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Unto You Who Would Understand the Mission and the Movement of the God Flame upon Earth I Say, Learn of Me and My Contact with the Fire of Contact and Make It Your Own
Where is the Dwelling Place of The Most High God? This seeming mystery, answered by some as "God is everywhere," is not clear to the minds of many who seek their Ascension. To the masses many of the great cardinal principles of the Cosmos are yet but a babble of voices with no tones that are clearly predominant.
Let us move aside the curtain and show the Light behind the veil. First must come the concept of "hallowing space," then of desecration by misqualified energy. The idea that God is everywhere is perfectly correct, viewed from the standpoint that all things exist by His Grace and Life. If God is everywhere, then, where is the mobility of His Spirit to move upon mankind and upon the Creation which He has made?1
Gradation of concentration of consciousness, then, must be recognized; and it must he understood by the devotee that any point in space (that exists in self-conscious awareness and an awareness of the "I AM" Presence) may draw upon the very Essence of the Godhead and cause the filaments of its awareness to glow with a greater measure of Divine Energy as that Energy is invoked. Where the Energy of God is consistently invoked and the intervals of ordinary consciousness, interspersed between the concentration of Divine Energy at a point in space, are lessened, a greater Transmutation occurs.
Let it be clear, then, that responsibility for opening the Door to Divine Manifestation is every Man's own. Just as men are responsible for taking the pure stream of Radiant Energy which is their Life and misqualifying It with wrong thoughts against others, whether they deem such misqualification justifiable or not, so they are responsible Divine Plan. This is accomplished by drawing upon the creative Presence of God released through His Energies, which are poured out in the limitless emanations of Himself into the world of the individual. These emanations are known as the "Fire of Contact" that will consume the dross of mortal thought and feeling and build, according to the Cosmic Design, a complete sense of victorious Enfoldment by the Godhead.
One of the Great Teachings that was released at Luxor, when Beloved Jesus attended our School of Ancient Mystery, was the Unity of the Father and the Son. The proclamation, "I and My Father are One,"2 has been heard and read by many who have never entered into the meaning and experience of it.
To follow the Christ in the Regeneration3 is to follow the Light of the Eternal Spirit of God in Man and to make of the living Soul a continually renewed creature. For it is the very nature of the Soul ever to transcend Itself as veil after veil of misqualification drops and reveals the Transcendent Light, streaming from out the very Heart of the Eternal Father into the Heart of the Son - that One Who is the real you.
Individuals often have a sense of struggle about spiritual things just as they do about material things. To "let go" does not mean to let go of responsibility: it means to transfer one's personal sense of responsibility to God and then to cling to the vibratory emanations of the Godhead with the Divine Design held in mind. Too often students permit a sense of vacuum to occupy their minds in connection with letting go. To cease the sense of struggle does not mean that the Divine Effort Itself will cease to work as an active Principle within the Soul and Spirit of Man - for his Perfectionment as well as his Enlightenment.
Precious ones, knowledge, itself, when it is not used can easily pass from the consciousness. When an individual understands that that which he has called "reality" is unreal, whereas that which has seemed nebulous and afar is very nigh, he will be taking the first step toward the realization that God can, at any point in space - including the precise area of the individual's own present conscious existence - draw very nigh unto him and completely change his darkness into Light. Jesus said, "If the Light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"4 He was referencing, of course, the misqualification of the Light that an individual at one time or another has received from God.
The consciousness of an atheist or an agnostic is in a category by itself. To deny or question the existence of the Deity may eventuate in the denial of the individual by the Deity, but the fact that Man does exist and is aware of self and others is proof of his own present Opportunity to receive the Divine Gifts and Graces of God.
One of the problems, of course, inherent within present-day man is that he finds it difficult to believe in a God made in his own image, and rightly so. There is too much identifying by mankind of the Godhead with human foibles and human qualities. Even the human figure, the physical form of man, is often misconstrued with the Deity Who is a Spirit. Simply because a Spirit can and does take form or ensoul it, does not in any way render the Power of the Spirit of less effect, nor does it give mankind the right to think that form itself has the power to control Spirit. The Spirit is the animating Principle of Life and It is intended m control the form.
Men must learn to bridle the destructive elements of human thought and feeling within themselves. As has been said, the well intended have often led their unsuspecting fellows down the primrose path that seems to have the lure of mental greatness about it, and thus they reason away the blessed spiritual Opportunities afforded them. Those of you who are preparing for your Ascension or who are just getting used to the idea that this Divine Ritual is both a possibility and a necessity for men and women today, should understand that nothing in the world is so effective in producing the proper attitudes toward the Ascension in the Light as the Awareness of Man's Union with God.
Unfortunately, men cannot unite with that which they do not know or understand. Therefore, when one studies to show one's self approved unto God,5 it is in order that the Nature of the Godhead may come more clearly into focus in consciousness.
It is certain that Happiness and Peace are Qualities of God. It is a further certainty that to produce vibrations in the world or even in the mind that are not conducive to Happiness and Peace is an offense against the Purposes of the Deity. It is never a question that the Deity Himself is offended by men to whom He seeks to impart only the highest Gifts. Retribution comes, rather, from the impersonal Law that, seeking to bestow Grace upon Man, encounters the personal acts of men and finds it necessary that these acts be tossed to one side so that the path-way of the individual may he cleared of obstacles.
Men and women are often inclined to feel that Divine Justice them understand that the Laws of God are the Laws of Life and that it is death or the opposing factors to the fullness of Life and the Abundant Life that is the enemy of Man. ("The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."6) The Great Cosmic Law, then, in clearing away these obstacles, produces, because of the wrong acts of men, an act of Retribution, or "vengeance, " which belongs to the Law in the impersonal sense of Divine Adjustment and, therefore, "is mine, saith the Lord."7 Without this clearing action of the Law, men could go on forever in a round of sense consciousness, vain competition, and destructive manifestation without ever bringing the self or this planet or any planet on any systems of worlds into the fullness of the Divine Design.
Inasmuch as the planet itself seeks to be raised and to Ascend, the Victory of each individual contributes to the Victory of the whole. Won't you please concentrate, for the sake of your fellow man, as well as for yourself, upon producing in your world greater Awareness of the Presence of God? It does not matter how close you may feel to Him, the filament of Being is capable of holding a greater Glow in the Infinite. As long as you are unascended, there is room for improvement.