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Heart Friends of the Shining Spirit of Good Will:
Universities of the Spirit must be formed. We must gather the children under our wings. We must stamp out darkness and infuse the world with light. Penetration must occur; the clay vessels of opacity must be shattered. The radiance behind manifestation should shine forth; but unless it is seen, unless it is perceived, what is the purpose of shining? The purpose of shining is to shatter the clay of opacity, the enclosing shards that in thousands of years have brought no happiness. Man must learn to breathe again.
The travelers are many, but we are concerned with the arrivals. The compasses of confusion must be exchanged for a sane direction. Newness of life must enhance the quality of the present moment. The bitter ones must empty their cups of the dregs of human swill. Thousands of years of infamy can yield to one moment of the fire of the Sun. The Sun would consume the dross. Therefore, let us burn up the mechanizations of darkness, and let human recalcitrance yield to the sweetness of the climbing rose upon the arbor wall.
As we inhale the sweet perfume of purpose, our senses are endowed anew. We see the outer form as a stairway to the infinite and the machinations of conspiracy as the net of neglect. Man have neglected the things of the Spirit. They have lived solely toward outer purpose. They have been enmeshed in darkness, and the seeds of death have been scattered amongst them. Immortal life has remained in the jar upon the shelf, while the thing of beauty and joy forever has been a lost object.
Now we summon the devotees of the Spirit. We summon the children of faith. We summon the elect to a new principle - to an old principle made new - to the eternal hearth, to the center fire, surrounded by the devotees. If light be everywhere, where is it? If all things are good, where is good? If grace abounds, where is grace? The hardening of the arteries of the milk of human kindness has created one of the darkest epochs in all of the stages of man's evolution. Without love there is no life. Without hope there is no charity. Without faith there is no hope. But faith, hope, and charity abound in Him.
The sellers of oil and fine raiment must understand the karmic accountability that they have for each act of desecration of the Lord's body. The body of incorporeal substance is the sustaining power behind all natural order. Inherent within nature is the conveying, miniaturized cup - the seed atom of universal purpose.
Each gesture of God creates a ripple in the nucleonic chain, whose pattern remains unaltered until it is intercepted by humanly ordained misqualification. The diseases of the world are brought about as the result of mankind's fragmentations of cosmic purpose: and men dare to impute to the Deity the negative misqualifications they themselves have created! Do they think that the karmic reaper shall pass them by? His grimness shall be as the whited face of God, a solemn harbinger of justice that will not be moved, even by the cry for mercy. Those who know and thwart the purposes of God should tremble.
Let the children of the Spirit take heart, let them not faint, let them not be weary. Let them understand the cry of the prophet, "They shall mount up with wings as eagles."1 But these things, too, require dedication. They require energizing; they require training in cosmic law. If men give all to food, to shelter, to entertainment and ignore the mandates to create universities of the Spirit, how can we prepare the children of the coming age? It is not enough to have available the lexicon of the spiritual guardians. We need vital hearts of flesh. We need teachers who understand the need for devotion, for remolding in their own lives that they may mold the lives of others, and who will offer themselves simultaneously to our purposes.
The Brotherhood summons. The Brotherhood calls. The children of this earth will remain children forever or be extinguished in the blotting out of their transgressions, unless the fruit of Christed reality can be made available to them, unless the knowledge of the Spirit can be imparted to them, unless the mystic circle of the holy twelve can be made real to them. The grail of God within them must be filled. They must drink of the cup of it - all of it. They must understand that this can be done, that it is no inordinate thing, but an ordained ordinance, a natural fulfillment of purpose: it is the creation of newness in life, already there but nonexistent to those whose consciousness is attuned to the dissonance of the world.
The dissonance of the world is an overpowering shroud that leads man downward into astral horror. Neither witchcraft nor deceit, the domination of other lives, or the unhealthy utilization of the laws of visualization can produce the children of the new age. The children of the new age must partake of the grail. They must understand the meaning of the continents of the sea and sky. They must understand the refinement of the earth itself. They must see the purging of the elements as the necessary purification of defiled substance which they themselves have defiled.
Ours is a summoning to gaze first upon the shambles men have made of life and then upon the image of radiant reality that God still holds behind the veil - in Eden where the Tree of Life gleams graillike through the trees, through the mists, through all of the enshrouding manifestations. But the angels of his Presence, the angels of purpose, must be wrestled with and the blessing secured, as did Jacob of old.2 The Christ consciousness is the inheritance of the elect. But so long as men defile themselves with outer conditions, so long as they remain afraid of the Eternal, so long shall they elect to fulfill lesser purposes. Only by a fearless dedication, only by a recognition of fearlessness' flame can they be endowed with the electronic essence that will enable them to walk the earth as gods.
Victory is in the soul. Victory is in the consciousness. Victory is the endowment of the man of the Spirit, not of the man whose indulgences in human revelry breed degeneration. Only by an omnipresent sense of that which will be can we overcome that which has been. The acclamation, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!" implies the sustainment of all that God from the beginning foreknew. Those who are afraid of religion are afraid of the reality of themselves; for without the true religion of the Spirit, they are but "wandering stars"3 to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.
We would give to humanity the cup of immortality, but they must partake of it. They must enter into its essence, into its consciousness, into its fires. They must partake of that which God is. This does not mean an end to themselves, it means the beginning of themselves. For all that humanity have been is as nothing until the day that they become illumined as one body by the knowledge of the living Christ. He is the Christ of the ages, the Everlasting One, the Prince of Peace, the motivator by which the movements of life are coordinated. We are not dealing, then, with a personality in the humanly accepted sense, but with the beness of every man which God foreordained from the foundation of the earth.
It was of this Be-ness that Christ spoke when he said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."4 Through the mystical sense of his oneness with life, man is transformed from a being of the "earth, earthy"5 to a being of the Spirit. To have the soul embody round after round upon the planet Earth is an act of mercy, foreordained only until man can become that immortal creation of God which he already is. Outer vanity and the vainglorious manifestation of the human person never can and never will eat of the Tree of Life. Man was figuratively and literally cast out of the Garden of Eden because he failed to fulfill the purposes of life. The only return to Eden that can ever occur is that which takes place when man walks back to his original estate and communes with God in the garden of being. This goal the Brotherhood espouses for every man, because we know that herein is the power of creative reality.
The techniques are many. The lives of the sages are many. The passions of the godly are all-enfolding. But we need the vehicle of the Brotherhood in outer expression to create and to infuse the consciousness of the young and of all ages with the celestial grandeur that will enable them to fulfill their immortal destiny. Yes, as we have said, man is not dust but destiny. But it is a destiny that must be seized. It does not come automatically to humanity. Too many nets of deceit and darkness, of shadow and pain have they woven. These must be burned out by a conscious willingness. These must be replaced by the ladders of the Spirit whose graded lessons will teach man to be victorious, not victimized.
I urge upon all, then, the understanding of endowing, supporting, and creating in Saint Germain's name the necessary foundations and halls of learning in physical manifestation that we have sought to bring forth through The Summit Lighthouse. We have commissioned our messengers to do so, but many hands are needed as many hearts are summoned. To the world we bequeath that which we are. Our lives we offer from afar. We draw nigh to the present hour and to salvation for a dying world. We would revive, we would create: we would recreate the destiny in man.
For the valor of the first ray of the dawn, I AM