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The tall pines on the mountaintops speak of ruggedness, of endurance, of perennial freshness. When one of these is set apart on a gentler hill among "trees" of lesser stature it appears mightier still. In our octave we stand not in awe of one another as do mankind who hear of our wonderful exploits and powers. All the powers of the Ascended Masters will be given to mankind just as soon as they demonstrate to the cosmic law that they have learned the lesson of harmlessness!
However, as long as men and women seek to pulverize one another's ambitions in preference to cooperatively giving aid to one another, they cannot advance far! Like a cancer, they consume their own "life force" whenever they seek to harm one another either by deliberate acts of offense or the more static state standing idly by when able but willing to help one another by extending aid in God's name. Together, these, then, are the sins of omission and commission!
The lesson of the "Towel" taught by beloved Jesus to his disciples and occurring before the feast of the Passover (see John, Chapter 13, verses 4 to 17) was the best insurance to them that they should be like him! It serves an equally practical purpose to the present generation. The Darjeeling Council is well aware of the transcendent classes we can have with yet unascended beings right here in our retreat when we can get people to forget their pettiness, which often resembles little sharp bramble bushes at the foot of God's lovely trees, which themselves stretch hopeful arms of the Spirit toward their own Mighty I AM Presence radiant in the air above. As long as you hate "one of these my brethren" you are doing that hating to your own Christ Self and there is no power in the universe that can alter you spiritual accountability for this act!
I urge people everywhere to cease gnawing at one another's imperfections (even as rodents on cheese) and to settle down to the kind of behaviour which will move you into an orbit like our own where God dwells. Then, of course, your presence at our sacred conclaves will be most welcome! Otherwise, some of you would come at night when your physical body sleeps, with selfishness which is so dampening as to almost extinguish the radiance in our outer antechamber! After all, whether good or naughty, you are a part of God, and when you misuse his power it must be counteracted - which does require energy better used to heal the innocent!
I do not say you are any less welcome when you have problems, but I see no reason why I must continually repeat the same admonishments over and over concerning tolerance, patience, gossip, etc., to those would-be chelas - some of whom have know of us for years, but apparently have never really known us! Those who are yet real Buddhists, Christians or Mohammedans, ought never to behave so petulantly!
If you will all begin to do your work as though already Ascended Masters, I rather think you will find there is almost no limit as to where you can go with your spiritual attainment. I patiently await that day!
I AM the radiance of the day -
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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