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Sons and Daughters of Opportunity,
All of the hosts of heaven are grateful for last week's release from mighty Vesta. Her issuing forth of the summons to love - for the children of the world and for the blessed mothers of those children - was intended to act as a reawakening affirmation, renewing hope for deliverance in the face of the darkness of opposition.
The statement of Jesus recorded in the Book of Matthew concerning "weeping" and the "gnashing of teeth"1 is a reference to human suffering in all of its many forms. But we affirm for all time, they have no part in the divine consciousness! The consciousness of the Eternal always was, is now, and always will be the fullness of the abundant life and the desire to bestow boundless happiness upon all creation! I, therefore, urge students of truth and beauty to develop a greater sense of the consciousness of God; for it is the consciousness of God alone that enables men to understand the statement of beloved Jesus "I and my Father are one."2
As long as individuals hold to the cult of separatism, there is always the danger that they will be drawn away from the central force of truth into the sloughs of error where they may lose their souls and become castaways.3 The only guarantees that life can give to men are to be found in that cosmic bond which is a form of cosmic insurance that holds the aspirant and the created son to the heart of their Creator.
Beloved ones, why do you think that the world is so intent upon the denial of God? Why do you think that the world is so intent upon disproving universal reality right in the face of all natural manifestations and life's wondrous patterns? You must learn to rely upon cosmic law and upon inner strength rather than permit yourselves to be withdrawn from the power of cosmic reason.4 Again and again, the wisdom of the world has stimulated the human ego in its desire to be thought wise as individuals have patted themselves and one another on the back for their achievements in the realm of human thought.
The separatists have always desired to amplify their separation, for it enables them to compete with one another and to seek worldly honor and gain. Those who understand that the greatest gain of all is true Godliness will recognize the need to enfold themselves in their own latent divinity while realizing that the supreme God is already proceeding - by a cosmic release that is effective in the world of form - to surround them with swaddling garments of great light.
Men are not always aware of that which surrounds them of either good or evil; therefore, they should understand the need to maintain those blessed cosmic assurances that are both signet and strength of the immaculate concept that God holds for every man. These assurances can be had by making a specific drive to put oneself in the center of the divine attention.
You know, blessed ones, there is a certain amount of universal aggressiveness that is permitted by cosmic law. In fact, we even encourage it. We do not reference here the unfortunate habits of using dangerous drugs or seeking by violent methods of meditation to tap the secrets of the universe. On the contrary, we advocate the recognition of the existence of a higher intelligence and the capacity of the individual to tap that intelligence through the power of the Christ rather than through material methods - however scientific these may seem to be.
Once you understand cosmic law and the spiritual interpretation of language and word usage, you will see that the higher intelligence is to be found in the very heart of your own individualized I AM Presence. For those who have not yet developed a state of awareness of their Presence, let me say now that to accept the fact that a higher power exists, that it is compassionate and allied with all constructive ethics, is to seek after it that one may find it.
"Seek, and ye shall find,"5 is a promise that cannot be denied. If individuals would only understand that they can deliberately attract the attention of the Universal, they would address themselves to Deity and recognize that such form of address is never ignored. It is merely a matter of time before the call does compel the answer.
Unfortunately, some have thought that the answer would be immediate, and so it was. But they should also understand that the answer must descend into the realm of humanity through the dense substance surrounding the individual ego. Some individuals have more substance than others and this must be penetrated. Therefore, the seeker should learn to open his heart to the immediacy of the divine response even when no tangible evidence is forthcoming. This attitude of receptivity helps to dissolve impediments to the divine will that reside within the ego and to magnetize in the aura of the individual a greater influx of universal light assistance.
The all-power of God has been sought by honorable men through the ages. Your own beloved George Washington went down upon his knees on the fields of battle,6 and many generals and men of world renown have prayed and received answers or tokens of divine intervention.
When the forces of darkness acting through ignoble men seek to prevent prayer in the schools of the world, when religion is attacked as though it were a despicable thing, when many of the media of the world distort religious concepts and a flood of unvital ideas is released to a disheartened humanity, we signal that the vast cosmic network of light assistance to the earth must be reactivated by those who are in physical embodiment. They must seek to reconnect themselves with the high standards to which some of them once held and from which they have since disconnected themselves. Those who have dwelled far too long upon a plateau of complacency because of spiritual ignorance must recognize that the hand of Heaven stands near to raise them above their present stature and to lift them into the lap of Divine Reality.
Comfort is extended
And assistance draweth nigh,
The renewal of hope and the insistence of heaven
Are apparent in the sky.
We are not engaged in a tug-of-war with embodied individuals. We stand as helpers to lift men out of the swamps and delusions of life into the blazing noontide of cosmic reality. Those who say that our words are unnecessary do not understand the power of the spoken Word, nor do they understand the power of heaven to heal the ills of earth.
Neither age, race, nor karmic pattern can deny this immortal grace to any part of life. However, men and women deny it to themselves because of their acceptance of false information that has been passed on to them, in some cases, from childhood; in other cases it was given to them later in life, intended as a comforting word of truth. Genuine truth has the power to free, and we are concerned with the freedom of the earth.
The greatest assistance that can come to mankind at this hour is the knowledge of the reality of our being. As this knowledge is spread abroad, those who do not know of us will be enabled to establish conscious contact with us. Then the stream of our love and our energy for the heavenly Father's plan will flow into the world over the connecting cables that will be created by the attention which embodied men and women shall give to cosmic detail, and we will be empowered to assist the earth to find her freedom voluntarily now and always.
Progress and creative effort are needed, for the world must lift itself up by its own bootstraps. Providence has provided countless measures of assistance, and we wish to make them available without strain by a natural spiritual buoyancy that will enable people to grasp the God consciousness that overcomes the world, that refuses to be intimidated by outer conditions, and that recognizes the power of Victory and his legions, of the Christ consciousness, of the Mother of the World, and of the heavenly hosts to vindicate the faith that Almighty God has had in embodied mankind and to restore them to their Edenic state of deathless immortality.
We come, then, to renew your faith and to pledge to you our strength in a year of victory.