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The Power of Silence

The need of the sincere student is to become still, often, throughout the course of the day, to allow the energy, directives, radiation and powers of the God Presence, I AM, to flow into and nourish the lower vehicles and the outer consciousness. In the East, the practice of concentrated meditation upon the supreme source prefaces all activity. In the West, where the requirements of each hour seem to demand the attention and energies of the student, this period of spiritual communion is often neglected and confirmed by the self-righteous feeling that the service is so great that there is literally no time to "be still and know that I AM GOD"!  

Individuals feel that the demands of the four lower vehicles, their appetites and promptings, are the urging of the Inner Presence, and this delays the contact with the I AM Presence and the correct recognition of its directions. The sincere student needs to purify and discipline these vehicles to their proper position as servants of the I AM Presence. This can best be done by stilling the energies of the mental body; the quieting of the surging sea of the emotional world; and the refusal to allow the etheric body to bring up past failures and disillusionments; and to discipline the physical body. Of course, this takes time, patience, constancy and strength. When this is accomplished, only then the "still small voice" of the I AM Presence can be heard.  

The ascended masters tell us that the Invocation of I AM Presence and the Ascended Host of Light is essential to magnetize a direct current of their energies through us. However, there comes a point where the individual, having made, the necessary application should rest in the silence and accept the radiation invoked! Many times the student continues all through the period of application to make petitions, decrees, etc., which does not allow the inner bodies to become quiet enough to accept the gifts invoked. It is necessary to balance the giving of one's energy to connect with the higher vibrations and accepting the gifts that he has invoked.

The activity of truly entering the silence cannot be over-emphasized. The consciousness must be kept positive. The emotional, mental, etheric and physical bodies must be trained to direct their energies toward their source, the I AM, and should never be allowed to "play" at this time with the various thoughts, feelings, memories, or physical lassitude that often accompany relaxation from actual positive work. It is usually easy for the student to make the invocations, decrees and visualizations that actually employ the energies of the lower bodies, but it is difficult to complete the spiritual exercise by holding the lower bodies in the silence in order to receive the blessings given. Many times he either goes happily to sleep or toys with numerous irrelevant thoughts and feelings and thus does not receive the benefits from his period of contemplation.  

All good, whether it is supply, health, illumination, faith, strength, love or purification, comes from God, the source of all life, and these gifts are dispensed by the great beings who are the messengers of God. However, the student cannot receive the fullness of these gifts until he has disciplined his lower bodies and allows the spiritual grace which he has invoked to enter therein. Speak to these bodies, and say to them, "Peace! Be still! " Practice communing with your God Self until you do receive its blessings!  

Human beings have lost control of the rhythm of their four lower vehicles so that, instead of functioning in a harmonious vibration directed by the I AM Presence, they spin erratically, spurred on to greater speed or slowed down by any "tramp" discordant thought, feeling, memory, or physical action that takes the fancy for the moment. The soul is unable to receive the peace and benediction from the I AM Presence, and the divine beings when these vehicles are not controlled. Until this is done, the individual is unable to come forth from his spiritual exercise renewed in mind, feelings, soul and body as he should.

The Ascended Master Saint Germain once said that before his ascension, his teacher and guru, the Great Divine Director (or Lord Saithrhu, as he is known today) asked him to go onto a battlefield and do certain things in the silence. Saint Germain did not think that he could do it, but he was willing to try. He eventually drew the power of the silence around him so powerfully that it actually deflected a physical form from running over him. Saint Germain said that experience did more for him than anything he had done previously and from then on, he went forward spiritually very rapidly.  

The silence can become an actual substance that can give protection to a physical body as well as illumination to the mind and peace to the feelings. Many students have built a momentum in the giving of verbal decrees, but there is also a need to balance their activities by learning to work in the silence as well. One can think in the silence, feel in the silence, speak in the silence, and direct the light rays and the service you wish to give from the silence, but tell no one what you are doing! The results in manifest works will cause others to know that a service is being, rendered.  

Beloved Ascended Master Jesus has said: "The demands upon the time, energy, attention and service of the chela who is engaged in a spiritual endeavor form a great stumbling block to his individual progress unless he learns how to consciously quiet the energies of his own world so that new strength, faith and power may be supplied by his own I AM Presence and the divine beings who are so willing to assist him. I know from my own experience! During my ministry, as today, the world and its peoples require so much assistance. There is a tendency to rush forth to serve without the necessary period of "re-fueling" at the Cosmic Fount. You will remember that I often "went into the hills to pray". No chela can be of lasting service to the spiritual work at hand unless he understands the necessity for taking time, undivided, from the world (which you will always have with you) to enter the silence and draw the necessary strength and sanctity from the source of all good. This he can then dispense in poise, dignity, and loving solicitude for his fellowman".