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To All Who Would Unite with God through the Agency of the Holy Spirit and Know the Transmutation and Integration of the Personal Self into the Unity of the Godhead:
The understanding of the agency of the Holy Spirit will bring mankind into a state of personal awareness of the Godhead such as they have never before experienced.
The remoteness of the Father Person is, of course, a myth; for God is nigh at hand to all, even unto the unbelieving, but the concept "in the person of the Father" often seems unreal to those who are caught up in the snares of mortal thought and feeling as they identify with the mundane world of form and outer consciousness, so much so that the thoughts of these men and women, of whom there are many, choose to regard God as being remote from the earth and the elements thereof.
Studies in astronomy often further enhance the illusion that God is nowhere; whereas in reality, astronomy should only point out to men that God is everywhere, imminently present upon the planet and within themselves, in their consciousness as well as in their form. It is easy, however, for the perceptive to note the strange ideas which men formulate concerning life and its purposes. Certain it is that life was not created, but rather that life itself is the Creator of individualized man.
Through the agency of the Son, mankind have come to recognize and to know the meaning of the life-mission of an avatar. They have also perceived their own role as Christ-identifying, which permits the divine mission to be transmitted to the individual and in no way prevents the faithful and those who desire to serve heavenly causes from so doing. They are one and all the beloved Son, "joint-heirs with the Christ," who is the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth, outpicturing in Jesus and other great masters the fullness of the light and love of the eternal Father, making him real unto men.
Now comes the era of the descent of the Holy Spirit, the time of fullness, when the omnipresent God, through the impersonal power of his great Spirit, makes every man to know his role and connection with the Godhead. The reason, blessed ones, that the Holy Spirit was referred to as the Comforter is that it is the power and intent of the Holy Spirit to make every man feel integrated into the heart of the universe. For it is through the Holy Spirit that the currents of Life, the essence of God himself, actually flow through the nervous and cardiovascular systems, the musculoskeletal structure, and every cell and atom of the physical form of man. It is through the Holy Spirit that they flow through his soul consciousness, including the etheric, mental, and emotional vehicles, purifying the internal facets of the mind, integrating all into conscious identification with the Christed individuality of man.
As you study the power of the Holy Spirit, you will come into closer contact with this aspect of the Tri-Unity of God, which is always the essential oneness thereof, for the word Trinity is definitive as Tri-unity or the threefold aspect of the one flame of Life. Now, then, the Holy Spirit flows through the consciousness of man in a transmutative release in order to transfer to his world the reality and power of God, effecting thereby an integration of the personal self with the Godhead. Truly this is the uniting agency of God that enables the avatar to affirm, "I and my Father are one." Truly this is the Wind that bloweth where it listeth, seeking to purify the vessel and wash it whiter than snow. ("Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.")
The Holy Spirit is often depicted in symbolic lore as a dove descending through the air with the point downward. In reality, blessed ones, this dove of light is the flame shape of the Paraclete and the snowy coloring thereof is actually the intense whiteness of the holy flame of the Holy Spirit as it descends. The brilliancy of the descent is not always visible to all, for certain conditions must be met which make it possible for the optic nerve to respond to the high vibrations of the descending Spirit of the one God.
As the Representative of the Holy Spirit for the planet Earth, I wish to say that not all who profess to be so united with God as to have received him in this manner have actually had the experience of receiving the Spirit of God, and not all, if they have had it, have retained the effulgence of the light once vouchsafed unto them. To receive the Spirit of God is to be, in truth, a Son of God; and to be a Son of God is to manifest the character of the Christ in action.
There is always the great mercy of the law which renews opportunity to errant sons, so long as they desire this within themselves and are willing to be a friend to God, to place loyalty to him even and always above human friendship. To cast oneself adrift from the mainland of Divinity out into the restless sea of mortal thought and feeling is to shun the Holy Spirit; and this will never satisfy the great purifying light of the Christ that God has sent into the world to bring peace and joy to the multitudes. To identify with God and to identify with his Spirit is an activity of great joy which will always unite all people into the electrifying consciousness of the divine identity, when the soul will proclaim with the depths of a joy almost indescribable, "Why, I AM!"
This is to know the Self as it was released from the heart of the Father. This is to know the Self as Enoch, the seventh from Adam, knew God, and to become so identified with this great tide of immortal Reality as to count all else but loss. The question has often been raised, "Are men who have been touched by the Spirit of God useless instruments to mankind and forever but dreamy visionaries whose presence in the world of form is but that of a parasite upon mankind?" Such is not and need not ever be the case, for down through the stream of history many who have contacted God and who have been touched by him with the golden light of his own being have not only served the holy cause of their eternal Father and searched for a renewal of their divine powers, but also have they been the cause of untold benefits to the planet and to the people of the Earth.
We know, from studying the consciousness of the blessed as well as the consciousness of those who, through self-condemnation, have taken themselves temporarily out of the field of the Lord, that even those who have little of the divine spark acting in their worlds have a secret inner admiration, which often does not appear outwardly at all, for those who will continue the divine search and the high faith of the invisible, but everywhere-present, Spirit of God.
Let grace continue, let grace abide, blessed ones, for the light of the Holy Spirit is everywhere upon the mountain and upon the plain, upon the sea, and upon the dry land. In the air and through the hearts of men flows this God who is everywhere and whose love, with childlike simplicity, is the firmament of every age, holding and bestowing all comfort to all who yearn to know the origin of life and find peace with it.
I AM bestowing a continuation of the boundless grace of God upon all who will receive it.