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To Beloved Sanat Kumara and Lord Gautama!
GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS from the Spiritual Hierarchy, the conscious
chelas upon the Spiritual Path and all the mass of mankind who know not yet of
your Presence and your Love!
To Sanat Kumara whose patience, constancy and love held the planet
Earth in the Universe, let there rise undying praise and gratitude from the
Earth and all its attendant evolutions.
To Beloved Lady Venus and the people of Venus who so kindly
renounced the comfort of his Presence for eons of time, let there rise from the
Earth and all its attendant evolutions, constant gratitude for such service!
To the new Lord Gautama! Greetings from the evolutions which you
have prepared yourself to serve in love. I invoke every God-power and
God-assistance to help you in this self chosen responsibility and task! May
there arise in the hearts and souls of all Earth's people a realization of the
centuries of preparation that equipped you to hold this High Office! The people
of Earth shall become your co-workers in establishing the Kingdom of Love,
Harmony and Perfection upon this planet and in its atmosphere! The Spiritual
Hierarchy welcomes you, Lord Gautama and we pledge to you our full support and
assistance in your service. Your READINESS to assume this great Office with its
attendant responsibilities, is a lesson to us all above as well as to those yet
unascended who have been so privileged as to have had the curtain of maya parted
to perceive the activities of Cosmic Evolution! We love you!
THOMAS PRINTZ,
Editor
The Homes and Retreats of The Masters of Wisdom
SHAMBALLA - FOCUS OF THE LORD OF THE
WORLD
November 15th,
1956 through December 14, 1956
Shamballa! The very name carries a feeling of spiritual nostalgia to
those who "remember" their visits to this glorious focus of the Lord of the
World.
Built (as all foci are built on this Earth, from an idea and vision
held in the consciousness of unascended beings and their Gurus) upon the pattern
of the City of the Sun on Venus, Shamballa is one of the most exquisite foci of
the Ascended Masters' culture and radiation that pulsates now in the Etheric
Realm above the Gobi Desert in Asia. Once, long ago, after the Conference among
the Suns of this Galaxy, it was decided that the planet Earth would be returned
to primal essence because it was contributing no light, no music, no
constructive radiation to the Universe of which it was a part. The Great Lord,
Sanat Kumara, attending this Conference, asked for opportunity to give to the
Earth his radiation and light and to act, through his developed capacities of
thought, feeling and action as Lord of the World for the Earth. His request was
granted.
Thus, when he returned home to his own Star, Venus, he made the
announcement of his offer and many of those who loved him well offered to
precede him to Earth and prepare a suitable dwelling for this August Being.
They entered the Earth's atmosphere through the natural doors of
birth (with the exception of their Gurus who were already Ascended and for 900
long years, they endeavored to retain the picture of the City of the Sun through
their outer consciousness and to build here on Earth, with the most beautiful
materials that the Earth could offer, a duplicate of the Shamballa on Venus.
This they did, although often their entire numbers were wiped out by the savage
hordes that swept over them while engrossed at their labors. Finally Shamballa,
the focus of the Sacred Three-fold Flame of Life, was completed upon the White
Island, surrounded by the blue waters of the Gobi Sea. From the mainland to the
White Island they built a beautiful carved Bridge over which the pilgrims
seeking more Light might pass into the Sacred Precincts of the Temples.
(Remnants of this Bridge may still be seen beneath the shifting sands of the
Gobi Desert which, through cataclysmic action, was temporarily changed from blue
waters to desert sand).
Finally, when all was prepared, Sanat Kumara bade his beloved Venus
farewell, ascended into the atmosphere of his own Star of Beauty and Love,
blessed his people and together with the Kumaras and certain of his Spiritual
Court who were to accompany him, he consciously descended into the atmosphere of
Earth, taking up his abode at Shamballa.
For millions of years Sanat Kumara has remained as Lord of the
World. Through the powers of Divine Love, he began to stir the soul-light among
those still belonging to Earth's evolution. These individuals were magnetized by
his Presence and visited Shamballa often (first in their finer bodies at night
and between embodiments and later in their physical vehicles). Among the first
two so to respond to Sanat Kumara's call for assistance for mankind, were the
Lord Gautama Buddha and Lord Maitreya. For centuries, these beloved ones trained
themselves to be of greater service to him and to the humanity which they had
vowed to serve.
Finally, very recently, Lord Gautama achieved the necessary
expansion of his consciousness through Divine Love, which qualified him to
accept the responsibility, authority and Office of the Lord of the World. This
significant event gave to the Beloved Sanat Kumara freedom to return to his own
Star, Venus, so that he might assist in its evolution, preparatory to the Solar
Initiation through which it will soon pass. Lord Maitreya, also, through like
preparation qualified to become the New Buddha, filling the Office held so long
and so lovingly by Lord Gautama.
Sanat Kumara returned to Venus in January of this year for a very
short period of time and then returned to the Earth to act as Regent and to
assist Lord Gautama in his new responsibilities and services to the Earth and
its evolutions.
For this thirty-day period (from November 15th onward) there is a
constant stream of pilgrims in their finer bodies, who, removing the shoes from
their feet, walk over the etheric replica of the carved marble bridge into the
City on the White Island, bringing in their sheaves (accomplishments of the past
year) to place upon the altar of the new Lord of the World (Lord Gautama).
Besides these pilgrims, the Ascended Masters, Archangels, Seraphim, Cherubim and
all who have served this Earth and its evolutions come HOME. It is a period of
rejoicing, reunion, comparison of services for a greater future unity, as well
as a period of Divine Worship to the Immortal Victorious Three-fold Flame of
God, "I Am", focused on the Altar of the main Temple and a period of blessing to
the Patient Regent, Sanat Kumara and his loving successor, Lord Gautama!
Preparatory to the Christmas Season, the Beloved Spiritual Hierarchy
and their chelas enjoy this holiday-time. All of the Temples dedicated to the
Seven Rays are festooned with flame flowers. All of the Angel Devas, Builders of
Form, Angels of Ceremony and Ritual are directed to make of Shamballa a most
glorious HOME for the Children of Light! Both Sanat Kumara and Lord Gautama are
in residence there and many are the interviews, counsels and instruction given
to the Hierarchy and the chelas by these Illustrious Ones.
(Note: For further description of the Temple at
Shamballa please see Transmission Flame Book, page 16, 19; "The Bridge to
Freedom", Vol. 1, No. 7; Vol. 2, No. 8; Vol. 3, No. 8; Vol. 4, No. 8.)