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THE GURU AND THE CHELA
By the Ascended Master Kuthumi
CHELA: Beloved
Master: In my association with the Ascended Masters, how may I avoid breaking
the first commandment?
GURU: Beloved chela:
Walking on the spiritual path requires the utmost discrimination and balance.
The development of this balance is the duty and responsibility of each chela.
Every TRUE Master will turn the consciousness of the chela back toward the God
that made them both. When an individual, visible or invisible, tends to
encourage the student to lean upon a consciousness outside of himself, beware!"
CHELA:
Beloved Master:
When the curtain has been drawn aside and we are privileged to know a little
something of the perfection and beauty of the Ascended Masters, it is difficult
for us not to worship that expression!
GURU:
Beloved chela:
Even the Master Jesus was required to admonish his followers from time to time
in the words "Call not me good" and in the further reminder "It is not I, it is
the Father (God) within that doeth the works. It is right and proper to love,
reverence and have faith in One's teacher. It is the proper balance for the
instruction and blessings received. The Master, however, must be looked upon as
a pattern which the student must duplicate, not admire.
CHELA:
Beloved Master:
As you have become that which we desire to be, it is our desire to do that which
you would have us do, be what you would have us become, imitate you in all our
ways.
GURU: Beloved chela:
The Ascended Master has become one with the Will of God. He, therefore, will
never desire for you anything but that which your own Holy Christ Self desires
to manifest through you. The advantage of the counsel and instruction of the
Ascended Master is your protection and guidance during the time when you may not
yet be able to discern from within yourself just exactly what the Christ Self
may desire to do through you.
There are two roads open before the chela. He may prefer to rely
only upon that contact which he can develop from entering the Silence and
communing there with his indwelling Christ, relying upon his intuition and
capacity to discern between the voice of the Silence and the voice of his "many
selves"... or, he may accept the assistance of the Ascended Master who has
already full access to the Christ mind. This Master may suggest (when invited) a
course of action which will be beneficial to the spiritual development of the
chela. A REAL MASTER will never order nor compel, through superstition or fear,
a course of action which a chela should follow. All cooperation with the Great
White Brotherhood is voluntary and proceeds from a desire upon the part of the
chela to know how to proceed up the Mount of Attainment more quickly.
The students on the Path may be divided generally into two groups,
those who accept the assistance and superior wisdom of Guides who have gone the
way before and who by such acceptance strike straight up the mountain, and those
who prefer to set their own pace and proceed around the mountain without the
assistance of such Volunteers from above. Either course is safe, either is sure,
but the bold who grasp the hands of the Master find attainment more quickly,
although the arduous climb may sometimes tell on their spirits before they stand
on the summit.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: We must then only worship and love the God that beats your Hearts and
our own... we must reverence you for service and example. This is the law?
GURU: Beloved
disciple: The pointing of the chela into the secret place of the most high...
the developing of the chela's capacity to find and draw forth his own God
nature... the enjoyment of sharing the chela's development of his own Divine
plan through giving him a 'method of application' (but not applying the Law for
him) the protecting of the chela by wise counsel from the "pitfalls on the
path"; the enfolding of the chela in the substance and radiation of Divine love
which enters the chela's world through association with the Master in mind and
feeling the constant spurring on of the chela's endeavors to find the highest
expression through his own self-conscious endeavors the watching and waiting,
the fanning of the spiritual embers by the Presence of love, the active
companionship upon the Path... these are the services of the Ascended Masters.
CHELA: Beloved
Master: Is it true that when you accept an unascended being as a chela, you
guarantee to the Cosmic Law that the energy you invest in such a chela will be
amplified by good works performed through the self-conscious endeavors of such a
chela?
GURU:
Beloved chela:
Yes, that is true! Life is a gift of God, whether it is used by a Master, an
Angel, an elemental or a man and for every spark of the life force used, all
must render an accounting, above as well as below. When an Intelligence accepts
the responsibility of qualifying life, he accepts the obligation to use that
life to expand perfection. When a Master, therefore, invests his time, energy,
counsel, love, and companionship in the development of a chela's consciousness,
if that chela does not live up to his light, the Master must balance the
investment of his energy in a poor project to the Cosmic Law. It would be better
not to 'court' association with a Master unless one expects to serve mankind and
the evolution of the planet as a balance for the pleasure of such association.
CHELA:
Beloved Master:
Is it true then, that the Master chooses the chela, or may a chela by effort of
will 'force' an association with a Master?
GURU: Beloved chela:
For the most part, the Master has chosen the chela centuries before the chela is
even aware that there are Ascended Masters. The Master, through past
association, or particular momentums gathered into the Causal Body of a chela
will choose to prepare certain lifestreams for an association in ages yet unborn
from the womb of time. Thus, the love of the Master is the overshadowing
Presence that finally causes the chela to awaken to an interest in a particular
Master, to respond to his name, and to feel a complementary vibration through
his inner bodies when working upon a particular Ray.
There are occasions, however, when a bold son or daughter of men
proceeds to "force" an association. By doing good in the name of a Master, by
drawing his blessings through the lifestream, by meditating upon him and
touching the hem of his spiritual garments (his aura) such a one draws the
Master's attention by the law of magnetic attraction. An association is then
born, stemming out of the unascended being's ambitions. This is a more difficult
association, because like "incubated" flowers, anything forced requires more
attention and care than that which develops through natural merit and momentums.
CHELA:
Beloved Master:
How can we find the particular Master who is our sponsor, our guide, our Guru?
Guru:
Beloved chela:
When the pupil is ready, the Master appears! Until this hour, beware the subtle
projections from the 'many selves' which seek to glorify the ego. The natural
development of your own spiritual nature will release a warm, pleasant, relaxed
'glow' when you are under the radiation of 'your' Master. Be careful that
personality is not exalted in the meditations of your heart. The Master will
mute self and glorify God. Blessings on you child. More next time.
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EDITOR'S NOTE
The Office of Chohan of each Ray is like the Office of King, Pope,
or President. This office is filled by different Intelligences who qualify to
perform the services required through that particular Office. Thus, in the long
history of evolution of the race, the Office of Chohan of the Seventh Ray,
presently held by the Master Saint Germain, was previously held by other God
Intelligences who have since graduated to superior positions in the Spiritual
Hierarchy. We present herewith excerpts from recent addresses by Beings who
have, from time to time, held the Office of Chohan of the Seventh Ray, and
wielded the Power of Divine Alchemy, Transmutation of substance and energy, and
through the Violet Ray assisted in the redemption of the Race. The first Chohan
of the Seventh Ray was the Beloved Archangel Zadkiel He was followed in successive order by Beloved Sanat Kumara, the
Lord Gautama Buddha, the Goddess of Mercy, Kwan Yin and the Beloved Saint
Germain. In like manner, initiates are now training and preparing for the
opportunity of assuming this Office when the Master Saint Germain is called to
greater service in the near future.
(Excerpts from addresses of above-named Chohans begins on
p. 13).