This document provides spiritual teachings focused on attaining knowledge of God and understanding love in order to achieve peace. It encourages spreading this message to others to help mankind comprehend our oneness with God and each other. While progress can be difficult when few understand, the teachings aim to renew our strength and purpose through communing with God within ourselves.

1. Our treasured and loyal friends:

2. No earthly possessions can make you feel as rich and content

3. as spiritual knowledge, for earthly possessions give transitory joy while spiritual knowledge gives eternal joy

4. Life has many facets. In order to control our lives, we must become aware of the cause of all things.

5. We have endeavored to give you the basic knowledge of God – Light which centers you and thus know your ONENESS with our Creator and with all of His Creation

6. Until men attain this understanding they will continue to create situations which lead to personal tragedies for themselves and to wars between nations.

7. Love is all there is. To understand the meaning of love is man’s eternal lesson

8. The human race has reached the stage where love put into practice is the only hope for human survival

9. That is why you must now extend what you have learned to others through your way of life, in your home and in your social and business contacts

10. Just as a tree obtains its strength from its invisible roots, so does man obtains his strength from his invisible spiritual Self

11. There never can be progress in the visible universe without the power of the invisible Self

12. That is why we have endeavored to teach you WHO YOU ARE and WHAT YOU ARE and to aid you in unfolding your desire to fulfill YOUR PURPOSE ON EARTH

13. Our desire and purpose is to impart to you the knowledge God has bestowed upon us to give to mankind at this crucial period of his unfolding so that peace and happiness can become a permanent way of life for all men.

14. Some day, perhaps some far distant day, man will comprehend this Divine Message from God.

16. We pray that we may live to see it accepted in all its fullness Should we not, however, we know in our deepest depths that the day will come when man – in – the – mass WILL understand God’s great Message

17. There will be times when you may feel that you have even lost contact with God because many experiences come that try man’s Soul.

18. God’s greatest messengers have known such moments. At the hour of Christ’s crucifixion He, too, felt that as He cried: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

19. No man ahead of his day has had an easy road and crucifixion has been the lot of many Cosmic Messengers

20. Laotzu slipped away from the world of man when he could no longer stand the “crowd’s” indifference

21. That is how you will sometimes feel as we, too, have sometimes felt, for we have never spared ourselves. It takes great courage and fortitude to continue to give God’s Message in the indifference of the “crowds”

22. However, the desire to slip away is only fleeting for with the dawn of a new day, inspiration is born

23. It always seems that God has especially sent messages at these crucial times to renew our strength.

24. It is not easy to keep strong when one sees such destruction taking place in the world of man as we have seen these past years. When you know that all this could change if man would only awaken to the CAUSE of his “sickness” It is hard not to feel frustration because of man’s blindness.

25. Do as we do when you feel that man is completely blind Go within yourself and commune with God

26. This is the one and only place where a renewal of strength can be found. Only in the sensed – world of man are you a voice crying in the wilderness

27. “I dearly love our beautiful green Blue Ridge Mount and every precious living thing which grows upon it, and on its very top where we, together, Live without count I will with my beloved Lao work until we eternally Live within it.” Walter Doctor Russell wrote the following poem to me on the occasion of our wedding anniversary on July 29, 1962. Somehow we felt you would treasure it . . . Had you not been one in thought with us, you would not have desired our teachings. Paintings are from Mario Dunguay, www.mariodunguay.com Thanks to Mario Dunguay for being with Walter & Lao Russell, also a messenger of Light through his Art.

28. Extracted from the original & out of print Walter & Lao’s Home Study Course III Edition (1950)