The Celestial Song of Creation

Annalee Skarin

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781789123395
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

"Here is a record of glory, revealing the method of achieving the heights, the way to unfold understanding of the Almighty Truths of God."If you would awaken your soul to the divine symphony of the Universe, follow the way of 'overcoming, ' the Way Christ trod. The record of His Path, the eternal, inner truths of power and fulfillment are now open, the sacred, inner knowledge that has lain dormant and in the depths of your being."Ludwig Van Beethoven, who had become deaf, humbly acknowledged that his Symphony No. 9 came to him directly from God, and that he merely transcribed it."What is man's soul? It is his true being, where God has placed a seed of Himself, and this seed contains the perfect answers to one's outside problems and inner questioning. It is the source of all inspiration and contains the power of all achievement and happiness. The soul is the innermost being of man himself."To contact the soul, one learns 'to be still!' This divine search fulfills man's conquest of himself as he begins to live God's laws. As one learns 'to love God with all his heart, all his soul, all his mind, and all his strength, ' he begins to find the joy and the meaning of existence. The search is one that no man can make for another. It is a quest which each individual must undertake for himself. It is each individual's own responsibility."—Annalee Skarin

 

Chapter I—THE ARCHIVES OF THE SOUL

The other books that have been released have been sent forth to feed and enlighten the hearts and minds of men. This record is written for the awakening of your souls. This is the record that must reach beyond thought into those forgotten memories that have remained unrecalled throughout your mortal lives. This work is to reveal the ancient knowledge that has been silenced for ages by the outward strivings of man’s physical nature.

This work contains the “secret, inner doctrine,” known of old. It contains the sacred, inner knowledge which has lain dormant and unremembered in the innermost depths of your own beings.

Therefore, it is given to abide in you; the record of heaven; the Comforter; the peaceable things of immortal glory; the truth of all things; that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things, and hath all power, according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice and judgment.” (Moses 6:61 from the Pearl of Great Price).

It is to open these archives of knowledge and re-establish the eternal, inner truths of power and fulfillment that this record has been permitted to come into your hands. This record is sacred. Guard it well.

All who so desire may now begin to travel the sacred, inner way of Life and Truth—“The Straight and Narrow Way.” As you throw off the bondage of mortal thinking you will begin to travel a highway of immortality. Such a journey is only for the strong.

Those who continually look backward are unfit for the kingdom. Each backward glance is retrogressive. All backwardness is unproductive and recreates the vibrations and the conditions of the past but with even less light than before. One’s errors and mistakes, if unrelinquished, only retard one’s progress. Mortal thinking with all its sordid, mortal memories must be left behind—after they are repented of. And repentance is the “overcoming” of the weaknesses or habit or tendency that caused the sin.

As one determinedly focuses his eyes upon his divine goal and holds his “eyes single to the glory of God” he will soon become aware that the road he travels is the transparent, gold-paved street of unimaginable beauty. He will realize also that the purified gold has been created and established by the righteousness of the flame-shod feet of advancing man.

So it is to your soul that I now speak for it is your soul that must become awake and aware of “EXISTENCE,” which means literally to “STAND FORTH!”

It is your own individual soul that must now make this journey. It is your most holy, divine, beautiful, shining soul alone that has the power to tread so sacred a path.

As you go forth along this “Straight and Narrow Way” you will have the power to take your body with you for it will become purified in the journey for this is the way of purification. As you knowingly and with full awareness travel this highway of Light, that glorifying Light is increased and established in all its power right within you.

 

This is redemption. This is the method by which one obtains release from all mortal shackles and physical bondage and soul captivity without the need to lay his body down. In this sacred journey the body becomes purified and exalted to the status of the Spirit in which condition only, can one receive a fullness of joy, which has been promised.

The noble and great ones who travel this way have no need for the inferior gift of “salvation” for they will not require the difficult, often humiliating, painful experience of being “salvaged.” Salvation means to be salvaged and it is not a glamorous word nor is it a position to set as one’s goal. “Salvation” is for sinners who do not overcome in this life. These are the ones who have made no attempt to believe His gentle command: “Be ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.”

And because they have not believed they have not even attempted to fulfill. To fulfill this commandment requires the great out-pouring, forgiving love that brings its own forgiveness and power of overcoming.

The great ones, having “overcome” will be exalted. To them the great front door, by-passing death, will be opened wide. These noble ones enter the higher realms as feasted sons of glory. They completely bypass that dreary, back-door entrance, death—the servants’ entrance. These are the ones who triumph over mortality. These are they who enter the higher realms exalted and glorified.

God be praised for a day so great and for such noble, divine ones as you!

Welcome! A thousand times welcome along the road of overcoming! And as you come, lift your heads high in songs of everlasting praise! Open your ears to hear and you will have the power to hear the heavenly hosts join in that singing, glorious cry of wondrous, welcoming triumph!

These are not new truths I am revealing. These are the eternal truths contained in that “sacred, inner doctrine.” These are the breathtaking truths of God that your souls have always known—and unconsciously longed for. Rejoice! For now, at last, you are to be reminded of the ancient promises given to you before the world was.

The way is yours. It always has been but you have not been aware of it because of the hardness of your hearts and because of the “traditions of the fathers,” which traditions came about by man’s rejection of truth as each sought only for the self-satisfaction of his own mortal desires. And the darkness grew and expanded until “darkness has covered the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people.” The veil of ignorance and unbelief and consequent distress has become almost impregnable. And the blindness of men’s minds and hardness of their hearts has completed the shackling hold of darkness. This world cannot sink any lower into sin and suffering and wilful wickedness without being completely destroyed. For this reason and for the sake of the righteous, these truth have come forth through the command of God. The time is NOW!

Out of man’s thoughts and actions and his retaliating, discordant reactions has that veil been woven. And it is man who will have to rend that dismal veil of darkness as he steps forth determinedly into the Light.

As you great and noble ones lift your heads and open up your hearts, through love, and your minds to believe, or to BE and LIVE the higher laws, you will begin to comprehend all truth and be given all power.

Those who have not been able to comprehend, or those who have not even desired to fulfill the truths given forth to enlighten the minds and the hearts, will have no power to touch or to understand this record. To such the great truth, engraved upon the very fibres of their own souls, will continue to remain uncomprehended and unfulfilled.

But you who can read, read! And you who can understand, give ear! This record is already engraved within the recesses of your own divine, innermost beings! “For it is given to abide in you, the record of heaven!”

Come! Leave the darkness behind! Leave the old, worn-out, desolating habits of mortal thinking and step into the realm of triumphant, eternal glory—sons of God!

And may I gently remind you that anything that can be thought, can be fulfilled or brought forth? The mind cannot possibly conceive of anything that is impossible to fulfill. When the mind reaches out to fulfill the promises, all things will be accomplished and all powers be bestowed. “All things are possible to him who believes!” No one can BE and LIVE the great, almost incomprehensible promises, without fulfilling them!

Come! Travel along this glorified highway of Light into immortality, as you become love—the divine, glorified essence of all that is beautiful and lovely and desirable—members of the great Assembly of Light—even sons of God!

Chapter II—A MAN’S SEARCH FOR HIS SOUL

“And if a man should gain the whole world and lose his own soul, of what profit would it be?”

What is a man’s soul? Where does it abide? How is it contacted? And above all, what is its worth if the world itself is trash in comparison?

In partial analysis it could be said that a man’s soul is the realm of his own being, where the spark of God is held in an embryonic state until awakened by the conscious awareness of man. The great Creator, who is designated in scripture as our “Heavenly Father,” is the Divine Sire of every earth-born child. Within each being has been implanted a spark of the Supreme Creator. God Himself placed a sacred seed of Himself in the innermost center of each man’s soul. “He is in the midst of all things.”

In the temples of Tibet, in the monasteries of Asia, on the high Himalayan passes, and engraved in the most sacred places of Mother India, the words stand forth in reverent declaration, “The jewel is in the lotus.” And in the ancient, holy teachings the lotus is the symbol of man. The lotus seed contains the exact pattern of the matured plant in perfect embryo to the most minute detail. Each petal, each leaf, the stalk and the stem are held there in perfect design. Even the fabulous colors are contained within that seed. And so it is the soul of man embraces the perfect pattern of his own individual destiny.

This fore-ordained pattern is not a predestined arrangement for it can be altered and changed by man himself. It can be completely rejected or ignored. Or it can be enhanced and glorified according to the individual’s choosing. When man permits that pattern contained within the sacred jewel of his own soul to come forth, he will be fulfilled or filled full of the glory of his own creation—“The glory which he had before the world was.” It is within the lotus blossom, himself, that the perfect jewel, the divine spark of God is contained.

The soul is that knowing center within which holds all the answers to one’s outside problems and inner questing. It holds the real joy that increases but never diminishes. It is the source of all inspiration and contains the power of all achievement and happiness.

The soul is the innermost being of man himself.

The soul is contacted when one learns “to be still!” When one’s mind finds those sacred moments in which to withdraw from the outside activities of this crowded, hectic, outer world, he will develop the power to listen to the inner questioning that must find its answers. He will begin to get acquainted with himself during these silent periods of reverent reverie.

If one will use his power of thought to become tranquil, turning his wandering attentions inward away from life’s hustle and bustle and disturbing intensity, he will begin to be instructed by God Himself.

The soul is more speedily contacted through adoring love and sincere worship as one lifts his thoughts in praise to God. True devotion discards the outer burden of earthly rituals. True devotion eliminates all restraining walls, all pretences and hypocrisy. In fact, the soul is fed and nourished through the divine food of man’s own tender thoughts and loving awareness. “The soul matures through man’s own compassionate love. The soul becomes established as one learns to focus his attention upon it. The growth of the soul and one’s blending his physical body into it until they become one, contains the meaning and purpose of this life.

The voice of the soul is first heard through the voice of a man’s conscience. The soul also speaks through that inner voice of praise and approval that exalts into that rapturous “good feeling.” The “Still Small Voice” is never heard. It is felt. It speaks from within whenever one breaks the law of his own nature either in word or act. It speaks also whenever one performs some noble act, without expecting a reward. It is felt whenever one renders some service or sacrifices some desire that another might be benefited. It proclaims its approval whenever one triumphs over some temptation. This divine voice is the loving encouragement of the soul bearing witness, not only to the intellect but to one’s entire being, that he is approved. This voice, that is felt instead of heard is called “The Still Small Voice.” It is “still” because no words are uttered. Yet the lash of its rebuke can be louder than thunder, while the tenderness of its acceptance can be sweeter than a mother’s lullaby. It is the “Still” voice because it makes no uttered sound. It’s message is released through vibration, which is the reality back of every thought and every word. It is the true reality.

There are soulless ones who are wandering over the earth, blundering and inept, empty and alone or dangerously wicked as they live out their lives without contact with any higher help than their own mediocre, inadequate strength and understanding. These soulless ones have been deserted and left bleak and alone because of their own willingness to transgress and their own evils.

Sometimes a man sells his soul for a few bleak, empty years of worldly power or a bankfull of money, or even a few grubby coins that will be pried from his clutching fingers when his dull, physical body is finally forced to relinquish all claim to life. Those whose souls have deserted them are often found in the mental hospitals. They are also found among the deserters as they abandon the ranks of the living to become suicides, clinking away into the darkness, snatching a coward’s escape.

The worth of a man’s soul? One has but to contemplate the beings who have forfeited so priceless a gift to comprehend its worth. It is more precious than the diamond stardust of the Milky Way and the riches of many worlds. Within the soul is contained all the power that is, even all the dynamic powers of creation. Within the soul is contained the powers for the fullness of joy, complete happiness, eternal love and progress and achievement. Within the soul is contained the very Seed of God and within that Seed is held a man’s own divinity, his power of complete fulfillment, even of godhood.

The worth of your own individual soul is beyond the worth of this entire earth and all the vast riches it contains. Your soul is of inexpressible worth. Within it is contained the jewel beyond all jewels, the treasure beyond price, “which, when a man finds he sells all that he has in order to possess it!”

Yes, “If a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul” his hands will be empty indeed and his existence ...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• Chapter I-THE ARCHIVES OF THE SOUL
• Chapter II-A MAN’S SEARCH FOR HIS SOUL
• Chapter III-SEDUCIVE SADNESS
• Chapter IV-LIFE MORE ABUNDANT!
• Chapter V-THE SOUL’S COMMAND
• Chapter VI-THE MASTER
• Chapter VII-“ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD”
• Chapter VIII-THE BIRTH OF THE SPIRIT
• Chapter IX-THE RIVER OF LIFE
• Chapter X-THE FLAME-SHOD ONES
• Chapter XI-THE LIMITLESS POWER OF PRAYER
• Chapter XII-THE TREASURES IN HEAVEN
• Chapter XIII-ALL THAT LOVE CONTAINS
• Chapter XIV-THE LOST CHORD
• Chapter XV-LIFE ETERNAL!
• Chapter XVI-THE POWER OF GOD IN ACTION
• APPENDIX
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER