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The wisdom of the ancients decayeth not! The timelessness of truth is not always recognized by mankind today. Men fail to understand that the dust of antiquity covering the past does not necessarily affect its usefulness. Learn, then, to equate the valuable antiquities, and with that knowledge, appreciate the value of foretelling. The present is like a seat upon the track of time, where the near past as a shining rail seems the most beneficent, and rust covereth the distant past.
To see into the future with accuracy is to smoothen the way for the vehicle of self to propel itself ever onward in a mode of safety. The members of the Indian Council, facing with mankind a series of tragic episodes in the unfolding life of planetary mankind, remind the people of the Earth not to forget the benefits which Almighty God has bestowed upon them. The natural protective functions of nature are redundant and whereas decay and mutation continue to work change, the expansion of the mind is the requirement of the hour.
As the population of the planet continues to increase and the demands upon nature mount upward with each increase, men must come to a platform of harmony and consonance, where the wheel of the world will be turned by the law of the One and the law of love among all nations and all people, so that the universal problems of mankind will be resolved with greater speed as the spirit of vain competition is stilled, and the spirit of infinite cooperation replaces the mortal sense that seeks to retard the progress of others as a means of accelerating one's own.
Again and again we have watched as the children of men play at the game of damming up the flow of life to other men and other nations. The manipulators sit on top of the pile and laugh, as the children of men do their bidding, which produces for them the fruit of winning, no matter who is doing the sinning. Yet their day of reckoning shall come swiftly.
Unfortunately, the masses of mankind do not understand as a rule that the interaction of karma is a thread entangling the whole substance of planetary manifestation. That which harms one harms all: That which benefits one benefits all; likewise, that which benefits the many, benefits the one, and that which harms the many, harms the one. The tares often grow up with the wheat and the Lords of Karma have deferred karma from some so-called keystones, self-appointed, among mankind, whose toppling would have caused the downfall of the multitudes. Yet it shall not always be so, for even now in our recent deliberations we have drawn new patterns whose outpicturing have never before been possible, because the transcendence of God has solved the insolvable and the mercy of God has expanded mercy beyond its own periphery.
Precious ones, all of the divine qualities of God are continually expanding in the universe, for they derive from his source consciousness, and as his transcendence reaches ever onward into the infinite, it carries forward the vibratory action of each benign quality. Men cannot keep pace with the magnificence of God's realization when 98 percent of his energy is channeled into the domain of the little self, and 2 percent turned beggingly toward the Infinite for more assistance and greater help, whereas men have not even now appropriated a small portion of that help which has been given.
The irresponsible side of mankind is very gross, but by a like token the responsive side is very beautiful. Man must expand his sense of beauty and allow it to include the domain of the education of the youth of the world. Where the profit motive is the constant comment among mankind and the polestar of their being is directed so as to maximize their personal reserves accrued to their earthly account, how can they be expected to understand the heavenly implications of social justices and injustices whose responsibility lies directly at their doorstep.
There are many whose very position and state of consciousness make it impossible for them to do aught else except exist. To expect them to grow would almost be expecting the stones to cry out; yet I think, if the law of love demands it, that those whose blessings have fitted them for the positions of responsibility to the world and who continue to deny that responsibility will discover that God will find the way to arouse others to pick up the fallen banner, which they have allowed to slip carelessly from their own hands, and raise it to a position of ultimate victory.
The devastation of the former ice ages and the cataclysmic activities of nature are but a dim and unavoidable segment of historical manifestation by comparison to the frightful dissonance and jar of inharmony which is literally tearing asunder contemporary man. The scriptural reference concerning man's fleeing to the mountains is not entirely figurative, for many among mankind today have fled the frightful blight of city life and the large population concentrations to live and dwell in remote and inaccessible regions.
We can understand this yearning on the part of mankind to flee from the "madding crowd," but we ask these questions, "Who will educate that crowd? Who will educate the incoming children and youth? Who will stand and not flee but determine to help the world conquer its discord?" We do not propose a mere social gospel for mankind, for the good news lies in the domain of each heart in its application to the Deity for greater understanding and the manifestation of greater light among men.
Yet, some men and women must build the cities and maintain them, some must be the wayshowers and exemplars of every age, some must man the shops that supply the physical needs of mankind; but ethics, morality, intelligence, integrity, virtue, kindness, and understanding ought to be the God-qualities of germinal power which these wayshowers scatter as the seeds of the Word among the children of men. The sons of Belial have so occupied the stalls and marketplaces of life that they have all but destroyed the integrity of this age. Children grow up expecting men to cheat and to steal, and that which they see they copy. Emulation of the spiritual is not even deemed respectable in many circles, and many atheists are more highly esteemed than the Christian, Mohammedan, Jew, and Buddhist.
In recent sessions our conference has concluded that the crying need of mankind is for the upliftment and unfoldment of divine virtue within the canopy of man's consciousness. "How goodly are thy tents, O, Israel," is a slogan upon which men ought to ponder, for their own personal tabernacle, the aura of the soul, is intended to be the dwelling place of spiritual qualities that will generate and regenerate hope among mankind.
Men need hope and they need faith; they need the spiritual gifts that are the basis and remnant of every old culture and that will clear the murky, cloudy glass of future prognostication, bringing into manifestation by natural law, the vision which is outpictured in daily living. This vision, in reality, ought to be imbued with the essence of God-control. Men ought not to faint nor be weary, but to "mount up," as has been said, "as on eagle wings." The view from on high transcends that which men hold below.
Let men seek vision, and exalt it, let men seek vision, and receive it, let men uphold faith, and believe it!
For the council, lovingly, I AM,