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The trial of triumph continues in the world of form. The pressures of the Antichrist, the brutality that is always human in origin and never divine, can do no more than waste energy and release tears. The consolation of eternal truth cannot be moved. Men may polarize themselves to manifest imperfection with its attendant pain, but the immovability of the Christ is a rock in the cosmic domain that remains a rock amongst mankind.1
What stunning facts are immortal laws. How they burst into bloom upon the deserts and wastelands of vanished opportunities when the soul first asserts its willingness to accept the healing hands of the cosmic Presence. Giant cosmic truths, lowered into the crucible of the microcosmic Manchild, create a renewed determination in the seeker to accept the flood tides of divine grace that issue forth paeans of hope and dissuade him, time after time, from moving in the wrong direction.
To have cleared vision should be the desire of every seeker for God. What a pity it is that individuals are satisfied to bask in the questionable comfort of limited knowledge while the quest for the Christ Presence continues in highest realms by those who have already attained and won their freedom. If ascended beings and angels of high stature continue the pursuit of the fiery reality of God, can men - made "a little lower than the angels"2 yet bearing the potential of a greater crowning reality - afford to deny themselves through a sense of complacency or attainment?
I recall full well the "dress rehearsal" of the angelic hosts which began over the plains of Bethlehem and culminated in their manifestation to the shepherds. The magnificent choral praises lifted unto the Godhead trembled the fabric of the universe, and all of nature sang in unison with our choruses. But the great diapason occurred at the manger, at the place where the young child lay.
By the time the shepherds and kings had all come together and knelt to pay their homage, the gentle whisperings in the heart of Mary had become a flood tide, contacting the great ocean of God's heart. For there in the chamber of her heart, enlarged to fill the whole world, the angelic host gave the finale - their performance of an oratorio to the incoming child. And the wonder of his love, in response to the ministrations of the angelic hosts, went forth as an overlay of fiery compassion to the world - a cup of light, an embryonic grail whose filigree patterns were to become the dramatic life episodes of his gracious ministrations to the children of men.
What courage was born in that young heart, what firmness of decision, what power of glorious recall of his experiences at inner levels with the invisible but powerful hierarchy of light. The extent of brotherhood in the Christ has never been measured, for here indeed is the "binder-up" of the wounds of the world.
Here are the healing hands
Extended from Godhead to simplest knave.
Here is the hand of courage,
Remaining always unafraid.
Here is the power of the star
In firmament of honor bright,
The Spirit of the Grail
Caressing all the mantle of the night.
Its glow suffusing childlike minds
He is all the world caressing,
Opening eyes of all who are blind.
See the billowing of his garments
Shining like a sun of hope.
Love is changing mortal vestments
By the power Word he spoke.
In the Babe's mild smile
The high priest stands
Behind the outer form.
Truly, God in man does manifest -
Truly, Son of God is born.
Men and women of the planet Earth, let not your hearts be troubled3 by outer scenes that are the culmination of error's attempt to dethrone the Prince of Peace. Men love darkness rather than light, for their deeds are evil.4 But there is bright hope in the hearts of millions, and the downtrodden continue to raise eyes to the hills for help. The subtle calls of the hearts of the children of men are heard from on high and deliverance is at hand.
In the seeming tragedy of fire, flood, pestilence, and earthquake, in the signs of the times now appearing, the hearts of some are quaking5 whereas others are lifted up to know that the incoming of the glorious kingdom of God is at hand. For centuries men have decried their own freedom. They have mocked the children of God and men of faith. They have laughed when the mighty spiritual warriors have fallen in battle, and they have thought that physical death could stay the hand of the divine avatar.
But the power of the kingdom of God in the world to come is the power of immortality. It is the power of truth that can never be broken. And his kingdom that hath no end6 shall be set up in the world and in the hearts of the children of men. Already the signs of great shaking are apparent as the spiritual powers of the world focus upon the children of men. The angelic hosts have been alerted, for they know not the day nor the hour which the Father hath kept in his own hand when they shall be called to a more active duty on behalf of the children of men.
What are our functions? They are to convey unto men the fiery reality of God in the inspiring beauty of the light and to assist men and women to bring forth a cooperative architecture upon the planet that will bring about a spiritual renaissance unparalleled in the history of constructivism. The burdens of men shall then be lifted, and in the harmony of the sacred Brotherhood there shall be such cooperation as shall end violence and struggle.
The clarity of the new sense shall supersede old sensuality. And the reality of the Christ message flashing across the plains of Bethlehem shall be to all races, to all tongues, and to all peoples the forerunner of emerging victory. What once was shall be again. What is of pain and unhappiness shall end. The finale of old earthly patterns shall herald Christ regeneration to a sorrowful star. Then the angelic hosts shall be made visible, and the forms and the beauty embodied within us shall be a constant source of inspiration to every parent and to everyone who desires to put his hand to the divine plow, to prepare the earth to receive the seed of cosmic regeneration, and to assure that the governments of this world shall become the governments of our Lord and of his eternal kingdom.7
Temporality shall cease as eternal things are made real to all. The reality and the power of the angels, the reality and the power of the indwelling Christ resident as life force within everyone shall be increased, and the glow-ray of cosmic purpose shall cut a trackless path through the air to an understanding of the ascending consciousness.
The ascension is the gift of God to men. It was the final story in the life drama of the Master Jesus, and it shall provide for all the hope for deliverance. This is the message of the Christ Mass, the power of the light of the Word illumining the ages.
I remain a precipitator from angelic realms.
Yours in the bond of the Christ