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Devoted Ones of the Higher Science,
Almost petrifying to humanity are the current outreaches in the behavioral sciences, parapsychology, and the wider ramifications of ecology. These stagger the imagination of man, leaving him trembling in lonely nakedness at the brink of an abyss, literally torn by the winds of impact.
Man cries out for help, and we wish to give it. You have heard from historians how eras of greatness have come and gone in the world. You have perceived even in contemporary life the knowledge that appears first in a speculative form and then through experiment is proven practical. You have also heard that Antichrist should come.1
Now there appears in the world of form, outside of the great scientific achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, and electronics, and apart from the social sciences, a new method of developing the potential of the personality. Based almost exclusively on hypnotic designs of mind control, this refacing of old autosuggestion techniques is gradually replacing the Christ consciousness with so-called scientific methods.
Learned by rote, these methods will supposedly make man a master of himself. He is told that he will need no help from any other, save those who would make merchandise of him by promising to communicate to him the techniques of mind control. These, he is assured, will enable him to bend not only his own mind but also the minds of others at will; thus, there is produced psychic domination by a psychic technology which would wrest the secrets of life from heaven itself.
Let those who tamper with higher law beware, for in olden times it was this tampering that broke the lines of cosmic communication between unascended man and the Reality of God. By setting up a system of domination of self by self, men sought to establish a personal oligarchy that would require help from no one, not even from God himself. The spirits who direct such unwholesome activities will tell men first that they have the means within themselves of going directly to God, that they require no instruction or aid from anyone except the Deity himself. Then, after they have convinced people of their own inner powers, they subtly introduce the lie that since they are doing so well on their own, perhaps they don't really need Him after all.
Those who are egotistical enough to believe these luciferian lies - which would have men bypass the hierarchical system of initiation and ignore the Godhead - may fall under their power; but they will never find the way to emancipation, which comes only through the Christ consciousness. Mechanical apparatus can be triggered by known laws. These laws can be taught and used to further the lie, and humanity can set up a catalytic form of environmental control. Through tampering with the genes, they can alter the face of life both within and without. But not without accountability.
Should you care to read the scriptures carefully, we refer you to a passage on the misuse of creative imagination that occurred in connection with the tower of Babel. "And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."2
Today as of yore, humanity, captured by a runaway imagination, do not understand the great creative laws by which man, functioning under the Deity, is able to work logically with God and to assist the hierarchy in the doing of that noble work which makes man a co-creator with God. One of the simple ways in which men and women can tell whether they are working with God or with the ego, the Antichrist, is by applying the simple rule: "Do I feel a sense of personal accomplishment that I am the one who is doing the work, be it through self-discovery or the discovery of others? Do I feel independent of the universal presence of God in my life and in the lives of others?"
With rare exceptions, the activities which involve the Antichrist create those feelings that separate men from God and from one another and make them overly independent and often unknowingly arrogant. The retreats in which spiritual seekers take part are not so intended. In these periods of withdrawal from the world man seeks to harness the great creative essence of life and to work with God. Then, when he returns to the mainstream of life and achievement is made, he recognizes that "It is not I that doeth the work, but the Father in me."3 This is the essential attitude that creates the wonder and beauty of life. It is the open door to the giant complex of the infinite mind that, like a great computer, receives the benign thoughts of all benign beings and makes them readily available to the individual in answer to his call.
While the vast cerebral network and cortex makes of the monad a miniature universe that seems to have autonomous control over his own world, the real source of love, wisdom, and power is the God Presence. When universal energy is drawn by man and then qualified with the imprint of an altogether human or personal vibration, it may elicit a response from others who are drawn by the strands of human sympathy. Taking pride in the fact that they are able to place themselves in a similar vibration, these evoke a form of compassion for the person which effectively denies the power of genuine compassion for universal purpose.
Universal purpose radiates from the head through the entire network of the consciousness. There can be only one head to the body, and that head is the universal Christ consciousness in which all share. Simply because many among mankind have lost the art of communing with the universal Christ does not in any way nullify the efficacy of Christ-power either in the world at large or in the world of the individual. But those who choose to ignore the existence of the Presence or who fail to acknowledge the beloved Son, the Christ consciousness, as being the head of every man are cut off from the blessings which that consciousness always brings.
Now, in the matter of the various systems of hypnotic control, many among mankind who are familiar with these practices judge their merits solely on the basis of results. This empirical assessment, while understandable, does not apply in the matter of Christ versus Antichrist. The statement, "for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby humanity can be saved,"4 should be recognized as clearly defining the spiritual outreach of the God Presence both in Matter and in Spirit.
To suppose that one is successful simply because he is able to fulfill personal desires through the mechanical manipulation of various mental and even spiritual faculties is a gross error that will eventually lead to the downfall of man's recognition of and attunement with his God Presence and his Christ Self. This breakdown in the great common bond of infinite love between the Father and the embodied Son always results in a stultification in the design of life. The individual may acquire all of the things of the world that he desires, but he will be lacking in the great gifts of true God-happiness and oneness with the Eternal Creator through the Christ consciousness.
Mechanical methods may be effective in the brainwashing used in military and psychological warfare, but these have no place in the kingdom of God where man fulfills his destiny through his attunement with reality. Beware, then, of those who would duplicate by mechanical means the various feats of nature in order to wrest a form of control over the minds of their fellowmen. Know, instead, that the Ascended Masters' level of consciousness is not lacking in any of the elements of perfection. These we offer gladly to those who would receive them.
The communication of divine ideas to the individual, which then become a practical aspect of living through his own development of the Christ consciousness, will assure him the ultimate attainment of "all power in heaven and in earth."5 This power far exceeds human dimensions of control; these, like the serpents created out of the rods of the black magicians, will eventually be swallowed up in the truth of the living Christ.6 As the brass serpent was raised up in the wilderness, that all who looked upon it should live,7 so shall the truth be raised up within each one who declares, "And I, if I [the Christ in me] be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me [unto the Christ]."8
In this day of apostasy, when all manner of witchcraft and seductive apparatus would devour the soul, wise is the servant-son who keeps steadfastly on the path that leads to the God consciousness. All detours are but delays in attainment. All delays increase frustration to the soul that longs for the glory it once knew with the Father before the world of form was. Let peace, then, come through illumination and divine love in the perfect balance of that power God would confer upon every son.
There is no need to be caught in the net of delusion that, in amplifying the personal self and its density patterns fashioned after human desire, would abort the true Path and mislead the disciple, assuaging the hungers of his soul by a temporary palliative without ever affording him the opportunity for that progress which is to be found only in the initiatic process.
Each man is intended to be a reflection of all that God is within his own compartment of monadic perfection. This potential is always found in the bestowal of the magnetic fire of the soul. Its expansion is accomplished by a direct apprehension and acknowledgment of the God within, whose divine ideas are communicated by him, whose perfect pattern shall be known forever by all who are becoming immortal.
Inasmuch as the flesh that is grass shall fade away,9 let men tether their beings to the permanence of the divine. Thus, the divine radio shall broadcast to every man the God-perfection of the God Star bountiful in the divine heart.
Abundantly and devotedly, I remain