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manifested from the hill of Bethany. The accent of Christendom upon the agony of Gethsemane, the
crucifixion, and the vigil in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea has often eclipsed the great significance for
every man, woman, and child of the glories of the resurrection and mysteries of the ascension.
Misunderstanding of the law of cause and effect and failure to apprehend the at-one-ment of the Universal
Christ originated in the human concepts that were introduced in the parable of Eden and continue to the
present day, perpetuated by the hoary mists of time and dogma. Unfortunately, the vicarious atonement
has been ignorantly accepted and is widely used as an excuse for wrongdoings and their continuation.
Thus, surrounded by an aura of godly but needless fear, men have persisted in passing on fallacies from
generation to generation in the name of God and Holy Writ.
The registering of discord and wrongdoing upon man's four lower bodies (i.e., the physical, mental,
memory, and emotional bodies) is effected by scientific law, cosmically ordained and itself the very
instrument of creation. As creators, men have sown the wind and reaped a karmic whirlwind.
The victory of the Universal Christ, which beloved Jesus demonstrated, was intended to show to man the
way that would conduct him safely back to God's image. That way was revealed as the Christ, or Divine
Light within every man that cometh into the world. It is this wondrous light, then, which is the light
and life of the world--of every man's individual world. Only by walking in the light as he, the
Universal Christ, is in the light can men return to the Father's house.
The forgiveness of sins is a merciful instrument of the Great Law whereby retribution, or the penalty for
wrongdoing, is held in abeyance in order that a lifestream may have the freedom to "go and sin no
more" and then be given the opportunity for greater spiritual progress. However, forgiveness does
not absolve the soul of the requirement to balance the energies misused by the alchemical fires of
transmutation. The balancing of wrongs done to every part of life, including the self, must be
accomplished in full with cosmic precision; hence every jot and tittle of the law must be fulfilled
either here or hereafter.
This process need not be a fearful looking for of judgment, but it should preferably be a happy
expectation of opportunity for service to life and the freeing of Life's imprisoned splendor. For by
ministering unto life individually and universally and by calling forth the alchemical fires on the altar of
being, the individual can undo all of the inharmonies which he has thoughtlessly cast upon its beauteous
presence. Truly, those who have been forgiven much can love much; for they perceive the need to
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be everlastingly grateful for the goodness and mercy of God which endure forever!
One of the major causes of recalcitrance, arrogance, willful wrongdoing, disobedience, rebellion, and
stubbornness is the vain hope of individual attainment without individual effort or of personal salvation
without personal sacrifice. Mankind do not relish the idea of painstakingly withdrawing every thread and
snarl they have placed in the garment of life or of attaining heaven by honest application.
Yet they must one day face this truth of themselves. Therefore, the present, when truth and justice of
opportunity are at hand, is the right and accepted time. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is
the day of salvation."
The desire to find a scapegoat for one's sins in a world teacher or saviour is not in keeping with the
cosmic principles undergirding the law of the atonement. A master of great light such as Jesus the Christ
or Gautama Buddha may hold the balance for millions of souls who are not able to carry the weight of
their own sinful sense. This holding action is a staying of the law whereby, through mercy and through
the personal sacrifice of one who keeps the flame for all, mankind might find their way back to God and
then, in the power of the rebirth and in the presence of the Holy Spirit, return to take up the unfinished
business of balancing their debts to life.
Christ is the saviour of the world because by his immaculate heart he postpones the day of judgment,
affording humanity additional opportunity in time and space to fulfill the requirements of immortality.
I cannot, in the holy name of freedom, resist speaking out on these matters. For many have suffered in
the astral world after the change called death, and when they came before the Lords of Karma to give an
accounting for their lives, they were found wanting. Unfortunately, this may have been only because
while on earth they accepted false religious doctrine and, in their misguided state, failed to do well in the
time allotted to them. Then came to pass the words God spake to Adam's son, "Sin lieth at the door"-
-that is to say, the record of the misuse of God's energy is at hand: render an accounting.
In God's scheme of world order, the propitiation for sin is permanent and effective; for the violet fire will
transmute every unwanted condition and balance all by Light. This Light is the Universal Christ.
The precious violet flame, an aspect of the Comforter's consciousness, is the friend of every
alchemist. It is both the cup and the elixir of Life that cannot fail to produce perfection everywhere when
it is called into action. After the violet flame has performed its perfect work, then let all rest in their
labors that God may move upon the waters (waves of light) of the creation to produce and sustain the
righteousness of his eternal law.
The climax or initiation of the ascension can and will come to all, even to little children, when they are
ready for it--when at least 51 percent of their karma has been balanced (this means that 51 percent of all
the energy ever given to their use has been transmuted and put to constructive purpose) and their hearts
are just toward God and man, aspiring to rise into the never-failing light of God's eternally ascending
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Presence.
When this gift is given to anyone by his own I AM Presence and the Karmic Board, the appearance of age
drops from him as swiftly as a smile can raise the lips, and the magnetism and energy of that one becomes
the unlimited power of God surging through his being. The dross of the physical, the weariness of the
emotional body, tired of hatred and its monstrous creations, the ceaseless rote of the mental body--all
drop away and are replaced in perfect ease by their divine counterparts.
The feelings become charged by the love of God and the angels. The mind is the diamond-shining mind
of God--omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. The total being is inspired and aspiring!
Thus that which once hopefully descended now ascends back into the Light from whence it came. One
with the company of angels and the nature and friendship of the Ascended Masters and in fellowship with
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