Vision
from Observations #4
Uranda July 29, 1945
As is generally recognized, the
forces of evil are strong in the world, and a host of human beings think to
have their own way regardless of the way and will of God. However, we must
remember that God truly works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Human
vision that ignores divine vision always plays into the hands of the Lord, even
though it thinks to fight against God. Human ingenuity is pitted against the
wisdom of the Almighty in the game of life, and because human beings count
themselves to be many, they think to win. "The mills of the Gods grind
slowly, but they grind exceeding fine." Now, with the atmosphere clearing
somewhat, the importance of the various moves in the game of life can be more
easily seen.
It has been repeatedly emphasized
in the Third Sacred School that all
people who are honestly seeking to better the conditions of the world are
instruments of the Lord through whom certain phases of His will are
accomplished. No human being can fully comprehend and measure all that is being
accomplished through the millions of persons in the world who are standing for
the highest and best that they know. The simple truth of the matter is that the
ungodly, through their lust for power and wealth, are constantly supporting,
financing and encouraging the progressive developments by means of which their
own defeat is made most certain; and no matter how clever they are, no matter
how they connive to nullify the Law of Cause and Effect, and no matter what
places of power they may now be able to attain, the laws of reality are ever
working to bring forth the victory of truth and justice.
There is no need for the righteous
to fear the forces of evil, if they
remember to be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves"; but there
is great need that the vision of the faithful ones shall be so opened that they
may see and recognize the hundreds of thousands of the "angels of the
Lord" that encircle the globe from pole to pole, working through human
forms, in high places and low, to bring forth the manifestation of reality in
every realm of life; for the earnest student of the School will remember the
oft-repeated statement that when evil falls away it will unveil the real. The real is there. The real is being caused to
manifest in every sphere of world activity that is attuned to constructive
vibrations, and all evil vibrations are working inexorably to destroy those who
have sold themselves to evil.
Human beings find and see that
which they look for. Human beings partake of that in which they have dominant
interests. Human beings move in the direction of their attention. Therefore an
individual's thoughts center in his field of vision, his words spring from the
fountain of his interests, and his actions reveal the course that is set by his
attention. Let each one see himself in the light of this truth, that if he be
able to stand revealed in the light, he may see others with the clarity of true
understanding, which is essential if the aspiring one would prove himself to be
as wise as the wisest expression of the serpent of the human mind. And only
thus can he so live that he is actually as harmless as the dove of peace that
must first be at home in his own heart.
The fire of divine love is burning in all the earth, and that
cleansing fire shall surely reduce all evil to ashes under the feet of those
who walk in the way, the truth and the life.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
