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To All Who Love God - To All Who Profess to Love God:
I now make a plea for the avoidance of harshness in human life. How much suffering there is in the world order because of human selfishness and a lack of understanding between people! And O mankind of earth, how much suffering occurs each day in the various countries of the world simply because of carelessness and human cruelty.
If individuals only knew the Law! For it is impossible to do harm to anyone without receiving the last jot and tittle of recompense,1 whether in this world or in the world to come. It is folly to think that men will escape the result of their own acts. In accordance with the consistency of cosmic law, it is ever true that as men sow, so shall they reap.2 The fact that the mercy of Heaven has extended pardon to men again and again is no sign that in matters of human relations where mankind fail to express a reasonable kindness to one another they are not forging a yoke of drudgery around their own necks.
But then I think of how true it is that this is not the will of God. I think also of His great mercies which endure forever,3 because those who are the recipients of the greatest mercy are those who receive eternal Life. Mankind gaze at the spectacle of their years as though they were entitled to eternity in their present state. Certainly it ought to be apparent to the discerning thinker that God could not limit His creation or the measure of its progress to the confusing aspects of life that are in the world today. It is never the intent of God to neglect His creation and its marvelous opportunity to progress.
Let every heart pause to reflect upon the goodness of God, to realize His care and consideration not only in this year but in all past times, and to behold the hand of His grace extending itself into the whole domain of the future for all. Worlds aborning and worlds adying are simply the fulfillment of infinite Law which governs the cycles of Life in all parts of Cosmos. In a like manner, the process of metamorphosis and the entire spectrum of change in human life are intended to follow the measured cadences of God's care.
It is in receiving comfort from the Holy Spirit that mankind are imbued with the sense of complete peace and rest; yet how marvelous is the balance that enables them to see once and for all that peace is not a cessation of activities, but a blessed expansion of God at rest in service, as Being is intended to be God in action. For both manifestations are necessary polarities of His grace.
If men and women would only recognize the creative motions of the universe as their own, as a part of their spiritual heritage, they would see quite plainly that the present regime of struggle against confusion and against false management of the lives of others by diverse forms of tyranny is only a darkening cloud that, like burned-out cinders, clogs the atmosphere of man's consciousness. The infamous history of human tyrants and ungodly people involves far too great a percentage of human life when one considers the multitudes who have mimicked the wickedness of both their lords and their peers. Only the few have understood the true meaning of life not as a continuing struggle, but as a pulling-together for a higher glory than that of the human ego; these have held out the hand of faith to the purposes of Deity.
Men who witness the magnificence of God and of His Spirit could in the name of pure reason scarcely believe Him incapable of dominating all mankind. The fact that He does not shows that He has placed a contract of life in the hands of embodied mankind. It is up to them as they pursue the highest goal in the universe, oneness with God, to find those regenerative faculties of Light and hope for themselves that their hearts might thereby bow low in reverent gratitude to God for the gift of Himself. While flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,4 the triumph of the soul arrayed in its divine vestments is one of mastery over all man's darkness by the expansion and acknowledgment of His Light.
Have you thought how closely Christ identifies with this magnificent outpouring that I refer to as Light? Christ is Light; and the Christ within you, each one, is Light. I make an impassioned plea to humanity, before it is too late and the karmic vials are poured out upon the earth, to seek to alleviate harshness, to repudiate it in all of its forms by the action of their thoughts powerfully centered in God. For man's inhumanity to man and his failure to meet the human need with divine love, whenever and wherever it appears, are often the result of hardness of heart,5 which must be challenged by fervent supplication and the careful doing of the will of God.
Only by the grace of God can the world order be moved forward into the domain of divine kindness and all people find at last the great possibilities of the kingdom envisioned so long ago by my Son, Jesus Christ, by others before him,6 and by the All-Father from the first page of the cycle unto the present.
That the anointing of God be sought, that His Spirit be encouraged to do its mighty work among men to alter the structure of weakness and bind up the wounds of humanity is my prayer.
Gracious ones, persevere! And you shall win! The challenge to every chela, every would-be initiate, to all who would come under our disciplines is given herewith. Persevere! And you shall win!
The thought of merger with the Divine ought to be a blessed goal wherein all can shine. Competition and the vain spirit of egocentricity have no place in our disciplines; for one must work unswervingly for a purpose and devote oneself to the fulfillment of that purpose. The power to see the Promised Land vouchsafed of old to Moses as he came out of Egyptian bondage is one which to modern-day men and women must report the challenges of the times and make them aware of the need to persevere - to persevere in all that is of the past so that the untransmuted and banal aspects thereof may become vanquished in the name of victory; to persevere in the present hour when the drabness of appearances and the seeming slowness of pace does not temper the zeal of the fire of the heart; to persevere in the future by a glorious hope that refuses to leave the screen of the mind; to persevere at all times and to win.
There are those whose beings, like bones bleached upon the desert, strew the landscape because they did not persevere. They thirsted when no water was available and they could not find within their souls the power to seek it although it may have been nigh, even at hand. There are those whose steadfastness wanes when victory is at the very door. There are those who do not understand the mercy of God. It has been said, "His mercy endureth forever";7 and if we are to act the part of those who believe in the rewards of the Most High God, we must see His mercy as enduring for us, a flame of compassion that tempers circumstance to ability and power to manifest the law of victory for each one.
If you could see at inner levels, as we do, the power of holy example as it was made known to The Karmic Board where individuals surmounted most frightful circumstances to become victors, you would recognize that often, by comparison measurement, your own struggles are but those of an ant seeking to reach a nearby anthill. Men and women of today, recognize that the challenges of the past in a chameleon form are with you still. There is no difference between the challenges of this hour and those of the past save that you have a greater comfort for your physical being. The weaknesses brought upon mankind by soft living this past century have framed for him a weaker physical body in many cases and a mind that could not have endured the struggles which your forebears did. Yet there are challenges before you which they did not know.
We are aware of the changes in the times, yet the psyche of man, the soul, remains the same. You are you; and it is your destiny to climb upward on the walls so perpendicular and slippery as to be impossible to a mountain climber, so that you can climb up out of the cup of mortal density and a lack of realization, until as you peer over the brim and behold the mighty Cosmos whose throbbing heart is all around you, you will not be staggered by the vision which you see but will say, "I as God will win and persevere!"
You must rest in the arms of Almighty Bliss. You must be consumed by the fires of victory and be willing to relinquish your hold upon that parcel of ground which you claim as your own. You must see the vast sky of infinity stretching boundless in all directions. You must see there a perfection of great care, and loving and watchful service whereby, although it does not always seem to be to your mortal mind and to appearances, there is a compassionate and watchful eye over you every hour of the day and the night, and the wings of the morning are spread in their eternal brightness upon the mountains. And 'neath those wings there is a glow-ray that casts its glow upon the terrain beneath; and as you behold those wings, the raising power of the great sun may in some cases remember the lofty and ancient Egyptian call "Holy art Thou, O Aton, Thou God of Oneness!"
Note: The complete dictation of Beloved Serapis Bey is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MTR 6604, The Summit Lighthouse.