Recorded Lectures by Flower A. Newhouse

Increasing Our Appreciation of God in Nature Retreat (3 of 3): Consciousness Side of the Mysteries of Nature (051-1 Sunday 6/24/1956)

When in nature we must practice unification, adoration and wonder. Quotes and experiences in nature from mystics and naturalists. Sufi teaching regarding various stages of consciousness. Days have cyclic changes just as the year has seasons. Excerpts...

Spiritual Qualities Maytime Represents (100-1 Sunday 5/4/1958)

A discussion of the Vernal festival, celebrating springtime from a spiritual aspect, the benefits of being in nature. The difference of the powers present and felt in spring compared to those in winter and at Christmas. Spring as a time of renewal. Benefits of the sun in springtime. Excerpts...

Springtime's Festival (128-2 Sunday 4/24/1960)

A new season begins the week after Easter. There is a distinct change is what we are receiving spiritually. We receive from the powers of nature. Nature is an enlightener that can be approached in our gardens or in the wilderness. To learn from nature, we must concentrate on the message of each place. Living in the city can desensitize us, but in the wilderness, we are spiritually reinvested. Trees should be a special love of the spiritual Christian. Nature has lessons for all of us, deep strong, true, creative, ever changing. Excerpts...

Winter's Value to the Soul (180-1 Sunday 3/25/1962)

Flower discusses symbolic meanings of the seasons and expands upon winter's lessons, both from an outer and an inner standpoint. Mentions Gladys Taber and Thoreau as naturalists who loved and learned much from winter. Describes winter's testings and challenges physically, psychologically and spiritually; indicates how we are to react to these from a spiritual viewpoint. Excerpts...

The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof (185-2 Sunday 5/6/1962)

Maytime brings in the Vernal Festival we are in. The intelligences of nature shine out their rays of beneficence and give to the earth their wonderful rituals, their great festivals, and their initiations. And all who are awake and all who are in some way sensitive are conscious of the fact that Maytime is not only a season of loveliness, it is a period in the calendar of the earth when the earth initiates itself into more conscious everlastingness. Excerpts...

A Spiritual Study of the Four Seasons (300-2 Sunday 3/6/1966)

The Spiritual Meaning of Springtime (327-1 Sunday 4/16/1967)

Flower describes the great spiritual Vernal festival and the characteristics of the nature beings active at this time of year. On May first, she says, 'the great devas stand at full attention, raying out and relaying through to the beings who are younger than they, the glorious baptisms that come from the Planetary Logos. Wherever beings are serving nature, they will on this particular day feel a great call to go to the temple nearest them. The devas then come to the realization as to what is their purpose and what they may do further to help in the work of the Creator through the earth.' She further instructs us how to prepare for deeper awareness of the great intelligences ever present in nature. Excerpts...

Lessons to Be Learned from Fall (399-2 Sunday 9/7/1969)

The Inner Values of Summer (422-2 Sunday 6/21/1970)

The summer solstice ushers in a time when we should attune ourselves more fully to nature, to learn from nature. Flower recounts the experiences in nature of many nature mystics and naturalists. She explains how we can benefit by being in nature during the summer months. Excerpts...

Glory of Angelhood (472-2 Sunday 9/26/1971)

An Angel has already had 124 initiations; first as elemental creature, then a deva, and then at long last the development of Angelhood. Astonishing beauty enfolded in color mists, and only the face, head and throat, the hands and sometimes arms, and the feet are visible. The rest is like a cloud of light about them. According to their degree of unfoldment and also their specific way of serving will the great Angels have a color aura. An Angel's eyes are very large. More orders than we can imagine, working for the world. Flower describes many of these orders: Elohim; national, state and city Angels; Angels of Time, Years, Centuries, Seasons; Angels of North, South, East, West; Planetary Angels at chakras; Solar Angels; St Michael and Warrior hosts; Angels in charge of animals; many more. Excerpts...

The Uniqueness of February (490-1 Sunday 2/6/1972)

Patterns for March (494-1 Sunday 3/5/1972)

The Enchantment of April (498-2 Sunday 4/9/1972)

May's Lovely Differences (500-2 Sunday 5/7/1972)

Flower A. Newhouse stresses the importance of the month of May as a time for deep appreciation and reverence for the beauty God has created in nature. She speaks of the physical beauty at this time of year and explores how animals see color. She describes the inner aspects of May and what occurs on the superphysical plane as nature intelligences return to the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere as other nature servers flock to the southern hemisphere. She describes the inner temples that dwell on mountain peaks and tells us that May is most like the atmosphere, climate, and the beauty of the inner worlds. She also shares traits of the two astrological signs of this month–Taurus and Gemini, as well as famous persons under these signs, and shares her own experience as a Taurian. Excerpts...

The Uniqueness of June (503-2 Sunday 6/4/1972)

July's revelations (509-1 Sunday 7/9/1972)

August: The Bestower of Blessings (511-1 Sunday 8/6/1972)

September: The Month of Happenings (513-1 Sunday 9/3/1972)

An Evaluation of Stimulating October (515-2 Sunday 10/8/1972)

The Depth and Height of November (517-2 Sunday 11/5/1972)

The Awesomeness of December (519-1 Sunday 12/3/1972)

This lesson focuses on the spiritual importance of December. Flower shares her insights on the sun sign of Sagittarius. She mentions several well-known individuals who are under this sign. She then shares the superphysical aspects of the coming of winter. She describes in vivid detail the changes that take place on the inner as the seasons advance from fall into winter, particularly with the colors in the atmosphere. She then quotes her favorite mystic naturalists regarding their insights on this time of year. Followed by 13 minute question and answer session. Excerpts...

The Spiritual Festival of Maytime (529-2 Sunday 5/6/1973)

Springtime and Our Love for the Earth (602-2 Sunday 3/14/1976)

Maytime's Inner Mysteries (657-2 Sunday 5/7/1978)

Maytime the Jewel of Nature: Archetype of Nature's Mission (708-1 Sunday 5/4/1980)

The Ideal Embodied in June (710-1 Sunday 6/1/1980)

The Ideals Embodied in August (714-2 Sunday 8/3/1980)

The Spiritual Opportunities of Summer (737-2 Sunday 6/21/1981)

Realities We Should Consider in Summer (763-2 Sunday 6/20/1982)

Summertime Ideals (789-1 Sunday 6/19/1983)

Those persons who love nature become nature mystics and these mystics are the very ones who can tell us things about nature that we might not tune into ourselves. They have seen into the depths of nature. They don't see just trees and sunshine and the beauty of the arrangement of the landscape, they sense presence and they sense power and they receive vitality in a new way. Flower shares some of her own experiences in nature, and those of other well-known nature mystics. Excerpts...