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When you greet the morning's first light, which continually appears somewhere upon the planetary body as the great cosmic clock rolls the love tide of the dawn round the giant ball of the world, will you try to realize that each planetary center, like a human being or an individual, is constantly being bathed in the light of the physical sun. At the same time that the physical light is shed abroad upon the earth, a spiritual radiation and divine presence, a divine omnipresence, floods forth through the physical light of the sun. It is the Sun behind the sun. This is the Reality of God that engenders spiritual resurrections which overcome the temporary consciousness of mankind's death and dying and bring about the eternal sense of living.
When spiritually minded men and women contemplate the true significance of the Angelus, they are able to feel the holy peace that comes with sweet prayer engaged in by the soul who is unashamed to extend from the cathedral of the heart the magnificent afflatus of love born of holy communion with God. The waning light of the sun as it recedes from the place where the petitioner stands is aware of the fruit of the day, of the beautiful blessings of the Light that has shone not only upon the one but upon countless others. Hopefully, receptive souls have used its cosmic energies to bring forth a day of achievement, a day that is not without fruit, a day that is not without love.
Whereas we recognize that there are many kinds of love, the love of which we speak is ever the love of God that is broken in the bread of those who serve mankind and understand that it is not just physical bread alone that they dispense, meeting their physical needs, but also the bread of the Spirit that nourishes their souls. Will you consider then the beauty of the whole loaf of the Christ Consciousness whose qualities are focused in each tiny crumb as it falls from the Lord's table, the Eucharist that gives unto all that impartation of spiritual unity whereby all are enfolded in His love?
The senses of mankind ought to be correctly used and never abused; for they are indexes to the consciousness of self whereby the individual experiences the conditions of his environment and his relationship to them - where he is, what he is doing, how he lives and breathes and functions through his four lower bodies. It is just as easy for the trained soul who has applied his heart unto God to use these senses to reach up out of the deep well of the human consciousness into the abundance of the water of Life that flows from the Source that is above into the vessel that is below.
At no time should men fear to expand their consciousness under the domain of the Father's love; for His love, when it covers the altar of man's true consciousness, is like the covering Cherubim keeping their vigil over the mercy seat.1 In reality man can make a secret covenant with God which is far above the prying eyes of the profane. Accomplishing this through total surrender, he finds coming into manifestation on the altar of his heart a sense of the omnipresence of God and of his own unity with that Presence. When others also feel this selfsame calmness within the abundant sense that is born of dedication to the practice of the laws of God, they are made aware that surging within their own being is the very power that is native to the whole universe. And wherever they go they recognize that the Lord inhabits space and that He hallows and blesses it. With this awareness of the Presence of God, it is more difficult for mankind to become involved in those subtle pressures of condemnation against which both Saint Germain and El Morya have spoken.
It is in the hope of bringing into the world community - the religious as well as the secular - a greater sense of purpose in God, of dedication to the Christ, and of inner striving for unity with the Great Law that I speak. For so long as mankind continue to involve themselves in karmic patterns of destructivity, so long will they reflect destruction in their actions and the peace of my Son be manifest only in part. Wrong action is a barrier to mankind's manifestation of that perfect love which casts out all fear.2
Be aware, then, of the hopes that blaze throughout the pores of space awaiting an opening into the doorway of the heart of each man that he may truly honor the Father's laws according to his highest understanding. God often winks at man's ignorance; and the Masterful Ones who walk as servant-sons in the footsteps of the great heartbeat of Life will never add to the weight of the world's condemnation, but will serve instead to lift mankind out of darkness into Light. As Jesus said to the adulterous woman, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more,"3 so shall compassion expand its wings of healing joy over the earth through mercy and forgiving love and the Angelus of peace crown each day with the sense of divine achievement.
I am a peacemaker as well as a mother; and as we meet on the road of life, there shall come through all measures of mutual striving the finalizing activity that will free each son to accept the fullness of the love of God in Christ Jesus.
With increasing blessing, I AM
I knew him then and I know him now - still the same buoyant, joyous godly personality infused with the Deity who could declare "I and my Father are one."4 Let all understand the sweet simplicity embodied in his thought, in his feeling, in his joy, in the wonder of his love. Let all understand the tenderness that he bore. Yet withal he had the courage to speak his convictions, to be cast down, to be crowned with thorns, to be afflicted when he was conscious of the Lord of the whole earth, conscious of the power and preeminence of God within his life.
Yes, I knew him then and I know him still. And I revere him among men as very great. Truly this man was the Son of God. But I yearn today as he yearns still to accomplish in the lives of all a realization of who they are, a realization of the blazing noontide of Reality that is within themselves, of the Christ Consciousness.
There are many frustrations that come; there are many feelings and many attacks that come to humankind to cause them to part company with the Light temporarily, to obscure it, to make them feel belittled. But I say to all of you of the Light, beloved ones: Understand clearly that God has called you; and if He has called you, He has also called them; and if He has called them, He has also called the whole world. Yet they have not heeded. One by one they come through the door; one by one they are established in the forcefield of the Reality of themselves.
And we wait patiently through the centuries; we have waited for many centuries. We have waited for them to awaken; we have waited for the quickening moment to come. Yet when it has, they have brushed it aside but lightly. They are willing to go so near and yet not completely near; they are willing to be partially awakened yet not completely awakened; they are ready to have their eyes opened but not completely opened.
And therefore we urge upon all a sense of the surrender unto God's will that the Masters have again and again epitomized to you as the fruit of their own lives. And it is an abundant fruit; it is a joyous fruit; it is a fruit that brings forth. Yet so many come so close and yet are just as far in a way as they were before they started; for they have established limitations upon their consciousness, upon their thoughts, upon their ideas. The unlimited sense must not be obscured by outer conditions. ...
Note: The complete dictation of John the Beloved is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MTR 7103, The Summit Lighthouse.