It should always be a joy to contribute thoughts of dignity and worth into the flowing stream of energy which constitutes life. How often men sit on the bank of the river of life and watch it flow, taking from it all that they possibly can yet contributing nothing to its course or movement. Surely justice and mercy must follow man, both contemporary man and man to come. Surely all shall come to understand that which is yielded unto God through love that endures….
Thus one day mankind will come to know and understand how beautiful and complete the light is because he will have added to that light the best gifts of his own self-realization, intensifying them in the filaments of his being so that he too may let his light shine. It is the energy of God that glorifies the soul of each one….
But after all, beloved ones, it is to high places in human thought rather than to high places in divine thought that mankind aspire. Is it any wonder then that they yield themselves so easily to self-glorification and self-righteousness? Is it any wonder then that they are prone to error almost from the beginning of their monadic expressions which in reality are no part of the divine monad but are of the synthesized personality they have come to regard as the real self? When the real Self of man is perceived as the Universal Spirit all-flowing and all-enfolding, the power of love comes to be realized to such a marked degree as to produce the profoundest of changes in the nature of man. And if these changes be produced in the individual must they not then permeate all substance and structuring?
“Let not your hearts be troubled,” my Son declared. “Ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Why in the name of heaven if all men were really created by God should they deem it an unworthy act to hold in addition to self-esteem esteem for other parts of life? Certainly we do not say that mankind should respect evil or those things which are hurtful to men. But there is enough virtue in the soul of man which God so lovingly placed there that those who look can surely perceive that virtue in man and, seeing it, amplify it so that all may partake of the sacred eucharist, the tiny wafer of Life by which they are made aware of their unity in Christ….
Little do they dream of what is in the heart, for we perceive the virtue of God in the hearts of many. But by the same token we also observe in the temporary strands of human petulance and greed the tendency on the part of many to condemn others for the same thing that they desire to do but in some cases have not done and in other cases have done. It is dangerous for mankind to point an accusing finger at others when many times they are not aware of their own imperfect patterns from past ages….
O mankind, how lovely you are in your God-Identity! And so it is with our prayer for the redemption of all that is beautiful and real about you that, in this hour of mounting human affliction and distress, the hearts of many will turn to my Son as a part of their real Self, as a part of their God-Identity….The soul gasps in individualized mankind that it might receive a breath of this reality, that it might perceive the infinite hand of God reaching through all experience and beckoning all to move onward into universal light without fear and with the fullest of confidence.
(by Ruth Hawkins)..................................................................................................................
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