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Excerpts of an Address by
BELOVED
KUTHUMI
on
Spiritual Pioneers
June 28, 1954
Beloved Children of God the Father! In the name of the Lord Buddha, in the name
of the Cosmic Christ and through the full power of the Second Ray, I bring you
greetings and blessings of our light and understanding. Absorb it. Use it. Weave
it as you will into the perfume of your own being; into the radiant colors of
your personal aura and into that exquisite, individual design, which it is your
privilege and honor to manifest in expanding the Will of God and the borders of
your Father's Kingdom on the planet Earth at this time.
You are the shepherds of the race. You have been chosen by the great Lord
Maitreya because in your Causal Body there is a certain wealth of experience and
momentums of service. You are now being given an opportunity to receive more
understanding of the law and through that understanding you will make your own
minds and bodies more useful in carrying the words, radiation and works of the
Masters to the rest of mankind. The choice of those lifestreams who are to
receive a more than ordinary blessing is dependent upon the wealth of
accumulated good in the Causal Body. There is never a mistake made when an
individual is invited into the Presence of the Ascended Masters and asked to
partake of their spiritual food. The Manu of each Root Race chooses for the
first initial impulse of incarnation in that Root Race, the lifestreams whose
Causal Bodies are richest in the particular requisite qualities which
will- be necessary to build a foundation of
merit in the world of form. Those individuals are given the first invitation to
participate in the glorious work of pioneering; and those
with less store of the developed momentum, strength, capacities and powers
to serve that particular era, come later to enjoy the fruits and the harvest
planted by the valiant, the bold and the strong spiritual pioneers.
Every two thousand years, in our activity as Representatives of the Second· Ray,
it is the responsibility of the current World Teacher (presently Lord Maitreya),
to look upon the patterns which provide opportunity for the evolutionary
progress of the planet and its people. The World Teacher commissions his
Lieutenant to look upon and study the soul light and development of every
lifestream: belonging to the evolution. In itself, this is not a small task. The
type of religion and the type of worship that will be
developed and externalized in that era will be determined entirely by the
capacity of the souls belonging to the evolution to assimilate, digest and to
use for themselves and others, gifts prepared to nourish their spiritual
identity. As
the great Cosmic Wheel prepares to move every
two thousand years, making one complete revolution every fourteen thousand
years, the World Teacher begins to study the Divine Plan for the current two
thousand year cycle and, in cooperation with the Chohan who is to be the
presiding Master of that two thousand year cycle, the World Teacher develops a
system of religion, a system of ceremonial worship, a system of teaching and
education which can best accelerate the progress of the individual and the
collective units. The great Cosmic Wheel has turned many, many times and, at the
completion of each fourteen thousand years, a new group of souls was intended to
have attained God maturity. It should take approximately fourteen thousand years
from the time of its first incarnation for one soul to achieve God Mastery upon
the planet Earth. That soul is exposed every two thousand years to the radiation
of the predominant Ray, starting
with the First Ray, presently presided over by El Morya; then the Second Ray, of
which I am presently Representative; then the Third Ray now under the direction
of the Beloved Venetian; then the Fourth Ray under the direction of Beloved
Serapis Bey; then the Fifth Ray under the direction of Hilarion; then the Sixth
Ray under the direction of Master Jesus and, finally, the Seventh Ray under the
direction of Saint Germain.
Of course, the present Chohans have not held these offices from the beginning of
time. In the beginning, at the very
first descent of
mankind upon the Earth, the Seven Great Archangels held the offices of the Seven
Chohans. Then as lifestreams evolved, they took over such Offices, giving
freedom to the Archangels to work in Higher Realms. The Divine Plan is that the
fourteen thousand year cycle, as the wheel turns, is necessary to nourish the
seven spiritual centers within each consciousness and his seven vehicles to make
the' man, at the end of that fourteen thousand years, a God-dignified Prince
similar to your Master Jesus and Saint Germain. However, as mankind has lived
and inhabited the Earth for millions of years, you will see how far behind we
are in the progress of the entire evolutionary scheme. Now we have come to the
turning of the Cosmic Wheel again. The Sixth Dispensation of the Master Jesus
has closed and the opening of the outpouring of the Seventh Ray has begun. I
would like to give you the aspect of the activity of the Second
Ray
in connection with the promotion of this
Seventh Ray service.
When the Beloved Lord Maitreya began to design the new world religion with the Beloved Saint Germain, they had to take into consideration first, the Cosmic fiat of the Eternal that the planet Earth and her people were either required to give forth the light which the Cosmic Law demanded, or the Earth would be dissolved. They also had to take into consideration the capacity of the ten billion souls belonging to the evolutions, to receive, understand and apply the instruction given. This was no easy task, because the climax of the fourteen thousand year cycle should be established when every lifestream is already developed to the status of a Christ under the Sixth Ray. Every man, woman and child, already under the Sixth Ray's radiation for two thousand years, should have become Masters like Beloved Jesus. Then as the Seventh Ray comes into action with ordered service and the ceremonial activities begin, the entire evolution should be ready to participate in the glorious cooperation between the visible Angelic Host, the God loving men and women and the Elemental Kingdom.
You
can see how far short of this preparation are even the shepherds; yet we have
but a few years to at least raise the shepherds to a point where the instruction
of the New Day, the Divine Ceremonial activities of the Master Saint Germain,
can be anchored through those shepherds and then brought intelligently by them
to mankind. In these circumstances, we are fortunate in having any men and women
even willing to listen to us.
My beloved Brother Morya and myself have worked since early in the nineteenth
century to reach the consciousness of mankind. You are all familiar with our
endeavors through the Theosophical Society, which we bless forever for having
given an intellectual knowledge of the Masters to so many of the people in the
Occidental world. We are also extremely grateful to Mrs. Bailey and to those
other chelas for continuity of our instructions, by which the consciousness of
people could be reached who are eager to receive, but unable yet to draw from
their own heart the necessary higher instruction at this time. There is no way
for the Great White Brotherhood to reach the outer consciousness of the mankind
of Earth, except through some members of the human race who still wear bodies of
flesh; who still are part of the substance of Earth. We must use your lips; your
bodies; your consciousness; the conviction and faith of your feeling world; the
clarity of reception of your mental bodies; to convey the pattern and plan for
the New Era to the masses. You can readily understand that the greatest
individual service you can render us is to purify and harmonize your own
vehicles and to give us the freedom through you (by the power of radiation) to
reach mankind.
In every way possible, we are endeavoring to present the special activities of
the various members of the Brotherhood. Lord Maitreya and Saint Germain, in
discussing these plans of activity for this New Era, determined, among other
things, to bring the Masters through the veil into your feelings, so that you
can know us as living, breathing Beings. To this end, Lord Maitreya asks that we
share with you certain personal experiences through which we went and by which
we gained our Victory. Describing our own happiness, trials and experiences, we
wish to give you the feeling that we, too, were men and women not long since;
but through determination and love of God as well as love for our fellowman, we
raised ourselves to this Perfect Estate. Beloved Lord Maitreya further desired
that the student be acquainted with the specific activities of the various
members of the Hierarchy. We are all "specialists". If you get this
understanding, it will relieve you of the tremendous feelings of personal
disquiet and jealousy with regard to the accomplishments of one or the other of
your fellow workers. Even within the Ascended Master's Realm, beloved ones, we
all are specialists. That means that we have taken primal life, which provides
the beat of the Flame in our hearts and have invested that life in promoting
certain activities. Thus, have we become Masters of the qualification of energy
along specific lines which have built into our Causal Bodies. These are certain
momentums of specialized energy which, just like money in the bank, is ours to
use and call forth when the requirement of the hour demands it. You, too, are
specialists, each and every one of you. Your own Causal Bodies contain certain
momentums of achievement which you have built into them through' service in the
Healing Temples; through service in the political world; through service of
mercy or education; to whatever your lifestream has chosen to devote itself
through the ages. Being specialists, you have been chosen by the Cosmic Christ,
even as one would pick a bouquet; each, beautiful flower blending with the other
to make a lovely grouping. The very blending of the colors and the perfumes, the
shapes and the fragrances, make that bouquet an exquisite thing for all to see.
So· has Lord Maitreya, the Master Saint Germain, the Beloved Morya and every one
connected with the fashioning of the heart center of this New Endeavor, looked
upon the Causal Bodies of each of you and drawn you together, so that the
specialization of your own good might become part of the strength of the whole.
Do you see? It is a tremendous thing, because the blending of the good of your
Causal Bodies will build into this bridge from the Divine to the human, the
strength required to carry the weight of the entire race, so that they may pass
into fuller and more perfect freedom.
Speaking of our specialization, except for the esoteric students, mankind, has
not understood, much about what the various Chohans, the various Archangels, the
various Elohim and the various members of the Brotherhood have done. Lord
Maitreya has asked us, whenever we are given opportunity to speak, to give some
portion of that specific service which we render in the Divine Plan. That is why
I tell you that the Beloved Lord Maitreya, Saint Germain and myself have worked
out a course of religion, of ceremonial worship, of spiritual education, which
we are endeavoring to
direct through this
heart center, into the consciousness of interested people; later into the
consciousness of all mankind. It is regrettable that, as
so
much of our life has had to be used to coax the
reluctant energies of the-various students into any semblance of unity, we have
not been able to bring forth the beauty of the Ceremonial Worship which I know
will delight your hearts. However, we feel that that unity, harmony and oneness
(which comes with understanding) will give us a momentum upon which to build for
the future.
You are men and women who have left the mass mind for one reason or another. I
know you all well. As I watched the healing activity in which you participated
today and saw the currents of the Devas of Healing play through the room, in
retrospect I was going over the association which I've had with every one of you
through the centuries. As I stood thus, I contemplated the various motive that
placed your dear feet first on the Spiritual Path. Not in this life alone have
you sought Spiritual Truth, for you have been on the Path a long time, each one
of you. In this embodiment, you have again chosen to arise, finally throw off
your child's estate, face your God and ask for your reason for being. That is a
magnificent initiation and accomplishment. Do you know, no Angel, no Master, no
Deva, no Elemental would presume to ask for the use of life or the sustaining of
life through his individualization, without knowing his reason for being? Each
such a one uses all of that life given to him by God to fulfill that reason and
purpose. Mankind, as our Brothers have said,
love the use of life,
but
you must learn to love and revere life itself.
This class is dedicated to developing within you a respect for life; a reverence
for the Source of life and an honor and integrity within yourselves toward that
Source. Ask every morning and every free moment through your day: "what is my
reason for being?" When that is determined within you, you will not be dishonest
enough to take God's life for any other purpose. No words, no acts, no gestures,
no thoughts, no feelings will be used to satisfy personality. Every electron you
use will fulfill your reason for being. Then you have made the "great
surrender"; then no matter what the challenge of the day, resting in that
serenity, you know your reason for being. You expand your light to widen the
borders of the Kingdom
and to bring the words and understanding of the Masters to
mankind. You will not become weary. You will know no discontent, no loneliness,
no depression, no selfishness, no sorrow. You will be like the Masters; like the
Angels and the Devas,
JOYOUS, your
reason for being, to
do the WILL OF GOD.
This morning, as I looked upon you, I was grateful to see that every one of you
has faced your God and has asked the reason for your being. Not every one of
you, however, has yet chosen to consecrate all of those vital energies that flow
so freely, to fulfilling that reason. However, that, too, will come in time. We
have learned to be extremely patient, for we have waited so long. That patience
you, too, should learn before you walk into the resentful energies of the
masses, carrying your light. Wear the garments of patience and that selfless
benediction of love from our Realm will enfold you. Thus, shall your victory be
assured.