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Beloved Who Seek Your Victory!
How deep is the pattern of the divine in man! How mighty is the passion for victory! How man longs to overcome limiting conditions with that universal balance of Christly discrimination and Godly discretion which will give him his victory!
The world is often wedded to a necessary convention. But oh, if only the blessed people of this planet would understand that there is a time to shatter convention and to throw to the winds the caution that breeds discouragement because it stops mankind just at the moment when he is about to take the first step that will achieve his victory.
Again and again we have watched with intense desire to see an individual reach up for the victory that he longs to have only to stand by as he subsequently allowed doubts, fears, and discouragement to creep into his consciousness and upset his course. Do people suppose for one moment that doubt, fear, or discouragement is going to produce for them a miracle of happiness or blessing? Do men think that when they turn away from the light that the light is going to pursue them and then say forsooth, "Here is your immortal inheritance, I want you to have it"?
Blessed ones, the reverse is true. For those who turn away from the light soon find that the light turns away from them even as those who draw nigh to God find that he draws nigh to them.1 Men must develop - out of the seed-flame of Almighty God and his internal reality planted right within the forcefield of the body temple - the necessary determination to enter into their freedom. Freedom will not come to mankind simply because he desires it. Freedom comes about as the result of God's laws acting in the domain of the individual and expressing through him those righteous acts which attune him with the power and victory of his own God Presence, the I AM in every man.
God did not create one man to obtain his victory and another to go down to defeat. He created every individual to obtain his victory, and every individual is intended by Him to obtain it. The key to each one's overcoming lies within his own acceptance of his victory as a fait accompli - an accomplished fact - and the turning of his attention to those things that will produce his freedom and the miracles of life that intensify the flame of reality within the mind. In this manner, the consciousness is able to cut itself free from trivial and disturbing affairs.
Do individuals suppose that they can continue to wrong themselves and then find that they will be praised by the universe? The universe will praise the man or woman who will right himself, not wrong himself. Far too long have individuals walked in the pathway of doubt and fear, seeking first this way and then that way to obtain some understanding of the Infinite. Yet the natural simplicity of a little child that is a part of everyone would give them the answer if they would only attune with it.
I do not say that great benefit cannot accrue to the disciple who contacts one of the ascended masters or cosmic beings. But certainly if individuals were permitted to walk directly to the very throne of God and to touch his hand, unless they were able to retain the vibration of infinite love which he gave they could not possibly know their freedom. The real way to freedom, then, is for the individual to absorb within the flame of his own heart that tremendous God-joy which reaches out into the universe and bears good tidings of great things which shall be to all people.2
The Universe loves you. The Universe created you. The Universe is the oneness of Almighty God, the power of the Word that expanded and filled all creation. This is God's victory, your victory, over all outer manifestations. Did not the Father say through the Son, "All power in heaven and earth is given unto me"?3 Do you think, precious ones, that this power is given to one man to assert himself above another? Do you think it is an exclusive formula that one man is given and that another is denied?
Nay, I tell you, the power of the Universe is for all and I affirm it by my flame of victory. If you will call to me, I will anchor a flame of victory right within your own forehead. I will anchor it through your spiritual eye that it may rise and pulsate and give you a glimpse of your infinite, cosmic future. But you must have the faith to believe that I exist, and you must have the faith to believe that you exist. You must have the faith to believe that a response can leap across the space between our worlds and convey to you that which God has already conveyed. Then by reactivation in principle you will receive that gracious gift of life - the animating principle of immortality that is the flame of your overcoming victory.
You do not need to die. You need never cease to be. But you do need to identify with your own reality which holds in trust for you the gift of immortal life. Through identification with that reality, you become one with it and there is no power in the universe that can ever take from you your victory over death - the last enemy that shall go down to defeat4 - because you have fulfilled the fiats of Almighty God and manifested the power of the living Word.
Individuals should understand that this is a simple process of identification with God, but once entered into it becomes complex because the nature of all creation is embodied in the central power of the Word that went forth and created man - the Word I AM. When men understand the power of that Word, they will see that the I AM claims for them the reality of themselves. But when this power is applied to trivial conditions which men impute to themselves by using the name of God I AM before such words as sick, tired, discouraged, unhappy, angry, etc., they weaken themselves spiritually by accepting these negative qualities and entering into their vibratory action.
I AM Victory, and I come to bestow my blessing upon those who will accept it. I AM Victory, and I confess to you that God is my victory. There is never any need for anyone to be ashamed to acknowledge the power of the invincible cosmic honor flame of Almighty God. In heaven's name, what is the world coming to when individuals feel they can deny the Presence of life that has given them birth and opportunity and every other good and gracious gift which they enjoy?
The world belongs to Him and He belongs to you, and this belonging is the greatest conveyance that has ever been made. Unfortunately, the world neither understands nor accepts it; for they dwell in the obscuring clouds of mortal consciousness, of things visible which in themselves do not have the power to perpetuate life but only to manifest it temporarily and fragmentarily.
All of nature - earth, air, fire, and water, the very elements of which your body temple is composed - must come into obedience unto cosmic law and to Spirit; for the Spirit of God that giveth life,5 the Spirit of your own mighty I AM Presence, is your victory and it is within you. If you will only accept and understand this fact, you can have the dominion that the Christ intended you to have over all outer conditions including the manifestation of the natural man which houses the Spirit.
As I return momentarily in thought to the idea of one man possessing exclusively this quality of dominion, I want to say that there are those upon earth who would like to convey the fact that they and they alone are the Infinite God. This is darkness and shame, for the gift of the Infinite God is given to all, and the spiritual loaf of his love was broken into many crumbs that fall as sacred Eucharist from his table. Your own mighty I AM Presence itself is a fragment of the whole that has within itself the power of the whole, the quality of the whole, and the ability to communicate itself to man and to realign his four lower bodies.
Jesus said long ago, "I and my Father are one6. ... Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us"7 is our prayer. Let all understand that oneness does not mean loss of opportunity. God, if he desired to do so, could long ago have absorbed into himself all of creation by a fiat of his mind. But he preferred to take mankind into his heart as conscious, God-free beings possessing the equality (the energy-quality) of all eternity. He wants them to possess every quality that he has in dynamic abundance, retaining for them forever that wondrous happiness of utter givingness which the Presence of life is.
I AM Victory. You are Victory. God is Victory. All of life is Victory. When men understand this truth and abide in it, when they dwell in the buoyant consciousness of this Victory, each individual monad will begin daily to express a greater measure of that cosmic dynamism which life desires to give to every man.
Now let us seize this opportunity that is before us! Let us change the world by the power of infinite love and the acceptance of victory for every man! Let us deny the power of outer conditions to limit any man, woman, or child upon the planet! And let us see if we cannot produce for this age, here and now, the miracles of Cosmic Christ victory!
From the heart of the Great Central Sun, I AM