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I recently spoke unto the disciples gathered at the headquarters of The Summit Lighthouse in Colorado Springs and I said: Understand that the noontide is not the even and that the midnight hour is not the dawn.
With these thoughts in mind I would draw to a close our training on understanding yourself, for there is a tendency on the part of humanity to regard themselves fixed in whatsoever state they find themselves at a given moment. It is almost as though they considered themselves to be that moment rather than the `all-moment.'
When the Word went forth of old " ... with his stripes we are healed"1 and the Word went forth again " ... their sins and iniquities will I remember no more,"2 many grasped this principle with faint hope and others with fervent hope but all were looking to exalt in themselves freedom from past responsibilities.
I have learned to trust Him completely, for He is able to save to the uttermost those that believe on Him.3 But the faith that men have is but a goad to the works that they must do in order to transpose the self from its habitual human affinity to an understanding of its eternal divine reality. Therefore you must not live in the sense of your present order or disorder, of your present progress or struggle, of your present fears or hopes but you must come apart from all that makes up the world of opposites where man is found alternating between his midnight and his noonday hour, where the shades of expression pass from exaltation to depression and then back again to exaltation.
To dwell in the consciousness of the living God is to hold oneself in a state of such constant beauty as defies description in ordinary words, in ordinary tongues. Only the tongues of angels could even begin to describe what it is really like to have the vast power-flow of Eternity resident within the soul, to have access to the great libraries of heaven with all of the considerations and works of the sons of God recorded there, to be able to glean therefrom the fruit of a continually self-renewing knowledge and to know that his laws are divine coordinates. These coordinates are fixed as stars in the firmament - blazing points of light that will gladden the eyes of each little child who shall come to this knowledge of himself.
So tender and so beautiful is the face of the Eternal One that those who are made in his similitude, those who occupy all of the vast planes of being, never cease to marvel at the great unity that is manifest in the diversity of heaven. Just as it is easy to see how environmental influences upon Earth can erode the fine substances of the soul, so it is easy to see how those who have attained to the higher consciousness of the angels and of the spiritual beings will have blotted from their consciousness all of the sense of struggle and pain that has been attendant with them throughout the span of their Earth life.
The alternate pleasures and displeasures that come to mankind - holding him now in the hot water of fear and then in the cool water of hope - are a source of continual pressure-pain. But he whose delight is in the law of God4 and in the power of God's mind is content to convey to all generations the laws of the many mansions of the Father5 that gleam in the heavens and that continue to bespeak promise to the souls of men. For in a very real sense the higher laws and the higher virtues are polestars to guide the mariners in this world toward their eternal realities.
It is quite natural that men should fear to die, but some of you may be startled when I say that the soul has a greater fear of being born into the world of form than it does of leaving. Whereas there are on the lower astral planes of life frightening and gruesome figures which seek to harm the soul as it journeys from one plane of existence to the next, he who places his trust in God is able to draw the power of the angels and of the archangels to his defense and to rise out of those dense spheres and controlled realms. Then at last the soul knows and it is known in the limitless and airy habitations of the planetary orbs, in interstellar space, and even in the space within the self - its own "forty acres."
You think and speak of heaven as home, but you live as though earth were forever your dwelling place. When the home of heaven lives within you, the dwelling place of man is no longer important. For you can command the elements around you to be free, you can take dominion over environmental forces, and you can create through beauty and art a place which God himself will call home.
Through the span of the ages, men have changed their environments - the environment of their thoughts, the environment of their reading material, and the environment of images upon which they gaze. All things that you do that are cooperative with your Presence in the bringing forth of the kingdom of heaven around you will help to evolve the kingdom of God within you. And as you evolve these higher thoughts, bear well in mind that thy self is also thy neighbor's self and that the good that flowers within thee is also available to him in God's garden even as the flowers of his garden are available to thee.
Whereas some may smile in the coarseness of their sensuality at these finer gestures of the angels which I am making unto you in this my final offering on understanding yourself, I am confident that when the close of the series is given next week by beloved Meru you will rejoice that you have had the opportunity to progress through its pages and hopefully to progress through the consciousness of God's own understanding of himself which we have sought to convey.
Although man may be born in faint hope, he lives to see the day when that hope becomes the vital faith that carries him through all of the vicissitudes of life. I hope then for you, as does every son of heaven, that as you read and reread this series together with those other messages that we release each week from the whole panoply of cosmic servants of light you will be able to find the glowing power of your spiritual reality as a tangible manifestation within the field of your consciousness, that you will cast aside the petty and the trivial - those conditions that have hindered you so grossly, that have been blown up out of all proportion to their size.
I call to God for renewed perspective for each one of you that you may vent your consciousness by opening the windows of the soul and by calling for the sunlight of his radiance to pour through. Our words may not always be new, but the consciousness that he brings is ever new. The ideas that he will bring and the ideas that we will bring in his name will be not only new but also renewing. And one day we will clasp hands even as now in Spirit and in essence we can clasp hearts.
Of old as Saint Francis I carried many hefty stones and threw them into place, even with my knee. Now I place my knees upon the eternal rock of the living Christ6 who is our joint salvation and I pray with thee that the mantle of his peace may sustain thy heart at every moment - at the dawn producing hope, and at the midnight hour producing an awareness of the coming dawn.
- Your sincere friend of the ages,