Disciples Seeking Initiation into the Mysteries of Reality:
The grace of God commendeth each one to the feet of holy reason for self-discernment that the way of victory may be made plain. Now with the seasonal flood of knowledge that is being released it is essential for mankind to cultivate the discriminating faculty in order that time may be well utilized in assimilating the most useful principles.
We know the striving of the pure in spirit to elevate in themselves each godly principle to a realization of such transcendent beauty that all effort in attainment is forgotten in the purity of victory. Others feel the impulse to relive each painful episode along the way. They do not pause to consider that unless care is used while engaging in retrospection they may rekindle their old momentums of struggle and a loss of their progressive momentums will almost certainly follow, however slight. For purposes of gratitude and introspection a brief review will serve to show that victory can be obtained even over what seem to be desperate situations. The wave of the future needs the pure vision of creative power in order that the transcendence of the divine nature might be effectively called into action.
Now when we probe the mysteries of reality we must also instruct upon the existence of batteries of dark forces which seek to rob the disciple of his realization of reality and the blessings that might be called into action through that realization. To secrete the illusion of fog and confusion concerning many aspects of life by glossing over the more unpleasant and unsightly aspects of human creation is to further involve men in the maya of mortal concepts rather than to extricate them from such dilemma. Once the downward spiral has begun the individual moves still lower into subconscious pitfalls of discouragement. This fosters doubt and prevents the powers of light from effectively overcoming evil with good.
Each lifestream should see how the word initiation can be used to interpret the process inherent within its meaning: I-niche-i-action—the I, or ego, must find its niche of cosmic intent or purpose and call the great power of God into individualized action for sustained personal and universal freedom.
When the reality of God becomes a part of man’s conscious identity what wonders are wrought! Then the banner of the soul flying from the ramparts of Life inspires each moment with an onward push. Ceaseless misconceptions and feelings of uncertainty must be uprooted; yet in the process the wise will seek constantly to establish virtue wherever blight is removed or rendered inactive. Transmutation of old negations must be followed by a reeducation of the energy patterns involved in order that nothing may be lost but that all may be constantly exalted and retrained in the ascending spiral. It was on this subject that Jesus was instructing when he said to one whom he had healed “Go, and sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”
The meaning of reality itself must be sought and not in the human lexicon but in the great records of almighty perfection which the screen of nature holds side by side with those elements which may seem foreign to the divine purpose. The excellence of the creation, descending from the heart of God, commingles with old and new interferences which are continuously being set up by mankind through his misuses of knowledge and power. Great care must be used in distinguishing the real from the unreal and in determining the inherent goodness of a specific manifestation.
There is no finer instrument than the humble, gentle faith of a true believer in the justice of God whose every thought, charged with mercy, pursues understanding as a reason for being and knows that the fruit of that which is attained can never be lost. Such sweet attitudes of pure love do not exact from the Godhead binding promises as a reward for good behavior but hold secure the knowing, whether evidenced outwardly or not, that God cannot be mocked nor His purposes thwarted. Such as these are content to rest the mind and being from either the sense of struggle or the sense of loss.
Since all things came forth from God and can only manifest the real as the intent of God is manifest within them, nothing can ever be lost. If there be any loss, it is of mortal or human qualities but these were never endowed by God with either permanency or the self-regenerative qualities of the true creation.
The reflection or inverted image of the divine which animates man and nature is ever an outflow of abundant life energy which in its inflow, or return back to the Source, carries the fruits of the quickened consciousness of individual man. As man lets go of imperfection and securely holds the hand of God in full faith that the reality of being and full revelation thereof will unfold as the search not of a casual hour but of a lifetime of diligence, he finds personal fulfillment accelerated in each moment through the very processes of realization and acceptance.
Acceptance then is an attitude of mind and heart which must be nurtured and sustained each day through conscious affirmation. Merely to momentarily acknowledge truth is to be lifted as in an airplane above the mountains, subsequently to descend to lower altitudes. Daily to magnify contact with one or more of the facets of God-reality is like rising on a chair-lift up a mountain slope; each day is one of progressive attunement as the summit-goal draws in closer view and the valleys are left behind.
Precious ones, have no sense of strain if the rarefied view be obscured at times so that God does not seem luminously manifest. Keep on increasing your understanding of reality each day, knowing that the Law of regularity assures steadfastness in the climb and, by engagement of thought and feeling in the ritual of attainment you are weaving strands of light whose strength will carry you over each approaching chasm.
For your expansion in the Christ light
I AM
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While the mysteries of Christ have been contemplated by many, only the few have penetrated the depth of the wonders of His certain knowledge, His inestimable outreach, His power of ineffable light, calculated to part the veils of illusion and reveal the infinite capacity of God to externalize not only in the natural order but also in the spiritual order a kingdom without end.
The more men meditate upon the Christ and upon spiritual things which buoy up the heart above the restless tides of human thought the more intense will become the light around them and the farther they will see into the internal mysteries of Being. To relate the life of the Christ to the self is the Father’s intent, for thereby the mighty molding board of the Spirit through His grace may sculpture the living soul into the fashion of the divine plan.
The life-force in man must be governed not just by reason and desire but by the pure potential of Be-ness, the mysterious comprehension of the light by itself. If the fingers of the Law of God discover anomalies in the life pattern of an individual and the result be a chastening, it is always for the purpose of greater spiritual fruit and a more abundant life to the one whom God has desired to try. To know God is to be known of Him, and the rule of order by Law establishes in all dimensions a steadfast rise in the comprehension levels of spiritual grace.
When grace is understood it is perceived as the God-race—G standing for “God” and r-a-c-e for “race,” hence grace or “great race.” It is a race in the sense that it is a contest between the philosophies of men for the winning of “the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” even as it is the swift acceptance by the sons of God of the heavenly patterns for the establishment of the divine kingdom upon earth.
Men may say “I am a citizen—I am a native—I am a recipient of the power of a great nation.” But when the desire for unity is stripped of all spirit of competition there can be only a cosmic plan, a cosmic dream, the thoughts of the Infinite One. The lesser images fade into obscurity or to the background, so great is the revelation of the pure intent of the Father.
Men must seek to raise themselves before they can come to the point of transfiguration. To raise the self is to bring it to a point where the power of the light can penetrate the substance of their own world not only by their request but also by their invocation.
Examine the word raise. The first two letters refer to the power of the Son of God, the power of light itself, the power of Ra (as the Egyptian word Ra from whence comes the word ray). Then take note that the I (Eye) or lumen, the organ of vision, or the ego of being, is the third letter in the word. This is followed by se (see). The full meaning of the word then becomes in all of its glory “the light of God I see,” or “raise,” which is synonymous with “rays,” denoting the extension of the power of the Sun from its center out into the field of darkness. As it was stated by John the Beloved, “The light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
The purpose of our work in this day and age is to see to it that men do comprehend the light and that they walk upon the path of faith. The meaning of raising the self then is to bring the self to a place where it is capable of discerning the light. When the light is discerned it cannot help but reveal the shadows that exist in the lower self.
Whereas some men have said to themselves before the light shone in the darkness of being “We are very good,” after they have perceived by the power of the light the conditions they were in they were ready to cry to the mountains, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne.” Yet punishment or estrangement is never the divine intent, for there is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, and His mercy endureth forever.
By the power of truth the exposure of the darkness of self takes place and then mankind is able to bring the darkness to the light in order that the light can transmute and redeem that darkness. We deem this the process of the resurrection. It is a re-surging of the uprightness that is now and always has been within man—within the Spirit of man. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord; and in His Law doth he meditate day and night.”
The hour has come when the devotees of the Laws of God upon earth can no longer afford those indulgences which in the past have been so lightly taken for granted. If the initiatic process is to be externalized in a lifetime, it must be recognized that each day is precious. Therefore the ritual of the resurrection signifies the raising up out of the darkness all of the shadowed substance that has been superimposed upon man, to bring it to the light, and to transmute or change its nature into the nature of the light.
This is the emergence of the “Corpus Christi,” the body of Christ, out of the tomb of materiality. It is the rolling away of the stone of matter which signifies the calcination of the carnal mind with all of its densities. It is the purification of the countenance, the refusal of soul to be enslaved by the legions and tribunals of Caesar or the power of the Sanhedrin.
This denotes that the soul must be freed from all banal influences of either church or state, for both church and state have come under the influence of nefarious powers from time to time which have made them instruments of a diabolical sort, even as they have been instruments of great good; hence the soul can no longer afford to brook the tyranny of family, friends or outer conditions of temporal power in any of its forms.
This does not mean that men should not be subject to the laws of the land or that they should fail to recognize legally constituted authority. However it does mean that they should recognize the superiority of heavenly intelligences and not permit the tyranny of mortality to put a yoke around their necks, denying their God-freedom. By releasing their light into manifestation through the presence of God which dwells in man as the Holy Christ flame within the heart they “rise from the dead” of corporeal substance, of the paper world of illusion that has far too long held man in bondage. The tangible reality of the radiant living Christ blazes through them because they have willingly and lovingly invoked it through their consciousness and through their flesh forms. They are able then to summon by the power of the spoken Word the mighty angels who assist each emerging son to “roll away the stone” and to “come forth from the tomb—victorious.”
In addition to this they stand at the portal of transfiguration and are ready for the second initiation into the reality of Be-ness. That which is within man, that which is the active—Divine Principle, the Spirit, the Animus, the Divine Ruach—all in complete harmony, will prevail and man will ultimately reestablish his relationships with God and humanity from the viewpoint of the initiatic level.
There is a difference between the natural man and the spiritual man. This was clearly demonstrated in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. His outpicturing of his transcendental ministry was ordained by the grace of the Eternal Father through my hand, and I stand ready to assist all who would experience the beauty of the Resurrection Spirit in their lives this year. Each individual can come to a point of conscious knowing of the wonder of the light and none will ever regret it, as they have often regretted mortal passions.
Now then, let us go and see the place where the Lord lay. Within yourself envision the threefold flame of Life and God-intelligence, sealing you in His grace daily. I AM your mentor in Christ, Maitreya: Pearls of Wisdom 10:10
The subject of sensationalism and of the phenomenal comes before us. While the magnificence of the cosmos is paraded every moment before the consciousness of mankind through the avenue of the five senses and through the response mechanisms of an inner, aesthetic sense behind the physical senses, the world still hungers and thirsts after greater knowledge of universal Law.
Understandable though this may be, the megatons of divine energy foolishly invested by mankind in the pursuit of the unusual and as a result of an avid curiosity produce little more for those engaged in this pursuit than the poking around in old rubble where consumption is complete and false hopes continue to buoy up the sagging human energies of men.
When great achievements are made they are seldom the discoveries of the curious, the profane or the ego-motivated. The dedicated scientist or researcher, the scientist of the Spirit who searches out the mysteries of God with humility and dedication, with understanding and necessary persistence is the one to whom the reward is given. As Jesus long ago proclaimed of John the Baptist, saying, “What went ye out to see? A reed shaken with the wind? A man clothed in soft raiment? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.”
These same Laws apply today to the researcher in the things of the Spirit. We cannot deny that there are in manifestation organizations whose tenets and expressions are immediately recognizable as being ego-motivated and error based; but when contacting the pure expressions of the Great White Brotherhood and their avant-garde endeavors for mankind it is often true that behind outer appearance that strives for the beauty of Christ-perfection there are the little, unredeemed pockets of energy yet awaiting purification.
Men who seek to judge others must not judge them by their negatives but by the great positive tides of cosmic energy that stand behind every worthy organization as salutary purpose. Many have said after coming directly under our radiation and the dawn of awareness that comes early or late in an individual’s ministry of expression that they are so grateful for the expansion of light into their worlds and that they only regret the many years they have wasted in fruitless striving.
Carelessness often misdirects one’s motives, for motive too requires its own molding factors. Thus the disciple must apply to the intelligence of the Christ mind for a release of divine assistance in creating the very matrices that will subsequently direct his thoughts and feelings in the formation of the divine character of man from the heavenly blueprint.
Man, in the state of becoming, is an uncut and unfinished stone; the smoothening efforts required to complete the nobility of manifestation are very great, yet heavenly grace freely given to him is sufficient to execute a noble work with both alacrity and craftsmanship. Responses stemming from the feeling of being alone may lack the easy precipitation of Christly nobility which is based on the understanding that all life is one, and those responses that come only from brittleness of the human mind may lack the heart qualities of comfortable flexibility, of cosmic conformity which so gently adhere to principle that the divine nature is breathed out with every breath.
The painful sense of struggle that men establish all about themselves, either through indifference or a sense of unworthiness, often results in grey tones in the aura, a muddying of the cosmic stream as it passes through individualized form and consciousness, and a failure to externalize cosmic patterns. Inasmuch as the struggle of this age is very great and the crucible of life filled with poignant experiences, some enlightening and some destructive, men must seek to wend their way through time-space barriers into the eternality of God by faith in right action.
To seek to disprove cosmic Law requires familiarity with it to the uttermost, and therefore the early aspirant for spirituality would do well not to condemn nor to seek to express negativity of thought and feeling toward his fellowman, for after all, he is accountable for that which he releases.
The records of the saints are often marked with their initial rejections of cosmic Law and subsequent returns to the very rejected principles which, by their wholehearted acceptance of them, became to them a chasuble of righteousness. The adornment of the Spirit is very much involved in one’s communication with the power of the infinite light that stands behind the screen of matter. The opacity of human thought and feeling has successfully blocked this light of God that never fails from reaching individual men again and again, yet they fail to recognize it. To remove impediments is to incite progress, and there are no greater impediments in existence than those personal negative thoughts of judgment in men’s hearts which thrive on personal egoism and the fact that men feel most capable of gazing upon our best servants with feelings of disrespect. It would be one thing if these feelings were warranted, but where they are not there is also the judgment that must follow.
The strategies of the Brothers of Darkness are entering now into the relationships of the young people, as well as those between the young and the supposedly more mature. Human rebellion is being fostered and resentment encouraged on all sides as a means of vampirizing mankind’s energies. The youth need to search because the old matrices do not satisfy, but again and again they are being provided with false goals whose lures never give them the permanent satisfaction they crave.
Now a very real and ever-present danger threatens the world, and it is to counteract this threat that we would set true goals of respect and nobility before men. The breaking down of old systems of theology and even of science, in some cases, need be no excuse for a lowering of the standards of personal relationships between people.
The standards of the golden rule are cosmic Law, and mankind have no right to enter into an aura of obscenity. That which is done in the name of art and culture today that borders on the obscene or on abuses of life principles will one day produce a frightful karma in those whose psychicism is most of all a thing of hurt to themselves and to those whom they influence.
Time is of the essence in this matter, and unless men are to change their ways the harvest will indeed be frightful. Cosmic initiation looms before these young people if they will only understand that the means is not through LSD or erotic experience but through the renaissance of a spiritual culture which they once rejected in the very times of life when Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was winning his victory, when Joseph stood in the highest honor at Pharaoh’s court, when Solomon was building his temple, when Christ was walking in the corn fields, when Saint Francis was counseling his disciples (1181-1226), and even when the Brothers of Light first began to acquaint the Western world with the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood (1875). As was spoken of by one of your poets: “And they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.”
Thus shall the thrust for a purpose go forth again, and the cosmic court be enlarged to provide new offices for millions. “Feed my sheep” is today a cry for teachers who are willing to be taught, for disciples who are willing to be disciplined, for men who are willing to respect the order of the universe even as they have unduly respected the chaos from which it seemingly sprang.
Let us lift men into the light before the moment of darkness is too tightly secured and the age is lost. In cosmic vigilance I remain
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