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WINGS OF LIGHT
By V. F.
Angelday
Are you happy? I KNOW you WANT to be, because that is the natural,
innate desire within ALL Life! You CAN BE, you know, and THIS IS THE SEASON for
it! Nature all around us is such a lesson to us all. Everything beneath and
about us is joyously coming into a new expression of its being and just as fast
as the life within it will allow, is "springing up" toward more Light. The plant
life, released at last from the binding hold of the dark earth around it, exerts
the pressure of the energy of its being, FROM WITHIN ITSELF, and with all its
might, breaks through the substance that surrounds it and finds the REASON FOR
ITS BEING in THE LIGHT. Then, with one-pointed earnestness and relentless
determination, it turns all the power of its nature into bringing into outer
manifestation that reason for its being!
Now, when I say "happy," I mean a constant feeling of quiet content,
deep within the heart, a feeling of SECURITY AND CERTAINTY, a feeling of
Masterful control over your world and affairs that NOTHING CAN DISTURB. I do not
mean those flashing moments that fortunately, in the great Mercy of Life, come
to us all, when there is a temporary surcease from pain and distress, or a
momentary relaxation from the strain and struggle for existence. But for those
merciful "moments," life could not even be sustained in a physical body. The
Western World today has become a constant "drive" to obtain the mere necessities
of Life, shelter, clothes and food. Most daily lives have become a "wild"
scramble to obtain that which simply enables us to exist and stay in a physical
body long enough to fill the span of time allotted us for an embodiment.
Everyone is seeking happiness in one way or another, through
persons, places, conditions and things, as is evidenced by the tremendous
financial resources of the amusement world, beauty shops, pleasure cars, etc.,
and the RUSH with which everyone seems to be going somewhere. People "tear" to
their work and "tear" home again, rushing to make their trains and other means
of transportation. There may be another train along in just a few minutes but
THEY HAVE TO MAKE THE FIRST ONE! for no special reason or definite plan as to
what they will do with those EXTRA FEW MINUTES when they do arrive at their
destination. Now, Life is a stream of constantly flowing energy and each one who
uses it is responsible for its use, every atom of it and NO ONE and NO ATOM ever
escapes!
Did you ever watch a busy highway, with the ceaseless flow of cars
upon it - many, many of them going just as fast as the Law will allow (sometimes
faster, until they are caught!) winding in and out of traffic with but one
desire, to `get ahead" of everybody else up front. Stop any one of those cars,
if you can, and ask the man behind the wheel WHERE he is going. Very often you
will get the reply "oh, nowhere in particular just out for a drive!" Now, as a
matter of fact, that one is speaking more truly than he knows for, in reality,
HE IS NOT DOING THE DRIVING! It is the restlessness of the energy around his own
body that is doing the DRIVING. He is simply trying to get away FROM HIMSELF and
the uncomfortable pressure of discordantly qualified energy, so qualified by his
own thought and feeling.
Now, how to remedy this? There is always A WAY provided by the Law
of Life, God's Great Goodness and Forgiving Love, to correct every
unsatisfactory and imperfect condition. That "WAY" lies right within one's
physical self. "Be STILL! and KNOW that I AM! GOD!" No one and nothing can ever
be permanently happy until they do know this, until they know TRUTH,
particularly the TRUTH of their own existence, WHO they are, WHY they are here,
from WHENCE they came, and WHERE they are going. Only the knowledge of THAT
TRUTH brings peace and that sense of inner security of which we, have spoken,
that can never be disturbed by the constant, shifting scenes and condition of
our daily experience. That which is here today may be gone tomorrow and WHO, in
the outer consciousness, CAN GUARANTEE YOU PROTECTION AGAINST THAT CHANGE?
There is only ONE PLACE to which you can go which will NEVER CHANGE.
That is "The Secret Place of the Most High" within every beating heart, the
Presence and the anchorage of Life (God) within your physical form,
ever-present, always ready to acknowledge every bit of attention toward it
INSTANTLY, to hear and answer every call, no matter how silently or feebly it
may be made.
Legions of Angels of God's Holy Truth attend each gentle reader of
this, illumine them, protect them, supply them with ALL GOOD, and give them
instant and Eternal PEACE! So be it!
EXPLANTAORY NOTE: The Gentle Reader is reminded that
all religious doctrines and faiths are based on the findings of individuals
whose highly developed, purified faculties, exalted vision and uplifted
consciousness enabled them to perceive Truth and translate Truth for lesser men.
The articles and features in this Journal are for the
purpose of stimulating the development and accuracy of the reader's spiritual
faculties and discernment, through encouraging him to travel in consciousness
only and experience the spiritual realities described herein, thus confirming
Truth through his own independent, uplifted vision.