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"Let God be true, but every man a liar." In breaking the sacred bread of the Scripture let all understand the duality of self, that the true meaning of salvation may dawn in every consciousness, absolving none of personal responsibility but giving to all the reins of the great heart of the Real Self of man so that the will of God may be multiplied in the domain of the mind and consciousness and that God be glorified.
I make a plea, then, this day, for the great blessings of pure truth. The world is filled with subtlety and deceit, and often the consciousness of man crawls upon its belly and by sinuous and devious ways seeks even to subvert the morality of self-honesty and self-appraisal. None should search themselves for the purpose of condemnation, but all should be willing to acknowledge the streaks of discord that have discolored their worlds.
You can be ever mindful of the oft-told master tale concerning the young disciple who was admonished on the subject of the coming into his mind of wrong thoughts and his dwelling upon them. His teacher counseled him in these words, "You cannot always prevent a bird from alighting upon your head, but you need not let him build a nest in your hair."
The great tragedy of life, when it is carelessly lived, is that men are prone to accept a subtle statement, calculated to spread doubt, discord, or negative reflection upon another. Thus do untruths, calumny, and viciousness spread among men and nations, disturbing the balance of harmony and causing many sleepless nights.
You know, blessed ones, that if you find the conduct of another person reprehensible in your own eyes, there is very little that you can do about it but pray, in many cases; for men are often in a strong tower of their own thoughts and feelings and their rightness therein. Each challenge of their thought often evokes a strengthening of the wrong thought in that person - yet some men must be challenged and in some matters you cannot afford to sit idly by.
The Spirit of Truth is ever to be desired and supported; and those who are prone to deceive and who seek to deceive others do but deceive themselves, and they are their first and worst victims, for they not only receive the calumny they had sought to pass on to others but they also have accountable to their own soul the responsibility for having generated this feeling and sent it forth into the universe.
When the Great Law of God is better understood by men, they will more closely watch their words, even as they will watch their thoughts that should precede their words, but sometimes do not, as the spoken word comes forth directly from the tumult of upset emotions. The Christ mind is a canopy of great strength, but as the sky itself seems to uphold the pillars of the heavens and gives guidance to all beneath, so the energies of man when first coming forth from God are pure, but it is the qualification or misqualification by man's thought and feeling that is determinate in the manifest quality of the stream of energy emanated by each lifestream into the world.
The effects of others' thoughts and feelings upon yourselves must be considered, and if you would know greater freedom, you must determine that human lies, human misconceptions must not supplant the great truth of God about the immortal created Self that God saw and called "good."
Throughout Christendom a theological warp persists that was spawned by angels of light who do the work of Satan; seeking to absolve mankind of a sense of responsibility by vicariously transferring all responsibility for salvation to one single individual whom mankind have once nailed upon a cross. Yet, the magnificence of His ministry, the great laws of being that He sought to uphold and did, have been again and again maligned and distorted by sincere people. He said, "I AM the way" and "the way ye know," noting to those who were intimately associated with Him that through His teachings they were able to find "the way" to the heart of God and the heart of their own divinity. Later He submitted to them these words, "The things that I do shall ye do also; and greater things than these shall ye do; because I go unto my Father."
Let none, then, deny the divinity of Christ within themselves and let all who will, become surefooted in the doctrine of eternal being, seeking not to condemn the world, as the Son of man did not, but rather to bring to the world the great light that is already the light of men, which is also already within them. This light is reactivated with the first breath, through conscious knowledge of the power of God and through the acceptance of the reality of his power within the individual soul. A renewing by the Holy Spirit of the goodness of God can then rush in and raise the consciousness of man to the divine level. As it has been said, "Out of thy belly shall flow rivers of living water."
The life of God is the life of the individual, and this is the truth. God is the sustainer and preserver of all life, and his purposes are not to destroy but to preserve. In giving dominion over the earth into the hands of men, God hath already given the mightiest stream of his consciousness to exalt those of low degree and to help the humble to rise in stature, through God-directed, intelligent self-effort, to the full stature of the Christ-man.
There are many great servants upon earth who do, out of the sincerity of a good heart but with a warped theology, seek to serve the eternal purpose. These men are often the source of the perpetuation of error, for other men point their finger to them and say, "Can you tell me that this good man, who believes thus and thus, is wrong, seeing that his life is filled with virtue?"
O blessed ones, when it comes to the true mysteries of God and of salvation, it requires more than mere human goodness, but the determinant longing to know the whole truth that you may be wholly free. This truth can only come from the source - God who is ever true. Men do not mean to err; they are simply deluded by the long, historical conspiracy that has sought to make out of religion itself (the means, supposedly, of binding men unto God) a charade - a game between the virtuous and the sinful. There is upon earth, and has been for centuries, a conspiracy of invisible forces which dwell in high places and seek to distort the truth so that lesser men will, in ignorance, continue to do wrong.
I cannot today do aught but pray that God will take the blindfold away from all among mankind who can accept the truth, and let them see this gleam of pure Christ-truth shining not only in the life of beloved Jesus and other great world saviours, but also, and above all, today in the world of the individual who seeks to follow the gleam through all outer disturbances and find deliverance from error by the mercies of God. Let me hasten to assure you that the Brotherhood, by the flame of illumination in these documents released week after week, seeks to raise the veil, little by little for all, until all shall know all that is.