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To All Who Would Meet the Challenges of the Immortal Cycles -
Greetings of the New Year from Shamballa!
The joy and beauty of forever is made manifest in the ever-present now. The dawn of cosmic reason comes in full-blown majesty to the individual monad but it has always existed within the heart of the Infinite. Comprehension, then, is to partake in Holy Communion at the altar of God of the nectar of spiritual illumination.
The many have sought in past ages and in the present era for greater illumination in the fields of material science and in the realms of spiritual understanding. But we cannot justly impute fault to the universal consciousness of Love and the essence of spiritual creativity for the lack of manifest attainment in the strongholds of time and outer consciousness; for the outer consciousness of man is but a reflection in part of that measure of heaven's reality which he has properly understood and evaluated.
As the cream rises in the vessel to the top, there to be skimmed off as the richness of the whole milk, so the virtuous and wise of every generation find themselves in the graduating segment of spiritual attainment at the top of their own class, seldom fully recognized in their time and little understood by their contemporaries by reason of men's accent on material achievement and finite habits, whose pursuit has brought the vanity of amusement and temporary pleasures without the benefit of stored spiritual treasure.
Now, in our New Year offering, we would not give one whit of condemnation to mankind; for the infinite ocean of God's peace is scarcely disturbed by the pinch of dust flecked upon the water's edge and the accompanying ripples which appear as mountain waves of confusion to the gnats infesting the borders of infinity - near the shoreline where mankind's castles in sand seem so monumental to the children of men.
Again, with a burst of the cosmic cycle at the gateway of a new year, we stand to offer our counsel and advice. We can make no radical departure from the normal patterns released in previous years until the masses of mankind, or at least a truly token symbol thereof, shall alter the karmic balance of the earth in such a manner as to warrant new dispensations of divine grace for and on behalf of mankind.
The Lord hath appointed indeed the bounds of man's habitation,1 and the lines are clearly marked. The guardian hands of immortal spirits who have followed with adoration, with love, and with service the Father's every thought continue to stand in willingness to wield all spiritual power given in heaven and earth for and on behalf of contemporary man. They stand ready to remove self-appointed barriers from before men's pathways and to extend newness of life into every domain, outer and inner as well, whensoever the blessed record can be clearly marked "Merited."
Yet, often as an act of universal love, these blessed beings in humility have cast before the minds of men the pure and holy substance of the illustrious inner domains in the secret but conclusive hope that ultimately, if not presently, an awakening will come to mankind, universally and individually. Thereby they shall stir themselves from the vain lethargies of the senses and the sleep of centuries to arise with renewed hope and vigor to face the challenges of the immortal cycles. Even now these are made visible in part, but they await the prompting of the Great Ones to remove the veil and lift the curtain still higher with the advance of the rising spirals.
Now, we shall continue to offer the radiant hopes which have already become the fulfillment of all our dreams to you who dream a little as you sleep - as the gods are wont to do - but who are unfortunately in the main subjected to the ancient songs of the Lorelei (those sirens of the senses which lure men into a state of entrapment whereby the overimportance of their own human egos is dangled before them upon the thread of life as a bauble is held in the hands of an exploiter before savage eyes not yet illumined with the light of discrimination and knowledge).
We advocate, then, a continuation of the flow of divine knowledge into the world of form for all mankind. Let knowledge flow forth; but let it not be for the mere sharpening of human wit or the intellect or used as an irresistible force arrayed against an immovable object, but rather let the softened lines of mercy and compassion, together with understanding, be held as olive branches in the hand, even as the arrows of protection and aspiration are readied to make their mark upon both finite and infinite panoramas.
The subtleties of life often snare men just short of their full measure of attainment and divert them back into the sloughs of vain glory-seeking and confusion. Let all know, then, that those whom God loveth he often chasteneth.2 His chastening is but for the pruning and perfectionment of every aspirant. For he crumbles the towers of human vanity and perfects the saints through winnowing the grain of man's creation and testing in the crucible of life its fitness to be used in the manna for all. Each one receives these disciplines in that full measure to which he is entitled in the craft of divine Sonship.
When nearing the goal of attainment, men are often subjected to more than ordinary pressures; the stress and strain of their beings are under constant testing in preparation for subjection to the highest forms of spiritual initiation. Unfortunately, at the very time of testing (temptation), often the most deleterious aspects of their own egos may, as wily serpents, raise their ugly heads and strike with the poisonous tongue of an adder directly at the guardians of God's holy energies. While we are accustomed to this dilemma and would know how to cope with it ourselves, it is often true that the innocent and inexperienced chelas upon the planet do suffer as the result of the lashing out of uncontrolled and impersonally misqualified energies in themselves and even in the beings of the very devotees who represent us.
I implore all, then, in the light of the fount of holy wisdom, to hold in check those unregenerate impulses which are lacking in nobility and honor and to restrain the idle word and senseless wanderings in the graves of human self-deceit and confusion from which you have already escaped. I advocate a continual raising of the standards upon earth as well as the raising of spiritual banners.
I advocate universal understanding between men of goodwill over all the planetary body, and I foster and nourish the shield of empathy which does not wallow in the folly of sentiment or vain human sympathy. Simply because an individual may yet abide in the deceits from which you have escaped does not mean that you should identify with that one to the point of excusing his defection from justice and truth, but rather should you, in the full measure of divine grace and understanding, extend to him a helping hand out of the barrenness of human concepts into the exalted vision of the Son of God.
The Brotherhood of Light determines once again with the impetus of the new year to evoke a steadfastness in all who continue to serve the plan, replacing a wavering sense of cosmic righteousness with a fervent discipline which does not brook human interference and with a staunch defense of the justice of karmic recall which, in bringing to mankind the understanding of the need of redemption for previous acts, seeks to give them eternal liberation and the purity of the divine concept. Man must come to realize that the Godhead is not limited in his acts of grace to extend holy virtue into the matrix of man's own individuality as an extension of progressive revelation whereby the power of man's ability to understand the Divine is enhanced with each succeeding generation and each trek around the cosmic cycles of the eternal spiral.
Bear well in mind that all imbalance must be corrected, that all dissonance must be adjusted to the vibratory action of the music of the spheres, that sweetness of disposition must replace the belching monsters of the dying beasts of materiality whose tails lash out dragonlike to destroy the perfect image before its establishment in man's consciousness and person. The human spinal axis with its tilt must also be straightened so that it is kept perpendicular to the plane of the ellipse; thus the revolving, evolving, and involving spheres of being will be free from the masquerade of shadow to express the unstained whiteness of the Eternal Sun.
I AM radiating unto all my flame of immortal peace.