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Excerpts from an Address by
BELOVED LORD MAITREYA
The Control of the Four Lower Bodies
"As the Beloved Saint Germain has recently explained on various occasions, the
four lower bodies (physical, etheric, mental and emotional) are closely
inter-related, one with the other, just as climbers who are making a steep
ascent upon a glacier, are tied together for safety's sake. Each one depends
upon the other's sure footing; upon the capacity and training of the other, in
order to reach the apex of the mountain. The slip of the foot of any one (caused
by hysteria, emotional unbalance or, perhaps, by some 'accident' to the physical
body) is apt to plummet the entire group into a crevasse and obliterate them
(temporarily, at least) from the physical appearance world. It is exactly the
same thing with your inner bodies!
If, through habit, your feelings (emotional body) have been allowed to 'explode'
at will and to throw out resentment and rebellion with little or no attempt on
your part to control them, that emotional body immediately pulls down with it
the other three vehicles into the slower vibrations of the astral realm. Then
you have a headache and 'mental fog'; you have another scar on the etheric body
and you usually have some physical repercussion in the flesh form.
If the mental body is allowed to dwell upon thoughts of impurity, obscenity or
the imperfections of other lifestreams (whether it is so-called 'fact or fancy')
it eventually involves the emotional body. That body then comes over to see what
is going on (so to speak) and a new 'party' is started. Thus, the entire group
again is plummeted into the psychic and astral realm.
If the etheric body is allowed continually to revert to the injustices of the
past, in this life alone most everyone has suffered (at least what they have
considered) injustice, it revivifies those distresses again, many times making
them re-occur in your present experience. You know, the etheric body is a great
one to 'watch' for such opportunities to express itself while you are on
vacation or when you are not actually busy doing something else at the moment.
That is when the etheric body becomes active and the stirring energies within it
say: "Do you remember thus and so?" Finally, the mind and feelings get into it
and you have the 'slough' of lowered vibrations again. Then there is only one
thing to do and this same procedure has been used century after century by all
sincere life-streams who wish to become Master of their worlds... that is, to
change the vibratory action of those bodies by raising them (as the speed of the
airplane propeller raises the plane into the air) by increasing the vibrations
of those bodies to the point where harmony, purity, happiness, peace and general
well-being exist!
God-control Imperative for All
This is impersonal Law! It has nothing to do with any particular individual or
any special lifestream upon the planet. It is just Law! While you allow the
vibrations of any one of your bodies to become discordant, you immediately sink
into the 'slough' of the mass destructive thoughts and feelings of the race. You
not only have to generate (through your application in the use of the Violet
Fire and whatever other applications of which you know) enough 'steam' to get up
out of that `hole' again, but, while you are down there, you have opened your
worlds to the destructive energies which form that mass strata and which then
flow into and become a part of your world.
Beloved ones, this is the Law of the Retreats! It is the Law and the Science of
mastery which is taught by every Being who has attained the right to be called
'Guru' (Master) and who accepts initiates and chelas for development. Mankind
(and chelas, too) are always looking for an easy way out of their difficulties;
for a 'vicarious atonement'; for someone else to pay their debt; someone else to
set them free! There is no one else but your own consciousness who can
eventually control the energy which has been entrusted to you from God. NO ONE
but yourself can control that energy for you! True, the Masters, Angels,
Cherubim and Seraphim can and do give you assistance in quieting the whirls of
destructively qualified energy which you have already set up and they 'pour oil
on the troubled waters' far more often than that of which you have any concept
in your outer minds.
True, the Master Jesus, (Beloved Prince of Peace) when invoked by a soul in
turmoil and in trouble, does send forth his radiation in answer to their calls
and sometimes that one is sensitive enough to accept his peace. However, this is
but temporary! Until the individual himself arises in the dignity of his own
Godhood and realizes that he, himself, chose to take and use life from the heart
of the God of the Universe, he cannot be self-master over that life! The world
around him and his own inner bodies are a record of what he has done with such
life.
Silence
- So Important!
When such a one so chooses to master his energies in dignity, poise and,
preferably, in silence, he can succeed, if he will. You know, there is not too
much kindness in this world of form. If you tell others of that which you
endeavor to do before it is successfully achieved, you dissipate your energies
which might be used to accomplish your purpose. Should you fail in your
achievement, there will be many who will laugh at you. In the silence and
dignity of your own Christ Flame, determine that these vehicles which you use
are going to serve the purpose for which they were created, to expand the
Virtues of God. You may choose to develop and radiate any one or more of a
number of God Virtues which this world so much requires at this time. One could
spend almost an entire evening enumerating the Virtues this 'crying' planet
Earth needs; for one thing – PEACE - of a certainty! Will you allow your
emotional world to be a conduit from your Presence and the Ascended Masters'
Realm to carry uninterrupted PEACE into the souls of men which are torn with
pain and agony; nations filled with unrest; an Elemental Kingdom despoiled and
tortured by the ignorance, disinterest, unbelief and impurities generated by
mankind; or must your emotional body be the 'plaything' for any unkind word or
displeasure of another which sends it immediately into distress?
Who Owns
Your World?
Does your emotional body belong to God or does it belong to the transients you
meet upon life's way who take your world away from the authority of your
Presence and steal your peace - God's peace - from you? If this is so, (for that
moment at least) that discord 'short-circuits' your energies through which the
Godhead and all the God-free otherwise could pour peace into your worlds, then
out through your atmosphere into the worlds of others.
Does your mental body belong to God? Is it alert, to the reception of the Divine
directions of your 'I Am' Presence, or is it busy accumulating the gossip which
is heard over the radio, read from the printed page, or spoken through the
kindly (?) lips of your friends and associates? Is your mental body also the
'plaything' for the transients you meet on life's way?
Does your etheric body belong to God? Is it the powerhouse it was intended to be
in the beginning, in which there is recorded every magnificent experience you
had with God `before the world was from the first time your Immortal Three-fold
Flame externalized from the Father when first you felt being and said: 'I AM';
when you first looked upon the faces of your God-parents (of the System to which
you belong) who created you; when you saw the shining light of the Archangels
and there were no scales before your eyes; when you heard the 'Music of the
Spheres' just naturally and when you saw the beautiful Temples of Light in the
Inner Realms is that the content of your etheric body? Is that what surges up
during your periods of relaxation and makes you remember God's perfection; or is
your etheric body just a 'Pandora's box', containing the records of all the
petty grievances and mistakes of others?
Does your physical body belong to God? Is it vital and alert as it should be,
ready to be about the Masters' business?
Take
Daily Personal Inventory!
Today I ask you to take an inventory of yourselves. You are chelas, now, who
must move forward under your own
'steam'.
These vehicles (bodies), which are yours to control, you must keep in the use of
God IF you are what you profess! You cannot serve two Masters! You are serving
God when your bodies are conductors for his Grace; you are serving Mammon when
your bodies are reacting to the flash-tides of human emotions!
Think it through, beloved ones! You say: 'All I am or have or ever hope to be or
have is THINE'. That is a BIG STATEMENT! Are you confirming it in your daily
living?
O, lovely ones, think of the statements you make and have been making for a
number of years now. Think upon them deeply, for they will affect the karma
which you draw upon you.
It is up to you to create the glory of your Causal Body through your four lower
bodies and make the Holy Spirit of God your personal aura, instead of its being
a flashing and crashing of the discords of your various vehicles which are
'off-beat'. When they are so, they are creating the dissonance which is very
evident to others and which causes your own personal distresses. It is time now
that you bring your four lower bodies (physical, etheric, mental and emotional)
into alignment, all of them, and then raise and consecrate them all to God and
his service!"