Sixty-one years have passed since Mabel Beatty first experimented with automatic or directed writing where the writer, controlled by discarnate beings, writes with authority on matters beyond his or her knowledge. These transmissions often gave expression to ideas contrary to the author's thoughts. They purport to come from the White Brotherhood which is believed to be a body of highly evolved discarnate beings. As one might expect these writings, concerned as they are with the eternal verities, are as apposite at the end of this century as they were at the beginning. In particular the chapter, 'The New Age', written so many years ago, underlines the slow and evolutionary nature of this transition. In a few more topical areas the span of more than half a century and its differing viewpoint is evident, the questions asked of the communicators being coloured by the prevalent thinking of the 1920's. Yet the answers are still fresh and pertinent. The first three chapters impart a deep understanding of the spiritual significance of numbers. The rest of the book ranges widely across a vast field of perennial spiritual problems, all of them urgent today, providing a much valued textbook for all who seek to understand life's wider issues.
