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All men were created in the same image. All differences are the result of man's choosing, in free will, to expand upon the original nature of infinite Love within him.
Love is like a great magnet. It is the magnet of the heart. Those who yield to the nature of the heart without the guidance of reason are often emotionally warped, and they do not understand the perfect balance of love manifest in the triune nature of God. Naturally, love is manifest in love; but love is also manifest in wisdom and in power. Unless it be included in these other aspects of the Trinity, man does not walk in that balanced consciousness of the Christ which enables him to retain his harmony with Life.
Harmony comes about because man is truly imbued with the love-nature of God. But how easy it is to confuse human loves and desires with divine love! Once divine love is understood as the great givingness of God that is also mindful of every precept of cosmic law, try as he will, man realizes that he can no longer function from the plane of human desire and human opinion and still be in harmony with the law of infinite Love.
The reason for this is quite simple. Human desires and human opinions are fluctuating, whereas true love is constant and even-flowing. Man, as a child, mimics the life-patterns of his elders; yet because of his soul's lack of development and his karma that is periodically harvested as the fruit of former lives, his instincts are often not in keeping with divine grace.
Whenever a man is persuaded to move against divine grace, against the prompting of the inner voice, to commit those acts that are in violation of cosmic harmony, he is creating an etching upon his soul that will remain not only for his current life but also for the term of his individuality, until one day he finally comes face to face with the law of sin - of inharmony - which he created "within his members" and which he therefore must balance. This is why man in the lower aspects of his nature is admonished to be mindful of God; and, because man in the higher aspects of his nature is made in the Image of God, he must one day face the results of his own sowings ere he can return to that Image.
Tiny seeds of doubt and distrust sprout just as well under the present burden of world thought as seeds of faith and inspiration. There are times that, in all cosmic honesty, because of man's affinities with the world and his carnal desires, it is the opinion of many in heavenly places that it is easier for him to become the victim of his own evil tendencies than it is for him to drink the cup of his own innate goodness. But, beloved ones, just because in the past you have created in darkness, there is no reason to continue sowing seeds of shadow that you will reap in the future!
Let all realize that "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" is a cosmic fiat which was never abrogated either by the words or the works of Christ Jesus. He himself declared, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Yet so many are eager for an excuse for their actions. If the excuse please their own minds, they somehow forget that which is pleasing to the Mind of God, that which has been made plain in his commandments, in the teachings of the prophets, and in the example of the avatars.1
Contrary to the law of divine love, people throughout the world criticize and condemn those who are not so much guilty of evil deeds as they are the victims of other people's careless remarks and their prattle about things they little understand. Thus Saint Germain has frequently admonished the Keepers of the Flame to refrain from criticism, condemnation, and judgment, which always snare the very ones who are engaged in these dark doings. He counseled instead that they should call forth divine love daily on behalf of all and especially in the administration of their affairs.
Now, divine love is not always obvious. Sometimes it is but a feeling in the heart. How foolish are they who judge without knowing what really is in the heart of another, for so often their judgments are unfounded save in the mass creation of darkness that spreads as an infectious plague amongst the people, causing them to eye one another suspiciously and to doubt the integrity of the inner man.
Let us replace distrust in the world order with confidence in the good inherent in man, with faith in the God who has placed it there, and with that unity of God and man exemplified in the mission of beloved Jesus. Let the children of darkness continue in their condemnation of the children of the Light; by divine decree they shall reap that which they have sown! Let the children of the Light continue to build the constructive spirals of the Spirit that tower over all; by divine decree they shall also reap that which they have sown.
To lean upon the compassion of our Lord, to draw close to his humility, and then to trace the great divine strength God has placed in one's own character, magnifying His good in all - this is the way of salvation that clearly directs man to higher spheres of thought and feeling. Unless he pursue the quality of infinite grace, bestowed upon man because he has learned to love, he will find himself the victim of an entirely different quality - one lacking in the graciousness of the Holy Spirit which enables the individual to sense and fill the needs of others.
Pliability of the spirit is the fashion of the Christ. Compassion for men's ignorance goes hand in hand with that sternness of the Law which compelled the Christ to speak fervently to his disciples, "What, could ye not watch with me one hour?" We often marvel at the great fountain of devotion within the hearts of many, but we also admonish that no reed of bitterness should ever be allowed to creep into man's world to separate him from the grace of God and from the sheepfold of the Ascended Masters. How futile it is that the very ones who are harnessed to their own changing personalities will allow the personalities of others to become the objects of their ridicule and scorn. Truly the Master's way has always been "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."2
Those who know what they do and why they do it are the advanced disciples of our Lord. I gladly call them brother, for they lean as I did upon the bosom of the Master.3 The idealizing of the Masters requires more than the mental imaging of their physical appearance or making a pilgrimage to the places where they walked. Those who would be close to the Masters should realize that their universal consciousness is wherever you are. We are here and we are there, and we yearn to convey without further delay the marvelous God-feeling that we have for Life! Never sanctioning abortions of Life, we recommend that mankind walk circumspectly with God and understand the meaning of Being itself.
Through the gates of birth and death pass many souls. All were intended to move in pathways of divine love. Other habitations not of God's creation have come into being only because man has provided thought-fields and force-fields of his own unrealities without understanding or invoking the actualities of divine grace. If men would only create themselves in the Image of God, in the Image of Love, rather than spend their time creating a God made after their own likeness, they would soon discover for themselves how Love can literally sweep into all their activities until darkness would no longer be without Light, but would disappear in the sunburst of the reality of Cosmic Love.