(v.2, #16, published by The White Lodge, copyright 1980) "Very few religions today actually will express the fullness of the Godhead because, first of all, they do not have it. Their understanding of Christ is purely sacrificial. They do not understand the ascension. They understand only the crucifixion. They understand the crucifixion, the agonizing, the pains, and the suffering, and they are waiting for a vicarious atonement when clearly the apostles, the prophets, the teachers in the very beginning of the mission of Christ understood clearly that 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Jesus said, 'In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you that where I AM ye may be also.' So we must see that be-ness is the important thing. 'Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,' Kahlil Gibran said in his book The Prophet, 'so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.' So we should understand not that all mysteries and all knowledge are suddenly disgorged to us by the cornucopia of the universe at one minute, but we should understand that in our patience we will and can possess our souls. It is by being patient. Don't think that you have all the answers. This is a grave error. It's a grave error for your sake to feel that you know all things and have all wisdom and all knowledge. We know full well the range of divinity in part, and what we have seen makes us only humble and realize how very little we do know. But that is not the important point. The important point is that each individual makes himself available to pursue the obstacles and break down those obstacles, thrust himself forward progressively into the light and the understanding of the fact that God is and because God is, he is and because each man has consciousness and continuity of life, whether expressed in the days of God and the nights of God as embodiment after embodiment after embodiment or whether expressed as living one life and then passing away at varying ages--making all life unequal. Do you understand what I mean? Some people die at one year old and some at all these other years. Well, there is nothing just in this nor will it be considered just nor is it a part of the intent of the program of God. The program of God is for continuity of life, and we are here to learn and to learn and to express--and if we err, we are intended to be given more than one opportunity. Life does not intend to spank us constantly. While it is true that the Lord chastises those whom he loves, it still is a fact that he does not necessarily enjoy the chastising action any more than a father enjoys chastising his child but he does it because he prunes that he may bring forth better fruit. And that is the purpose of the continuity of life expressed in embodiment after embodiment. I'll tell you one thing. Have you ever noticed on the streets of life some of the grotesqueness that manifests in certain individuals? If you look around you, you're bound to see a certain element of grotesqueness. You will see some people who are laboring under a heavy karma where their bodies are broken. Sometimes you see them sightless, you see them without limbs, you see them in all different expressions. Do you think that God who created perfectly created them thusly? I tell you, no! God creates fairly and justly on an equal basis. The endowment, the divine spark in the beginning, was equal to all. Whst men have done in this Olympic games of life is an expression of what they have achieved or what they have not achieved. There is no condemnation in the universe because we have failed, but sometimes there is a goading by the universe, by the masters, to try to exhort us to some realization of our own position that we may gain perspective--and as we gain perspective, move out of the socket of mortal density into a divine realization of the reality, the comfort, the bliss, the joy, the happiness, the achievement of God that is possible for men today.

(v.2, #17, published by The White Lodge, copyright 1980) "What is love? Lord Chamuel tells us that the letters thereof comprise an abbreviation that consists of a word from the tongues of angels. 'Love, then,' he says, 'is the abbreviation for the words that you have not heard with mortal ear. So sacred are these words as the key to the Almighty One that they remain unspoken until the hour of the return to the heart of Eden. Many have long neglected the love of God. Chamuel says, 'Men suppose these four little words to be void of meaning beyond the realm of the ordinary in which they move and think and rashly scribble life's energies as upon a scrap of foolscap. Let them understand that the love of God is the spiral of the universe and more--that it is the cool spring and the winding stream that slakes the thirst of the ancient mariner who ponders the irony of life, "Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." 'In truth, God is everywhere. The waters of Life flow freely, yet men know not how to tap the Great Fount of Life. Let them understand that the love of God is the Life-fount, that it is immortality bestowed, that it is communion with the most valiant and beautiful spirits that have ever coexisted in divine love. Created by God and endowed with free will, they freely and assiduously availed themselves of the opportunity to become co-creators and inhabiters of celestial realms. Men and women of today who thirst for a tangible reality can also find it by literally drinking into God, by following the beck and call of his voice that says, "Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!"' The highest form of love is the total giving of self--first to God and then to humanity in service and in a life lived to the glory of that God. Paul the Venetian, Chohan of the third ray of Divine Love, teaches us of love that is the Holy Spirit--love that is a self-sacrifice and a surrender to do the will of God. It's amazing, but the more we understand of God's love, the more we realize it involves the total giving of the self to that God in manifestation. And in order to totally give oneself, we must discipline our energies and our way of life. Therefore, there is no love as the true compassion of the Christ for us, for humanity, without the discipline of the self. Paul uses the symbol of a rose unfolding within the heart as the unfolding of the consciousness of love. He teaches that love is a pink flame, a very intense fire that consumes all hatred of the Christ or manifestations of anti-Christ, which are in fact anti the Real Self. He gives us an awareness that love is simply the perpetual flowing of the crystal stream of God's consciousness, and this flowing of the stream is both the giving and the receiving of the Beloved and the soul who is reaching up for that union with God. Chamuel, our archangel of love, exclaims, 'When I recognize the goodness of God, the long-suffering nature of God and the faith of God in the ultimate outcome of all things, I am nigh a state which in the human octave you would refer to as being "stunned by it all." Such love as this which the Father holds for his children concerns itself not with mere punitive action (for the law of retribution functions automatically) but with the regeneration, the reeducation and the re-creation of the whole man, that he might share in the Godhead and in the design of his being which the Lord hath made.' The foundation of love in society and in the social order is the family. Saint Germain says one of the things that makes the expression of love so difficult is that it is a quality which, in order to be expressed, requires two--and this is where the problem comes. If the two are you and God, you can get along quite well because one half of the partnership is perfect and you have only yourself to deal with. But most people who have not mastered love cannot get along with just themselves and God. They require the interchange with other lifestreams, and these are the relationships which lead to problems in our presentday physical lives. Many of us are still involved in working out karmic situations with members of our families of which we may be totally unaware. Sanat Kumara teaches the importance of the family: 'The holy family is the foundation of life on earth and the key to love in well-adjusted children who fear neither the challenges of living the abundant life in this octave nor of their karma/dharma nor of the astral beasts of prey or disguised devils. The love of family is the love for God within each member as each one occupies with reverence and honor his appointed office of Father, Mother, son and daughter. 'But take care that in your caring for one another you do not enter into the mesmerism of idolatry wherein the possessive love of persons becomes greater than your love for Christ within the pure sons and daughters of God. For this is the test of the Rose Cross: "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."' Jesus asked, 'Who is my mother or my brethren?' And then he answered by saying, 'For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.' Marriage on the path is an initiation. The masters do not consider that a marriage between devotees is something for their enjoyment or their pleasure. It is an initiation, and because it involves two rather than one, it is often considered to be more difficult than the celibate path. This is because it involves each one of the partnership becoming accustomed to living with and working with the karma of the other and the dharma of the other."