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THE CENSURE of carnal minds, leveled by the children of men against one another, is an accumulation of deceit that is practiced upon the self and fostered upon an unsuspecting humanity.
The world may not take note of the treachery of mental viciousness, but like a Chinese torture chamber the human mind often seeks new inventions to bring pain and peril to the tenderest of hearts.
The affair in Czechoslovakia is just one more episode in a long line of infamous tyrannies to which the human race seems prone to fall heir. I shall not weary you with a long list of aggressions.
The prologues of world history, buried in dusty mausoleums, are the sad mementos of a dingy past. Let us now set forth to examine a future that shall be based not upon the near past but upon the Beginning and upon the thoughts of the Ancient of Days.
Let us examine anew the ideologies of the Spirit. Let us seek votaries among men who will extend the domain of the divine thought through themselves, ennobling the mind of man and raising him Godward.
There is a force in the world that is not benign. It has sought to wreak destruction upon men by magnifying their supposed worthlessness.
We would show men their worthfulness and extend the best possibilities into the domain of the present hour.
Little do the kind ones dream of how the fruit of their kindness is dispersed and scattered abroad. The good seed falls upon the fallow ground the world around, and the fruit can often be traced to the most obscure sources.
We speak of the framing of beginnings, of the destinies of the fathers, and of the present hour as an extension of mercy into a future replete with gracefulness.
As we ponder the sky in the blueness of its color, we take note of the sapphire order, of the blueness that gemlike reflects the will of God. Whereas one knows that it is blue, one also knows that the white light has produced the fragrance of its appearance.
So is everyone that is born of the Spirit.
Those who are born of the Spirit have a tendency to exude the fragrance of mercy and hope. They open the gateways of the mind to the flood tides of divine resources. They stimulate with gladness the flow of the fruit of goodness and mercy.
They thrust evil from them until it goes back into its lair, and in dauntless courage they sometimes follow it to a smashing retreat, soiling their garments in the hope of vanquishing it into a state of permanent rest.
Yet the hour has come when the signs of the wearing out of the world order do appear.
The mercies of the brothers of light, in considering in mercy's name a dispensation that would provide an extension of time before the Dark Cycle,1 is commendable. The purpose of such a dispensation would be to prevent the destruction of useful, social instruments and to preserve order among men.
We embrace the will of God that, working through the brothers of light, extends mercy to the uttermost. Yet as it has been said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for he also is flesh. ... The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."2
We are concerned, then, with the Spirit that makes the bones fat, with the Spirit that extends the grandeur of cosmic architecture into the finite world, with the capturing in the net of Matter of some reflected glory of cosmic energy, with the accumulation of passions for hope, for beauty, and even for compassion.
The dire forebodings and ominous rumblings in nature and in man and the vicious openings into the astral currents that have been invoked by dabblers in black magic and dangerous drugs have brought about new maladies of the spirit, syndromes of praetorial decay producing lese majesty and permeating the world.
The legions of men are becoming neither more Godlike nor more manlike. They are simply dissolving their resemblance to reality in a chaotic nihilism.
We draw these analogies momentarily as we prepare to plunge into the fountain of reality in order that, by the startling power of contrast, we may show the world the true appearance of cosmic regeneration, of cosmic wholeness, of the washing of our garments white in streams of Cosmic Christ energy.
One of the problems of these times relates to the awful tirades of man against man. These ragings come from the mouths of evil spirits, speaking through embodied men and creating tortuous roadways where shadows obscure the path and detour the soul from its appointed round.
Beginning next week, it is my hope to strike a blow for God in the world order, to create a new series of teachings on the will of God - an offering based on such dedication and hope for an enlightened humanity as are the Great Divine Director's "Mechanization Concept," beloved Serapis Bey's "Dossier on the Ascension," and beloved Jesus' and Kuthumi's "Corona Class Lessons."3
As you know, down through the centuries men have discussed the will of God as though it were a thing apart from the will of man, bearing no resemblance to an offering that affords the best gifts to man. Contrary to human opinion, the will of God seeks to vest man with his immortal birthright and never to deprive him of his freedom.
Therefore, by his grace I shall show to the men and women of this age what the will of God really is, how it may be known, and how mankind may cooperate with it and use it as a means of extending the person (the pure son) into immortal realms.
We shall run the field if necessary. We shall request seven-league boots. We shall restimulate the fires of the Spirit in the chelas.
And, above all, we shall turn men to God because there is no other way whereby the soul can find the answer to all of its many problems.
The enigma of life is hidden within the will of God. When properly understood, it provides a stimulus for every worthy purpose and re-creates a passion for living that many have lost.
What you call zest or sparkle when imbued with the Holy Spirit is no chimera but a flash of joy that ripples across the belly of the world, that sways the tallest pines and moves all things toward cosmic usefulness and cosmic purpose.
Some may wonder why I have chosen to speak. Now that the earth has entered the cusp of an age that is not innocent, I am impelled by the Great Divine Director himself, by the Prince of the House of Rakoczy, to seek to steal from the folds of the world those who have ears to hear that I may feed the sheep of God and safely shepherd them into the House of God's Will.
There is no other course to be run. But if there were, we should seek it.
This one has so many blessed avenues of service, so much greatness to offer to men that it is with relish that I elect to pursue the path of bringing once again to the world a greater understanding of the will of cosmic purpose - the will of God.
It will enhance my service to all men and to yourselves immeasurably if you will pray for me as I begin to intone those holy mantrams that will invoke in the sacred temples of the world, of the Great White Brotherhood, a refiring of the flame of God as we seek to reflect it - not only in words, but also in Spirit.
[This text is the version published in the book, The Sacred Adventure.]