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Unto You Who Will Remain with Me to Be God-Taught I Say, Watch and See How We Shall Burn Up the Shroud of Error and the Residual Magnetism of Death by the Living Consciousness of the Ascension Flame
I would deal now with old residual magnetism. The law of gravity, beloved ones, keeps your bodies attached to the ground for a purpose; likewise, all of the components of natural law, wonderful as they are, are overflowing with infinite purpose.
The depth of the wisdom of God, when contemplated even in part, can evoke squeals of joy even as a small child, putting his feet into the cold water of a mountain stream, responds with happiness and delight. The law is most impersonal, blessed ones, as it expresses in nature. A part of nature is the faculty of memory. For example, thorns did not surround the rose in the early days of the earth. Certain destructive activity on the part of mankind resulted in the outpicturing by the tiny elementals of what men have called protective barbs; and thus long, sharp thorns were created as mankind's fears and doubts were etched on nature's memory and then lowered into the physical octave.
Religion, in the main, has supposed that God has created all things that are in existence; however, mankind have not taken into account the influence of their own thoughts and feelings in the acts of creation which occur daily within their own domain. Indeed man was given dominion over the whole earth,1 but they have not reckoned with the concept of free will or with the longevity of the lifewaves who have inhabited the earth, supposing the span of the earth's existence as it correlates with history and civilization to cover a little bit more than five thousand years.
The many evolutions who have inhabited the earth have had ample time to change many of the outer conditions of nature and to bring forth from Universal Life many patterns which were never a part of the original creation. The race memory and the memory of nature is divided and subdivided again and again into such minutiae of manifestation as to put to shame the minds of the greatest scientists. We who see from the inner behold sublayer after sublayer of the creation that has not yet been split by the sharp blade of man's penetration.
There is the memory of the individual to consider, the memory of self - names, faces, places, concepts, recepts and precepts. But there is also another type of memory with which we are here concerned. Omar Khayyám wrote,
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.2
Of men's acts and thoughts this may be said: that they are all recorded, each one. Every subtle shade, every nuance of meaning, finds its way into the storehouse of the subconscious memory. These are literally interred with the bones of man, and they survive transition after transition; each time man reembodies they come with him again, composing his life record.
When the life-giving accuracy of this record is pondered for a moment and the effect of beautiful thoughts is considered with the heart, the need to rise to angelic levels of perception ought to occur to many. Why should men live in the dark, dank cellars of their human creation? Why should the subconscious knowledge that men have stored about themselves be tumbled out upon psychiatric couches? Is this what we may call therapeutics, or is it the putrefaction of old ideas disgorging themselves upon the consciousness of present-day man?
The panacea that men crave, if one can justly be said to exist, is within the domain of the same memory that holds the thoughts of negation; this the world has filled almost to capacity with the sordid nature of the carnal man. Now let them learn, if they would ascend, to eradicate this image by filling the folds of memory with the soft, gentle, beautiful ideas of the resurrection and resurrection's flame.
Nature has provided beautiful imagery, as environment, all over the world; and those who are perceptive to it can respond to it today in the very face of all human misqualification that has gone before. The greatest boons to the ascension are the immaculate concepts of God. His concepts about everything were benign and thus he said, by the power of the living Word, "All that I have made is good."
Consider, beloved ones, the meaning of discipline of thought that demands the immaculate concept about every part of life and refuses acceptance of the patterns of error that as residual magnetism cling to the consciousness of mankind as a shroud. We shall see as we proceed - and I say this to those who will remain with me to be God-taught - how we shall burn this shroud and consume it to ashes. We shall see how God shall transmute and change carnal purpose into the splendid manifestation of the living light of his Presence. We shall watch as men and women today, in emulation of the Christ majesty that rides forth to give a new sense of victory to mankind, shall be born again, even through the study and application of this dossier that comes from the living, flaming consciousness of the ascension flame.
We must be practical men when we deal with these problems. We ourselves cannot possibly be ostriches, even though our consciousness is in the clouds of the immaculate glory of God. In order to serve mankind, we must meet you at that level where you are and point the way toward your emancipation. The future is what you make it, even as the present is what you made it. If you do not like it, God has provided a way for you to change it; and the way is through the acceptance of the currents of the ascension flame.
Cause, effect, record, and memory of all that is incomplete, of all that is darkness, and of all that is intransigent must be willfully abandoned by the soul who aspires to the freedom of the ascended state. If you are content merely to wallow in episodes of your personal history, to seek for an intrapsychic declaration of your past records, you can have it by pursuing it diligently enough; but it will be only a conglomeration of banal circumstances from which, like a bad dream, you will one day seek to escape, or it will become an astral lure, as pretty trinkets and sparkling baubles, to distract you from the track that leads to your immortal freedom.
In order to ascend, you must abandon your past to God, knowing that he possesses the power, by his flame and identity, to change all that you have wrought of malintent and confusion into the beauty of the original design which, by the power of his love, did produce the fruit of eternal goodness. Cast aside illusion, then, veil after veil of the "personal person," and possess the willingness in the name of Almighty God to change your world! Thereby we shall be able to change the world into a place that will receive the masterful presence of the living Christ in a Second Coming of such dimension as to produce a race of Godly men, of God-fearing men, of God-loving men - of men who will build a pyramid of truth upon the plains of the world, which pyramid will stand the tests of erosion, of time, of mortal acidity, and of human nonsense!
The flame must not be lost. It must not be canceled. It must not go out. The flame must be upheld at all costs. And the flame is yours, for God made it so. God gave it to you, and it is yours to light the sphere of your identity that pulsates all around you, to push back the darkness until the glow of reality clears your world of fear, doubt, dishonor, and lack and provides you with everything that God intends his beloved Son to have.
Keep on, valiant ones. Lose not sight, for a minute, of the ultimate goal while keeping your hands upon the moldings of the present, for we shall prevail by unity with God and with one another. With strength itself we shall overcome, because God wills it so. Your ascension is God's desire for you.