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The spirit of adventure is almost a thirst in the hearts of men. It drives them to mountains, to separation from the familiar and from home, to the rigors of arduous journey where the rewards seem few. Fossiled remains, questionable yields of assembled material, untold hardship, and multiplied peril are often the reward of those who seek to unravel, through archaeology and exploration, the buried civilizations of the past or the remote and relatively inaccessible landed areas of the earth.
In the search for the discovery of reality, there are some who pursue the subcontinental levels of the mind and spirit of man. Through psychiatric and clinical procedures, through the weighty keeping of records and thought probings of human motives, the denizens of mortal thought and feeling are questionably raised to the surface where they are further examined by mankind. The finite span of mortal years has not afforded men the opportunity to properly evaluate this phenomenon; nevertheless, those who proclaim this method as the panacea for human ill remain dauntless in their search for "the answers."
The mystics of the world have often been scorned and scoffed at, as have been the arbiters of science and alchemy - those who have sought to discover in little-known or understood phenomena the internal reaches of man's being and the domain of his destiny. As civilized man stands above savage minds, so the luminosity of the teachings of the Christ, of the Buddha, of the high lords of the Incas, of the mysterious initiates of past and present, remain above men's current devices to discern destiny, a star of shining hope to a world awaiting the dawn of a new age.
Self-created barriers are often ignored in the search, and when the expected yield does not manifest after lengthy pursuit, there may be an inclination to abandon or to join a new caravan. At times this may mean returning to old and outworn theories or dogmas, yet the lure of the spirit of adventure at times drives men haplessly from one caravan to another.
The Goddess Meru and I have consorted as to how we may this very hour poignantly and unforgettably call to your attention the need for individuals to evaluate themselves and to recognize the fact that their own lives and consciousness resemble an altar, an holy place where God is intended to abide. Because God is all qualities of eternal value, he is the soul of holy illumination, the sun source of strength and wisdom, possessing the power to connect all the shining rays of identity, form density, concept, ideology, and purpose.
It is an essential ingredient of the victorious life that those who seem to be wise in the world should abandon their haughty sense of superior wisdom and become childlike in the search, and that those who are basically ignorant of much should abandon their sense of lack and substitute it with a hopeful feeling of imminent revelation, moment by moment. So, then, all should have a sense of happy resignation to the superior qualities of the Godhead which already are potentially manifesting upon the altar of their own being.
Precious ones, there is such a gnawing sense of frustration abroad in the world today which seeks to criticize every manifestation of new hope that we release, thereby robbing men of security and faith in those ordained teachers of righteousness who in every age seek to raise the level of men's consciousness. The greatest safety for all lies in the understanding of consciousness as the doorway of penetrability into the domain of divine mystery as well as into all mysteries of self.
In ancient initiations conferred here at Lake Titicaca upon the candidates for illumination, we frequently dramatized cosmic truth in an almost unforgettable manner in order to inscribe upon the consciousness of the seeker advance appreciation of the simple but necessary facts of life. The ignoring of these facts, by the seeker who considers more complex and advanced theories of greater importance, results in an unwariness, permitting minute snares to bring down the mighty from their seats. And thus has the truth been affirmed, "How are the mighty fallen!"
The children of the sun are those who are bathed spiritually with the wisdom flame. A probing sophistry may say, "What is a wisdom flame?" We who know and understand can reply, as the earth can pass through the tail of a cosmic comet with impunity, so the soul of man can pass through the flame of cosmic illumination and receive the impartation of cosmic knowledge upon contact. The burning bush witnessed by Moses upon Mount Horeb, revealed that "the flame" did not necessarily consume the bush. The wisdom of God is of such splendid strength and shining that if it were not for the inherent quality of mercy within it and in the Divine One who has tempered the flame of wisdom to the shorn lamb of man's thought and feeling, mankind would not be able to appropriate his fiery wisdom; on the contrary, he would be consumed thereby!
There is a gentle imparting, then, inherent within the flame of illumination, which meets the requirements of each hour as gradual and progressive unfoldment. There are many who are not content to be pampered, even by the Deity. These insist upon a more accelerated rate of progress and they often receive it. The caravan in pursuit of higher knowledge contains those who, with shaded eye against the brightness of the sun, look to the mountains with hope, riding ever onward, scanning the heavens for each sign of the appearance of the Christ. Others play in their tents during periods of rest and talk of the Promised Land.
None in the caravan should despise the other, for each child and man can but manifest at a given point in time those hopes which he alone has externalized on the altars of his consciousness. One cannot be another, but all can become one. The great cosmic merge is not only accomplished in the divine aspects of power and wisdom, but also is it achieved through infinite love. Love is the key to the use and misuse of one's life and energies. Thus, reins must be established to hold in check unbridled manifestation. An undeveloped faith that mounts up like Icarus of old may find the tempered heat of the sun too much for the waxen wings of premature aspiration, and the chariot of consciousness may rush into the sun while the driver, unaware, falls to the earth, a broken and defeated spirit.
Cherish well, then, the need to rule your faith and to establish it sufficiently for the ends which each hour requires. Project ahead the needs of the future for faith, as you would plan wisely for supply, and learn to concentrate your faith upon the path of the near future. Reins are also needed over the aspects of wisdom. Be not consumed in the search, for practicality will prove to make an arc of light and safety round the use of knowledge. The reins of love must also be bridled when dealing with both God and man, for while men ought to love the Lord their God with all their hearts, and their neighbor as themselves, they must seek to understand that which they should truly love, else in truth their love would be but idolatry.
The command, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," in higher manifestation, reveals to the advanced disciple that the altar of God is the domain of the True Self, where revelation and understanding go hand in hand into the kingdom of the sun, and thus, God is born individually upon the altar of the dawn within the heart of the golden flame of cosmic identity. The golden dawn in the Temple of Incal is the beginning of the newness of eternity and of life in infinity.