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For the Student Who Would be in Rapport with the Teacher and Thereby Secure a Portion of the Teacher's Progressive Advancement: Now Is the Time When You Must Turn the Great Will-Key in the Door of Cosmic Opportunity
To be in rapport with the Teacher is to secure a portion of the Teacher's progressive advancement. Even an ordinary schoolteacher knows that a daydreaming child or one whose attention wanders will not absorb as well as those who are attentive. Some have carelessly read our instruction on the ascension. Others have sincerely and with diligence sought to understand all that they could. Some have bypassed our words as though they emanated from an ordinary human source.
I wish to emphasize that many souls have journeyed on the path toward God under the most strenuous conditions and through the road of tears and travail in order to come and hear a less formalized instruction than that which I have offered so freely to all. Now as we come to the point where I shall impart unto you the lesser and greater mysteries of the ascension, I wish to disengage my energies completely from the personal level. In order to do this may I remind each student that all that I have given before - that is, this total instruction - is knowledge for which you individually will be held accountable. Those who have not read it at all but to whom it has been sent also have a very definite responsibility. Those who have read it casually without understanding have an equal responsibility.
Inasmuch as this offering of the ascended masters is joyously and lovingly given, it ought to follow that those who receive it should likewise do so in love and grace. I say this in departing from my personal contact with you that I may identify totally with the great God-emanation of Life that is within you and that is the source of all of the Life you have been given.
It is essential that your mind should not wander, that your consciousness should not waver, that you should not engage your attention in lesser things during the time that you have set aside to seek to understand these greater things. In God's name, beloved ones, if the instruction on the ascension were so simple, which in one sense it is, and so easily mastered, which it also is, why is it that in every generation so few are able to win this precious gift of God that is intended for all people?
According to the Karmic Board, the fault lies neither with the instruction nor with the Teacher. If the fault lies with neither Teacher nor instruction, where does it lie? Strictly at the doorstep of the average individual who is so serious about trite and trivial things which seem of great moment to him that he scarcely realizes how very important the invisible glory of the kingdom of God is. This invisible glory, which is brought to you weekly as the tangible offering of the ascended masters, is the most serious and gracious gift of Life that man could ever have - aside from the original momentums of his Great God Self which lie dormant within every son of God.
These momentums of personal glory await the kiss of the "Prince of the Realm"1 who will bring the "Sleeping Beauty" of the Divine Self into manifestation and quicken in you every good thing in order that all that has been dormant and inactive may be safely raised up in the service of the King (the mighty I AM Presence) for your own freedom's sake.
I thank you for such attention as you have given and for that capacity of divine service which you have offered. We can ask no more, nor do we. Your Divine Presence will always be the illuminator of the self, and the lesser light can but reflect the greater light. It behooves each individual, then, to understand the great part that the conscious will must play in the release of the self from all outer circumstances into the glories of the immortal kingdom.
The drill which we give in words may seem repetitious to the outer mind, but it is absolutely needed in order to counteract the tremendously repetitive and definitely luring attractions of the outer world which seek to engulf man and his total energies into a waste of Cycle's opportunity. Men flit from this to that and from that to this. They struggle everywhere to find some solace to a wounded egoistic consciousness. Their basic insecurities are legion, and they know not which way to turn. The way of the Divine is the only way that leads Home. All other doors and avenues are blind alleys for which each lifestream must one day give account.
Sweet surrender to the Presence of God is initiated first of all in the will. The will is the key whereby the human self has its say.2 You have willed lesser images. You have willed imperfection. You have willed subservience to others and to the world order. You have closed your eyes to the truths of God that stand glaringly apparent, even to a child. You have owned and allowed that there is more to life than meets the eye, admitting an infinite yet an unknown purpose.
The schemes of men are all in vain.
The tracks are there, but where's the train?
Men say, "Choo, choo"
But choose not right -
They backward go, away from light,
And chug along in sense immersion
While seeing not Life's great dispersion -
Energies, like centipedes
A-stealing time and Godly needs
From men and women God has made
To be both courageous and unafraid -
To stand up and be counted, then,
To master all that should not have been
And in a state of one accord
To learn in truth to love the Lord -
Now comes the time when the great will-key
Must be turned in the door of cosmic opportunity;
Now comes the time when the old
Must be renewed,
When all that is invisible
Must once again be reviewed.
For God is one,
His flame is love -
He longs to raise man up above
Where gazing downward he can see
The beauteous pathway of the free,
Wending from the plains below -
God's life is always on the go.
Through men he flows his wisdom wise,
The power to see and televise
The joys of heaven to all men,
Seek cosmic leaven once again,
And raise the loaf of Eucharist
By keeping always sacred tryst,
A vigil of Communion flame
That keeps the faith in God's own name.
His honor is untarnished light,
'Twill 'luminate the darkest night
And make each hour a shining one
Where Victory's light from Cosmic Sun
Can raise a banner for everyone.
O Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men,3
Begin in me and in all men
To rend the veil between the night
And the beauty of the light,
To set me loose from all that binds,
Remove the blinders from my mind,
And let me now and ever be
Enamored by thy love for me.
I AM thy son, O Lord divine,
I stand before ascension's beams -
Thy flame will make me ever climb
On the ladder of our God;
I joy to walk beneath his rod
And by instruction of his Word
To wield the power of his sword.
A truth that can only be adored
Will speak to hearts the world around
About the Peace I now have found
And see that clouds of glory will
Surround me now, my cup to fill.
O Peace, be still4 and let thy joy
Flood through my heart,
As of thyself thou dost impart
A greater measure of thy power
To mould my victory every hour
And help me when the going's tough
To know that God does never bluff
But keeps his Word "I AM IN ALL"
To be an answer for each call.
O come, beloved Holy One,
By flames of great ascension's sun
And weave the garment of thy flame
Around this temple in God's name -
A wedding garment for thy feast5
When strife is ended, war shall cease;
The wall is down, the way is plain -
I rise - I nearer draw
By Christ Obedience to thy law.