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To All Who Would Be the Pure in Heart,
When we pause in the midst of the day's occupation to consider the love of a babe or the face of a radiant child, it is to bring men and women of adult years and children who are maturing into the blessed understanding of the kingdom of God.
Life has challenged many, and many of the blessed children of God upon Earth are confused and wounded. The effects of life's chastening that has come to them - the trauma and the confusion, the pain and the discord - are all tangled up in the snarls of consciousness below the threshold of daily awareness. If the blessed people of the planet Earth would only understand that they cannot sow seeds of pain and discord in the lives of others and escape themselves, the golden rule would ring forth the joy of peace to the whole Earth.
What is it that men and women are really struggling for? Is it recognition? If it is, then let them recognize the truth and the reality of universal purpose. Let them understand cosmic ethic and the meaning of true love, and they will no longer do harm to any. The peoples of the world long for peace to come forth, but for different reasons. Some desire peace that they might build toward a more effective military victory. Others desire peace out of genuineness of heart and sincerity of purpose.
We who are of the angelic hosts, whose love for mankind is not conditioned by personal longings, hold a steadfast state of consciousness toward the people of the earth in the hope that they will learn the meaning of true love and thus express it to one another without fail. Wherever discord is express it is either the result of misunderstanding, through ignorance or happenstance, or it is the result of a struggle in the life of the individual to control his own pattern of recognition in the world.
Many create images of fear in the consciousness of others in order to dominate them. You ask "Why?" and your question is valid. It is always because they do not understand the nature of God. They do not understand the justice of the universe, and they seem to feel that they can get away with practices that are unjust. Well, they never do. The karmic record is ever present with reembodying mankind; for every form of disease, accident, and unhappiness that seems but a part of life's unfortunate circumstances is in reality the justice of the law returning full circle to those who in the past sent out harm to others.
But now we are captivated by the image of the Holy Child - the image of the Holy Child who while a babe is adored by shepherds and kings, the image of the Holy Child who, although rejected by the materialistic innkeeper, was hosteled in a stable amongst the animal kingdom as though he were unworthy to receive the best that life could offer him. Yet "the child grew, and waxed strong,"1 and he entered into his mission. The purposes that were his are the lot of everyone who will accept his calling at any age.
The mystery of the Holy Child is the mystery of the manifestation of the child within the individual consciousness. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. And the teacher appears as the little child within who shall lead men2 to great heights of truth, to the temple of consciousness where the doctors of the law will discourse with the universal flame that is the Christ, the living Word within.3 Then having overcome the struggles of the intellect and the passions of vain desire, the little child who overcomes them all will emerge in consciousness as the directing intelligence of the living Word.
What a privilege it is for men and women to perceive in the recycling drama of the universal Christ the baptism of cosmic grace upon every heart. We who long to impart to the children of men the greatest desire and reality of universal love caution men to be slow to condemn, to long for more grace, to be grateful when chastened, to be confident when faith is tested, to be more perceptive of the hand of God than to think because God's will is not produced in the world or in the realm of the individual at a given time that the configurations of universal power, wisdom, and love are not acting. Why, gracious ones, if you could see with the eyes of the Spirit, with the eyes of the archangels into every corner of reality as we do, your hearts would pick up so much courage that I think your overcoming would be hastened.
Yet it is not always granted unto men to see into the depths of reality; for in such seeing, such sensitivity of consciousness, many of them would also invoke unwittingly, before they had the power to resist it, the untransmuted portions of their own subconscious lives. Far better and safer, then, is it for individuals to take the instruction of the Great White Brotherhood, the instruction of the ascended masters, and to understand that the transmuting power of the Lord Christ must be invoked through the violet transmuting flame, through application in holy prayer, through meditation upon universal grace, through the simultaneous drawing forth of the energies and concepts of God, and through the markings of divine love that, little by little, are recorded upon the soul as correct reaction to the testings that come to the pilgrim upon the Path.
Know and believe that God is with you, that he is with the world, that he is hidden behind the appearance form, that he remains the King of Peace even behind the most distressing outer conditions, and that he is the Lord omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. By his stripes you are healed.4 And through the markings of these stripes upon your soul, as the chastening toward the goal appears, will come the joy of overcoming.
While all men come not into manifestation as the avatar, each lifetime and each day is a moment of opportunity upon the divine wind. You may rest there, serene amongst outer circumstances that challenge the soul. You may invoke the presence of Mother Mary, or Joseph the Protector (your beloved Saint Germain), and of all of the angelic hosts; for they will help you to attain your goal, they will help you to express to all men that love which is from above. You cannot afford to be conditioned by the world, and the world cannot afford not to be conditioned by the love that God can give through you. You are a point of conscious contact with the Spirit of Christ-reality for the regeneration of the earth.
I remain your angelic friend in truth,