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As we come to the close of the twelve-month cycle, all of those who represent the Spiritual Hierarchy are gathered at Shamballa, and here we celebrate a Cosmic Thanksgiving in which every one of the brothers is a participant. The great Audience Chamber is open for this Festivity and the evening before your national holiday, and for four days and nights thereafter, there is a constant outpouring of blessing upon every electron, elemental, animal, human, Angelic, Deva, Ascended Master and Cosmic Being who have consciously or unconsciously contributed to the forward progress o the race. 

This Flame of Thanksgiving has gone forth rhythmically since the day when the thirty Beings knelt before the Coming of their Lord, Sanat Kumara, and it has built in power. 

One of the most exquisite ways of preparing for the Christmas Season individually is for each lifestream to consciously and earnestly prepare his own ceremony of Thanksgiving and, officiating upon the Altar of his own Christ Temple, invite into the Presence of his own God Flame all of the life that has served him during the twelve months that have passed and, through a special blessing and benediction, confer upon that life the added substance of his own Christ Nature. 

This ceremony will show each man how rich he is in the blessings that have filled his world through the channels in every kingdom - natural, human and Divine. In such an activity, no bitterness or discontent can live. Also, every Master to whom the individual extends an invitation to his ceremony, will respond and enter into the Sanctuary of the heart where such a Thanksgiving is being celebrated; and this visitation, alone, will bring a return of spiritual blessings far beyond the comprehension of the outer man, for the individual effort involved in preparing such a Thanksgiving Service to Life.

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PREPARE YOURSELVES TO DELIVER YOUR YEARLY HARVEST!

Letter from the Maha Chohan to the

Transmission of the Flame Class

November 19, 1960 

Beloved Ones who are assisting Lord Gautama in Lighting the World: 

"I AM" so grateful for your marvelous cooperation in expanding the Light through the emotional, mental, etheric and physical bodies of all mankind and all evolutions using the Earth for a planetary home. 

When we come, to Shamballa, to greet each other Cosmic Beings, Ascended Beings, God Free Angels and you, our dear chelas, it is truly a season of Holy Festivity and friendly discussion. 

Lord Gautama has arranged for an Ascended Master Sponsor who has been for at least 1,000 years trained by Sanat Kumara, to assist you during this thirty day period preceding the entrance into the Holy Christmas time. In November, before the Altar at Shamballa, you shall bring in your sheaves of accomplishment and how delighted we all are that those sheaves have borne fruit of works well done. 

Love and Blessings

Maha Chohan

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