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To All Who Would Sit at the Feet of God, Perform the Ritual of Purification, Be Possessed of God and the Holy Spirit, and Thereby Express Comfort to Life, Heal Their Sick, Cast Out Demons, and Be a Deliverer in God's Name:
Through the ritual of attunement with the Holy Spirit, the hopes of the many are made known to each one. The desire to express comfort to those parts of life requiring it is very great, for there are in the world today a large number of devotees of humanity - such as those of you who have assembled here in our retreat - who yearn to magnetize the glow of the comfort flame on behalf of their brethren. These also desire to mobilize an effective means of contact whereby the individual soul can come to know the needs of others and, by the mystical touch of the Holy Spirit, reach out to aid every part of life. This is magnanimity in the fullest sense of the word; it is the faint echo of perfection within the corridors of memory recalled from the vast halls of learning wherein the mind of God and man do meet.
The Temple of Concord is a holy place. Those who have worshiped there, kneeling at the feet of the God Presence, know the measure and worth of the highest devotion that, in forsaking all selfish desire, receives the highest reward. These emerge from their communion with the Holy Spirit ready to translate the strands of immortal opportunity into a great tapestry of Reality. Weaving vestments of hope for all people, they portray the drama of the Second Coming of Christ and illumine a darkening world.
We know full well, however, that the theories of theologians, ancient and modern, whose purpose should be to impart a greater sense of God's reality, have often had the opposite effect, causing men to feel far and apart from the heart of their Creator. By contrast, the Holy Spirit has had no other purpose than to draw men closer to God through an enlightened theology - closer to Good and into the great bonds of the universal brotherhood of God and man.
Men ask themselves, as you have asked me, how they can unite with children of error. If they would only realize that they do not have to unite with children of error, but with children of God in whom error dwells and from whom error must be expelled! We often wonder at the strange attitude of mortals who stagger and stumble over the fact that other mortals are not manifesting perfection. If they were dwelling in the higher octaves of heaven's beautiful light, they could expect to find immortals manifesting perfection. But as long as they dwell upon earth, where souls are mortifying human error, they must learn to live with the imperfections that temporarily manifest in others and to be unto them as the Holy Spirit is unto all - a deliverer in God's name.
Many have no desire to be in attunement with any among mankind, choosing to remain in the consciousness of the not-self outside the circle of God's love. Because man has free will, you cannot always enter into complete rapport with all people; but you can become one with the Christ in all and with the Real Self that is the true Being of man.
It would be well if you would contemplate the statement of the Master Jesus concerning the casting-out of demons: "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."
This doctrine of Christ-principle is intended to teach mankind that when the forces of negation are deeply entrenched within the mind and heart of man (within the four lower bodies and the personality, for they can never abide within the Real Self), they hold an iron rule over the psyche. Because of long association with their subject and the deeply ingrained habits that he has taken on under their influence, the demons, who actually live off of his energy, violently oppose any attempt of the Christ to enter in and take dominion in the individual consciousness.
Possessiveness is ever the quality of the evil one; therefore those who would use the power of the Holy Spirit to cast out demons from others must themselves be free from possession. They must understand the need for faith, hope, and charity, as well as humility, as they garner the energies of the Holy Spirit in readiness for the freeing of the obsessed. Attempting to possess neither the soul nor the demon that has held it bound, they must seek to be possessed of God; for it is the divinity within man that is his authority to cast out all evil forces that prey upon the minds of men.
Man's consciousness must be totally possessed of the Holy Spirit1 if he would have access to the power that effectively purges the darkness of obsession. Being possessed of the Lord's Spirit is not bondage, but a bond of love that makes man the instrument of the Christ, honoring his laws and serving his purposes every hour of the day and night. Possessed of the great flaming balance of God's love, wisdom, and power, you have every right to demand from life an expansion of all divine qualities within your world and to use the energies thereof for the freedom of your fellowmen; but you must bear in mind the need to have a request for assistance either from the one obsessed or from those responsible for him.
No matter how zealous your regard of the needs of another, it is dangerous for you to enter in where you have not been invited. Interferences with the lives of others establishes karmic ties and energy cycles that will one day rebound upon the shores of your own being. Such ineptness, often rooted in spiritual pride, will only give you more to handle without necessarily bestowing freedom upon the one who has sought neither the assistance of the Holy Spirit nor your own.
When you are asked for help by an individual or by a member of his family who longs to see him free, you must be ready to hold your attunement with the great power of the Holy Spirit and to in faith drawn down that power into the world of the obsessed individual. If you have given your consciousness to God and you maintain a constant attunement with the Holy Spirit, then when you speak to the demon and command him with a loud voice, saying, "In the name of Jesus the Christ, I commmand you to come out of him!" you can expect immediate results. Where the possessing demons are deeply entrenched, prayer and fasting for one to three days will provide the devotee with clarity of mind and an impetus of the Spirit, thereby making him a better instrument for the casting-out of dark forces that have tormented a child of God.2
Restoration, then, is an action of the Holy Spirit; and in your service to life you must not neglect the restoration of the temple of your own being. We expect those on the spiritual path to understand that the fruit of purification must be sought by them before they attempt to impart it to others. Devotees of God must be unafraid to perform the ritual of self-purification, knowing that the fruits of their devotion can only bring closer attunement with the Holy Spirit and richer blessings to all life. When men begin to study the laws that govern the casting-out of unclean spirits, they will see that they cannot have an excess of holiness; for to be a friend of the Lord and to secure his favor on behalf of those in need, they must be pure and sinless in his sight.
In the mainstream of human thought and feeling, there have been generated over the centuries tremendous quantities of negation that hang as a thick pall of effluvia between the souls of men and the Spirit of God, preventing the divine reunion. Because mankind do not see this pollution of the astral, mental, and etheric planes - although the more sensitive feel it - I cannot fail to stress to all upon the planet the need to make contact with the Holy Spirit as the agent of God whose fires will burn a pathway through the night and reestablish man's contact with the I AM Presence.
Those who would bow to divine edicts must, above all, adore the ministration of the Holy Spirit as the brightest light in a darkened world and the mightiest hope for humanity's freedom. To those who would increase the tempo of the lovebeat of God within their hearts and sustain an activity of the divine similitude within their consciousness, the Holy Spirit is the Great Energizer of all right motive and conduct and the means whereby the ever mounting tides of the holier way will crest their worlds as the abundance of every good and perfect gift.
I remain your advocate of contact with the Infinite,