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ADDRESS BY THE ASCENDED MASTER JESUS THE CHRIST
My Beloved Master, Lord Divino, asked me to give you an explanation of the preparation of a World Teacher since I have passed through the experience and initiation myself.
The cosmic cycle of spiritual nourishment required to mature a newly born Spirit Spark, takes approximately fourteen thousand years. That is one complete revolution of the Cosmic Wheel; two thousand years being under the specific radiation of each one of the Seven Rays through the directed energies of the Chohan representing that Ray.
As the Cosmic Wheel turns, it is similar to the advancing seasons upon your Earth, all of which are required to bring to maturity a harvest planted in the spring. Each two thousand years a certain current plays upon the soul of man and at the end of the fourteen thousand year cycle, the harvest is ready - or should be - to be garnered. The great World Teacher, and presiding Chohan of the Ray which is to be the Spiritual Season in that two thousand year cycle, work out together a plan of religion, ceremonial worship and radiation which will best benefit the souls of men who are to have the privilege of embodiment during that period of time.
The World Teacher looks upon the radiation and the particular gift of that Ray as it will flow upon the Earth. Then with his Lieutenants he examines the souls who are to embody and have the experience of developing within that two thousand year cycle. Looking upon the Divine Plan, he examines the souls of those who are to embody and have the experience of developing within that cycle of time. He designs a pattern of worship which will stimulate the soul light and life in that entire cycle. This was completed by the beloved Lord Divino (then Lord Maitreya) preceding my earth life. The Christian Dispensation was worked out in detail at inner levels to give the greatest blessing and benediction of the Ray of Devotion through the planet Earth and the lifestreams who were to evolve and develop during the two thousand years while the Sixth Ray was predominant.
When it was completed a great Cosmic Council was called and this presentation of the entire Christian Dispensation was thrown upon the Cosmic Screen, showing how it would be first originated and developed by a humble group of individuals; then how it would be matured as greater intensity of the Ray began to play through those who would dedicate themselves to such service.
At the close of this presentation, volunteers were asked who might choose to partake of the great privilege and honor of bringing the first impulse of that Dispensation through the veil of birth into the physical appearance world. Many of us, having such tremendous love for mankind, and being eager to see the fulfillment of God's Will on Earth, volunteered, and from these volunteers Lord Maitreya, looking at the Causal Body and the development through the ages and the specialized talents and characteristics of the lifestreams, chose my beloved mother, myself, my beloved father and the disciples. All of those were among the volunteers!
Lord Maitreya was required to test the strength of each one, and through the process of initiation certain lifestreams were eliminated. Finally, the heart group who were to perform the pageantry in the world of form was consecrated and blessed by Lord Maitreya and sent to the Temples of Purification to await the summons by the Karmic Board. At the moment when their part in the Divine Drama was about to be enacted, Joseph, Mary and the disciples appeared in physical bodies in various places, seemingly humble individuals, and most of them, not remembering much of the inner vision or vow but awaiting the Cosmic Moment when that clarion call, which is invisible and known only to the heart, would go forth and summon them to fulfill their destiny.
I, too, at the Cosmic Moment was called. I, too, received the blessings of Lord Maitreya. I, too, was bound and passed through the period of forgetfulness and took earth body. I, too, awoke to a world of form, to a world of shadows and had to find within myself the reason and purpose of my Being. Well do I remember those early days in Egypt when I was taken at a tender age into those temples, when I learned the law before the priests. Well do I remember my gratitude for the love of my mother and my father which balanced the austerity, the discipline, the tremendous pressure required of even a child who applied for mastery in one of the Temples at Luxor. I remember the first day when suddenly the consciousness of Lord Maitreya entered my own! Then it seemed as if I had awakened from a bad dream. When I saw with the clarity of the inner sight his glorious shining face, and I said with every fiber and cell of my being, "Oh Father, Oh, Father"! And back on that beam of energy came the joy of his heart in that recognition, "My Son, My Son"! Never again did I walk alone! Closer and closer we drew; no veil between, no shadow that could claim power; one with the Christ, and he one with God!
And so I grew, matured, and fulfilled a humble part in the destiny of this great evolution. It was my joy to walk the paths of Earth. It was my joy to show my confidence in that father in manifest works. It was my joy to walk the path to Golgotha, and it was my joy to burst forth triumphant from the tomb.
Do you know the hardest experience of that whole life? The parting on the Hill of Bethany into the Ascended Christ; the leaving of dear hearts and consciousnesses that I knew yet needed comfort and strength; the leaving of my mother and John and those who had loved me well! Yet had the magnetic pull of my love turned earthward, the currents would have been broken. Every atom and cell of my being had to be sent up into the Heart of the Electronic Presence, to make FOR YOU the pattern of the Ascension, which it is your joy and your destiny to fulfill. Beloved ones I love you. LOVE YOU NOW ONE ANOTHER!