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To My Old Heart Friends

November 1952

I come to you today, oh, my beloved brothers and sisters, with all the love of my own heart and the blessed outpouring from my master, Lord Maitreya, from whose side I have come as he stood in the fields of Kashmir this day and endeavored through the outpouring of his feeling the Nature of God, to convey to the pilgrims assembled, that love which The Father of all Life has for His children.... a love that is unchanging, and intensified in its pressure and power with every beat of the celestial heart of that great God, which never takes into consideration in that loving the worthiness or the merit of the one enfolded in that Presence.

The love of the Father has been my message since I was first vested with the glorious opportunity of bringing the joyous words to man that their Father was not to be considered as a being of wrath but rather the loving, kindly and considerate one to whom all have equal access, according to the requirements of their individual hearts.

I endeavor to draw before the consciousness of the people that it is the Father-God's pleasure for each man and woman and child to enjoy the perfection designed by Him and but awaits the acceptance of the consciousness in order to be manifest through the lifestream.

Speaking to you, I speak to old heart friends. Some of you were with us in Egypt and proceeded across the great desert into the Promised Land; some walked with me around Jericho and your voice joined mine in that immortal shout of triumph before the walls fell. Some of you were with me in Persia when I, as Zoroaster, contemplated the Nature of The Father and embodied His light; and some walked with me as Apollonius from Tyana, as we drew those great currents from the Inner Realms to prepare for the shrines which have come to be such great powers in the Christian Dispensation, some of which have not been revealed to the outer consciousness.

Then before I entered incarnation for my final mission, I would like to remind you that some of you sat with me around that glorious table when the Lord of the World himself revealed the plan by which an initiate was to incarnate and bring the fullness of the Nature of God through his consciousness, his word and his words which would be the permanent record of Christ Incarnate for the entire race.

Do you remember the solemn hush as the Lord of the World described that mission, up to, through and including the crucifixion, the resurrection and the ascension? Do you remember the white robed figures who rose as one to volunteer for that service? Thirty-six there were, who were qualified to come, and of that thirty-six my teacher and master, Lord Maitreya, chose myself, and he chose also my beloved Mother and your great heart friend, Saint Germain. We represented the Trinity through which the mission of the Christ could be manifest.

Then it was my opportunity to call forth my twelve disciples and those other blessed ones who would assist me in a future day. Together, we all knelt before the King of Kings and he placed his thumb on our foreheads, his hand on the top of our heads. He blessed us and Lord Maitreya anointed each one with the spiritual oil of the Cosmic Christ. Then we were each designated to go into a particular temple until the Lords of Incarnation could prepare for us suitable vessels, timed with the stars, so that all might attain their maturity at the proper moment. The beloved Joseph and Mary incarnated long before I did and some of the disciples too, and Elizabeth and John the Baptist, all of those who were to prepare for my coming. As each one left, we gathered together with that strong heart feeling and prayer that we might remember when the bands of forgetfulness and the pull of the earth life had dimmed our mission, our vow, our promise.

Finally, the beloved Morya and Kuthumi and those engaged in the study of the stars, knew that the hour for my conception and incarnation was about to take place. I shall never forget my parting from Lord Maitreya, the love and kindness in that great and beautiful Presence as he placed his arms around me and breathed a heart prayer that I felt through the consciousness of my own being, for he know how much depended upon my fidelity to my vow, and how much depended upon my capacity to retain the vision of my service, through those early years when I was not to be particularly favored among the sons of men. My prayer, too, rose with his....

... I was privileges, of course, in being welcomed by beloved Mary and she provided for me through her aura that love and that protection and that spiritual sanctity, without which I think I could not have endured those early years when my consciousness was not yet developed enough to remember my Father's Home, and I shall be eternally grateful for the strength of the beloved Saint Germain who stood by us. I can see as clearly today as in that long ago, the strong hands working upon the yoke of oxen, gently and smoothly preparing the wood, that it might not give pain to the creature for which it was carved.

Then the first glimmer of my memory began to return. Oh, happy, happy, day, when out in the fields I lay looking at the Sun and for an instant there flashed into my consciousness remembrance of my Teacher and my connection with the Father-God. I remember walking home slowly and how my Mother, looking at me, realized that the Christ Self was beginning to take hold of my small form. So I can feel for you, my children, who are yearning for that connection with your Presence. You know how precious it was, you know how sweet the association, for you feel it, and it is my joy and that of my great Master to offer to you individually and collectively, our feeling of oneness with your Presence.

I shall not dwell on the well known facts of my ministry but I shall bring to your remembrance again that at the close of this earth life, you are going to experience the joy of the ascension. Oh, how can words describe to blessed hearts incarnated in flesh, the freedom that is to be yours, the joy that when there enters within your consciousness a thought or a design by which to benefit the race, time nor space nor anything can limit your instantaneous accomplishment!

From one who has passed consciously in the full waking outer consciousness of daily life under the brilliant Sun at noon, and in the presence of those whom I loved more than life itself, into the Home of my Father, let me, please dear hearts, convey to you that all of the suffering, all of the discipline, all of the trials, all of the renunciation of this earth life are worth that instant when the pull of earth can no longer bind your purified soul and you know freedom!

Let me warn you that in your association, one with another, you can prepare for this hour, and the most subtle of your tests will be love! For instance, in my own case there was Mary, who had taken me as an infant and in the glory of that aura raised my small form, and throughout my ministry welcomed and accepted every lifestream that I chose to bring home, upon my word that they were of the Father's Kingdom; sweet John who breathed not a breath for himself from the instant that I called him; and Peter and James and all the others whom I know were not equipped without my consciousness and my Presence to live in the fullness of life and yet at that moment when the call came I had to decide between the pull of love and the call of the Presence.

Who among you facing such a choice would know which was the greater service? There are some I know would say, "it is better that I stay with my own lest they fall by the wayside," and yet if I had done that the world would not have the public example of the ascension, which has been the hope of the Christian world since that time. I tell you, dear friends, that is not an easy decision.

Your call will come, each one! Prepare you for that hour, for that which you love most will be closest to you and the subtle feeling has best be handled long before that day. In the constant leaving of your every decision to your Presence, "not my will but Thine be done", you are building that momentum, you will not suffer such a tug of the heart, and you will save yourself much agony and much uncertainty.

I love you, each one, with a love that is deep and sincere, and it is not based on what you are, or on what you have been, but it is based on what you shall become, for I have seen you in the heart of the Father and knowing the glory you had with him before the world was, I but anticipate the hour of your full manifestation of that glory while you yet walk the earth. Let us no longer be backward-looking through two thousand years of time for the miracles that can be accomplished today! The world groans with pain and agony, with sickness and disease ... and you alone are the hope of the world! Were I to have incarnated again and again every hundred years up to the present hour, I would have denied you the opportunity to become that which I AM, and there is no Christ Being who does not allow the development of his fellowmen into greater glory.

I implore you, in the Name of the Father of all life, to set into action those calls by which every one of you may walk through places and restore humanity to their natural estate. If you love me, do that which I have done, and this will be your answer to my words spoken this hour.

In the Name of the Father, in the Name of my own lifestream, and in the Name of the great Holy Spirit of life, I give to you the blessings of love and the love of every brother and sister who has become the freedom which I AM.

Jesus