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To the Beloved Source of All Life!
We humbly, gratefully, reverently and sincerely dedicate this issue
of The Bridge to Freedom, Inc.
Everything that has been accomplished through all the ages that have
been has been made possible through the gift of life endowed upon some
self-conscious intelligence. Neither man nor Angel, neither Master nor serf even
has Being without the beneficence of the Giver of Life. Through all the
centuries that have passed across the screen of time, individual intelligences
have been contributing to the progress of the race and to the development of the
spiritual culture and maturity of the mankind of Earth. Even these
contributions, no matter how great, were only made possible because of the
investment of life in the channel through which the benefaction was received.
We, who have used life so lavishly through the ages and who now
stand in the fullness of its Mastery, bless the Father-Mother God who has given
us both the OPPORTUNITY for self-expression and the JOY of becoming co-creators
of God perfection through the use of free-will. On behalf of mankind and
particularly our gentle readers, we also thank the SOURCE of all life for the
OPPORTUNITY presently before them to widen the borders of the Kingdom of
Perfection.
THOMAS PRINTZ,
Editor
The Homes and Retreats of The Masters of Wisdom
February 15
through March 14, 1955
MAHA CHOHAN'S TEMPLE OF COMFORT AT
CEYLON
Our Lord, Maha Chohan, is the Overlord and Spiritual Superior to the Seven Great Chohans who stand at the head of each of the seven rays. Up until very recently, his Cosmic Activity was connected primarily with only the rays three through seven. Because of the great cosmic requirements of the Spiritual Hour, his activities now encompass the first and second rays and their Chohans as well.
At the southern tip of India lies a beautiful island wherein is
located the Temple of Comfort of the Maha Chohan. In this serene focus where the
chelas and the Masters themselves learn the mastery of Cosmic energies in order
to be an impersonal comfort to life, the Lord Maha Chohan concentrates the
cosmic quality of Comfort and Peace to all life; not only the mankind evolving
through Earth's evolution, but the life of nature, the forces of the elements,
the Angelic kingdom, the bird life and even the four-footed creatures as well.
Within the compass of what seems to all intents and purposes an
ordinary tea plantation, this great Cosmic Retreat functions. Here, often the
Lord Maha Chohan and his seven "sons" (the Chohans) gather together to discuss
ways and means of best benefiting the human race. Looking out upon the blue
waters where the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal meet, the Temple of Comfort
is not only a spiritual sanctuary but a physical place of rest and respite from
the cares that beset the day of the very few so privileged as to be invited to
enter its sacred portals.
The large Council Chamber holds within itself the actual focus of
the Comfort Flame. Exactly what does this mean? It means in essence that through
many ages the Lord Maha Chohan and his Predecessors in Grace became interested
in the virtue and quality of Comfort. They desired to magnetize the Comfort that
abides in the vibratory action of the Kingdom of Heaven and make a radiating
center of that Comfort Flame in India. Just as the radiation of the physical sun
warms, lights and sustains our planet Earth and our Universe, so too do these
particular spiritual foci form radiating centers of definite, specific God
qualities which are beneficial to the spiritual awakening and development of the
Divine Nature in man. The size of the actual sphere of influence or the
periphery of these radiating centers is determined by many factors, i.e. the
length of time when actual individual consciousnesses have been magnetized
through invocations, visualizations, decrees and rituals the specific quality of
God to which they have dedicated their lives; the intensity of their vocation
(feeling for their impersonal service); and now the number of actual visitors to
this Retreat whose attention is drawn by this Activity and who give of their
life in visiting the retreat in consciousness or in their finer bodies while the
flesh form sleeps.
All individuals who desire comfort of any kind, mental, emotional or
physical, are welcome to attend this thirty-day Council, and to all such,
ministering Angels come upon call, invocation or prayer. However, only those who
desire to give comfort, to become through individual application and prayerful
service Comforting Presences to others are accepted by this great Lord, through
whose body passes all the energy that sustains and animates the evolutions in
and upon this Earth. It is a great honor as well as a great responsibility to
accept even an ounce of his priceless energy. For this reason the mankind of
Earth who are allowed the privilege of becoming his guests during this
thirty-day cycle will do well to endeavor, through the cooperation of the Holy
Christ Self, to become in themselves radiating centers of comfort and peace to
all in their homes, environments, spiritual centers, and the world generally.
(Note: For further details and descriptions on the
Retreat of the Lord Maha Chohan, please see The Bridge to Freedom, Volume 1, N2,
1952)