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Life is a journey, blessed ones, and men with limited gaze perceive it not. As though life were haphazardly thrown together by the many facets of consciousness, men gaze outward upon a world of unreality.
Here in Shamballa, where the consciousness of every man is directed by the flame within his own heart, we hold the projected flames of divine consciousness from the heart of the world in the bonds of eternal peace, expressing not a mundane desire for men but a sense of celestial beauty and celestial perception.
The calm Mind of God spanning the ages is the birthright of every man. Men ought to see themselves in this plan. That is to say, the finite little self - the egoistic expression in temporary sense-consciousness - as but a cork, a bob upon the waves of being. Men ought to have the sense of the spiritual markings upon the line of consciousness and understand that inch by inch, mile by mile, even light-year by light-year (as men call it), the consciousness expands from the borders of finite perception unto the position in consciousness where the consciousness clasps hands with the infinite, and the finite and the infinite are one.
Where is division in the Mind of God? Shall he then create division within the mind of man? Nay, I tell you. For his is the forte of infinite peace, the playing upon the celestial harp of those infinite scales of cosmic melody and infinite symphony which still the mind and all of its outer turbulence by awareness of the reality of man, the reality of God, the reality of the plan.
And then, the dreary moments which men qualify with their own dreariness no longer exist. For who can gaze upon an infinite span and say it is finite? Who can gaze upon a sunrise that seems to fill the world and say there is no hope within the nest of a bird? Who can say, as they see the celestial radiance of consciousness pulsating within their own field of energy, "God is not"?
The reality of God always casts reflected beams into the domain of mortal sense. And while many have said in vain that they cannot see God or feel him, while many have said that they feel an absence and vacancy within themselves, let them consider and ponder that the Divine One feels no absence within himself - except that misqualified gap in the forte of being which men, created in his own divine love image,1 have allowed wrongly to use their consciousness.
Good it is that the moment is brief and that the passing of the shadow across the face of the sun does not occupy aught else save time - and that, but a little time by comparison to the vast moments when the peace and the flow and the reality of living Truth come into the heart of the devotees who have stilled the winds of transient, mortal thought by the command from the heart of God to the peace-commanding Presence of Life, saying, "Peace, be still!"2 And thus does mankind approach the hem of the garment of the Infinite.
The Mother of the World sheds her light upon the mountain. The golden glow of the radiance of celestial truth is real. And because the day does pass and the seasons roll, men forget the blessings and benefactions of almighty grace, and they quickly say, "Where is the promise of thy coming? Where art thou, O God? Where is thy reality?"3
Where indeed? And where else than in nature and in natural manifestation and within the consciousness and within perception - the light of the eye, the smile of the child, the hope in the face of the aged, and the knowledge that life in many bodies is the consciousness of the love of God for the children of the world.
The rolling orbs but reflect the intensity of the plan. And as I pause to consider how best I might teach this day unto you the old yet ever-new realities of the infinite love of God, I am caught once again in the strange drama between East and West.
A West industrialized and mechanized into defrauding doctrine has denied the reality of the beauty of infinite Life expressing from embodiment unto embodiment, as the Law, in its great tenets of mercy, seeks to expand the borders of the kingdom of God and the perceptions of Life within the domain of individual consciousness by affording renewed opportunity - that when the breath, holy as it is, does cease within one mortal frame, it can then come again to a new tenement and begin once again to externalize its lost opportunities.
Yet in the East, where the doctrine is ubiquitous, there men do not take full advantage of that wonderful knowledge but have also twisted and aborted it into a continuous opportunity of never-ending lifewaves coming to them without limit. And they understand not that karma has created limit - because there are not enough bodies upon the planet to bear all the waiting souls that are, even this moment, standing at the portals of birth waiting their opportunity to come into embodiment.
We must then, of necessity, reference the cosmic record and see how we may best serve those who have best served Life. And while, according to cosmic law, a certain number of those who have long been denied embodiment are, even without the benefit of the desire for righteousness, permitted ingress into the planetary body for a brief span in order that they, too, may have renewed hope - we know that there are not enough doorways through which men can come into manifestation, even in the teeming populace of the world order, when demographic problems are the concern of the heads of state and problems of birth control are being directed into the councils of men.
Let me then tell you, precious ones, that the opportunity which Life affords you even to individualize your consciousness is very great. Yet how paltry men deem it! How they consider it but an opportunity for the assuagement of egoistic desires. And they have no peace, because their desires are never fulfilled. And they are ever longing, as one upon the desert places of life who sees ahead the mirage of oasis; and this ever recedes from consciousness until, at last, the individual is left to dry in the sun upon the desert sands and accomplishment seems but a reach of mortal grasp - an extension toward infinity which will never materialize.
The materialization of Truth and Peace is the extension of the infinite love of God into the domain of mortal sense-consciousness and the expansion of the consciousness of man into the domain of the Infinite. By the pull of the infinite love of God, men are demanding of Life that they understand his holy wisdom and understand his laws. But when they fall short of the mark, alas, there is the tendency to commiserate with themselves and to ponder as to the meaning of Life.
If they will only let go of all the frail and fragile sense of mortal longings and desires and understand that it is within the domain of the grace of God and his love to give to them the power of spiritual perception whereby they may understand that each soul was intended to sit upon the golden lotus throne of infinite peace, to identify with the goodly consciousness of Almighty God, to feel the strands of his holy wisdom as pulsation passed through the consciousness, even as the sun passes through the portals of the dawn, and realize that each moment spent with God and with cognizing his reality is a moment upon the Path when the glimmer of truth is. And in that moment of truth, reality is seen for a moment as a sparkling diadem of hope, ever renewing itself but evanescent in the sense that it passes from man as opportunity when the attention is so easily turned to the sparkles and baubles of the world.
Long ago, as Gautama, I called to the attention of mankind the unfortunate happenings of men when they would, with a loud outcry, speak out of other men and say, "He hurt me! He harmed me! He did me despite!" What pity men have for themselves simply because all things are not to their liking. If they would only understand that that which is to the liking of the Divine One is to their `lacking'.
And because they lack the understanding of their divine inheritance, they consider, then, that it should consist of mortal interludes of sense-consciousness, where the paltry goodwill wishes of mortal men are extended as mortal felicitations into their world. And they seek for the glitter and the glamour and the passing travesty of the senses which consists of human adulation.
Let them understand
That the adoration flame of Almighty God
Is a flame of peace
When human sense-desires will cease!
And in their place
The light from the face
Of God Almighty wins a place
For all who will consecrate
Energy and light and faith to hope,
Securing for themselves the opportunity
That is abroad in the world
And all about men everywhere,
As the air itself, and holds a prayer
That God may clasp the prodigal sense
Of men unto himself -
And pass the chain of gold right then
Unto each soul and say unto them:
Be thou, O be thou, made whole!
I AM thy God, and neath my rod
Of chastening by the Light,
I bring thee nigh unto myself
And to thy own delight!
Be thou, then, precious ones, understanders of Truth. And go not out into the world, where the false prophecies of the world come through psychic negation and the desire for individuals to glamorize themselves as though they were some great being.
You ought to understand that in this manifestation of our love there is naught else but the desire for God to clasp you, each one, to his heart of peace and to cause the drama of mortal sense to cease. By the Light, then, you will be made free! By the Light, then, you will be healed, you will be sustained, you will be intensified in the forte of Almighty God!
Almighty God holds within the very hollow of his hand the divine plan. And it is yours to command life to be free. It is yours to bring to yourself the sense of the domain of God peace.
For peace without honor is indeed no peace at all, and peace that is but cessation from activity is no peace at all. But peace, dictated because the radiance of the Law is bound round about your consciousness,4 shows to you clearly for now and for all time that the threefold flame of God that has manifested in the flame of the ages, and has periodically flashed forth in the face of the avatar, is intended to flash forth in the face of every son that hope is for everyone but that men must make it their own by claiming it, by loving it, by adoring God, and by adoring God in one another - and understanding that all life are indeed my brother, my brother manifest here.
Please, then, for God's sake, for the sake of the plan and for thyself and the sweet gift of God to man, reconcile thyself with reality and dwell not so much in the tents of thy own weaving, where the canopy of thy selfhood obscures the sun of reality, but let thyself become identifiable with the Infinite. And then the struggle shall cease and the world abide in the domain of our peace.
I AM Gautama, Lord of the World - one who serves with the Christ and whose orb of light today flashes forth to surround the planet with celestial beauty, as a mighty transparent globe goeth out now to the seven thousand feet level to encompass round about mortal, human effluvia and the finite drama of mortal struggle by the love wave of God and the celestial power of his peace.
The rainbow rays of all the chohans of the rays are reflected in this vast cosmic bubble. And I trust that you will not shatter it this day by some careless mortal thought or stray far from the field of God's dimension.
Understand, instead, that you must encompass round about the divine intention. And in that doing, see thyself not as abusing the world or the opportunity Life has given unto you, but as serving the world, even as I do, out from the domain of our peace!
And by the great peace-commanding Presence of Life, I, Gautama, say unto the world: Peace be unto thee, out of our heart and out of the heart of God! And may his power increase until all men shall understand his laws - and war shall cease and love increase and the measure of man5 be taken by the golden rule of Life. For ours is the domain of the Sun. Ours is true illumination for everyone.
Thou art the daystar to the planet.
Thy strength is builded by radiant increase.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet on Sunday, April 2, 1967, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.