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To All Who Would Meet the Challenge of Division in the Body of God by Building the Kingdom of God within the Domain of the Receptive Soul and Increasing the Ministration of the Holy Spirit Everywhere on Earth:
Now I would speak in a crusade of power concerning the Holy Spirit. At present the body of God upon earth consists of broken fragments which all too often are found warring with one another. The pure Christian traditions have been warped by men's misinterpretations of Christ's theology, which for the most part have resulted from the incomplete record of his teachings available to them.1 Needless to say, this has created an awful confusion among the brethren. The purposes of God which were destined to unite the hearts of men through the treasures of spiritual law have, through the depredations of men and the false zeal thereof, been turned into a sword of division, piercing humanity's longing for Christ-unity and producing a mounting debt to life.
Allying themselves with those of like mind, separating into camps of mutual hostility, individuals steeped in personal delusion do not consider the possibility that their own misinterpretation of truth might be the cause of the attrition of their ranks; thus they fail to recognize that their brother, in whom they see so much wrong, might indeed have correctly apprehended some aspect of God's law. Straining at the gnats of personal perception, they swallow the camel of an almost universal division in their ordered services for the holy cause of God.
It is the function of the Holy Spirit to act as the unifying principle in all life; but I ask you, precious ones, when the ministrations of the Spirit are rejected, where is the possibility of continued effort on behalf of unity? The Lords of Karma, who by divine appointment are responsible for the administration of divine justice on earth, have been forced to deny petitions made to them and unto God simply because the Great Law could not grant more energy to be expended in a failing cause. Because of the bigotries and religious hatreds of their followers, often based on an incomplete understanding of the Law, many religious movements have become sterile; meanwhile, individuals continue to bemoan the awful travesty of disunity, failing to see that the power of change lies within their own hands.
We have asked the Karmic Board what can be done to meet the challenges of this division. Can we justify further vast expenditures of energy on behalf of those who have pocketed themselves within the cells of their own narrow beliefs and refused to heed aught else? For the record clearly shows that these accomplish little more than the branding of their neighbor as a heretic, in some cases attempting to prevent the publication of his material or his renting of halls for the dissemination of truth, in other cases attacking him directly with cunning and slander. And this in the name of religion!
We believe that the answer lies in the building of the kingdom of God within the domain of the receptive soul. Therefore, the Lords of Karma have decided that the greatest justice is to grant the energy of the passed torch to those spiritually advanced movements of the world who will enter into no degree of unbrotherly feeling against other groups who either misunderstand the Law or who refuse to work with those whose concepts may differ from their own.
Our intent is to increase the ministration of the Holy Spirit everywhere upon earth. We shall not, then, deny to those who lack true spiritual understanding the blessings which their own level of comprehension allows; but we shall ask for an increase of cosmic energy on behalf of those advanced spiritual teachers who have expounded the laws of God for many a year, who have cleaved unto Good with the fullness of their being, and who, where truth is concerned, have stood ready to receive the revelations of the Holy Spirit even when these challenged their most cherished beliefs. These have extolled the laws of God and reproved within their own consciousness any and all concepts based on a lesser understanding of truth, replacing them on the moment, when the Great Law demanded it, with the expeditious grace of God and his progressive revelation.
There are so many manufactured divisions, so many religious persuasions, blessed ones, that it is indeed heartening to see the simplicity of the childlike mind, ready and willing to grasp each amplification of divine grace and knowledge dispensed from God's own hand with the timeliness of cosmic law which spans the ages and is ever expanding through the law of transcendence of its own divine nature.