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The highest mirror of the mind can scarcely reflect the brilliance of reality. Yet, men live in what can be termed as infinitesimally small concept of the heart of the universe.
We know that the heart of man can contain the complete apocalyptic vision of universal splendor. Why, then, do men and women permit themselves to be satisfied with a lesser view? Is it because they have had no higher vision set before them? Is it because the apparatus of life, so beautifully formed to perpetuate physical life, have failed to make a pathway for the divine? Who is to blame for man's failure to recognize his internal greatness, which flashes forth from time to time in little splendid achievements in the world of form - now as energies released in a competitive burst of speed and then again with the creative impact of an unfulfilled desire for transcendent expression?
I, Nada, speak to you of love. I speak to you of the love that gave you birth, form, and dimension, that holds for you still, regardless of any appearance to the contrary, a hopeful magnification of your divine plan. Men have plans, many of them; they make them for themselves. But, as one of your poets said, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray."1
Humanity, vacillating between a momentary distraction caused by a kaleidoscopic view of human events and the seeming enigma of life itself, are often tortured either by their own shortcomings or by the shortcomings of others and do not afford preeminence to the divine expressions all around them. The hush of nature, the beating of the heart, the potential of exquisite wonder everywhere apparent, reveal that behind the appearance world, behind all that seems to be, is a reality as dazzling as the noonday sun. The brilliance of this reality seems to blind the eyes of men; and so they turn to worldly projects and carry them out through the years, postponing to a mañana that never comes the spiritual goals they know and feel deeply within.
We would communicate divine love to man as never before; for in these days when the merchants are catering to the destruction of the very humanity from whom they derive their livelihood, there is only one key - one golden key that men should seek - and that is the key of divine love. Divine love is not merely an opinion of how one ought to act toward his fellowman, it is total involvement in the plan of divine love. You cannot separate the plan of divine love from divine love itself; for love, wisdom, and power are but aspects of the nature of God that complement each other, showing man the way to go.
In past ages when the great rishis taught men openly and the masters of wisdom sat upon the thrones of the nations of the world, they were the literal embodiment of God-ideals. The communication of these ideals to the least among their community was a responsibility from which they did not shrink. Ask yourself this question, then, in the name of divine love: Are your leaders communicating those spiritually valid concepts that will propel humanity into a golden age? Or are they still engrossed in the business of defrauding one another, of seeking in a mad power craze to control one another, while the scales of cosmic justice mete out impending doom upon those who have created havoc in the lives of others?
The world looks to its leaders for guidance. Any man or woman can be a leader if he will be content to begin to serve in small ways, as he is able, and understand that leadership is a quality of divine love. This love is fulfilled in the courage that defies convention when necessary, even as it is fulfilled in the talent that reaches into the heart of universal truth and draws therefrom, for the benefit of all, some facet of the glorious inner nature of man, framed in the divine image. Herein is the leadership that will open the way to an improved state of life and a higher consciousness for humanity.
There are so many departments of life which need the counsel of a higher talent, which need hands of service, which need support to expand the light that God is raying forth, that no one should feel inadequate. Man can both learn while doing and serve while learning. The plan can be implemented. Those who profess love, but withhold it, failing to create either in themselves or in society the culture that God is, are deficient in the expression of divine love and totally unaware of the need to implement cosmic purpose on earth.
I AM Nada. Long have I served humanity as a representative of the highest love of God for man. And whereas I hear constant prating about the need to have love, I perceive how many, by their deeds, work against the very principles that love expounds. It is not enough for men to speak, for action is the fulfillment of worded thought and feeling. Without deeds, love is mere potential undelivered. It is true that "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour";2 but more than harmlessness (ahimsa) or a passive attitude, men must understand the great positive power of being about the Father's business and doing great good because the Father is in them.
What is the difference between the Father and the Father's plan? To us there is none. We believe that those projects that are dear to his heart should also be the forte of the God-realized man. If men and women, conscious of their own level of attainment, feel a sense of inadequacy, let them understand that the cornucopia of heaven is waiting to pour out the abundant life upon all. Man has but to admit his need and to ask of God that he may receive.
Unfortunately, through the years we have seen people who have judged the Eternal by human standards; and when the called-for virtue was not forthcoming on the instant, or if they could not perceive it, some of them even reached out to berate the Deity. This chastening of the Higher Self is profitless and does not correlate the truth with being. The Divine does not need forgiveness, it is the human that needs forgiveness. And whereas the Divine can give to man the bliss of forgiveness, only the personality can appropriate and use this unguent for the healing of old wounds, thus making it possible for him to resubmit himself to the radiance of universal love from whence he came.
The ugliness that is in the minds of some men, the sense of struggle that becomes the wild insanity of an astral nightmare, is no part of the universal technique. Those who embrace the struggle and dwell in it are chastened by it without profit to their souls. These hang from the ledges of the bottomless pit, niches of consciousness to which men gravitate because they have not fixed their gaze upon the higher outreach of God-magnificence that in the lives of the saints became the impetus by which they moved upward.
Let men and women of goodwill and faith understand the relativity of true love to true wisdom and universal power. So shall we seal the endeavors of the future in the glowing globe of divine motive. We shall move individuals and nations toward an age when their leadership, hearkening to the divine within themselves, following the orderly process of initiation, climbing the ladder of spiritual attainment, shall see each test of life well passed as a means whereby not only they but entire continents shall rise.
Darkness is, that light may fill it, and in filling it, vanquish it.3 Hatred kills and will die; but love infuses with life, meaning, and purpose.
Out of the sun of the heart of God let the rays daily flow into your own hearts and minds, illumining the darkest corridors of being, showing the role of the universal Christ as the great teacher of men, the unifier and the bearer of true beauty. There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby man can be saved.4 As each one receives the inner meaning of that new name, so do many sons come lovingly into the captivity forged from the golden chains of wisdom, in honor preferring the Father's plan to all others.
"Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."5 The foreverness of the words of beloved Jesus echo still in the minds of men. "Be of good cheer, it is I"6 is the message of the soul of God to the little children of his heart.
Devotedly, in the presence of divine love, I remain