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To Those Who Would Cast Out All Fear:
Difficulties can be overcome, even when all indications point to the contrary. For the virtue inherent in the universal order, while often apparent only to the few, is partaken of as a sacred feast of Light once it is comprehended. Yet the hungers of the soul go unassuaged when those bidden to the marriage feast decline the Lord's invitation.1
Brief though his sojourn upon the planet may be, man, living in a physical body and involved in serving the needs of that body, seeks, in preference to facing a doubtful and uncertain future, to understand and master not only his body but also the physical environment that molds and shapes his thinking and destiny. But seldom in the process has he reckoned with the presence in the atom of a seed of fire universally programmed, nor does he understand the nature of this fire. It is therefore to this seed and to this fire that I would direct his attention.
To us it is a Star Presence heralding the closeness of the Identity of God. We see the seeds of fire within the minute portions of material substance as the dwelling place of God. In effect they are His broken Body dispersed as a eucharist of love to every heart throughout the planes of manifestation in Matter. However, man has not always received them in love. Instead, he has used these energies for evil purposes and for the perpetuation in Matter of unwholesome conditions that breed violence and misunderstanding. God - as energy, as Light locked within the fire seed of the atom - is thereby imprisoned in unsuitable forms; and only through invoking transmutation by the power of the Holy Spirit can man undo his wrong and bring about the salvation of that Matter upon which he has superimposed his evil consciousness.
God will escape. He will break, by His law, those imperfect bodies which are no part of Himself; He will shatter the matrices of unsound minds; He will inundate with the washing of the water by the Word unprofitable worlds. And as a potter dashes in pieces imperfect molds, God will restore to Himself the misqualified clay, refiring it in more noble images.
Of this men may be certain, that they have freedom of choice, dwelling as they do within a circle of infinite possibilities. Therefore, above all, they should heed the admonishments which come through the gift of prophecy and that contact with the higher will of God sustained by our Messengers. They should engage their attention and their choices in rightness of purpose, thereby restoring that commeasurement of eternity which is within the seed of fire rather than cast their lot with the swish of passing time.
Some have called me the Old Man of the Hills, thereby honoring the wisdom which God has given unto me. Let them understand that we are all ageless beings as we make permanent together our native, God-given gift of the love of Christ.
It was long ago in Bethlehem of Judea that the song of the angels was wafted over the plains. The hills had witnessed the great drama of the history of man and would remain a testimony to the ages; hopefully man would also record upon his soul the memorable events that occurred that night. For streaming from the earliest beginnings in time, as the supreme effort of Infinity to create and make permanent the manifestation of the Christos in a finite world, came the impact of that holy moment when the heavens descended into the earth: the birth of a holy child would ultimately convey to a sleeping world the meaning of the seed of fire in man.
Whether a God is born late or early in time is immaterial; for once the Light has established its flux of everlastingness within the heart and mind and being of man, he is no longer a part of the mass consciousness but one alone upon the God-directed Path, winging his way Homeward. Physical orientation causes the soul to stray far from the universal Path. Many who identify solely with their physical bodies and physical environments seem hopelessly trapped in the web of time and circumstance. But one day, through the nativity of the Christ Consciousness in their flesh, a sentient, living, immortal being will be formed - as Paul said, " ... until Christ be formed in you."2
The forming of Christ, the forming of God as the spiritual identity of man, must take precedence over the evolution of the ego relative to the physical plane. The ego must immerse itself in the upward-spiraling Godward movement of the finite into the infinite. And then at last, tutored in the way of the Spirit, ready to assume the mantle of its Real Identity, it becomes one with God and is thereby transformed in the similitude of the Divine Ego, affirming, "I and my Father are one."3
Thus the open door of the Christ Consciousness, which no man can shut,4 replaces the closed doors of mortal minds that refuse to accept the sacred precepts of the Law because these do not agree with human tradition. Truly, there are many valuable teachings that have become a part of the world's body of knowledge, and these should not be lightly cast aside. But in many instances it requires the wisdom of a Son of God to discern the difference between those binding elements of dogma that crucify the souls of men and those God-ideas which all may receive as they kneel in humility before the living God. For true religion sets aside the divisive factors of race and creed and human calling and initiates that openness of heart and mind which draws the mission of the Babe of Bethlehem into perspective in the cradle of the individual consciousness. From there He will one day rise as the noblest of lords in the life of every man, woman, and child.
Man can know God; God can know man. But unless there is an interchange of identifying concepts and ideas, God remains unknown and man does not know that he is known. Joyous hours of Light descending as stars of hope in the midst of man's darkness signal the birth of a god in miniature, who will expand his starry body of Light by quaffing the elixir of Life. By drinking into the Body of God through the rituals established by the Holy Spirit, man, like a tiny babe, is able to assimilate the filaments of a universe. He accepts in consciousness that which he is in Reality - the fullness of the Divine Image - and he sees it no robbery to make himself equal with God.5
Man stands often at the crossroads of life, crucified upon a cross of his own making. Yet he can come down from the cross by choosing between the Light and darkness of himself; but his choice must be made within the circle of karmic possibilities which he alone has set up and which he alone must undo.
To choose the Light is the only way. It leads to the uppermost heavenly realm where there is joy beyond belief as the moment of God's renewal passes to man trapped in the mortal concept. In the company of immortals the rapture of God flows freely, unceasingly. Truly, "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."6 The riches of God's eternal Light and grace - these are the things which He has prepared for man's natal day, when he is born a Christ to live forevermore.
Through their recognition of the firstborn Son of God, the Magi perceived the Star of the Master, of the Elder Brother, appearing in the sky. Thus man lifts up the thoughts of his mind to perceive the Star of his own everlastingness that appears as a sign in the heavens. Symbol of hope to a world waiting for revivification, the Star comes to rest over the manger - man, in whose humble heart a god is born.
For the birth of Christ-esteem in the hearts of all, I remain