BLESSED FRIENDS OF GOD'S PEACE:

In the Name and Love of the Presence of Almighty God right within our beating hearts, whose Holy Name is "I AM", we call directly to the great Elohim of Peace today to seal you and all you love forever in oceans of the Golden Flame and fiery essence of Cosmic Christ Peace, saturating your entire beings and worlds and bringing everything into perfect Divine Order through Divine Love. Here and now, still yourself for just a moment and feel yourself enveloped in dazzling Golden Flame for about nine feet around in every direction. Without tension, try to feel its feeling and rest in that feeling. Perhaps at first you will only be able to concentrate for a few seconds, but if you will take a few moments every day to call this Golden Flame around you, you will experience a great relief from the hustle and bustle of our work-a-day world. Nothing in this world can be a blessing to you unless you accept it so TRY this and see what it can and will do for you. 

Did you ever think for even a few moments what the quality of Peace means to all life, no matter in what form that life may be? Somehow Peace seems to have become associated mostly with Christmas and the Angelic command for "Peace on Earth...". What can be permanently accomplished without Peace? The Great Ones have told us that the prayer which goes up most often from the mankind of this planet is "O, God! give me Peace!" (this spoken in every dialect and language, sometimes just in a silent cry from the heart). Health cannot be long sustained without Peace; real happiness is never found without it; business cannot expand without it; the Nature Kingdom cannot provide the necessities of life without it and so on. In paintings, we speak of farm scenes as being "so nice and peaceful" and today's trend in living is to move farther and farther away into the country, suburban living, away from the marts of trade and noisy machinery. It is considered beneficial to raise children in such environment and, while these outer provisions are all steps in the right direction for happier living, yet how many people realize that the secret of a peaceful mind, body, home and world lies in the God-control of his or her own feelings? This is a secret which is well known in the Orient, where the pace of living is less rapid than in the Western world. Folks everywhere are more and more desirous of having "world peace" but that can never come as a permanent blessing to mankind until our individual worlds are at peace (with our own loved ones and those with whom we come in contact). The whole is made up of its component parts and until the "parts" are peaceful (without individual wars) there cannot come permanent Peace for the whole. Everyone loves Peace, everyone wants it for himself, therefore it becomes not only our duty but our priceless opportunity to try to hold the Peace, not only for ourselves, but for each other, when we see signs of irritation and distress begin to appear in another's world. The tendency of the personality is to mirror the feelings of each other; if one becomes disturbed, those around that one resent that disturbance of their Peace and become inharmonious themselves. As God's peace-makers, let us reverse this. "Blessed are the peace-makers; for they shall be called the Children of God" said Beloved Jesus and he himself was known as "The Prince of Peace". The ability to hold his feelings at Peace through unbelievable attempts to take it from him, was his practical victory over the daily trials and distresses in this world of form. We are told that: "He was tempted in all points like as we are, and yet without sin". Jesus also said: "The things that I have done shall ye do also…" 

Think a little about Peace; about how comforting and restful it is and determine, first, to have it yourself. Then you can give others that feeling too, for the very atmosphere of your world is contagious to those around you. Start in a small way, determine to hold uninterrupted Peace and happiness in your own feelings for just five minutes; then ten minutes and so on. When you can do this, it will be so comfortable and pleasant you will not want to ever be disturbed in your feelings again. TRY! TRY! TRY! This is the "watchword" of Beloved Serapis Bey's Retreat for you never know what you can do until you sincerely TRY! Then, "keep on keeping on" until you are a peace-maker of God to his children! 

"I AM" Victorious Always

FRANCES K. EKEY