Superior Index Go to the next: Chapter 15
Print Files: A4 Size.
My Beloved Who Have Called, I Bid You Come into My World Apart -
I AM the Resurrection and the Life1 - the faultless, matchless Presence who gives the sweetness of Life to every lifestream whether experienced, known, recognized, enjoyed, or accepted by him or not.
I know so well that the divine intention (that Good which God intends for every lifestream) goes almost wholly unnoticed by the majority of mankind insofar as the true outpicturing of Life's perfection is concerned. Consider how many great scientists, educators, industrialists, or financiers life produces; yet, by comparison, how few of those we call saints or ascended beings.
The natural plans of God intend the ascension to be the sole destiny of every man. Certainly this marvelous goal is of true worth and everlasting gain to each lifestream so honored by its fulfillment. For is not an ascended God-illumined, God-free being above the greatest scientist human life could produce? Did I not say that of unascended men John the Baptist was greatest, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he?2
Know also that the Father has an essence, or spiritual fragrance, with which he envelops persons, places, conditions, and objects (focuses) in a hallowed circle of his love whenever he is called upon with sincerity and reverence. Yes, each time you invoke the light of your heavenly Father with intense faith and love poured out to your I AM Presence, the Father's response is clothed with his essence. This essence is very real and its tangibility is sensed in wondrous ways by those advancing along the spiritual path. This path leads to the unfoldment of man's Christlike nature which I AM and which even now I embody.
Naturally, the Father is more than his essence or emanation - although someday you will find out that the essence of the Father, in all its great purity, is likewise so much more than just a series of pleasing sounds or letters of the alphabet intelligently arranged. The Father of many manifestations is also the "Wheel of the Law," that ever-revolving, magnificent wheel of world dharma turning in its appointed rounds of the eternal cycles of Life.
Hours fly hand in hand with the centuries, and the effects of human error and its corresponding human bondage still prevent many from realizing the ineffable sweetness, joy, and love of the Father, the Mighty I AM Presence, which I know so well.
Turning now to the perennial parade of spring manifesting differently in the two hemispheres (according to natural law) and to the present universal feast of the resurrection which occupies the attention of all Christendom, I AM beholding the day when, by the pressure of your own demands upon Life, many will be obliged to acknowledge our presence among men as a tangible, ever-present reality that has spanned the centuries to this very day.
I still walk among the old familiar surroundings even while I observe with you, dear hearts, new and different scenes on the world stage. Truly the drama of the ages is being outplayed. But I know that my true chelas will con-sider its climax near when, before their very eyes, I step through rainbow rays whose sunlit reality yet separates us, though by ever-thinning curtains of light's substance. Our octaves are so close!
When in my luminous Presence I step through the veil into your octave, it will be to say to you as I do today: "Peace, be still!" and "My peace I give unto you."3
As I draw back the substance of light which forms the veil4 (curtain) dividing our realm from yours, you will know that the rose, whose petals are so wondrously soft as to exceed the finest velvet, symbolizes the gentle but symmetrically beautiful caress of God's love. The Father would give to every man, woman, and child the embrace of his nearness, his encouragement, his Law of Love, and even his very Life every hour.
The fragrance of his heart is therefore an aromatic balm whose sweet savor is often sensed by you when your God Presence is rendering a very special service in your behalf. As with a fragrant perfume, your atmosphere is thereby blessed. His light and mighty love flow into your world like a vital current from your I AM Presence or the starry electrode of an Ascended Master's heart.
Now, among all the practical accomplishments of the material world which you could ever perform, there is one toward which I would direct your earnest attention. Therefore I am come today in answer to your call - to call you, in turn, to come into my realm of practical spiritual experience. For I would acquaint you with the science and soul advancement of all eternity.
Come into my world apart. Leave for a little while the temptations of the wilderness - that is, the outer world illusions. Leave behind the record and memory of strife and religious or secular intolerance. Still the restless energies which assail the peaceful heart and know, for a time at least, the meaning of true communion with the God-progress of your own heart's light.
You see, ye call me brother, and so I am. Ye hope for a resurgent resurrection flame to confer upon you, when needed, eternal hope and immortal Life like unto my own. Ye hope for the call of your own God Presence to come up higher, yet ye tarry frequently in the memory of some of the elements of human decay.
Like Lot's wife, who turned into a pillar of salt (her consciousness crystallized by her own recalcitrance) when she looked back at the burning Sodom and Gomorrah5 (which symbolize the discordant elements of life in the process of transmutation by the sacred fire), you have pondered and dwelt upon, revolving over and over in the memory, the human elements of discord from which you have asked, or should have asked, to be delivered.
Beloved ones, from Eden the voice of the LORD God who walked in the garden among the spiritual fragrances of your own God Presence has been heard by all but heeded only by the few: " ... Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."6
The day when many shall turn to God is at hand!7 It is at the very door! No one can ever deceive the Law; and the Father, known by any other name than Love, is just as sweet. Keep my commandments to love one another even as I have loved you; otherwise, how can ye be mine or the image which I AM?8
Think back beyond the memory of human error or mortal discord to the pure Edenic state where "before Abraham was, I AM."9 The life plan of the Father is like the most beautiful rose in existence, whose unfolding petals (the form) yield to Life's direction and become cups of fragrance offering golden liquid light which can enshrine in each lifestream all the joy and glory of the Masters' unfolding plan of the ages for that one.
Life is God, Life is I AM, and it was intended to be beautiful, eternal, powerful, and happy. This can be so only through your outpicturing of all that is the power (will of God), the kingdom (wisdom of God), and the glory (love of God). There is no other way. The seven days of the week are manifestations, as are individuals, of the magnificent seven planetary color rays, the radiance (ray-d-ance, or 'ray-dance') of the Father's light.
Every year during this holy season, I am drawn nearer and nearer to every human heart with as many blessings as the cosmic law allows. Truly, I AM with you always!
Do not fail to watch with me, disciples of this hour,10 for Life ever tests each aspirant, and I AM so willing to assist all who ask!
May the highest sense of the beauty and perfection of the Presence enfold your hearts and lives this season and forever.
_________________________________________________
[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]