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Outcries from the inmost being of men rise to solicit our aid. We cannot fail to respond. Everywhere tumult causes the hearts of men to shudder. And in the face of nature's sun, where hope should radiate its burning message, the numbing chill of fear reveals the deepening dark in the world community.
While the seams have been torn again and again by human selfishness and inconsideration, we have again and again mended the rents. The yawning gap between ministering heavenly hands such as I recently offered in Cairo, Egypt, and the petty grievances that men amplify seems to be an almost uncrossable abyss. Yet men cry out. And we, in our councils, debate the answer.
Certainly something must be done. Things cannot continue as they are in the world order, else undesirable dissolution occur and the forces of nature radically effect man's defection from universal purpose.
The magnanimity of one heart, such as that of my son Jesus, can for two thousand years and longer sustain the heartbeat of a Christlike momentum to the planet. Countless sages have echoed and reechoed his message. They have seen how the clever machinations of Antichrist have sought on a world scale the destruction of the mainstream of God-identity in every man.
The cutting off of belief in God in the schools and colleges of the world by those who proclaim a militant atheism has torn from the minds of the young the one sublime hope that would have sustained them throughout life. Mothers all over the world vary in their understanding of their children. Some offer them a prayer, whereas others give them a cigarette. This gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous is only a sample of life as it is currently manifesting.
Beautiful hope, revealed in the magnificence and ruggedness of nature, speaks to man of the sculpturing of his identity according to the plan of the Eternal Father. But first we must restore to the people of this age a correct understanding of the inner flames of their own real beings, the divine spark of life that is the gift of God to every man. This seemingly simple matter of recognizing the God who lives in every man must be included in the most complex patterns of civilized living, but because this truth is obvious it is overlooked even by the devotee of years' standing.
Well might men say, "Open my eyes that I may see." For the breathing of this prayer, by reason of its humility, keeps the soul on guard against the choking weeds of delusion and all that would equate mankind with a world scheme in which they lose their identity as instruments of the state.
What is one of the major plots of the Antichrist in the world today? It is the downgrading of human life, the downgrading of human opportunity, the downgrading of the soul. For if men can be made to feel that they are creatures of worthlessness, they will not be overly concerned when they cast their lives and opportunities away. Their pleasure madness is not so much a result of inordinate desires, then, as it is the result of a failure to perceive a sense of mission for themselves.
I have recently sat at the Darjeeling Council table with my son Jesus, Master El Morya, beloved Kuthumi,1 and a host of others whose every concern is for the welfare of the children of this planet. The plots of the Antichrist and the disturbing conditions of the world were discussed. Strange as it may seem to some among mankind who believe that heaven holds in hand a separate solution to every human problem, we realize full well that the solution was given "in the beginning." Our task is but to tutor men and to develop in them that self-reliance which will enable them to seize and reestablish dominion over their worlds according to that original and perfect solution which was affirmed of old by the universal Christ.
Mindful, then, of the need for greater commitment on the part of all who seek to serve the cause of guiding a distraught and straying humanity, we urge every son of heaven to persevere continually in prayer and attunement with the higher octaves of life. Just as no angel or deva in heaven is insignificant, so no soul upon earth is bereft of meaning. All are loved, and in that love of God for the lost and straying sheep there is hope also for those who are closely following in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd.
All should perceive their great need to maintain contact with us - in thought, in word, and in deed. For in the reading and contemplation of our words, there is to be found the inspiration for daily good deeds. Thus through Christ-ordained activity, the body of God upon earth is knit together into one salutary action that produces the fruit of rightful strivings among men; for the crown is ever raised above the cross, and achievement stems from many small victories.
All these matters and many more were discussed at our recent council meeting; for we ourselves, who identify so much with the Word, with the Logos, maintain a steadfast communication with one another and with our blessed Divine Presence, the Eternal Father.
Born from the council's recent sessions were many fervent ideas for the illumination of mankind. Human ignorance, by reason of its contrast to divine truth, seems more virulent than ever; for the intellect of man has become a two-edged sword to drive him from the Eden that he seeks and the knowledge that heaven would convey. The statement was made by one of the wisest of the masters that man's ignorance of himself is greater than his ignorance of the world around him. In this twentieth century, the average person knows far more about nature and nature's processes than he knows about his own psyche.
Therefore, the idea was born that some treatment of the subject of the consciousness and being of man should be given in the Pearls of Wisdom in a forthcoming series. This would prove an invaluable aid to men of every race and creed, and it would provide insight so badly needed to people in all walks of life.
The valiant combination of the instruction of the World Teacher Kuthumi, released from his beautiful temple in Kashmir, India, the meditations of beloved Lord Lanto, given from the retreat in the Grand Teton, and commentaries on the age directed by the beloved God Meru from the Temple of Illumination in South America will, I am certain, bring forth a splendid series born out of the wisdom of God that is calculated to assist individual man in finding his place in the divine scheme. The series will also help him to understand the juxtaposition of forces that seek his doom and show him how he might better carry on a service to himself and to all life.
Living free from fear and in a constant state of listening grace, man is able to spread the message of the divine radiance far and wide. Hopefully and by the grace of God, he is able to penetrate the facade of this age, the strange front of mortal illusion. Then there will be revealed before his very eyes, in a new and vitalizing manner, the hand of the Eternal as he extends that hand through us all to redeem the world order and to call forth from among men the coming race.
Victoriously, for the freedom of every manchild, I remain