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In this hour when men cry earnestly
"Whither? Why? Whence?"
The curtain of obscurity ought to rise
And illumination's flame to gild the skies
With golden hue,
Making all things new.
Children of the dawn and of the aurora thereof, we hasten, during this sacred season, to bring to mankind's outer attention the timelessness of the Christ message. Scanning the ages, the virtue of his appearing will forever grace the archives of both man and God. Seek to erase them if they will, the impact of the Christ-man, the dimensions of the Cosmic Man flow forth a love-tide which can never be stemmed and cast the magic spell of Christmas through the apertures in men's hearts and minds.
The meaning of the Christ Mass was known to the ancients, and in the priesthood of Melchizedek the records of the coming One were made known. The Magi of old who journeyed, because they perceived His star in the heavens, were guided by cosmic precepts which are lost to the world of the present hour where material science and mortal progress are the standard of measure, and the meaning of Christmas becomes more and more a commercial capitalization of the credulous.
Yet, it is not our intent to criticize those who lie 'neath the blanket of their own misunderstanding. Rather, let us raise the pall of mortal error and let the pure light of the great God flame, penetrating the centuries-old dogmas of mankind, throw open to all the fresh, clean light of understanding!
Those upon the track of time who have not yet recognized the need for a periodic review of self - the need for an individual to peer through the windows of the deep and far past and to examine that which lies behind, in mankind's total records, and then to turn and perceive the shadows of the future which the historical past does cast - are often deluded by the very narrowness of their precepts.
Let us, then, bring a new and fresh simplicity into man's conceptions! The eternal creation of the universe sprang fresh from the Great Central Sun which is known wherever illumination's flame pulsates; whereas it is called by mankind "Sirius," the "Dog" Star, it should be translated, "Sirius," the "God" Star! By this simple change, mankind's misconception concerning their God Source could long ago have been clarified.
Out from this Central Sun, in a magnificent parade of cycles governed by cycles' law, the whole of creation proceeded to fill the ungrund, or "uncreated," screen of the universe with myriad twinkling lights, diadems of shining worlds. Throughout the universe there are a multiplicity of time segments which do not coordinate the celebration of Christmas upon the planet Earth with the celebration of Christmas upon far-flung worlds. In effect, when the law is rightly understood, it will be seen that the celebration of Christmas is always going on somewhere in the universe and; therefore, somewhere each day and continuing year by year, the celebration of Christmas is an eternal affair of great magnitude.
The lost perspective which mankind express as "mortal density" but which produces no joy of fresh revelation, is the result of a combination of circumstances. The intellect, in its bookish implications and codification of knowledge - an activity which was designed to catch in the net of the outer mind the magnificence of divine thought - has become imprisoned by its own rigid forms behind which the appearance of the Christ is scarcely recognized.
A new disease is scanned eagerly by the physicians of the world who witness through the microscopic organisms the law of cause and effect, as man's relatively dense perceptions fail utterly to protect him from the ravages of his own wrong thinking. Emotion, too, has become a controlling factor, often swaying the thoughts of men away from the Divine and the Christ star, that is magnificently beaming new hope to the universe.
Not so the illumined sage, the illumined mystic, the true seeker for illumination's flame. Basking in that holy flame, but not content with that which he has presently brought into the fore of the mind, he continues to probe, with intense longing and desire, the mysteries of God that do his soul inspire. The pyramids of old are symbols spelling of cosmic research by a scattered humanity. From the Incas of Peru, the Aztecs of Mexico, to the land of Chaldaea and Egypt, unto the heights of Ararat, there are infinite ties denoted by finite arrangements which speak of the mystery of Christ as spanning the ages.
The calendar of the present earth civilization is calculated from the approximate "year of Our Lord." All things falling before are "Before Christ," and that which follows is "After Christ," - Anno Domini. But think ye, O contemporary men, that the Christ lived only in that tiny baby form? Therein was the God of the universe, burning with sensations which men have never known, aware not only of that form but also of all the forms throughout the myriad systems of worlds.
This infinite, apparently incomprehensible, Deity, manifesting in the infant child, was the hope of that civilization and of all civilizations that preceded him, and of all who shall come after. For this is the seed of God, the star of divine life which is within every man. This is the hope to spur a manifest change in nature back to the original purity and pristine beauty of its God design.
In him was the Spirit of the Resurrection, the power that transcended mortal form and all the wonder resplendent within that form. The networks, venal and arterial, the networks of the central and sympathetic nervous system, the total complement of man's physical being with its magnificent tie with the God flame, which is the mainspring of that creation, blazing in the heart as the threefold flame - all spell the wonder of the finite in the infinite. Thus is possibility recognized within the hearts of the faithful, possibility of cosmic achievement, the passing of man over the desert and waste places of life until he comes to the Promised Land.
In the Land of Promise man becomes a Christ in manifestation, victor over his own vanquished mortal nature. The rising paeans of praise which swell within his heart and mind, as mute testimony of the God flame within, break forth with singing into the desert and waste places of contemporary man; and there is an occasional flash of virtue manifest here and there upon the landed surface of the earth as some soul becomes "Mahatma," the great one, a devotee, not of the ordinary, but of the extraordinary divinity within himself.
"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation," those words spoken in magnificent gratitude by the Apostle Paul (Hilarion) clearly echo down the centuries bearing witness to his grace, to the greatness of the Son of God. But more important than mere praise is the testimony that is born of this reality as a part of every man.
Hence, within the chambers of the heart and the identity of the self there is perceived a connection with the Divine Presence of Life above, and this connection passes through the Holy Christ Self of every man. There, by the great alchemy of God in man, light bursts forth, the aurora borealis, turning the night sky into the day of hallowed redemption; and that day draws nigh to every man as the aurora of the golden age is born again below and gleams ever so brightly in the grandeur of the Father's many mansions.
I AM a Brother of Illumination's flame,