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The pursuit of knowledge is carried on ever so often for mere sundry human reasons bordering on vanity - but the sincere student of Ascended-Master Light is solely interested in seeing the Light of the soul expand and be the luminosity of God (Good) Himself, so that the higher vibratory action of the divine principle does penetrate through the maze of human concepts, misconcepts and tiresome vacillations, to find an anchor point for peace, straight knowledge and truth which cannot help but achieve more of the divine purpose.
It must be recognized by the aspirant, regardless of his or her advancement or supposed position in spiritual development, that through years of physical embodiment wherein wrong patterns of thought have been developed and strengthened through practice, illusions have often been created or sustained by individuals simply because of faults builded into the human instrument itself. It can be shown by the grinding of an optical lens that if distortion is created by poor workmanship it is likely to result in faulty visionary perception by the user, unless such a person will continually use the discriminatory powers of the inner nature to see that the glass itself is at fault and needs adjustment or correction.
Now, many illusions serve to divide the world, to prevent happiness from flooding the minds and hearts of individuals with God awareness simply through "seeing" the pain and unhappiness which, for example, the original mass hysteria of the West has produced. In a world of incredible materialism where rockets and candy occupy the desire mind of millions, there is little room for the pursuit of quiet meditation upon God or little time to assess future possibilities if the Presence of God be dynamically called into action to transmute and change human error into Light.
The "illusion of time" shall occupy a portion of my first discourse on the illusions and travesties of the present age. Time is but the mainspring of eternity unwinding an infinite power, a tiny portion of which touches each lifestream. It is the awareness of this unwinding that makes for a comprehensive chain of experiences or sequences which compose ordinary or natural life. In drama these are composed of acts and scenes - in life they are hours, days and years. Sleep claims a necessary portion of life's allotted moments while economics (for most people) makes giant inroads into the balance. Travel consumes most of the remaining with but a pittance left for each individual to use as they say "for themselves"! Much of this is spent on amusement or seeking to be amused. Of late this Western habit has spread almost maddeningly to the Orient and so the whole world lies heavily bemused by pleasure seeking.
The city of God - the universe of God - the plan of the Eternal Father is a reality whose scope is usually unknown, unperceived and unheard of by the average lifestream except through nebulous and vague religious ideas. So hypnotic have the race habits become that individuals declare with conviction they have no time to study the laws of God - no time to master the thoughts and feelings, no time to pursue the spiritual, fearing that in its pursuit they may find no reward at the end. Thus they prefer to eat, drink and be merry while they live in neglect of the spiritual. This is dangerous "mania" of the age and it is to precisely to the erasing of this misconception that men must dedicate themselves if they will truly become the masters of their destiny which God intends them to be.
Perceive then how wrong human thought is. All religion which men do easily accept teaches that heaven and God are common goals to be earnestly sought. If heaven is then a glorious goal, it should be the first and foremost objective of all. Therefore, Heaven - or a state of oneness with the Mind of God now - is to be preferred above all human entanglements, pleasant or otherwise. If it is to be preferred, then all must conclude that pursuit of just earthly pleasures is in itself but a lesser role and somewhat a waste of "time!" Now, faith is God's gift - to be diligently sought. It is the needed panacea for both East and West! It creates a climate of ease where men become quite naturally God-centered in all that they do.
Men gladly exchange old lamps for new simply because they give more light, and outworn devices of human thought - shadowy illusions - regardless of their popularity among the mankind of earth, must be exchanged for the greater light, which is the only means whereby escape from human thralldom can become a reality - the only means whereby the illumination of the Christ spirit can truly endow men with contact with their Higher Self, until by complete identification with that God Self the individual can flower spiritually in the full manifestation of spiritual mastership which God intends.
The illusions of "time" are many. There is the illusion of age - it often declares, "You are too young. Wait until you are older to seek God." There is another cry - "You are too old and it is too late. Wait and perhaps God will be merciful and even give you that which you do not deserve," for you would never give "time" to it.
Then there are the calls of family and earthly possessions. One human call, which compels the seeking of ties where none exist - is the illusion of loneliness. Another calls for the sustaining of human values even at the cost of losing spiritual standards. The call for material possessions is also a very deceptive illusion of "time." It demands that you seek to possess ... another compels the attention on all that which is already the possession of the seeker - so much so that one can often truly say the possessions are the possessor of that one's soul. And there are others ...
The cure for all lies in divine illumination. This must be diligently sought. To some, this illumination seems to come easily and go just as easily under the heat of pressure (this is the seed on stony ground of which Jesus spoke - for it has no roots). To others, illumination is slow and tedious, yet these often prize the gift more. But to all, true illumination is an absolute necessity if the soul is to prosper and expand. Those who venerate meditation, who insist on time to give to prayer and study, who insist on time to give to aid and assist one another in the various by-ways of life, are not so far from our Way.
Everything is so right about enjoying divine friendship, all is right about enjoying nature and the unfolding wonders of life, for all is good - all is God. Uniting with universal consciousness brings only humility and diligence, which multiplies spiritual fruit with almost miraculous speed. Even the proverbial "slowness" of the Orient is then vested with almost instantaneous manifestation by the power of God when faithfully invoked and called into action. The rash, sometimes hectic, vacillations of the West are desperately effective in preventing a manifestation of the very miracles of grace which would forever make vacillation itself unnecessary. Human probing into divine processes which are not always fully understood by all seekers equally can easily make a betrayer out of those whose human reactions will not let them freely accept the Christ-intelligence, whose love-wisdom - given time enough - would have healed the very wounds that compel their doubts. To all illusions we say - let us write "Finis" - but do not destroy the fabric of the soul upon which God may inscribe illumination and peace. By Gautama's "middle way" preserve your balance until, wholly God-centered, nothing can upset you!
Illumine Self for God, keep humble before advancing spiritual stations and always prefer good to evil. Then shall life's illusions be dispelled one by one and the reality of eternity, the happiness found only in God, shall be known as the only permanent happiness for both East and West! Hurrah for the good life - this the spoilers who constantly walk among men to hurt and deceive simply cannot spoil!
This instruction comes to you through the loving courtesy of the Ascended Masters' Darjeeling, India, Council of God's will, of which all the ascended host are members.
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