Dr. Walter Bowman Russell: 1954 Newsletter

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SwannanoaHome of The Wal te r Russell Foundation.

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D R . W A L T E R RUSSELL

L A O

RUSSELL

oStudents and

dreaders

the World

Jiost Vital

M^eSSaye

With

J4omeStudy

Course

J etails

O u r Treasured Students and Friends:

Once again we can know our personal unity

w i t h

you

through the medium of our annual News Letter, for that is what

i t has become, as much as we

would

l i k e to send you the

i n t i -

mate details of our work and l i f e more frequently.

We know how you look forward to receiving news about the

progress of God s grea t Message of THE

D I V I N E

I L I A D for

we remember always that those, l i k e you, who are sharing this

new knowledge

w i t h

us, hunger for the time when through the

daily l i v i n g of the great law of R H Y T H M I C B A L A N C E D

INTERCHANGEwhich is the keynote as you know of The

Divine

I l i a d Messagemankind w i l l at long last know the peace

and happiness

which

al l men so deeply desire.

O u r

last mutua l intercommunication was at Christmas

time

when we

sent

Doctor s pencil study of The Chr ist

C h i l d

to

a ll

students of The Home Study Course and received

f r o m

them

f r o m

al l over the

w o r l d

their commendation of the drawing and

details of thei r personal transformations throu gh the new

knowledge contained in the course. We

w i l l

share some of these

letters

w i t h

you on f o l l o w i n g pages.

I n

the 1953 News Letter we t o l d you of a special edition of

The KusseU Cosmogony which we printed for science and as a

thirteenth

unit for those students of the Course who had com

pleted

the twelve units of the Course. These books were issued

as the f i r s t

step

for a special purpose which we could not dis

close at the time, but can disclose it now.

O u r keynote of the 1953 August Classwas the study of The

Wave as the basis of Creation and that was the second

step

in

our purpose of preparing our students for the great w o r l d

catastrophy

which

w i l l inevitably destroy the entire human race

unless new knowledge and practice of the universa l La w of

Love comes w i t h i n

mass

human consciousness w i t h i n the next

seven

years

to

change

our

basis

of human relations. You m i l

remember that we stated two

years

ago that the human

race

had

b u t

nine

years l e f t

in which to turn right about face in its

human relations else i t would peri sh. We can now say more,

for

the t ime has now come in which we are enabled to say t ha t

mankind persists in using atomic fission to

k i l l

his neighbor,

or

for use in industr y, he

w i l l f i n d

that he

w i l l

not only exter

minate his enemies but himself as

w e l l

for radioactive fission

w i l l gradual ly destroy our atmosphere.

Th e

keynote of our 195i August Class is a clarification of

the great mystery of L IFE and DEATH The w o r l d needs t

comprehend this principle now for mankind is commi tti ng su

cide by radioactive fission. Likewise he is dest roy ing his plane

I t has taken many years to prepare our students to compre

hend this subject and remove it f r o m mystery to naturalness.

We have long told you that your new cosmic knowledge

wi

alone save the world Knowledge must spread like seed W

have ever stated that you must be the seed

I t may be that yo

w i l l now see the deeper meaning which lies back of those state

ments as your new knowledge multipli es to a tremendous poten

t i a l

as you now raise your voices during these next seven

year

to prevent the destruction of our beautiful Mother Eart h an

a l l l i f e upon it.

We

have been a Lone Voice crying in the wilderness t

warn the w o r l d of its self-made doomself-made through gros

ignorance. Ours must no longer be a Lone

Voice.

I t must b

YOUR VOICE

w i t h

ourslegions of youfrom al l over th

w o r l d rising in vigorous protest against the use of atomi

fission for any purpose. The w o r l d w i l l not believe a Lone Voic

fo r

it always crucifies any messenger of new knowledge which i

beyond man s present day comprehension, but it

w i l l

listen t

the multitudes whose

multiplied

power is back of a weight

idea.

F or

eight years our Lone Voice has been warning th

w o r l d of the turn which w i l l come in the tide of human aff air

as of August 1954. The false prosperity of the

deficit

financin

of

the

past

twenty

years

was a louder voice than ours. Our

could not be heard while wages rose to unknown heights, and

vast new fortunes loomed on the new horizon of radioactiv

fission

for industry.

August

of 1953 came however, and the tide did turnun

noticeably

at f i r s t but

w i t h

an acceleration

which

is now o

National

recognition and concern. Even now that which is hap

pening to the

w o r l d

is not understood. Some deem it as but

temporary affair but soon the w o r l d w i l l awaken to the traged

of real ization that the time has come for mankind to pay for hi

grievous errors in making enemies to

k i l l

and to be

k i l l e d

b

them,

and of destroying this planet as a water making machin

b y cut tin g down 25 b i l l i o n more

trees

than necessary for norma

balance, and for using radioactive death to aid

l i f e . The huma

race will

never again have peace or know happiness for

itsel

until it has learned how to give peace and happiness to it

neighbor The c i v i l i z a t i o n

which

man has made to date has been


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chance

his errors and he is not tak ing that chance. In

right

way he is taking the wrong way and

bigger and better bombs to k i l l both his enemy and

at the same time.

Ignorance

has brought about man s self-destruction many

Knowledge alone can

save

the human family from another

We have that knowledge that the human race needs for its

from the

death

which it is

fast

approaching and we

you to have it.

Mankind w i l l never turn his

eyes

to the L i g h t of a

truthful

y of

l i f e

while

he prospers heavily

f r o m

his old habits of

wealth by destroying his neighbor's empire to b u i l d his

A n d now the human race is hastening its destruction

radioactive fission or atomic energy. Whether using

or indust ry or for war i t w i l l destroy the human race and all

upon this planet unto its last blade ofgrass and its last drop

Y o u w i l l recall that ai r f l i g h t was denied for years after

Wright Brothers had actually

f l o w n .

Alexander Graham

barely

escaped

being adjudged insane. Knowing that hu

n

nature resists knowledge which departs

f r o m

the convent

you must not expect us to stop the

w o r l d f r o m

using atomic

u n t i l

i t has suffered much anguish

f r o m

its use.

ur

August students must fully know the

mystery

which

e principle of

death

which

radioactive

fission is.

must all know

that,

and

many

more

mysteries

which man

now pay

heavily

for not knowing. These we w i l l

t e l l

of

f u l l y in our announcement for the August student gather

RegardingOurLaboratory

Last year's August class knew that we intended starting a

here to prove our contention that radioactive fission

destroy the earth's atmosphere and its water and to meet

er problem when i t becomes unbearable. The 44 bombs

work by start

a long term drought cycle and over two

m i l l i o n

square miles

and dust bowls.

Y o u remember Dr. Shigco Okubo of The

University

of

who attended the class. You w i l l be delighted to know

b r i l l i a n t physicist so v i v i d l y realized the danger to the

t hrough ignorance of what man is doing to it tha t he re

f r o m the universi ty and came here to

work

w i t h Doctor

which

started w i t h

no equipment but is now rapidly acquiring it piece

piece, as we can

afford

i t , and through donations by our

items

which

they acquired f r o m us.

W e

feel that the work of this laboratory

w i l l

solve the

w o r l d

problem of today, yet we must work slowly for we

not have the advantage of grant s or endowments which

laboratories have.

W e do not

mind

the hard way however, for the

import

of

work transcends its

difficulties.

Happenings t Swannanoa

This last year's

inspiring

incidents and its host of interest

and distinguished visitor s

would i l l

up thi s enti re News

if we could spare the space. We must however,

t e l l

you

of a few in order tha t you can

l i v e

your lives

w i t h

us in

imaginations.

First

we must

t e l l

you about Mr . and Mrs .Michael Tbuma

distingushed visit ors

f r o m

Lebanon, inAsia. This inspiring

le were national ly sponsored vis itors who were being con

gh the count ry to meet it s interest ing people and

v i s i t our Nat ional Shrines. I t was our pleasure to enter tain

them at luncheon the day f o l l o w i n g their luncheon at The

White House. They

t o l d

us many things they

l i k e d

about our

country,

and how deeply they were impressed

w i t h

Swannanoa.

Among the things they t o l d us about Lebanon was the fact that

i t was K a h l i l Gibran's country, and they l e f t w i t h us an excel

lent

photograph of that great poet's birthplace.

Another distinguished visitor for a few days was Dr. D. G.

V i n o d Indian mystic, who came

because

he had heard much

about our work in India and he desired to study i t

w i t h

us to

take home f i r s t hand information. I t may be that another coun

t r y w i l l spread The Russells teachings as so many other coun

tri es are doing al l over the

w o r l d .

Y o u must know also that Dr . Shigeo Okubo brought

w i t h

him his beautiful Chinese wif eFun g Ka iand his three

lovely children to add to the happiness of our growing Swanna

noa f a m i l y . They are l i v i n g in the cottage near the water tower.

Working

w i t h

Dr. Okubo are our treasured students, Mr . and

M r s . Jay Kat z, who are

w i t h

us for some months, sharing very

l o v i n g l y in the manyworkneeds of our shrine.

A l l of of the older students w i l l be delightfully surprised

when

you go out to the stables and greenhouse to see that over

grown region also nleared for

acres

and^ a~wcFntierful vegetable

garden and many dwarf

f r u i t

trees planted to

f o r m

the nucleus

o f a great formal garden which is the vision of our beloved

students, Mr . and Mrs.

Arthur Jones,

w i t h their daughter

Wendy, who have

joined

our Swannanoa f a m i l y for the rest of

their

lives. They are

l i v i n g

i n the Blue Ridge Cottage, near

the swan pond.

Easter Sunrise Service

Perhaps the outstanding event of the spring season was the

Easter Sunrise service held at the feet of The Christ of the

Blue Ridge

which

Doctor and I sculptured for our gardens. I t

was a very awesome and inspiring sight to see the

f i r s t

red

l i g h t

o f the sun illuminate the face of the Christ and then creep

slowly

down the figure as the vast throng of worshipers l i f t e d

their

eyes

on that glorious sight, and were

uplifted

by the voices

o f

Waynesboro's many choirs.

The service was given under the

auspices

of the Waynes

boro

Ministerial

Association and w i l l probably become an annua l

Swannanoa event.

Y o u w i l l

be-delighted to know that David Diamond was

married

to his beloved Ruth at the footof The Christ of the Blue

Ridge statue in our gardens. A dinner, attended by about f o r t y

o f our August Class students who had remained over for the

purpose, was given to them in commemoration of the event.

W e regret that space w i l l not permit us to t e l l you of the

many luncheons anh dinners ^veiT^Tnitoric groups who come'

here twenty to

f i f t y

strong f r o m other parts of the country.

A n d we

would

l i k e to t e l l you of our seven weeks radio pro

gramme

which

we inst itu ted as a

step

towa rd our intended

national

hook up which we some day shall institute for the

spreading of TheDivine

I l i a d

Message.

A l l of this has brought to us the realization of the tre

mendous

growth

of The Russells teachings in the short

f i v e

years since we have established our Foundation here. There is

hardly

a country in the w o r l d inwhich we do not have students

o r groups who are fast spreading The Message to others.

Letter

Comes from Winston

hurchill

T en

years ago Doctor made a marble replica of his

o f f i c i a l

bust of the late President Roosevelt for presentation to Winston

Churchill. When L I F E printed the Prime Minister's

l i f e

story

i t

published a

f u l l

pageportrait of him inwhich a rear viewof

Doctor's marble bust stood in the foreground.

M y husband said it was a p i t y th at i t was not a front view

o f both of them so th at we could put the picture on one of our


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Minister and asked that

Late in March Prime Minister

Churchill

wrote that he

be pleased to

gratify

my husband's desire. We quote one

f r o m the let ter . I have your bust of President

Chartwell.

I t is a

striking work

w e l l

as a memorial of my great friend. When I get an

I

w i l l

ce rtain ly have a photograph taken for you as

wish.

Power

Which

Liesin New Knowledge

National and w o r l d problems face the human race

which

er shortage when we who are grown up were children.Who

or Southern

California

f r u i t farms

because

of water

inch rise of the ocean's level. Such strange

uage as a t h i r t y b i l l i o n dollar project fo r bringing water

the north polar regions never was heard of in those days,

did we

hear

of dust bowls, dried up rivers and lakes, baked

waxy earth in Texas nor melting polar ice caps.

hew physical problems of the planet are, in them

race to cope w i t h , and

of them are made by man because of man's ignorance of

Law.

These

problems are soluble by man but

only

through

These are the w o r l d problems which now menace

whole human race. They were created by man in his ig

processes. He is not

only

drying up the

planet

destroying its atmosphere, but he has

also made

a new set

human problems which can

destroy

the entire cultural and

standards

of the human race and plunge it

into

another

darkness of a

greater

chaos than

those

dark

ages

of our

twelve

centuries

after

Christ.

Empires have fallen and are f a l l i n g wherever powerful na

have conquered and exploited weaker ones. The law of

which says that no one can take happiness or love

f r o m

an

himself has demonstrated it s irrevocability.

empires o f A. D. 1900 are on rat ions or in debt beyond

assets.

Empires have not become

r i c h

and prosperous by their deal

w i t h their neighbors. On the contrary the entire w o r l d of

c i v i l i z a t i o n

of today is

failure and w i l l go the way of all failures unless we

f r o m our pagan and barbarian ways

which

made us what

N o t one count ry has ever enriched i t s e l f by enslaving an

might and slain

master a ll over the worldand that process is s t i l l going on

w o r l d , in South A f r i c a , Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco

These human problems are the bitter

f r u i t

of man's own

I t is your purpose and ours to take knowledge to all

fo r there are but a few remainingyears in

which

man can

himself

f r o m

either one or both of the twoclasses of self-

which

threaten himand i t may be tha t tr e

s t i l l awaits to punish the obstinacy of the

f a m i l y

which may have to be brought to the veryedgeof

grave in order tha t i t may at the last moment lea rn the les

weakness in the face of Natu re. I t may then

w e l l

f i n a l l y

realizes that

NATURE

HAS TH E LAST

he may then turn right about face and

obey

Nature in

violating it.

A l l

of our students are f u l l y aware of the fact that The

of The Divine Iliadwhich is the basisof The Russells

ingswas given for the purpose of savi ng the human race

death through ignorance of God's law. A l l of you know

your own new knowledge which gives you the compre-

sion to command matt er through knowledge of God's ways

and

processes

in crea ting matter, has given you sufficent power

to

tr ans fo rm yourselves, but tha t is not enough. You must

transform

others by

giving

them that new knowledge.

This

has not been easy, for your friends who were quite

busy in making another thousand dol lars before n i g h t f a l l , and

then too comfortably housed and fed to take your warnings ser

iously, are not easily turned away f r o m their own

self

assured

ways. I t

w i l l

be

easier

for you

f r o m

now on however, to make

them

listen to you, for their comforts w i l l be taken away f r o m

them and that expected new thousand dollars w i l l not come.

Muchman-made suf fer ing is immediatelyaheadfor all men.

Suffering man w i l l

seek

r e l i e f f r o m his suff ering by now lis ten

i n g

to tha t Silent Voice which he has so long suppressed.

F or many years we have t o l d you of this coming blight

which man has created for his earth.

Now you shall see it,

and

y ou yourself w i l l have to

share

the reaping w i t h those who

made itandthe

only

way you can

save

yourself is to

save

your

fellow

man.

The w o r l d of today is peopled w i t h men who fear each

otherand

w i t h

men whose greed has separated every man

f r o m every other man. It is a divided w o r l d of those who are

masters and those who are slavesa discontented, disunited

w o r l d made weak and impotent through ignorance, selfishness

and greed.

Man's lust for power has brought him naught but inter

national

devitalizing weakness.

No nation 'on

earth

has any

power

today

which it can use against its neighbor for its own

profit.

The atom bomb of any n at ion is voided of i ts power by the

atom

bomb of any other na tion. No nati on therefore, can destroy

another nation without destroying every other nation on earth

and that is the exalted position that man has now arrived at

by using his

growing

intelligence for suicidal purposes instead

f spiritual ones.

T o you, our enlightened students al l over the w o r l d ,WB

issue a

call

to heed that which is to come, to prepare for i t , and

to meet i t w i t h tne power

which

has been given to you for that

purpose. The responsibil ity of saving the human

race

through

replacing

gross ignorance

w i t h

knowledge of God's ways and

processes

is yours as

w e l l

as ours. God's blessing w i l l go w i t h

y ou and sustain youand in the midst of suf fe ring you shal l

know

that

ecstasy

which

alone comes to him whose God aware

ness in him is stronger than any force of earth which he w i l l

meet.

xcerptsFromStudents Letters

O u r

daily greatest happiness and inspirati on comes in the

great regiving

f r o m

you all through your letters. The thoughts

expressed in these can be conveyed in no other way than i n

your

own words. It is

w i t h

the thought of sharing this great

happiness that we includethese excerpts for you to read:

have over one hundred

students

in two classes and I

believe

I am doing a

good

job because of your inspiration and

teachings. Recently I

spent

one evening lecturing on Budha,

La o Tse, Plato, Confucius, Jesus, and

Walter

and Lao Russell.

Probably some of my students uMl write to you. Please ac

cept

my sincere thanks for all you are doing for me.

L

M. E., Michigan

Your

Home Study Course has become a turning

point

in

my life. I am receiving much inspiration and

knowledge

which

could not get anywhere else. The

last

three units were so

wonderful

that

I can

hardly wait

for the next unit.

Rev. J. E. S., California

Am receiving very

great benefit

in learning to under

stand

ntan and the Laws of

Life

which man is to

obey

if he

would succeed

greatly.

I

want

to thank you for the

good

and

great

work you are doing. So

many people

yearn to

know,

to

understand and to

rightly

use their

knowledge

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Yet so many have been so poorly prepared to do so. Yoti

e helping in this matter far beyond the average person to

May your work spread until all the world is consumed

very fitness of it. Dr. H. E. S., Georgia

The

lesson on prayer has answered mush. I wanted to know

regard to teaching the children about prayer. It will be

wonderful when all children can have that basic training

will keep them as their need for understanding increases.

wish I could put into a few well chosen words my appreciation

d thanks for what I am getting from your lessons and books.

Q., California

My appreciation of all I have learned from the combined

of you and your husband through your books goes out

you in love. O. C, Ontario

May I again express my deepest gratitude and apprecia

ussells teachings. The feeling that they are the

of yours and

Lao's

cosmic illumination is inescapable. On

back to other books and writings which I had studied

the past I find they seem, elementary and do not hold my in

This

is not a criticism of those writings but a recognition

the God given wisdom

that

is being made manifest through

combined efforts.

If I can experience only a

little

of the illumination

that

in

your teachings I will deem it priceless. Ideeply appreciate

Home Study Course. No price is too great to pay for its

that the only thing that makes life

e joy we get in giving and serving our fellow,

Your combined gifts to mankind constitute a priceless her

for our people and I hope the w'orld will awaken to the

revealed by you. N. C. K., California

We have been studying your Home Study Course as faith

time would permit. I have had a group going over the

for the past 18 months and we are continuing with it.

the next month or so I expect to start a second group

its way.

I

have spoken before the Rotary and other Service

Clubs,

about your tremendous work and its vital

We are constantly amazed to read in the press and

journals where outstanding scientists are gradually

around to your point of view in presenting to them and

world apparently new theories and concepts which you

lready presented in your lectures. There have been

of this during thepast few months.

I wish I could convey to you both just how much your

to us but anything I could say would be so in

as to sound ridiculous. Not being able to attend at

during August was, I believe, the most heartbreak

and bitterest disappointment of my entire life. I am sure I

s lot and I can never make it up.

I

will not detain you more at this

time

but please rest as

that you both have helped us tremendously and thru us

believe I now practice much better medicine and

God bless you both.

C.H.B., M.D., CM., D.R., Ontario

You u'ill be sending me soon the

last

unit of lessons in

very

vital and revolutionary Home Study

Course.

These

with

the Divine Iliad volumes and your Cosmog

t a reeducation for me in science, philosophy and

a much more vital one than I received in college and

I am asking

myself,

'What next? What is

my part in giving this new knowledge to the world of our

Rev. W. M. H., Georgia

Yo u will not be surprised to find that your teachings are

taking their marvelous effect in my life. I used to have great

dreams of being a concert singerbut loved painting and had a

deep passion for the out of doors. Everyone always told me to

forget all but one of theseand I couldn't separate themso

/ did nothing. Now, since I started studying, I am taking vocal

lessons at night (I work in an office) and even though I haven't

a place to practice yet I know that avenue will open.

I have turned 'out some paintings that are better than I

thought I could do or have ever done. And last summer my work

put me on the road where I drove for eight months in Colorado,

New Mexico and Wyomingto every county seatway up in

the heart of those majestic mountains of mine. Thank you so

much. N. M. W., Colorado

I cannot put into words what your books have meant to

me. I have never read anything so electric. Thoughts seem to

flash through my mind as I read. They make so much of other

reading seem so

empty.

I am amazed at the way God has led me

to the books that verify the insight He has given me. I know

nothing

of science or electricity but He has revealed to me that

Light is Life and electricity. I hope to start your Home Study

Course next fall. P. Ar., Indiaom-

Scholarship

Fund

T w o

years ago our chemist friend and student, Mr. Jay

Katz,

sent a check

covering

a one year Home Study Course and

a

letter

telling

us that he had gained so

much f r o m

the course

that he thought there might be someone who wanted i t but

could

not afford it . " I f there is such a one," he said,

"just give

h im the course and not

mention

my name."

That donation

started THE

SCHOLARSHIP

FU N D which

has nowgrown to an extentwhich

allows

us to send to countries

where money cannot be sent out of the country, l i k e Finland,

N ew Zealand and other countries where a

l i m i t

of fifteen

do l -

lars

or so is all that can be sent out.

Then

there are low salaried people

l i k e

ministers who can-

n o t really afford the

price

but who can pay part of it.

I n one

case

we gave a f u l l scholarship to a deadly earnest

student who surprised us later by sending a f u l l scholarship for

another. In his

letter

he t o l d us that the course had taught him

th e

principle

of abundance in accordance

w i t h

one's desire f o l -

lowed by

action.

Donations for this fund insmall or large amounts w i l l g^ve

happiness and

prosperity

to many who

could

not otherwise

afford it, and bring to you a j oy that can comeonly by the g i v -

i n g oflove out f r om yourself to another whoneedsit .

Do

you not think

this

is a

wonderful

way to make one other

l i f e

a

l i t t l e

better by extending

your

more

abundaifE"life ihto"'Sn^' '

other l i f e which may be struggling now as you have once

strug-

gled

nnouncement

Regarding

the SeaChildren

Before concluding this letter

I have a

wonderful

surprise

f o r

you. As many of you

know,

my husband

wrote

an amazing

child's f a i r y story

f i f t y

four

years ago of

children

who

l i v ed

under

the sea, whichmany pronounced the

finest

children's

book

everwrittenand the most

imaginative.

T h e story

is a series of undersea adventures of the Sea

Children f r o m

where they had

journeyed

to welcome a

newly

ar-

rived Sea

h i l d

across the dangerous deep

seas

to the sunken

continent

of Atlantis where

their capitol

was located. Sea

h i l d -

re n were those

rarely born

earth

children

in whom

their

ele-

mentary gillswhich al l people havedeveloped at an

early

age

so they could

l i v e

only under water, where they rode sturgeons

an d

sword f i s h

as earth children

ride

ponies. The adventures of

this

long

journey

fascinates adults as

w e l l

as children.


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I t s

ent ire 10,000 edition sold out i n two weeks,

some

stores

selling two or three hundred a day. I t had either a f u l l page i l -

lustration or a text drawing on every page,al lmade by my hus

band when he studied

deep

sea l i f e for this purpose.

President Theodore Roosevelt read i t because he heard his

children revelling in it for weeks, and t o l d my husband that i t

fascinated hi m so much tha t he could not la y it down

u n t i l

he

finished reading itand even then he again went over the book

t o

revel in the fantasy of the pictures.

So many of our students have asked for a copy of this book

that we asked a book printer for an estimate of cost to print a

small special autographed edit ion fo r our students who wish

them. We f i n d that we could print this special edition to sell for

$5.00 per copy if a

minimum

of 1000 copies are ordered.

therefore, you

wish

a copy fo r yourself , or copies f or

Christmas gifts for the children you know,please send i n your

request for the number you wish, and i fthese orders total 1000

we w i l l print the book and Doctor w i l l autograph them on a

special inscription

page

and send them to you as speedily as

possible. Please send no

money

untU we

notify

you that we have

enough orders to print them, for it will save a lot of work if the

checks had to he returned.

I n closing this 1954 News Lett er I wan t to again express a

b i g thahk you for al l your

loving

lett ers and remembrances.

They never, f a i l tobring a new and great

t h r i l l

of joy. To know

h ow deep your love is for us personally, and your fine under

standing of this work for God, for which our every moment is a

dedication, and kno wing that you not only share our hope that

The Message w i l lencircle the globe and bring PEACE I N OUR

T I M E but that youthrough your understanding of the p r i n -

ciples given in our teachingsare real izin g that security W I T H -

I N that no physical cala mity can destroythese are those price

less treasures

that ever spur us on to give more and more to all

mankind

of this great knowledge.

Y ou

know that however long the silences between our let

ters

are to you our love is

w i t h

you always> I am

Sincerely,


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more valuable than though I wrote it alone without the addition

o f her genius.

Proofof that fact lies in The Secret of

L i g h t ,

which I wrote

alone, just before Lao came. The Home Study Course is The

Secret of L i g h t

multiplied

a thousand-fold for i t has in it the

L i g h t

o f al l knowledge and the wisdom of it s use in command

i n g one's destiny.

Just as Cosmic Consciousness is

slowly

seeping into man's

spiritual awareness

so is extrasensory p ercept ion creeping

into

hi s

thinking and thus extending his electrical awareness. As

these two attributes m u l t i p l y the ir extensions in our students,

through

a gradual

growth

in their perceptions, their

i n t u i t i o n

multiplies

w i t h

i t

u n t i l

the great

M i n d

miracle of CREATIVE

INSPIRATION

comes to them to l i f t them entirely out of the

physical w o r l d into the high

heavens

of

ecstasy which

is the

M I N D

state

of K N O W I N G f ro m

which

the physical

state

of

thought and action springs. Such heights can be reached only

through the steps outlined above, and these steps can be taken

only

in the measure of new knowledge attained. When our stu

dents

arrive at that high point they then know the glory of

the CREATOR for they then are CO-CREATOR

w i t h

the ONE

M I N D of the universe, and they know the

ecstasy

of creation.

- I n the above words I have st riven to make you understand

what I mean by

telling

you HO W and W H Y our

eager,

awakened students have transformed themselves. We, ourselves

do not transform by the knowledge we give. You transform

yourselves through your desire for transformation No one can

teach another except through the power of

loving

desire in the

teacherto reinspire another

w i t h

his inspi ration.

This

decadent age has brought into the

w o r l d

a command

f r o m

your Father and ours to

u p l i f t

the human race through

the new knowledge contained in The

Divine

I l i a d Message. There

is very l i t t l eknowledge in the w o r l d of today. Proof of that fact

lies

i n the questions people constantly ask, questions which

everyone ought to know.

Questions Most Frequently sked of Us

What

is meant by personality? How can I develop it?

What happens to me when I die?

Do I come back as the

same

person?

Do I know my loved

ones

in the other world?

What

is my Soul? What is my Mind?

H o w do I think, and wha t is thi nki ng? Can I increase my

power to think?

What relation iselectricity to

thinking

and to matter? What

is

matter? How is matter constructed? An d what is gravitat ion?

What

relation is matter to space, or are there two kinds

o f matter? What relati on to gra vit at ion is radiation?

What do you mean by saying : Thi s is a thought-wave u n i

ectr ic wave universe and a sexed electric universe?

W h y am I

here?

H o w can I become great i n my profession?

H o w can I climb out of the assembly line and rise to the

to p

in our factory?

A n d how can I overcome my i n f e r i o r i t y complex

which

keeps

me there, and gain confidence in myself?

W h y are somemen geniuses and others not?

H o w can I apply the laws you teach to my personal l i f e to

eep friendships; to cultivate charm of manner; to attr act love

nd to make people want to know me?

H o w can I extend my powers to others?

What

is the

principle

behind meditation and prayer?

What

is the meaning of power of

M i n d

over matter .and

can I use the power of

M i n d

to heal myself or others?

W h y is there so much misery in the w o r l d , and so many

wars, i f God is al l good and al l powerful?

H o w can I maint ain a positive atti tude in my

thinking

and

prevent a negative attitude f r o m creeping in?

What

is karma?

H o w can I eliminate

worry

and fear for the future

f r o m

my life?

What

are vibrations?

H o w can I f i n d rhy thmic balance i n my l i f e and

hold

it?

W h y

can electricity be insulated and magnetism cannot be?

What is magnetism?

W h y do planets flatten at the poles? An d whydoes Saturn

throw of f rings and other planets do not? ,

What do you mean bypolarity and pa irs of opposites?

Is marriage necessary for balance or can I be complete in

myself?

Can one sublimate sex

without damage?

H o w

can I experience Cosmic Conscious illumination?

Y o u

say tha t genius is inherent in al l men. How can you

explain that?

H o w can I learn to concentrate and what do you mean by

decentrate?

What

do you mean by balance and balanced interchange

as applied to every day life?

What do you mean by sayi ng th at the secret of creation

lies

in the electric wave?

Do I have to know the electric wave and why?

H o w can I be benefited by

knowing

the secret of the elec

tric

wave i f I am not a scientist? -

Y o u say tha t tha t secret is the key to the control of my

physical bodymy power to express myselfand my power to

control myself. I cannot see how that can be but

would

l i k e to

kaiow, especially as youseem tphay^ proven it in_your

own.life.

Do your teachings make this clear?

These are but a few of the many questions

which

we

f u l l y answer in the

HOME STUDY

COU RSE , for they are all

logically,

and consistent ly answered. In T HE D I V I N E

I L I A D

MESSAGE are

these

words: A l l questions are answerable i n

L i g h t . Thou art L i g h t . Thou canst answer them. Tha t is the

reason wh y you can answer them when you know that L i g h t

as we do.

Go d

has taught Lao and me the utterly simple principleof

Natural

science which we inturn are teaching you. His Natural

Science is utterly simple.

Underlying it is a simple key to all

Creation which is exemplified in all your actions and all phe-

nomena of motion

The scientific w o r l d has been searching for that elusive key

f o r decades and expects that i f i t is ever found i t w i l l be in the

f o r m of so complex a mathematical formula that only a few

among the savants can understand it.

is indeed not only simple but so familiar that it has

been overlooked

La o and I together are now

giving

i t to the w o r l d i n our

HOME STUDY

COURSE for the f i r s t time, for I have not


7/8

y e t

released i t in my books or teaching:s. So simply have we

explained

the fundamental workings of Creation in this course

that a ten year oldc h i l d should be able to understand them. Part

o f THE D I V I N E

I L I A D

MESSAGEas you knowhas been

released in my booksTHE SECRET OF L I G H T and Volumes

one and two of THE MESSAGE OF T HE

D I V I N E

I L I A D and

we are now

giving

a thorough working knowledge of these

basic

principles in this HOME STUD Y COURSE at the

request

o f

hundreds of valued students of THE

D I V I N E

I L I A D teach

ings so that they may more easily and quickly gain the under

standing they so deeply desire of this NE W COSMIC K N O W

LEDGE.

The study

course

begins

w i t h

a scientific explanation of

meditation,

or communion

w i t h

God, and isfollowed by a scien

t i f i c explanation of prayer. Also a scientific explanation of

Cosmic Consciousness and that rarest of all human experiences

known

as THE

I L L U M I N A T I O N .

Meditation is the most im

portant function of human existence. I t is the least known and

the most f lagrant ly practiced. Meditat ion began

-w i th

the dawn

o f Consciousness in man, at

which

time man began to

think.

I t

is

almost a new att ribute of manquite in its infancyfor only

those rare few whom we call geniuses make use of it .

Humam

progressr nationally-and individually, has been

measured by the yardstick of meditation. I t is the key to the

i l l u m i n i n g of your

M i n d w i t h

cosmic knowledge and power. I t

is

the key to all creative expression, all invent ion and al l product

o f

the imagination as expressed in the

f i v e

fine arts.

he transition

from

body

sensing to Mind knowing

which is now

about

to take place in the human racewill be

the fruit of each man s ability to become aware of his relation

to God, of his relation with other men, and of his own omnis

cience and omnipotence in respect to manifesting God as Co-

Creator of His universe.

ur study course is for the purpose of aiding you to

make

that transition. For this reason the teaching of the power to

open the door to the L i g h t of your Self, through an under

standing of

what meditation means

is paramount and begins

the course. I t is for the purpose of maiding you know the in

visible universe in order to manifest your knowing in the visible

universe.

Next

in order

w i l l

be a thorough explanation of the simple

underlying

key to the principles,processes and laws of Natural

Science, by

means

of which you w i l l

f i n d

that Nature's creative

principles are your creative principles. That s t i l l undiscovered

k e y

is the great hidden

secret

which

w i l l

advance the human

race, and each individual i n i t , more than any other discovery in

a l l time.

The reasonwhy the discovery of the simple underlying p r i n

ciple

which lies back of al l phenomena is the

greatest

of all

CQn _

tributions

to human advancement is that, fo r the f i r s t time i n

history, God can be feftown as a scient ific fact , instead of an

^^ahstract and debatable assumption.

This w i l l

mark the

f i r s t

great step toward the worship of

One God whom all men w i l l know alike.

This w i l l

give to you, for your advancement, and to science

f o r all human advancement, the WHY of all thi ngs.

W i t h

th is knowledge of CAU SE and purposefulness you

can

b u i l d

an intelligent

l i f e

plan for yourself, and

science

can.

b u i l d

a consistent cosmogony for

i t s e l f

to replace the masseso f

inconsistent hypotheses regarding CAUSEwhich i t now has and

cannot fi t together.

Science knows the HO W of many things but not the WH Y

nor

W H A T

of any of the universal fundamentals. I t does not

know W H A T

L i g h t

is, or electricity, gravi tat ion , radiation,

magnetism, energy, or any other of the fundamentals of either

the physical or spiritual universe. The most important of all

knowledge is the constitution of matter. Science not only knows

nothing of this subject but declares that the human mind is in

capable of comprehending such complexity. Thi s is not true for

i t

is utt erl y simple. There is no complexity i n

nature's

processes.

There is but

simplicity multiplied

into seeming complexi ty. By

the time the course is finished you w i l l have this knowledge.

This

is unfortunate, but it is more unfor tunate tha t t his

lack

of knowledge has misled Science in to forming theories

and laws which have no relation to Nature whatsoever. Among

these are the expanding universe theory, the energy theory

which homed the

f i r s t

and second laws of thermodynamics, the

untenable theory of atomic structure, the theory of the att rac

t i o n

of matter and the repulsion of

l i g h t

which gave us the

Newtonian

and Coulomb laws, the theory that the moon would

f a l l upon the earth except for its

i n i t i a l

impulse, the theory

that there are posit ively and negatively charged corpuscles

o f matterthe theory that the nuclei of atoms is composed of

oppositely

charged separated particlesand so many other

erroneous conclusions which are basicfundamentals of science

even to the theory of planetary b i r t h and the belief that the

universe had a beginning somewhere in remote

aeons.

I t

is only by the knowledge of that underlyi ng key to all

actions and reactions between CAU SE and EF FEC T th at the

intellectual w o r l d can ever know the real meaning of

l i f e

and

deathbirth

and re-bi rth . Through that key to new knowledge

alone can one know the mystery of the souls of things, of God's

bookkeeping-and recording system,-and

o

the universal ity of

a l l things.

God's i l l u m i n i n gmadeusmasters of whatever we desired to

do . We are revealing to you that secret of mastership i n what

ever you desire to do. A secret is something ofwhichyou are ig

norant. When

knowledge

reveals that

which

has

been secret,

ignorance disappears and the power of kriowledge takes its

place- That is another definition of what we mean by transform,-

ing one s Self. To exemplify:

1 .

Every intense student of our

course becomes

a consum

mate PHILOSOPHER, because the

l i v i n g

philosophy of our

teachings gives him wisdom and power to cont rol his destiny,

which the study of

past

dead philosophies can never do.

2 .

He is also a consummate S CI ENTI STbecausehe

becomes

so thoroughlyfamiliar

w i t h

God's motivative forces and process

es that his knowledge gives him the power to command all mat

ter to obey his

w i l l .

3. He is also a consummate DOCTOR and Nature healer f or

he knows how Godrestores balance and normalcy to unbalanced

bodies and minds which needlessly i l l our hospitals and mental

institutions.

4 . He is likewise the consummate L A W Y E R for he knows

a l l of Nature's Law of rhythmic balanced interchange f r o m

which man builds his principles of justice symbolized by bal

anced scales.

5. He is also a consummate

LEADER,

for his knowledge of

Nature's

Jaws

and

processes,

gives him command over material

forces, and likewise gives him wisdom to command his own

destiny

which

a leader must have before he can command the

destiny of other men.

6. Likewise he is the consummate

M A T H E M A T I C I A N

for

i n

his

hands

he holds the master key to mathematics which lies

i n

the repetitive sequences of the octave wave of nine

tones

of

the wave spectrum that vibrate between the equilibrium

zeros

whichet ernally end his nines to begin them again at one.

7. And he also is the consummate POET,

M U S I C I A N ,

PAINTER, SCULPTOR, ARCHITECT, ENGINEER, I N

VENTOR and other genius interpreters of Nature's rhy thms

and harmonies, that alone lie in the

l i v i n g

heartbeatof this u n i

verse which is but an infinite

multiple

of one

octave wave.

. These also define what we mean by the transformation of

the physical man whose conclusions are drawn f r o m the e v i

denceof his

senses

to cosmic man who knows CAUSEwhich lies

behind the EFFECTS that his senses alone perceive.

Families

and groups of friends should study this course

together and discuss it together, fo r by such interchange each

one helps the other. Chi ldren of families should be reared

upon this new cosmic knowledge. I t w i l l make greater men and


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women,

o f the m by developing the ir inner thinking and creative

expression.

O u r advice as to the

best

method of getting the most out

o f i t is for each one to study each lesson alone by himself , and

give much thought to it in meditat ion before discussing i t w i t h

others, or in groups. I f each one in a group has thus givendeep

and meditative thought to it, a group discussion w i l l help in

tensify that power of understanding by interchange of matured

thought instead of immature thought.

F o r this reason i t is better tha t each student has the

complete manuscript for himself so that it is always

avail

able whenever one has ti me to take i t up, instead of awai ti ng

h is

turn

for studying it

without

ever having had sufficient

time to digest it in meditation.

A special certificate w i l l be issued at the end of the f u l l

year's

course to al l regis tered students by The Wal te r Russel

Foundation

and w i l l

bear

both of our personal signatures.

Looking forward

w i t h

happy antici pation to our having

the great pleasure of greeting you

here

personally this sum

mer, or when you f i n d yourself cal led to come to the Sacred

Mount of Beauty, and

w i t h

best

personal regards, I am

Sincerely yours.

JnStructionA ^or CnroUntent Jn Monte Study. Course

tions

cover a wide range^from

business

problems to domestic

onesfrom

healing principles to rein carnati onfrom the

niys

tery

of l i f e and death to the movement of planets in their orbits

f r o m frust rat ions to sex problems and divers other questions

o f every nature.

Whatever question you

would

l i k e to ask of us you w i l l f i n d

the answer to it in either one of the twelve

lessons

devoted to

questions and answers so you

w i l l

have no need of asking us

again.

The cost of the entire one

year's

course is $60.00 pay

able as follows: $10.00 upon enrolling and $10.00 each month

u n t i l

the $60.00 has been paid. A discount of $10.00 w i l l be

allowed fo r those who pay in advance for the f u l l coursemak

i n g the cost $50.00.

The duration of the

HOME STUDY

COURSE is ONE

Y E A R As it is a perpetual course enrollment may begin at

any time. Four^lessons w i l l be mailed on or about the 15th day

o f each month for one year, in twelve uni ts of four

lessons.

U n i t 1

w i l l

be mailed upon receipt of your subscription which

is the beginning of your

year's

Course.

Lessons are profusely il lus tra ted by Dr. Russell w i t h ex

planatory diagrams

which

aid very materi ally in helping to

understand and

s i m p l i f y

the text. Home study students have

expressed great appreciation for the added clarity which these

drawings give to them.

CONCERNING QUESTIONS

During the

years

pract ica lly every type of question is asked

and answered in twelve of the forty-eight

lessons. These ques-

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