The Sabian Book | Marc Edmund Jones

This collection of Blue Letters, so designated because they are issued on blue paper, has been selected from approximately 1200 weekly messages written by Dr. Jones to students of the Sabian Assembly. From the first letter, dated November 7, 1927, until November 27, 1950, the letters served as immediate and informal replies to the questions of students or to clarify some point of particular pertinence arising from the study of the regular weekly lessons in the Bible and the philosophy series. Some of them, particularly the early ones, were written simply to make announcements or as comment on current events, and these have been eliminated from consideration. Those of continuing value have been re-edited by Dr. Jones and from December 1950 have constituted a regular cycle of slightly more than twenty years in rough parallel to the cycles of the other two basic lesson series. Something over a third of these more enduring weekly and informal messages have been incorporated in this present volume as presenting perhaps the most comprehensive introduction possible to the enormous scope of the Sabian materials. They have an intimacy of approach to everyday issues and to problems of individual aspiration toward occult insights that makes them as pertinent to the needs of the students now as they were at the time of their writing. They are pregnant with comment on the world in passing and in implication as to the significance of events. Dr. Jones suggests that they are in epitome "spontaneous insights into man's kaleidoscopic world of experience."

The Blue Letters are numbered chronologically, but are not to be found in that order in The Sabian Book.

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