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The desire for self-improvement within man can best be realized by turning to the original pattern of perfection which the Godhead held and still holds permanently for every individual. When the fires of transmutation are kindled in the soul of man, they regenerate in him the inherent longing for progress along the line of divine identification that originated within the creation of cosmos.
A universe is born and it is one but is composed of many parts. Man himself is one, yet he is a multifaceted being. The traps laid for mankind are many and insidious; subtle and invisible, they turn the seeker into a hedge of sharp briars that he may be diverted to silken couches. To hold to a steadfast course in the middle of the road while calling to heaven for greater wisdom and an understanding of universal law as well as the law of man's own being is desirable. Unfortunately, however, individuals on the Path are so frequently swayed from the course which leads to Christ-magnificence that onlookers are amazed by their acts which belie their professed faith and betray the shallowness of their understanding.
The heavenly hosts and the archangels are familiar with the lying wait of subtle forces which seek to obscure in man the image of the Christ. We allow that the best defenses are to be found in that balanced state of consciousness that can always affirm, "I shall not be moved!" The plight of the victims of human trivia, who alter the course of their lives for a mere trifle of the human mind and its fanciful notions, is never a cause for rejoicing. But the stability of the mind of Christ which abides both within and above in the Divine Presence is to be relied upon as the indwelling intelligence, the blessed tie that binds each man to the heavenly regents.
Unfortunately, men and women today, wedded as they are to a cult of materialism, in the short span of their years seldom invoke the Christ-image for others much less for themselves; they seek instead to acquire every imagined good that they consider life to hold. But the greatest good of all, held within the heart of the Christ Universal has not been glimpsed by them at all and therefore, it is altogether absent from the desire of their minds, their consciousness, and thought.
This year the archangels and the heavenly hosts, seeing the degradations into which men have drawn one another, have aspired to create a great pool of transmutative effort. This focus that we have established as a solar magnet shall draw together every God-loving person on the planet in a valiant effort to stem the aggressive flow of senseless dogma and materialism and to replace them with oceans of the invincible flaming reality of hope in the advent of the Christ for every man.
Millions sit in darkness and observe the glitter and tinsel of human celebration as though they were a miracle of material profits, gain, and transient joy. But these go the way of all vain imaginings - they flit into the dark as the ghosts of a moment while hearts bow low to the pressures that each day return to men the recompense of their own karmic flow. The magnificent words of the Lord Christ, "My burden is light," should shine over the world as the dawn of man's opportunity to live in the consciousness of permanent reality.
The star that draws nigh shall become a sun,
And the darkness of a planet shall yield
To the face of the incoming One.
The guardian spirits who have kept the watch with the Lord Christ through all the centuries of the darkened machinations of the human mind remain steadfast still. The stirring in upper quarters of the hierarchy bespeaks of the cosmic necessity for action that will arouse the earth from its awful state of lethargy and the miasma of sense-longing. These subtleties have caused men to neglect the kingdom of God for a mess of pottage, and thus they have paid almost total heed to the outer garments of the flesh while they have carelessly handled the things of the Spirit from which life is always derived.
As the hierarchy in all of the great cosmic centers - the Cave of Symbols, the Grand Teton Retreat, the focus of the God and Goddess Meru in South America, the radiance of Shamballa that from the Gobi Desert covers the earth, the Resurrection Temple of beloved Jesus and Mary over the Holy Land, the beauty of Surya's retreat near Suva - joins with the magnificent temple at Banff, the focus of Archangel Michael, in a cause célèbre, we call for the amplification of all the benign intents and prayers of the children of God which have been borne down through the centuries to produce a miracle of stimulation that will penetrate through the darkness of men's minds and show them the image of the stirring Christ radiance in the manger of the world.
A star is born, a miracle is renewed, a covenant is reaffirmed; the archangels descend through the darkness and the light is reborn. This is no will-o'-the-wisp, flitting to and fro sporadically over the earth: It is a great God flame focalized, descending, penetrating the darkness as a shaft of Christ-radiance in order that men may trace the light to the heavenly interior. Finding there the pattern of perfection, they may gather the remnants of a lost heritage, garnering out of weakness the strength of purpose to change the world now before the causes of the Spirit are lost to an age and many go down into the dark where hope is not.
Since the days of Eden the children of men have longed to see blunted both thorn and thistle, to eat of the Tree of Life and to shun the knowledge of good and evil. Transmutation is the pathway that enables each soul to rise above human enfeeblement into the polished strength of the divine image. We cannot alter heavenly goals in response to mankind's sullen calls for help when the energies we release are consumed upon their own lusts. We can only answer the calls of the soul for the bread of heaven, for the substance of Christ-nourishment, for the strengthening in the world domain of divine ideals and the registering in mortal consciousness of the impact of the radiance of the Holy Family.
In an age when innocence seems to have flown out the window, the archangels reaffirm the covenant of transmutation that was made of old to restore innocence and virtue to their rightful place, to uphold in the eyes of the children of joyful expectancy the miracle vision that is not a mere bauble or bubble but a cosmic epic, glowing and expanding through the cycle of the years. Suffering no neglect by mankind to mar its supreme purpose, this covenant bestows in the sanctuary of soul-realization the comfort of God's concern for his creation.
The universe glows and burns with the ineffable majesty of myriad lights, twinkling on and off in the pulsation of the magnification of cosmic principle that became the Magnificat of Mary, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. ..." As the star burns in the world community today, the archangels call for a renewal of faith in the power of God to transmute, to change the earthly nature into the golden nature of the golden-age man.
Born as the babe,
Christ the light within the soul,
He goeth as the lad to Nazareth
To frame a world community,
A congregation of the Spirit.
He is the conquering image
That towers in every man,
Raising eyes to God,
To hope and the renewal thereof,
Laying the mantle of anointing
Upon each mission
Of which God is sponsor.