Harmony, Angels, and the Call for Love in Times of Darkness
Embracing Divine Music and the Light Within
Dear friends,
The world feels heavy now. As the cries of Palestine echo across the earth, we are reminded of the fragility of peace and the ever-present call to embody harmony and love. Yet amidst this anguish, the timeless lessons of celestial harmony and angelic presence offer a beacon of hope. These lessons, transcending decades, call us to act as instruments of peace, to remember our divine origins, and to carry the light of love into the darkest places.
When I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes pause mid-task, her hands still from peeling potatoes or folding linen. With eyes distant yet full of light, she’d begin to walk the house, speaking in verse. She spoke of angels—cherubs and seraphim—and the violins of celestial harmony that resonated through unseen realms. I didn’t understand it fully then, but her words planted seeds of wonder, teaching me that even in the ordinary, the divine is near.
The Music of the Soul
Harmony is the fabric of creation itself. It is the unseen thread that binds stars to their courses, rivers to their flows, and human hearts to divine love. In times of strife, we must listen for this harmony. Though it may seem drowned by the noise of conflict, it is there—waiting in the silence between breaths, in the soft smile of a stranger, or the courage of those who speak for justice.
Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 2 No. 49 - Archangel Raphael - December 11, 1959
To Our Gracious Readers Dedicated to Love’s Service the World Around-
Beloved Archangel Raphael speaks:
Hail, spirit of celestial music! I am that heavenly harmony which fills all the air and ever and always brings that good feeling of radiant and purposeful life into your feeling world and to all who bid me well-come!
What would the Christmas season be without the glory of harmony drawn and magnetized by beautiful music? Without these melodic tones of love how much less real would the meaning of that great even seem—particularly to your outer consciousness? The angels who love so well to be recognized by you, smile with radiant joy whenever you invoke their attention—or speak within the seeming silent recesses of your heart to them! Like a shaft of light piercing the veil in a dusty room their smile will come to warm each receptive heart, charging the feeling world with a soft magic-like touch and awakening the inner sight to the reality of angelic colors composed of living light rays expanded into the beauty of heaven! In benevolent grace which is the angelic nature, they smile also—though unseen and unrecognized by the outer being—upon men who doubt or deny their existence. As one of their number I know of their tireless love and service first hand!
The creation of the beautiful birds is an angelic accomplishment directed by the Ascended Masters and nature abounds with angelic services! The builders of form who guide the seeming shapeless clouds in the air give form, size and color to the holly berries and the mistletoe; create the essences of the pine and the fragrances of your perfumes chemicalized as they are in nature’s own flasks and floral laboratories. In fact, all that is good and beautiful receives ministration from some angelic level under God as his messengers of sometimes fiery service. Our part in the operation of the cosmos is not small!
The great swelling angelic chorus that appeared in the skies over Judea to the shepherds two thousand years ago has presently multiplied by countless numbers and the intensified efforts we so gladly make of bringing joy to the world are a very real part of your own soul (the soul of all life). O, my lovely ones, how the daily tensions do screen from you so many so-called invisible treasures! How pleased, nevertheless, we are that the world scale of harmony, peace and good will has been tipped ever so slightly and is being divinely inclined to balance still further! Continue the good work, your prayers, your calls and your decrees. So many of the blessed children of earth, so vaguely familiar with our realm today, were once part of the angelic evolutions! Your glory shall return to your consciousness in due time--I declare it in God’s love and name!
Your immortal destiny is all about you (as a vessel out on the sea floats majestically surrounded everywhere by water); in the increased or stepped-up vibratory action of your world and affairs by your own God Presence (the I AM in you) lies salvation—life so full, so abundant, so effortless by comparison to denser spheres that the outer seems but the unreal or counterfeit! (Actually—it is only the embryonic evolutionary being presently dwelling in a segment of eternity called time where it is in the state of be-coming the reality which it already is at inner levels!)
The Christ or Christos (the Light or Sun of God) was a gift from the Father’s Presence through the Mother of the World—your own cosmic Mother. Individually or collectively you are a hallowed vessel of divinity—equal in destiny then with all the sons of the flame of the sacred fire! It is for you to accept that and be free, giving that Presence the authority in your world to transmute the human and raise you into your ascension. Then, in the glory of your own ascension you may someday ask to be included in the annual aerial concert with the many wandering bands of angels and move with them through the earth’s atmosphere each Christmas season to assist the unascended remaining and so help complete the raising of Freedom’s Star! Is it not a joyful thought—dear ones—to your heart as well as mine?
I am so full of the glory of divine music that I hope you too will listen for those greater harmonies from above—listening also with joy to the best mundane selections of the musical works we have inspired upon the so-call master musicians of earth through the years. Truly these God-attuned men were kindred spirits who were always one of us even while walking the ways of earth and wearing garments of flesh.
Blessed Ascended Master Jesus will himself bless the earth this year with the greatest release of victory’s power that has ever been outpoured since he first drew breath that holy evening so long ago! Then as now he was ever enfolded in both beloved Mary’s and his own Presence hearts’ light of love divine (all love excelling). Did you know that with every breath you breathe today you take in at least two billion atoms which once were breathed by blessed Jesus long ago in Palestine? You see, we too are just that close to you and I AM rejoicing that we are as near as your Presence, ever ministering to you at your call—for so is the service of the angels and archangels to ever enfold and minister unto you and to all mankind as we did so long ago for beloved Jesus and Mary!
I forever remain and I AM your friend of perfect divine harmony—whether expressing in tone, the color of rainbow rays or the feelings of engulfing love! Sincere ones—listen to my message this year as always, for I AM calling to you from out the mounting victorious chorus to which we bid you come also in due time—O celestial spirit of harmony pervade all things now—prevail with the Christ message—Christmas and forever!
Archangel Raphael
Thought of Joy
Angels through the skies a-light
Fill my soul with peace
Harmonies of radiant spheres
Bring me Christ release.
Melody is love alone
Love is harmony
All so pure, so good and kind
Ever reigns in me!
I AM born anew with Christ
Mary’s arms encircle me
I AM filled a-fresh with light
This is my own nativity!
- The Ascended Master Hilarion
Vondir!
