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The sun shines bright over the world. The clouds of ignorance, of shame, of senseless struggle that have beleaguered humanity, spanning the centuries, continue to be magnified in the present hour; but the sun shines on. New direction must be accepted by humanity, ere they perish. Yet, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Whitsuntide, the Spirit of Pentecost, the Spirit of Christ-magnificence, is the wayshower to humanity in this age of turmoil and struggle.
How beautiful it would be if men and women could understand that except they become as a little child, they cannot enter in.1 It is a complex sophistication that has altered their views of reality and brought them again and again into strident conflict with one another. The answer lies not in an easy one-pointed panacea, but in the acceptance of the universal realities of the Spirit. These realities touch every area of man's life, but the pains of distortion in the current order of things have warped perspective and created a cloud of dust filled with the darkness of despair. And all of this is the result of uncleanness in the temple.
The purity of the Christian doctrines released through the penetrating words of the Master Jesus upon the hillsides of Judea and from the rivers and plains of Galilee conveyed a new message of the kingdom of heaven. Through the ages historians and men of the Church, not having the grasp, either spiritually or mentally, and lacking the stature of the Great Master, diluted his teaching and conveyed error to humanity in the name of Christ.
The minute errors that were laid in the foundation of the Christian church, while small enough in their day, grew to such proportions as to render almost impotent the pure and beautiful teachings of the Great Master. But the Holy Spirit has remained undiluted and unaffected by the conditioning of men's minds. It retains the great purity of Whitsuntide, the great purity of the White Sun Tide, the great purity of the eternal compassion of the Father seeking that which is lost to restore it to its former estate of God-beauty and trust.
The Father loves the Son; but the Father loves also the Sun community, the community of pure light and beauty. No unclean condition, no impure act can ever enter the City of the Sun Foursquare, the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. And within man there is a hunger for the knowledge of this kingdom; there is a hunger for the beauty of the Christ. In all of man's wandering from church to church, from organization to organization, he is steadfastly seeking the great reality of truth, the purity of God for himself and for humanity.
Unfortunately, the activities of darkness upon the earth are many. These are lodged in the hearts of men in the moldering and sometimes smoldering karmic pile that is a bric-a-brac of consciousness, eaten with moths and maintaining no tender regard for the young children of the world or for life itself. There is a continual attempt by the shadow of banality to extend its rule over the minds of men and to create the crassness of materialism and shame. How frequently this will take the form of maligning the very teachers who would serve the needs of humanity and the spreading abroad of malicious gossip, jealousy, and envy against their every attempt to serve the needs of humankind.
Again and again the Covenants of Asha (purity) have been broken. Again and again the young people have been misled by misguided social zealots who, in Christ's name and through many of the churches, would substitute for the Sacred Eucharist, the very living body of Christ truth, a social gospel compounded in the evil minds of those men whose goal is world domination.
Now, we know that mankind are beginning to realize that the world is in the grips of a very terrible force that seeks to utilize for the destruction of civilization the communications media and the great inventions brought forth by the masters through the scientists of the world for the benefit of man. The youth are being corrupted, and the more mature are witnessing an erosion of their own values. These are the effects of the activities of the brothers of the shadow, who have no power except that which men give to them as they seek to distort the values that have been the bulwark of civilization.
Remember, beloved ones, true values of the Spirit are always held invulnerable, locked within the human soul, placed there by God and his Son, the eternal Christos. Beware, then, of those who are wolves in sheep's clothing,2 who would becloud the sun of diving beauty that is the great Pentecost of communion between man and God. I refer not to sect, but to the great reality of the Spirit which can be shared by any part of life; for God is no respecter of men's persons,3 but he gives his love equally, freely to all. Yet his love and his energy are not distributed to men that they might destroy, but in order for them to construct spirals of the Spirit, of positivity, and of cosmic gain.
The wealth, beauty, and intelligence of the Holy Spirit are nonpareil; these virtues excel all others. As the representative of the Holy Spirit, I urge upon humanity that they see to it, before it is too late, that the agencies of light are given grace and support in their causes; that they recognize that the agencies of darkness have compounded, even as they have exploited the thirsts and hungers of the people, an empire of material gain which they are now using to overcome the activities of the progenitors of spiritual reality. But, despite all efforts to prevent the fulfilling of divine prophecy, the true teachings of Christ are being communicated to the world today through The Summit Lighthouse and our beloved messengers.
This activity is designated by the hierarchy to help humanity in their hour of greatest need. Its mouth is open to declare the Word of the Lord; and we stand firmly behind the protection of order in society from the evil that has been spread abroad among men in order to destroy them, to create chaos and confusion, and to prevent the messages of the child of God, the great Prince of Peace, from reaching the people.
Do not believe, then, all of the darkness that the ministers of propaganda and the controllers of television and of the motion picture industry cause to be issued forth from behind their screens of seeming impregnability! Do not believe all of the malicious lies and false accusations that are constantly being leveled at those who will take a stand for truth!
Recognize once and for all that the answer to the world's problems lies in the Holy Spirit and in the covenant of purity. Only by repudiating the darkness in oneself and in the strongholds of the world, only by affirming the glorious light of the inflowing golden age and standing up for Christ and the Brotherhood can you assist in the great ordeal of planetary deliverance and help humanity today.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let all who are unafraid and who can renew their trust in the beauty of the plan of God hold fast to his hand today, for he will never fail them. We call for vigilance and the defense of the faith against all enemies, for the toppling of the bastions of darkness, and for divine union with God and his Spirit of infinite grace.
In the moment of peril, I remain wedded to your victory.