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Beloved Seekers and Doers of This Age,
The thrust of identity continues to impel expression in the individual domain. But the tensions generated in the world are inhibiting the whole social structure in this era of time. Society is honeycombed with treachery, and selfishness that is rampant everywhere hides the face of God from the consumers of mortal merchandise.
They are blind, they do not see, and the ways of peace they do not know. But the karmic juggernaut rolls onward. And one by one, as they encounter the blind alleys of living, they turn to the old familiar gods and find no solace. In desperation men beat upon their breasts and they cry out in fear when the cloak of pleasure they have sought to wrap around themselves will no longer fit their growing desires.
The admonishments of Paul the Apostle "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth"1 seem meaningless to a society that has lost the understanding of the Word. The Creator himself has become almost an anathema to them, so puzzled are they because they have dabbled in the records of delusion, and illusion follows them wherever they go.
We seek to alleviate this distress for the entire earth, but we are compelled to recognize that we can help only those whom we can reach. Therefore, let it be clear that the structures we seek to build and to perpetuate in society are intended to be vehicles for service similar to the hospices of the Essenes. These focuses of light and the souls trained to sustain them will one day, when the madness of men is better known, provide assistance and relief from distress for those who are ready to turn and serve the light they currently do not know exists.
The beautiful thought form of the Ark of the Covenant lowered in the Teton ceremonies on New Year's Eve certifies to man that God is now ready to bestow the grace of the eternal covenant upon men and women who seek him diligently. The mysteries of the Brotherhood and of the elect have long been hidden from the profane. Today, when every type of knowledge seems to be flourishing and the world is rediscovering lost scientific arts, the beautiful and gentle arts of the Spirit with their incredible potencies seem but a lost skill and the weavings of individuals' lives are often encompassed by a sea of doubt. How can it be otherwise? They have sown the wind and the whirlwind is at hand.2
Those of you who were present for my address at the Class of the Twelfth Hour will recall that I did petition the Karmic Board to set aside the date of January 18, 1969, as the beginning of the Dark Cycle3 and move it thence to July 18, 1969. You did not receive the answer of the Karmic Board (which I had apprehended would be favorable). But for reasons best known unto that body, which they have communicated to me privately, their decision has been to grant this request tentatively and only under the condition that Israel cease from her aggressive attitudes toward the Arab states. Naturally, the Arab states, too, must restrain themselves in their movements; for we do not favor one nation against another. But the warlike manifestations currently being exercised in the Holy Land represent to us the most dangerous single factor that is calculated to plunge mankind headlong into a holocaust of planetary destructivity.
Therefore, if Israel shall persist and the Arab League shall join her in another round of destructivity, it can well be the trigger which will launch the sign of the Dark Cycle. Our fondest hope is for the world to have an era of peace in which the productive elements of society can rise to serve the needs of man. I think that the brothers of light are also concerned that the bookstalls of the world and the places where learning is communicated by the written word as well as the spoken word should reflect in their literature and teaching the urgent need to spread peace and constructivism.
When all goes well for individuals, they have a tendency to forget that it need not always do so; and when all goes badly for people, they frequently fail to realize that this, too, need not continue. It is indeed a long road that has no turning,4 as you have said to one another. And thus the world has now turned toward the dark in her basic drives, and the children of the youth, rather than seek the golden fleece of wisdom and peace, are chasing after a fluttering rag that signifies meaningless chaos.
There are, to be sure, exceptions to all rules. And there are numbers that are dearly engaged in a search for Christ-reality, for the universal law of the Buddha, and for the ark of the ages. Covenants made unto God are made as goalposts, markers of construction. Aspirations thus labeled assist the reach in attaining the highest grasp of cosmic principle.
Times of struggle and of darkness are not real, but to those enmeshed in them they seem so. And the sane, Godly recognition that man can penetrate the veils of illusion and find the inner way of peace in the most disturbing conditions should help him to understand that this is obtained not by struggle so much as by faith. For if men would cease the struggle for peace and would simply manifest it, the problems of the world would vanish.
We do not seek by platitudes to bind up the wounds of the world, but we pour forth the thrust of our Spirit, enveloping the earth in the Cosmic Christ efforts of our octaves of light. You can valiantly assist us in that which we are doing by maintaining harmony in your feeling world, by refusing to give acceptance to any condition less than perfection, and by realizing that the thinking which makes conditions so can always be directed or even diverted into channels of wholeness.
You must never give up or cease from your loving of humanity, for thus you learn to love your Creator. But greater wisdom from on high always reveals that there are interacting responsibilities which are charged to the individual's record. So many seek to be divested of responsibility. They want to let someone else act for them. We, as ascended beings, act for millions of lifestreams. But we, too, feel that individuals can learn to think and act for themselves. They must, of course, exercise care, study the approved way, and summon the fire of the soul to produce automatically its perfection in their worlds.
I cannot stress enough, then, the need for individuals who have decreed perfection to follow their decrees with spaces of silence, harmony, and God-ordained action in which the perfection they have invoked can be externalized and flash forth its light. In the calm knowing of the sun center of my soul, I am sending out mighty pulsations of peace in spaced waves. These are intended to assist the evolution of the planet in this year dedicated to the Holy Mother. Recently in Darjeeling, a suggestion was made that the century should be devoted to the Holy Mother. The cultivation of understanding regarding the Mother of the World has become a lost art. Non-Catholic failure to accept even Mother Mary and her beloved service to life illustrates how few in the world are aware of the World Mother, of the aspect of cosmic Deity she represents to this planet, and of the need to gather people together beneath a canopy of cosmic reality that is no illusion.
Let wellsprings of peace, then, be created in the soul that we may encourage the faith of men in the Lord that liveth eternally. That he may live eternally in them and they in him is the purpose of our system of spiritual re-creation.
In the name of the Prince of Peace, I remain