Recorded Lectures by Flower A. Newhouse

Learning the Meaning of Acceptance (048-2 Sunday 9/9/1956)

Life's highest lesson is constructive growth through positive acceptance. In this dimension, acceptance is our highest answer to God's will. The need to accept God's will, even though we don't understand it, is what is important. It's only when we trust a superior wisdom greater than our own, that we can with vision and faith and teachableness and flexibility, go forward. Excerpts...

The Patient's Responsibility towards Healing (069-1 Sunday 6/30/1957)

A discussion of psychosomatic illness, and how we need to access unused aspects of character to overcome illness. Jesus healing miracles are discussed. Examples of people who have been healed through their faith. Excerpts...

According to Thy Faith (089-2 Sunday 7/6/1958)

Faith teaches us to stand at ease and restfully while God is working out all the answers in a way perhaps beyond our comprehension and our expectation, and in a much more interesting manner than we would idealize. Through sharing several examples of individuals, Flower describes what living in faith means. As we give our thoughts only believing one pointedly to the good side, we shall see that faith is creative and productive thought. And never have we any right to think in any other way Excerpts...

Faith for the Healing of the World (099-1 Sunday 10/26/1958)

People are returning to church in large numbers because they are realizing that God is their only hope. The mission of our Lord in regard to helping man to be whole is being refounded ever more widely and clearly. 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...

Meaning of the Spiritual Sun (125-1 Sunday 1/10/1960)

Since earliest times God was thought of as great light and in the Christian faith we read our God is a consuming light. Light as in the form of fire is the purest of all elements, indeed it is so pure that very few spiritual individuals understand it on this earth and very few scientist's will ever know it in its entirety. We should think about this glorious light and this spiritual fire by which we are invested because we know that the greatest souls of earth have been the fire bands of spirit. And we know that whereever there's one awakened by God, that fire of spirit will be found through him with ever successively awakening light within others. So in deed we turn our thoughts to this subject of fire and of light and of the spiritual sun and of the solar logos itself with renewed impetus. Excerpts...

Spiritual Purposefulness (126-2 Sunday 3/13/1960)

Explores the importance of having spiritual purposefulness or aims in our striving to be closer to God. Consider the means we are using to grow into the stature that the Christ has prepared for us. Faith always is powerful and is the one of the qualities to use, but it must be creative, it must be kept fresh and one must be adaptive to find ever new means to use to bring about the goal, the intention of our own inner transformation, and our achieving what the message of Lent tells us we can--the purification, the rising, the going through the way of the cross and coming out on the other side unselfed. Excerpts...

Studies in Progress (2 of 4): Progress through Faith (131-1 Sunday 6/12/1960)

Faith is self-commitment which depends on God's sufficiency, not man's self-reliance. Lew Ayres, former actor, went on faith around the world filming world faiths. Examples of George Muller's work building an orphanage. Example of a progressive school in Pacific Palisades that teaches pre-school children and their parents to recognize that through spiritual faith their relationship can be more beautiful. Lessons Flower learned from her Korean-American children. The best gift parents can give their children is a background in which character can develop. We must practice faith in overcoming bad habits. Examples of tithing and success that followed. 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...

Why Certain Individuals Were Considered Great Souls (175-1 Sunday 2/18/1962)

Reverend Newhouse opens her talk with the reasons we come to this particular church, the presence of the Lord's Spirit and the active faith found here. She speaks of discovering greatness in unexpected souls and places and of the debt we owe Initiates who lived before us including Hosea of Samaria and his belief in God's love and forgiveness, Isaiah whose greatness of character earned him great respect, Daniel, who was God's man, Confucius who changed the life of the Orient, Luther who brought Reformation and freedom of religion, Benjamin Franklin who enabled Americans to be free and other great souls including Robert Browning and Albert Schweitzer. Excerpts...

Adventures in Faith Class (15 of 20): The Esoteric Value of Creative Faith (186-2 Sunday 5/20/1962)

Flower describes attributes and requirements of faith, giving specific insights as to how best to pray and envision for various needs. Discusses health, protection, and world conditions. Describes prayer archetypes, the Garden of Prayer, help being given by souls in the inner worlds in aiding prayer work. Concludes with audience questions and answers. Excerpts...

The Value of Creative Faith (204-1 Sunday 10/21/1962)

This talk was given at a church in New York and is on the subject of faith. Flower says that we can never have enough faith and faith must be intensified at every degree of our unfoldment, and when it is then we can walk freely and knowingly and joyously with God. She further explores how we can deepen our faith through our daily living, prayer work, and relationships with others. She concludes the talk by reminding us that through faith we are not limited by our circumstances. Excerpts...

Lecture Tour Report: An Adventure in Faith (204a1 Sunday 11/4/1962)

Trip Report: Europe--A Journey of Faith and Spiritual Discovery (251-1 Sunday 6/7/1964)

The Glory of Harvest (375-2 Sunday 11/24/1968)

The best of the year is saved for the last. We are cleansed through gratitude. Gratitude is one of the chief characteristics and requirements of illumination. The other two are love and humility. A man of faith is grateful and that is why he attracts grace to himself. It is because faith which is the blending of many other qualities, puts him into attunement and realization, enables an individual to be open and receptive and teachable, and joyous. We should give thanks for our testings. Begin and end the day with a prayer of thanksgiving. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Excerpts...

Emmanuel: God With Us (389-1 Sunday 4/6/1969)

Easter celebrates our Lord's victory over death and evil. He is now a transformer that touches spiritual essence throughout all regions. He is the example of what it means to think and feel and live and aspire from the soul plane. Christ's mission is to release the Divine into our conscious knowing. Beings higher than ourselves in intelligence and unfoldment carry out the purposes of our Lord, which emphasise the four cornerstones of Christianity–love, faith, kindness and integrity. As you serve the Christ, the adventure you will know of becoming more universal and more cosmic in your appreciation will be the most wondrous spiritual adventure you have ever enjoyed. Christ will not finish His work until the whole planet and all of humanity of every century is brought to its highest degree of development. Excerpts...

Faith Versus Need (408-1 Sunday 1/18/1970)

Reinforcements Can Be Spiritual (409-1 Sunday 2/1/1970)

The Faith Necessary for Miracles (594-2 Sunday 11/23/1975)

What Kind of Faith Have You? (615-1 Sunday 9/12/1976)

The 'How To' of Faith (682-1 Sunday 4/29/1979)

Meet Problems Wisely with Faith (785-2 Sunday 5/1/1983)

This talk reminds us how we must continually work on our faith, so that it can always be attuned to God and His will for us. When we face a problem we don't know what God's wish for us is. His wish might be entirely different to our own. Flower gives several examples of faith resulting in wondrous outcomes for individuals, using quite a few from the writings of Emily Gardner Neal, a former newspaper reporter, who went into churches to work with miraculous healings. Flower reminds us, that if you don't like your life exactly as it is, you can have it improved. All you need do is to be in contact with God to trust Him to teach you how to be the receiver of the good for which you ask. Excerpts...

The Questhaven Story-A Saga of Triumph and Faith (912-2 Sunday 3/13/1988)