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To the Identifiers with God in the Messianic Sense -
The Holy Christ Self of each lifestream holds an immaculate and therefore sinless concept for the soul, regardless of whether or not the outer self desires or manifests it. Great assistance from on high can be given the individual through his recognition of this fact.
The divine nature never has and never can be subject in any way to human control through discordant energies. It is true that the energy which man directs into discordant and therefore sinful thoughtforms is originally from the divine power source; hence, it is the misqualification by the human will which charges (changes the vibration of) such energy so as to sustain an overlay of impurity - the form itself sullied and appearing so unlike its former state as to be unrecognizable.
The Keeper of the Records for each one's life automatically refers such actions to the Karmic Board, by whose hand the Law itself determines just how and where the re-action of karma shall afford the best possible lesson for each lifestream - by divine decree. The observation that divine justice is slow but sure was phrased by Longfellow in his "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; though with patience he is waiting, with exactness grinds he all."1 But the suddenness of the descent of the Law is also seen as the mills act with the swiftness of a courier of light, hastening the redemption of mankind's misused energies.
Ecclesiastes described the operational law of karma in this wise:
I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever. Nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.2
The valiant, the victorious, are ever the ones who retain in consciousness the divine idea - the original image of God patterned for the perfect man, or manifestation of Himself. The formless Light directed into the `thoughtform' of creative expression manifests the winged image of each soul's own victory.
To forget God, who is only Good, to prefer the imperfect pattern to that perfect pattern imaged forth by this magnificent Good, is to remain in a rut of chaos and confusion that is the product of the unprincipled, unordered mind. To sustain the image of God in mind is to sustain a powerful magnet - verily the inner blueprint of the divine will, which automatically sweeps out imperfection and draws more of the divine leaven (Christ consciousness) into the human loaf of egocentric existence where it raises every facet of expression.3
The conclusion of the process must be the sinless state - which is the estate of Christhood - and the nurturing of that God-design which thrills the being of man with the full measure of his own divinity.
Soon after realization blossoms, the reward of all endeavors of Love comes to fruition and the paradise of God is perceived to be alive within man at the central altar of his being. Not mere words but the essence of eternal reality - "The kingdom of God is within you"4 - becomes the law and the key to the realization of Life's perfection.
So glorious is the Christ-manifestation of every child of God that all efforts made to contact it, however long or arduous, are acclaimed "worth it all!" as one beholds the magnificent outpouring of Christ's living radiance face to face.
If man continues to allow sin to have dominion over him, he must function in the realm of illusion and the willful separation of his identity from the God Presence. The carnal sense of the fabricated personality which is separate from God5 is itself unreal and can never satisfy the true longings of the soul; therefore it is vague, vapory, and self-terminating.
Spiritual continuity is the deathless portion of the lifestream who enters the sinless realm by accepting the dominion of his Holy Christ Self as central to all being and existence. The tiny babe of Bethlehem swiftly expands his light and limbs from infancy to the unspeakable grandeur of a living Christ. The accompanying God-success made known by the power to heal, the wisdom to heal, and the love to heal (as karmically and divinely intended) makes such a one a dominant figure on the world scene, whether recognized or not by mankind.
In reality, the sinless Christ comes to the portal of each one's being to manifest Love's service without limit. The divine seed, represented in the Christ of each one, must wholly bruise the mere human intellect of serpent's head.6
When by free will the soul allows this displacement of antichrist by Christ within consciousness, the figure of the historical Jesus becomes personally relevant as the archetype of the Messiah (deliverer, anointed one) who is the Holy Christ Self of each individual. Every lifestream who has been identified with the physical manifestation of God in the Adamic sense is now become completely God-identified in the Messianic sense.
The vicarious atonement, as salvation through this One Sent, is perceived as the universal ideal to be fulfilled every day on the ongoing path of personal Christhood. All disciples contribute to this "at-one-ment" whenever they amplify the Light shining as the divine unity of the beloved of Christ, illumining the Way in the temporary obscurity of humanly divisive darkness.
The star of the east is the Light of the I AM Presence within, which guides each soul to the state where, in loving adoration, he is able to humble himself as an individual manifestation of God and perceive the universal Messiah in eternal, living nativity within himself and others. This Light sheds its beams across the span of time and space to exalt each man, woman, and child beyond the stations of the cross to the heavenly state where all dross and density of the human nature are transmuted in the ecstasy of the ascension.
In the Father's plan, no favoritism is bestowed, no escape from responsibility is possible. Rather does His full measure of grace illumine and raise each successful aspirant into full-orbed Sunship, erasing every sorrow and shadow, each blight of recessed sin.
Truly His grace is the full power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes in divine justice in perfect balance and determines to hold to the love of his own God Presence without fail until complete and final freedom is achieved.
This is working out your own salvation, not with fear and trembling7 but in Wisdom's immortal way!
[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]