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To Those Who Would Pursue the Infinite Joys of True Seeing:
The vastness of the universe is in reality contained within the fabric of the True Self, all things being an extension of that Self in its unifying magnificence. What folly it is for men to allow themselves to suppose that they are separate from God and from one another and therefore capable of being defrauded by the universe of any grace of the Godhead!
In dealing with embodied mankind it is easier to illustrate the great hidden realities of Life by using form concepts, which are plainly visible to their eyes. In contrast with the archetypes of Truth which place patterns of divine wholeness before the evolving consciousness of mankind, the thought and feeling creations coming forth from humanity today are charged with suspicion, hatred, greed, and their momentums of pleasure-seeking, and they are directly involved with the traps of separation spawned by the carnal mind. These creations, which are disgorged upon the mental and feeling belts from the undisciplined activities of the masses, perpetuate in the collective subconscious of the race the illusion that man exists outside his Creator and independently of his fellowman.
When the individual first experiences the awakening of the soul, the quest for Reality that his soul directs carries him through the channels of time and space and those experiences which are calculated to give him a greater vision of that which he really is. Watching with tender regard, the heavenly hosts fully understand the difficulty mankind encounter as they seek to arrange the many facets of life into a comprehensive whole; for they know that the structuring of their individual identity is perhaps the hardest task mankind will ever face.
The Master Jesus' statement "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it"1 provides the solution to not one, but many of life's problems. Unfortunately, individuals think that this saying relates solely to the personality of Jesus without understanding that losing one's life "for my sake" is accomplished as one relinquishes the human mold for the divine pattern of the Christ. Throughout his work Jesus emphasized the need to forsake all for the oneness of God and man and those unifying principles of Heaven which are to be found in the very breath of God, in the movement of the wind in the leafy branches, and in the omnipresence of His Spirit in all of nature.
What a pity that mankind engage in sense meanderings without perceiving the stability and direction of the universal plan! But everyone who seeks to the best of his ability to purify himself, clothed with humility and imbued with love for the universe, receives in himself that recompense which is the true vision of God for all mankind and for the universe at large.
Actually, the universe in all of its vastness is a giant bubble of God's Light energy congealed in time and space for the fulfilling of the functional aspects of man's being that flow across the diode of consciousness. It is apparent from the differing visions men share of the same comprehensible whole that the power of their vision requires stabilizing. This is best achieved through the agency of the Holy Spirit and through the Ascended Master Consciousness to which in the past many embodied men and women have risen by their attunement with the Real Self.
It is God's gift to man in the regency of his own blessed Christhood that sanctifies in him and in all of his faculties the strengthening bonds of Life that free him to do the Father's work. He who said, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"2 intended all to receive the gift of his Christ-identity in the full range of its healing power and infinite joy. Man, body-bound and tethered to a world order that is the product of the human intellect, is a limited manifestation of God. Seen through the single-eyed vision of the Christ that integrates all things into the oneness of Selfhood, man finds that he shares the joys of the Creator as he becomes a co-creator, and that he is involved in the rites of creation and the drama of being not only through the Presence of God in nature, but through the penetrating power of the Christ in the realm of his own mind and spirit.
The establishment in man of the divine flow is a thrust of that power which was revealed to Moses as the "I AM that I AM."3 When viewed by the finite mind, this power becomes a weight of oppression simply because that mind has not understood who and what is real. It is this false vision that corrupts the thinking processes and makes men to fear that in seeking God or the heavenly hosts who inhabit the "invisible realm" they may lose out on temporal pleasures. Let me assure all that it is the Father's good pleasure not only to give mankind the kingdom,4 but also to increase the scope of his happiness and blessedness thereby.
Those who have perverted God's purposes the most are those who have misunderstood the approach to God. Seeing the pathway to God as a burden, they have called it religion; but they have failed to apprehend that the function of true religion is to provide the means whereby the soul of man becomes wedded to the Spirit of God. Needless to say, true religion is the only doorway by which the eyes of man can be opened, by which he can increase the power both of the mind and of his appreciation of Life. Only when the seemingly endless struggle about religion is ended will mankind be able to enter into that joyful peace, that inner knowing which comes from true seeing, which was the original intent of God for every man.
From the level of the Elohim5 I have expressed some thoughts based upon the divine logic, together with those concepts whereby man can obtain greater understanding and thus greater freedom. Becoming a little child in consciousness, man obtains the resurrection of the Universal Christ which permeates every area of his life.
From the heart of the Sun I AM come into your midst this day with a specific purpose at hand. I come to break the tyranny of the human consciousness of self-love and dual vision. I come to quicken the All-Seeing Eye of God in the foreheads of all mankind that they might return to the Edenic Consciousness that comes forth from the Tree of Life. ...
What is selfishness, beloved hearts? It is attachment to the person, to the ego, to its history, to its likes and dislikes. And therefore the answer lies in nonattachment, in desirelessness. Take your cloaks, your consciousness of the human, your two-eyed vision - take it from you this hour; put it aside. That is how you put aside selfishness. Do not act out of sympathy for your wants and the desires of the little self. Act out of compassion for the soul that yearns to breathe free; act out of compassion for the God within you. Set the God free; set the Christ free within you; release into the Fire now all momentums of personal attachment. Be neither attached to your own human self or to the human selves of others; and you will know a freedom, a dominion, and a power that can come to you in no other way. ...
I carry a flaming sword of the emerald ray like unto the sword that was placed eastward in Eden to keep the way of the Tree of Life. This is the sword that you may also invoke; and my legions shall place it before the third eye to protect the coming and the going of the thoughts of God's Consciousness as they spiral into your mind, are adorned by your love, and sent back to Him.
See that you do not descend, for it is more difficult to rise from the pit than to remain at the heights of the mountaintop. Do not go down into the valleys of the world or be tempted by its follies, its astral allure. It holds nothing - no promise whatsoever - but only desolation, decay, and death. How strange that the forces of night make death so glamorous as to intrigue millions in the maya of the human consciousness. They toil in their death-making and they know not that they are dying; they know that they are already dead.
So goes the world. And if you would build a brighter tomorrow, you must be against the tide of the world. Do you think that is easy? It is only difficult if you regard it as a human task, if you regard it as a sacrifice. But with the Whole-Eye Vision of God, seeing yourself as the Christ, what is that to thee? There is no pull, there is nothing there. The world holds nothing for you, and therefore you rise and you go against the entire tide of human creation. It is almost effortless because you are buoyed up by the legions of Light, the entire hosts of heaven and the victorious ones who have gone before.
Note: The complete dictation of Beloved Cyclopea is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MTR 7203, The Summit Lighthouse.