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To Our Many Sons and Daughters of Light,
The recalcitrance of human nature has been building over centuries of neglect of spiritual opportunity by embodied mankind. Their gaze has been focused outwardly. And whereas all life around them moves on in cyclic fashion, as falling leaves descend to the ground and die, they do not seem to reach out readily, eagerly, and hopefully to discover the inner purposes of life. Their consciousness - captivated, then, by the senses - is wound tighter and tighter around the shroud of human density which accumulates, layer upon layer, and affords less and less opportunity for perspective.
We are not standing idly by. One is being taken while another is left.1 Those who are being taken are the alert, the devoted, and the perceptive who are determined and do demonstrate their mastery over outer circumstances. Beloved ones, you should recognize the fact that all things are in a state of flux. In the main, man is moving forward and spiraling upward; but some, by reason of karmic violations, move upward only to fall backward into careless decay.
It should be understood by everyone who follows the sacred path that leads to God realization and Godly manifestation that man does not swoop from the first flush of the dawn of purpose into the twilight of sweet accomplishment. Victories are won in small portions or larger ones, as the case may be. None should be discouraged simply because he has not manifested the fullness of mastery which he desires. Let all understand that God's love for each one is exhibited in his watchful care, in his concern, and in his readiness to transmit progress to man as he is able to receive it.
Some individuals who are very sturdy, indeed, demand of the universe a great outpouring of progressive victory. They are able to receive it, and they expand very rapidly. Others who call for their expansion and the perfection of the Infinite, when they receive the promptings of the Holy Spirit are thoroughly shaken by heaven's response and sometimes they retreat to the rocks of mortal density where they prefer to seclude themselves from the world and live the simple life of the idle visionary or the child-man, involved in a host of games which they can play to while away the allotted time that God has given to them.
Still others have a different concept. They ask for a little advancement, or such as God feels that they are able to receive. They accept it when it is given, and they make steadfast progress. Heaven welcomes all progress. And whereas the Father seeks to glorify the Son in the ever-present now, the readiness of the Son is governed, in the main, by his free will. The greatest key for the advancing chela, then, is to call for the will of God to be stimulated throughout his entire being and consciousness.
It should be understood that the will of God actually beats man's heart, stimulates his digestive system, and provides the impetus for perfection throughout the physical domain. When interfering activities are allowed to intrude themselves upon the perfection of the divine pattern that is inherent in man - even within the cellular structure of his physical body - there is a jangle of inharmony, a friction between the perfect model and that which challenges the harmonious relationship of the parts with each other and with the whole, and disease follows. The quickening of man's entire consciousness and the harnessing of the four lower bodies for maximum efficiency is best accomplished, then, through his understanding of the nature of the divine will.
There has been a great deal of study and experimentation by members of the medical profession and other investigators in the material sciences concerning the effect of the mind upon the body. In that connection I would like to point out that the planet is one, but this idea is too big for most people to understand. Each nation is one, and this idea is also too big for many to understand. The community is one, and this idea some can assimilate. For those who are able to understand it, I must state that the body of the world - civilization as a whole - is subject to each individual's thoughts and feelings taken singularly and to the thoughts and feelings of mankind taken as a whole.
The thoughts and feelings of the masses have created famine, hunger, and disease, war, and natural disaster. The thoughts of the masses have conspired to shake the foundations of heaven itself and to bring forth avatars with divine missions to correct the conditions mankind have brought upon themselves through this untoward use of divine energy. The thoughts of the masses are a vital factor in the manifestation of individual and planetary happiness or unhappiness. Today, men are witnessing more than ever the spread of violent ideas through the mass media. I would remind that the spread of peace, of beauty, of harmony, of culture, and of reality can also be activated by the correct use of media, of science, and of the mind of man.
It is a great pity that many of the orthodox leaders of the world, with the exception of a few such as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, have not been active in teaching the people the power of positive thinking, of mind over matter, and the control of emotions. So lacking is the education of the people in these matters that many successful professional men actually project feelings of hostility against individuals and segments of society that are not to their liking, and they are totally ignorant of the great harm and the great karma that they thereby incur. Because of the dearth of right knowledge in high places concerning the laws governing thought transference, the thought-power of energy misused goes out into the world and stimulates frictions.
If the clergy and the laity of the orthodox movements of Christianity and other religious orders would wake up and recognize the power of right thought and right feeling to magnetize more of their kind and to galvanize right action, they could provide a sound basis for the power of right example in the world community. For as subtle and invisible as the stealthy vibrations or mortal wickedness and hatred that now radiate in the world are, the power of good would swallow up the power of darkness and light would be shed upon many of the problems now disturbing mankind if those to whom the masses look for leadership would take an uncompromising stand for righteousness (the right use of thought and feeling).
We cannot see how the world situation can get better without first getting worse unless people will turn now and recognize that the Christ view, the divine view, is not a neat little package which they can tie and hold within a healthy and glowing sect. It is not possible to remain aloof to the problems of the world and to the divine plan for the planet while you are seeking to work out your own salvation. Personal salvation, blessed ones, is dual. It affords each individual a means of finding himself, but it also requires that in finding the self one possess understanding of the needs of others and give that assistance to life which wisdom would dictate. We do not say that everyone should become involved to the same degree in service to the planet; there are many offices that need filling, and there are many tasks that need doing. But there are some things that all should do and one of them is to exercise the power of right thought.
When we consider what has made heaven what it is, we recognize full well that the correct use of the divine mind - of the mind of Christ, of the mind of the Logos - has ever brought about the greatest benefits to all creation. This attitude, and I reference the divine attitude, cannot possibly have in it the elements of hatred, distrust, and decay. True though it may be that there are crafty ones upon the planet who will use their questionable prerogative of individual action and say one thing while doing another, this should have no bearing on the standard that individuals or society as a whole should keep. For those who practice hypocrisy are sick, and they need a physician. One day they will find that the craftiness they have exhibited is a manifestation of their own warped vision of the world. They have thought, because they were exposed to poor examples in their immediate environment or in the world at large, that such conduct was permissible. Therefore, their way is to outsmart others before others outsmart them. This is not the correct attitude for the advanced chela to have and, for that matter, it is not a correct attitude for anyone to have.
The universe was created in basic trust - the trust of every part in the wholeness of the vast creative scheme, the trust of every part in the head and in the plan for the entire cosmos. Those who have little faith, strangely enough, seem to pin what faith they have in themselves. Unfortunately, they pin their faith not in the Real Self but in the pseudoself - in the carnal mind, in the outer manifestation.
With the thought and the desire to assist the chelas and to help the world to function in a golden-age manner as it emerges from the dark ages of the past, I propose the mobilization of every gift and grace that life can bestow to move man forward spiritually and progressively in every way. Thus should the technology of this age be employed together with each day's opportunity to direct into life its true and intended beauty.
In the name of the living Christ, I remain