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To Men Living on the Cusp of Time:
The thrust of regeneration shatters matrices of dense desire, the fumings of centuries of misapplication. Diligence pursues Truth. Eucharist is Reality. Men imbibe the sacred cup and eat the one crumb from the loaf of universal purpose. Darkness disappears in a sunburst of Light, and the magnificent power of hope exalts the soul.
What shall I say then of those whose lack of diligence permits them, oh, sad moments when they become lost in the morass of personality, when they stress the import of another's thoughts and acts and hold the Deity guilty for those acts? Let the bounty of universal mercy be shown also to the Selfhood of every man. Let him learn the law of accountability lest he blame the Deity out of a warped perception and find himself enmeshed in the snarls of human degeneration.
I cannot say that the error of men's perceptions brings them any degree of hope or comfort. I cannot say that the universal purpose is served by those unguents which men have mislabeled beauty. For in the veil of time the perfection of the Absolute is dimly perceived. Men create illusions as a substitute for their lack of perception of the perfection of God. Yet they do not understand that a counterthrust on their part can bring about the release of mankind from the clutches of antichrist.
All that is not the perfection of God may be seen by some as Reality; but when men view the sordid with an honest heart, they must see that it is short of the mark; they must shave from it that sense of personal involvement which would otherwise hold them in bondage. I want all to understand that human subtlety identifies with the serpent symbol and the carnal mind. The Mind of Christ must be sought diligently; for it is difficult to discern the aperture of the Christ Mind inasmuch as it also must function through the cerebrum and cerebellum, as does the carnal mind, although it retains an entirely different vibration from the outer mind and the intellect.
Our purposes remain to reflect the maturity of God. The monstrous human shadows of past karma, of men's gross thoughts, of their fears and uncertainties are shadows reflected upon their path. When they turn away from the Light, the Reality of the Light shines upon those shadowed shapes of their human creation and creates patterns of human discord from which they then seek to escape. When they face the Light, these are not so easily perceived. For the clarity of the Light and the renewal of hope that is engendered within them as they feel the penetration of the Light and sense its proximity exalts the consciousness and solidifies their pathway.
Thus shall it ever be, for each contact with the Light is a cleansing and exalting one by reason of the nature of the Light. What folly it is for men to assume that their divine contact can produce sordid thoughts in their minds! Either these thoughts are residual or they are the penetration of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,1 the projections that fly by day or the pestilence that walketh in darkness.2
Let all understand the refuge of the Consciousness of God, the impenetrability of the Christ Mind, the radiance of the holy drama enacted and reenacted as the cycles of life turn. Needless to say, the excuses of men are drawn from the supine and the sickly who presume in the stun they experience through their own callousness that Heaven will heed their excuse-mongering.
I tell you no! For in reality the Law is the law of each man's being; and he writes it not because the divine side of himself, the exalted Reality of his true Consciousness, is not able to send right direction. It is sending right direction continuously. But man himself creates the laws of his own universe by the causes he sets in motion. What must be clearly understood, then, is the importance of accepting right direction, of being desirous to know the Truth with the understanding that only the Truth can free.3
How strange are men's weaknesses! They attract greater weakness. But then, what of their strength? To the strong belongs the victory. And who cannot be strong? Only those who allow themselves to be engrossed in feelings of weakness or unwillingness. Character is of God when that character is godlike. The world cannot have character unless it acquires it.
The acquisition of heavenly gifts is the storing-up in the treasure house of consciousness of the necessary momentums that will lead the soul to victory. It is easier to slide downhill than to climb upward to exaltation. States of consciousness must be preserved. They are the thrust of God's purposes. Those who identify with those purposes are seekers for that which must be sought.
Disabuse your minds of the idea that all things come swiftly to him who waits.4 To preserve intact the consciousness is an effort of each moment. It is a struggle against insidiousness, against mediocrity, against boredom, against the tiredness and fatigue of the human consciousness.
Now in centers of Light we encourage the divine maelstrom. Whirling around mankind's being and consciousness are those eddying tides of cosmic energy which press men upward into greater Light. They should understand that the Light goes where it is invited and welcomed and that these eddying tides come out of vast cosmic complexes, stellar radiances, and the foam of the sun regurgitating its own great delight.
Life is a momentum. It requires diligence. Consciousness requires effort and sorting. The guards must stand effectively protecting the bastions of immortality. The great beyond is now. The channels of space await man's receptivity. The lustre of the mind is a diamond in which are reflected and refracted the drama scenes of millenniums.
Sparkling wit, divine delight
To outwit each man's fright,
Putting out dimness by the Light,
Thrashing vanities dim or bright,
Trembling honor, wholesome might!
Each will find his own Christ Light
Within the soul - its measureless goal
Flashing dreams of victory's goal,
Ordaining Reality!
Devotedly, I AM
When individuals who would follow this Light desire to escape from the powers of the outer, they will enter into the Heart of the Sacred Fire within and demand an expansion of that Sacred Fire; and they will remove by cosmic decree and by calls to their own mighty I AM Presence all discordant substance from their own world. By the removal of this impediment, the pure and precious Spirit called the Holy Spirit will rush in to fan the flame to feed the Sacred Fire within man and to regenerate not only the physical form but also the mental body of man and the etheric body, to revive there the memory of those powers which have been stored there from the time before the world was, before the decadent civilizations and the errors of past infamy were ever known. Therefore, as men pass back to that beginning which is the source of their God-power, they will be able to have restored to them those powers and dominions which were known on Atlantis and Lemuria at the time when the Sacred Fire teachings went forth without human impediments and without human ideas intruding into the teachings.
The purity of any religion and the purity of any teaching must be expressed by the members of that teaching in their daily life and it must be used. Applied knowledge is the only knowledge that counts, dear ones. And therefore those of you who know me as a Manu will understand why it is so essential that I call to the attention of the students the need to continue to make their application even after the time comes when a manifestation of a specific condition for which they called has been made manifest. You must often continue to keep on calling for a situation to manifest even after it is objectified, until it is completely anchored in your world and nothing disturbing can wrest it from you.
Beloved ones of the Light, I remind you that God is the Lord of the Harvest. I remind you that each grain of wheat springs forth because of divine energy. And as the Christ reminded them that the very hairs of their head were numbered,5 so I say to you today, bear in mind that each one of you is a living, immortal manifestation of God. In order to realize this, you must drink into it and begin from day to day to increasingly think of yourselves as a manifestation of God.
It is extremely unfortunate, but countless numbers of individuals have for so long thought upon themselves as a separate mortal individual that it has become difficult for them to keep the fires of Life burning within their physical form. But all illness and all mental problems must yield to the One Supreme Mind of God. And when that One Supreme Mind of God is called into action, it is a manifestation of the Sacred Fire; for God's Mind is a part of the Sacred Fire Breath from His very own Heart. And it therefore will assist the student immeasurably in removing from his world those unwanted qualities and vibratory actions which are less than the perfection and purity of God.
Some individuals may have wondered why it is that they are not harmonious with other individuals. Well, dear hearts, this inharmony does not stem from the Sacred Fire element within their being; it stems from the ash of human misconceptions which remains untransmuted and ought to be transmuted completely. And as long as there are inharmonious vibratory actions in anyone's world whatsoever, if it happens to vibrate to a certain pattern or a certain tone and another individual has an untransmuted element that vibrates to another tone, those individuals may clash just as two discordant keys may on a piano. But if harmony is maintained and a skillful musician is operating the piano, there are no discordant notes sounded.
And so individuals must understand how important it is to transmute within their own worlds all inharmony and not to look at others with a critical mind. As they do this and transmute within the forcefield of their own being each appearance of discord, they will be enhancing their opportunities for harmony with all Life and they will suddenly find that all discord comes from the same source - from human creation - that it is not divinely created at all and that it never could be. Therefore they will shun it as they would the plague and they will recognize the need to enter into a constant spirit of harmony.