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Excerpts from an Address by
Our Lord Maha Chohan
Holy Thursday,
March 29, 1956
Beloved children of the One God, seeking to find comfort for your
own souls, to you I come. In that seeking, you also desire to give comfort and
to be a comforting presence to the rest of life; more weary, more distressed of
soul, mind and body than many of you in the Western Hemisphere can conceive
possible at this time.
The great spiritual partnership by which the Hierarchy of Heaven are
joined with the consciousness of unascended beings is made possible when the
chela consciously applies as much of the Law as he knows and then desires, not
only to receive God's blessings, but in turn to give them to others so that such
blessings may help to alleviate the distresses of those in his particular
environs, his nation and the planet which forms his temporary home. This giving
to others by the chelas of the gifts, instructions and communications of the
Ascended Ones is carefully watched by the Karmic Board; by the Beloved Lord
Maitreya and by all who are connected with the opening o this Dispensation. The
tremendous service which you have given life thus far by your personal and group
application of the Law is more wonderful than you know because you do not see
with outer fleshly eyes the results which are forthcoming from your endeavors.
That service has enabled us to continue this "communion" between Ascended
Masters and unascended beings who are still working out the karma of their own
personal salvation and yet, while working out that karma willingly, raise their
hands, hearts and voices in calling forth blessings and help for their
fellowman.
On: The Denial of Appearances
Beloved ones, some of our good friends have taken the statement of
our Beloved Saint Germain very literally when he says that God is everywhere and
that there is no nook, corner nor cranny in the entire Universe where he is not.
Some of our mental and metaphysical sciences have used that Truth to deny
appearances of distorted form. In many cases, through mental pressure, they have
driven out of their own worlds and from the worlds of those whom they are
assisting certain distressing appearances (for the time being). Believe me,
however, when this is done, usually the core and cause behind the appearances
remain. Why? Because elemental life (which is the body of God and which Beloved
Saint Germain does state in Truth is everywhere), is intelligent and it has
taken an individual vow to obey what? Man! Therefore, through the thought and
feeling centers; through spoken words and action; elemental life has been
imprisoned in mass and individual discordant creations which seem very real to
mortal minds. It is the need for the dissolving of those creations which brings
to Earth, its atmosphere and its people, the Beloved Archangel Michael and his
Legions of the Sword of Blue Flame, together with the mighty Astraea; the Angels
of Purity; the Beloved Saint Germain's Violet Flame and other purifying
activities of the Sacred Fire so that the cause and core of so much human
distress may be removed and the imprisoned elemental life released from such
destructive form. This elemental life so freed immediately goes back to the Sun
for re-polarization and is then either given to some Ascended Master or Cosmic
Being to direct in creating blessing for mankind or it may be anchored into the
Causal Body of the very individual who misqualified it as added power to achieve
God perfection, if that individual has consciously used the Violet Fire to
purify that life.
You see, dear friends, the Nature of God is full Perfection and is
all-encompassing. In it I live, move and have my being. If this same Nature were
your daily way of life, I would not need to speak to you now! However, the
self-evident fact that there are distressing appearances of mind, finances,
body; of etheric resentments and rebellions which live in, through and around
the mankind of this Earth, proving that there must be a creator of such
distress. That creator is man, the mortal or outer mind of man. The great masses
of mankind which have lived in their chains and have called that existence
"God's will," are like an individual in a hospital room who is in a coma. The
doctors, nurses and attendants continue to live their normal lives and yet
protect this so-called "unconscious" one until the first faint glimmer of
returning consciousness comes to that one. Then comes the joy and release on the
part of the doctors and attendants as they draw that consciousness back into
this world and help it to energize again the physical form. That is exactly our
relationship to the masses of mankind and it has been our relationship, forgive
me, even to you, our chelas, for the most part! In our full, free God estate, we
are the attendants, the nurses, the spiritual doctors, the ones tiptoeing about,
watching and waiting for the time when the light, within the heart expands; the
mortal consciousness bursts apart (so to speak) and the individual comes out of
the coma. Recognizing where he really is in God's glorious Kingdom, he then
begins to take a part in endeavoring to further the glory of that Kingdom.
Truly, "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you" and all about you.
As I speak to you tonight, this room is filled with Angelic and
Cosmic Beings, but do you see them? How many of you hear them? Therefore, there
is a slight flaw in the concept of just the denial of human appearances, without
a realization that the thought and feeling centers of mankind have concentrated
elemental life (which I, myself, originally drew from the Sun and focused into
the world of form) into the cancer centers; tubercular centers; leper centers
and every other mass and individual accumulation of discord and suffering.
Need for Conscious Call for Purification
Blessed ones, if you could look upon any great metropolis even for
one evening; if you could see the thoughts, feelings and actions of the millions
of people who are living therein and you could see what was exuded from them,
you would understand why our particular gratitude flows to you who choose to
come and give your calls and decrees morning and evening for the removal of the
cause and core of those distressing conditions. If you could see the effluvia
around but one mental hospital; around one so-called "Home for Incurables";
around one "Old Peoples' Home"; around any of the great institutions in your own
city, you would be much more interested in removing the causes and cores of
mankind's distress. This effluvium is actual substance emitted from the
physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies of the inhabitants of those
institutions, as truly as the octopus emits that inky substance into the sea.
That is why the Violet Transmuting Flame has been given you to use. The
particular service of the Beloved Astraea (Complement of the Beloved Elohim of
Purity) is to clear away the cause and core of the discords through the activity
of the Circle and Sword of Blue Flame, for she created this very Circle and
Sword in order to render just such a service to life. Her Blue Flame activity
clears away the discordantly qualified substance which is causing distress, just
as you would take out the core of a boil or you would remove a bullet from a
wound before healing can take place. Then the purity and grace of the Beloved
Elohim of Purity flows in and in that purity, is every other God gift which
mankind can desire.
Beloved ones, there is a certain confusion in the outer mind of many
of the people at this time. For the most part, individuals do not change
religions or credos more than once or twice in an embodiment. When one has
walked up the spiritual steps through various types of religious training, he
has absorbed mentally, emotionally, etherically and into his brain structure, a
certain portion of the concepts presented by that religion. Then he tries to fit
that all into the new religion he is trying to understand and sometimes there is
an ensuing confusion. The activity of the Ascended Host is the purification (and
I cannot emphasize this enough), the purification of your inner bodies until you
can see us face to face; until healing flows from your very selves the moment
you enter or walk through a room; until your body is radiant with light and the
blazing Flame within your heart stands forth visible to the physical sight of
all; until you are completely God-free financially and in every other way! If
you are not God-free in every channel of your experience and department of
constructive endeavor, the reason goes back to one thing: impurity of some sort
in one or more of your four lower bodies (physical, etheric, mental and
emotional). This means the incarceration of elemental life in one or more of
your vehicles (bodies) which has not been sublimated (refined by fire) and
released from that imprisonment. Self-justification or ignoring this impurity
will not remove it! However, application (conscious calls for the passing of the
Violet Flame and other purifying activities of the Sacred Fire through it)
sincerely, conscientiously and persistently made (individually and collectively)
will purify it.
At the time, the Beloved Astraea was given the opportunity to join
with the Elohim of Purity and become with him One Being in a Cosmic Nirvana
(state of perpetual Heavenly bliss), she voluntarily chose to remain as a
separate, individualized conscious Intelligence in order to provide this
purifying action of the Circle and Sword of Blue Flame; in order that she might
clear away, as the surgeon takes out the bullet, the substance of human
creation. This allows the lovely activities of and substance from the Higher
Realms to flow in and produce perfection.
Now, this is a science! Sometimes, I regret that it is a science
because it would be so nice to be able to transport you instantly into Eternal
and Celestial Bliss through a mere "hocus-pocus" activity. However, this cannot
be done! This purifying of the individual's world is a personal matter. I passed
through the initiations of purification; the Beloved Master Jesus also passed
through those initiations. Of all the Beings who have gained their eternal
freedom from this world since the Buddha, I think there has been no person more
than Beloved Mother Mary (while she still trod the Earth as an unascended being
before her victory took place) who has passed through so many initiations and
tests of selflessness.
Now, you are those in embodiment today who have volunteered to give
this selfless service to life as our representatives. O, there is much grumbling
on that score. Many, many say: "I wish I had not volunteered so much service at
Inner Levels and then come out down here and find it necessary to transmute so
much discordant karma and distress". Precious hearts that has been said and you
know it! Many of you have made that statement at one time or another. If you are
not willing to give this assistance, who are going to be our representatives in
this world of form? Think on this! There are nine million people in this city
tonight, many of whom are acknowledging Holy Thursday. Out of that great number
only those in this room are realizing the possibility of a communion between the
Holy Spirit and the outer consciousness of mankind. If you had not volunteered
where would the Earth be today? Sanat Kumara would not be God-free! Lord Buddha
would not have made the expansion of his own consciousness which was necessary
to create a Causal Body, equal in every way to Sanat Kumara's so that that Great
Lord of the Flame from Venus could take his freedom. The planet Venus and all
her people would not be accelerating the pace of their vibratory action to a
point where they will be ready for their Solar Initiations. Lord Maitreya would
not have had the opportunity of becoming the new Buddha!
Imperative Need for Readiness
Presently, Kuthumi and Jesus, acting together as the Cosmic Christ,
also still retain their offices as Chohans of the Rays. Do you know why? Because
no one else was ready! There was no one to take the places of Kuthumi and Jesus
as Chohans of their respective Rays at this moment.
Are you ready to render the service which will be required of you in
the days to come? Suppose tomorrow you were called upon to take over this
Sanctuary; to take over its expense; its responsibilities and its frictions, as
well as the endeavor to combine the many selves into one. Suppose, one day, when
you were alone in the heart of a business district or a shopping center, you
were called upon to give instantaneous protection to many people. Suppose the
streets began to crack open and the buildings began to shake. Suppose also your
great rivers here were suddenly to rise above their normal water-line, would you
be the calm, poised, majestic presence of your own God Self, in full command and
control of the situation? Measure yourselves, children, not with such a tension
that you become impossible to use at all but with wisdom! Lord Buddha did not
expect to be called for seventeen years. He was ready! Lord Maitreya did not
expect to be called either, but he was ready! Kuthumi and Holy Jesus were ready!
Others, thinking they had seventeen years yet to prepare for Chohanship were not
ready. You will recall that the wise virgins had the oil in their lamps and they
were ready with lamps lighted when the bridegroom came.
Five years before the continent of Atlantis sank beneath the waves
of what is now the Atlantic Ocean, we alerted the people who lived there as to
coming cataclysmic events. Ascended Beings and Cosmic Messengers from many
Realms came and spoke through the Priesthood and the Oracles. At first, the
people listened to their words and the idea was entertaining for a while. It was
something new and different and it was exciting. Then, as nothing spectacular
happened immediately or soon thereafter, the people went back to their pursuits
of so-called "happiness". When Earth changes and cataclysms came as predicted,
the great rumblings of the Earth and the sinking of Continents, who was ready?
Only a handful willing to take those magnificent Flames North, East, South and
West. The rest of the population went down! Get ready! We are investing
tremendous energies in you, beloved ones; energies which are our life; energies
which are Cosmic and we are investing them in you for a definite purpose.
Importance of Sacred Heart - Thought-form of the Year
It is also my assignment tonight to give you something on the Law.
You see, we are all given our subject matter for the classes by Lord Maitreya
who still holds that office of service; still designing the instruction for the
class work.
Now let us think upon the Thoughtform for this year the Sacred Heart
made of Pink Flame with the Immortal Threefold Flame arising from it at the top.
I shall use this Thoughtform as an explanation of certain points of Law which I
would like to present at this time. Now, when the Immortal Threefold Flame has
emerged from its airless cell within the heart, it has then become perfectly
balanced. That is the Sacred Heart which dwells within your own Divinity. You
say: "O, thou Beloved Immortal Victorious Three-fold Flame of Eternal Truth
within my heart, I love you! I love you! I love you! Take your full freedom in
me now. You are inside of me, blaze your light through." Through what? Through
your physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies (to which we sometimes refer
as your four lower bodies). When you take that decree and, speaking to Holy
Amethyst you say: "Beloved Holy Amethyst, you are inside of me, blaze your light
through" what do you mean? Through what? Again, you mean through your physical,
etheric, mental and emotional bodies. Here is a lesson on the breath which some
of you already know those of you who have learned proper breathing and have
taught breath-control.
Within the Immortal Three-fold Flame inside your heart is the vital
essence of every God virtue. It is connected with every Divine attribute,
faculty and God-being in this Universe! It is connected with the Resurrection
Temple and the activities of Jesus and Mary, as well as with the activities of
the Violet Fire and Holy Amethyst; the Freedom Flame; the Flame of Truth from
Pallas Athena and so on and on, indefinitely. Therefore, when you are breathing
in if you choose to learn the control and perfect rhythm of that breath, picture
your heart as this Sacred Heart and then visualize around it your physical body
first; your etheric body interpenetrating that; then your mental body and then
your emotional. (In the undeveloped chela, these four lower bodies look just
like ovoids. However, the more spiritually developed you become, the more form
they take on. So, your emotional body now has a figure, eyes and hair and so on,
so have your mental, etheric and physical vehicles. This is easily seen with the
Inner sight!)
Instruction on Rhythmic Breathing
For instance, if you want the purifying assistance of Holy Amethyst
(she is the Divine Complement of Archangel Zadkiel and is the Archaii who
represents the feeling of the purifying power of the Violet Fire) whom you have
affirmed very strongly in your decrees is inside of you (for there is an
anchorage of her Flame in every beating heart); if you want her purifying
assistance of that Violet Flame, breathe into that focus of her Violet Fire
within your heart from your emotional, mental, etheric and physical bodies,
every bit of the impure substance which is there. Feel that substance being
purified and transmuted into light while you are holding that breath within your
body. Then, as you release the breath from the body rhythmically, feel the
Resurrection Flame passing through this energy and then release it to each one
of your four lower bodies, giving just as much to each vehicle as you want them
to have, not as much as they want to have. There is a great difference here and
this is one of the activities of becoming Master rather than servant of your
vehicles.
As you breathe out this Resurrection Flame into your physical body,
you will feel that body vitalized; as you breathe it out into your etheric body,
you will begin to feel the acceleration of the Divine powers which you had in
the Great Central Sun before the world was; as you breathe it out into your
mental body you will feel the clarification of those Divine concepts which come
from the Heart of the Universal and as you breathe it out into your emotional
body, you will begin to feel the buoyancy, joy and happiness of serving God, the
Ascended Masters and your fellowman.
If you will faithfully practice this, in the first place, it will slow up your breathing process. It will cause you to breathe more deeply instead of taking those shallow, surface breaths. This will let you live longer! Now, that may not be a promise which gives you much joy! However, do you know your breaths are numbered? Do you know that if you use them up (in panting and hasty breathing, in short breaths as so many do who live in the Western Hemisphere), you do not live as long? Do you know, too, that those individuals spoken of in the Old Testament who lived eight or nine hundred years did so because they had control of and used the slow and rhythmic breath?
In your practice of this purifying activity through the breath, at
first just experiment with it for about five minutes at a time. (It would be
well if this could be done rhythmically three times a day.) Then, as you become
more proficient, you may increase the time you are giving to this practice. When
you do so experiment, you may find one or more of your bodies not wanting to
lovingly co-operate as you draw its impure substance through your breath into
that purifying action of the Sacred Fire within the heart. Whatever vehicle you
may have which is in particular "command" of your outer self is going to object
to this attempt at its control. On the out breath, whatever vehicle has
heretofore always received the most energy is going to try to seize it. So, you
are going to have to be very impersonal just as impersonal as I am. You know, in
my position as the Holy Spirit, until this New Activity came forth, I had
developed a very impersonal nature and you must become just as impersonal with
regard to your vehicles of expression (bodies). If you need more physical
vitality through the day and not so much mental energy, allot that energy to the
physical body where you desire to use it and vice versa. If you need more
emotional buoyancy to overcome depressions or whatever is weighing down your
feelings, breathe that buoyancy forth from the Flame within your heart and send
it out through the "heavy" feelings. If you will use this activity of the
controlled and rhythmic breath, you will find you will walk more slowly; you
will save hurry (which causes "accident"); you will come to a greater sustained
peace of soul, mind and body; greater understanding and you will be a better
radiating center of blessing to all the life you contact everywhere you go. This
is so because, by your attention upon the Three-fold Flame within your heart,
you can contact immediately any one or all of the Flames of God-perfection -
Resurrection, Healing, Purifying and so on.
Each year, the Beloved Helios and Vesta take their time and energy
to design a pattern (Thought-form) for the entire year for the evolutions of
this planet, all who are living in the Earth, on the Earth and in its
atmosphere. That pattern cannot be a whole script, Bible or series of word...
they simplify that idea to a symbol which can be understood by anyone an Indian,
Chinese, an American, anyone who looks upon it. They can understand it if they
want to. However, unfortunately, it has become more or less just a picture to
the average individual even those who know about it. It is an arrow, pointing
you individually and in your group activities toward a specific service to which
every Retreat and Sanctuary of the Ascended Masters are devoting Their energies
at this time.
Meaning of Thoughtform for the Year
What exactly does this Thoughtform mean? It means the Heart of
Divine Love which should be beating through your own, flooding all your four
lower bodies with its perfecting, forgiving, raising and illumining feelings.
Now, because you have received this Thoughtform for the year, is there a change
for the better in your personal activities; is there more happiness in your home
life; more harmony in your group activities, and in your outer world activities
as well, since the Beloved Sanat Kumara on New Year's Eve took his time and life
to receive from the Silent Watcher this design which is a message to you, or are
you just the same as you were before you knew of it? Has this Pink Heart (which
shows the Threefold Flame released from its airless cell), meant more to you
than a "bauble"? Think about this!
You know, your physical heart has four chambers and they are called,
interestingly, auricles and ventricles auricle (oracle) the receiving center;
the ventricle the directing and releasing center. In this symbol of the
Thought-form of the year (1956) we have the Archaii Charity and the Lady Master
Nada representing the auricles and we have Chamuel (the Archangel of the Third
(pink) Ray) and Paul the Venetian (Chohan of the Third Ray) representing the
ventricles. Their fourfold activity should fill your worlds with the actual
feeling and expression of pure Divine love from these four Beings. Charity Nada,
Chamuel and the Venetian are real, living Beings who represent the inflow and
outflow of the actual substance, feelings and powers of accomplishment of the
Sacred Love of the Sacred Fire through the Pink Flame in this service.
Symbols for "Force fields"
Let us take one more reference to this simple picturization of the
Thought-form of the year, the Sacred Heart (which form could also be used as the
central figure of a "forcefield").
I have been asking for "forcefields" for years and for a simple
symbol which can be used as the center figure of such "forcefield" with which
the students who belong to that Sanctuary are familiar. That symbol should give
those students a specific idea of what their group is doing and what particular
service of magnetization and radiation is going forth from it. If the Sanctuary
Director (as well as the Group directors and students who work with that one)
all have the same symbol for their groups, it builds strength. Through unity of
mental concentration, the students cut out of Universal light substance a good,
clear pattern and fill it with the feelings of joy and Christ accomplishment as
they continue to release their energy in decrees, songs and so on. Then, through
projected consciousness, they can "travel" in that symbol which is a real form
created of light substance; sustained and expanded by the energies of the
groups. Through this projected consciousness, the students can visualize
themselves travelling anywhere they wish to go and there, giving their decrees
right into the activities which need help. For instance, you can go to the
Middle East; into areas devastated by destructive climatic conditions, or
wherever there is a need for your service. If every group in any one Sanctuary
has a different symbol for the "forcefield" and no one has a clear and distinct
idea of what they are doing, you are dissipating your energies. The center of
your "forcefield" can be any constructive pattern. Some of those who have
complied with my request have used the Maltese Cross as their center figure.
Several have used a large, pink rose and one is a large Grail of Blue Flame. As
you have seen in your "Bridge," through their calls and directing of the
energies in their "forcefields," some of the groups have been dissolving
ice-floes, stopping storms and rendering service in preventing and removing
flood conditions.
Therefore, again I point you humbly to this idea and ask, if it is
at all possible, that you decide upon and consciously create just a simple
symbol which you wish to use as the central pattern for your particular
"forcefield" in your local groups, wherever you live.
Beloved Sanctuary and Group Directors, please explain to the people
in your groups that the Thoughtform of the year (the Sacred Heart) is not a
"bauble". It is a message. It comes from the Heavenly Host and each student who
looks upon it is supposed to use it practically to heal, prosper and illumine
his own being and world as well as the lives of all with whom he comes in
contact. Much of this is done through radiation alone. I challenge you tonight
to see what you can do with this Pink Heart and your group "forcefields" for the
rest of the year, in the name of God!
Now, beloved ones, thanking you for your grace, your love and your
Presence, I love you always, deeply, more deeply than you know. At the time when
your particular Chohan came to me and said: "O, I have a wonderful chela; just
the most magnificent lifestream. I would like to Sponsor this one in the world
of form". Many times, I, (knowing what was in that lifestream) have smiled and
said: "all right, son. You have not only my acquiescence but all the powers,
gifts and help of my own Life. Go ahead!" Those of you who are here today are
those who have been so Sponsored by such Members of the Ascended Host and I have
taken you into my heart. Tonight, and always, I love you!
(Note: In connection with the above instruction on
"forcefields", please see "The Bridge to Freedom," Jan. 1955, p. 21. This
article is most interesting and informative.)