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Volume 2 No. 36                                                                                                              November 29, 1953 

Beloved Children:

I submit for your pleasure the Beloved Kuthumi's Report of the occurrences in the Retreat at Shamballa at the Transmission Flame Ceremony on the evening of November 21st, 1953.

Blessings and Love,

MAHA CHOHAN

Transmission Flame Report - Part 1  

Beloved Friends: 

Tonight, the Beloved Sanat Kumara himself wears royal purple, banded heavily in deep embroidered gold... a truly magnificent figure. Seated upon his throne before the great altar, the aureole of colors which emanate from his nature, radiate like mother of pearl and enfold the whole atmosphere about him in a beautiful oval of scintillating light so that when you step within the room you do not at first discern his majestic figure within the Light which is externalized and represents the blanket of electronic substance which has enfolded our planet and her people and been their salvation through the centuries. 

The homage, the adoration and the devotion to Sanat Kumara have occupied our days and our evenings since the evening of the 15th, but beginning now with the focusing and the direction of the Transmission Flame, the Ascended Masters, the Angelic Host and the awakened mankind of earth will begin the offering of their year's endeavors at the feet of the Lord of the World. 

First will come Lord Michael and the Beloved Micah (the Angelic Being who represents Union) bearing in their hands the composite energy of both ascended and unascended lifestreams that has been invested in the new endeavor. Then will come Lord Maitreya and Serapis Bey, representing the million lifestreams who have been given the Grant of Grace by the Cosmic Law. Next will come the great Maha Chohan and the Beloved Morya, offering their endeavors through the Bridge, the Bulletin and the published addresses in booklet form. The mighty Chohans of the Rays will follow, each one representing his own Retreat, and with them will come those of you who are their conscious chelas, as well as those other faithful chelas who work in orthodox, scientific, educational, artistic and musical endeavors. 

The Ceremonials, from the very beginning, have been very beautiful. The Main Temple is several hundred feet in length. From the vaulted ceiling over the later is suspended Sanat Kumara's Star. The great Unfed Flame is focused upon the altar which is approached by marble steps in several tiers, so that the Flame itself is a good twenty feet above the eye level of the audience. The entire chamber is just a huge bower of the most exquisite flowers which are even suspended from the ceiling and festooned around the long windows. 

Tonight, all the participants and even the atmosphere itself seem to have taken on a festive air. There are visitants here from every star and planet in our galaxy, each one bringing within his own aura the heritage of his Light, his Consciousness and the pressure of his Illumined feeling and accompanied by the members of the Angelic Host and Celestial beings who comprise his court. 

All over the vast continent of Asia the Light from Shamballa can be seen even with the physical sight, for the nights are not as dark nor the days as filled with the haze of human creations since the great doors of Shamballa have swung wide on their golden hinges and the Celestial Trumpeters sounded the first note at Inner Levels, signifying that the Lord of Life was ready to hold audience and the Spiritual Court was assembled awaiting the coming of those Intelligences who had vowed to use their energies in helping to redeem this dark star, as well as the conscious and unconscious chelas of earth who will offer the harvest of their year's endeavors at his feet. 

The great procession will start at the Temple door; the Beings bringing their harvest will each carry a vessel, symbolic of the garnering of their energies. They will walk slowly up the main aisle, make obeisance to the Flame and then kneel before the Lord of the World, placing their vessel at his feet. He will bless each one, who will then take his or her vessel from the altar step and pour its contents into a great white urn held by a magnificently clothed Seraphim who stand at either side of Sanat Kumara. As that act is performed, the energies through the silver cord at each one's head magnetize the endeavors of the year. Each dedicated pair then part, one going to the right and the other left, taking the seats prepared for them, making room for the next pair who will proceed likewise until every member in the vast procession has reverently placed his or her harvest at the Lord's feet. 

The Seraphic Choir which will accompany the processional has already taken its place in the atmosphere and their voices are muted in preparation for the exquisite music that will be rendered throughout the Ceremony, which will begin at exactly nine o'clock. Already I can see Lord Michael with the Beloved Micah standing at the golden Temple doors at the head of the glorious procession which stretches down the many steps into the main avenue and even over the Bridge itself. 

Each of your own inner bodies are there, even while my words are spoke. You carry a vessel fashioned from your own thought and in it is your whole year's accomplishment. When you draw the first breath of Flame into your body the Flame on the great altar will begin its expansion and not one electron that has been used in impersonal service to life but will add to the size, the brilliance and the power of the Unfed Flame, nor will escape recognition and benediction by Sanat Kumara himself. 

The Temple is yet empty, because everyone who has had any part in the evolution of this planet is in the procession. A member of the Cherubic and Seraphic Hosts will give the signal for the first Breath, when the procession will proceed slowly along the central aisle, each member breathing in and expanding the Unfed Flame even as he walks. Sanat Kumara himself will rise and, facing the oncoming archangels, await their Presence at the foot of the altar. 

The Unfed Flame as drawn forth here is not the Secret Flame which is too brilliant to be looked upon by unascended beings; this is a focused ember from the great Flame, which has been drawn and guarded and expanded for this purpose. The triple action on your part of offering the gift of your life, receiving the benediction of Sanat Kumara and absorbing the Flame into your own bodies will be of tremendous assistance to your individual evolution. 

We shall have to complete our Report in the morning, because the major portion of the Ceremony will not take place until the entire procession has poured their offerings into the Flame, and as I, too, am among the humble members who carry a vessel, in which is some of your energies also, I must take my leave now and say "Goodnight".