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Knowledge of that Power which Will Transmute
To Those Who Are Ready to Leave Their Misconceptions at the Gate of the Kingdom:
The coercions of the world have exactly the power humanity gives to them. Is it not written in the sacred scriptures that God will suffer man to be tempted above that he is able, but will with every temptation also make a way of escape?1
Whereas man, then, has often created a God made in his own image and ignored the holy mandate of freedom to express the magnificent reality of his own God Self, man can still, if he wills it so, on any given day of his life shift his polarity from the point of bondage of that of dynamic freedom.
Some concepts are so little that they flit across the wind as fireflies in a swamp; but, whatever their size, it must be recognized that men's ideas and even their imaginations are either stripes of bondage or joy-bursts of true freedom that, like white-fire magic, cut across lines of force and old encrusted momentums to give human beings the joy of the magnificent God-concept of what freedom really is.
How unfortunate it is that men will listen to the blaring idiocies of the unillumined, of the ill-mannered whose cacophony is heard the world around. The vain diatribes of accusation and subtle intellectual rhetoric which continue to divide the world, the drivel of human sophistication and sophistry, these are not true culture, not can they give to the God-seeker a sense of his infinite beauty.
During my lifetime as Francis Bacon, when the Shakespearean plays were released, embodying at times those cloud-capped ideas of the Spirit, and then again entering into the arrows and slings of outrageous fortune, I delivered to the world both censure and praise - praise for the beauty to be found in the soul which God planted there in bejeweled splendor and blame for the old "follow-the-leader" concepts whereby men of fear write their own epitaphs in infamy. These do not consider the native qualities of divinity as gifts of worth, but follow instead those decadent concepts which reveal them as men who stand for nothing save feathering their own nests.
We admire the brave men and women of freedom who have thought first not of self but of God-good for humanity, whose faith, reaching toward the stars, has perceived with clarity the need to act at special times and not to create senseless delays. If freedom ever needed friends, it is now! And I cannot think but that the members of the Karmic Board - recognizing the dauntless qualities of some who, seizing the opportunities at hand, act in God's name to uphold the banner of truth - have also pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor on behalf of that reality for which embodied souls hunger and thirst.
This desire for reality that lingers in the hearts of men brings me, then, to a necessary explanation of Matter and Spirit. One of the most subtle devices of the powers of evil that has been used to deceive good and true men in the past is the false logic, fashioned in word-pictures, that portrays Matter as though it were God's enemy and Spirit as though it were his best friend. True, "God is a Spirit";2 but it is also recorded, "Try the spirits whether they are of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God."3
This statement denotes that it is necessary for the consciousness of the Christ - the immaculate consciousness of the Christos - to enter into the heart of every spirit, that it might be crowned with the love of the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. Let us point out that Matter may likewise be endowed by the Spirit of the Christ, and that good and evil cannot be conveniently categorized as 'Spirit' and 'Matter'; for these must be examined in the light of their inherent qualification to determine whether they are enshrined by the consciousness of truth or error.
Some schools of metaphysics teach the condemnation of Matter, which in reality was born of the Spirit and is but a relatively lower vibration of that Spirit, capable of being raised by the transmutative powers of the Holy Spirit into pure light. What man requires, then, is not a simple formula or system of affirmation and denial to disprove the existence of the material universe - as though by mere thought he could alter the creation - but the knowledge of that power which will transmute the frozen energies of the world, whether dense or ethereal, into light and love and truth. When this is accomplished, then freedom is born and radiates from within both Matter and Spirit.
Let men see the role of the violet flame as it culls out of the consciousness, out of the vital bodies and out of the whole being of man every human subtlety, every retrogressive tendency and completely nullifies the coercions of the man of the world. What a great blessing it is when spiritual freedom comes to the soul, when the holy monad has infused into him not only the soul-life that has traveled from body to body but also the miraculous attunement that makes man one with the Father, one with the principle that is embodied by all but is expressed to its fullest in so few.
Expansion and progress go hand in hand. He who expands the light of freedom within himself is a part of the vanguard of cosmic progress, not only for the planet but also for the universe. And, as the swelling billows roll, the tides of time and eternity passing in review before the screen of mortal consciousness, the Infinite bides his time and extends his canopy of awareness over all. This infinite Spirit of God that broods over the waters governs also the ultimate destiny of man.
Matter is not the culprit but the clay that must be molded. It is human pride on the one hand and a sense of groveling in the dust on the other, it is condemnation, judgment, and criticism reinforced by fear which play their roles in hindering the soul from the expansions God envisions for all. But, regardless of the seeds of confusion that have been scattered in the fields of true religion concerning the polarity of Matter and Spirit, I am confident that we are evolving a new breed of spiritual avatars, even now, through the activities of the Brotherhood. For we are showing forth the meaning of freedom as freedom has not been revealed before.
Freedom is in the soul, seedlike and dormant, and but awaits the nourishment of the attention, the acceptance of the consciousness, the pulsing joy of awareness. It leads man onward out of decrepitude and age into vitality and amazement; for the love of God that passeth understanding,4 that conveyeth ultimate destiny to all, will not be moved in its great onrush toward freedom. Freedom soars and carries with it into the ethereal realms of light and loveliness even material substance, chaining nothing, but changing all things into untethered progress tethered to reality. For, although man must be free, he must also be willingly bound to the highest.
The Gloria in Excelsis Deo that will bring true peace on earth is in the soul. It was planted in the garden of the heart by the Almighty. In him and in the Spirit of truth that he is, is the unfoldment of loveliness and high adventure. Life is not meant to be a vale of trial, but a veil of triumph wherein the Spirit of Christ-truth, perceiving the blueprint of universal reality, seizes the luminous orb of destiny and casts down the despairs of life as it raises the banner of freedom within the souls of men.
Fiery destiny, unveil thyself
And show the higher way of God!
Fiery destiny, unveil thyself
For man is not a clod!
Fiery destiny, unveil thyself
Infuse the soul with God!