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I will meditate upon Thy law day and night. Men of good will, the Christ-image is often observed as a thing apart from the self. The frame of its identity seems to belong to another. In our proclamations to men this Holy Season, we advocate that a new sense of Christ-reality be born in each individual as the best part of holy wisdom.
In order to evoke the radiance of the Divine in the universe, one must first invoke it within oneself. There is no lever of spiritual power or grace that is capable of exercising any degree of control in the world of form that is not first evolved out of the consciousness of the individual. Here is the part of holy wisdom: It is to see that it is not enough merely to observe the pageant of the times; on the contrary, the requirements of heaven are that men shall embark upon a spiritual quest and that they shall not be satisfied until they achieve a complete reeducation of consciousness and a reidentification with the masterful, radiant manifestation of the light that of old framed the world.
Nightfall and the long shadows of twilight create in man's consciousness a nostalgia for the greater light. With the passing of the physical sun from view, men's hopes reach out in the darkness of the night and evoke, through the hidden hungers of the soul, the guidance of the Invisible. The response of the angelic hosts and the reality of their ministrations unto men must be reaffirmed. It is a travesty and a source of great sadness to many among embodied mankind who know of the reality of the angels, even as it is regrettable to many of the great Masters of Wisdom who serve mankind's needs, to behold that by ridicule and the sowing of the seeds of doubt, men in the outer world deny the existence of the angelic hosts, relegating us to the convenient category of "mythological personalities."
We desire no undue honor from men, but we understand full well that where there is no recognition of the heaven above by the earth beneath it is difficult to establish that bond of cosmic assistance whereby greater good can flow into the world of mankind. We welcome, therefore, in the name of holy illumination, the service of those who can understand the need to create a bond with our octave so that individuals among mankind may become radiating focuses of the love of the angelic hosts.
During the Christmas season and throughout the year, those capable of maintaining contact with higher octaves of light and of acting as antennae for the angelic hosts must keep their consciousness high and in accord with the mind of the angels, which is in truth the pure, unsullied reflection of the radiance of the mind of God. Thus can the individual become an antenna as well as a chalice in which the ascended hosts can store the residual spiritual magnetism of cosmic adoration, illumination, and power to flow out into the world and render such assistance as the moment may require.
You perhaps have heard of the expression used by some among men, "We are all prayed up." This reference to the requirement for man to store the radiance of higher levels in his four lower bodies as well as in his three higher bodies is best brought out in the account of the woman who touched the hem of the garment of the Master Jesus and thus received of the residual magnetism of healing and illumination from his blessed consciousness. The loss of virtue was known by the Master and he recognized the need to replenish it.
It is indeed a pity and the cause for deep concern to us that many among mankind are so self-sufficient in their ever so limited expression of life that they have no real sense of the need to contact our octave. When the stream of time moves sufficiently onward, swiftly flowing as it does, they will soon find, although it may be too late, that their lack of attunement with the higher octaves of light will not enable them to meet their needs in the invisible world or to function with that freedom of soul-movement which is ever the forte of the god-realized man who knows the meaning of angelic assistance.
In the story of the Master Jesus in the garden, the angelic hosts come into prominence also, and throughout the scriptures the records of the angels' contacts with mankind are well established. We are a very real part of the cosmic creation and we desire, in the brotherhood of angels, men, and elementals, to establish that bond of higher communion with man and nature that will enable the temple of God truly to descend into the forcefield of men and elevate the whole creation.
With the approach of the advent of celebrations, as the hearts of men and little children everywhere are turning more and more to the greater light, we urge mankind to determine that the love potential that they will invoke from the heart of God will be greater in the world order than ever before because the need is so very great. The violent outbursts of hatred that have raged in the past year have been legion; and, therefore, mankind's greatest source of protection during the coming year shall be in the establishment of greater measures of Cosmic Christ love that shall beam to all people.
One of the most unfortunate manifestations in all relationships between peoples is the desire for vengeance and the attitude of unforgivingness which denies to one's "enemies" the blessing of forgiveness. This the angels deplore, for there is nothing that corrodes the life opportunity of the individual as much as hardness of heart - the failure to forgive. Such failure opaques the pathway that would connect the individual with the God Presence of the one whose debts he is unwilling to cancel from the records of memory and consciousness. And, inasmuch as life is one, this withholding aborts a portion of the divine current which would flow back into his own world as abundant blessing and prevents him from becoming a whole, self-realized man.
When scientific law is understood, men, although they may not forgive for the sake of the one against whom they may have hardened their hearts, will at least forgive that one for their own sakes. Here is the part of greater wisdom. Let forgiveness, then, as an ointment, as an anointing to the body of Christ upon earth, flow between all religions and all creeds. Let the voice of the archangels as holy wisdom be heard, echoing down the corridors of centuries of old, encrusted hates, dispersing those hates into the temple of forgiveness where the flame of his mercy consumes all - even the memory of supposed wrongs - and the Christ can be glorified in the newly established harmony of hearts.
What joy there will be in heaven as repentance among mankind becomes universal. For every hatred and every lack of forgiveness stems from ignorance of cosmic law and overemphasis upon the importance of the individual as opposed to the supremacy of the Universal. The individual is truly important only when he serves the needs of the Universal. When he seeks merely to be served by the Universal, he denies to himself the return of infinite potential and renders himself most finite.
The lines of cosmic effort move ever in the direction of universal good will and thus the cry "Good will toward men" was unqualified, flowing to all the world even as the quality of mercy is not strained as it descends to enfold the imperfect manifestation. With the simplicity of a little child we seek to lead the manifold intelligences of a crystallized humanity into the sea of universal acceptance of the reality of God to his entire kingdom. The beauty of the Christ is in the universality of his light, of his mission, of his wisdom eternally to be the saving fount of God-magnificent expression to all the earth.
Truly the light shines in the darkness; truly the light that shines has not been comprehended, truly it may be known.
Truly I AM for the spread of holy Christ-illumination to all the earth,