In the Second Temple, everyone is happy. It is the Temple of the Beloved Kuthumi and the educators. The good in the Causal Body has been studied and there is this action of the Law which is familiar to a goodly number of you. When you receive more assistance than is your due by merit, you must give a balance by service to equalize the account of the Book of Life. So from the Causal Body and from the heart, the chela determines wherein is his greatest possible service to the community and to mankind. He determines to become a great singer, a great artist, an inventor, a teacher, a healer, a priest and so on. He is then assigned to a Temple where he can develop greater and greater efficacy according to the field of endeavor which he has chosen. 

In the Third Temple, you are required to live with six other lifestreams who have within them the particular nature characteristics and general qualities that irk you. You must live and pray with them. You must live and learn the Law which Saint Germain gave you not so long ago, "that persons resist persons, places, conditions and things because they have not mastered themselves." After you have adjusted yourself to these six individuals, you are moved to another group with another six, unless of course, you are among the few who do not need this. It is at this Temple that almost all of our friends leave. This Temple is supervised by the gentle Venetian, the "Gentleman" of Heaven. Yet to be a gentle woman or gentle man, you must be so strong, and your tolerance so developed, your love so magnificent, that nothing can change the radiation of your aura, except your will, directing it forth for a good cause. Those who get out of the Third Temple to Mastery, come before me for the first time since entering the Retreat. Many, many have left by the open door! 

In the Fourth Temple comes the wonderful experience, which some of you have had for a moment of unification with the Christ. It is an Initiation in which I, myself, am the Presiding Master, and those who have learned to live with their fellowman, then have earned the right to live with God and to see the Presence face to face! Here the veil is rent; the Holy Christ Self is revealed and the anchorage which you will enjoy, established. 

In the Fifth Temple which is the Temple of Consecration, there is another happy experience and those here do not know anything of a discordant nature. They take the linen garments, and the sandals and they are consciously vested under Hilarion's Radiation with the garments of the priest, the jewels of authority, the scepters of power, the secret Word of invocation and that exquisite ceremony is performed where each one walks up the steps of the Temple and presides for the first time in drawing the visible Sacred Fire directly from the Universal, in any of the seven Temples, according to the Ray to which the lifestream belongs. Many remain here and go no further. 

In the Sixth Temple the chelas have to pass through a tremendous Renunciation. They are the Missionaries under the Archangel Uriel and Beloved Jesus who take off the beautiful vestments, fold away the velvets and the silks; take off the jewels of power; remove their crowns from their heads; assume the begging bowl and the garment of the mendicant; take the vow of silence and go out of the door of Luxor to perform through radiation alone a specific service of world benefit. Jesus passed through this Initiation at the age of five. 

In the Seventh Temple are the few who return, and those few are the candidates for the Ascension, and who through radiation become fountains of nourishment and mercy to the Earth sphere until the hour of their complete Victory is attained. 

Serapis Bey