Prayer and Meditation
Chapter 4
The Light of Prayer
Jesus and Kuthumi Dictated to the Messengers
Mark and Elizabeth Prophet
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Beloved Brethren of the Light,
The light of prayer, the light of communion with our Father, surges through all things. Nature is infused, man is infused, mind is infused with this beautiful light that serves as the communicator between man and God. The chasms of shadow are nothing, for the light echoes and reechoes across the widest gap. Here metaphor is reality; for the visible things of the world fade away as the invisible becomes the visible, and man through prayer sees all things bathed in a sea of luminous light-substance.
To develop this sense of all-knowing serenity is to develop the state of an untouchable being, of one who cannot be affected by outer conditions or mortal ups and downs. The light of God that never fails, beloved, awaits your call - to answer when you call and to serve your needs. The light is your obedient servant sent forth by God; for of a truth, he that would be greatest among you must be the greatest servant, and our Father is the greatest servant of all.19
As the beloved Son, you must recognize that your mortal role is played out upon the passing scene that leads you onward to the dawn of reality in yourself. Reality is not an outer, transient thing. Reality is the wings of the Spirit that lift mankind to a sense of omnipresence and beauty where no shadow is, but only the pulsation of the great light of God's reality.
How very foolish it is for men to suppose that their reality is wedded to mortal conditions, to think that the possessions of life can in any way lend more than passing enchantment to the scene! Let all understand, then, that the Son, beloved of the Father, is also he who loveth all things free. To be free is to breathe the Holy Spirit into the fountain of light within your heart that changes the very condition of the blood itself into liquid light and prepares you to exchange your outer garments for immortal vestments.
There is no need to fear the death of the outer man, but that the soul may be swallowed up by the vicissitudes of natural experience to the place where the divine flame that pulsates and rises within is extinguished through neglect.20 When a bushel of outer things surrounds mankind's consciousness and leads him astray from oneness and a sense of the nearness of his own God Presence, he finds that he can lose his way.
I AM the way, and true being is the way. There is no division in true existence; therefore, there cannot be two ways. There is only one way; and that way is the indivisibility of the Spirit that has of itself created many droplets of manifestation, but all of the same Spirit. Those of you who, with me, would inherit the kingdom of God must understand, even in your outer minds, that no outer condition has any power to alter the immortal God flame blazing on the altar of your heart.
Consciousness is also possessed of a heart. The question as to whether that heart is seated in the physical heart or elsewhere in your four lower bodies, in your Holy Christ Self or in the heart of your Divine Presence, is not nearly as important as the fact that you are able to tune in with the God consciousness that is in every cell of your body and the Great Central Sun Presence of yourself, your own beloved mighty I AM Presence.
For the sense of being "I AM THAT I AM" is one, and there is no division whatsoever in this conception. There may be a multiplicity of manifestation and each one may have an assignment of specific wonder to externalize, but the beauty of the Eternal is not a passing condition. It is a permanent one. And the joy that fills the soul that is imbued with this concept is illimitable light.
Now as the dawn of holy prayer, bridging the chasm between one point and another, radiates its precious light into the consciousness of men, it speaks of the mission that seems to be impossible to those who are wedded to mortal things. This is the mission that is fulfilled when the overriding power of the Presence takes command of an individual's world and asserts its Christ-dominion as never before. Until the door is opened that leads to eternal life, men linger without and they see not the glory that is behind the portal. And until they open that door by consciously willing themselves free to be that which God created them to be, they can never know the beauty and glory that is their own. But it was so intended, for every lifestream was given the glorious mantle of ever-present perfection as an original part of the divine plan.
Lost in the descent, as man falls away from reality into the dream of mortality, perfection seems but a dim light, half alive and questionable in the main. This is a great pity, men say, and it is so; but when men understand that I AM come that they might have light, and that more abundantly, they will also see that a rose known by any other name smells just as sweet. And although men have different names for the same condition, the selfsame Spirit worketh in all to produce the miracle of communion.
I cannot under any condition fail to point out to all that communion is the full measure of salvation to every living soul; for unless man have communication with the pristine First Cause, the creative fount of divine energy and will, he may indeed lose his way in the folds of shadowed substance. But we seek for all deliverance through communion and to reinforce in all a new and living concept, that in his flesh man may see his flesh as the doorway into the Eternal. ("Yet in my flesh shall I see God.")21
The blessed Spirit that animates form and provides the life-energy for each day's service cannot itself be harmed by any outer condition; but the soul, in its plasticity of recording the records of living, may have scars which are best removed by application to the immortal Spirit of divine reality. God wipes away all tears from man's eyes and serenely imposes the radiance of himself as a robe of righteousness over the dusty garments men have worn. The radiance of the light energy in those divine robes purifies the undergarment, and all things are penetrated by the radiance of the divine.
Have faith, keep faith, and let it mount up; for the Brotherhood Eternal is working and serving the causes supernal. The beauty of the supernatural is actually in the natural manifestation, for the habitat of God is in the heaven of man within you right where you are.
Unfold the plan!
See the star of present,
Ever-present opportunity
Gleaming from afar
So nigh,
Plummeting through the sky
As hope,
Resurrecting faith and action,
Filling space with dreams
Fulfilling God's will!
Lo, I come -
Still, serene,
Pure and clean,
To be and see
The victory
Of all and everyone
That's free!
Your elder brother and gracious example, under the wings of the eternal Father, Saviour of each and all, I AM and remain