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Blessed Searchers for Reality,
Some of you say that I am not a real being. Well I say to you, "How do you know?" Do you not have many individuals in embodiment on earth today with the names Faith, Hope, and Charity? Does it seem so very unusual that I should be named Hope? Hope is a divine quality. It is a quality of God himself, and it springs forth eternally in the human heart from the fount of the Father of all lights and cosmic purpose.
He and he alone manifests the power, love, and wisdom of the threefold flame. Faith, or the blue plume thereof, identifies with the vibration of power; for faith is "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth."1 Hope identifies with the yellow plume, and it is to be found in the holy comfort of true illumination; it springs from the Christ mind, from the mind that hath wisdom. And, as you shall see, charity is the boundlessness of divine love.
To me there is given in this year of our Lord, 1969, the cosmic honor and responsibility of invoking in the hearts of men caught in the contemporary net of burgeoning illusion a truly spiritualized cosmic sense of space and time. To them belongs the sense of the importance of each lifestream, of seeing that each life is a divine mission and that they never ought to extinguish within their beings the full flowering of hope for a better tomorrow.
You do not know, beloved ones, in all of your wit and sophistication, how very important it is to develop the blessed feeling of cosmic hope: hope for the world, regardless of the terror produced in this age by mass disobedience to cosmic law; hope for the religions of the world, that ultimately some glimmer of light will penetrate the hard shell of bigotry that would separate one chosen son of God from another.
In heaven - where we can see directly into the heart's light of all whom we meet even as they can see into ours, where we can see the purpose behind each individual's thoughts and feelings - we do not encounter the difficulties of mutual understanding that you do on earth. For there, midst the throng of astral density and denial, plagued by uncertainties, you sometimes viciously attack one another, even those who are serving the same God and the same holy cause.
If men and women would allow the flame of hope and its comforting Christly illumination to penetrate their every thought, and if they would pay less attention to human personalities and human motives, they would find a great deal more peace penetrating their worlds. With this thought in mind - that world struggle is basically the struggle of individuals - we should like to invoke a greater effulgence of the flame of peace within the minds and hearts of those who are following the same divine plan which we followed and even within those who profess to follow the Path, knowing not that they have erred along the way.
Now as the cosmic tally of each man's karmic record is being counted, it does make a difference, regardless of opinions to the contrary, whether or not men and women are aware of the fact that this 'Judgment' is taking place daily. For when individuals begin to think seriously about the business of world karma in the light of personal karma, when they understand that all men are being tested by the compensatory laws that reflect acts, thoughts, and feelings and that there is no such thing as private karma, when they realize that each individual act is reflected on a total world scale, they will see that their best hopes lie in externalizing at all times, regardless of outer conditions, the type of consciousness that expresses concern for and involves itself in the entire creative process.
Today many individuals are continuously absorbed in a round of alternating moods of joy and depression. One moment they are up, and then like a roller coaster, whoops! down they go into the valley of delusion and unhappiness. Because hope is such a propellant to the consciousness, I would like you to take a more than ordinary look at it as a gift of God; for when you perceive the tangibility of hope even as you do the tangibility of faith, which is the substance of things hoped for,2 you will realize that it is the second step to the externalization of the divine plan - and a very important one at that.
My life is but one among many divine expressions dedicated to the fulfillment of hope in all life. I have offered myself in the service of the light to generate and regenerate momentums of hope and to charge them into the forcefields of individuals so that they may have the benefit of my momentum and thus add it to their own. This is the way in which much good is multiplied upon earth.
It is somewhat like the story of the little boy with the loaves and fishes.3 In the hands of the master, multiplication occurs and the 5,000 are fed. In the hands of the devotee, the alchemist, the true servant of God, hope becomes a vehicle for the expression of his faith and the amplification of his charity as it unites with the universal charity of God in the heart of the Father of all.
How beautiful it will be, you say, when all of life fulfill the divine plan. Yes, this is true, beloved ones. But do you realize how very important your own life is as it represents a cog in the great cosmic wheel? Do you realize how many people you can contact and benefit daily by your own faith and the opportunity not only to hope but also to decree the best things for all men?
We have noted of late that those who ought to be setting an example for their brethren of lesser attainment are instead gossiping about some of our brightest sparks. We would remind each and every one that the law will one day bring to their own doorsteps a realization of just how they have hindered the plan by their thoughtless conversation without ever having helped it. Dear ones, many individuals, out of the inadequacies and failures of their own lives, feel compelled to speak disparagingly of the lives of others. How painstakingly they will one day pull out each thread that was carelessly inserted into their weavings is a subject that would not be too hopeful a one; therefore, I shall not dwell upon it. I mention it only in passing because it is necessary to be not only constructive in all of your doings, but also to avoid the negative aspects of destructivity and destructive sowings.
Now in 1969, the year when the Cosmic Mother comes into greater prominence than ever before, when the world sense of the Cosmic Mother is increased and the fulfillment of universal Sonship is revealed anew to the devotees, we are concerned that their hopes should mount up, indeed it has been said, as on eagle wings.4 We are concerned that men dare, that they do, and that whereas they may keep silent abut their plans in advance, they understand that when the time comes for them to be active in the service of God, they must, as the Gideonites did, break their pitchers and let their light shine.5
The time has come when the resources that God has placed within his chosen ones must be mustered and put into the service of the light, for the dragon of world destructivity has spread abroad in the world awful momentums of fear and competitiveness in a vain attempt to strangle the infant Messiah. You see, beloved ones, Messias is ever being reborn - reborn in the hearts and minds and lives of individuals. All need to understand and accept the fact that the nativity of the Christ occurs within themselves and that as he is reborn within them, as he matures within them, their life expressions will take on new garments of hope.
Now hope is a white flame, but it often comes with the dawn of illumination; for the white fire embodies within it the essence of the yellow. For practical purposes, the flame of the Christ and the white garments of the Christ can envelop one with illumination just as effectively as the garments of the Brothers of the Golden Robe. You see, beloved ones, all of the rays are to one purpose: the victory of the Christ in manifestation. We sometimes use simile in order to illustrate the Law of Correspondence and the practical relationships between peoples, but we are even more concerned that our brethren do not become involved in the trivial while ignoring those vastly important areas of cosmic service and brotherhood.
In the hope that the students will examine themselves carefully - not with a view toward criticism, but with a view toward constructivism - we ask that once again you will learn daily, as it was taught in golden ages gone by, to hope for yourselves the best things. While the best things in life are said to be free, we say that this freedom is the buoyancy of God. It is the elevation and the upliftment that comes through divine ideas captured in the folds of individual consciousness.
The ideas of God are the most precious of all gifts. And being the most precious, they are the most dear. Therefore, those who would have the gift of hope and the best gifts that are freely obtained must understand that the Lord will require their allness in service so that he may indeed, out of the bounty of his graciousness, bestow upon them and all of life the allness of himself. This is the best hope.
Abundantly I remain, for the abundant life for all,