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The Use of Free Will

March 1956

Beloved and blessed children of the One God, you who have come now within the deepest recesses of your souls to a point where you desire within yourselves to do God's Will!

One of the initial gifts of the Godhead given to you, each lifestream first created fresh and beautiful from the heart of the Universal, was free will! That free will has been the gift of the individuals who stayed upon the pathway of Light and those who wove for themselves the shadows and the pathway of darkness.

Free will for the Angels and Archangels, the Seraphim and the Cherubim was always used in constant, joyous obedience to the Divine Edict, the Divine Pattern and the Divine Plan. Free will for many has caused them never to even desire embodiment upon this Earth or any other of the planets of this system.

Free will has been chosen through other lifestreams to experiment with thought and feeling, to draw through thought and feeling those forms that finally encased the lifestream in the conditions where they have been impounded for many ages and not even fit to return to physical embodiment.

Beloved ones, an integral part of your individualized being when you were first breathed out of the Universal First Cause was freedom to use life, life given to you which created the immortal fountain of blazing essence in your heart, life through you destined to design a portion of God's kingdom, releasing into your mind from the great Universal Fount those ideas that might bless the race; clothing them round with your own thought; nourishing them by your feelings and then lowering them into the sphere and realm in which you dwelt until they became a blessing and a benefit to all life!

Your original reason for being, the reason for the creation of your individualization in the first place was that you might be co-creators with the Godhead; that you might share the joy of expanding beauty, that you might through initiative and through love of beauty and all its manifest expressions desire to multiply the omnipotent perfection of the Almighty and externalize it through your own auras until it filled and expanded through the universe in which you now abide.

However, some of humankind having received liberty to use life; having taken that Immortal Threefold Flame; having accepted the thought and feeling centers as their own, suddenly, with the use of free will, decided they would no longer take promptings from their own I AM Presence but rather that they would experiment with thought and feeling! In so doing they created imperfect pictures, energized them by feelings and then by their very weight, these creations were catapulted into the etheric and physical worlds and shadows and limitations began!

Now we are endeavoring to reverse that process! We are endeavoring to bring humankind again to a point where they no longer desire to experiment ignorantly or with vicious intent with the use of life; where they have come to a point that in the privacy of their own prayer, ask the Creator for what reason they have been given being; for what reason they have been sustained through the ages; for what reason has life poured to and through them, creating body after body, giving possible assistance of purification through the Sacred Fire. Receiving that reason, such individuals use the I AM Presence to give them the courage, the strength, the enthusiasm and the constancy required to fulfill their reason for being; then joyously write it upon the Book of Life as a thing of beauty and magnificence in this physical world; or, if they are no longer required to embody, writing it upon the Book of Life in the realm which they presently abide.

For one who is enthusiastic about serving God, there are a thousand sanctimonious souls who serve for duty's sake! It is to bring enthusiasm and joy, buoyancy and happiness, confidence and constancy that we come close to the Earth at this present time and that we choose to stay here to reiterate over and over again those activities of the law which perhaps may penetrate into ONE of your consciousness; one of you grasping it, nourishing it, developing it and manifesting it, giving courage to the rest.

One person successful in the practical, scientific manifestation of the cosmic law can convince and convert millions!

Maitreya