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Expand the flame of hope in every heart!
Expand the flame of hope in a single heart!
Turn up the light, increase the flow of radiance, and let man see clearly the way in which he should go. Let him see clearly how hope is a vital and expanding force to create in advance a sense of victory and progress.
Darkness has ruled in the land of Egypt. Darkness has ruled in the hearts of men, creating a Babylonian civilization. They have builded tall towers, monuments to their own vanity. They have ignored the LORD God of Hosts. They have sought in avarice and a false sense of security to amass to themselves fortunes in securities, in gold, and in good opinions of men. But they have not thought upon the good opinions of God or the respect for his laws which the great fire of initiation demands.
For the first demand of the fires of initiation concerns a sense of proper perspective - to recognize that the light and life within is of old. It was not created, for it always was. It did not begin to be; therefore, it could not cease to be. The light of this reality, the light of God that never fails, is a spiritual light of spiritual victory that overcomes the world.
Humanity suppose in their vanity and deceit, their allowance of bad conscience, that the world thought is correct and that by outer reports and knowledge they can subdue life and obtain satisfaction. We know that all such matters are transitory, that all human concepts vanish away and become as darkness. Only the Light sustains and can sustain. Only the Light endures and will create the fabric that endures - that becomes the mantle of the God-realized individual.
The world wallows in deceit and misery. They remain beneath the canopy of darkness of their own creation. They do not pay proper heed to the voice that speaks from on high - the voice of conscience within their soul. They ignore divine precepts and they permit their tie to higher octaves to be sundered so easily.
We, then, today, mindful of past ages, past failures of men to appropriate their God-given gift - the divine prerogative to exercise their heavenly options - say to humanity: Beware, for the day of judgment is at hand when the gift of freedom that lies so easily before thee now will be no more!
Men and women have not sacrificed for freedom; they have accepted it as a right, handed down to them from posterity to posterity. Let us now, then, say that the perils of this age created by the laggard civilization, the perils of this age fashioned out of darkness, exalted upon wings of darkness, cannot ever sustain the light of freedom. The light of freedom is not so much stifled as it is removed. If men and women continue on their present downhill course, they will wind up beneath the wheels of a cruel juggernaut of their own creation.
The time is short. The day of the LORD is at hand.1 And if the LORD removes from the planet the upper light radiance of the flame of freedom, mankind will fall as a house of cards and there will be nothing but the stench of the henchmen of darkness to fill the world. Succor will not be available. Aid will have flown with the light.
For help lies only in the LORD and in his Light. Help does not come from man but from God. Those who turn their back upon him and who forget him will surely face one day their own destiny with a certain knowledge that they, and they alone, contributed to it.
In the hope that men will adjust their minds and hearts to the holy vibration of hope that becomes pure charity, in hope that becomes faith inviolate, I remain affectionately the brother upon the mountains with the helping hand.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet on Sunday, June 28, 1970, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.