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Grateful Hearts of the Faithful:
The equation of goals with reality is valuable in setting a social as well as a personal course. It has become virtually impossible today for man to insulate himself from the impact of psychological and sociological influences and mortal opinions. Thus the strongest in point of will have often found themselves yielding to undesirable influences simply because of their waning desire to resist that which seems to be overpowering.
What is needed is cosmic vision, for the most overpowering aspect of life is Life itself. The cosmic drama of the invisible world - those portions of Reality yet hidden from the consciousness of men - is most vital and essential to the preservation of eternal values. The search for understanding and for wisdom in the employment of truth must go on in the life circuits of man. To neglect attuning with invisible influences of the highest order is to deny Reality. Because men have not seen they do not believe, yet a multitude of influences do exist in their worlds which they accept as fact without having seen.
Now, the wonders of faith are nowhere more apparent than in the utter dedication of the saints and sages of past and present, for the influence of the true followers of God upon the planetary body is very great. I have seen again and again where the mere presence of one of these individuals in a vehicle of transport or in a city or a portion thereof has prevented a serious catastrophe from occurring. I have watched the silent, spiritual love emanating from such a one successfully combat the furies of darkness, stirred up in some cases by millions of individuals yet held in check as by the little boy who placed his finger in the dike to hold back the sea.
Gratitude should pour forth from the hearts of the faithful for each such manifestation of infinite protection in the world at large and for the infinite protection which God gives without fail to his followers during both waking and sleeping hours. I AM aware that some individuals who have suffered seeming calamity or loss are tempted to cry out that God has forsaken them, and at times they even attempt reproof of the Deity because it appears to them that Life has been unkind.
Men little note or realize the weight of blessing and the weight of glory which rest upon their lives through the infinite mercies of God. The solemn responsibility to express gratitude which all should feel and share is a simple means whereby the floodgates of heaven may be opened to pour out upon all the wonders of grace from the cornucopia of divine abundance. These showers of blessings are only withheld or dammed up by an impure consciousness as men crystallize their feelings and thoughts into hardness of heart toward one another, to any part of life, or to the Deity himself.
It is a mute but nevertheless irrefutable testimony to the law of Life that the karmic record stands as men have made it. All who express faith, abundance, joy, grace, and the upcast eye toward heaven saying, "The Lord liveth," shall not go empty; for each such glance is a stirring in the great cosmic realms of light. Just as men read the signs in the sky seeking to forecast the weather, so men ought to hold fast to the firm standards which God bears in his universal tidings of love and joy which are to all people.
The inadequacy of world goodwill, of spiritual love upon earth, can be amply supplied from the bounties of heaven. Goodwill must be invoked and called forth; shattering human experiences must be used as stepping-stones toward cosmic heights; the schoolrooms of life must be used for the acquisition of right knowledge. No greater enemy exists anywhere to any man than the enemy of the lesser self, the untransmuted stains of darkness stemming from old and poorly cut records of energy uses.
Men's personal goals as well as the goals of the age must start and stop with true religion. Only in the search for God can tomorrow be truly found. And today is the hour of decision!