THE GNOSIS AND THE LAW
CHAPTER 13
CREATION OF THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD
An idea of the existing conditions on Earth, at the time when Sanat Kumara came to the Earth, can be had from the following picked up at random. First the axis of the Earth had been bent by 45 degrees due to the extra weight thrust upon it by the "invited" guests.1 Second, the fiat of the Cosmic Law to place Cherubic host around the Earth globe, so that humanity's effluvia could not reach and contaminate other, highly evolved planets. More evident, however, was the following, which shows the nadir of human degradation of that time.
When the "30" from Venus offered to come to Earth and prepare a suitable abode - the Shamballa - for Sanat Kumara, the Cosmic Law decreed that these individuals have to assume human form and be subject to all human limitations through natural birth. No one, however, at that time, realized what the last one involved. Out of the 10,000 million souls that existed on Earth - incarnate and discarnate - not enough evolved beings could be found to be their parents and be trusted to rear properly these highly evolved souls from Venus. When, finally 12 worthy souls were found, these were divided into six pairs, each one of them bringing to the world five children. Regardless where these children were born, eventually found themselves at the place - Gobi Desert, at present -where Shamballa was to be built. Elsewhere, we give more details of the time it took and the difficulties they had to overcome, more than often losing their life in the performance.
It was such conditions on Earth that Sanat Kumara found and had to overcome before He even hoped that this utterly lost world could be brought to a reasonable God estate. To hasten the work, within His mind and heart, He conceived the idea of creating a Great White Brotherhood2 in hope, that among the sons and daughters of the then humanity, some would choose, at inner levels, to join Him, and in some measure help Him to reach the consciousness of just a few who would elect then to control their energies and become Light Bearers.3
"I had nothing to work with", said Sanat Kumara, in an address to the students ("Bridge", November, 1953) "but Light and Love, and many centuries passed before even two lifestreams applied for membership - One, later became Buddha (now, Lord of the World, the Planetary Logos Gautama) and the Other, became the Cosmic Christ (Lord Maitreya, now the Buddha, Lord Divino). The Brotherhood has grown through these ages and centuries until almost all the offices are held now by those belonging to the evolution of Earth and those who have volunteered to remain among her evolution...."
With such a background, the Great White Brotherhood, prompted by the requirements of the hour and the Divine Love and Light of Sanat Kumara, was founded to re-establish the Conscious Communion between the Ascended Master Realm and the outer consciousness of mankind. It was a super-human endeavor and only a Cosmic Being of Sanat Kumara's dimensions would have conceived to undertake and bring it to fruition. Thus, began the long and arduous task of endeavoring to reach the outer minds of the few who, in the recesses of their memory retained some concept of the past in which Master, Angel, Elemental and man walked and talked together, serving a common purpose to fulfill the Divine Plan of God.
As we saw earlier, the first Two Spirits that responded to the new order were, what became later, Lord Gautama and Lord Maitreya. They were the first to apply for training so that in time they might become Members in the Council of Shamballa and join in the work of Light Bearers. When they came in, the rejoicing at Shamballa was very great for this proved to the Cosmic Law that the wisdom and sacrifice of the Lords of the Flame from Venus would bring the desired results - "for where Two had come, more would follow".
With such a beginning and the entrance of the first Two into the track of intelligent and conscious effort, the work of the Brotherhood was systematized, the various offices were created and properly apportioned, and the methods of evolution, in all its aspects, were put into wise direction. To hasten the work, many of the Masters Who, hitherto maintained etheric vehicles incarnated and assuming physical bodies, through marriage, transferred their characteristics to their children. This gave a new impetus to the evolution.
That was millions of years ago. Meanwhile, tremendous changes have taken place, and for the better; but, unfortunately, to a large segment of present humanity, particularly among the intelligentsia of the Western World, the existence and work of the Spiritual Hierarchy, remains to them an illusion, a summer night's dream, without a basis of reality. Imbued in the teachings of materialistic science, to them anything beyond the findings in the microscope and the tube of chemistry has no foundation, and the thought of the Spiritual Hierarchy is just as fantastic as it is non-existent.4
It is rare, among the average individual, to find one who thought seriously what mankind owes to These Great Beings Who refused Cosmic Service in the Higher Realms to remain on Earth and help struggling humanity to higher evolution. They do this by intensifying the light in the heart of the seeker, so that the more powerful and expanded voltage of the Master might throw off some of the discord and spread greater radiance upon the individual's path.5
The Planetary Silent Watcher
Above all Beings that serve under our Solar Logoi - Helios and Vesta - in the government of our Earth, is the Planetary Silent Watcher - the Divine Immaculata. She is the One Who has access to the Mind, Heart, Will and Presence of God, and She is the One Who holds in Her heart the Divine Plan for our Planet. She serves under the auspices of Mighty Serculata Who is the Cosmic Mother of all the Planetary Silent Watchers of our Solar System. As Immaculata holds in Her heart the Divine Plan for our Planet Earth, which She receive from Serculata, so the latter, holds in Her heart the Divine Plan for our entire Solar System. This was given to Her by the Solar Logoi of the Great Central Sun - our Galaxy - Alpha and Omega.
The Silent Watchers, regardless of grade and importance, is a higher evolution of Elohim, and belong to the Elemental Kingdom. (Silent Watchers are always Feminine; Manus always Masculine.)
The Lord of the World
The next in graded service and importance in the administration of our Planet is the Planetary Logos - The Lord of the World. He is the highest-ranking Intelligence over every member of the Spiritual Hierarchy. He is the supreme authority over all activities of every kind, the actual Dispenser of the Works and Powers of the Godhead. Primarily, His service centers with the Lords of Karma - The Karmic Board - and the World Teacher, but His service covers, every evolution, in the entire Planet.
As we have already seen, Sanat Kumara held this Office since his coming to our Earth about 4,500,000 years ago. In 1955, the former Buddha, Gautama, took the Office, enabling Sanat Kumara to return to Venus - His Own Evolution.
The Buddha
The service of the Buddha comes next to the Lord of the World. It embodies the Love of God Himself and sustains .the spiritual fire in the soul, while the latter is in the atmosphere of Earth where it is required to develop and mature. The Buddha steps down the nature and actual vibrations of the Kingdom of Heaven so that the Soul is not completely exiled and the Spirit Spark withdrawn from Earth. This office was held for many centuries by the Great Lord Gautama Buddha - Who, as we have seen, took over the Office of Lord of the World, when Sanat Kumara was released to return to Venus, in 1956.
The World Teacher
Third in the Spiritual Hierarchy of our Planet, after the Lord of the World and the Buddha, is the World Teacher, the Great Initiator, who serves under the Lord of the World. His service lies in the endeavor to develop the conscious minds of the peoples of the Earth, by connecting the radiation of the Buddha with the Earth's evolution. He is the Great Being Who inculcates every world religion and usually serves for a period of 14,000 years, 2,000 for each of the Seven Rays. He is the Teacher of the Masters, the men and the Angels. Priests, ministers, missionaries, rabbis, and whoever else is connected in the spreading of the Word of God to men, receives his impetus and stimulation from Him. This office has been held by the Great Lord Maitreya, Who recently has attained the Office of the Buddha when the former Buddha (Gautama Buddha) became the Lord of the World. Both Gautama and Lord Maitreya belong to the Ray of Illumination - the Second Ray.
With the advancement of both Gautama and Lord Maitreya to higher Service, the Ascended Master Kuthumi with Jesus the Christ (Chohans of the Second and Sixth Ray, respectively) took over, conjunctively, the Office of the World Teacher. Beloved Ascended Lady Master Nada, Goddess of Love, succeeded Jesus as Chohan of the Sixth Ray, while Ascended Master Lanto took the Office as Chohan of the Second Ray.
The Third Person of the Holy Trinity
This great Office is held by the Great Beloved Maha Chohan Who represents the Holy Spirit to the Earth and Who, in turn, is the Over-Lord of the Seven Chohans. He is, also, the Director of the Forces of Nature6 and all energy to the Earth.7 He is the One Who gives to each individual his first breath, at birth, and He is the one Who receives it back at the time of so-called death.8
Though the number of the Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy can be counted in thousands, only a few, comparatively, have revealed themselves to the world of form and are known to man. The beginning of this started at the Spiritual Hierarchy's conclave in 1425 A. D., when it was suggested that the hitherto accepted policy of helping humanity from the Inner Spheres be reversed and more direct help be accorded to man. This being accepted, advanced students came to the Earth, at different periods to apprise man of his destiny and point to him the way to its accomplishment. As time went by, others followed and, as the experiment seemed to bring results, the method of the Spiritual Hierarchy, in Her contact with man changed, until today, not only advanced spirits are contacting men, but Ascended Masters, and often Cosmic Beings9 from Spheres much higher than our own Planet, .are giving their concentrated efforts to assist man to expand his consciousness and turn the Earth, from a Star of darkness into a Planet of Light.
During the last few years, especially since the early 1930's many Ascended Masters and Cosmic Beings have given addresses10 under the auspices of certain Esoteric Spiritual Organizations, such as the "I AM" Activity, "The Bridge to Freedom", "The Summit Lighthouse", and others.11
The manner through which these talks are given, differ according to circumstances. Some of these are given in the Masters Retreat, on etheric realms, the student listening in his finer bodies, while his physical body sleeps. When this takes place, if the student is so evolved as to have developed what we know as "continuity of consciousness" when in the waking stage - not sleeping - he remembers everything that he had seen or heard. But even if this does not happen, subconsciously he has retained much of it, and when later he brings to fruition knowledge which seems he knows did not acquire physically, he wonders where did he get it.
Other talks are given on the physical plane, as any other earthly talk, with the difference that the Ascended Master or Cosmic Being that is speaking is invisible. The voice then is one of a spiritually advanced student whom the talking Being is using as a medium of His expression. Another means, though much rarer, is that which the messenger or medium, the words he expresses, sees them drawn and written automatically on the wall, in fiery letters, and with such speed as the Cosmic Being that talks chooses to express them. All the talks that were presented to the "I AM" Activity, under Guy Ballard, were given in this manner. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard were Saint Germain's official messengers at that period.
There is still another way - via telepathy - in which the Ascended Master conveys His message to the recipient student. Distance in this case, has no bearing. But the student, in previous lives, has developed this capability and at present, whether sponsored by a given Master or not, is capable of conveying accurately the message which he or she receives. Classic example of this is the dictations given by the Master Djwhal Khul, better known as the Tibetan Master, to Mrs. Alice Bailey in New York, from the far-away Tibet. These dictations, covering millions of words, lasted exactly thirty years.
In "The Bridge to Freedom" activity, Geraldine Innocente, as a student of the Maha Chohan, acted as the telepathic medium, until her translation in June, 1961, between Master, Cosmic Being and the world of form, in conveying accurately Their messages.
It was a similar method, though slightly modified, that Madame Blavatsky used in the writing of "The Secret Doctrine".
For accurate reception of an Ascended Master's message, when given to an audience, the words that come out from the messenger's lips are recorded by suitable instruments so that every word is accurately recorded.
BELOVED JESUS' ADDRESS
("Bridge", December, 1954, p. 7)
"...After the passing of My Father, one of the most difficult of My experiences was leaving My beloved Mother and making that pilgrimage into the heart of Asia. There I met the Being Whom you know as the Divine Director. There I dwelt with Him, learning to measure in My Own consciousness and make My Own, the few affirmations which He gave Me. One of the lessons which passed from His mighty consciousness to all of Us who gathered round Him, was that no prayer, or mantra as He called them, no decree had efficacy unless the consciousness within itself in feeling, both accepted and understood the truth affirmed.
We were taught there the power of mental concentration upon the mantra which was Ours to use and We were asked through the energies of Our Own forcefield, Our Own auras, to draw forth the truth of that mantra until it was visible to the Guru. We were not given another application until every fiber and cell of Our beings confirmed Our affirmation and We had made it Our Own in practical manifest fact.
Some remained for thirty or forty years working on the phrase: "I AM THAT I AM". Some remained an entire embodiment upon "I AM the Resurrection and the Life". There was no favoritism. There was nothing that could forward Our progress except the externalized truth, which was contained within that portion of the Law which the Guru gave to us. He gave it to us sparingly as though the breath of life contained within that aphorism could never be used again until the kingdom was at hand!
Mankind and the world does not realize the reverence with which the Great Masters and Teachers, the Sages and Saints treat life. Mankind that devours Truths, digests them little and makes them not their own, has much to learn about the disciplines that accompany the development of consciousness within the Retreats of the world.
Many, many who applied to the Divine Director were not given even a single worded expression throughout that embodiment, for that Great Being did not feel that their Light and consciousness warranted the investment of His energies and the corresponding responsibility which would enter the world of the student, if he could not make that truth fact.
These aspirants sat within the aura of the Master throughout an entire embodiment, just content to touch the hem of His garment (aura). They were content to feel their own weak spiritual energies flowing upward on His constant upsurge of adoration and devotion to God. They were hoping that perhaps within their own aura some day or hour there might be kindled a magnetic spark which would draw even a flicker of interest from His eyes, a nod of His head or the benediction from His hand, and genuflecting to the ground when such recognition was accorded them without a spoken word.
For Myself, I joined those pilgrims with no announcement. I sat with others in the nameless circle and the Master in deep contemplation and meditation, made no sign that He knew of My Presence. I was not heralded as the Messiah, or singled out for favors. I was to rise or fall like any man or woman on My own light. I would not have wished to have it otherwise! When mankind and students who strive for "place" come to an understanding of this, their hearts will know peace.
The moment the pupil is ready, the Master appears! The moment the pupil is ready for more knowledge, the knowledge is given. The moment the consciousness is ripe, the fruit is plucked. The moment the Earth is tilled, the new seed is sown. We, Who seem now so prolific in the sowing of Our seeds, do so because long after your world cycle is completed, and you stand in the God-free realm, there will be men and women who will base their life upon this Law. As One Who took so eagerly that single phrase "I AM the Resurrection and the Life", so grateful that I had been accorded the privilege and the honor of receiving from the lips of the Guru some workable knowledge to make My Own, I say to you who are so blessed, receiving this instruction without limit, you would be wise to reverence the gift and counsel given.
Forty-eight hours after I had received that affirmation, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" as you know, the fullness of My mission was revealed to Me and I had accomplished the purpose of My visit. I shall ever be grateful to that Blessed One Who gave Me the Key. Remember, however, I prepared the soil for it's sowing and after it was given Me, My life had to nourish and develop the plant and the harvest. When I left, there was no farewell. The circle of hopeful ones did not even know one pilgrim was removed from their midst. The Master did not even open His eyes or gesture. All the way back across the hot sands of India, across the rough stones of the hills, I rejoiced over and over in the richness I had received from the Being, in that phrase alone - "I AM the Resurrection and the Light". I built from it a ministry that stands today as a manifest example that it is not necessarily the amount of knowledge, but the application of the knowledge given which brings results - themselves a proof of Mastery and Freedom to mankind...."
ARCHANGEL MICHAEL'S DISCOURSE ON THE FORMING OF THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD
("Bridge", Series VIII, Part V)
"...After the coming of the "laggards"...and the contamination of the Earth...our dear Star was destined to be dissolved by the Powers of Light because there was no illumination from it; there was no light, no radiation, no gift from the Planet Earth or her people to the Universe in return for the use of life. The harmony and Music of the Spheres were so affected by the dissonance of the thoughts and feelings of the people that the Great Solar Lords, after an impersonal Council, decided to dissolve the Earth Planet and return the elemental substance, of which She was composed, to unformed primal life to be used in a new and constructive creation which would manifest God's will.
It is the Law of Life that, in order to sustain an intelligent form, there must be a blessing; there must be a benefit to the Universe for the investment of life bestowed upon it. The dissolution on the Earth would have made the peoples of the Earth "planetary orphans", with no physical planet upon which to complete their evolution.
The Great and Beloved Sanat Kumara, from the Planet Venus, attended that Cosmic Council and after returning to His Home on Venus and talking it over with His Beloved Venus - His Divine Complement - and the Priesthood on Venus, He decided to offer His services to our Earth - to release the necessary Light and Love from His Own Heart in sufficient quantity and quality to hold our Planet Earth in the Solar System.
His offer was accepted by the Solar Lords and, after proper preparations, He came with a group from Venus and made His abode at the Retreat we have known as Shamballa, then situated on an Island in the middle of a beautiful Sapphire Sea, which through cataclysmic action, is now known as the Gobi Desert; Shamballa having returned to the Etheric Realm.12
This Great Being of Love came expecting it to take a few hundred years, perhaps, for the mankind of Earth to awaken to their own responsibility and emit the Light in sufficient quantity to hold the Earth in place, but instead of that, He has been a prisoner of Love for millions of years, with mankind still unwilling to hold the Harmony which emits the Light that is required for them to sustain their Planet.
He came with Faith in His Heart that His Love, which would nourish the souls of men, and He would be enabled to return to His Planet Venus knowing the Earth had been 'saved'. Every lifestream on the Earth and the very Earth herself owes its present existence to Beloved Sanat Kumara, for without Him, none of you would be!
It was necessary to devise a way and means of training and teaching the children of Earth how to expand their own spark of Divinity and in them become Lords of the Flame and illumine the Planet without the help of other Stars and Their children. Sanat Kumara and His Council prepared for this by establishing a Great Spiritual Order of God Beings known as "The Great White Brotherhood", whose duty and service was and still is to interest, teach, guide and protect the children of Earth and eventually draw them into the Brotherhood and let them assume the Offices and Responsibilities originally held by the Volunteer Beings from more highly evolved worlds.
Through Their Own Great love and radiation, this Brotherhood began to awaken the Spiritual light in the souls of a few in the race. These individuals began to stir in their soul-sleep and respond to the Presence and Flame of Sanat Kumara's love. From the great mass of sleepers, they began to reach upward in consciousness and the Ascended Masters, reaching down, effected the first meeting between the Earth's people and Heavenly Beings, since the veil of Maya was created by disobedience to God's Holy Will
THE GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD
The forming of the Great White Brotherhood by Sanat Kumara was prompted by the requirements of the hour to re-establish a conscious communion between the Ascended Master Realm and the outer consciousness of mankind. When the veil of maya - separated mankind in consciousness, from their own "I AM" Presence, the Kingdom of the Angels and the Cosmic and Ascended Beings, mankind was truly in a state of confusion and outer darkness.
This Great Order then began the long and arduous task of endeavoring to reach the outer minds of the few who, in the recesses of their memory, retained some concept of the real state in which Master, Angel, Elemental and man walked and talked together serving a common purpose - to fulfill the Divine Plan of God. As more became interested in preparing themselves for re-instatement in God's Kingdom, each one achieving and sustaining a state of Spiritual Grace, released a Volunteer Spiritual Emissary from another Galaxy or System, to return Home; and the new Members took upon Themselves the task of personal redemption of the energies of Their worlds so They should become the Conductors of the Divine purpose and plan for this Earth and Its evolution.
The first Two Spirits thus responding were in much later lives to become the Lord Gautama (now Lord of the World) and the Lord Maitreya (now the Buddha). They were the first Who applied from the ranks of Earth's children for Membership in the Council of Shamballa and asked for training and assistance to prepare Themselves to join in the great work of becoming Light Bearers to the world of men.
The rejoicing at Shamballa was very great when these two fresh, eager Spirits responded to the presence of Love, because it proved to the Cosmic Law that the wisdom and sacrifice of the Lords of the Flame from Venus would bring the desired result - for, where Two had come, more would follow.
From the time that Lord Gautama and Lord Maitreya presented Themselves before Beloved Sanat Kumara, (referred in the Bible as "The Ancient of Days"), until the time when They would assume Their respective Cosmic Offices as Lord of the World (Lord Gautama) and (Lord Maitreya) - now the new Buddha, former World Teacher, century after century of self-discipline, self-denial and self-mastery, stretched down the scroll of time while these Blessed Ones embodied again and again upon the Earth, passing through every experience that the Cosmic Council felt would build into Their souls the strength, the constancy, and the love required so that They might fulfill Their Cosmic Role with credit and with certainty of permanent victory over energy and vibration.
Today we are in a time of planetary and universal change and are accelerating the endeavors of All within whom there is a desire to re-establish a conscious 'communion' with the Divine Realm from whence, truly, all blessings flow."
FOOTNOTES-CHAPTER 13
1. Speaking on the original population of Earth, Archangel Michael, in an address He gave to the students, at the Royal Teton, at the semi-yearly convocation of the Karmic Board, July, 1954, said the following:("Bulletin", July 19, 1954)
"...Remember, beloved chelas, the Earth was created for the habitation of only about four billion spirit sparks and it was only the grace and hospitality of the Earth's elect, as well as the Love of the Spiritual Hierarchy Who have guided, guarded and protected Her through the ages that the extra numbers of temporarily planetary "orphans" were given refuge and hospitality by the Planet Earth and became a portion of Her evolutions, as well as a weight upon Her Axis, which caused in the first instance, the gradual bending of that Axis, and its resultant intemperate climate and temporary chaos through the conscious or unconscious creation of human effluvia which formed and sustains the astral realm, in which I, and My Ascended Master Legions of Light serve almost without cessation! These visitors from other Planets, as well as the mankind of Earth and those imprisoned Angels who do not desire to profit by Our instruction shall, as the close of this embodiment, be allowed to express their free-will only upon the Polaroid, already created for them, in Love, wherein they can progress slowly but not have access to the consciousness of the evolving mankind, elemental kingdom and imprisoned Angels, desirous of expressing their true Divine Nature! This was a Cosmic Fiat issued by Beloved Lady Master Portia, as Spokeswoman of the Karmic Board of Mercy and Compassion, at the summer conclave between Divine Beings and human beings held at the Rocky Mountain Retreat (June 15th through July 14th, 1959).
In an address, given to the students, during the "Transmission Flame Activity", on February 15, 1958, at His Own Retreat, at Banff, Canadian Rockies, Archangel Michael said the following:
"...Beloved ones, perhaps you do not know that when Our Beloved Sanat Kumara first came to this Earth - at the time when the axis had already bent to about 45 degrees and any further "bending" would have been totally disastrous to this Planet and the evolutions upon Her, the Nature Kingdom gave notice that they would no longer produce their gifts for a mankind so filled with discord and lack of appreciation of their services and harvests. Think you not that was a dark hour in Earth's history? Just think what would happen here if, for just one year, the Nature Kingdom refused to give of its substance which sustains your bodies' life in just food and drink alone! However, disaster was avoided by the tremendous release of Beloved Sanat Kumara's Divine Love - that Love which is the motivating power of the entire Universe. Through the coming of His very Presence here and that of the Three Kumaras Who came with Him...the needed ease and peace was brought to the Nature Kingdom and every Elemental within It. Then they said: "well - if these Great Beings are willing to leave Venus to stay with this "Dark Star"; if Polaris and Magnus are willing to keep the axis from bending further; if the Great Solar Lords and Cosmic Law are willing to give the Earth another opportunity to be sustained as a jewel in the Solar necklace, we will continue to supply the sustenance for mankind as they live upon the Planet...."("Bridge", February, 1958, p. 21)
2. "...The word 'White' does not refer to the color of the physical skin of the individual but to the aura of Light emanating from the physical form of those so developed in spiritual understanding...." (The Chohan Morya, "Bridge", November, 1957, p. 4)
3. Referring to the creation of the Brotherhood the Maha Chohan, in a letter to His students of August 25, 1952, said that "it was the Will of God that a Brotherhood be formed from those very lifestreams who had so long lived within the radiance and blessing of their elder Brothers and Sisters from the other planetary chains, but for some reason or another, no lifestream who had its inception, through the Earth Planet, seemed to pick up this vibration, but all lived on, in a state of happy innocence, completing their round of evolution and gaining the Ascension, without contributing in any manner to the succeeding races. Then on Mu and Atlantis, the newly drawn forth spiritual egos descended further into matter by breaking the Law of Harmony, Beauty and Love.... ("Bulletin", Vol. 1, #12)
4. In recognition of the above, the Maha Chohan, in His "Bulletin" of February 7, 1954, to the students, says the following:
"...On the path of your love, on the very energies of your own lives, have We walked again into the presence of mankind, sustained by your faith that Our Reality, Our Gifts, Our consciousness, Our Council might reach into conception that there are free Beings governing and directing the course and destiny of this evolution.
Do you know how precious to Us are the friends who have created that bridge from the human side! Ah! your hearts cannot conceive the love We feel for men and women wearing bodies of flesh, living in a realm and world of chaos and confusion and unbelief, and who yet have enough grace of spirit - enough faith and confidence - to reach out a friendly hand and - through the veil - grasp Our own to accept a Hierarchy who, on Their rare visits to the mankind of Earth have caused the bodies of the people visited to tremble in fear and made them cover their eyes with their hands because they believed that they dare not look upon the Light of Our Presence...A Hierarchy now accepted without fear - superstitious dread and confusion, but accepted as comrades and fellow-workers - makes Us exceedingly grateful....
In those rare intervals when the Cosmic Law allowed Us to pass through the Veil and contact a member of the human race, so often was Our Presence such a shock to the individual, so greatly was the emotional body stirred that it was completely beyond the power of the one to whom We came to receive either Our message or Our instruction...
...From this you can see that it would not be possible for the Veil to be rent so that the Host of Heaven could step through until a prepared body of conscious individuals incarnate was ready to receive Them - and, in intelligent, mature, dignified, reverent acceptance, work with that Hierarchy in forwarding the Cause of God Freedom for the race....
Such preparations, Beloved Ones, is in progress...such men and women have been found...such men and women belong to this Endeavor of Ours and I bow before your light in gratitude to the Source of all that lives, that the day of Our return into the consciousness of the mankind of Earth looms closer because the door has been opened by Faith and held back by the arms of Love, and the pathway of consciously dedicated energy passing out of your bodies and molded into form is witness before the great Cosmic Tribunal that the mankind of Earth do wish to walk and talk with a free Hierarchy, the Angels, the Devas and the Gods once more. We come in answer to an invitation from your hearts - We have waited many centuries for such an invitation and Our gratitude to the lifestreams who are able to accept the logic within Our words and council cannot be measured by any human concept, but it can be felt, I am sure, by those of you who are now sensitive enough to note the radiation of Our individual Presences...."
Elsewhere the Maha Chohan, commending upon those of mankind Who do believe in the existence of the Spiritual Hierarchy, but have placed Them beyond the possibility of ever breaking Their silence and communicating with man, He says the following:
"The people of orthodox thinking find it almost beyond their power of belief that the Perfected and Holy Beings Whom they have honored and worshipped through the centuries, would choose to break the long silence imposed upon Them by an unbelieving world, and speak. Why is this? Because the very people who have created the altars of worship to the gods, have by their own egos, created these gods in the form and character that would best suit their individual purpose, and they have taught the mass mind through the centuries to bow the knee before these representatives of grace. It becomes highly uncomfortable when the gods whom they have created, to suit their purpose, choose to rend the Veil and show themselves to be other than what they have been represented to be....
It is a cause for gentle amusement on Our part to see the rebellion and disbelief which floods through the minds of these people when their objects of worship respond and, in a manner befitting intelligent and self-conscious Beings, take active part in the previous one-sided friendship, which rises from the human octave to Ours.
Human beings remind Us of individuals sitting outside the gate of a great, stone castle, boasting of the friendship of the lords within, although they have never seen or conversed with them...Then when the great lord of the castle throws open the gate and issues forth with his companions, these so-called friends and companions waiting outside, flee in fear before His presence and deny that the lord has either reality or authority to speak.
It so happens that the gods have chosen to answer the petitions, the prayers and the invocations sent up by the outer minds of men, through the centuries. In the answering of these calls by the Celestial Hierarchy, there will be much confusion and much readjustment in the human mind when they find that their "gods" have consciousness, an intelligence and an individuality that is not completely within the scope and pattern of their making, and when the door is opened wide they will find that the Powers they have invoked will not recede but will come forth in power to accomplish that for which They have been called.
Yes, man's awakening must come...It has come to a small degree...but there shall come an hour when the physical manifestation of these Great Beings will leave no room for argument and furthermore will leave no structure of hypocrisy behind which the human edifice will longer stand...." ("Bulletin", Vol. 2, No. 44)
5. "When a Perfected Being focuses His Attention on an unascended member of the race, there flows from the consciousness of the Master a steady stream of pure, electronic substance which is filled with the feeling, the thought and the very being of the Master directing the Light Ray of His Attention. If you could, with the inner eye, watch the process when the Master chooses to pour His consciousness into the aspirant, you would see passing from the Master waves of light and color which flow into the four lower bodies of the individual, enlarging each one of those bodies and, also, changing the color and tone of the energy released by the chela. During this process, much of the psychic and astral substance is washed out of the lower bodies of the student and new hope fills his inner bodies.
If it were not for such a spiritual connection between Master and chela, the weight of the individual's accumulation of psychic substance would soon draw him back into the mass mind because the heavy pressure of human creation around the earth plane, at present, is more than the strength of any unascended being can pierce through unaided. It is this spiritual transfusion (so to speak) of the Master that gives the added impetus of courage, inspiration, strength and love of the Light to the imprisoned soul which enables that soul to hold the pathway open before him. That is why Our desire is so great for people to place their attention undivided upon the Ascended Masters' Octave, the Omnipresent Holy Spirit of God, the Angelic Host, or any Member of the Spiritual Brotherhood as often as possible, because it forms the link or bridge over which may be carried the Spiritual Food which sustains the interest of the soul and makes that soul a radiating centre of inspiration to others. Without such a link, dear ones, the soul-sleep of the centuries would again engulf the people of Earth...." (The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", Vol. 4, No. 7)
Expanding further on the same subject, the Maha Chohan ("Bulletin", May 22, 1955) says:
"...Every opportunity you take to tune in to the Masters, Their words, Their pictures or Their songs, gives Us opportunity to pour down the necessary spiritual food to sustain not only yourself but those in your locality. This is a more important service than the outer mind can conceive because Our ability to help depends upon the self-conscious invitation that comes from you and, I am happy to say, that since the human veil has been lifted to some extent through the inter-communion between Our Octave and yours, We have been given a wider invitation than at any time since the sinking of Atlantis. However, because the human mind and heart have not learned perseverance and tenacity, it means more effort must be made by those who are not aware of - and have faith in - Our Presence to make calls for the release of the amount of energy that the Cosmic Law requires for the illumination of mankind in its entirety. A call to the Ascended Host, beloved ones, for humanity not only increases your own soul light a thousand fold but gives Us an opportunity to render the service for the rendering of which We have forsworn Nirvana."
6. How these forces of nature are held and directed, we learn from the following given by the Maha Chohan Himself.("Bulletin", Vol. 5, #24)
"...The activity of the Maha Chohan in any planetary scheme is to magnetize, receive and distribute as much of the Electronic Light substance as is required for the Planet to which He belongs and its attendant evolutions.
Now, Helios and Vesta, pouring forth this Electronic Light substance which encompasses and is the life of every Planet that makes up Their planetary scheme, continue to draw from the Central Sun of the System (Alpha and Omega) more and more of that light substance in such tremendous and prolific generosity as cannot be conceived or cognized by the human mind...The Maha Chohan of each Planet (for there is a Being holding that Office on each of Our seven planets) magnetizes through His consciousness and body (as I do for the Planet Earth) as much of that light substance as is required and requested by its various evolutions - the nature kingdom, the elemental kingdom, the human kingdom and the guardian spirits.
If there is no demand on the great Universal Storehouse for an increase of the electronic light substance, those of Us Who guard the release of that energy - because we are not wasteful - allow it to flow on to another planet where there are beings who are using their magnetizing power to a greater extent and creating from it something of beauty and perfection.
You might visualize the distribution of the electronic light substance from the Heart of the Beloved Helios and Vesta as a great stream of light energy flowing from the Sun to the farthest Star and Planet and as it reaches each sphere, the Maha Chohan of that Planet directs from it a great funnel of light down to His sphere which interpenetrates and encompasses it round about and which forms the life and substance of every expression of evolving life thereon. Each Maha Chohan watches carefully to see that enough light energy is released to create a sufficient harvest to supply all the needs of His people; enough to clothe them and supply all the necessities for their daily comfort, as well as to create expressions of beauty and perfection through the individualized creative intelligence of some of the embodied lifestreams, evolving on His planet which would be a blessing to their fellow beings
Therefore, beloved ones, from that great funnel of light which I draw down and radiate out of the planet Earth, there flows enough life essence to supply the great nature kingdom which expresses itself in the beauty of tree, grass, flower and fruit of every description--the elemental kingdom uses it to sustain the life energy in the water and air...But the mankind of Earth are, for the most part, given a great deal more of this universal electronic light than they ever use or dare, I will say, to invoke and mould into form for the blessing of their own worlds and the evolving life all around them.
As the wise engineer, watching the flow of water over a dam, opens one sluice and then another, according to the required irrigation of the ground for which it was intended so do We Who hold the Office of the Maha Chohan, watch the amount of energy that is being used and release only as much of this precious substance as the evolving life upon our planet requires. Therefore, if the planets nearer the sun or those following us require more of this beautiful substance than does the planet Earth at this time to fulfill the creative activities of their evolutions, it is but an impersonal and perfectly just balance that they shall receive it.
I say, therefore, - and it is no particular credit to the evolutions of the Earth that the light substance released to this planet, at this time, is less than that released to any of the seven planets, but I say too, for your comfort, that I have access to as much of that substance as any one or all of mankind will ask for and that they will prove by the stirring up of their mental processes in conscious precipitation and their feeling processes in giving that precipitation life and form...Then, it will not only be My pleasure and privilege, but it will be My obligation to release more and more of that precious light substance which is only waiting for an opportunity to be molded into manifest form for the glory of God and the comfort of man...."
In another address, given to the students, on September 15, 1952, at the Retreat of Luxor, the Maha Chohan enlightens us as to how the Cosmic Holy Spirit came to Earth and why the Elemental Kingdom comes under the direction of His office.("Bulletin", Vol. 1, #7)
"When the God Parents of Our System directed the preparation of a habitable abode to be the cradle for the evolution of certain self-conscious intelligences, one of the first of their spiritual services was to invite from the Higher Octaves a Representative expressing the full nature of the developed Godhead who would be a Comforting Presence to the life about to embark on their journey to Spiritual Maturity.
This Being, voluntarily entering the aura of the Sun, was vested with the Cloak of Cosmic Holy Spirit and accepted the responsibility of providing and sustaining the Presence of Comfort,* no matter how far the lifestreams might withdraw themselves from the understanding of the nature of God. This Office has been held successively by different individuals and at present is within My keeping. It will one day be given to another Intelligence Who is qualified to accept and sustain God's comfort to His creation.
At the Cosmic Moment that the God-Parents within the sun gave the Elohim directions to create a habitable globe for a future humanity, the Holy Spirit was charged with the responsibility of doing everything within His Power and Capacity to make the advent and sustenance of self-conscious life upon it a happy and harmonious one.
It was the Holy Spirit who invoked the Beings of the Air, through their Great Director, Aries, to form a localized atmosphere and to soften the radiation of the sun so that it may not be too powerful for men's vehicles.
* "...The Office and Cosmic Activity of the Holy Comforter came into being at the moment that the first man (Adam) chose to experiment with the Creative Centres of his own thought and feeling, and a form short of perfection was conceived and externalized which was the first chain of the Karmic heritage of the race. At that time, the Great Silent Watcher, knowing that every cause breeds effects, and the effects, in like manner generate many causes, realized that sometime and somewhere would the call come from life for Comfort. Unto that day and hour was prepared the Cosmic Temple of Cosmic Comfort to Life, which abides within the Heart of the Electronic Belt around our Sun....
"The Angels of Comfort have winged their way century after century into the Cosmic Temple of Comfort which is presided over by the Glorious Cherubim whose service it is to hold this quality in its concentrated essence...." (The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", Vol. 1, #38)
It was the Holy Spirit who invoked Neptune and His Beings who represent the cleansing, purifying and energizing qualities of water, in which the body of the Earth might float, thus preventing the jarring activity of a solid mass.
It was the Holy Spirit who drew forth the Spirit of Virgo and the Beings of the Earth to create a platform upon which mankind could act out the theme of their evolutionary experience and it was the Holy Spirit who invoked the Builders of Form by which the Spirits of nature might provide food and clothing for men's bodies. This is why the Office of the Maha Chohan is the supervising authority over all Nature Kingdoms.
It was the Holy Spirit who, in cooperation with the sun, created a mantle composed of the bodies of Cherubic and Seraphic Beings, through whose bodies might pass only as much of the Cosmic Fire as the evolving mankind could absorb with safety. This wall was accomplished before the advent of Lord Michael and the Lord Manu and the spirits who voluntarily signified their willingness to enter the evolutionary experience by which they might come to God Maturity, radiating, in their turn, the same unselfish love and comfort that was expended so lavishly on their own lifestreams
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As we know, the Cosmic Service of the Father-Mother God is diversified through the Seven Great Rays, the First and Second representing the activities of the First and Second Persons of the Holy Trinity: the remaining Five Rays coming under the jurisdiction of the Third Person, or the Holy Spirit, known as the Maha Chohan, which Office I presently hold. The individuals at the Head of these Seven Great Rays are known as the Chohans of the Rays
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When the Planet Earth was made as comfortable as possible, and the First Golden Age was spread across its face like a beautiful smile of welcome to the newly-come sons of men, the specific service of the Holy Spirit began. For this purpose, He created the Five Great Rays whose activities would cover every portion of evolving life in His charge..."*
* And elsewhere:
"...I represent Comfort to Life; the Comforting Presence Which is known as the Holy Spirit descending in tongues of Flame to envelope those who are ready to receive My Presence and those who are willing to imbibe of the nectar of the Essence of My very Being. While "I AM" within the atmosphere of Earth that same Flame of Comfort also envelops all the evolutions embodied as well as disembodied which are not God-free, bringing to you Comfort of mind, heart and soul and Spirit; Comfort of the senses as well as Comfort of thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
Comfort is not an opiate; It is a sustaining activity of Spiritual Grace in which one can move upon this Earth yet be not of it, sustaining through listening grace the consciousness of Godliness. Then everything and everyone around such an individual becomes comforted by that one...." ("Bulletin", Vol. 8, #48)
7. "As one's home on this Earth is wired for heat and light, so is the Solar System sustained by consciously directed Ray of Energy from Focuses or Radiating Centres at certain parts in the Universe, somewhat similar to the lamps and radiators in an Earthly planetary home. These radiating Centres are dispensers of the flowing currents that surge constantly through the atmosphere of this Universe.
Now you might have all the electricity necessary in your home, or all the heat in your pipes, but unless you had an outlet, your home would yet be in darkness and be unheated.
In the same manner is the Universe filled with Light and the "outlets" provide the open door through which this Light is expressed. The great Cosmic Constellations - the Elohim, Beloved Helios, Venus and the Love Star represent great God Foci of Light. Among the lesser "outlets" are the Angelic, Cherubic, and Seraphic Beings, the Ascended Masters, the leaders of Sanctuaries and the students. All these represent great God Foci of Light, with the difference that they do not remain static as do the instruments of radiation in the physical world, but They grow and expand and, by the power of contagion, make other foci take fire around Them...." (The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", Vol. 8, #10)
8. "The Holy Spirit is the feeling world of God Himself. It contains within Itself every feeling of Virtue and Beauty and Harmony and Perfection that the human mind can conceive, as well as many qualities that, unfortunately, you are not even acquainted with mentally. The Representative of the Feeling World of God for each planet has the opportunity, as well as the responsibility, of developing through the feeling world of every lifestream the same Spirit of Holiness in which all the God Nature is consciously embodied and radiated at will...." (The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", Vol. 2, #23)
9. In the last few years, addresses were given by Cosmic Beings, thousands of miles away, either from one of the Masters' Retreats, to a far-away audience, or even from sources beyond our Planet. On December 29, 1963, the Solar Logos of Alpha and Omega, spoke directly, from the Great Central Sun, to an audience in Washington, D.C. (The Summit Lighthouse", New Year's, 1964, Class Dictations)
10. Referring to the authenticity of the addresses given by the Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy or Cosmic Beings, Saint Germain said the following:
"...I would like, at this point, to bring to your attention the fact that these addresses from the Ascended Masters are all carefully thought out and prepared beforehand to render a specific service, not only for those who are privileged to be present in their physical bodies during their presentation, but also through Our radiation. It is always Our endeavor to raise the consciousness of the race through the infiltration of their mental and feeling worlds with the spirit of Truth...." ("Bridge", Series 1, #3, p. 4)
Elsewhere, the Maha Chohan, discussing a different aspect of the same problem, said:
"...Instead of reading and studying the metaphysical and occult literature that deals with activities that have ceased to vibrate through the ethers hundreds or thousands of years ago, we are asking mankind to participate in the current activities of the day consciously and it is because of your intelligent grasp of the need of the hour and your wholehearted cooperation with Us that We have come through the veil and met you half-way...." < 3, Vol.>
11. The Great Divine Director, in an address He gave in October, 1958 to the students, said that He was one "of those embodied on Earth" at the time when the "laggards" came to Earth, but "he refused to allow Himself to fall into their discord" and continued into the Light, gaining, eventually His Ascension.
"Later...and because with all My heart I desired to help free those I loved who were still caught in the snares of the outer senses, I offered to serve humanity...all through the ages...it has been My humble and joyous privilege to instruct and prepare for the final initiations necessary to be mastered by those who do Ascend...Your beloved Jesus*, Saint Germain, Kuthumi, Morya El, and many others in Our Octave have had my loving help.
May I say that, up until the last quarter of a century - when My beloved Son, Saint Germain, brought forth publicly the instruction of the Reality of the individualized God Presence of each lifestream (the "I AM" Presence)--there were very, very few Ascensions took place from the evolutions of the Planet. Much of the time these would be but one a year. Think of it! From a humanity of approximately nine billions of lifestreams belonging to the Earth (about three billions of whom are in embodiment at a time) only ONE Ascension a year was achieved! Usually, the one so prepared would wait a year or two until two more were ready and then, from one of the Sacred Retreats of the Great White Brotherhood, these three would ascend at the same time.
Today, because of the various merciful grants and dispensations which have been procured from the Great Karmic Board by the Beloved Saint Germain, Morya, Archangel Michael and Others of Our Brotherhood--there have been literally thousands who have Ascended from the evolutions of this planet. Of course, many of these are those who have been giving the assistance at INNER LEVELS AFTER leaving the physical body in so-called "death." This is a much easier task than that of consciously purifying, illumining and raising a flesh body, such as your Beloved Jesus did. Before these beneficent Dispensations came into being, everyone who aspired to the Ascension had to do just that - i.e., purify, illumine and consciously raise his flesh body..." **
*On that experience, the Ascended Master Jesus, in an address He gave to the students of "The Bridge to Freedom" May 27, 1954, is giving us many interesting details. We present that address in the section above, third from the end of the chapter.
** "...In the past, the evolution of the individual formed the basic interest of the White Lodge and the acceptance of a disciple by a Guru was acknowledged above as below - to be predominantly based on the assumption that the one unit desiring to rise above the masses might ultimately be free - and such individuals, leaving the slower progress of the race, entering into the aura of the Guru, did often attain their victory and pass into their eternal liberation. But the dispensation under which individuals today are given the blessing and the attention of the Masters is based on the service that can be rendered the race as a whole, and the measure of such association will be determined by the balance offered the Cosmic Law by each such one.
We are not in a day or time when entertainment of the intellect or peace to the sea of emotion is the order that brings the presence of the God.... We are in an hour when We are willing and desirous of investing countless tons of primal substance - in any lifestream - no matter what the condition of the vehicles in which it functions providing such an one is willing to live now for the Cause -- rather the sinner intent on the evolution of the race, than the saint intent upon his own...." (The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", Vol. 2, #20)
"...The manner in which Initiations were conducted in the past, under the old Occult Law, was abolished by Me and Mighty Victory. The New Dispensation is one of Beauty and Perfection...." (The Great Divine Director, February 1, 1964)
12. This discourse was given before Shamballa's transfer to Long Island, New York, U.S