Recorded Lectures by Flower A. Newhouse

The Accomplishments of Meditation (011-2 Sunday 10/24/1954)

Meditation is key to developing our character. What is character but the quality of consciousness made manifest. We cannot change the consciousness without touching higher frequencies, higher envisionment, higher realizations, higher channelings, realized only through meditation. Excerpts...

Brief Specific Meditations and Thorough Depth Meditations (012-1 Sunday 10/31/1954)

A focus on the importance of meditation and the individual preparation prior to one's meditation periods. Provides a variety of approaches to prayer and meditation along with examples of prayer customs in various cultures. Daily prayer and meditaion are the means by which the eternity consciousness and you will become completely linked. Excerpts...

Christ's Star-like Spirit (015-1 Sunday 12/19/1954)

During Christmas there are openings into the Reality of Christ wherever there is appreciation for goodness. By following His path, remaining open and aligned to that which is above us, we will be raised in consciousness. The triad of Holy God powers that The Christ came to radiate and teach us, will become more active in us and gradually govern us. Excerpts...

Toward the Development of Creativity (017-1 Sunday 1/23/1955)

We need to have more of the realization of the creativity powers which are inherent within us. The soul is the source of inspired ideas, in tune with the causal world - the reservoir of God's light, Godıs information, all the archetypes of the future and past. Excerpts...

The Power of Words (020-1 Sunday 3/20/1955)

Our words affect others and we are accountable for every word we utter. Count Alfred Korzybski, the founder of the Science of Semantics, studied the use of words and their effect on others. Stuart Chase made a study of the word idealism. We must speak according to the standards of spiritual truth. We are, to a certain extent, co-workers with God. Excerpts...

The Value of Group Consciousness (023-2 Sunday 6/12/1955)

We should be interested in every cause that is just, in every cause that speaks for a greater good up to which mankind must climb. Since one person is limited in his means, in his mentality, in his strength, it takes many working together for mankind to know the great blessing that cooperation can bring. Excerpts...

Living in Tune with the Eternal (017-2 Sunday 8/14/1955)

The Kingdom of the Shining Ones (020-2 Sunday 12/4/1955)

Flower describes the great love and caring of these higher beings and all the benefits Angels bring to mankind and the planet. She shares examples of Angels as found in the Bible and other forms of literature. She shares experiences she and others have had first hand with these magnificent and Holy Ones. But most of all, she brings the reality of these high Presences to the forefront of our consciousness. Excerpts...

The Heart of Christmas (036-1 Sunday 12/25/1955)

The more we worship Christ, the more He dominates the center of our consciousness, because we choose to be Christ-led, Christ-centered. The gift we give Him each year is our self; deepened, widened, opened more receptively, made more sympathetic, made more appreciative to His vast and eternal ministry. Excerpts...

Increasing Our Appreciation of God in Nature Retreat (3 of 3): Consciousness Side of the Mysteries of Nature (051-1 Sunday 6/24/1956)

When in nature we must practice unification, adoration and wonder. Quotes and experiences in nature from mystics and naturalists. Sufi teaching regarding various stages of consciousness. Days have cyclic changes just as the year has seasons. Excerpts...

Discovering Gateways into Light (056-1 Sunday 7/22/1956)

Meditation is the most fertile and the most effectual way by which God can be approached. Meditation is spiritual concentration, requiring we empty ourselves, create the right mood, practice stillness and envision positive archetypes. Examples of keynotes to bring us to positive attention. Meditation is a perpetual return to God, our inner sanctuary. Excerpts...

Let Us Love All (058-1 Sunday 9/30/1956)

Those souls who are surcharged with the spaciousness and the inclusive consciousness of goodwill want to know and to understand and to love all. All of us, as we are traveling on the path to our Lord Christ, must recognize that we must move from the personal to the impersonal and from the impersonal to the universal. And we must move consciously, willingly and eagerly to open up our hearts. Excerpts...

Being True to Ourselves (058-2 Sunday 10/7/1956)

If you could think of persons in this world who had inspired you the most individually and directly I wonder if the definition of the quality that came to you most strongly was not one of goodwill. Those souls that are surcharged with the spaciousness and the inclusive consciousness of goodwill have learned many lessons. They dwell in areas of width that so many people never know anything about until they themselves want to know and to understand and to love all. 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...

Healing As Practiced on Various Levels of Consciousness (067-1 Sunday 5/5/1957)

Healing is important because of the background that is entailed in the meaning of wholeness. Great unity between religion, medicine, and psychology to speed the work of man's attaining wholeness. Paracelsus said sickness was a result of man's own inner contentions. God uses many channels to bring forth great light, many venues of healing. There's only one Healer, and one healing Power, and that is God, but these are auxiliary means. (LA lecture) Excerpts...

An Endeavor towards Awakenment (073-1 Sunday 8/4/1957)

As we practice qualifications of becoming aware, which is reverence and opening a lifeline of spiritual contact or communion between the invisible and the manifest visible world, we cannot help but grow and discover glimpses of greater awareness. Give first attention to God, lifting up and giving ourselves each day to the Supreme, to channel, correct, transform, enliven, bless and heal. The more reverent we are, the more sensitive, more informed intuitionally we can become. Excerpts...

Changing our Level of Being (075-1 Sunday 9/8/1957)

Describes Maurice Nicoll's four states of consciousness of mankind: Sleep of dreams; awakening; self-observation; masterhood-the achievement of objective consciousness. Notes that we would not desire change if there were not current powers, gifts that would enable us to achieve these realizations. There are hosts of individuals who have gone the path of spiritual evolution, who have achieved wholeness. From these beings comes an eternal heritage to us. Their impacts are constantly challenging us to desire change until we ourselves have achieved Masterhood. Excerpts...

Living More Consciously (080-1 Sunday 10/6/1957)

Flame in the Mind (097-1 Sunday 10/5/1958)

Nature's Eternal Refreshment (111-1 Sunday 6/7/1959)

The great outdoors offers inward peace and benediction to all who will go out of their homes into their great expansiveness, for here God truly is to be felt more closely, more intimately, more gloriously, more shiningly than in almost any other sphere where we will find Him. Great naturalists introduce us to a new consciousness and a new dimension. Flower shares several examples of naturalists inspirational writings, as well as true experiences of animal lovers who have taken wildlings into their homes. Excerpts...

Your Mind Can Be Free (112-2 Sunday 7/5/1959)

Postscript to Christmas (121-2 Sunday 12/27/1959)

Christmas is such a high planetary experience. It is a perpetual baptism of spirit. Christmas can only be celebrated from the soul. We should deeply consider taking a part of our work for the new year, the promise to love spiritually, think spiritually, and will spiritually. Christmas is aligned to these powers and reflections of spirit. We want only that love which is spiritual. Love which is emotional is prideful, exclusive, it is critical, it is selfish. This day is what the Christ spirit needs to have as outposts of its consciousness. If we become instruments of its force, we may be sure that the power will flow through if we have the instrument ready. Gifts should be given all year, not just at Christmas. Describes a trip to Allentown where she met cousins. Describes the use of a strong archtypal word to help us through an ordeal. Excerpts...

Adventures in Christian Mysticism (124-1 Sunday 2/21/1960)

Flower describes that it is through intuitional consciousness that we reach heightened states of God Awareness. The intellect must remain passive in order to attain expansive states of consciousness. Explains that the one thing that has kept Christianity alive since the time of Christ on earth is the creativity and works of the Christian Mystics. Mentions various mystics during history. Excerpts...

Studies in Greatness (3 of 3) (130-1 Sunday 5/29/1960)

In this third talk on 'greatness', Flower explains that before our evolution is finished, each of us must attain the spiritualizing of the will and self-surrender that characterizes true greatness. This talk focuses on the illumined Initiate of Light Emanual Swedenborg, his growing clairvoyance, his ability to tune into the inner worlds with full waking consciousness, his description of three main groupings in the inner world and his willingness to reveal to mankind the inner experience to which we will all graduate. Excerpts...

The Conquest of Small Temptations (145-1 Sunday 1/29/1961)

Temptation arises from the darkness. There is a side of life still unevolved, still primevally dark, and it is this side, which belongs to also the animalistic side of man, and has a linkage or correspondence with the carnal nature of every person, that it is forever endeavoring to pull man down, and resists all advances in consciousness, in behavior, in expression, all movements and endeavors that are upward lifting. This same type of darkness within us is that expression that makes us feel that things are a little bit too hard, that we have earned a rest, that we don't need to make sufficient effort. Excerpts...

How Thoughts Influence Life (in San Diego) (150-1 Sunday 4/23/1961)

Flower stresses the importance of being aware of and using rightly the power of our thoughts. You think a thought and it is a living thing. It is a moving thing. It is color. It is pattern. And the clearer your thought is in meditation or prayer, the larger the pattern of your thought will be as it moves along. If you are very reverent, your thought pattern will move up. It is very important for every Christian to arouse himself, to shake off the lethargy that has been upon him, and to see that his mind is fully dedicated to God because there is that above mind, which is much greater than mind, which will use all the forces of the mental powers in order to guide them, to instruct, to teach, to mold, to bless the energies of consciousness as well as of emotions and of the physical body and of the affairs in the world. Excerpts...

The Communion of the Holy Assembly (155-1 Sunday 6/25/1961)

The Reverend Flower Newhouse speaks of the more advanced orders of life which serve God and are yearning to be contacted by us and of our need to stretch our souls toward them to climb in consciousness. Explaining that Christianity has borrowed traditions from the older Jewish faith including from the esoteric portion of the Kabbalah called the Zohar, she discusses the advanced orders of Angels, Adepts, Masters and the Ancient of Days and Silent Watcher which are equivalent to the Logi. Excerpts...

Added Insights into Christian Mysticism (194-1 Sunday 7/22/1962)

Flower states that Christian Mysticism is the very aim and endeavor of every Christian heart. The questing Christian who is on fire with love for God is conscious of the fact that in Christian Mysticism is a path that leads to God and an awareness and total comprehension of the spirit that made us. Discusses mystical states of consciousness. Cites lives of mystics, including Alfred Tennyson, Simone Weil and Thomas Merton. Excerpts...

Applying the Immensity Consciousness (198-1 Sunday 9/2/1962)

When we think of the manner and the great generosity of God, the manner by which He has created this cosmos, we should be in perpetual astonishment, wonder, humility and deep appreciation. And we should think of our own lives being challenged by the greatness and the grandeur of the scale upon which God conceives. So by thinking of the immensity consciousness and of the bigness of life and applying that to the minute circumstances with which we deal, we can never feel limited. Included in this talk is a wonderful exercise to help expand one's immensity consciousness. 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...

Applying Universal Consciousness (211-1 Sunday 1/6/1963)

We are forever at work on the permanent structure of our own divine unfoldment. Work is involved when we choose to move forward. Higher states of consciousness indwell us inherently. Our whole evolutionary period should move from personal consciousness to universal consciousness. Goodness is primary and superior to truth. Truth is secondary and full of methods and theories, goodness is wisdom attained. Examples of goodness such as the good Samaritan; a Welch minister who saved a lamb; and a Japanese farmer saving a village are given. Universal consciousness changes us in regard to our spiritual will. Will is superior to theories of truth. Excerpts...

Living above the Visible (255-2 Sunday 7/26/1964)

States that our great purpose in this incarnation is to live above the visible plane; to have conscious affiliation with Divine world of spirit from which we came, to which we forever belong. Christ says the Kingdom of Heaven is within us; we are to increase awareness of these inner worlds. Psychology and parapsychology are increasing openness and sensitivity to them. Describes the training undertaken by Sufi mystics, travelers on the great path. Excerpts...

Having a Secret Formula for Life (256-2 Sunday 8/9/1964)

Flower teaches that we need a formula for our lives, something to spur us on to higher levels of consciousness. She also speaks of making medallions showing in symbols of our formula or credo. She gives many examples of successful people who have had a code or credo for their lives giving them purpose to achieve. Excerpts...

Dwell in Living Time (283-2 Sunday 7/11/1965)

Living cannot be improved unless we give spiritual attention to time. When we do that, then we make no more mistakes in calculating time unwisely or in wasting it or in being heedless of its vast privilege. God's gift to us is eternal life and that eternal life should begin right now in living time because it is a foretaste of our own immortality. And it brings us in alignment with the inner worlds, which we should know even before we enter them. It gives us the consciousness that makes us worthy to go home to God when we are ready. Excerpts...

Thought Dynamics (297-1 Sunday 1/16/1966)

Man's mind is his most potential as well as his most neglected instrument. We are responsible for our thoughts. Description of how our atoms are used when our physical life ends. Flower described three levels of our minds: sub-conscious, conscious, and super-conscious. Flower's advice to a woman suffering from depression. We should dwell in a consciousness of agelessness. Talk includes Flower and Lawrence's discovery of Questhaven. Description of forms, color and movement of our thoughts and prayers. We must erase negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. Excerpts...

The Glorious Necessity of Balance (329-2 Sunday 5/21/1967)

In this insightful talk, we are given ideals to strive toward that will help us achieve balance in our lives. This is not only important for our physical existence here on earth, but as Flower explains, 'The great Masters, those who are perfected men and women, will accept no pupil who is not balanced, and this is because an individual who is balanced has control on every level in which he is interested. For that reason, then, we need interest and achievement on every level of our seven-fold nature, so that we may be able to be at peace and at home on the different planes of consciousness as we precipitate in this wonderful mystery of balance.' Excerpts...

The Scalpel of Decision (344-1 Sunday 11/26/1967)

We are continually faced with new decisions and our Higher Selves urge us to go into new areas of consciousness and live more highly. The practice of humility and self-surrender help us achieve higher consciousness. Flower explains nether, primal and summa states of consciousness. Excerpts...

Mankind's Great Goal (357-2 Sunday 3/31/1968)

Flower reveals that the goal of mankind is to know the source of his origin through illumination. She describes in great detail the five life waves of humanity on this earth, which began several millions of years ago, much longer than science has claimed. We are currently in the fifth wave, which alone began about 18 million years ago. She explains how each wave has advanced to the next and that through it all we have but one purpose, and that is to be reconnected to God in full consciousness through illumination. Excerpts...

Eternal Resources of Spirit (359-1 Sunday 4/7/1968)

Jesus went through the ordeal on the cross, not as a ritual, but in full consciousness. In becoming a Lord with the full investments of Christhood, He could become the Christ Regent. We too are on the way to our own Christship. We will never be Christ as our Lord is Christ Hierarch, but we must be vested with the Christ within us. Our work is to face our own initiations. We have three things to do in f acing initiations. We must know ourselves spiritually, know ourselves in the world, and know the world in ourselves. The first degree of initiation is the one of rebirth. The second degree of initiation is baptism with power. The third degree of initiation requires of us spiritual maturity. The fourth degree of initiation requires that we conquer for good ego and self love. The fifth degree of initiation takes one into mastership. Excerpts...

Additional Insights into the Arts (366-1 Sunday 7/7/1968)

Flower describes places in Europe that are inspired and designed that raise our consciousness. She explains why we need beauty in our lives. She lists many musical numbers that inspire the listener. Excerpts...

The Art of Cultivating and Controlling Thought Power (382-2 Sunday 2/16/1969)

Let this vine be in you, which was, and is, in Christ Jesus. This is the goal of evolution. This is our innermost aim to come to that state of consciousness wherein the highest in us thinks through us and uses us as its channels. Flower describes how meditation can help us refine our mental body, and emphasizes the importance of choosing our thoughts, words, activities, and relationships from a higher level. If we do this, you can be that one in your field of service that lifts the whole atmosphere into a more wholesome place in which to function, wherein greater brotherhood or sisterhood is realized, where thoughts of a constructive order are given precedence over discord. 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...

Consciousness Is an Able Tool (411-1 Sunday 2/15/1970)

Consciousness Is Our Best Tool (428-2 Sunday 8/9/1970)

The Great Within (458-1 Sunday 4/18/1971)

We've been using only a fraction of what we may tune in to when we recognize what is here in consciousness to know. There are all kinds of varieties and degrees of consciousness. Different types include lower, higher, instinctive, feeling, and soulic consciousness. Ways to achieve soulic consciousness - cease to talk about limitations, or those things which we have formerly feared or dreaded. Instead, speak about and think about peace; the achievement of that state which needs no guardedness, no too great caution. We invite that state of consciousness which helps us to be attuned to capabilities. Excerpts...

The Language of the Soul (484-1 Sunday 12/12/1971)

Reinforcing Centeredness Within (486-2 Sunday 1/16/1972)

Living for the Achievement of Alpha Waves (523-1 Sunday 1/28/1973)

The Higher Planes of Consciousness (531-1 Sunday 5/27/1973)

Contemplation: The Art of Spiritual Envisionment (549-2 Sunday 2/17/1974)

In this talk the Rev. Flower A. Newhouse tells us that meditation is the most important thing we do and that contemplation, the very summit of our innermost practices, brings contact with the Supreme within and illumination. She speaks of being in the rarified atmosphere of the Divine where the soul exists and the flashes of inspiration which occur in that state. She describes how three layers of the alphabet came to her during contemplation and the use of them in names. Flower explains that we are aware of God when we cease to be aware of ourselves, and that vertical consciousness brings us into God's presence. Excerpts...

The Law of Manifestation (566-1 Sunday 10/13/1974)

The Raising of Consciousness (573-2 Sunday 1/26/1975)

Centering: An Important Procedure to Practice (574-2 Sunday 2/9/1975)

The Touch of Light (586-2 Sunday 8/3/1975)

Develop Wholesome Imagination: Creativity (587-1 Sunday 8/10/1975)

Consciousness is Man's Best Tool (613-2 Sunday 8/22/1976)

Inspirations Found through Consciousness Raising (629-1 Sunday 3/20/1977)

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The Akashic Records and Major Routes We Incarnate (665-1 Sunday 8/27/1978)

Everything we think, say or do is recorded eternally in the Akashic Records. People of a high spiritual consciousness can go to these records to investigate and learn reasons for present behavior. Excerpts...

Consciousness Is Our Best Tool (690-2 Sunday 9/2/1979)

The Immensity Consciousness (742-1 Sunday 8/23/1981)

The Mystical Side of Christianity (776-1 Sunday 12/19/1982)

Presented the Sunday before Christmas, this talk focuses on the history of the celebration of Christmas in the United States, preparations for Christmas, gifts to the Christ, expansion of Christ consciousness, Christ's message and the Christ temperament and character. Excerpts...

The Blossoming of Consciousness (805-2 Sunday 2/5/1984)

In this talk on the unfolding of our minds and souls to a higher consciousness that connects us to the Divine, Flower describes the importance of using and developing our higher faculties. One visualization that she shares to help us do this is to keep before you a triangle, inside of which is the eye of God. The base of it is truth, one side of it is goodness and the other side is beauty. All of consciousness needs to express those three qualities, and wherever you find that done you will discover a beautiful consciousness. Excerpts...

Your State of Consciousness (808-2 Sunday 3/18/1984)

In this talk, Flower stresses to be a watchman of your thoughts at all times. She goes on to explain that we need to still our minds in order to let God in. She tells us our consciousness is an eternal gift, and that we are preparing ourselves for that time when we are not in physical form, but all consciousness. Excerpts...