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- The Fatherhood of God
May the Spirit of
Infinite Power fill this room with radiance! May the Spirit of
Infinite Peace fill this room with calmness! May the Spirit of
Infinite Love touch the inward soul and heart so that they melt with
tenderness and all the hard accretions of selfishness and self
concern dissolve and vanish silently away, even as ice dissolves and
vanishes in the sunlight of the great warmth of the Giver of all
life.
May all who
hear these words be so charged with life that they feel this
tingling energy bringing to the body and nerves, unto every part of
themselves, new life and new energy. In this instant of time, may
they be healed, healed in the spirit of power, restored in the
spirit of life, and feel their weariness and heaviness falling away
from them. As soil is swept from the bed of a stream by the rushing
downpour of a mountain torrent, so may the weariness of earth be
swept away in this great inflow of life.
Oh Thou
Great Giver of all! Thou Great Creator of all! May Thy Power come
and touch the being of Thy children so that they go forth, not in
the simple belief that Thou art their Maker and Creator, but in the
power and glory and knowledge that Thou art their Maker and their
Creator: the knowledge which comes from realisation, the power
which comes from contact, and the glory – the glorying in the sense
of freedom, life and joy which comes when they realise their contact
with Thee as the Maker, the Creator, the Giver of all good gifts.
In the
spirit and blessing of that Great Power we sign and seal each one
and place here in your midst the sign and seal of spirit in the form
of a cross which is the symbol of man incarnate in matter, forever
surrounded by the great fiery circle of ever-glowing, ever-growing
glorious light, power and love.
May peace,
light and power be here and abide with each one.
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My beloved brothers and
sisters, in this quiet moment of thought and prayer I bring you -
even if it is but momentarily - into some sense of unity, some sense
of realisation of the source from which life has sprung. It is true
and right that you draw the centre of your life and creative
abilities from the Great Source which we call the Master Creator but
you call your ‘Heavenly Father’ or your ‘God’.
I would say
to you, beloved ones, It is a truth that God has fashioned man as
one of the highest and most intelligent manifestations of power in
this great world of matter, but equally, according to his
understanding and the degree of his inward comprehension, man
fashions his God. The God that man fashions is true for it
symbolises some part of the inner consciousness and inner being of
the individual. You will say to me: “Is it true that God is our
Father?” And I would say, Yes, beloved ones, it is true and right
that you should think in this fashion - for just as long as this is
the limit of your state of consciousness.
Is it not
true that throughout all the immemorial centuries of their growth
men and women have created their vision of that which is divine and
infinite into the symbol of that which is to them most dear and most
comprehensible? How shall man understand God as that creative power
beyond the limit of his understanding unless he places the symbol of
his God into the shape of the sun or moon high and above his
comprehension, or unless he symbolises it in the living forms of
nature?
In the deep
inward places of his consciousness, man knows that God is not the
sun or moon, neither is God the whole of the world of nature. Man
creates his symbolism by embodying his vision of God as the man whom
he knows to be most wise, most beautiful, most serene, most loving
and most creative, which may be his own father or the ruler of his
tribe, or a king or emperor of his country. But the God whom man
worships in this fashion is still only a symbol of the supernal
power that he comprehends in the deep inward recesses of his
consciousness.
You may say
to me: “Is it equally right that men of other nations shall worship
their God in other symbols and in other forms? What of the Hindu
who worships Kali, the God of Destruction? Kali, symbolised in the
shape of a woman whose hands are dripping with blood and wears
around her neck a chain of skulls, reverenced and worshipped and
praised by men and women who say that this is God.” Beloved ones,
this too is a true symbol fashioned by the consciousness of the men
and women in that land and in that state of consciousness, who have
seen that the great eternal brooding power of creation is also a
power of destruction. The men and women who create their God in the
form of death are just as true as you who shape your God into the
form of life.
The great
Eternal Master Creator has woven the indefinable links of His
Creation in such a marvellous fashion that life and death are
inter-woven, they are inseparable one from the other. You who see
life are also viewing the oncome of death, and as you are seeing
death so are you seeing birth – the re-birth of new life. It is
impossible for you to separate life and death for both are part of
each other as construction and destruction are woven into the same
fabric and symbol; one is part of the other.
When men
symbolise their God as a god of death, this is equally true as those
who symbolise God as of life, of creation, the Father. Equally true
are those who symbolise another aspect of the great Creative Power
in the form of the tender mother who watches over all things and
shields all things within her tender love that life may be re-born
from death. Those who symbolise God as the Mother principle are
also true and right.
The glory,
the power, the beauty and the strength of the Great Master Creator
is indeed beyond the comprehension of the finite mind, it can only
be symbolised and perceived according to the degree of the
consciousness of man which is open and aware and able to see one
aspect of the universal truth.
My beloved
ones, I would say that it is indeed good and right that in your
Western land, in your pleasant English country, you should think
upon God as the Creator and Father, for in your Western worlds
nature is gentle and kind and the inter-weaving forces of the Master
Creator bring forth beauty in creation and re-creation. It is right
that your peoples shall see and worship the symbol which the Master
Jesus has given to you in the thought that this is a Father – a
Father who is wise, who is understanding, a Father who is creative
and protective. This is good because the people of your island have
a particular part to play in the evolution of your planet, they have
a particular work to fulfil in this great unfolding pattern of world
karma; it is right and good that they should draw forth from the
Universal Power the aspect of the Father in tenderness, in
protection, in pity and in peace.
Do not ever
forget, my beloved ones, that man is created by God - but God, as
known on your earth, is created by man.
The state
of consciousness of those who draw forth the manifestation of power
from the Universal Force into a symbol, draw forth this symbol or
picture according to the understanding which they have. Those in
your world who know the aspect of God which is filled with tender
creativeness, holy pity and gentle protectiveness, by thus
visualising the Father they bring the Father aspect into
manifestation in your Western world. The Indian who worships the
great symbols of Shiva or Kali brings forth into his own land the
symbol of this destructive aspect of the Great Master Creator: in
the land where they dwell the sun scorches and burns their crops,
the rivers either rise in the flood of winter storm or die away
scorched in the heat of the sun, and drought and death stalk within
their land. I would say that they draw forth from the inner
universal consciousness the symbols of destruction and death, and
this is what they reap.
Those in
the lands who worship the Mother Principle, who have set before
themselves the symbol of a woman who bears a infant child within her
arms - who would have worshipped the goddess Isis in ancient times
and in modern times worship the Madonna - these too bring forth into
manifestation in the land wherein they dwell the great creative
aspect of love and tenderness. An increase of created life will
come about, the population will multiply; the youths and maidens
there will say they have been blessed by the Universal Mother
because they are able to bear many infants, that it is an aspect of
the joy of the Mother because they worship Her. Beloved ones, in
their thinking upon that universal aspect of creative love and
tenderness as shown in the woman, they draw forth from the great
Universal Centre a manifestation of this aspect of the life force as
seen in your world by an increase in the population - the coming of
many children.
What of
those who have gained a newer consciousness? What of those who are
seeking Universal Peace? What of the Buddhist who lays upon one
side his ancient beliefs and comes to see that in and through
creation there is a spirit of peace, an ocean of power – a great
centre of tranquillity? What of these men and women? These, beloved
ones, are bringing into your world a manifestation of the Universal
Consciousness which is peace, tranquillity and rest – rest and
peace. Slowly coming into your mortal world are those men and women
who search for peace, peace in the soul and in the world; they seek
to create areas of tranquillity into which men and women such as
yourselves may come to sit for a while in meditation, seeking and
searching for peace and an understanding that God is peace.
With the
growth of this consciousness, can you not see how there comes into
your world the manifestation of the peace of God? Slowly but surely
all people everywhere begin to desire peace between nations, peace
in their home, in their heart and in their world. By dwelling upon
the thought of the universal nature of God as the Giver of Peace,
slowly they draw this into its manifestation. This also comes into
being here in your western world where men and women are slowly
beginning to turn from their old concept of God as seated upon a
throne and ruling the nations of the Earth with benevolent love - to
the thought of God as the Giver of Peace.
You who
listen to us and seek to find your own self-realisation, you also
begin to find this peace. I would say that each one fashions their
God according to the degree of their understanding. In your Western
lands as in the lands of the Far East, the manifestation of the
Spirit of Peace will come into being slowly but surely, and with
this coming all other manifestations will be seen as part of the
great Universal Force. Where there is peace there is love, where
there is love there is life, and where there is life there is also
death - which is change: all are part of the other, aspects of the
one Universal God whom you call your ‘Heavenly Father’.
With the
realisation of this truth, the barriers which divide men from one
another will dissolve silently away - hatred will be overcome, to be
replaced by understanding. As the light of the New Age dawns upon
the consciousness of the children of earth, they will see that
peace, universal brotherhood and universal joy is indeed the
manifestation of God through His children everywhere.
Beloved
ones, we come to the end of our season of talking together, and some
of you have the feeling deep in your mind that what I have said is
not true, but you cannot yet formulate your ideas or gather them
into words to say in what degree I have symbolised untruth. At the
same time your spiritual consciousness is aware of truth, which you
are also unable to formulate or assimilate. I would say to you as
you go from this quiet communion, Realise that you have two states
of mind and two states of consciousness as human beings – one is the
spiritual consciousness and the other is the mortal and earthly
consciousness. This evening we have been exercising the spiritual
consciousness by thinking upon purely spiritual matters.
The earthly
consciousness is the mind which is trained to think upon the
commonplace things of everyday life. It is also trained to accept
the ideas, thoughts and ideals which are presented to it amongst the
commonplace things of the everyday. Always there is a struggle
between the mortal mind and the immortal mind, for the mortal will
say of the immortal – ‘This is untrue because it is not something
with which I am familiar’.
I would say
to you, Blend together your spiritual consciousness with your mortal
and earthly consciousness. The immortal mind may then impart to the
mortal the beauty of its greater understanding, the tenderness of
its spiritual communion and the quietude of its supernal contact
with things Divine, that the mortal mind may become suffused with
radiance and wisdom and touched with infinite beauty. As you go
forth the mortal mind will discern a new beauty in the things of
earth and begin to see a new meaning in what before was mundane and
ordinary - gleaming behind the fabric of mortal things is that
immortal truth of the power of God, of creative energy and
everlasting life.
As
enlightened souls, you must learn to read with the immortal mind the
story of immortal life, immortal creation and immortal truth written
in the language of life divine in the great manifested world around
you. Thus shall you live as souls who have outgrown the old
limitations and selfish preoccupations: you shall learn to live in
loving harmony with the great realms of light, the great realms of
nature and of humankind around you, in the knowledge that you are
the child of the Father and the Father is the Creator of yourself.
In prayer and thought
we bring you once more into unity with the Great Giver of all life,
the Great Creator of all power. Oh Thou Great Creator! Thou
Glorious Maker! Thou Lover of all Thy creation. Touch Thy children
with infinite peace, enfold them in tender love and bring unto them
joy - joy which is Thy joy - that from this day to all the days
which are to be they may be freed from fear and strong in the
knowledge that they are Thy children and Thou art their Heavenly
Father.
May peace,
peace and peace be here.
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