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To Those Waiting upon the Lord Who Cometh with Fan in Hand to Thoroughly Purge His Floor:
The beauty of the God-design in all creation bears witness to the perfect concept held by God for every man.
As a point of spiritual discernment, the students of Light ought to examine carefully the activities of the spoilers, so-called by reason of their immature conduct and their alliance with the powers of darkness, who utter unfounded statements against the laborers in the Father's vineyard.1
He who said, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free"2 also spoke these words: "By their fruits ye shall know them."3 While we advocate that the student of cosmic law become as harmless as a dove, flooded with the milk of human kindness tethered to divine kindness, we also advocate that he should learn to be wise - even wiser than a serpent4 - in this era of great social cleavage when the hearts of men are nigh failing them for fear.5
Saint Paul referred to those who become hypercritical of individuals and organizations dedicated to the beautiful purposes of God, saying, "There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."6 Let the students of Light understand, then, that unfortunate though it may be, there are those who move among the brethren, professing that they come in the name of God, who participate in evil rituals of gossip and slander and thereby tie themselves at inner levels to forces not of the Light. A word of explanation is due from our level to those sincere students who desire to know the truth about the deceivers.
It was recorded by John in the Book of Revelation, "The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night."7 This passage refers to those fallen angels who were cast out of heaven and, for reasons best known to the Lords of Karma, were sent into embodiment to balance their karma among the very ones upon earth they had sought to overcome from their astral vantage. "Clouds they are without water," noted Saint Jude, "wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever."8 The presence of individuals upon the planetary body who espouse the cause of darkness should therefore come as no surprise to the students of Light. Let them be wary, then, of such as these; and let them see to it that they never underestimate the evil intent of these wolves in sheep's clothing!9
Their modus operandi requires an explanation, and I shall give it. First let me say that the reason that the tactic of criticism, condemnation, and judgment is used by the evil powers upon this planet is that it has proved successful in "subverting whole houses" and turning individuals against the Light of the Christ. The chastisement of the devotees of Truth by those who brazenly speak out against their Light is a token and a symbol of their un-Christlike state of consciousness. These slayers of the Lamb of God10 shall certainly give account for what they do; and those who heed them will find themselves caught in a web of darkness spun by those who have misappropriated the divine energy and entered into a negative fiat of their own egocentric creation.
As you know, energy released from God or man is girded into spirals that begin with a circle, or cycle, and then rise in the form of a cone or a cylinder. When misqualified by incorrect thought and feeling processes in man, these spirals, eddying upward, become charged with negative magnetism, which, like a cyclone, carries its own vortex of destructive energy.
When this vortex of charged hatred comes in contact with the aura of either the new student or the old one whose faith has never actually been grounded in the rudiments of Truth, the doubts and questions of an undisciplined mind or an untutored heart may cause him to be receptive to a word of seemingly well-intended caution from another. Quite naturally, we expect that even the highest things of the Spirit will be placed under scrutiny by those who are unfamiliar with the teachings of the Masters, inasmuch as they have not experienced the Truth for themselves and have no a priori evidence to confirm what they hear.
Over the thread of the attention, then, the vortex is transferred from the aura of the speaker to that of the listener; in a flash there is a release of the crimson and black substance of criticism, condemnation, and judgment, which leaps the gap between monads or even between groups and quickly subdues the enthusiasm, the joy, and the great impulses of Love and Truth with which the Masters have imbued the innocent of heart.
I would like to point out that in their appraisal of one another, individuals are capable of seeing in a given moment only a small portion of the total life record. Through the bias of a partial assessment it is easy to overlook the radiant good that has flowed through a lifestream. Nevertheless, when someone raises an eyebrow concerning the integrity of a servant of God, those who are yet unsure of their ability to evaluate the situation may allow their own minds to enter the limited frame of reference of the critical observer. Thus they forget that there is undoubtedly more to the spectrum of the devotee's service than meets the eye; and they even forget the virtue that they themselves may have witnessed in the life of the one in question.
Absorbing, then, the negative concepts of the condemner, those who lend their ears to ungodly conversation are no longer in a position of judging righteous judgment.11 Failing to realize that they may lose their faculties of discernment by even listening to gossip, they become the unwitting victims of a hypnotic influence, a magnetic forcefield, that spews from the aura of the betrayer as a smoke screen of deception. And if they are not wary, little by little this forcefield will permeate their entire consciousness until at last they cast all their hopes into a sea of bitterness and discouragement.
These are among the most important and more obvious reasons why Saint Germain has so often admonished the students of the Light to avoid the criticism, condemnation, and judgment of individuals and their activities. There are other reasons involving karma and the second death which I shall not go into at this time: suffice it to say that the return to the sender of such virulent energies directed against the children of God is fraught with grave danger. Knowing this law, the Master said: "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"12
Then there are those who are overly cautious and carry their reserve to an extreme. Let them not forget that God has given man the faculty of spiritual discernment through the Christ Self and the Threefold Flame within the heart. You therefore have the divine authority to discern the fruit of the Spirit in the lives of others, to apprise yourself of what is right and what is wrong, to shun evil, and to expose its lie wherever manifest. But when you exercise this right, you should do so impersonally and with humility - sitting not in the seat of the scornful,13 but ever beholding the Reality of the Christ in those who have temporarily come under a sinister influence. Jesus said, "Judge not, that ye be not judged";14 therefore, you must beware to judge not the individual, whose heart only the Lord doth know, but his fruits; for by his fruits you shall know what is acting in his world and with what forces he has aligned his consciousness.
It should always be remembered that "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: [for] against such there is no law."15 Motives and acts that ignite hatred, strife, sorrow, confusion, agitation, and antagonism among brethren should be recognized for what they are. "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?"16 These thorns never emanate from the Christ Consciousness of the Rose of Sharon,17 but from the consciousness that has aligned itself with the forces of antichrist.
Those who truly love God will make calls to The Karmic Board for the illumination of those whose energies have been darkened by denigratory deeds. However, the fact remains that there are those who in the present and forseeable future cannot be expected to respond to the outpourings of Light which the children of God invoke; for by nature they are concerned only with the personal self and its aggrandizement.
Out of their ignorance of the Great Law and their jealousy of other parts of Life, those whose minds are bent by the perverseness of selfish concern, who will not cease to analyze the faults of their neighbors, cannot hope to understand the meaning of the abundant Life lived in God until they have shed the snakeskin of their personal identity pattern. In the vastness of Cosmos there is room for all to develop the fullness of their soul-potential and, in so doing, to transmute whatever impedes the flow of Light through them as they become one with the God-ideal in the truly abundant Life.
In a spirit of constructivism, born out of the desire to alert and to admonish, we release this report. It would be most beneficial if all men had the awareness of spirit to discern not only the signs of the times and the astrological impact thereof from a cosmic standpoint, but also the sure means of governing the actions of their world; yet although Heaven has decreed perfection for man, man has not yet appropriated all of the joy and wonder God has in store for him.
We advocate a recognition of the fact that whereas we always espouse the positive, the victorious, the perfect and complete kingdom of God, we perceive that habits of negation and energy misqualification formed in childhood and infancy have often served to cover humanity with an opaquing cloud of illusory substance that one day will be no more. The living God is neither despot nor tyrant; His is the highest way. Unfortunately, because of the nature of human habit, patterns entering the mind from the earliest years often seem correct when they are not, simply because of their long acceptance by the mind and feelings.
It is highly improper that students of the Light should be impugned by those who do not understand that the kingdom of God18 is truly within all who will open the door of their hearts to Love and Light, to peace and joy, to forgiveness and the beautiful thoughts of others, consciously created and upheld.
He who said, "Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you"19 also promised his flock, "Lo, I AM with you alway, even unto the end of the world."20 Certainly the fulfillment of his promise is more apparent in those kind moments when the magnet of your love for the ascended Christ, like a fire of living Truth, blazes its noontide glory throughout the worlds of all you meet regardless of their level of understanding.
Let honor and truth live. Let the strength of our Brotherhood expand into a full-blown maturity. Let the students of the Light be aware not only of the subtleties of the dark powers but also of the salvation of our God, by whose grace all who follow in the Master's footsteps shall be raised. There is but one Lord, and He maketh the sun to shine upon the just and the unjust21 until the day of the harvest when the tares are separated from the wheat.22