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Address by
Beloved Master Jesus
(Editor's Note: Since the celebration of Christmas is symbolical of
the birth of
the
Christ consciousness in every man, bringing its gifts of love to
bless all life, we offer the following address by the Beloved Master Jesus on
that consciousness which he attained in his Earth life and which is possible of
attainment by all.)
May 27th, 1954
Beloved Children of Life, beloved Children of the Father, beloved friends of
many ages! You are those with whom I have shared so many pilgrimages, stood
before so many shrines, worshipped at so many altars in the long course of
evolution. You have been seeking the Kingdom of God, the right use of the energy
of life and the return of the self-conscious mastery. Within the heartbeat this
mastery is part of the remembrance of the days before the shadows fell on Earth,
when men and women walked in freedom, dignity and mastery. The use of life was
consecrated and dedicated to widening the borders of that ever-expanding Kingdom
of Heaven and the weaving into the pattern of form of the magnificent perfection
known at inner levels of consciousness.
The restless, surging energy which propels the soul on the search for Truth is
motivated by those memories of the divine mastery and dignity, to which each
individual consciousness was born and to which some day each consciousness must
again return.
I wish to convey to you through the spoken word a portion of my consciousness
which throughout the ages you have sought. That consciousness overcame the
shadows, limitations, chains and appearances of the world
through confidence and trust
in the power of God!
It is that confidence which comes through contemplation,
through application and through the dedication of your vital energies until no
longer do your feelings swear allegiance to the shadows; until no longer are the
energies of your auras set into turbulent motion by those frightening
appearances (in truth these appearances have no more power than you give unto
them); until each one of you comes into the full maturity of
your own Christ consciousness. Such Christ consciousness has overcome all sense
of allegiance to the appearances that frighten, distress and disturb the mankind
of Earth.
One such man anchored in feeling in the all-power of God is enough in any age to
transform the energies of the masses. It is to educate and develop within your
feelings that surety, that conviction, that the power of God invoked does act
without fail, that we come again, again and again. In each such visitation, we
anchor a little more of the fire substance of our worlds through your feeling
worlds, your mind consciousness, your etheric bodies and your flesh.
After such a visitation, there is another portion of the energies of your
various vehicles that is permanently God qualified and God consecrated and that
can never again be qualified with the creations of the human octave.
Wise is he who places his consciousness within and who presses his bodies
against the living Presence of the Masters of Wisdom and through contagion
absorbs into the energies of his being that confidence and faith in the power of
the Almighty!
To you who cling so strongly to the belief of the ages, it seems a slow process,
this transmutation,
this manifestation in works
of that which your consciousness
grasps mentally.
Believe me, however, the weaving of the chains and the drawing of the energies
of limitation into your worlds has been an exceedingly slow process too. It has
engaged the free will of your life and the use of your faculties for millions
and millions of years.
Therefore, be not discouraged in your first endeavors to set the worlds of your
consciousness in order, to drive from your individual temples the many lurking
fears and doubts, suspicions and uncertainties.
If you could see with the inner sight the centuries upon centuries that your
lifestreams have spent in drawing those unpleasant visitors into your temples,
you would rejoice that you are finding freedom and access to the Kingdom of
Heaven as speedily as you are.
Mankind so loosely accept blessings. Even here below, the blessed Forces of the
Elements that have served so ceaselessly through the ages have received in
return scant thanks for their constancy. Without their service mankind could not
have survived in the effluvia of their own thoughts and feelings.
Still less has the Source of all light, (the Father-Mother God) received the
gratitude from those who use his life so freely, pressing it through the senses
in the wanton use of free will, in the enjoyment of every passing pleasure.
People have such happiness in the use of life, yet loving life itself so little
that neither reverence nor gratitude has gone to the Source which has sustained
that life and that Individualized consciousness for millions and millions of
years on this Earth alone, not to speak of those eons of time before incarnation
on the earth was a manifest fact.
Mankind must come to an understanding today that the Source which supplies life,
which gives intelligence, which endows each separate consciousness with free
will, has a purpose in such an investment! Mankind must come back to its Source
and, bowing the knee before it, ask for revelation as to that purpose. Then in
humility, in gratitude for opportunity,
proceed, to weave out of their own lives the fulfillment of that purpose!
Wherein is man's merit in doing the Will of God, the God from whence life itself
has come? Oh, the joy that should be within the hearts of those who have even a
mental concept of the Divine Plan! How willingly and joyously should the
energies be consecrated to the fulfillment of that plan, to the exclusion of all
personal interest! To think that in the course of one short Earth life, the
iniquities of millions of years might be wiped out, should be a cause for
tremendous gratitude. How wonderful to know that in one life of gratitude in
action there can be fulfilled the purpose for which individualization and
sustenance of consciousness was ordained.
Until mankind comes to this day, they shall not know
happiness, they shall not know freedom. Those of you who have forsworn the world
of pleasure; those of you who have returned to the feet of the Masters; those of
you who have woven your energies through these years into the creation of these
magnificent forcefields, are most fortunate among men and women, most fortunate
that the vow which you took before the Source of all light, is being fulfilled
through your energies. At the close of this Earth life, when you stand again in
the Halls of Karma, you may say, "I have fulfilled my purpose. I have fulfilled
my vow. I have therefore returned with my sheaves of accomplishment in my
hands." You will hear the words of the Father "Well done, thou good, thou
faithful servant."
Believe me when I say, nothing matters on this Earth except
that you make that record, that you hold those sheaves within your conscious
hands and that you have endured unto the end; that you have waited the summons
of your Presence and passed yet in active service into the Realms of Light!
Your service is a voluntary one, Children of God. No one asked you to come and
no one asked me. No one asked the great Saint Germain or my Holy Mother to come
—
only the love of life, the love of God and the desire to see his Kingdom come
prompted any lifestream to bend the knee before the Karmic Board. Only such love
could take a vow to render a more than ordinary assistance; to bear a more than
ordinary cross; to expiate karma not one's own and to abide in exile on a planet
groaning on its axis!
Remember, love prompted you to come and love must bind you together while yet you here remain! While that love for God beats strong in your heart, that love fills your feelings for the Master and that love passes through you for your fellow worker and your fellowman, you are secure! When that love turns to bitterness, to resentment, to rebellion, to spiritual inertia, or spiritual depletion, then within the privacy of your own hearts and rooms, call for the spiritual vitality, call for the spiritual assistance from above. Let it return to you that warmth, that joy, that enthusiasm which you knew before you took an Earth body, when you stood with Saint Germain in the freedom of the inner levels and saw a planet God free. You then saw men and women in Freedom's robes; no sickness, no disease, no death known.
More than once in the course of an Earth life is it necessary for cosmic
vitality and the infusion of spiritual energy to sustain you. No man is complete
in himself. The great and mighty Archangel Michael, the beloved Gabriel, the
beloved Raphael, all the members of the Archangels sustained my Mother, my
Father and myself. During that night in Gethsemane, the presence of the
Archangels gave to me the courage to renew, my vow! When I was all alone; when
those who loved me best were sleeping; when the future held another sweet
springtime, the birds sang sweetly and the early flowers were blooming, the salt
spray from the sea was in my nostrils, and the vital fire of a body that never
knew illness was invigorated by the pulsation of resurrection, then I choose to
give that life!
We see, oh, better than you know we see the individual depletions and renewals!
I but ask you to remember that
as I received assistance, so may you!
Wise are you that abide within it! Wise are you that expose
your souls and spirits at every opportunity to the spiritual vitality that flows
from the Archangels through the Earth.
After the passing of my Father, one of the most difficult of my experiences was
leaving my beloved Mother and making that pilgrimage into the heart of Asia.
There I met the Being whom you know as the Divine Director. There I dwelt with
him, learning to measure in my own consciousness and make my own, the few short
affirmations which he gave me. One of the lessons which passed from his mighty
consciousness to all of us who gathered round him, was that
no prayer or mantrum, as he called them,
no decree had efficacy unless the consciousness within itself, in
feeling, both accepted and understood the truth affirmed.
We were taught there the power of mental concentration upon the mantrum which
was ours to use and we were asked through the energies of our own forcefield,
our own auras, to draw forth the truth of that mantrum
until it was visible to the Guru.
We were not given
another application until every fiber and cell of our beings confirmed our
affirmation and we had made it our own in practical, manifest fact.
Some remained for thirty or forty years working on the
phrase "I AM THAT I AM." Some remained an entire embodiment upon "I Am the
Resurrection and the Life." There was no favoritism. There was nothing that
could forward our progress except the externalized truth which was contained within that portion of the Law
which the Guru gave to us. He gave it to us sparingly as though the breath of
life contained within that aphorism could never be used again until the Kingdom
was at hand!
Mankind and the world does not realize the reverence with
which the great Masters and Teachers, the Sages and Saints, treat life. Mankind
that devours truths, digests them little and makes them not their own, has much
to learn about the disciplines that accompany the development of consciousness
within the Retreats of the world.
Many, many who applied to the Divine Director were not even
given a single worded expression throughout that embodiment, for that great
Being did not feel that their light and consciousness warranted the investment
of his energies and the corresponding responsibility which would enter the world
of the student, if he could not make that truth fact!
These aspirants sat within the aura of the Master
throughout an entire embodiment, just content to touch the hem of his garment
(aura). They were content to feel their own weak spiritual energies flowing
upward on his constant upsurge of adoration and devotion to God. They were
hoping that perhaps within their own aura some day or hour there might be
kindled a magnetic spark which would draw even a flicker of interest from his
eyes, a nod of his head or the benediction from his hand, and genuflecting to
the ground when such recognition was accorded them without a spoken word.
For myself I joined those pilgrims with no announcement. I sat with the others
in the nameless circle and the Master in deep contemplation and meditation, made
no sign that he knew of my presence. I was not heralded as the Messiah, or
singled out for favors. I was to rise or fall like any man or woman on my own
light. I would not have wished to have it otherwise!
When mankind and students who strive for 'place' come to an understanding of
this, their hearts will know peace.
The moment the pupil is ready, the Master appears! The moment the pupil is ready
for more knowledge, the knowledge is given. The moment the consciousness is
ripe, the fruit is plucked. The moment the Earth is tilled, the new seed is
sown. We, who seem now so prolific in the sowing of our seeds, do so because
long after your world cycle is completed, and you stand in the God-free realm,
there will be men and women who will base their life upon this Law. As one who
took so eagerly! that single phrase "I Am the Resurrection and the Life" so
grateful that I had been accorded the privilege and the honor of receiving from
the lips of the Guru some workable knowledge to make my own, I say to you who
are so blessed, receiving this instruction without limit,
you would be wise to reverence the gift and counsel given.
Forty-eight hours after I had received that affirmation "I Am the Resurrection
and the Life" as you know, the fullness of my mission was revealed to me and I
had accomplished the purpose of my visit. I shall ever be grateful to that
Blessed One who gave me the
key.
Remember, however, I prepared the soil for its sowing and after it was given me,
my life had to nourish and develop the plant and the harvest. When I left there
was no farewell. The circle of hopeful ones did not even know one pilgrim was
removed from their midst. The Master did not even open his eyes or gesture. All
the way back across the hot sands of India, across the rough stones of the
hills, I rejoiced over and over in the richness I had received from the Being,
in that phrase alone "I Am the Resurrection and the Life." I built from it a
ministry that stands today as a manifest example that it is not necessarily the
amount
of knowledge but the
application
of the knowledge given which brings results themselves a proof of Mastery and
Freedom to mankind!
Take not these words and this instruction lightly! Take it home, into your
consciousness and into your heart. Weave into manifest form around you an aura
so that your Guru looking upon you will say "this student is ready to be
entrusted with more truth, with greater powers, with a deeper understanding of
the Law."
Jesus