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.
