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Seekers after the Mysteries of God's Heart:
To wave the banner of freedom over the world requires a sustained effort; yet wherever you are, when your heart beats in adoration to God and in attunement with his purposes, there is a connection, a strand of great light between your world and the world of divine freedom. The flow of divine energy over this cable is buoyant and all-knowing. The mysteries God seeks to convey to the minds of men are the mysteries of his heart that embody certain freedom for each lifestream.
To mortal consciousness, with its latent and developing sense of soul, the voice of God is often heard as a whisper within the round-tower of man's heart. The clash and clamor of the world are intended to drown out the voice of God and to make his words seem uncertain and vague.
I cannot stress enough, then, that the hours of waking consciousness are like diamond sparkling strands of holy radiance, and they should be used as links to the Infinite. The energies they bear of freedom, of realization, of wisdom, of unity with God are often misunderstood and misappropriated, and thereby they do mask that sparkle of divine delight given from his heart through the media of his descending grace.
The pseudoniceties of human reason have often forbade those who occupy a more lofty position on the chautauqua platforms of the world to speak the whole truth, and fear of mortal censure has restrained men from speaking lest they hear the epitaph, "Rash one!" The tickling of the ears sought by men as confirmation of the rightness of their wrong course has deliberately muzzled many a would-be speaker for righteousness. You recently heard me say that I chose to take off my gloves. This "flinging down" was in the cause of freedom and for the blessing of all mankind and not for the embellishment of any individual.
It would be well, then, if the student body would understand the meaning of the vision of John the Beloved upon the Isle of Patmos - most specifically, those parts pertaining to Babylon and the fall thereof.1 Never before in the recorded history of the current age of man has the world population possessed so much outer abundance and so rich a trading in that abundance. Only the planetary archives from unrecorded times could indicate approximate periods of worldly prosperity upon earth.
Accompanying physical wealth and the scientific blessings of the age has come a dialectical materialism, but behind that materialism there is a well-planned and clearly defined sinister activity whose goal is the enslavement of man. Because America is intended to be and is a land of such progress and true freedom, the spearhead of many of these attacks is directed against her and her people. To break down the image of the American people in the eyes of the world is the desire of those who serve the god of mammon. Yet the responsibility of the American people to honor their opportunity and keep that image untarnished is very great!
America was intended to foster the ascended master race, gathered from all nations, tongues, kindreds, and peoples, whose unity is symbolized in the starry blue field of the flag of the United States. This lofty and radiant banner was not intended to be trailed in the dust but to be raised on high unto the fulfillment of America's immortal destiny as an inspiration to the whole world and every new and emerging nation.
The present conflict in Kashmir, the Pakistani-Indian warfare, is a blow at the unity of the Indian and American axis. All these signs so clearly defined in the geopolitical sky signify the perils of the age. Returning, then, to Babylon in reference, may I say to all that, regardless of wishful thinking on the part of national and international leaders, man cannot afford to rationalize by the intellect the current degeneracy of the youth of the world nor the significant trends in which the youth move. It is true that there have always been clear-cut signs of the restlessness of youth who seek an outlet for their energies before they have yet mastered themselves in a proper exercise of self-control and restraint so as to become men of worth.
I AM most grateful, then, for the prayers of all those who have recognized the world's current problems and have desired continually to assist the Brotherhood. I am also grateful for those who recognize that prayer alone without all-out support is not enough to counteract in the world of material form the trends of the times. You must perceive aright that it is not man alone nor even human ambition that is solely the fault with this age. On the contrary, the error lies in the driving sinister strategies of the brothers of the shadow who find in mankind's loose ambitions a lever whereby they can open the door into the individual's world and dump upon the screen of his mortal consciousness the refuse of their chaotic confusion.
Their name is Legion.2 Every man's ego is their advocate. It is ignorance in the very midst of knowledge that blinds the minds of men to these hidden but true facts of life. The justice of Almighty God is infinitely tempered with mercy, and his mercy, indeed, endureth forever, but only in those who survive the ordeals of life's tests with honor and valor!
The turn of the seasons, the flow of the great tides of life into physical consciousness, and the wonders of mental cognition are all graces for which men should give thanks; yet, unfortunately, humanity is turned as upon a roasting spit over the fires of their own errors.
The reasons for our forthrightness, the reasons for our warnings, are not at all because we enjoy parading mankind's weaknesses but because it is necessary to awaken those who love God from the sleep of lethargy that has permitted these things to happen right under their noses! Through valiant service to the light you can uproot unwanted conditions from your worlds and draw forth enough power from the heart of God to counteract, as valiant soldiers of the cross, all that is of human discord.
You see, precious ones, there are many segments of seekers. There are those whose minds are constantly enamored by phenomena, and this is the result of a spiritual restlessness which feeds upon the extravaganza of the human psyche. In a sense this spectacle could be called the poor man's behavioral science. You see, there is a jargon of ancestor worship involved in many phases of spiritualism, yet the only progenitor who ought to be eternally recognized is Almighty God, the Supreme Source.
So long as men remain linked in desire and thought to father, mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, or mortal association,3 there is a certain clearly defined sympathetic involvement which deprives them of the supreme blessing of energetic wholeness that is born of cosmic attunement with God. Now, then, let me add to this a clarifying point. When men attune truly with God and draw forth the holy vibration which He alone can emanate, they will have a greater understanding of the meaning of human love and they will no longer manifest coldness and nonresponsiveness to one another but rather an illumined and holy understanding whereby the allegiance pledged by man to his brother is pledged first unto God.
It is in the service of man that God is served. "I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."4
With all that is now being supplied to men, the greatest nourishment of all is the bread of the Holy Spirit; hence, the reason for the current drive of the Great White Brotherhood to alert and to awaken, to quicken and to summon our students to their rightful office in neighborhood and world affairs. We now know that only by an intensification of the will of God in man can we counteract the forces of materialism riding rampant upon the human range.
I wish to give more information concerning Babylon and the ultimate end thereof; therefore, I shall continue this subject in my next week's release. I feel that I have given you here a great deal to contemplate, and the food that is placed between these lines is not entirely obvious to the casual glance. Neither are many of our Pearls of Wisdom deciphered in full at the first or even second reading, yet we have something for everyone which is given at many levels of their beings.
I trust that the activity that I have begun in these releases shall enhance the flame of freedom as never before until men shall come to know what freedom really means to them, personally, until they shall know what freedom means to God, for 'tis his to convey and 'tis ours to purvey to men.
Let us be about our Father's business; for the night is far spent, the day is at hand!