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GROUP MATERIAL FOR TRANSMISSION CLASSES
April 21, 1956
BLESSED FRIENDS OF GOD'S PEACE:
In the Name and Love of the Presence of Almighty God right within our beating
hearts, whose Holy Name is "I AM", we call directly to the great Elohim of Peace
today to seal you and all you love forever in oceans of the Golden Flame and
fiery essence of Cosmic Christ Peace, saturating your entire beings and worlds
and bringing everything into perfect Divine Order through Divine Love. Here and
now, still yourself for just a moment and feel yourself enveloped in dazzling
Golden Flame for about nine feet around in every direction. Without tension, try
to feel its feeling and rest in that feeling. Perhaps at first you will only be
able to concentrate for a few seconds, but if you will take a few moments every
day to call this Golden Flame around you, you will experience a great relief
from the hustle and bustle of our work-a-day world. Nothing in this world can be
a blessing to you unless you accept it so TRY this and see what it can and will
do for you.
Did you ever think for even a few moments what the quality of Peace means to all
life, no matter in what form that life may be? Somehow Peace seems to have
become associated mostly with Christmas and the Angelic command for "Peace on
Earth...". What can be permanently accomplished without Peace? The Great Ones
have told us that the prayer which goes up most often from the mankind of this
planet is "O, God! give me Peace!" (this spoken in every dialect and language,
sometimes just in a silent cry from the heart). Health cannot be long sustained
without Peace; real happiness is never found without it; business cannot expand
without it; the Nature Kingdom cannot provide the necessities of life without it
and so on. In paintings, we speak of farm scenes as being "so nice and peaceful"
and today's trend in living is to move farther and farther away into the
country, suburban living, away from the marts of trade and noisy machinery. It
is considered beneficial to raise children in such environment and, while these
outer provisions are all steps in the right direction for happier living, yet
how many people realize that the secret of a peaceful mind, body, home and world
lies in the God-control of his or her own feelings? This is a secret which is
well known in the Orient, where the pace of living is less rapid than in the
Western world. Folks everywhere are more and more desirous of having "world
peace" but that can never come as a permanent blessing to mankind until our
individual worlds are at peace (with our own loved ones and those with whom we
come in contact). The whole is made up of its component parts and until the
"parts" are peaceful (without individual wars) there cannot come permanent Peace
for the whole. Everyone loves Peace, everyone wants it for himself, therefore it
becomes not only our duty but our priceless opportunity to try to hold the
Peace, not only for ourselves, but for each other, when we see signs of
irritation and distress begin to appear in another's world. The tendency of the
personality is to mirror the feelings of each other; if one becomes disturbed,
those around that one resent that disturbance of their Peace and become
inharmonious themselves. As God's peace-makers, let us reverse this. "Blessed
are the peace-makers; for they shall be called the Children of God" said Beloved
Jesus and he himself was known as "The Prince of Peace". The ability to hold his
feelings at Peace through unbelievable attempts to take it from him, was his
practical victory over the daily trials and distresses in this world of form. We
are told that: "He was tempted in all points like as we are, and yet without
sin". Jesus also said: "The things that I have done shall ye do also…"
Think a little about Peace; about how comforting and restful it is and
determine, first, to have it yourself. Then you can give others that feeling
too, for the very atmosphere of your world is contagious to those around you.
Start in a small way, determine to hold uninterrupted Peace and happiness in
your own feelings for just five minutes; then ten minutes and so on. When you
can do this, it will be so comfortable and pleasant you will not want to ever be
disturbed in your feelings again. TRY! TRY! TRY! This is the "watchword" of
Beloved Serapis Bey's Retreat for you never know what you can do until you
sincerely TRY! Then, "keep on keeping on" until you are a peace-maker of God to
his children!
"I AM" Victorious Always
FRANCES K. EKEY