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To Those Who Pursue Holy Wisdom:
The mountain of codified wisdom extant in the libraries and archives of the world has not secured freedom for the earth. Even those who have perused ancient books in musty chambers that they might understand the law of infinite Self have, more often than not, failed to apprehend the mysteries of God.
I AM an Archangel. Illumination is my flame. And, if it seem difficult for you to realize that "day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge"1 (that holy wisdom is being released unto man continuously as a flowing stream), whether from the lips of a lisping child or from the fiat of an archangel of God, try to understand with the inward heart that with God all things are possible.2
Men are prone to judge by worldly standards, to prove all things thereby and to follow the styles of the day rather than the principles of the ages. They are willing to believe in one another - and it is true that great geniuses in every century have written and written well - but why limit the speech and the knowledge of those of us who are preserved by His grace throughout the millenniums?
We live to exalt truth in word and deed, that you might step out from the clay images you wear into a dimension of reality that exists all around you, that is in you, that is the key to your release because it is the wisdom of God.
Paraphrasing beloved Paul the apostle in the time of Christ, we acknowledge that the wisdom of God is also foolishness with men.3 But, whereas this has often been the case, we see it as no binding law; for God has always sought to make his will understandable to men. Therefore do we know that the opportunity for enlightenment exists for all.
Men can, if they will, maintain the barriers they have erected. Men can, if they will, keep up the sham of having all knowledge. But deep within they know that their knowledge is limited, that they cannot truly preserve life, although they have succeeded in so doing on a temporary basis.
How delighted men should be that God has given to them the knowledge of industry and the arts, of expressing the qualities of their souls in science, music, and literature. How happy men should be that inventions for the communication of knowledge have been released in the electronic instruments preserved now to their hand. How delighted they should be that, whereas the implements of war and destruction exist that could reduce their entire civilization to rubble and propel them backward into the Dark Ages, today their buildings stand and their efforts are still possible of achievement.
But toward what have their efforts been directed? Toward the glorification of the ego I say, while the genuine God-directed ego that is the true monad has not been properly honored. Men mock virtue and laugh at the pure in heart whose modesty they deride. In brashness and in silly boldness, fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Our heart would neither create nor criticize a syndrome. We come forth holding in our hand the beautiful flame of knowledge that reveals the wonders God intends man to see. It is written in akasha4 that long ago David, king of Israel, said, "I know that in my flesh I shall see the salvation of God." Albeit he was laid to rest with his fathers, he was subsequently reborn and did indeed "in his flesh" see the kingdom of God and attain his victory.
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God";5 but I think that a wise man would rather fall into the hands of a living God, with all of the fear that the human might express, than he would to fall into the hands of scoundrels. For there are abroad in the land today fiends in human form who are working eagerly to destroy the God-magnificence that life has placed in the chambers of light within every man.
Man is the creation of God. Created in love and endowed with great wisdom, he has been given the means of tapping the secrets of power both in himself and in nature. These secrets, like stairways into eternity, are relative - one following the other. Thus, the great attainments that many have made are as nothing to others who have passed beyond them.
We are concerned with the fact that people live their lives as though they were fireflies in a swamp, flitting and flashing about, yet hiding from the noonday sun of reality. We are concerned that men actually live their lives within such a limited outreach, for we have observed that the currents of holy wisdom seem at times to be at cross purposes with the wisdom they have gleaned from the world: alas, even religion has become a competitive game.
Therefore, it is our wish that men and women understand that when holy knowledge is dispensed by the angels into the lifestream of a devotee, there follows a flare of illumination which may come into prominence in one area of his life, gradually spreading to others; or its radiance may suddenly appear in his total being as an expansion of the God consciousness.
There is no predictable pattern in the expansion of consciousness, for illumination is governed by karmic law: as man has sown so shall he reap. If, instead of condemning themselves or others, individuals would root out the tendency toward condemnation and pray for holy illumination to redirect their lives, then I AM certain that the powers that be in the heavens - powers that can shake the earth to its foundations - would show man the way out of the human dilemma, both on an individual and on a planetary scale.
Ours is to create in the consciousness of the world the wonders of high adventure, of penetrating the miracles of nature, whether the outer realm of sea, sky, and land, with their myriad manifestations of mystery and delight, or the inner secrets of the human soul as it seeks to rend the veil and discover reality.
I AM an Archangel, and I live to serve humanity. Our holy band functions as a permanent wave offering to God. We continually direct and redirect our energies into the chalice of human life. We seek to improve life from on high. We dispense truth to man as a prescription for all of his ills, as the breaker of the chains of his bondage, and as the creator of the winds of onward purpose.
We are progressive and ongoing, but we cannot destroy the human will. Man may, if he wish, ignore all of the mandates of heaven, all of the wisdom of God and dwell in the tents of darkness. He has done it successfully for centuries, for millenniums; but then there are two kinds of success. Men succeed in expressing the transitory, oft imitated patterns of humanity, with all of their foibles and propensities to senseless change and style - for that has been their goal. Then there is success in God, the success of the holy men of the ages who have penetrated the veil and beheld the mysteries of the Spirit and the overcoming of mortal density.
The density in the minds of men is being fed because humanity look continually to the outer, they look to penetrate from the without to the within; whereas, the real way to eternal progress is to penetrate the seed pattern, the divine idea, from within. And if at first you do not understand this method and plead ignorant, I say to you: You are not ignorant of the means to petition God that ye might receive from within knowledge about the plan.
Man's consciousness may run the gamut from the center of God within himself to the outermost periphery of expression. The fingers of the mind may travel the same route again and again, each time beholding greater facets of truth. For, after all, are you not intended to possess with God all knowledge as you learn to love all that expresses his victory and to extend mercy to those who have fallen short of the mark? Are you not also intended one day to express the allness of universal power when you shall have completed your novitiate and moved onward in the varying degrees of mastery, striving for the perfection of cosmic purpose?
Do you see now why man must learn to be as a little child, to listen to the voice of God, to heed conscience, to revel with delight in the great brooding Spirit that contemplates man's release from bondage and pain into happiness and joy?
As the sky changes, as the seasons come and go, as outer manifestations vanish in the light of cosmic progress, step by step the hand of God will guide you through hierarchy, through the angelic hosts, and through the greatest complement of God that is the humblest expression of himself.
Out of the depths of his love-wisdom I have spoken,