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It is just as difficult for men to struggle to materialize their human lives according to their own standards as it is for them to follow the higher plan of the Whole Spirit of the Eternal. In the former, when they go through life either in a directed manner or haphazardly, what they ultimately materialize is like writing in the sand that must be erased. In the latter, the plan is one of universal inspiration; it is the drawing-together of the intermingled lives of all humanity into one glorious eternal survival, into the unfoldment of the divine drama found in nature and Spirit as an exciting materialization of universal purpose.
Lodged in the human mind are many conditions of thought and feeling that ought never to be manifest anywhere. How fortunate for mankind that there is a glorious power in the Holy Spirit that can automatically erase undesirable patterns of imperfection from the screen of mind and heart. Wise are they who avail themselves of it and perceive the need to amplify their standard as well as their vision of the standard of universal perfection and to make it an active guiding principle in their lives that does not wane but rather waxes to full-orbed beauty.
Scanning human hearts, we find that ignorance of Truth is ever the grossest of error. Just a simple idea, you say - one which I have believed from earliest childhood - yet fashioned it may be of the grossest of dust. On the other hand, universal ideas and leadership extended to mankind through the guiding hand of Hierarchy assure the disciple, the neophyte, the follower of God, a greater measure of universal concern than he would ever find from the hand of flesh.
The Hierarchy actually stands behind every leaf and tree, behind every beating heart through the universal warp and woof of purpose ingrained in the very nature of Life to unfold and enfold, to assure and reassure, to mitigate where possible the overflowing of past karma and to channel into ordered service as many hearts and souls as are able to follow the road that leads to eternal Life. Alas, too many pursue the ornaments and glitter of ephemeral conditions.
To many the transient is the only reality. Those who follow spiritually with us the ever-new organized purposes of the Hierarchy, the expansion of our task of bringing Light unto mankind, and the diligence with which we view our appointed tasks - to them is given a portion of the resurrection spiral. This cup of Light will enhance the forcefield, the radiant circle of hallowed Reality around each individual soul until at last he is able to see his Divine Source as one of ever-present concern functioning in the here and now as much as in the distant past or in the future to come, sweeping the more receptive of mankind forward into the grand adventure while at the same time showing understanding to those temporarily cast in lesser molds of purpose.
High is the perpetual advent
Of genuine Reality -
Not always providing allure or glamor
But rather a steady thrust of ineffable sweetness
That stirs the souls of men
To new adventure.
Let me take your hand,
O chelas of the Light.
Let the radiance of the Holy Spirit
Banish your night!
Let your inward delight in the Law of God
Provide new wings for your soul,
New avenues of service
And high adventure to the year
And the eternal cycles as dawning hieroglyphs
In a sky of perpetual splendor.
There is no need for discouragement.
The shadowed shapes,
Magnetized against the sons of the Light
By the brothers of the shadow,
Cannot persuade the Reality of Life
To accept their fiats.
The mercy of God endureth forever
In the rainbow of promise,
In the sound of the rain,
Or in the rushing mighty wind.
Wherever Nature sings,
There the omnipresence of God
Rings out the chime celestial
Proclaiming freedom to those
Who are weary with the years
Of human tears and vain meanderings.
Sheltered within the divine hand,
The wind is a song;
The starry destiny of man
An anchor within the veil;
The celestial chastening of God's hand
A caress of love and tender purpose;
The drops of joy that flood heart and soul
The unfoldment of that purpose.
And the Holy Spirit itself
Is seen as a goblet of Life
From which all may drink.
Cherished are those momentums of service.
Gone are the dark shapes of chaos.
The Light is magnified
And the world made brighter.
Naught can stay the hand
Of the Cosmic Brotherhood
To which you are called.
That few have chosen indicates
Only the gross darkness of ignorance.
But now divine memory awakes.
Many shall perceive
The oneness of the universe
As a song of hearts.
Many shall seek for their baptism
In the fountain of universal Life.
Sweet are the flowers
That pour forth the odor of sanctity.
Theirs is a rosary
Spanning nations and peoples,
Graduating souls
From one grade of consciousness to another
Until hope becomes Reality
And the mistakes of the past
Are seen quite often
As stones upon which man may step
To a higher walk.
Let your darkness pass!
Let the flames of renewal and inward strength
Kindle in you a determination
To find in surrender
To the allness of God
A door ajar to Light
Streaming ribbons bright
Of fondest hope
Winging day and night.
The tablets of the Law
Are broken by the fiery shape
Of that which is to come.
Breathing Eternal Reality of the Holy Spirit:
Pour forth newness of Life upon all
And the flicker of a flame
Upon the altar of all who hear!