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The contact with one's own Divine Presence, with what we may call the potential of the Source, is the greatest blessing any soul can ever have. Like many graces and gifts of life, the very ease which makes it possible for a man or woman to say, "Help me, Lord" and to know that the message will be transmitted to the Highest, causes some individuals to fail to appreciate this commodity of communication with God which is so ever-present. Wise is the man who learns not to take for granted the great potentials of God realization that are available to him.
Born of reverence comes the gift of greater understanding. Reverence for the intricacies of spiritual laws will enable the students of the light to examine, by contrast, the probings of material science and to see how spiritual science, the grace of God, and the teachings of the ascended masters do in reality supersede even the glories of the material world. As a matter of fact, material things do contain the recordings of the mind and thoughts of God even as do spiritual things. But the power to retrace the subtle gifts and graces of God that are hidden behind the veil of nature is often denied individuals by reason of the coarseness of their consciousness.
When we say that we advocate a refinement of consciousness and the development of the subtle sense of knowing divine grace, we are not making vain expressions but giving the most valuable instructions. When we pause to consider the wealth of ascended master instruction that has been given in the past as avant-garde spiritual information, we perceive that one of the reasons why so much of it has not been appropriated is because some individuals have limited our release of spiritual information according to certain misinterpretations of cosmic law taken from the sacred scriptures of the world.
For example, the admonishment "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it"1 certainly was not intended to forestall the privilege of the eternal Father to release from the treasure-house of his being - through his emissaries and teachers, through his prophets and revelators - transcendent information for each advancing age.
To "diminish" or to take away from the word is to delete the eternal truths, the timeless truths of God, from the consciousness by failing to recognize the divine intent hidden within the word. The "adding to the word" of extraneous matter is the adding of distortion from the levels of the human intellect to the pure teachings of the universal Christ which are the same "yesterday, today, and forever."2 On the other hand, the statement of the angel who released the Book of Revelation to John the Beloved "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book ..."3 signifies the fact that the Book of Revelation is an open book "to be continued" by God's appointed representatives for the enlightenment of every age.
Those students of the masters who understand that a great compendium of the law has been externalized in the past and has now been made a part of the akashic records of this age will realize more fully than those unfamiliar with our service to life that divine grace is more than anxious, when the student is ready, to let the teaching appear in the consciousness. It has been said many times that unused knowledge passes from the screen of the mind; therefore, it should be wholly understandable that advanced teachings are given to men in order that they may rejoice in the transcendent glories of spiritual knowledge and revelation and use them to improve their spiritual lot and that of their fellow men.
To be quite frank with you, as has been our policy, the things that God has prepared for those that love him,4 which he has yet hidden behind the veil of that which shall one day be released, are so magnificent as to spur hope in the hearts of the most downtrodden if they could only have what we may call "a sense of glimpse" of that which shall be.
The joy of the Father as he "worketh hitherto, and I work,"5 the joy of God as he expresses myriad revelations through those advanced teachers and Masters of Wisdom who serve with humanity, is very great; and the joy of the teachers themselves, as they pass the fingers of their consciousness over the beauties of the divine face, is very full.
Transcendence is progressive change, and the nature of God with all of its absolute beauty becomes more magnificent each moment. If it were not so, the advancing souls of the ascended beings would come to a point in the Absolute where all things would be attained and they would no longer experience that holy anticipation - that joyous expectancy for the cornucopia of progress and expanding awareness that is so much a part of the unfoldment of the divine in man at every stage of his development. It is, then, the nature of God to increase the vibratory action of the Godhead itself so that all of creation can always move progressively in the direction of greater happiness, greater achievement, and greater wisdom.
Many of the old and familiar stories given by the Masters of Wisdom down through the ages have been reclothed from time to time by the skill and love of the Master Weaver of stories of the Spirit. Just as men and women enjoy the skill of a great novelist, so do the ascended masters enjoy the repetition of those old but magnificent and ever-new teachings of the laws of life and light. If the students would understand this and would not allow themselves to be caught in the downdraft of human boredom that defrauds them of the marvels of the Godhead, they would joyously permit their consciousness the experience of retraveling over those old ideas of spiritual knowledge with a view to probing the hidden depths which may have been missed in the first, second, or third reading of the word of eternal truth.
When men consider the fact that born of human vanity is the perpetual search for new drama and sensational experience, it is easy to see how this search can become a trap for humanly intelligent beings whereby they completely overlook the glories of God that are hidden in the microcosm of self. Then there takes place a sort of mental tumbling and a wild emotional activity which captivates the mind. These arise out of the eagerness of the ego for attainment.
Students in search of spiritual reality trample upon holy truth again and again, and they ride roughshod over the road of spiritual progress failing utterly to perceive the subtleties and beauties of the Path. Once they have read what they consider to be the last chapter of their intellectual investigation of the mysteries of the universe, they feel there is nothing left in the cup of life. They have drained it to the last drop. And thus they conclude that this God who has not come forth to change and to elevate their human personalities does not exist, the search was invalid, and from the standpoint of the philosophy of nihilism - evolved through an inordinate search for reality - their own lives no longer appear worthy.
By contrast, the devotee of the Spirit squeezes the last drop, if I may use a colloquial phrase, out of each marvelous subtlety of manifestation. The law is his delight, and its inward parts6 are probed over and over again - both microcosmic and macrocosmic space being found to contain spiritual minerals and wealth beyond compare, jewels of illumination.