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The bond of the Flame is pure. There is to be found no soot of darkness in it. It draws the Breath of God and sheds Light unto all mankind.
It is never the will of God to fragment His people, to cause division among brethren. There are many who, out of pure love for the Flame, work tirelessly for the perfectionment of the race. Regrettable yet expected are the attacks that come through the wolves in sheep's clothing1 against those who love Truth and their God-conferred right to express it. Jesus said, "Offences will come: but woe unto him through whom they come!"2
As one approaches the sanctuary of perfection, the challenges of imperfection become greater at the point of qualification. Even the most devoted saints, as they approached the pathway to our abode, the very altar of the living God, still retained some darkness. This, too, is to be expected. For it is not always possible for man to shed the layers of his former thought before the Great Light draws him to the upper Path. Percentages must be reckoned with. If 3 or 5 percent of a man's consciousness is darkness, is this greater than the 95 or 97 percent of Light he emits? What kind of comparison is this? As we have said before: "Saint Francis and Saint Theresa were often ill. Pythagoras had heart disease. The best zurnas often lacked some strings."3
Those beginning upon the Path are at times like silly children. While the jackal of division opposes the triumph of the living God in man, they heap condemnation after condemnation upon the tried and the true who deliver unto humanity the very best gifts. This is the danger in being a servant of God. The prophets of old were subject to stonings and censure beyond belief. Is it surprising, then, that in these latter times some who come in the name of God should find fault with our Messengers?
The ritual of forgiveness may be in order, but the slings of the Masters are needed to guard the approach to the sanctuary of Truth. Thousands of right words recorded in the ancient writings may be apprehended in error due to the haughty spirit of the false prophets or the incorrect interpretations of the teachers. Neither God nor salvation is to be found in the letter, but both are revealed in the spirit4 of the Lord's beautiful intent. Therefore Jesus mocked the pedants of his time saying, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal Life."5 How necessary it is, then, that the stamp of cosmic mastery come to all who prefer Truth above error.
Inasmuch as darkness is but an absence of Light, as the Saviour said, "If the Light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"6 men ought to perceive that as they wrongly judge one another, placing their attention upon distressing conditions and casting aspersions upon one another's service, they do despite to the spirit of grace and place themselves outside the pale of cosmic law. Yet the cosmic law remains to triumph and to judge a righteous judgment.7 What men do unto others will one day return to them. At the precise moment when they feel they have escaped from error, they will come face to face with the redemption exacted by the law of return.
It has been said that the ancient writings present a commingling of truth and error. If this be true, then the best interpretation must come to man through the Holy Spirit and not through the intellect. Is it not well that men should be mindful of the rebuke of the Christ "Man shall not live by bread alone [the bread of the letter of the Law], but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,"8 spoken when Satan challenged his authority, saying, "Command that these stones be made bread." The bread of the living Word is not a stone, but the compassionate victory which comes through the spirit of loving-kindness that ought to be extended to all.
What is the value of attempting to frighten mankind by dividing them on points of doctrine? There are so many things upon which they agree and so few in which they differ. The soul who garners faith in the living Word and in its correct interpretation through the Spirit of Truth can understand, simply by looking at the world around him, that the statements which went forth through another activity that there would be no discarnates upon the continent of America after 1939 and that all of the black magicians were removed from the earth in 1938 must be reexamined in the light of present knowledge and present experience.
What was not clarified at that time was the fact that the removal of these dark ones was the result of the clearing by the hosts of Light of a certain layer of human consciousness, a pocket of astral darkness which was their abode. But there are many such layers which remain to be cleared through the consecrated energies of the children of Light. Each era has its challenges for both ascended and unascended devotees. Each era has its devotees who are able to meet these challenges from ascended and unascended levels. As the Master said, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."9 Because mankind have free will, souls embodied and disembodied may at any time elect to take the lefthanded path, thereby joining the ranks of the black magicians. Moreover, as people having a low state of consciousness pass from the screen of life, because they lack the necessary momentum of Light to propel them to higher octaves they are counted among the discarnates who yet roam the astral belt.
Wise men of God understand that in these latter days the prophecy is being fulfilled: "The devil is come down unto you with great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."10 By failing to be realistic about the furor of the dark forces and their attempts to divide mankind against one another, the students of Light become the dupes of the very perpetrators of darkness whose existence they deny.
The hand rule "By their fruits ye shall know them"11 applies to organizations as well as to people. Its accuracy has been borne out in the lives of the many who have turned wholeheartedly unto God as the responsive chord from our octave was evoked from within them through The Summit Lighthouse activity. Some may say, and rightly so, that all activities of Light are actually an activity of the summit of God's Truth and His Light.
The unfortunate doings of men and women who should know better, who dedicate themselves and their energies to the destruction of our holy orders, are directed from the depths of darkness by those whose sole purpose is to divide and conquer by creating dissension and confusion among the Lightbearers. Truth cannot be divided against itself, and error is already separated from the fold by reason of its false premise.
Some, because they have been led to believe that there would be no other Messengers save those who went forth carrying our banner in the 1930s, have been disturbed by our most recent endeavor sponsored by The Darjeeling Council. By way of clarification, may I say that had the Golden Age come into manifestation speedily following the release of the knowledge of the I AM Presence and the violet flame and had mankind responded en masse to the intercession of great Cosmic Beings who came forth to assist Saint Germain in his magnificent service, there would have been no further need for Messengers to carry our words to a darkened world. The great tragedy of the age has not been the failure of Hierarchy or of our former efforts, but of humanity to accept the proffered gift of the emissaries of Light who came to elevate the race into the Christ Consciousness and the planet into an era of freedom, enlightenment, and peace. Time and again, due to the unpredictable nature of the human consciousness, Heaven has been forced to remold its thinking and its plans according to mankind's current needs as well as their current abuses of the Law.
Therefore, in 1958 I founded The Summit Lighthouse activity as an official organ of The Darjeeling Council for the express purpose of disseminating the teachings of The Great White Brotherhood. I named as its head my son and co-worker Mark L. Prophet whom I had trained as a Messenger for the Hierarchy. Later, with the full cooperation of Saint Germain, I drew to his side his twin flame, the Lady Elizabeth, whose service to our Cause during many embodiments rendered her fit for the office of Co-Messenger.
Whatever is of God will stand, and whatever is of darkness will fall. Students of the Law need not expend their precious energies "blasting" the endeavors of those whom they consider unworthy to be representatives of our Brotherhood. We are, after all, quite capable of seeing to our own affairs and to our own representation in the world of form.
Beholding the chicanery of some who are presently heaping vilification and outrage upon the heads of our Messengers because they have not come under the jurisdiction of "their" organization, I am reminded of the spirit of rivalry that sought to divide the followers of Christ in the time of Jesus:
"Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is on our part."12
The unfailing Light of God is a lamp unto the heart, the mind, and the being of man. Whatever his path may be, until the last barriers of the human consciousness are finally broken down, the Word lights his way13 that he may follow the beckonings of the gentle yet victorious release of the Flame of the only begotten Son, full of grace and truth.14
The bond of faith shared by disciples on the Path is ever a source of great strength and the foundation of every noble effort. But the consciousness of those whose stock-in-trade becomes the line of schism can never contain the flowers of hope strewn before the devotees who are climbing the upward way. Without guile or envy, these long to see the beauty of Divine Love adorn the souls of all who pursue the higher calling.
Let every member of every religious organization and every soul devoted to divine doings understand clearly that those who have dwelt in darkness from the beginning, although they have attached themselves to our movements like barnacles to the hull of a ship, have always hated the Light. These are the betrayers who hang on just long enough to pervert the concepts of the holy innocents; and when their work is finished, they depart into the dark whence they came. These are the spoilers who, entering not in themselves, would hinder those who are.15
Let love be amplified in the hearts and minds of all. Let love be understood as the flame which unites brother with brother in the service of our God. The very founding principles of The Great White Brotherhood provide for unification of the children of God and never for the casting-down of those who seek earnestly to do His will. For the wings of Light that raise the souls of men into the domain of perfection are pinions of charity which cast no aspersion upon the lesser evolved upon the Pathway, but hold all in the immaculate embrace of the Divine Mother. Through Her clear seeing, the spiritual eyes and ears of man are opened, and a new vision and a new sound are seen and heard - the rolling tide of infinite love that echoes in the chambers of the heart and mind, eternally new, day after day.
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another."16 The hopes of the Lord of the First Ray that drive forth unto valor and victory for the earth remain with you as long as you uphold the principles of the brotherhood of man, of charity toward the followers of God, of understanding to those of differing persuasions all leading to the Open Door, and of peace that wells from within the heart dedicated to the service of the Light in all mankind.