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The quest for self-discovery is sparked in reality by the voice of God, spurring the creation onward to discover the real intents and purposes behind creation. Those who are content to remain snarled in the minuteness of karmic interaction are always overly concerned about the details involving their individual egos and lives. Therefore, one of the secrets of escape is to be found in the depersonalization of life as the Master Jesus taught. He who loses his life for "my sake" shall find it again.1
It is extremely difficult for the person who has not contributed in an outgoing manner to the needs of others to relinquish his involvement in the personal sense of struggle. Therefore, service unto others becomes a means for self-discovery. The gravest dangers attendant upon such service lie in the hope of reward, for whenever individuals serve because they expect reward they already have their reward.2
The key to freedom, then, is to serve and search. But let the search not be a forced penetration of the mysteries of life but a beautiful expectancy that promotes discovery. One of the chief problems encountered by those who would discover the Real Self is the human tendency to analyze. This method while scraping the soul bare also destroys its fabric. So delicate is reality that it must be left untouched by the hand of human reason. This is why Jesus made the statement "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."3 Their rewards are a scorched-earth activity that destroys both wheat and tares4 and leaves them comfortless.
We espouse the development in man of a sense of sweet surrender to cosmic purpose even though that purpose be unknown. The greatest masters, through an abiding sense of confidence and faith, have obtained reality. They have never found reality by intellectual design or by probing the recesses of the caves of darkness lurking in the subconscious mind. You cannot examine evil and produce good. Only by faith in the universal idea of the Fatherhood of God and a sense of proximity to the life-giving energies of the universal Christ can the soul be nourished with the milk of the living Word.
To ignore divine mandates and eternal wisdom and to turn instead to mere intellectual sophistry is destructive of immortal purpose. There is no higher truth than contact with reality. For here there is no need to describe sensation, but only to avow a buoyant sense of surrender to a spiritual escalation and exaltation which, by its own native intelling, fulfills the requirements of intelligent being.
God teaches in the space of an instant more than man could learn in thousands of years of raking over old ruins. God is the Creator and he tutors man when man becomes a disciple in the essence of creative culture. Man needs to know how to do, but he can never convey to another by word of mouth, by rote, or by text the very marvelous means whereby the soul can expand itself and fashion its own wings to rise.
We who are greatly concerned with the evolution of God's intelligence in unascended man and with the furtherance of the true education of the Spirit have no desire to belittle the educational systems of the world or those who would convey basic knowledge to humanity. It is only when the system becomes an end in itself rather than a means to an end that we are concerned.
According to divine ideals, the universe is not competitive. It is buoyant and expansive, and it reflects in the world of the individual the reality of the Self in its highest state. When the individual is made aware of this reflection of the real within himself, he is changed in a moment - "in the twinkling of an eye."5 He has found his reason for being in a relative sense, and he knows that he is standing on the brink of still greater discovery. This is transcendence as God wills it.
Human knowledge, while progressive, moves in such small increments that even today the advancing and whimsical fashions of the ages pirate from humanity their lost opportunities, leaving them desolate. The electronic pulsations of the great divine flame that embodies eternal joy, peace, and purity convey the refinements of heaven to evolving humanity. But where today can men actually make contact with the valid instruction which will enable them to utilize the tremendous boons which were secretly imparted by Jesus to his disciples?
Just because men and women have waited a long time to contact truth does not mean that they should not now get started. Involvement in the business of self-discovery is the greatest assurance one can have of obtaining a passport to reality. Man should desire to have that passport and to escape from the riddle of the shifting sands of personality. Man must build on the rock of reality. And that rock is the Christ,6 the only begotten Son of God.
Mankind have lived in the denseness of the material world. They have been glued together by the strange anachronisms of the varying standards of civilization. Through the ages, the mores have changed while the lusts of the carnal appetite have robbed mankind of their immortal birthright. Now every son of God must discover who he is. He must recognize the accomplishments of the person - his mental grasp, physical strength, and moral values - as vehicles through which the expanding light of reality can shine.
When it shines, it carries the power of transmutation into the confines of individual manifestation and into every area of human endeavor. It lights the hidden recesses of being. It smoothens the anomalies of life. It brings the individual into contact with a higher fraternity. It shows him a new sense. It purifies, rectifies, and exalts his consciousness. It becomes the delight of his universe, the acme of his joy, for it is the jubilation of the Gods. This light is the deluxe contact with reality which will detoxify his being of old poisons and beyond the moment of cleansing fill him with eternal treasure - the treasure of his being.
Those of us to whom has been assigned the task of tutoring you in the art of self-discovery warn you at the outset that ours is no mere game of word juggling but an infinite revelation which must be studied and absorbed. The Great White Brotherhood has long desired to assist man in discovering himself, but in order to do so we must cover many angles from the simple to the most complex. We must provide new insight and new approaches so that every hungry heart can be filled with spiritual manna.
Never before in the history of man have the dark ones carried an age to the brink of destruction as they have done in these latter days. Yet never before in the history of man has so much inward delight in the law of God indicated possibilities that can draw forth and magnetize those indomitable spiritual characteristics that make of mortals immortal adepts. Once again the earth must be trod upon by embodied Gods. This is no desecration, it is the fulfillment of God's dream for man! Only men of courage and valor, men of consecration and universal understanding can penetrate the insidious plots that would defraud the earth and its people of the solar power of reality.
"We have seen his star in the east."7 The light from within must go forth and it must reveal that which is hidden. It must remove from the consciousness the barriers that prevent individuals from becoming the elect and chosen of God. Fear not, little children; it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.8 And "when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."9
- In most profound peace, I AM