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Thanksgiving Class

Beloved Lady Rowena

November 24, 1967

Beloved Friends serving with the Spiritual Hierarchy to bring more Light to this dear Planet and all her evolutions, I bring you my Love. 

I consider it a tremendous privilege to be able to speak with you at this time when the Flame of Thanksgiving is energized by the peoples in these United States and those chelas throughout the world who are participating in this Class. Having rather recently trod the path of Earth, this Flame of Gratitude burns brightly in my Being, and it is this feeling, coupled with the Activity of Victorious Accomplishment that I bring to you, hoping it will saturate every cell and atom of your vehicles. 

Gratitude is such a priceless commodity and flows freely through your beings as a Gift from the Heart of the Universal "I AM", for your benediction upon all Life. It is generally accepted that one offers gratitude for a gift or favor from some other part of life, and it is the natural emanation from one's being in response for a blessing or a kindly deed through which one personally benefits.

If you think deeply upon this you will know that any Gift of God, the Father-Mother of us all - you will realize that that which affects one, affects all life. In every instance when a blessing flows through you to another, the sum total of the Gift is expanded, or more simply the momentum is greater in its expression, not only on this Planet but throughout the universe. 

I would ask you to think upon the Gifts which you dispense to others in this world of form! Do you truly realize that the Supreme Source of all Life is the Benefactor and you, the Individualized facets in the world of physical appearance are the beneficiaries? Your Holy Christ Presence knows this, for it is One in Consciousness with the Perfection of the Cosmos. Just think, every thought, word and deed which emanates from you is your qualification of the Energy which the Cosmic "I AM” Presence has given into your use for the expansion of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth! Is your release of that Energy a Blessing upon life? 

My so dear Friends on Earth, I know that you are grateful to your Source for you daily express that fact through your Service to life. However, I advocate that you more fully contemplate the Cosmic Reservoir from which all Gifts flow. When you become more deeply immersed in the Flame of Gratitude, you will experience an expanded understanding of the Oneness of all Life. Gratitude is an expression of Divine Love, that mighty activity which we know as the Cohesive Power of Creation. 

That which is built in Divine Love endures; all manifestation less than that is of a temporary nature. Oh, how I love the Flame of Gratitude and one of the most magnificent expressions of this component of Divine Love is so exquisitely apparent in the Activities of the Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy for this Earth, as we are convened at the Holy Focus of Shamballa for the Annual Celebration. 

The Perfection of the etheric Shamballa is beautiful in its expression and beyond worded description for acceptance in the human mind. This is such a joyous time when the Hierarchy mingles in happy anticipation of exchanging pleasantries and the accomplishments of the preceding months. It is good for one's Being to travel along the lane of consciousness of another being who has attained the God-Free Estate and to share in his conviction of the Perfection for all Life. When one accepts the verity that there is no separation in consciousness, he or she becomes more careful of the use of God's Energy, and this holds true for positive and negative expressions, as Energy takes on, as we have stated, the quality with which the individual charges it. 

There must be the various types of constructive service in order that all the Rays of Perfection may find expression on the Planet and the Third Ray, as you are aware, embodies Divine Love and Tolerance. The adverse qualification is human licentious love, and it is this negative activity which must be transmuted by the Sacred Fire of Transmutation and Purification. So you see the action of the Fourth Ray of Purity and the Seventh Ray of Transmutation serve in cooperation with the Third Ray to bring fuller expression of Divine Love and Tolerance so necessary for the true Brotherhood of Man. 

All the Spiritual Hierarchy are lending their Energies to the outpicturing of Perfection on the Earth, that sweet Planet for which our Lord and King, the Ascended Master Saint Germain is responsible during this Seventh Ray Dispensation, a time when the energies at our conscious command are set into motion to infiltrate the consciousness of the chelas and the peoples of this Planet with God Truth, in the mighty project of purification and transmutation of the distortion into the Perfection which is ordained cosmically for this Sphere. 

The chelas under our direction should by this time have come to the conclusion that we must have diversified avenues through which God’s Energy flows. All cannot serve on the Third Ray, as it is now my privilege so to do, nor can we decide we would rather be, on the Seventh or some other Ray. We must follow the line of Service for which we dedicate our energies in a specific period, although we may render other Service as we fulfill the avowed Service. As it is in Heaven, so must it be on Earth, through the loving cooperation of the chelas. 

To complete the over-all Pattern for the Earth, it is required that there be men and women of Faith, Wisdom, Divine Love, Purity, Science, Healing, Peace and Ordered Service through Transmutation. We pray for the day when we have chelas who are content in their service upon a certain Ray or Rays, having built momentums in their Causal Bodies, and do not continually try to tell the other chela that which he should do. When the chela can attend to his own knitting, so to speak, all will come into alignment more quickly. One should not take the presumptive attitude when engaged in Service of a Spiritual Nature, that the Service which he is rendering is the only way to accomplish a desired result. You have been told this many times, but it is expedient that the chela respect the Service or Activity of the Light of another individual. When one finds himself or herself rendering a Service which will benefit mankind, he or she should be content in his field of endeavor and not interfere or try to direct the Service of another. 

Blessed Friends of Light, invoke the Flame of Tolerance and Understanding to become an active part of your Service, instead of inflicting your way of doing things upon another. When you sincerely feel that corrections or changes can be made, in God dignity counsel with the other individual or individuals and suggest that perhaps you could offer assistance. I have seen so many blessed chelas actually impose their will on others, and much rebellion set into motion, when the tolerant activity of understanding could have brought the equanimity required for expanded Service. 

The mighty Lord of the World, Beloved Gautama, is the greatest exponent of the Middle Way, which can only be attained through tolerant understanding. The Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy are gloriously happy in the knowledge that he or she is privileged to serve with him, and when a designated Service is allotted any of us, we give our all to the externalization of such Perfection, and in so doing we find that our Energies are blended into an harmonious whole, in beautiful rhythmic expression. 

May I again counsel the chela who feels he or she could render more efficient Service than his fellow traveler, to go deep within the recesses of his Being and learn that perfect Service along a specific line of endeavor is preferable than along many lines. Permit the Christ Presence to absorb your lower consciousness into itself, and then there will be more efficacious and happy service among the chelas of this or any other avenue of God Truth desiring to assist the evolutions of this Earth. Let the Father's Business be yours, and not the outer assumption of God Authority over another life-stream. Each individual is responsible for the use he or she makes of the Energy flowing through him, and when you can, in dignity and efficiency replace another in his or her Service for the Benefaction of all life, God in his Wisdom will assign that avenue of Service to you. 

Condemnation or the superior attitude of the little self has no place in the world of the aspirant upon the Path. Do permit Tolerance to take you by the hand and be a Guiding Light to those about you, and to all life. 

Why have I discoursed with you in this manner? For the very reason that I have seen the destructive flares of egotism flashing into the atmosphere, oh not in many instances, but in some, and my developed Tolerant Love is required for all life upon this Earth. Thank you for the Love which permitted me to talk with you, knowing that I so recently was walking on the Earth plane and realize the pitfalls of the forces opposed to Truth, and as a friend, I have come into your midst. 

Good Morning,

Lady Rowena 

(Our Beloved Lady Rowena is the Divine Complement of the mighty Victory.)