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Human chaos which like a cloud obscures the perpetually shining light needed to show men the way home is dispelled completely by the powerful currents of your own God Presence and the proffered gift of our assistance accepted without limit! Last week I spoke of "effort invoked" by constantly persisting in conscious good intentions. Now surely our chelas need not do as the patriarch suggested - "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and learn his ways," in order to know about the sometimes valiant effort needed for even temporal achievement - for a nobler and better way by far is provided to learn how to sustain the God-created bond of eternal achievement through the alchemy of life's experiences and the love from those God-free hearts that make up our forthright Brotherhood of God's Will right here at Darjeeling!
How often has that dear rendering "Home Sweet Home" stirred the hearts of men with such fond longings and brought them a wonderful feeling of warmth and understanding even when their blessed hearts were almost rent by the pain of much living and the inner sensing of being away from the mainspring and main current of "home!" Centered around those nostalgic memories in many cases concerning the early years of the present embodiment were memories of the precious love of parents and kind friends of earlier years. Truly how little the coldly materialistic realize the far-reaching value of kindness. To touch a chord in the heart of a child - which abides to delight his memory (etheric body) for perhaps eternity, is a matter of no small moment, and yet how often the reverse has been practiced by misinformed and malfunctioning beings whose poor thoughts revolve almost alone around the seeming vacant seat of the personal self where such individuals are truly the "lonely ones!"
The Brotherhood recently met here at Darjeeling with my humble self presiding and the consensus of our opinion was that it is ever so needful for us to continue to guide our dear and blessed chelas in the "paths of righteousness - for His name's sake `I AM' ...!"
The two matters we wish to pinpoint for you follow. First, quagmires must be pointed out and secondly, we find it needful to delineate the ever so safe higher ground on which you can stand as well! Our chelas ought permanently to learn how to use and master as we have the world which God created - without abusing the use thereof. The fine balance between so-called materialism and cosmic maternalism must be achieved! To merely "want" or even to have for the simple sake of possession under the stress of compulsion to upbuild the ego is wrong - to use the gifts of life as if they were children sprung from your own heart, loving them and their service, is a cosmic maternalism wherein life is indeed reverenced!
The teachings of mysticism, occultism and the many religions of the world are intended to provide a means whereby mankind may escape the self-imposed bondage of their own recoiling energy (karma) and have restored to them the peace, power and victory they once knew at inner levels before taking human embodiment. Concerning the present many-faceted teachings, techniques and studies supposedly of this nature, let me say that some are harmful, placing men at a decided disadvantage; some are very helpful, ennobling and elevating the whole consciousness; and some are more or less neutral, doing very little except to occupy the attention and mind of man. The answer lies in Jesus' statement, "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life," signifying that the Way lies within one's own world - the world of the Mighty I AM Presence awaiting release at your conscious call. The way of each one's own individualized God Presence "I AM" and the guidance of the ascended masters is the most excellent way which surpasses all others, and will never be surpassed until the day you are completely one with your own God Presence when you yourself become that which you are now in the state of becoming! If they say Christ is here and he is there - you need not go or seek further than the kingdom of God, the Mighty I AM Presence within you! Then too, you need not be ascetics, or recluses, accepting self-imposed disciplines such as the hair-shirt I once wore. This is a new and golden age of rapid advancement. Today you have the sacred knowledge of the violet transmuting flame, which is the pure Christ love of your God-self, changing all things into the natural purity of your own God nature and permanently charging them with our eternal love from God's heart. This is the overcoming victory and purity which has already overcome the world of discordant elements.
Overcoming, then, is an omnipotent gift from your own God Presence made in answer to your conscious calls for its help and aided by our assistance through the rising tide of the mighty cosmic light which itself is taking dominion over everything human and changing all into Ascended Master light substance, as light's victory gains momentum on this planet by leaps and bounds. Dear ones, on behalf of all men thank you for your calls, keep them up, the light of God never fails you know!
Though you may presently but dimly understand the real meaning of the deeper side of life, I ask you to shun those vague and vapory satisfactions men sometimes feel because they belong to the "chosen few" who will "certainly enter the kingdom" - in every age! Perceive instead the God-appointed unity of all hearts connected by that glorious golden thread of life which links every lifestream with its own source. Feel that bond of humility and divine gratitude similar to beloved Mother Mary's - which yearns with compassion only to see all men free, that rejoices at former earthy things left behind, and looks to the "prize" of divine mastery as revealed from your own mighty I AM Presence which will one day completely draw you into its own heart - that mighty lodestone of cosmic unity which is our common home, the common source whose gloriously uncommon light is the life of all men. There in oneness with us you will find your satisfactions in both perceiving and carrying out the divine plan - which intends every man, woman and child on this planet to be eternally God-free, in the victory of their own ascension in God's wonderful light!
Inasmuch as so many of you in the past have read between the lines of my words and have therefore intensified your diligence and devotion to the cause of light, I wish to tell you that I have noted and observed it on each occasion and I rejoice in your service in God's name! I am also ever so pleased at your efforts to improve your environment and surroundings. That too has been the intended victory of this age. Science was intended to be enjoyed and to give more comfort and leisure to men to pursue their eternal destiny - not worshiped as the end, but rather known as a means to help find a cosmic goal!
The American home and every home in every land is intended to be "sweet" because you make and keep it so! There is no substitute for a mother's and father's love - or for the milk of divine kindness! A "twinkle of mirth," a font of beauty and culture, all provide rich rewards which help to draw you closer to one another and closer into your personal orbit of divine destiny. We love surroundings of harmony, beauty and graciousness as do the blessed angels, so long as it is not accompanied by the conceit of the outer ego. Opulence is good, but let it be a divine opulence - equally flooding your world with balanced graciousness. Make your "home sweet homes" on earth focuses of Love's eternal home above. You can you know!
The body temple is likewise the "home of your soul" - which though sometimes "bone weary" from many cramping embodiments still reaches out like a lost child to its own God Presence with indescribable longings and travail, until it is at last set free in God-victory over all circumstance. The mind, too, should be a garnished abode swept free of old and dusty furnishings or of despondent thoughts and abounding instead with the architecture of constructivism - the fiat of the new age!
Now the home of your memory (your etheric body) should likewise be completely renovated, becoming far more noble than them all, embracing and holding the whole together in divine love - for therein is stored "whatsoever you presently think, have ever thought, whatsoever you now do or have ever done; now experience or have ever experienced." Only through the transmuting violet fire of freedom's love can you make it a home of love wherein God abides. Qualify your homes, then, only with love and you cannot fail - all will then be "home sweet homes of light." Dear hearts and gentle people, forget not to brighten the corner of earth or heaven where you are! Know that I love the old tune that says of "Old Ireland" (Our land) - "A little bit of heaven fell to earth one day" and I wish a great deal of the charm of my home in Darjeeling to fall from the hands of your very own God Presence right into your world now, making you happy, peaceful and diligent. Nothing can long deter you - may you therefore faithfully attain your own Christ victory as we have. Being free from earthly impediments and obscurities you will then in even a grander manner assist us in that marvelous service of "bringing home the sheaves" - which God has planted in such hope - with songs of eternal rejoicing!
May all the fire and inspiration of your own God Presence unite with all my love and the love of the entire Brotherhood at Darjeeling - whose credo is "I will" - to show to you the God-revealed inner knowledge of fohat (the sacred fire) which will make and keep you ever humble, ever grateful and constantly in tune with us, drawing forth then from God's own heart not only passports to heaven's home sweet home, but brightening each of your present days with the blessing of the sacred will of God which wants only to give to all its own magnificent perfection now made manifest!