Tuesday 5 January 2016

Where there is love there is no separation



Christmas and New Year can be a very poignant time if it is near the anniversary of a close loved one’s passing. 6th January 1990 was the date of my father John Hodgson’s very sudden and unexpected transition into his heavenly life. then sadly, almost ten years after, Geoffrey, my ex-husband who had become a best friend, passed on 30th December 1999. Now, fifteen years on, my brother-in-law, Robert Elliot slipped away on Boxing Day evening. After a long illness it was in many ways a joyous release. In a part of his being he was already active in the heaven world, and so within a really short time he was able to impress Rose with his continuing closeness and everlasting love. My mother, Joan Hodgson, gave him a joyous ‘welcome home’ as did his parents (who were the founders of our White Eagle Lodge in Plymouth).

For me, although in later years Robert found great comfort in his Buddhist practice, he always was, and will be, my ‘Brother with the Star in his heart’ as White Eagle called him many years ago. Happy years of service in the heavenly temple lie ahead, I feel sure. An important aspect of the White Eagle teaching is the reality of continuing life after death and also the fact that the heavenly life is actually very similar to earthly life (‘As above, so below’ is one of the divine laws of life). I shall never forget ‘seeing’ my Dad soon after his passing, standing outside our earthly Temple, his arms full of flowers, saying: ‘I am doing the flowers in the Temple here now’. (Among many other jobs, he also looked after the Temple flowers in those days.)

So, these New Year days, when the veil between the two worlds is very thin, I do hope you will feel your own loved ones close. As White Eagle says in Comfort for the Bereaved* :   ‘If you who are reading our words have lost dear ones by the falling away of the physical body, the release of the spirit—if you have lost the physical form—then we advise you to use your thought-power and see your loved ones. Think of them, speak to them, spirit to spirit. This takes a little time for you to understand, but if you persevere in your quiet moments thinking of the spirit world as a world of eternity—always there, always being brought into the vision, into manifestation—you will eventually live in that consciousness of life. You will be aware of life not in all its drabness and suffering and restriction in a physical body, but aware of a life that is free like a lark in the sky.’

*  Available as a CD—see our website: www.whiteaglepublishing.org —a wonderful present of comfort for anyone you know who is recently bereaved.