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To the Quality of Mercy Itself:
While mankind yearn to see mercy operative in all areas of life, while they deplore acts of violence and destruction, the outpouring of human venom continues in the world order in an unprecedented manner. Have you thought of what would happen if mankind were to rise up en masse to challenge these disturbing activities? And if you think that the concerted action of humanity is impractical at the physical level, have you considered what spiritual power can be mustered to turn the tide of tyranny through the united prayer force of millions who still believe that life can be beautiful?
Such a binding-together of hearts in joyous, praiseful invocation would create a climate of harmony toward all peoples, enabling little children to rejoice inwardly even as today they so frequently suffer pangs of disillusionment in a world that continues "half slave and half free"1 as souls cry out for mercy from the living God. Even as the Christmas season approaches when "peace on earth, good will toward men"2 should be uppermost in men's minds, their pure and tender regard is defiled by manifestations that bring great harm to the purposes of the Universal Christ and to the purposes of Infinite Love.
Whenever I am called upon to speak to embodied mankind, I cannot refrain from recalling for them those moments of harmony which they once knew within the Heart of God as the only activity of Life in all of His creative essence. If you will think about it, you will realize that by reason of the Divine Nature, only the quality of mercy and the tenderness of the creative nature of God could have been sustained within His Mind in those epochs when the worlds were framed. Then too, the domain of the heart and the mind with which He endowed man contained only peace, purity, victory, and that progressive radiation which in going forth would always produce after its kind.
From whence came those concepts that have caused so much distress in the physical realm and in the outer consciousness of mankind? I do not wish you to dwell upon it, but I must give answer to those who storm the gates of heaven with charges and countercharges that belie the quality of mercy - as though God would have been able to thwart human inharmonies and distresses even if He had chosen to do so, as though (seeing He is the only creator, as it has been declared) evil as well as good had stemmed from His Hand. God in His great mercy will never depart from the Law which makes every man, as a co-creator with Him, responsible for his actions. Thus out of a supreme sense of cosmic justice He cannot - will not - thwart the course of man's inhumanity to man - unless His intervention is invoked and acted upon.
How untrue is the concept that God created good and evil. For only as potential good and as potential evil, as these are present in man's free will, could elements that are lacking in mercy have ever existed. And where did that potential lie? Not within the domain of the Creator, but within the tree of potential, the tree of the human knowledge of good and evil.3 It was man's misuse of Life and free will and his entertaining in thought and feeling of those possibilities that resemble not God but only misapplied opportunity which have created an exaggerated appearance of evil upon the screen of Life.
The most merciful thing that humanity could ever do is to forget those episodes of personal and planetary history that have caused such distress to Life and to release their hatreds and their desires for revenge into the flame of forgiveness. By acknowledging that all past injustices were but human misapplications of the Law and human misunderstanding of the correct use of the gift of Life stirred up by mankind's selfishness and rebellion, people will learn to forgive themselves and to forget the shortcomings and shortsightedness of others which might well have been their own. Hence, through what might be termed a cosmic jealousy, those who originally were spiritual beings have been denied their opportunity to serve by which they would have magnificently enhanced the forward movement of the Cosmos.
You cannot possibly bring forth, O mankind, any saving grace, any quality of restoration, either from the fount of evil or from the sense of evil and foreboding. It will always create after itself; for it is a human endowment of human jangle, discord, and rebellion against the precepts of the Law. It is not wrong for individuals to understand intellectually how these conditions came to be, but you should not endow them with any power of continuity. One day the prophecy shall be fulfilled as it was stated long ago, "Never shalt thou be any more."4 Therefore, one day the great mercy inherent in the universe will see to it that all that is darkness shall be dissipated by the radiant and vibrant Light of God that never fails.
Won't you try, then, in a childlike manner, to understand that it is not a pollyanna attitude, or what you have called "goody-goody," that is going to deliver humanity into the arms of a greater understanding, but it is the prevailing power of Good as God within the individual soul that will give man his ultimate enlightenment? By this he will behold the most merciful drama humanity can enact - the amplification of all goodness and all worthy purpose into the bringing-in of the kingdom of heaven. Don't you see that the hills will then cry out, that all nature, the elementals, the angels, and every part of Life will express themselves with paeans of rejoicing because the power of Truth that is the creative essence of the universe has at last prevailed in the domain of the human mind and heart as it was originally intended to do?
I want you to think of this. I want you to recognize it. But there is one danger you must watch for, and that is the condemnation of those parts of Life that have not yet come to the fullness of this understanding. Bear with them. They eat yet of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, while to you is given to mercifully partake of the Tree of Life. Do it with love and with compassion as a vital activity of the Sacred Fire. Thus goodness and mercy shall overflow the banks of your individual life and bring you into the realm of universal ideation, of universal activity, of universal Christhood, and of universal mercy. Thus does God prevail.
Devoted to your Light and its expansion - O flame of mercy, expand! - I AM
Some of you may wonder concerning the length of decrees given today. Well, I wish to point out to all of you that the decrees that were given today have assisted millions of people, and therefore the energy which you have offered has been of vast and tremendous assistance in balancing world affairs. If it seems that perhaps you have spent a great deal of time in this service, let me remind you that we spend twenty-four hours out of every day in the service of the Most High God, and we do not even consider rendering any other service except a service to the Light.
Inasmuch as almost all religions throughout the world have as their solitary aim the entering of individuals into the Consciousness of Heaven and an abiding within the Consciousness of Heaven, I think that it is not unreasonable for them to consider the need to express their love one, two, three, or even seven days a week for a few hours each day. Certainly this will bear fruit that will bless your own lifestream in addition to blessing the lifestream of others.
That which is wrong with civilizations is a lack of attunement with their Great God Source. We are completely out of the sphere of human identification; and if you have any questions as to why this is so, realize that it is because we made our application. Realize that it is because we devoted our time to those purposes God intended us to, and therefore we have won our eternal freedom.
Now, precious ones of the Light, I do not intend, as an Ascended Being, to criticize any of you because of a thought that may flicker across your mind or even one you may retain for some time. But I am here to assist you in a way that is very benign from the standpoint of cutting you loose from those conditions which have far too long given you difficulty. Do you see then that it is necessary for me to comment on some of those conditions which have bound the students so that they do not enjoy the fullness of their freedom? I only do so that you may become more alert and by your alertness realize that the human consciousness must not take dominion in your worlds.
In the name of Almighty God, I stand here before you today as the Manu of a race in order that I might comfort the hearts of all who live upon this precious planet. We, beloved ones of the Light, have saturated ourselves with so much of the essence of the Father that every pore is charged at the core with the very Heart Fire of God from out the Great Central Sun; and therefore, if we were to manifest in our fiery bodies before many of the chelas, they would be, as Saint Paul was, blinded and unable to see for some period of time.
You will recall how Paul was on the road to Damascus when a vision of the Christ appeared to him.5 Well, let me tell you - those of you who have called for a manifestation of the Ascended Masters in your own world - we are not unwilling to appear; we are simply awaiting a manifestation within you of those divine qualities which will make our appearance of the greatest benefit to you. And when that occurs, I am certain that each one of you will take the fullest advantage of that appearance and will extract therefrom some benefit of permanent value to your lifestream.
Were we to appear merely to satisfy a craving of some individual who might have some curiosity about just how spiritual acts are performed, it would serve no worthy purpose but would be consuming a tremendous quantity of energy. Nevertheless, we have, as you have been told before, made individual appearances to some of the students at various times - sometimes so that they were able to behold us physically, at other times in visions or dreams.
But the most important thing for the students to always remember is that their Presence is sane and balanced and will mold and shape them in His own image, the perfection of God. Therefore, individuals ought not to consider strange practices or to consider those things which are far off the beaten trail of divine reason. They ought to consider applying their hearts to those things that are reasonable, that they may on a safe platform walk into the Spirit of Light.