08/25/2002

Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am glad or
happy that you have chosen to be here this evening. Let
us consider this questing nature of humankind, this
perpetual curiosity that seeks to find that which is more
perfect, more true, or more beautiful than that which
exists. Deep within the human soul exists a fragment of
God himself. This inner fragment seeks always for unity
with that which is itself. It seeks union with sublime
perfection, it seeks union with truth, beauty, and
goodness.

The seeking of the mind toward betterment is a part of
God’s design. As you personally seek to be better, it is
part of the perfection quest of the soul. The inner drive
toward perfection is not always recognized as such. But
there it is. You are incomplete beings. You are imperfect
beings. You are created in imperfection and given the
choice whether to seek perfection or not.

Human beings naturally want to increasingly perfect
something they are doing. They want to increasingly
perfect their environment. They want to increasingly
perfect knowledge. When humans are given freedom –
freedom spiritually, intellectually, and physically or
economically – there is a natural trend towards this
increasing perfection.

Human beings also want to perfect freedom. For what is
freedom? The Master himself proclaimed his mission to
free the people from spiritual bondage. He proclaimed
that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you
free.

So how does this truth bring freedom? He certainly was
not speaking of moral license or the freedom to be
unrighteous. He was speaking of spiritual freedom. This
freedom exists within the realm of goodness, the realm
of righteousness. It is easy to imagine that when
righteousness is sought, and perfection of morality is
sought, the result is an increase in freedom because the
impulse to be licentious is curbed. The more there is of
unrighteousness in a group or a society, the less free its
peoples.

So how does truth begin to break cycles of
unrighteousness? Men do not seek to be righteous out
of the bondage of duty. Men seek to be righteous out of
the love of God. Love God and you will know him and
knowing him you will identify with him and seek to be
more like him yourselves. That inner drive has a
purpose. Love brings with it insight, charity, and
fortitude for he who has his purpose stayed upon the
Father can withstand all earthly trouble. He whose
purpose is stayed upon the Father naturally seeks to be
charitable, and he who receives the Father’s love
naturally seeks to share that love. This is the truth. The
Master also said that the meek shall inherit the earth.
And what then is meekness than a description of human
beings growing in spiritual righteousness and therefore
growing in love and charity.

Never forget that the Father loves all his children and
that he seeks only there betterment. Spiritual
progression is never served by aggression. Those who
would seek to promote spiritual progression by way of
the sword are sadly mistaken. The world must very
soon find ways to accommodate all its peoples without
resort to violence. Destruction, famine, and pestilence
come all three together. Humanity must be served in
better ways.

The Muslim religion which spread very rapidly by the
sword has now come up against modernity which it
refuses to accept. All religion must grow and change or
it will whither and die. Higher concepts must continually
replace those that are lower in order for humanity to
advance. When a religion becomes an intellectual stifler
or when it seeks to restrict freedom of thought, then that
religion has good reason to be afraid.

Repression of the human mind is seen by the spiritual
government as a sin. Religions are not immune from sin
and most at some time or other have or continue to
cross that line and become thought oppressors. By
perpetuating that which was, religion stifles that which
will be.

Humanity is going through very rapid progress at this
time and rapid progress generally creates a backlash of
fear. And the churches which are the carriers of tradition
are often the source of this fearful backlash against
rapid social change. This is what is happening all over
the world from Baptist pulpits to Mosques. Your world is
fearful of too much change.

The Master was a spearhead for change. He flouted
tradition. He was open in speaking with all kinds of
people, women and men, children and adults. He was
literally the face of God to a generation. But that face
now is cloudy, distorted from 20 centuries of human
tradition. The friendly boat builder from Galilee who
raised women to his side and spoke of God as Father is
barely visible through the baggage of time.

But his spirit is ever present. His spirit lives and is a
friend and personal confident of every believer who
turns to him. His spirit speaks constantly to every ear
who would ear it saying this is the way. His spirit is more
alive now in the hearts of his children than it has been
since his recent earthly death. His spirit seeks to reclaim
this earth and all the children in it. This is a tall order but
one that will succeed.

There is no other true religion. There is only one truth.
Truth cannot be stifled or changes or put aside. Truth
cannot be postponed. The religion that the Master
revealed – a religion of freedom, a religion in which
every person had a personal relationship with their
Father in heaven, a religion in which God can be sought
and talked to and loved and emulated – this is truth.
This is the truth which all people must find. Verily I say
unto you that even the religions which hold up Christ as
a beacon and do so by any falseness will be brought
down.

Every person eventually will find their sonship or
daughtership with the Father and this find will be worth
everything. It is the pearl of great price this discovery.
Everything else that stands in the way of that
relationship must be sacrificed for that relationship is
everything. It is eternal life. It is spiritual peace,
intellectual comfort, social harmony, and blissful love.

The world will advance just so far as those believers are
willing to walk their path with God. The future of your
world is literally riding on the willingness of men and
women to put aside their selfishness, their personal will,
in order to follow the higher will of God.

Human beings are weak creatures. You all have your
grey areas, your struggles with self, and this is as it
should be but remember progress is made through that
certainty of faith. Be certain and secure in your
relationship to God. Let nothing interfere with it. Seek
God with all your heart and all your might. Seek the
higher way. Descend not into the lower impulses. Be
beacons of love to those who need love so desperately.
This is the way. There is no other.

This has been a long lesson so we will defer questions
until next week. During the week, think about how you
can make God your everything and in what ways do you
slight him and turn in other directions. What does it
mean when we talk about dedication? What does it
mean when we speak of faith and trust? Learn to sort
the big things from the small. When all the small things
are brushed away, what is the center of your reality?
What are your true goals in life? Is that restlessness and
hunger for perfection leading you into truth,
righteousness and love or are you tricking yourself into
thinking that self-serving is a way to channel your
energies and make progress?

You all do very well. There is no one in dire need of
assistance. I will take my leave until next week.
Farewell.