10
TIMELY CLARIFICATION
THE Note at the end of "Our Scope" published in our issue of November 1958
states that in accordance with the freedom of conscience, cooperation with any
of our activities does not demand the relinquishment of any one's present
affiliations. This note has been erroneously interpreted by some students, and
therefore it needs explaining. It was written in the spirit of the words of Paul
to the Thessalonians, "Prove all things, HOLD FAST that which is good". They
were meant as a bridge to investigate. Moreover "freedom of conscience" is not
license of conscience.
The Ascended Masters expect that those who have found their Teachings, as
expounded through the Bridge Activity channel, to be GOOD, to HOLD FAST TO THEM,
as Paul directed; and they are very pleased with the referendum made on November
15, 1958, through Notice No. 2 of THE LIGHT BEARER, because 99% of the Bridge
Student Body have expressed their gratitude, their love, their support and their
loyalty to them and to The Bridge Activity, as will be proved when these
testimonies are published.
The Note at the end of "Our Scope" is not to be interpreted in the sense that it
is permissible for our sincere and loyal students to mix the teachings of the
Ascended Masters, given through the channel of the Bridge Activity, with other
presentations of Truth, true or false. That only creates confusion.
Our sincere and earnest students are not eclectics, that is, they do not pick
and choose, like butterflies, what they like in the Bridge teachings, according
to their understanding, limited or unlimited, patching them up with other real
or false presentations of Truth.
It is evident that if you go to a university you will never graduate if you mix
the teachings of your professors with the opinions of others who do not belong
to your university. Moreover, you cannot have and use a dollar bill, by merely
accepting one side of it and rejecting the other. To be able to use a dollar
bill, you have to accept both sides, the front and the back. To be or not to be,
is the question.
Furthermore it is audacious to claim that there is, or that there can be, a new
activity for the purpose of the expansion or improvement of the present Bridge
activity, because anyone dares to say so. That is merely a masquerade. When the
time comes for that expansion or improvement and it is already going on, it will
spring from our own Activity, and not from an outside organization, old
established or dissident. Any endeavor to mystify the Truth can only have one
effect and we all know what that effect is.
FRANK C. PITA,
General Manager