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The heart that readily accepts simplicity can solve the most complex problems. Man should seek to implement his God-given talents by the law of increase which is always activated by application, God-determination, and goodwill to all.
On the subject of goodwill to men, let us make clear that whereas all men were created by God, this was a primary act of creation; but only when the reins of authority were transmitted to the individual did he become a co-creator with God and begin the process of arbiting his own destiny. Then, because the deeds of some men followed after evil, they in fact re-created themselves in the image of the sons of Belial, the sons of darkness. Not taking into account this aspect of mankind's evolution, many have failed to apprehend the mystery of good and evil; and they have thought that inasmuch as God made all men, they should recognize all on an equal basis.
It is our counsel in these latter days, as it has ever been, that the children of the light should in honor prefer one another and shun associations with the children of darkness.1 The exception to this rule is, of course, made when one of those who are lost elects to turn toward the light and requests the assistance of someone upon the Homeward path. But all should recognize that there is a difference between the elect and those who follow in blindness or stubbornness after their own ways. Yet, the potential for the bringing forth of great God-good lies either active or dormant in all men; for the Father is not willing that any should perish, but that all should have immortal life.2
The great ocean of divine awareness is linked to the outer consciousness of the most dense members of the race. Thus there are transmitted, in essence, fragments of cosmic intelligence about life which flow intuitively to the least evolved among men. And the proof of this flow of cosmic awareness is everywhere apparent to those who will honestly look.
How great is the value of the devotee in this age, of the man or woman who becomes a city set upon an hill that cannot be hid.3 How beautiful are the feet of them which preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.4 How beautiful is the flow of unfolding, the flower of the elect, of those who rejoice even in the chastening of cosmic law, whose will is ever centered on the plan that God has unfolded through the spiritual hierarchy.
Those who are limited in concept, those have not yet opened their eyes to the great stellar realities of life, often fix their consciousness upon an arbitrary or whimsical God made in their own thought-image. Hence, they do not understand the heavenly divisions and subdivisions, the appointments of heaven, the conferments of authority and the fixing of responsibility in the sons of God.
These can see the need on earth for departmentalization in the many complex functions of government, business, and social exchange. What they do not seem to understand is the necessity and the reality of heavenly appointments. The names of Archangel Michael and the chohans of the rays may be foreign to those who are acquainted only with my mission as Jesus, the Christed Son of God. These, in good faith, sometimes fear that men blaspheme when they honor the masters or the angelic hosts. Let me assure all who love the Father that the Father rejoices in the faintest blush of love in the heart of a simple flower or in the heart of a tiny child that lightens the eye and brings gladness into the world.
Dare we attribute jealousy to the Most High God, even though in the Mosaic law it is written, "I AM a jealous God"?5 Let the scriptures rightly be broken. Let men understand that love is without alloy and that God can acknowledge only perfection in all, even as he jealously claims all for the best gifts he can confer. He possesses the capacity to hold himself and universal consciousness in the bonds of completeness. Hierarchical conferment of energy and responsibility is but the breaking of the bread of God-good among the many occupants of the universe who serve his holy will. The Brotherhood is not a decimation of the purposes of God: it is a dedication of each humble servant of light who, either as a ministering angel, as a mighty archangel, or as a master of functions, seeks to serve the vast multitude of humankind now evolving upon the planetary body.
How inconsistent it is that humanity, steeped in bigotry and intolerance, should in this day and age of great scientific accomplishment fail to see the order of heaven and the need for the heavenly ordering of human affairs. Hierarchy enables God to subdivide himself many times in his service to life and to involve various segments of humanity, either ascended or unascended, in the projects and plans he holds for their own enlightenment.
As I look backward, then, over the span of my own lives - my walks among the people of many lands, my service in times that, by comparison to now, would be judged most difficult - I AM keenly aware of the need for greater understanding of the principles and savants of heaven. What a waste of energy that a Buddhist should, in honor to Buddha, deny me, or that a Christian, in honor of me, should deny Buddha; and this holds true for all of those elect who have offered to serve the kingdom of heaven.
God is more pleased - and I want you to understand this - by love and by the acceptance of the quality of goodness in humanity than he is in the transmittal of personal adoration. Sincere adoration given to any part of life simply activates worship of the God in that part of life. This is not idolatry. Idolatry is the worship of the outer form for selfish purposes.
The transmittal of God's goodness to humanity by the many sons of God opens the blinded eyes that they may see the fragrant crystal glow of the Tree of Life, expanding to confer upon the nations and each individual segment of reality all God-good and perfectionment. When mankind join in the service of the heavenly hosts, all radiance, joy, and happiness conferred and held in consciousness will be seen as the eternally brooding dove of cosmic peace, the crowning achievement of universal progress.
In order that the purposes of life might be fulfilled, the Tree of Life must expand. It must reach out its branches. It must engulf human selfishness, human deceit and darkness; and it must not be concerned with love's recompense. All who ignore the mandates of brotherly love and the principles of truth, all who do harm and hurt in my holy mountain shall surely have returned to them that which they have inordinately sent out to other parts of life.
Let all understand, then, that karma and compensation, sin and error, will always return to the feet of those sending them out - and bitter will be the cup. But punishment is never his desire, for mercy from God flows to all generations. And when love, mercy, goodness, and truth are cherished, these fruits bear witness to the active principle of the Holy Spirit in every religion and in every life, which should become a religion.
There is, then, only one clarion call to Christhood, which I long ago did hear. As an elder brother of the race, I stand waiting to confer a celestial garment of infinite beauty and purity upon all who will hear me and the principle, the great soundless principle, for which I stand. The principle is soundless because it is the only sound that without ceasing rings clear, subtly caroling the message of the lost Word.
The Divine Mother cherishes the thought of the moment when the teeming multitudes of the world, grasping the bread of life in minutest portion, will take that Sacred Eucharist into their hearts and let the little gems of infinite white-fire light enrichen their beings. For she knows that this will create an expansive impetus to progress that will drive men confidently forward. Then the native garments of the last Adam will become the comfortable raiment of those who, with me, can brood over the world with the thought of a just peace, a righteousness exalting the nations, and with the one desire that the Holy Mother shall teach her children the meaning of spiritual virtue and the treasures of heaven.