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Blessed Peacemakers Who Are Called the Children of God,
Life, as an educational process, is schooling for infinity. Babes come into the world of form carrying with them the tides of a subtle glory. Men marvel at the aptitude of the very young to assimilate knowledge. It is self-evident that, with the passing of the years and the setting in of personal recalcitrance, many cease to be receptive to knowledge or to a reconsideration of that which they have come to accept as "truth."
With this thought in mind, it is my desire to establish a greater understanding of the laws of God. This we will do by projecting into the consciousness of the race a mighty tide of light from the great golden flame of illumination, pulsing high in the Andes in our retreat at Lake Titicaca. In projecting this ray into the mental belt of the world, we are counting on those receptive "poles" - the true disciples of cosmic law and "followers of God as dear children"1 - to do what they are able for the expansion of true illumination by receiving and anchoring in the world of form those positive and constructive ideas which I hereby release.
The attitude of each individual who has fostered a misinterpretation of scriptures or a fraudulent understanding about the vicarious atonement has done much to alienate mankind from genuine truth and to prevent them from being receptive to the laws of life which would deliver them from every form of bondage. We would free mankind from the bondage of ignorance and the oppressors who would keep them bound.
The idea of God as the avenger is an anthropomorphic configuration; certainly it is no part of the consciousness of God. The power of Aton revealed by Amenhotep IV (Ikhnaton) was that of the Sun God Ra and his extension in the world of form as ray. Each monad was considered to be a ray of light emanating from the Central Sun source. Ra was the dispenser of all good, and the fruit of this goodness manifested as love, peace, joy, harmony, culture, beauty, strength, and immortality. Certainly these qualities deserved to be immortalized. By a like token, qualities of negation that evolved out of the ego - from whence came wars, struggle, and inharmony between peoples - did not deserve to endure. They must perish with the dust that bore them. Ra would go on forever. He was the source of the coming light that each morning brought forth a new dawn of hope, portending a new day. These simple concepts of a monotheistic God have been aborted in the name of religion; blood sacrifice was no part of this early monotheism but entirely a pagan activity.
In its Department of Instruction, the Great White Brotherhood has caused to be issued forth in numerous ways knowledge that would counteract deliberate perversions of truth and set straight the record. Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed the truth of reembodiment in the public squares. Other men and women possessing partial knowledge of the law proclaimed reembodiment to be the "transmigration of souls" which made the whole idea not only distasteful but also ridiculous to most people. They were not taken up with the thought that in a succeeding life they might come forth as a cow or a bull.2 This erroneous concept has never been the teaching of the Great White Brotherhood concerning reembodiment.
Reembodiment refers to the placing of the soul into new and successive temples of greater usefulness in order that it might evolve progressively toward Godhood. ("Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,/While the vast seasons roll."3) The teaching of reembodiment has been spiked by the orthodox clergy, and their followers have been taught to believe that they have but one fleeting chance to grasp at the coattails of Deity. Should they fail, they are to be placed in a state of torment forever; if they succeed, they are to be place in a state of blessedness forever.
They are taught that the grace of God is extended to sinning mortals through the vicarious sacrifice of the Lord Christ upon Golgotha. They are taught that the blood of Christ literally cleanses them from their sins, and that this blood is a propitiation for their sins. (This teaching with all of its ramifications makes them dependent upon the Church and the sacrifice of one man for their salvation rather than upon God and their own karma of good works.)
Blood is the symbol of life and, when purified, it flows through the body as the cleansing, life-giving essence of the sacred fire. The life of Christ was carried on in the tradition of the Father whom Jesus showed forth. He, as an elder brother of the race, sought from the beginning to adhere to the primal truths of being that were taught by the Brotherhood and the priesthood of Melchizedek in the days of Abraham. Hence he said, "Before Abraham was, I am."4
Let all understand, then, that God is not a God of vengeance, that he does not require propitiation in the form of blood sacrifice (whether it be an animal or his only begotten Son) but rather repentance, which means a turning away from iniquity. When men turn from darkness to serve light, they themselves identify with the law of love and every man must bear his own burden.5
Everyone has the opportunity to become one with the Father through his own Holy Christ Self, who is the Mediator between the human personality (that is emerging from chrysalis into light) and the great individualized God Presence I AM, or the image of God individualized for each one. Therefore, through the only Son whom God made in every man, man becomes one with the Father and follows the elder brothers of the race in the regeneration.
"The first man Adam," who is "of the earth, earthy," comes forth through the flesh, through the generations and genealogies of the race. The second man, "the Lord from heaven," reverses the course of human generation through the regeneration of the Spirit and the genealogy of the divine. This makes him literally the offspring of God. "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Christ] was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. ... And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."6 Unless the fact of man's latent divinity is recognized and accepted, there can be no real regeneration or redemptive process; for man can never become that which he does not already have within himself. God created in man the divine potential.
How could one man possibly be acceptable to God as a sacrifice for the sins of all? The only way this could be is through the universal garment of the living Christ - the spiritual power of the Word, or Logos, which "in the beginning" framed the world. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."7 This means that no one was created without the divine seed of the Son of God - the divinity of the Christ, the Universal Mediator - who lives for all and in all and is, then, truly Christ the Lord. Jesus, as the Son of God, manifested the fullness of the Christ to men. This fullness God expects each one of his succeeding sons to manifest. The words "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father"8 are understandable in this context. Jesus intended that all should follow his example and do even greater works through his own oneness with the Father.
All should understand that the real purpose of the spiritual education of the age is to refute the satanic lie "Thou shalt not surely die"9 by teaching men to overcome "the last enemy" which is death.10 Death can be overcome by manifesting life, and life is simply God. God can be manifested by each one as the light that is within him qualifies the life flowing through him with the nature of God.
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord."11 Now, then, as we take on the nature of God and as we are transformed by the renewing of our minds,12 we find that life begins to expand. The mystical Christ, the mystical Jesus, becomes one with the manifesting mystical Ego (God in man). The lesser ego, no longer identifying with name, fame, or self-seeking, seeks only to express the beauties of God, the beauty of holiness. The holiness herein referenced is the wholeness of the total man - mind imbued with God, memory imbued with God, emotions imbued with God, and form-consciousness acting as the chalice in which dwells the completely spiritualized ego.
The propitiation for man's inequities is taken on, then, by the great mediatorship of the universal Cosmic Christ. This is the life which has been symbolized in the blood of Jesus. But men have put Christ to an open shame by seeking, under the urges of demons, to teach openly and spread everywhere those dogmas of the vicarious atonement which confute universal reality in the consciousness of men and render chaotic the manifestation of cosmic law.
This cannot be. For the laws of God are complete, and every son whom he made was created with equal opportunity. These truths must be taught in the schools and in the churches of the world. Yet today such a program is only a vision, and certainly it is one that will be mightily opposed by those firmly entrenched forces that do not understand what they teach and consider the greatest desecration to be the denial of the blood of Christ.
We deny him not, but we affirm him forever for we see him as he is: the Universal Lord, the everliving Logos, the Word that goeth forth equally to redeem the sons of men and to bring to all the joy of the Lord.
Lovingly, for the illumination of man upon earth, I AM