Vol. 11 No. 25 - Sanat Kumara - June 23, 1968
The Space Within
To the Children of Our Dear Sister Planet, Terra,
The lovely Lady Venus and the spiritual hierarchy of our planet Venus are mindful of the love and devotion of the eternal Father which permeates the space between the many mansions <1> of God. These luminous homes of light, planetary orbs, housing the destinies of progressive evolutions, move onward through the grand halls of the galaxies as the diurnal movements of the spheres record the inherent cosmic impetus of the Father of all.
We would direct a ray of light’s perfection to the hearts of men. You seek to probe outer space. Your technology reaches for the stars. But I say to you with a solemn warning, neglect not the space that is within thee—the realm of self that requires the perfection of the eternal plan. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. <2> And I, as the Ancient of Days, <3> did long hold for men the immortal concept.
Today—two thousand years after the birth of the great master, Jesus—the world, lingering still in the beautiful concepts he released concerning the fatherhood of God, does not recognize the androgynous nature of God. They do not consider that as Adam had Eve, so the heavenly Father in the eternal Virgin manifests a heavenly Mother—Isis unveiled, the Queen of Heaven, Mary the Mother of God. Every womb-man to whom is given the opportunity of bearing the eternal Manchild receives grace from the divinely feminine aspect of God, the Mother of the World.
We include mention of the feminine principle in connection with the space within, for many are interested in reaching out into the material universe—the world of Matter and form—without understanding that the Spirit that interpenetrates all form and substance is the web of reason (the skeletal framework) that communicates and holds together the cosmos.
Those who would explore the far reaches of space, both inner and outer, should understand that the Divine Feminine is the womb of creation which 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 which 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 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 is the temple, and God 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. <4> 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 reference not the physical heart, but the center of sovereign being, the seat of universal consciousness, the powerhouse of individuality.
In order to live, to cognize, and to draw upon experience, man must possess consciousness rather than be possessed by fragments of the consciousness of others or by dream episodes and vain imaginings. There are places in the universe where the broken fragments of men’s dreams are recorded, psychic happenings and unfamiliar glyphs stemming from broken lives and mortal failures. Some of these are all that remain of the grandiose schemes of men who held up the torch of knowledge for a time and then attempted to use the physical as well as the divine sciences to probe the universe by violence and to effect dominant control over self and others. The pall of their descending karma wreaked havoc with their worlds and many of them, as Saint Paul once said, made shipwreck of their lives. <5>
Unfortunately, those who probe the nether worlds of the astral are often involved in dangerous states of consciousness that are equally dangerous to those materialists and pragmatists who see in Matter and the use of the intellect the only worthwhile ambition. The tenure of men’s lives—the short span of threescore and ten—the brief period of efficient manifestation (for man is long a child and only shortly a man) should certainly prove the need for men to effect a transfer from the sense of mortality, of flesh and blood, of passing identity.
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 no matter 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.
Without grace it is impossible to please God. Without faith men cannot please him. <6> The space within needs development. The earth needs to be conquered not by superior might or by power but by the spirit of good. <7> Myriad religions formed for personal salvation have engaged men in a search for personal reality. But all who by karma yoga, the yoga of good works, have dedicated their lives to the enlightenment of men—teaching them that the kingdom of God is within them, <8> that the Christ lives in all—these have received not only personal salvation but also the joy of tending the Father’s flock.
The final admonishment of Jesus to Peter, “Feed my sheep,” <9> shows the importance that he placed on the work of the Good Shepherd. As the planetary flocks fill the heavens, so the cycles of evolution of the many planets in far-flung worlds are separated in time and space. The exploration of these many mansions of the Father is of little practical consequence to the man who seeks to expend his life wisely. We do not say that science will not in your time offer many new discoveries in space or that he who has prevented togetherness among the planets, having dispersed the sheep of his pasture throughout the universes, will not permit man to pass some of the bounds because his hand has sought to take heaven by force. <10>
We recommend—rather than let the consciousness fly with it saucers, its imaginings, its extraterrestrial probes—that men will see (as we of Venus do) the need to perfect the world in beauty and in love, the need to put an end to turmoil and war, the need to educate properly the young and tender, the need to extend courtesy and grace to all peoples, the need to reveal the true religious aspects of universal law, karma, and reembodiment which have been removed from the Church by deliberate design. The teachings of the Christ must be correctly taught to the people of the world, for individuals will understand thereby that as they sow, so shall they reap. <11>
The current teachings on forgiveness of sins do no homage to Christ. They press a crown of thorns into the body of the world and crucify mankind whom God would liberate. True forgiveness of sins requires the balancing of one’s debts to life not only to restore, in the old order, the boundaries of the law that men have violated, but also to liberate God’s energies which have been imprisoned by sin and to produce in his world now, here today, that spiritual grace that dares not allow the soul to fall into folly and delusion.
The laws of God are clear, and the ascended masters have held their focus for this planet for centuries. Yet the knowledge of his laws and their service has been disseminated but to the few. Those who seek to dominate the world and the thoughts of men have long held unwilling prisoners among men. In ignorance they have perpetuated the ignorance of others. The blind have led the blind. All are in the ditch. <12>
Now there comes a ray of intense beauty to the earth, focused from beloved Lady Venus and myself, sent forth with the thought of the Christ-matrix of every man—the universal Son of God. For he must appear in human affairs. Christ must be enthroned in every heart and in every home. He must blaze upon every altar as the sacred fire. We must restore the earth to her golden-age estate. Technocracy must embrace a divine theocracy. Atheism—spawned of the serpent’s sinuous materialistic concepts, invading and pervading the universities of the world—must be shed that the dove of order with the olive branch in his bill may appear. Then shall the universal Spirit of the Lord God unite the universe that is within with the universe that is without.
For safety, for sanity, and for prevailing order, I AM
Sanat Kumara
Lord of the Flame
Hierarch of Venus
1. John 14:2.
2. Pss. 139:14
4. Matt. 17:20.
5. 1 Tim. 1:19.
6. Heb. 11:6.
7. Zech. 4:6.
8. Luke 17:21.
9. John 21:17.
11.. Gal. 6:7.
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