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THE MASTERS OF
WISDOM SPEAK
On Jesus' Statements: "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you,
The
Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand"
MAHA CHOHAN
In the experience of the chela upon the Path, he often casts about for a way out
of personal discomfort, limitation, inharmony and distress. The chela endeavors
to cast his karma on the newly found Friends (the Ascended Masters) and loses
sight of the realization that the capacity to connect with and expand the
perfection of his individualized God Presence, lies within the acceptance of
that Kingdom and that Presence within his own beating heart. While it is true
that the momentum, radiation, feeling, strength and understanding of the Master
does assist him, each chela is required to accept, realize and eternalize the
beauty of his Presence, through his own physical, mental, emotional and etheric
consciousnesses.
EL
MORYA
Within every individualization projected from the Source of all life, (call it
God, the "I AM" Presence or any other name), is an intelligent focus of the God
Presence. The service of the Great White Brotherhood is to nourish, develop,
expand and anchor into the outer consciousness, the knowledge of that Inner
Presence which can and does create the Kingdom of Heaven for the individual,
when called forth in faith and in love.
The mastery, powers, talents and momentums of another never give lasting peace
to the individual!
The development of his own mastery over energy,
substance, circumstance and environment, does give lasting peace and is the
reason for incarnation of each lifestream upon Earth; as well as the reason for
such individual's sojourn at inner levels between embodiments.
KUTHUMI
The Presence of God
within man
is the hope of his ultimate personal salvation
and individual mastery over the substance and energy of any Sphere in which his
consciousness is required to dwell. The "I AM" Presence signifies by its very
name
(PRESENCE)
that
it is here NOW!
It signifies that it
is not some ephemeral Being, who, in time to come
(usually
accepted as having accomplished its visitation
after so-called "death") will transform, transmute and sublimate all the
tendencies, conditions, effects and personal limitations of the individual.
Contemplation upon the Truth that there is a Presence
in man, capable of such transformation
and sublimation NOW, brings the hope of
glory and peace "in the sweet by-and-by" into the
present.
"The Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand"
said Jesus; not "The Kingdom of Heaven will be
yours in some mystic land far
far away"!
PAUL, THE VENETIAN
Man has given power, authority, thought, feeling and energy to every internal
and external force, to create and sustain limitation within and about him. The
way of the Master is to turn the attention of the outer consciousness toward the
Presence of God
within him.
When given opportunity, this Presence will create and sustain the Kingdom of
Heaven through him, for the blessings of both himself and his fellowman. When
Jesus said: "If I do not go away, the Comforter will not
come", he realized that, while the disciples and followers of his
doctrine relied upon him, they would not become acquainted with the
Individualized Presence that beats each heart and have the faith to call forth
that Presence to create and sustain harmony, beauty, opulence, health and
perfection for themselves and their fellowman.
SERAPIS BEY
At Luxor, the training of the neophyte compels him to turn to the Inner Presence
and to rely upon it to become the very supply of food required to nourish the
physical body; to create the raiment worn by the physical body; to prompt the
outer consciousness to the course of study, application and contemplation
required to purify the vehicles through which the soul must work its way to
freedom. In present day society, the Masters follow the same course, playing
their radiation upon the chela, but refraining from physical appearances
except on rare occasions) because the nature of the outer self is always to lean
upon any Intelligence who can do for them what they must learn to do for
themselves. Contemplation of this Inner Presence allows it to act through the
energies of the personal self with more and more efficacy, power, momentum and
conscious direction. There should be no "straining" to find that Presence.
It is within you
NOW
as you read our words.
It is waiting to be invited to act
through the personal self which it has
created and sustained through millions of years for but one purpose to
expand the Kingdom of Heaven through
the individual! Will you not accept
that Presence and allow it the courtesy to act through you?
HILARION
The Presence of God is applied to in emergencies, in personal, national or
international crises. However, it is not usually cultivated in daily, personal
association.
Now is the time
for the sincere chela
to invite that Presence through himself
and then through all mankind, to fulfill its reason for
being! Why does the Presence seem so ephemeral; so unreal; so difficult to endow
with the faith of the personal self? Because through the ages,
the outer consciousness has endeavored to live without its
counsel, guidance and friendship. In every Sphere of individualization,
practice
results in development of the capacities and
talents of the individual.
Practice
the cultivation of the Presence of God
within you
NOW.
Set that Presence to work in every detail
of your individual life! Then
expect it to respond. As you do this, the Presence of God within you, whose
natural habitat is the Kingdom of Heaven,
will begin to externalize that Kingdom
in, through and around you. In this world of
form, you know how any individual brings his personality, preferences, aura and
atmosphere with him and creates in his home an externalization of his inner
consciousness. So, too, does the Presence of God when invited and given an
opportunity so to do!
JESUS
In my ministry, one of the greatest appearances against which I had to stand,
was the externalization by my fellowman of the heterogeneous thoughts and
feelings of the outer consciousness which formed the environment, atmosphere and
surroundings of the individual. Knowing that
the Presence of God, with ALL HIS GLORY, was anchored within each beating heart,
waiting to externalize the perfection, beauty, harmony, health, opulence and
magnificence of the Kingdom of Heaven through such distressed ones, I longed for
the way and means of awakening the outer consciousness and the soul to the
realization
that the Kingdom of Heaven to which they
aspired, was at hand for the taking.
It is also true today!
Either the Inner Presence
is
allowed to flow forth through the mental,
emotional, etheric and physical bodies of its creation, expanding that Kingdom,
or it is ignored
and the outer consciousness continues to
experiment with God's gift of life to create the limitations which seem so
distressing to the personal self. For those who desire our assistance, at this
Holy Season, Beloved Mary and myself offer our consciousness, realization, faith
and momentum of power to any individual who will determinedly
try
to relinquish all power to the Presence that beats his heart. "For THINE
is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever!" A
truth spoken long ago and still a truth
today!
SAINT GERMAIN
The establishment of the permanent Golden Age upon the planet Earth and the
creation of a Star of Freedom from a shadow planet, requires the externalization
of the Kingdom of Heaven through every soul belonging to this evolution; each
one contributing that portion of the Kingdom which is required to make the whole
picture complete according to the wisdom of his own Individualized "I AM"
Presence. Cultivating, developing and sustaining an active comradeship with the
God-self within the heart,
reaps great rewards.
It builds momentums of
faith, illumination, tolerance, purity, scientific (but spiritual) formulas
which can never fail,
healing power and the conscious powers of transmutation. The combination of the
energies of Masters, Angels and men, all relying upon the ONE POWER - can
perform this transformation. Manifest in the alleviation of the distresses that
beset the race,
works
will call forth interest in the ways and means of becoming similar channels for
externalizing God's Kingdom! THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU NOW! In the name
of that God and Beloved Jesus who acknowledged him, always, as the only
Source of healing,
miracles and
transmutation, I ask you to set about your personal pilgrimage to find him
and to set him to work through you.
Practice on small things. Effects of a positive nature will increase your confidence and faith and
make you master over greater appearances in time.