My parents read me first "Unveiled Mysteries" when I was around 2 years old which is the first in a series of spiritual books written around 1929 I believe. The next in the series is "The Magic Presence" which I had read to me starting around age 5 or 6 years old.
I personally as a child liked "The Magic Presence" better because it is in the Tetons rather than Mt. Shasta like the first one "Unveiled Mysteries". Unveiled Mysteries was interesting even to a 2 year old because a Mountain Lion first Stocks and then makes friends with Mr. Ballard around the time he first meets Saint Germain. In some ways him meeting Saint Germain is sort of different like meeting someone from another world because he is so different than most human beings (at least the human beings in the United States) until you had more Gurus from India and Nepal and Tibet coming here starting in the late 1960s and on. So, people were incredibly close minded in the 1950s instead of now which is every sort of person from around the world now makes the U.S. their home who comes here. So, the world isn't all white and racist the way it was in the 1950s when I grew up anymore. However, there are still pockets of ethnocentrism everywhere now in the U.S. and pockets of Country ethnocentrism where people have settled in a group from other countries and brought their religions and customs to the U.S. too one by one.
Anyway, "The Magic Presence" from the child I was that had this read to him starting about age 5 is an interesting book mostly because there are horses and ranches that people ride and there are young people in this book likely 18 to 25 years old in age which made this much more interesting for a child to have this book read to them. Then in my teen years I read these books again and had an entirely different view of them, especially when I attended the "I AM" School in my senior year in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
However, at that time for a variety of reasons the book I was actually the most impressed with was "Dweller on Two Planets" written by an 18 year old local to the Mt. Shasta area then which was unique in itself on many different levels. This book impressed me the most because it most resembled my own experience of life and spirituality even though it is very set in the late 1800s and more extreme Christian views on many levels than you would have seen in the early 1900s too.
So, I would highly recommend reading "Unveiled Mysteries", "The Magic Presence" and Dweller on Two Planets. However, Dweller isn't written by Mr. Ballard but by an 18 year old boy or man in the last decade or so of the late 1800s which is interesting in itself.
So, it is like reading a spiritual Jules Verne kind of book that spans more than one lifetime in Atlantis and in the Gold mining area of Northern California around Mt. Shasta in the late 1800s when he wrote this.
Very impressive for ANY 18 year old to write this.
A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way is a book written by Frederick Spencer Oliver, who was born in 1866.
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