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Volume 3, No. 39                                                                                                         December 26, 1954

Beloved children: 

At the Great Teton gathering, held at the beginning, of each year, one of the most beautiful ceremonies represents the presence of the "Shepherds" who have been given the responsibility of guarding and guiding souls through the preceding year. These shepherds comprise unascended beings from the simplest orthodox mind to the greatest Master of energy still wearing a third dimensional garment of flesh. 

Each such spiritual shepherd receives great honor from the assembled Brotherhood, for these spiritual teachers are the voice, the heart and mind of the Brotherhood before men. They represent the body of the Lord Maitreya and, according to their particular evolution, are they pure or limited channels for his cosmic truth. Therefore, at these yearly meetings all these Friends of Truth pass in a. mighty procession before the Great Sanat Kumara, Lord. Maitreya, the Great Divine Director, myself and the whole assembled Brotherhood, from whom they receive a mighty ovation. 

In the aura of every teacher is the etheric record of the progress and unfoldment of each soul entrusted to his care. As the Light of heaven blazes upon the aura the progress of the entire group is revealed in a flash, both individually and collectively, and the assembled Masters are then able to pour their spiritual force into whatever preparations and capacities are required to help both the teacher and the student towards a greater utility and enlightenment for the coming year. 

The progress of the world and its people is dependent upon the protection and care given to every avenue of effort of all outer manifestation by the Spiritual Hierarchy and their conscious and unconscious co-workers. 

The plans for the year relative to the earth are presented at the Teton Gathering and delegated to the ascended Brothers and Sisters Who form the natural channel for their expression. Then from the unascended mankind volunteers are chosen who form the contact with the world of form and matter, whose province it is to wield the unyielding three-dimensional plane into as close: a facsimile of the inner plane as is possible. 

Conscious chelas of the Masters who sit in at the Councils held in January and July of each year are acutely aware in their inner bodies of the plans to be followed by the nations of the world and their individual peoples. Once you have taken your place as a member of these Councils your responsibility becomes far greater than that of the masses who are benefited by these Conclaves but have not yet any part in the privilege of working for the fulfillment of the Divine Plan in cooperation with the Great White Brotherhood. 

Ofttimes a chela who has been admitted to the Conclave and has seen the Great Plan and how he might attune himself to becoming part of its fulfillment wishes that he could have remained ignorant of the tremendous responsibility involved in the knowledge. However, when the consciousness is awakened and the inner bodies are prepared to be co-workers with the gods, the outer self cannot restrain the inner consciousness from attendance and service at these Conclaves and the strength of the spirit then becomes the pressure and responsibility of the outer self to fulfill the inner vows and promises made at the Altar of the Brotherhood.

Love and Blessings,

THE MAHA CHOHAN