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Blessed Ones Who Follow in the Way of Christ Regeneration,
There are those to whom the idea of practicing the principle of love is abhorrent. They have seen violence in the world, their early environment has been tedious and destructive. Let us remember that all have not had the same opportunity in life to witness those happiness-producing concepts that were cultivated around the hearthside by the early American women. Cottage industry, such as that advocated by the late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, has its own peculiar charm.
Early America practiced by the hearthside that form of busyness which produced a great deal of the necessities of life that are now readily available in the marketplace. To spin thread from the flax and then to weave it into homespun brought to the wearer the comfort of nature, of field, of mother, and of home. The love that is now reserved for a few fortunate babes in the land whose mothers yet knit or sew their tiny garments was in bygone days in America appreciated by children of all ages and by the father of the house as well. The rapid industrialization of the land, the growth of the cities, and an increasing technology have certainly taken their toll upon the youth of the world. Their perspective, which at one time seemed forward looking, has taken the attitude of a forward principle in reverse because of the misapplications of science.
Certainly the ascended masters do not advocate a return to spinning and weaving or to producing within the home all of the clothing and victuals which are needed by the average family, but we do advocate a realization by everyone that there is a source in nature from whence all things come. This source is divine love, for it is love that bursts through the fallow earth and expands stalk, blade, and ear. It is love that watches over the growing things of the field and observes their patterns and production for the good of man. It is love that stands guard over home and hearth and seeks to implant in each soul some realization of the worth of life's opportunity and the worth of life itself.
Life is a doorway through which men gaze into another realm, at times knowingly and then again unknowingly. Some are so busy creating imaginary pictures by the fire they have kindled upon their own hearth that they scarcely find time to examine the seed of universal reality implanted within them or to aspire beyond the self to understand the meaning of life and nature. Yet life and God, which are one, have endowed man with great richness in many ways. But an appreciation for life must be acquired; it must be learned. Many of the young today will find it necessary to unlearn much of that which they consider to be real. They are caught in the jar of the door of the ages.
Long ago, the records of history were not available as they are today. The recordings of mankind's infamy and the disturbing conditions which were his undoing were not perpetuated through education but only by the deep stirrings of unrest that people felt from within themselves, from their own etheric (subconscious) records. Today they have to carry not only the burden of their own unbalanced karma and the restlessness of their own unfruitful lives as the Spirit within them seeks to draw them upward into reality, but also they must stand face to face with the age-old problems of history all coming to the fore at once as intricate weavings to be redeemed.
What can we do, blessed mothers of America and the world, for the babes whom God has entrusted to us? What shall we do today in order that tomorrow may be better for them?
One of the things that all can do is to recognize that selfless action is required. The span of many individuals' lives has passed the zenith, yet many are groping to find themselves at the close of an earthly cycle. It does not take a great deal of searching to find others in life who are positioned in their thinking just a bit below the level of one's own range of spiritual comprehension. Share the deep longings you have within yourselves with others, being careful to enter only where you have first knocked and received the welcome to come in.
Friendship should be given to those that seek it and to those who appreciate it. If you thrust yourself, your ideas, or your love upon those who view your every act with suspicion, you may actually cause them to become hostile not only toward yourselves but also toward the world. You may then be accused of hypocrisy or base motivation, and little profit will accrue to anyone whereas great loss can come to all concerned.
The bulwark of prayer, the bulwark of cosmic attunement with the God Self of every individual, will enable you to develop a kinship with all life that can foster upon the planet greater understanding among peoples because through attunement with cosmos there is created an unlimited flow of Godly expression.
Today the art of spinning flax has, for the most part, been lost; but all can learn to take the thread of pure longing that connects each one with God and to spin in their meditations the substance of the Spirit. You can design and create swaddling garments of light to surround those who would resent your personal interference in their spiritual affairs. You can weave this thread upon the loom of your mind into pictures of home and hearth, of friendship, of the beauty of flowers, and of nature herself. You can hold thoughts of rosy-cheeked babes, of hope in the eyes of the children of the world, and of the calmness of the divine mind in the downtrodden and those whose earthly responsibilities are heavy. Through these pictures of perfection which you hold for the race, God will convey the greatest passion of his love and his supernal strength to all who can receive it and to his devotees.
You can take the cloth from the looms of your spiritual weavings and make of it a seamless garment1 to clothe yourself and your loved ones. You can understand that that which cannot be done outwardly can still proceed from within. Men may look upon you and say, "What does that woman or that man have that I do not? I would like it." But be on guard. For it is a flame, it is a torch, a lamp in the night that has been held by many Florence Nightingales and George Washingtons who have kept the watch or prayed on bended knee for those whom God entrusted to their care.
You must learn that you cannot always share the secrets and sacred moments of life with all who seem interested. Frequently it is best to let them wrest them from you, even as Jacob did wrestle with the angel for his blessing;2 for men always appreciate more that which they have sought with all their hearts.
Today the greatest hindrances to true spirituality in the orthodox movements are fear on one hand and insipid love on the other. First, they have threatened men in the name of religion with eternal burning and then they have followed up their threats by a wretched pleading for souls to come unto God. Many have been driven from God by fear while still others have been drawn to him by a false love. Yet I do not deny that among those who serve without understanding - without the correct interpretation of the Scriptures, having been subjected to many vicious forces that have worked through religious orders masquerading as angels of light - there are many sweet and devoted people.
We pray also for these and for all who seek to serve mankind. But we know that the Christed way, the way of regeneration, not only disputes with the doctors in the temple,3 overturns the moneychangers' tables,4 and recognizes a generation of vipers,5 but also extends living hands of light and saith unto all: "Come and dine.6 Unless ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye have no life in you."7
I remain your sister in divine love,