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To the Builders Who Seek Truth
"HOW CAN I know the will of God?" This is the cry of millions.
Man presupposes that the divine will is hiding from him, as though it were a part of the plan for the Eternal God to play hide-and-seek with him.
Not so! The will of God is inherent within life and merely awaits the signal of release from man's will in order to ray forth the power of dominion to the world of the individual.
There is a sovereign link between the mortal will and the Immortal. In the statement of Jesus "It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom,"1 men can be aware of the eternal will as the fullest measure of eternal love.
Release, then, your feelings of possessiveness over your own life! Surrender the mean sense of sin and rebellion, the pitiful will to self-privilege which engenders bondage.
See the will of God as omnipresent and complete, the holy beat of the Sacred Heart throbbing within your own.
Know and understand that surrender is not oblivion but a point of beginning and of greater joy.
Now, responsibility does not cease but begins anew, and man is yoked with eternal purpose - the shield of God's will.
O how joyous is the touch of thy hand,
O living flame.
How comforting this contact
By night or day.
We are not alone anywhere,
For thy presence is a succoring shield.
"Dominus vobiscum"2 to all substance
And the infusion of the Spirit of Hope
In the purposes of men
As they blend most tenderly
Into the purposes of God.
Through surrender
The molding process can begin.
Waves of cosmic energy
With or without conscious awareness
Literally flood body, mind, and soul
With strength of purpose, defying inertia.
We live because thou livest in us.
We are in a state of consonance
with thy purposes,
And O how glorious are those concepts
Of givingness to life!
The Great Giver is perceived
As the only true friend to us all -
Our common bond of brotherhood
and strength.
Allied with invisible legions,
The weld of strength and purpose
Becomes increasingly persistent.
Shelter me from delusion, O God,
To whom shall I fly?
For thy way is the best way.
Old residual habits seek banal
reexpression.
To opaque the holy will is their purpose
And to excite me to evil strength
and shame.
Yet short-lived are the carnal
creature comforts,
And dark is the desiring of mortal
wayfaring.
The sheltering arms of thy will
come again,
And I AM known of thee
Even as I increase my knowledge
of thy will.
Down through the ages I have known
many names,
Thou hast known but one name,
The strength of thy arm is my salvation,
The joy of my heart,
The solitary consoling factor of life,
The joy of my desiring
And the manifesting of thy light,
My purposed will!
By doing, by identifying,
By just becoming aware of thee
I automatically know thy will.
Increment by increment
I AM adding to the perfect knowledge
That casts out the fear of oblivion
And gives my soul the peace thou hast
Because my mind is stayed on thee.
Strength, strength, strength be multiplied,
And love, be thou increased!
All these are found in the holy will.
Born out of increased devotion,
They take their own full measure
Of action and renewal.
Long has the soul been dead
In the night of personal delusion -
The struggles, the accumulated
karmic debts,
And the great harms.
Now the end has come
In one solemn sweet surrender:
I AM - Thou art - we are -
All are One!
Yet the finite span,
The temporal shafts of darkness
Remain a blight and pit
to snare the soul.
Can my resolve to be thy will in action
Be a shield so strong
That never again shall submit
to carnal will
And the pitfalls of the senses?
The body cries out in pain,
The mind does reel in anguish
Of human condemnation.
These are not thy will
But only that the soul
should gain in light
And bask in the willing of thy love.
What peace is mine that dares
not be afraid
To seek the depths, the heights,
The riches of thy soul?
The soul of God is one great sea of promise,
Interconnecting all with all that lives.
Yea, saint and sinner of all ages past
Do rise or fall in him.
All life does live or perish
in his memory vast
And does return to him complete
or yet unborn,
Unfinished by his grace.
Our souls are torn by splendor
Contrast 'gainst the night.
A higher purpose and a holier will
are born,
We seek and find new light
with coming morn.
O not my will, my will be done
but thine.3
Great drops of blood betray my anguish -
Thine the glory and the power, Lord,
Thine the kingdom shining
O'er the hills of time
Revealing, as we upward climb,
The starry ladder of thy grace.
As angels to and fro do go,4
Our souls do know thy purpose dear.
And in communion, strength appears
As triumph over death.
Morya cries out, O weary traveler, know him ere it is too late!
So many tempt God one more time, fearing they may miss some passing earthly joy.
The will of God is an interpenetrating essence that flows through substance, mind, and motion, conveying new images and changing old ones into transcendence. To die to all of this marvelous flow of living light by closeting the soul in vain desire is an abomination beyond terror.
Come out now, then, and see the sole goal of eternity shining through the strands of time. What a marvelous gilding of opportunity is to be found in the pursuit of his will. And it can be known!
We cringe for a distraught humanity, caught up in the passing paradise of the senses.
Man's inhumanity to man is not destroyed by a liberal sense, neither is utopia secured by developing a sense of social justice or an outreach toward world betterment which denies immortality.
Only by union with God's will can the world, one and all, come to peace and perfection in a relative sense, stretching toward the good things to come that spring forth in eternal life.
How myopic are the "savers" who store their world's goods like camels in little humps of survival and are themselves utterly barren of soul substance. The will of God is the will of change for man that feeds the flame of life within and changes mortality into immortality.
It would seem that what the senses cannot report is unbelievable unto many, and yet the life that beats the heart of man is not seen or known by any save the few.
Many wonder how man, made in the image of God, could have fallen so low. Let them realize that deteriorations occur first in consciousness.
Hence, when men indulge in simple flights of imagery that are not in keeping with divine ideals, they take the first steps in departing from the will of God. A downhill course is more difficult of reversal than an ascendant one.
We evoke the consciousness of God in our disciples, for in God's own thoughts the alchemy of change is wrought. Men are not realists when they mull over the murky patterns of human history.
The distortions of life recorded on the strata of mortal consciousness are full of arson, murder, and debauchery. Strangely enough, justification of these crimes by individuals sometimes causes them to become imbued with a sense of righteousness as though they did God service.
The topsy-turvy attitudes of such folly prove why men are wont to change light into darkness and darkness into light.
The will of God is purely beneficial to all the earth, yet wholly tethered to the infinite love of the Father without human favor or distortion.
Now we call for the clear seeing of the God consciousness in all life as the first step toward immaculate victory which all must take if they are to be reborn in the divine image and likeness.
The quality of thoroughness in all things men do weds them to a sense of the immaculate and the perfect; but herein men must exercise care, lest false pride in accomplishment give rise to a spirit of criticism of others whose outer care for perfectionment remains yet undeveloped. The Father's attitude of reflecting only pure love and communion with all who desire to manifest this love is the exemplary mode which all should follow.
This satsanga, or "fellowship with truth," is the invisible coming together of the body of God upon earth in one real cosmic brotherhood that can never deny its likeness to the heavenly will.
Does shallowness of being mean that man can never become full of grace and the manifestation of God's will? I say, nay. For if the vessel be shallow, enlarge it; if the substance be minute, increase it!
God's will is everywhere manifest, but it must be sought and gathered. The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen5 must be held as potential for all.
In the fullness of faith in the divine creation, men must identify with the hidden man of the heart6 and out of this oneness they will roll up victory after victory right in the teeth of seeming defeat.
Knowing the longing and the hunger of the souls of men for the real, I am diligently evoking the symbols of his will to manifest in you as alertness of mind, willingness to change, and the courage to offer the self of mortality to the lovely designs of the Father's purpose.
The Brotherhood cannot be affected by mortal doings, but human life can!
We urge that faith be implemented by right action and that the confidence of each student in his personal relationship with the God Presence as the repository of God's will be upheld.
Thus shall the finite line be extended and the eternal 'try-angle' be perceived as the setting for the calm eye of cosmic vision to survey all things and direct all things by the plumb line of everlasting justice and mercy.
I AM the Master Mason, directing the pyramid of lives to the summit of attainment.
[This text is the version published in the book, The Sacred Adventure.]