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I AM Charity, and charity has been said to be the unguent of God that covers a multitude of sins.1 Now it is time that the myth of sin be dissolved as an act of the Most High, as an act of universal love, as an act that in its finality will resolve for all time the awful problems of self-condemnation that exist in the world today.
When God created all things in his own glorious beginning, the heavenly ordinances were established as an act of faith, hope, and charity - the abundance of his love for law, for order, and for reality. For out of law, the law of faith, out of order, the order of hope, and out of reality, the reality of true charity, are born the consciousness of Eden, the garden of God, the garden of consciousness wherein all perfection can and does live.
The Tree of Life in the midst of the garden of God2 signifies the self-perpetuating seed of the Divine that always produces after her kind; therefore, out of the perfection of God there is born the perfection of man or the perfection of manifestation.
God said, "Let there be light: and there was light."3 This statement illustrates the nature of the divine fiat. When God commands, his command produces and sustains that which he desires to express. Let it be understood, however, that God is the allness of all things whereas man, the manifestation, marks the beginning of all things. God is the consciousness of beginning, of the middle, and of the end. Man is the consciousness of the beginning, the unfulfilled - he who is being fulfilled, he who is being taught, he who must learn to express within the framework of the divine aegis.
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."4 We can truly say that charity, as the highest expression of God-reality, produced all things; that charity, as God realization, is the sustaining momentum of the Divine inherent within life; that charity, as love in action, must always obey the Divine edict. For this is the nature of the Christ. To love is to be carried away by the abundance of that love to the complete fulfillment of that which Love desires to express.
Individuals are often captivated by the glamour of their own thoughts and feelings. They do not see how narrow the shell is that encompasses them roundabout. They do not recognize the darkness that is in their own worlds. But when the blue lightning of divine love intervenes, when there is a shattering by true faith of the illusions men have spun around themselves and those to which they have submitted, then hope as a golden ray surrounded by white fire reveals to them the Christed plan of their being. As that Christ plan begins to manifest a little more of itself each day, there comes into their worlds a great and subtle beauty that gradually seeps through their entire being, removing the lines of care from the countenance and smoothening the wrinkles of the soul. Hope is indeed a golden oil that nurtures the being of man and makes him aware of the power of divine love.
How often individuals are captured mentally and emotionally by the idea of love, but how seldom does true love actually permeate the being and nature of man. Many times we find that individuals have an intellectual comprehension of the greatness of love and a feeling they call love which they desire to express and to see expressed in others; but then, when it comes to the field of action, they deny themselves the opportunity to be love in all things that they do. They do that which they would not because they have not banished from their worlds those old habit patterns that are encrusted within the caverns of consciousness. These create reactions against everything and everyone. Why, they even react against the Deity, sometimes openly. And often they do not even know what they are doing.
Against this basic human ignorance, the Lord Jesus did implore the Father saying, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."5 Nevertheless, the Christ knows full well what they do and he desires to see expressed in all life that cosmic charity which moved so freely and so beautifully in his life.
Today I, Charity of the Sun, would invoke for everyone a greater understanding of universal law. I would invoke in the world a feeling of ease and completeness, a feeling of sincerity, of directness, and of the avoidance of unnecessary pitfalls. I would that the children of men, in their relationships with one another, might understand the perfection of the Great Law. I would have them understand the perfection of nature. And as the fingers of their minds explore the possibility of calling upon the Infinite One for every need, they will know that they are entering into communion with the sun in all of the brilliant inner radiance that can and must be reflected in the soul if the soul is to know her freedom.
Men have applied themselves to religious studies for years. They have prayed unto God either as a remote possibility or as a remote reality without ever understanding the nearness of the Deity to themselves. They have not seen that as they begin to express him in a minor way, he can and ultimately shall fill them, flood them, seal them, and complete them in the perfection of his plan.
The great gifts of the God Self, of the Holy Christ Self, of the perfect tripartite flame of faith, hope, and charity, the gift of the white-fire garment and of the seamless garment of the Christ - all of these are pearls of great price.6 If they were seen and known by men and women in their fullness, nothing would ever stand in the way of their acceptance of these gifts.
But when the proffered gift comes in minute portions - as little jots and tittles of cosmic intelligence, pieces of a vast cosmic jigsaw puzzle - individuals are sometimes unable to fit them together. Unable to see their relationship to the pattern of personal evolution, they carelessly push them off the table of life and thereby lose a priceless facet of God's effulgent consciousness which they might have made their own. Little do they realize that at a later date they will have to painstakingly reassemble the fragments in order to observe the unfoldment of the great cosmic purposes of life within themselves.
Each individual life pattern is a vase of priceless beauty. It is an exquisite rendering of the soul of God as infinite harmony coming to the ears of the heart and saying, "Lo, I AM here, I AM within thee, I AM the lullaby of life, I AM the sweetness of charity, of reality, of eternity." As children hold a whelk shell to their ears to catch the remote sounds of the sea, so does the soul hear the distant sound of far-off worlds, of tones of true love that will come through, that will penetrate, and that will be established as the foundation of life in all who hear the voice of their Creator.
I AM Charity, and charity does begin at home. It begins when you first listen to the voice of God and realize that he is within your very own soul. It begins when you realize that his voice does not command so much as it implores you to receive the gift - the best gift that life could possibly give. Charity begins when you understand that the way to receive this gift is to express it everywhere to each man, each woman, and each child whom you meet and to each thought that comes to you - even the tempting thoughts from the Tempter that would pervert the law of the Lord thy God and tell you that you should live by bread alone.7
Then you must understand how important it is to say, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God!"8 And see to it that it is the Lord thy God that lives in you. See that it is the Lord thy God whose law you are following, who through your consciousness actually accepts his own law and establishes it forever within you. For you are his child, and no one can take this honor from you. But in order to be sure that these holy things are established within you, you should understand that charity must draw the firmament of universal loveliness as the architecture of the cosmos within the framework of your consciousness.
It is not enough that charity be in the universe or in the world, it must also be in you. Christ must be formed in you,9 the divine image must be traced there by the hand of God. Invite him, then. Call him forth, even in the moments of temptation and trial. In the moments of struggle, surrender yourself to him. So shall he surrender himself to you.
Out of this pact of cosmic charity, the fullness of the man of God appears - an Elijah, a John the Baptist, a Christ, a Buddha, a soul swimming in a sea of light that understands that the whole vast globe of light, all of nature, all of the heart and the field of consciousness belongs to him as unto God.
God surrenders to you the universe as you surrender to him the minutest part of yourself. For you are indeed a son of God. As the centurion of old beholding Christ upon the cross said, "Truly this man was the Son of God,"10 so as you accept this truth and as you draw nigh to this love, God will draw nigh to you.11
In the simple ritual of fulfillment, charity will be born anew within you. The year 1969 will become a memorable one as many souls, bathed in the resurgent light of cosmic purpose, shall draw together and unite as never before in the supreme purposes of God for this blessed Earth - this little pinch of cosmic dust floating in space that is 'home' to so many millions. That they may draw nearer unto God is our prayer.
We are watching with the all-seeing eye of cosmic charity as each one of you with new determination sets sail for the cosmic haven of surrender, of fulfillment, of purpose in action as God within you unites with God within all.
In charity's name, in the name of cosmic charity,