Prayer and Meditation
Chapter 13
Universal Light Carries Man to the Altar of Transmutation
Jesus and Kuthumi Dictated to the Messengers
Mark and Elizabeth Prophet
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The old phrase "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill"51 reveals a law that, when understood, imparts great blessing.
The temptation to feel bored with life, which sometimes seeks to ride in during meditation, is a sinister vibration calculated to destroy the concentration, devotion, and profit of each meditative session with God. If one is to meditate upon God, how can one be bored with such a colossal idea as life, which is God? Yet the carnal mind goes on to say that all of this "boredom" could be relieved by travel in search of God.
To this I say emphatically, Is not God everywhere? Yes, the mountain can and does come to man; for the love of God, when contacted in meditation through faith and understanding of his omnipresence, will break through and fire the mind and heart with joys too numerous to mention, vistas too beautiful to describe, and stairways lost in the transcendental mist of cosmic hope.
God will come to you. You have but to call, but your faith must be firm. You must be willing to transmit your cares and considerations to him. You must free yourself from your burdens. You must merge with the light. The light is real, and the Summit of every man brings him to the light. The light is universal and consummate. It binds up the total expression of the individual and carries him as he is to the altar of transmutation.
Here the fiery love of God consumes the passing trivia of life and suffuses the bud of the unfolding, glowing Divine Person with pulses of light from the heart of his Creator. There is enough of God to go around. You need have no fear that you may draw too much of him, but only that you may draw too little. In him the greatest commodity in all the universe is offered to every man; yet people, submitting to ignorance and allure, look elsewhere for courage, strength, power, wisdom, and friendship. Decrying the hopeless situations they find and the alternate patterns of sunlight and shadow, the ups and downs of daily existence, men turn passionately to God in one moment and in another to the world.
The great Master Jesus said, "No man can serve two masters."52 Either this Master Presence of Life, your eternal God Presence I AM, is sufficient for the day's evils or you must let the world be your teacher.53 If God be sufficient, if the everlasting love of the Father be enough, then let men no longer whine, but commune. Let your meditations be acceptable in the eyes of God; for they are designed to reach up unto him, to convey your aspirations and your hopes, and to form the matrices of your desires according to your highest understanding in order that God may fill them with the substance of immortal love.
Do not qualify your aspirations with immortality before they are tried by the fires of God's love. If they be frail and unworthy of the fire of eternal creation, the fire will burn through the substance and melt with fervent heat the unworthy matrix.54 Let it go into the furnace of God's love; for a new, glowing, and more beautiful form will come forth to hold a still greater measure of Infinite Love.55
Grace conveys, grace upholds, grace magnetizes beauty. All that men do, however, must be to mold them into a vessel for the use of God. If one would pray, "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace," then he must be prepared to submit to the will of peace. The handiwork of service must be offered generously without thought of reward or personal glamour. As long as the servant or the disciple goes forth with the longing in his soul for worldly recognition, just so long will he delay his real service to God and to man.
Surrender must be beyond recall. Those who hold back part of the treasure and pleasure of life, those who still desire to live exclusively for themselves, fail to understand the law of sweet surrender. Does man surrender to God? Can God do more than surrender in return? Can he fail to recognize that the soul has offered himself in the service of the King? Shall not the King, then, empower him as his representative, as his ambassador? Shall the King not fight all of his battles and, by the Spirit of absolute justice, provide him with all of his rewards?
Meditation, then, is enhanced by surrender under guard. Surrender under guard means a consecrated surrender to the purity of love, to the beauty of love, to the realization of love, to the joy of love, to the strength of love, and to the tones of love.
Love is a melodious, harmonious sound. It is the impulse of God's own consciousness; it impinges upon the universe and trembles the bars of eternal creativity. The turning of the universes creates the music of the spheres. The God-passion caught up in the Macrocosm evokes its responses in the microcosm of men's hearts. They cannot be kept apart from God. They cannot be kept apart from one another. The strength of righteousness and justice that exalteth a nation exalteth the individual. Compassion does not compromise evil. Compassion upholds Good, and the pinnacle of example for all is the divine life.
The justice of God is revealed in the statement of Christ "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."56 The interaction of men's deeds must be examined by the careful ones. Full of concern for each leaf in creation, these understand the passion of the Cosmic Mother. These understand the outreach of the soul into nature and into all things that contact the immediacy of one's world, together with all things that are in the far-flung worlds. Just as the "Great Computer" may be faithful in many things, so can the one who submits his consciousness to the will of God be faithful to surrender to him (to the law of perfection that God has placed within the beloved Son) the keeping or "computing" of his tranquil course to fulfillment and mastery.
You were not born to be a glob of meaningless putty. Precious ones, God made you in his own image in order that you might express that image in the beauty of the here and now. He did not intend that you should wait for some far distant time to receive, through his infinite compassion for you, the highest gifts of himself. As you meditate upon him and call upon him, you open the door to all of the Good that the universe holds in abeyance for you.
The world is in tumult. Men cry out for social justice. The answer of God through the great Lords of Karma shows consistently that as men give, so shall they receive. Those who are surrounded with fears as to the future would do well to understand that universal law does not err, but picks up in the silent meditations of men's hearts every fear, every doubt and frustrating sense; and the things that men fear may indeed come upon them.57
Let them understand conversely that the things that they love, the beauty that they wish to evoke, the servant of Universal Order that they wish to become, all that belongs to God is within their outreach. With the fingers of their hands, they can touch the face of God and feel in that firm and tender reality the glory that was once inscribed upon themselves. For the divine image remains in glowing fire as their own individualized God Presence, I AM. This sweet form of infinite reality, connecting them with every part of life, remains unchallenged as the Ageless Father guarding the manifestation of reality for each servant-son.
When you rise in your meditations, let it not be to astral cities or to psychic episodes! But let your aspirations soar beyond the stars to the realm of universal ascended master love right where God is, for
Where your treasure is, there shall your heart go;58
Where your desire is, there do your energies flow;
When you hitch your wagon to a Star,
You find out who you really are.