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The Spiritual Bridge
Beloved Master Serapis Bey
March 7, 1969
The mind of man can rise only so far in understanding, application and intelligent reasoning; this is done through study, through lectures and through teaching - oral and written.
When the aspiring soul has walked to the brink of the great abyss between the world of the real and the world of appearance, he then stands ready to make the flight from reason into Being. This great chasm which separates the personality from its own God Identity is wide or narrow, according to the centuries of accumulated energy charged with belief or unbelief in the supernal Fires of God.
For some, this river is but a narrow stream that may be quickly crossed by the aspiring soul with the assistance of the Master. For others it stretches a great sea and the farther shore cannot even be perceived for the mist that stretches between. For such as these a bridge must be built by stronger souls, ascended and unascended who raise the planks of Faith and Courage and so lead the timid feet across the sea of their own unbelief to the farther shore.
There is no hard and fast rule for those who stand at the bridge of the Fourth Ray with faces turned toward the Great Experience, for none but the Presence and the Master know how wide is the chasm that must be leaped before the personal self and the God Self become ONE!
The entrance to the bridge lies deep within the heart in the stillness of the outer self and the span goes far, far into the Heart of Being. Once the chela has successfully made the crossing and experienced the Joy of the world of the Real it becomes easier with each consecutive step to pass forward and backward - thus making the link between the Divine and the personal self stronger with each visit to the Home Realm. After each such visit the magnetic pull of earth becomes weaker, and the Glory of God then gradually fills the aspirant.
You can see among you those who have entered the effulgent Glory found deep, deep, deep within God's Heart, for truly the Glory of the Lord shines around and about them and those who have entered there instantly recognize this mystic union.
My constant prayer is that each of you shall soon become still and find this Path to God for I shall assist you through the pressure of Godliness which I know. However, the Fourth Ray Consciousness waits while there is so much attention given to personality.
He who would become ALL of God must put ALL of God first and in so doing he will become THAT which he, through action, has loved.
"I AM" within the stream
Of my Christ's own flowing Love;
I hold my Cup straight up to thee
Great Presence of all Love.
Fill now this offered Cup
'Til it runneth sweetly o'er
As I now stand within thy stream
To love and to adore.