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Most Gracious Men and Women of Science and Religion:
Midst the struggles of the appearance world, the great Power of Change that "maketh all things new," pierces the mayic gloom and makes men aware that their will is catalystic and must therefore be harnessed in greater understanding to the yoke of the Godhead in all of its flaming Reality.
The advent in this century of unparalleled scientific progress has caused many to turn to materialism for solutions to problems formerly sought upon the altar of God. Others, even men of science, have turned toward the ancient pinnacles of religion for the sacred key to Man's God Destiny.
Now, the birth of science did not occur, as some think, through man's outer search for the causes behind appearances of Nature; on the contrary, it originated within the very central idea of Man's true Divinity. Hence, science was born of God, not of human reason and experiment, and, in a very real sense, scientific research is a reflection of Man's spiritual search. Thus, science and religion were designed in the beginning to serve Man in a twofold manner to pave the best way of Life for all.
It would be a grave error to abandon the researches of science and to ignore the need for control and reform of the physical world in a completely withdrawn thrust for spirituality. But it would be even of worse consequence if mankind were to completely abandon the Mighty Spiritual Powers of Life and the Great Source of all Being and Form for the emptiness of a material empire, devoid of God Reality, whose origin and destiny, with all of its complexities, can never in all Eternity be known.
Inasmuch, then, as something cannot be born of nothing, nihilism is not to be desired. Men must turn in a vital manner toward Being and wrap their right arms around the very hilt of conscious Being as BEING manifests the Two-Edged Sword of the balanced understanding of Science and Religion for and on behalf of God and Man!
The ancient rites of the Mosaic Code, pertainng to the requirement of a blood sacrifice, have no place in Divine Reality or in the Christian mysteries and the drama of the coming Christ. The use of the term, "blood," in this connection is the symbol for regenerate Life which relates to the release by Heaven of the Energy supplying Life and Consciousness to Man. It also refers to consecration in the employment of God's Holy Laws which does elevate experience above the commonplace to the state of regeneration noted in the Parable of the Prodigal Son wherein consciousness is prepared to be received into the Golden Circle of Blessing and Illumination (Luke 15:11-32).
The Judaeo-Christian tradition, which seeks to find in the scapegoat concept a vicarious atonement, is based largely on human misunderstanding of Heaven's Laws; for, in Truth, every man shall bear his own (karmic) burden. Yet, all should bear one another's burdens in brotherly kindness and compassion, as Christed Beings, freely outpouring upon the less illumined, the balm of the true understanding of God's infinite Mercy.
Material science holds only the barren immensity of a cosmos Man can only hope to dimly grasp. This is depicted in the wilderness wanderings of the children of Israel, whereas the "Promised Land," flowing with milk and honey, is the purity and sweetness of spirituality which imparts to all the hope of conscious communion with the Eternal Cycles, whereby the Cosmic Purposes of Life become revealed, not in a humanly fashioned doctrine or eschatology, but in a universal tone of continuity. The Law of the Eternal Cycles is hung upon the Great Cross of God and Man (the vertical bar signifying God; the horizontal, Man) who will one day be revealed to all in the words of the Roman centurion, "Truly this was the Son of God." So goes Our hope for each one!
Blessed Ones, the Rose of Sharon, the rose that blooms in the desert of matter, whose perfumed essence is indeed a bit of Heaven borne to Earth, is symbolical of the hidden Christ Nature ensconced within the Heart of every Man as the Sacred Threefold Flame of blazing Love, Light and Power; triune in aspect as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, this Inner Light reveals the Power to do right as manifest in all of mankind's constructive endeavors of the past. Although a thrust toward intellectual supremacy is apparent in mankind's present attempt to educate all men according to the current trends, based on studies of mankind's physical and mental development, it must be realized that the greatest force in the world today is not intellectualism at all, but Charity, Whose Pink Flame of Divine Love shews forth understanding of all that which ever has been and is. KNOW, THEN, THAT THAT WHICH SHALL BE WILL TRANSCEND ALL THAT HAS BEEN OR THAT IS.
Men of Good Will! You who seek no scapegoat to carry away the remnants of your own errors - be it through science or religion, STAND lovingly in a receptive attitude toward God and CALL forth by invocation and purity of purpose the dawn and expansion of the Mighty Christ Light of the World that shall banish the darkness of ignorance and usher in, to all who will receive it, the overcoming Power of the Realm of Victory.