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As we consider the practical meaning of a purified heart, we must conclude that the universal manifestation of purity of heart would solve most of the problems of the individual and the world collectively. Our gift, then, this year, at this season, when the word "sweetheart" is on many lips, is allegiance to the power of love as opposed to the opposite pole, that of hatred or mild dislike.
We cannot doubt that in this world of form, mortal thought and feeling may, from time to time, bear certain justifiable disgust with the trends of the times and with attitudes prevalent to those whose lives are not orientated around divine ideals. However, we must be consistent in our reverence for energy and its economy and bear in mind that each moment indulged in the subtle or obvious manifestations of criticism is a waste of the economy of life, for out of imperfection one cannot give birth to perfection.
The understanding of holy wisdom permits men to undertake certain measurements of the fruits of selfhood without portraying sordid images by acting out the part of unwanted conditions. Purification of the basic structure of life is essential. Although perfection and the divine ideal are ever present within man in the flame of Life that beats his heart, the Great Law requires the conscious direction of the will so that subconscious imagings which might otherwise turn consciousness downward are stripped of their sheaths of impurity and transformed into shafts of light to raise the individual, the planetary body, and all life thereon.
If freedom has meaning, then it must be embodied by all. Justice requires that freedom be honored, but freedom requires a recompense for justice. So frequently, blessed ones, we find that individuals indulge in a criticism of others in order to exonerate themselves from the same or a similar offense. Now, whether we deal with the laity or the spiritual priesthood, it must be with a view to raising the level of Christly manifestation in all.
Through the centuries the almost anemic manifestation of spiritual ideals by those who again and again have tasted and spurned cosmic opportunity has been contrasted by the ruddy expansion of all that serves the ever-fattening human ego.
The sharp dangers of the ever-present hour surround mankind today with the fleeting ghosts of their own past errors. If we are ever to transmute these errors and to raise men into the wonders of the golden age, it must be by reason of man's hidden spiritual hungers satisfied. So long as spiritual brothers, so-called, wage war against those supposedly pursuing the same ideal, we cannot expect that the bond of unity which the Brotherhood requires shall fashion for them a vessel for the containment of the one right essence which will effectively communicate to all the perennial need to end spiritual and mortal pride, raising the heart as a beautiful chalice to the great white throne of God, there to partake of his essential humility who, in the manifest Christ, being found in fashion as a man, humbled himself and became obedient, even unto death.
There are those whom men feel deserve to die, but we would raise all unto life that none of those in whom the Father has vested the mighty threefold flame of life should ever be lost. Take hope, then, for the spiritual forces of the planet are marshaling themselves as never before to rally around our banner of complete freedom from every oppression, self-imposed or projected from the ignorant, who "know not what they do." The hour is at hand when the Christ must, as the great Comforter, unite hearts and hands in a thrust to end all thrusts and struggle. "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Can Babylon be transformed to become the New Jerusalem? Can the sinner become the saint? Can freedom flourish? We shall see as to what response we evoke.