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Excerpts from an Address by
BELOVED MASTER MORYA
On:
Chela's Training by Master
Aug. 20,
1955
"The standard set for the chela who is going to
serve the masses in our name
is high!
An
individual who is teaching a horse to jump causes the animal
to hurdle rail after rail and the horse is
taught to combine muscle, sinew, nerve and intelligence until he can vault over
higher and higher obstacles. In your own training for mastery, as you increase
in your capacity to jump over the low hurdles, we give you new strength and
counsel to increase your spiritual knowledge and capability to serve and
surmount the higher hurdles upon life's path.
Our instructions and corrections are provided
not to depress and fill you with self-depreciation, but rather to give to you
the realization that you have mastered the 'hurdle' laid down for you previously
and have jumped over it with ease. The Master then feels that it is time to
place a higher 'rail' for you to clear, so that in the final 'steeple-chase' you
may surmount the highest obstruction with dignity, poise and efficacy and be of
credit to those of us who have loved you well enough to take the responsibility
for your training and development.
Do you know how much love it takes to spur a
lifestream on? Some of you who have worked with the public through the years
have some concept of the energies required to sustain the interest, enthusiasm
and service of many individuals. Many of you know what tenacity of spirit and
faith of consciousness is required to stand for weeks, months and years, pouring
forth your life-breath into the souls of men and women, spurring them on despite
the restrictions of your own karma and theirs as well; holding and sustaining
them on the spiritual path.
This is our service from the Ascended Masters'
Octave. It is your service in your group endeavors and it is, likewise, the
service which is expected from every student in relation to his fellowman.
Easier far would it be to turn one's back upon mankind's distress and enjoy a
personal nirvana! Easier far would it be to 'fold one's cloak' about one and
gaze in imagination at the snow-capped peaks of Himalaya's mountains, than in
work in the valley where disease, distress and death stalk the
human race and where mankind mills about, seeking a way back home.
You beloved ones, are among
the few lifestreams scattered across the face of the Earth whom mankind will one
day
bless.
Despite your own personal depletions, you have been firm
in inspiring spiritual application for the many, often hiding your own
limitations behind a front of bravery so as not to scandalize the doubtful
consciousness of those not yet grounded in understanding of the Law.
When these brave lifestreams lag in their enthusiasm, they always have my
enthusiasm and all the
power
and all the
mastery that is mine to help them!"