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To Those Who Seek with All Their Hearts: Good Tidings from Our Father
Why will ye tarry in matters of commitment of self to Self, when the immaculate concept stands waiting to be recognized that it may convey the haven of eternal security to all? The garment of the Lord is the miracle of every moment; for it is an eternal garment, clothing man with the state of mind that is not moved by the misadventures of men. Yet, life pursues and challenges men again and again; for life is God manifesting both in the low and the high road of adventure.
When the miracle of the moment of annunciation drew near, it was with the joy of the cosmic messenger that I appeared unto the pure and beautiful soul, Mary, and brought unto her the realization of the indwelling Christ quickening within.1
The gestation of a messiah can occur in a truly spiritual sense within all, for both men and women have been given the androgynous nature of God and are qualified to act as recipients of his life. The 'young child' is, in reality, only 'young' and only a 'child' in order that he might fit himself into the cubicle of their lives. Actually, a God is born within them, through the fabric of their own souls.
The communication of these ideals is the sweetness of heaven. For the image of the Christ was not intended to be broken by men into a doubtful prodigy for the ages - that I AM which before Abraham was already a fragment of God himself come to earth, as in the star at his appearing, bequeathing to all that divine loveliness which is their own.
So often men think in terms of 'high' and 'low', as though the soul, fresh from the hand of God, could be reduced to the ashes of their thought, burned out and empty, or as though they could become so exalted that men could not touch their feet. In this wise it is the will of heaven to convey to everyone who will listen upon this planet the reality of the greatness of God that is within themselves.
Such greatness is not intended to be a challenge to all souls, but an acclamation of peace and goodwill and a strengthening of the bond between heaven and earth. For the very elements themselves rejoice to receive the message of his coming, made known to man as a tiny babe nestles its own hand in its mother's.
And if, as an Archangel, I seem too high to be real, let me hasten to assure you that a call made unto me before you sleep each night is destined to bear the fruit of cosmic grace in your life, helping you to nurture the infant Christ within you unto young manhood, to adulthood, and to the state of holy mastership, when all of the energies of your being, belonging unto God, will once again exhibit the full range of Christ accomplishment, a tribute to the Cosmic Mother and a rejoicing to every angel in heaven.
Beloved hearts on this earth, so often are your minds filled with the many things of the world that you become, almost tragically, the recipients of negative and destructive energies. Now in the season wherein you celebrate the birth of the Christ, will you also let it be one of renewal of your tribute to his state of consciousness, which lives so beautifully in the cosmic ethers for all time? Just as his words cannot pass away,2 so his image and the beauty of his crown of fulfillment of purpose must remain a tribute to every man.
As you also, following in his steps, cast down your crowns before his throne, realize that behind this attainment, which is both symbolical and actual, is the true mastery of your lives as heaven intends. Outer circumstances are the test of your faith; but the gestation of the Christ consciousness, the fulfillment of your spiritual destiny, is your goal. Those who are too sophisticated to accept the kingdom of heaven and its reality, those who fail to become as a little child3 that they may receive him, tremble often upon the abyss of self-destruction; but, if the hopes of heaven are fulfilled, they will also gladly gestate.
The Christ consciousness is the highest tribute they can pay unto God himself. They will not regret that they have given this gift of themselves back unto the Father who gave it, for i his receipt of this gentle gift of the self there will appear the radiance of that which they truly are. And as the gift of God descends upon every waiting heart, the joy of the spiritual realm shall be full, and it will not end as do so many things in the finite world. It will continue aeons after aeons, subdivided into the cycles of the years, of the months and of the days, to enrich the lives of untold millions.
And what shall I say of the height and depth of God's love? I have spoken only that your joy may be full, that your faith may be childlike, immovable, eternal, and like unto the faith I saw mirrored within the heart of Mary so long ago.
Will you place yourself in the cosmic mainstream, allied with the universal effort, or will you tarry still? It is always up to you to make that decision by which is born one for whom we wait.