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THE GURU AND THE CHELA
By the Ascended Master Kuthumi
CHELA: Beloved
Master: How does a man change the "pattern" of his life? For instance, if an
individual experiences cycles of failure, limitation, ill health and wishes to
rise above repetitions of such experiences, what is the science to be applied?
GURU: Blessed chela:
First, the individual must will to change the pattern. You use an apt word, for
the experiences that weigh heavily upon the race are truly "patterns" designed
by thought force and energized by rampant feelings. Resignation, lethargy and
righteous acceptance of such patterns, as they appear upon the screen of life,
lead to a certain vicarious "enjoyment" based upon the erroneous statement that
"the Lord (law) chastised those whom he loveth." The individual who wills to
dissolve the pattern with sufficient earnestness and tenacity of feeling,
becomes the master of circumstance.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: Many men will to change the conditions that appear on the screen of life
- war, famine, pestilence, disease, death itself, but know not how to go about
it.
GURU: Blessed chela:
When the will is strong, one man can change the course of history. Let us remind
you of the Master Jesus whose will, coupled with action born of love,
transcended even the appearance of death.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: Following the will to do, what is the course of the individual's
activity?
GURU: Blessed chela:
The will is a magnetic power that draws into the compass of the individual's own
aura opportunities, based upon the capacities, developed momentums and
consciousness of the individual. These opportunities are invoked by the inner
will of a man and are provided by Intelligences who carefully measure his worth
and strengths. Sad, it is that man's perception so often fails to discern the
Hand of Opportunity, looking for a more glamorous and spectacular type of
service which is ofttimes far beyond the capacities of the individual (ego's
opinion to the contrary not withstanding).
CHELA: Beloved
Master: After the individual wills with his whole heart, soul, spirit and mind
to change the pattern of his life, must he then be alert for every opportunity
to better his physical and mental dexterities and to help the Current Cause of
the Cosmic Moment while preparing for the Great Opportunity?
GURU: Blessed chela:
You have spoken truly! Many an applicant for spiritual mastery has wasted away
pining for a visitation while the Hand of the Goddess of Opportunity had
manifested through the veil of his own aura a thousand times in the course of
one yearly cycle. He who grasps opportunity and is practically about "his
Father's business" prepares for the Greater Opportunity to come.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: If the individual does perceive an opportunity to help his fellowman or
the Great White Brotherhood through some service is this enough to change the
pattern of his life?
GURU: Blessed chela:
No! Service performed as "duty," in which there is no "love," is of little use
to the Master or the individual's own Presence. The individual must LOVE to
perform these services which in themselves are changing the form and pattern of
his past cycles of imperfect manifestation. He must eagerly rush to meet
opportunity. Such a man builds a new pattern out of the substance of GRACE.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: The individual who serves willingly, perceiving opportunity is then
Master?
GURU: Blessed chela:
No. There must be individual humility and purity of consciousness so that the
pattern and design of the Master is not distorted according to the arrogance of
human will. Illumined obedience is required of the individual who wishes to
submerge self in an Organization where, on a moment's notice, any Member is
required to give ALL of his Momentum to a Cosmic crises. The individual who must
be persuaded, coaxed and generally reprimanded for deviation from the Divine
Plan, must learn the lesson of Nature's Spirits who reproduce with mathematical
accuracy and precision the design and form of the lotus, the lily and the rose.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: When the individual has surrendered the human egotism and desire to
"improve" upon the designs of Heaven, is his training complete?
GURU: Blessed chela:
No! Tenacity of spirit, the ability to "stay with" a project until it is
completed is also a requisite for mastery. For instance, if the Silent Watcher
of this sweet Earth should tire of holding the pattern within her consciousness,
dissolution of the planet would ensue. Many a man begins a project with great
enthusiasm only to expend his energies and abandon the design long before it has
served its purpose. If you want health, hold to your design until it is
manifest, and then sustain it so long as you are required to use a physical
body. If you desire financial opulence, hold to your application until it is
manifested unto you and then, a word of warning, do not abandon your application
for all in this world is fleeting unless sustained consciously after it is drawn
forth.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: After one has accepted the mental picture of what he desires in place of
the pattern of failure, or has accepted a picture which the Masters would like
to externalize; after such an one perceives the opportunities that come his way
to externalize the pattern; after one has held that concept free from intrusion
of his own outer consciousness as well as the disintegrating consciousness of
others and after the individual has made sufficient application in
visualization; invocation and decree, he is surely then Master of circumstance?
GURU: Blessed chela:
No! Every manifest form is held in the physical appearance world through the
concentration of some intelligence, human or Divine. Otherwise it begins,
through disintegration, to return to the unformed. Witness the beautiful homes
brought forth and sustained while some strong lifestreams held the pattern and
used the energies required to sustain them. When they are abandoned they fall
into ruin. Great business enterprises suffer like fates. Mighty empires built
through the strength and vision of a few men fall into ruin when their sponsors
leave the scene of Earth. This is a very good visual example of what happens to
your new "pattern" of mastery, opulence, health, or whatever it may be unless
you stay with it unto the end.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: Are, the foregoing then the sum total of requisites in order to become a
precipitating presence and a channel for the Brotherhood?
GURU: Blessed chela:
One more requisite, almost the most important of all, I would lay before the
altar of your consciousness. That is the necessity for maintaining harmony and
peace, not only during the process of your experimentation with the law of
conscious precipitation and the law of self mastery, but after the manifestation
occurs. Peace is the sealing process that sustains your endeavors. Without peace
the greatest empire, the most beautiful religious faith, the most powerful World
Trust, cannot endure; nor can the smallest manifestation of the most timid man.