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Thanksgiving Class Address

Beloved Lord Ling

Greetings dear chelas, I bring you the feeling of the Cosmic Flame of Happiness in abundant measure. That glorious activity IS within your being... You do experience it spasmodically, but it is my heartfelt desire that its Essence will flow from you at all times.

True Happiness, relatively speaking, is not too often experienced by the average individual, and yet it is within his reach at all times.

The reason is that man looks to externals for this state of being, when all he has to do is withdraw his consciousness from the outer and enter the Christ Consciousness wherein dwells the Gift of Happiness.

Consider a happy child running with his pet at his side, or flying a kite with the soft breeze caressing him and tousling his hair, and you witness an expression of Happiness.

To experience Happiness does not mean that one has to be in an apparent state of elation, but it is the calm feeling of the essence of Love Divine which flows through one who is anchored within the Christ as he goes about his daily activities. It is truly a magnificent blessing to one's fellowman to be a radiating center of Happiness, for THAT love flowing through him travels throughout the Universe to anoint all Life.

One does not have to think of Happiness at all times, but to have the radiation which results from being in a state of grace flowing through him, knowing that God is motivating his every thought, word and deed, and once that true feeling of being the Christ in Action is experienced, he will know the meaning of Happiness. Happiness is a state of well-being and in a more expanded and elated sense it is termed 'Bliss'.

We know that the Supreme Source, the Father-Mother God, created this Universe to bring forth the gifts and blessings held within the Cosmic Consciousness. As the fruits of Heaven are manifold and flow along many avenues of Light or Rays, Happiness is experienced in diverse forms.

It may be clothed in the loving, dynamic essence of the First Ray and as that expression manifests, the Godhead expands the feeling of Happiness everywhere. You could travel along all the Rays and witness the Flame of Happiness flowing through those on the Earth plane, for Happiness is an all-encompassing Virtue which is the result of following the will of God in its manifold facets.

The Cosmic Reservoir of all Life holds within its Matrix all the Happiness that could ever be required to bring a state of bliss to all Life… Utopia upon the Planet.

Mark well my words, dear children, Happiness is a necessary feeling akin to and part of Divine Love, and its Holy Elixir may be increased through constructive action at all times.

The Cosmic Flame of Happiness is flowing from Shamballa in ever-expanding waves of Light today, for we are all so very grateful that the Supreme Creator has accepted us into his everlasting arms, to be his messengers to the peoples of this Earth. What a joy it is for us to draw the attention of the chelas to our Purpose in Being, and through your awareness of current activities, to have your loving and conscious cooperation with us in the restoration of this dear Earth to her pristine Beauty and Perfection.

Gratitude to the Father-Mother God is filling our Beings in accelerated measure during these four days as we think of the privilege which is ours to come to Shamballa to, not only send expanded Blessings to the peoples of this Planet, but to confer on Plans which we hope to put into expression during the forthcoming year.

I would like to draw your attention to a very important activity which should be a part of your daily living. Do you, beloved ones, awaken each day with a feeling of gratitude that you are being given another opportunity to fulfill some portion of the Divine Plan? And, at the close of day do you send forth a reverent, humble prayer that you have had this privilege?

Yes, there are many days that you do follow this pattern, but if you would make this a daily ritual, you would find the accelerated vibratory action of your being was well worth the few moments required to turn your attention to, and enter into your True Being.

Now, one course of Happiness which the Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy are experiencing is the manner in which the chelas have cooperated this year. Your feeling worlds are so greatly improved, and when you appear this evening to present your Harvest to the Lord of the World, you may be sure that you are bringing a goodly measure of Happiness to our Beloved Gautama.

To be under the direct radiation of the Lord of the World is a tremendous privilege, and when anyone turns his attention to this beloved One, the return current from his Being is a blessing which amplifies God's Love as it travels throughout the Universe. As our Love is, this moment, flowing to him, visualize the cascading Light from his Heart anointing us, and in the resultant Joy, send that Love to all Life.

Some place, someone will feel closer to his God by reason of this simple exercise of cooperative service. It is an experience never to be forgotten when one witnesses the Holy Gautama pouring his Love and Balancing Power to the Earth, and when he sees a chela or another part of life who is in need of assistance, the loving kindness of Lord Gautama's Love enfolds that individual.

As one sees the Flame within his Heart expand as the Christ within, that one accepts the Blessings and anoints that one in this Love. Mere words could never describe the change in the individual as he experiences an uplift in his feelings, and if truly accepted, the radiation changes from a negative to a more positive vibration. The Happiness in the Heart of the Lord of the World can most certainly be termed Bliss, for that soothing essence wells within his Being at all times... and for what purpose, but to be amplified and sent forth to another individual, condition, to enrich life with Divine Love.

Lord Gautama is our Exemplar, and I am most humbly grateful to be one Participant in this glorious Service of bringing the feeling of Happiness to all life.

Come thou NOW, O mighty Legions of Happiness and immerse thy Beings in the great Reservoir of Happiness provided by the Spiritual Hierarchy, AND go forth and saturate the Earth and her evolutions with this Holy Elixir. As each droplet of water adds to the emotional element of the Universe, so shall the Essence of true Happiness expand that feeling to all life.

Think, my dear ones, reverently of the mighty Gautama, for he truly is the Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus, the perfume of his Radiation is infiltrating the Earth at all times to restore her to the Divine Purpose which is ordained for her, and the manifest Permanent Golden Age is a proven fact.

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