“No, it is one of growth,” was her answer. “And ‘she’ is trying to tell you that growth begins there and does not stop. It goes on and on, as long as you are worthy.”
“Then unworthiness kills?”
“It does not kill. It defers.”
Weeks afterward, it was interesting to turn back to these early pages of the record and find how much of the wide significance of later revelations had been foreshadowed from the first.
“Are you as eager for this communication as we are?”
“We are more eager, because we know how much it means. We know that more truth can be taught this way than any other.”
Cass turned to Mrs. Gaylord, who had rejoined us, saying that this seemed to imply that they were our superiors.
“No, we are your elders,” said Mary Kendal.
As has generally been the case during these interviews, we were talking among ourselves, frequently going on with our conversation while the pencil wrote. Some one wondered how or why they had time or desire to leave their presumably more important work to talk to us.