Determination and Desire
The Book of Enlightenment - A guide to a better life
Thursday 23rd January 1936
Forget ye not thy determination and desire to fulfil the purpose of thy original intentions. Dost thou not realise that the material kind be like the waters the mighty ocean disturbed by the stormy winds of material desires realise then the necessity to cling and cling ye well with determination to the rock of security Thy God.
The Rock, unlike the rocks of thy material shores which are oftimes very insecure will hold thee to thy original intentions.
'Tis well to realise that the paths o'er which 'tis thy duty to travel is over stony insecure ground but travel we must. Desire and determination alone will avail ye naught without compliance, compliance is the keynote of success. Realise the necessity of obedience and compliance at all times. Remember that ye are chosen subjects Disciples of the mighty force of Power. Power akin to God. Power in harmony with God not disobedient transgressors. Ye who have travelled far endeavouring to comply have failed to realise that material existence is very short lived many times ye have been told in the past that material life is but a moment of trials many times you have failed to realise that you live in accordance with the Desire of God who is a just God but an exacting God.
Do ye not realise that ye do not live for yourselves alone if ye do cling well to the slippery slopes the rock that ye now grasp though your hold be insecure cling with determination to fulfil the purpose that has been entrusted to you by the glorious Forces of Power.
Let us realise the truth 'tis well to know as I have endeavoured to describe in the beginning the material is the troubled sea troubled by the uncontrolled winds of opposition creating what? Destruction grinding the sands to dust the rocks of security to sand. The same with material life the winds of desire ever controlling penetrating the waters of material waves. Ye live not to live ye exist in a school of progression. Canst thou expect to progress in the winds and desires of material vanity and greed 'tis well that thou dost lose thy grasp upon the rocks thou art on cast aside in favour of possession.
Let not thy material mind be disturbed by the breezes of War ye whose desire is to comply with the Will of God are and will be securely protected by the armour of Power but realise thy grasp must be firm and strong the disturbing waters are ready at all times to tear ye from thy hold of security. What are the breezes? My friends they are as numerous as the breezes on thy material plane which is now your privilege to enjoy. There are cold breezes and warm breezes, breezes disturbing and destructive breezes of many kinds but the breezes mentioned are not the breezes that disturb the material and spiritual mind the breezes may be material or spiritual.
Know ye my friends as in the past I have spoken of forces far below our acceptance but as ye know these forces are as strong as the waters of the ocean as mighty as the sea, when the sea is disturbed by the velocity of the combination of such breezes and when such breezes tear from the hold of security one of a material kind it becomes but a grain of sand.
There are fish in thy material ocean known to ye by many names it matters not, these fish are protected by an armour or shell clinging securely through all the storms clinging day by day night by night regardless of the seething waters existing surviving multiplying with such determination to cling to the foundation of their material existence.
Oh friends could ye but a lesson take from such a simple fish could ye but realise the waters around ye are material reinforced by spiritual they are very much akin and likened unto the fish whose very existence depends upon liken thine own desire to cling to that which is thy desire to possess. Thus we say live for today each day every day we will try to strengthen the insecure hold upon the rock of truth that we now grasp.
Cast aside thy material thoughts and live for progression.
Prayers will avail us little spiritual or material without the desire to fulfil the obligations to God. To sin today and pray tomorrow and sin again is likened unto the child and the childish mind is an ungoverned mind disturbed and controlled by desire so then my friends your prayer is a promise unfulfilled but a prayer of good intentions followed by improved intentions will make ye worthy to rise in the sphere of progression.
The meaning of acceptance is very very deep. It has been mentioned a sphere of acceptance a sphere a plane governed and controlled by thou akin to thine own material desires. Thus ye who desire luxury and sin are governed and controlled by spiritual influences acceptable to such a material influence a desire plainly ye are what you desire to be not what ye would be but what ye accept in unison with the controlling force acceptable to that which ye desire.
I do not mean if you desire to be an Angel of God you will be one you may desire to be an Angel of God and be a Devil of the very lowest force. It is not just determination but compliance accompanied by determination and desire. Remember your strength is not only material but your strength is gathered by spiritual forces and the forces at your disposal akin to your desires it is not only necessary to desire it is necessary to make yourself worthy of Higher forces. How to become worthy be it deeds or actions each day desiring to better than the day before each day raise the standard this will enable you to climb to higher spheres it is necessary for the work ye have undertaken it is gigantic higher and stronger you must become a Power not only of determination but a Power reinforced by the Power of Higher forces.
How can we and ye expect to gain ground in our desire to conquer if we are not worthy in our selves therefore before many moons it dawns upon our realisation the necessity of compliance each day and every day increasing our hold on the slippery rocks of progression.