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The dominant error influencing the attitudes of millions among humankind is their basic misunderstanding of the Divine Ego. Even those who ought to know better because they have been taught the cardinal truths concerning their Christ-identity and the laws of their Divine Selfhood remain locked in an old encrusted concept which prevents them from relating to the Real Self and identifying that Self with God. Instead, they relate to the human ego, believing it to be the Real Self and hence a candidate for Godhood. It is to this basic misconception that the Hierarchy would direct your attention, that it might stand corrected once and for all.
When Paul said, "To be carnally minded is death,"1 he revealed a great mystery to those who were able to understand it. Owing to the computerized nature of the subconscious and its assimilation of multifractioned concepts not in keeping with the immaculate concepts of the soul, and owing to the fact that the human identity is in the process of transmuting base error, it is not ready to assume the role of the living God in man or to put on the vestments of Reality. Nevertheless, it is a common fallacy for man to think that he can, even as it is a common practice for the human ego to masquerade as the Divine.
The Light perfection of the Godhead, in its magnificent outreach to humanity, emanates rays of cosmic assistance through the agency of the Holy Spirit. These weave a chalice in the waiting hearts of the many, a setting for the Diamond Shining Mind of God that quickens the consciousness, enabling man to understand and treasure the emanations of the Infinite. Oh, how many misfortunes are the product of misunderstanding, and how very easy it is for the most devoted disciple to misunderstand either the teacher or the teachings!
Some see the pathway to God as one strewn with flowers, a perpetual Palm Sunday festival in which the beautiful image of the Saviour relates each one to the triumphal glory of the Christ as he passes by. Those who thus envision the Way should understand that those who would share in the glory must also share in the sacrifice; they must, if necessary, be prepared to stand trial before the tribunals of the world and receive the judgment of the carnal mind. They should realize that there are many who would walk the victorious pathway but there are few who are willing to crucify the ego within themselves. Those who fail to comprehend the mystery of dying to the world2 - as Paul said, "I die daily"3 - will never comprehend the mystery of eternal Life in the resurrection of their own Christhood, nor will they enter into oneness with Him who is indeed one with the Father and one with every true disciple - the Christ of the ages.
Pondering the matter of the human ego and its relationship to the Divine Ego, man ultimately discovers that he has no need for the former when the latter is enthroned in the citadel of being. The surrender of the lesser to the Greater can be made, then, without struggle or the sense thereof. As the Higher Ego descends in a flame of fire upon the altar of a heart purged of the lower ego, the soul experiences the glorious fulfillment of the divine reunion: here in the very crucible of being it finds the key to victory through the ascension in the Light. Free of mortality and of the mortal ego, man is no longer subject unto the law of sin and death,4 but only to the law of righteousness and truth as he walks in the footsteps of the immortals.
No mortal can bar the Real Self from entering into the regency of the Divine Image; the Christ of every man is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,5 and no facet of human frailty, no expression of egocentricity, can ever be enthroned in that Image. The God in man cannot be traduced or harmed, punished or afflicted. While the ego continues to suffer until it surrenders, the Real Self stands inviolate, triumphant in the pinnacle of perfection - the perfection of the Light of the I AM Presence.
To identify with God in His triumph is to identify with the triumph of the Christ in oneself and thus to attain Christhood at the personal level. It has been said that "the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another."6 It is the goal of life to expand the Light of the soul "from glory unto glory"7 until man's terrestrial experience becomes imbued with the radiance of the life celestial. The bounty of perfection that is within your own I AM Presence must be invoked, beloved ones. He who said, "Before Abraham was, I AM"8 understood that the valor of the ages is to be found in the realm of the immortals and in the perfection of the Godhead that flows into the time-space reference points of Life, changing darkness into Light.9
He who said, "Let your Light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven"10 perceived that the radiance inherent within Universal Perfection was also resident within himself; and he bore witness to the grand fact of creation: man is intended to be a chalice for God in which abides the Flame - the same Flame beheld by Moses in the bush that burned but was not consumed.11 The consciousness of each individual was created to be a part of the universal treasure lode. In its common sharing of the triune Light, it does not lose its luster, but gains more. He who said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father"12 had already reckoned with the expansive nature of the Christic Light.
What a pity it is that men do not acquiesce to the teachings handed down from their own Divinity, the tutoring of the soul by the Spirit of the Lord, but choose instead, often without knowing what they are choosing, to chastise themselves by denying their Real Identity and the vestments thereof. The beauty and perfection of the living God, infused within the soul of man, are robed in flesh and encompassed about by the Holy Spirit. The outreach of that Spirit of unity and immortal Life fashions in man a vision of the ultimate perfection of God and those transcendent dreams that spin the substance of the future out of the energies of the present.
Nature, endowed by God as the living Light perfection of the Holy Spirit, blazes as a warming fire of hope upon the heart of man where the dulcet sounds of God's love are heard. Sweet are the souls mellowed by the Life-giving essence of the Holy Spirit - souls whose realization of the Source of their own and all mankind's supreme comfort enables them to drink freely of the waters of immortal Life.13 The Comforter of all life moves with the stream of Whitsuntide, whose annual flow of regeneration recaptures for abundant hearts the perfection of the divine stream. And out of the cosmic memory of the Holy Spirit come forth untold delights of the Father-Mother God.
Jesus' communion with the Spirit enabled him to receive many gifts and graces, including the glory and the vision of the world to be. Thus he said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you."14 When he spoke, he spoke literally; but the world, in its stultifying dogma, in its stereotyping of concepts of Reality and unreality, does not reckon with the triumphs of the ages, the victory of the Christ made manifest through the sons and daughters of God in a regenerate universe. Those who abide in consciousness with the immortals have the sense of victory that can be compared to a glimmer without reason. But that glimmer conveys the peace and comfort of universal reason, of the thoughts of God that are already recorded in akasha.
People cannot stop the work of the recording angels simply because they doubt their existence; they cannot, by their denials, prevent the hand of Heaven from functioning in its own domain. The shout of the Lord's triumph and the standard of the living God are heard and seen only in part upon this earth. But as a most beautiful planetary schoolroom, the earth can become a place where you and all mankind can fashion out of the fabric of the eternal Mind those garments of Christ-mastery which you may comfortably wear.
I urge upon each and every one the realizations of God that are inherent within the Divine Image, which is the Divine Ego. I urge upon you the understanding that the human consciousness, as long as it is dominated by the carnal mind, is not able to comprehend the things of the Spirit;15 for these can be understood only through the sweet influences of the Spirit that dwells in man.
How can men make unbelievers out of believers? How can they sway from the teachings those who already have the witness of the living Spirit of God within themselves?16 For these know firsthand what God is and that He has prepared a wealth of abundant gifts to bestow upon His children - children of the sun of His love, of the brilliance of the Comforter, of the peace of the white dove descending into the chalice of consciousness. They know that He directs the steady, incessant flow of the divine plan into the hearts of worlds without end, and that within man the divine contact testifies to that which is already established in the universal order that man beholds all around him.
Directing the seal of God's Image, of His love, and of the Comforter's witness to those who are diligently preparing for the divine reunion, I am invoking the flame of God-victory, even as the Lord of Hosts is stepping up the tides of victory for each of you who can accept out of the mastery of God's love your victory here and now.
"He must increase, but I must decrease."17 Let these words of John the Baptist be our motto in the coming days; and let us acknowledge their inner meaning: the Divine Ego, together with all that is real, must increase, but the human ego and all that is unreal must decrease. In the flame of transmutation, the violet fire of Perfection's Image, the husks of the human consciousness are burned, and they vanish into nothingness. And the whole loaf thereof is leavened by the unity of our love in the Real Image.
Out of the universal passion of God's love I have spoken,