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To All Who Would Guard the Chalice of the Heart:
When the brilliant flash of the divine idea to create dazzlingly expanded its diadem of myriad electrons into space, from the first photon of light until infinite appearing points of light composed the cosmos, it was an exercise in crowning the Son of God with earnest dominion.
The hypocrisy of the present era of earth's evolution is a pain to many hearts, for it is a clear indication to those who can discern the face of life that man is in no way linked with the crowning chain of cosmic purpose. His energies go down the drain and are swallowed up as in a giant hole, as his attention pursues a senseless series of moving pictures, accelerating the trend of degradation.
How is it that the wise men of the nations seem unable to discern the effect of eye-pictures upon their children and themselves? Do they not perceive in the misuse of the sacred fire through crude and unnecessary displays of sex and the infiltration of horror, murder, and fear in advertising and entertainment that men are lowering the consciousness of the entire world? Do they not have eyes to see that some men are making merchandise of them? Yet, these same men who control the theater and motion picture industry could produce uplifting dramas that would exalt noble purpose and define magnificence of character rather than portray doubt, distrust, suspicion, fear, and the unwholesome conditions that have ever been apparent since mankind's departure from the throne of grace.
As the angels gaze upon the faces of little children who should be taught to pray and commune with the great silent invisible world of the Spirit during those formative years when their tiny minds are budding, as they witness the most awful formulations that will produce so much violence and hatred in their later lives, they, in their beautiful wisdom, ask themselves the question: "Why is it that humanity will not acknowledge that they are sowing the wind and will one day reap the whirlwind?"1
In fact, much if not all of the violence that humanity is facing today is the result of a deliberate manipulation of the minds of the people by those who are drunk with power. Guided by the darkest stars, they would cast down my son, they would cast down the Christ consciousness, they would cast down the essential saving grace inherent within awareness of the Only Begotten of God. The concept of the Only Begotten of God, full of grace and truth,2 when properly understood, reveals that God has begotten only good. No duality of good and evil came forth from his hand, but only the clearly defined purest light and noblest hope for all creation.
As it was in the time of Babel, so it is today: men in their psychological and intellectual pursuits ignore the great genius-power by which God framed the worlds, created the flexibility and marvelous tenacity of the mind and spirit of man, and endowed his best servants with illimitable grace. The world turns to the labyrinth of mental and materialistic probings; and authorities in the various fields of human endeavor, often differing from one another, create the wisdom of the world that is foolishness with God.3
It is not true that he who can create the stars and put them in their appointed places, he who can bring forth a living soul, spread abroad the canopy of space and direct the velocity of time, is certainly able to offer a better way of life to his creation than that Egyptian fleshpots, the pleasures of table and person, and an endless panorama of war, poverty, struggle, loneliness, and frustration of humanity?
When I appeared at Fátima (1917), I gave stern warning of impending conditions that would threaten the peace of the world and seek to destroy the spiritual Church that is the body of Christ. Cruel men, dark tyrants in high places, have invaded every area of civilization; and yet, the attention of the people is so easily dissipated as the quotient of each one's energy pattern is engaged in fruitless endeavors. Then how easily criticism becomes a weapon.
Those whose hearts, heads, and hands are offered in service to the spiritual hierarchy are often misunderstood and deliberately attacked by those who should know better. Whereas the blessed children of men do not know their best friends, either ascended or unascended, those who do are also found among their condemners, denying the Christ ere the cock crows thrice.4 It is not easy in this darkening hour for men and women who stand up for our cause. Yet, light must banish darkness and men must never lose heart or hope.
And so I say, renew yourself daily in the holy fountain. Turn your backs upon the dark and evil of the past. Long to see yourselves and others free in the divine plan fulfilled. So shall the brave light of a cosmic mother's heart be instilled in many, that the hand that rocks the cradle may be the hand that rules the world5 through the instilling of love and virtue and the guarding of the mind of the young from those destroyers whose hearts are hardened in self-love, calloused by thousands of inequities and stinging degradations.
Oh, turn to the heart of my Son, whose field of Light can so easily be invoked around your own blessed hearts! Immerse yourselves in the sweetness of the Christ consciousness, and let no one destroy in you that beauty which is the Light of God that never fails.