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To All Who Would Embody Immortality, Greetings!
When the divine sense is truly known, the divine sense is truly loved. The very marvelous consciousness of the Goddess of Justice, Portia, can greatly assist the disciple in the development of a fertile field of consciousness in which can be implanted the highest divine ideas.
The very purposes of life and free will were bestowed upon man in order that he might create by right choices a consciousness of Christ-amity. Unless individuals shall understand Jesus' statement "It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom,"1 they may continue the struggle to get it for themselves. Once they understand that the gift of life is theirs to be appropriated, they will see that they cannot serve two masters and serve them both well.
The student who would prepare his consciousness to receive God must be prepared to let go of the changing outer consciousness with its warped sense of values. He must be prepared to reeducate the self, to nullify the bad effects of unwanted environment, and to master the reins of his consciousness; then he will no longer be pulled into dank fields of human misery by those snorting beasts (forms of mismanaged and misapplied energy) that roam the astral belt, seeking whom they may devour.2
Is there a higher mind, is there a mind of Christ, is there a mind of God? Then this higher mind, this higher field of reason and pure intellect is the forte of the God-realized man. But before that gift can be conveyed, preparation must be made. This preparation includes the willingness to bypass the concepts of the intellect which would reason away either God or man. Blessed ones, almost anything can be proven by human reason; the argumentations of the intellect are a complete waste of divine energy in the world of form.
Only by a realization of and a faith in the continuity of life and the justice of life can a soul truly prepare his consciousness to receive immortality. As long as individuals are convinced that their lives are their own, they are apt to misuse the gift of free will to bottle up the selfish imp of their own creating. When they realize that they themselves are cocreators of their own divine reality - strange though these words may sound at first to the natural man - they will perceive that God's Spirit and his energy are the rejuvenating powers of the whole field of consciousness which makes the whole man new. The power to renew and to wipe out the stain of the hieroglyphs of error enables man to contact the mainstream of God's consciousness and to become infused with universal reason, with the pure reason of God. Yet, the very name God has become to many an anathema because of human distortions, imaginations, and exaltations falsely premised.
Call a rose by any other name, it is as sweet.3 The ontology of man, the nature of his being, is fashioned in the inward parts according to the nature of the Creator of all things. The universal Word, the Logos, the power of the Spirit and the power of transformation together with the power of the Christ mind contain the dynamic principles by which a mere individual, embodied in flesh, can attain absolute oneness with Spirit and the mastery of himself.
But if the field of consciousness be neglected and the old carnal mind referenced by Saint Paul4 remain in command, it will surely interfere with the externalization of the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is universal. It belongs to the ages, and it belongs to all men of the ages who are willing to appropriate it.
Men must understand that they have a responsibility to direct their own lives. If at first this responsibility be understood merely in the sense of directing themselves into the hands of Divine Providence, then let it be done. For sooner or later, when the child initiate is ready to receive it, he will be given the holy responsibility of cherishing his own consciousness. But how can individuals cherish that which is merely an externalization of environmental forces and residual mortal opinions? Even science, with all of its conclusions and accuracies, has often been forced to repudiate accepted and timeworn theories.
Therefore, the science of the Spirit is the only systematic means whereby an individual can truly come to know himself. Men are too prone to accept the stream of consciousness as a substitute for the externalized self. The stream of consciousness exerts a pull of forces upon the memory processes which are intended to weld identity together. We do not deny the molding factors of the stream of consciousness, but we question the desirability of allowing these factors to dominate the unfoldment of native being.
What man needs is to learn to let go of himself and to release himself from the mainstream of mortal and environmental consciousness. The subterranean stream of the mass consciousness that flows in the world must also be released, and the individual must perceive that the sun of illumination - the Son of God, the wisdom of God, the great stream of the divine consciousness by which the worlds were framed - exists as much today as it did in the beginning and it is transcendently achieving its own goal. Then he must hitch the wagon of his consciousness to this star of reality.
When individuals are able to recognize that this can be done, they are more than willing to let go of the muddy stream of human filth and degradation that has for far too long held them enmeshed in its clutches. When this is seen to be possible, then the field of consciousness can be prepared for the incoming of the Christ, and this is the true receiving of the Christ mind. God is the saviour of man, Spirit is the regenerator of Matter, and regeneration is the process by which Matter is changed into Spirit and thus immortalized.
It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. It is the will of God and the will of the hierarchy to bestow upon emerging mankind the highest gifts and graces. But so long as the field of consciousness is not renewed and remains imbued with the concept that "it" is the prime mover, that "it" will ferret out the mysteries of the kingdom, and that "it" will attain and accomplish, just so long will the soul be hindered from finding true reality.
Only when the field of consciousness is able to relinquish all discord and sense of struggle, only when it is able to perceive the goodness of God as resident within the Son of God, within the Christ of God, can that Christ and that light truly take dominion over the earth5 - over Matter, over substance, over manifestation, over identity. When this is done, then the embryonic God begins to manifest and the field of consciousness becomes the forcefield into which universal education can be lowered.
Why, the mysteries of God are so deep, so unfathomable of purpose by the mortal mind, that when men begin to absorb even an iota of their intent it is as though they were transported to the farthest star in the universe from that spot on earth where they now find themselves!
Let all understand, then, that the very nearness of the divine to the heartbeat of man signifies the intent of God to raise the Christ, to regenerate and to renew the opportunities of life for every individual, and to help him to attain to a state of consciousness that can permanently receive and reflect God. One of the great problems of religious experience is the continual play of negative emotions and desires upon the field of consciousness. This entangles men in old habits without truly affording them their freedom by a renewal of the mind and by a complete flushing out of mortal patterns.
By the fire of the Spirit, the garden of man's heart will be made fallow, the educative processes of the Spirit will regenerate him in the divine image, and he shall pass from glory unto glory, even as by the Spirit of God.6 Herein is hope for the direction and infusion of consciousness by the universal will, and out of this will come the mastery of time and circumstance for all.