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To My Own Who Seek the Powers of the Holy Ghost Lawfully -
An outlook to the future with the expectancy of a better tomorrow is the only hope that many people have. This is all well and good, providing their future does not manifest, through carelessness in the present, as a mere mirage on life's desert.
I am reminding all of the obligation Love keeps to the present through the vibratory action of your own God Presence. Your beloved I AM Presence is flooding your world daily - yea, even hourly - with a beautiful stream of God's consciousness blazing into your world through the silver cord which connects you with your own Divine Self, conveying to your heart and sacred centers (chakras) manifold blessings of the Light.
Blessed ones, today is yesterday's future. It is already here. You do not have to wait for it. This is Life - eternally present.
When I was a small boy playing and working in the carpenter shop at Nazareth, like many of the children in the neighborhood, I developed a real affection for the tools and equipment we used. I learned to take sweet delight in fashioning various objects suitable as gifts or household articles for the use of my dear mother or others in the spiritual community. By applying myself to carving wood or constructing purposeful items, I became quite skillful in the trade.
The point I would make is that no matter how engrossed I was in the action of mind and hands, how delighted my eye with the creation unfolding before me, I was always able to listen and to hear the hum of the universe and my heavenly Father's heartbeat, to feel the waves of his love sweeping into my being and then flooding back on the return current like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Much later, when the woman who needed healing and had searched everywhere for it without success touched the outer hem of my garment, my childhood meditation stood me in good stead; for I felt the instantaneous response to this pull on my life in the surge of God's consciousness which, like a charge of electricity, flowed from the heart center of my being into hers to give her immediate relief and complete healing.1
You see, the sensitivity of my soul was the means to keep me in tune with the Father's heart and to build up the charge of his great love and power in my body and sacred centers. So must all do who would be healers and comforters to Life - keep sensitive to God and oblivious to human hurt, and hold a sense of God's omnipresence as the only reality, when all around are concerned with the baubles and glitter of mere mortal intelligence, popular opinions, and human feelings that wax hot and cold.
The message of the Holy Christ Self does not bespeak condemnation, blessed ones. If sometimes you read into our messages what may seem to be a criticism of human qualities, bear in mind that we are essaying to develop in you Christ-discrimination whereby you can learn to choose the best and highest alternative, not by trial and error but by attunement with the will of God. You must be God-taught what is right and wrong in order to claim victoriously as God's children your rightful heritage - a culture of the Spirit where you can make right choices because you have learned to distinguish between what is constructive and what is destructive to your divine plan, what is helpful to the soul's re-creative process and what is distressful and detrimental to the immediate or future endeavor.
None really know what the meaning of Pandora's box is until they see that all pain and sorrow were released upon mankind when people began to regard life as an admixture of good and evil.
Holy innocence, dear hearts, was never the state of being naive or gullible; otherwise, God himself would be considered to be so. Rather, holy innocence is and always will be the outpicturing of the Christ Mind in the soul's search for the fullest expansion of the infinite Mind of God. This is the rapture of real Being! Innocence is the inner sense of the little child, one with the Spirit of God.
In order to accomplish the `outpicturing' of the Christ Mind, one must translate the stream of messages from the infinite Mind and Heart of God into practical action in one's daily affairs. This requires attunement - the inner sense of right and wrong, i.e., 'innocence' - and discrimination, another faculty of innocence which is the wisdom to choose by the inner standard of the Christos: "This, not that."
If you will assiduously exercise attunement with your I AM Presence and discrimination through your Christ Self, you will increase your inner sense of the divine will as well as your discernment of what is right or wrong for you as you follow the path of the ministering servant.
The goal of your striving, blessed heart, is that the song of the Holy Spirit proclaim its message of goodness and ever-unfolding joy to the world through your own sacred labor, so that through your effort many may be freed from the power of misqualified energy and from a distorted viewpoint of everything and everybody - much of which has been brought about through dabbling in the shadowed forces of psychic phenomena and the introversions of psychoanalysis without benefit of Ascended Master guidance.
Those who have entered the heart of Christ and been assumed unto the I AM Presence through self-identification with that God Self in the ritual of the ascension - we who are the Ascended Masters - are the most qualified teachers available to illumine the mind and heart of those whose goal is reunion with God and who are determined to achieve it by attunement and discrimination applied to the path of Love.
Blessed ones, holy innocence is that state of listening grace referred to by my magnificent colleague Kuthumi in his last release. It is a state to which men are happy to return even as they are happy to be free of their outworn earthly perspective of persons, places, conditions, and things. This freedom is true holy innocence and the pure quality of God's own mind.
This state cannot be compared to that of an ostrich with its head in the sand or a condition of naivete; but if it could, then I should hope that more people would become so! You see, I well know of the existence of scribes, hypocrites, and Pharisees - having had my share of dealing with them through the centuries - whose malice aforethought was surely the antithesis of holy innocence. They would have made far less karma had they been more naive than evil. But such was not the case.
Blessed ones, all of this yet remains in the human octave; therefore I must remind you again that when you are busybodying, discussing people from the critical human viewpoint, analyzing their motives and conduct from some superior chair,2 predicting what they will or will not do under a given set of circumstances, deploring their mistakes, et cetera, you are certainly not very able to find time to be really happy!
If, however, you do find happiness in deprecating others, I tell you quite frankly, it is but a carrion appetite which mankind develop through gossip momentums and by going against nature in lusting after exotic or occult satisfactions which are far from the Christlike path.
The nature of God's Spirit, of the angelic hosts and the Ascended Masters and cosmic beings, is the true image and inner pattern in which every living soul embodied upon earth was originally created. This lovely image is your own God Self and, as your God Self, it is the most powerful magnet to raise you to the plane of your Real Self and to draw you toward heaven's exalted purposes which can be fulfilled on earth right now, today, as the most transcendent goal of all eternity.
I know that the whole world is aware of the so-called shadow of death, yet most all seem to find comfort in the Psalm of David, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me."3 Blessed ones, to live daily in the Thou-art-with-me consciousness is to live in the certain knowledge that your own Mighty I AM Presence is walking right within you and helping you to do the perfect thing always.
Oh, I know the human inclination well. It wants you to be angry, to say sharp things, to be exalted because of the virtue you have already externalized or the skills you have developed - yes, and for many other subtle reasons which make people strut like peacocks with their human pride! And then later, by the law of the circle, they meet face to face the energy they have so misqualified. This is the round of human karma from which I AM able to deliver you.
How many of my readers and auditors can see that this message is for you today? How many of you can see that it is not intended merely to tickle your ears or cause you to have a false sense of security so that you will not know your own God Presence when he cometh? The Holy Christ Self is the bridegroom indeed, and the marriage feast is the communion by the Sacred Heart with all similarly exalted hearts of Light.4
The imminence of that hour, which is portrayed in my parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins,5 is intended to keep people alert to initiation and awake through the inner sense of Life, so as to watch with their own Holy Christ Self every hour. It is our intent that through the Corona Class Lessons you will learn to build two ways: one, through creating good karma by doing good works; the other, by keeping the heart flame blazing through steadfast attunement with, and dynamic decrees to, the great God Source, our beloved Father.
By humility and steadfastness of purpose, through thinking faith, hope, love, and God (Good), you will soon begin to outpicture in greater measure the things of the Spirit upon which your heart meditates and dwells. You will not long remain a helpless introvert dwelling in a world withdrawn from reality; neither will you be a callous, selfish extrovert dwelling in the surface foam of life. Instead, you will be balanced, capable of reaching up mind and heart to God and yet with love and tenderness able to reach down with helping hands, free of pride, to your brothers and sisters yet in a state of bondage.
Herein lies the failure of most religious activities in the present age. The sobering message from my blessed mother, Mary, which was released at Fátima (to be opened in 1960 in Rome), concerning the failure of Christianity to espouse the motto "I AM my brother's keeper," was her response to that condemnation heaped upon condemnation by those corrupt ones in Church and State who walked in shadow. And, to a far less degree, it was her rebuke to the credulous who succumbed to the tactics of the brothers of the shadow due to their lack of holy innocence.6 For holy innocence is the natural immunization of believers against the wiles of serpents who have invaded the religious societies of the world.
Religion in some quarters has become an accomplishment of pride wherein some men look coldly upon others as fallen ones and, like the Pharisees of old, call out in prayer, "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men!"7
The need, then, for the innocence of noncondemnation8 is so apparent and almost pitiful that I hope many who do not have it will be led into acquiring the true and right perspective which I gave to my disciples, quoted in the scriptures as "The Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."9
All condemnation is of the destroyer and not of me or my own. It is anti-Christ in that it moves against the delicate developing soul and its internalization of the Christ consciousness through its native holy innocence. The Satanic source of condemnation is not innocent but malicious in its murderous intent, cunning to destroy hope, honest effort, and the zeal to overcome one's shortcomings on the road to self-perfection.
Ministering servants, I send you forth in the name of God as Sons of Light to deliver my children from the wiles of Serpent; therefore remember your calling, "for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."10
It has often been said that the greatest men are the most humble, that the best contacts are to be had not with minor officials, puffed up in self-importance, but with the highest representatives of a company or government, who have a broader world view. This has often proven true. Thus, be ever magnanimous and shun rigidity and intolerance.
Teach men the way of the Christ so that through communion with the Holy Spirit they may go out and acquire the power to heal, the power to open the blinded eyes, the power to cast out demons of misqualified energy (which have returned to their sender and bound him), the power to command the elements and the forces of Nature, and, above all, the power to ascend while affirming to all men, even as I did: Lo, I AM with you alway, even unto the end of the (Piscean) age (the age when your karma shall be outplayed and fully balanced if you will it so)!11
O beloved ones, all mysteries shall be revealed unto the humble who are truly meek, who fear not, knowing they shall inherit not only the earth12 but also the kingdom of spiritual power to exercise dominion over all the creation. You see, when the Father calls, "Come up higher"; when the Father beholds your true inner compassion, your longing which is only for God-victory over human causes and effects; when the Father sees the vital, absolutely determined intent of your heart to be one with your Holy Christ Self and Mighty God Presence I AM, then I do not think it shall be long in coming! I know it was not for me.
Whom God loveth he sometimes chasteneth,13 but he will never allow or give you to bear more than you are able. By preserving everlasting glory through serving God's name I AM, you yourself will find the hidden meaning of the words of my own beloved Teacher: "He who loseth himself (the life of the lesser self) for my sake shall find himself (the Life of his Higher Self) again."
Did I not once declare that he who seeks to save his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for my sake (letting go of, i.e., 'loosing', the human tendencies for the sake of the Light) shall find his true Life again (in the renewing of spiritual momentums)?14 This meaning should now become clear to all.
The Life men claim by free will, the Life they selfishly grasp and hold on to with clenched fists, is already lost through misqualification. The Life which the personal consciousness of each one releases and sets free to obey the loving fiats of his own blessed God Self shall return to the giver - the blessed one who has learned at last the first principle and lesson of God:
It is more blessed to give than to receive.15
These have understood the character of our Father who art in heaven. Such I call "brother." Together let us scale the stars, God's radiant orbs of twinkling hope, love, and Life - his many mansions!16
Thank you for your attention upon my words. It has enabled me to give you my Christmas gift - the gift of my own Self ...
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[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]