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If the outer world lies in shambles, is it a reflection of the inner world? What is the limit of individual responsibility? Is man responsible for the universe, or only for himself? If I am my brother's keeper, who is my brother?1
The enormous power within the individual, if it were unleashed, would give universal control even to the monad. Is it any wonder that hierarchy has prescribed the initiatic process as a ladder leading to God? Is it any wonder that laws govern the appointed rounds of man's adventures? What, then, are the limits to which man should aspire?
Let men understand the tertiary divisions. Let them understand how body, soul, and spirit, when functioning as one, must also yield to the prescribed limitations. Let them realize that power is intensified within the cube of reasonability.
Men have dominion over many aspects of their lives; but they form habits almost unwittingly, and these become prison houses because the chamber is dull. The almost witless ones proclaim the emptiness of life, but life need never be a chamber of horrors: it can be a bower of beauty. Each cube must be purified and washed. Men may invite the sun to cleanse all of their chambers, but the chambermaid assumes the responsibility for the dispensing of cleanliness.
Men should learn to direct the buoyant spatial energies so that the Christ consciousness may gleam in every square inch of manifestation. If the task seems Herculean, if it seems beyond your capacity to do, remember that only form is circumscribed, the Spirit reaches everywhere.
Fortunately, the two-edged sword has kept the way of the Tree of Life; the spatial Edens exist as cathedrals of hope. Only the lowered borders of the mind have succumbed to become nests of darkness, but the head of a pin may be a chamber of horrors. It is not size, but quality of size, that must be guarded.
Great or small, man's consciousness is his chief obstacle or his chief advocate. The gateway to consciousness is seldom guarded by contemporary men. Like a vast funnel, they take in as living truth all that they see around them; whereas the things of the invisible world, the links with true being, are denied because they are invisible to the physical senses. These denials seem at first a harmless pastime, like a parlor game. In reality, they stifle and cut off the flow of creative majesty within the being of man.
We are concerned with the youth of the world in this time of trial, for the nets of darkness are everywhere to trap them. There is the net of music, of chemicals, of pride and egoism, of sensuous joy, of confusion, and even of misguided idealism. Everywhere the snares have been laid; and some, because of advanced physical years, regard the span of limited self-concern as precluding the possibility of their extending help to the youth of the world. How often we have seen the vapid nets of karmic pasts drop over individuals to obscure from them the best possibilities.
Let all understand that he who places his hand in service upon the plow2 to plow a straight furrow, that others may eat, shall himself not go hungry in time to come. What a pity it is that the spoilers are so widely disseminated and that the carriers of the seeds of God sometimes appear as a ragged handful of tired old men. I will take even one of them in preference to thousands of self-centered sowers of darkness, whose every thought is for their own gain.
The time has come when we should sharpen our wits, determine that we shall not fight one another but seek the glory radiant in the heart of the elect. Is this glory not one? How can it then be divided against itself? Who are the dividers of men, they who seek to conquer for Satan? The nets of power and control are everywhere. Men seek the occult that they may control others.
Let all devotees understand that the nectar of God is in the hive. You do not need to go without to find that which is within. The mechanical systems of mental control with their hypnotic rhythms are not the key Christ used to walk upon the water and to raise the dead. The magicians of Egypt may cast down their rods; they may say, "We do the same thing by the same methods."3 But the rod of Aaron, the rod of Christ, will swallow them up.
He that is in you -
Whose image is so clearly defined,
Is able to guard your heart and mind.
His light dispensed from hands of love
Exalts the soul to God above.
The image divine needs but to refine
The outer person and make it divine.
Tenderly God has placed his holy wisdom to permeate the universe, to exist side by side with his holy will. His will is the key that unravels the law. But the law has aspects both low and high. Those who master the low may not know the high.
Let us determine that the age shall respond to the wondrous patterns of the Great Architect of eternity. Let us bind up the wounds of the world according to the best possibilities. Let us scatter light everywhere and abate the darkness. Let us begin with the monad of self and feel no need to enlarge that monad, but only to enlarge our concept of unity that outreaches to serve the God-harmony of a universe.
And now our work is here upon Terra; and the children of men must be taught to find their deliverance from the darkness they have fashioned with their hands, with their minds, with their shortsightedness. His will is the panacea. As we embrace it in the smallest matters, the ungents of compassion and healing flow.
Valiantly, in the service of the holy will, I remain
Faith, hope, and charity are
Descending from the star
Of my God Presence above
Overflowing with God's love
Charge me with faith and good will
Make and keep me constant still
Drawing forth hope from God's heart
Destiny's radiance through me start
Charity's radiance balance free
By God's will help all to be
Invicible! Victorious!
All-wise, loving, and pure
Flame of immortal life
That will endure
By God's will!
By God's will!
By God's will!