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To All Wanderers of the Spirit,
THE FIRST flush of freedom, how magnificent! Now, no longer engaged in a sense of struggle, man becomes a part of the holy sea ("And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal ..."1)
The will of God, how clear and lovely - a beautiful dream filled with no thoughts of the human nightmare. The promise "My grace is sufficient for thee"2 becomes a tangible reality as man is enclosed within the strength of God's will.
When the hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"3 was released, it was to be a tribute to the divine will; and I think there is no greater goal for any man than to identify totally with this universal lifewave of cosmic creativity.
Yet many do fear to surrender their own will to the universal. They fear to lose their identity when in reality they would but "loose" their identity and find it again in the blessed sense of self-direction that exists in higher octaves of harmony.4
For harmony is a divine sense, an afflatus of such vibrancy, buoyancy, and oneness with all life that heaven can never imagine how anyone who has tasted thereof can ever again return to the soil of carnal expression.
Children of the cross, awake and see how you can benefit men by bestowing upon them the prime example of your godly accomplishments for and on behalf of the light!
The need is great. And it is God's will that we gather the children of the sun under the canopy of the divine radiance!
Men have accused me of hardness. Let me tell you, there are two kinds of hardness: (1) hardness of heart, which is wholly selfish and wedded to pride and ambition, that never says die to its Moloch of self,5 and (2) the hardness that identifies with the diamond of good will - God's will for total good, total intelligence, and total opportunity.
The latter, in its grand design, is the simplicity of the crystal that reflects the passion of the soul to live within the protective love of the Father without compromise to other expressions.
This is the diamond of perfection that incorporates the quality of mercy and gives balance without straining at a gnat or swallowing a camel!6
There are so many forms of subtlety in use upon earth today that the process of knowing the will of God is at times difficult.
For example, some conceive of poverty as being the will of God; these make their lives an example of total simplicity. Others see opulence and abundant supply as the will of God.
In reality, neither state can guarantee victory to the soul but rather the gift of nonattachment which can either use the empire of the universe in all its fullness or be content in any environment.
The truly illumined are able to rise above states of mind or expression to the place where they identify with the allness of God.
In the early church, the controversy arose between those who ate meat and those who did not.7 Saint Paul advised that the true believer should condemn neither attitude, for Jesus had said, "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man."8
How important it is, then, that men do not judge at all lest they be judged.9 For those who live in poverty as well as those who are surrounded by the greatest wealth can be doing the will of God. To his own master each one stands or falls.
The enemy in the guise of good, in a subtle form of criticism, purports to describe just what qualities and conditions will prove the existence of a so-called master. This may lead those who follow such an outline of what masters supposedly "do" and "don't" into the banal pathway of criticism.
Those who go about examining "masters" to see if they are following the "rules" may enter the same spirit of condemnation which is apparent in those well-meaning teachings that appear benign but are based upon false standards of condemnation and judgment.
Let all understand that, even as our palace of light in Darjeeling does reflect all of the grandeur and more of a maharaja's palace, God does not forbid his son to partake of his abundance. For these blessings are within the latitude of cosmic privilege.
They are earned by the soul who knows that all things come from God and that they are to be used to bless life abundantly: "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath."10
Yet to the spiritually rich and to the spiritually poor I say, your life is not in the material, but in the spiritual. However, when total surrender to God is made, all things can be safely added unto you.11
It is more blessed to give than to receive; but if you do not first receive, may I ask, how can you give?
Therefore, it is the Father's good pleasure12 to endow you with his Spirit and also with material substance whenever the Lords of Karma see that benefits to humanity can be released through your blessed lifestream.
The will of God is everything. For it provides the spark that pushes back the darkness of sense consciousness, of ignorance and despair while holding forth the torch of true illumination to the seeking soul, enabling each individual to find himself, lost in the passion of God's will!
Can you now understand how I, when embodied as Sir Thomas More, did see beyond the tower cell and loss of life and did reach outward to uphold principle for that age, fully confident of my identity in God?
Yet those who betrayed me within a few short years did leave the old familiar scenes for regions of nether nonsense. Truly, men who build in the holy will do build for eternity!
Be wise, then, in the simplicity of God. Be content not to judge men but rather to inspire them to that coagency of marvelous reality: the will of God.
Blest be the tie that firmly binds that holy link. For when men do otherwise, seeking in their own way to express the vagaries of the human will, a vain expression of whimsy and discontent is always the outcome.
The will of God is not so, for it represents the original archetypal thought of God that identifies uniquely with the soul of the individual. Holding ties with universal man, it maintains its own personal vital unity.
Like a refreshing breath of pine, the ideas of God fill the air with a raising hope that destroys the personal illusion while bestowing the real crown of Life upon victorious man.
In heaven's name, men of earth, do you think the Most High God created life to manifest as history shows it?
And what of contemporary struggles twixt church and state, race and race, class and class, and even man and man or man and woman?
Does life seem so wonderful and the prospect of the future based on human trends so grand that you are fearful of submission to the will of the Eternal? I hope not, for in his will is comfort and strength for the ages as well as for today.
The fiat "Not my will, but thine, be done"13 was not intended as a statement of sacrifice but one of heavenly inspired wisdom. In the higher schools, this mantram of the Spirit is intoned invocatively so as to create the needed liaison between man and God.
Whereas it is God's will that man intune with him, it is incumbent upon man to recognize that his responsibility demands search, willingness, and an understanding of the self-created barriers that must be taken down so that the clarity of the will of God can come through.
The reason that the releases of the Brotherhood in the Pearls of Wisdom14 are slanted to different levels of human thought and expression, offering invaluable advice to mankind, is so that these Jericho-like walls of opposition to your union with God's will can be broken down.
Little keys unlock the biggest doors, and man must be ready to walk through and not stand hesitatingly upon the threshold.
You will never know how indecision or vacillation can alter the mind to turn a deaf ear to the voice of God. That is why it was once wisely said, "He who hesitates is lost."
Be ready mentally, spiritually, and emotionally by an act of simple devotion or a feeling of awe to accept the will of God as a gladiator would a laurel wreath.
Eras of achievement lie ahead - the planning of great cities, civilizations, and humanitarian doings. But until the will of God becomes acceptable to men, until they can put aside their double-mindedness, they will remain unstable and fluctuating in their aims.15
The terrors of their world exist first in their denial of God and secondly in their denial of his will. In order for the kingdom of God to manifest upon earth, it must first manifest in the heavenly consciousness.
Let men think heaven and think God's will, let them deny the power of darkness and the light of holy knowledge will show science and religion the way to happiness through finite days to infinite aeons of bliss for all.
Thus God ordained it, thus man must seek to know!
O holy will, descend to earth we pray,
[This text is the version published in the book, The Sacred Adventure.]