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THE GURU AND THE CHELA

By the Ascended Master Kuthumi

CHELA: Beloved Master: What is an Angel?

GURU: Blessed Chela: An Angel is a self-conscious intelligent being created by God, just as you have been, to fulfill a specific destiny, service and activity.

CHELA: Beloved Master: What is the destiny, service and activity of the Angelic Kingdom?

GURU: Blessed Chela: The Angels are primarily beings of feeling. Although They naturally have an intelligent mind consciousness, their service is to absorb, condense, transfer and generally radiate the spiritual feelings of God and the Messengers of God whom they serve.

CHELA: Blessed Master: How do the Angels perform this service?

GURU: Blessed Chela: The feeling world (emotional body) of the Angel is sensitive in the extreme. Natural proximity to the aura of the Father-Mother God or to the activities of the Sacred Fire in the Temples of Light fills the aura and individual sphere of influence of the Angels with a similar quality of radiation. These lovely beings disport themselves in the virtues of the Godhead and become impregnated with the same virtues through such proximity. Young Angels are not required to carry the spiritual radiation they have absorbed to the spheres below the one in which they are born. As the Angel matures and develops, he desires in himself to be of service to the God who made him. He then begins a course of spiritual training under the Great Archangel Jophiel which training prepares him for such spiritual service.

CHELA: Beloved Master: Will you describe briefly this course of training?

GURU: Blessed Chela: The Angel must learn how to sustain the radiation of some specific virtue. He must hold that quality of feeling until he is directed to release the essence of the virtue (the sweet anointing from above) into the world and atmosphere of some individual who requires assistance.

For instance, if the Angel desires to become one of the legions of Faith in God, he is assigned. by Lord Jophiel to a Temple in the First Realm under one of the Directing Angels of Lord Michael's Legions. Here he enters the already established momentum of Cosmic Faith and feels in himself the pulsation, power and vibration of faith. He learns to absorb from the great Cosmic Heart of Lord Michael the gift of sustained Faith. He learns to generate Faith in his own emotional body. He learns to sustain that quality of feeling, then he passes outside the periphery of his Teacher's aura and endeavors to hold through his own consciousness the Faith he enjoyed so freely in the safe compass of another's momentum of Faith. Here his strength is measured. Gradually, he is able to sustain the quality of Faith for longer and longer periods of time, as he passes further and further from the aura of his Teacher.

Then, at the direction of the Messengers of Faith, he is sent on a mission with a Guardian Angel and many other neophyte Angels. They carry Faith into this physical world where so much misery, disillusionment, unhappiness and distress abide. The Angels enter the auras of distraught men, women and children and radiate the Faith they have learned to sustain, giving new hope and courage to the hopeless. Just as a radiator emits a comforting warmth into the atmosphere, so does the Angel radiate a pressure of Faith (or whatever virtue is required most) into the spirits of men. When his gift of radiation has performed its service, he returns with his Superior to again embody the virtue of the Godhead and await further assignments in His Name.

CHELA: Beloved Master: How can mankind magnetize the Angels to bless their homes, atmosphere, environment.

GURU: Blessed Chela: One individual who believes in the existence of the Angelic Host is a joy to Heaven. Such a one opens the door through the psychic and astral shell of skepticism, agnosticism and unbelief. This allows the precious virtues which the Angels bring to be radiated through an entire community, rendering a service unparalleled to the dispirited sons and daughters of men.

Belief in the existence of the Angelic Host is one of the greatest ways of magnetizing their presence in one's aura, home, business and environment. Cultivation of feelings of harmony which remind these beings of their Celestial home also draws them close. Beautiful flowers, orderliness, harmonious music and floral scents are all magnetizing activities for the members of this Kingdom. Conscious invocation of the Angelic Host (which is part of the activity of your Master Saint Germain) always brings hosts of this Kingdom into the group activities where such acknowledgment of their reality is made and invitation given to their cooperative service. The activity of The Seventh Ray is to develop an affinity among the Kingdoms of Angels, human beings and elementals. We are grateful for your interest in understanding this Kingdom at this time.