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To Those Who Are Still Willing to Listen and to Be God-Taught:
All over the world, where the vagaries of nature manifest alternately as sun and shadow, swirling cloud and falling rain, sunlight and moonbeam, hail and dancing snowflake, the beings of earth, air, fire, and water - guided and guiding intelligences operating under the Father's hand of love, under hierarchy - are also affected by the alternate droopings or upliftings of men's minds.
The kaleidoscope of natural manifestation, seen in minute segments, presents its wonders to eye, to ear, and to mind. But witnessed on a larger scale, the kaleidoscope is even more magnificent, as if a number of theaters of nature were functioning simultaneously and being played upon by the jeweled reflections of the light of the stars, the moon, the sun, or the twinkle of manmade lights dashing to and fro.
Midst all of this beauty the inhabitants of the invisible world carry on their activities, often denied by mankind in their sophistication and sense of the ordinary. But the miracle of the child's heart, even in countries behind the iron curtain, steadfastly reaches up through all of the drama of nature to hold reverence with life in the chalice of consciousness. It is as though the beauty of a miniature star of hope glistened in the mind and being of the child.
But with the passing of the years the confusion and brittleness of the synthetic consciousness distorts, destroys, and defiles in the consciousness of the maturing soul the wondrous purity of God that links all of nature in a comprehensive whole of the Christ radiance. For as envisioned by God, the Earth is a luminous orb; and all of the multitudinous facets of nature harmonize in a symphony of abundance, joy, and exquisite tenderness.
The dark threads, the coarse threads - these come from the activities of the black magicians and man's domination of natural forces from far-off millenniums. That these threads have been preserved to the present hour and increased is the cause of all sorrow and pain upon the planet. For in the heart of the All-Father, as it is well known by every angel, is the cascade of light from soundless heights, leading the entire world to a vision of ethereal perfection which also permeates the natural order, visible even to the mortal eye.
The glory of God that shines behind the veil, known to us of the angelic hosts, has the power in its penetration to transmute every trace of hatred, of shadow, of darkness, and of stain in the world until at last the fairyland of cosmic wonder that God would make of all nature is seen by men; and as they glimpse this vision, the internal nature of man is changed by nature even as nature continues to be changed by man.
The interchange between man and nature is seldom recognized by humanity, passing as they do so quickly from their body temples and living out so shortened a mortal span. But we of the angelic hosts, pressing our hearts of light ever in service to humanity all the while retaining our conscious awareness of the Father, move hither and yon in the ministry of our love to the children of Earth.
We kneel beside the bed of a child whose thoughts are caught up in prayer; we hover near a little babe, frightened by the howling of the wild winds from the mountains; we tend a little girl who screams in terror of the loud peals of thunder in her land and clutches her blanket or her mother's hand without total consolation. Everywhere the angels go to minister. Yet at the time of Christmas, when the consciousness of humanity is more inclined to accept the miracles of life, we are able to perform a greater service because of the currents of receptivity generated in the hearts of men.
We say, make the miracle and you make the pathway to our abode. And it is truly the sense of the miraculous that enables man both to receive and to benefit from the simple ministrations of cosmic law - the blessings of the healing of the mind, of the healing of the emotions, of the healing of the physical body, of the healing of the memory body as the stings of past errors smart the consciousness of man.
We say, then, as we are preparing from the angelic level our Christmas gift to the children of Earth, bear in mind that the garment of the Christ with all of its ethereal beauty is already sheltering the heart of an infant humanity. We say "infant" because, with all of their scientific knowledge and their treasure-house of natural resources, mankind have ignored - in the coarseness of their thoughts and in their overconcerns for self and those immediately connected therewith - the need to feel a real world thought. We speak not of a thought of union that would unite the world for the sake of political, economic, or religious control; but we speak of the thought of union that unites each monad, each point of light, with the Central Sun of cosmic innocence.
If this 'world sense', this Weltanschauung were embraced by humanity, then the natural order of all things, regardless of prevalent forms of government, would always make room in the inn of being for the universal Christ; it would always hold a sense of obedient awareness of the voice of God speaking even in the most unexpected places. If you will humble yourself beneath the Father's love, securing also his wisdom and recognizing the flow of his power, you lives can be changed each day and the whole Christmas season will be translated into a paean of cosmic meaning that will teach you to share in the drama of the most far-off worlds.
Little lamps twinkling in the heavens speak of others who have long been aware of the Christ Mass; thus it is not merely with the traditional charm that surrounds it all that we are concerned, but it is with the precious contact with the secret - the eternal secret of the universal Child, the Wonderful, Counsellor, The Prince of Peace, The mighty God1 within that beats and sustains the impulse of life in the center of your being - that we are concerned.
It is our desire to fill the chalice of each one's being with an increasing awareness of the law of Love as it is taught through the ministrations of every avatar and promised one; and, above all, it is our desire to transmit to the world the sense of God's love for the individual. Men may worship at the shrine of the Christ in Bethlehem, but until they worship at the shrine of the Christ within themselves and see his abiding presence there, unfolding through the experiences of life, they may not be able to summon the wisdom, the love, and the power to do the Father's will in their daily thoughts and deeds. It is ever thus when men fail to recognize the presence of the Christ in themselves and others: desecration and pain follow where only blessing is intended by God.
We urge, then, upon all a continual feeling of awareness that awakens within the soul a knowledge of the care and concern of God for the individual. When you communicate to one another, let it be through a communicated awareness of the Christ within speaking to the Christ within and of the Christ in nature, Messias, being everywhere.
The blood of Christ is always translatable into the life of Christ; for the life is in the blood and the blood is in the life. Therefore when we think of the purple and golden rays of ministration and service, it is to think of the master and of his love for humanity. The pouring out of your life's energies in cosmic service makes you to follow in his footsteps. And then we who are of the angelic hosts will minister unto you - whether man, woman, or child - and our love will be recognizably manifest for you.
This is our gift of each day which we give as increased awareness at this season, mindful of the need to draw together and to unite the many divisionary forces in the world with the one Spirit of the All-Father whose love is with you always.
Devotedly in his service, I remain