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Shamballa, Long Island New York
Lord Maitreya
October 1986
To some I Am known as the Divine Initiator. What does that designation mean to you?
It should mean that an Initiator is a Being of LOVE ― one who sets an example for another to follow... a parent or teacher who wills an individual to further his advancement on the Pathway to maturity in any field of his choice.
Let us think of a parent who set a pattern in his own way of living, KNOWING the tests or initiations wills his offspring to follow, be they in the spiritual or secular world.
One should keep in the forefront of his consciousness that the motivating power behind all action should be Love ― a parent or teacher enfolding him in the Essence of Love, praying his pupil will enter or motivate all action by the Essence of Love.
In the case of a member of the Spiritual Hierarchy be assured that his pupil is constantly enfolded in a Garment of Love... a garment created by the ever flowing Essence of Love flowing from his Being to assist the chela to pass his tests in his daily living.
I quote from a treatise on Cosmic Christ Consciousness.
"There is a great Universal Sea of Consciousness which envelopes all living and created things, from the Solar Logoi to the blade of grass. it is the Aura and Radiation of the seven bodies of the Great Central Sun for the System.
A man's consciousness represents the exhalation of all his seven bodies, and the periphery of his aura is the conglomerate mass of radiation exuded from these bodies. So does the great Cosmic Christ Consciousness, which forms the periphery of our Universe, contain within itself all the Divine Ideation, Feeling and Powers of that God Heart from whence we all came into form. According to the capacity of the individual intelligences living within the great Cosmic Christ Consciousness to perceive the Beauty and Perfection that is there, does it manifest unto them.
We are all in the process of recognizing and actualizing this Cosmic Christ Consciousness through the individual consciousness we have evolved, to that forms for us the periphery of our own world of experience. Our ability to perceive Truth, and to enjoy the greater vista of its expanded horizon, raises us constantly into a greater awareness of that which is, and it is always our great Joy to translate, transfer and transmit that portion of Truth, which it has been ours to perceive, to those who hold their consciousness open to us for nourishment. That is the purpose of all Master-chela relationships; the purpose of all teacher and student relationships in the human octave
- in the educational channels as well as in the study of the Higher Lows. The teacher gives of the riches of his consciousness to the student, the parent to the child; and the Master to humanity. Humankind gives of the questionable contents of his consciousness, one to the other, in constant barter and trade. Consciousness is one of the most bartered activities of the race. The man who chooses to enrich his consciousness has chosen wisely, for there is no other lasting benefit that this Earth or any Star or Sun, can give. When he leaves this plane, it is only consciousness that goes with him, and when Jesus said: “Lay up your treasures in Heaven". He spoke of this Truth.To return to the beginning of our instruction, this Cosmic Consciousness is like the ocean, and your given vehicles are immersed in the midst of it. The life and capacity to feel in your feeling world is a portion of the Feeling Nature of God, but how much of it? The capacity within the mind to think is a portion of the great thinking Flame of the Cosmic Christ, and the very energy of the physical body is a portion of the God Power which endows the life. Therefore, identify your seven bodies with this Cosmic Presence, and in contemplation, DRAW IN all the Powers of thinking and feeling that are within the Cosmic Christ, PRECEDING application, you can draw a shallow breath, as most of you do, and take but the slightest bit of vital currents that are in the physical air, and all the vitality of the Cosmic Christ which could animate the physical body is untapped. Another individual may draw from that same air enough vitality to make that body immortal. It is the same with your inner vehicles.
If you can understand this, you cannot only treat, with great success, your vessels, but you can enter into Cosmic Creation because there is no one to say you 'nay' as to how much God Power you may choose with which to identify yourself”.
Lord Maitreya