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Excerpts from recent letters by
BELOVED PAUL, THE VENETIAN MASTER
From the Realm of the Holy Spirit I look with love and hope upon the
hearts of incarnate lifestreams. Within the chalice of the heart burns the
Immortal Flame of God. The development and maturing of that Flame is our
reason for being.
Finding of ways and means by which we may stimulate that spiritual nature
fills all our hours with happiness, purpose and delight. What greater joy is
there than to be about the Father's business" no matter what the service in
his name may be!
I found, long before my freedom, that the consecration of my
energies to doing the
Will of God each day filled me with a sense of sacred inner happiness and
that as I moved among the mundane ways of Earth, strange and beautiful
opportunities unfolded like flowers before me. I know these opportunities
were placed in my path by his love and his grace that I might utilize my
life in spreading his Kingdom. Sad the soul when opportunity does not knock,
but sadder still when opportunity is not seen for the tears of self-pity
that dim the eye.
Grace is the gift of the Third Realm
particularly.
How many expressions has grace! The monk and aspirant who
loves
to perform his adorations has grace but for each such one
there are a thousand who perform their services in dearth of happiness for
duty's sake. The mother who
loves
to create a home is filled with grace as against the millions who serve for
duty's sake. The chelas who
love
to hear our will and manifest it through the talents, gifts and substance of
their words are filled with grace as against the many who serve for fear or
duty's sake. The man to whom self-denial and self-correction is an action of
love is filled with grace. For all those whose position in the universe is
endured,
I pray for grace that they may consider that
position an opportunity to widen the borders of the Kingdom where they
stand. Filled with grace, each action becomes a joy and a lovely commission
from the King!
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Love is woven out of shared hopes, dreams, visions, mutual interests and
combined endeavors toward the weaving of the
vital energies into a single pattern which finds
favor in the Spirit of the Lord! One of the beauties of individualization is
the opportunity to explore the wealth of consciousness which is God’s
and to then joyously make one's own a portion of that consciousness, working
happily to mold the energy and substance of the sphere in which you dwell
into a fitting garment for that consciousness so chosen for nourishment,
development and progression.
In freewill, each intelligence is allowed to perceive the nature of God for
himself or herself. Each one is given the joy of contemplating the desires
of the Universal for expression. Neither the Divinity nor any created Being
will indicate which facet of the God-vision any intelligence shall volunteer
to accept and externalize. Through the ages many Beings have looked upon the
Presence of God, basked in the comfortable warmth of that radiation and
finally, in maturity, offered to partake of the joy of creation through
self-conscious endeavor. Thus, it was that Beloved Saint Germain chose to
embody Freedom. Thus, it was that I thought to embody the ideas that flow so
freely in this Realm of Divine Creation into beautiful forms more readily
grasped by the consciousness of those evolving upon the ladder of service.
The two expressions of the one service naturally began to manifest through
my Earth lives the spiritual designing of divine ideas of brotherhood in
practical, workable forms, and the physical outlet of such creative
inspiration in and through the medium of art.
Remember always that in your service you are given opportunity to help the souls of men, to develop the hidden light, to be your brother's keeper. In this, our hearts grow closer, for what you have done for the least of these, as my Master has said, so have you done for me. The love given to a fellow traveler becomes the incense that arises to our hearts and whatever is offered in our name becomes the evidence of fidelity of spirit!
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Address
by the
BELOVED MAHA CHOHAN
(Concluded from August 1954)
What benefit would it be to read the words I spoke a hundred years ago should
this Island or this planet begin to shake upon its foundations? However, if you
could
know what the Hierarchy in the Retreats were doing
and connect your energies and endeavors with ours,
world-wide balance, protection and safety could be assured.
In the meantime, we must earn your confidence in our
endeavors; we must woo your friendship; we must build an association through
interchange of energy just as friendships are built in the outer world. Then in
the times when we require your faith, your constancy and your action, you may
take our hands in active comradeship and neither fear nor uncertainty be able to
stir the energies of your thoughts and feelings and short-circuit, so to speak,
our endeavors to reach you. Just as static effects your radio and television, so
does uncertainty, doubt and fear stir the energies of your inner bodies and at a
moment's notice it would be difficult indeed to anchor our energy and our
counsel into your minds with sufficient intensity to render a service to the
masses.
We live, beloved ones, for all life. Our concern is with
the awakening of every soul belonging to this evolution, with the freeing of
every elemental form that has been imprisoned by destructive thought and feeling
and which must be raised to its own God-estate once more. Wherever we can find
conscious chelas to assist us
WE ARE THERE.
In your great cities, beloved ones, there are hundreds and
thousands of lifestreams using thought and using feeling. They are imprisoning
electronic light through thoughts and feelings of a destructive nature which
blanket the entire city. Inside this blanket the souls of men struggle for
survival. Only the use of the Sacred Fire of purification can set them free.
Someday each one of you will stand in the Halls of Karma.
Some day you will be called before these Cosmic Lords and every soul will be
your responsibility who has passed through the change called death in the course
of your spiritual service on Earth. What have you done to set them free?
Opportunity is yours beyond measure and
you must render accounting for
your life.
You have done well, exceedingly well and you
shall, I know, do even better. The investment in your souls of all of the
energies of the Masters will show a harvest of merit before the King of Kings
and before the Brotherhood as well.
Do you realize that the Hierarchy has given you their life? They are weaving
into your souls the impetus to continue on the Path, keeping your faces turned
toward your own ascension and holding you within the vow to your own Heart's
flame when you might otherwise have forgotten that vow and been swallowed up
again in the effluvia of the masses.
Mankind does not yet know the gratitude that should be offered to life for the
lifestreams (teachers and leaders) who prod them on day after day and month
after month and year after year, for without those guardians, fidelity to the
God Design would be well-nigh impossible.
May I suggest in all humility that you remember the lifestreams that serve you.
There is no soul so rich either in heaven or on earth that it cannot be
benefited by a prayer and a blessing. Even I bow my head in gratitude when some
lifestream whispers a blessing to the God of Life upon my soul.
Beloved friends, gratitude is the open door to your freedom. We are engaged now
in reaching the consciousness of men and women all over our earth and this
endeavor shall grow and prosper as the consciousness of the people accepts our
reality.
Unto this hour, I commend you to your own Heart's flame, to the Masters who have
sponsored you, each one, and to the God of all Life.
I thank you and I bless you.... Good Morning!
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BELOVED COMFORT FLAME
Melody: "At Dawning," by Cadman
Flame of Love and Comfort sweet
All love you!
Kneeling at your blessed feet
Hearts so true
Having lost their homeward way
Call thy light with them to stay
Guiding them by night and day
Dear Comfort - WE LOVE YOU!
In thy arms, oh comfort sweet!
All find peace.
Learn control to bring to all
Sweet release.
Selflessness and patience rare
Prove to all God's loving care
All the good life wants to share
Dear Comfort - WE LOVE YOU!
Help us now your love to be
Comfort dear!
We would ever do thy will
Draw us near.
Make each one thy God-control,
Purify each earnest soul.
Consecrate us to this goal
Dear Comfort - WE LOVE YOU!