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THE GURU AND THE CHELA

By the Ascended Master Kuthumi

CHELA: Beloved Master: What exactly is individual consciousness?

GURU: Blessed chela: Individual consciousness is the awareness of being as an Intelligent Focus of life, having the use of energy, faculties, intelligence and freewill by which to create and direct an individual life plan.

CHELA: Beloved Master: From the moment an individual becomes conscious of himself as an intelligent creative focus of God's Divine Consciousness, is he then responsible for what he adds to the original, pure realization of Being?

GURU: Blessed chela: Yes! Individualization is the great gift of God himself and the awareness of being, experienced by every Intelligence created by him, precedes any activity, motivation or experimentation with primal life.

CHELA: Beloved Master: Is this original consciousness of purity and awareness of being, referred to often as the consciousness of Adam in the Garden of Eden, the same as the Ascended Master Consciousness to which we all aspire and which you enjoy?

GURU: Blessed chela: Definitely no! No more than the innocent consciousness of the infant which becomes aware of his being is the same consciousness as that of the wise Sage who has come to a seemingly similar innocence and peace not by reason of absence of knowledge and experience but rather by reason of the fullness of experience.

CHELA: Beloved Master: We are told that our bodies, worlds, homes, families and affairs reflect our present consciousness. It is our desire to know how we lost that pure consciousness. How may we return to a consciousness which does perform works in the name of our Father and the humanity whose karma and bondage we presently share?

GURU: Blessed Chela: Truly everything externalized in your experiences is projected out of the workshop of your consciousness. Your consciousness today is the sum total of truth and error accepted through sense reports and general experimentation with the use of life, the invocation and dissemination of energy and the creation of vibration, color, sound and form through free-will! Everything the individual thinks, feels or does sets up a cause and has an ultimate effect. The reactions and impressions resulting from such experimentation with life build certain fears, phobias, antipathies and concepts of destructive natures which affect the entire course of Earth life. Then, too, constructively, faith, confidence, security, and beauty, are built into the consciousness through experiences where the lifestream either witnessing the mastery of conditions by another or himself) developed certain momentums through training, self-disciplines, and applications. It is with this conglomerate "mass" of consciousness that the Hierarchy must work in order to fulfill the Divine Plan on Earth.

CHELA: Beloved Master: Did we lose the pure creative consciousness (in which no thought existed of the failure of life to obey the directives of the God-flame) through experimentation with the creative centers of thought and feeling to design patterns not prompted by God?

GURU: Blessed Chela: Truly this is so! Freewill is the blessing of man, but it has also allowed him to weave for himself any number of shadows which frighten, distress and delay his journey toward the fulfillment of the Divine Plan. When man determines within himself at last that he does not like his creation and wishes to remove from his consciousness the cause, effect, record and memories that can externalize as imperfection, he is then ready for our assistance.

CHELA: Beloved Master: We are then asking for the Ascended Christ Consciousness?

GURU: Blessed chela: Yes! You are realizing first that the present limitations which exist around you are externalized from your own consciousness. You are willing to call the purifying powers of the Sacred Fire (The Violet Transmuting Flame of Love and Mercy) through your consciousness and literally have a "housecleaning" of all conscious and unconscious bitterness, resentments, fears, phobias, and all mental pictures of limitations of every kind. This includes the mass acceptance of age, disintegration and death itself!

The story of Jesus driving the money changers from the Temple symbolizes this individual purification of consciousness. I must warn you, however! for you have lived so long in the comfortable acceptance of error and half-truths that your outer mind is quite apt to refute the suggestion that even such an activity is necessary. You may measure your world presently externalized against the perfection of the Kingdom of Heaven and then in calm, unbiased judgment, decide whether that which is externalized through your own consciousness is the ultimate of all good. If not, the root of your limitations lies in this conglomerate mass of invisible energy.

CHELA: Beloved Master: What is the Ascended Master Consciousness?

GURU: Blessed chela: It is the Self-Conscious Intelligence, using the creative faculties of thought, feeling and the spoken word to create ONLY that which is perfect at will! He may sustain his creation so long as he desires, and etherialize that which is no longer of use at will. Such a one has achieved the Ascended Master Consciousness.

CHELA: Beloved Master: What purpose is there in decreeing, if consciousness is the creative center of being?

GURU: Blessed chela: The beautiful wisdom of creation has designed certain foci to render specific services. For instance, nature creates hands to do all the manifold acts which bless the individual and life generally. It creates eyes to see, ears to hear, and feet to walk. Thus, the various bodies of man were created for specific purposes. The mental body, was designed to create the mold of perfection, the emotional body to fill the form with life, and the physical body, with all its members and faculties, to externalize the perfected design of consciousness in the world of form. One of the most powerful avenues by which thoughts and feelings become things (clothed in the physical atoms of the physical world) is through the power center in the throat, in the spoken word! With the trained, purified, concentrated consciousness behind the decree, manifestation should express co-existent with the decree. It did for Jesus and for all who are masters over energy and substance! The spoken or mentally-formed word becomes the final "step-down transformer" by which the desire of manifestation is lowered into the world of form.

CHELA: Beloved Master: Without illumining the consciousness, is decreeing efficacious?

GURU: Blessed chela: For mastery to manifest in the world of the aspirant, individual application on purifying and illumining the consciousness must proceed, together with decreeing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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