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Blessed Are They That Mourn for They Shall Be Comforted with Truth!
As men and women of today gather photographs of loved ones, as they preserve mementos of other days and other times, so do the akashic records marvelously preserve the goings and comings of men.
One of the sweetest thoughts for all who have lost those whom they love through the change called death is the concept that every young atom of each person is immortally preserved in the Consciousness of God. All care lines, all sorrow, all undesirable episodes are forgotten; and only that which is deemed worthwhile in the Mind of God is preserved in His foreverness. But men sometimes fear the realm of akasha, and even the nature of the Father himself, to be as a vast ocean that swallows up their loved ones and their cherished moments, nevermore to release that which is absorbed. Let me elucidate.
Each day, each cycle, out of the depths of God's love, from the hand and wheel of the great Master Potter of all, come forth new moldings according to the ancient patterns and ideas of his creative intent. Nothing worthwhile is ever really lost. All is preserved in the miracle of the eternal resurrection as fire sparks of cosmic magic, revealing the infinite care of God for each creature made in His own image.
And how the ritual of preservation bespeaks His love even in the beings of mere mortals! Even the factors of instinct, reaction and response are preserved for a time; and that which man creates according to his sovereign will is honored in the world of form for the duration of its cycle.
Until man learns to apply the higher laws that govern his being, he will continue his energy output according to old patterns of human habit and tradition. But when he understands at last the great tide of reality that is onward moving, that is progressive, that demands the discarding of unwanted qualities and conditions, and that continually directs and redirects all parts of his being into the patterns of perfection, then he will shine outwardly like the inward radiance that is reflected in the image of God placed within himself by the Almighty.
Why are the soul ties to the Father so relevant to the heart of man, and yet so meaningless to the head? First, because the heart relates to love, and love relates to the universe known of the soul; secondly, because the head relates to the examination of objects and concepts by the fingers of the mind. Standing alone, without the employment of the heart, the head often makes those brittle decisions which shatter on impact the tender and intuitive feelings of the soul.
Stern, then, is a man's own life record and self-judgment when shaped after mortal design; but, when the natural faculties of the soul are allowed to breathe out the radiance of the Light, the whole world of man can be an eternal resurrection of loveliness. Then the strength of his mind, tethered to the radiance of his heart's love, becomes a shining armor for the protection of the emerging Christ consciousness. Then the middle wall or partition between the Holy of Holies of his heart and the focus of his mind is rent in twain; and man, having access to the corridors of both mind and heart, fashions new wonders of perception and precipitation out of his total being.
Wherever the wall of partition exists between heart and mind, wherever one predominates over the other, there is bound to be an imbalance in the expression of the Christ - whether the corpselike gloom of the carnal mind that goes about classifying and devouring everything and everyone with its cutting criticism, or the unbridled passions of fruitless desire issuing from a heart untutored and impure.
But when the union of heart and mind occurs under the aegis of the one eternal Father and his eternal Son, then the meaning of the resurrection is revealed in the pulsating identity of the Christ, delineating mastery for all and in all. Then the soul looks on as from the flame within his heart, the Flame of balanced Love, Wisdom and Power: a New Age man is born. Leaping over the pages of history in giant strides, he rides upon a white horse, the master of his destiny and of his karma. His image is not cast upon a cross of human torture and debauchery but upon that masterful building which appears on the horizon of the new age; for man has first built the kingdom within, utilizing the rock and the timber, the chemistry and geometry, the very laws and elements of the firmament on high in his mastery of self and of the abundant Life.
When this happens in the inner beings of sufficient numbers of embodied men and women, then I am certain that the kingdom of heaven will become a reality in the world of form. But so long as the sense of struggle pervades the world's thought, so long as life is considered a race of competition for the accumulation of worldly goods, wherein man's life becomes based upon the abundance of the things which he temporarily possesses, his life is not the abundant life, his life is not based upon the knowledge and victory of the Resurrection Flame, and the kingdom that is not within will not manifest without.1
We come in this twentieth century to give new concepts to man that are relevant to today, to relate his mind to the marvelous cosmic outreach of the Mind of God, and to teach him how to tether his being to the rocket of the Spirit that soars the untrammeled heights and discovers a design so vast, a reality so supreme, as to liberate his very soul from the socket of mortality. By a like token we teach the leap of the Ascended Masters' consciousness into the domain of the self, into the microcosmic world of man's thoughts and feelings. Can man realize the mastery others have accomplished? Then let him also realize that he, too, can master himself and his world. Let him be unafraid to advance in the God-design.
The myth of glorifying the outer identity of any man, including that of myself, must be perceived for what it is. Men must understand that "there is none good but one, that is, God."2 Therefore, why callest thou me, or any man, good, thus attributing to the transitory manifestation that which can only be a part of the permanent reality of God and man?
Men must understand that the greatness of God and the potential of Christ accomplishment lie within themselves. They must see how cleverly the lie was woven by those ancient traditionalists who, in denying to mankind their God-ordained right to manifest their divine inheritance, created and labored the fatal view that I, in the person of Jesus, am the only door to salvation. This pernicious doctrine has replaced the teaching I gave to the disciples that the Christ, the "I AM" of every man, is the open door which no man can shut.
The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, is the Christ Spirit that before Abraham was - I AM. Let men realize that the door of the "I AM" is a universal Presence, that the door of the all-pervading Spirit, whom I revealed as Father, is the Father of every man, that the Light is the Light of every man, revealed in the Gospel of John in written form, but first revealed in the Presence of every man that openeth his eyes.3
Some have feared this to be the saying of Antichrist. Let not your hearts be troubled, but be comforted in the Truth that I bring. I AM the Living Christ who dwelleth in you all, even as the Father dwelleth in me and I in Him.
Those who confess that I AM come in the flesh must also confess that the Christ is come in them. This is the meaning of the Word made flesh - it is the power of the Light that descendeth into the form of every child of God. Am I the Son of God? Then ye are also sons and daughters of the Most High. Do you testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world? Then look within, for the Christ who overcomes the world lives also in you - one and all.4
This teaching I gave to Beloved John, who clearly understood the relationship of the outer self to the divinity of the I AM Presence. He saw and believed my admonishment to the disciples to do even "greater works" than I had done, because he knew the unlimited potential of the only begotten Son - the Christ of every man.5 Therefore did he write my testimony for the ages:
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."6
When men understand the nature of true being, they will perceive that God fashioned a new potential for every man in the earliest beginning of the creation and endowed him with the authority of the Christ. Out of His fiery Spirit - all-pervading, all-loving - he directed to all of his sons and daughters the eternal resurrection of body, mind and spirit.
In the light of this understanding there can be no separation from any part of God; for the form, the body terrestrial which comes from the realm of Spirit, is perceived as manifesting for a little while upon the mirror of the appearance world and then vanishing away, to be reborn in more wondrous form, the body celestial, ultimately to become one with God himself.7
And thus God is perceived as the advancing radiance of his creation, the transcendental crest of the wave of a glorious future, safe in the arms of eternal reality made clear. And if the fruit of mystery seem too difficult to perceive, then let the language of the heart and the mind of the universal Christ speak of new resurrections, of greater tomorrows.
Let divine comfort be administered to all who have ever been bereaved. Let all understand that their life is in reality the Life of God, and that the moments of time, ticking away by the rhythmic beat of the clock, are actually sublime moments of opportunity wherein the realization of cardinal truth can at last be imparted to the soul that opens mind and heart to the reality of Christed Being. Then sin and darkness and error shall be no more; for these graveclothes are put off by the universal man who, stretching the limbs of the universal Christ, appears reaching unto the stars and the glorious sun and beyond until he finds the Great Heart of universal passion for the abundant Life.
A God is born in man, and man becomes that God, according to the original intent; and the Spirit of the eternal resurrection is the face of the eternal morning.
I AM He who loveth every child,
Every man and every woman,
Every creature great and small -
With that transforming Love
That transformeth all.