We (Lord Buddha and myself), manifested about an equal spiritual development when Sanat Kumara summoned us to his Presence and said that the Buddha who was then holding the spirit of the evolution on the earth within his Aura had asked to be released and returned to his own chain. Because of this there would have to be developed from among the planet earth's Guardian Spirits another Buddha to take his place. Both Gautama and myself offered to endeavor to become the nature of God and the "great sacrifice" spoken about in your occult literature is a short word picture of our centuries of endeavor toward this end. 

Strange, how a word picture can be lightly spoken by the lips of another and only the one who has passed through the ages of self-discipline, purification, abstinence, devotion, despair and delight, knows what is woven into that phrase. 

No written course was given us. We had only our hearts' light to guide us. At the close of each embodiment, when we had passed through the Halls of Karma, we would stand before Sanat Kumara again and he would measure our Light, sometimes one of us would be ahead, sometimes the other, each rejoicing always in the other's unfoldment, no sense of rivalry, but the most marvelous comradeship. After we had received his Blessing, we would go arm in arm together over the great Bridge leading from the City of the Sun, we would spend hours on end discussing our experiences in the previous earth life, weighing each other's methods and application and conveying back and forth to each other how we felt and how we might improve in our endeavor to embody this love, enough radiation, mind, to hold within the compass of our aura every tiny little flickering flame of the least evolved and least developed soul so that it would not be snuffed out by the winds of adversity. 

We lived many lives of loving life, loving those in our environment, trying to maintain and sustain at the central core of our auras a spiritual stimulus, without words, which would raise every ego we contacted to its highest potential. In the course of an ordinary life, the radius of one's aura does not affect more than a few hundred men. Even our son Jesus touched spiritually less than five hundred lifestreams in his lifetime. 

The long ages passed until the hour when my brother Gautama achieved his victory. He was chosen as the Buddha and I was given the next highest office as World Teacher. 

In the near future when Sanat Kumara will receive his freedom Gautama Buddha will become the Lord of the World and I shall follow as the new Buddha and into my place will step my successor as World Teacher. 

Thus, it is that Cosmic Offices are filled. Thus it is that you, each one, is being refined and prepared each day. None of you know how high will be your calling. May I say that the opportunity of stimulating the spiritual powers within the aura of all you contact does develop from within yourself the nature of the Cosmic Christ and that is the way by which I attained my own Victory. 

I can speak with conviction because one speaks always of one's own life energy with a greater pressure of assurance than one can speak of another's.  

You, too, have an aura. You, too, have a pressure of life energy that can raise the egos of lifestreams in your environment heavenward and thus you become myself in action. 

I give to you the blessing of Gautama Buddha, the blessing of the Christ whom I represent and the blessing of your own Holy Christ Self, through whom you can develop a "radiating consciousness" which would convey light even if you never spoke one word from this moment. In many embodiments during this period of preparation and training under Sanat Kumara, neither Gautama Buddha nor I spoke a word, we conserved our powers and sublimated our energies, but we were extremely positive in developing a listening attitude toward those delicate, tremulous and spiritual inspirations which vibrate in the ethers and which only the attuned "listening ear" can detect. 

Although there are times, while you walk the way of earth, when you are able more or less to sense the thoughts and feelings of others, more often than not mankind is wholly unaware of the thoughts and feelings that exist in the minds and hearts of those about them, nor are they aware of the secret aspirations that issue forth from their bodies and flow upward in that prayer current which carries men's prayers heavenward. 

However, be it known that many of the prayers, many of the hopes, many of the aspirations that rise in the consciousness of those who do not know how to direct or focus their wavering energies do not have the strength, due to lack of faith, of reaching upward even to a point where they can at least connect with the consciousness of some ministering Angel who could bring back a blessing to the waiting lifestream. 

I would like to bring to your mind the realization that the prayer force of the race requires the everlasting arms of spiritual energies to sustain it and lift it upward to a point of contact with the Octave of Light. Let me explain this to you. 

The mass of the people live mentally and emotionally in the astral realm, a state of thought and feeling which is heavy, in an almost constant state of depression and other destructive activities. The prayer force is so impinged with fear, uncertainty, doubt and confusion that, if it acts at all within the soul, it has little direction, little impetus, and would not often rise out of that realm of depression and connect with the Ascended Masters' Octave or the Octave of Light. 

Devas, Masters, Angels of prayer and other ministering Spirits are constantly hovering in the atmosphere, over great cities particularly, endeavoring to make holes in this dense psychic substance and ether those weak prayer strands together. These prayers and petitions make the connection between the supplicants and the Power of God to answer their calls which come from the higher realms. The conscious students, groups and individuals, once they become aware of this need, may become tremendous "spiritual arms" that, in all cities, towns and communities, can raise the prayer force just as you would put your arms in a cosmic way around the whole populace and carry all those prayers, without a pause, heavenward, blending with them your own conscious energy and strong petitions For assistance, just as you would envelop a flower within your hand do you draw those lines of force together, holding them until an Angel Deva, a Master or any ministering Spirit can acknowledge that energy and draw from the Presence of God himself the answer and direct the blessing toward the aspiring soul! 

I have been called the "Teacher of Angels" as well as men. This service has been rendered for the most part by the Angels, but it is time now that the students render this service with the Angelic Host. On a Sunday morning, and particularly on a Wednesday evening when the prayer activity in most of the churches takes place, if you would give the assistance I have outlined, from your octave, so much greater release would flow back on the returning energy of these supplications. Into the lifestreams would come the blessings required to strengthen their faith and bolster their hope in the omnipotent mercy of God. 

Beloved friends, there are so many opportunities to engage your energies, we hesitate sometimes to present new ones to you because your earnestness and sincerity are such that you would endeavor to do more than your capacity would allow. I have always felt that some activities appeal to certain people and different services to other lifestreams. Thus, when our words are recorded and then go forth to great numbers, some of these suggestions will surely fall on fertile ground and some hearts respond to each service required. 

I thank you for your indulgence. I thank you for your great courtesy and for your sweet selves. 

God's Blessing be with you, children.