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The zither of the Holy Spirit moves always. One could say that the wind thereof steadfastly blows and that Life is ever a matter of attunement therewith. When men fail to realize the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, they fail to receive its wondrous messages which carry the current mandate of God's will for the individual, for society, and for all Cosmos.
Human beings often pamper themselves too much; at the same time they fail to apprehend just when self-care is really needed. The discrimination of the Holy Spirit can and does guide men into all truth concerning the requirements of the person, of the soul, and of the hour.
How they must beware of psychic glamor, of the glitter of phenomena, and of the fashions of the human ego! The lines of the swaddling garments of God are simple. Those who are always looking to others for psychic materializations and extraordinary powers, because they look to mammon rather than to God, will never find the real power of God manifesting in their own lives.
The key to our abode is to be found not in the extraordinary, but in ordinary, day-to-day events that result in the natural exemplification of the gentle character of the Christ. Greater far than the mortal levers that move men, the virtues of the Son of God are the cosmic levers that move gods and angels. These are obtained through an acknowledged dependence upon the divine graces of the Spirit, through surrender and humility - "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit," saith the Lord.1
One must become aware of the science of motive. Motive relates to motor and motion - to actions taken by the individual and to the underlying causes of those actions. The why of action should be examined, for one often uncovers thereby the real reason that he is moved or motivated in this or that direction. Some, upon finding out the truth, will reverse their course speedily. Others, ashamed, will try to hide even from themselves that which they discover. But all must one day reckon with the motivating factors of their lives; for at the nexus of man's decision-making faculty - where motive determines the flow of energy in thought, word, and deed - the lever of karma falls either to the right or to the left of the Law unless the blaze of Perfection be struck.
The secrets of the universe are given to those who have mastered both in overt action and in underlying motive the precepts of the Christ. They are given to those who have offered their beings to God as an altar, welcoming the transmutative fires of the Holy Spirit and yielding their devotions to the laws written in their hearts.2
Never have we seen that the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,"3 can be violated with impunity. Therefore, the principle of correspondence, whereby, for example, the virtue of kindness manifest in the inward parts of man ultimately manifests also without, ought to be fastidiously applied.
The chastisement of the Law is the fulfillment of the principle of love. As long as the individual can fool himself into believing that he is the doer, that his noble and brilliant acts are performed independently of the Creator and without connection to the tides of Life directed by the Holy Spirit, he will ultimately fail to benefit from the power of God and to harness the divine wind.
But we will not give up. As long as man can in faith hang on to Life and to that which is real - even by a thread - the striving of the Holy Spirit continues. For the great omnipresence of God is a throb of moving love that is inconceivable until experienced. The fact that a man at a given moment in his life may not have come to the realization of the Truth of the Holy Spirit and the inward Law is no proof, even to him, that the Law does not exist, that the Spirit does not move to order his universe.
There are many inner causes that make possible even the simplest acts that men take for granted. We do not ask man to be faithless; we ask him to believe, and our asking is based on the knowledge of the divine opportunity that comes to those who call the Holy Spirit into action in their lives.
Although it is true that to the pure all things are pure,4 it is not true that all things can be pure to the impure, or holy to the unholy. Therefore, let the man who feels himself to be unholy in his thoughts and feelings recognize the centuries of unholy energies that have streamed forth from his historical past. Let him face the fact that he is not going to feel holy until that stream is purified, though he find a thousand excuses and blames for his shortcomings. Forward moving man, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, must be willing to face the Truth, and still move forward.
Does man believe that the human reed without fortification through holy endeavor can withstand the might of the Holy Spirit? It is written in the Book of Life, "No man can see God, and live,"5 which is to say, No man can see God and continue to live in his former state; for when he comes face to face with the Light of the Presence, he must either be transformed into the divine likeness or be no more.
Because man cannot receive the power of God or stand in His Presence unless he become godlike, he should strengthen his desire to obtain the gifts most holy, gifts of virtue and grace in the knowledge of the Law. He should recognize that it is God who worketh in him both to will and to do of His good pleasure6 and that it is the God who maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust7 who alone can forgive and make whole.
Human feelings of inadequacy toward holiness are no excuse for rejecting the gifts of God's love and of Himself, which He affords equally to all. By accepting the gift in humility, knowing that He alone is the Doer and that His Spirit who dwells in man is alone worthy to receive it, the muddied stream of man's consciousness is purified and man feels holy not in or of himself, but in and of God.
Holiness can be the lot of every man regardless of what has come to pass in his life to bring about the condition of unholiness. But let all be forewarned: There is no trifling with the Creator or with His Law. Life is a beautiful gift; it is also a solemn responsibility. It is a joyous ringing in the halls of being; it is the laughter of the soul in springtime; it is the poetry of the Spirit by the fireside in winter; but it is never a callousness toward man or Nature. Life never defies the perfection of Nature or Nature's child; it never mocks those who try, or scourges those who are struggling on the brink of the hill. Life is living - not in a careless or degrading spirit, but in the joy of victory for every soul and in appreciation to the Creator for everything that He has made.
By adding daily to the universal joy and love of the Holy Spirit through the fountainhead of your own life, O mankind, you may unselfishly, as is God's way, let your Light shine before men.8 And the whole sea of being will quiver with gladness because of thee. But if you do not choose to do so, then fortunately your energies will be circumscribed and the doors of heaven will be sealed to you, and you will find turning in upon you the muddied fountains of your own self-pity and negation, because Nature herself refuses to be contaminated therewith.
The high adventure of successfully traversing the Law of God will give man the power and ability not only to produce phenomena at the moment of greatest need, to precipitate substance, to control events and circumstances, and to master his environment, but to do it legitimately and safely. Not through the yoke of the human ego tied to other human egos are these feats accomplished as an exploitation of another part of Life, but rather in the meek and lowly attitude of the man tied to the Christ Consciousness through the yoke of humility and service. Thus gladly, freely, in holy surrender is a god born in the heart.
Not that any of us would ever lament the Second Coming of Jesus Christ as a cosmic advent to the world that would gladden myriad hearts with His appearing. But we can also accept the Second Coming of Christ to all ages, present and future, appearing in the clouds of renewing radiance that enfold the individual wed to God through the alchemy of self-mastery; for these receive Him within their hearts as the hope and Light of the world. They see not in face alone the eternal victory, but the inner joy of His mastery, the shining strength of His divine character.
The timeless, transcendent virtue of the divine appearing of God in the life of the individual is fulfilled in the manner in which John the Baptist described, "He must increase, but I must decrease."9 But all must understand that the power of the Christ destroys not the individual life upon the altar of being, but rather changes it from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.10
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Holy Spirit saith:11
For the time of virtue and love
That polishes the chaliced cup
And fills it to the brim,
And then o'erflowing,
With the heavenly nectar of knowing,
The rightful dividing
Of the Word of Truth,
Prevents mankind en masse
From sliding in his youth
Into unfruitful doings
Whose shame like a spume
Descends to dense iniquities,
A paling of the radiance
Of the soul in natural state
To fate aworsening.
God wills it not.
His love removes each blot,
Carefully invokes
New hope within the soul,
Reveals a higher goal,
A way of hope in Christ-renewal.
To refuel the motive of the man
As God wills it,
I now can accept the fire.
O Spirit most holy,
Kindle my desire
To be one with God!
Out of the depths of the Holy Spirit's love have I, who am called the Maha Chohan, spoken to each heart.
The crumb of Life God broke
Is just a part of the whole loaf,
And more will come each day
As you await the hand
That feeds your soul
The bread that makes you whole.
From the devotion of my heart, I remain in service to the Holy Spirit,