For the first demand of the fires of initiation concerns a sense of proper perspective--to recognize that the light and life within is of old. It was not created for it always was. It did not begin to be, therefore it could not cease to be. The light of this reality, the light of God that never fails is a spiritual light of spiritual victory that overcomes the world. Humanity suppose in their vanity and deceit, their allowance of bad conscience that the world-thought is correct and that by outer reports and knowledge they can subdue life and obtain satisfaction. We know that all such matters are transitory, that all human concepts vanish away and become as darkness. Only the light sustains and can sustain. Only the light endures and will create the fabric that endures, that becomes the mantle of the God-realized individual. The world wallows in deceit and misery. They remain beneath the canopy of darkness of their own creation. They do not pay proper heed to the voice that speaks from on high--the voice of conscience within their soul. They ignore divine precepts and they permit their tie to higher octaves to be sundered so easily. We then today, mindful of past ages, past failures of men to appropriate their God-given gift--the divine prerogative to exercise their heavenly options--say to humanity: beware, for the day of judgment is at hand when the gift of freedom that lies so easily before thee now will be no more! Men and women have not sacrificed for freedom, they have accepted it as a right handed down to them from posterity to posterity. Let us now then say that the perils of this age created by the laggard civilization--the perils of this age fashioned out of darkness exalted upon wings of darkness--cannot ever sustain the light of freedom. The light of freedom is not so much stifled as it is removed. If men and women continue on their present downhill course, they will wind up beneath the wheels of a cruel juggernaut of their own creation…. Aid will have flown with the light. For help lies only in the Lord and in his light. Help does not come from man but from God. Those who turn their back upon him and who forget him will surely face one day their own destiny with a certain knowledge that they and they alone contributed to it. In the hope that men will adjust their minds and hearts to the holy vibration of hope that becomes pure charity, in hope that becomes faith inviolate I remain affectionately the Brother upon the mountains with the helping hand; thank you.
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