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Along the Path
Maha Chohan
October 1956
Blessed Seekers after Peace: As has often been said — Mastery is the ability to control a situation without words and without any apparent outer action. A Master can hold the Peace within a room or a nation, by the mere exhalation of Cosmic Peace drawn and focused through his own heart. The difficult thing for western students to learn is to leave off "wordiness" that in the silence of their tongues, they may hear their hearts speak and the souls of other men who perhaps have much to give. It seems so frequently at a meeting of western students that each one is waiting with bated breath for a pause in the conversation that he may jump in with his concepts and ideas. Thus each man is so enamored of the little knowledge or stories he projects into each conversation, that he hears not anything but the things in his own world, and these are sometimes worn thin from his own repeating.
Beloved ones, in the Silence the power is generated, and in the Silence is the lesson learned from the heart of Truth. That is why in the Eastern Retreat chelas are bound by pledges of absolute silence. Thus their lower selves are stopped from constant chatter until the Great Self is heard within them, and then no longer do they wish to express the idle nothings of the lesser selves. Silence is the Way of Peace. In the Silence one cannot incite another to anger nor draw down unnecessary impediments to his own progress. In the Silence one does not set up the causes that reverberate as destructive effects farther on upon the road. The Breath of God is too pregnant with Power to be used so lightly. Much outer turmoil would be avoided if the Breath were conserved within the body until it could be sent forth to accomplish a good purpose.
For an individual who chooses to enter the Great, Great Silence, I would suggest a simple formula by which he may be a silent mentor over his own lifestream...
Let him think of the Great Silence as his Kingdom of Heaven, the habitation of the Gods and the Angels, the highest expression of Beauty, Culture, Love and Light that his mind and heart conceive.
Let him think that to dwell in such a realm he must so fit himself that he will not desecrate the Silence by any vibratory action that would be unbefitting such a glorious Kingdom.
Let his words be always carefully chosen so that they deserve entrance to such a Kingdom.
Let him learn that his every action will create a vibration affecting the entire Kingdom. That his every thought and feeling are, in like manner, either adding to its Beauty or destroying its Harmony.
It will be seen then that if he lives every minute imbued with the consciousness that only harmonious radiation is the entrance to that Kingdom he will eventually attain the point where his own vibratory action will fit him to dwell with all Life that has already learned, and become the Law of Love.
It is important to remember that mental vibrations cannot govern the vibratory action of the inner bodies eternally. Human will may silence the tongue, but not the rebellious feelings of the inner man, but by the Grace of God and the Light of God changing the inner bodies, the outer man will of necessity express the Harmony. Thus will the outer man reach a point where his ears will be deafened to the babelous tumult and his heart filled with the Voice of God and its Holy Wisdom.
And, so, blessed friends, for an hour, for a day, a week, month, a year practice generating the Ascended Masters' feeling of Peace and Power in Silence and Love.
The Maha Chohan
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The Great Beings from the Sun Temples whose radiation and outpouring we will receive during this period;
Beloved Zarathustra—November 1st through December 21st
Spirit of Fire, of Enthusiasm, Home of the Salamanders and Fire Elements.
Beloved Minerva―December 1st through January 19th,
Discrimination, Discretion, Perception and Intuition.
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