Superior Index Go to the next: Chapter 33
Print Files: A4 Size.
The aura is a crystal flowing stream that issues from the heart of God. No negation is here: only an indomitable fountain continually pouring forth a steadfast stream of magnificent, gloriously qualified substance - the substance of life itself.
As a little child presents his first freshly picked bouquet of flowers to his mother, so the innocence of the child-mind tunes in with this crystal flowing stream of God's consciousness infusing the natural aura of God in man with the life that beats his heart.
O children of the day, the night should not be given preeminence! Your energy should become qualified by the eternal flow of hope that, if you will it, can enlarge its own opening into the fountain of your mind and heart - into the fountain of God's own mind and heart. Your mind must become the mind of Christ; the desire of your heart must become the desire of the Holy Spirit, flowing assistance to those awaiting the loving hand of perfection in their lives.
May I tell you that when you come in contact with the dark and sullen auras of those who have misqualified the bulk of their energy throughout their lives, you ought to recognize that in reality these are not happy individuals. They may laugh, they may dance, they may sing and make merry, they may wail and utter lamentations - they may run the gamut of human emotion. But they shall not prevail, for the law inexorably returns to each one exactly that which he sends out.
The way of perfection is the natural way of the aura. But, almost as a mania, individuals seldom fail to misqualify the energies of their lives, bringing their very nerves into a taut state. They become like a tightened spring of energy wound in erratic layers, and they refuse the stabilizing influences of the Christ mind and the divine heart. Having no other energy, they are compelled to use this which they have locked in the coil of their mental and emotional incongruities.
Thus through psychic imbalance, the spring is sprung and the impure substance of the aura pours forth in a putrid stream. All of the delicate refinements of the soul and the natural culture and grace of the Holy Spirit are spilled upon the ground, and the kingdom of heaven is denied the opportunity to function through the individual auric pattern.
To say that they suffer is an understatement, for through their own denial of the hope of Christ they are punished by their sins, not for them. The light of God that never fails continues to flow into their hearts, but it remains unperceived and unused. For instead of flowing into vessels of virtue - those pure forms and noble ideas that retain the light of God in man - it is automatically channeled into the old and crusty matrices formed in earlier years through ego involvement and contact with the forces of antichrist that permeate society.
These patterns sully the descending light as dark clouds that filter the sunlight of being and preclude the spiritual advancement of the soul. Yet in moments of naked truth, men and women admit their inner need, and their hearts and minds cry out for the preservation of the immortal soul within them.
They fear the response of heaven. And, failing to recognize the all-pervading love of the Spirit, they watch helplessly as the soul, little by little, loses hold upon the steadily outpouring energies of life, for each misqualification brands them with the fruit of retribution.
While for a time it seems that those who dwell in error escape the wrongs they have inflicted upon others, let me remind you that life will make her adjustments and none shall escape the responsibility for their actions. As he whose voice was of one crying in the wilderness said, "[his] fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable."1
We are not concerned with matters of crime and punishment, but with the joy and courage that are born in the soul through the crucible of experience - the courage to be the manifestation of God, the courage to walk in the Master's footsteps, to feel the surge of his hope wherever you are, and to know that even though you walk in the valley of the shadow, you will not fear,2 because his light is surging through you.
Beware the sin of complacency and of passing judgment upon the lives of others. Before allowing your thoughts and feelings to crystallize around a given concept, ask yourself this question: Is the evidence indeed conclusive, and do you possess absolute knowledge concerning the motive of the heart and karmic circumstances surrounding other lives? If so, are you able to weigh these factors better than heaven itself? Wisely did the Master speak when he said, "Judge not, that ye be not judged."3
Therefore, point by point, let the Holy Spirit remold the vessels of thought and feeling that hinder your flight. And let the fruit of the crystal flowing stream, the fountainhead of life, be perceived for the diadem that it is - a crowning radiance that bursts around your head. Then the emanation of the Spirit Most Holy shall take dominion over all outer circumstances and, like the branches of a willow, trail upon the ground of consciousness by the still waters of the soul.
The Lord comes down to the meek and lowly;
His peace none can deny.
His light that glows most brightly
Is a fire in the sky.
The children hear him coming,
His footsteps very near;
They 'wait his every mandate,
His word "Be of good cheer."4
They feel a joy in knowing
That deep within their hearts
There is a glimmer showing,
Enabling all to start
Release from all earth's bondage,
Each weight and every care -
Open sesame to being,
Helping all to know and share.
The Lord is in his heaven,
So childlike is his love.
The Christ, the heavenly leaven,
Raises each one like a dove.
His face in radiant light waves
Is pulsing ever new;
Freedom from past error
He brings now to the few.
But many are the sheep,
His voice each one may hear.
This is his very message,
Wiping 'way each tear.
Oh, see him in the burdened,
The hearts o'erturned with grief,
The lips that mutter murmurs,
The tongues that never cease.
For social clamors babble,
Their judgments utter bold -
A child of light untrammeled,
A soul made of pure gold.
Each moment like a rainbow,
The presence ever near
Caresses in the darkness,
Bids all, "Be of good cheer."
Oh, take then life's great banner,
I AM God Presence true,
And hold me for the battle,
A victor ever new.
For life's own goalposts show me
The way I ought to go.
My hand is thine forever,
Enfold me with thy glow.
May all be reminded each day as they utter the words of Jesus "Our Father which art in heaven"5 or any prayer, any call to God, that the aura is the Father's light and that his Son has said to all, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven."6
May the sweet concepts of the living Christ, recalling a lost youth and the era of holy innocence, remind you of life's noble opportunities to be the grace and sweetness that you expect others to be. Then, regardless of what men do unto you, you will know that what you do unto them is a part of the age to be, of a mastery to become, of an adeptship now aborning.
Through night and day, through time and space, through life and death, you shall remain undismayed as the outpost of delight that melts away the darkness now gathering o'er the land. Thus shall the world's tears be wiped away as the mantle of God covers the earth. Everywhere through the night, let the shafts of light right where you are pierce the gloom of the world by the "good cheer" of the Master.
We, the brothers of our retreat, together with each Master, each angel, and each adherent of the sacred fire of the living God from their place in cosmos, beam our love to you wherever you are. We shall never forsake those who do not forsake the light of their own God Presence.
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name, I AM.
I AM thy Kingdom come
I AM thy Will being done
I AM on earth even as I AM in heaven
I AM giving this day daily bread to all
I AM forgiving all Life this day even as
I AM also all Life forgiving me
I AM leading all men away from temptation
I AM delivering all men from every evil condition
I AM the Kingdom
I AM the Power and
I AM the Glory of God in eternal, immortal
manifestation -
All this I AM.
[Taken from the book version The Human Aura]