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Dust settles but to rise. Fanned by the winds of opposition, ungoverned energies seethe in the world and disquiet the strength of divine purpose even as precious stones are covered by the settling dust. The waters of emotion, as human wiles in play, combine to produce the impediment of mud. The bane of mortal struggle can be stopped; the law of infinite love can be employed by many; and the few who inspire can draw from cosmic treasuries the energies that for ages have been held in escrow awaiting the pledge of sincere unities.
Nothing has changed in the eternal purposes, but the weariness of mortal custom betrays the glow of heaven's continual ministrations. From whence cometh this perpetuation of dullness that blunts penetration by the seeker whose heart as a grail retains faith in universal purpose?
Now we draw nigh to the cyclic fashion of celebration when the rectangular concept is discarded for the old image that flowered in ancient knighthood, the image of the Round Table where every man may participate in the glow of the Central Cosmic Sun.
Was not the comfort of the Christ born for all parts of life? And were not all intended to bask in the supernal radiance of cosmic intent? Behind the visible and in the realm of symbol, simile, metaphor, folktale, myth, and drama lies the effortful intent of the cosmic hierarchy to bring about the dawn of greater light upon the path that shall awaken in man the sense of his own mission. Each mystical conception that emanates through the many spiritual organizations and shines upon both just and unjust has its noble purpose. But the carnal lies take their toll and many men prefer to swat gnats upon a camel's back rather than to steer toward a salutary goal.
As I bring forth in this blessed season my reminders to the sincere, it is to assure you that the efforts of heaven to stimulate mankind and provide new hopes to a waiting world continue and will always do so. We are not moved by human discord and senseless disunity. We are moved neither by mortal ignorance nor by the elements of decay that sit as vultures upon mankind's consciousness.
We have sought the Holy Grail. We have heard the strains of consuming passion and felt the thrill of ecstasy that heralds the approach of the Christ-image forming within the soul. Effort is required on our part to penetrate the shard of mankind's recalcitrance, to assist him in an hour when his doings are ever turned away from the face of the light. But God in his infinite mercy, as we have sought him, has also shed the brilliance of his light within our souls and the flow of mercy he has not staunched.
During the coming year mercy will cause the light to increase even in the teeth of a greedy ignorance that yields no promise to mankind of even reasonable security in the world domain, that provides no full measure of hope to the hearts of the mothers of the world, nor any approach of the glowing reality of cosmic purpose in the world chalice. World brotherhood is the means whereby men can through noble efforts carve out of the world order the tangible body of Christ that unites all hearts in one grand design.
Men wish to reap that which they have not sown -
They wish to take that which is not their own;
They wish to shun that which could atone.
My beloved brethren, the wall of human substance encasing the world has never been so dense nor has it ever been composed of less of the substance of reality. The trivial nature of most of the divisionary problems between individuals, families, nations, and ideologies is a ridiculous price to pay for world disharmony. Multiplied soul by soul across the faces of many nations, mankind's problems become a blight upon nature and a despot enthroned as a many-headed beast in the world community.
Is it any wonder, then, that heaven feels the passionate need to exhort you who are our beloved friends enlisted in the cause of service to mankind - you who seek your own renewal in the heavenly covenant and escape from mortal thralldom - that you will not grow weary in prayer or in well doing, that you will not forsake our word of old, "Thou shalt ... decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee"? For it is our earnest prayer that you will not neglect in the joy of Christmas and the joy of the angels to support the strong framework that must undergird the spiritual community of the earth and that you will prepare to endure the hard brunt of psychic attacks that are leveled against our best warriors.
Remember that after the birth of the young child it was necessary to secrete him out of the land of his birth and into Egypt. In the darkness of Egypt the great light shone and the call of the prophet of old, "Out of Egypt have I called my son," was prophetic of the Christ even as it is today prophetic of the emerging soul who comes forth from the bondage of Egypt, from the bondage of sense consciousness, from a sense of struggle and restlessness into the calm, steadfast light of the mind of God that contemplates eternal virtue and value as supreme within the domain of the individual.
The Great Emancipator is the star of His wonder: It is the sense of God's magnificence, the understanding that must clothe man as a mantle, the virtue of true purity, and the realization that eternity which may live in a moment is not always born in a moment. The travail of effort spans time and when the fullness of that time cometh, it bursts as a new star into view.
That which you have called spadework, that which seems to be vain effort is never in vain if the goal is held in view; and there is no time like the present hour to intensify and intensify and intensify the fervor of the soul that the law requires in the consciousness of every pledged brother of our Table Round. As of old, the knights of the Spirit hold high their shining lances of light. We cannot let the flower of divine idealism become a mere fanciful idea or even an uttered word unacted upon.
The alchemy of action must be our cry, for the Christ Militant, as in the vision of John of Revelator, must ride forth on a white charger. The purity of the Christ in the consciousness of the children and youth must be surpassed in the adult community by the passions of Christ-example. This should be extended in hope to the rising youth who still retain in consciousness the image of the bad examples that they have seen in the past as blight upon the glowing escutcheon of righteous armor.
The world community needs a renewal of integrity, of virtue, of purity, that His star may renew itself in each individual. The past is prologue; the future glows as a sun of hope. Let us magnify it, let us sustain it, let us expand it, let us become it. God wills it and awaits our will to join his own.
I love you as you love God's will,