Address by

BELOVED HILARION

(Editor’s Note: The beloved Hilarion, Chohan of the Fifth Ray, was Saint Paul of biblical times.)

April 1954

I would like to thank you for the invitation which has drawn me into the atmosphere of Earth tonight and has given me the opportunity of presenting some of the activities and services of the Fifth Ray, in an endeavor to assist in the progress of mankind's evolution, not only in its present era, but all through the ages that have been. 

Particularly now that the Karmic Board is gathered, and as the applicants for re-embodiment stand before them for consideration, does the service of the Fifth Ray come into prominence. We are the sponsors of the lifestreams who have what you call in the world of form, "vocations." These are individuals who have evolved on any one of the Seven Rays to a point where their energies are sufficiently channeled so that those energies are woven into a definite and distinctive beneficial pattern. Those energies are used to channel the ideas and designs of the various Rays into the world of form, in specific professions, artistic channels, etc. Primal energy, as you have come to know, is magnetized through the Unfed Flame within the heart and flows as the Silver Cord into the use of the self. It is then released through the free will via the channels of the senses and becomes the conglomerate mass of good and evil which is the average contribution of the individual ego in every life. 

For the few who have what you would call a "vocation," there are the billions who move through each respective life span, learning perhaps some small lesson of cause and effect and drifting into the easiest pattern of earning the bread of life through the sweat of the brow. If they are among the fortunate few who are freed from that particular curse of Cain, they use the energy for the satisfaction of the desires of the senses. For the evolution of the race, we depend upon those few whose energies, drawn, magnetized, channeled and directed enrich the evolution of the race in govern. mental channels, educational and religious channels, art channels, science, etc. These people are those who are under the specific guidance of the Brothers of the Fifth Ray. They are said in the world of form to be born teachers, to be born educators, to be born statesmen, born poets, born nuns or monks, born musicians. They are people with a definite vocation and purpose, people who come to serve life in a particular manner and know instinctively within themselves early in life that they have come to enrich the universe. They engage their energies in their individual worlds in preparing themselves to be specialists along some particular line of endeavor. When energy is drawn through desires in the heart and the feelings or the thought patterns in the mind which causes that energy to set into motion the physical and inner vehicles, you have what you call "volition." When the energies are dedicated and consecrated to furthering some particular part of the Divine Plan, you have "vocation." 

Lifestreams, particularly those who have chosen to further the Divine Plan of spiritual illumination and who have chosen to become the missionaries of Christ to carry the Word of God and Life, are consecrated in the Temple of Truth. Their energies are blessed. They are ordained to spiritual service and all through the course of that embodiment, a Brother or Sister from the Temple of Truth watches over such a one, aiding and assisting in the fulfillment of the particular service and vocation to which the soul is dedicated. Wherever possible, they increase the conscious understanding of the individual self, to make of that one a greater intelligence in the effecting of his part in the Divine Plan. 

Many of you, for many centuries, have had a vocation of spiritual service. You have been the priests and priestesses, the guardians of the spiritual culture of the eras in which you lived, and you are, therefore, closely connected with the Brotherhood at Crete and with my own lifestream, as well as with those who have preceded me in holding the Office of Chohan of the Fifth Ray. 

Today the activity which is preparing lifestreams for re-embodiment is magnetizing the souls of many, many spiritual individuals with high development who have these vocations and who have, at inner levels between embodiments, developed great spiritual dexterity in the understanding of the Law and the Truth of life. It is the hope of the Brotherhood at Crete that many of these lifestreams will be chosen and permitted by the Karmic Board to come into physical form at this time. 

Looking at mankind from the standpoint of the Free, it is really pathetic to note the billions who proceed through life with no apparent purpose, who find the clothing of the body, the sustenance of the flesh, and the pleasure of the self to be sufficient reason for life and being. These individuals, being in the preponderance as to numbers, the evolution of the race lies within the hands, hearts and actions of the very few who are dedicated and consecrated to a selfless service. Therefore, if individuals who incarnate but to control energy for personal reasons can be held back and the workers come in first; if the people with vocations, highly evolved on the Seven particular Rays, are given first opportunity, you can see that they will set up a pattern of intelligent progression in each of the Seven Rays. Then the lesser developed, falling into that pattern upon incarnating, will more easily go up the Ladder of Evolution. The saying that "the blind lead the bind" is true to a great extent, because not all of the teachers, the priests, the statesmen, the doctors, the lawyers, the scientists and religionists who hold the higher offices in the world of form today, are individuals who have high spiritual vocations. The masses dependent upon them do not always have an actual guidance of a true spiritual nature. It is therefore suggested by the Karmic Board and by the great Goddess of Truth, that we endeavor in this collective Council to secure the entrance of these illumined consciousnesses first. 

In each of the Seven Spheres, I am called upon to examine the lifestreams whose energies have been magnetized and channeled through the ages. Many of these people are dwelling within the Temples there and are working and perfecting activities of life, forms of government, forms of religious worship, exquisite religious ceremonies, beautiful paintings, sculpture, architecture, magnificent scientific inventions etc. Some of them are in need of persuasion to leave the freedom of those inner spheres where it is so easy to draw these perfected ideas (which they have worked on for many years) into a concrete and workable form. It is my obligation to call Councils in each Sphere and show them, no matter how perfectly they make their plans in the inner spheres, they must have an incarnate consciousness of equal development with their own who will take incarnation, to catch the other end of their beam of energy, magnetize the perfection, and draw it forth. We are trying to secure individuals with an affinity of consciousness, one to stay in the higher realms and one to re-embody. These, working out the plan between them, will eventually be ready to go into the Halls of Karma and stand before the Judges, showing how they can lower the Divine Design by one remaining in the inner sphere, projecting the design into the receptive consciousness of the other one who is taking embodiment with vocation. 

As we proceed through the Seven Spheres, we shall give our plans into the Council in each realm and then they themselves will pair off. Later on we will have to return and bring such pairs as we might wish to present before the Karmic Board, when the new souls are chosen for re-embodiment once every year, in the month of May. You will see that these dispensations cannot be granted in a moment, when the fate of an entire planet is at stake. 

We teach the missionaries and the messengers that are to come forth and who have already come forth from time to time. At inner levels, before your incarnation, you have all spent a goodly time within this Retreat of Truth. There you are taught that every qualification of your teaching that deals with reference to the lower self (personality) or is an exploitation of it, must be gradually discarded. Impersonal law must be drawn forth until it shines like white light and there is no more self manifest than there is in a beam of electronic light projected from above. As you slough off, so to speak, all reference to "self" in instruction, you become then the embodiment of that Flame and it expands and expands in pressure and rhythm through your lifestream to give assistance to the masses. It is a magnificent activity, if you will use it in your daily application, to draw forth that Flame of Truth. Magnetize it and watch yourself in your teaching and in your personal service. Check the energy that flows to self and through self in service. Thus you grow and develop in your chosen and blessed vocations. 

Beloved Vesta herself was the first Goddess of Truth for this evolution. The Beloved Pallas Athena assumed that Office and has embodied that Virtue in the Temple of Truth. She was one of the first Cosmic Vestal Virgins representing the Virtue of Truth in the electronic belt around the Sun. The drawing forth of Truth in every age has been under the direction of Beloved Vesta and Beloved Pallas Athena, as well as the Chohan holding the Office of the Fifth Ray. Presently, it is my privilege and honor to render this service. 

In early Greece, during the time when the Oracles of Delphi were so active, the very first Vestal Virgins were completely dedicated to magnetizing pure Truth. They did draw forth, repeat and record the Truth from the lips of the beloved Vesta and beloved Pallas Athena, those records remaining today within the keeping of the Brotherhood of Crete. This spiritual Order of Vestal Virgins endured for almost seven hundred years. At the close of this period, one Vestal Virgin was taken into the group who did not live up to the vow of purity of mind or of body. The contagion spread through the entire endeavor, because of this individual, and brought the Oracle of Delphi to ruin. This destroyed the connection and contact between the Beloved Vesta, Beloved Pallas Athena and the peoples of Earth. 

The recordings of the Oracles of Delphi which are presently in the hands of the people, are of this degenerate and dishonest organization which, like the Order of Fu Manchu, was an Order of great light in the beginning. It is to be regretted that, so often, that which has been begun in great light, which has been sustained by spiritual individuals with tremendous integrity of consciousness, is later seized upon by forces of evil and becomes a pawn of deception to the masses. The result has been superstitious dread and an etheric record of agnosticism in the consciousnesses of many, many innocent men and women who have pinned their faith and their soul light upon the authority and authenticity of such representation. For many ages I have witnessed the distortion of Truth through selfishness, usually through a desire for personal power and almost always through intellectual arrogance. 

I have witnessed the spiritual wounds upon the consciousness of the race. That is why I vowed to stand with what they call the "agnostics" because these men and women are victims of malicious intent to deceive. They are men and women who in the ages past have put faith and trust in lifestreams, feeling that they were following God, only to be bitterly disillusioned. They were left at the close of their embodiments with their faith in ashes, their emotional bodies filled with fear and unhappiness, their etheric bodies deeply scarred and their souls so embittered that even in the time between embodiments, it was impossible to restore to them a desire to make further spiritual efforts. 

This is one of my vocations, to make things right for lifestreams who have been victims of this perpetrated evil. These laggards from other systems and those individuals who became the black magicians, those individuals who prey upon the credulity of the soul, I do not know what they would do! The confusion, the chaos, the tears and the heartache of those who come through the gates of death to disillusionment has wrung my heart through the ages. 

I speak to you as One Who is so eager to free people from misconcepts. To me, an agnostic is a being whom I love very much, for he is one who has been hurt deeply and bitterly. Those men and women we shall set free, with God's help! It is my desire so to do and it is my reason for being. You ALL have a reason for being! The further you go on the Path and the greater the light of your consciousness, the more you see the need. Then the busier you become, but the happier you become also, because you lose "self" and in this service you find extreme joy. 

Will you join with me sometime before your body sleeps each night and think of me for a moment every day, because I am going through the Seven Spheres on a "one-man mission" renewing men's faith in God! You know I was always known as a great persuader! I love it!