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"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."1 As many of you are gathering around earthly fires in the spirit of friendship (a bit unusual to other seasons of the year), the angelic hosts in response to your spirit of greater harmony - even in the midst of commercial preparations and traditional expressions - are magnetized to respond to the heart calls of men and to minister to their need for greater comfort.
We come, then, as dynamic expressions of the Father's love into the physical atmosphere of the planet! From time to time we actually appear to children and to those whose consciousness is unsophisticated. To those who are able to perceive us, we express the tenderness of the Father's love. There is no need for men to waste energy in denying our existence, for those who see us as we are are already convinced; and we who see men and women not only as they seem to be but as they really are are also convinced (while being convincers of men) of the immortality of the divine expression of each one upon earth.
What a great help it would be to the hierarchy of light, to the spiritual overseers of the planet who function under the divine grace of God, if embodied men and women would leave for a moment their worldly cups and the fulfilling of mortal desires to feast at the table of God and to partake of the unguents of the Spirit as they are applied by the angelic hosts in all of their healing love and ministering service to the children of men! What a boon it would be to those who serve with me and the angelic hierarchies if more among mankind, in the full faith of our existence as ministers of the Eternal, would open the doors of their hearts to the reality of our existence! For it is this acceptance in the feeling world of the individual that provides the connection which assures the flow of our energies into his domain.
Among the blessings of Christmastide unrealized by unknowing and unthinking men is the approach of a more bountiful harmony as even the most brittle consciousness is moved by the feelings of the season. Feelings of forgiveness that in other parts of the year are but a gritted hardness yield now to the pull of divine magnetism. Feelings of goodwill often absent from the hearts of men come more easily into manifestation. And the joy of that which stems from invisible and angelic realms is tangibly felt by many upon the planet.
Multitudes caught up in the flowing movement of angelic choruses and the spirit that is the flame of the Christ experience the divine magnetism of his star singing in their hearts and connecting them with the orderly progression of universal lifewaves. God manifests to men, and he ministers unto their spiritual needs. God feeds the hungry, elevates the child to his knee, and wraps arms of compassion around hearts bursting with shame and mortification.
Tears of joy melt old calcifications, and the feeling of closeness to universal purpose is born again. This renewal of the ancient covenant carries tidings of great joy to all people,2 and the realm of the archangels and the angels is one of descending harmony and blessings.
He is born anew -
The hosannas of Palm Sunday
Ring still through the years,
And it does not matter
That only a babe appears.
Recognizing now an invisible reality within the domain of the world order, men and women can accept the Christ Spirit as it manifests minutely or greatly in any part of life. This is the attitude of amplification, it is the power by which the angels create the buoyancy in their feeling worlds that so blesses men and women when they contact the angelic hosts. How easy it is for individuals to tear down, to destroy, to condemn, and to enter into the "root of bitterness."3 But it is just as easy for them to be buoyed up by the flood tide of divine love and to give that sweet release to other parts of life that all parts of life need in order to enter into the Father's Spirit.
One of the most dramatic moments in the life mission of the Christ was when he set the little child upon his knee and said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."4 The joyous expressions of the angelic hosts - childlike in their basic simplicity - reach up to the highest intelligences of the universe and draw forth such grandiose expressions of cosmic thought as to unite to the uttermost every diffident heart.
There is time now to live, to think, to express, to serve and this time is borrowed from the eternal purpose. But the world has long given itself to the dark night of human manifestation. Individuals have lived again and again, seeking their own independence without recognizing their dependence on the Within. Inner dependence is what should be sought, not independence - that being merely a manifestation of the personal ego as it seeks to express independently of its Creator whereas inner dependence is the expression of the great inner light, the seed of the Cosmic Christ that is implanted within the domain of individuality to be cultivated and tenderly loved.
This is the rod of Jesse,5 the seed of the living Word. This is Aaron's rod that budded.6 This is the perennial hope that ministers to men, and it is the rod and staff that comforts7 their souls. Without father, without mother, without beginning of days and without ending8 is the Spirit that unifies the soul with the great lightning flash of creative essence and purpose.
It is not that we would create a mystical drama of words without meaning. It is that we, in stroking the soul with cosmic hands of light, would call to each electron, each atom to flash forth its Central Sun of purpose. We would release into the whole of the manifestation of the monad the understanding that will raise the individual son into total identification with the universal purposes of life.
Then will the son having become one with the Father find his true independence to go forth in God's name as a replica of eternal purpose. Separation no longer exists. The veil of the holy of holies is rent in twain9 - the Father and the son are one. Each manifestation of God becomes a fiery sun of universal purpose to go forth into the boundless universe and to expand and expand and expand by the limitless light of God that never fails. The angelic hosts joyously spread abroad their feelings of joy to the world - a joy that is expansion without limit, a joy that is compassion without limit, a joy that is a God-release to everyone in bondage.
The meaning of our release, then, is that the flame of purpose that is so mightily impregnated in the soul can break the bonds that have held individuals to a round of continual unhappiness and assist them to find their freedom to worship the Divine Manchild by right cosmic action. Then, walking in his footsteps, each one shall realize that behind those footsteps is a greater magnetization for every soul who shall follow me in the regeneration.10
Life is resurrection, life is the fire of creation, life is the power to create, to become a cocreator with God, to fashion the soul itself in the divine image, to inherit the crown of life that is the Christ radiance of every man. He is born again.