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Excerpts from an Address by
BELOVED ASCENDED MASTER LANTO
June 1954
Honorable assembly! I bring to you the greetings and the blessings
of the Brotherhood in the heart of the Royal Teton. I also bring to you the
Flame of Love and Life which is our heartbeat and which becomes for you
individually your most humble and obedient servant. Use it freely. Command it as
you will and let our life, mingling with yours, enable you to expand your
individual consciousness until, beloved ladies and gracious gentlemen, you are
restored again to your natural God-Estate.
One of the gifts that comes with Illumination is the use of the
inner sight. When you are privileged to see the Chalice of the Heart within
which burns the Fire of Immortality (the spiritual garment of each
individualization) then you, too, will love and reference life no matter in what
form you may meet it. In response to love, that life will rush forth expanding
and expanding its sphere of influence until every vibratory action, which is the
cause of the shadows existing within it, is transmuted.
Looking today upon the light within your hearts, I am eternally
grateful for the privilege and honor of offering my humble service to you that
you, in turn, may achieve the fullness of mastery over your own energies which
flow to you so freely from the source which gave you being.
This Conference has been dedicated to the development and maturity
of your love and reverence for Life itself and the Great Source from which has
come your life, intelligence and self-conscious being.
The East has much to offer the Occidental mind and the West has much
to offer the Oriental consciousness. One of the gifts which is ours to offer is
a natural reverence for life. We are hoping through this instruction that you
will achieve a far greater depth of perception of the magnificent gifts that the
selfconscious Ascended Master Intelligence and Beings represent in themselves.
In China and other parts of the Orient, even the most humble have a
natural devotion to Life and its Source. The people there would not even pluck a
flower severing the bloom from its stem. Individually, beloved ones, you have
cut yourselves off (to a great degree) from self-conscious communion with that
Source. You have done this through centuries of experimentation with the use of
life and the pressing of this quiescent, primal substance into the forms of your
ungoverned thoughts and feelings.
Those of us who are the servants of Life and are now dispensers of
instruction, are dedicated to the task of bringing you back to a conscious
connection with your own Divinity. This we do by opening the channels through
which the direction, the gifts, the powers and the mastery which are
God-intended may be released into your use. These gifts are given not only
because it is the desire and will of the Universal First Cause, but because it
is essential, if mankind are to be helped, that some among them become again the
Masters of energy and vibration. They must become the master-control of primal
energy, which should never leap forward uncontrolled. It should pass in dignity
into the thought, the feeling, the action or the word that blesses and enriches
life.
This is the training that is offered by the Royal Teton to the
Brothers and Sisters who are gathered here, to the chelas who apply for
instruction and to the aspirants who enter within our Retreat. They are all
given an opportunity to contemplate the magnificent resources that lie within
Life itself. Accepting the gift of life, the earnest and sincere man or woman
comes to a point where he or she determines within himself that the only
honorable thing to do is to turn to the Giver of that Life, to the Source that
sustains it, and ask in humility for what purpose that investment was bestowed
upon him.
The great surrender of self, the removal from the consciousness of
the idea that life belongs solely to man to do with as he pleases, is an
indication in man or woman that they have arrived at the age of spiritual
maturity. When man arrives at the Cosmic realization that the Source of all Life
the great Eternal Father-Mother God which has projected and sustained his
intelligence for eons must of necessity have some great purpose and design in
mind, he will then commence to weave the energies of his own lifestream into
fulfilling a portion of that God Design. At that time his own heart tells him he
is presently able to assist in developing such a design.
Each man, each woman, each child upon this planet and all who are
yet to come here have, despite the creation of shadows, developed certain
momentums, gifts and talents which can be offered on the altar to the Great
White Brotherhood to further the God Plan and the evolution of our system. Wise
is that man, that woman or that child who offers his or her developed talents to
God and the Brotherhood. Meanwhile, it is expedient that they endeavor to
perfect the various instruments through which they work in order that they may
be one day of greater service.
These people of whom I speak are those who stood boldly forth before
the great Source of Life (or who are, I hope, about to do so) and have asked
that the energies of their individual lives be consecrated to the work of
returning the earth to the beauty, the purity and the perfection which it knew
when man first came forth from the Heart of God. Blessed are the life-streams,
beloved ones, who have dedicated their energies to the release of the beloved
Sanat Kumara from his self-chosen exile of the ages and to the creation of the
Kingdom of Heaven upon this Earth. In this new creation, Angels, mankind and
Elementals walking hand in hand may fulfill their individual divine destinies in
harmony and peace.
As the mighty activities within the heart of the Teton hold the
attention of the Great White Brotherhood, we shall endeavor to project your
consciousness into the heart of the Mountain. In this way you may enjoy the
freedom of participating in the current activities and draw back into your own
'minds, bodies and worlds those vital energies which will give you great
personal assistance in the development and maturity of your own life.
This evening, the beloved Goddess of Justice (Twin Ray of the
beloved Saint Germain), will receive the Crown as Spokesman for the Karmic Board
from the hands of the beloved Kwan Yin, Goddess of Mercy, who previously held
that Office. This honor to the Goddess of Justice is bestowed as a complement to
Saint Germain's position as Chohan of the Seventh Ray, which Dispensation we are
now entering.
It is our hope that we shall have time during the Conference to
describe to you this beautiful ceremony (which is a very rare event). The last
time it took place was when the Goddess of Liberty transferred the authority to
the Goddess of Mercy. Previous to that time the Spokesman for that August Body
remained in office for many thousands of years. From this you will see how
rapidly evolution (both at inner and outer levels) is advancing when such a
tremendous acceleration is made possible in this one branch of Cosmic service
alone.
In order that you may become acquainted with the technique, shall we
call it, of projecting your consciousness freely and concentrating your physical
energies in cooperation with the Ascended Masters, I have consulted with the
Beloved Lord Maitreya, the Maha Chohan and the Master Morya with the result that
we have decided to use "Reverence for Life" as the main theme of the Conference.
Our first endeavor in this direction will be to try to mingle your energies with
mine in a pattern drawn through my consciousness and painted, as it were, in
your minds and vitalized by your own feelings.
Following this plan, I shall proceed to give you a brief outline of
the story of creation which will also furnish you with a contemplation that you
may review in your private hours. This word picture will show you the tremendous
love, the thought and the service of Cosmic Beings, Angels, Devas and Masters of
energy through the millions and millions of years which have brought you to this
point upon life's path and which represents the investment of such energies as
the human mind could not conceive.
Think you, beloved children of light, first blooms in the garden of
the great Golden Age of tomorrow, that such investment, such love, such care,
such sacrifice, would have been made were you not to fulfill a destiny beyond
every power of your reason to imagine?
Think you, that the Lord of the World, the beloved Sanat Kumara,
would have remained in the atmosphere of this planet for millions and millions
of years were it not that every one of your precious heartbeats, every one of
your souls, was worth that exile?
Think you that the great Archangel Michael, Prince of the Heavenly
Host, would remain in the astral and psychic realm twenty hours out of every
twenty-four, cutting from the auras of disembodied mankind the constant creation
of discordant thought, feeling and action, were not the souls of men so precious
that even freedom in the Heart of the Sun could not dissuade him from such
constancy? Ah, beloved ones, the investment of love in your blessed selves!
In your new found service, you often feel the ingratitude and
indifference of mankind and sometimes you weary of well-doing. So often, as we
stand in your atmosphere, do we sense that discouragement. Then will you please
remember those of us who have spent millions of years in such service; millions
of years in loving and blessing and putting our faith and confidence in you?
Realizing this you will enjoy giving a balance back to life by having the same
confidence in, the same patience with and the same faith in your fellowman.
FIRST: The concentration of your mind upon the picture we draw;
SECOND: The self-conscious raising of your feelings in order to
vitalize that picture and make it your own;
THIRD: The absorption of the lesson which is given through music and
the spoken word;
FOURTH: The incorporation of your own physical energies, which
magnetize the portion of the law given, through your etheric and flesh bodies.
I trust that my word-picture will be a pleasurable experience and
that I shall not weary you. I shall endeavor to keep it as simple, as brief, and
yet withal as beautiful as possible. When I have finished, if you can say within
your heart "I am grateful for life," then I shall feel that my service has been
well done.
In the beginning, the beloved Helios and Vesta, God-Father and
God-Mother of this system, decided to apply to the Source of all Creation for
opportunity to create a system of planets and people them with individual
consciousnesses. These Great Ones were then required by Cosmic Law to prove that
they could sustain a radiation of energy sufficient to maintain life, motion and
light upon a planetary system. They passed this initiation successfully and were
then vested by the Great Central Sun with authority and power to create a
Universe.
Here, if you please, we shall sing a song of praise to the Great
Central Sun and picturize in our minds the coronation of the beloved Helios and
Vesta by the Deity, before the planetary system was begun.
(Audience rises and sings "Great Central
Sun")
We have now visualized the God-Father and God-Mother crowned with
authority to create their universe.
Then we find them, like any loving parents, designing
conversationally with thought and feeling, the size of their planets, their
location, the number of lifestreams that would abide upon each, one. Just as
wise home-builders would plan to build a house, we find these great Beings
drawing the light pattern of their proposed Universe into their world, through
their thought and feeling centers.
When the design was completed to their satisfaction, a mighty,
majestic Being was summoned, who became the great Cosmic Silent Watcher of this
new universe. Into her Consciousness was placed the design of all the planets
that were to belong to the system. She absorbed the plan and accepted the
responsibility of holding the Immaculate Concept for each planet until such time
as Helios and Vesta would designate the Cosmic moment when that particular
planet was to be externalized.
In due time came the hour when the planet Earth was to come into
form. A great Being called the Planetary Silent Watcher was then summoned, who
received into her keeping from the Cosmic Silent Watcher the plan for the new
planet, accepting in turn the responsibility of holding the Immaculate Concept
for the Earth until the divine plan was fulfilled to the last detail.
For a moment now, I will ask you to give your recognition and love
to both of these great Beings as you listen to the music of adoration to their
Flame.
Will you try to realize that the accuracy, the patience and the
fidelity of these Silent Watchers are responsible for the perfection of the
pattern upon which the Universe, as well as the individual planets, is built. If
those Beings had, even for one instant, relinquished that Immaculate Concept,
the Universe would have been distorted in form and the planets might not even
have coalesced.
(A short period of contemplation was observed here, with
instrumental music to the Silent Watchers.)
At last, the cosmic moment for the birth of the planet Earth had
arrived. The Silent Watcher of the Earth stood in readiness and the seven Mighty
Elohim, Cosmic Builders of Form, were summoned. They answered the call and
standing around the planetary Silent Watcher, studied intently the plan for the
sweet Earth which it was their joy, service and opportunity to bring into form.
Their first activity in this direction was the projection of mighty light rays
from their combined consciousnesses which formed the matrix of the new planet.
When this was done they summoned the lesser builders of form, the Angel Devas
and the Elemental Spirits. These beings magnetized the electronic light
substance, filling in and fashioning the planet according to the instructions
given them by the Elohim. As builders return to the blueprint of the architect,
so did the Elohim return again and again to the study of the light pattern held
in the consciousness of the Silent Watcher.
The Elohim invoked the Directors of the great Forces of Nature, the
majestic Virgo, the mighty Neptune and the beloved Aries, who joyously answered
the summons, grateful for the opportunity of contributing the gift of their
respective elements to the comfort and well-being of the newly born earth and
its future inhabitants.
After this came the invocation to the Spirit of the Spring, the
beloved Amaryllis, to come and set up the rhythm of the Spring in blossom,
flower and beauty of Nature. This beautiful Goddess came in answer to the call,
bringing with her legions of Angelic and Elemental helpers. Their combined
energies clothed the sweet Earth in such beauty and gladness that she looked
like a beautiful dryad wearing a wreath of flowers upon her head waiting to
welcome the spirits who were to make her their home.
Now as you sing your song of praise to the lovely Amaryllis, you
will feel her essence flowing through the Elementals into the once shining
planet, now so despoiled, the planet which we ask you to restore.
(Audience stands and sings "Sweet
Amaryllis")
See you now, beloved ones, nine hundred Springs come and gone! Nine
hundred consecutive rhythms of Springtime came and went to make the Earth more
and more beautiful! See you the lakes and the great rivers! See you the giant
waterfalls and the crystal seas! See you the mountains pointing their fingers
toward God. Feel you the Immortal Three-fold Flame of God pulsating from within
Earths center that great Eternal Sun of even pressure! Think ye not then, that
the mankind about to receive this planet as their dwelling place were destined
for some great purpose?
See you the Elementals weaving the smallest and daintiest of
flowers; the great Devas unfolding the leaves on the trees; See you the great
Spirits of the air active and working in their own element; see you all Nature
working together harmoniously to the rhythmic music of creation!
While all this activity is going on, while the great Elohim and the
lesser builders of form, the Angel Devas and the members of the Elemental
kingdom are creating and beautifying the planet, Helios and Vesta (the
God-Parents) are drawing from the great Central Sun the spirit sparks who are to
be the beneficiaries of all this preparation and love. These will rest within
the bosom of Vesta until the God-Parents are ready for the projection of the
Electronic Bodies which will be the garments of these spirits.
See you now the beloved Helios and Vesta, as they prepare (in
cooperation with the Seven Elohim) to fashion out of the electronic light
substance those beautiful shining bodies which you call the Electronic
Presences. These were created in the form and design of the God Parents, the
mighty light rays from within their twin hearts converging and forming
individual foci of the Immortal Three-fold Flame of God which will be a magnet
for the Universal Light Substance. When this is accomplished, the spirit spark
is transferred from the heart of Vesta into the Flame within the heart of the
shining body prepared for it. Thus, each being becomes conscious of his own
individual identity and through the magic words "I AM" finds himself a living,
breathing intelligence vested with life, opportunity and free-will, the pathway
through the entire Universe lying open before him to make of it what he shall
choose.
Beloved ones, I would like you to feel that creation as it took
place. Feel the Holy Innocents born out of the bosom of the Eternal, primal life
and self-conscious intelligence not yet misqualified, secure in itself, enjoying
the happiness and warmth of the aura of God. They are clustering like small
children around the skirts of their mothers, seeking nothing beyond the
privilege of joining in the praise and adoration of the Angels.
Then came the day when those ego spirits were touched by the spirit
of adventure. They saw all of the Seven Spheres stretched out before them, seven
magnificent Realms to which they might have access if they chose, unexplored so
far as they were concerned. The Manu (the Being chosen to be their evolutionary
guide) is then summoned and they start on their long journey through the Seven
Inner Spheres for the expansion of their consciousness under his guidance and
direction.
See you now, beloved ones, these Innocent Spirits as they begin to
slowly wend their way outward from the Heart of God into the First Realm of
Light. Here they enjoy the beauty and perfection of the ideas that permeate Its
atmosphere. Some egos elect to remain in this sphere while the others pass on to
the Second Realm where these ideas are molded into definite thought forms. Some
Spirits remain behind in this Sphere also, while the others pass on into the
Third Realm.
In the Third Realm, they are made acquainted with the principles of
Universal Brotherhood, which include the qualities of tolerance, forbearance and
understanding. In this Sphere they come to a realization that opportunity of
service to life lies before them and, as before, some decide to remain here
while others pass on to the next Sphere.
In this Fourth Realm their attention is drawn to the exquisite
perfection of its architecture, the beauty of its paintings, its sculpture and
the artistic compositions of its music, prose and verse. Some Spirits also
remain here, the others passing on to the Fifth Realm (which is the Sphere of
Consecration).
In this Sphere, a few discover within themselves "a vocation." Some
remain here, while the others pass on into the Sixth Realm. Here they find that
reverence, devotion and worship are the activities engaging the attention of the
Brotherhood in the Temples. Some Spirits remain in this Sphere, the rest passing
on to the Seventh great Realm which is devoted to ordered service and ceremonial
worship. Here they hear the mighty Chohan in charge of this Realm say, "Hitherto
the Father worketh, but now the Father and you shall work."
The Spirits who have passed through the Seven Spheres have drawn
into their Causal Bodies the seven great bands of colors. These are the egos who
have qualified for an initial embodiment on the planet Earth.
Many, many Spirits never leave the bosom of the Eternal Father. Many
remain in each one of the Seven Spheres. Only the stalwart, the bold and the
strong pass through the entire Seven Spheres and stand finally in that Seventh
Sphere, saying triumphantly within themselves "It is a joy and opportunity to
serve!"
If you will join now in the singing of that lovely hymn "Opportunity
to Call," you will again feel the radiation which you felt when you first
determined within yourself to offer your services as you sojourned in the Third
Realm. where that opportunity first presented itself. How many among you still
carry that enthusiasm? Yet, dear ones, opportunity to serve is magnificent!
(Audience sings "Opportunity to Call.")
Now, beloved ones, your consciousnesses have looked back upon the
Earth while she was yet in the process of preparation. You have looked upon the
new and innocent egos as they passed through the Seven Spheres, as they journey,
evolving the seven bands of color in their Causal Bodies. The Sphere that had
the greatest attraction for the individual ego and the one in which it chose to
remain for the longest period of time became the strongest radiation in the
lifestream as well as the one which produced the most predominant band of color
in the Causal Body. Thus, it was that each ego became, through choice, a member
of one of the Seven Rays. It was a purely voluntary dedication of its life, no
one issued the edict, "You are a First Ray man" or "You are a Second or a Third
Ray man." Each ego chose according to the promptings of its own God Flame and
this voluntary choice determined under which Ray it would eventually develop.
In the meantime, the Elohim had completed the creation of the planet
by focusing upon it a beautiful Fire Lotus composed of their seven joint Rays
which, like a brilliant jewel adorning the hair of the beloved Virgo, was a
signal to Helios and Vesta and the Cosmic Law that the Earth was now ready for
habitation.
At the same instant, the Manu drew before him all the souls who had
passed through the Seven Spheres and chose a number according to the momentums
of energy represented by the bands of color in the Causal Bodies. He selected
one out of three for incarnation, allowing the others to remain and wait for
future opportunity. The egos in whose Causal Bodies the blue color predominated,
proving they were members of the First Ray, were the first ones chosen for
embodiment. Thus, the first root race was established upon the planet Earth.
The call then went 'forth to the other Stars and Planets in our
system for volunteer helpers who would act as Guardian Spirits to the Innocents
who were to enjoy evolution upon the Earth. Guardian Spirits are lifestreams of
more mature consciousness who have successfully passed through a similar process
of spiritual evolution on other stars and planets and sometimes even in other
systems. They came from Venus and from the various Suns of this galaxy,
beautiful Beings who joined the Manu, saying "Yes, we will go with you because
of certain momentums we possess which may assist this new race."
All was now in readiness. The call for the descent went forth from
the beloved Helios and Vesta. The great Seventh Sphere opened and the descent of
the innocents began in orderly procession.
The beloved Archangel Michael, wearing a resplendent crown upon his
head and carrying the royal blue banner of his Ray on which was emblazoned in
letters of gold "I AM THE WILL OF GOD," led the magnificent cortege, accompanied
by the Legions of his Court, who were to guard the newcomers. He was followed by
the Lord Manu and the various Beings who had assumed the responsibility of
assisting in the spiritual development of the new ego spirits. Next came those
for whom all this loving preparation had been made, the Holy Innocents
themselves, clad in their beautiful, shining etheric bodies.
When every foot in that vast assemblage had touched the Earth, all
knelt around that great banner and Lord Michael voiced the invocation to the One
Eternal God of Light that his will might ever be done on Earth as it was in the
Heavenly Kingdom. He then made a solemn vow before all life that he would never
leave the atmosphere of Earth until every lifestream, not only in that first
group, but all those who were to come in the future, had completed their mission
and returned in dignity to their Father's home. Every knee was bent, every head
was bowed in gratitude and every heart was filled with praise, love and the
desire "TO BE."
If you will now give Lord Michael your joint adoration in song, you
will again feel those currents, for many of you were among that first group.
(Audience rises and sings "To Lord
Michael.")
After the consecration of the Innocents, the group was divided into
sections; some members going north, some south, some east and some west. Thus,
was the first Golden Age on this planet begun.
As they journeyed, the Guardian Spirits sang the song of the Flame
Bearers to keep the ego spirits reminded of the Immortal Flame that each one
carried in his breast, as well as the mission he had come to Earth to
accomplish.
(Audience sings "The Flame Bearers" in
remembrance.)
Thus, beloved ones, began a great pilgrimage which has continued to
the present day. Thus, walked out of the Heart of Heaven, Sons and Daughters of
the Most High Living God, many of whom are now imprisoned in forms that are far,
far less than the perfection they should express.
Think you not, then, that all this priceless energy and life
invested in you and others was for some great destiny? Then can you not be
grateful to the God-Parents who created you; the Guardian Spirits and the
Angelic Host who have protected you; the Elementals that have sustained your
body's life, not to mention those Members of the Great White Brotherhood who
have remained voluntary exiles from the glories of Nirvana that you may find the
pathway back home?
From the Heart of the Royal Teton we are authorized to send forth
the missionaries, the firebrands, the spiritual incendiaries to make the
soul-light of mankind again blaze with the enthusiasm, the purity and the
harmony which it had in the beginning.
From among the student body, if we find a few so willing to dedicate
themselves to this Cause, our service shall not have been in vain.
Thank you, beloved ones, for your extreme patience, for your
beautiful concentration and for your divine love.
The day when you can, self-consciously and at will, blaze the light
through your flesh form and illumine the atmosphere around you, that day will
you realize that all of the discipline and all of the many so-called unpleasant
but necessary experiences of life have been worth it.
Until then, feel free to summon me as you choose and always remember
that "I AM" the servant of your Light and "I AM" your friend... I thank you.