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To All Who Seek Understanding:
My forte is to expand the light. By the light all things were made. Man should, therefore, know that the will of God vested in creation, once it is correctly understood, conveys to his being and consciousness the great fact of life that there is a very real purpose behind existence and that man, as an individual, is linked with the highest destiny.
Alas, he has not always realized this purpose! Again and again he has allowed himself to be interfered with by the most trivial matters. He has demanded justice from the universe, but he himself has not given it. (See Matthew 18:23-35.) How is it that man fails to recognize that he was originally created in the image and likeness of God, that he was originally endowed with virtue and purity of purpose? Now, simply because the individual has misconstrued purpose and lived according to the dictum of the carnal mind, does not in itself preclude the possibility of the divine existence.
We are talking about two distinct phases of man's existence: the eternal, or infinite phase, and the finite phase. The infinite phase has unlimited possibilities for soul expansion. But the finite phase also affords a certain freedom of expression. It manifests a God seekingness and a human seekingness. Out of this duality man must make his choices.
By understanding that there is a supreme purpose and that that purpose can be known and served, man is better able to understand the design of the universe. He is more endowed with the capacity to utilize the power of his vision, of his hearing, and of the spiritual senses to precipitate higher causes.
Nevertheless, through what has been called free will man can manifest any human quality he desires and lead a wholly selfish existence. Such an existence is bound to enervate the soul because of the very laws which separate the human consciousness from the divine. The moment an individual begins to serve himself, to determine that all that he does will be subject to the functions of the human ego, whether his own or another's, without recognizing the needs of the Christ in every man and the purposes of the divine plan to be fulfilled, his creative endowment cannot help but be bound by the return of his own misqualified energy.
The secret key to the fulfillment of individual purpose in God is to be found in the invocation of cosmic grace, in the invocation of faith in what has been called the invisible world. This world need not remain invisible. It has been called invisible because the senses have become inverted to gaze only upon the imperfection of the physical planes. Man has not recognized the perfection of the spiritual spheres. He has not recognized the perfection of his own God Presence. In fact, during centuries of embodiments he has not even known of the existence of that Presence.
Now it is up to us, who have been endowed with an understanding of the law of the I AM, individualized in the Presence of every child of God, to unveil the higher purpose. From time immemorial the blind who have led the blind have succeeded in promoting forms of religion based on superstition that have assuaged human needs without actually supplying man with the basic laws of his own being that would lead to his freedom and self-mastery.
But in the Chart of the Presence revealed by the Brotherhood of Light, the manifestations of the God Self (the Higher Self), the Holy Christ Self, and the human or lower self are perceived as three who agree in one. Through meditation upon this trinity man recognizes, at last, that the human monad has the capacity, being at the opposite pole from the Divine Self, to obtain grace from the equipoise of the Christ, the Universal Mediator, and thus to manifest for all time, point by point, the magnificent facets of the law, 'as above so below'.
If man manifests below, he also manifests above. If he manifests above, he also manifests below. Therefore, he should understand that the physical self is the potter's mold into which a tremendous outpouring of divine grace continuously flows. Thus the lower self is sent forth into the time span, into the human vector, to pose an opportunity for the Spirit to manifest and to complete the destiny of the individual lifestream.
Man has truly been endowed with opportunity, but all around him are those conditions which rob his faculties of their divine potential by inverting the senses of the soul outward upon the screen of the appearance world instead of training them upon the great inner realities of life. We see this inversion of purpose everywhere. It is the cause behind disagreements, behind expressions of hatred and fear. Thus, darkness has been substituted for light and hatred for love.
Humanity should understand that perfect love that casts out all fear,1 that perfect light that casts out all darkness. Humanity should grasp the principle of love and perceive the virtue inherent within the very idea of the Godhead. As long as consciousness is bound within the finite world, it remains limited by that world. But, when man blends his consciousness into the infinite patterns of the God-ideal, he is able to feel his consciousness being raised through an actual spiritual metamorphosis that is most welcome to the soul within.
For centuries humanity has crucified the great God-potential of being in so many imperfect molds of clay that he has literally cheated himself out of his rightful inheritance. This defrauding of the self is not the intent of God, who affords humanity the opportunities of embodiment and of progressive unfoldment through the overcoming of outer conditions (including personal karma) in order that, through the correct use of free will, they might create those perfect molds which alone are capable of defining real purpose.
God recognizes that man must pass through various cycles of development as well as periods of limitation, which are not a part of the divine plan but the result of human interference with that plan. He, being patient with the soul during the time of travail, also expects the soul to retain the perspective of the total plan and to be patient with itself. But, he also reminds that if the plan had been left alone, it would have produced the miracle of an ascended consciousness, focusing the power of the I AM Presence right here below. Even before the ascension, the great spiritual light that would have surrounded the individual would have made him a Christlike being.
Truly, would it not have been the better part of wisdom for the individual to have rightly proclaimed to those who attempted to push him over the cliff or to take his life from him that his life was held in God, that his life was, in truth, a manifestation of God? This, in the person of Jesus, he did. But every man is intended to do the same and to manifest a higher state than the former, from glory unto glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.2
Let men, then, understand the difference between experience in the world of form and the divine experience; for the difference is one of light and density, it is one of color and vibration. We are required to reach all levels of human consciousness. Therefore, we assume opposite positions on the circle of God's being to illustrate various phases of truth in order to give man an accurate perspective of just how the law of God evolves in the world of action.
We understand the necessity of expressing from time to time the fullness of the perfection of God; but, unfortunately, many who read our words are not always able at a given moment to grasp the understanding we would convey. Therefore, individuals become caught up in superstitious ideas and fatalistic concepts about themselves and the world that are wholly incorrect. But, until we are able through a gradual transformation to tether the consciousness to a higher principle, a higher purpose, we have no choice except to serve the needs of the individual who is not yet fully perfected in God.
Won't you understand, then, the need for that perfection of the Spirit to manifest in the physical form? Won't you give yourself the opportunity to think as God thinks, to be as God is, to love as he does, and to understand the immaculate nature of the divine plan? This plan is fulfilled through you. It is an activity of light. It is not a condition you need to wait for until the change called death; on the contrary, you may experience the wonder of being changed from glory unto glory even here and now.
In a very real sense, through your correct use of free will, you are the arbiter of your destiny. On this planet, free will has often been wrongly used. Now let men use it more and more to the glory of God; and as their understanding grows by leaps and bounds, let their humility also grow that the soul may profit and be glad, that the soul may truly eschew evil and espouse good. So shall light expand.