For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace:
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it and to
establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever.
— Isaiah 9:6-7
The prophets of the Old Testament times were holy men of
God, mouthpieces of Jehovah God in uttering divine messages entrusted to them,
and as such were messengers. They did more than merely prophesy, or declare
the will or purpose of God. They were the moral and religious teachers of
their times, exposing the emptiness of religious formality, the
perfunctoriness of merely offering sacrifices and performing religious rites.
Being highly developed spiritually, they could see with spiritual vision
sufficiently to read in the Memory of Nature and describe the coming
conditions.
The above prophetic utterances of Isaiah, one of the four
major Biblical prophets, come to us during the hallowed Christmas season,
"soft as the voice of an angel," a light with blessed hope and
promise. He is describing the time when the Religion of the Son, the second
help which humanity now has in its evolutionary journey, will have become
established on Earth. The Christian Religion will have enabled man so to
purify and control his vital body that he will have attained to union with the
Christ Within. Our hearts well with reverence and devotion as we contemplate
the sublime promise of this exalted message and pray for the day when "of
peace there shall be no end."
Nor should we allow present conditions of war and strife to
affect our attitude of faith and optimism. Unfortunately, sorrow and suffering
seem to be the only teachers most individuals and nations will hear, and thus
the necessity for such severe experiences and lessons. Viewing life through
the perspective of the Western Wisdom Teachings, life unending in its course
through the visible and the invisible worlds, we are undismayed by the so-
called "loss of life " which takes place in parts of the world.
Those who are killed will be born again, and because of the
anguish of their experiences, they will function in their next physical
incarnations from a higher state of consciousness than they do now. The
precepts of peace and brotherly love taught by the gentle Christ will then
appear to them in their proper light as the natural basis for man's social and
economic life, and war will be a thing of the past. Truly, "the
government shall be upon his shoulder," for out of humanity's travail
will come a new birth to things spiritual, a more complete dedication to the
spiritual way of life.
In the coming Kingdom of Christ, or the New Galilee, man
will have evolved to an exceedingly high stage. He will function in an etheric
body on an etheric Earth. Through pure and unselfish living, he will have
brought about the union of the higher and the lower self, and will thus have
established the Kingdom of Christ within his own heart — "with judgment
and with justice from henceforth even forever."
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, December, 1977, page 553.
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