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Beloved Children of the Flame of Liberty,
The thrust of man's desire for liberty has its origin in the very sun center of the universe. Man was conceived in the expansive flame of liberty from God's own heart. This reality, dimmed now by intruding factors, remains the goal of the wise and the sincere.
The billions who call the planet Earth home are broken fragments of a universal oneness. The liberty of oneness has been lost to the multifaceted sense of separation and thus, beneath his own fig tree and attached to his own vine, man goes his separate and several ways.1
No specific good would occur in the community of being by forcing the separated segments of the Universal into an unwilling alliance; for there the liberty of oneness would be ignored and the pull of the senses, like snorting wild steeds, would create its tides of restless energy to pull man away from the balance of true being. Only the pull of the sun center of universal reality, only the recognition by mankind en masse of the great laws governing cosmos and the spread of understanding about cosmos can develop within the unfolding identity of the individual a sense of the harmony of universal liberty.
The masters of wisdom in their great outreach in every age and at the beginning of this century have not neglected to inform mankind about the reality of the Brotherhood. The cloak of religion, which has smothered rather than swaddled mankind's beginnings in truth, has masked the face of creative expansion, set brother against brother, absorbed mankind's energies in fruitless struggle, and weakened the plan of the Brotherhood for the unity of this age.
As we inspired the leadership of Abraham, Noah, Moses, and other great patriarchs, as we spoke through Zarathustra, Apollonius of Tyana, and Jesus, as we released holy wisdom to Socrates, Plato, and Emerson, so did we come through Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. We have also released our instruction through other adherents of divine truth, both metaphysical and occult, until the occult law was set aside and the pure passion of the flames of liberty and truth was unleashed in the early 1930s.
Man - caught in the miasma of his separatist dream, deigning to be fooled - has created a thousand foolish splinters that have taken him from the truth center of his being. It is not that the germ of reality and truth is not active within the many spiritual organizations upon earth; it is simply that individuals do not grasp truth when they find it but prefer instead to form their own anthropomorphic God (a god made in their own image) and to embrace concepts that are foreign to reality.
How now shall we draw every man to the truth center of his being and thus unite the wanton children of this age? Beloved ones, in reality the hearts of men are hungry; their hands reach out and their minds soak up information of all kinds. It is up to us to call to God that they might be filled with his holy wisdom and to trust his higher wisdom to reach those who cannot be persuaded by outer means.
Your beloved Hilarion, Chohan of the Fifth Ray, when embodied as the Apostle Paul said, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."2 Thus do those who are wise as serpents but harmless as doves3 understand that liberty is often self-denied by those who have great spiritual attainment. The meaning of the phrase "spiritual wickedness in high places" is high spiritual development without assimilation of the divine character. This brittleness of the spirit is a disease which threatens the most advanced disciples; its cure is that humility of heart which retains its hunger for the Spirit of the Lord which is the Spirit of Liberty. The Spirit of the Lord that is the Spirit of Liberty is also the Spirit of Cosmic Unity that places the cosmic good of all above the aggrandizement of self.
It is a strange thing, blessed ones, but from time to time even some of our advanced chelas are caught in delusion's net, singing their own praises and accomplishments whereas the law clearly states that the Lord is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him.4 If men would only grasp this principle and rest in the blessed assurance that God does reward well doing even as his laws bring full circle the reward for iniquity they would not feel the need to "blow the trumpet," as you say, in honor of themselves and they would be more hesitant before speaking the sharp word of criticism of another.
If the Spirit of Liberty is to be honored, it must be honored not only by the man of low degree who rejoices in the hope of his exaltation, but also by those older sheep of the Lord's flock whose hoary heads of wisdom are crowned not in order to bring personal adulation but to focalize spiritual offices of great responsibility.
The time has come when we shall muster in all who would make their calling and election sure5 on behalf of the Brotherhood the determination to give their all to the cause of liberty. The world welters in turmoil, confusion is apparent; yet we dwell not in the sense of this unrighteousness, for we hold up the crown of understanding and the Spirit of Liberty to the eyes of men. More precious than rubies and diamonds or the treasures of the world is the Spirit of Liberty. By this Spirit great nations have arisen, monumental scientific discoveries have been made, and prophetic revelations have been released.6
The miracles of Christ regeneration have brought new masters to heaven's fold and sons of victory out of the density of mortal delusions. Graduates are these from the schoolrooms of earth - men and women tried and true, tested in the fiery furnace of devotion to universal principle.7 Shall those who would follow in their footsteps "trailing clouds of glory" scatter their birthright by the whirlwinds of their own nostrils as they seek to gather for themselves objects of personal gain or shall they commit themselves into the keeping of the justice of universal law and thus release into the world the blessings of their purified hearts?
All religion that has had its origin in the Spirit of Truth ought (1) to bring to mankind a greater awareness of his divine potential, (2) to serve as a bond of union 'twixt the Brotherhood of light and unascended man, and (3) to illumine mankind as to the pitfalls of worldly living. These pitfalls are not absent from the spiritual path, not by any means. No immunity has been guaranteed the advancing chela. Indeed, those who consider themselves wise in the teaching are expected to be more alert than those sweet young disciples whose laughing hearts first come to the newness of divine understanding.
The business of living is a serious business, but it can be indulged with a steadied merriment and a bubbling joy. The mists that have clouded the minds of men must be dispersed. The sun of hope must rise as many hands unite to pluck the harmonic strings of genuine brotherhood.
The sons of liberty will rally and the world will know the mounting passion of hearts who love freedom. These love Freedom enough to hold high her torch, to look 'round about them and to pick up the debris that the flame will gladly transmute. No service is too lowly for these, for they follow in the wake of angelic vows offering eternal service to God.
Does a humble heart need assistance? They serve. Must a thankless task be done? They do. Shall a seemingly archaic matter require study? They apply their minds. Is organization needed? They organize. Whatever the exigency, they reach up to the abundance of God, magnetize it, and offer it in the service of the light.
The gods of Baal and Moloch have their adherents today; as Antichrists, they have their servers.8 We uphold liberty and universal purpose. This year of decision, sons of liberty, hearken and live and let live.
For the peaceful advancement of the golden-rule order and all mankind, I AM