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Lovers of Good Health and Divine Abundance,
The trenchant accumulations of age-old errors in diet, in medicine, and in man's understanding of his right to God's abundance continue to exert a full measure of hindering pressure upon the manifestation of greater abundance, peace, harmony, joy, and love for all of the children of men. Having allowed this state of affairs to go unchallenged, men remain, as they have often called themselves, their own worst enemies.
Dare we hope that the student body will exert a united effort and, with the backing of the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, sweep away some of these imperfect concepts without further delay?
Do you know, precious ones, that there are many who fear to enjoy the beauties of life, who refuse to be happy simply because - through feelings of guilt, self-condemnation, or littleness of mind - they do not deem themselves worthy to receive the abundant gifts of the kingdom which it is the Father's good pleasure to give to all?1
Do you realize that, with all of the miracles of medical science and its tremendous scope of proven achievement, psychological and sociological pressures involving remuneration continue to result in unethical practices both in medical science and in the drug industry?
Do you realize that hospitals have steadily escalated their fees, having less and less regard for the well-being and healing of the patient and placing greater and greater emphasis on mechanical efficiency?
Do you realize that the entrenched system of organized medicine continues to suppress the natural healing methods even in those areas where the common denominator of public opinion has overwhelmingly forced the issue and produced a relative state of freedom to those who practice the healing arts according to more natural methods?
Can you understand that the ecological factors of noise in the homes, streets, and byways of life create a tremendous impact on the nervous systems of mankind, causing neurosis and at times an overwhelming sense of fear which may be recognized in many as the first stages of insanity?
Men and women rush to and fro as scurrying mice, seeking the haven of home only to be deprived of the quiet their beings crave. Those young souls who have come lately into the world - having no comparison in this life with better days, no memory of a higher frame of reference - are unable to summon from within the necessary defenses against the overpowering social pressure to accept the material world as real.
It is therefore absolutely necessary in the name of a just science that a divinely oriented humanism proscribe2 standards of moral conduct that uphold the integrity of the soul of man which is being polluted by the evils of a wayward generation.3 Those who are qualified to lead the youth by reason of superior education and experience must continue to strive to make the world a better place in which to live by applying golden-age teachings by the golden-rule standard.
Those in the religious community whose tune has been "This world is not my home" should realize that their reason for living is to find their spiritual freedom as well as their economic freedom right here on earth by making the necessary cosmic adjustments that, through the miracle of true Christ-love, will teach mankind that they are indeed their brothers' keepers.
The challenge to overcome is flung not to the present moment alone but to the future - to children yet unborn and to generations whose hopes stem from their strong tie to the practical considerations of life and from their link to the present as well as to the future. Contemporary men should consider the products of their own acts, then, and make necessary provision for the future in science, in government, in economics, in international fellowship, in philosophy, and above all in spiritual understanding, the threads of which do come full circle to embrace all of the humanities.
Heaven has sought by the power of divine law to inspire mortal bards with immortal inspiration. The concept of durability and everlastingness is the Creator's answer to man's gnawing sense of frustration about his inabilities to overcome sickness, a sense of sin, disease, unhappiness, and his involvement with the scum of human creation. All experience is intended to teach mankind the supreme worth of the golden rule to draw the lines of human conduct and to raise mankind up the ladder of life to the place where the science of the Spirit stands beaming its promise of a more glorious hereafter. This promise includes the world all around you; it exists right within it while pointing to the haven of light beyond with its unseen glories and transcendent future. And thus through simple reasoning the natural glory of God can be pondered as inherent within the many facets of living.
The symbol of our science is the golden orb of wisdom applied. Unless men of the Spirit shall be heeded, the course of the world will continue to run downhill; for the untransmuted nature of men fosters the expansion of old fears of loss and the reviving of fears of the future which manifest in the present as greed. All that pits men and women against one another and causes them to feel enmity with their brethren is contrary to Christ principles. Yet today, adherents of the world's religions, displaying their fruits by their actions, far too frequently demonstrate a blatant hostility toward those whom they think do not follow the same threads of doctrine as they do.
As we set the tempo for the year ahead, then, it is to encourage those students of the light who will follow the avant-garde pathway of the ascended masters and hold out their light to shine before mankind to be fearless and to recognize that to move with the law of God - whether or not that law is contrary to human opinion - is to prepare for the coming kingdom which is hindered only because of entrenched error dwelling in the folds of man's consciousness and concepts about life. Secured by the door of a sturdy ego, men deny themselves the harmony of true cosmic love. This must be changed, and the science of the Spirit must be given voice. The miracles of material science have far less meaning to men and women who are caught in the tangle of the social jungle than they would to citizens of an ideal society where those who pursue the pathway of the Spirit were found worthy of the badge of courage, honor, and integrity.
The disciples of the masters must prepare themselves this year to thwart the denizens of the darkness and to make a marvelous beginning that will never fail to appreciate all of the hopes of the sons and daughters of heaven. As hands of light, these hopes, extending down the corridors of the centuries, proclaim anew the old meanings of life and preserve those masterful qualities of cosmic science that shall reveal, as was brought forth in your recent conference at La Tourelle,4 the full meaning of life as "Destiny not dust."
Men must see the dual patterns of the Supreme One: (1) Christ's criterion for all men, the line upon which every master has walked, the plumb, tried and true, and (2) the line of action and accomplishment that results in the mortal harnessing of the immortal bestowing. What a beautiful thing true brotherhood is where there is no ulterior motive but only the purest, radiant desire for the expression of divine hope for all humanity made in the image of God.
The agnostics cry out today against the trivia of this age, and quite frequently they take a stand for principles of the light. The atheists deny while the agnostics struggle to see. In our temple at Crete, we have determined to bring new meaning to life through the avenues of science and to stop the perpetual harassment of those forward-moving individuals who seek to assuage some measure of human grief. The abundance of God - the rich flow of the cosmic harvest into the granaries of karma as the accrual of kindness, love, and service - continue to pour good health, good cheer, good hope, and the abundant sense to all.
God made no son or expression of life imperfectly framed and, therefore, all deserve the treasures of the divine heart. His peace and his light are the dawn of continuing opportunity for all.
There is no reality in darkness, in frustration, or in a doctrine of final ends and hopelessness. There are no dead ends in God. Life is abundant. It courses through your veins, through the veins of the earth, through the cosmos, expanding cosmic rays. Life on earth, on Terra, still holds its developing challenges, and none dare ignore the responsibility of assisting their fellowmen in meeting them; for the fact remains that the time for this generation is short.
We utter this not to incite fear, which has torment,5 but as a spur to make men realize the great and glorious opportunities that exist in America, in India, and in the world community wherever there is a heart to receive a ray of hope and the will to translate that hope into a new-spun reality. While the stillness of winter lingers over the world, the warm golden hues of the sun are locked in the heart of bursting cells, of new seeds, of cosmic fires, and of the reality of that which men call "Thine is the glory."
Come with me in thought into the abundant world, into the abundant life, and unlock the barriers whose foundations have been laid in unworthy tradition.
I AM your exponent of cosmic abundance forever dwelling in you,