
Easter Sunrise service held at the feet of The Christ of the
Blue Ridge
which
Doctor and I sculptured for our gardens. I t
was a very awesome and inspiring sight to see the
f i r s t
red
l i g h t
o f the sun illuminate the face of the Christ and then creep
slowly
down the figure as the vast throng of worshipers l i f t e d
their
eyes
on that glorious sight, and were
uplifted
by the voices
o f
Waynesboro's many choirs.
The service was given under the
auspices
of the Waynes
boro
Ministerial
Association and w i l l probably become an annua l
Swannanoa event.
Y o u w i l l
be-delighted to know that David Diamond was
married
to his beloved Ruth at the footof The Christ of the Blue
Ridge statue in our gardens. A dinner, attended by about f o r t y
o f our August Class students who had remained over for the
purpose, was given to them in commemoration of the event.
W e regret that space w i l l not permit us to t e l l you of the
many luncheons anh dinners ^veiT^Tnitoric groups who come'
here twenty to
f i f t y
strong f r o m other parts of the country.
A n d we
would
l i k e to t e l l you of our seven weeks radio pro
gramme
which
we inst itu ted as a
step
towa rd our intended
national
hook up which we some day shall institute for the
spreading of TheDivine
I l i a d
Message.
A l l of this has brought to us the realization of the tre
mendous
growth
of The Russells teachings in the short
f i v e
years since we have established our Foundation here. There is
hardly
a country in the w o r l d inwhich we do not have students
o r groups who are fast spreading The Message to others.
Letter
Comes from Winston
hurchill
T en
years ago Doctor made a marble replica of his
o f f i c i a l
bust of the late President Roosevelt for presentation to Winston
Churchill. When L I F E printed the Prime Minister's
l i f e
story
i t
published a
f u l l
pageportrait of him inwhich a rear viewof
Doctor's marble bust stood in the foreground.
M y husband said it was a p i t y th at i t was not a front view
o f both of them so th at we could put the picture on one of our
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Minister and asked that
Late in March Prime Minister
Churchill
wrote that he
be pleased to
gratify
my husband's desire. We quote one
f r o m the let ter . I have your bust of President
Chartwell.
I t is a
striking work
w e l l
as a memorial of my great friend. When I get an
I
w i l l
ce rtain ly have a photograph taken for you as
wish.
Power
Which
Liesin New Knowledge
National and w o r l d problems face the human race
which
er shortage when we who are grown up were children.Who
or Southern
California
f r u i t farms
because
of water
inch rise of the ocean's level. Such strange
uage as a t h i r t y b i l l i o n dollar project fo r bringing water
the north polar regions never was heard of in those days,
did we
hear
of dust bowls, dried up rivers and lakes, baked
waxy earth in Texas nor melting polar ice caps.
hew physical problems of the planet are, in them
race to cope w i t h , and
of them are made by man because of man's ignorance of
Law.
These
problems are soluble by man but
only
through
These are the w o r l d problems which now menace
whole human race. They were created by man in his ig
processes. He is not
only
drying up the
planet
destroying its atmosphere, but he has
also made
a new set
human problems which can
destroy
the entire cultural and
standards
of the human race and plunge it
into
another
darkness of a
greater
chaos than
those
dark
ages
of our
twelve
centuries
after
Christ.
Empires have fallen and are f a l l i n g wherever powerful na
have conquered and exploited weaker ones. The law of
which says that no one can take happiness or love
f r o m
an
himself has demonstrated it s irrevocability.
empires o f A. D. 1900 are on rat ions or in debt beyond
assets.
Empires have not become
r i c h
and prosperous by their deal
w i t h their neighbors. On the contrary the entire w o r l d of
c i v i l i z a t i o n
of today is
failure and w i l l go the way of all failures unless we
f r o m our pagan and barbarian ways
which
made us what
N o t one count ry has ever enriched i t s e l f by enslaving an
might and slain
master a ll over the worldand that process is s t i l l going on
w o r l d , in South A f r i c a , Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco
These human problems are the bitter
f r u i t
of man's own
I t is your purpose and ours to take knowledge to all
fo r there are but a few remainingyears in
which
man can
himself
f r o m
either one or both of the twoclasses of self-
which
threaten himand i t may be tha t tr e
s t i l l awaits to punish the obstinacy of the
f a m i l y
which may have to be brought to the veryedgeof
grave in order tha t i t may at the last moment lea rn the les
weakness in the face of Natu re. I t may then
w e l l
f i n a l l y
realizes that
NATURE
HAS TH E LAST
he may then turn right about face and
obey
Nature in
violating it.
A l l
of our students are f u l l y aware of the fact that The
of The Divine Iliadwhich is the basisof The Russells
ingswas given for the purpose of savi ng the human race
death through ignorance of God's law. A l l of you know
your own new knowledge which gives you the compre-
sion to command matt er through knowledge of God's ways
and
processes
in crea ting matter, has given you sufficent power
to
tr ans fo rm yourselves, but tha t is not enough. You must
transform
others by
giving
them that new knowledge.
This
has not been easy, for your friends who were quite
busy in making another thousand dol lars before n i g h t f a l l , and
then too comfortably housed and fed to take your warnings ser
iously, are not easily turned away f r o m their own
self
assured
ways. I t
w i l l
be
easier
for you
f r o m
now on however, to make
them
listen to you, for their comforts w i l l be taken away f r o m
them and that expected new thousand dollars w i l l not come.
Muchman-made suf fer ing is immediatelyaheadfor all men.
Suffering man w i l l
seek
r e l i e f f r o m his suff ering by now lis ten
i n g
to tha t Silent Voice which he has so long suppressed.
F or many years we have t o l d you of this coming blight
which man has created for his earth.
Now you shall see it,
and
y ou yourself w i l l have to
share
the reaping w i t h those who
made itandthe
only
way you can
save
yourself is to
save
your
fellow
man.
The w o r l d of today is peopled w i t h men who fear each
otherand
w i t h
men whose greed has separated every man
f r o m every other man. It is a divided w o r l d of those who are
masters and those who are slavesa discontented, disunited
w o r l d made weak and impotent through ignorance, selfishness
and greed.
Man's lust for power has brought him naught but inter
national
devitalizing weakness.
No nation 'on
earth
has any
power
today
which it can use against its neighbor for its own
profit.
The atom bomb of any n at ion is voided of i ts power by the
atom
bomb of any other na tion. No nati on therefore, can destroy
another nation without destroying every other nation on earth
and that is the exalted position that man has now arrived at
by using his
growing
intelligence for suicidal purposes instead
f spiritual ones.
T o you, our enlightened students al l over the w o r l d ,WB
issue a
call
to heed that which is to come, to prepare for i t , and
to meet i t w i t h tne power
which
has been given to you for that
purpose. The responsibil ity of saving the human
race
through
replacing
gross ignorance
w i t h
knowledge of God's ways and
processes
is yours as
w e l l
as ours. God's blessing w i l l go w i t h
y ou and sustain youand in the midst of suf fe ring you shal l
know
that
ecstasy
which
alone comes to him whose God aware
ness in him is stronger than any force of earth which he w i l l
meet.
xcerptsFromStudents Letters
O u r
daily greatest happiness and inspirati on comes in the
great regiving
f r o m
you all through your letters. The thoughts
expressed in these can be conveyed in no other way than i n
your
own words. It is
w i t h
the thought of sharing this great
happiness that we includethese excerpts for you to read:
have over one hundred
students
in two classes and I
believe
I am doing a
good
job because of your inspiration and
teachings. Recently I
spent
one evening lecturing on Budha,
La o Tse, Plato, Confucius, Jesus, and
Walter
and Lao Russell.
Probably some of my students uMl write to you. Please ac
cept
my sincere thanks for all you are doing for me.
L
M. E., Michigan
Your
Home Study Course has become a turning
point
in
my life. I am receiving much inspiration and
knowledge
which
could not get anywhere else. The
last
three units were so
wonderful
that
I can
hardly wait
for the next unit.
Rev. J. E. S., California
Am receiving very
great benefit
in learning to under
stand
ntan and the Laws of
Life
which man is to
obey
if he
would succeed
greatly.
I
want
to thank you for the
good
and
great
work you are doing. So
many people
yearn to
know,
to
understand and to
rightly
use their
knowledge
and understand-
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Yet so many have been so poorly prepared to do so. Yoti
e helping in this matter far beyond the average person to
May your work spread until all the world is consumed
very fitness of it. Dr. H. E. S., Georgia
The
lesson on prayer has answered mush. I wanted to know
regard to teaching the children about prayer. It will be
wonderful when all children can have that basic training
will keep them as their need for understanding increases.
wish I could put into a few well chosen words my appreciation
d thanks for what I am getting from your lessons and books.
Q., California
My appreciation of all I have learned from the combined
of you and your husband through your books goes out
you in love. O. C, Ontario
May I again express my deepest gratitude and apprecia
ussells teachings. The feeling that they are the
of yours and
Lao's
cosmic illumination is inescapable. On
back to other books and writings which I had studied
the past I find they seem, elementary and do not hold my in
This
is not a criticism of those writings but a recognition
the God given wisdom
that
is being made manifest through
combined efforts.
If I can experience only a
little
of the illumination
that
in
your teachings I will deem it priceless. Ideeply appreciate
Home Study Course. No price is too great to pay for its
that the only thing that makes life
e joy we get in giving and serving our fellow,
Your combined gifts to mankind constitute a priceless her
for our people and I hope the w'orld will awaken to the
revealed by you. N. C. K., California
We have been studying your Home Study Course as faith
time would permit. I have had a group going over the
for the past 18 months and we are continuing with it.
the next month or so I expect to start a second group
its way.
I
have spoken before the Rotary and other Service
Clubs,
about your tremendous work and its vital
We are constantly amazed to read in the press and
journals where outstanding scientists are gradually
around to your point of view in presenting to them and
world apparently new theories and concepts which you
lready presented in your lectures. There have been
of this during thepast few months.
I wish I could convey to you both just how much your
to us but anything I could say would be so in
as to sound ridiculous. Not being able to attend at
during August was, I believe, the most heartbreak
and bitterest disappointment of my entire life. I am sure I
s lot and I can never make it up.
I
will not detain you more at this
time
but please rest as
that you both have helped us tremendously and thru us
believe I now practice much better medicine and
God bless you both.
C.H.B., M.D., CM., D.R., Ontario
You u'ill be sending me soon the
last
unit of lessons in
very
vital and revolutionary Home Study
Course.
These
with
the Divine Iliad volumes and your Cosmog
t a reeducation for me in science, philosophy and
a much more vital one than I received in college and
I am asking
myself,
'What next? What is
my part in giving this new knowledge to the world of our
Rev. W. M. H., Georgia
Yo u will not be surprised to find that your teachings are
taking their marvelous effect in my life. I used to have great
dreams of being a concert singerbut loved painting and had a
deep passion for the out of doors. Everyone always told me to
forget all but one of theseand I couldn't separate themso
/ did nothing. Now, since I started studying, I am taking vocal
lessons at night (I work in an office) and even though I haven't
a place to practice yet I know that avenue will open.
I have turned 'out some paintings that are better than I
thought I could do or have ever done. And last summer my work
put me on the road where I drove for eight months in Colorado,
New Mexico and Wyomingto every county seatway up in
the heart of those majestic mountains of mine. Thank you so
much. N. M. W., Colorado
I cannot put into words what your books have meant to
me. I have never read anything so electric. Thoughts seem to
flash through my mind as I read. They make so much of other
reading seem so
empty.
I am amazed at the way God has led me
to the books that verify the insight He has given me. I know
nothing
of science or electricity but He has revealed to me that
Light is Life and electricity. I hope to start your Home Study
Course next fall. P. Ar., Indiaom-
Scholarship
Fund
T w o
years ago our chemist friend and student, Mr. Jay
Katz,
sent a check
covering
a one year Home Study Course and
a
letter
telling
us that he had gained so
much f r o m
the course
that he thought there might be someone who wanted i t but
could
not afford it . " I f there is such a one," he said,
"just give
h im the course and not
mention
my name."
That donation
started THE
SCHOLARSHIP
FU N D which
has nowgrown to an extentwhich
allows
us to send to countries
where money cannot be sent out of the country, l i k e Finland,
N ew Zealand and other countries where a
l i m i t
of fifteen
do l -
lars
or so is all that can be sent out.
Then
there are low salaried people
l i k e
ministers who can-
n o t really afford the
price
but who can pay part of it.
I n one
case
we gave a f u l l scholarship to a deadly earnest
student who surprised us later by sending a f u l l scholarship for
another. In his
letter
he t o l d us that the course had taught him
th e
principle
of abundance in accordance
w i t h
one's desire f o l -
lowed by
action.
Donations for this fund insmall or large amounts w i l l g^ve
happiness and
prosperity
to many who
could
not otherwise
afford it, and bring to you a j oy that can comeonly by the g i v -
i n g oflove out f r om yourself to another whoneedsit .
Do
you not think
this
is a
wonderful
way to make one other
l i f e
a
l i t t l e
better by extending
your
more
abundaifE"life ihto"'Sn^' '
other l i f e which may be struggling now as you have once
strug-
gled
nnouncement
Regarding
the SeaChildren
Before concluding this letter
I have a
wonderful
surprise
f o r
you. As many of you
know,
my husband
wrote
an amazing
child's f a i r y story
f i f t y
four
years ago of
children
who
l i v ed
under
the sea, whichmany pronounced the
finest
children's
book
everwrittenand the most
imaginative.
T h e story
is a series of undersea adventures of the Sea
Children f r o m
where they had
journeyed
to welcome a
newly
ar-
rived Sea
h i l d
across the dangerous deep
seas
to the sunken
continent
of Atlantis where
their capitol
was located. Sea
h i l d -
re n were those
rarely born
earth
children
in whom
their
ele-
mentary gillswhich al l people havedeveloped at an
early
age
so they could
l i v e
only under water, where they rode sturgeons
an d
sword f i s h
as earth children
ride
ponies. The adventures of
this
long
journey
fascinates adults as
w e l l
as children.
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I t s
ent ire 10,000 edition sold out i n two weeks,
some
stores
selling two or three hundred a day. I t had either a f u l l page i l -
lustration or a text drawing on every page,al lmade by my hus
band when he studied
deep
sea l i f e for this purpose.
President Theodore Roosevelt read i t because he heard his
children revelling in it for weeks, and t o l d my husband that i t
fascinated hi m so much tha t he could not la y it down
u n t i l
he
finished reading itand even then he again went over the book
t o
revel in the fantasy of the pictures.
So many of our students have asked for a copy of this book
that we asked a book printer for an estimate of cost to print a
small special autographed edit ion fo r our students who wish
them. We f i n d that we could print this special edition to sell for
$5.00 per copy if a
minimum
of 1000 copies are ordered.
therefore, you
wish
a copy fo r yourself , or copies f or
Christmas gifts for the children you know,please send i n your
request for the number you wish, and i fthese orders total 1000
we w i l l print the book and Doctor w i l l autograph them on a
special inscription
page
and send them to you as speedily as
possible. Please send no
money
untU we
notify
you that we have
enough orders to print them, for it will save a lot of work if the
checks had to he returned.
I n closing this 1954 News Lett er I wan t to again express a
b i g thahk you for al l your
loving
lett ers and remembrances.
They never, f a i l tobring a new and great
t h r i l l
of joy. To know
h ow deep your love is for us personally, and your fine under
standing of this work for God, for which our every moment is a
dedication, and kno wing that you not only share our hope that
The Message w i l lencircle the globe and bring PEACE I N OUR
T I M E but that youthrough your understanding of the p r i n -
ciples given in our teachingsare real izin g that security W I T H -
I N that no physical cala mity can destroythese are those price
less treasures
that ever spur us on to give more and more to all
mankind
of this great knowledge.
Y ou
know that however long the silences between our let
ters
are to you our love is
w i t h
you always> I am
Sincerely,
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more valuable than though I wrote it alone without the addition
o f her genius.
Proofof that fact lies in The Secret of
L i g h t ,
which I wrote
alone, just before Lao came. The Home Study Course is The
Secret of L i g h t
multiplied
a thousand-fold for i t has in it the
L i g h t
o f al l knowledge and the wisdom of it s use in command
i n g one's destiny.
Just as Cosmic Consciousness is
slowly
seeping into man's
spiritual awareness
so is extrasensory p ercept ion creeping
into
hi s
thinking and thus extending his electrical awareness. As
these two attributes m u l t i p l y the ir extensions in our students,
through
a gradual
growth
in their perceptions, their
i n t u i t i o n
multiplies
w i t h
i t
u n t i l
the great
M i n d
miracle of CREATIVE
INSPIRATION
comes to them to l i f t them entirely out of the
physical w o r l d into the high
heavens
of
ecstasy which
is the
M I N D
state
of K N O W I N G f ro m
which
the physical
state
of
thought and action springs. Such heights can be reached only
through the steps outlined above, and these steps can be taken
only
in the measure of new knowledge attained. When our stu
dents
arrive at that high point they then know the glory of
the CREATOR for they then are CO-CREATOR
w i t h
the ONE
M I N D of the universe, and they know the
ecstasy
of creation.
- I n the above words I have st riven to make you understand
what I mean by
telling
you HO W and W H Y our
eager,
awakened students have transformed themselves. We, ourselves
do not transform by the knowledge we give. You transform
yourselves through your desire for transformation No one can
teach another except through the power of
loving
desire in the
teacherto reinspire another
w i t h
his inspi ration.
This
decadent age has brought into the
w o r l d
a command
f r o m
your Father and ours to
u p l i f t
the human race through
the new knowledge contained in The
Divine
I l i a d Message. There
is very l i t t l eknowledge in the w o r l d of today. Proof of that fact
lies
i n the questions people constantly ask, questions which
everyone ought to know.
Questions Most Frequently sked of Us
What
is meant by personality? How can I develop it?
What happens to me when I die?
Do I come back as the
same
person?
Do I know my loved
ones
in the other world?
What
is my Soul? What is my Mind?
H o w do I think, and wha t is thi nki ng? Can I increase my
power to think?
What relation iselectricity to
thinking
and to matter? What
is
matter? How is matter constructed? An d what is gravitat ion?
What
relation is matter to space, or are there two kinds
o f matter? What relati on to gra vit at ion is radiation?
What do you mean by saying : Thi s is a thought-wave u n i
ectr ic wave universe and a sexed electric universe?
W h y am I
here?
H o w can I become great i n my profession?
H o w can I climb out of the assembly line and rise to the
to p
in our factory?
A n d how can I overcome my i n f e r i o r i t y complex
which
keeps
me there, and gain confidence in myself?
W h y are somemen geniuses and others not?
H o w can I apply the laws you teach to my personal l i f e to
eep friendships; to cultivate charm of manner; to attr act love
nd to make people want to know me?
H o w can I extend my powers to others?
What
is the
principle
behind meditation and prayer?
What
is the meaning of power of
M i n d
over matter .and
can I use the power of
M i n d
to heal myself or others?
W h y is there so much misery in the w o r l d , and so many
wars, i f God is al l good and al l powerful?
H o w can I maint ain a positive atti tude in my
thinking
and
prevent a negative attitude f r o m creeping in?
What
is karma?
H o w can I eliminate
worry
and fear for the future
f r o m
my life?
What
are vibrations?
H o w can I f i n d rhy thmic balance i n my l i f e and
hold
it?
W h y
can electricity be insulated and magnetism cannot be?
What is magnetism?
W h y do planets flatten at the poles? An d whydoes Saturn
throw of f rings and other planets do not? ,
What do you mean bypolarity and pa irs of opposites?
Is marriage necessary for balance or can I be complete in
myself?
Can one sublimate sex
without damage?
H o w
can I experience Cosmic Conscious illumination?
Y o u
say tha t genius is inherent in al l men. How can you
explain that?
H o w can I learn to concentrate and what do you mean by
decentrate?
What
do you mean by balance and balanced interchange
as applied to every day life?
What do you mean by sayi ng th at the secret of creation
lies
in the electric wave?
Do I have to know the electric wave and why?
H o w can I be benefited by
knowing
the secret of the elec
tric
wave i f I am not a scientist? -
Y o u say tha t tha t secret is the key to the control of my
physical bodymy power to express myselfand my power to
control myself. I cannot see how that can be but
would
l i k e to
kaiow, especially as youseem tphay^ proven it in_your
own.life.
Do your teachings make this clear?
These are but a few of the many questions
which
we
f u l l y answer in the
HOME STUDY
COU RSE , for they are all
logically,
and consistent ly answered. In T HE D I V I N E
I L I A D
MESSAGE are
these
words: A l l questions are answerable i n
L i g h t . Thou art L i g h t . Thou canst answer them. Tha t is the
reason wh y you can answer them when you know that L i g h t
as we do.
Go d
has taught Lao and me the utterly simple principleof
Natural
science which we inturn are teaching you. His Natural
Science is utterly simple.
Underlying it is a simple key to all
Creation which is exemplified in all your actions and all phe-
nomena of motion
The scientific w o r l d has been searching for that elusive key
f o r decades and expects that i f i t is ever found i t w i l l be in the
f o r m of so complex a mathematical formula that only a few
among the savants can understand it.
is indeed not only simple but so familiar that it has
been overlooked
La o and I together are now
giving
i t to the w o r l d i n our
HOME STUDY
COURSE for the f i r s t time, for I have not
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y e t
released i t in my books or teaching:s. So simply have we
explained
the fundamental workings of Creation in this course
that a ten year oldc h i l d should be able to understand them. Part
o f THE D I V I N E
I L I A D
MESSAGEas you knowhas been
released in my booksTHE SECRET OF L I G H T and Volumes
one and two of THE MESSAGE OF T HE
D I V I N E
I L I A D and
we are now
giving
a thorough working knowledge of these
basic
principles in this HOME STUD Y COURSE at the
request
o f
hundreds of valued students of THE
D I V I N E
I L I A D teach
ings so that they may more easily and quickly gain the under
standing they so deeply desire of this NE W COSMIC K N O W
LEDGE.
The study
course
begins
w i t h
a scientific explanation of
meditation,
or communion
w i t h
God, and isfollowed by a scien
t i f i c explanation of prayer. Also a scientific explanation of
Cosmic Consciousness and that rarest of all human experiences
known
as THE
I L L U M I N A T I O N .
Meditation is the most im
portant function of human existence. I t is the least known and
the most f lagrant ly practiced. Meditat ion began
-w i th
the dawn
o f Consciousness in man, at
which
time man began to
think.
I t
is
almost a new att ribute of manquite in its infancyfor only
those rare few whom we call geniuses make use of it .
Humam
progressr nationally-and individually, has been
measured by the yardstick of meditation. I t is the key to the
i l l u m i n i n g of your
M i n d w i t h
cosmic knowledge and power. I t
is
the key to all creative expression, all invent ion and al l product
o f
the imagination as expressed in the
f i v e
fine arts.
he transition
from
body
sensing to Mind knowing
which is now
about
to take place in the human racewill be
the fruit of each man s ability to become aware of his relation
to God, of his relation with other men, and of his own omnis
cience and omnipotence in respect to manifesting God as Co-
Creator of His universe.
ur study course is for the purpose of aiding you to
make
that transition. For this reason the teaching of the power to
open the door to the L i g h t of your Self, through an under
standing of
what meditation means
is paramount and begins
the course. I t is for the purpose of maiding you know the in
visible universe in order to manifest your knowing in the visible
universe.
Next
in order
w i l l
be a thorough explanation of the simple
underlying
key to the principles,processes and laws of Natural
Science, by
means
of which you w i l l
f i n d
that Nature's creative
principles are your creative principles. That s t i l l undiscovered
k e y
is the great hidden
secret
which
w i l l
advance the human
race, and each individual i n i t , more than any other discovery in
a l l time.
The reasonwhy the discovery of the simple underlying p r i n
ciple
which lies back of al l phenomena is the
greatest
of all
CQn _
tributions
to human advancement is that, fo r the f i r s t time i n
history, God can be feftown as a scient ific fact , instead of an
^^ahstract and debatable assumption.
This w i l l
mark the
f i r s t
great step toward the worship of
One God whom all men w i l l know alike.
This w i l l
give to you, for your advancement, and to science
f o r all human advancement, the WHY of all thi ngs.
W i t h
th is knowledge of CAU SE and purposefulness you
can
b u i l d
an intelligent
l i f e
plan for yourself, and
science
can.
b u i l d
a consistent cosmogony for
i t s e l f
to replace the masseso f
inconsistent hypotheses regarding CAUSEwhich i t now has and
cannot fi t together.
Science knows the HO W of many things but not the WH Y
nor
W H A T
of any of the universal fundamentals. I t does not
know W H A T
L i g h t
is, or electricity, gravi tat ion , radiation,
magnetism, energy, or any other of the fundamentals of either
the physical or spiritual universe. The most important of all
knowledge is the constitution of matter. Science not only knows
nothing of this subject but declares that the human mind is in
capable of comprehending such complexity. Thi s is not true for
i t
is utt erl y simple. There is no complexity i n
nature's
processes.
There is but
simplicity multiplied
into seeming complexi ty. By
the time the course is finished you w i l l have this knowledge.
This
is unfortunate, but it is more unfor tunate tha t t his
lack
of knowledge has misled Science in to forming theories
and laws which have no relation to Nature whatsoever. Among
these are the expanding universe theory, the energy theory
which homed the
f i r s t
and second laws of thermodynamics, the
untenable theory of atomic structure, the theory of the att rac
t i o n
of matter and the repulsion of
l i g h t
which gave us the
Newtonian
and Coulomb laws, the theory that the moon would
f a l l upon the earth except for its
i n i t i a l
impulse, the theory
that there are posit ively and negatively charged corpuscles
o f matterthe theory that the nuclei of atoms is composed of
oppositely
charged separated particlesand so many other
erroneous conclusions which are basicfundamentals of science
even to the theory of planetary b i r t h and the belief that the
universe had a beginning somewhere in remote
aeons.
I t
is only by the knowledge of that underlyi ng key to all
actions and reactions between CAU SE and EF FEC T th at the
intellectual w o r l d can ever know the real meaning of
l i f e
and
deathbirth
and re-bi rth . Through that key to new knowledge
alone can one know the mystery of the souls of things, of God's
bookkeeping-and recording system,-and
o
the universal ity of
a l l things.
God's i l l u m i n i n gmadeusmasters of whatever we desired to
do . We are revealing to you that secret of mastership i n what
ever you desire to do. A secret is something ofwhichyou are ig
norant. When
knowledge
reveals that
which
has
been secret,
ignorance disappears and the power of kriowledge takes its
place- That is another definition of what we mean by transform,-
ing one s Self. To exemplify:
1 .
Every intense student of our
course becomes
a consum
mate PHILOSOPHER, because the
l i v i n g
philosophy of our
teachings gives him wisdom and power to cont rol his destiny,
which the study of
past
dead philosophies can never do.
2 .
He is also a consummate S CI ENTI STbecausehe
becomes
so thoroughlyfamiliar
w i t h
God's motivative forces and process
es that his knowledge gives him the power to command all mat
ter to obey his
w i l l .
3. He is also a consummate DOCTOR and Nature healer f or
he knows how Godrestores balance and normalcy to unbalanced
bodies and minds which needlessly i l l our hospitals and mental
institutions.
4 . He is likewise the consummate L A W Y E R for he knows
a l l of Nature's Law of rhythmic balanced interchange f r o m
which man builds his principles of justice symbolized by bal
anced scales.
5. He is also a consummate
LEADER,
for his knowledge of
Nature's
Jaws
and
processes,
gives him command over material
forces, and likewise gives him wisdom to command his own
destiny
which
a leader must have before he can command the
destiny of other men.
6. Likewise he is the consummate
M A T H E M A T I C I A N
for
i n
his
hands
he holds the master key to mathematics which lies
i n
the repetitive sequences of the octave wave of nine
tones
of
the wave spectrum that vibrate between the equilibrium
zeros
whichet ernally end his nines to begin them again at one.
7. And he also is the consummate POET,
M U S I C I A N ,
PAINTER, SCULPTOR, ARCHITECT, ENGINEER, I N
VENTOR and other genius interpreters of Nature's rhy thms
and harmonies, that alone lie in the
l i v i n g
heartbeatof this u n i
verse which is but an infinite
multiple
of one
octave wave.
. These also define what we mean by the transformation of
the physical man whose conclusions are drawn f r o m the e v i
denceof his
senses
to cosmic man who knows CAUSEwhich lies
behind the EFFECTS that his senses alone perceive.
Families
and groups of friends should study this course
together and discuss it together, fo r by such interchange each
one helps the other. Chi ldren of families should be reared
upon this new cosmic knowledge. I t w i l l make greater men and
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women,
o f the m by developing the ir inner thinking and creative
expression.
O u r advice as to the
best
method of getting the most out
o f i t is for each one to study each lesson alone by himself , and
give much thought to it in meditat ion before discussing i t w i t h
others, or in groups. I f each one in a group has thus givendeep
and meditative thought to it, a group discussion w i l l help in
tensify that power of understanding by interchange of matured
thought instead of immature thought.
F o r this reason i t is better tha t each student has the
complete manuscript for himself so that it is always
avail
able whenever one has ti me to take i t up, instead of awai ti ng
h is
turn
for studying it
without
ever having had sufficient
time to digest it in meditation.
A special certificate w i l l be issued at the end of the f u l l
year's
course to al l regis tered students by The Wal te r Russel
Foundation
and w i l l
bear
both of our personal signatures.
Looking forward
w i t h
happy antici pation to our having
the great pleasure of greeting you
here
personally this sum
mer, or when you f i n d yourself cal led to come to the Sacred
Mount of Beauty, and
w i t h
best
personal regards, I am
Sincerely yours.
JnStructionA ^or CnroUntent Jn Monte Study. Course
tions
cover a wide range^from
business
problems to domestic
onesfrom
healing principles to rein carnati onfrom the
niys
tery
of l i f e and death to the movement of planets in their orbits
f r o m frust rat ions to sex problems and divers other questions
o f every nature.
Whatever question you
would
l i k e to ask of us you w i l l f i n d
the answer to it in either one of the twelve
lessons
devoted to
questions and answers so you
w i l l
have no need of asking us
again.
The cost of the entire one
year's
course is $60.00 pay
able as follows: $10.00 upon enrolling and $10.00 each month
u n t i l
the $60.00 has been paid. A discount of $10.00 w i l l be
allowed fo r those who pay in advance for the f u l l coursemak
i n g the cost $50.00.
The duration of the
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Y E A R As it is a perpetual course enrollment may begin at
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is the beginning of your
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Course.
Lessons are profusely il lus tra ted by Dr. Russell w i t h ex
planatory diagrams
which
aid very materi ally in helping to
understand and
s i m p l i f y
the text. Home study students have
expressed great appreciation for the added clarity which these
drawings give to them.
CONCERNING QUESTIONS
During the
years
pract ica lly every type of question is asked
and answered in twelve of the forty-eight
lessons. These ques-
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