little by little there will gradually occur in his world a lessening of tenacious ties

7) It is true--and the world is proof of it--that human rights are being employed by mankind as the mess of human pottage ladled out as enticement to the Esau consciousness that continues to defraud the firstborn sons of their eternal inheritance…. /Individuals seek without for that which is already within.  Just as the entire pattern of nature is manifest in the seed, so in the divine seed the living Word is the inherent God-identity, Christ- identity and soul- identity of every man.….In order to create that essential spiritual fabric between self-conscious Identity (that which clearly can accept that I AM that I AM as true Self) and the universal Presence of Life it is needful that the seeker understand to the fullest extent permissible under divine law the difference between vacillating aspects of human life and those God-guided patterns which will render unto God those things which are God’s…./Religion53 has10 become25 a1 cloak15 to8 be7 worn25 as2 a1 badge19 of12 merit29 (=207=9 x to cloak23) in the eyes of one’s fellowmen, whereas the seeker for truth and for contact with the hierarchy of light, the Great White Brotherhood, must of necessity come directly under the aegis and guidance of the great master teachers….God has never forced man to accept any spiritual exercise as a requirement for attainment albeit these have been ordained by Him and are available to the seeker that he might shorten the days of his earthly travail.  God has indeed provided a beautiful link between reality and illusion through the concept of Hierarchy and universal Christhood.   -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:19 .......................... 8) The weight of human opinion is also held to be of great import by many who profess to search for the kingdom but in reality seek approbation and favor of men….There exists in the world today a very dangerous sense of earthly sophistication which is wholly rooted in personal pride; in the grips of this pseudo-reality individuals consider themselves qualified to be arbiters of their own destiny….There is a long trek across the parched deserts of self-testing and tribulation before the promised land of God-realization can be attained….Many men and women are not actually aware that the soul has been swept away from its eternal moorings…. And so the present rebellion of elementals against the impositions of mortal men continues, and the wails of those lost in sophistry of false supremacy will continue even as heaven continues to beckon sons of God onward, step by step, until through their attention on God their consciousness becomes the sole reality which the ascension flame is.    -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:20 ................................... 9) When purification of the muddied stream of human thought occurs and the fount of his energies becomes a crystal one, reflecting light and cosmic energy which buoy up the four corners of the mind and so beautifully reveal to soul consciousness the wonders of divine reality, the soul is indeed blessed.  Our disciplines are always for purpose of regeneration, for without this gift and activity which descends from the Holy Spirit man could not attain to immortal life.…One of the greatest blessings that can ever come to an embodied individual is the reawakening of the divine sense and childlike wonder which so many had in manifestation very early in their lives….Fear not what men may do unto you but be the master of your own worlds by letting the God within hold high the standard of His love….Religion, intended to be an implementation leading to the soul’s attainment, has become the15 means16 by9 which33 the15 enemy26 has10 blackened30 the15 consciousness49 of12 men14 and10 cast7 them19 into22 outer25 darkness28 (=355=5 x the enemy blackened71).  In God’s name, beloved ones, it requires more than just the wish to serve Him in order to do so and it requires more than the wish to attain in order to attain!…I implore you on behalf of Hierarchy and in the interest of winning your own ascension in the light to look up to the realm of beauty and love, of harmony, security and eternality, of joy, strength and divine wonder--and live!    -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:21 .............................. 10) A part of nature is the faculty of memory.  For example thorns did not surround the rose in the early days of the Earth.  Certain destructive activity on the part of mankind resulted in outpicturing by tiny elementals of what men have called protective barbs; and thus long, sharp thorns were created as mankind’s fears and doubts were etched on nature’s memory and then lowered into physical octave. Religion in the main has supposed that God has created all things that are in existence; however mankind have not taken into account the influence of their own thoughts and feelings in the acts of creation which occur daily within their own domain….Nature has provided beautiful imagery as environment all over the world; and those who are perceptive to it can respond to it today in the very face of all human misqualification that has gone before…./ Consider, beloved ones, the meaning of discipline of thought that demands the immaculate concept about every part of life and refuses30 acceptance36 of12 patterns32 of12 error38 that13 as2 residual35 magnetism38 cling27 to8 consciousness49=332 of mankind as a shroud….Cause, effect, record and memory of all that is incomplete, of all that is darkness and of12 all7 that13 is10 intransigent60 (=102; 102+332=434=joy14 x aspires31) must be willfully abandoned by the soul who aspires to freedom of the ascended state…./ The flame must not be lost.  It must not be canceled.  It must not go out.  The flame must be upheld at all costs.  And the flame is yours, for God made it so. -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:22 ............................... 11) No man wishes to be victim of a hoax, and his personal pride tells him that unless he is wary he may very well be.  Thus sophistication of earthly reason overrides the great tangible realities of Almighty God which dwell in the invisible realm and are functional in all outer manifestation….It is lingering59 doubt17 that has lurked in dark folds of human consciousness to become the15 seed15 of12 infection50 spreading48 as2 a1 cancer26 (=245=5 x a spreading49) throughout men’s consciousness to their own destruction. … / If the world does not soon awaken from its lethargy and communion with error, if it does not soon break through into octaves of light and realm of the ascended masters to perceive cosmic truth, the awful charades in which men now engage themselves will culminate in a holocaust of frightful destruction….I urge upon all the weight of cosmic consideration.  Ponder the manifestations of life that are shown to you through avenues of your physical and spiritual senses.  Ponder whatever God has given to you of glimpses of the Infinite.  Realize that something cannot come forth from nothing and that Infinite mind has created man in order that he should expand his consciousness toward the mark of the Infinite. -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:23 ................................... 12) The idea of renewing consciousness is itself causative in creating a desire on the part of mankind to open the windows of the soul to original purity of God-design….There is a tendency among men which is encouraged by brothers of the shadow and sons of Belial who masquerade at times as angels of light to postpone the salvation of the soul to some distant tomorrow or to the life hereafter…. / Therefore we begin with consciousness, and this renovation must admit the fire of divine idea.   -Serapis Bey: Pearls of Wisdom 10:24 ---------------------- O Archangel Michael, being of faith, / Through my God Presence all doubt now erase,/ Open my eyes, my vision renew, Make of the many God’s chosen few. One by one we step through the door/ Of greater faith than we’ve had before,    Cast out our sin and our doubt in the real,  /Help us to sense truth, God’s Presence to fee/ Make of the many God’s chosen few. l/  I AM, I AM, I AM a friend of God/  I AM, I AM, I AM uplifting His rod/  Of implicit faith in my purpose divine/  By Thy blazing reality now I do shine.  Amen.   .................................... 13) Did you expect when you began to search for God that you would find Him without mystery? -Serapis:  Pearls of Wisdom 10:26 .................................. 14) Where is division then among us?  It is not.  All that divides is not among us.  All that seeks to conquer is not among us, for we are enamored by His love.  -Justinius, captain of seraphic bands  Pearls of Wisdom 10:27 .................................. 15) To be in rapport with the Teacher is to secure a portion of the Teacher’s progressive advancement. … It is essential that your mind should not wander, that your consciousness should not waver, that you should not engage your attention in lesser things during the time that you have set aside to seek to understand these greater things.  In God’s name, beloved ones, if instruction on the ascension were so simple, which in one sense it is, and so easily mastered, which it also is, why is it that in every generation so few are able to win this precious gift of God that is intended for all people? According to the Karmic Board the fault lies neither with the instruction nor with the Teacher.  If the fault lies with neither Teacher nor instruction, where does it lie?…I thank you for such attention as you have given and for that capacity of divine service which you have offered.  We can ask no more nor do we.  Your divine Presence will always be the illuminator of self, and the lesser light can but reflect the greater light….Sweet surrender to the Presence of God is initiated first of all in the will.  The will is the key whereby the human self has its say. -Serapis:  Pearls of Wisdom 10:28 .......................................... 16) The parable of the wedding garment is indicative of the great deathless solar body which man must weave.  The anchor of man’s identity which he must willingly cast beyond the veil is symbolical of this wedding garment…. / This body of light is begun in the heart of your God Presence and it is spun out of the light of the sun of that Presence as man below consciously invoke holy energies of God….If men’s lives are lived according to the divine plan, then conformity comes not as the result of struggle but as the result of happy and joyous submission to the Christ ideal, to God- design….The magnetism of the divine is a lodestone that will transmute shadow in the human octave and transform consciousness of the ascendant one so that little by little there will gradually occur in his world a lessening of tenacious ties which mankind over the centuries have woven to persons, places, conditions and things.  Simultaneously there will occur a renewal o ancient covenants of the soul with the Father whereby the Son recognizes that the return home to the heart of God is most imperative….The caduceus takes advantage of both centripetal and centrifugal forces.  It utilizes the energy known to Hindus as Brahma and Shiva, the Creator and Destroyer….The wings at the top of the caduceus symbolize that holy and vital energies of both sympathetic and central nervous systems around the spinal column have been raised toward the spiritual eye of perception.   -Serapis Bey:  Pearls of Wisdom 10:29 ........................................ 17) Individuals cannot continue to flaunt the laws of brotherhood and justice; they cannot continue to disobey infinite laws of God with impunity.  It is unrealistic then for any man to imagine that he can follow a collision course with the Karmic Board and heavenly hierarchies by ignoring his spiritual responsibilities; he needs to desire the highest gifts and graces which God has already prepared for him…You need not expect, precious ones, that as the swoop of a great bird of paradise, heaven will come down to you and raise you instantly up into light.  Each day you weave a strand of light substance back to the heart of your Presence by the shuttle of your attention; each strand strengthens the anchor beyond the veil and thus draws you into a state of consciousness wherein God can use you more as an effective instrument for good….The Mosaic plagues which were brought upon the land of Egypt ultimately shattered the heart of the Pharaoh until he at last relented and let the children go free…./ For the ages I remain   Serapis:  Pearls of Wisdom 10:30 ........................................ 18) Again and again we are amazed at the antics of mankind, how they seek spiritual study and spiritual deliverance while34 creating41 ever-new38 attitudes29 of12 imperfection70 and10 discord32 (=266=7 x ever-new38) toward their brothers. When the honor flame of God is employed men’s goals become God-oriented, and thus there can be no possibility of deviation or shadow of turning in the human monad who is motivated by an absolute determination toward godliness….One of the strange little bits of information which I sometimes hesitate to pass on to students because it deals with a process that is almost mechanical is the conveyance of God’s energy down to the base of the spinal column and reversal of that energy back to the heart of the Presence.  This process, which has sometimes been used haphazardly by those who are inept in the practice of that which is called kriya yoga, will operate perfectly automatically in those individuals whose devotion to God is great enough./ Life is a closed corporation.  If God is the chairman of the board, then Christ is the president and the board of directiors are the ascended masters and the Karmic Board.  Heaven can be justly said to be a closed union shop where no one can actually work against the divine aims…./ The ascension is the beginning of the kingdom for each one; and when every soul is taken and none left the world itself will ascend back to the heart of God, a planet victorious.  To this end must we work and serve./ My hands will be extended in loving welcome to thee at the hour of thy victory./ I remain your teacher and friend,    Serapis Bey,  Pearls of Wisdom 10:31

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