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Hail, Sons and Daughters of Faith!
The blazing light of faith that is required by man in the process of precipitation is affinitized so completely with the mighty threefold flame of life - love, wisdom, and power - that we must, in giving forth our instruction as we approach the period of winter solstice, remind all seekers for truth to examine once again the nature of faith.
Faith, "the substance of things hoped for,"1 requires illumined hope and is best invoked where the joy of love is sustained. Your feelings are most important, children of God upon the planet Terra, for universal law is ubiquitous. As above in higher realms, so below the same beautiful sustaining law will produce those miracles you seek.
There are many factors governing the release of man's desires into manifestation from the realm of the unformed. All of these should be ultimately known and balanced, one in support of the other - as is the custom in higher octaves - in order to assure to individuals the reality of joyous precipitation. Many upon earth are concerned with the precipitation of money and things without recognizing the marvelous joy in precipitating states of consciousness that actually become divine ordinances in action.
When individuals understand that it is not reasonable to suppose that the nature of God in its wholeness can be manifested overnight by mortals (who have separated themselves from wholeness for so long), but that a bit portion - which one of the masters once called an "Alpha-bit" - can be externalized and can bring the delight and joy of minor achievement preceding major accomplishment, they will not allow themselves to entertain feelings of discouragement over what may seem to be slow spiritual progress. Many feel the gnawing pressures to escape from the bondage of the flesh and the pitiful situations in which they find themselves, while others do not recognize the fact that the challenges of life with all of their provocations are the means whereby souls attain to a state of universal blessedness.
Who can deny that the octaves of light have such magnificent glory as to be almost incomprehensible to embodied individuals? But by a like token, who can deny that this buoyant manifestation would scarcely be enjoyed by individuals who had not first passed through the lesser octaves of light where they were able to master circumstances step by step. For there they might come to realize that the happiness they sought was not to be found merely in the possession of worldly goods or of one another's souls but rather in contributing to the joyous expansion of the universal Presence everywhere, by multiplying the "loaves and fishes" of providential reality, providing self and others with spiritual graces in a true emulation of the Lord Christ.
When we pause to consider from our octave the dramatic unfoldment of the life of the Master Jesus, we cannot help but feel a surge of Godly desire to portray it once again and to communicate to each one of you the great joy that an individual can experience as he begins to externalize his own victorious Christ achievement.
We who are a part of the angelic host and of the angelic realm know full well that the brotherhood of angels, elementals, and men must - in this time of Aquarius' approaching - enter more and more into the beauty and joy of balanced cooperation if mankind are to come to that state of awareness where the universe in its cosmic manifestation will be made understandable and real to them. For far too long the forces of nihilism that seek to "free" men from dogma and religion have taken men down the thorny road of self-destruction without their awareness of just what was happening.
Those of you who have faith do not realize what it is to have your faith destroyed. Those of you who have love do not know what it is to be without it. But those among mankind who have been hurried across the border into the domain of hatred through conspiring circumstances and nefarious forces often become unwitting tools of the legions of darkness who incite a great deal of unwholesome activity in the world of form. Such trafficking in egoism eventually robs men of their spiritual birthrights and of the joy and happiness of higher octaves that are won only through Christ realization.
Some among men have a peculiar misunderstanding concerning the purposes of life. They feel that spiritual things exist only in the distant hereafter, in the realm of the speculative, and thus exercise no appeal to them. They want bread here and now. They want joy here and now. And they feel that those who spin otherworldly pipe dreams, as they would call them, only involve men in a loss of time, energy, and opportunity that might better be used to achieve personal happiness. And they are not going to be trapped by the devices of religious hypocrites into following that which they have been taught to scorn - no, never!
Blessed ones, ponder for a moment the fact that many unbelievers have had their faith destroyed in past and present embodiments - sometimes through disillusionment with misguided and misguiding religious leaders, and sometimes by the sudden impact of their own returning karma. Unable to face the responsibility which truth brings, they have crossed the border line into the domain of disdain for all that is religious and virtuous. Some have become followers of dialectical materialism and a humanistic ethic, seeking rewards they have not earned. And when their bestial natures are aroused and they feel that they might lose something in a personal way, they can be very difficult even to the point of becoming a menace to the entire social order.
You say, "What a tragedy," and we echo your sentiments. But we wish you to be alert to the problems of the unfortunate even as you are aware of the glory of Faith so that the exuberance that you feel for the cause of righteousness will prompt you to invoke the light in such unity and intensity as to dispel the shadowed forms that have been cast upon the world by the unillumined. Then you can invoke our assistance in building reservoirs of light into which the ascended masters and angelic hosts will literally pour their transforming love and faith for the upliftment of all.
When this love and this faith are made tangibly manifest to the world through the activities of your lives, it will indeed be a united activity with angels and men and with Nature herself - with the blessed devas who express your joy in the world around, in blue skies, verdant hills, sparkling waterfalls, and all of the glorious manifestations in nature. The angelic hosts will come in with great tides of spiritual feeling, the tangible power of God, to produce the golden-age miracles that are forthcoming. And men who today are without faith, who have been shuttled across the border into the realm of darkness, hatred, and mistrust, will be caught up in the joy and glory of that faith which is the goodness of God in every man.
Remember, blessed ones, that whereas they deny, you affirm. But what is it they are spending so much energy in denying? If it is not real, why do they not simply leave it alone? We, on the other hand, who have contact with the Most High - and a knowledgeable contact at that - are able to weld together the entire body of God in the universe through the power we transmit over spiritual cables of love and light. This means that you are not alone, but all one with that which will produce and has produced all joy and gratitude, all satisfaction, all accomplishment, all grace, all loveliness, all reality, and all truth everywhere, worlds without end.
The skyey message of the Christ "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will"2 goes forth as an activity of divine faith, and the body of God is summoned to the coming of the King.
Radiantly, I AM full of faith for you,