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The nature of love, beloved ones, it seems, is misunderstood by many upon Earth. Love of the finite self is not divine love unless the divine will be joyously embraced. To adore cosmic purpose is to love. To adore human purpose, when that purpose is set apart from the Divine, is to presuppose that the will of man and the mastery of man exceeds the will and mastery of God. The higher order is always best able, by the expanse of its vision and purpose, to see just what is best for child-man. The planet earth in its present warlike state is still far from manifesting the ecstasy of the divine will and divine love. Wedded still to the sluggish ideas that conform to barbarism, men seldom express the beautiful purposes which the science of this age could well herald.
There is a reason why the Masters of Wisdom of the Great White Brotherhood and the angelic hosts reiterate so frequently their appeals to those who are attuned enough to sense our purpose. This continual rephrasing of the law creates a bond between the higher octaves of light and the world order of the avant-garde spiritual family upon earth. When through attunement with the heavenly hosts the cords of divine love become substantial enough it will enable the "mental belt" of mankind's thoughts to be saturated with the radiation of our cosmic level as it pours through every one of our chelas - those who can accept our reality as well as the divine purposes of God together with their own existence. Thus we will be enabled to make the world aware of that which it has as yet but dimly perceived.
Let men cognize that it is in the strata of human thought and feeling that the battle for divine reality must be waged and won. The schoolrooms of earth are intended to be places of divine harmony, but it is necessary that the children of God upon earth should understand that they have a very real responsibility to endure all things on behalf of the light and to overcome. Men must show forth the victorious sense of a valiant love. It is not enough to submit to the world order and its patterns: where necessary the disciple must break those patterns and make men aware, by a forthrightness of attitude without hatred or despair, that their course of action is contrary to harmony and pure reason.
The statement made by the angelic hosts, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," sounded forth the fortifying idea that for two thousand years has amply echoed in the consciousness of mankind as an ideal to be desired. Yet the message of the Prince of Peace has been proclaimed by angels and men right while the instruments of war were being forged and plans drawn for military conquest.
At the present time it is a most unfortunate fact that all of the hard-won struggles of mankind for their basic freedoms are being challenged by what may be termed a hydra-headed monster of socialistic sprawl whose very nature threatens to engulf the freedom that some men enjoy and others still seek - the freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience.
There are many today who have demonstrated in the interest of peace; they have marched, carrying banners of peace, when in reality the activities which they support are contrary to peace and to freedom and would ultimately dominate their own right to express good will toward all men religiously as well as secularly.
In the world order there are two forces at work. One is the force of light marshaled under the dictum of the Cosmic Christ which would evoke among mankind not only a sense of peace but also the reality of peace. The other is that of the antichrist which expresses the mouthings of "good will toward men" while it subtly prepares to enslave the people of the world in a socialistic scheme that resembles a spider's web. Those who support its ideas in the interest of temporary peace may very well have failed to understand the Master Jesus' statement, I came not to send peace on earth but a sword.
The sword, blessed ones, is the discriminating intelligence of the Christ mind that is able to determine what is of value, what is true, what is real, and what is a wolf masquerading in sheep's clothing. Yes, peace must come to the world because God wills it, because the angelic hosts will it, and because mankind will it. But the victory of peace must be under the banner of the Prince of Peace with all truth enshrined within it.
This is that peace with honor which permits individual freedom of expression so that the soul of its own free will can be carefully led over the various pitfalls and illusions of life to a place of safety (the sea of glass spoken of in the Book of Revelation) where the smoothness of the divine ideal is manifest in the soul consciousness of the individual. As long as tumultuous feelings of struggle are entertained in consciousness, the peace of the Divine does not really manifest in the world of the disciple of Christ.
Let all understand, then, that harmony with the angelic hosts and with God, a sensing of the reality of the invisible world, and a denial of the enslaving conditions created by mankind in the outer domain are essential if life is to survive from a spiritual standpoint - the standpoint of the soul. The soul was breathed upon by the breath of the Almighty and it is this same breath of cosmic reality that expands the sphere of consciousness, ring upon ring, until it passes the realm of the mortal into the transcendence of the Divine. This expansion requires nourishment, it requires recognition.
The outer realm of mankind's thoughts and feelings weaves a curtain of increasing opacity which only serves to intensify the strife of chaos and confusion midst all of their seeking for deliverance. The angelic hosts desire in the name of divine love that God's will shall be enshrined by mankind in their pursuit of happiness so that here and now in this Christmas season, as the cycles have rolled once again to this mark, mankind may rejoice in the passion of the infant Messiah taking form within civilization.
Let mankind deny the power of Caesar or of Herod's legions to take from the young child his precious life; and let them see to it that he is enabled to fly, if necessary, into Egypt where his life may be preserved within the domain of the sacred, Divine Self. Let the babe be hid from the world by concealing where necessary one's real thoughts and feelings from the profane and nourishing that young child because he represents the reality of each individual man. His hope as the redeemer of the world is not alone in the forgiving of men's sins, as it has been misrepresented, but rather in oneness with him through identification with the Christ and total immersion in its individual expression. Thus the power of the Christ as the leavening factor of light itself shall act in the personal worlds of men to free them forever from mortal doings and mortal opinions.
The mind of God and the mind of Christ harbor infinite concepts of joy and peace to all peoples; and in the world of the individual these are the bonds that enable him to sense, to feel, and to be that oneness which the angelic hosts enjoy and disseminate.
Here and now, by their love, I, Chamuel, say, in the name of God and the heaven of light that surrounds the earth, Peace and good will to people everywhere!