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To Those Desiring to Know God in Manifestation as Man -
The statement "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"1 spoken of old from the supplicant's heart, still engenders in men the tendency toward self-depreciation. Just as pride goeth before a fall,2 so false humility is an unbalanced expression which our students dare not manifest. A wider understanding of the human ego and of what man is and is to be will enable each child of the Father to enter more fully into the abundant Life.
Gratitude for the many blessings of Life would rise in wondrous spirals of attainment and God consciousness if people were able to understand more concerning the spiritual realities of themselves and less concerning the mask of mortal imperfection with which they cloak one another through calumny, deceit, and gossip.
In the interest of our continuing service and instruction to those who would teach men the Way, it is my pleasure, together with beloved Kuthumi, to unfold in the consciousness of each aspirant a greater knowledge concerning his coming forth into being from the Father's wonderful heart of universal creativity.
Will ye give ear, then, in his precious name, I AM, to this mighty message of Being, finding mirrored within it and within yourself a more abundant grace that will assist you in doing as I did: to mount up with wings as eagles3 into that trackless continent of the air where virtue replaces error and understanding replaces ignorance.
Remember, beloved ones, it is not the Father's will that one of these little ones should perish,4 but that all should come to the marvelous knowledge of their True Self - face to face - even as He knows each one to be in truth.
Paul said, "Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."5
John said, "We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."6
The question may therefore be asked by every disciple, "How can man know?" And this is a valid question for every serious student on the path of Christhood. In directing ourselves to the question of Being, we must first of all ask each individual to voluntarily silence the carnal mind, with all of its stored-up error, pent-up pride, and resistance to the unfoldment of divine Truth. And here we speak of the human mentality devoid of Higher Consciousness that is always enmity against God and his Self-knowledge7 precisely because it has no Christ Self-awareness.
For when that Truth shall fully appear to the soul, the soul shall be set free from the domination of the carnal mind - and that mind, having no more reason for being, displaced by the Mind of God which was in Christ Jesus,8 ceases to be! For it simply cannot be where Christ is - and is the Christ/Truth in you.
God's truth is the still small voice of his conscience (voicing the science of Being) within you. When you still the turmoil of the 'outer mind' in your world, that voice, more powerful still, will be heard in all of its tones of wondrous clarity and its mighty winged messages of love.
It is this love of your Holy Christ Self that will exalt you into the fullness of the divine understanding about yourself. It is this love whose pinions will carry you into the rarefied atmosphere of the kingdom of heaven,9 and it is this love which must express through you its tangible messages of hope to all God's children, remaining unqualified by human thought and feeling.
So long as you allow the ups and downs of tyrannical human thoughts and feelings to take their toll, you will remain bound by the race thoughts (mortal laws) of disease, old age, decay, death - not to mention the fascination and gripping entrapment that will bind you to the maya of endless psychic thralldom. The tools employed in the building of faith are as essential as the tool of faith itself. Wise men, handling the building blocks of form, perceive the need for the rule, the compass, and the square. Are tools of mind and heart of less import or reality? I tell you nay.
It is, therefore, essential that those who are agnostics or atheistically inclined be taught the facts concerning the True Self as one would teach these truths to the little children. We recognize the difficulty in this approach. Nevertheless, we admonish you to press on. Do not prejudge your hearer's capacity to comprehend Truth, neither underestimate the power of Truth to communicate itself through you by the Holy Spirit.
To men and women who have woven the strands of communion between worlds it is unthinkable to deny our presence. Thus, it is sometimes exceedingly difficult for a spiritual teacher who has contacted the Christ-radiance to realize that there are men and women yet sitting in the shadow of unbelief.
It is essential that a reasonable compassion for such as these be developed, lest in the ivory-towered state there remain no Christ-charity in the heart with which to reach these individuals who may desperately desire help to cross the abyss of their unbelief. Remember the cry of my own, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief!"10 and give all the benefit of your faith, as I did, to the temporarily doubtful state of consciousness of the disciple who will later accomplish great works by a faith in my True Self and his - a faith which he will make his own.
We do not propose that you involve yourselves, simply on the basis of human sympathy, with unbelievers in the reality of the Divine Self; but we do advocate a compassionate understanding of their plight and a willingness, for your own good as well as theirs, to supply a brother's need of faith, that he may take the leap of faith and be where I AM in thee - and thou in me.11 Beloved, you are wayshowers even as I am; therefore, in drawing men unto the Father, you yourself must first draw very close to the Father. In approaching the Godhead, men must understand that they are not playing a losing game, but that they are winning their own victory.
There is a tendency on the part of the students to believe too much in the reality of the senses and all that they perceive without paying allegiance to the powers of spiritual sensing which belong to the eyes of the soul. To screen out the nebulous (mistlike, hence mystifying) and vicious thoughts of the serpent mind, to screen out the psychic (astral, mayic) accumulations, which like a kaleidoscopic cinema divert the consciousness from the symmetry of the kingdom of God - is a necessity. In approaching the spiritual mount, the cosmic Olympus, men must not seek a God made in their image but rather conform themselves to God's image.
The qualities of mortals are all too frequently imputed to the immortals. It seems difficult for men to perceive that the Ascended Masters are completely free of any imperfect thoughts and feelings, having ascended into the perfection of the octaves of universal Christ consciousness.
In teaching people the realities of heaven, let the waves of aspiration from your heart be tethered to the stability of cosmic law. For your soul wed to Christ possesses the capability of rising through the mirage of human thought and emotion, through the psychic strata (the murky astral plane), up to the plane of God consciousness where all are held in the divine image.
My statements "I AM the Door ..." and "I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me" imply that man cannot expect to know or reach God through the senses but through attunement with the Christ consciousness, the veritable image of God, the Sun of the I AM in every man.
By relinquishing sense consciousness and becoming as a little child, "born again," man begins to weave strands of divine sensing whereby the Infinite is brought down into the chalice of present reality.
To attain a knowledge of God requires the faith that He IS. The faith that right where you are He can declare I AM WHO I AM and unveil to you, as to Moses, the mystery of Being.
To attain a knowledge of God demands a willingness to try to sense beyond appearances that Light which is "the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," though unfortunately to many it is the Light which "shineth in darkness, and the darkness [of material sense] comprehendeth it not."12
Faith is the greatest spiritual catalyst to transport the soul into the realities of the octaves of God's consciousness. Quite naturally men will pledge their faith to that with which their reasoning faculties concur; therefore, it is the science of Being which must be communicated to the nonbeliever. Why not begin with the Chart of the Presence as a graphic presentation of the True Self and the true knowledge thereof which is actually transmitted to the soul by eye contact, quickening the inner memory and scientific knowledge of the blessed tie to God.
Grounding your hearers on the Rock of the I AM Law of Being, point out the shifting sands of sudden change present in matter. This will communicate to them the truth that materiality lacks the stability and permanence of the Divine because its basis lies in imperfection and the limitations of the senses.
Teach them that change, alchemical change, in its spiritual context, can be continuous and self-transforming through the creative processes of the Law of Love. This daily putting on of our garments of the LORD's consciousness of your unfolding divinity results in the constancy of newness of life founded on the Rock of universal perfection.
Your beloved Saint Germain in his teaching of the I AM Law has for years communicated the divine stability to you, charging into your worlds the flame of freedom from his own heart. Cosmic freedom is imbued with cosmic stability - with power, with graciousness, with creativity, and with the divine expression. It is a tangible flame all about you which can be contacted to elevate you to our standard of perfection and beauty.
This do and teach, remembering always my words, "Lo, I AM with you alway," even in the very heart of your being!
[Taken from the book version Corona Class Lessons]