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As the year turns toward the harvest season and the fields of humanity are perceived as whitened to the harvest,1 the great gathering of souls comes to our attention. The perennial mission of the Christ is one which is transmitted in the great command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give."2
The Great White Brotherhood knows, owing to our firsthand investigations as well as the many reports coming to us from those freshly passed through the veil - including those who have ascended, never more to go out into the destructive octaves or become subject thereto - that as never before the conditions of the world are very grave and that an inquiry is in order.
When a shining son stands before the Father charged with hope and the beauty of the dawn as he prepares to descend to the planet and its people, there is present what may almost be called an innocent naiveté that saturates the spirits even of the indomitable ones. These individuals who go forth into the world of form do not fully comprehend the nature of the vicious lions they will face, the wolves in sheep's clothing3 and those who will trample upon their every effort. Nor are they aware of the incalculably unjust manner in which mankind will measure the fruit of their lives from concealed levels of the judges' own ungodly state.
It is no wonder, then, that the Master Jesus uttered those poignant words in Gethsemane, "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done."4 Yet on the morrow he said, "Weep not for me, ye daughters of Jerusalem, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."5 The cycles of humanity's incarnations continue and dead error is born again and again, never to come to life until it comes to God's truth.
If the things of the world could give men their freedom, you can be certain that the Father in heaven would have provided mankind with the immortality to enjoy them. The things which God has prepared for them that love him are far beyond the sense pleasures of earth that keep men bound to eating, drinking, and making merry.
Oftentimes when individuals come to the feet of the masters, they face the truth and the reality of our endeavors, our releases, our thoughts, and our feelings. Then they make comparisons with the old and the familiar and they retreat back into the "known" realm of religious thought as an escape from the sharp two-edged sword of truth that would but cut them free, that they might be clothed with the fine linen of true righteousness and purity.6
What a pity, you say, and yet in their ignorance so they have chosen. They do not perceive that they are ignorant and foolish as the virgins who did not keep their lamps oiled.7 The march of progress that the ascended masters bring to the planet Earth is of inestimable value, and therefore it is utterly necessary here and now that reevaluation be made of past mortal thoughts and feelings which have been centered around religious beliefs. Only then will men be able to see clearly the errors of the centuries.
Neither the past nor the present is wholly in error. Bright threads of hope are scattered through the motif of mortal weavings. Yet, betimes, as in days of yore even to the present hour, men decry the proclamation of Eternal Truth. It is as though they would calculate the status quo of the world to be of such value that they must at all costs preserve it. Dogma, too, they would preserve with almost open warfare. Hate and hate creations continue in the world of form and always oppose the great love tides of God.
We who advocated the Divine Theosophia (the Theosophical Order), we who brought forth in hope the first workings of spiritualism (through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others) in order to establish hope in the hearts of men for a better world to come, we have watched as degradation and misuse of principle have altered our purposes, and there has come to pass a sad state of affairs wherein trenchant forces of darkness have misused the divine principle.
I want you to know that recent council meetings of the Great White Brotherhood, which are continuing for and on behalf of mankind almost daily, have directed mandates unto us whereby a great flood of spiritual wisdom shall issue forth, even as it has already this year from beloved Serapis Bey. This fresh hope, which will be engendered in the hearts of men who apply themselves to these precepts with the deepest of understanding, will be very great; and protection will come to the tiny infant seed of God that expands through these spiritual endeavors of the Great White Brotherhood as a great light to all mankind.
There are none who have ever served our Cause in this endeavor or in any which we sponsor who shall not one day rejoice at inner levels, even as they do now in the outer domain of consciousness, over the fruit of the spiritual harvest that God is preparing. As his hands and feet and as ministers of his Presence, you may safely yield yourselves to the great love that God is and do good unto those that despitefully use you, knowing that your reward is indeed very great.8 Yet there is no greater reward to the mind of the Christ than to see one soul who has embraced a path of darkness and shadow turn once again and serve the light.
O precious ones, if you could see the influence of the light upon mankind from inner levels, if you could see how they are stripped free and clean of the awful enclosure of nihilism that seeks to vampirize their beings of all their great storehouse of light and leave them as outcasts upon the streets of the city, dead witnesses to truth and honor, you would determine as never before that nothing shall stand in the way of your victory.
Keep on keeping on, gracious ones, in the garnering of the precious seed pearls of holy wisdom. Let the meditations of your hearts be upon the laws of God and your delight in the wisdom of his thoughts.
None of us can abstain from care and consideration for a world steeped in delusion, but we can do only that which men, by their free wills, enable us to do. The greatest of avatars, even the Lord God himself, unless he would change his laws which are immutable, cannot interfere with mankind's free will. After all, free will was given to man as the key to Christhood and to the attainment of unity with the Father. Such unity will mean the restoration of the fullness of the light in every man which was referred to by Jesus when he said, "All power in heaven and earth is given unto me [unto the Christ-identity of everyone when the lower self surrenders completely unto the divine nature]."9
One day this will be yours as you continue to pursue the path of Holy Wisdom. Exercise discrimination and discernment, that you may know the Lord's body ("For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother"10) and win your victory, step by step, fearing not to get up each time there is a setback. For the cycles roll on endlessly, and the little waves of human trembling are but a "slip `twixt the cup and the lip" which delay man's partaking of the water of life. But these can never eternally prevent the fullness of the manifestation of God within you.
In the deepest love of our Father in heaven and of the Christ consciousness that is the Saviour of the World, I remain your teacher,