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The Masters of Wisdom Speak

The Return of the Prodigal Son

MAHA CHOHAN

Somewhere along life's way, each individual, wearying of its self-chosen sojourn in the world of separateness, responds to the impetus of the Spiritual Self to return to the Father. Greater cause for rejoicing is not known in Heaven. The ascent of the individual consciousness is heralded throughout the Kingdom of Heaven and the Presence of the Father, together with all the members of the Divine Household, rush forward to meet the ascending one and assist such a one to the fulfillment of his individual destiny of Oneness with God in God's Kingdom.

EL MORYA

The will of God is that every self-conscious intelligence who has voluntarily separated itself from the conscious contact with the Divine Presence shall voluntarily determine to reunite itself with that Presence. The stirring of the Spirit in a man signifies that the Divine Will is being sensed and the uprising of that Will from within the soul is the motivation which will ultimately accomplish that union, divers though the means of accomplishing such return may be.

KUTHUMI

When a man chooses to return to the Father and re-consecrate himself to serving life as the Father may choose to direct him, that man has come to a point of spiritual maturity. No longer, as a child, is he content to receive the constantly flowing gift of life and to use it carelessly, according to the desires of the personal self. He is determined to learn why life has been given to him and what is his specific reason for being. Humbly he approaches the Father, the Creator of his individual being, the one who has sustained his identity through the ages and he is eager to "be about the Father's business." Such are the candidates for the Great White Brotherhood. They are those who are chosen by the Silent Watchers of every locality as individuals who warrant the more than ordinary assistance of the Masters to develop their latent virtues, talents and capacities for service on behalf of the progress of the race. The Second Ray provides for such individuals whose light (not professions of tongue) have signified to the All-Seeing Eye of God that they earnestly desire to cooperate with the Divine Plan, teachers and guides to assist them in their endeavors to walk upon the Spiritual Path toward the HOMELAND and the Presence of the Father.

PAUL, THE VENETIAN

The prodigal son returns to the Father with the members of his own household. These members are his own mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies which have accompanied him into the "far land" of error. His efficacy and general service to the Father will be determined by the development, mastery, purity and general God-control which he has achieved through these various instruments of creation which form his "household." Wise is the returning son who takes stock of the household which he brings to the Presence of God for consecrated service, that he may offer a well disciplined and obedient set of vehicles to the service of the Father and the Brotherhood which is his instrument of externalizing the Divine Will.

SERAPIS BEY

Centuries of experimentation with the use of life have built into the vehicles of men momentums of strength as well as momentums of indulgence and weakness. The soul, spurred on by the awakening spiritual self (I AM Consciousness) chooses to reunite with the full Presence of God. The bodies through which the soul must work its way upward are not always of the same opinion and the individual "Armageddon" lies in the struggle for supremacy among the "many selves." The wise individual withdraws his consciousness from the bodies which were designed and created to be his instruments of creation but not his Master. He centers himself again within the Immortal Flame of Truth and Life - the I AM consciousness — within the heart. From this "secret place of the Most High" he consecrates and dedicates his thought world, his feeling world, his etheric world (wherein the memories of both good and evil lie submerged) and his physical body to the Will of God. Then, holding fast to his determination to have these vehicles serve that will, such a one allows his own vehicles "no quarter" so far as independent, discordant and inharmonious qualification of primal life is concerned.

HILARION

The Spirit in man weakens rapidly in these hours when the Cosmic Currents that incubate Divinity press upon the Flame of God hidden within the pressures of the soul. Once awakened, the Spirit — through the soul — seeks its rightful dominion and the expansion of its Presence is accelerated by the loving adoration of the personal self to this Indwelling Christ. When the individual has determined to return to the Father, let him abstain from the sense of struggle against evil and invest his energies rather in loosing the Presence of God from within. This Presence, ascending the throne of authority, will govern through the outer self in dignity, harmony and wisdom, when invited and encouraged to so act.

JESUS

The Presence of God "I AM" alive through the conscious self manifesting dominion over all appearances is the fulfillment of The Spiritual Law. Freedom, through liberation of consciousness into the Higher Realms, which the people of the East have chosen as the aim and goal of spiritual supremacy, is not enough. Freedom, through the liberation of the God Nature into the physical appearance world, the subtle mental realms, the etheric realms and the realms of feeling, is the Divine Will for man who aspires to Christhood. The Presence of God is. alive, active and functioning at all times in those Spheres of Consciousness to which many have attained, but to manifest the supremacy and all power of that Presence in the realm where you abide is the service to which all are called but to which so few answer.

SAINT GERMAIN

"I will arise and go to my Father." When the individual has determined within himself to consciously return to and abide within the Aura, Presence and Consciousness of the Father of Light, he must disassociate himself from the vehicles through which his Godhood must needs express. As the mother eagle, pushing the timid fledgling from the nest, spreads her great wings beneath him to protect his halting and spasmodic endeavors from the disaster of possible panic and destruction, so does the consciousness centered within the I Am Presence uphold and direct the vehicles (bodies) that soar and dive, turning them ever upward toward the sky. Again, and again as one or another of the bodies plummets Earthward drawn by the gravity pull of its own tendencies and momentums, the consciousness of the individual must halt its downward flight and kindly but firmly command of that particular body "Come, we will arise again and go unto the Father."

When the student finds his mental body entertaining impure, imperfect thoughts, lie must consciously command the mental body to arise and enter the consciousness of the Father which does not allow negative, imperfect patterns of thinking. When the student finds his feeling world generating and radiating disturbed, inharmonious feelings, he must consciously command the feeling body to arise and enter the consciousness of the Father which radiates only harmonious, peaceful, happy, constructive feelings. When the student finds his etheric body conjuring up out of the past memories of unhappiness and distress, he must consciously command the etheric body to arise and enter that consciousness of the Father wherein it may mirror and express the "Glory which each man had in the beginning before the world was." When the student finds his physical body registering disease and distress, passion, lust or discord of any kind, he must consciously command the physical body to arise and enter the consciousness of the transfiguration of flesh into light in the Presence of the Father.

Gradually the vehicles are trained, as the wise parents train the children entrusted to their care. Impersonally, but determinedly, the I Am Self picks up the particular body which, from time to time, forgets the resolution and fiat of the Self to arise and remain with the Father. Again, and again the individual must patiently say, "Come let us arise and go to the Father." Gradually the happiness, peace, power and perfection of the Father's Presence will be so engrained into the members of the household that none shall find any enticement for straying, even momentarily, into the inharmonies of the appearance world. This is the process of Ascension.