Brotherhood

This eBook edition of «Brotherhood» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "YOU who have reached that stage in your climb to the heights where you are no longer seeking anything of self, having tasted of all that the outer world and its human teachers can offer, and something within is strongly insisting that you begin to prove and demonstrate what you have learned by living it and using it to help others who are still seeking; You, who have felt within the heart a definite call to service and yearn to follow and obey, but who from obeying many urges in the past, only to be disappointed and disillusioned each time by failure of the leaders to be worthy of the Causes they represent, and you are therefore uncertain about this call, and are fearful of not knowing just what you ought to and can do; You who have not yet had this experience, but who are moved by a strong loving desire to help lift the load from those less fortunately situated, and who would know what is that insistent something within, and whose the voice that thus calls; Know, one and all, what you feel is My Love quickening into conscious active life in your heart, and what you hear is My Voice calling you to make ready for the Work I have been preparing you for – a Work that is your Work, long waiting for you to do, – when you have proven that self is no longer in control, and that you are willing to let Me lead the remainder of the way." – An excerpt from «Brotherhood» Joseph Benner (1872–1938) was an American author, Spiritual writer, and Representative of the Brotherhood of Christ who used the pen name «Anonymous.» He was the first to introduce the Knowledge and Teachings of the Impersonal Life (also known as the «I AM» Teaching) to the world in his first book, «The Impersonal Life».