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CREATE unto yourself the new sense of the ownership of God's will!
You have long thought of God's will as a thing apart from yourself. Now, new longings and a fresh perspective can re-create the best gift you have ever had.
The memory of his grace can come alive within you as you accept the infinite care of the Eternal One for you. His blessed consideration of your lifestream must be contemplated and made a living, vital part of your whole consciousness.
For far too long man has yielded his birthright unto the false, the insecure, and the transitory. But when he pauses to think of his source, there should come to mind the best gifts of life - the ever-present thoughtfulness of God about his rate of progress, his advancement, his endowment, his protection, and his ultimate fulfillment.
Why, God can be made so central, so real, and so intimate to the very being of any man who diligently seeks his will (tutoring both inwardly and without) that he will scarcely remember his former state of unbelief!
It merely awaits an opening, a twinkling of the eye of being, for the last trump of immortality to sound and to change the lesser image into his glorious divine reality!1 This can be, for it already is!
Why do men set up a counterfeit will and call it their own? Why do they engage in a continual struggle between the will of God and "their own" will? In the answers to these questions is to be found the key to happiness for every part of life.
When man understands that there is no need to struggle for a personal existence outside of God (because he is complete in God) and that, in actuality, there are not two wills - the will of man and the will of God2 - but only the will of truth and freedom, inherent within the very Spirit of Life which is the Spirit of God, then he will enter into the new sense of harmony and grace.
Every man should realize his essential individuality, his privilege God-given of expressing unique qualities of life that he can use to endow the universe from the fountain of his own life and love.
But, there are lessons to be learned, understandings to be sought and found, and old senses to be cast aside, transmuted and, in some cases, re-created.
Morya thunders! Why should we put off the hour of the emptying of the mind of its delusions? Why should darkness impel the mind and heart to distrust themselves?
Let us infire men with a gnosis of possibilities. Let us create a sense of strength based not upon weakness but rooted in the flow of reality. The fact that men have not known does not mean that ignorance should continue.
We send light on the holy will and it permeates the consciousness, bridging the old gaps and steaming the spirit loose from its confining walls where the insidious glue of human consciousness has dried up the very thought of progress.
Sultry spirits infest the gullible and the complacent! We speak to those who are willing to be God-willed!
The very idea of "me" and "mine" often leads to separation. The strange consciousness of schism finds welcome wherever men love darkness.
They ply the boat of consciousness into watery caves of intricate folly. But the clarity of the will of God promotes the facility of smoothened reality.
Now, the Word long ago went forth, but the common man skulks in fear lest someone should find out that he is in league with God or the holy will!
Shames are honored while the source of all grace remains hidden in shame from puny mortal eyes. Truly, the blind lead the blind.3
Walk ye in the dominant way of the sacred stranger who respects no man's illegitimate thoughts but every man's person (pure son).
The counting of the hours is good when worth appears. Yet the hairs of the hour's head are numbered.4 Finite screens frame eternal possibilities.
Change, blessed change, how beloved thou art! Yet for thine own sake, let us make clear that only the turning to the awful noontide of truth will show the scorpion on the ground.
Alertness spares man the spawn of infectious evil and hallows the blessedness of Christ-expansion. The meaning of the incarnation is not measured in hours, but in events!
The wayfarer lingers too long at the stagnant pool when the glories of the fragrant moment are near. Every moment spent in learning to live in the will of God is a blessed one.
The sense consciousness may not glow in the will until it has developed its spiritual appetite (for good), but akasha5 will record each benevolent thought and action to the expansion of cosmic grace in the obedient ones.
The will of God is the sole source of man's freedom.
For many, unlearning is more vital than learning. The science of the soul can be mastered by the soul without any effort save sweet surrender, yet the education of the heart will school the whole man in the understanding of amazing dimensions.
"Where have these realms been all my life?" men will cry. Where indeed but right where they are, resident within the heart of truth.
The will of God is known only by the very few; for many who think they have this precious commodity are clinging to the vine of mortal reason, opinion, and a whinnying whimsy!
I think, then, that reappraisals must be made and that they should be based on the vein of God's mind and not upon sense criteria. Why should men not ask that they may receive, seek to find, and expect the descent of radiant grace?
The world is often fooled by those who proclaim longevity on the Path. Little do they know the compounds of the Eternal Chemist who, in the laboratory of nature, has also created subtleties to satisfy the natives of aeons!
Where away? Certainly we must flee the present.
Ever in the dim as well as in the near past have we thought upon the escape from the contemporary net, from the hypnotic trap of the manipulators, through the freshness of sound vision.
But peripatetic visions6 must be eschewed. Men must ask of God grace to discern the higher will as the bright threads of hope, implemented by practical action and endowing the heart with the leap of boundlessness.
So dear is the will of God to me that if I had to take upon myself a body once again and descend into form here, I would willingly do so for the sake of God's will.
Alas, this cannot be. And I must satisfy myself to look downward from these glorious realms of light in the hope that men and women taught the three Rs and the sweet homilies of human life will, as many of us have done, espouse these eternal causes.
May they do so diligently in order that the Great Magnet will be successful in drawing the flame within the heart into magnificent attunement, raising the whole body of mankind's consciousness into the blessed light of the holy will!
In one very real sense the links with heaven are so beautifully woven that if men could see them clearly in all of their blazing reality, they would need no other polestar upon which to fix their gaze as an escape to eternal hope.
Yet the carnal welds men have synthesized are so tenacious as to defy perfection, and they bind men embodiment after embodiment in the old oily schemes of selfishness that shrivel the soul in the carnal will.
What can we do but hold forth the vision of the grail of God's will as the beacon of every hour.
Along with the vision of personal ownership of God's will, one should also think upon the omnipresence of the will.
Darkness thickens in the carnal mind;7 simultaneously, the light dazzles the consciousness with nearness. To draw nigh unto the light: this is the requirement of the hour!
The flashing forth of the renewal of the first covenant is the will of God; for it was this bond to which every soul who received the gift of individual life expression did once consent.
The breaking of the bond of God's will has meant the parting of the way between father and son. For the prodigal son has chosen to wander into the depths of maya to seek his fortune in the realm of illusion.8
Now we say, let us return to reality, to the Father, and to the heavenly will. Thus shall the fire purify each man's work9 and the fiery trial cease in a pact of friendship with God.
[This text is the version published in the book, The Sacred Adventure.]