South America Seminar

Holy Æolus

January 1954 (Excerpt)

An informal Address

Beloved Ones, I would like to bring to your remembrance some of the endeavors in which a particular group of the Celestial Hierarchy has invested its energies, which include the thought and the full gathered momentum of Love, Wisdom and Power of each of its constituents who has earned the right to active membership under the banner of the Lord of the World through investment of the primal essence of his life in the cosmic endeavor through accumulated thought, feeling and action.

Every intelligence who applies to the Universal First Cause for the use of life and who is granted a flow of that stream of Life Energy begins to create a personal heritage the moment the first electron is placed within the keeping of the free will of the individual. All through the ages that spiritual heritage, which becomes Wisdom, Understanding, Faith, Beauty and other divine qualities, is built, and for many at the same time is built the personal heritage of karma which must be expiated as they proceed on their journey through life until their debt is paid. This expiation is possible of achievement quickly through a knowledge of the use of the Sacred Fire in its purifying activity, as well as by merit gained through service to the Cause of Good.

The great guardians of the race through the developed faculty of the inner sight watch the building of the spiritual heritage of the evolving souls which becomes the glorious aura of the Causal Body and from time to time individual lifestreams, chosen because of that accumulated store of good, are given an opportunity of becoming part of the purpose and cause which is the forwarding of the Divine Plan for the planet and its evolution. These individuals who have developed certain dexterity along particularly constructive lines greatly hasten their own evolution if they accept the opportunity to serve when it is offered them by the Karmic Board, Sanat Kumara himself or his representatives.

The Masters, however, in choosing individuals, are fully conscious and cognizant that the accumulated store of good in the Causal Body, upon which they pin their Faith and Hope, will very often be counterbalanced by the destructively generated karma which the personality has not expiated either through suffering or through grace and this condition often proves to be the deciding factor in his continued usefulness to the Cause. If he has love enough to be willing to expiate his karma and serve at the same time according to the great spiritual strength and momentum of his lifestream... which makes his victory a possibility but not a preordained fact, owing to free will... he will successfully pass through the great initiation of self-denial. However, the successful achievement of this manifestation is wholly dependent upon the determination and tenacity of the ego to rise above the human tendency to give allegiance to form rather than essence, which ofttimes causes the aspirant to relinquish the plan, no matter how carefully and perfectly it is designed at inner levels.

When an individual or a group comes to a certain point of development and at the same time a cosmic moment is struck in the history and evolution of a planet or system, the Governing Board of the Spiritual Hierarchy presents to possible servers the plan, the vision and the part which each one, individually or collectively as part of that group, may play in the world scene.

As the wise director carefully casts the members of his play, so does the director of the cosmic scene carefully designate those who might effectively further the Divine Plan through the world of form.

Then voluntarily, the individual soul or ego may accept or reject the opportunity to serve, although he is fully aware that through this service he may achieve his own eternal freedom.

You will remember that there was a number of lifestreams who could have rendered a tremendous service to the Master Jesus and there was a number who could have rendered a similar service to the Lord Buddha and did not, but as the law of the Brotherhood can never force anyone to become part of an impersonal cause, ofttimes the individual who volunteers will have barely a minimum of the momentum required against a hundred individuals with a maximum capacity who refuse the opportunity.

It is a solemn and serious meeting when the Hierarchy presents a plan which they would like to externalize to a group of free spirits functioning in the happier medium of the etheric or higher mental bodies. The first part of that activity is beautiful, inspiring and uplifting, because the Master Powers, at inner levels, throw on the cosmic screen, Their developed plan showing the magnificent accomplishment by which an entire race will receive perhaps the use of the electric light, the airplane, the removal of certain so-called "incurable diseases" and many other racial benefits.

At this time all those between embodiments who have been selected by the Silent Watcher as being capable of comprehending this vision and carrying it through the veil of birth to fruition are present... all of those who through many ages have earned stripes of merit, we will say, for work well done, enjoy the spectacle and are filled with the enthusiasm of the sponsor... but then as each individual who professes a willingness to be a part of the Cause comes forward, he is forced to look upon his own karma which stands like an obstacle or a wall between him and the fulfillment of his part... and here many drop from the roll of volunteers, leaving only the boldest, the strongest or the most loving who are willing to take the vision in one hand, as it were, and the weight of his karma in the other and, passing through the gates of birth, endeavor to externalize the vision, expiate the karma and keep the faith.

Many times the weight of karma is such that the work cannot be accomplished to its best manifest expression and this was particularly evident before the comprehension of the use of the Sacred Fire of Forgiveness and Mercy was made apparent to the outer consciousness, and even now it is expedient that individuals realize that those who stand with their hands in those of the Masters, endeavoring to externalize the Divine Plan yet carry the burden of their own karma and, although they may not be the fullness of ourselves incarnate, they at least are those who volunteered to endeavor to spread our word and our vision and so manifest the Glory of the Inner Light... having looked upon the weight of their own karma and willingly fitted it to their shoulders before attempting the task... for each one who has accepted the mission - a thousand who were perhaps better qualified to perform the service, have refused to accept the responsibility.

Understanding and tolerance of this sacrifice - which is in a measure that which the beloved Buddha spoke of in referring to his own tremendous endeavors to make sacred his lifestream - is the constant service of the workers in the vineyard who help their fellowmen with one hand and clear their own worlds of the mire and accumulation of the ages with the other. It is good that the Universal God created two hands... one for individual development and one for impersonal service... if either is withered the spiritual body in mastery is incomplete.

Holy Æolus