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Chapter 52
Hilarion - December 26, 1965


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1965
Inspired in
Mark L. Prophet
and
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

52  Hilarion - December 26, 1965

Vol. 8 No. 52 - Hilarion - December 26, 1965
You Must Determine ...

     Gracious Ones Who Respect the Law of God,

     The loving Christ has kindly referred to me in his concluding Pearl of Wisdom for this year, and I wish to give support to the nobleness of his heart which compels no one but enhances all with the fervor of his greatness of soul. Yet we all do seek the same element of completion that he sought and manifested, and it is our hope that men will not degrade themselves by selling short their life in the eyes of God.

     The Father recognizes full well that the son was born in his own heart and idea, while the son has accepted the world's mess of pottage and gone prodigallike, wandering in the densities of animal creation. The Father has magnetized and drawn from among men great lights who shine in the firmament of spirituality, showing forth the divine intent of pure example upon the screen of religious history for all to behold. But the contemporary and continuing flow of life upon the planet requires that each age shall shew forth its avatars and victors.

     The goal of God is the victory of every man; and therefore, none should shun the divine path simply because they seem to lack the essential qualities of intellect, of love, or of will. Recognize that any evidence of imbalance in the manifestation of these qualities is testimony to the fact that some aspect of the threefold flame of love, wisdom, and power is lacking in individual manifestation. This imbalance can be healed and corrected. Man can resolve here and now to change. You can mend the flaw!

     The propensity and possibility of change for the better is an opportunity which can be realized by everyone. The measure of that opportunity may or may not exceed the aspiration. It may or may not measure up to the aspiration; yet without the effort, without the acceptance of the individual, how can change be wrought? God requires acceptance and desire in order to manifest his likeness and perfection in man.

     You must determine, then, with the fullness of divine measure, to be that which God holds in his heart as the image of yourself in action. You must determine that the human deterrents of karmic conditions will be temporarily set aside by your great and noble aspiration and that transmutation will occur fervently in your soul. You must determine that nothing shall be as important as your spiritual goal and yet withal that you will honor and favor mercy and understanding unto life.

     You must comprehend the meaning of honoring the covenants and contracts made between God and man. There are some contracts between man and man which must also be fulfilled, at least in part, according to the measure of divine justice. Yet, God holds all responsible for their attunement with his law and the law of love and mercy, and it is not so important that you understand how to manage the lives of others as it is that you shall understand how to manage your own life.

     For this purpose God has drawn forth a great pari-mutuel opportunity for the universe and for yourself. You abide not in a lonely, unpeopled universe but in one filled with a variety of human types. Yet in the ascended realm the many facets of opportunity and of evolvement have given character to heaven itself and the joyous challenges of life, even beyond the veil, are unspeakable to be uttered.

     I hasten to advise you, then, that because life is so precious and so charged with the radiance of the rose of the Soul of God, you must so regard your own life. For it is not just your own but it is his life which you are using, and the requirements of his law are that you seek freedom from all that is confusing and find the answer to your problems in this universe by invocation to his law of mercy and love and comprehension. You must comprehend that which you do not now know. You must constantly move forward. The law of Life does not permit men to stand still. They cannot remain forever fixed to human ideas, for the law of Life will break those ideas quite naturally in order that men may move forward.

     Those who do not wait for life to do the breaking
Will themselves their own destiny be making
And find it rises then on to mountain view -
A firmly shaped doorway for the few
Who, as the surge mounts up, become the many
Cherishing each opportunity, if any show its smiling face,
And seeking to behold somewhere in life their rightful place
Will smile forth in joyful anticipation
That releases Life's grace in circulation
And knows that unity is victory without cessation.
For cosmic victory to all,
For cosmic victory to our Brotherhood,
For cosmic service,
For increased awareness,
For purification,
For the wondrous power of change,
I AM calling forth now the unlimited merry joy
Of the endless cycles that progress through
The avenue of the years.

     Graciously for eternal brotherhood, I AM

Hilarion