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The dawn of years is at hand. Out of millenniums of darkness, out of cycles of hopelessness, hope lives. The ineffable transparency of hope may not always appear to all, may not always be seen; but there is no drama in darkness.
Dust is not a swaddling garment for our Lord. His temples, His celestial cities, His triumphs in thought, in reason, in the fire of the heart - they are all captivated by the spiritual domain. And so delicately is that spiritual domain intertwined with arms of compassion and beauty in the outer creation that it seems to us from inner levels as though we cannot quite understand man's failure to fully apprehend. But darkness shall cease. It shall be banished by Light and tranquillity prevail over the shoddiness of violence, of carelessness, of confusion, and of failure.
Some have said what a pity that the world has muddied itself, creating stain upon stain. But let them see the cosmic stream as it really is - a stream of gushing triumph, a fire of Light that eliminates darkness and the barren hopes with which some men palliate themselves as though failures and a doomsday consciousness will convey to them those benefits that span the millenniums. How short-lived are the dreams of those linked not to Hierarchy but rather to those fantasies of the human imagination that convey nothing - zero, a hole in eternity.
The meting-out of human karma seems to some to be a grisly business, as though man were placed on the chopping block of heaven and dissected anatomically. I say this is untrue. Man is lashed for two reasons: first, that those whom God loves may be chastised1 and learn to do well; second, that the lessons that have been brought forth by the Headmaster of the school but have not been assimilated in any other form may now also be mastered.
It is useless to deny the role of karma. It must be seen as commingling the good and bad which men create. But when the stern disciplines are disregarded, is all to appear as a miracle that is the triumph of God? And if so, why does not God redeem all rather than the chosen few? And who are the chosen few?
If man is predestined and has no control over his own energy, is he goaded by naught? I think not - naught save his own determination to be and to do as God wills it. Man's salvation, then, is not in predestination, but in the choosing of the will of God - the choosing of the will of God precluding all other possibilities and securing to man the safety and good conduct of the heavenly hosts.
It may seem strange to some that I choose to speak of this at this season of the year. But is there a more fitting time? For when men fail to recognize the meaning of their own personal triumph Godward, they deny the living Christ that brought them Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hope.
I think also that the time has come when more among mankind ought to settle down not into the domain of complacency, but into the striving toward the production of the greatest bond of hope - the Mind and will of God. There is no need to struggle against it; for sooner or later - and I would to God it were sooner for many - pain and uncertainty can cease in the realization that the certitude of God's love is apparent in Christ if anywhere apparent. It is apparent in Christ today as the hope of the world - a hope that is not solely to be regarded in the fruitful idea of the coming-forth of the Son of God in Bethlehem, but also in His coming-forth in the heart of the world and in the heart of the individual. There change can be wrought and destiny forged as immutable.
It is not necessary for individuals to be constantly condemned either by themselves or by past events. In heaven's name, if there is no redemption in the Heart and Mind of God for the lost sheep, whether of Israel or of the Gentiles,2 then how can any man expect to scale the stars alone? And if, recognizing divine grace, he perceives at last that that grace is sufficient for him,3 is he to be traduced because in the past he has erred? I think not. The very mercy of Heaven speaks otherwise. It is a matter of acceptance rather than rejection.
The world loves to prate over their nonsensical interpretation of the statement of Paul "There is none righteous, no not one,"4 without understanding that he was speaking of the natural man - the one of whom it was said, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God."5 So people take his words to refute the eternal logic that man was created in God's image.6
Man as the pristine idea which God brought forth is triumphant and leading onward toward resurrection. The drama of the life of Christ stands before all, the cup of which all may drink, of which all shall drink if they ever realize the fullness of God.
Through the platitudes which they have created out of their traditional interpretations of the Scriptures, they do exactly as the Master said long ago, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal Life: and they are they which testify of me."7 It does no good for man to merely lean upon the staff of the Lord without understanding that the staff of the Lord also leans upon him as he is able to become a pillar in the temple of God.8
When man supports the cardinal truths of creation, he finds them to be dawning concepts. They yield the buoyant fruit of heaven. They levitate the spirit of man until he is able to approach the very throne (the three-in-one) of God, for himself and by himself.
He who said, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God"9 spake plainly. And as man comes to accept this, he can today accept the risen Christ, the ascended Christ, and the Word that goeth forth, "Lo, I AM with you alway, even unto the end of the world."10 This man has achieved Christ-realization. This man is restored to the immortal image. This man loves God; this man God loves. This man comprises the cosmic star, the cosmic song, the cosmic grace.
Can any among mankind be so vain and so hopeless as to allow other thoughts to distract their focalization upon the reality of the Self? This is what maketh sacred the name "I AM." This is the true name of the living God, the "AUM" sound of the universal omnipresence thereof.
If dogma is to be held at all, let it be the dogma of the living God. Man has become destitute in his devotion to the Christ Child and too commercialized, too crass in his interpretation of the most sacred hieroglyphs of all the ages that have ever been or that ever will be. And to succeed now, he must recognize the failures of traditional religion and orthodoxy that, in the midst of many benign and devout followers of Christ, have withheld his teaching on the sacred purposes of Life and the meaning of attainment. To know how is perhaps just as important as to know why.
And so I say this holy season, let grace abound and mercy be multiplied and Light expand infinitely within you.
Devoted to your unfailing progress in the never-failing Light of God and the joy within His Star, I AM and I remain a Magus of old,
Note: El Morya was embodied as Melchior, one of the three Magi. As an Ascended Being, he holds the position of Chohan (Lord) of the First Ray of God's Will. He is Chief of the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood, and his Retreat of God's Will is located on the etheric plane above Darjeeling, India.