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MAHA CHOHAN

The necessity for individuals to cultivate desires of a constructive nature cannot be overemphasized because it is the desires more than the thoughts of a man which mould his nature and motivate his actions. Through the ages, men and women have cultivated many base desires which lie imbedded in the emotional body, even as great boulders lie imbedded in the substance of Earth. When aroused, these desires cause the various sins against the Holy Spirit whose one desire is to fulfill the Will of God! 

EL MORYA

When the conscious mind is opened to the Will of God, often the mental body accepts as logical and practical the spiritual pathway of purity, love, balance, wisdom and conscious service on behalf of mankind. However, as the far greater part of each individual's energies are held within the emotional body, the desires and feelings will be the predominant governing power of actions, for good or evil. When mankind realizes that the Will of God is expressed through the cooperation of the mind with the joyous), buoyant love of the feelings, they will be freed of much unnecessary conflict between what they know should be done and what they actually do! 

KUTHUMI

Every chela has the opportunity, capacity and responsibility to invoke the desire to do God's Will into their own emotional body. This desire can be directed from the Ascended Host and form a motivating power within the feeling world which makes service, self-control, self-mastery and sublimation a joy rather than an arduous task of mortification of self. Even as the farmer plants his seeds in the good Earth, so shall we, when invited, plant our God desires within the chela's emotional body. Then the chela will find these growing desires to serve, making all their spiritual endeavors a joy. 

PAUL, THE VENETIAN

Individuals with a deep sense of conscientiousness, often drive themselves and others through an intellectual sense of doing that which is right. Thus, the work is done in the performance of duty rather than in the joy of service. The Third Ray is primarily concerned with charging the feeling worlds of those upon the Path with the LOVE OF SERVICE. Thus, all that is done is charged with the pressure and energy of the emotional world and there is no sense of exhaustion or depletion in such activity. Where love is, there can be no conflict between moral right and personal desires. Cultivate the invocation of the Beloved Archangel Chamuel's Pink Ray of loving adoration to God. Invoke the direction of that Ray into your own emotional bodies and feel the joy that comes when God's desires motivate your individual and collective service in the cause of common good. 

SERAPIS BEY

The cleansing of the emotional body from the gathered momentum of centuries of accumulated human desires, is part of our Service to life. These desires, many of them unfulfilled in the course of one Earth life, lie smoldering beneath the surface of the conscious mind. Sooner or later they must either be sublimated or externalized. The frustration of human desires but dams up the energy which will break forth through some weakness in the human structure. Sublimation of those desires leaves the soul free from the constant prodding of an invisible but powerful force, which causes actions that the self regrets. Paraphrasing St. Paul, we have the expression of many chelas' condition upon the Path: "The good that I would, I do not; and that which I would not, that I do". 

HILARION

After purifying the emotional body of unhealthy desires, which is done by the invocation of the Flame of Purity and the Flame of Freedom, it is necessary to consciously create good desires within this emotional body. There is no greater Assistant in this service than our Lord Maha Chohan. His Office, as Representative of the Holy Spirit to the planet Earth, is to direct the Flame of that Spirit into the worlds of those who invite him so to do. Thus, there begins to stir within the feeling world a desire to cooperate with God's Will. When the mind and feelings are agreed upon any accomplishment, manifestation occurs instantly. 

JESUS

"What a man thinketh in his heart, so is he". This statement confirms the subject matter of our monthly talk with the blessed students. So often sincere and dear chelas become filled with self-condemnation and remorse because their secret thoughts and feelings cannot confirm the Christ life they would live. This attitude would be like that of a farmer endeavoring to plough a stony field, who sat and wept because of the stones rather than sensibly removing them. There is no unascended being who does not have some human desires buried in the emotional body. Firmly and without stress, remove them as the farmer lifts the stones and boulders from the fields and then cultivate and prepare the emotional body for the sowing of the seeds of the Holy Spirit. These God desires will be of tremendous assistance to you, literally the wind in the sails of the soul's boat, as you turn your attention HOMEWARD. 

SAINT GERMAIN

The wisdom of life requires the chela to watch carefully that the desires of the emotional body, rather than the stirrings of the Presence in the heart, do not motivate action. Often a good chela will say that his heart is not in service, when it is merely the imbedded rebellions, resistance and impurity of the emotional body that is not in the service. The dear heart is confused by this recalcitrant emotional world. Discrimination, alertness and wisdom are required to distinguish between the two forces - spiritual promptings and emotional reluctance.

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