Saturday, June 1, 2019

by the grinding of an optical lens that if distortion is created by poor workmanship

   When you have the flint and you have the floss you need to strike the flint and let the spark leap from the flint into the floss that a flame may be captured.  Without the actual spark itself the flame is not born--so it is with the churches today.
  Each man should understand that every day is intended to be a day of progress, welcoming new experiences of divinity in the unfolding drama of the ages.  This drama includes those fiery spirits born into every race, creed and clime.  Through the initiatic process of the Great White Brothrhood all are able to find the answers to their everyday problems.    
-Messengers M & E Prophet:  Lost Teaching of Jesus, S. U. Press, 1986, p. 106
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  The pursuit of knowledge is carried on ever so often for mere sundry human reasons bordering on vanity--but the sincere student of ascended master light is solely interested in seeing the light of the soul expand and be the luminosity of God (Good) Himself so that the higher vibratory action of the divine principle does penetrate through the maze of human concepts, misconcepts and tiresome vacillations to find an anchor-point for peace, straight knowledge and truth which cannot help but achieve more of the divine purpose. 
   It must be recognized by the aspirant, regardless of his or her advancement or supposed position in spiritual development, that through years of physical embodiment wherein wrong patterns of thought have been developed and strengthened through practice, illusions have often been created or sustained by individuals simply because of faults builded into the human instrument itself.  It can be shown by the grinding of an optical lens that if distortion is created by poor workmanship it is likely to result in faulty visionary perception by the user, unless such a person will continually use the discriminatory powers of the inner nature to see that the glass itself is at fault and needs   adjustment or correction.
  Now many illusions serve to divide the world, to prevent happiness from flooding the minds and hearts of individuals with God-awareness simply through seeing the pain and unhappiness which, for example, the original mass hysteria of the West has produced. In a world of incredible materialism where rockets and candy occupy the desire mind of millions there is little room for the pursuit of quiet meditation upon God or little time to assess future possibilities if the Presence of God be dynamically called into action to transmute and change human error into light.  The illusion of time shall occupy a portion of my first discourse on the illusions and travesties of the present age.
  Time is but the mainspring of eternity unwinding an infinite power, a tiny portion of which touches each lifestream.  It is the awareness of this unwinding that makes for a comprehensive chain of experiences or sequences which compose ordinary or natural life.  In drama these are composed of acts and scenes--in life they are hours, days and years.  Sleep claims a necessary portion of life’s allotted moments while economics (for most people) makes giant inroads into the balance.  Travel consumes most of the remaining with but a pittance left for each individual to use, as they say, for themselves!  Much of this is spent on amusement or seeking to be amused.  Of late this Western habit has spread almost maddeningly to the Orient and so the whole world lies heavily bemused by pleasure-seeking.
  The city of God--the universe of God--the plan of the Eternal Father is a reality whose scope is usually unknown, unperceived and unheard of by the average lifestream except through nebulous and vague religious ideas.  So hypnotic have the race-habits become that individuals declare with conviction they have no time to study the Laws of God, no time to master thoughts and feelings, no time to pursue the spiritual fearing that in its pursuit they may find no reward at the end. Thus they prefer to eat, drink and be merry while they live in neglect of the spiritual.  This is dangerous mania of the age and it is to precisely to the erasing of this misconception that men must dedicate themselves if they will truly become the masters of their destiny which God intends them to be.
  Perceive then how wrong human thought is.  All religion which men do easily accept teaches that heaven and God are common goals to be earnestly sought.  If heaven is then a glorious goal, it should be the first and foremost objective of all.  Therefore heaven--or a state of oneness with the Mind of God now--is to be preferred above all human entanglements, pleasant or otherwise....
  The cure for all lies in divine illumination.  This must be diligently sought.  To some, this illumination seems to come easily and go just as easily under the heat of pressure (this is the seed on stony ground of which Jesus spoke—for it has no roots).  To others, illumination is slow and tedious, yet these often prize the gift more.  But to all, true illumination is an absolute necessity if the soul is to prosper and expand.  Those who venerate meditation, who insist on time to give to prayer and study, who insist on time to give to aid and assist one another in the various by-ways of life, are not so far from our Way.
  Everything is so right about enjoying divine friendship, all is right about enjoying nature and the unfolding wonders of life, for all is good—all is God.  Uniting with universal consciousness brings only humility and diligence which multiplies spiritual fruit with almost miraculous speed.  Even the proverbial slowness of the Orient is then vested with almost instantaneous manifestation by the power of God when faithfully invoked and called into action.  The rash, sometimes hectic, vacillations of the West are desperately effective in preventing a manifestation of the very miracles of grace which would forever make vacillation itself unnecessary. Human probing into divine processes which are not always fully understood by all seekers equally can easily make a betrayer out of those whose human reactions will not let them freely accept the Christ-intelligence whose love-wisdom—given time enough—would have healed the very wounds that compel their doubts.  To all illusions We say let us write Finis—but do not destroy the fabric of the soul upon which God may inscribe illumination and peace.  By Gautama’s middle way preserve your balance until, wholly God-centered, nothing can upset you!
  Illumine self for God, keep humble before advancing spiritual stations and always prefer good to evil.  Then shall life’s illusions be dispelled one by one and the reality of eternity, the happiness found only in God, shall be known as the only permanent happiness for both East and West!  Hurrah for the good life—this the spoilers who constantly walk among men to hurt and deceive simply cannot spoil!
        Faithfully I AM   Djwal Kul    Pearls of Wisdom 4:2

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