MAHA CHOHAN:

Life is a gift from God! Life, therefore, is intelligent and does respond to direction. Life is obedient to man because God (by whatever name you choose to call him) directed the intelligence in life to obey. Life is immortal because it is the essence of God, who is Immortal; given freely into the creation of planetary systems, individual beings, and generally, all that lives. 

Mankind are studying life. No scientist has yet been able to actually generate life, although many dedicated men and women have prolonged life in a particular form. The orthodox people refer to life as that which "The Lord giveth and taketh away." However, they err in their belief that the Giver actually takes away life. That life which seems to have been "taken away" is merely summoned to function in a different Sphere, still under the direction of the free will of its user. You, gentle reader, are one of the billions of souls belonging to this Planetary System who have been given the use of life, which has obediently fulfilled your conscious or unconscious commands through the ages. The nature of your soul, the state of your mind and bodies (inner and physical) your surroundings and aura are a result of your qualification of life through the ages. Now we come to a time when you are offered the knowledge and application by which you may redeem the life given to you, resurrect the Divine Image in which you were created and, generally, allow life within and about you freedom to express perfection. 

EL MORYA:

Life, gentle readers, flows into your being constantly. Because it does so silently, without fanfare, it is accepted too prosaically by man. Life gives intelligence to the brain and various members of your body, receptivity to the senses, power of motivation to the physical and inner bodies. It is time to consider from WHENCE comes this life and WHAT should be done with it. Man can no longer continue to be the beneficiary of the great Giver of Life and not courteously ask of that Giver for what purpose is that life given. When that question comes from the soul, the heart, and the mind of man, the answer will be forthcoming from the Giver of life. Then man will be held responsible for his further use of life; much more so than the individual who has not come to the point of spiritual awakening, where he asks this question and receives the answer. "I Am" among those who have offered to convey the answer to the earnest ones who truly desire to know from whence comes their life; why they are sustained in this physical world and how they can use life to help fulfill their individual destinies, as well as courteously cooperate with the Giver of life. 

KUTHUMI:

Mankind has used life rather promiscuously through the ages. Because life is obedient and intelligent, it has obeyed the directions of mankind's thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Life has taken on the forms which mankind themselves created. These forms are not always pleasurable to the outer self. When mankind realize that life in itself is immortal, obedient and intelligent and that they, themselves, have the power to direct it into constructive channels, they will come to a point where self-mastery is possible. Truly it is said "He is worthy to command who has learned to obey." The Earth is a schoolroom where mankind have been endeavoring to learn how to mold life substance into beautiful forms, beautiful colors, beautiful radiations, for their own blessings as well as their fellowman. However, man has "fumbled" a great deal in this process of learning and as the apprentice-carpenter leaves many shavings from the beautiful wood upon which he practices, so have mankind left many similar "shavings" in the atmosphere of the Earth where their experiments have taken place. Many of these "shavings" are not of constructive expression and are called "human creations". It is to clean up the "shop" (the Earth) of these imperfect expressions of the use of life, that the earnest student is dedicated. Even as the worthy apprentice must sweep clean the "shavings" of his crude endeavors, so must the student who wishes to use life constructively engage in the task of cleaning up the discordant creations and clumsy efforts of his ages of experimentation with the use of life. For this purpose, the Violet Flame of Mercy and Forgiveness has been created and its use given to a few among the sons and daughters of men. If they willingly use it, as the apprentice-carpenter uses his broom to clean his room, then they are ready to be given the instructions which lead to conscious direction and channeling of their life energy into forms of beauty, harmony and perfection of expression. We are in this period now! 

PAUL (THE VENETIAN MASTER):

Having seen the very smallest electron projected forth from the Godhead (the Universal "I Am" Presence), we know that within even one of these electrons (billions of which form your living river of life) is all the power and potential creative activity of the Deity, it is our endeavor to draw forth from the individual who is ready for such assistance, the gifts that are inherent within the life so freely and constantly given into his use and governing power. As uncountable numbers of these electrons pass into the being of every member of the human race every minute, if an individual were to utilize the talents, gifts and creative power within even one such electron, he would be amazed at the perfection and generosity of the gift of life itself. However, man lets life (like water) flow through his being unused or worse still, destructively qualified by thought, feeling, spoken word and action. The Music of the Spheres, the colors of the Heavens, the wisdom of the ages, all these gifts and more are within his own life. We, the Brotherhood of Love, endeavor to direct our Rays into this life and release some of its perfection. When we have good results through the cooperation of the individual, the life that flows to and through him is qualified with some expression of beauty. Often such a one, once in possession of the power to constructively control the flow of life, forgets the assistance given, reveling in his talent; receiving the benefits from its use; basking in the applause of his contemporaries and, generally, feeling that life's talents, merely expressed through him are his own! Then such a one (by Cosmic Law) is denied the use of that gift in a succeeding life; until the lesson is learned that life and its Giver - are the Doer, the Doing and the Deed. 

SERAPIS BEY:

At Luxor, we allow the student to see the color, the form and the effect of his personal qualification of life. This is a hard lesson, but it promotes the development of humility in the great and of rebellion in the small. Yet, if the student can and will accept his own qualifying power as the cause and core of his distress, he is on the road to permanent and eternal freedom. He then cherishes the gift of life and develops the potential Divinity within it and, most important of all, he uses life to bless all in the sphere in which he has fitted himself to dwell, without thought or motive of personal gain or merit. 

HILARION:

Life is immortal! This is an encouraging statement, yet it denotes to the thinking man that there is no escape (even in so-called death) from learning the lesson of using life to fulfill the Divine Plan. While the Creator (God) chooses to direct a flow of life-energy into an individual, that one must be held responsible for the qualification of life and for the sublimation of the life he has already used and misqualified in the past ages. While we are in the Resurrection Temple, each student has tremendous opportunity to invoke the Resurrection Flame through the life in his mind, body, world and affairs. We are sincerely hoping many will take advantage of this opportunity and have the wisdom to ask that the Resurrection Flame only re-animate the perfection within his life expression. Thus the inner and physical bodies are quickened, renewed and vitalized, the soul is sublimated and the human creations of the ages are transmuted into beauty and perfection. 

JESUS:

When an individual thinks, feels, writes or speaks the words "I Am", he immediately receives the attention of life within him as well as around him. Why? Because the words "I Am" are the signal to intelligent life to create. I learned this lesson at the feet of a Beloved Guru in India. I saw life come to attention when those words were used, silently or audibly. I then saw life immediately obey the fiat or decree that followed the use of that creative statement. It was at the feet of that Guru that I learned the power within the Creative word "I Am" and began to utilize it myself, enjoying the buoyant, uplifting feeling of the constructive use of any statement preceded by the words "I Am". I sincerely believe that the ultimate success of my Ministry was the constant and deeply felt use of the simple statement "I Am the Resurrection and the Life of my Divine Plan, physically manifest here and now". Life will obey you! It always has! Every creation that lives in your world constructive or otherwise, is the result of the obedience of life to your command someplace upon life's way. Turn to the constructive, positive, conscious use of the resurrection power of the Creative Words "I Am" and prove to yourself that intelligent life will obey you and manifest according to your decree. There is no greater teacher than one's own experience. Try it! I challenge you! 

SAINT GERMAIN:

Many individuals all through the ages learned of the obedience of life to the words "I Am" and they purposefully followed these words with imperfect decrees which life proceeded to manifest. Then the masses, used to following some leader, also began to use the words "I Am" to manifest imperfection. Later, they forgot both their teachers and the power within these words; subsequently falling into a loose and uncontrolled use of the Creative Word "I Am". It is now the opportunity of the Spiritual Brotherhood to show mankind how to use the words "I Am", always followed by a positive and constructive statement. The difficulty lies in the fact that man tends to make any statement of power a mere repetition of words without feeling and conscious thought. Thus most invocations, prayers and attempts at resurrection and redemption are not as efficacious as they might be, were the student to truly ponder the Truth that the words "I Am" cause life to obey instantly and become that which the speaker indicates he wishes to manifest. Let us now endeavor to use the Creative Word "I Am" only in a constructive manner; then witness the resurrecting power of perfection which will flow through the life energy of the student body and all the evolutions using Earth as a planetary home!