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To Those Who Are Willing to Probe the Subconscious
with the Sword1 of the Holy Spirit:
The depth of man's inferiority, inefficiency, doubts, and fears always stems from past momentums, either of the self or of infections carried into the self from other selves.
An understanding of the nature of the subconscious mind will assist the individual in solving his problems and in developing a greater level of God awareness with its attendant victory and happiness. The ministration of the Holy Spirit is intended to provide humanity with both the understanding and the vital determination that are needed to eliminate undesirable qualities, that they might no longer be subject to their power, but only to the God-victorious thoughts that flow from the Mind of Christ. Thus, the maintaining of a steady contact with the Godhead will assure each individual of the fulfillment of his original life plan.
Here on earth ascended master concepts have become so distorted from their original intent that they are scarcely recognizable in heaven. People persist in the habit patterns which they established early in life through parental guidance, and as the years go by they continue to mimic the outer expressions of others. Let them learn, if they would be free from the bondage of imperfect molds, that the buoyant nature of God must be welcomed into conscious as well as subconscious levels of being by embodied humanity. This is a matter of uprooting weeds which have no place in the garden of reality and of cultivating the virtues implanted there, which have been choked out by the incumbent growth.
Momentums are built as people go over the old patterns again and again, until these patterns become so deeply rutted that it is almost impossible to eradicate them from the face of consciousness. We have seen how the suppression of unwanted habits, when transmutation is in order, leads to degeneracy and despair. Individuals fail to understand that where latent desire goes unchecked and there is an unwillingness to let go of unwholesome human conditions - often because such conditions are more familiar to the ego, hence more comfortable, than the unknown realms of light from which man has departed - there is a steady draining of energy into subconscious desire matrices that are not in conformity with either the true nature of the individual or his original life plan.
Desire suppression is dangerous because it causes the buildup of these internal cell pockets while affording no outlet for frustration. When the pressure at subconscious levels becomes great enough, something has to give; and because body, mind, and soul are interwoven upon the loom of individuality, the resulting explosion may temporarily disrupt the normal flow of consciousness.
We advocate, then, in the overcoming of unwanted habits and conditions, a recognition of the all-power of God. "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth,"2 said the Master Jesus. The recognition that this power is given unto the Christ in every man, as the just steward of his potential, is essential; for God's power, with its attendant perfection, is now and always has been available to man. However, man was also given the gift of free will which he may use to effectively blot out the Holy Spirit which gave him birth, even as he uses it to still the voice of conscience, as Saint Paul long ago said, "searing conscience with a hot iron."3
Knowing that truth and life are more important than the temporal satisfactions which must one day be surrendered, knowing that the divine birthright far exceeds man's earthly expectations, the advocates of the Holy Spirit bear the hope that individuals in this day and age will understand that surrender to God is only surrender to the goodness of life itself. This goodness is already inherent in life and awaiting the welcome of the individual monad who possess the key of free will. When your blessed free wills are tethered to his will, there is far less of the sense of struggle about life. One's future is no longer subject to the whim of personal desire, but rests firmly in the God-desire to develop the patterns of the life plan to the fullest extent of which the individual monad is capable.
The chastening of the Holy Spirit is the natural outgrowth of the conflict between man's will and God's will. How strange it is, then, that in their reactions to the love of his Spirit many have said, "I want to be free!" Well, precious ones, while your own free will is actually your passport to absolute freedom, once misused, it is no longer an instrument of freedom, but the tool of self-imposed bondage. The world is filled with diversions that are used to lure people from the Path. Even devotees of the Spirit, because of their misunderstandings of the law, have allowed themselves to become bored with religious things.
Some have asked, "Must I always be praying, always happy, always thoughtful of the Spirit?" Such questions are based in ignorance. The real problem lies in the fact that in his initial approach to Deity, man is inept. He attempts to fondle the realities of God, but finds himself lost instead in the labyrinth of old thought patterns as he struggles through the darkness within himself toward the light.
Reality will seem evasive to many until they find it. Patience is needed at all levels; for just at the moment before breakthrough all may still seem dark and lost. But there is hope, blessed hope, for all; and that hope lies in the mighty bonds of the Holy Spirit who gathers the soul in arms of light into cosmic brotherhood, oneness with God, and completion of the life plan. The Holy Spirit is an all-enfolding instrument of devotion and purpose, for the Spirit embodied within it the intelligence of God and the concern he has for all of his creatures.
Without the loving outpouring of the Holy Spirit, men could not communicate with one another or with the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is, therefore, an instrument of communication. Its radiance is the satisfaction of the being of God himself. The caress of the fingers of the Holy Spirit is like a surge of perfect happiness, of perfect days, of perfected joys. If man were already perfected outwardly, he would need no conformity with the perfection within himself.
Let men recognize, then, that while they are yet living in the duality of self, they must cleave only to the Real, else they will not be able to separate themselves from the unreal. Those who fear lest they torture themselves ought to consider the torture already inflicted upon the soul that is crucified in Matter.
The soul is an airy creature that crosses at will the dimensions of unreality into the realms of true being. Its confinement in the time and spatial strata is a sojourn of schooling. Earth is a schoolroom where the light of the Holy Spirit is intended to be a beacon-guide, breaking through the night of human consciousness and flooding all with the radiance of the dawn of new hope, always appearing, always directing, always making those determinations that recast the molds of life in the higher image.
The struggle may seem difficult, but the rewards are infinitely beautiful. The joy is exquisite, and the balm that eases the pains of spiritual birth is healing and confers a closeness to the love of God.