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HOW CAUSES ARE DEVELOPED
An Instruction by Beloved Mighty Vesta
A. MY SERVICE TO LIFE IS INVESTING LIFESTREAMS WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER
Life defined. "I AM" the Embodiment of the "Invocative Power" by which Universal Life and Light begin an active expression of use-full-ness.
Life is the servant of Flame, as is Light the radiation of Life. Without any Intelligent Director, Life would remain forever unformed, quiescent. Within Life the Godhead has placed every power, attribute, capacity and virtue which is his.
Man's duty. Man must learn of ITS Presence and how to draw forth its Fullness. He must become vested with the Power of Creation. Love of Life and a desire to understand its Nature precede my Service to the evolving soul.
My Answer. I, then, INVEST them with the knowledge of Life's Potentialities and their capacity to unfold and draw forth from Life the fullness that God has incorporated into this ever-present, intelligent, vital substance. My activity is to draw forth, mold and externalize this potential perfection through my pupils. To invest an individual with authority is to confer upon his Life Flame, powers not previously present.
INVESTING LIFESTREAMS IN WORLD OR LOCAL CAUSES
My Capital. "I AM" the Root of Investment, and a powerful force in the financial world when understood. People design a project and invest their substance so the project may live and have the authority to govern their fortunes.
I INVEST lifestreams in Causes, working with the Lords of Karma, to further world progress. These lifestreams represent my Capital, and the Causes benefit by their Presence.
Director of Cosmic Ventures. All Cosmic Ventures are placed before me by their Sponsors and the Great White Brotherhood. Lifestreams capable of assisting in carrying these missions through the veil of embodiment must come before me, and if their light and Karma and capacities are judged proper for the particular service, they are INVESTED (together with their Sponsor) with certain powers and dedicated to a Cause. This is all done at inner levels and circumstances draw people together in the world of form when it is proper for the Investment to begin working for some faucet of Universal Good.
B. DEVELOPMENT OF CAUSES CREATED BY THE GODHEAD.
Origin of Causes. Many Causes are set up by the Godhead, and many Causes are born through the initiative of his children.
A Cause, to which a lifestream may choose to dedicate his Life, is not necessarily created by the individual himself, but it can be assumed, and an individual interested in such service may take the responsibility of carrying such a Cause to mankind that its ultimate beneficial effect may sooner be the heritage of the people.
The Godhead may create Causes; Intelligent Beings, pondering on ways to serve God's plan, may evolve Causes and bring them into outer manifestation.
The Cause of Freedom. The Cause of Freedom was born in God's Heart when the first Flame was created, for God desired all his Creation FREE.
When a Cosmic Desire of God's Heart pulsates in the Higher Heavens, waiting to be claimed, ensouled, and lowered by one of his children, it is so finely attuned and vibrates so quickly that it is neither visible nor tangible to even tremendously evolved Beings, EXCEPT where their own interests and leanings through the centuries have created in them a sympathetic vibration. Thus a Being would have had to love Freedom, serve Freedom for centuries before the Cosmic Pulsation would be even discernible in the blazing Cosmic Light, which is the Desire World of the Great Central Sun.
Saint Germain claimed the Cause of Freedom. Such a Being is Saint Germain! He finally achieved a personal evolution sufficient to PERCEIVE God's Desire to bring Freedom to his Creation. (The ability to perceive the Presence of any Blessing is one of God's Gifts and is developed by the humble listening heart).
When Saint Germain (among all the hearts in Heaven) pierced through God's Aura and entered the Secret Place of the Most High, He saw "unclaimed" the Cause God had set up before the world was, and which one day must, by the nature of its Being, have an effect which would be manifest as unconditional Freedom for every part and particle of his Creation. Love which had answered before the call, God providing before the need.
His Heart thrilled at sharing the Father's Secret Desire. He loved that “Cause” and prayed and prepared that some day he might be worthy to ensoul that Cause with his own Flame and carry it down to the world of men that its effect might externalize on the screen of maya.
Time of fulfillment. The Great Central Sun itself would call the being prepared to carry his particular Cause to fulfillment, either when the Cosmic Hour for its birth had come or some Child of Heaven had anticipated that hour and become the fit vessel for its outer manifestation before the hour.
When any Being becomes ready to be invested with a Cosmic Cause, the Law of magnetic attraction begins to pull on the Heart of God and the Cause that has lain therein starts on its downward course to join itself in the call from below. Thus does the Godhead become aware of the readiness of the race for a greater Blessing.
Saint Germain's Preparation. The Father called the Son - Saint Germain - in the ripe hour and Saint Germain entered in a Comic Initiation, the Great Flaming Desire of Freedom and ensouled it with his Flame, taking full responsibility for carrying it to the Earth and letting its effect radiate through all life and all created beings.
Saint Germain's students are invested with the knowledge and power of the Sacred Fire by me. Those who accepted them, with their Sponsor, were given audience before me and each invested with the knowledge and power of the Sacred Fire and the vision of the Cause in its fullness. 'Then, as a corporate body, they - together with their Master - were cosmically invested, their bodies, minds, natures, heritage, in the Cause of Freedom and none can leave that Cause until its effect is manifest. All are my Investment in the name and by the Desire of the God of Love.
C. DEVELOPMENT OF CAUSES EVOLVED THROUGH INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE - FIVE STEPS.
1st — For instance, an advanced Being (initiate) desires to bring to the human race the Art which he has learned to love in the Sphere of Light. Working in this Sphere under the Chohan of Art, he feels the race would benefit IN SOUL GROWTH by seeing, absorbing and creating this perfect Art (which up to this point may never have been expressed on Earth before).
2nd — The Lords of Karma hear his Plan, weigh his worth and capacities, and looking at the World Plan - acquiesce to his desire to embody and bring his gift to humanity.
3rd — Then he must interest contemporary spirits in HIS CAUSE. They must not only love him, but be found capable of offering beneficial talents, capacities, etc., according to their soul growth and nature. They, too, must be passed by the Lords of Karma.
4th. — If this Being is fortunate enough to secure fellow beings willing to assist him, then the Sponsor and his Group come before me (Vesta) and they are individually and collectively INVESTED in the name of God in this movement.
I alone take the responsibility for investing souls, life, time, energy, intelligence, in a Cause, and the resultant effect (the failures and successes) become my personal obligation to Life. Thus the Cause is carefully studied, its possible beneficial result on the race, the nature and capacities of the Sponsor and volunteers, before such investment takes place.
All those invested, are then, in turn, vested with the power and authority of the Sacred Fire to draw out of Life everything their intelligence prompts them to call forth to perfect, protect, beautify and expand the Cause they serve. They carry more power than the masses, for they have been cosmically ordained.
5th. — During the entire course of embodiment they work consciously or unconsciously for the Cause they accepted at inner levels and I, naturally, am vitally interested in their progress. In times of crisis I am, because of my personal responsibility, privileged to enter into the Cause with my Power and Light.
The Vestal Virgins. The activity of the Vestal Virgins has been little understood. They were lifestreams who volunteered at certain periods of Earth's growth to take embodiment and through devotion to the Sacred Fire, vitalize definite Causes dedicated to further the evolution of the race. This concentrated Presence of the Sacred Fire, drawn earthward, and sustained by the guarding lifestreams of the Virgins, was the sustaining power of those movements - civic, religious, artistic, etc. The Vestal Virgins were VESTED with Power, and INVESTED in a world Cause or a local Cause through my Lifestream.
Gently, "I AM" Vesta