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(2) An example of teaching received from an angel32 “We would teach man the way of knowledge, that he may learn to draw upon the hidden sources of energy latent within him and, releasing the forces of his own divinity, become a God. “Mankind has forgotten his divinity, and, forgetting, seeks without for that which is within. There is no possibility of success in the search for power and knowledge, until its direction is reversed. The scientist, the philosopher, the explorer, and the investigator must cease their physical activities; that which they seek obeys no earthly laws, responds to no physical vibration. Spiritual in its nature, its presence may only be recorded on the seeker’s brain, after his mind, his feelings, and his body have been plunged into a profound silence, a stillness so complete, that the lofty vibrations of the spiritual worlds may reach the inner car. The subtler organs of the brain— dormant through long ages, save for their glandular secretions—are the sole physical instruments by means of which the search may be continued; by their aid alone man may hear, see, and measure the hidden forces which form the central core, the secret heart, of all material phenomena. “Knowledge of that interior life force is the next step which the seeker must take, be he scientist or philosopher. The means is within him, therefore he must forsake his external instruments and learn to use those organs of cognition within himself by which alone he can discover that source of power within the heart of Nature, which is the object of his search. Thus, the first step must be a reversal of his present methods of inquiry. He must change from external observation to contact from within. New organs of cognition must be made to function; when they are aroused and under control, no secret shall be hid, all knowledge shall be revealed. Man, by virtue of his divinity, possesses the capacity for the deepest of all researches, that into the divine behind the material; as by the material the material is known, so, by the divine must the divine be discovered. Man must learn to sec the God in Nature, through the God within himself. “First he must find that God; this task should not be difficult for the determined mind, for that inner God is his true self, his very self, the ego which inspires his life. The blending of the material and the spiritual, the secular and the sacred, is the keynote of the research of the future. When this is achieved, the limitations