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To keep a tryst with God is to abide in the secret place of the Most High. While the jar of riot stirs the cities of the world and unrest moves among men as a vile plague, the bonds of peace must be sustained within the hearts of the faithful; for it is in peace that men can summon the vital, intelligent energies of God to mitigate wrong, to spread understanding, and to quiet the stress of age-old moral turpitude.
My beloved Coserver of light, the blessed Master Jesus, said long ago, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." I say unto you today, in eternal verity, that the war in the world is in reality the struggle between light and darkness. Those who would be masters of the world, surveying mankind as serfs to their power, desire the continued subjugation of men and nations to a ruthless design which through the ages has sent surges of fear willy-nilly into the heart of the planet and its blessed people.
Nature has reflected the banality of continued aggression, and human viciousness is at no low ebb tide in this generation. There would be little question, even now, of the immediate outcome if the benign of the world could marshal their forces and, by universal demand, assert for and on behalf of the cause of peace the vital choices of their lives. Unfortunately, disunity and inharmony in the ranks of the spiritual forces of the world lead men and women into byways of stagnation and inaction. Men sit idly by without aiding even the causes which they themselves have espoused in the past. Through ingratitude and neglect, there occurs a festering of old wounds which long ago should have been healed. As we survey this struggle from the realms of Spirit, it is a sad commentary for the holy cause of opportunity that so many have neglected for so long the causes to which they ought to have given their whole hearts.
Returning to the thought of the battle between light and darkness, let us hasten to assure all that spiritual peace and the search for divine goals would have brought to the world that equality of action that spreads blessings with the speed of light and with the dispersion of a mighty wind. Those who look with a historical sense at the slow corrections of the centuries and the continuation of old abuses are inclined to ask themselves, "Is it all vanity and vexation of spirit?" The new perspective attained by reunion with the ageless love of God sends forth the radiation of peace into the world as a mighty force to overcome the error of men's vain decisions, made selfishly and for the madness of a moment of power.
The most humble man or woman enlisted in the cause and service of the light never really knows when the seed of the Word, reflected in his thought or action and discharged into the universe with the mighty power of love and peace will give inspiration to some soul, or even to the universe itself which hungers and thirsts after God's righteousness to see it manifest everywhere. The acceptance of such thoughts and good deeds by the humble heart enlisted in God's service, who will then react thereto with alacrity, does quicken by a mighty act the preservation of peace and the penetration of divine wisdom into all mortal thought and feeling.
The terrors of Vietnam, projected upon the screen of the world mind, create on one hand a frightful recoil from the ravages of war and on the other an awesome fear in the ignorant and superstitious who see with each gnashing of teeth a new and savage end for humanity. We continue to envision from our level mighty pools of spiritual happiness and peace, a tangible radiation of joy that shall be to all people as the advent of the Messiah, as the star of hope to a war-weary world. But we analyze assiduously the causes of continued unrest and see them within the domain of self, originating in a lack of spirituality in the home and in the misbranding of men of one religion by those of another, who seek to rise in their own right by trampling upon the rights of others.
Our plea, then, from Shamballa today is for an action of immortal rightness that can well be termed the "dawn of righteousness" in human consciousness. The great treasures of heaven are given so freely to all - the power to honor other lifestreams with the high spirit of loving assistance, the renewal of brightness which is perceived in the waning of selfishness, the sense within of "the eternal secret" which is communion with God in the domain of self, the shunning of evil deeds, and the shrinking of consciousness away from that which destroys both virtue and consciousness.
Your consciousness, which is like a mighty river, should abide steadfastly anchored to the eternal principles of the divine life. Men fear death in ignorance and know not that the mortal life which they cling to and call their own but precludes the Divine. which is the source of hope and beauty and of integrity which must be cognized before cosmic integration with the Soul of God and unanimity of the Spirit can take place within the individual.
So delicate is the balance of true peace that it is the poise of God-control for each man who chooses to exercise his rights to freedom, that he may thus enhance the opportunities of others while serving the holy cause of his own illumination. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" can also be phrased "What, though a man seem to possess all the riches and honor of the world, all the fame and fortune of a headstrong and reckless generation, if he shall fail to acquire the strength of soul and character of the Divine Man." Thus shall he see his life seep away as drops fallen upon the sand, until the moment when the empty vessel proclaims, "There is no more of soul substance," and the final bill for expenditure is marked "Paid in full - finis."
This is tantamount to the condition called the "second death," blessed ones, for it denotes the waste of almost infinite opportunity and a careless casting away of the fullness of life's mercies until the soul of such a one is literally "spent" and life returns the misqualified substance to the Great Central Sun for repolarization.1 Thus does man suffer the loss of his soul as the Master Jesus so carefully warned.
There is no morbidity in our statement, but the spur of realization which, when fanned by the flame of forthrightness, becomes by the individual's preferred choice the means to reach out and eat of the fruit of the tree of life and live forever in the consciousness of peace, love, joy, and wholeness. There, midst the paradise of divine consciousness the mighty declaration is heard in irrevocable tones, "Lo, I AM the Lord thy God who has this day begotten thee. Thou art my beloved Son and in thy light I AM well pleased."
Here is the hope of man, here is the hope of ending war: individual realization, individual comprehension, individualized God-peace.