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The more perfect way is before you. It is the way of peering into the heights of those divine concepts by which the sages and holy men of all ages have overcome the darkness that has existed within themselves.
What is the source of darkness if it is not an opaquing of the light? It is a closing of the pathway to the consciousness of God by the individual, which then does not provide the stimulus that will enable him to hold his attunement with the cosmic Tree of Life1 and the thread of light that pours down from the highest realms of divine consciousness into the humblest soul in order that he may be lifted up.
We know full well with what eagerness your hearts seek to grasp even at the smallest straw that would enable you to save the most humble person from a fate that you would consider to be most unfortunate. We know how your hearts, touched by the scenes of India,2 are also reaching out almost in a maddening whirl for some measure of response that you feel will enable you or your group or humanity to provide a greater measure of hope and help to the people of this land and all lands.
But we, who through the ages have wrestled with the same problems, full well understand that only by an ongoing of the being of man into the light can he at last provide that full measure of universal devotion to the soul of God within the hearts of all whereby he can raise all into the Light from whence they came.
We understand the hungers of the heart, for we ourselves have become the heart. We have become the heart of Peace, of Love, of Reality. For the Reality that shines just behind the appearance world is the supreme Atman - the supreme soul of God, glistening with hope and divine imagery, the image of the universal Christ, the universal Krishna, the image of fulfillment.
Men today in all of their activities and all of their desires are seeking to fulfill the purposes of God. But the activities in which they engage do not do this but, rather, create a net of deception and human discord whereby the great solar realities of Life that God has planted as the sacred-fire seeds within them are actually bypassed; and they fulfill their desires instead, as a matter of the course of the senses.
We full well understand all of these activities. But our understanding has not enabled other parts of life, lesser life-forms, lesser levels of consciousness to actually rise to the state where we are. There has been, however, a leveling and a lifting action, but this action has not been enough to meet the requirements in many cases.
And therefore, as your hearts reach out to touch humanity in all of their discord and struggle, remember that the heart of God has reached out before you. Remember that the heart of the ascended-master consciousness has gone out into the world time on time again, and the wind of the Holy Spirit has embraced every corner of creation.
Wherever people are, wherever there are hearts, wherever there is love and a sense of hope for reality, there the beautiful tendrils of the Divine descend, the beautiful light-waves come. And often, there is no corresponding response whatsoever, for the stimuli of the Divine do not actually find a responsive chord in the hearts of men, whose whole being is surfeited with the idea of the senses and simple corporeal existence.
What is the answer, then, blessed hearts of light? The answer lies in the stimulation of the Divine Presence, in the creation of awareness in the hearts of the people of the world of the great reality of the I AM Presence. The reality of the ascended-master consciousness is the full measure of devotion and reality to all of those hearts who seek and know not what they seek.
We understand that there is a problem in India and we have seen it long ago. As the centuries have rolled by, many great masters have wrestled with these problems, both in the objective, physical levels and in the higher council tables of the masters above. Again and again, there have issued forth various cosmic ideas for the upliftment and betterment of humanity. Again and again, these ideas have borne some fruit. But often, when the final report was written, it was said, "It is not enough." Yet the question always before our hearts, before the conscience of the entire Council of India, has been: Shall we continue to reach out to touch the hearts of those who need us? And the answer has always been Yes.
For the way of peace and the way of love is the salvation of a planet. And those who gaze upon the world from a superficial attitude often are not able to have the same comprehensions that those who gaze upon the world with an inner knowing possess. The ascended masters, then, possess the insight of Peace, the insight of Reality, the insight of universal Love. We see how in past ages just a few souls have wrought great change upon the face of the whole, wide world.
And as you think now upon my words, I remind you full well of the great cosmic purity that emanates from the ascended-master levels, that raises the entire consciousness of humanity upward, step by step, through all of the discord and errors of the past - until the way of peace and hope is at last a vital reality to the people of every village, of every hamlet, to all the little children of men in their small struggles who are reaching up for a greater and more vital reality.
I remember full well when long ago, near Benares, I began to preach unto the people. I remember the moments after the consciousness of God filled my being with the vital essence of self-help. I remember how, as the love poured through my being, it would reach out beyond the borders of the land, and it became a powerful magnet to draw the consciousness of men toward me. Unfortunately, again and again, as they were drawn toward me, they failed to recognize the Reality that existed within themselves, and it was always this Reality that I would stimulate.
Yet, when one becomes a touchstone for God, a magnet for his light, they cannot help but draw men toward themselves.3 And thus, there is some excuse for the fact that some, in times past, have had to fulfill the role of being the guru to those who looked to them for light - knowing always in their heart that only God was the Guru, knowing always in their heart that only God functioned in each heart and would draw each heart apart from the world order and separate it unto himself, a precious vessel whom he would anoint.
And as the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit flowed over the sea of the consciousness of man, the oil of the Holy Spirit would calm the troubled waters. And the beauty of the voice of He whose voice is as the sound of many waters4 was to create the consciousness of peace.
For the vibratory action of peace is always the vibratory action of the Eternal when, by the kiss of his love and devotion to the soul, he removes the sense of turmoil from existence and provides a sense of his ever-living, everlasting Presence. For then, time and space seem to vanish away in the great cosmic currents and the enfiring of internal Reality. Then the light of the heart begins to blaze forth! And when that light responds in the mind of the devotee, it also creates the fire of the eternal magnet to all who are in proximity to it, until at last they are, one by one, drawn to the Light even from afar. When the courage, then, and the currents of our light beam forth their radiance into the world, it is to stimulate the fire of the Spirit and a spiritual response in all.
Today, the great Darjeeling Council and the Indian Council are meeting. They are meeting to assist you in your journey as you pass through this land, that the great fires of the resurrection flame which you carried here will also join the ancient sacred power of this holy land in its most beautiful aspect, until the power and purity of that can become the cosmic blessing of every child of the Light, whether he be of this land or of any land.
For all the people upon the earth are, in reality, pilgrims. They are moving onward, hopefully, in robes of light - but sometimes in multicolored robes, where their consciousness, not yet fully able to apprehend the beauty of the one Light of the God Presence, of the angelic hosts, remains a part of human ignorance and of human struggle.
May we ask, then, that you will all accept, with full gratitude in your hearts, the power of the councils of Light which are tonight creating a fiery intensity here in Agra.
We have decided that it is essential, that because your hearts have breathed forth the flame of love, that we should secure a grant from the Karmic Board by the intense love that came to you from the ascended masters' level - which was also met by your blessed selves in cosmic consonance, that gave you the courage to come upon this journey, that you might assist those beyond the seas to comprehend the Reality that has always been the daystar from on high to each of you, to actually create swaddling garments of pure light so that men could be clothed therewith.
Therefore, the Karmic Board has granted tonight a special dispensation whereby a magnificent, cosmic charge of light would actually infuse the Taj Mahal - that out of its turrets and minarets, that from its very substance the sacred-fire light would pulsate, that the ascended masters' councils could accept the beauty of its imagery and endow it as a focus of the spiritual activity of your pilgrimage. And therefore, in one very real sense, in memory of Shah Jahan, in memory of the beauty of his love for his spouse,5 we urge upon you all to understand that your first love is the Spirit of Truth.
And for this reason, we create the image of a miniature Taj Mahal, which we place in the ark of your heart in memory of this journey. And we also see to it tonight that there is magnified within that ark, within that Taj Mahal in miniature, the same radiance of the Light, the love of the eternal Father for the eternal Mother - the love of the Father for Mater.
Therefore, in this love tonight, we create a flame in India which also shall span the world, which shall leap from heart to heart, which shall create a fountain of flame in the being of all who have the propensity and desire to respond to the ministrations of the Light. For these activities are not small, they only seem so.
Size itself is always relative. And therefore, let us judge the activity of the Brotherhood tonight from the standpoint of world need. For the cosmic response which we are evoking now is one that will have far-reaching effects upon all lands and upon this land.
We are calling to the hearts of men to awaken! We are calling to the Christ, to the God within even the little children of this land who, in their ignorance and misunderstanding, reach out their hands to beg - when God himself, standing ever ready, holds over the head of all humanity a cornucopia of cosmic abundance. He possesses the power to pour out his light and his love everywhere. He is Peace, and on the waves of his peace, the future will be borne.
For even though humanity today are still struggling with the gall and bitterness of war, even though greed is rampant throughout the world so that it threatens to actually snuff out the noble aspirations of the Spirit, the flame of our love and our peace goes out to those devotees who will understand that our peace is God's peace - that God's peace is the reality of all time, of eternity, of all space, of the `everywhereness' of God. Will you then accept that in your heart tonight? And realize that, now and forever, this is the hunger of the whole, wide world!
May we send it forth with such power and glory that the world shall never again hunger or be afraid! May we seek to stimulate the courage and grace of God in all hearts. And when vicissitudes come, when sorrow and pain comes to humanity, let them remember the beautiful moments of peace that the soul has known at the feet of the ascended masters' consciousness.
And let men understand that that which they have once experienced can always be re-created again. Let them understand that the moments of sadness and of imperfection are moments of departure from the reality of God. They come about as anomalies of life experience, but they are not intended to remain or be perpetuated. Only the perfection of God and the beauty of his peace is intended to be perpetuated forever. This is the radiance of our council.
And now, as I prepare to take my leave of you, may I sweep wings of peace first around your own being, then around Agra, then around India - and then around the whole, wide world! And may these waves engulf humanity as a tidal wave of cosmic peace. And may every beating heart feel the rhythmic balance of cosmic compensation stimulating in the heart the flame of peace and good cheer.
Be of good cheer, for it is the I AM in you that is your life, your light, and your love.
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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 April 12, 1970, in Agra India.