Right and Good Associations
Transcribed by Sally Forrest from class lecture
     Once upon a time there was a good and noble King who turned over to his citizens a marvelous beautiful castle where they would be comfortable and happy and safe from surrounding enemies.
     For a while everything went just fine and they grew their agricultural crops inside and outside the castle land. But there was something wrong with them. They had careless minds. They were just plain careless and lazy about the development of their own inner natures. They paid attention to their outer world only where it could do them some good in body and appearance. So something happened that would not have happened had they not been asleep inwardly. Enemies who did not love the good King, who bequeathed the castle, infiltrated the castle grounds and the surrounding yards, and they began to bring their evil into it. And more and more they came into it and more and more the people lost control of both the castle and of their own inner lives.
     Malicious monsters took over and little by little they took over one room and the next room and the next one until the people themselves were forced out of what was once a marvelous happy place to live. While it was happening they did not realize that evil forces were being infiltrated into the castle, and they didn’t even notice that they were becoming unhappier day-by-day. So the monsters took over just as evil spirits have taken over the world.  Now that fact is not clear to you, you’re afraid to face it. Face it
anyway.
     When the people did not rise to the challenge of taking back their castle, the King decided the only thing to do was to send a Hero down in human form, someone who represents Truth, to assist them in driving the enemy out of the castle.
     And here’s where we’re going to have to go to work this morning. The Hero led the people in going from room to room to drive these monsters out — those sufferings, those arrogances, those prides, those vanities — drive them out one room at a time and  finish it before starting on the next room, until the whole castle is cleaned out.
     Your exercise is to begin cleaning out the first room in your inner castle, which is to take paper and write “What I Know About Healing” then write everything you know about it. For example, one could be what does healing mean? Well we’re not talking about the physical body. And another could be everything that goes contrary to the good King. By doing this exercise it will put you into right and good associations. And those associations will become new sources of light on how to allow healing to happen.