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Each year there is a gradual lowering into the realm of imperfection of the sweet bonds of perfection from God's own Heart. So gentle is this lowering, often imperceptible to the human eye, that it is difficult for unascended beings to arrive at a full accounting of the cosmic energies invested by the heavenly ones in their service to humanity. In your moments of doubt and mistrust, be not overcome. Instead let the meditations of your heart be those in which God Himself may trust.
Throughout the centuries there has been much talk from embodied mankind about the responsibility of the Deity. All seems to depend upon God. In terms of power this may seem to be a just apprehension; in terms of wisdom this may also seem logical; but when it comes to love, the whole concept of accountability takes another turn. For if one will but look for the divine seed and meditate upon it, one can begin to perceive the germinal power of love which God has implanted within the self. This seed, because it is of God, the manifest power of the Word providing a spiritual impetus to each man, when rightly used is itself capable of assuming the mantle of accountability.
There is a great value in fixing one's gaze upon the universality of the Eternal One and upon the gentle yet powerful persuasions that He exerts upon embodied mankind. The flux of the Divine Nature seems scattered as seeds upon the wind; but when one begins to ponder the fruit that has already been delivered unto the consciousness of mankind, when one begins to comprehend the power of the seed active within the individual consciousness, each man can, if he will, perceive that God, as love, is already germinal within the forcefield of his own being.
"What a stupendous idea!" some may say. For it can cause the spirit to soar unto the heights of God's Consciousness and, above all, to mingle with the fold of those who can accept their spiritual responsibilities as well as their spiritual opportunities. Each embodied soul, then, is given marvelous tools not only for his own perfectionment but also for the perfectionment of all mankind.
There is an interlocking responsibility between Heaven and earth which is sometimes thrust upon mankind. To this we ask that you dedicate yourself in thought. To feel a definite responsibility toward mankind is the ideal of the enlightened ones who seek to alleviate human distresses. Yet in the great realities of God and in that perfect balance of the universal law of which I speak and in which I dwell, there is also a beautiful responsibility shared by every soul to assist the Divine One in His great outreach into the world of form. For it is here that self-mastery must be sought and won in order that the perfection which Heaven expects each of its children to become might be realized by reason of the indwelling seed.
Do you see, then, how marvelous this is - what a wonderful opportunity is given to all who will accept their responsibility to Heaven and earth, who will ponder it and then carry it out? Man is expected to serve the eternal purpose by assisting others in producing the miracle of God's Consciousness in themselves. To accomplish this it is not always necessary to carry out some specific worldly aim, some objective which can be seen. For in the unseen world of the Spirit there is a means available to all whereby they can assist the Divinity in intensifying at any point in space, including the point of man's individualization, the great love tides and the wisdom and the power that produce eternal change in that which seems so fragile simply because it is temporal.
Only by the eternal movement of the eternal Spirit can Matter truly come under the dominion of grace - the grace of the eternal dharma of the Spirit, which is the law of universal purpose outworking perfection in all Life. How tragic it is that men pin the hopes of their destinies upon their past embodiments as if there were not the perfection of a greater design in the spiritual realm, though betimes unmanifest.
Material manifestations are important only as they are recognized by man as living proof of his mastery over material substance and as a glorification of the universal intent. Then when he is free from all shadow and shame, when he is ready to accept the higher calling of God, he is able to bring forth out of the meditations of his heart and mind those cords of cosmic Light that reach out from the Heart of God and the heart of man to embrace in the divine measure of God's plan fulfilled every soul upon the planetary body, excluding none.
How beautiful are these concepts which, while they do not work for some because of the barriers they erect in their own consciousness, do work for others. Man must strive harder for understanding than he strives for his daily bread. As Jesus said, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."1 Let each one, then, following in the footsteps of the Universal Christ, be unafraid to reach for those meditative heights which are all-embracing and all-completing, fulfilling the perfectionment of God in all - in the self of each individual. Thus in the change from glory to glory2 will the wisdom and power of the Universal God be seen as the mission of Love's purpose fulfilled because man wills it so.
Out of the gentle enfolding radiance of His love, I remain your brother from the East,
I am come tonight to bring to you the fresh winds of the Zuider Zee; and I begin with a tale of the land of the dikes.
There lived by the sea a gentle soul who was a miller. He and his wife served together to grind the grain for the people of their town. And it came to pass that in all the land there were no communities where so much happiness reigned as there. Their countrymen marveled and wondered, for they recognized that something unusual must have happened to make the members of this community so singularly wise and happy. And although the townsfolk themselves were born, grew up, matured to adulthood and passed from the screen of life within the community, never in all of their living were they able to understand the mystery.
Tonight I shall draw aside the curtain and tell you what made the people of this community so happy and prosperous, so joyous and wise.
It was the service of the miller and his wife and the love which they put into the flour. For this love was carried home in sacks of flour on the backs of those who patronized their mill and was then baked into their bread. At every meal the regenerative power of love from the miller and his wife was radiated around the table and it entered their physical bodies as they partook of the bread. Thus, like radioactive power, the energy of this vibrant love from the miller and his wife was spread throughout the community.
The neighbors did not know the reason for their happiness and none of the people were ever able to discover it. For sometimes - although they live side by side - mankind are unable to pry the most simple secrets about one another. And so the mysteries of divine love continue to defy probing by the human consciousness, but we of the Ascended Masters' octave occasionally choose to make them known to you by sharing these gems with you.
The instruction which I would bring to you tonight concerns physical properties and their power to retain the radiation of those who handle them. The food which you eat, beloved ones, when prepared by hands charged with divine love, enters into your physical body and creates a much greater degree of spiritual happiness than mankind would at first realize. Those who are wise will recognize the truth of what I am saying; and if they must partake of food from unknown sources, they will be certain that they have removed by the violet transmuting flame those undesirable momentums of human creation whose radiation can do no good to the individual who partakes thereof and much harm to him who is unwary and therefore unprotected.