Thane of Hawaii
Got an email from Prosperos docent Brian Wallenstein, who is holding down the fort in Mt. Shasta, California. He mentioned Thane’s 1970ish pamphlet “Old Wine in New Bottles” which I didn’t have in my “library.” So I ordered the last one available on Amazon and read through it. It is a compilation of several letters from Thane to his students posted from various West Coast cities, all dated in the year 1936, twenty years before The Prosperos even began and ten years before I began (in my present form).
In one chapter called “Faith,” Thane exudes about the new Oakland-San Francisco Bay bridge which had just opened in 1936. Thane says: “I have just experienced one of the big thrills I have been looking forward to for years, driving across the new Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge. Here is an achievement too big to put into words that imparts something to one that is good for the soul. I have seen some big things in my life, but nothing has ever meant to me just what this bridge means. For instance, seeing the Grand Canyon leaves one breathless and awe-stricken. It gives some idea of the immensity of God’s plan and its depth and grandeur, but still it is God’s handiwork through nature. In driving across the new bridge one has the same feeling concerning man, that he really has dominion over whatever he sets his mind upon.”
In another chapter called “Relaxation,” Thane says: “When we talk to God we should talk in terms of a lover.” And he gives us this prayer as an example: “In God have I put my trust; I will not be afraid what men do unto me; For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will be withheld from them that walk upright. For He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all they ways.”
And finally in his chapter called “He Is Risen,” Thane says this: “The linking of the Christ Immortality to the body is the most Jesus Christ-like move one can make, The scriptures abound with His statements regarding this reality. Any attitude other than immortality of substance in its prime sense is wholly unreconcilable to the truth of the Master’s teachings.”
Good luck finding this book, however.
Two point’s here really connected: 1) Praying to God as a lover, gratitude, compliment and request <3. 2) The linking or identity of one's body to Christ's immortality )