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Beloved Savants of the Balanced Cross,
To retain your perfection when the leaks of human distress would drive from you spiritual fruitfulness, alter the cast of the mind, and allure the senses into a state of distrust and misjudgment, is to keep the way of the Tree of Life and to keep the flame of holy purpose alive within your heart.
Each year as the cycle of the cosmic clock approaches winter solstice, mankind celebrate the traditional feasts that have never marred from the divine standpoint but have ever married the spirit to its true Christ-kindling. Thus the soul feels the warmth of the heart as it contemplates the descent of the holy bridegroom, of the holy church, of the holy order of sacred souls married but not marred by the approach of their divinity.
The divine union is a consummate glory that, approaching as a thief in the night,1 steals hearts away from their cups and idle dreams until at last the elements of the Sacred Fire inherent within man stir the passions of his soul and the flame of the mind to redemption, to reunion as the prodigal of old. The divine union comes about as the result of much diligence on Heaven's part.
But if the world would have its way,
If the carnal mind would ever hold sway,
Man with all potential dreams
Would ne'er become that which he seems
At times to approach.
The invocation of love -
Angel songs from above,
The Flame within the heart,
Gentle wing of a dove
Conveying below a song to and fro
'Twixt heaven and earth -
Forever does glow.
Captured almost in the heavenly toast
"Merry Christmas to all,
O blest Holy Ghost!"
So gentle is the dream of God
It captures fancies of child-minds.
And then come the doubts of what we may term
Sour and dour sophistication -
A nonclassic rendering
Of all men's frustration,
A density in bone,
In heart, and in mind,
The failure of each one
To really be kind.
And so as the years go,
Blind mankind does bind - himself.
Won't you recognize these deeper facts within yourself? Won't you understand how all of Life is yours to command? Won't you recognize that it is the Flame in the point of contact with those of us who have overcome, who have entered into the heart of a One, that will convey you there also? Then the holy triumph that is such a beautiful hieroglyph will become at last the cradle of your aspirations into which the infant Messiah may be placed, expand, and grow.
If you will understand it aright, the whole mystery of the divine incarnation is to be found in yourself. The mystery of the Christ is within every heart. He is the firstborn of God by whom all things were created.2 In Him was the dawn of triumph from the beginning, a triumph that could know no defeat. Yet individuals know defeat because their minds are turned inside out. They flout regeneration, perceiving it only as Christ Universal victory and not as the triumph of themselves.
If man was made in the divine image, then in heaven's name is there any desecration today in mankind being kind unto themselves and not kicking against the pricks3 of Truth? They need not wait for any other proof save the Dayspring from on high that has visited them4 within the chambers of their heart. No man is an island5 without contact in the vast solar sea with those who have higher and still higher contact until at last the souls of all are joined unto God.
What beauty is ours to behold
As this very year we are told
Once again of His love
That casts out every fear,6
Producing the flame of immortality within.