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No glamour, no illusion
can long hold the man who has set him-
self the task of treading the razor-edged Path which leads through
the
wilderness, through the thick-set forest, through the deep waters
of sorrow and distress, through the valley of sacrifice
and over the
mountains of vision to the gate of Deliverance. He may travel some-
times in the dark (and the illusion
of darkness is very real); he may
travel sometimes in a light so dazzling and bewildering that he can
scarcely see the
way ahead; he may know what it is to falter on the
Path, and to drop under the fatigue of service and of strife; he may
be
temporarily sidetracked and wander down the by-paths of ambition,
of self-interest and of material enchantment, but
the lapse will be but
brief. Nothing in heaven or hell, on earth or elsewhere can prevent
the progress of the man who
has awakened to the illusion, who has
glimpsed the reality beyond the glamour of the astral plane, and who
has heard,
even if only once, the clarion call of his own soul.
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| ILLUSION & GLAMOUR |
We are
All That Is, for we cannot be separate.The moment that you truly know this, that everywhere
you look you know that God
is there, loving you as what you see, then you will have the miracle. The Love
"within" you and the Love "without" will
bridge the gap, and the identity as a separate self, the "skin" of this illusion will evaporate. It will evaporate as the
morning mist you see upon the lake evaporates in the sun's warmth. It will evaporate. Then you will know yourself as Christ,
as only Love in God. You will see your world as it truly is - as perfect Love in myriad expression - as Us, giving expression
to our joy.
ILLUSION is the mode whereby limited understanding and
material
knowledge interpret truth, veiling and hiding it
behind a cloud of thoughtforms. Those thoughtforms be-
come then more
real than the truth they veil, and conse-
quently control man's approach to Reality. Through illu-
slon, he becomes
aware of the apparatus of thought, of its
activity, expressed in thoughtform building, and of that
which he succeeds
in constructing and which he views as the
creation of his intellect. He has, however, created a barrier
between himself
and that which IS and, until he has ex-
hausted the resources of his intellect or has deliberately
refused to utilise
it, his devine intuition cannot function. It
is the INTUITION which reveals true Being and which induces a
state of
spiritual perception. Then the technique of the
PRESENCE becomes an established habit.
GLAMOUR, in its turn, veils and hides the truth behind the
fogs and
mists of feeling and emotional reaction; it is of
unique and terrible potency, owing to the strength of human
nature
to identify Itself with the astral nature, i.e.,
strong emotions-emotional laws, and to the
vital nature of conscious and sentient
response itself. As
you know and have been taught, glamour can only be dissi-
pated by the inflow of clear,
directed light; this is true of
the life of the individual or of humanity as a whole. ILLU-
MINATION reveals
first of all the existence of glamour; it pro-
vides the distressing contrasts with which all true aspirants
wrestle
and then gradually it floods the life to such an extent
that eventully glamour completely vanishes. Men see
things
then as they are---a facade hiding the good, the beau-
tiful and true. The opposites are then resolved and con-
sciousness
is superseded by a condition of realisation---a
realisation of Being for which we have no adequate term.
The technique
of LIGHT becomes a permanent condition.
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REHABILITATION OF NATIONS+
RIGHT HUMAN RELATIONS: The era ahead of us ---
under evolutionary law and the will
of God --- is to
see the establishment of right human relations.
--- We are entering a vast experimental period of
discovery; we shall discover just exactly who and
what we are --- as nations, in our group relationships,
through
our expression of religion and in our mode of
governments.
Will we we recognize that all nations are made up of
human
beings, at different stages of evolution, and
conditioned by their background, race and environment?
Will we be willing
to leave each other free to shoulder
individual responsibility and yet be willing ever to
assist each other as members
of one family and as
animated by one human spirit, the spirit of God?
Will we be willing to share the produce
of the
earth, knowing it belongs to all, freely distributing it
as nature does? Or will we permit it to fall into
the
hands of a few powerful nations or a mere handful
of powerful men and financial experts?
Such are only
a few of the questions for which
answers must be sought and found. The task looks
hard indeed.
Yet there
are enough spiritually minded people in
the world today to change world attitudes and to bring
in the new spiritually
creative period. Will these men
and women of vision and goodwill arise in their might
in every nation and make their
voices heard? Will
they have the strength, the persistence and the courage
to overcome defeatism, to break the chain
of hampering
theologies---political, social, economic and religious---
and work for the good of all peoples? Will we
over-
come the forces arrayed against us through firm
conviction of the stability and potentiality of the human
spirit?
Will we have faith in the intrinsic worth of
humanity? Will we realize that the entire trend of the
evolutionary process
is sweeping us on to victory?
The firm establishment of right human relations is
already a determined part of divine
purpose and nothing
can arrest its eventual appearance. That appearance
can, however, be hastened by right and selfless
action.
REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST
Humanity in all lands
today awaits the Coming One
--- no matter by what name they may call Him. The
Christ is sensed as on His way. The second
coming is
imminent and, from the lips of disciples, mystics, aspirants,
spiritually-minded people and enlightened men
and women,
the cry goes up, "Let light and love and power and death
fulfill the purpose of the Coming One." These words
are
a demand, a consecration, a sacrifice, a statement of belief
and a challenge to the Avatar, the Christ, Who waits
in
His high place until the demand is adequate and the cry
clear enough to warrant His appearance.
One thing it is most necessary to have in mind. It is
NOT for us to set the date for the appearing of the Christ
or
to expect any spectacular aid or curious phenomena.
If our work is rightly done, He will come at the set and
appointed
time. How, where or when He will come is
none of our concern. Our work is to do our utmost and
on as large a scale as
possible to bring about right human
relations, for His coming depends upon our work.
All of us can
do something to bring the present
terrible world situation to an end and to better conditions:
the least of us can play
our part in inaugurating the new
era of goodwill and understanding. It must be realised.
however, that it is no millenium
for which we work but
that our main objective is, at this time, twofold:
1. To break the ancient
and evil rhythms and establish
a new and better one. It is here that TIME is a
paramount factor. If we can delay the crystal-
lisation of the ancient evils which
produced the
world war, and arrest the reactionary forces in
every nation, we shall be making way for that
which is new and opening the door to
the activities
of the New Group of World Servers in every land---
that group which is the agent of the Christ.
2. To fuse and blend the united aspiration and longing
of the people everywhere so that the sound of
humanity's demand may be strong
enough to reach
the spiritual Hierarchy.
This will
require sacrifice, understanding and a deep
love of our fellowmen. It will also require intelligence
and
wisdom and a practical grasp of world affairs. As
the work goes forward in the establishing of right human
relations
(which is the basic world need) and as the
method of so doing --- goodwill --- is developed, the Christ
and
His disciples will steadily approach closer to mankind.
If the initial premise is accepted that He IS on His way,
then all spiritually oriented people and the disciples and
aspirants of the world will inevitably work
--- but the
premise must be accepted if the incentive is to prove
adequate. It is with this thought that we look
into the
future. The fiat of the Lord has gone forth; Christ
stands attentive to the demand of humanity. That
de-
mand is rising and mounting every day and '"in such an
hour as you think not, HE WILL COME."
The sons of men are one, and I am one with
them.
I seek to love, not hate;
I seek to serve and not exact due service;
I seek to heal, not hurt.
Let pain
bring due reward of light and love.
Let the soul control the outer form,
And life, and all events,
And bring to light
the Love
That underlies the happenings of the time.
Let vision come and insight.
Let the future stand revealed.
Let
inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be
gone.
Let love prevail.
Let all
men love.
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