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The subject of sensationalism and of the phenomenal comes before us. While the magnificence of the cosmos is paraded every moment before the consciousness of mankind through the avenue of the five senses and through the response mechanisms of an inner, aesthetic sense behind the physical senses, the world still hungers and thirsts after greater knowledge of universal law.
Understandable though this may be, the megatons of divine energy foolishly invested by mankind in the pursuit of the unusual and as a result of an avid curiosity produce little more for those engaged in this pursuit than the poking around in old rubble where consumption is complete and false hopes continue to buoy up the sagging human energies of men.
When great achievements are made, they are seldom the discoveries of the curious, the profane, or the ego-motivated. The dedicated scientist or researcher, the scientist of the Spirit who searches out the mysteries of God with humility and dedication, with understanding and necessary persistence, is the one to whom the reward is given. As Jesus long ago proclaimed of John the Baptist, saying, "What went ye out to see? A reed shaken with the wind? A man clothed in soft raiment? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet."1
These same laws apply today to the researcher in the things of the Spirit. We cannot deny that there are in manifestation organizations whose tenets and expressions are immediately recognizable as being ego-motivated and error based; but when contacting the pure expressions of the Great White Brotherhood and their avant-garde endeavors for mankind, it is often true that behind the outer appearance that strives for the beauty of Christ-perfection there are the little, unredeemed pockets of energy yet awaiting purification.
Men who seek to judge others must not judge them by their negatives but by the great positive tides of cosmic energy that stand behind every worthy organization as salutary purpose. Many have said, after coming directly under our radiation and the dawn of awareness that comes early or late in an individual's ministry of expression, that they are so grateful for the expansion of light into their worlds and that they only regret the many years they have wasted in fruitless striving.
Carelessness often misdirects one's motives, for motive, too, requires its own molding factors. Thus the disciple must apply to the intelligence of the Christ mind for a release of divine assistance in creating the very matrices that will subsequently direct his thoughts and feelings in the formation of the divine character of man from the heavenly blueprint.
Man, in the state of becoming, is an uncut and unfinished stone; the smoothening efforts required to complete the nobility of manifestation are very great, yet the heavenly grace freely given to him is sufficient to execute a noble work with both alacrity and craftsmanship. Responses stemming from the feeling of being alone may lack the easy precipitation of Christly nobility which is based on the understanding that all life is one, and those responses that come only from the brittleness of the human mind may lack the heart qualities of comfortable flexibility, of cosmic conformity, which so gently adhere to principle that the divine nature is breathed out with every breath.
The painful sense of struggle that men establish all about themselves, either through indifference or a sense of unworthiness, often results in grey tones in the aura, a muddying of the cosmic stream as it passes through individualized form and consciousness, and a failure to externalize cosmic patterns. Inasmuch as the struggle of this age is very great and the crucible of life filled with poignant experiences, some enlightening and some destructive, men must seek to wend their way through the time-space barriers into the eternality of God by faith in right action.
To seek to disprove cosmic law requires familiarity with it to the uttermost, and therefore the early aspirant for spirituality would do well not to condemn nor to seek to express negativity of thought and feeling toward his fellowman; for, after all, he is accountable for that which he releases.
The records of the saints are often marked with their initial rejections of cosmic law and subsequent returns to the very rejected principles which, by their wholehearted acceptance of them, became to them a chasuble of righteousness. The adornment of the Spirit is very much involved in one's communication with the power of the infinite light that stands behind the screen of Matter. The opacity of human thought and feeling has successfully blocked this light of God that never fails from reaching individual men again and again, yet they fail to recognize it.
To remove impediments is to incite progress, and there are no greater impediments in existence than those personal negative thoughts of judgment in men's hearts which thrive on personal egoism and the fact that men feel most capable of gazing upon our best servants with feelings of disrespect. It would be one thing if these feelings were warranted, but where they are not, there is also the judgment that must follow.
The strategies of the brothers of darkness are entering now into the relationships of the young people, as well as those between the young and the supposedly more mature. Human rebellion is being fostered and resentment encouraged on all sides as a means of vampirizing mankind's energies. The youth need to search because the old matrices do not satisfy, but again and again they are being provided with false goals whose lures never give them the permanent satisfaction they crave.
Now, a very real and ever-present danger threatens the world, and it is to counteract this threat that we would set true goals of respect and nobility before men.
The breaking down of old systems of theology and even of science, in some cases, need be no excuse for a lowering of the standards of personal relationships between people. The standards of the golden rule are cosmic law, and mankind have no right to enter into an aura of obscenity. That which is done in the name of art and culture today that borders on the obscene or on abuses of life principles will one day produce a frightful karma in those whose psychicism is most of all a thing of hurt to themselves and to those whom they influence.
Time is of the essence in this matter, and unless men are to change their ways, the harvest will indeed be frightful. Cosmic initiation looms before these young people if they will only understand that the means is not through LSD or erotic experience, but through the renaissance of a spiritual culture which they once rejected in the very times of life when Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was winning his victory; when Joseph stood in the highest honor at Pharaoh's court; when Solomon was building his temple; when Christ was walking in the corn fields;2 when Saint Francis was counseling his disciples (1181-1226); and even when the brothers of light first began to acquaint the Western world with the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood (1875). As was spoken of by one of your poets: "And they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night."3
Thus shall the thrust for a purpose go forth again, and the cosmic court be enlarged to provide new offices for millions. "Feed my sheep,"4 is today a cry for teachers who are willing to be taught, for disciples who are willing to be disciplined, for men who are willing to respect the order of the universe even as they have unduly respected the `chaos' from which it seemingly sprang.
Let us lift men into the light before the moment of darkness is too tightly secured and the age is lost.