THE FIRST year of this decade, 1930, marked the beginning of a new spiritual cycle, when the veil was rent between the seen and the unseen. It opened a new era when human sight visioned more clearly the hidden glories of the celestial realms, and human hearing was quickened to receive some further message from the “winged walkers of the skies.”

The attunement between heaven and earth reaches its highest culmination at the four seasonal turning points of the year, known astronomically as the spring and autumn equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices.

The spiritual powers focused at these seasons are particularly potent throughout the Christian world at the times of its principle religious festival occasions, namely, on the eves before Christmas and Easter. It is on these specially Holy Days that Jesus, the disciples, and the holy women of the Gospels assemble in sacred conclave to flood the earth with blessings and to give additional light and spiritual guidance to all those who are ready and able to receive it.

Each year since 1930 these assemblies have increased in power and in the glory of their observances. The Easter Season of 1936 witnessed a veritable reenactment of the Sermon on the Mount. In that high realm where all is light and fragrance there were gathered together a most blessed company. Described in the words of John, they were as “those who are Virgins and all those who follow the Christ whithersoever He goeth.” They were robed in raiments of light; their faces were aflame with the radiance of spirit, and their words were symbols of the light that is eternal.

The clarion call of that glorious company for the ears of the earth attuned to their message was in essence: “The Kingdom is at hand, the old cycle is passing; the new is about to be born; and Christ Jesus is the light of the New Day.”

In multitudinous waves of etheric music were retransmitted the beloved words: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. No man cometh unto the Father save by me.” The harmony and rhythm of that music enveloped and lifted those gathered in that holy place until they felt themselves to be so closely united in mind and soul that no earthly circumstances could ever break that glorious bond again.

Special admonitions were given regarding the subtleties of the temptations in these last days. As the light and power of the spirit increases the forces dominated by the shadows grow stronger. The one is ever proportionate to the other. So subtle and so sinister are these temptations that the “very elect themselves may be deceived.” It is only as we learn with Paul to put on the whole armor of God, that we shall come to know the true from the false and the real from the unreal.

Group instructions in spiritual truths are measured according to the disciple’s understanding and ability, and so it is at the Holy Season meetings. Few indeed are ready to receive their full import and glory. Those who do so become the conscious co-workers on the outer plane with the Great Ones who are shaping the destiny of this our rapidly changing mind, life and age.

The great majority who are privileged to attend these meetings take no part in the ceremonials but are permitted only to observe the works of the Radiant Ones. So powerful, however, are the radiations and so great the out poured blessings of these Holy Beings that all within the radius of their influence are tremendously revivified and exhilarated in consciousness and return to take up earth life again with more fervent aspiration for the things of the higher life, a deepened sense of world responsibility, and a clearer realization of the true brotherhood of man.

Each year at these sacred Festivals an additional number qualify to pass “beyond the inner gates.” There, in the presence of one of that immortal Company, they receive direct first hand knowledge such as enable them to know their places and work amid the great travail and turmoil of the transition crisis ahead, and to be more intelligent and effective co-workers with the Christ within.

Even if not consciously remembered, this high experience leaves an impress on the mind whereby it processes and quickens the heart with new impulses. Spiritual truths are henceforth more easily perceived, whether it be in sign, symbol, parable, or story. The entire being is lifted into a closer atonement with the things of the spirit.

One who has been present during one of these glorious assemblages can never know doubt, fear, or soul discouragement again. For him it is that

“In the mud and scum of things, Something always, always sings.”

He knows without a shadow of turning, the reality of inner plane contacts; he is convinced that spiritual law is the foundation of all externalities, that man and the earth are encompassed by its power, that despite all confusions and inharmonies, underneath are the Everlasting Arms, and that always there within the heart of everyone open to receive Him awaits the loving Christ ready to heal and to bless.

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THE God of tomorrow stands forth in all its majesty of suns and moons and stars. Its extent is from space to space and eternity alone confines it.

Man gazing into the eyes of man, beholds therein his Maker. His Creator sings to him with the voice of the wilderness, and descends upon him from the stars that spangle the heavens of night. This God is not hidden behind flowing draperies, nor are His ministers avenging angels. Unmoved by the passing of ages, He contemplates the worlds that are His substance, and through His own mind in men seeks to probe the depths of His own reality.

This Vast One has written His laws in the heavens so that they shall endure long after earthly codes have been erased from the memory of men. This God manifests His will in the endless progression and change by which things are moved from Then to Now and from Now to Then.

This Universal Creator fears not man’s efforts to understand Him; telescopes and microscopes may scan His features without offence. To what is the quest of knowledge but the God in man seeking the God in all? —Manly P. Hall.

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