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Beloved Sons and Daughters Who Consciously Recognize Your Divine Origin:
The hopes of God lie in mankind's conscious, willing acceptance of universal harmony, which must first be established in each one.
You cannot manifest the harmony of God if you continually allow yourself to be drawn into worldly situations through the play of your emotions. In truth, all of creation was brought forth in its primordial Reality by the spark of God's desire made manifest through the agency of the Holy Spirit. This desire of the Creator to amplify the qualities of perfection is closely related to the desire nature of man which is expressed through his emotional or feeling world. Therefore when you permit your feelings to be ruffled, the surge of emotional energy which passes through your feeling world has a detrimental effect upon the harmony of self and is counter to the love, the peace, the wisdom, and the joy of the Holy Spirit.
How simple it is for even a child to disturb the emotional world of any among mankind, save those who have established themselves in the determined, fruitful intent to guard the vehicles of the mind and feelings so that they remain tethered solely to the operations of the Holy Spirit. This is not easy, beloved ones. We fully recognize that the mind accustomed to ordinary thoughts and feelings is easily caught up in the revolving of the mundane and the amplification of the mass consciousness. In effect man has become a reactor both to his environment and to the haphazard activities of his companions, and his energies are almost totally engaged in the human situations that arise in his world from day to day. And like the rising and falling of a surging sea, his emotional energies are maneuvered by his reactions from one disturbing condition to the next.
The image of their own Christ Self commanding the emotional waves and saying "Peace, be still!" is needed by mankind in every walk of life; for there are none in the world that are not subject to trying conditions. When people let their thoughts and feelings become reactive, triggered by the words and deeds of others, the flow of their precious energies becomes subject to whimsy.
But there is one great danger that often arises when individuals on the Path first begin to apply the laws of harmony; this I should like to point out to the students of the Light. It is the danger of insulating oneself against the doings and attitudes of others whereby one becomes hardhearted, cold, and sterile in the attempt to implement the great desire to maintain harmony in his world. Under these circumstances the individual is not even willing to respond favorably to others - all in the guise of maintaining harmony.
Men should learn to stand within the citadel of being, insulated by the currents of the Holy Ghost but capable of reaching out in mercy's name with the response that is dictated by their own inner God nature. They should lovingly place themselves upon the ladder of availability, going up or down so that their awareness can coincide momentarily with the ups and downs of others as the elevatorlike consciousness of humanity rises and falls. Thus the compassionate ones, taking no thought for their lives,1 descend to the level of greatest need to raise up the downtrodden to a higher response. They do not leave them where they find them, at the level of reaction to the lower nature, but provide a way of escape through the door of the Christ Self - I AM the open door which no man can shut.2
How does all this fit in with the great struggles going on in religious movements today? Politics and religion, which are intended to show forth the standards of the governing of the world and the governing of the self under divine ordinances, have been misused to promote discord and dissension among the masses, providing a smokescreen for the manipulators. And where is the fruit of the Spirit?3 It is far from being a manifest reality.
Oh, how quickly mankind turn from a face of smiles to one of frowns and fears as they enter into a defense of their pet theories and personal dogmas or as they discuss the darkening aspects of their lives - all in the name of Christ. Frequently men search the Scriptures looking only for a justification of their questionable conduct without understanding that the seat of mercy and understanding dwells also in the soul and that humility is the great expanding magnet of the soul that unerringly draws God's energy into one's world, making each one in effect a child of the Light.
It is almost as though men themselves had created the religious tenets to which they adhere, and by and by their loyalty to their own beliefs transcends their loyalty to God. But God is above mankind's religion; He is even above those doctrines which they have come to accept, wherever these differ with the true aspects of Love.
I wonder if mankind have ever mused upon what would happen in the world if all men professing to work for God were really doing so. Their loyalties, then, would be to Him rather than to their egos, to the bringing-in of the kingdom rather than to the building of a Tower of Babel, to the establishment of the joys of God in the lives of others rather than to the indulgence of their appetites and passions. That adherence to cosmic law which only waits as a beast of prey ready to pounce upon some statement of the Law that one of us has made which will support their own desires and desire patterns is not religion pure and undefiled.4
Don't you understand, beloved ones, that the harmony of the whole is of far greater importance than the temporary satisfaction of a part, even allowing that the part might be momentarily correct in its application of a tenet of the Law? Oh, the Law - how beautiful it is! And how wonderful it is when mankind can reach out to the Law and see it as the counterpart of love and mercy that will establish the unifying power of the Holy Spirit upon earth! Then much of the chastening of the children of God will become unnecessary, for they will be one with the Law even as we are one with Him.5
Never at any time were the admonishments of the apostles or of my Son intended to be wrongly divided. Yet how frequently the Word - which is both a sword to divide good from evil and a shield to protect eternal Truth from the onslaught of error's divisive ways - is misunderstood in the realm of applications. We know full well that there are many tenets of cosmic law recorded in Scripture that ought to be regarded as the living Word of God. But of a truth, theologians who are part of orthodox movements have overlooked many concepts that are the pure teachings of the Spirit because of false premises injected into the printed word in the early centuries of the Christian dispensation and into later interpretations thereof.
I know the great difficulty mankind have in departing from tradition that has become accepted as divine decree. I also know how easily they wrest the laws of God to their own destruction.6 But it is wrong to forsake one's faith in God in those moments when being true to oneself means going against orthodox tradition. For unless the Spirit of God is permitted to lead man into the laws of Truth, even that progressive Truth which defies tradition and the warps of the carnal mind, the present generation may well continue to be divided on both fundamental and disputed points of the Law.
Above all, men should understand and apply the law of brotherhood and not be so hasty in their judgments of one another. For in many cases, right when we have sought to establish a very special assistance to one whose prayers evoked that assistance, his own dogmatism and loyalty to traditional concepts have become the enemy of all Truth, barring him from receiving our intercession.
So deeply dyed is the consciousness of mankind with many wrong concepts about God and Spirit's intent that they have failed to apprehend the basic laws of the universe so apparent in man and nature. The reason we continue to discuss the problems of religious bigotry is that the spiritual progress of the world will be effectively stayed until the people rise above the level of their dogmatic interpretations of life, their ego-centered logic, and their sense thralldom - as some might say, above the world, the flesh, and the devil. For it is those who deify evil through the instating of spiritual wickedness in high places7 who are guilty of perpetuating darkness in the world, even more so than that which is the result of what men have called pure evil. And so the liar is often more deadly than the lie.
We long to see the effect of the divine level of understanding upon mankind, for we know that only through understanding will the nations promote true brotherhood in place of their brittle intellectual concepts and human conquests. So many the world over still move in the realms of mortal thought and feeling wherein they desire to be thought well of, without realizing that this in itself is a reflection of their own inadequacy, their own feelings of inferiority and insufficiency.
With God all things are possible!8 And by Him the true divine nature will be established within the hearts of all. Thus there will be a natural blending of the Flame that is below in man with the Fire that is above in God.
I remain devoted to your divine sonship.