By what way is the Light parted, which scat- tereth the east wind upon the earth? Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; to cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man?
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arc turns with his sons? Job
The Flow of Creation
If we would understand the order and ritual of Nature, we must peer behind the passing scenes that make up the world of effect—even the world of secondary causes and effects. We must train the eye of the mind to look beyond our three- and four-dimensional frame of reference into the infinite dimensions of the realm of First Cause. We must fix our gaze upon those aspects of Being which have neither physical definition nor relativity in time or space, but which are eternal in the heavens. For it is in Spirit, in the Fiery World, often referred to as the realm of formless form, that the origins of Life are waiting to be discovered. Here the etheric embryo of every God-idea that will
take form in Matter and ripen in man and Nature is found in its original Light Body and design.
If we would transcend the dimensions of Matter, we must explore Nature in its essence and learn to probe the nuclei of energy systems through the acceleration of our soul faculties; for only thus can our consciousness enter into and comprehend the spiritual cause behind the material effect we behold in and as the physical universe.
How do we know that we can or cannot accomplish such feats of the mind and spirit if we have not proved the equation Theos -I- Rule -I- You = God's Law active as Principle within your Being?' This alchemical formula states that man must avail himself of the potential of God (Theos), of the Law (Rule), and of the spark of Divinity, the energy that comprises his self-awareness (You), if he would demonstrate God’s Law. In short, we must TRY. We must exercise our God-given faculties according to natural law and we must invoke the Life-energies within the atom of self if we would penetrate Nature and make her God our own.
If man would accept the idea, he could walk through fire and earth as easily as he passes through water and air. The difficulty lies not in the act itself, but in the adjustment of the mind and the conditioning of the emotions to the act. Thus we begin to see that man’s conscious dominion over the physical- spiritual universe and his discovery of God in Nature lies not alone in the outer manipulation of forces but above all in his inner self-mastery. With all man’s getting of worldly wisdom, he must, then, get a working knowledge of those laws which, when assiduously applied, will give him not only inner self- mastery but also the outer mastery of his environment.
Throughout this work we have endeavored to
systematically present a practical explanation of those cardinal principles of alchemy, the sacred science of self-transformation, without which man’s advancement on the Path is at best haphazard. In this chapter we shall discuss the polarity of the Father-Mother God which establishes the balance of cosmic forces in Christie manifestation; the blending of man’s consciousness with Life through the Holy Spirit; the hierarchical order of Nature spirits who sustain concentrated focuses of the sacred fire in Nature; man’s control of his environment through the application of cosmic law, including extraterrestrial probes; and finally, man’s joint service with the elemental kingdom through the practical doctrine of ahimsa— harmlessness toward all Life.
Nature is a screen of light that coalesces in gradations of loveliness in formlessness and form. Behind each level of manifestation is an etheric counterpart suspended in what Eastern mystics have termed the Fiery World. The spiritual patterns that sustain the natural order in Matter are thus condensations of light—energy coalesced in geometric forms that give impetus to their more dense counterparts which comprise the physical universe.
The spiritual progression of worlds beyond our own is seen as a gradual dematerialization of energy veils* from Matter to Spirit—from what is termed the outer, the physical, or tangible, to what is termed the inner, the spiritual, or intangible. These worlds are
created through the magnetization of Spirit-form and Matter-form around nuclei suns, each sun a flaming idea projected from the Mind of God, each sun sustaining a hub of activity that complements the central theme of Life.
Conversely, as we proceed from the metaphysical* center of Cosmos, called the Great Central Sun, to the physical periphery of universes in material manifestation, the extension of the Lord’s Body follows an orderly spiraling of energies from Spirit to Matter. These we observe as subtle gradations of light, color, sound, form, and symmetry from galactic spirals to microscopic life. This is Nature in all her grandeur. This is substance of the Mater Ray that hangs upon the antahkarana, the skeletal framework, of Spirit.
Contrary to the popular notion that heaven is “up” and earth is “down,” the basis of our cosmocon- ception is that Spirit and Matter, heaven and earth, are interpenetrating forcefields existing simultaneously throughout Cosmos as the warp and woof, the plus and minus, of creation. Jesus confirmed this concept of cosmic coexistence when he said, “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you .” 2
Another common belief that bears scrutiny is that what man perceives with his physical senses is Matter and what he does not is Spirit. It is our understanding that Matter is intended to be the transparent vehicle for Spirit and that when man and Nature are found in their pristine state, Spirit and Matter are equally visible as the Father-Mother God. It is only since the Fall of Man, since Matter became opaqued with the dark consciousness of duality, that the Spirit
*That which lies above or beyond the physical world as the spiritual Cause preceding the material effect.
which inhabits the body temple 3 can no longer be seen in man’s flesh or in the very atoms composing earth’s crust.
Thus, by his partial view of Spirit and Matter, man has induced two erroneous theories which form the basis of an erroneous theology: (1) a geographical relationship between heaven and earth and (2) the divisibility of Spirit and Matter. The concepts that sin is of the flesh and that Matter is evil or unreal have grown out of an incorrect apprehension of the science of energy qualification. Nothing but the sense of sin with which man has cloaked his flesh, and the energy veil which he has superimposed upon the atoms of material substance could have made him draw these inaccurate and self-defeating conclusions.
If he would but summon faith in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit and then invoke the Light of God to purify his sense consciousness, man would behold beyond the blanket of maya that distorts and densities Mother Earth not only the crystal magnificence of the material side of the creation, but also the Christie patterns of Spirit shining through. The core of energy systems, of atoms and universes, is the focus of the spiritual idea, the fiery ovoid, which gives birth to its materialization. Physical nuclei, such as protons and neutrons and flaming sun centers, focus not only the matrix for the monadic system but also the balance of spiritual-material energies flowing from spiritual formlessness into and out of material form—as Above, so below.
The transfer of energy from Spirit to Matter is made through concentrated focuses of the sacred fire, such as stars and suns, under the direction of the heavenly beings who ensoul them. Using the complete spectrum of cosmic science still untouched by mortals, they serve as coordinators of the great cosmic flow to
move the energies of the eternal cycles into spirals of descending magnitude on behalf of evolving life- waves who are making their way Godward upon endless planetary orbs but who, in their present state of consciousness, are unable to absorb directly the energies of the Great Hub.
The perception of the Lord’s Spirit in Nature— of myriad lights and flaming hues—varies with the individual. The education and exercise of man’s vision varies also, and thus the beauty that some men perceive does not exist for others. There are those who see beauty where there is none; these discern spiritually the archetypal pattern of perfection glistening beyond the Veil even when its material counterpart is not apparent in the world of form.
There are others for whom life is always dreary, banal, and unholy; and even in the presence of true beauty delicately perfected in Matter, they perceive only the spirals of disintegration and decay inherent within their own limited self-awareness of God. Because they have developed the habit of “negative seeing,” the beauty of Life remains unperceived. By this process they negate for themselves the perfection of Life which does manifest throughout Nature. The study of God in Nature must therefore begin with the understanding that Nature is at once objective Reality and subjective manifestation of man’s innermost being.
To those who behold with the inner eye, whose perceptions are ordered by the single-eyed vision of the Creator’s own consciousness, the joy, the harmony, the beauty, the perfection, the balance, the symmetry, and the mathematical precision of Nature are facts of Life applauded, adored, and affinitized with the inner realities of their solar awareness. Those who see only the phenomena of the parts (parts of
Matter saturated with the pollutants of the human consciousness) while neglecting their function within the Whole (the whole of a purified material universe and its spiritual counterpart) do not see the forest for the trees. As in the Hindu fable about the Blind Men and the Elephant, 4 they examine one or more of the parts of Nature and then become seized by their own limited sense of that part. In their lack of perspective and their failure to comprehend the unity of the Whole, they deprive themselves of the blessings of the Whole and forever dwell within the confines of their partial view.
When God made man, he placed all of Cosmos within his grasp, the exterior as well as the interior world; and these together comprise his total identity. When man beholds the world without, he is reminded that the mountains, the forests, the lakes, the gentle breezes, the sun, moon, and stars comprise his own being. That which man perceives and accepts in Nature he can become—he already is. Indeed, the creation, man, includes the spiritual-material universe; it is his to command if he will but make it his own.
The material microcosm includes the spiritual Macrocosm, as every effect must include its cause. And all of its components are within the reach of man’s conscious awareness of the Self as God, as Nature. The union of the outer man with the inner man through the soul’s desire to draw unto itself more of God produces the ebb and flow of light over the figure-eight pattern that involves all of creation—both the within and the without.
While yet in a limited or partial state of self- awareness, wherein he does not perceive the interrelation of the parts with the Whole, man does not define Life as one: he does not see that the trees, the mountains, and the rocks are part of his own God
Self-awareness. In fact, man’s own being is so vast that he does not see its extension throughout Nature and all of Cosmos. As the electron does not know that it is part of the atom but orbits in a whirl of its own, so man’s world appears complete, when in reality he is part of the ever expanding Whole that is God in Nature. When he begins to rise on the spirals that are created by the spiritualization of his consciousness, he perceives that the Lord has placed all things beneath his feet, that he is the Master of Life and of the cycles of Nature when he identifies with the Christ, the eternal Logos in whose Being all things were made.
God has given to the Self-realized manifestation of himself conscious dominion over the planes of Matter. This dominion man achieves as he realizes his all-oneness with Life. The wind and wave are stilled when he affirms, “I AM the peace-commanding Presence of the Holy Spirit exercising full God-control in the planes of air and water.” Fire and earth likewise joyously mold themselves to the Christie design when man affirms the God-power inherent within the intelligent, obedient, loving desire of the electron to flow into the perfect pattern.
To limit one’s consciousness to oneself, one’s environment, one’s country, or the world can never lead to the union of the soul with Cosmos through Nature. As Saint Germain, in Chapter Nine of his Studies in Alchemy, paraphrased Sir Walter Scott,
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said:
“This is my own, my native universe”? 5
It is certain that a sense of the vastness of Cosmos and of the co-measurement of the larger domain with the comparatively small and self-limiting part will do much to expand the periphery of man’s consciousness.
By correlating himself with the Infinite, man becomes aware of larger and larger aspects of the Deity both within himself and within the universe.
The concept of God as inhabiting the universe and therefore being in residence in Nature is not difficult to understand. But one need not have detailed knowledge of the how and why of God’s universal existence any more than one needs to examine the delicate workings of a fine Swiss watch before he can accept its usefulness in telling time. Likewise, one must resist the temptation to categorize this panoramic view of God in Nature as “pantheistic” (with all of the pagan overtones feared by Christians).
Webster says that pantheism is “a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.” 6 The Standard College Dictionary defines pantheism as “the doctrine that the whole universe is God, or that every part of the universe is a manifestation of God.” 7 To argue against this theory is to deny that Leonardo lives in his paintings, that Michelangelo can be known in his sculpture, or that Christ lives in his Sermon on the Mount and in the hearts of millions who have touched the hem of his garment. Some of the sayings of Jesus not recorded in the Gospels but found in the writings of the church fathers on the Oxyrhynchus papyruses discovered in Egypt about 1900 support this concept of a mystical pantheism: “Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and there am I.”*
The Creator dwells in his creation; his Presence endows it with innate immortality; his Law maintains the outer structure; and his Spirit gives it Life. It has been said by wise men that God sustains the universe with the flow of his attention moment by moment throughout eternity and that if he were to withdraw the energies of his Mind from it, it would collapse into
a heap of nothingness. We make these statements not in defense of the word pantheism, which has been bandied about by those who would make light of occult mysteries, but in order to show the reality of God’s Spirit in Nature.
Our study of Nature cannot progress unless we understand the role of the Holy Spirit in and as Nature. Indeed, Nature is the culmination of the Spirit of God made manifest in Matter. In Nature we find the perfect union of the Father-Mother God and the pristine glory of the Christ. Undergirding the material universe are the Four Cosmic Forces which originate in the Central Sun as a pinwheel of light directing the cycles of energy from Spirit into Matter. These forces are controlled by the Holy Spirit, and without them man would be without a platform for his soul’s evolution in Matter. They key the energy flow not only to the four lower bodies of the evolving monad but also to the four interpenetrating force- fields that make up planetary and starry bodies.
The shuttle of creation whereby spiritual ideas are projected into material manifestation is directed by the Master Weaver who blends the warp and woof of Spirit and Matter to fulfill the cosmic scheme. The Maha Chohan has referred to the Holy Spirit as the great unifying coordinator who, “like unto a mighty weaver of old, weaves a seamless garment of Ascended Master light and love. The shuttle of God’s attention upon man drives forth radiant beams of descending light, scintillating fragments of purity and happiness, toward earth and into the hearts of his children, whilst the tender risings of men’s hopes, aspirations, invocations, and calls for assistance do pursue the Deity in his mighty haven of cosmic purity. . . .
“As a tiny seed of light, the Holy Spirit enters into the heart of the earth, into the density of Matter,
that it might expand throughout the cells of form and being, of thought and perception to become a gnosis and an effulgence in the cup of consciousness. This Holy Grail of immortal substance may be unrecognized by many who pass by, but to many others it will be perceived gleaming from behind the Veil. Shedding the light of that divine knowing which transcends mortal conception and is the renewing freshness of eternity’s morn, it vitalizes each moment with the God-happiness that man cognizes through infinite perceptions cast as fragments into the chalice of his own consciousness.”
Above all, having received, retain Whate’er gift God hath given unto thee,
That ere the sun set each day
Thou shalt have cleansed thy being
Of all perceptions vain and hapless
And readied thyself through eventide
To enter into immortal peace
In the hours of the night while thy body sleeps
To dream the immortal dream
And to be one who gathers
Of the flame of God’s Spirit in greater measure
And fullness, that as the new day breaketh,
Thy energies, made holy and pure,
Rising as the incense of devotion.
Shall invoke for all who are thy friends of Light Some new miracle of consciousness.
Thy destiny lies not in vanity and confusion,
But only in the Godly activity of being a lamplighter, Having first within thyself the spark of kindling That thou mayest then and ever anon Confer with sweetness upon all hearts The selfsame regenerative technique Bestowed upon thee by the eternal Father.
The Holy Spirit, having descended into thy being,
Is ever thereafter an eternal anchor
Cast within the heart center of Divinity itself.
No delusion, no outer world vanity Will then allay thy feeling of searching;
For thy Being, like a great searchlight,
Will scan each moment
That thou mayest perceive what radiant splendor God has placed there—shall I say, blessed ones. Right under your noses—
That thou mayest know that all that opposes The configuration of splendid appearing Is but a darkened garb without clearing Which thou mayest well shun, never fearing Aught else, but knowing withal That the snow-white dove, showing all hope.
Will fly with compassionate wings To the heart of heaven where soundless sound rings The melody of the Sacred Seven Whose whiteness is thy seamless robe. 9
The Father-Mother God in Spirit and in Matter
All of Nature is the compound idea of the infinite Mind of God. All of creation is the thought- manifestation, the idea-action, of that Mind. Nothing real exists that did not first spring forth as a thought- energy pattern in the Creator’s consciousness and then spiral into manifestation through the cycles of Spirit and Matter.
When we speak of the Creator and his consciousness, we must include in our awareness the concept of the Father-Mother God—of a Being that is both masculine and feminine in nature, whose oneness is found in the perfect balance of the energies of Spirit and Matter.
God as formless form is the white fiery ovoid of Love-Wisdom in polarity. God individualized in Spirit and in Matter is revealed as twin flames, each an expression of the Divine Wholeness, yet one having a plus (masculine) and the other a minus (feminine) coefficient. Of the creation of twin flames like unto the Father-Mother God, destined to be coordinates and conductors of every idea-action of the infinite Mind, the author of Genesis wrote: “And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion.... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them .”'°
If God is Father-Mother, what, then, is the Trinity? When we refer to God as Father, God as Son, and God as Holy Spirit, we are actually referring to God as he is found in Spirit and in Matter, thus recognizing that his Being and Consciousness appears in the Persons of the Trinity according to the level or plane of individual awareness. As John said: “There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.”"
When we speak to God as Father, we are addressing him in the plane of Spirit as Spirit, as the originator of the Fiery Ovoid, the Cause behind the cause-effect sequences we behold in Matter. God in the Person of Father includes the Mother principle, for he is forever the androgynous Whole.
When we call upon the Lord in the nearness of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter whom Jesus promised would abide with man forever, the Spirit of Truth that he said “dwelleth with you, and shall be in you,” 12 we are contacting the Person of God as he is made available to man in the plane of Matter. The Holy Spirit
focuses the divine polarity of the energies of the Father-Mother God made manifest in and relevant to the material creation through the threefold flame within the heart of man.
When we bow before the Almighty in the Person of the Christ, we acknowledge the only begotten Son born of the union of the Father-Mother God in both Spirit and Matter. In him is the Word become flesh and then transformed in the spirit of the Logos. This is the miracle of the eternal Christos who was ordained from the beginning as the Mediator between the planes of God’s consciousness in Spirit and in Matter, between the Divine Father and the Divine Mother, and between God Above and man below.
We shall discover later in this work that the functions of the Trinity are reversed in Spirit and in Matter. Thus, in Spirit God the Father is the Wisdom- Power that plans the creation and God the Mother is the Power-Love that gives it birth. In Matter God the Father is the Power-Love that provides the energy for its manifestation, while God the Mother is the Wisdom- Power that executes the plan. In Spirit the Christos is the focal point for the Power Love-Wisdom of the Word that went forth giving light to all creation. In Matter Christ, as the epitome of Wisdom, is the culmination of the Love-Power of the Father-Mother.
At this point in our discussion it is necessary to clarify certain points of the Law which have become stones of stumbling in the pathway of many sincere seekers for Truth. Let us first take up the denial of the existence of Matter and the material universe.
Those who defend this view base their argument on the premise that God, Good, is Spirit everywhere present and that he is the only Reality—which is, of course, true. They reason that if God is Good and the only Reality, then the opposite of Good, namely Evil,
must be unreal—which, in the absolute sense, is also true; for as we have explained, Evil is but an energy veil sustained in the relativity of time and space by man’s misuse of free will. But their logic breaks down when they draw the unwarranted conclusion that since the opposite of Good is unreal, then Spirit’s opposite. Matter, must not exist either.
The fallacy here is the belief that Matter is the antipode of Spirit. This conclusion is based on the perspective of a partial seeing—of seeing through a glass darkly instead of beholding Reality face to face . 13 The foundation of our logic must become the testimony of Life, of Spirit itself, lest we fall by the wayside and wander with the blind leaders of the blind rationalists. For that Life which is Spirit is the author of a cosmic conception so noble and so grand as to render utterly meaningless the speculations of physics versus metaphysics, which in the final analysis are one, even as science and religion are forever one in the alchemical union of Spirit and Matter.
The Truth all mankind seek is based on the irrefutable law that Spirit and Matter are not opposites: they are the twofold nature of God’s Being which remain forever as the Divine Polarity. By contrast, careful thought will reveal that Good and Evil can never be in polarity. They are diametrically opposed and will forever so remain; for the former is real and the latter is unreal.
Pallas Athena, Patron of Truth, sheds light upon a similar question that has been raised concerning Light and Darkness. Her comments will assist us in clarifying the issues of Spirit and Matter, Good and Evil:
“Yes, Light exists and Darkness exists. Some men have tried to simplify this concept by saying that Darkness is an absence of Light, whereas others have
equated Darkness with Evil, seeing it as a virulent force that seeks to overthrow the Light. There are elements of truth in both statements. For example, in the mind and being of man, the vacuum that is referred to as Darkness, or a lack of Light, is not a positive force; it is not a negative force; it is not even a misappropriated force; it is simply an absence of the realization of Light’s potential.
“On the other hand, that Darkness which results from the misqualification of Light, from its conversion into Darkness, is of another type, which can be categorized as a negative force or a positive Evil. That there are various types of Darkness was clearly pointed out by the Master Jesus in his exclamation ‘If therefore the Light that is in thee be Darkness, how great is that Darkness !’ 14 This may be read as a question by the earnest disciple: How great is the intensity of the Darkness in me? Is it a misqualification of Light, an energy veil, or is it an absence of Light, a lost opportunity? How great an impediment is this Darkness to my understanding of Truth ?” 15
Light is not at war with Darkness, nor are Good and Evil engaged in mortal combat. Light, unaware of its opposite, fills the Darkness and transmutes the energy veil just as the Presence of Good consumes on contact all that is unlike itself. But Spirit will never cancel out itself in Matter, for both are real and stand juxtaposed as complementary pillars in the temple of Being.
An erroneous postulation, regardless of its tenure in the minds of men, is still erroneous. The false belief that Matter equates with Evil—the energy veil- must be replaced by the Truth if men would progress on the path of enlightened self-mastery. It is the lie of the carnal mind which has spawned the energy veil that distorts the perception of both Spirit and Matter. The carnal mind, not Matter, is the culprit. The
consciousness of duality sent forth the mist that watered the whole face of the ground 16 (that obscured the Spirit of the Lord resident in Matter). The carnal mind, incapable of defining its own point of reference in the universe, simply cannot be credited with the creation of the brave solar system and far-flung planets, the splendid body of man, or the stars that point to worlds beyond. Nor can it be said that the pristine substance, the Light out of which the material universe was invoked by God, is Evil.
“Come now, and let us reason together ,” 17 saith the Lord! The word matter comes from the Latin mater, or mother; and this is the key that liberates our minds from the categorical denial—though it be whispered a thousand times by the serpent—“There is no Matter.” The Feminine aspect of God which we recognize in Mother Nature provides the womb into which Spirit projects the seed-energies of a cosmic destiny that is fulfilled in galaxies and universes without number. Matter is the cradle of Spirit that rocks the Cosmos into its spiritual consummation.
In a universe where man is in a state of becoming God through the judicious exercise of free will, where Good and Evil are his daily options, we cannot ignore the temporary existence of Evil even while we affirm the permanent Reality of Good. But at the same time, we have no grounds for equating Evil or imperfection with Matter any more than we have reason to identify the energy veil with Spirit. Paul told the early Christians that their bodies were the temples of the living God. Would God—could God- remain in a structure that is inherently Evil? Was he not addressing those evolving on the material plane in material bodies which he himself had created when he said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people ”? 18
By their wrong choices men have inlaid the strata of Matter with layers of illusions, so much so that beneath the veiled face of Mother Nature the pattern and portrait of the Divine is scarcely recognizable. The earth elements, once crystalline, emitting the radiance of atomic fires, are dense and dull; they, too, are waiting to be baptized by the water of the Word. Transparent sands of pastel hue, flora and fauna, glistening adornments of the Creator’s consciousness, lie buried beneath the weight of planetary effluvia, their only hope the resurrection of the son of man. Alas, the descent into duality, the Fall from grace, has distorted not only the man made in God’s image but also the world of Spirit and Matter upon which he has superimposed his “evil” consciousness.
Sanat Kumara, who long ago kept the vigil for the Light of Spirit in this darkened, densified world of form, explains the interrelated functions of Spirit and Matter: “The Spirit that interpenetrates all form and substance is the web of reason—the skeletal framework—that communicates and holds together the Cosmos .” 19 Through his instruction we see that Matter is the visible side of Spirit. Matter is that aspect of Spirit to which man, who is yet in the state of becoming Whole, can relate. Matter is Spirit tempered to the shorn lamb of man’s lesser identity. Man in his present awareness is simply not capable of assimilating pure Spirit; therefore, God has provided a platform for his evolving soul consciousness.
“Those who would explore the far reaches of space, both inner and outer,” says the Holy Kumara, “should understand that the Divine Feminine is the womb of creation that is impregnated with Life by the Spirit of God. The material universe is the negative polarity, whereas the spiritual universe is the positive polarity of the Godhead. Matter, meaning
Mater, is the chalice that receives the invigorating. Life-giving essence of the sacred fire. Thus the Father principle completes the cycle of manifestation in the world of form through the Mother aspect; and child-man is nourished by the balancing, sustaining action of Life whose twofold nature—Spirit-Matter, masculine-feminine—is epitomized in the Christ.
“If a man tear himself from the luminosity of his own heart by outward seeking, he can become enmeshed in externals until the internal Fiery World can no longer sound forth its Reality. All things come, then, into position within the framework of the individual’s chalice of manifest perspective. His temple is his universe which God infuses with Life. God (as Mother) is the temple, and God (as Father) is the fire that blazes on the altar within.
“The power to expand the chalice is the power inherent within a mustard seed. It does not matter that a man’s faith is no greater than a mustard seed . 20 If he has the smallest fragment of God within, he can expand it; and because the potential expansion is limitless, there is no limit to where a man can go, to what he can become, when he has harnessed for himself the divine radiance that God has implanted within the seed of his heart. We refer not to the physical heart, but to the center of sovereign Being, to the seat of Universal Consciousness, to the powerhouse of spiritual individuality....
“God created the universe as a place of joy. In order to create natives to his own joy, he framed men in his own Image. This Image he implanted within them; it is recorded in the fire of the soul, that it might never be lost, regardless of how far man might wander from his Source. Through this Image the connecting cords of universal Love reach out as the spokes from a hub, from center to periphery, and all
things are brought into focus within the soul who seethes with Good .” 21
The Lord, whose transcendental nature is not fully comprehended by those dwelling in the dimensions of a fixed relativity, created the Cosmos according to his highest concept of Good—far beyond man’s highest concept of God. From the infinite realms of Spirit, he decreed the significant lowering of the Light* into finite spheres of material manifestation. The field of Matter thus became a natural receding from the fiery intensity of Spirit and its ode of immortal perfection.
“He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree .” 22 Mary the Mother of Jesus, who, as a handmaid of the Lord, exemplified the mission of the Divine Feminine on earth, understood the law involving the stepping down of spiritual energies (the bringing down of the mighty from their seats) and the raising of physical energies (the exalting of them of low degree). She also knew that the immaculate conception of the Christ is ordained in the perfect union of Spirit and Matter where heaven and earth meet.
Explaining her divine calling to the Keepers of the Flame, Mary said: “I AM a cosmic mother, and as much your mother as I am the mother of beloved Jesus. Some who are adherents of the Christian faith call me the Mother of God. To those of the protesting branch of orthodox Christianity this seems a sacrilege; for men may well ask, ‘Who is worthy to be the Mother of God?’ But this concept, when understood to mean the mother of the embodiment of the Divine Spirit, reveals the glorious truth that every mother
who understands that which was spoken—‘and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us’ 23 —may be the Mother of God....
“The Christ must be born in every man and woman. The Christ seed must be nurtured and expanded as the threefold flame of Love, Wisdom, and Power holding dominion over every ideological concept of man, over every teleological matter prescribed by cosmic law, and ruling supreme as the master function of Life. Then I (the God flame in me) automatically become (because the God flame in me is so consecrated) the Cosmic Mother of each son and daughter of heaven. Then you automatically become that to which you have consecrated the energies of your I AM Presence. That which ‘I AM’ you can be also, if you will it so by the power and authority of the ‘I AM .’” 24
The Father-Mother God is the center of all Life—of an atom, a seed, an idea; of man, of planets, stars, and suns. The Father-Mother God is the nucleus of energy systems, the core of being; and wherever God is, Life springs forth from the perfect union of Spirit and Matter. Love-Wisdom in polarity gives birth to the only begotten Son. The Christ is the Light- energy sent forth throughout Cosmos as the offspring of the divine union. He is the Logos that propagates the virtues of Love-Wisdom in all creation.
For the purposes of our study of God in Nature, we shall, like children, enjoy the miraculous advent of the Father-Mother God right within our very being. Almost delirious with delight, we feel the waves of light that flood the playground of our consciousness as we frolic in the sun of cosmic ecstasy. We have found our Father in heaven and our Mother in earth. We feel secure in the everlasting arms of Life. Today
we are content to splash and swim in the sea of God’s Being; tomorrow we shall master the science and art of creation.
Imbued with the innocence of the child mind, we are not overawed by the concept of God’s own Self-awareness focused in sun centers which form the nucleus of evolving lifewaves abounding throughout the creation. Wherever God’s consciousness is, we know we shall find our Father-Mother—Love and Wisdom, Wisdom and Love—swirling, mounting, foaming in the ebb and flow of the tides of the morning, the tides of the evening.
We are bathed and fed and clothed by Light in motion—in the ocean of God’s Being. Caressed by Him and Her, we seek no rationale to convince us of our own existence in heaven, in earth; no shallow logic can deprive us of our sweet communion. The Darkness of the dogmatists is confounded by the Christie Light. They walk as dead men, haunting specters of our former fears. No longer threatened by their gloom, we see them disappear among the mists of their violent musings. We stand in the sun of righteousness, our horizon blue and clear. The waters of Life flow freely through body, heart, and mind—now gently as a murmuring brook, now like a mighty torrent. We approach the Source, the great waterfall cascading from the center.
Our hands are cupped and tightly pressed. We catch the descending currents dazzling in the noonday fires. Beyond the falls, high in the mountains where the single drop emerges from the spring, where the Great River of Life begins, the Father-Mother is enthroned. Raising the sacred scepter, they welcome our return. We need not follow rocky crevasses or scale the jagged peaks to know that Life is there; we take instead the waters freely given, and we go on our
way. To capture the desire that bubbles from within— to grow up and become like the Shining Ones who gave us Life—this is our childhood quest.
“How beautiful are the feet of the morning seeking to walk into the day .” 25 Remembering our innocent longings, we as adults still look to the God Star on high, believing—knowing—that there we shall find our eternal Home. One called Surya—called by God with his twin flame to ensoul Sirius with the Love-Wisdom of the Father-Mother—addresses the man-children of earth:
“We speak of centers: the center of the heart, the center of the mind, the central eye of Light, the capitals of music, of art, of drama, and of the high culture of the temple. We speak of sun capitals and of star capitals and of cosmic citadels. But from the least unto the greatest, there is always one quality that responds and evokes response. Call him Father, Mother, God, Eternal Presence, or Infinite Being, he would convey only the best gifts to his children. Except ye become as a little child, ye cannot enter in . 26
“In flinging away from the heart the cares that so momentously deprive one of Reality, man perceives the sheltering arms of Nature. His beauty and compassion are an outshining. Within the root is sap; in the green leaf is photosynthesis; there, softly diffused light glows. In your spirits that inhabit your bodies there is stamped the memory of Him. And all the while that this beauty remains, as if crucified and pierced with many a thorn, there is the hope that leaps in consciousness as a flame in a solar world or in the heart and speaks His name.
“Darkness flees, chaos becomes order, purpose is born: Love engulfs life. Selfhood is bestowed, and Christ is beheld as the healer of nations and of men. With little toys we play no more: we become men.
Once again the kyrie eleison is heard from universal power ranges....
“The tenderness of spiritual Reality is guarded by the heart, and the arhat in nobleness sees himself as a repository of God’s Good. He would not keep this Good from his fellowmen, nor would he keep himself from them. When he withdraws into the boat or the high mountain place, it is that he might come again unto his brothers carrying a more bountiful basket. Yet there is no pride in his going or in his coming, but only understanding that sees eternal values ever mounting, leaving behind the stragglers. These have formed themselves into loose-knit bands of inferior standards, and their games have often pierced the heart of virtue....
“And what shall we say of the hunger that dictates speed? Shall men sit in darkness and deny the Light? Some say, ‘The dawn will come,’ but man’s sense of time is often strange. And at that darkest hour before the dawn comes, some are discouraged and fall asleep to wake no more.
“To many life is only a fable because its realities have never been sensed; in hopelessness and despair men have embraced the dust only to see it crumble and be blown they know not where. Life is not emptiness, but fullness; but if the fullness be misqualified, it may be a fullness of emptiness. And so I ask all to turn within to the radiant Sun of Divine Reality. . . .
“O majestic hearts, respond to Divine Love! Heal the world by first healing your own world. Cleanse the world conscience by cleansing your own consciousness. Perceive that man must work in two worlds—his own within and that without. For ‘my Father worketh hitherto, and I work .’” 27
And so we turn to the symbol of the radiant Sun of Divine Reality, the orb that gives us Light and Life,
the Father-Mother God of our solar system. Facing the East, we join the pilgrims who worship the Source by singing a hymn to the Sun:
O mighty Presence of God, I AM, in and behind the sun: I welcome Thy Light, which floods all the earth, into my life, into my mind, into my spirit, into my soul.
Radiate and blaze forth Thy Light! Break the bonds of darkness and superstition! Charge me with the great clearness of Thy white fire radiance!
I AM Thy child, and each day I shall become more of Thy manifestation ! 28
The response of the Almighty is dispensed to the Children of the Sun through the flaming center of his Presence focused in the plane of Matter. From the hand of Helios and Vesta. Solar God and Goddess to this system of worlds, come the blessings of the Father- Mother God. To these God-free, God-realized beings the Creator has entrusted billions of evolving souls. To them he has given the responsibility of distributing his Light throughout the entire spiritual-material force- field of this solar system—an energy mass extending millions of miles in diameter on physical, emotional, mental, and etheric planes of manifestation. Revolving around this flaming focus of God’s Mind, of which we behold but the physical aspect, are countless worlds and lifewaves—all undergoing the initiations of Solar Logoi, readying themselves for the grand return to the Father-Mother God.
Beyond the physical phenomenon of nuclear fusion, whereby hydrogen is transformed into helium, which scientists observe as the principle activity in the sun, are an infinite number of planes of spiritual- material activity which remain unprobed by those
evolving in the dimensions of time and space as we have reference to them. Thus, many mansions of the Father’s house occupy simultaneously the forcefield of our solar system, each one complete within its own frame of reference, each one serving the needs of its own household while unaware of the activities of the inhabitants on the next level. Our sun, giant hub of activity, aggregate focus of the Creator’s Self-expression in all planes of Spirit and Matter, is governed and ensouled by Helios and Vesta, the highest representatives of the Godhead in this system of worlds.
Let not the mind prevent the assimilation of this concept by the heart; for if we can admit that God is in Nature in the universal sense, then we must also admit that he is in Nature in the individual sense. And if we concede that man is the individualized expression of God, then we must concede the possibility of there being higher and more perfect individualizations of God than the mankind, or kind of man, evolving on earth.
If God is capable of expressing himself in man and Nature upon this planet, then we must admit—lest we be guilty of limiting both Creator and creation— that he has ordered many dioramas and dimensions for the express purpose of manifesting the full complement of his Identity across the entire spectrum of forcefields and frequencies in Spirit and in Matter.
If the Lord saw fit to create man in his image and likeness and to place him upon earth, might he not also have seen fit to create a God-man, a Godly manifestation of himself, and to place him in the sun? Indeed, this is precisely what he has done—over and over again in suns and stars through galaxies without number. Leaving the whys and wherefores for our chapter on Hierarchy, let us hear the word of Helios—sublime expression of God in man and Nature:
“When I say, then, that I am Helios of the Sun, let it not become an alarming idea. It is written in your sacred writings, ‘Go to the ant, thou sluggard.’ 29 And so I say, liberate your minds from the erroneous idea that you cannot learn grand truths from the lowest as well as the highest of God’s creatures; for doth He not ensoul them all? Is He not the One ‘which command- eth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars; which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea’?” 30
On January 11, 1970, Helios sent forth a Proclamation for the Seventies addressed to the sons and daughters of the sacred fire on the planet earth. We quote:
“The cries from the earth must be heeded by heaven; for it is the call of the soul that, according to divine decree, we must answer. The soul cries out in spiritual hunger, pleading for progress when progress can and should be rightfully demanded. The call compels the answer. The soul is weary of sense delusion, of maya, and of human disturbances. Even the energies of God, locked in karmic weight, long to be delivered from the tension of the inwardly coiled springs.
“That fiat of the Light ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men’ 31 should be made the stirrup of the decade. Let the horse and the rider know that the right foot thrust in the stirrup will ever remind mankind of right action and of the necessity of forward movement over every obstacle.
“The current solar disturbances will have far- reaching effects. Our sun system is radiating unique light; and in that light goes forth the demand for the casting down of old human momentums that have brought so much discouragement to the world mind, dispensed in minute portions as potions of human poison. Therefore we say, let this era end! And let men
clearly perceive the fruit of the ego that nestles in God, of the ego that refuses identification with aught else except the Divine Ego.
“Just as gratitude is more than a ‘thank you,’ so being one with God involves more than a statement of being that lacks the undergirdings of attainment. Being one with God is the infusion of the mind with the solar winds of precise and cutting cosmic purpose. Oneness with him compels the shedding of unthinking and unguided wanderings. It invokes the definition of the Absolute outlined in consciousness and formed within as a hieroglyph of childlike wonder of the Father of all. Divine Oneness is the soul’s breathing-in of the solar flame that can be spun into a universal garment of Christ-magnificence by the willing-hearted.
“The mission of the sun is to extend new hope to this age. The seventh decade of the century reveals the square and the triangle, the four points and the three making the cosmic seven, standing in awareness of the decade as one of initiation for the earth.
“The current cycle of sunspots and solar flares affects the weather of the planet, the moods of its people, even business cycles, and of course the release of spiritual light-energy to the earth. One should note, therefore, not only the negative interference to the radio networks of the earth, but also the vast positive extensions of cosmic possibilities and revelations that shatter Darkness with the brilliance of new and fervent hope for the overcoming of age- old problems. Sickness, sin, and death—all forms of discord, bigotry, tyranny, struggle, and degradation- must yield before the great cosmic burst of Light; else those who continue to be advocates of Darkness and shame will find the spiral of karmic recompense becoming a lash of such chastening as to almost annihilate that portion of their consciousness which persists in identifying with unreality.
‘“The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.’ 32 The trumpet of Life sounds the approach of a new age and of an invisible overshadowing of the energies of darkness currently in vogue by the universal handwriting upon the wall that clearly says unto humanity, ‘You can go no further in material ways without acknowledging the power and perfection of your God Presence, I AM.’ For the Law of Cosmos declares that true Being requires true seeing—the perception of Truth.
“We call, then, for cosmic morality and for thoughts of exaltation to flood the minds of the adults of every nation in order that the proper examples can be given to the youth; for all thoughts are cast upon the ethers as seeds upon the wind, and many spring forth for good or for ill in the fallow consciousness of the youth. Thus have many unknowingly sown good or bad karma according to the thoughts that they nurtured in mind and heart. We come to strengthen hope in the world thought; and hopefully those who are responsible for making decisions of great consequence in the world community will become more receptive to the inevitable concept of the kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. 33
“The universal Father of all, so adored by every God-parent in the heart of every sun system, sets before the lifewaves of all worlds the singular example of Christ-magnificence; and he portrays to them, by that supreme example, the drama of perfection (of the perfect ion) which signifies the completion of his divine plan for the individual throughout the whole range of heavenly thought. Wherefore the drama of the Son [Sun] reveals the manifestation upon earth of the sons of God who shall see him as he is and thus be like him. 34
“When all perceive this living example of Christ- magnificence, the faith of the world will not be content
to rest in the dogma of the letter or in philosophical struggles which create competition among theologians; rather will the unity of the Spirit, uniting East, West, North, and South in the holy purposes of the cross of Life, create reverence and responsibility toward Life in the hearts of all. As these qualities live and unfold in man, ministered to by the living angels, the flaming spirits of fire, they will release cosmic distillations as of sweet incense within the temple of Being. And so in token and in fact are revealed the consideration and care of the Lather of all for every aspect of creation, from the greatest sun system and sun center to the littlest sparrow that flies through the air and builds its nest in the trees.
“Every part of Life is precious unto us; therefore, our role is to convey, through the Ascended Masters’ councils and through the publishing abroad of the principles of the Great White Brotherhood, the Everlasting Gospel of the Universal Christ that will open a new and living way, a high way of righteousness to the minds and hearts of men. Thus will their goals be standardized to the perfection of the Golden Rule, these same goals providing heaven with the connecting links that are required to channel the glory of God into the earthly lives of men. Then, as we send forth our rays to enrichen their hearts and minds, we will not be confined by the limited aspects of organization or personality; but we will spread abroad the canopy of a living faith upon the earth and upon the hearts of her people.
“I AM Helios of the sun system your scientists call ‘our solar system’; and, together with beloved Vesta, my consort, I release now in the beginning of this decade those energies which we have held in abeyance, waiting for humanity’s acceptance of the Light and for their‘miraculous expectations’. . . .This release has been ordained by the Solar Lords in order
that a significant movement from out the sun might also become a significant movement in the life of each individual on earth connected thereby with us.
“And so the Brotherhood, in its many departments, is coordinating a great inner network of Life, Light, and Love directed through the Darjeeling Council. . . .The cosmic task of assisting the planet earth out of the Darkness and into the Light is therefore being effected by the continual denial (through the decrees of the sons and daughters of God) of the network of Darkness that has been spun over the planet and by the lowering from the heavenly realms of such a new level of Light into the world that it cannot help but evoke a response in those who are attuned to that Light.
“It is our hope also to enlist the aid of countless individuals who do not as yet know our names and who are unaware of the great hierarchical network of universal Light that is being invoked. These are ready, because of the inward response in their souls, to acknowledge what they have not seen as yet; and by a vital faith that no man can take from them, they are willing to hold our hands in the dark until such a time as that which is presently hidden to their eyes shall be revealed.
“We give no power, therefore, to the dark and surly mongers of human gossip, to the sordid purveyors of doubt and anguish, to the false accusers of the brethren, or to the legions of Darkness. Ours is an activity of Light; and from the Summit towers, that Light shall blaze forth and evoke tidal waves of cosmic response in the hearts of the students until there shall form in the Invisible World that dramatic reenactment of a universal ascension for a planet. This drama will show the life evolutions of earth that in the heart of God there is a supreme and universal purpose
whose revelation will affect the life of every man, woman, and child upon the planet.
“Thus the wounds of the centuries and the millennia shall be healed by the hands of infinite Love that were expressed so nobly through the Galilean Master. His voice still rings clear in the voice of universal Truth, above personality yet in the Light that unites all men in their inward parts to the sacred realization of the words ‘This is my Body, which is broken for you.’ 35
“I AM Helios, Advocate of the Central Sun of beloved Alpha and Omega. I, together with Vesta, salute the evolutions of this earth in that consummate sense of universal Reality and peace which ring out the joys of Cosmos everywhere, pealing the Light and repealing those human edicts that have bound men and nations. That all may learn to be free and to cherish freedom is our living prayer.” 36
Just as heaven heeds the cries of earth, so earth answers the call of heaven:
Helios and Vesta!
Helios and Vesta!
Helios and Vesta!
Let the Light flow into my being!
Let the Light expand in the center of my heart!
Let the Light expand in the center of the earth! And let the earth be transformed into the New Day! 37
Becoming One with All Life THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT
The short tenure of man’s life on earth does not permit him to delve into many fields of knowledge and still have time to make a living and seek some measure of personal happiness. A shortcut method
whereby he can receive invaluable knowledge and assistance in relating the Macrocosm to the microcosm is to make contact with the Holy Spirit by expanding the flame of Life within the heart. This is the only direct and safe method of becoming truly one with all Life and thereby merging one’s consciousness with the Mind of God through whose omniscience man gains an understanding of his link with eternity.
It is through the great intelligent outreach of the energies of Life itself that the individual is able to maintain contact with the many facets of God’s consciousness expressed through man and Nature. These energies are focused within the heart flame of every man, woman, and child; for the heart flame is the central sun of individual Being, the candle that lights the way for the weary traveler seeking his Eternal Bourn. Through the rays of light that emanate therefrom, man’s consciousness flows out to drink in the universe—“all of it,” as Jesus bade his disciples do when he handed them the communion cup. 38
The unawakened soul knows not that he is one with all Life, for he has not yet discovered the mystery of the flame of compatibility within the heart. Yet what mortal is there who has not rejoiced in the discovery of the dawn—the early rays of promise that quicken a memory, not altogether dead, of the inner man and the galaxy of Being that begins right within his own heart?
Life is not moved simply because the parts have not discovered their relationship to the Whole; it simply rolls on, at times almost resembling a car of juggernaut, to fulfill a destiny so vast as to be unmoved by the specks of dust that house evolutions of lilliputian and gargantuan concepts—a destiny that pauses to listen to the prayer of a child while conscious of worlds without end. What if man be unconscious of
his place in the cosmic scheme? Nature will school the dullest wit to rejoice in a bubbling stream, a robin’s call, the beckoning of a rose. And one day she will unfold the grandest fact of all: that God lives in man as He lives in Nature.
The comprehension of the Whole by the parts— or the comprehension of the parts by the parts—is often intentionally withheld from mankind by the Lords of Creation. Until it can be demonstrated to these Higher Powers and to the Divine Self that there is a worthwhile purpose for an individual to obtain the knowledge of some specific area of Life’s mysteries, it is deemed wise to limit his perspective. For karma, or ordered destiny—destiny that is made to order by individual action—does direct the unfoldment of his life plan. To unravel at once for the untutored mind all of the mysteries of the universe would be to convey superhuman power before superhuman understanding could be attained.
This the God of mercy will not do. But man can make himself worthy to receive an abundance of knowledge as his soul accepts and applies the tutor- ings of the Holy Spirit. We shall therefore devote this section of our chapter to the instruction of the Representative of the Holy Spirit on becoming one with all Life, one with the Mind of God and its infinite manifestation, hence one with the gnosis of the Law everywhere present in man and Nature.
Inasmuch as every part of Life is a part of God, becoming one with all Life requires that we first become one with the essence, or Spirit, of that Life which is God. To become one with him is to know him as he is, and thence to know his creation, the offspring of his infinite Mind. In man and in Nature, the Father- Mother God is made relevant to the individual monad through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
The Paraclete, meaning Helper or Intercessor, is the integrating Principle of Life that unites the fire of the soul with the fire in the heart of Cosmos. The great feeling of belonging to Life, of being at home in the universe, comes to man as the result of the divine tie established and maintained through the Third Person of the Trinity, of whom Jesus spoke assuringly to his disciples as the Comforter. 39
Although the vital energies of the Holy Ghost, the very essence of God himself, are found all around man in the plane of Matter—even in the space between the electrons of his atomic world—he does not recognize these energies as God nor does he experience their quickening power until he makes conscious attunement with the Spirit of Truth whom Jesus said “the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.” 40
Those whose souls drink in the glories of Nature as an elixir of the gods have found the promised Comforter. To these the Master says, “But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” Wherefore, those who gaze upon the panorama of Nature and see but the material side of its manifestation, denying that God as creative intelligence, as essence, ensouls the beauty thereof, deprive themselves of the abundant resources of the Holy Spirit universally available to all.
Lecturing in his retreat in Ceylon, the Maha Chohan, who focuses the flame of the Holy Spirit on behalf of earth’s evolutions, often draws the following analogy from the world of cinematography: “Man can, if he wills it so, look back from the screen of Nature to the projection lens in the Eye of God; following the light beam which passes through the film of Spirit’s design, he perceives the origins of Life in the heart of the Creator, who so wondrously reveals
himself in both the spiritual and the material creation.” 41 Thus he broadens his students’ understanding of what it means to go back from the material manifestation to the spiritual idea in order to find the Source of Life and thereby to become one with the emanations of Life that proceed from that Source.
He also explains that “the agency of the Holy Spirit, descending as with the sound of a rushing mighty wind on the day of Pentecost, 42 assumes a more volatile aspect of God than that expressed in the gentle ministrations of Nature; but as the Representative of the Holy Spirit, let me say to all that the greatest experience that can befall man in connection with the Holy Spirit is the spiritual rebirth which occurs on an individual basis—the infiring and the infilling of his very being and consciousness with its presence and power.
“As the Master explained to Nicodemus: ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.’ 43 It is therefore the consummate purpose of the Representative of the Holy Spirit to teach mankind how to be born again—how to translate, by the action of the sacred fire, that which is born of the flesh into that which is born of the Spirit.
“Let all know, then, that the consciousness employed by man in assuming his own earthly identity must be introverted in order that he might attune with the God within, with the precious Flame Spirit of Holiness posited in the center of his heart chalice. From thence his consciousness must be extroverted: he must begin to trace the homeward pathway of that flame—upward through the myriad manifestations of Nature, piercing the skyey envelope, journeying back
through the starry focuses of Solar Logoi and the cosmic hierarchical design to the very heart of creation in the Great Central Sun.
“I am well aware that the simple way is eulogized by the theologians of the world—so much so that I wish to make clear that there is nothing complex about the cosmological plan which we shall be discussing; neither is the journey in consciousness a weighty matter. The individual may with ease return in thought to the Heart of God and immediately fulfill a part of the divine purpose.
“Inasmuch as God intends to confer upon man not only the glories of conceptual reunion but also the vestments of eternal power and dominion, he is not satisfied to have man assume the role of a mere monad in manifestation; but he demands that those who would fulfill the Father’s total plan shall also be able to enter into the very heart of Nature and Nature’s God, there to fathom the mysteries of Life. This includes the control of both cyclic and cyclonic forces in human dimensions as well as in divine spirals. . . .
“The Holy Spirit flows through the consciousness of man in a transmutative release in order to transfer to his world the reality and power of God, effecting thereby an integration of the personal self with the Godhead. Truly this is the uniting agency of God that enables the avatar to affirm, ‘I and my Father are one.’ 44 Truly this is the wind that bloweth where it listeth, 45 seeking to purify the vessel and wash it whiter than snow....
“It is through the Holy Spirit that the currents of Life, the essence of God himself, actually flow through the nervous and cardiovascular systems, the musculoskeletal structure, and every cell and atom of the physical form of man. It is through the Holy Spirit
that they flow through his soul consciousness, including the etheric, mental, and emotional vehicles, purifying the internal facets of the mind, integrating all into conscious identification with the Christed individuality of man.”
It is the responsibility of the office of the Maha Chohan to teach mankind how to contact the Holy Spirit and how to create in consciousness a climate of receptivity to the Truth it imparts. Through contact and receptivity man gains self-mastery and becomes a tower of strength not only to his family but also to his community and eventually to the planet as a whole. The Holy Spirit is the Great Unifier of the Body of God on earth. Therefore, to identify with God and with his Spirit becomes an activity of increasing joy which unites all people in the electrifying consciousness of the Divine Identity.
Through the rituals of sacred communion (come ye into union) taught by the Maha Chohan, the individual comes to realize who and what I AM; that where I AM the Spirit is; and that I AM one with all Life through the omniscient, omnipresent power of the Spirit of the I AM. In the bliss of Oneness the communicant is filled with the awareness of the Holy Spirit; and from the depths of his being he exclaims, “Lo, because Thou art, I AM!”
“To cast oneself adrift from the mainland of Divinity out into the restless sea of mortal thought and feeling,” says the Maha Chohan, “is to shun the Holy Spirit; and this will never satisfy the great purifying Light of the Christ that God has sent into the world to bring peace and joy to the multitudes. To teach men how to tie into the mainland of their Divinity and in so doing to come into union with the Holy Spirit—this is the work of the brothers and sisters of our retreat as they serve with the angels of my band.
“It has been rightly said that many men are their own worst enemies. Be this true, it need not continue; for the Christ of every man has manifested in order to bring deliverance to each one. Social unrest may be disquieting, even as warfare disturbs the affairs of nations; but the internal warfare between the flesh and the spirit can be successfully waged only through a more complete alliance with the bulwarks of the Holy Spirit.”
Standing before the assembly in the Great Hall of Learning, the Maha Chohan says: “You may think of the Holy Spirit as the Whole-I-Spirit, because it is the wholeness of the Spirit of the I AM in manifestation. It is the unity of the Father-Mother God made real to the consciousness of man.” The stern advocate of the disciplines of the Spirit begins his instruction on attunement with the Whole-I-Spirit by making the all-important distinction between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God:
“The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Wholeness, of complete Goodness. The Spirit of God does not require perfection; it already is Perfection. The pristine spirit (the soul) of man can be likened unto a clean slate on which a teacher adds sums. The impressions of life, the happenings and events thereof, make their recordings upon the spirit of man as clearly as chalk marks upon a board. Man’s reactions to environmental pressures and to the subtle influences of the Fiery World also make their engravings upon his spirit; but until the spirit of man becomes wholly Godlike, it cannot unite through the alchemical marriage with the Spirit of the Lord as was intended.
“While in the state of being perfected, the soul, therefore, remains unreliable as a source of absolute Truth; and the Most High must be continually contacted for direction on the initiatic path.” But be
assured that God the Knower can become the known in the consciousness of man and that man the known can become the Knower in the consciousness of God. For through the agency of the Holy Spirit, the balance between macrocosmic and microcosmic energies is maintained; and in the process man becomes more Godlike.
The molding factors that make it possible for the Holy Spirit to shape the destiny of the individual are listed in the following order by the Maha Chohan: “holy prayer uttered from the heart; holy meditation selflessly offered—and herein may I say that one engaged in such meditation is never too busy or too concerned with the manifestation of God’s kingdom to turn aside for a moment and render assistance to his brother; holy faith persistently sought as the gift of God; holy compassion toward others that senses their struggles and desires to add not to their burdens but to their light; and holy service, symbolized in Albrecht Dtirer’s painting of hands extended in prayer, that continually offers hand and heart and head to be the Hand and Heart and Head of God. These attitudes held in mind will create for the individual who is constant in them an open door through which the Holy Spirit may enter in and abide.”
The disciples who come to the retreat in Ceylon zealous of “getting” the Holy Spirit in ten easy lessons as it were, stand out among their more meditative brethren who hang on the Maha Chohan’s every word, content to sit for eternity, if necessary, to learn the infinite way of the Law of the Spirit. Out of tender regard for all, he answers both their patience and their impatience, concluding his opening dissertation with these words:
“In great patience men must possess their souls 46 and be content to move forward from day to day until
the splendor of His shining surrounds them with the great immortal aura of the Christ. For as of old, it is hard for any to ‘kick against the pricks ’ 47 of their immortal inheritance; and all can and should bask in the radiant sun of the Holy Spirit, whose ancient loveliness lifts the sons and daughters of God to the eternal hills whence the glory of the Eternal Day continues to shine forth.”
This Ascended Master, who holds the office of Great Lord (Maha Chohan) over the Seven Lords (Chohans) of the Rays, was embodied as the poet Homer and spent his final earthly incarnation quietly ministering to the needs of the people of India through his communion with the flame of Life. Among the qualifications for his office in Hierarchy is the attainment of adeptship on each of the seven rays which merge into the pure white light of the Holy Spirit. Eminently qualified to speak on the renewing of the Holy Spirit, he bases the theme of his lecture on the words of Paul to Titus “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost .” 48
“The Holy Spirit,” he begins, “is the ingredient of Life which is the fire of Cosmos, the germinal power in Nature; it is the power that beats the heart and infuses every form of Life with the essence of the Lather-Mother God. The Holy Spirit is indigenous to every Life manifestation, and without the Holy Spirit there can be no manifestation of Life.
“When individuals forsake the Light of the Christ and of the Holy Spirit, they become literally devoid of Reality; hence the term ‘not-person’ or ‘non-person’ which has come into use in certain circles. When this happens,” he explains, “even the reflected Light of Life within the person takes on the robes of Darkness.
This is why Jesus said, ‘If the Light that is in thee be Darkness, how great is that Darkness!’
“The renewing action of the Holy Spirit is a purifying process, a refining action, which must take place if the not-person is to be replaced by the Real Person. For as the soul is instilled and infilled with the fire of the Holy Spirit, it identifies more and more with the Real Person and hence with all Life, thereby coming into that Oneness to which Jesus referred when he prayed, ‘Father, make them one even as we are one .’” 49
To those who would center their energies in the flame of Reality, the Maha Chohan imparts the knowledge of how to qualify the energies of the heart with divine compassion rather than with human sympathy. The ability to discriminate between these two qualities—one that is sustained by the Real Self and the other by the not-self—will enable those following in the footsteps of the Christ to make rapid strides on the path of attainment.
Let it be understood, then, that compassion, as a virtue of the comfort flame, can be achieved only through attunement with the Real Man, through identification with the Christ, whereas sympathy is achieved solely through identification with the ego- personality in oneself and in others. The devotee of Reality must therefore learn first of all to have compassion for himself—for the human consciousness that is in the state of becoming divine. Only then will he learn to have compassion for others.
Compassion may manifest in the wisdom of the Law which always chooses the better way, even though that way may be momentarily painful; or it may manifest in the disciplines of the Spirit and the fires thereof which consume human indulgences and the pseudoloves of the not-self. Compassion is ever the flame that
draws the lower self into congruence with the Christ Self. It is a determined seeing of the divine blueprint for every part of Life, and it is a determined knowing that allows nothing to stand in the way of the individual fulfillment of that blueprint.
By contrast, sympathy, an emotion generated by the impure thoughts and feelings of man, places the lower self in direct agreement with the human ego and its personality patterns. Sympathy is agreeing with a human being where you find him, allowing him to feel sorry for himself, to indulge in his weaknesses, and to lick the wounds of his pride. Sympathy draws the individual into the whirlpool of human chaos and ties up his energies in the day-to-day melodrama of the mass consciousness, thereby aiding and abetting the weight of human pathos upon the planetary body.
The compassion of the Saviour is of course decidedly disagreeable to the carnal mind, which takes offense in the statement of the Christ Mind “Think not that I AM come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword .” 50 Nevertheless, the compassion of the One who comes to save that which was lost 51 must be in disagreement with imperfection and in agreement with perfection. The Christ would not be the Christ if he did not speak to the lower selves of all men, saying, “Come up higher.”
The compassionate heart flows with the stream of the Christ consciousness that binds up the wounds of the brokenhearted and heals the sinful consciousness of the world; and in so doing it becomes one with the heart of God, one with all Life. On the other hand, the sympathetic movements of the emotions, flowing with the stream of the mass consciousness, multiply the sorrow and travail of the exiles of Eden, who thereby become one with the not-selves, the pseudoimages of the race. Ultimately the consciousness of the
sympathizers merges with the spirals of disintegration and death which carry their synthetic images into oblivion, whereas the compassionate ones rise upon the very cycles of virtue which they have embraced and ascend into the immortal consciousness of God.
Well aware of the fact that dry dogma and theological speculation can never be substituted for the vital action of the Holy Spirit coming into intimate contact with the individual, the Maha Chohan admonishes his students to speak the word of welcome to God as Jesus did and to invite his Spirit to come in and sup with them. Pointing to the Master as the great example of one whose life was imbued with the Holy Spirit—his whole consciousness being saturated with its influence—he explains that the alchemy of the divine Sonship manifest in Jesus was itself a consummation of the Fatherhood of God. “Therefore,” he says, “it could well be spoken of him, ‘The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up .’” 52
Jesus’ great zeal for the Lord’s Spirit and his constant communion with “our Father which art in heaven ” 53 enabled him to sustain a brilliant flame upon the altar of his heart, a piercing fire that proclaimed liberty to the captives of sense thralldom and opened the prison doors to those bound by the sickness of sensuality . 54 Of such extraordinary dimension was this fire that John bore witness of him as “a burning and a shining light .” 55 Thus the zeal of the Holy Spirit consumed the remnants of the human personality in his followers, enabling them to testify of the Presence of the sacred fire in manifestation.
It was, then, in the bonds of a fiery devotion to the Holy Spirit that Jesus achieved that cosmic oneness with Life which enabled him to commune with the Divine Father and the Divine Mother and with all who looked to him for wholeness and for contact with
Reality. In his devotion to God and man, expressed in life and in parable, we discover the secret of Jesus’ strength and we learn how the Prince of Peace kept the flame of peace midst the turmoil of the world’s rejection of the Christ.
The Maha Chohan explains how men’s love of Darkness makes them susceptible to a dark dogma and a dark theology and how their love of the Holy Spirit can lead them out of the labyrinth of intellectual error into the light of Truth: “Men whose deeds are evil often love Darkness rather than Light ; 56 and there is a fruit of Darkness, an evolution of Darkness, which proceeds from dreary minds damp with rank emotionalism; unsatisfied even with self-adulation, they remain fettered by the conditionings of mortality.
“The Son of God is not so, and the Spirit of God is not so; for the Spirit of God moves across the mar- gent of the world bestowing at will his gift of Reality to every man. Far above the speculations of the mortal mind that are used to justify a way of life, the Spirit of God transcends human philosophy and replaces it with the divine theosophy. Searching out the vastness of the Divine Self and translating it for the human self, the power of the Word lights man’s path that he may clearly see the way to go.
“Of all the heartrending problems encountered by mankind upon this planet, the one that is most trying to spiritual seekers is the question, Which is the correct or true Path? Many are the innocent lambs of God who know not that there are traps laid for them, nor do they expect to find wolves in sheep’s clothing 57 preaching from the pulpits of the world. They have not reckoned with those unregenerate spirits who have spawned a Luciferian theology to keep the children of God from finding the true Path. Jesus said, “I AM the Way ”; 58 but the Sadducees and Pharisees have loudly
proclaimed another way and through their sorcery have exercised a hypnotic control over the people. Practicing black magic as blatantly today as they did in the Dark Ages, they bind the faithful to doctrine and personality through their satanic lies of hellfire and damnation.
“Wise are the disciples of God who will understand, then, that there are abroad in the world false doctrines in large number created out of the whole cloth by men whose consciousness has been contaminated through personality worship with the silt of their own sensual concepts. Those who would know the Truth and thus be free 59 must understand that many of these gross figures surround themselves with an aura of sanctity, profundity, and peace, combined with the mystique of veiled prophecy. Thus, those who require the exclusiveness of a personality cult are often sucked into the ‘hallowed circle’ of the false prophets who succeed in playing God by playing upon the credulity of the masses.
“The Holy Spirit speaks with great plainness and forthrightness; nevertheless, the laws of God, so obvious and so charged with common sense, so apparent in Nature and so natural to the heart of man, are often ignored for the dimwitted complexities of intellectual sophistry. Those who rise to positions of prominence in the religious community have no qualms about fabricating a multitude of rationalizations that confuse the people and in some cases even inspire them to espouse noble causes when for a time it suits their ends.
“In this day when the elect can indeed be deceived , 60 it is necessary that we stimulate among mankind the desire for the correct understanding of the spiritual path. Initiations abound; and the circumstances of initiation, whereby mankind’s devotion to
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Truth is tested from day to day, are often brought about through the ministrations of the Holy Spirit coordinated through the office of the Cosmic Christ.
When these initiations are passed, the unfolding soul awareness of man is caught up into the arms of God and revitalized in His blessed consciousness of the Truth that indeed makes all men free. ... *
“God and his Spirit have desired to draw mankind not away and apart, but upward and together into the realm of spiritual regeneration where the brotherhood of man, uniting with the Fatherhood of God, perceives the bond of the Holy Spirit as the cement of cosmic unity. There is no need, then, for men to fear when the battle for men’s minds is bursting all around them; rather should they seek the association of the Ascended Masters of Light, the true and faithful witnesses of the Law, and the sanctity of the Divine Presence that is both above and within.
“Let your search for the true religion of God be one of diligence and not of discouragement. Did he not say, ‘Seek, and ye shall find ’? 61 Therefore, accept the promise and bid the Spirit of God welcome in your world. If you would make a place in the temple of your being for the Lord’s Spirit, you must end feelings of hostility toward all men, toward the self, and even toward the justice of the Law that in exacting its toll may have caused you some distress. Let the
love-light of God occupy your eye and heart; and let the flow of His Spirit through you be as the wind from the mountain: a penetrating call to action. As the Lord liveth, his Spirit is the Great Activator of all that is holy and mighty within you!
“Men have deceived themselves; but through God they shall be awakened from the darkness of self-deceit, and the hand of mortal error that was laid upon them shall be lifted. Shadows upon the Path are dissipated by the initiatic light, and the bond of true devotion unites hearts as never before. The Brotherhood seeks the practical manifestation of the Spirit as a balm of fervent action that will lift the burdens of mankind. Then shall all be changed in the twinkling of the Eye of God , 62 and the veil that hung between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God shall be rent in twain . 63 Then shall man know that he is ready to be fashioned by His Spirit in the Divine Image; then shall man himself transfer from heaven to earth the perfect pattern for a planet and its evolutions.”
The cosmic conception of the universe as “the place where the Lord lay ” 64 is the key to the understanding of Jesus’ universal consciousness of God and man. Knowing that God and man coexist throughout Cosmos, he demonstrated the principle of cosmic interaction—of energy flow from Idea to action, from Action to idea—from Idea as God fulfilled in action as man, and from Action as God fulfilled in idea as man. Only through the omnipresent potential of the Holy Spirit does this interchange between God and man, focused in the Christ, become possible. Jesus’ proof of the laws governing the cosmic flow was therefore dependent upon his vital contact with the Holy Spirit, and therein did he achieve his oneness with all Life.
Giving his students the same instruction which Jesus received prior to his final three-year ministry—
that which all initiates of the sacred fire must have to prepare for the rigors of mastery—the Maha Chohan declares with the full authority of his office: “The Holy Spirit is the omnipresence of God; it saturates all space and hallows that space, but it concentrates in greater measure where the call that goes forth to the heart of God compels the answer of the descent of his abiding grace. Those who drink lovingly, almost ravenously, of the Spirit of God are thus opening the doorway for the light of Love to flow from my heart to theirs.
“As the Representative of the Holy Spirit, I can do no less than abide where the Spirit of God is; and as your Advocate of Completeness, I desire to imbue you with the power that God has placed as a sacred gift in my hand. Whensoever his Spirit cometh upon you and dwelleth in you, then are you truly brethren of the divine action; and the fruit of that action as the joint endeavor of God and man will manifest in your world as the delight of his Law in your heart, as the joy of his Law in your mind, and as the meditation of his Law in the forcefield of your being.
“These gifts of the Spirit shall then be yours to project as hope to those standing in the shadow of doubt, as healing to those who, lacking wholeness, need a physician , 65 and as the great Light that shall be seen by all who walk in darkness . 66 Your life will then become a mission on behalf of the Holy Spirit; following in the footsteps of the avatars and Elder Brothers of the race, you will, by His authority and grace, prepare the way for the great golden age to come into the consciousness of men even as they are transformed and renewed by the Christ Mind .” 67
When mankind desecrate the place prepared for the Lord’s Spirit, the temple of being, they bring upon themselves “the abomination of desolation standing in
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the holy place where it ought not ” 68 instead of the divine approbation “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased .” 69 This is the choice which the Holy Spirit gives to all: the raising up of the individual consciousness through the raising up of the Holy Spirit in man or the desecration of the individual consciousness through the desecration of the Holy Spirit in man. The choice is always man’s, for God has already chosen.
“It was and is and shall forever remain the purpose of the Father-Mother God to imbue the creation with their own Spirit; for in that Spirit lie the best gifts and the greatest blessings that Life can afford—the completeness, the wholeness, the oneness of Being. No external palliatives could ever equal the great internal consolation of the Lord’s Spirit that sweeps man out of the depths of mortal delusion into the heights of immortal Reality—into the sweet sense of eternal Life in the Spirit of God, which abideth and dwelleth forever in those who have sanctified and exalted his name in the dome of consciousness.
“When men become conditioned to the ways of the not-self—with its obstinance, pride, sensuality, and spiritual blindness—they are acquiescing to the awful robe of Darkness which the prophet Daniel referred to as the abomination of desolation. When men reject their divine opportunity and fail to respond to the knocking of the Spirit of Life upon the door of their hearts, they open themselves up to subtle forms of self-annihilation which, all too late, bring them to their knees before God in a most desolate and helpless state of consciousness. If the energies of Life are squandered in riotous living and eternal values are meanly thrown aside for the pauperism of fleshly gain which in a moment is swept away and lost forever, truly what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul 70 —the only means he has of implementing his spiritual opportunity?. . .
The Dragon Shalt Thou Trample
Thou shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall thou trample under feet. page 348
Renunciation of the Past
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:4
John the Revelator
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was Life; and the Life was the Light of men.
And the Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. , . , , c
John 1:1-5
Jesus said: Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not
The Peace-commanding Presence
I AM the peace-commanding Presence of the Holy Spirit exercis- ingfull God-control in the planes of air and water. Fire and earth likewise joyously mold themselves to the Christie design when man affirms the God-power inherent within the intelligent , obedient , loving desire of the electron to flow into the perfect pattern. ^ ^ ^g^
Having Received, Retain!
Above all, having received, retain / Whate’er gift God hath given unto thee, / That ere the sun set each day / Thou shall have cleansed thy being / Of all perceptions vain and hapless / And readied thyself through eventide / To enter into immortal peace / In the hours of the night while thy body sleeps / To dream the immortal dream / And to be one who gathers / Of the flame of God’s Spirit in greater measure / And fullness, that as the new day breaketh, / Thy energies, made holy and pure, / Rising as the incense of devotion, / Shall invoke for all who are thy friends of Light / Some new miracle of consciousness.
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The Mission of the Divine Feminine
The immaculate conception of the Christ is ordained in the perfect union of Spirit and Matter where heaven and earth meet.
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'‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. ” This is the choice which the Holy Spirit gives to all: the raising up of the individual consciousness through the raising up of the Holy Spirit in man or the desecration of the individual consciousness through the desecration of the Holy Spirit in man. The choice is always man’s, for God has already chosen.
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Voice of Inner Flame
You must begin to harmonize your life by an invocation to the sacred fire that the Lord may enter your being and there reestablish the Holy of Holies of his flaming consciousness. ^ ^
Washed upon the Shores of Life
The cosmic tide is incoming; as a giant wave of light, it inundates
entire solar systems. Those who ride the crest to victory will witness
the dawn of a new order of the ages. Those who resist will be lost in
oblivion to be remembered no more. Through personal and planetary
cataclysm, men and nations washed upon the shores of Life are
brought to the feet of their Creator.
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The Merging of Twin Flames
We have spoken of the Holy Spirit as the all-pervading essence of the Father-Mother God, the merging of the fires of the twin flames of Deity made tangible through the Christ in Spirit and in Matter.
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Keeper of the Scrolls
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you Life and Death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose Life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
Deuteronomy 30:19