Vol. 15 No. 2 - Beloved Cyclopea - January 9, 1972
The Externalization of Vision
Behold Perfection!
The transfer of a man’s vision to its externalization, the transfer of a thought to its realization, can be accomplished by a most direct route. But if the individual would be the director of his own life pattern, the motive behind each vision and each thought must be carefully analyzed and approved by him before he attempts to carry it through.
To be given the control of one’s life, to have the opportunity to take dominion over one’s world, is a most generous gift. But it is in its correct use that the gift becomes invaluable. Thus the Masters have always directed their students to ask to be given the wisdom of right choice, to ask for God-direction in all that they would do; for they know that man triumphs in the arena of action proportionately as he obeys the admonishment “Ask, and ye shall receive.” <1>
Great care should be exercised throughout the forthcoming year if one’s resolutions are to be implemented by the determination toward God-given action. To receive when one has asked, blessed ones, shows forth the marvelous result of having set the cosmic law into motion in one’s life. Many times all that the Law requires is a wise whisper of approbation nodding one’s acceptance of the divine will to which the heart so readily consents.
Do not discount the words “Except ye become as a little child...” <2> or the admonishments that lead to what may appear to be ordinary manifestations. For the most profound gifts are to be found in the performance of those cosmically guided actions that are brooded over by the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit. If man only knew, if he would only realize that it is God’s will that he should enjoy the abundant Life, that he should master all circumstances in his world, and that he can do so with divine approval, he would readily find the crisp and clear-cut answers to the journey of life which he professes to seek.
As one who by heavenly grace is a focus for the All-Seeing Eye of God, as one of the seven Spirits <3> that comprise the foundation stones of the throne of the Godhead, I am able to externalize at will, for those who trust me, the divine answer to life’s problems. And the divine answer, precious ones, is the only answer that will create the necessary tie between vision and action that changes lives from darkness into Light. <4>
How true it is that the process of vision is an orderly one whereby those dramatic strides of the Great Law of infinite action are transferred through the blessed receptacle of the mind from the forcefields of Spirit into the domain of Matter. Will you understand how closely allied Spirit is to Matter and how the will of man is united through an act of grace with the will of God?
There simply is only one will in the universe. When individuals understand this fact, they will overcome the conflict of wills that seems to create a barrier between manifestation originating in and as a spiritual action and manifestation that rises solely from material causes and effects. When they realize that form is an extension of the Spirit and that their lives need not become a wasteland of endless struggle, but rather an ordered garden of the Holy Spirit that promotes constructivism in countless other lives, they will cast off their trivia and their fears that dry up the Divine Fount and prevent the very manifestations they seek.
God-seekers should realize that they need to know what they should ask for and what they should seek. Sometimes it is better to simply pray, “Thy will be done!” than to attempt to build a city without first formulating the plans and the purpose. From the moment a God-idea is developed enough to actively create a mental picture thereof, the beautiful cosmic forces of Light inherent within the universe rush to fulfill its intent, so gloriously organizing and ordaining the future of individualized man that if people would perceive the strength of the gift of vision, they would immediately begin to use it.
So often we find that the very disorganization of men’s thoughts and the apprehension that something not to their liking may occur in their lives are open doors to unwanted conditions. As Job lamented, “The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.” <5> Rejoice! The reversal of the negative becomes the positive magnet that attracts the desired results.
We want individuals to understand the great blessing that the Ascended Master Consciousness can bring to all, both as an instrument for the externalization of perfection in their lives and as the motivating force that solves each and every problem. It is true that there are many ways by which embodied humanity can achieve what appear to be the same results. But the more of God and the more of His pure intent to do well that man can absorb and then introduce with the fullness of faith into the motive and the concept that form the basis of his actions, the more spiritually perfect, the more intrinsically beautiful, and the more scientifically certain will be the achievement.
The world in its ignorance may presume that the Godhead will permit all things to continue as they are, but with the coming of each new year a new cycle is introduced. Some years portend great good to mankind or to the individual. Others are charged with fear, doubt, and destruction through the imminent descent of mankind’s karma. The Karmic Lords–those who have been given the responsibility for the administration of universal justice to the earth–may well offer to men and women in the compartment of the forthcoming year the vital opportunity to choose whom they will serve. <6>
Wise, then, are those who this year, recognizing the earth as the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, <7> will keep themselves in attunement with the Presence each day and each hour, never forgetting to sow the flame of gratitude as they plan with the Hierarchy to enrichen mankind’s lives with the knowledge of the Law and the vision of the Golden Age.
As The Brotherhood seeks to externalize for mankind the sublime purposes of the Godhead, the noble of heart will be desirous of entering into the fullest spirit of cooperation with them; this, they realize, becomes possible as the fruit of gratitude for cosmic graces flows abundantly into their lives. For gratitude is the power that shapes coming events in those wondrous images that, in developing the God-man individualized, cannot refrain from externalizing the collective good as it flows to all of humanity from the hand of the Universal Brotherhood.
That The Brotherhood exists ought to be a foregone conclusion to each one; therefore, man should welcome the opportunity to cooperate with it and thereby strengthen the plantings that will bring forth ripened fruit to the earth at the harvest of the year, not only in the lives of the students but also in the abundant good which the Hierarchy seeks to externalize on behalf of all who are striving for a better world.
What glorious news The Brotherhood publishes abroad in the world in its attempt to increase the measure of God-awareness among mankind and the sense of the infinite that makes heaven and heaven’s emissaries not afar off, but very close at hand!
Will you, then, engage your energies in the direct action of pouring out your love and faith to God? For thereby will you be blessed with those unctions of the Spirit that enable you to receive each day, as you are able, a small or larger portion of the hopes of the angels for a struggling humanity. Descending upon the soul like the vision of gardens of flowers, their hopes will step up your determinations, your formulations of the will of God, your devotion to your fellowman, and your vision of heavenly goals. Then what to some might seem ordinary events will be transformed into those extraordinary spiritual matrices that turn every man from the human consciousness toward the Divine.
The heavenly Father, made personal through the living, individualized God Presence, is eager to release, in conjunction with the Holy Spirit, His energy, wisdom, and love into your lives and to turn the most drab life into the most beautiful. Through attunement with Him and with His Spirit, the Light that is in you will day by day continue to illumine your vision with the faith, the hope, and the charity that transform.
I AM and I remain your infinite servant,
Cyclopea
Elohim of the Fifth Ray
1. John 16:24.
2. Matt. 18:3.
3. Rev. 1:4.
5. Job 3:25.
6. Josh. 24:15.
7. Pss. 24:1.
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