in this garden find your heart

The Law of man’s being indicates that passivity and self-interest wedded to inertia and the desire to attain the greatest personal advantage with the least expenditure of time and energy cannot be expected to produce the same yield as that or an ordered mind and heart that in full faith perceives the goodness of God extending to all generations and giving to every man the fruit of his own labor and to each and all the opportunity to let that labor become teamwork with Almighty God and the heavenly host….

  Our gratitude flows forth this year, as always, to all of our chelas.  The Buddha and the Christ amplify with your beloved Saint Germain the flame of freedom, the pulsation of liberty.       -Kuthumi:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:1

by Hermann Schmieichen, 1884

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  In spiritual matters it is impossible for men to acquire by wrong means, for the soul is always set back by the employment of wrong method.  It is most difficult, beloved ones, for the ascended masters to reach mankind when their own souls are unable to do so!

  Unquestionably each soul would act as self-teacher if its voice could be heard by the outer consciousness, if the sensitizing and purifying action would occur naturally or be encouraged enough so that it would understand the message of the eternal mysteries imparted by the soul….Unless you shall treasure our words as God intends we cannot assist you anymore than can your own soul in attaining that development of right action and right reaction which is our intent and God’s as well….

  In this garden come apart, in this garden find your heart, in this garden is Liberty, hear the anthem of the Free!…Every precious day I see/ As welcome opportunity/ To dwell in garden fair within/ Where God does triumph over sin         -Paul the Venetian:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:2                    

-Paul the Venetian & Ruth Hawkins

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  Men must not then rebel against the opportunity to make things right.  On the contrary men must welcome opportunity if they are to make progress.  Victory is often won in little ways, while errors both great and small often intervene to affect mighty aspects of being in those areas of greatest import, and many times such error originates in minor infractions of the Law.

  The subtle shadings of the being of man superimposed upon the soul masquerade as reality, but only the soul is real….Men must not delude themselves with the concept that they are acting to secure their own freedom and progress; they must hold with absolute fervor to the idea that God is acting through them to confer the greatest benefits upon them--they must yield to His will and honor it.          -Fun Wey:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:3

-Yogananda, in

Prayer & Meditation, 1978

 -Portia by John William Wright, 1846