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The Twelfth Lesson: The Message of the Master.1099
taught this—and never acted it. He was always the Master, and never
sought to make of his followers cringing creatures and whining and sniveling
supplicants. He asserted His Mastery in many ways and accepted the respect
due him—as for instance when the vial of precious ointment was poured
upon Him. His use of the word, which has been poorly translated as “meek,”
was in the sense of a calm, dignified bearing toward the Power of the Spirit,
and a reverent submission to its guidance—not a hypocritical and cowardly
“meekness” toward other men. The assurance that such should “inherit the
earth” means that they should become masters of things temporal—that is,
that they should be able to rise above them—should become lords of the
earth by reason of their “entering into the Kingdom of Heaven” within them.
“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be
filled.” (Matthew 5:6)
This is the promise of the Master that they who sought the Kingdom of
Heaven (within them) should find it—that their spiritual hunger and thirst
should be satisfied in the only way possible.
“Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)
Here is taught the blessing for forbearance, kindness, tolerance and
absence of bigotry, and the reward that comes as a natural consequence of
such a mental attitude.
“Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5:8)
Here is the assurance that “to those who are pure all things are pure”—
that the purity of one’s own heart, and the recognition of the God Within,
leads to a perception of the God within everything. “He who sees God
within himself, sees Him in everything,” says an old Persian writer. And verily
such a one “sees God” where He abides—and that is Everywhere.
“Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matthew
5:9)
Here is the call to the disciple to use his wisdom and power in the
direction of remedying the strife that arises from the differing conceptions
of Deity and Truth prevailing among men. He who is able to point out the