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Apply the Law of Cycles and Be Free!
Nothing is so vital to man's steady progress toward his ascension as the establishment of good habits. These serve to sustain the power of righteousness within the orbit of each one's personal world.
In Nature, the power of habit is the innate quality of each specific manifestation. In man and society, the power of habit sustains either a benign or an unhappy status.
I am wholly persuaded by the direct vision of divine reality that the Godhead sustains the quality of perfection everywhere and that the immaculate concept is a direct extension of the fullness of immortal Love expanding itself into all manifestation.
The diversification of Love in Nature manifests as a multitude of different trees and shrubs, flowers and grasses whose variety is pleasing to the eye and inner sensitivities. By a like token, the unique quality of an individual mission (though in some ways similar to others) is the gift of the Spirit to each lifestream. This he learns to develop by the power of good habits and by the wisdom of those inner realizations which constitute a revelation from the heart of the I AM Presence.
The scientific factor which governs the establishment of habits is as plain and simple as the sand and the sky. Consent and repetition are prime factors in establishing both negative and positive habits. Denial and abstention are the means of breaking negative habits.
The attention must not be placed on the unwanted condition and no battle must be engaged. Such attention stirs up the dust of emotional energies which tend to strengthen negation while opposing it, rather than successfully eliminating and transmuting the undesirable habit. With the consent of free will, reducing the frequency of indulgence in bad habits, when accomplished by an orderly and painless withdrawal, weakens the conditioned responses of the subconscious mind. Thus, self-restraint is of real assistance in thwarting the perpetuation of wrong living.
The rejection of unwanted habits must come about as the result of the soul's expansion into the divine sense of being God in action, and not as a militancy which drives the untoward desires of man into subterranean catacombs of consciousness, one day to crop out as illness or festering frustration. The best way to reject human qualities is to simply forget them through the substitution of Christlike opposites. Such a method is spiritually scientific, for it flows with the rising currents of divinity expanding from the heart of man and drawing him upward to the universal Christ consciousness.
It is invaluable for the chela to pause and consider some of the wonderful yet basic seed ideas of Truth. These you will prove with ease to be God-ideas that can be expanded until the whole self, rising with them, is exalted into the all-knowing, comfortable Mind of Christ.
I know of no more blessed experience that can come to anyone during the Christmas season (or at any time of the individual rebirth of the Christ consciousness throughout the year) than the spirit's awakening to the realization that the universe, like a sheltering mother, holds in contemplative wonder his own blessed being. Her boundless love desires to see the living Christ stretch his tiny limbs within the manger crib of limited human consciousness and expand to reach for the skies at last, beaming as the star of Bethlehem with peace and good will to every divine manifestation, saying with the angelic hosts in tones of purest love: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!"
The Christ, as the infant Messiah within men's hearts, cannot long remain a babe but must expand and rise to fulfill the divine destiny and mission Life demands. The sin-sick world of social disorder with its accompanying poverty, pestilence, war, and plundering energies - the personal world with its psychic and emotional illnesses, its fears and frustrations - must yield to the idea of God embodied in the Manchild. For He shall rule the nations with a rod of iron1 and dash in pieces2 the limited and limiting human creations which have never brought freedom or peace to the waiting hearts of men.
How shall the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our LORD and of his Christ,3 blessed ones? It is the powerful precept of heaven that only by the personal acceptance of each individual - his believing in the Christ-reality of himself ("Man, know thy Self"4) - can salvation (Self-elevation, i.e., the elevation of the Divine Self) occur.
When out from the masses the Great Light brings many sons and daughters to the stature of Christhood, the social order will give way to peace and abundance on earth. God cannot fail to produce that peace and plenty wherever his law and love are called into action by the Christed (anointed) ones.
Men cannot expect, if they sink back into lethargy and unconcern, that they will automatically find grace. Grace is given to the meek who seek first the kingdom (consciousness) of God and His righteousness (scientific application of the Law), which they know the all-loving Father has put into action for their use and usefulness unto Him.
Such as these do not bury their one or many talents in a napkin of disservice or discouragement. Rather, they daily gird their energies around them (concentrate their light in the chakras) as a belt of chastity (sacred power) and victory. Centered in the Christ Self, their own High Priest, in the place of the Holy of Holies, they call for their soul's purification by the essence of God's heart. They count on the answer of immortal Life to the call of their lifestream. And they go forth victoriously with the tread of mighty conquerors, lords of life and victors over human destiny, putting death and hell beneath their feet through the omnipotence of divine Love.
Consider the beautiful flame of Life in the ever-green trees whose lightness and verdure are perennially lovely! Think upon the wonderful angel devas and elemental spirits guarding and blessing God's precious children upon the highways and byways of Nature. Revel in Godly happiness in the cloud shapes drifting effortlessly through the skies above the treetops.
Love the aureole of the dawn becoming the radiance of the solar path, announcing the journey of the Sun of man out of the East unto the West.5 Let the hours of dawn and noonday speak to your heart of hope and prayer activating all Good. Move with the gold of the western sky hushing into even as an Angelus of Christ-peace, resting like a mantle of deeds well done (accomplished in God's name I AM) upon the villages, the hamlets, the spires of city and country as upon the aspirations of the tender hearts of men everywhere.
Go forth daily in the name of God as a sower of good seed, saturated anew with the bounties of heaven. Let love prevail by the power of new habits of thought and feeling which make it easy for you to forget the rugged past. Gaze with childlike eyes into the mighty accumulation of Good without limit that is the universe in action.
Of all this, say to yourself: I AM apart from manifestation, for I AM the all of God - the allness of God, the wholeness of God. The I AM is my Father, and the I AM and I are one!6
So do thou establish the habit of Christhood, of the divinely Good Samaritan, of the Great Shepherd of the sheep, the victorious Son of God.
[Taken from the book version Corona Class Lessons]