Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood ( edited)

Within your own inner walls is a Real living Strength. It is there to uphold you in every
situation. You, remaining unaware of this inner protection, render it unbidden to come
and dispel the blaring trumpets that threaten your safety and leave your walls unprotected
by the habitual embracing of your fears. Greater is He that is within you than he who
comes against you in the world. This is your comfort and your salvation in all your
distress.

Be comforted and learn that destinies are controlled by the delicacy of your calmness
within, by your turning to the divine companion who never leaves nor forsakes you. I
would again remind you that through contemplative stillness you are able to reach your
God, that through this silence your inward and secret light would be revealed to you.

“Be still (calm) and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

So peace be unto your hearts and great stillness and calm. Search out this creative peace
within; here there is no struggle. Here are beauty and truth and protection and joy in
abundance. Here is order; and here, locked away, is the divine plan. When you dissolve
and become still, holy in that oneness with the infinite holiness, the divine plan cometh to
pass and you are free.

So, in times like this, it is the good news, the ever-present revelation. You cannot and will
not reach what you desire through emotional explosions; you know this…..now put it to
good use. Come where the eternal Spirit, Love itself, untangles, loosens and pulls away
from you all that binds, for it unshackles these imprisoning chains, these iron bands of
thought and silences the gongs of fear and dismay.

Within everyone is the same Spirit of God that raised the dead body of Lazarus and Jesus
to restore the dead flesh back to life. It is not lost to you. You have ignored its importance
and avoided learning of its intent to safeguard you always. This is your ultimate safety. It
arises when you stand with God’s Peace and strength filling you with the security and
presence of a LIFE that is Eternally undaunted within.

Hold this knowledge dear and rest on it as you would on the arm of a strong friend,
realizing that its comfort needs to be invited into the inner you where you have instead
made a welcome mat for your fears. This comforting Presence is real.

As fear attracts evil events… so does the knowledge this Eternal blessed Presence attract
good events.

Yes…FEAR does send up the welcome flag for even more fear after the enemy’s troops
have breeched the gates and walls of your inner city.
 Fear then says “I expected this to happen.” It was WISE…. to be prepared to brace for
the worst!

This is the FOLLY you have learned to rely upon…. it is NOT the way of wisdom. What
you anticipate is important!

You will finally realize the disability in that reasoning and in a choice to embrace
anxiety…. when you choose correctly. Suffering is a relentless teacher.

Apprehensive anxiety in dread and fear is an invitation and a preparation for the
arrival of what is dreaded with anxious anticipation.

Worry and fretting is not the barred door to evil that must REMAIN solidly in place
against your temptation to dine at the table prepared by your enemies.

Worry has no value. To insist upon its usefulness is a mistake!

It is not through strife and anguish that your defense is strengthened, but through the
knowing that your strength is always there and always enough to keep your citadel walls
unbreeched.

Put your trust in the Spirit which is intended to go before you as your forward guard. It is
no idle suggestion; it is the first step to a redeemed life in the Spirit of God.

Dissolve the anxiety and fear which you have intently TAUGHT YOURSELF… is so
necessary and natural.

When fears come upon you, incinerate them, so that not for an instant can they take hold.
Dismiss them completely. Send anxiety and fear away without a thought for holding them
back, as if they were the worst choice you could turn to. You can do all things by NOT
providing your mental upset as food for your fears. Calmness has access to a superior
way of thinking.

It is true that the valley of the shadow is frightening and it is sometimes difficult to find
him who says, "I am with you, I am thy rod and staff," but accept no negative whatever,
particularly in the darkest moment.

The Holy Spirit abides in you and never leaves you nor forsakes you. Trust that ….when
you are in the dark. Man needs to believe that "when the enemy comes in like a flood the
spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him." But believe it! In times of anxiety
turn like a child to the simple instructions, knowing that "the Father within doeth the
work" and that you can do nothing but rest in that assurance.

Keep one-pointed in your attitude. Keep poised with a calmness born of Peace to face the
seeming trouble and darkness of the world. Carry it around with you as you would your
most cherished prize. Thus you embrace your Holy Spirit and allow it to demonstrate its
blessing. A calm heart resting in Spirit is not beset with constant nagging worries. This
habit of fretting in response to Life must be seen as an open invitation for the world’s
evils. Evil has a false life of its own and it seeks for an outlet from the hearts of men.
Once it has found its target, it seeks to dissipate its negativity and find a willing
participant to further its existence, moving onward toward other receivers in sympathy
with its venom. And these evils go naturally to where they are “expected” to arrive. There
they know they have found find an acceptance to hold them engaged in their assault upon
that person’s spirit, incapacitating the one who holds desperately to their dark purchases
paid against an account in spiritual bankruptcy.

In contrast, an untroubled mind welcomes the stillness that truly deserves to reign in you.
A mind poised gracefully in calmness retains inner strength and rebuffs thoughts of
weakness from being entertained about you. The walls that protect you stand firm and
strong and your doors remain solidly barred against the enemy’s ineffective assault.

You must be conscious of your own choices for weakness and see them clearly. You
must intentionally give in to negligence of God’s Peace before your citadel walls can be
allowed to crumble. It is your turning away from Peace and gentleness by your own
choices and the postures you assume that permit your inner walls of protection to
deteriorate by your loyalty to that weakness which is romanced and courted with your
fears.

That is why you dread and fear because you know that your addiction to your weakness
fantasy is stubbornly maintained and any attempts to hold the enemy at a distance are a
futile and empty hope.

This realization is your first step in reaching for the Peace of God. It is the beginning of
your transformation from death to life.

Peace is only possible when you KNOW you are not alone and you are possessing God’s
comforting presence within your being. A heart that has learned the discipline of
rebuking worry and installing the brilliant Light of Christ in its place ENCOURAGES the
heart through the presence of the Holy Spirit of God. This emboldened heart holds more
adequately the fullness of the Christ nature of overcoming the world. This increases as
its welcome is increased with intent. It makes for gentle holiness, comfort and
protection, stillness and softness that you may stand strong and alert. Those to whom this
is revealed are the lonely who feel they have no one to turn to.

Be patient, release your anxiety, doesn’t fret…..leave that to the weak that are proud of
their weakness and want to know no more than that. Those who continue in their
troubles, do so along “paths worn smooth” by their trafficking in fears. They WANT to
insist upon their weakness as their reality, as their worshipped truth. They hold on to it
dearly and see sentimental value in being a receiver of troubles to use for their lifelong
dramas of unsolicited unwarranted saintly suffering. Recognize your purchase power
with Fear. You are sending invitations trumpeting an open door policy so that trouble
may easily find you.
 Do not be afraid of standing as God’s dearly loved and most precious children. Be
advised that too much effort creates your own stumbling back into fear. Insisting on
anxiety to forestall what MIGHT come in the future, with constant preparation, is to hold
fear yet in place. Be gentle with yourself, always. Those who feel a weight bearing upon
them remain still heavily burdened with futile in your their own weaknesses.

Become aware that your gentleness must be always offered to others. It should go ahead
of you in your outer world if it is to have its effect on your inner where it counts strongly
for your protection. You must be gentle and patient with everyone; it is a medicinal
tonic; gentleness is like iron for anemic blood weakened through anxiety.

I charge you to be forgiving and patient with all persons whether they be stupid,
melancholy or evil and to keep your faces always uplifted to the highest intent, for this,
above all, releases your life from all violence; I charge you to live in faith, for this will
give you a splendor, a light which will be manifest to all the bewildered, the lonely, the
harassed-a beacon in the storm.

Do not permit yourself the luxury of emotionalizing and lamenting your weakness which
you desperately hold on to. Do not linger with your unabated distress at sights and sounds
and rumors. Even in battle, when our best friends fell beside us, we saluted and passed
on.

So it is with you in this great battle; do what you can but remember that your constant
endeavor is to keep your holy stillness high above the tremors and emotions which
welcome fear. Hold your Peace always when there is thunder and darkness and fear says
there is more to come.

In stressful times you cannot afford to throw your energy away meeting the shocking
intensities of life head on with reactions and emotion. Hate and fear are counter
productive and they sap your life force, pulling you further into their whirlpool like
suction of life draining darkness to increase their troubling influences upon you.

The evil you have emotionally invested in is nothing new or unique to you alone.
Distress and darkness have always been hovering over us with an insistent demand for
men to release their peace. The inequity and injustice they are born of is not for you to
settle with your excuses for personal judgment with indignation railing against them.
That will not end the influence that has its hold upon you. Your disappointment and
dismay is your choice, either to exhibit your upset… or to calmly and peaceably ignore it
and choose Peace instead. If you end your ranting and upset, you also sever your
connection to it and your addiction to a false satisfaction in self righteous offense taken
as a response. Learn why Jesus said overcome evil with good.

You can insulate yourself against the embroilment you reach for in your embattled spirit
with full knowledge of these things which you are habitually endeared to, things which
ensnare you in the storms of distress, engaging you in hate and fear invoked responses.
Keeping yourself QUIET ALWAYS is what disengages you from that connection used to
addict you to an embattled spirit struggling for survival against the enemy’s attacks
against you. This is your price to live with an emotional storm of dark imaginings. This is
your lot when you ALLOW your castle walls to deteriorate through negligence of your
spiritual inheritance always abiding within you. Didn’t Jesus plainly say…The
KINGDOM is within?

The brilliant Light of the Holy Spirit has now been revealed to you. Stand in the security
of that Light revealed by Jesus.

He said, “My Peace I bring to you and I leave it with you to tend and increase.”

Divine wisdom does not teach DESPAIR, it does not teach ANXIETY, it does not teach
IMPATIENCE and it does not teach STRUGGLE. Where gentleness is not evident,
wisdom has been ignored.

If you have a habit of straining against and boiling over because things are not kept on a
convenient and predictable course to suit your volatility, or if you find your self often
concerned about the awfulness of the world around you…then you are ADDING to the
ignorance that predominates the thinking of the human race and you are ENSLAVED by
your addiction to its magnification by your knee-jerk reactions the evil that wishes to
subdue your spirit. When your thoughts are predominately fearful, motivated by self
concerns and demands for things to meet your expectations, these are impulsive and
contagious thinking patterns. These are the self important thoughts that contaminate the
entire race of humanity with their eagerness to impress others toward the dreadful cause
for the weakness of the disabled spirit. It is precisely this “I am right and… entitled to
my offense” attitude which shuns the light of your Holy Spirit, forcing it to bear up to
your theatrics while it maintains its presence silently, hoping to teach you of true reality
with God.

This display of anger mixed with fear is the strange subtle pride of the human race! It is
really nothing to be proud of. It is the result of a purposefully weakened spirit through
ignorance and stubborn choice to continue on a rugged and treacherous path to
unhappiness.

A hint is as good as hours of words.

The hint is this; it is certain, that he, who remains undisciplined, blaming life for being
pulled this way and that like a horse with a bridle bit set against his teeth, will meet
violence. Violence attracts other violence, but so do other extremes like unawareness,
inertia, self admitted weakness and ignorance.

Only those who gladly run out to meet the unknown are divinely protected, for they
reach a place of safety. It is true that many spiritual people have within them certain
unrealized weaknesses; that is why they often suffer and say, "I have not been bad, I have
done worthy things-why-why-why?" This is only a hint, for the whole truth cannot yet be
understood; but as you open yourselves to a divine guidance your outward self will invite
the inward one, in which there is no ignorance, ` to walk in companionship and will
accept the discipline needful with a high heart.

I know this is puzzling, but it should enlarge your spirit with heavenly joy. For when you
have found it in perception, when you have realized it as you will here in this life, you
will free the imprisoned, lift the darkened into light so they will not have to go through
violence; you will open the eyes of the blind that they may at last be free to see
themselves and you will unstop the ears of the deaf who cannot hear the divine whisper.
You will see great wonders come to pass and although the reason behind it all may
confound you now, march gaily on up the road obedient with every breath.

A follower of Christ must be forever vigilant, forever remembering, forever holding

themselves to the center of Peace. It is in holding the intent for the indwelling Spirit to
take possession of your heart that it may fill your life to overflowing. This is the
realization that this Glorious presence of the Spirit is actually present with you right
NOW…. Just as it will also be the totality of your future Glory. Your Holy Spirit is the
actual stuff of love and peace and power. Endeavor to find this. Search it out at every
opportunity! Give your spirit its day of strength so that it may witness to you the glory of
God in the nature of Christ.

And when you find yourselves pressed hard say, "I will not take in, I will send the Spirit
out…. ahead of me with my inclusion in its Peace. I will not in darkness dwell, this Light
abiding within me shall become my life‘s concern. I will cleanse my mind’s dependence
upon suffering by ending my assertions of weakness. I will sever my investments in
emotions that falsely hoped in, bring on my distress. I shall go forth forgiving all things,
knowing that this love will resolve all things, reconcile all things in Christ and my way
will be made straight. I shall knock and it shall be opened unto me, and I shall find and
receive the bounty of the Spirit’s treasure laid up for me."

Keep always awake and conscious of those victories secured by gracefully meeting your
trials, through purposefully holding yourself in the image of the peaceable Spirit born of
God. This is the Holy Spirit, strong in the knowing of Him who remains powerful over all
that would bring defeat through patronage to fear. Always pour out Thanksgiving and
Gratitude BEFORE there is the indication of victory; thank the Father for the EXERCISE
OF YOUR INTENTIONS before the temptation is put to your mind to reassume your
weakness; cleanse your hearts of all prejudices and spirit depleting rage against nations
and nationalities and all the hot emotions that boil in the hell of personality which is
assumed innocent in self righteousness.

Keep yourself, instead, in that secret place of Peace where emotion is matured and
gracefully presented through the extension of your own well being. This is the secret of
God’s healing transformation where the human spirit is lifted up by the Holy Spirit of
Life, intent on releasing Its own potency. A time will come when it is your intentional
choice to subdue your reactions and your involvement with the pressures and demanding
furies born in your outer world. You will be aware of the blessed change which comes
quietly as a reward for your intent and desire. It will be your solitary desire above all
others to know the graceful presence of Christ within yourself and in your everyday
world, to know of your Eternal Life existing right here and right now.

Fight on brave ones, and cast off the burdensome roles with which you have clothed
yourself. These heavy protective attitudes have only despair to offer you from your
persistent reliance upon them. Put on the garments of immortality; be worthy, keep
yourselves dedicated to a prescribed cure for all afflictions, permit yourself to be stern
with no one and be gentle in peace with yourselves. Do not go this way from a sense of
duty, but for the fulfillment of That which waits patiently within you and for the increase
of a joyful presence that sweeps away all dread and tears.

The law is impersonal, inevitable; those who obey and cast aside their rebellious passions
are given freedom, protection and joy.

Always hold your peace with a steadfast intent and go forward. Then this stillness,
brilliantly radiating the Light of the Christ Presence, will come into your lives on this
Earth. Great peace and goodness and glory and beauty will be your treasure. From within,
fill your inner walls with Light and high inspiration, for then is the kingdom of heaven
brought down into your material world.

It requires courage; courage that must be taken upon you, received from Him who has no
trepidation and displayed for all the Glory of God who holds us all high above all trouble
in his constant care.

Oppression is not MEANT to be your lot. Christ came to set free the captives and to
break all yokes placed upon the sons of God by dispelling all darkness and ignorance in
the release of the Holy Spirit which he sent out as in strength that men may learn the way,
the truth and the Life abiding within themselves. He came that you might have Life and
have it in even greater abundance. Such was his mission to impart to you the importance
of that Spirit which ever remains even in your very midst to awaken to.

The Holy Spirit of God is intended to be your own Resurrection and Life when It is
appreciated as a cherished part of you and given its priority.

Your special Blessing is in Eternity’s Light that ever remains, always as your greatest
asset.

Stand to your full stature. Your part is to "bring into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself."

"Obedience" means seeing how often during your day you can remember him in whose
Presence you stand, for by calling him to mind you glorify each moment. There is no
finer reward than that which comes from loving obedience! This is what brings rest,
security, abundance and love. Here you reach a place out of chaos. Here all things fall
into their allotted places, divinely measured.
. Can the human mind bring anything beyond worship and a desire to know… to that still
place of quiet where he comes to reveal himself? "I keep him in perfect peace whose
mind is stayed on me."

Laughter is a door that is always near! Joy and a lifted spirit are part of the eternity in
which you can live with him now.

Of course it is necessary to discipline the appetite for rage, emotional regrets, and all the
things that rough and tumble life presents to you, but really there are only two things, the
darkness of despair and greed, and the light of eternal joy-either black or white. By
merely turning your face away from darkness to light you are in light and darkness does
not exist for you. Each one has to go through the process of finding out that the fight
with materialism, and all the cynical forces, is one where he or she fights alone, and the
fight is choosing the idea, or awakening to the idea; and new ideas are always painful to
the unspiritual.

Remember that you are protected by your inner convictions.

"I, a son of God, stand in this human turmoil holding the long trust. I throw my trust, like
light far ahead upon my path knowing that goodness and all that is merciful is with me
and by this stand I do my share to make the world hoped for. In courage and in love of
God is the only safety."