Our Great Nation – 5
Hello Dear Readers,
This is the last article I’m writing, reviewing a chapter of the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding, who visited the far East on a research mission in 1894.
In this chapter we have an account of a Master called Emil speaking about the birth of our nation, and how it relates to the “rebirth” of an individual. He speaks about the Crystal Age, which we are now in, and his spiritual insight is nothing short of astounding.
How we look forward to the age which is dawning, the Age of Crystal, the pure, white light of Spirit. This morn is now dawning. We can see the time all will see the full blaze and glory of this approaching day. Then there will be no darkness, no limitation.
Does this not suggest that there must be eternal progress? If not, all must return to that from which it sprang, the Universal Substance. All must progress or go back; there is no halfway point, no stopping place. When your nation does recognize its true estate, or mission, and join hands with Spirit and expresses as God wishes it to express, or lets the Spirit unfold from within; we can see for your great nation a marvel far transcending the power of any human tongue to describe.
It is with having the God-given quality of Faith, that Emil hits home the analogy of the unfolding of an individual to that of a nation.
Just as a mustard seed, although it is among the smallest of seeds, has the faith to know that within itself it has the power to express the mustard plant, the greatest of all herbs, for when it is grown it becomes a tree and the birds may come and lodge in the branches thereof; just as the seed knows that within itself it has the power to express the greatest, so must we know that we have the power within ourselves to express the greatest.
In giving this parable it was the quality instead of the quantity of faith, that Jesus referred to.
“If ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed (and that faith becomes knowing), ye shall say unto this mountain Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you. “
There is no question but that it took the great strong beak and talons of the eagle to hold your nation together during its development; but when the true spiritual light comes, it will be seen that the dove is mightier than the eagle, and the dove will protect what the eagle now guards.
Look at the words on the coin you send into every avenue of the world trade - In God We Trust and e pluribus unum, one composed of many, the very slogan of Spirit when the dove replaces the eagle on the life medium of such a nation.
Just so the frailest poppy seed and the mightiest banyan tree, the bulb, the plant, the tree seed, all know that they can express the greatest. Each has an exact picture or representation of what it must express. So must we have an exact picture within ourselves of what we desire to express.
Then there must be an inner perfection wrought by hourly preparation and this perfection will come forth. No flower ever burst into full bloom without this perfecting inner urge. A moment before the bud was confined within the sepal sense of self, but when this inner perfection is complete, the flower bursts forth beautiful.
As the seed that falls into the ground must first give forth from self in order to grow, develop, and multiply, so must we first give forth from self to unfold. As the seed must first burst its shell in order to grow, so must we burst our shell of limitation to begin our growth. When this inner perfection is complete we must come forth beautiful, the same as the flowers.
As with an individual so with a nation…
And So It Is.
With Love and Blessings,
Lisa
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