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You have heard it said that spring is in the heart. As you look upon the conditions of the world, it may seem a strange contrast that in the millions of years during which the earth itself has undergone recurrent change, the consciousness of the people in their dealings with one another has remained primitive.
Those who expound upon the theories of socialism as a means to achieve a better way of life for humanity should see from the examples of past ages - if they will only look without prejudice or personal pride in their own limited judgments - that it is solely due to a lack of true religion, "pure and undefiled,"1 and a lack of the practice of true religion that civilization has gone down, time after time, into the negative spirals of destructivity, immorality, and shame.
I shun to speak of the great unhappiness that has been produced each time mankind have yielded to the baser instincts on a mass scale; I would rather cite here and for all time the wondrous fact that wherever a life of virtue, a life of dedication, or even what men may call a life of sacrifice has been lived for humanity, it has made an imprint of marvelous and lasting effect for good upon all peoples. The world has become the benefactor of each sage, of each avatar, and of each disciple whose life has truly been lived for God. What the world needs today, then, is not less religion but more of the right kind.
But how carefully the dark forces of the world, those who hide so skillfully behind their masks as angels of light2 - even to the point of convincing humanity that they do not exist - have woven their nets of deceit for the unwary.
How do they do it, precious ones? First by pointing to human hypocrisy, and then by creating the illusion of hypocrisy where none exists. Through the diabolical tendencies to gossip, criticize, and tear down which people allow to gather momentum in their worlds, the forces of darkness have driven their lies as spikes into the human consciousness. Under these negative influences, how easy it is to point the finger at someone you scarcely know and to decide that their motives are impure. The ease with which this can be done should reveal why the ascended masters have sought to create systems of jurisprudence that would allow fairness in the execution of human justice in the courts of the nations of the world whereby individuals might be tried by a jury of their peers as a safeguard against the tyrannies men so often impose upon one another.
Enlightened men and women have often frowned upon the accusing finger, for many times it is nothing more than that. Accusations are directed against those whose hearts are as pure as the lily by those whose hearts by comparison are as dark as the swamps in which the lily grows. The same accusing finger is used to discredit religion in literature, in art forms, in moving pictures and in the lives of well-known people. Through the 'sifting as wheat'3 process, the forces of deception seek to enlarge upon the inadequacies of the world's religions. By pointing out their supposed failure to meet the crises of the times, the dark ones anticipate that men will throw all religion, good and bad, out of their lives.
O, beloved humanity, as a World Mother, I speak to you solemnly with the sternest of warning and say: regardless of human hypocrisy, regardless of the broken-down altars and the failures of many of the religious leaders to set the proper example, to teach the proper precepts, and to establish the proper guidelines for their followers, regardless of all of the defects that may exist or that have existed in the past in the various religions of the world, true religion must never perish from the earth. If it does, if the forces of atheism succeed in repressing men's faith in God and the world becomes a godless place, it will be a jungle of such fury and emptiness as to snuff out the light of purpose everywhere upon the planetary body.
Man is not a vegetable. He is not intended to be an empty vessel, but one o'erflowing with the abundant life, with creativity, with purpose, with wonder, and with the hush of expectancy. The darkness of the present age is expanded today through many of the young whose tender hearts have scarcely escaped the cradle. In their pride of knowledge obtained through modern systems of education, they amplify the destructive momentums of past civilizations in which they themselves have been enmeshed; and thus there is a tendency for them to respond to the ministrations of the princes of darkness. But deep within their hearts there is a moving force of universal light: there is an echo in the corridors of their memory that recalls those moments when they stood in the presence of God, and this creates in them a yearning for truth and reality.
Neither their parents nor all of the ages of the past are responsible for all of their problems. They are individuals; each is endowed by God with the highest purposes. Each has created his own karmic net; and it is to this net, that can hold either the mud of human vileness or the heart of the golden age as chalice of universal purpose, that we would direct our attention. Man is neither God nor demon; he is a potential God in the making. Destined by the Eternal to be the master of his life, he has become, through a sense of division and struggle, a child of confusion's mien.
Now, as my heart goes out to the children of the world, I urge greater understanding on the part of all. It is not a question of age and youth, for what is 'age' or 'youth' but a figment of men's imaginations on the ship of time. All sail through the bounding main, all move as pilgrims on the bark of life; and they are not so separated by these few years as the illusion would have them believe. Each in himself is able to recognize his frail being; but let him also realize that
as there manifests a frail self
an outward fragile thing
so there is an inner strength, an inner purpose
a greatness to which we must give wing.
I urge all to attain self-mastery rather than mastery over the lives of others and to check the widespread practices of control men have one to another. How determinedly the dark forces have spawned the Machiavellian ideas that men must control other men and their outward destinies. They have created, then, not greatness or graciousness, but mechanisms by which they divide and subdivide the races of men. This fragmentation does not result in the unification of purpose that would help mankind to see reality, and to know it when they see it; on the contrary, it creates those schisms which breed violence because men think unlike each other. And because they do not think alike, they can exude the poisonous breath of hatred against one another and in so doing feel that they are fulfilling their raison d'être. Some even dare to consider their hatred to be the product of lofty ideals.
We are not condemning. We seek to create forums of understanding. We would penetrate the consciousness of humanity. We would guide the youth into the great crystal glow of dazzling reality where the City of God can become tangible in themselves and upon earth. We would avoid the bloodbath that the dark forces of the world would bring upon humanity through their thrusts of division and their manufactured currents that set men at cross-purposes with one another.
We would spare this age the destruction intended by the enemies of righteousness. The world has seen enough of war; enough mothers' hearts have known the anguish of the loss of sons. Our wish today is to improve the world through the message of my son, the Prince of Peace. We would strengthen the bonds even of ordinary religion; we would improve the quality of life everywhere within its own domain. We do not mind if individuals wish to be exclusive, to have a religion they call their own; we would only make it a true religion. Let it expand the grace of God and fulfill the purpose of religion4 that is to bind the flower to the stalk, the nestling to the mother's breast, and the souls of men to their Creator.
Do you remember when the two women were brought before Solomon for judgment, one of their children having been laid upon and smothered during the night, the other one alive? She who was not the mother was willing to have the sword divide the child in two, but the mother cried out, "Let her have him!"5 - for she had love. Let me urge upon you all, then, the same willingness to surrender the souls of men to the religion of their choice; but let me exhort all religions to teach love to one another, to avoid the poison of class struggle, of race hatred, and of religious competition.
We of the Great White Brotherhood are willing to give men their freedom to choose as they would; we simply exhort them to be wise and not to subject themselves to the deceit that in dividing men defeats the purposes of every avatar, of every disciple, of any and all who have ever known upon this earth a Golgotha on behalf of the children of God.
In memory of the eternal resurrection, of eternal reality, of eternal possibility, of the awakening to truth, I remain for my son's mission and in my service to life,