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The fashion of a man, like the slowly changing evolution of the flowers and trees, will pass away, but the eternal verities of your own Holy Christ Self change not, remaining constantly anchored in the uplifting transcendence of your God Self. There is always a desire on the part of the students to advance and to make progress - and this is quite understandable to us. Yet we desire especially to point out that in the consciousness of the divine image you have already attained your victory! It is therefore the easiest and best way for you to recognize that you already possess all of God, do not need to wait for it, and have but to praise and bless into manifestation the full reality of your Divine Being!
Condemnation, which seems much in vogue among mankind, is the most dangerous practice imaginable. If I may speak plainly, dear ones, more harlots and more lepers were created by those who pointed their fingers in accusation at other harlots and other lepers in past ages than can ever be imagined. The moment a lifestream misuses energy, which is all God-given, to castigate some other part of life, they immediately attract to themselves the selfsame temptation that other individual was facing. It is true the mills of the gods sometimes grind slowly and therefore they do not always reap the immediate effects of their acts, but sometime they will. Often they may find that they lack even an equal strength in withstanding the specific temptation which the person they condemned faced and are therefore more wanton in error consciousness than even the one whom they condemned!
Numerous examples are found in the scriptures where seemingly dissolute or criminal figures seemed to center around the life of Jesus and find benefit thereby. There is the notorious figure of Dismas (the dying thief) to whom Jesus uttered the words of pardon, "Verily I say unto thee - today shalt thou be with me in paradise." Then there is the woman Magdalene, who became one of the chief lady disciples, and the Samaritan woman at the well, whose marriage status seemed questionable to the moral religionists of the day. All these found in Jesus solace, peace and friendship, attaining greater blessings than some of the self-righteous among mankind.
This poses the question to some as to whether morality has value. Here let me say firmly and clearly yes, but only value to the conscience of each lifestream as it is true to the leanings of divine guidance, and then secondarily to the conscience of its neighbor by its use of divine love and care so as not to knowingly cast a stumbling block in his pathway.
Yet, above all, it must stand out clearly that the development of each one's latent divinity is the purpose of life on earth, and does not or cannot include the authorized condemnation of others whose understanding and illumination may not be as great as the understanding the observing one has attained. Wise are they, therefore, who pray for the soul of all men, thus showing forth the divinity and friendship of Jesus for all, and never discriminate to condemn but only to personally avoid snares. The Ascended Masters feel that even the young disciple ought to be wise enough in Christ (the Light) to know that if God made all men by one spirit to a gloriously uncommon destiny - the ascension - then all ought to help one another to it, and never, no never in any wise, act so as to discourage or hurt any one of God's little ones, who are all knowingly or unknowingly seeking the path back Home.
My message, therefore, for the hour is in the name of the Cosmic Christ (in which capacity I long served) and in the name of the Buddha (the budding and unfolding divinity of ourselves) you shall elect to be a Christ in manifestation and love! Stay the restless energies that retaliate, the sharp word, the angry thought, the sense of personal injustice - for all this is vanity. Replace it by the fullness of that love which - sweeping aside prejudice and error - lifts, exalts, heals, serves and is Godlike in manifestation even as it is Godlike in consciousness.
I remain the standardbearer for the age,
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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