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Thomas Printz’ Private Bulletin
Volume 5, No. 12 June 17, 1956
ADDRESS BY THE LORD MAHA CHOHAN, ON WHITSUNDAY-5/20/56.
Beloved Children:
On this, the anniversary of the first Whitsuntide, I bring to you the blessings of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, which latter, I AM privileged at present to represent to the Earth and all her evolutions, until they, too, arrive at the place where they can consciously control the power of their own energies and externalize within themselves the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in person.
I come to you, beloved ones, as an "old friend". We have corresponded back and forth now over a period of several years and we have sat together in council in my chambers at Ceylon where you have been brought in your inner bodies by one of the Angelic Host by order of your particular Chohan or Sponsor in order that your talents, gifts, potentialities and radiation might be studied and worked into the composite pattern for the forward progress in evolution of this race.
I know you, each one, therefore, as well as I know myself, the glory of your Causal Body; the glory of the pattern that is held within the Immortal, Three-fold Flame within your heart, the capacity and strength of your soul, and it is my great privilege and honor to come whenever and wherever "I AM" called and radiate the power of the Holy Spirit that through you it may become externalized for all men to see.
Beloved ones, have you thought of why that first Whitsuntide was so very efficacious in raising the consciousness of the disciples and endowing them with the gifts of tongues and of healing and the various other talents which they carried forth to prove the power of the Holy Spirit and the Truth of the Ministry of the Beloved Jesus. I would like you to think about that for a moment and why, in succeeding generations although the outpouring of each year increases, the manifest expression of the coming of the Holy Spirit does not seem so evident in the souls of men.
It would prove something to you in regard to your own world, your own faith and the capacity you have within yourself to receive the gifts that God, through his Holy Messengers, is continually offering you.
The disciples at the time of that first Visitation had passed through a period of great trial. They had passed through the desolation of Calvary. They had passed through the agony and uncertainty of the time between Good Friday and the Resurrection Morn. They had witnessed a Resurrected Master, upon whom they could feast their eyes. They had heard him speak. They had, for forty some odd days, enjoyed the Presence of one who had overcome death, who had come back through the veil, who had proven his words in works. And furthermore, they had witnessed the magnificence of the Ultimate Victory of the Ascension on the Hill of Bethany. Their emotions were revitalized with faith, faith that they had chosen a Messiah who was in truth all that he professed to be.
Their minds were open to his words because he had proven those words and when he promised that he would send the Comforter, they knew that the Holy Spirit would come because he foretold other activities which also became manifest.
The depths of the etheric bodies of the disciples gathered in "the upper rooms' were dormant all their doubts and fears and past accumulations and differences were for the moment stilled, but the surface of their etheric vehicles was vivified with the strong impressions of recent happenings, the Resurrection Morn, the private instruction at Bethany and the vitalizing, magnificent example of the Ascension. Their senses, their brain consciousness, the eye, the ear all were open to the coming of the Holy Spirit. However, through the centuries that have elapsed since that time, the exhilaration on the part of the followers of Jesus has lessened and therefore, although the outpouring to those waiting in that upper chamber (the higher consciousness) has increased each year, there are few among the mankind of Earth as receptive as those few disciples who waited, not quite understanding the meaning of his words: "If I do not go, the Comforter (Paraclete) will not come". Still they waited in anticipation, because they knew that their friend and their Redeemer did live and so they waited in faith for the grace and benediction that he had promised.
May there come a time again when among the sons and daughters of men there will be found those who bring such faith to the feelings; such receptivity to the mind; such remembrance to the etheric bodies, such confirmation to the senses of the All Power of God that the rest of the Ascended Host of Light, the Angelic Host and the Cherubic and Seraphic Hosts magma as they did through the light and Being of Jesus, the Christ.
It is toward this end that we are training you, beloved ones, and I say this not to cause any sense of blame or self depreciation - the Master Jesus was born without sin, without karma and without stain or taint. He had in previous embodiments achieved the full victory over all of his bodies and redeemed those energies that he may have previously used imperfectly. Therefore, he came into the body known as Jesus, and perfect, with a mind clear, an emotional vehicle unstained and his etheric body THROBBING with the remembrance of Helios and Vesta and the Beloved Lord Maitreya. Besides that, he had the tremendous guardianship of the Madonna and the Beloved Saint Germain (as Joseph) to sustain him.
You are individuals who have chosen to come with karma yet untransmuted! You have chosen perhaps the harder way! You have chosen to serve with one hand while cleaning up the karma of the ages with the other and it is because you have so chosen because you have yet something to adjust on the scales of life that we can give you more than ordinary assistance in the redemption of those various energies that plague you, the lack of mastery in the emotions, in the mind, in the etheric body and in the flesh.
I watched with a great deal of interest your reactions as you read the Beloved Paul's discourse on Love. It is always interesting to observe the individual’s interpretation of the statement that Paul uses so much and loves so well - "I AM" my brother's keeper" - because it so often implies the judgment of the morals and life of the brother rather than the encouragement and development of his virtues. At this point on the Path, the student is very liable to develop what is called "spiritual pride". This trait I would warn you against, beloved ones, because as individuals progress in spiritual knowledge and they are told they must now be "their brother's keeper", it invariably happens that the outer mind decides within itself that it must set the standard for every man's consciousness and that includes his teacher, his fellow students and mankind at large. It is a very dangerous and precarious attitude to hold and as a preventive measure I can only refer you to the statement of our Beloved Jesus:- "What is that to thee? Follow thou me!"
Jesus encountered this same tendency among his followers during his ministry in Judea and you will remember he explained the workings of the Law in the beautiful parable of the laborers in the vineyard. Those who worked all day, those that, came at noon and still others who came toward evening and when the time of reckoning came and they all received the same amount of pay there was grumbling at the seeming injustice.
Beloved ones, you are those who have worked "from the morning", worked all through the heat of the day and will, I hope, work until the setting of the sun. If others come later and reap where you have sown, that is the nature of things, but no one loses in his dealings with God. Your reward for entering the Great White Brotherhood is the opportunity for the expansion of your sphere of influence to bless more of life and to be tolerant in the extreme of your fellowman, not to mention your fellow students. You do not know, no unascended being knows, the amount of karma that another lifestream may be carrying, or what great karma is being mitigated through the love of one part of life for another. So, proceed upon your own individual paths beloved ones; hold to that standard which you have found to be the highest and with regard to the actions of your fellowman - remember the admonition of Jesus “What is that to thee? Follow thou me!"
Love and Blessings,
THE MAHA CHOHAN
(The balance of the Beloved Maha Chohan's address will appear in an early Bulletin.)