The Gaelic Manuscripts

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Publisher's note

This book is quite old (written 1930s), yet it's a perennial shining light amongst the plethora of channelled material available nowadays. Stewart and Betty White published several books in the 1930s, including The Betty Book, Across the Unknown and The Unobstructed Universe. The Gaelic Manuscripts was never properly published - also [it was] intentionally not copyrighted (unlike their other books).

This is perhaps because of the nature of the material. This book is written to assist people already at work on the path, when much channelled material tends variously to encourage people to start walking it. This book matched the level of other material such as that of Alice Bailey in the 1920s or Jane Roberts in the 1970s. This is why we publish it here.

One other reason for this re-publication is that such books as this have exerted an indirect formative, seminal influence on many New Age ideas of today - it pays to understand where many such ideas originated, since they are not as new as many people think. Though some of the forms of expression in this book can be a little dated or regarded nowadays as gender-biased, the observations and truths contained herein are all the same clearly put and very relevant in our time.

Warm thanks to Jessica BenDaniel of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, for making this book available.

Palden Jenkins
The Glastonbury Archive
http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/archive.html

The Glastonbury Archive is a non-profit, goodwill Internet archive of the works of interesting and enlightened people and seminal ideas. It makes available chosen out-of-print and unpublished books and bodies of work which are of benefit to humanity, without charge. It is a part of the Isle of Avalon island of websites at http://www.isleofavlon.co.uk, a community website from Glastonbury, in southwest England.

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00. Introduction

01. Chapter I CREATIVE LIVING

01.01. THE PROCESS OF CREATION

01.02. NO CREATIVE EFFORT IS LOST

01.03. EVOLUTION FROM THE CREATIVE STANDPOINT

01.04. BEAUTY AND UGLINESS

01.05. THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF COMPLETE CREATION

01.06. THE DUTY OF APPRECIATION

01.07. THE APPRECIATION OF UGLINESS

01.08. THE DUTY OF SHARING

01.09. THE KINDS OF ARTISTIC MATERIALS AND THEIR USES

02. Chapter II DISCOMFORT AND UNHAPPINESS

03. Chapter III THE PROCESS OF CREATION

03.01. (NO TITLE)

03.02. THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT

03.03. THE REASON FOR THE GROUP

03.04. THE RESOLVING OF GROUP PROBLEMS

03.05. A MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD HIS GROUP

03.06. SURGICAL LIFTING OF LIMITATIONS - GLANDS

03.07. THE QUESTION OF MORONS AND IMBECILES

03.08. MISTAKEN HELP

04. Chapter IV IMMORTALITY: ITS EVOLUTION

04.01. A DEFINITION OF TERMS

04.02. ITS GERM

04.03. THE BIRTH OF THE SOUL

05. Chapter V THE MEMORY OF CONTINUITY

05.01. THE QUESTION

05.02. THE TWO TYPES OF MEMORY

05.03. MEMORIES AS PERMANENT POSSESSION

05.04. MEMORY AS INSTINCT: RACE MEMORIES

05.05. COSMIC MEMORY

05.06. MAN'S RELATION TO COSMIC MEMORY

05.07. MAN'S POSSESSION OF COSMIC MEMORY

05.08. INSTINCTS

05.09. INSTINCT AS RECOLLECTION

05.10. THE USES OF RECOLLECTION

05.11. CONTINUITY OF MEMORY

05.12. SUMMING UP

06. Chapter VI IMMORTALITY: REINCARNATION

06.01. QUESTIONS DEFINED

06.02. WHAT IS REINCARNATION?

06.03. WHEN IS REINCARNATION?

06.04. THE PURPOSE OF REINCARNATION

06.05. CLAIRVOYANT MEMORIES OF PAST LIVES

06.06. CLAIRVOYANT KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER PLANES OR SPHERES

06.07. TRUE NATURE OF THESE ZONES OR SPHERES

07. Chapter VII IMMORTALITY: CONDITIONS IN THE INVISIBLE

07.01. WHAT IS HEAVEN LIKE?

07.02. WHY IT CANNOT BE DESCRIBED

07.03. A PICTURE

08. Chapter VIIA MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO COSMOS

08.01. MAN AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WHOLE

08.02. MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TO AND DEPENDENCE ON THE WHOLE

09. Chapter VIII THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT

09.01. RELIGION DEFINED

09.02. THE FORMS OF RELIGION

09.03. THE ESSENTIAL SIMPLICITIES: NUMBER ONE

09.04. THE ESSENTIAL SIMPLICITIES: NUMBER TWO

09.05. THE ESSENTIAL SIMPLICITIES: NUMBERS THREE AND FOUR

09.06. THE PURPOSE

10. Chapter IX THE COMMUNION OR PRAYER ASPECT

10.01. PRAYER DEFINED

10.02. THE ART OF INSPIRATION

10.03. FALSE INSPIRATION: ECSTASY

10.04. TRUE INSPIRATION AND ECSTASY

11. Chapter X HEREDITY

11.01. THE QUESTIONS DEFINED

11.02. RACIAL INTELLIGENCE

11.03. THE DETERMINATION OF ONE'S ENVIRONMENT

11.04. APPARENTLY UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT

11.05. THE VALUES OF PRESSURE

11.06. A WARNING

11.07. SPECIALIZATION

11.08. THE PERSISTENCE OF HEREDITY TRAITS

11.09. THE SPECIALIST

12. Chapter XI CONFLICT

12.01. THE USE OF RESISTANCE

12.02. THE GATHERING OF CONDITIONS

12.03. THE REASON FOR THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

12.04. DEFEAT

12.05. THE PULSATION OF DEVELOPMENT

12.06. FREE WILL

12.07. EXPERIMENT

12.08. LEGITIMATE CONFLICT DEFINED

12.09. ILLEGITIMATE CONFLICT DEFINED

13. Chapter XII JUSTICE

13.01. DEFINITION

13.02. HOW ATTAINED

13.03. HOW RECOGNIZED

13.04. THE NECESSITY OF SUSPENDED JUDGMENT

14. Chapter XIII SELF SACRIFICE

14.01. THE QUESTION

14.02. DUTY

14.03. HOW TO DETERMINE

14.04. THE CRITERION

14.05. SEEK TO KNOW

15. Chapter XIV GETTING ON WITH THE JOB: THE RHYTHM OF EFFORT

15.01. PRELIMINARY

15.02. RHYTHM

15.03. AFFINITY

15.04. THE RHYTHM OF EFFORT

15.05. CROSS RHYTHMS

15.06. CATCHING THE RHYTHM

15.07. HOW THAT IS DONE

15.08. WAVES

16. Chapter XV GETTING ON WITH THE JOB: THE NEED OF FUNCTIONING

16.01. THE NECESSITY OF FUNCTION

16.02. THE OBLIGATION TO FUNCTION

16.03. THE MAKING OF REALITY

16.04. THE OUTGROWING OF FACULTIES

16.05. THE SAME, CONTINUED

16.06. MAINTAINING THE BALANCE

17. Chapter XVI GETTING ON WITH THE JOB: WORKING EASILY

17.01. REFRESHMENT

17.02. WORK WITHIN OUR POWERS

17.03. THE VALUE OF RITUAL

17.04. RESISTANCES

17.05. BAD LUCK

18. Chapter XVII GETTING ON WITH THE JOB: THE REWARD OF BEAUTY

18.01. THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY

18.02. THE UNCONSCIOUS PRODUCTION OF BEAUTY

18.03. THE RECORDING ANGEL

19. Chapter XVIII THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION:
      ADVICE TO BEGINNERS IN PSYCHICS

19.01. TYPICAL BEGINNER'S EXPERIENCE

19.02. THE PURPOSE OF FIRST COMMUNICATIONS

19.03. THE ASSEMBLING OF CONDITIONS

19.04. THE BROADCAST IDEA: IMPERSONATIONS

19.05. DISTINGUISHING TRUE FROM FALSE

20. Chapter XIX THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION:
      MIND AND INTELLIGENCE

20.01. PURPOSING AND INTENTION

20.02. THE PROCESS OF CREATION

20.03. HOW A LAW IS MADE TO WORK

20.04. THE COMPOSITION OF THE MIND

21. Chapter XX THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION:
      DIFFICULTIES OF PREPARATION

21.01. INITIAL DIFFICULTIES: PHYSICAL

21.02. INITIAL DIFFICULTIES: MENTAL

21.03. INITIAL DIFFICULTIES: EXTERNAL

22. Chapter XXI THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION: INTERFERENCE

22.01. MALICIOUS ENTITIES

22.02. A BIT OF ADVICE

22.03. THE POINT OF ATTACK

22.04. WHY INTERFERENCE AT ALL?

23. Chapter XXII WORDS AND DEEDS

23.01. (NO TITLE)

23.02. (NO TITLE)

24. Chapter XXIII SYSTEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST AND WEST

24.01. "DEVELOPING" SYSTEMS OF THE EAST

24.02. DEVELOPING SYSTEMS OF THE EAST

25. Chapter XXIV DANGER AND ITS AVOIDANCE

25.01. THE BASIS OF ILLUSION

25.02. OBSESSION

25.03. THE RELIEF FROM OBSESSION

25.04. THE FIRM FOUNDATION

25.05. INSANITY

25.06. THE HEALING PROCEDURE

25.07. THE DAMAGE SUSTAINED

25.08. A TYPE OF ILLUSION AND ITS HEALING

25.09. THE DEFENSE

25.10. THE ONE SIN

26. Chapter XXV THE FOURTH DIMENSION

26.01. SPACE AND TIME

26.02. INTERLUDE

26.03. THE TIME CONSTANT

26.04. TIME AND SPACE IN THE INVISIBLE

26.05. THE FIFTH DIMENSION

26.06. A PHILOSOPHICAL FATALISM

26.07. THE RESOLVING OF FATALISM

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