Print Files: A4 Size.
From time to time the ascended masters, speaking through the forum of the Pearls of Wisdom, bring forth varied expressions of their consciousness. Some of these expressions are calculated to work in a mystical sense within the soul of the aspirant; then again the disciple is encouraged by words of good cheer and words of hope; at other times he is corrected or admonished to avoid some of the pitfalls that stand in the path of the disciple today.
All in all, the challenges of the ascended masters released in varying styles through this medium are intended to supply - for the children upon this planet who are able to enter, at least in part, into the spirit of the masters - a very buoyant, electrifying thread of contact with the spiritual hierarchy. When properly perused, these very personal letters sent from our level to your own will assist the soul in its search for the ever-present reality of God within the domain of the individual.
Now that the year has come to a close and men await the dawn of a new cycle, it is with an abiding sense of hope that I, as Chohan of the Seventh Ray and advocate of pure freedom for this planet in my final expression for the year through the Pearls of Wisdom, choose to extol your continual keeping on keeping on.
The lifting up of the flame of freedom by the ascended masters has its counterpart in the human domain. When we lift up our torch, millions respond in varying degrees. Students of the light should understand that all people are somewhat limited by their own capacities to receive and to understand. God does not expect that the limited mind will respond to the same degree that the unlimited one can. Nonetheless, progress is the order of the day and we cannot condone the acceptance by anyone of his present state of progress as being the ultimate, nor do I believe that wise men and women would accept this idea. For are not all of us who serve together at varying levels of consciousness determined to press on to obtain the higher prize?
The very transcendence of the divine nature is encouraging, for it provides a platform for the most fervent devotee without depriving those whose convictions may be less momentous from receiving some beckoning from on high that will draw them closer to the Divine Magnet.
In reviewing the lives of many of the avatars and ascended beings that are clearly recorded in the akashic records and in examining some of the aspirants for the faith today, we are able to see parallels to the divine expression in the lives of embodied men and women. Thus we see the shaping of emancipation within the unascended souls who follow the vanguard of our light. And this is most encouraging to the headmasters of the cosmic schools; for unless we were made to feel that the investment of our energies should produce some fruit, it would be a bit difficult - even from our level - to continue to serve. We understand full well, then, that individuals who do not have our power of vision and perception are, from time to time, sorely tried as they pursue the spiritual path, often not seeing clearly the accomplishments they have made.
I hasten to encourage everyone who has pursued this path and to say to you in the fullness of the faith that, although you may not always see that which is accomplished, you may be certain in the name of holy justice that if you have performed your acts of service in full faith - without impure motives and with God-determination - the Most High has certainly recorded upon the scroll of your life through the power of his recording angels those recordings which will ultimately assure you of your freedom.
Now there are times when you do indeed see through the veil but darkly.1 But there is a thinning of that darkened veil and the goals that are ahead, all adorned in their radiant shining, do penetrate the consciousness of the seeker from time to time and bring to him some sweet message of encouragement.
As the portal of the year is nigh at hand, we call to your attention that each year is a ring in a vast eternal spiral. The cycles of the years, then, have their own momentums of progress, and there is no time as fortuitous to embodied men as the New Year season. As one cycle draws to a close, it has a tendency to firm the desires of the soul for greater expressions of achievement and progress. Men are also wont to examine the fabric of the past year and to look ahead with hope to that which is to come.
Naturally, there are "guardians" at the threshold of the year - beasts of form created out of the substance of men's wrongdoings and past failures which seek to decry progress and to belittle the attempts of men to find their own freedom. The old saying "Hark, hark, the dogs do bark" should be taken into account and then totally disregarded. For whereas errors have been made by those in search of reality, both God and ascended beings would rather have men and women perform acts that are either hot or cold than to have them lukewarm.2 Therefore, even errors made in good faith can be forgiven with great ease while the domain of action is regarded as one where men of courage are willing to take their stand for freedom by exercising their rights to do right as they see it and then pray God for a greater revelation of truth each day.
There are timorous men in the world - men of fear who, fearing to act for God, do nothing at all. And this is a burying of divine ideas in a napkin,3 a holding of the talents and graces of God in abeyance, for which men are not held guiltless. In the holy name of freedom, then, I advocate that men and women of courage and dedication assess the right as they see it and proceed to move forward in the light.
There is a basic need in the world for the teaching to be brought forth. The darkness of the centuries spun in the cocoons of ignorance and calumny has continuously sought to enclose the light of freedom from the public view. Magazines, periodicals, and all forms of media have been enlisted in the downgrading of universal truth and in the slinging of arrows of outrageous fortune4 at those who would release it. All the while, they are purveying into the public domain and to the public gaze a watered-down form of spirituality that could never in all eternity give men more than the palliatives they seek as a substitute for the valiant and glorious expression of universal freedom which is the power of truth.
Reembodiment is true. The laws of karma - which are the laws of the circle, returning to every man the results of his own acts - are true. Forgiveness of sins is but a holding in abeyance of man's debts to afford him a chance to pay them off. Those who would impugn the integrity of the men and women who today take their stand for freedom in the name of the Great White Brotherhood - freedom from fear and freedom for all people - will one day have great regrets as they see how this has denied to those under their center of influence the living truth that would have made them free.
But we dare not stand back and recriminate or review to any great extent the lives of those who have sought to suppress the truth; rather must we seek to empower those devotees of the light who now desire to express the truth to men. They must learn to move with great rapidity in the field of action and honor, to give the truth to those who seek it and to turn quickly from those who reject it all the while keeping the door opened and proceeding valiantly on their way to the building of a better community in the world order. A great patriot once said, "Give the people the truth and the freedom to express it and all will go well." But you are living in a time when the flood tide of human opinion seeks to suppress the truth because the dark powers that guide those darkened minds who would suppress the truth do not really want the people free.
We who uphold the banner of freedom and the presence of the living Christ in the domain of world action encourage all of you who have spoken out and sought above all to live according to higher law. You who understand that the good that you do shall return to you, to the earth, and to the universal order will continue so to do, knowing that this expression is the living presence of God moving amongst men. It is no blasphemy to accept the fiat of the divine image, for the highest expression of man is the expression of the divine and the highest expression of God is that man who has become the Christ.
In freedom's name, let our Brotherhood continue to release its chords of universal harmony. Let us fill the emptiness of life with the reality of goodness. Let us generate new reservoirs of compassion and let life live.
In freedom's name I stand with you at the portal of the year, a messenger of cosmic hope,