Foreword

INSTEAD of writing a Foreword to this book, I should rather just give thanks that such a great Message is going forth. It is a Message from the heart of the Writer inspired by the living spirit of God.

I have just finished reading it and it has left me with a strong sense of its uplifting Spiritual Power. It is a clarion call to those who really seek the deeper depths, the higher heights, and to enjoy that holy mystical sense of the Presence in such a degree that the whole Life becomes a shrine of worship, until the full Glory of Union is attained.

It has been clearly and faithfully shown that this is no easy path. In this fact of striving lies our whole salvation, because it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. “Quit ye like men, be strong.’’ This is a call to the noblest within us. Who really wants anything he has not earned?

One knows well enough that Mr. Hamblin speaks the truth when he says: ‘’To those who are in earnest, whose whole desire is fixed upon God, who will not falter . . . these are the ones who go forward, nothing can stay them, for there is no power in heaven or hell that can stop a soul aflame with the desire to find the Kingdom and to see God.”

In this Quest we have the Great Adventure open before us with Life as the Initiator, at every step shedding the old consciousness with its illusions—we launch out into the deeps of God and fear not.

St. Teresa says “Alone God sufficeth,” and this is absolutely true, for do we not find that all we seek is only to be found in union with the Divine?

All the Mystics down the ages, all the modern mystics tell the same story.

Dwell deep, go within, seek with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and you will not be disappointed. Strong, sure and silent is That Something which declares Itself to the true seeker. It is this Sun of the soul which colours all the ordinary happenings of Life with a golden glory, changing the grey to gold and bringing into every crisis Light and Wisdom, “Rest after weariness,’’ “Rapture of bliss.”

The way Home, as faithfully shown in this little book, may be through experiences which baffle and bewilder, but the Goal is certain.

There is no church large enough to contain this Holy Splendour, there is no creed possible to this sublime understanding. Only Love can understand love and only the God-like can attain to this God consciousness filling all space and yet spaceless. We are all children of the Most High, made in His image and likeness.

Mr. Hamblin says: “This gospel is so simple and yet so difficult.’’ “Only to love, this is all.’’ We are here to give and not to get. To love, to serve, dropping self every moment of the day, so living that others may feel our love, our sympathy, our understanding, and the first door into the Kingdom is opened unto us. Let us give all we have and all we are, this is our sacrifice, our joyful offering to Life. Well! those who do this cannot write in words the Love which is theirs.

In this little book the many difficulties are met and dealt with in such a way that no one needing help can fail to receive it and gather fresh inspiration from the deep Wells of Truth. They shall walk and not faint in a strength which is unfailing and close at hand.

To some, Christ, so long forgotten, arises from the depths of being with the gracious words, “lovest thou Me?’’ ‘’I have loved thee with an everlasting Love.’’ “Feed my sheep’’ — Help others.

In these days of vague speculation and extraordinary cults, we turn with quiet peace to the unfailing strongholds of the Eternal Strength, to the all-sustaining Life of God and His Christ, the sweet, pure, all-pervading Spirit. We know that this Exhaustless Treasure has been available since the foundations of the world and will go on to the end of the ages, for each, and all. Above the changing creeds and many voices Thou remainest, and we are one with Thee.

To this holy Union we turn with longing Desire—it is the end of the Quest; every moment we delay, or move on, towards this wondrous Deification. No one can hinder us but ourselves.

Once fairly started the pilgrim learns that every rebuff is a challenge. Go forward and may the “Vision Splendid” fire the imagination and fill the Soul with positiv-ity, for greater is He that is within than all that is without.

Mr. Hamblin has through much experience attained to this deeper knowledge of the Infinite Love and a rare insight into the Soul’s deepest needs.

How good it is to listen again to the sublime words: ‘’Learn of Me for I am meek and lowly.’’ We cannot change the heart by any amount of thinking, but, if we have made the sacrifice the offering of our whole being to the Christ, the thoughts of the heart (which is the Place of Wisdom) flood the mind with purity and strength.

It is at this juncture we join hands with those who are striving to mould the mind into deeper channels for the Supreme Mind to dominate and reveal its hidden treasure, but Christ is ever and always the Door. “Thou hast set eternity in their heart.” This is the true immortality and not the life physical, although, when we identify ourselves with the Transcendent Life, our whole being, mind, body, and estate, becomes regenerated by the redeeming power of the Christ nature within. As this book clearly shows, and speaks with no uncertain voice, all our past steps, as full of limitation as they were, each was valuable and necessary in its order— initiations into wider reaches of Life.

Let us look forward with glowing hearts to the holy consummation, the ineffable joy of Union. This is the Apex of Being, and with our hearts and minds set in this direction we shall be led on from strength to strength, from glory to glory, until “That which is Perfect is come.’’

— ALICE MORTLEY, Writer of Christ in You.