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You Who Will Behold God in the Tabernacle of Your own Being:
"Whither goest thou in thy understanding" is the challenge I fling in the teeth of all those who utter the words "I AM" without understanding their meaning. For all who understand the Power and the Glory that is released through the words "I AM" must of necessity identify themselves with the Reality of God. Such cannot be content to walk with a bold back, holding down their brethren through a sense of personal shame and releasing the insipid idea that they are mere worms of human creation.
Blessed Ones, every one is appreciated by God, for He created all and predestined all to receive the highest awards. Yet, man has not understood that these awards must come through merit and that the uttering of ideological, philosophical, and spiritual concepts has been such in the past as to cloud the Divine Intent from the Mind of Man.
Now then, as We reason together in a spiritual way, let Us understand that the burden of God is Light. Let us understand that LIGHT IS UNDERSTANDING and that spiritual understanding makes it possible for Harmony to manifest the fulness of the Divine Ideal wherever there is a manifestation of God self-acknowledged.
The avenue of Man's Becoming is a two-way street; for God "in the beginning" acknowledged the Divinity of Man, declaring that it was "very good." But Man has not always acknowledged the Divinity of God. Many have doubted the existence of God, Who is their own Life. Many have questioned in an agnostic way as to whether or not the reality of God did exist. I AM certain that no wondrous form of contentment has come through either of these human concepts.
The Great Miracle that is LIFE cannot be denied by vain and insipid human reason - and I do not desire to cast aside the word, "miracle," for I think I understand the greater meaning of the word. There is a relationship here to the word "mirror" and the word may be broken down to read "mirror-aclear" which means that when mankind have a sense of the miraculous as it relates to their own Divinity, they are mirroring or reflecting clearly the wonders of the Divine Intent - at least in aspiration if not in full manifestation.
Far too long have mankind hidden behind the bush of a vain theology. I know full well that the vicarious atonement seems a most necessary and comforting belief to those who are downtrodden and fear that they themselves may lack some virtue. But if the inherent virtue of the Image of God, stamped within every human soul, is to be acknowledged, it merely remains a matter of time, as a constant in the link of Man's eternal Being, for the individual to externalize his own Cosmic Virtue and to assist others in the unfolding of their own latent Divinity.
I know something about sacrifice and I think others of the Ascended Masters do as well, for down through the centuries We have all offered Our all in the service of the Great Light, and I might add a plus factor (if it were possible) of more than Our all as We have attained higher states of Consciousness. Therefore, I do not deny for one moment the magnificent manifestation, dedication, and offering of the Ascended Master Jesus or any other Avatar on behalf of mankind's enlightenment and in the defense of Truth. What I AM affirming is the great necessity for individuals themselves to behold God in the tabernacle of their own Being, and then to fashion their lives in accordance with the Design of the Great Master Builder, not only through the reinforcement of the Divine Intent within them, but also through the reinforcement of their own personal externalized intent to do the Will of God.
There is no harm nor wrong done for any individual to stand in imitation of an Ascended Being; no one need with shamed face utter the words of The Christ spoken as He descended into physical embodiment, "Lo, I AM come to do Thy Will O God." It is time men shed the concept of shame in holy matters of Divine seeking; and, it is time that they permit the righteous shame of their own record of lack of faith to spur them on to move into the arena of Divine Ideals and service, and that speedily!
Let Me make clear, I hold no condemnation for aught but remain full of Hope that God's Will be done in all.