More Than Mind Discloses

More Than Mind Discloses

The Spiritual Aspects of Contemporary Life

By William Allen LePar

Edited by Don Weisgarber

Published by SOLAR Press at Smashwords

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Copyright 2012 by SOL

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They haven’t got no noses

The fallen sons of Eve,

Even the smell of roses

Is not what they supposes,

But more than mind discloses,

And more than men believe.

—G.K. Chesterton

Table of Contents

Introduction

l. Is It Just Heaven or Hell?

2. The Bundle of Joy

3. Beauty Is the Symbol of Morality

4. Wealth and Gifts

5. Spirituality in the New Millennium

6. The Emptiness Within

7. Success in Adversity–Control in Life

8. A World Blessed

9. Religion–The Perfect Place to Hide a Heart Filled with Hate

10. A Soul of Excellent Quality

11. Done Forever

12. Baptism by Fire

13. Heretics of Yesterday and Today

14. The Nature of the Heart

15. A Life of Significance

16. The Path out of Hopelessness

17. The Path out of Suffering

18. The Path to the Living Masterpiece

19. The Hours of Our Lives

20. Trapped by Treasures

21. The Reward of Self-Respect

22. Behold the Man

23. I Own Therefore I Am

24. The March of Materialism

25. The Greater Potential

26. A Heart of Darkness

27. In the Absence of an Active Love

28. Both Sides of the Coin

29. A Constant State of Change

30. Rooted in Spirituality

31. Depend on Heaven

32. The Entitlement Mentality

33. When Does the End Justify the Means?

34. What Is Essential in Life

35. Our Deliberate Blindness

36. Count Your Life Not in Years or Months, but in Moments

37. The Pleasure of Disaster

38. The World That Is Too Much With Us

39. Living Wisely with Death

40. In Emptiness Evil Resides

41. In Pursuit of Prayer

42. The Enemy Without

43. Resident Evil

44. Along the Garden Path

45. Getting More Than We Deserve

46. The Creative Forces Behind The Creation

47. Lighting the Avenue of Spiritual Growth

Postscript

Introduction

For anyone who had the good fortune to know William LePar during his lifetime, this book will seem like an old friend. In it is the heart of his purpose on earth; in it is that gentle, persistent persuasion to get his fellow man to follow the right path, with an occasional knock upside the head. The contents of this book and the contents of his life were a variation on a single theme: what must we do in our relations with our fellow man to assure our return to our Creator? The answer, so simple yet so difficult, was the focus of his writing and his life.

Since the publication of Spiritual Harvest in 1998, LePar has written 12 years’ worth of articles for the SOLAR Newsletter. Newsletters are not an enduring medium, nor do they reach a wide audience. It is usually their destiny to be read once or twice, set aside until something is decided about them, perhaps read one more time, and then discarded. They are too insubstantial to live for long.

It is the opinion of some that LePar’s articles deserve a better fate, and that collectively they would make a very readable and insightful book. Such collections are not uncommon, being often done by newspaper or magazine columnists. LePar’s assembly of stories, however, has an underlying thread that weaves through them all: What must man do to assure his return to his Maker? That is the theme that powers these collected articles and has indeed been the driving force behind all that LePar tried to accomplish on earth.

When I say that LePar has written these individual stories, that is a bit misleading. It is not done in the manner that you or I would write, but what is eventually put down on paper is composed in a very different way. He did not sit down and write out longhand, or even type out, any of the things contained herein. Rather, in a system worked out over the years, he relied on a form of dictation quite unique. But for the reader to understand how that dictation worked, he must be introduced to The Council.

Most of us here on earth believe that there is more to existence than what we commonly experience in the physical world, that there is a spiritual dimension just beyond our perception. Such belief may be of a heaven that awaits us after death, guardian angels that watch over us, spirits of loved ones that have preceded us, demonic beings up to no good, avatars and hierarchies of gods; the list could go on. Personal contact with such spiritual identities, however, for most of us, does not happen, or if it does happen, we are not aware of it.

For LePar, life played out differently. All his life he had powerful psychic abilities. (Though he preferred to be labeled a sensitive rather than a psychic.) People with psychic abilities are not uncommon, to be sure, but what distinguishes LePar is his relationship with The Council, a gathering of twelve spiritual beings whose next (and imminent) step in spiritual growth is to merge with God. It is they who for decades spoke through LePar as he lay in trance, providing a vast wealth of knowledge of what awaits us all in the spiritual realms and of what we must do to assure our arrival there.

Imagine yourself as a member of The Council, having endured earthly existence and having reached a point in spiritual growth where you are ready to take the final step in your return to your Maker. As you sit at the foot of God, so to speak, not yet daring to look up, you decide, in your love for mankind, to delay your final ecstasy and to share what you have learned with those who are still seeking the way. A great sacrifice, to be sure. But you must have a partner on earth who is also willing to sacrifice, and who has those psychic and spiritual abilities necessary to serve as your conduit.

Keeping in mind the importance of The Council as the basis for all of LePar’s work, we can continue with the explanation of the writing of the articles. It took a team of three SOL associates to compose each story—LePar, David Lewis (president of SOL), and myself. Meeting in the evening at LePar’s house, the process would begin with Lewis setting up his computer and recorder. When all was ready, I would provide ideas for the topic for the evening. Generally, we would go through a dozen, more or less, before LePar picked one that felt right. For the most part, these ideas were quotes pulled from the works of various well-known authors. Going through a dozen quotes per newsletter issue meant a lot of reading had to be done between times to gather quotes of sufficient depth to inspire LePar. The quotes themselves served a simple purpose: they ignited the spark that got the spiritual flow of words moving. Their merit or meaning was not necessarily analyzed; they functioned as a focal point somewhere within a spiritual truth. LePar would take the quote and in a sense make it his own, taking his readers where he wanted them to go and leaving the quote behind to fend for itself.

Once the topic was selected, we had only a few minutes to wait before the words began to flow. LePar would often describe it as a radio turning on inside his head, and his task then was to repeat what he internally heard. The flow of words would sometimes come slowly and sometimes too fast to be typed (hence the need for the recorder). Oddly enough, at the end of the dictation, LePar had no recollection whatever of what he had just said. After corrections were made based on the tape recording, we would review the article, with LePar invariably adding a few thoughts to fine tune it.

It is not perfectly clear (to those of us still earth-bound) where the stream of words originated. As mortals, locked in this physical existence, we can hardly say for sure where inspiration comes from. Yet, it is realistic to think that what we have is from the spiritual realms, from LePar’s higher self, perhaps with influence from The Council. Certainly, it was not from LePar’s everyday consciousness. At times, during the dictation, he would struggle with a particular word, saying he could not hear it distinctly and didn’t know what it meant. And he would recall nothing about how much time passed or whether the article was 2000 words long or 700 words short. There were a few times over the years, though not many, when, at the end of the dictation, LePar would say, I wrote that one. He was innocently proud, humble man that he was, of having pulled off writing a story indistinguishable from the ones he heard from the spiritual source.

There is little to be gained in a further discussion of how the articles were written; what LePar had to say is more important by far than how he said it. If the reader seeks an insight into LePar’s life, he has only to read what follows. The path proposed for the reader was the path LePar took; what he tells us must be done in life, he did. If you would learn by his example, you have only to live by what he said. What he wrote, he lived.

The Editor

1

Is It Just Heaven or Hell?

A question that many people have is: Why, at the end of this life, is our only heaven or hell? Having free will, why is this our only choice? Looking at the question itself gives us an indication of what actually motivates such a question. It speaks loudly of the arrogance of man. Why should he have any other choice? Is he truly deserving of even this choice? What makes him assume that he should have a whole catalog of choices to please himself? The arrogance of man does not allow him to appreciate or to be thankful for any choice at all. He once existed in the Divine and moved forward with the Divine, but his arrogance and self-indulgence cast him out of that forward movement into a land in which he could only look into his own shadow. Does such ingratitude to this Divine Presence deserve even a choice of heaven or hell? Let’s leave the question unanswered. Viewing this situation through the eyes of God, this last question would not even be considered. The Love that the Divine has for each of His creations would negate the question itself. This Divine Presence, God, has given us all the free will to make a choice equal to the love and commitments that we have given and made to others.

What is heaven? Most individuals would give you some etheric picture of some place somewhere that would have in its citizenry angelic beings with beautiful white wings and long-flowing gowns. Ask these same individuals what they envision as hell and the general description would be something similar to a place where there is fire and brimstone and some horned red-cloaked character with a very sharp pitchfork waiting patiently to inflict untold pain on the occupants of this land of fire. What is important to understand about the two words heaven and hell is that they are man’s effort to convey states of existence where the joy or the regret creates the conditions under which we continue to learn.

The Christian Bible in many places refers to a number of levels of heaven. One must remember the Divine Principle that what is above is below. Therefore, there is also a number of levels of hell. The levels of heaven can best be described as levels of spiritual ecstasy. The levels of hell in like manner can be described as levels from shadow to complete darkness.

Why is it that we only have a choice of two, heaven or hell? Let’s change this to the reality of the choice, which is, which direction are we moving toward?

Let’s discuss hell first. What can we expect if we go to hell? The first thing is don’t expect fire and brimstone. Do expect a land of shadows, and in the distance the shadows become darker and longer until they reach a point of complete darkness. If our choices in life move us away from the Light of God and the Love of God, we move in the direction of the land of shadows wherein we can expect to experience loneliness, isolation, and complete silence, an emptiness that keeps us in a constant state of hunger for something, a sound, a color, a light, a gentle touch, anything but the grayness, the shadows, and the darkness.

Heaven is the absolute opposite of hell or Sheol. Heaven is filled with the sweet smell of love. Heaven is filled with the singing hearts of love. Heaven is filled with a rainbow of colors and the beauty of the purest of white lights. But most of all heaven is filled with others who love deeply and profoundly, as does the Creator who created them.

If you understand the Love of God, He hasn’t forced us to make a choice between heaven and hell. He waits patiently for us to reach out towards Him, if we choose. He has not created the condition that exists. We, through our own self-indulgence, have put ourselves into a position where this loving gift of free will that the Divine has given us allows us to choose whether we will move away from His Light or will move towards His Light. In our self-centeredness and in our smallness, we have created the option of either heaven or hell. In God’s Love, He offers us a path to complete ecstasy, happiness, joy, laughter, and that sweet smell of love.

Is it just heaven or hell? It is your decision. It is your choice.

I hope the next time we meet on our journey of growth, we will both be enjoying the fragrance of the sweet smell of love. At this time when man celebrates the Resurrection of the Christ we can make the choice of resurrecting ourselves from the death-state our self-serving ego has placed us in to the glorified body of spiritual growth and the path to spiritual ecstasy.

We must remember one very important and essential fact of all that exists, that this Divine Presence, our God, has only one emotion, one feeling, one desire, and that is that He loves us totally and completely, loves us just as we are, with our strengths and with our weaknesses. He waits patiently with His arms held out towards us. He offers us the truest and purest of all loves possible. But all this is for naught unless we are willing to return that embrace that He offers us. We must be willing to accept this Divine Presence as our personal lover, as the great love of our very soul. Only by loving this Creator more than we love ourselves can we experience spiritual ecstasy wrapped in His Loving Arms.

2

The Bundle of Joy

When two people get married, there are usually some plans somewhere along the line to begin a family. Some couples decide to start right away to have a family. Others decide to wait a while until they have become established and made their mark in life. Whatever the case may be, when the time does come that the husband and wife decide that they want to start a family, there is always a certain amount of anxiety. With some couples the wife becomes pregnant immediately. With others, it may be a question of trying and trying again. But when the signs appear that the woman has conceived, she will immediately run out and buy a pregnancy test and hold her breath anxiously until the test reveals whether she has conceived or not. Once conception has taken place both the husband and wife begin the ritual of making preparation for the arrival of their child and the presentation of that child to the world. The first thing that the expectant mother and father will do is notify the family: the parents, the grandparents, the brothers and sisters, and they rejoice in the fact that new life will be brought into the family. In the meantime the expectant mother will start fixing up a room for the expected child. More than likely her mother and the husband’s mother will assist in this effort, helping her to choose colors, helping her to choose baby furniture, encouraging her and telling her what to expect based on their own experiences of having children. In the meantime, the father-to-be seems to become more protective of his wife, more attentive. Of course, with his friends his chest expands a little bigger, he stands a little taller, and he is happy to accept the razzing and the jokes that are generally played on expectant fathers.

Of course, while the expectant mother is making the choices as to what kind of furniture and what color walls the baby’s room will have, she will on a regular basis ask the expectant father whether he likes the furniture or the color while she cleverly tricks him into agreeing to her choices. Her explanations of how everything will go together would convince anyone that her choices were the best. Naturally, against such enthusiasm how can the father deny that the expectant mother was not absolutely right in her choices? As time goes by, the woman becomes more obviously pregnant. The mother joyfully wears this as a badge of honor, while the father does everything possible to draw attention to his pregnant wife. Their life has reached a level of happiness that they, as just a couple, had not experienced before, and this is an event that they want to share with all.

Of course, there is a matter of baby showers. These are important events for women. While the invited guests bring a variety of gifts for the baby and the mother, the real purpose of these showers is to support the expectant mother with all the stories of happiness and joy and comedy that come from beginning to raise a family with the birth of a child and to encourage the mother-to-be that whatever suffering she may have to go through in delivering a child will be surpassed by the joy that this child’s first steps will bring, the joy that the first word will bring, and the celebration and happiness of the first birthday.

But all this is still in the future. This is the time for the mothers and the aunts and the friends to pass on their suggestions, their advice, and their wisdom to the soon-to-be mother. While the expectant father gets hardly much more than a pat on the back and some masculine, manly comment like, Well, you did it. At times, some friends will question the father as to whether his son will play basketball or baseball or football. On occasion the expectant father is forewarned of such things as his wife’s morning sickness, her change in moods, her cravings for unbelievable combinations of foods and beverages, and the constant problems of sore backs and feet that swell and the tremendous effort it takes to get out of a chair or get out of bed. As time goes by and the time of birth draws near, all these events that were warned against and predicted have their time of coming to pass. Eventually, the day comes and the mother goes into labor. Unlike the days gone by when the father was confined to some room that was referred to as the father’s waiting room that was on the other side of the hospital, the fathers of today are allowed to participate in the birth of their children. As the mother