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To My Blessed Who Love and Worship -
The present worldwide turbulence is in fact a general hypnotic condition, widespread by reason of advanced means of travel and communication. In the archives of history are to be found proportionately as many examples of tyranny as there are in the present day.
Let not your heart be troubled.1 The peace which I AM and which I yet give to my disciples is the direct opposite of the disturbed state. If individuals are to more quickly escape from the pull of every unhappy situation - personal, domestic, or so-called foreign - they must universally recognize the root causes underlying their unhappiness and then try to uproot these causes with our assistance and intercession.
I would point out that occasionally individuals without this understanding are found to be living in such a harmonious way solely from the inner Light of their own lifestreams as to naturally counteract the effects of mass unhappiness. Such as these are like self-luminous sunshine; they contribute much to mankind wherever they are and add to the general sense of worldwide well-being.
For the average person who is easily disturbed or basically controlled by his feelings, who is yet desirous of being a real student of Truth capable of understanding first principles, we recommend that he first endeavor to come to a realization of the truth of his own being. This will enable him to better understand the essential differences between people, at the same time perceiving the great common heritage which all have universally received from the Creator.
To this end, beloved Kuthumi and I in our role as World Teachers wish to make known the present purposes of the Brotherhood concerning mankind and those particular goals which every teacher or would-be teacher of spiritual truth ought to emphasize and exemplify to the best of his ability each day.
The familiar idiom "having an ax to grind" is reminiscent of the statement I made long ago in Judaea that every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.2 We of the Great White Brotherhood who have "clean escaped"3 from the wiles of the world and its control do not have personal axes to grind - neither from a political, a religious, nor a commercial vantage. Rather, we seek to outpicture in vibration those holy truths which from time immemorial have had the power to set men free.4
Now, if in the process of setting men free, the cosmic law in its great wisdom and discriminating intelligence sees the need to hew down the fruitless tree, then mankind should understand it as God's will for perfection in manifestation which always terminates in time and space all qualities which do not merit permanence. This will to perfection is always balanced against man's so-called free will, which brought the onus of imperfection into temporal manifestation in the first place.
Countless individuals visiting the religious shrines of the world, such as Lourdes, Fátima, and others (many of which were established by my blessed mother, Mary, for the hope and healing of men's hearts), have realized for the first time the awesome futility of life without God. The great influx of the magnetic attraction of the Divine has thrilled their souls with such an outpouring of light, such a sense of nearness to the Presence, as to flush out of the electronic structure of their flesh all the inharmonious patterns they had previously established through the misuse of free will. This has produced what mankind call a miracle but which I declare again to be simply the reestablishment of the Father's love - which never should have been usurped by human discord in the first place!
Today, when the lingering desire for recognition is fed and amplified by the human race but seldom understood (even by the psychologists who seem unable to justify their theories based on half-truths5), it becomes increasingly important that the distinction accorded one part of Life or the temporary extinction of another part of Life be likewise comprehended.
The Ascended Masters hold in common a sense of humility in recognizing themselves as omnipresent facets of the Godhead dedicated as One to the service of the All. As such they are always obedient to the cosmic intelligence of the Mighty I AM Presence in the Great Central Sun, yet humble and compassionate enough to respond to the heart calls of the most discordant or intemperate human on earth.
Every ascended being is likewise solicitous of every other ascended being, expressing kindness with Ascended Master gentility, which is quite unaffected and very natural to our estate. I tell you truly - in place of saying, "Oh, we're only human, you know!" you ought to declare more often: "Oh, we're really divine, you know!" and furthermore that you are likewise capable of expressing your own natural estate, which is the same as our own.
The mere wearing of flesh bodies does not change your Spirit! As the ancient Bhagavad-Gita declares, "Never the Spirit was born; the Spirit shall cease to be never; ... Death [mortality] hath not touched it at all, dead [extinct] though the house of it seems."6 Not, then, as bodies having appetites or unappeasable longings should men regard themselves, but rather as sparks of the Infinite, longing for reunion with the glory of the cosmic fires of Home.
Well do we know that our shores may seem very distant to mankind, formed and informed as they are in the mold of the human consciousness. But I am equally certain that the initial adventure of becoming embodied and losing the freedom of the Edenic world was likewise a cause of much inner longing for the return to Elysian comforts in the power and the glory of the kingdom.
Cathedrals have been built by countless hands and by the efforts of many hearts united in ordered service who never sought to carve their names on any stone and who were satisfied with the memorial: "To the glory of God, who is the All of us and more - all that we ever shall be and more!"
So much achievement today is sought for the forthcoming recognition. To do and to do with infinite care and skill is to worship in the doing. The first principle of achievement, then, as pertains to the individual path of self-mastery lies in active love and worship.
Wouldst thou create, endow, or ennoble life? Love and worship while you spin, weave, paint, sculpt, build, teach, heal, write, serve, play, and sing! Love and worship as you enjoy family relationships and heart ties with one another. Endow your life with love and worship as you expand the teachings of The Summit Lighthouse or other constructive endeavors; for then you shall be fitted to be temple masterbuilders,7 and I am certain the Temple of Life's Victory will be more speedily externalized.8
Becoming immersed in love and worship, you shall do as I have done and be as I AM - the Light of the world.9 Your individual 'lighthouses', patterned after the Summit, the highest of every man, shall make you beacon lights everywhere you move.10
Loving and worshiping in the bonds of peace, you shall increase your skill and care without tension. You build, then, not for name and fame but to externalize God. I am certain that none of you will take from the foregoing an excuse for callous indifference, withholding your praise of others. Praise amplifies and expands. Thus, while seeking no praise for yourself, continue to give it to others whenever and wherever it is deserved.
Thus, by law shall the love you send out return to you free from karma (and freeing you from karma). As a cosmic flame, ever welcome, ever Christ's consciousness in the universal spirit of one accord, this love gives all recognition to God, the Mighty I AM Presence.
By allowing the Presence to take full dominion in your life, you will experience an expansion of Christ consciousness equal to (and I hope greater than) that which manifested in me during my thirty-three years (and more) of focusing the sacred fire in the temple of my then-unascended body.
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[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]