As they sleep, let us look back to the beginning of this youth who is fast becoming a Master-mind. As we see him as he was at first - only a little piece of Humanity with a free will and sparkling eyes that seemed to say as they looked around "This is not strange to me. I have been here before."
What a mystery he was to us then! We have watched the unfolding of the petals as they let loose and spread out. We can see the process now as we have watched his advancement.
Is it not wonderful of the mother to know the truth of this child and of the father to give his consent for the mother to lead her son into the Path of Wisdom? It is a beautiful awakening to see her son growing up just as she saw him as a Bud of the Garden of Humanity.
Here he is back to the home on the mountain once more; and even when he worked with his father in his business he excelled all the others who were in this line for years before he came. He soon saw loop-holes in his father's office and advised changes to a more simplified routine. He always gave his father credit for the changes. Yes, he fit in anywhere as he is 'Just Natural' - never changed - but in his naturalness caused the masses to look upon him and say to themselves "Yes, he seems so natural, so intelligent, his conversations are always wonderful and his calmness is almost unbelievable. His smile is true for you can see it comes from within. He answers any question you may ask him and when the answer is given you have to sit quiet for there is no come back."
Yes, his parents should be proud of such a son. You see, the masses are also watching the petals of time spread out; they too want to see what the secret is that was held within that one tiny piece of Humanity - 'The Human Rose Bud.' As they compare him with their own, they wonder why there can be so much difference; yet, there he lays sound asleep, unconscious that the eyes of the masses are upon him. Even in his sleep, that smile is seen. Yes, the smile of Natural Self for he knows no make believe - he is a life of 'want to' not 'have to'. He is not a cog wheel of the industry of the world, he is the axel of a wheel of Wisdom that will, as it goes around, accumulate a power only known to the Master-mind. By his life, he shall give Light to the world by revealing the Truth of Creation.
Morning has come. The sun is flooding his room with its sunbeams. He looks up and sees the brightness of the sun. He lays for a while and his mind recalls the night before. He smiles and gets up with a feeling born anew within him. Soon he is called by his AID as he calls her.
Breakfast is ready and they meet at the breakfast table. She asks him how he slept.
He says, "Well, but I had a beautiful dream or vision; and I know by that vision the Voice that called me here was my own Soul-mind calling me into the Path of Truth that I have to follow. I dreamed I was traveling and everywhere I went the people were asking me to feed them. I offered them bread; but they said 'No, we have enough bread.' It was truth they needed. They wanted a light so they might know where they were going. They said 'We are just stumbling through life in a mist and it is so dense we cannot see where we are going. We are told this and that and everyone is showing us a different path but no one seems to have the Light that surrounds thee. Give us of your truth. Put us into the Path of Light and feed us by thy tongue for we know you have the truth.' "
"I answered them thus: 'Yes, I will feed you. Yes, I will give you light. Yes, I will reveal all the mysteries of the Earth to you; even as they are being revealed unto me for as I receive so shall I give'. As I uttered these words, they seemed to all be satisfied. Just then I awoke and the sun was shining in my face in all its glory. What a dream! What an awakening! The Light of Life filling me to overflowing."
"Well, when you feel you are going to have an overflow, remember I am your audience."
"The first thing I do this morning is write to my mother and will she not be surprised when she knows I met you on the train and you were coming back to our home at the call of the Silent Voice - just as I was? Will she not be pleased that I have you to take care of me and listen to me. I know she will be so happy. I have to write now, I will see you later."
"Yes, but do not forget you have a father as well as a mother."
"I won't; but mother seems to understand me so much more than my father. He did not seem pleased about my coming. He thought I should have stayed in the city and helped him through; but the Voice kept calling and I felt I must obey. I do hope I will be able to repay them in money for what they have done for me."
"You will."
"I 'want to' so much. I will see you later after I have finished my letter."
She also writes a letter to his parents and tells how she saw the advertisement in the papers offering their home on the mountain for sale; and how she felt about it and made up her mind she would buy it and keep it until they got back to prosperity again; then she would let them have it back. It held memories that she would never forget and the surprise she got when she saw their son on the train but she would let him tell the story of their meeting for he could tell it so much more effectual than she could. She hoped, by this time, her lawyer had been there and had made the necessary arrangements for the exchange of the property. She would stay there and keep their boy as long as he wanted to stay; but to be sure and not let him know of the sale or he would not stay. She hoped she had done the right thing - as she thought she had."
End Chapter 7