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To All Who Would Be Saved by the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost and Be Imbued with the Power of God that is a Sacred Gift in My Hand - That Ye May Truly Be Brethren of the Divine Action
The mighty thrust and motor of life is the Spirit of God. Those who are theologians and desire to penetrate the mysteries of the spoken and written word will appreciate my comment, I am certain, concerning the renewing of the Holy Spirit referred to in the Scriptures. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost."
The Holy Spirit is the ingredient of life which is the fire of cosmos, the germinal power in nature; it is the power that beats the heart and infuses every form of life with the essence of the Father-Mother God. The Holy Spirit is indigenous to every life manifestation, and without the Holy Spirit there can be no manifestation of life.
When individuals forsake the light of the Christ and of the Holy Spirit, they become literally devoid of Reality; hence the term "not-person" or "non-person" which has come into use in certain circles. When this happens even the reflected light of life within the person takes on the robes of darkness. This is why Jesus said, "If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
The renewing action of the Holy Spirit is a purifying process, a refining action, which must take place if the not-person is to be replaced by the Real Person. For as the soul is instilled and infilled with the fire of the Holy Spirit, it identifies more and more with the Real Person and hence with all life, thereby coming into that oneness to which Jesus referred when he prayed, "Father, make them one even as we are one."
I am well aware that dry dogma and mere theological speculation can never be substituted for the vital action of the Holy Spirit in its close contact with individuals who speak such words of welcome unto God as to invite his Spirit to come in and sup with them. The whole consciousness of the Lord Christ, in his manifestation as beloved Jesus of Nazareth, was saturated with the influence of the Holy Spirit; and the alchemy of the divine Sonship was itself a consummation of the reality of God. Therefore, it could well be spoken of him, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." The city of God, the house of God, and the conception of the universe as "the place where the Lord lay" and where God remains are the spiritual antipodes of the "abomination of desolation" standing in the holy place where it ought not spoken of by the Prophet Daniel long ago. Saint Paul said, "Know ye not that your bodies are the temple of God and that the Holy Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
No unclean thing, in either thought or feeling, then, ought to inhabit this body temple, nor any impure substance knowingly be imbibed. Yet, it must not be denied that there exists a power of transmutation, when, for practical reasons, it is essential that men must take into their systems some substance which is contaminated. They should understand that the power of invocation, the power of the light of God that never fails, is always available through the agency of the Holy Spirit to transmute gross substance into the one substance of the light itself.
Now, concerning the "abomination of desolation," let all understand that it was and is and shall forever remain the purpose of the Father-Mother God to imbue the creation with their own Spirit; for in that Spirit lie the best gifts and the greatest blessings that life can afford - the completeness, the wholeness, the oneness of Being. No external palliatives could ever equal the great internal consolation of the Lord's Spirit that sweeps man out of the depths of mortal delusion into the heights of immortal Reality - into the sweet sense of eternal life in the Spirit of God which abideth and dwelleth forever in those who have sanctified and exalted his name in the dome of consciousness.
When men become conditioned to the ways of the not-self - with its obstinance, pride, sensuality, and spiritual blindness - they are acquiescing to the awful robe of darkness which the prophet Daniel referred to as the abomination of desolation. When men reject their divine opportunity and fail to respond to the knocking of the Spirit of Life upon the door of their hearts, they open themselves up to subtle forms of self-annihilation which, all too late, bring them to their knees before God in a most desolate and helpless state of consciousness. If the energies of life are squandered in riotous living and eternal values are meanly thrown aside for the pauperism of fleshly gain which in a moment is swept away and lost forever, truly what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul - the only means he has of implementing his spiritual opportunity?
Gracious ones, the power of the Holy Spirit is all around you. It is vital, magnetic, compassionate, and eternal. The Holy Spirit is the omnipresence of God; it saturates all space and hallows that space, but it concentrates in greater measure where the call that goes forth to the heart of God compels the answer of the descent of his abiding grace. Those who drink lovingly, almost ravenously, of the Spirit of God are thus opening the doorway for the light of Love to flow from my heart to theirs.
As the Representative of the Holy Spirit, I can do no less than abide where the Spirit of God is; and as your Advocate of Completeness, I desire to imbue you with the power that God has placed as a sacred gift in my hand. Whensoever his Spirit cometh upon you and dwelleth in you, then are you truly brethren of the divine action; and the fruit of that action as the joint endeavor of God and man will manifest in your world as the delight of his Law in your heart, as the joy of his Law in your mind, and as the meditation of his Law in the forcefield of your being.
These gifts of the Spirit shall then be yours to project as hope to those standing in the shadow of doubt, as healing to those who, lacking wholeness, need a physician, and as the Great Light that shall be seen by all who walk in darkness. Your life will then become a mission on behalf of the Holy Spirit; following in the footsteps of the avatars and elder brothers of the race, you will, by his authority and grace, prepare the way for the great golden age to come into the consciousness of men even as they are transformed and renewed by the Christ mind.
Just as there do exist and remain ancient ruins throughout the world which have been the subject of archeological study, some visible and some buried deep in the earth, so the record of those years long past abides in akasha. While it is permissible to decipher and read these ancient hieroglyphs, it is also within the divine gift of God and his Spirit to bestow upon man the handwritings upon the wall of the future. You must, then, teach those who look to you for guidance to look to the Eternal Now as the nexus of the Spirit through which the radiant stream of God's energy is pouring in order that the patterns of thought and feeling akin to the love of God and his Sons might be generated in them by the agency of his Spirit.
Unless this come into manifestation, all other mystic lore is in vain. Like old and decaying ruins, these will only satiate the curiosity of man without feeding his soul. The admonishment of the Christ "Feed my lambs," made two thousand years ago to Peter, comes full circle today as you become the instrument for the silent ministrations of the Holy Ghost that touch these little ones - heart, head, and hand. As I have spoken to you to generate in you love and respect for this vital force of God that flows into the family of humankind, wedding all nations and peoples to the Higher Way, it is preparatory to the Second Coming of the Christ.
Beloved ones, I enfold you in my love.