Frater Achad

[IMAGE: Black and white portrait photograph of an elderly bald man wearing glasses and a plaid jacket]

Reverend George Graham Price

whose spiritual name

was Frater Achad

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Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood

Frater Achad

Spiritual Name

of

Reverend George Graham Price

Great Seal Press Publisher

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Another book by the same author:

MELCHIZEDEK TRUTH PRINCIPLES

Copyright © 1991 Constance Rogge

Fifth printing 1999

38,000 copies in print

Copyright© 1971

Revised fourth edition 1991

Copyright © 1991 Constance Rogge

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Publisher's Cataloging in Publication

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Price, George Graham, 1889-1959

Ancient Mysical White Brotherhood — Frater Achad. — p. cm.

ISBN 0-926872-02-8

1. Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood. 2. Channeling (Spiritualism)

3. Melchizedek, King of Salem. 4. Bible — Criticism, interpretation, etc.

I. Title.

BF1311.A53P7 1990 133.91

QBI90-60

MARC

ISBN: 0-926872-02-8

Printed by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface i

Biography of Frater Achad v

Chapter One

The Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood

After the Order of Melchizedek 1

Chapter Two

Calling Collaborators and Teachers 23

Chapter Three

Quickening the Master Spirit Within 45

Chapter Four

Involution of Spirit and Evolution of Matter 55

Chapter Five

First Requisite: Know God as Principle 65

Chapter Six

Purification — The Path of Regeneration 79

Chapter Seven

The Alchemy of Divine Thinking

also Ancient Symbols 93

Chapter Eight

Your Aura — The Shield of Protection 111

Chapter Nine

Gratitude and Retribution 127

Chapter Ten

Spiritual Riches 133

Chapter Eleven

Walking the Street Called Straight 149

Chapter Twelve

Dedicated to the Presence of God 157

Chapter Thirteen

An Ancient One Speaks 173

Index 177

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PREFACE

This book is prepared with a sacred reverence to the great spiritual teachers who have preceded us in life on Earth and whose endless task is to point to the base of reference for mankind, to which he must become oriented. The instructions and guidance from these great ones is always given in a simple, direct manner; it is never necessary to resort to dictionaries or encyclopedias in order to fully grasp the spiritual value.

No attempt is made to conform to artificial literary standards nor to any world authority. The masters never use involved intellectual terminology, regardless of any human opinion, for the nearer one comes to the eternal truth, the more direct and concise is the terminology.

In the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C., there is an inscription over one of the doorways, "Man is in one world and hath another to attend him." This blessing, this grace of God which sustains us all is a proof of the validity of the material in this book, i.e., the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God, and the ceaseless effort of those unknown great ones who are unseen to human eyes. What have we done to merit this?

At no time has man been without guidance to a life that is in harmony with the Infinite. However, it has always been man's responsibility to render himself receptive to that guidance through the cultivation of purity, humility and love.

The chapters of this book represent a record of such guidance which has come to certain individuals who were sincerely seeking it, not for self alone, but to share that knowledge. The relationship which is reflected throughout the chapters and the conversational tones to the messages, the unique individuality, is explicit and to the point, while they impart universal and impersonal truth.

How the messages were received is not important. The merely curious will be disappointed, for no attempt is made to gratify the dilettante or curiosity seeker. Sincere students of the mysteries of life understand that truth needs no other confirmation than the joyful response of one's own heart.

They will be encouraged to hold fast to what they have already found, to persevere in their aspirations. They will pay heed to the frequent and repeated admonitions, which are very important if one is to grow in love and reverence. We found that certain key principles and laws were repeated over and over again, to drive the essential point to the mark. This might have been because they were aware, by the light of our auras, that the fullness of what was related to us was not being fully grasped. Therefore they repeated it again and again, to clarify as "unto babes, young in soul growth," thus to lead to the enlargement of our understanding, enabling man to cooperate with these immutable laws that govern the universe in which man was captive, yet possessed "free will." We trust this repetition will be accepted in love, as it is intended.

We trust that even the stranger to the ways of spirit will also benefit from the thoughtful reading of this book and will come to realize that in the more vital aspects of human existence, authenticity is a matter of spiritual perception and that the quality of the product bears witness to its source. Such contemplation may lead him to the new meaning of Shakespeare's observation that, "There are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy."

The meaning of these principles unfolds in greater depth, as we learn the lessons life provides, and brings blessings to each according to his needs and the sincerity of his application to problems, which will make us and not break us.

With deep, warm-hearted gratitude, I wish to thank my many dear friends who have given me the encouragement and assistance to do the compilation of materials to present it to the readers, that they too might be blessed in the reading of it, as it has blessed those who have already come in contact with the information the great ones meant for all whom they are calling now.

"Unto thee I grant … so be it."

Natasha Greenlee

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BIOGRAPHY OF REVEREND GEORGE GRAHAM PRICE

whose spiritual name was Frater Achad

Reverend George G. Price came into our lives in the early fall of 1953, after a senior couple from Gary, Indiana, Natasha and George Greenlee, recently married, had spent most of two years traveling across the country looking for a truly high quality metaphysical teacher. There were a number of fine men available publicly, but for some indefinite reason, none were quite who or what they seemed to be searching for.

A friend announced over dinner, "Dear, I've just heard of the perfect teacher for you. His name is — oh, heck, I promised that I wouldn't tell anyone about him. He has retired completely from the public. I guess I shouldn't have mentioned him." However, before the evening was over, Mrs. Greenlee had the teacher's name and telephone number safely in her purse.

A few days later, the Greenlee's decided to call the teacher to make an appointment. The response was that he had withdrawn from the public permanently. When they asked about access to his wonderful philosophy, of which they'd heard, he replied that he had a student who had public classes in the subject at the South Bend YMCA, Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings, to which they would be most welcome.

Thursday evening found them at the appointed place a half an hour early, waiting expectantly. Mrs. Greenlee fretted, "What will I say when he asks who told us of them? I promised Ruth not to reveal her identity." Her husband calmly said, "Just leave it to me."

Finally the elevator stopped at that floor and an elderly, stooped gentlemen walked out with a young, vibrant, red-haired man. Suddenly, a voice called out, "How did you find us? We had despaired of ever seeing you."

The couple looked up and down the hall. There was still only the four there. They asked, "Who do you mean, us?" as the gentlemen approached and replied, "Yes, of course. You two."

The Greenlee couple introduced themselves to the teacher, Rev. George Graham Price, and his student, Eugene Lockhart. When asked again, "How did you find us? Who told you where we were?", Mr. Greenlee looked them sternly in the eye, replying, "If you can't tell us that, you aren't what we are looking for, and you'll never see us again." The laughing reply was, "I see the name Ruth————in an arch over your heads." (It was the name of the woman friend).

That reply was the least remarkable of the accomplishments of Rev. Price which we were to enjoy in the following six years of his life. Gene, it developed later, was seriously ill with diabetes. He, too, was a fountain of wonderful information, but he had an uncontrollable sweet tooth and serious diabetes that, at that time, was not easily medicated. He only lived a couple of years more.

They both soon moved into the Greenlee home and the wonderful lessons that came through George Price quickly attracted a fascinating and loyal group.

While he was a highly educated and well-read man — and we got to know him personally very well — most of the material which came through him could not have been filtered through his consciousness. It was true channeling of the highest quality. We later learned that a dear personal friend of Mr. Greenlee's was framed and went to the penitentiary in the fraud and financial flap that surrounded the I AM group of the Ballards in Chicago some time earlier. Therefore a high quality and clear channel was the only teacher of choice desired by Mr. Greenlee. He had lost a lot of money to the sheer greed of someone in the Chicago group and wasn't ready to allow that to happen again.

Rev. Price was born in Chicago, Illinois, in March of 1889 to circus performer parents. At an early age, he was telling people what was going to happen to them with startling accuracy, much to the deep chagrin of his devout Catholic parents.

When he was seven, they sent him to a Jesuit boarding school with instructions to the fathers there to please exorcise him of these weird and blasphemous talents.

However, the spiritual material that came through him was so interesting and fine, that it caught the attention of two priests, who then, contrarily, took him under their wing and protected him and his talents. As he later declared, "They really were responsible for the better development of my channeling abilities."

He went on through Jesuit schools through the priesthood up to the time of graduation (it is said, to the day of graduation), when he did not appear for his diploma and never did pick it up. Later, he did complete his ministerial studies at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became an ordained minister. He joined the Salvation Army for a short time, but a short-lived marriage did little to keep him there.

While he dearly loved the ministry, teaching, counseling and channeling to help people, his accuracy invariably attracted a substantial group who were most interested in questions of this sort: "Who will win in the fifth at Santa Anita?" and, "Is my sweetheart true to me?"

Since being a minister was a poorly paid position, and the concentration of many of his followers was strictly commercial and mundane, not spiritual, he would give it up and go into business. Several times he became quite wealthy, complete with chauffeur and many other creature comforts.

Then his first love, spiritual teaching, looked better than ever, especially since he could now finance the church himself and hopefully attract a more spiritual group around him. Then, again, discouraged and low on funds, he'd go back into the business world.

At other times, in his desire to find the best way to help people in need, he was a male nurse in a leper colony. He also spent a short time with the Spiritualist group at Lillydale. When Detroit was suffering from a rash of fake psychics, he helped the FBI in their investigations to weed out the unscrupulous.

In a most astonishing case of conscious channeling, he helped one of our friends, who, through fire and the resulting financial complications, had a tremendous business loss for himself and his investors. Consciously, Rev. Price first went through a list of six to eight subsequent offers from across the country which had dead-ended and further upset and confused the friend and his sense of business direction. Rev. Price painted each one in incredible and complete details; he ticked them all off without one question to prompt him. Our friend turned to me and accused me of telling Rev. Price of them. I laughed and said I'd heard from his wife only of the first case. His jaw dropped. "You are right. I stopped telling her about every one because she got much more upset than I did with each subsequent fiasco."

Finally, in his sixties, Rev. Price retired from the public in all ways, except for a very few faithful old students, who had become widely scattered over the years. He was living with his student, Gene Lockhart, in South Bend, Indiana, when the Greenlee's discovered him. After a few meetings with the Greenlee's, and being thoroughly impressed with their deep spiritual purity and intent, he announced, "I will hold back nothing from you. I will help you in every way that I can." He came out of full retirement to bless us all with many of these lessons during the last six years of his life. It was a glorious and wonderful time for this group, a number of whom travelled 50 to 150 miles for the regular meetings. Another couple came 300 miles for stays of up to 10 days and one enthusiastic member came from as far away as Anchorage to stay for months on end.

It was always the desire of Rev. Price to pass away at Christmastime. In December of 1959, he visited one of his students, James Mack, and his family in South Bend, Indiana. As he was preparing for bed on the evening of the 22nd, he fell and suffered a fatal concussion.

The channel's baptismal name was George Graham Price. He was a quiet, humble, but engaging mystic, who won the love and respect of those who crossed his path in life. With his conscious counseling and clairvoyance, he aided many people. His greatest contribution to this world laid in the beautiful lessons that came through him in suspended mental animation.

The name "Frater Achad" in this book can best be understood in terms of "anonymous," as is frequently used by unknown authors of a poem or painting. The term "frater" relates to (fraternal) brother. "Achad" means "one" of the brothers or members of the ancient mystical White Brotherhood, also of the Great High Council members. Therefore the term "Frater Achad" describes one of brothers as the channel.

As a member, he also gave to other members the privilege of the using of his voice box, so that many of the parables and paradoxes in our beloved Bible were made crystal clear in the interpretations given.

The name "Achad" is granted only to those who have given unselfish services to humankind at some time in this life. It is to be used with the greatest discrimination and highest wisdom guidance in their search to serve the Great Council in pure unselfish wisdom.

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THE DEDICATED LIFE

O man of Earth! canst thou say

"I am ready, God;

I dedicated my life to Thee?

Use my life as Thou wouldst see,

A benefit that it shall be

To my fellowman.

May my eyes see for Thee

The pain expressed in the urchin's face,

Distress upon the wayward's brow.

Use my feet, O Father God,

That I may walk in paths on Earth

As Thou wouldst have me walk,

That I may carry

Thy message of Light, Thy message of Life,

To man who in darkness dwells.

Use my hands, O Father God,

To reach to them who need Thy help,

To bestow Thy blessings and to receive

Only that, O Lord of Hosts! only that

Which comes from Thee.

Take my life and let it be

Dedicated unto Thee."

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CHAPTER ONE

THE ANCIENT MYSTICAL WHITE BROTHERHOOD, AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK

There is but one race — the human race

There is but one man — Godman

There is but one life — Godlife

There is but one mind — Godmind.

Ever since man has been, the ancient mystical White Brotherhood after the Order of Melchizedek has been. It is spiritual as God is spiritual. It is birthless, ageless, and deathless as God is birthless, ageless, and deathless. It is not a mundane organization, having no earthly lodges nor any material buildings or churches made of brick, steel, or stone. It is not founded on any man-made dogma, creed, or ritual. It is free from any influence or persuasion, and its authority and power come from the eternal Divine Source of pure being.

The word "Melchizedek" is the only one all-inclusive word for the brotherhood of man. In Hebrew, it is a combination of two words: "Melchi," meaning king, and "Zedek," meaning righteousness, the right use of consciousness and all our mental faculties. (Heb. 7:1-3)

Members of the ancient mystical White Brotherhood, after the Order of