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I speak to those who are parents and to those who are children. The age is productive, but of what?
Is the mask of personal identity one of hope, or of hopelessness? Is the interest manifested by men and women who would sire their own offspring dedicated to an extension of themselves in the inferior ranges of identity or to a sacred trust which will cause them to study to show themselves approved unto God as worthy custodians and stewards of cosmic grace? Or are they dilettantes seeking to perpetuate vanity in the darkness of their own ignorance?
Are the children of this age purveyors of the cult of pleasure or recipients of a torch which their fathers passed without full understanding? Is obedience obtained through fear or by the power of love? What rages in the current spirit of rebellion? Is it the work of restoring equilibrium to the world, or is it the senseless surging of an irrepressible and irresponsible mania?
The channels of birth are opportunities for both parent and child. The rewards of right stewardship are not offered to parents alone, but also to their children. There is an interlocking cosmic law involved in parental-child relationships which ought to regenerate daily a sense of responsibility that does not trample upon the tender soul of an incoming child, and that will manifest in the children of this age as an echo of love from the corridors of heaven, extending gratitude to parents for a job well done.
Often when evasion of responsibility occurs on one side of this relationship there is a tendency to slough off responsibility on the other side. Parents may say, "I deny responsibility for this child," and children will echo these sentiments in return saying, "I can scarecely wait until I am delivered from the charge of my parents." Saint Paul, during the early days of Christendom admonished, saying that individuals would manifest without natural affection. True natural affection is divine grace, regenerating within men and women understanding of their joint responsibilities.
It is true, because of the very nature of the soul and the nature of incoming lifestreams, that sometimes individuals are given a very difficult charge. Men often say, "I did not choose my parents," and parents say that they did not choose their children; yet there is an implied consent in immediate family ties which is known at spiritual levels. And when the law is correctly understood, individuals will perceive they have attracted to themselves souls whom they have sought, or with whom they have been in contact in a former existence.
In many cases, individuals of great virtue have agreed at inner levels, above and beyond their conscious knowledge, to accept the responsibility for a regressive child or for a rebellious one. The karmic maze is not easy to untangle, and true discrimination is often not the forte of the aspirant to do the holy will of God. Patience has her own reward, and the magnanimity of the acceptance of that which men cannot change is to be found in the tenderness of pure correction wherein are balanced the Godly qualities of both justice and mercy.
The desire to flaunt life's experiences, to disgorge from one's world an unwelcome situation by parry and thrust, by disclaiming responsibility, by literally denying oneself and, in effect, severing one's connection with either one's offspring or one's parents can and often does bring about a state of great unhappiness, unless the individual be well balanced and able to comprehend the full portent of his action.
The current age of man's manifestation has brought mankind together in many strange relationships, that is to say, strained relationships. The great Lords of Karma have ever sought to break down the middle wall of partition, the forces of division, and that which truly is unnatural to the spiritual nature in man. Associations with families often become difficult because they are designed as opportunities to remove the stains of past injustices and therefore, unless understanding is sought and justice desired, mercy, too, may fly out the window.
How well we recognize that at a certain age individuals may desire to go their own way, to try their wings and explore the newness of life. How well we understand that after a number of years of laboring under a certain measure of unhappiness, individuals may feel compelled to sever ties which they believe ought not to have been. Nevertheless, it is always proper before these seemingly drastic measures are taken that examination of practical alternatives shall be made. For it is well worth the search if redemption of life experiences can be accomplished, the ritual of forgiveness practiced, reorganization of communion between individuals established, or perhaps a new approach to old circumstances envisioned. In this way many flaws can be mended which otherwise would go into the dossier of a lifestream as a piece of unfinished business.
The great law of karmic relationships stands upon the record of life. Sometime, somewhere, every lifestream who has had an unhappy experience or contact with another must reestablish the harmony of life with that individual. This does not mean that a rebellious soul must be pursued and forced into an unhappy alliance. It does mean that it is wise to consider what proper action may lie in your hands at the present moment to bring about the greatest harmony between yourself and all whom you contact. If after examination there seems to be no way, a call unto light will always be answered. If all possibilities fail, one can then turn to God and the Karmic Board to create the opportunity, sometime, somewhere, whereby all that is misaligned will be divinely reattuned.
My plea in this day is that men be not hasty in putting away from their lifestreams parent or child relationships; yet, I counsel all my readers to understand that nothing should ever interfere with one's search for the kingdom of God. Neither husband nor wife, nor child, nor parent, nor any man should be given the right to prevent one's establishment in divine comprehension. The law of man's life must be heard and if a man shall stand in his own light, becoming a shadow of intrusion between divine levels of reality and mortality in its expressions of pleasure, men ought to choose God and the fruits of heaven above all others.
As we ready the disciples in this age to pass the acid tests of life, as we assist mankind to establish complete attunement with their great winged God Self, it is for the upliftment not of the individual alone but of the entire human race. Responsibility of the flesh must be understood, for the Christ long ago said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Yet, wrest not the law out of context, nor permit the bond of an illicit sympathy for human weakness to hold back that self-progress which must assume victorious God-control over every phase of life's relationships if you will to be free.
You will recall, although dimly at first, through an ever increasing measure of the piercing of the veil of illusion, cosmic associations of old, the joint framing with the Father of the entire cosmos by the power of his spoken Word. You were there as co-creators, and as creative sons of God you must, then, render the last full measure of devotion. The prayer in Gethsemane, "Not my will, but thine, be done," was a fiat for the ages. As we reminisce upon the virtues of past ages, golden as well as those blackened by despair, we choose to extol that which lifts man toward God; we choose to commend men to that fruit of striving which will not give up the possibility of intimate reunion with the cherished principle that is life in the fullest sense of cosmic magnificence.
With all my heart for the coming race and valiant age, I AM