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My Beloved Brothers and Sisters Moving Mountains by the Mustard Seed:
The idyllic hours which mankind spend beneath the trees and upon the flowing green grass, whether in contemplation of Nature or in the perusal of great Spiritual Truths, must bring to each one an innate realization of his own seed-like qualities.
O, Most Gracious Ones, a seed is a very tiny counterpart of the greater manifestation of the tree. A great example of the tiny finite seed expanding to become a flowering tree "in which the birds of the air may nest" is the mustard seed (Luke 13:18,19). The Master Jesus, in presenting the mustard seed concept to mankind, referred to Man's Faith and said that if Man had as much Faith as a grain of mustard seed, he could say unto a mountain "Be thou removed," and it would be. Currently mankind are sometimes of the opinion that if they cannot remove the mountain because of a lack of their faith, they will remove themselves and go to the mountain.
Verily I say, with the Power and Spirit of the Christ, as an Ascended Being, the actual intent of this statement of Jesus was for the removal of the mountain, and I think also that He referred to a mountain of adversity. The sea of troubles in which mankind find themselves is never so deep or intertwined with the tangled roots of man's weaving, or so treacherous as quicksand, that the Power of God cannot give immediate deliverance.
Now, let it be clearly understood by all that each man must "study to show himself approved" (II Timothy 2:15) unto his own Divinity, for the greatest Initiations are not even those which are passed before The Great White Brotherhood or those which are passed before men in the various initiatique processes still used in some of the mystery schools of the world. The greatest Initiations are conducted in the secret place of the Most High God within the Temple of each man's own individualized Being; for only by passing beneath that wondrous arch where Man truly "knows himself" can he manifest to others the eternal Faith that springs up like a fountain of magnificent Cosmic Energy within the Chalice of his own Heart.
The Blue Plume of Faith and Power can reach Godward in a magnificent outflow and will evoke the Golden Plume of Illumination just as surely as the Plume of Faith springs forth. Thus the desire to improve, the desire to obtain greater spiritual knowledge will be enhanced by Divine Understanding, flowing forth from God through the great wellsprings of Man's inner Being. Where God is, His Love must follow; and thus the Pink Plume of Divine Love will complete the triune manifestation of the immortalizing Holy Christ Flame within every Heart.
Now in this hour of some world peril, when the very earth trembles and the youth are caught up in waves of human hysteria that threaten to overpower the emotions and manifest as forms of mob violence and disillusionment with various tenets of society, I AM certain that the calmness of the Mind of God must be sought as a refuge from every form of outer distress. To study to show oneself approved unto God does not denote either a lack of outer knowledge concerning the external world of things nor does it signify a lack of inward knowledge of the spiritual world of formless Reality.
The student who would prepare himself, then, must study all the hidden mysteries of God revealed in the Ascended Masters' Own Words. This does not come alone through the mere reading, but through the maintaining of an uplifted heart toward God for understanding as one reads. This permits the Holy Spirit to chasten as well as to reveal to man every anomaly of imperfection, both upon the surface and in subterranean areas of his own world.
To the eternal student, I say EXCELSIOR! MARCH ONWARD! Manifest the content of discontent that does not permit rest until achievement is won!
Your Brother in Eternal Youth,