The glorious Teton Mountains in Wyoming form a natural cathedral for the Ascended Masters' Retreat there, which Retreat is dedicated and consecrated primarily to precipitating into the emotional, mental, etheric and physical consciousness of all unascended beings those God virtues, talents, gifts, powers and radiations which will assist mankind to externalize the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. 

Most of our readers have previously read the description of the glorious Rocky Mountain Retreat which rises from the plains of Wyoming like a giant finger pointing toward the Heavens. However, to bring the consciousness closer to this magnificent Focus we give you a portion of the previously released description. 

As the vicinity of the Teton Mountains was the first place where mankind took embodiment upon the Earth, the focus of the Seven Elohim, like an open Lotus with seven petals of Flame, is located there in the ethers and encompasses the Retreat and its environs. The Seven Elohim, having participated in the creation of the Earth as a habitable schoolroom for certain evolutions provide an impetus of the power of Precipitation into form from this locality. The Beloved Lanto many ages ago accepted the offer to become the Hierarch of this Retreat and Guardian of its beautiful Green Flame of Precipitation. (Lord Lanto is now Director, or Chohan, of the Second Ray and the present Hierarch is the Beloved Confucius. 

The original Rocky Mountain Retreat has been enlarged as most of our readers know, by adding seven ante-chambers which now surround the main Audience Hall. 

At the entrance to the ante-chambers are golden mesh curtains upon which are portrayed the figures of the great Archangels and their Divine Complements. The drawing back of these curtains opens each ante-chamber to the great Audience Hall. The ante-chambers are decorated in the colors of the Seven Rays, and thus you can see how the Etheric Lotus of the Elohim is outpictured in the actual substance of Earth in this Retreat. 

Throughout the year, except for the time when the Retreat is Host to the Spiritual Hierarchy (December-January and June-July) the golden curtains are kept drawn and only the central Audience Chamber is open for use in Ceremonials particularly connected with the expansion of the Power of Precipitation throughout the emotional, mental, etheric and physical consciousness of mankind and the evolutions belonging to the Earth. 

Besides the glorious Audience Chamber and its seven ante-chambers, the Rocky Mountain Retreat has many Council Halls which are courteously offered for use to the Beloved Ascended Masters who visit this Retreat with the specific intent and purpose of helping to precipitate into the world of form some God-design and blessing which will be beneficial to the race as a whole. There is always a beautiful Angel placed in charge of receiving the Scrolls upon which are written the petitions and proposed plans of the Ascended Ones, as well as those of their conscious chelas. 

This Angel of the Scrolls is chosen yearly as an honor to that one for having rendered some special service in the world of form. Thus, this Office of Service is permanent, but the Angel who receives the Scrolls is not always the same one each year. After the Angel has received a Scroll of Petition, the Celestial Being whose Scroll it is (and who has been chosen by the Brotherhood of his Retreat to attend the Conference on their behalf) is assigned to one of the Council Chambers. The Angel then places his Scroll upon a panel outside the door of this Chamber. Then, within that room, the Divine One interviews those visiting the Retreat, and having read his Scroll outside the door, professes interest in the development of the particular Plan being presented by that one. He explains his ideas for its development, endeavoring to enlist their practical cooperation in the manifesting of that Plan in the world of form. 

In this way, the Ascended Ones, as well as their unascended chelas are given opportunity to study, contemplate, and generally widen the scope of their own vision with regard to a particular Plan before they agree to consciously assist in furthering the outpicturing of that Plan. 

By the time the Karmic Board is ready to listen to the Petitions and Plans as presented by the Divine Beings who often incorporate as well the present Plans of their chelas in their addresses to the Board, each individual is well versed in the content, ways and means of execution, and personal responsibility involved in becoming an active sponsor of such a Petition. It is entirely a free-will endeavor. 

In recent years, due to the dispensation given by the Divine Law, more and more unascended lifestreams are cognizant of the activities of the Rocky Mountain Retreat and they, in turn, have a greater awareness of the opportunities available to them to more quickly further their own spiritual progress and that of all mankind by lovingly cooperating with the Brotherhood and address the Karmic Board themselves; but only if their petitions are of sufficient value to the evolution of the race and if their Sponsors believe that they have the ability and spiritual development necessary to help externalize these plans through their own endeavors and through whatever collective energies they may be able to enlist from their fellowmen. 

One of the most solemn moments in these Conferences is the presenting of the addresses and Petitions to the Karmic Board who sit facing the Assembly, the expressions upon their lovely faces wholly impersonal. Another such solemn moment is the time the Karmic Board acquiesces to the Plan of some petitioner (Ascended or unascended) who is thereby given permission to try to externalize a particular Idea. 

The most solemn moment for the petitioner is when he receives that acquiescence and the responsibility for developing that idea is placed upon his own shoulders - he knowing full well that within a period of six months, he must return with a full report of what he has done to fulfill that Plan in the world of form as a practical benefaction for the race.