Superior Index Go to the next: Chapter 41
Print Files: A4 Size.
To All Who Seek the Oneness of Perfection:
The mountain of being stands before all. They have expressed the lowlands of life, now they shall express the beauty of perfection, the beauty of the struggle wedded to a fait accompli; for the perfection of life that is God has become one with every man.
He has seen the vision of himself as no longer in flesh, but as a God in Spirit. He has beheld the vision of the perfection of God for his soul. He has seen the purity of the light expressing through himself. His hidden thoughts are expressions of the Deity, of the mind of Christ, of the mind of God.
The timelessness of the Eternal is with him still. The hours, the days, the months, the years - these are they which pass. He is eternal. He has never begun to be. He always was. Like Melchizedek, priest of Salem, he is "without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God. ..."1 As the Bhagavad Gita says, "Never the Spirit was born; the Spirit shall cease to be never; never was time it was not; end and beginning are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the Spirit for ever; death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!"
From the East unto the West flows illumination of great power, flows regeneration, flows adoration. Men and women have often thought that they would adore God at some time in the future, when the vision of his perfection should come more naturally into manifestation. They have not considered that the gift of God is a relative one, that the gift of himself is the marvel of ever beholding reality in the timeless now.
The serenity of the flame of peace is upon man. It does not matter that the outer self has captured a glimpse of the world in turmoil. Now the new serenity, the ever-new bliss of the presence of the splendor of God, a shining unto the Self, is expressing the light of the mountain. And above the hills in the trackless air, the wonder of eternal progression is made manifest.
Man is no longer a creature to be flaunted, to be darkened, to adhere to the vibratory action of the world. His is the expression of the divine banner unfurled from the mountains. His is accomplishment, his is the splendor of being and the splendor of seeing. A vision of the mountains brings to every man a sense of the greatness of himself, the greatness of the Eternal. These are one. Man has always thought that he himself must discover the truth of being, that he must discover God, that he must capture the divine vision and be an expression of all that God is, but he has seldom realized the greatness of the Eternal One.
In his lucid moments, whether imbued with the Spirit that acknowledges the things of the world or the Spirit whose every thought is upon the beauty of the Deity, the individual monad has expressed a vision framed by the precepts to which his mind is tethered. If man is bound by a traditional approach to God, his expression will be according to that tradition. But when he casts aside the desultory illusion and accepts the reality of his God Self and his newfound relationship with the Eternal, at that moment the light of reality is with him. He is no longer limited. His domain is the domain of Spirit.
When the Word of the Lord is declared unto him, saying, "Thou danced with me in the flame before the world was," he is given a prescience of being whereby he can identify with the beauty of that moment when he was held in the bosom of God. It is as though it had never occurred, but is freshly occurring. The sense of his individuality becomes timeless. He is no longer circumscribed by outer purposes, but is wedded to inner purpose.
Vision is the key. It ordains the reality of the Self. Man lives no longer according to the concepts of a given epoch in time. Yet, he is able to capture a vision of time as though it were a bubble floating in the mystic sea of being. The bubble moves onward, but he is neither the bubble nor the sea. He contains all within himself as a vision of the great reality of the timeless nature of being.
Because we ordain the freeing of man from the fetters that bind him, we urge upon all a realization of the splendor of the divine sense. This awareness is an initiatic event; it is an event that can occur in the life of the ordinary man, as well as in the life of the extraordinary man. It matters not whether man is extraordinary or ordinary. He can, if he will, retain God's vision of himself, be it in a limited way or in an unlimited way. He can gain mastery over events - those occurring now that will also recur in time to come.
The cyclic nature of life must be understood. An individual may err on one occasion, but another occasion will come when he will not err. His vision of himself as moving on the belt of time will cease when the ultimate perfection of being manifests. As long as he thinks he is moving toward a perfection, he will continue to strive; but when he knows that the perfection of God is and that the outer expression is not, but only seems to be, he will recognize what is the splendor of reality, what is the splendor of initiation, what is the beauty of the perfection of the divine moment - a moment that can never cease to be, that is one with eternity.
The bubble of time, the sea of being, must be dissolved. The individual must see the reality of his Greater Self. The Soul2 must be known. And if the Soul be known, then he must become that which is known and the perfection of the divine moment must always be with him. He cannot cease to be, for he is. He cannot suddenly be, for he never was not. And thus the timelessness of the perfect moment of God is born in the reality of the soul's becoming.
It is to this God-realization, whether you understand me or understand me not, that I must dedicate myself; for I must express the perfection of the Eternal One on behalf of every man until he is able to express the perfection to himself.
This is the height, the depth, the width, the breadth of every creature: to express God and to be free from the delusions of self. This is the splendor of initiation. This is the Eternal Now in the ever-presence of the temporary moment. This is every moment leading to the serenity of perfection.