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A baby's low cry is the wail of the future. Our Father in heaven has vested in humanity a sovereign responsibility which was captured in the command, "Take dominion over the earth." Let the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing; they reap what they sow, but the strength of Zion as the illumined city of God captures the vision of the future.
Except the New Jerusalem descend into manifestation, the world shall remain a cage filled with the living dead and the weeping and gnashing of teeth. The constructive spirals have been released and souls garner in hope the substance of reseeding. When the long night of winter is broken, the fallow fields of the world will yield to the springtime sun; and the descending warmth of new hope to succeeding generations will carry the dreams that are spun of time to come. Shall those dreams follow the ever-new pattern of divine progression, of orderly overcoming of the dismal past; or shall they unleash upon mankind the sudden destruction which it is now within his capacity to produce?
Devious and ingenious are the ways of the purveyors of destruction who continue to create a battery of conflicting mortal opinions that assure mankind there will be no end of struggle. Yet in the realm of the Father, in the realm of the ascended masters, in the heavenly realms, joy without end resounds; and the fair magnitude of that city continues to draw the heads of men upward from the destructive elements that appear upon the mortal screen to the new hope that beams from the sky.
What shall we say, then, unto those who await a renewal of their strength? What shall we say to those who utter the Macedonian cry, "Come over into Macedonia, and help us," to which Paul responded with diligence? The world today, surfeited in internal conflicts within and between nations, abominable in its financial struggles and decaying in its culture, has lost much of the ability to read the akashic releases of the Brotherhood of Light.
The words, "We have seen his star in the east ...," spoken by the Magi who journeyed to my place of birth at Bethlehem, denote their ability to read the signs of the times and to understand the sign of reality that is always present in the individual stream of life and in each succeeding heartbeat. Thus, probing the secrets of the universe with which every man is endowed, wise men in every age are able to reach out into a future domain, letting the past bury its dead while exploring in the universe and in the mind of God the supernal reality of a hope that is continually renewed.
Seldom do men realize that each act of an individual or of a group of individuals has its own peculiar impact upon world thought and action. Thus, they reason that their own thoughts and opinions are relatively unimportant and without influence. If this were so then the law itself would be broken, for the law of the circle that returns to each beginning its own ending clearly reveals that impulse is sent out moment by moment by every individual. The need to qualify these impulses with divine attributes necessitates man's contact with his God.
Man does not stand alone, but he is a very real part of a vast cosmic whole. When the collective hands of a seeking humanity are viewed from higher levels, it is easy to see that the Deity cannot resist response to mankind's pleas, sending forth, then, the best sons of heaven into the arena of world turmoil in order that they, perchance, may point the way upward and provide a margin of great security for those who aspire to proclaim the goodness of God.
Those who say, "There is no God," put out the light of Life that is within and the lilt of divine joy that, wavelike, should flow thrillingly through the world community. As such qualities are transcendent they are noticed only by those whose sense perception of things divine is affinitized with heavenly vibrations. These stand on the qui vive, awaiting some sign from the "Commander" to move forward in obedience to his will, thus instituting in the world a greater onrush of freedom for all.
Midst the cycles of the passing years again and again the arm of the Almighty has employed those upon earth together with those in heaven in a united service to raise the level of mankind's consciousness. We can proclaim from the battlements neither a bulletin of victory nor one of defeat; for many small victories have created a sustaining action whereby the seed of God has brought forth much fruit, yet in the world of appalling appearances this at times seems insignificant.
Those who see inwardly and enduringly, those who possess the capacity to reach across the span of the years, are well aware of the trends of heaven and the directions thereof; but these also know full well that to embodied mankind who think along human lines, despair and discouragement may go hand in hand with their lack of perspective concerning the promises of the future. We refuse absolutely to give power to mortal consciousness that has for so long defrauded mankind of the Christ consciousness, each succeeding generation perpetuating this disenfranchisement among men.
We assert that the gift of love that descended from God's heart and embodied itself in my person is that same beautiful spark of divine sonship which in Adam sought to raise divine genius into manifestation upon the cross of life. Where God is, I AM; and with this thought in heart each victorious son of the cross may seize upon the vital essence of each cosmic germ of life as the contents of a grail cup infired with liquid living light. As men partake of this substance which is the body of God, it will instill in them a unity of purpose with our Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
Spatial explorations by mankind constitute but a superficial scratch which for practical purposes has made no real penetration into the inscrutable heavens whose story the angels are telling. Veritably, "Peace on earth, good will to men" continues to be the seemingly unattainable goal of a planet and its people. There are those who attain segments of peace in a relative sense and then lose it when challenged. There are others who in pride of person seek to be honored for spiritual attainment when they are yet in an infancy of initiatic manifestation.
My call of old, "He that will be great among you let him be the servant of all," is still the key to mastery; and it always will be. To serve is to live; for by the stripes men gather in service they are healed, and the world is made to feel and know the thoughts of the Eternal Creator. And oh, how magnificent are his thoughts! With what joy he has released into manifestation the components of the higher kingdom! The jangle of the world does not reach unto the throne of God, but the power of the throne of God penetrates even the depths of worldly thought and disperses its chaff as a mighty whirlwind.
I cannot fail to respond to the calls of embodied mankind who search out as to how they may be raised in service. Their calls do compel the cosmic answer, and each time they read my words or become imbued with my sense of service and spirit they are partaking of my body of incorporeal substance. As the divine fire falls upon the altar of each individual heart until it becomes a new heart of flesh, yielding to the ministrations of the thoughts of God, a new strand of hope connects heaven with earth.
Each individual who walks the way of regeneration, the way in which I have walked, becomes an outpost of our Father and a miniature focus of regeneration which can be expanded to become of such ultimate service as was my own mission. Did I not say, "Greater things shall ye do because I go unto my Father," and shall my words fall to the earth and remain unfulfilled?
Let not your hearts be troubled over all of the problems of the world or your own personal afflictions. It is veritably true that whom God loveth he chasteneth and 'tis done that men might bear greater fruit. Many seek the bane of material gain alone and would turn to spurn our cause if they thought that no profit existed in it for them. Yet long ago I said, What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and be a castaway?
In my Christmas message this year I desire to make known to those who are beginning the quest for soul reality that there is no higher mission than the mission of cosmic service. Truly, those in every walk of life who seek to serve mankind's needs in cosmic legitimacy can also serve the kingdom of heaven by carrying forth the ideals of the heavenly realm in all mortal doings.
When I spake long ago exhorting men to be their brothers' keepers, it was to record for time immemorial the ritual of radiant cosmic brotherhood that prompted the enactment of the cosmic drama of the nativity. How joyous it is to contemplate these universal events - universal in the sense that they are reenacted on the heart's altar of every soul who is striving to become the Christ - and the glorious fact that they circle round about mankind as the swiftly moving ages roll, reappearing again and again, a project memorial to the divine idea that first initiated them.
What joyous expectancy of heart, then, ought to be felt by every sincere seeker for truth as he realizes that the wonders of spiritually scientific discovery can be his today. Each one of you who desires to follow in the footsteps of the elder masters, in the footsteps of your God, may do so without fear of retreat. The need for truly dedicated followers of truth is greater today than ever before, for there are so many lifestreams on earth. As the population has grown, resistance to the light has also mounted. With the coming of modern laborsaving devices into manifestation, mankind have found their problems multiplied. Dalliance and discouragement go hand in hand. Is there anyone among you who can hold with us the vision of God's purpose through the year without end? Yet it must be done, for the vision cannot be lost.
I caution all, then, to esteem the power of faith, the power of hope, and the power of charity as coequal manifestations of the triunity of God. Without faith it is impossible to please God and hope is the regenerative power that unveils the future in concept preceding action; whereas charity is the abounding activity of life, pursuing cosmic ideals and overriding every discouraging factor.
What shall we say, then, to the little children who are coming into the world today whose renewed opportunity is in the hands of an elder generation, neither ascended nor always abounding in good works? How shall we release a spirit of unity into a body of disunited brethren? How shall we enfold all in light while jealousy and hatred as arrows shot out of the dark and into the dark are aimed at suppressing the light? What shall we say that shall shatter discordant manifestations and produce the harmony of higher spheres "as above so below"?
Without renewal and redetermination, without the continued effort to do well and to overcome, man must stand idly by while the ages pass. With renewed determination, with faith, hope, and charity, by holding our hands and doing God's will, man becomes involved in the flow of the cosmic stream. His energies dance with cosmic effort as he buoyantly seeks to enliven the consciousness of both the quick and the dead, he blesses those already quickened with a greater quickening as aspiration toward Infinity transcends itself; and he raises the sons of Adam from the stupor of mortal senselessness in order that they may become Christ-manifestations who shall spread the light of that star and contribute to its magnification.
Then its beams shall spread over the field of the whole wide world and the song of the angels shall be heard over the great mountains and plains as a planet resounding in harmony resolves to cast its future in the divine matrix of brotherhood, of cosmic outreach, of individual assignation to the sign of the God without in the universe who is also the God within, defining identity and refining being in manifestation.
The souls I know who progress the most each year
Are they who by perfect love cast out all fear -
Are they who see the need to be
A Christ-manifestation eternally.
Each test that comes they pass with glee,
For life to them is meant to free
From every every cord that binds and slows;
As fetters break soul consciousness glows -
And man is healed, the dead are raised,
The soul sings out, "O God be praised
For life, I AM, resurrection, too -"
I call to many and the few:
Oh, hear my voice and make your choice
That God and angels may rejoice
For peace does come by word well done
Fulfilling purpose from the sun.
Ye are my brethren, those I love,
My comfort manifest: Be my dove -
My peace I give you, live within it,
My peace portrtay, Oh now begin it.
Let's keep it up and raise it high -
Good-will anthem from the sky
Opens doors as Spirit soars
To join the chorus of the Lord:
Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, good will to men.
Lovingly, in the fashion of the heaven which to you I AM telling,