Pat Rodegast - Emmanuels Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

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EMMANUELS BOOK
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Friends edition published November 1985
Bantam edition / March 1987
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Dedicated
to the image that each soul holds
within its own human consciousness
and to the memory
of the Light that it follows,
of the Being that it yearns to become
and of the Truth that it already is.

Emmanuel

The gifts I wish to give you
are my deepest love,
the safety of truth,
the wisdom of the universe
and the reality of God.

With these four things, nothing will deter you.
You will follow your hearts
swiftly to your destination,
which is Home.

I know there is confusion and doubt
and what appears to be chaos.
Can you see
that beneath these surface shadows
there is eternal Light?

This earth plane
is neither the beginning nor the end
of your existence.
It is simply a step, a schoolroom.

My friends, let me impress upon you
how solidly
you are planted in eternity,
how brilliantly
you can shine in your own physical world,
how possible
it all is,
how beautifully
the Plan is designed.

In Gods Plan no soul is alone.
No soul is ever lost.

Again and again in spiritual texts one is enjoined to seek out the company of the holy, that is those whose lives are committed to God. I, for one, readily admit that I am addicted to such beings, for reflected in them I can see the spiritual aspects of myself and of the world around me, aspects which in the marketplace are so often veiled by this and that.

From my Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, I received encouragement to take teachings wherever I could find them and then to trust my intuitive heart to cull the teachings which would be useful from those which were irrelevant or potentially harmful. His support enabled me to open wide and receive rich returns from a great variety of different traditions and sources. Whether through the written words of such beings as Lao Tzu, the Buddha, the Third Chinese Patriarch, the Christ, Kabir, Ramana Maharshi, The Baal Shem Tov, Ramakrishna, etc., or the darshans of such noble souls as Grandpa Joe of the Taos Pueblo, Ananda Mayee Ma, Kalu Rinpoche of the Kargyu Tibetan Sect, Father Demasius of the Benedictines, Lama Govinda, Sayadaw U Pandita of the Therevadans, etc., I have profited greatly. These voices of compassionate wisdom are what the Therevadan Buddhists refer to as Kalayan Mita or Spiritual Friends: beings whom met along the way provide guidance and support for ones spiritual journey. Emmanuel, for me, is another of these voices. It is a priviledge to be able to introduce him to you and to share his teachings with you.

I first heard Emmanuel on WBAI in New York City. Actually, I heard Pat Rodegast reporting what Emmanuel was saying. She had been in contact for some time with this being whom she referred to as Emmanuel. She could contact him at will through meditative tuning and could hear him clearly though others around her could not. To each question asked by Lex Hixon, the host of the radio program, Pat relayed Emmanuels response.

Listening to that radio show, what I was most struck by was Emmanuels charm and old-world courtliness, his humor, eloquence, directness, hipness, and the fact that his responses evoked intuitive trust in me. By the end of the show a number of questions of both a personal and general nature had arisen in my mind and I asked Judith Stanton, who had introduced me to Emmanuel through that program, to try to arrange an interview for me with Pat and Emmanuel.

The interview was held in a quiet meditative room looking out on a garden. As we settled in, Pat started a tape recorder so that I could have a record of our conversation. Pat started to describe colors which she saw as associated with me. In the middle of this description she said, Emmanuel wants to say something. He is saying. and then she reported Emmanuels comments about the colors, and we were off and running.

I had no sense of Pat being possessed by Emmanuel. Rather, Pat remained very much herself, but willingly conveyed Emmanuels words in a way that indicated that it was a relaxed, light, and quite delightful friendship that she shared with Emmanuel. The differences between them were very noticeable. Most obviously, there were marked differences in sentence structure, linguistic patterns, and choice of words. But more subtly, there was a vibratory difference as well. At first I barely noticed this subtle quality. However, in later interviews this vibratory space came to have as profound and significant a value for me as Emmanuels words.

In that initial interview Pat also described other images she was seeing. Among them: I see you very involved in playing a game. There is a feeling of tremendous excitement. You are sitting hunched over the game board in intense concentration. Then she said, Emmanuel, help me because I feel there is something more there and I cant.