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Far, far from the madding crowd, man comes face-to-face, in divine quietude, with himself. And when this is accomplished, behold the man in whom dwells the Spirit of Truth.
In mortal togetherness there is a way that seemeth to be brotherhood, but if you will examine the fabric of history, especially the record pertaining to those sons of God who came down to perform a service to the Cosmic Mother on behalf of her errant children, you will see clearly that each such a blessed individual came apart from the multitude and did enter into the closet of his being to commune with the one God.1
Whereas there is much to be gained from the fellowship with friends and companionship along the way, and the gregarious nature of man is not without divine design, there is also a dominant theme active within universal principle - and that is the silent night of man's contemplation wherein he enters into the consoling vibratory action of the Divine Heart and returns to the world with the blessedness which that heart and that heart alone can give.
It is well to communicate from time to time with one another, and surely it has been well said that men should not forget to communicate.2 Be it so, I am concerned with the increasing tendency of individuals to seek without for that which is always within. There is not, nor can there be, a substitute for the doorway of Self; and surely the clamor and clash of the world and the world mind is designed, methinks deliberately, to tear men from the subtle fineness of the voice of the soul.
As I come to you this week, then, and join El Morya at the portal of the year, it is to point out to all who would achieve their true celestial greatness according to the divine design that they must spend a certain amount of time alone with God.
Oh, we do understand how mankind are caught up in a round of humanitarian ideals from time to time, and then the craving of self-expression looms large on the horizon while the pull of family and friends is often a strong call. Yet, we who are your spiritual family and who know that your real strength to serve better all humanity comes from above, plead now with you to consider the necessity for balance in all that you do.
Just as it is not good for man to be alone, so it is not good for man never to be alone; for in the aloneness of self-communication there are woven giant strands of cosmic light substance which generate in the world of the seeker the tremendous God-impulse which can never be denied. The reality of this impulse to do and to further the Father's kingdom upon the planet is always achieved in the bright ray of spiritual communion between the beloved son and the beloved Father.
Does it seem strange to you that I who am your Cosmic Mother and who mingle my energies with Cosmic Motherhood should express concern for each lifestream upon the planetary body, that they forget not to communicate with God? I hope not, for in this specific appeal there is the garnering of the strength for all of the body of God upon earth, which this very year can mightily produce those miracles of Christ-perfection for which you have long called.
Just as we do not listen to the voices of outer-world negation and the unfortunate sense of myth with which the children of men at times surround us, so you can never afford to do so. This is an indulgence of destructivity. As Saint Peter said long ago, "If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"3
Applying these words to this concept, if the ascended masters with their infinite power do not and cannot afford the indulgence of negative contemplation, how can mankind, caught in the net of mortal delusion, dwelling below the Son of the Presence yet subject to receipt of its rays, deny the splendid shining of those rays by clouds of mortal negation?
They ought not to do, blessed ones - but, oh, they do. And it is a lack of faith in the power of the Presence of God that has denied so many individuals the required strength through past years and cycles.
Will you not, then, this very year, as we enter into a greater impetus, renew your faith in the immortal doings of the celestial mentors? The holy ones from on high have drawn very nigh unto the earth, even in contradistinction to mankind's outer meanderings in the old and tired stream of human history. The dullness of repetition and the cycles of perfidy are timeworn, and the souls of men cry out for freedom from these nets.
Let us resolve, then, that our faith - our joint faith, the faith of the children of God upon the planet - shall mount up as on eagle wings. Let us resolve that no thing, place, person, or condition shall have any power to alter the strands of that mounting faith as we carry them toward heaven for the victory of the rolling planetary body below.
Oh, how many children call out to me daily and with what tireless energies. It often seems to me that the very combined current of their faith would be enough to provide the answer for the whole world, so beautiful and bright is it as it comes to me. Yet the pitiful neglect by the multitudes in communicating with their heavenly Presence, the angelic hosts, the ascended masters, and the divine ideals has rendered the earth spiritually impotent.
The power of our grace is being magnified, hour by hour and day by day. Won't you resolve and do that which can establish in all things that you contact the vibration of hopeful renewal? Won't you rectify the crooked paths and past errors? Won't you maintain the hope in the appearance of my beloved son in human affairs?
Mortal shadows have their long lines of despair, but the sunlight of divine Truth that is everywhere needs an opening in thyself. I AM the door, the open door that no man can shut.4
In the bond of world need, I remain, your friend,