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The Masters of Wisdom
MAHA CHOHAN
If we could hold the attention of any of you as long as you can entertain a hurt
feeling or a sense of privation, we would have the open door to your complete
freedom.
You, in the Western World, do not know discipline of mind, emotions or body,
but, for those of you who aspire to Mastery, the easiest way to achieve Peace is
to throw the full power of your attention all the time on some good
manifestation of life, it may be either a God Quality in yourself or another, a
beautiful, inspiring picture or poem, or a Master's words or likeness. However,
you must be constantly alert as to that upon which you allow your attention to
rest. For instance, you would not deliberately drink arsenic or iodine, yet you
poison your whole lifestream every time that you allow yourself to see or record
less than God's Full Perfection by permitting your life energy, through your
attention, to rest upon discordant appearances.
KUTHUMI
Every lifestream on the Path, sooner or later, comes to a certain point where he
begins to turn to the "Still Small Voice" within the heart. At first the
individual begins to rely on intuition, then on inspiration, and, later still,
upon that conscious contact which precedes self-conscious mastery, the
attainment of which constitutes his Divine Freedom from all human concepts and
all human form.
This is the most difficult point upon the Spiritual Path and I ask that when you
come to the place where you enter into the Heart of the Silence, where you
commune with your own God-Self that you be extremely wise, alert and careful of
the response that you will receive first of all from your own bodies, because
you are a complex mechanism, a seven-fold being. Now, whereas the glory of your
Electronic Body, your Causal Body and your Holy Christ Self can never lead you
astray, your lower bodies have voices, this consciousness and this intelligence
of their own and these voices, this consciousness and this intelligence within
them endeavors often to serve its own selfish ends through you.
One of the chief requirements for Spiritual Mastery is discrimination. Call to
me, if you wish to my Beloved Lord Maitreya or to the great Lord Buddha for that
discrimination wherein you may recognize the Voice of the Silence.
Know always that the prompting which builds up the personality, that which gives
aggrandizement to the human ego, is not the "Still Small Voice" of the Presence,
but rather the etheric rumblings of your own past experiences the emotional
desires of your feeling word or mental concepts and precepts from your past
lives.
Remember you have sat in the past before many teachers who have given forth both
truth and fallacy and into your mental and emotional bodies and your etheric
consciousness are built those concepts, some of them solidified and petrified
and lying dormant within them for centuries. As the Flame begins to surge
through you, these concepts are re-vivified and come forth, and you must
recognize them for what they are not necessarily the Voice of Truth!
As you proceed into an understanding of the Voice of the Silence, know that that
which makes you humble, that which makes you loving, that which makes you pure,
that which makes you harmonious is of God. The feelings that stir within your
heart that desire to make of this Star a Planet of Light, to relieve the burden
of your fellow-man, to raise those in pain and distress into understanding and
harmony that is of Light. That which decreases the personality and increases the
Power of Christ that is of God!
EL MORYA
Reason and intellectual knowledge carry the pilgrim across the plains where the
grass grows green and the sun shines and now and again on the horizon, the white
capped Mount of Attainment shines before the dazzled sight of the hopeful
aspirant.
Pilgrims on the Path ofttimes become so enamored of the height and beauty of the
mountaintop, that they become almost drunken with joy at their pursuit and it is
only the unseen, but ever-present Messengers of God who accompany them, that
know of the perilous path between their present happy flight and the summit of
that Mount of Attainment.
When man first came forth from God he created a Bridge by the beam of his own
attention and he crossed on it from Paradise to earth. After the descent, most
men forgot their Divine Origin, and, as the Bridge was built of the beam of
their own life energy, it would have become entirely disintegrated, thereby
forever cutting off their return were it not for the strong and valiant souls
who volunteered to come and guard them. These Guardian Spirits while moving with
men in the world of form, yet kept their attention on the Heights, so that a
thread of the Bridge might always remain unbroken as a Path of Return to the
Father's Home when the free will of the individual so prompted him to seek that
freedom.
THE VENETIAN
The conscious connection between the outer mind and the Inner Presence of each
lifestream must be re-established through the development of harmony and balance
in the lifestream. When man took his attention away from that Presence as the
Directing Intelligence behind all activities, he forfeited the Natural Heritage
of his Being and for centuries he has groped in the darkness, seeking guidance
from all manners of form rather than God. Now, again, man desires to understand
his purpose in being and opens the door through which we may, in time,
re-establish this natural, conscious contact with the God-Presence. We all bend
the energies of our lives to this end.
SERAPIS BEY
The inner bodies of the student must be purified and balanced before he can,
with any degree of accuracy, even sense the directions of the God Presence with
accuracy. The tendency of the awakening Spiritual Fire is to energize the
records in the mental, emotional, etheric and physical consciousness, and it is
often these energized memories that are mistaken for revelations of a mystical
nature which lead earnest hearts astray. Let the sincere aspirant remember that
humility, kindliness, self-effacement, purity, and gentleness of spirit are the
measures of the Spiritual Presence in man.
HILARION
If an individual seeking Godliness, Health, Happiness and Supply could first
understand the power of sustained attention, and then through self-conscious
endeavor wrest the attention away from the many pulls of the appearance world
and anchor that attention on the Presence of God, God's Presence would flow
through him on the return currents as the fullness of all he could desire. Saint
Germain has said repeatedly, "Where your attention is, there you are; What your
attention is upon, that you become."
Radiation and God's Love and Mercy flow through the Universe and man is entirely
unaware of it. This outpouring of God's Forgiveness affects the just and the
unjust alike, but the lever for the man who desires to move forward in
self-conscious action lies in the controlled power of his attention!
JESUS
There comes the period upon the Path when the Inner Powers strive for ascendancy
and the outer consciousness endeavors to retain its hold upon the Temple. He who
carries the Awakening Christ within his breast and has not yet learned the
secret of surrender to that Christ, is restless indeed. I carried this Breathing
God Power through every known channel of learning, hoping that its thirst might
there be quenched and I know Peace. At last, in the Retreat in Arabia, the words
of my friend, John the Baptist, became clear to me, in speaking of the surrender
of this outer ego to the Christ "I must decrease that thou might increase."
SAINT GERMAIN
Reams of literature have been written adding to the store of occult and
metaphysical knowledge, but the requirement of the hour is to present simple
instructions which can be applied individually and collectively in tying the
energies of the mankind of earth to the energies of the Great White Brotherhood
in cooperative, current service.
It is not enough to enjoy the mystical experiences of the Saints, Sages and
Initiates of the past nor vicariously, to thrill to the exaltation of a
brother's or a sister's attainment, nor to have a mental perception of the
intricate plan of creation. The fact that the world and its individual
evolution, for all this knowledge, still remains bound, is indisputable proof
that current service, wherein the student is stimulated by the knowledge of his
capacity to participate in the services engaging the energies of the Hierarchy
at this present moment, is the action of the Law which will prove most
efficacious in the forward progress of the race at this time.