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Children of the East and the West:
Let not the mercy of God be forgotten! For mercy is a bond of great strength that is often overlooked in the marts of the world, in the teeming cities with all of their kaleidoscopic movement, and even in the forests wild where the fate of creatures great and small is meted by the weapon of the hunter.
We are concerned not only with the realm of outer manifestation, but also with the inner realm of the heart where man's peace is found as an extension of God's peace - if the hardness of the world has not already destroyed therein the tender ministrations of God's love. And it is to the remnant of the children of God upon earth that we dedicate ourselves, and to the preservation of the tender mercies of our God.
Strident voices ring throughout the land condemning mankind and even condemning God. Yet the Son of man came not into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.1 We cannot say that there are not injustices upon earth which men should forthrightly denounce; for humanity's inhumanities are legion. But He who spoke long ago saying that men should love justice also said that they should love mercy. Just as mercy is to be found in divine justice, so divine justice is to be found in mercy.
When the transgressions of the world are tallied, when every jot and tittle of the law is fulfilled,2 when the quietude of the Presence is born at last in the hearts of all, then will men possess that gift which wise men of old held above all: "With all thy getting get understanding."3 In the Light of Christ, in the illumination of the Son of man, personal and planetary injustices are exposed and expelled; mankind's motives and acts are transformed in the effulgence of Truth; error is rebuked and the children of God, freed from the stain of sin by the only begotten of the Lord, are exalted in His Presence.
The qualities of tenderness and earnestness, together with that high standard of cosmic morality which is the fulfillment of spiritual law, are always a part of the divine nature of man. Yet the obvious, or that which appears to be the true character of the individual, should not become the sole basis for one's assessment of the person. Many times people judge one another according to surface appearances, whereas beneath the surface there is a divine motivation so beautifully woven in the fabric of the soul that God Himself is to be found in the threads thereof.
Lack of communion with the Source is often the result of a broken thread. The thread of contact establishes man's link with Hierarchy and with all Life, enabling him to bridge the gap between the human and the divine elements in his own being. When men are willing to understand the law of karma, they will know through the unbroken thread that they share a common debt of mercy to all Life. Yet how tragic it is that the memory contains within its folds not only the records of the benign and the beautiful, but also those of the sordid and the ugly of life's experiences.
I, Kuan Yin, plead then with the Karmic Lords and with the Eternal One for a dispensation for the mankind of earth providing for the mitigation of bad memories at both the personal and the planetary level. I recommend this action in order that the tender loves of our God and His mercies that abide forever4 might be regenerated within the body of the world thought. How shall this be done? Can we not hide the universal perfection in those clay vessels which by reason of dedication belong unto the Most High? Wise is the providence of God that makes man the repository of His mercy. And above even His mercy is to be found the ritual of forgiveness.
As long as mankind are mindful of their sins and iniquities - of which God has said, "I will remember them no more ... though they be as scarlet I will make them as white as snow"5 - so long will they continue to relive those experiences which in the past have caused them so much grief. The relinquishing of the memory and consciousness of iniquity, the replacing of the penurious sense of sin with the abundant sense of virtue, the recognition of the Universal Image as the Reality of every man, meditation upon the Christ Consciousness, the purification of one's motives in the will of God - these rituals are sufficient for the rekindling of the magnificent mercies of God within the soul that will keep the consciousness free from the oppression of sin.
The sense of sin is not the scourge of God, nor is it the prompting of divine conscience. All too frequently it arises from subconscious realms, originating either in developed feelings of guilt or in undesirable impulses from the mental realm of which Paul spoke when he referred to the prince of the power of the air and the influences thereof working through the children of disobedience.6
Men and women of today should understand that each time they indulge in self-condemnation, each time they immerse themselves in feelings of frustrating guilt, whereby sin is sustained and nothing constructive is gained, there occurs an opaquing of the universal Light of the Christ and a temporary dwelling of the soul in the tents of wickedness.7 Open-mindedness and openheartedness, together with that contriteness of conscience which washes away all sin in the stream of God's universal love, work together to effect a clarity of consciousness, a soul transparency that emits only the purity of the Christ in the communion chalice of being.
Through a renewed awareness of God's power to regenerate and wash white the robes of his consciousness, man comes to that wondrous place on the Path - as Saul did on the road to Damascus8 - where his spiritual eyes are opened: he beholds the Real Image in himself and in his fellowman and he knows that that Image is the intent of God for every man. He sees all of the qualities of the Universal ever present in his True Self and in the Higher Selves of all whom he meets. It is God's will that they be there; therefore, he sets about learning how to awaken them, how to bring them to life, how to formulate designs of spiritual proficiency in every endeavor.
Thus he will one day earn the blessing of an acknowledged Son of the eternal Father of whom it is said, even if no man say it, "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance."9 And the heavenly host will rejoice over the one lamb of the fold that returns to the Father's love, coming at last into the consciousness of the mercy of God and proclaiming for all eternity, "Thy mercy endureth forever!"
The mercy of God is a quality that is a permanent part of the Godhead. I know full well - having been appointed by divine decree as a member of The Karmic Board, that august body responsible for the administration of universal justice upon the planet - how easy it is for anyone to condemn himself or another. I have also examined the records of mankind's collective errors as well as their individual mistakes; I have seen how from time to time they have created in darkness rather than in Light, how the world has lain in wickedness10 and walked in shadow and shame for many centuries. But neither myself nor any other member of the Board can accept the premise that goodness can come forth from evil, that darkness can be produced out of Light.
Therefore, it is in the Light of mercy and justice that we dedicate mankind this year to the consciousness of noncondemnation. For we realize that God in His manifold wisdom and love will not forever allow men's wickedness free rein upon earth. It is written, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. ..."11 Thus the banal actions of mankind and those attitudes that are so far beneath the standard of the Christ cannot be permitted to endure - even in the name of mercy. They must be dethroned, cast down, and destroyed, preferably through the alchemy of transmutation; and through the Light of reason and the re-creation of eternal mercy, mankind must come to the realization that life on earth is intended to be beautiful, but that this is possible only when everyone holds every experience as sacred.
In this my epistle on an aspect of mercy's flame, I trust that all will gain an awareness of its inherent virtue as it pertains to their own unfoldment. I trust they will see the wisdom in maintaining an attitude of noncondemnation toward themselves and their fellowman and of casting their entire being unto the mercy of God for safekeeping. Thus will the world begin to send forth a stream of avatars, men and women who are aware of their divine Sonship and of their kinship with all that lives. Thus shall we erase from the records of akasha mankind's injustices, practiced against both Creator and creation, which have prevented the pure and beautiful plans of God from ripening unto a harvest of spiritual fruition for all.
O beloved and beautiful souls, let the Light of God's Presence shine forth from your heart and mind and from your aura. Do not harbor feelings of resentment, callousness, or indifference. Cast them down in the name of God! Then shall the regenerate Christ Consciousness flood your being with Light, and the mercy of God be a beacon upon the hill that extends to all men and women the newness of hope realized in the divine plan fulfilled.