9
SHAMBALLA AT CHRISTMAS TIME
By the Beloved Master Kuthumi
Over the beautiful bridge that connects the city of Shamballa with
the mainland, into the shining heart of Shamballa, walk the Illuminati of the
Earth and her sister planets. The Holy City is the Mecca that draws members of
the Celestial Hierarchy from every star and planet in our galaxy at this time
each year. They come, each one, to offer at the feet of the Beloved Sanat Kumara
their individual love, devotion and homage for the unprecedented sacrifice of
millions and millions of years of his own life and freedom. This visitation by
Sanat Kumara was made so that the small star on which mankind evolves might
sustain her place in the solar system by reason of his assuming their
responsibility to meet the requirement of the Cosmic Law. Every star and planet
in the system must contribute a certain amount of light to the universe if it is
to sustain its place. The planet Earth had fallen far behind its quota and was
voted back to nothingness by the Cosmic Law. Then Sanat Kumara volunteered to
supply that Light from his own Presence until such time as mankind would awaken
and assume their responsibilities to the universe for their existence and
sustenance. Up to the present time, the people of Earth have not done this and
the Beloved Sanat Kumara still remains, a voluntary Prisoner of Love, daily and
hourly supplying from his own Presence the Light which man should be emitting
himself. However, the Cosmic Law has issued an edict that It will only accept
this sacrifice for another twenty-year period. Within this time, mankind must be
awakened out of the soul sleep of the ages and assume their responsibilities to
the universe in dignity and honor, allowing its Benefactor to return to his own
evolution and resume his life and service on his own star, Venus.
Each year, immediately preceding and during the Holy Christmas
Season, the great Cosmic Law permits the opening of the spiritual highways
between the universal galaxies... and over them come sweeping, like shining
meteors, Cosmic Beings, Archangels and God-free Masters of Life without
number... each Celestial Being, the song of his own lifestream forming his
atmosphere, accompanied by the radiant band of Spirits that comprise his court
and who abide within his Aura, many of them being born of his own life essence.
As company after company of these Celestial Envoys meet and pass
each other in interstellar space, exchanging joyous salutations expressed in
music and song, their happy vibrations mingle with and add to the harmony of the
spheres. As these glorious songs of praise rise in a mighty chorus of
thanksgiving to the Heart of the One Eternal Father, the entire universe
resounds with the joy, gladness and goodwill that finds an answering echo even
in the most dense earth consciousness during the Holy Season between
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
It is truly a period of great joy, happiness and freedom when these
shining Sons and Daughters of God are freed by Cosmic Law for a short time from
their voluntary service to lesser and very often unappreciative evolutions. They
are permitted to visit those they love who dwell on stars and planets other than
their own, with whom they have developed cooperative service on various small or
obscure stars or planets in the far distant past.
So, it is that our small Earth plays host to many of these glorious
Celestial Ones while the Immortal Threefold Flame is visible upon the altar at
Shamballa at this time of each year.
On the evening of November 20th (this year) Sanat Kumara will take
his place upon the Throne before the great altar in the main Temple.
The centre aisle and the long flight of marble steps leading up to
the foot of the altar are overspread with the royal purple carpet heavily
embroidered in gold, laid only on great occasions. Down this exquisite purple
pathway will come the long procession of visiting Potentates from other stars
and planets, all clothed in the gorgeous royal colors of their Rays and station,
each one accompanied by his or her Celestial Complement.
Next in order will come the Ascended Masters connected with our
planet, each one also accompanied by his or her Heavenly Complement. The
God-Free Masters (whose Complements are conscious chelas, but who have not yet
attained their full freedom) will be accompanied this evening by the Holy Christ
Self of that unascended being... every Celestial Pair wearing the royal colors
of their Rays, or of the Sphere in which they serve, and with the unbound hair
of the Season of Gladness.
All these Beings will carry flame flowers or garlands of the same,
many of them in the form of the electronic light pattern of their combined
lifestreams. These tributes they will lay on the great altar steps before
kneeling in homage at the feet of the King.
It is truly a magnificent pageant and presents a marvelous
expression of what the coming Ceremonial Age of beauty and dignity will be.
Not only the Great Temple of the Flame, but all the lesser temples
of the City of The Bridge will be open and pilgrims will make homage in the
particular foci where their love, momentum and interest draw them in the
responsive substance of their finer bodies.
Before the opening of the Retreat, the entire City of Shamballa is
decorated with flame flowers... the pillars of the bridge and those that
ornament the various Temples are garlanded and entwined round with these
gorgeously colored blooms. The windows everywhere are ablaze with varicolored
lights and are encircled both inside and out with the same radiant flowers of
light, and flame.
The entire city wears a festive air. The very ethers seem atremble
with anticipation, joy and gladness and that particular "holiday spirit" which
penetrates even into the dense atmosphere of Earth during the Happy Season of
the Christ Mass.
The songs of the Seraphic and Cherubic Choirs are soul stirring,
even to those Beings who have been God-Free for many centuries.
The exquisite Presence of the Lord of the World seems to shine with
a greater effulgence this year... because HOPE has been incorporated into his
love... as he sees the awakening mankind of Earth at last showing an interest in
setting Him free.
May God speed the Day and the Happy Hour of his full Release.