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To the Pure in Heart and Those Who Would Be,
One of the greatest difficulties encountered by mankind in the world today is the flow of ungoverned emotions. When spiritual laws are better understood by men and science works hand in hand with God, men will see that their thoughts do influence seemingly inert matter. Certain experiments conducted by your scientists have shown how thought can affect the formation of crystals under a microscope.
We who understand the fiery element know that human emotions actually do give rise to pestilence in the world. Through the phenomenon known as mutation, intense concentrations of negative thought and feeling patterns that are released into the atmosphere by the undisciplined use of energy create new forms of virus which, once having been launched, continue as parasitic organisms to prey upon mankind.
Your own beloved I AM Presence, precious ones, did not create disease germs and unhealthy conditions upon the planet. These were created by wrong thought and feeling, by a misuse of the fiery element as it works through the water element in the emotional body of man. The four elements of nature are a harmonious whole which functions according to the law of the square. When there is a distortion in any one or more of these elements, it cannot help but affect the harmonious balance of life in the other elements.
We cite these facts to remind the student body that invocations to God utilizing the power of the spoken Word and appeals to the higher powers of the universe do bring a response which manifests as control of natural forces. We have seen cases where focuses of bacteria - larger than the city of Paris - were blown away from the area of dense population by "the wind" which responded "miraculously" to calls of the students of the light. With the help of ministering angels, the bacteria were totally destroyed by the transmutative power of the sacred fire before they could affect large numbers of individuals upon the planet.
Often the outer world, lacking yet in the knowledge of the inner sciences, is of the opinion that spiritual power because it is invisible is ineffective in fighting against physical organisms. I want to tell you, beloved ones, that the power of the Spirit and the power of prayer - the power of the invisible world - when properly harnessed and called into action by embodied mankind, can produce more so-called miraculous corrections of disturbing conditions than most people would ever dream possible. We can understand how those whose faith is rooted in visible things can deny that which they do not see. But on the other hand, they do not see the wind, nor can they measure with their eyes the impact of heat. When they are in an air-conditioned room, they need a thermometer in order to determine the temperature outside even when they can see through a window. There are many stars in the skies that they do not see with the naked eye, but by the use of powerful telescopes they can confirm their existence. Mankind cannot see into the heart of an atom, yet they have learned to split the atom and to unleash its energies. Using scientific instruments, they are able to extend their vision; yet in times past many of the now visible things were invisible and considered but theory.
Those of us who function above the physical sciences in the ranges of the great cosmic light do not need to take these things by faith, for we can see them clearly. It is you who are embodied upon the earth in a sphere of relative limitation who require faith in order to accomplish, as we do, in this realm of light. The burden of proof rests, then, upon those who require it. Many outer conditions can be brought under effective control by the power of the mind and Spirit of God when faith enables man to step forth and to perform that which without faith he would never consider possible.
Now while we are on this subject, blessed ones, let me tell you in God's name that there are many diseases known to man that have been labeled 'mental' when in fact these diseases of the mind are physical in origin; that is, the mental problem is actually conveyed by a living organism. I do not say that there are not karmic conditions involved, that individuals who are mentally ill do not have in their karmic records certain causes which they have set up in the past which could produce the effect of any of a number of various mental disorders. I do say that in some cases, if they had never come into physical contact with a certain organism, it would not have triggered the body response that first threw them into a state of psychosis. Once an individual becomes psychopathic, because of the lowered vitality of the mind which may then become depressed or morbid and begin to hallucinate as a means of seeking to obtain balance, it can be extremely difficult for him to recover. The trigger of the organism induces a mental imbalance which the energies of the mind tend to follow, thereby perpetuating the unstable condition.
Spiritual fire is most effective in healing such cases, for an invocation made to the mighty I AM Presence of the disturbed individual can result in a release of spiritually regenerative fire into the entire consciousness, including the four lower bodies of the individual. This corrective panacea from the spiritual pharmacopoeia of the cosmos can soothe, realign, and transmute the being of the disturbed individual. The soothing is, of course, the action of divine love. The realignment is the corrective power of the Holy Spirit that takes the deranged substance of the mind and rearranges it. Transmutation is the necessary change within the thought and feeling processes whereby the symptoms are permanently corrected and the individual is freed from all undesirable tendencies.
We know that as scientific research moves forward the truth of what we say will become proven and acknowledged fact. If scientists would divorce themselves from prevalent theories on mental disease and begin to analyze the causative factors in the physical plane as I have outlined them, they would soon be uncovering not only the primary cause of mental and emotional disorders but also their cure.
It must be remembered that electromagnetic coils create a forcefield which is carried over from one coil to another. All substance is in a state of vibration. Healthy tissue and healthy matter have one rate of vibration; unhealthy tissue and unhealthy matter have another. The same is true in cases of mental disease. Because of the potential of one lifestream for inducing electromagnetically in another in proximity the wrong type of vibrations, great protection is necessary for the student of the light and even greater protection for those who do not have the light. Yet those who need the greater protection often do not have it.
I do not mean to imply that a low vibration, taken into the body or consciousness of an individual, cannot be expelled. But the balance of power always depends a great deal more upon the host consciousness than upon the donor consciousness. Some individuals are so strong that they automatically repel any form of vibration that is foreign to their own God Presence or their own positive state of mind. Such spiritual fortitude is, of course, most desirable and should be cultivated by every student of the light.
The strengthening of one's aura requires an invocation to the sacred fire. Only the fire element, blessed ones, can withstand the impact of earth, air, and water. The fire element is the highest of the four elements and, in a very real sense, it is capable of consuming the other three for it is the bridge between Matter and Spirit. The fire heats the water until it becomes a mere vapor and vanishes away. The fire melts the elements of the earth with a fervent heat. And the oxygen in the air can also be burned out of it by fire. The greatest fire of all is the spiritual fire which, when it manifested in the burning bush before the eyes of Moses, did not consume the bush.1
There is no need for mankind to fear fire. Certainly, they ought to have great respect for physical fire, for it can be most damaging. When I say there is no need to fear the fire, I reference spiritual fire; for fire is the quality of regeneration that descends from the heart of God to uphold his perfection in man. Therefore, regeneration is the greatest protection anyone can have.
The tempests of the world that are directed against so-called pseudo-organizations - its recalcitrance in accepting things not seen as yet and its quickness to condemn scientists of the Spirit - are most regrettable. For much could be learned all the way around, and a wedding of science and theology practiced in the name of truth could yield great benefits to mankind.
Today the world is prone to label anyone who has faith in the invisible world as being on the lunatic fringe. Yet there are many men of science who in their private acknowledgments pay homage to the powers of the spiritual world. These are not carrying water upon both shoulders, they are exercising discretion with their fellowmen and avoiding clashes in their professions where more harm than good would be accomplished by a pronouncement of their beliefs. Yet there is a need for men whom the world honors and respects to engender faith in the things of the Spirit that are yet invisible to men by offering themselves as witnesses to truth and staking their reputations upon that which they believe. Alexis Carrel, brave physician and investigator of the Spirit, was just such a man.
With a plea to the world to explore the applications of ecology to individual spiritual happiness, we urge that more worthy goals be put before the eyes of the young. Do not saddle them with your own burdens and doubts. Teach them to reach for the stars. So shall the ageless magic of God be manifest in the young of heart.