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The Homes and Retreats
of the Masters of Wisdom
The Bridge, April 1952
The homes and the great council halls of the Teachers and Guides of the Human Race are established all over the surface of the planet Earth. The exact location of these foci where the Light is drawn, intensified and held as a radiating center of protecting and inspiring force cannot be revealed to the unawakened consciousness of the outer world of humanity for reasons that are obvious. However, sincere, well motivated people, who are eager to place themselves at the feet of the Masters, and to volunteer to cooperate with their work, are enabled by spiritual invitation to visit in consciousness, if not in flesh, these beautiful retreats, sanctuaries and homes.
Consciousness is a marvelous means of travel, for the mind and heart are not bound by the gravity pull of the flesh body, and when an individual opens his consciousness to the description, activity and reality of the retreats, he has gained within himself the way and means by which he may fly 'on the wings of thought' to the Masters hospitable homes at any time. There, he is in the company of the Elect. He absorbs the strength, beauty, wisdom and understanding that form the radiation of the Holy Place. He returns to his own orbit filled with the Light of Truth and more able to fulfill his own individual destiny, as well as be an active, intelligent co-worker with the Master's work at hand.
The descriptions of the retreats, as they come forth, are for the purpose of 'guiding your mind and heart' along the Way, and then, you may return to these retreats again, and yet again, following the paths laid out to you here, in love, for your individual experience. Certain points upon the Earth's surface are more natural conductors of spiritual light than others. They induce and encourage spiritual thought and aspiration, where humanity, in his journey Godward, finds it easier to reach the higher and purer consciousness and overcome the appetites of the outer self. Seekers after spiritual attunement have ever sought these environments, entering into the mountain vastnesses', the solitude of desert and seashore... cultivating their Godhood under the beneficent radiation of these natural shrines...
Every individual who aspires Godward, draws into the lower atmosphere around him, beneficent vibrations or spiritual currents and so he experiences a little more of the Kingdom than was present before his heartfelt search. Thus it is said that in the very spot where Lord Buddha received his enlightenment, a radiant pillar of Christ Force pulsates to this day, into which any man may step and feel, for an instant, the uplift of the Buddha's Spiritual Thought. In a great cathedral, a healing shrine, the invisible presence of faith and hope and reverence, born of the heart's Light of all who have ever assembled there, is a palpable and living force that even the most skeptic materialist cannot deny...
How much greater then are those retreats and foci where the Masters of the race have entertained the seekers after truth and, with the help of each aspirant, have built into the very walls, into the Akashic records and into the very substance of the Earth itself, the spiritual aspirations, strengths, petitions, and illumination of all who are privileged to become the guests of the wayshowers among men.
Man leaves behind him at so-called death so much of his dream, his seeking, his achievement impregnating the atmosphere that has housed his body and spirit with his very self, and so likewise the Great Ones of the race have left this heritage in the retreats where they received their Light, and their ultimate victory. This Light, coupled with the consciously drawn and projected Light of the present occupants of the retreat or home, radiates out into the atmosphere and creates invisible but potent rays that enter into the feelings and thought centers of the human race, and stimulates them to higher aspiration, to cleaner, purer living.
Because man could not live in the effluvia of his own discordant thought and feeling, without the invisible and impersonal agents who dissolve much of the hate, selfishness, jealously, etc., by their own great Light, the establishment and sustaining of the retreats at specific geometrically exact locations upon the surface of the Earth where designed by the Lords of Light who govern the destiny of the race.
One of the important reasons for acquainting humankind of the Councils where the Flame is most active at any given time in the earth cycle is that the energies of every visitant can become part of the expansion of that Flame, and each interested party is 'fuel' to the fire. The greater the concentration of the Gift which is always of some specific benefit to the race, naturally the greater the individual blessing to every component part-the brighter shines the fire, the greater its gift of Light.