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To Those Who Would Pursue the Momentums of God's Will:
The subject of momentums is brought to mind by the great need for every student of Ascended Master law to recognize that the stream of time which he sometimes so carelessly allows to slip through his fingers is in reality God's energy allotted to his lifestream for a specific purpose. He is accountable for his expenditure of time and can, through the release from his Christ Self that descends as a magnificent stream of Light and energy, apply a certain portion of that Light and energy to the freeing of his world from those emotional burdens which consume his time, his attention, and his energy in fruitless manifestation.
It is important that each individual should begin to pursue the correct use of the commodity of time. The idle mind has been called various things, the "devil's workshop" being among them. The human ego, as it continually torments itself with visions of human misapprehensions, of human statements made against one's lifestream, of the sharp cutting of criticism, condemnation, and judgment, can play no other role in life, beloved ones, except to consume God's energy fruitlessly. Not only are such activities not constructive, but they are used deliberately to introduce destructive trends in thought and feeling.
Now the subject of momentums is closely related to the use of time; for it is ever true that the more mankind indulges in the habit of consuming his energy in the hapless activities of the ego, the more he is apt to continue to do so. Thus he builds a negative momentum. And this applies to every human tendency, constructive as well as destructive. Let the student, then, learn the power of habit. For it is through bad habit that man becomes the victim of negatively qualified energy; and it is through constructive effort, which results in positive momentums, that mankind becomes the conqueror of the negative patterns which he himself has either created or permitted to invade the otherwise happy precinct of his mind.
The mind of man should become an altar upon which the thoughts of God may be projected. If by His thoughts and will God created in the universe the manifestation of every lovely star, of a diamond or a rose, does it not follow that the mind that becomes the altar of God in sweet and gentle surrender is a creative mind whose play of creativity intrudes itself directly upon every area of that individual's life, producing God-happiness, God-control, and good fruit?
Who, beloved ones, determines what thoughts shall use your mind if it is not yourself? Oh, we are aware of the interplay of forces, some of which, while they are constructive on this planet and in many environmental situations, can and do become destructive through misuse. We are aware of the need for the student of Light to invoke his tube of Light, putting it firmly in place around his every thought and feeling, and to seal himself in God's magnificent violet fire and the feeling of mercy and compassion that it engenders. This he must do at the same time that he is building a continuous momentum of those thoughts that will eventuate in the happiness-producing vibratory qualities of divine loveliness.
It is not only wise man who takes advantage of the correct use of momentums but also a host of Divine Beings, including God Himself. Therefore, do not be afraid or unwilling to invoke in your behalf any or all of God's laws in the balance of perfection that can and will produce miracles in manifestation as the result of the wise use of those laws.
It would be very nice if all life could be taught the correct use of momentums, but unfortunately many are still in the position of learning how to employ not only the laws of God but His energy as well. It is necessary that people should begin to understand that while some, from the standpoint of development, are in the colleges and universities of the Spirit, others are very busy being delighted with the kindergarten manifestations of God's beauty. To them the simplest laws require explanation. Wise, then, is the individual who does not consider himself to be above reviewing those precious aspects of the Law that, when properly applied, lead on to self-mastery and God-control.
In reality The Brotherhood is taking every part of Life forward according to its own gait and ability to receive. But this forward movement of the soul can only be assimilated by the outer consciousness through the correct use of thought and feeling and by the correct application of free will. After all, beloved ones, what are you from the standpoint of your personal self if you are not in effect living in your thoughts and feelings as the very expression thereof? Watching the quality of those thoughts and feelings, guarding against the manifestation of negative momentums and establishing in their place those positive actions which Jesus exemplified - this will provide you with a godly determination for your future and for the future of all mankind. And this is the most cosmic action you can possibly take to produce upon the screen of your heart and mind the thoughts and feelings of the Christ.
Sometime, somewhere you must learn to guard against the development of negative momentums! Sometime, somewhere you must learn to school yourselves in the development of those benign momentums which, like a giant wave of tidal intensity, will sweep you with the greatest of ease over all human barriers and those destructive trends which dominate humanity today.
In the interest of humanity's well-being and the progress of the students of the Light, I have released these thoughts to you today that you may think about them and recognize the great truth contained in these simple statements. By your acceptance and practice of these principles, your own good momentums will rise and propel you forward upon the spiritual Path until those former actions which brought so much distress into your worlds will seem as chaff before a hurricane.
Trusting for the glory of God and the development of true Selfhood that you will pay heed to what I have spoken, I, Kuthumi, seal you in the gentle, unpretentious momentum of devotion to the wisdom of God that in its practical manifestation enfolds you now as you summon the will to make your world a world of cosmic generosity unto yourselves and humanity.
In the name of the abundant Life of thoughts and feelings dedicated to Him, and under the burden and blessing of God-control, I remain
I AM Chananda of The Great White Brotherhood of The Indian Council; and I extend to you the passions of eternity, the understanding that it is wise to be moved by the Divine Sea and to find nestling within the heart of being, even within the heart of the great shell, the beauty and iridescence of the pearl of great price - your contact with God, your contact with your true Self ...
Beloved ones, there are those who have passed the initiation called the obscure night, or the dark night of the soul. These understand that even if God cared nothing for them, they still must kindle within themselves, within and upon the altar of being, the flame of love for Him and for others. For only then can God be born within them. When they are willing to forsake, to relinquish even the thought of someone's concern for themselves, in the brightness and illumination that God must be born as the Christ-spark upon the heart's altar in the darkest night, the beautiful Light appears. Each must be God-born and God-ordained. Will you understand the meaning of that bubbling fountain of joy that the world feels as a part of the via dolorosa - "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?1 - as the impassioned plea of one passing through the dark night of the soul portrayed in the writings of Saint John of the Cross?
Our Brotherhood desires to strip mankind of the concept of self-attention, of self-fear, of self-doubt. Man who says, "I cannot do it, I cannot!" must learn to say "I can by God's grace to do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me!"2 And the full fashion and measure of the Law is the extension of infinite love into the domain of each individual, lifting that individual and casting him not down into the depths of his own well of despair. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.3 But can man see himself as God? Nay, through the sea of selfhood man drowns and is no more. For self-love will not truly bring you emancipation, or the bounty of freedom, or the strength for the years ahead. But God's love will. Drawing with a power of infinite magnetism into the very fibers of the soul, the strength of eternity does flow ...
O beloved ones, above all I urge upon you then this night that you shed the skin, the horrible snakeskin, of discouragement and cast it to the wind! Consume it in the violet transmuting flame if you are able, and denude yourself of everything that is not joy and hope and peace. For born out of joy and hope and peace and out of the Spirit Most Holy comes the sense of man's real identity - the fashion of cosmic times that bypasses all of the cycles of men's lives that have gone on before and produces the miracle of cosmic devotion within the crucible of mankind's experience, leading him at last into those holy and cosmic passions out of which is born a Christ in the garden of Gethsemane - able, then, to extend his hands, and even facing the very extinction of his life from a momentary standpoint to cry out "Not my will, but Thine be done! O my Father, if it be Thy will, let this cup pass from me!"4 ...
Move forward, then, into the Light of your Presence. Rise upward, then, in the strength of ten thousand suns. Behold the newness of life that is before you as your own. Together there is strength, and yet in oneness there is greater strength; for the oneness is one of Spirit, and the togetherness of the flesh may not endure except it be cemented with the power of the eternal love of Spirit.
Note: The complete dictation of Beloved Chananda is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MTR 7203, The Summit Lighthouse.