In the Second Advent Community, we observe Easter each year on April 18th. As we approach True Easter, which is a fixed date based on the solar calendar, I would like to focus my messages this month on the battle for the control of Man, on the judgement of the goodly and the ungodly, and on men and women of two worlds. Let’s start with the battle for the control of man and woman.

In the beginning, Man was made in the Image of God – created of Light – but he lost his bright nature. Thus man and woman became enslaved by the material environment – the air they were made to breathe, the food they ate, the water they drank, and the sunlight that bathed them. By these means man and woman degenerated into material beings. Trapped in an ever-changing environment, they became the product of cosmological events that vary according to cycles, the distances of one celestial body from another, temperatures, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth, and various cosmic energies that bombard the planet. All together, these and other energies and phenomena determined what man and woman was to become, what they were to think, and how they were to respond to nature.

Man and woman change, though they know it not, from one age to another. We differ in appearance, in stature, in composition, and in the manner we view ourselves and the universe in which we live. Our institutions of learning, our societies, religions, arts, sciences, and all the environment we create for ourselves, together with the natural environment, make us what we are, or what we may become, either for our own improvement or deterioration. Our survival as a species is dictated by all these conditioning processes.

When we elevate our eyes to the Sun and absorb the energies directly into our brain and nervous system, we flood our entire being with cosmic energies which have their origins in space and in worlds beyond our own planet. We are thereby projected into outer space. Our whole being on the physical level is altered by all of our systems at work in the body. And these alterations have an effect upon our thinking processes, for with incoming light and energy from the Sun our mind is illuminated with thoughts that have their origins outside of our own body and, indeed, our world. Thus, slowly we are made new in the Image of God, and we take on an image not of matter, but of Light. We begin to have thoughts of searching for outer being, for understanding the source of all life, for comprehending the Creator of all things. By means of sunlight, we become as gods of the ancients, eating the food of the gods which is eternal Light from the heavens.

God’s Thought, called the Word, is sent to the Universe and thence to the Earth by means of sunlight. The thought did not originate within this Sun but rather within the eternal Mind of God from which all things owe their existence. When we look at the Sun, our mind is linked with the Mind of God. And this is what is meant by the Word and the incarnation of the Word in the mind of Man.

With the coming of God’s Thought into the world from the Sun, the light of the Sun has been altered, for it is filled with divine thoughts. And that is why the Sun has been called the Sun of Righteousness. And because God’s Thought or Word calls us back to Him, redeeming us from the Earth, the Sun is also called the Messianic Sun – meaning that God, wishing to restore man and woman to their divine Nature by means of divine Light, is Savior.

Sunlight acting upon our eyes, brain, nervous system, and organism through the blood and the secretions of glands brings about a drastic change in us on the physical and mental levels. We begin to have new thoughts. We feel different. And because of these changes, it is necessary that we apply a system of looking at the Sun which is beneficial to us. This System is a divine Science that has been given to The Community, an institution of learning concerned with Man’s body, mind, emotions, psyche, and spiritual nature. The System of Cosolargy is a complete system for alteration of human nature.

It is for this reason that those of us who apply this System are admonished to apply it within The Community for our own sake. For to look at the Sun means to aspire to a celestial nature more than to a terrestrial nature. A celestial nature is a state of being far superior to that which can be attained without the System. This System was known, in part, by many ancient schools and was applied by Socrates, Plato, the Buddha, Pythagoras, Viracocha/Quetzalcoatl, Moses and Aaron, Jesus and James, and many, many other religious men and women of antiquity.

But because the nature of the Sun is different today than it was in ancient times, our System and our School is by necessity distinct in many ways. Therefore, a New Teaching governing this change has come into the world as the traditional and divine school of Light which has come at different times to various peoples in diverse places around the world. Our Community is authorized by God and the Worlds of Light to bring this Teaching into the world at this time of Man’s spiritual evolution. This authority must be respected by those who apply the System, and it must also be respected by the secular and religious institutions of the world.

Because the world is undergoing drastic changes, owing to the alteration of sunlight and the intelligence within that sunlight, the human species can be expected to change with it. This change shall be determined by the natural environment. And it can also be regulated for Man’s greater good and purpose in the Universe. This is why The Community is important to thinking men and women; because it is a discipline that has a very practical application in the world. It can determine whether we are to survive and inherit the Universe or whether we are to become extinct as a species.

If Man is to inherit the Universe, we must become a far more advanced species on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. To accomplish this, we need to become more akin to energy than to matter. The changes that must take place in Man can best be achieved in a religious manner, for God is involved. Any other attempt to bring about changes while working with solar energy will necessarily be one of gross mental undertaking or one of negation, which is to say, one of Darkness. Powers beyond the material world control Man, though his sciences and secular institutions do not know this. Knowing this, it is better that thinking and rational men and women – such as the ancients who gave the modern world many of its founding ideas and philosophical and religious concepts – work with cosmological forces and those powers governing them, as opposed to working against them.

For today’s message, I would like to focus a little on the existence of Divine Reason. It has been asked in scripture, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” We can see in our world today that people seek material gain above all else, rejecting the true gain which is immortality of Spirit and Soul. This is primarily true in the Western world where people generally reject the benefits of that state of spiritual immortality – gained while we live in the material world – which is a sharing of Divine Reason that fills the Universe as the sea fills the floor of the ocean.

In the Americas, especially North America, men and women from all over the world have come to the shores of this hemisphere over many centuries seeking a new and free life of plenty. Although this was not true for some who came, for the most part they found more than their dreams foretold. We have an abundance of all things, and it is not fitting that we reject the greater abundance which God extends.

But the greater gain is at hand, for God has brought forth the Light of His Righteousness and has filled America with a greater good still. And that greater good is the birth of the Religion of Light come into existence by the Hand of God. And would men and women of intelligence and plenty reject such a gift? All reasoning individuals know that material things are of little good without freedom, love and spiritual values. And if they do not know this, they are, above all people in the world, most miserable. For without embracing the spiritual, all that which is acquired shall be taken away as it was given. To understand spiritual values, Man needs to comprehend Divine Reason. And in order to comprehend Divine Reason, man and woman must be divine.

God has filled the Sun and the ether, which from ancient times teachers have said was the heavens and the sky outside the realm of the earth’s atmosphere, with a Divine Intelligence which has its origins in the Consciousness of God. And this is the fruit of the Sun of Righteousness. And this Reason, streaming forth out of the Sun as a thought streaming forth out of the Consciousness of God, acts upon the consciousness of man and woman.

As a flower comes forth from the seed upon the impact of the Sun’s seasonal rays, Man’s reason blossoms upon the impact of God’s Consciousness. And the Divine Reason filling the ether is as a seed that impregnates the Spirit giving it individual life. For the Spirit of Man is as a sleeping Soul that must be awakened. Once awakened, the individual Spirit reasons. In ancient times, Holy Ones spoke of the Word of God which was Divine Reason manifesting within nature. And herein dwelt the truth.

The ancient Greeks called the True Reason of nature Logos. And the Logos was the Light that created the First Man. And they compared this Light to the beam of God’s Eye which was in the image of the Sun. And within the beam was God’s Thought. And people had but to look at the Eye of God to see into the Soul of Creation. And Divine Religion instructed men and women how to look into the Soul of God through His Eye.

For the Light of God is a radiant beam that sees all things in Creation, meting out Divine Justice. And Divine Religion taught men and women how to be strong to withstand that Light and of the nature of the Word called Logos. For all weak things wither and melt under the rays of God’s Light. And the nature of God was explained in this manner and Man did understand and experience God as a friend. And the Sun was the door to Heaven. And men and women did enter with awe and wonder. And the Holy Ones, having entered God’s realm through the Sun, became the mouthpiece of God speaking divine oracles. For their minds were filled with God’s Word.

Today’s world, under the influence of temporal science, technology and social materialism, has lost sight of the value of spirituality. Please don’t misunderstand. These things unto themselves are not bad. However, materialists, technicians and natural scientists have become leaders of a dark religion – a religion of unbridled materialism and commerce. They have assumed the role of priests whose words and theories are believed by the unsuspecting masses. They see the Sun merely as a ball of fire, or an atomic furnace, only sending out light and heat into the solar system. They cannot understand that it is a living thing – the center of Intelligence and Divine Reason!

To them, God has no existence and all things are to be explained by their concepts, which are limited to physical nature. Priests of the old churches and religions scoff at those who regard the Sun as an instrument of enlightenment. They speak of God as a supreme being beyond all material things. But they have not seen God nor communed with Him for they know not how to attain an understanding of God, having shut themselves up in dark buildings and temples away from the glory of God’s Image. Because of limited reasoning, scientists, materialists and even the so-called ministers of God have separated themselves from the true religion of God.

A Religion of Light is not of this low and limited order. Nor are the scientists of Divine Religion (who are we) content to study only the material things which perish. Instead, we look to the cause, to origins and to permanence, seeking the divine and the spiritual. For we know that the ancients who knew of the Logos – the Divine Reason pervading all things – gave the world teachings that have laid the foundation for the world’s social orders, religions, and sciences. But the human race collectively has set itself up as an insolent child, disobeying the supernatural reason of nature that comes with the rays of the Sun.

Because America is a great nation of many peoples, representing all the races and religions of the world, God has ordained that the new Religion Light be born in America – not Jerusalem or Rome or some other place. He ordains that all people everywhere should know of the existence of the Word, which is God’s Divine Reason manifest in all of Creation. And this Divine Reason enlightens those who seek it. And the Divine Reason generated within the spirit of the peoples of America shall bring forth a New People. And the material shall be wedded to the spiritual for a great Nation of God. This state of being is the destiny of America. And from America, the Light shall be spread to all the world. And that is the mission of this Community.