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The fashion of the times changes, but the kingdom of God changes not. Think! This which is within you, this beautiful focus you call soul, made in the image of God,1 is intended to endow your consciousness with its fragrances, its passion for delight, its outreach into Reality.
What shall I say then of the synthetic overlay fed by the constant drippings of human dreariness? Long ago Paul said, "Let us not be weary in well doing."2 There is a human tendency, which the scientists understand as inherent within metal, for the very atoms of substance to rebel against the constant outpicturing of sameness. Hence as a result of their rebellion, there sets in what is known as metal fatigue, the weariness of the particles of substance of their continual manifestation within the matrix of a specific object or activity.
When men understand Life better, they will see that unless the joyous, dancing electrons of which substance is composed were able to express spontaneously the beauties and perfection of the ongoingness of God, they could not possibly bear the burden through the millenniums of those undesirable forms and endowments of the human consciousness which are such an abomination to the progress of Life.
O hearts of Light, the shadows of the world are not of God! The fact that they are permitted at all is a manifestation of law and forward movement. It is ever God's hope that men will do better, that men will accept the great legacy of Life which He has so generously given to all, and that they will restrain themselves from dipping into those caldrons of seething human emotion which regurgitate upon the screen of Life those awful manifestations of pain and hardship which are no part of the Reality of God.
When we urge men to recognize the perfection of God, there are times when for purposes of contrast we unveil those unfortunate astral sequences and scenarios of half existence which offer a shadowland of enticement to the human monad. We pray that men will swiftly learn to discern the differences between the glamor of astral existence and the brilliance of real living that frees man to rise into the arms of God with the balm of sweet surrender that lends serenity to the soul moving onward.
If you stop and think about it, no one can hold riches or fame or family name generation after generation with any degree of certitude. One day the lesser aspect of man must joyously relinquish the little stairsteps upon which he has climbed to enter into the magnetic pull of his God Presence. Rising then into his essential greatness, the soul claims at last all that God envisioned for it. Heaven conspires to give every advantage to the individual monad and remembers his iniquities no more,3 casting them aside as though they had never existed.
How true it is that men are prone to honor that which is traditional and to look askance upon even the highest Reality when it does not appear through traditional channels. Would it not be wise, then, if embodied mankind began to consider the accuracy of their reason and the integrity of their own souls and to attune with the blessed focus of the eternal coal of fire upon the altar of being?
By being Self-true, men are able to see what is real instead of relying upon the words of men. Can't you see, beloved ones, that we are simply trying to give you a greater measure of perspective? Be careful that you do not use this perspective to reject what is real; but do learn to discern, and that well. The fact that many men accept a certain idea as being correct does not mean that it is, nor does it mean that it is not. Hence out of the crucible of experience, trial and error, continual faith, and a determination to know God will man come at last to the place where he will know himself as God.
To be a god of your own universe does not defeat the plan of the eternal Father. His greatest desire is to see that perfection which He has placed in all Life realized by man. As His offspring, all men are expected to follow the stream of the Law as it pertains to the perfect life. It is not as though men cannot; it is so frequently that they will not. And for what purpose do men despise the higher law of their being when by adhering to it they can, once the negative momentums of life are overcome, walk with less effort into the dominion of their spiritual treasure, the bounty of the Christ Consciousness that overcomes the world, and into that perfect Life which is God?
Oh, I know how the enemy has sown the tares4 that despise even the hearing of His name or the affirmation of His Being. They can hardly stand the concept of His existence. Well, don't you think, beloved ones, that it is a little foolish for them to muster all this opposition against a God whose existence they deny?
One day humanity will perceive en masse the goal of Life after they emerge from the crucible of their self-created trials to that position where they will summon that great measure of understanding which will make of all men the Universal Christ in consciousness. What some do not understand is that the days of man's travail can be shortened, that it is the will of God to shorten those days wherever possible.5 The elect are usually those who elect to pursue the higher Path. This means that they have chosen even as they were chosen, and their generated response precedes them upon the Path that leads to regeneration.
The Universal Mother would gather men and women from the four corners of the earth into the court of the Temple of Understanding, which is a spiritual temple built out of the giant hopes of God. No lilliputian world is this, but a world of experience in beauty, in the divine arts, in the divine sciences, and in the recognition of man's opportunity to create and to enjoy his creation. The pities of life must go down under the triumphs; but so long as men ally themselves with darkness and with their failure to exert upon life the pressures of their own understanding, they will continue to manifest in the mirror of consciousness those warps and waves of imperfection in which they dwell.
We would see men who have been lifted out of the socket of mortal density accept the fullness of their God-endowment and decide here and now that the quality of life upon earth shall be as it is in heaven. Don't you know, beloved mankind, how many powers of a spiritual nature are yours for the asking? Don't you know that the more they are correctly used, the greater the talent endowment becomes? "Choose you this day whom ye will serve,"6 for His is the Light of beginning.
Like the pale and pastel morning,
The dawn of Life appears to all
Expressing warning.
The shadow of the years,
In its essence bright and shining,
Contains the strands eternally
That are the substance
Of the morning
Grasping all eternity.
Devoted to the fire mist of creative essence within your heart, I AM
In the concept of monotheism the greatness of the Most High was spread abroad throughout the land; and the gods and demigods of the past fell as ashes. We are reminded of the great test of Baal when the call went forth unto God on high and the fire came down and licked the altars at the request of the great prophet.7 Now we say unto you all, the time has come when the fires of heaven must be kindled anew in this age, that the age be not dust and ashes, that the drabness of the challenges of science and knowledge depart from men in a pursuit of the understanding of the great purposes of Being which framed the worlds.
The world was not framed for better motors, for more efficient machines, for more deliberate diplomatic manipulations. The world was not framed for individuals to exert the power of mastery over other lives by subtle controls and hypnotism, by the hypnotic influences of the advertising marts and those who study how they may control mankind. The world was framed not only for a destiny that transcends this world, this earth, this great terrestrial globe turning 'neath the sun; but it was framed for an immortal ascendency of all phases of Life into the great cosmic purposes that shall dawn one by one as manifest markers upon the miles of progress for all.
The very solar system in which you live was intended to raise itself into new dimensions of cosmic progress; and Light upon the mountains was intended to be transmuted and translated as the fire of the individual's heart whereby the great magnet of the ascension in the Christ Consciousness as a halo of great white-fire Light around that one would raise the physical form, the mind, the soul, the breath, the allness of individuality into the arms of the Central Sun - not to be alone and to abide there, but to abide with others, with brothers, with sisters, with the Holy One within.
Pause to reflect; pause to direct; pause to control; pause for the goal. In the interval between thy acts, pause to consider their effect upon others. Pause not to trample upon hallowed Life beneath thy feet. The power of ahimsa may be impossible for many, and harmlessness may not be the forte of all. And perhaps 'tis true that it does not matter for some of these million few insects scattered beneath the feet whether or not they remain in form for a time or then are born again in other clime; for they belong to a different evolution. But nevertheless, the concept translated into higher dimensions would say:
Tread thou not upon thy brother's feet,
Nor cause him to stumble or fall;
But show compassion to all
Wherever it lies within thy power;
And thus thou shalt enhance the beauty of each hour
By godliness poured out in reins controlled
To manifest the power, the sacred goal,
And be ascended now in consciousness
To act as God, confessing all to Him
And committing all to Him,
Thus to persevere and win!
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.