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Rays of Spiritual Illumination

THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU

"Man has given power, authority, thought, feeling and energy to every internal and external force, to create and sustain limitation within and about him. The way of the Master is to turn the attention of the outer consciousness toward the Presence of God within him. When given opportunity, this Presence will create and sustain the Kingdom of Heaven through him, for the blessings of both himself and his fellowman. When Jesus said: "If I do not go away, the Comforter will not come", He realized that while the disciples and followers of his doctrine relied upon him, they would not become acquainted with the Individualized Presence that beats each heart and have faith to call forth that Presence to create and sustain harmony, beauty, opulence, health and perfection for themselves and their fellowman."

Beloved Maha Chohan 

"Within every individualization projected from the Source of all life, (call it God, the "I AM" Presence or any other Name), is an intelligent focus of the God Presence. The service of the Great White Brotherhood is to nourish, develop, expand and anchor into the outer consciousness, the knowledge of that Inner Presence which can and does create the Kingdom of Heaven for the individual, when called forth in faith and in Love. The mastery, powers, talents and momentums of another never give lasting peace to the individual! The development of his own mastery over energy, substance, circumstance and environment, does give lasting peace and is the reason for incarnation of each lifestream upon Earth; as well as the reason for such individual's sojourn at inner levels between embodiments."

Beloved El Morya 

"The Presence of God within man is the hope of his ultimate personal salvation and individual mastery over the substance and energy of any Sphere in which his consciousness is required to dwell. The "I AM" Presence signifies by its very name (PRESENCE) that it is here NOW! It signifies that it is not some ephemeral Being, who, in time to come (usually accepted as having accomplished its visitation after so-called death) will transform, transmute and sublimate all the tendencies, conditions, effects and personal limitations of the individual. Contemplation upon the Truth that there is a Presence in man, capable of such transformation and sublimation NOW, brings the hope of glory and peace 'in the sweet by and by' into the present. 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand' said Jesus; not 'The Kingdom of Heaven will be yours in some mystic land far, far away!"

Beloved Kuthumi 

"At Luxor, the training of the neophyte compels him to turn to the Inner Presence and to reply upon it to become the very supply of food required to nourish the physical body; to create the raiment worn by the physical body; to prompt the outer consciousness to the course of study, application and contemplation required to purify the vehicles through which the soul must work its way to freedom. In present day society, the Masters follow the same course, playing their Radiation upon the chela, but refraining from physical appearances (except on rare occasions) because the nature of the outer self is always to lean upon any Intelligence who can do for them what they must learn to do for themselves. Contemplation of this Inner Presence allows it to act through the energies of the personal self with more and more efficacy, power, momentum and conscious direction. There should be no straining to find that Presence. It is within you NOW as you read our words. It is waiting to be invited to act through the personal self which it has created and sustained through millions of years for but one purpose to expand the Kingdom of Heaven through the individual! Will you not accept that Presence and allow it the courtesy to act through you?"

Beloved Serapis Bey

"The Presence of God is applied to in emergencies, in personal, national or international crises. However, it is not usually cultivated in daily, personal association. Now is the time for the sincere chela to invite that Presence through himself and then through all mankind, to fulfill its reason for being! Why does the Presence seem so ephemeral; so unreal; so difficult to endow with the faith of the personal self because through the ages, the outer consciousness has endeavored to live without its counsel, guidance and friendship, in every Sphere of individualization, practice results in development of the capacities and talents of the individual. Practice the cultivation of the Presence of God within you NOW. Set that Presence to work in every detail of your individual life. Then expect it to respond. As you do this, the Presence of God within you, whose natural habitat is the Kingdom of Heaven, will begin to externalize that Kingdom, in, through and around you. In this world of form, you know how any individual brings his personality, preferences, aura and atmosphere with him and creates in his home an externalization of his inner consciousness. So, too, does the Presence of God when invited and given an opportunity so to do!"

Beloved Hilarion 

"In my ministry, one of the greatest appearances against which I had to stand, was the externalization by my fellowman of the heterogeneous thoughts and feelings of the outer consciousness which formed the environment, atmosphere and surroundings of the individual. Knowing that the PRESENCE OF GOD, with ALL ITS Glory, was anchored within each beating heart, waiting to externalize the perfection, beauty, harmony, health, opulence and magnificence of the Kingdom of Heaven through such distressed ones, I longed for the way and means of awakening the outer consciousness and the soul to the realization that the Kingdom of Heaven to which they aspired, was at hand for the taking. It is also true today! Either the Inner Presence is allowed to flow forth through the mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies of its creation, expanding that Kingdom, or it is ignored and the outer consciousness continues to experiment with God's Gift of Life to create the limitations which seem so distressing to the personal self."

Beloved Jesus 

"The establishment of the permanent Golden Age upon the planet Earth and the creation of a Star of Freedom from a shadow planet, requires the externalization of the Kingdom of Heaven through every soul belonging to this evolution; each one contributing that portion of the Kingdom which is required to make the whole picture complete according to the wisdom of his own Individualized "I AM" Presence. Cultivating, developing and sustaining: an active comradeship with the God-self within the heart reaps great rewards. It builds momentums of faith, illumination, tolerance, purity, scientific but spiritual formulas which can never fail, healing power and the conscious powers of transmutation. The combination of the energies of Masters, Angels and men... all relying upon the ONE POWER can perform this transformation. Manifest in the alleviation of the distresses that beset the race, works will call forth interest in the ways and means of becoming similar channels for externalizing God's Kingdom! The Presence of God IS WITHIN YOU NOW! In the Name of that God and Beloved Jesus who acknowledged him, always, as the only Source of healing, miracles and transmutation, I ask you to set about your personal pilgrimage to find him and to set him to work through you. Practice on things. Effects of a positive nature will increase your confidence and faith and make you master over greater appearances in time."

Beloved Saint Germain