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To Those Who Would Be Transformed by the Will of God:
Beauty pours forth from the furnace. Heated white-hot by the love of God, the energy of transmutation pours forth. In their lack of attunement, the dark ones huddle in rows; they lack courage and draw strength from one another's ignorance. But the shining lives of the avatars of God and the healing devotion of the many savants of cosmic law turn the great wheel and grind to powder the deeds of the dark ones. We cannot even use this powder to form a foundation for the future, and it must needs be consigned to the fiery furnace for transmutation.
Then comes the forward movement of the flame as the release of pure energy from God's heart vanquishes the dense desires of men, who have myopically pursued the pathway to extinction. Ours is the highway of constant vigilance. We know the meaning of the wave of the future, and the flaming ones echo the sentiments of the Most High. Now, as the rats scurry for cover, each one to his den of iniquitous doings, the eagles gather in the high nest; and everyone that is born of the Spirit bendeth his ear to give heed.
The fires of transmutation are lovingly and longingly invoked; but when they come forth, pleasantness doth not always accompany the gift, for the accumulated karma of the centuries must be sloughed off. Ours is the way of the whirlwind which sweeps away the vain desires of men and, by reorientation, crisply reveals to all the fashion of immortal renewal. For, if death is to be swallowed up by life, then life must be given preeminence. We cannot tolerate continual decay, for the very seeds of faith that are not exercised by valiant action will rot unless they are permitted to expand.
Now, if "permitted" seems to be a modifying word, let us use another; let us say, "encouraged" to expand. And thus let us realize that humanity, draining the dregs of the cup of karma unfulfilled, will unfortunately permit trifles to occupy their attention while they ignore the sign of the Lord.
Purpose thunders, and the cells of being respond. Life bursts forth in flashes only to be restrained by the pallor of human density. One asks oneself, what should be esteemed, what should be heeded, to whom shall we turn? The arm of flesh, encouraging self-serving, derives its satisfactions from the stooped gait that, turtlelike, totters to oblivion while saying, "In God we trust." The stench of darkness ariseth from the earth, but the challenging ones are ready with the crystal fire. Everywhere the straight arrows of righteousness shall fly, and the splendor of the Sun shall dispel the illusions of the senses.
We hear the cries of children, and we are glad that they have invoked light. We hear the cries of the uneducated as they ask for the bread of the Spirit. The callous ones heed not the cry, and all too frequently those who cry the loudest heed not the answer that is given. What shall I say of the great books of light that have already been released? The world cries, "More!" and more is given; but the great gifts, moldering upon the shelves through lack of use, cry out, speaking of the cosmic adventure, of the opening of the solar stream, of the blossoming of the flowers of the Spirit in the garden of being, and of the awakening of the soul to the need to resolve conflict by the intimations of light.
Light has challenged and pushed back the darkness, and the arrows of the Anointed One shall captivate the earth. The armies of light shall move forward, the dark ones shall lie broken upon the sand; and the children of the sun shall shine forth in righteousness, reflecting the Father's intentions and admonishments.
Now, as we gather the great eagles for consultation, comes the banner of the God of Freedom into view. I deem it a privilege rare to announce to the student body the release of a series of instruction by the beloved Ascended Master Saint Germain, which we of the Darjeeling Council would call Intermediate Alchemy. This series of ascended master instruction, peering beyond the earlier Studies in Alchemy by the same author and awakening the soul to a greater cosmic potential, will commence next week in the Pearls of Wisdom as the keynote of a decade whose purpose is to unfold greater light to the earth and the individual.
Ours is no ordinary urge, but it follows the inherent meaning that is found in the interpretation of the word: "Ur" which is light, "G" which is God, and "E" which is energy. Our urge to illumine the souls of men, then, is valiantly expressed as an urgent sending forth of the needed energy of God - the light of God that never fails - into the world of form.
When all is said and done, the struggle for human recognition is always the revolt of the carnal mind against the light of the soul's recognition. He who would be recognized by his peers denies his God before men. Him will God deny before the holy angels. He who would bear silent witness to reality denies himself and follows after the destiny of his own soul. His name is recorded in heaven. Thus do the selfless ones evoke a cosmic response that is calculated to make them the friends of God by strengthening the bonds of divine friendship and by arraying them in the garment of God manifest as the Christ consciousness. Thus are the naked souls of men covered in safety, and thus is preparation made for the gathering of the eagles in the Holy Place.
In my announcement, I bring to the world great hope; for Saint Germain, as you will see, is determined to place the tools of freedom in the hands of the lovers of freedom, enhancing thereby the conduct of the affairs of the disciples of the ascended masters in order that they might obtain here and now "a better resurrection."1 The energies of God, electrical in nature, always bow to the edicts of the soul; therefore, when the soul invokes the thread of cosmic purity, of cosmic reality, and of cosmic compassion, let it be for the creation of a bond of spiritual understanding between heaven and earth, a framework on which the millenniums can be builded.
What a pity that wise men of other generations could not perceive the great universal sweep of the immortal passion of God in the gathering together upon the planetary body of the children of his own heart and in the creation of a consummate band of devotees who would yearn to do his holy will. I tell you, then, that the will of God, seen but dimly by those who know not how to observe the processes of nature, has the capacity to raise those who pay heed to it into such a marvelous stature of cosmic identification that, as a result, the realities of the Christ and of the ascended masters are literally burned into the fabric of the soul.
There is, then, no question in the mind of the disciple concerning the reality of God or of the spiritual world, but there is a serious questioning of the material world that has seemed somewhat real to man at the selfsame moment that he has questioned its existence together with his own. Well might humanity gauge their conduct by the highest standards and perceive the power of love to endure. All carnal things, including the very fabric of the personality, shall pass away; but the living Word shall not pass away: it shall remain as a fiat of the only begotten Son to all generations.
To call him blessed is to revive the image of the Manchild of self in the radiance that both precedes and prepares the servant-son for entrance into the Holy of Holies. This radiance is an anchor cast beyond the veil where the living Spirit and soul of man can identify with the changeless perfection of God. Here on the highroad of adventure all things in life are placed into that transcendent perspective which is the revelation of the kingdom of God to the individual monad.
"Come up higher, come hither!" The word goeth forth at a time when the individual can accept it - even when he cannot understand it; for he knows with an inner certitude that as he riseth, the wisdom to understand the will of God will be forthcoming.
Through a heart born of perfect love, from which has been cast out all fear and torment, the soul will be raised inch by inch toward the cosmic goal that, in one cosmic sweep, engrossing light-years of perfection, will carry men forward into the arms of God.
Toward his holy will we move,
By the power of his own love,
Through the grace of worlds unknown,
Heavenly radiance doth atone,
Purifying heart and mind,
Teaching each one to be kind,
For where I AM, there ye are.