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Unto You Who in Your Striving Would Know No Gain but the Fruit of God-Realization, God Has Ordained the Aegis and the Guidance of the Great Master Teachers
The concern of man for his immortal inheritance may not exceed the infinite concern of God nor equal it, but it is just and wholly possible that the concern of man within the relative sphere of his devotion can approximate the concern that every ascended master had prior to his ascension.
One of the principle problems involving the monadic consciousness is the insistence by individuals - when they allow themselves to come under the influences of the carnal mind1 that they use their own God-given free will to protect their individuality at all costs. Individualism is positively not correctly interpreted by the masses of mankind, nor even by many among the spiritual seekers for greater truth. These confuse what we may term "human rights" with what we choose to call the "divine right" of every man.
It is true - and the world is proof of it - that human rights are being employed by mankind, and the mess of human pottage ladled out as enticement to the Esau consciousness continues to defraud the firstborn sons of their eternal inheritance.2 But the divine right is another thing. The divine right is the immortal plan for universal man. The Monadic intent - i.e., man's God designed individuality and his natural gravitation toward the oneness of his True Self - is its first principle or foundation stone in which the inherent pattern of unique Christ-manifestation is self-contained.
Individuals seek without for that which is already within. Just as the entire pattern of nature is manifest in the seed, so in the divine seed the living Word is the inherent God identity, Christ identity, and soul identity of every man. This is what is truly meant by the statement "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."3
The human master has attempted to enslave its own latent divine identity, which is the source of all life; and thus the human master has created a self-serfdom which holds individuals in bondage, not to their divine Presence nor even to the True Self, but to myriad world patterns whose end is always transition and change.
The changeless patterns of the divine identity are the best assurance to every lifestream that the course that man is running will be victoriously fulfilled. When the statement was made, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him,"4 it was intended to serve as a bond of understanding between God and Man which would bring the blessed assurance of the divine intent into focus in the consciousness as a guard against the tendency of individuals to destroy themselves needlessly on the rocks and shoals of life.
In order to create that essential spiritual fabric between self-conscious Identity (that which clearly can accept that I AM that I AM as the True Self) and the universal Presence of Life, it is needful that the seeker understand to the fullest extent permissible under Divine Law the difference between the vacillating aspects of human life and those God-guided patterns which will render unto God those things which are God's.5
It is a great pity, in truth, that millions who seek for spiritual treasures do so out of the instinct of self-preservation, motivated by a desire to be good in hopes of a reward for so doing. Those who are motivated by divine love reach a place on the road that leads to God-identification where they recognize the supremacy of divine ideals as Abraham did, who heard the voice of God saying unto him, "I AM thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."6
As long as individuals seek to master the world of illusion by themselves, they will lose their souls or be castaways from the kingdom that is not of this world.7 Ever and anon, souls have sought to glorify outer-world conditions and to glorify themselves against the background of its facades; thus they have pursued a temporal crown right while they seemed to be pursuing the spiritual path. One of the problems today, and the principle one involving modern orthodoxy, is that while it is far better to have and to hold some form of religion than to have none at all, the concepts of mortal error about holy things are, to the present hour, very great and subtly concealed beneath a surface of apparent Godliness. This prompted Saint Paul even in his day to declare of apostasy, "They have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof."8
Religion has become a cloak to be worn as a badge of merit in the eyes of one's fellowmen, whereas the seeker for truth and for contact with the hierarchy of light and the Great White Brotherhood must, of necessity, come directly under the aegis and guidance of the great master teachers. This God has ordained in order that all that is conveyed to mankind may strip the shard of error from their concepts about cosmic law. Then, through truth, progress can be made and the soul will reflect its pristine purity as motive after motive is transferred through the absorption of the nature of Deity. Thus, rather than seeking humanly to qualify life with a spiritual pattern which seems to many to be a hurdle over which man cannot jump, he places himself in the arms of Divine Love and lets God unburden his soul.
God has never forced man to accept any spiritual exercise as a requirement for attainment albeit these have been ordained by Him and are available to the seeker that he might shorten the days of his earthly travail. God has indeed provided a beautiful link between reality and illusion through the concept of hierarchy and universal Christhood. As long as men and women think that only one man on earth could ever manifest the perfection of the divine plan, they will feel the lash of the Law and perceive themselves as weak and ineffective manifestations, steeped in the degradation of sin.
When sin is replaced by sincerity that recognizes the majesty of the Cosmic Creator, man will perceive with God that nothing that God has made could ever be ought else but good. And thus, inasmuch as man was made by God, man was created good. If there be any fall, then, from the goodness of God, it has been within the consciousness of mankind; and it is the consciousness that has fallen, then, that must rise until once again it unites itself with the goodness which was its natural origin and will for all time become its means of salvation to the uttermost.
Because the ascension in the light is the goal of all life upon earth, whether or not the individual parts are aware of it, it is essential that life should cognize that the fruit of striving is God-realization. There is no need to have a sense of struggle about this but only a sense of acceptance which was stated by Saint Paul: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt he saved":9 which is to say, "Believe in the power of this Infinite/finite example as attainable by thyself, cast aside the sense of sin, sickness, and death, and enter into the beauty of wholeness (holiness) and Christ idealism."
If God so loved the only begotten Son, the Christ,10 and if the Christ is the divine image, then this is the image of God in which all men are created. Hence this image is the divine right of every man. A return to this image need not be a complicated maneuver or a dogmatic charisma but it can become, through the simple consciousness of the Messiah, the means whereby all may enter the kingdom of heaven that is within.11 So will thy consciousness become refined and ascendant toward the unity into which all life must merge.
Progressively we move forward as little children into the kingdom.