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To Our Gentle Readers

Through Cosmic mercy, all of the energies used discordantly by mankind and the Elemental Kingdom (without conscious intent to do wrong) have been purified, redeemed and become again the obedient servant of the will to fulfill God's design in this great, expanding Universe. 

Write well upon the pages of each new day with the priceless gift of your life. Leave a record of merit as your heritage to the brothers and sisters who still follow on, depending upon the harvest of your sowing for their spiritual nourishment and stimulus. Before this "Year of Opportunity" closes the Book of Life for the twelve-month cycle, may each gentle reader have come to individual mastery and, through that mastery, to collective unity in service to the Great White Brotherhood and the sweet Earth, so long the host to Angels, men and Elemental life. A blessed New Year, beloved of my heart, and a happy, God victorious one! 

Your Editor,

Thomas Printz 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! 

After the Beloved Sanat Kumara receives from the consciousness of the Silent Watcher the Thoughtform for the year 1955, he returns to Shamballa and chooses those Retreats (as well as the sequence of radiation released therefrom) which will most efficaciously fulfill the Divine Plan. As the Thoughtform is not released before December 31st, it is not possible for us to include in the January issue of "The Bridge" either the Retreat or material concerning it for the Transmission Flame classes, since the January issue goes to press early in December. 

You will therefore receive a mimeographed "Supplement" to January issue containing the information you require for the Transmission classes as soon as Beloved Sanat Kumara has it prepared and released to us. 

Thank you for your loving interest in our humble endeavors to expand the Masters' Words and Works. 

FRANCES K. EKEY 

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WELCOME TO 1955 

We love you and we bless you, dear 1954,

You've brought us opportunities not come to Earth before;

We're thankful for your days of action, nights of peace and rest,

And as your time sped swiftly by, our Earth was greatly blest. 

Now, as your written record goes into Cosmic files,

We thank you for the hopes fulfilled, the happiness and smiles

Of grateful satisfaction for the answers to our call

Oh yes, beloved '54, you've been good to us all. 

And now as 1955 appears upon the scene

Determined we to keep our lives mastered and serene.

We make the call from Earth to Heaven, to all the Hosts of Light

That 1955 shall free the Earth by Heaven's might. 

Let the power of Freedom's Flame be manifest in form

And love for Opportunity in every heart be born;

And as your hours and days roll by, let the Cosmic Christ increase

In the heart and soul of everyone and ascend the Earth in peace!