Those who are devoted to God should study the lives of mystics. They provide their readers with the primers of illumination.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Quest
Recorded Lectures by Flower A. Newhouse
From Services recorded from 1950-1990
Here you'll find a complete list of recorded lectures, available on CD-ROM or for download, given by Rev. Flower A. Newhouse between 1950 and 1990.
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The Adonai and Spirit of God Indwelling (Summer Pilgrimage Retreat 3 of 3) (005-2 Sunday 6/27/1954)From here on we want to learn all that we can about the Holy triad because healing will flow from the awareness of the divine powers that are resident within. Discusses esoteric teachings regarding our seven-fold bodies and the hierarchy of God's inner kingdoms. Excerpts... |
The Christ Self in Men (013-2 Sunday 12/12/1954)Flower A. Newhouse teaches us the importance of getting to know our God Indwelling so we can touch the kingdom of God the Whole. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (1 of 5): The Meaning and Right Uses of the Physical Body (032-1 Sunday 10/2/1955)Our Creator created us with a purpose and we should follow healthful rules to keep our physical bodies and minds in good health. Our Divine Indweller descends all the way down our spine, flowing through the spinal cord constantly. We are wondrously made. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (2 of 5): The Meaning and Right Uses of the Astral Faculties (032-2 Sunday 10/9/1955)Our emotions are tremendously strong and can be our undoing, unless we learn that they need to be wisely guided and thoughtfully controlled. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (3 of 5): The Meaning and Right Uses of the Mental Faculties (033-1 Sunday 10/16/1955) |
Seven Bodies Series (4 of 5): The Meaning and Right Uses of Causal Realities (033-2 Sunday 10/23/1955)Rare glimpses into the soul which is dormant until exercized. Our soul counsels us and we receive revelations or understanding. Describes appearance of the soul in the aura. The soul has the equivalent of energy, feeling and mentality raised to their highest. Increase soul awareness through reverence for God and overcoming thoughts of appearances. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (5 of 5): The Meaning and Right Uses of Frequencies of Spirit (034-2 Sunday 10/30/1955) |
Extracting Spiritual Stimulus from the Arts (060-2 Sunday 9/2/1956)How beauty depicted in great paintings, music, sculpture and architecture inspire us and lead us to the Divine with descriptions of how the Arts affect our higher bodies. Excerpts... |
We Live on Many Levels Simultaneously (052-2 Sunday 3/10/1957)Often during our own individual moments before God we become awake to this same experience of feeling one in us who is larger than our surface self. This larger presence gives us a key and a prompting to living a greater life and channeling a deeper and more inclusive love. Excerpts... |
Assimilation and Reflection upon a Completed Year (099-2 Sunday 12/28/1958)Flower discusses how we should continually try new and different things to keep our minds and bodies always refreshed and new. Excerpts... |
Individual Immortality (110-2 Sunday 5/31/1959)In this lifetime, we are responsible for building a conscious bridge between this dimension and the world and experience of God. We should take our Christian faith so much to heart that we have a readiness to leave this body when God wills. We are not allowed, no matter how deeply we love, to let that love take the place of our love for God. Describes the Angel of Transition as mighty, strong, resplendent, all-glorious. Describes post-transition experiences, hosts present at Memorial Services, battlefield victims leaving their bodies as cocoons, welcomed by Shining Being. Excerpts... |
The Heart's Symbolic Function (174-2 Sunday 2/11/1962)Flower states that by being more awakened to the superphysical aspects of the heart we may come into greater control of this wondrous center. Some individuals experience heart awakenings during their lifetime, and some are born with their heart centers already functioning. Describes the heart chakra from physical and superphysical standpoints, including the heart center on astral, mental and soul levels. Explains that it is important as we progress in our Christian experience that we love others as well as those souls in the inner kingdoms, and in doing so our hearts shall be lifted. As ones heart is lifted upward, the hearts spiritual counterparts on each level vibrate at higher and higher levels, creating greater color in every body, as well as size of heart center. Indicates that there are 714 references to the heart in the Bible, New and Old Testaments. Quotes several of these, and recommends anyone who experiences difficulty with their heart, to read and use them in their life. Excerpts... |
Wielders of God's Light (195-1 Sunday 8/5/1962)Flower looks at Light, a part of the third aspect of the Trinity, and the channels of Light who made spirituality, education, refinement and civilization possible. She tells us that as we use our spiritual understanding, the frequencies and velocities of Light are seeking to channel our minds, conduct and bodies. She explains that souls who are balanced, self-controlled and wise are counseled, enriched and healed by the Light and as we tune into God's Light prayerfully we may receive answers to our problems. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (1 of 4): The Etheric Astral and Mental Bodies (198-2 Sunday 9/9/1962)We are instructed according to everything which our Lord taught that man is a septenary being. He has seven faculties and not just the God Spirit and physical body. Each of these forms has its own sphere of influence and its own purpose and its own objectives to achieve. But together, our seven bodies form the constellation of the self. In this talk, Flower describes the lower bodies, what fortifies them, and what depletes them of energy. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (2 of 4): The Light Body: The Adonai (200-1 Sunday 9/23/1962)We need to remember that we are a seven-fold being, that there are great altitudes of consciousness in us which we require in our daily living and which will bless us and give us help and talent if we will remember to call upon them. Flower describes these higher bodies, the Soul, Adonai and Monad, which overshadow us and influence us when our other faculties of mind, feelings and energy are stilled with holy reverence and spiritualized living. Excerpts... |
Three Routes of Progress (201-2 Sunday 10/14/1962)Talk based on research in Akashic records. States that every human life began in Mongolia; had countless incarnations in etheric bodies; then many lives in physical 'stone age' incarnations. Every person has a long history of life behind him, which has put him under many climates, races, and nations. Lists differeng life routes and civilizations taken by second, forth and sixth ray souls. Babylonia, China and Greece were major 'crossroads' incarnations, where persons of all rays meet about every fouth incarnation. Southern California is the 'Cradle of the New Race.' Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (4 of 4): More Light Regarding the Soul (223-2 Sunday 5/19/1963)Preparation of chapel for service. The Soul is the Angel of Light within. The Monad is to the soul what the soul is to the outer body. The purpose of incarnation is to develop our souls. Our souls have the intellect of genius, they are interested in achieving preciseness, accuracy, purity and truth. Whenever we experience any of the sacraments we are under the focus of our souls. Description of activity of the soul during christening and baptism. Description of Devachan, also called Paradise, where we spend three-fourths of our time in the inner worlds. Experiences of St. John of the Cross. Excerpts... |
God Within and God Unfolded (234-1 Sunday 10/20/1963)Man is beginning to recognize that they are more than body and a spirit. We are a septenary or seven-fold being, and that because we are seven-fold, we have much to do in overcoming as well as raising and enhancing of these powers that belong to our inner nature. Describes the attributes of our lower quadrate (physical, etheric, astral, mental bodies) and higher triad (soul, adonai, monad), as well as the symbols, characteristics and terminology of our higher bodies. Descriptions of initiates and masters. Compares God inherent and potential with actualized and unfolded. Excerpts... |
Psychic Conditions We Must Overcome (242-1 Sunday 2/16/1964)We possess seven senses, two of which are affiliated with the inner side of our beings. Inner unfoldment of higher traits was given to the disciples. Flower referenced the book Realms of the Living Dead. Augusta Curtis shared with Flower meeting with an aviator who just lost his life in battle. Flower discusses the unwise use of an ouija board. It is possible while still in physical bodies to tune in to the Hall of Learning, Hall of Wisdom or Lodge of Masters. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (1 of 6): The Etheric Body's Influence Over Us (259-1 Sunday 8/23/1964)Our etheric bodies basic objective is to receive and distribute vitality to our physical form. It also relates to the seven charkas and to our higher bodies. Ways to increase our vitality are given. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (2 of 6): The Astral Body and Its Characteristics (260-2 Sunday 9/20/1964)Flower describes the Astral body, what is beneficial and harmful for the Astral body. Explains how to control unhealthy emotions, describes the planes of the astral world and discusses therapeutic treatment for the astral body with beauty. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (3 of 6): The Mental Body and How It Functions (1 of 2) (261-1 Sunday 10/4/1964)Know that at all times that you are responsible for what you think, and what you think you ordain for your destiny. Do you like what you ordain? If not, change it before it manifests. Flower emphasizes the importance of spiritual thinking as opposed to ordinary human thinking. She describes what happens to us when we allow our minds to wander aimlessly or possess negative thoughts and images. She gives guidelines in purifying, refining, and redirecting our thinking to a higher level that in turn lifts us spiritually. She shares Carl Jung's insights on how mental thoughts affect the human subconscious and the discoveries he made when he embarked on his own very personal experiment exploring his own thoughts. Flower further stresses the importance of refining our own mental bodies to help us with our spiritual growth. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (4 of 6): The Mental Body and How It Functions (2 of 2) (261-2 Sunday 10/11/1964) |
The Activities of Invisible Helpers (262-2 Sunday 11/1/1964)Discusses human helpers in the inner worlds, those who help souls who have recently come across. Servers help people who were like themselves when they left this plane. Part of their restitution is to welcome and prepare these souls. Helpers of newly transitioned souls with difficulties (suicides, murderers, murder victims) may take person to sanitaria for healing of inner bodies. Humble helper, a human being who has gone into the higher worlds ahead of the rest of us, is only allowed to help for two generations of humankind. He must know all the circumstances that this person who has newly died has been meeting. After two generations, that's impossible, as our world and its inventions progresses so fast, so; swift turnover of servers of this type. Other helpers work praying for similar persons yet on earth, helping them bring forth new developments for good. Excerpts... |
The Esoteric Side of Freeing Oneself from Creating New Karma (272-2 Sunday 2/21/1965)To be free of adverse karma we must work to overcome ourselves, desire to understand and grow from life's lessons and a desire to be part of the new. Flower described ways that we create new karma, rather than freeing it. Examples are given of ways to change negative habits into positive ones. Our present conditions are a result of our past actions. To end karma we must work out the old and not create it. Description of major and minor karma, and dharma. Cruelty to persons or animals brings disastrous circumstances. Spiritual healing and karma. New mental and astral bodies are created each lifetime. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (5 of 6): More Light on the Power and Effectiveness of Higher Bodies (287-1 Sunday 9/12/1965)Flower discusses what influences each of our seven bodies. Each body is distinct, has its own power, but the total is the vehicle and so is it with man. We have these seven fold vehicles and every one of them is intended to be developed and to be used to its utmost capacity and its highest development; and we are daily responsible for making it that. Excerpts... |
Seven Bodies Series (6 of 6): Your Invisible Self: The Soul (293-2 Sunday 12/12/1965)Flower says we have to make our Star-Self come into the center of our being and be centered in it, wherever we are. But this is the mightiest task that we could ever undertake. Only a Master is successful in living from the Divine which is within them. Excerpts... |
The Masters of Wisdom and Their Work (316-1 Sunday 10/23/1966)Descriptions, functions, responsibilities of masters given. Functions of Lords, Logos and Eons also. Lord Christ is responsible for redeeming of the world, the Lord Buddha for enlightenment, the Manu for raising of all civilization, the Maha Chohan for achievement through the broadcast of Spirit of Truth of all men coming to recognize Truth Each of us serves an inner order. 12 orders and specific masters named and described. Describes guidance from Master John via Guardian Angel; describes Christ's appearance to her in mountains. Every atom in our bodies will constitute our own world or planet or star with which you must deal when you become an adept, later a Lord, and later still, a Logos. Excerpts... |
The Chakras that are Present in Us (325-1 Sunday 3/19/1967)Flower describes the chakras, their appearance, colors and location in each of the higher bodies. Explains their differing functions in each of our inner bodies. Describes three energies coursing through thespinal cord–the life force from God the Whole courses down; Vitality energy spirals up from right side of spine; Kundalina fire begins on left side of spine implanting its energies at the seven sacred centers. States that God in us, our Divine spirit, has its outflow through the heart chakra. Notes that on Palm Sunday our Lord Christ was aware of the tremendous background that He had behind Him. In that preparation he knew how to work on his inner bodies so that the tumultuous acclaim of the excited, fickle, changeable crowd did not excite him. Excerpts... |
Music is the Gateway into Divine Presence (396-1 Sunday 7/20/1969)Flower explains music as a path to higher consciousness. Most persons feel it on the astral; can be used to cleanse heavy emotions. Can step into mental bodies and be analytical. We can step into our soul bodies; this is harder to do; when we listen with our causal body, instead of the music being out there, and we observers, we are instead participators. On causal level we are one with everything we appreciate, and therefore when hearing great music it sounds through one. Describes thought forms, colors and archetypes seen while listening to musical excerpts. Describes inner music at transition to inner worlds. Excerpts... |
Bodies (2 of 5) Understanding the Etheric Body (671-2 Sunday 11/26/1978)Reverend Flower A. Newhouse shares esoteric truths about the etheric body and its relationship to the health of the physical body through correct breathing, exercise, fresh air. Excerpts... |
Bodies (4 of 5) The Mental Body (673-1 Sunday 12/17/1978)This talk was one in a series that Flower Newhouse gave on the Seven Bodies. She gives an in-depth description of the Mental body and shares what we can do to help our mental bodies expand and grow as well as what we should avoid that causes our mental bodies to contract. Meditation is one of the things we can do to help our mental body, yet she warns about staying in meditation too long and shares why that can be harmful. She tells us there will come a time when audible speech will cease as we will communicate by seeing each other's thought forms, and no one will be able to keep secrets anymore, the truth will be known, therefore, humans will aspire to higher living. Excerpts... |
Lectures by Flower A. Newhouse
The Christward Ministry has a complete list of recorded lectures given by Flower A. Newhouse between 1950 and 1990.
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Holy Expectancy–Living the Life
Why We are Here
Man's Duty Regarding the Law of Evolution
Determinism Versus Free Will
Values to Be Derived from Power Tides and Cycles
What Religion Is Attempting to Achieve
Why the Reality of Angels Is Vital to Our Age
Our Very Important Guardian Angels
Christian Mysticism and What It Is
Understanding the Seven Rays
Man's Ties with His Country
Walking in Beauty
The Priestess of the Home
The Akashic Records
The Meaning of Open-Key Periods
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Angels Animals Arts Awareness Bodies Christ Christmas Consciousness Discipleship Easter Evolution Faith Family God Healing Hierarchy Initiates Karma Inner Lenten Love Masters Meditation Michaelmas Music Mysticism Mystics Nature Numerology Perception Prayer Psychology Reincarnation Retreat Seasons Senses Soul Symbols Thanksgiving Thoughts Transition Travel Words World Zodiac
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Christward Principles
Christian Mysticism is simply a method of reverence and devotion to God. It is a path of attainment which leads to the Divine Reality–to first-hand knowing of God. The mystical path stresses the way of Divine union with God through illumination.
The Living Christ is the Lord of Angels and of men and the model of our own becoming. His service is the broadcasting of the Divine Christ Spirit, the light of redemption. His influence awakens in us the Christing of our own natures.
The Way of Discipleship is a way of drawing ever closer to the Divine Presence. It is a voluntary surrender of the entire self to the service of God. It pays great attention to spiritual realities and goals inspiring us toward inner growth.
Meditation and Prayer are the disciplines that most directly draw us Godward and into the inner worlds. During these moments, we consciously purify ourselves of worldly or personal preoccupations and center ourselves wholly upon consciousness of God.
The Angelic Kingdom consists of beings created by God. They, like mankind, press toward the goal of perfection and union with the Supreme Spirit. Angels are purer and more spiritual than man. Their very spirituality readily makes them mediators between Heaven and Earth.
Nature provides healing and enlightenment. When wisely trod, the path to God through nature employs every faculty inherent in man. In nature, beauty shines in all its pristine essence before us. It is for us to newly discover and translate this beauty to our spirits and our senses.
Reincarnation is the realization that life is a school, striving to awaken and quicken the Divinity within us, striving to bring man from primitive stages of unfoldment to that of greater and more glorious awareness.
About Flower A. Newhouse
The life and writings of Flower A. Newhouse are those of a Christian mystic, and her insights into the inner realms of life provide us with a path to wholeness that she called "Living the Life." These teachings are not doctrine, but a practical guide to the direct, immediate experience of God. Flower's mission was also to reawaken humanity to the reality of angels, a work she began with her first book in 1937, and added to in many published writings and in recorded lectures.
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Major Retreats are held to celebrate the annual festivals of Easter, Michaelmas, and Christmas.
Jun 22-23 Vernal Retreat
Annual Celebration of The Arts and Nature
Seeing Divine Life in All Things Material and Interior
Sat: Activities to bring us into greater contact with God
Sun: Expanding Our Perception–Learning to See
by Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Aug 10 Masters Silent Retreat
Annual Day of Silent Attunement and Dedication
Sep 27-29 Michaelmas Retreat
Annual Celebration of the Angel Kingdom
Dec 20-22 Christmas Retreat
Annual Celebration of the Christ Coming
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Sunday Services
Devotional Services
are held every Sunday at 10:45 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Quest, with music, meditation, prayer and a spoken message.
Audio recordings of past sermons.
Apr 7 I have come to bring fire on Earth: Christ Our Enlightener
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Apr 14 The I Ching: Ancient and Modern Wisdom
Rick Plant
Apr 21 The Mystical Gifts of Personal Retreats
Rev. Lucy Wold
Apr 28 The Inner Purpose and Meaning of the Lord's Prayer
Rev. Blake Isaac
May 5 Living a Christ-filled Life
Rev. Hal Lingerman
May 12 The Many Expressions of Motherhood
Rev. Elizabeth Wood
May 19 Expanding Our Perception: Learning to Listen
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
May 26 The Continuity of Life
Captain Dan Willis
Jun 2 The Importance of Spiritual Travel
Rev. Blake Isaac
Jun 9 Expanding our Understanding of the Healing Ways of Jesus
Rev. Miara Wiltshire
Jun 16 Christ's Beatitudes: Finding Harmony of Male and Female
Rev. Hal Lingerman
Jun 23 Vernal Retreat: Expanding Our Perception: Learning to See
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Jun 30 The Law of Freedom
Rev. Myrna Triggs
Jul 7 The Inner Influence of Our Zodiac Signs
Rev. Blake Isaac
Jul 14 Life's Lessons and Legacies
Richard Wold
Jul 21 Living the Lord's Prayer: A Sharing of Lawrence Newhouse
Rev. Hal Lingerman
Ongoing Activities
Classes and Workshops
are offered regularly on Christward principles, prayer, meditation, healing, and artistic expression.
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World Prayer is practiced each Friday at noon in Chapelito. Join us here, or from wherever you are, in group prayer for the blessing of our planet, humanity, and all life.
Finding Your True North Classes are held each Monday at 1:00 p.m. in the Academy. These classes are designed to help us find ways into God's Presence, using Flower A. Newhouse's western approach to meditation. Early lessons were posted online at /findtruenorth.
Wisdom Classes are led by Rev. Blake Isaac and held on alternating Tuesdays, at 7:30 p.m. in Chapelito.
Pranic Healing Clinics are conducted on the first Sunday of each month in the Questahven Academy from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Learn more at pranichealingsd.com.
PanEuRhythmy is danced most early mornings near the Labyrinth. This dance-exercise-meditation opens us to the presence and power of Spirit within ourselves and the universe. Learn more at paneurhythmy.us.
Servers in Action Days are on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. until noon. This is a wonderful opportunity for fellowship and service to Questhaven.
