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LORD THEOPHRASTUS Speaks on the Karmic Board:

"I AM” he who followed Plato and Aristotle in the Peripatetic School! Therefore it is my pleasure to follow the Lady Parses. I, too, shall impart to you in simple terms several answers to questions which are imperative to the understanding and application of the Spiritual Law. 

IV. What is the Karmic Board?

The Karmic Board is a Council which voluntarily assumed both the responsibility and obligation of meting out the necessary lessons required by each individual who has taken embodiment upon the planet Earth. 

All of mankind was originally created in the Image and Likeness of the Father-Mother God without taint of sin. Each one was endowed with the power of free will in using his creative faculties to fulfill his portion of the Divine Plan, as Lady Parses said. While each individual utilized this free will to fulfill his Divine Missions, the First Golden Age flourished. There was at that time no requirement for the Karmic Board. The Second and Third Golden Ages completed their course in a like manner. 

The cycle of the Fourth Age upon the planet Earth found her voluntary Hostess to peoples from other planets who had rebelled against God's Law and were thus planetary orphans, (laggards). Then the peoples of Earth, despite the protection invoked by Lord Michael and other Divine Beings, succumbed to the subtle sin of curiosity! Their experimentation with the misuse of free will caused what is known as 'the fall of man'. They became enamored of their use of the creative powers, independent of God-direction, and that which you know as the soul was born! 

Anticipating this rebellion against the Father-Mother God and the resultant discord which would ensue, three Divine Beings volunteered to assist anyone so enmeshed in this personal and mass creation of imperfect thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Thus the first Karmic Board was formed! Through successive Ages and recalcitrance upon the part of Teachers, as well as students, the number of Members of the Karmic Board has been increased to seven, each one representing a particular God Virtue temporarily lost by man. The Divine Beings who comprise the Karmic Board qualify for their office according to the requirement. Thus the Office and the Individual Being are not always the same. 

V. How do these Members assist man?

At the close of each embodiment the soul is required to appear before the Karmic Board. Here he is given opportunity to explain the REASON for the activities in his last Earthly embodiment. The Karmic Board in turn looks upon the MOTIVES behind such activities and assigns each soul to a realm whose vibratory action is akin to such a one's consciousness. Also at this time a Teacher either volunteers or is assigned to such a soul so that it will better understand the reason for its being, and upon its return to Earth in the next embodiment have opportunity to make restitution. 

VI.          From where is the word "Karmic" derived?

As a man sows, so shall he reap! Therefore all energy the soul has misqualified becomes 'evil' karma and that which he qualified in a constructive manner is good karma. It is ofttimes referred to as the Law of Cause and Effect. 

VII.       What is Purgatory?

Purgatory is not a place, but is the activity of purging the soul. Man is not required to carry his imperfect karma with him until he leaves his flesh body. The act of purgation SHOULD TAKE PLACE as soon as he is privileged to know of the Sacred Fire of Transmutation and by cooperation with the Karmic Board and the Divine Beings who are waiting to assist him when so invoked.

Those who refuse to accept this Truth while in embodiment will of necessity be assigned by the Karmic Board to the exercise of purgation after so-called death. 

VIII.     What is Hell?

Hell is the state of consciousness, an uncomfortable one, in which man reaps the results of his misdeeds. When he learns the use of the Sacred Fire of Transmutation he can remove the resultant effects of his misdeeds. It is entirely man's self-chosen estate through the mis-use of free will. He can remain in that consciousness with its attendant suffering or extricate himself by the act of purgation. As we have previously told you, each individual has lived for ages of time. Therefore the extent of each soul's personal hell and period of purgation is determined by his use of life through those ages. His redemption will likewise require a balance of constructive endeavor. There is no permanence to hell or suffering of any kind when the individual ACCEPTS THE LAW OF THE CIRCLE, takes full responsibility for the conditions in which he presently abides and makes humble supplication for assistance in his redemption. 

In next issue: LADY MERCEDES (Sister of Beloved Kwan Yin) Speaks.

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