Guru: Blessed chela, the old adage "Behold I send my Messengers before me to prepare my way" is still true.

Chela: Beloved Master, who and what are these Messengers?

Guru: Blessed chela, you have been taught that within your heart is the Immortal Threefold Flame of God, the embryonic Christ Self. This Flame has two specific powers: one to magnetize and invoke the radiating assistance of Divine Beings; the other to direct and send forth before you the powers and very Presence of these Beings to prepare your way. The "type" of Messenger which the King or man of power sends before him will determine the happy accommodations and reception of the King himself. It is likewise true of unascended beings. If one chooses an unworthy representative, the resultant reception will be based upon the consciousness and preparation which such a one receives. On the other hand, if the King sends a man of intelligence, wisdom and loyalty, he will receive the welcome to which he is entitled.

Chela: Beloved Master, is it not selfish to call Messengers from Divine Heights to make our pathway clear?

Guru: Blessed chela, remember in service even Divine Beings grow in grace. They love to be called and the type of Ascended Master, Angelic, Seraphic or Cherubic Guard who will answer your summons will be determined by the requirement of your assistance; as well as by your faith in your invocation of their Presence.

Chela: Beloved Master, how do I make such a summons on the Heavenly Host for assistance?

Guru: Blessed chela, First: By learning through study who these Messengers are and what they can do for you; Second: By believing they can help you (Faith in their Reality); Third: By recognizing that within the Immortal Three-fold Flame in your own heart there is a POWER to draw them to you and to allow their full gathered momentum and power to radiate the God-quality of perfection, letting that flow into and through your own Immortal Flame at your direction. The help which you thus draw forth from these Beings will follow a consciously directed beam of your attention to the person, place, condition or thing you desire raised into harmony, balance and peace.

Chela: Beloved Master, after a chela understands that these Beings ARE, what is the next step in enlisting their aid?

Guru: Blessed chela, every Ascended Master and Member of the Angelic Host hears the slightest call (prayer, decree, invocation) from man. They are Beings of Mercy, Compassion and LOVE. They will answer by their Presence and radiation of perfection. This increases the power of the individual (through his own Immortal Three-fold Flame) to direct the full gathered momentum and actual Presence of these Beings toward the conditions requiring assistance. From the Master Presences so invoked, as well as by the radiation of centrifugal force from the individuals thus expanded Immortal Three-fold Flame of God, SUBSTANCE flows in a directed ray to the person, place, condition or thing to be prepared by the "Messengers" qualified with faith, understanding, love, purity, consecration to service, desire to minister to mankind, or purification through the Violet Fire. Thus, when the chela arrives, these wise Messengers already have prepared the perfect atmosphere and conditions into which the hopeful chela may safely walk. If, however, the individual only uses outer thoughts (also energy) of fear, dread, disappointment and distress as his messengers, they too will act. So, the place to which he goes will be prepared according to the type of messenger which he consciously chooses to be his ambassador. Every unascended being has some experiences of a human nature to handle. He may try to handle them through his outer personality but the efficacy of employing the Messengers of God who assist him in the development of the potential positive qualities that lie within himself is much more efficacious and permanent in results. This builds a confidence in the Christ within, as well as in the Masters willingness and ability to assist all who call; to develop that Christ power and, in general, to handle all discordant energies by a "Higher Power", call it what you may.

Chela: Beloved Master, we encounter the timid, uncertain, vacillating individual who cannot seem to accomplish anything because of his very nature. On the other hand, we sometimes encounter the over-positive individual who accomplishes temporary victory over others by means of mere humanly qualified force of energy. What is the "happy medium"?

Guru: Blessed chela, in both the above cases, the personality is working only with the outer consciousness. Jesus himself said: "I, of myself, can do nothing... it is the Father, the Christ within, that doeth the works". When the individual truly can accept and know that the Presence of God "I Am" is anchored within his beating heart, he allows that PRESENCE to connect with the Father or any of his Ascended Messengers and then allows the POWER of such a spiritual alliance to expand through him and to do the perfect work. Consciously or unconsciously, the personality endeavoring to work alone accomplishes little of a permanent nature and, sooner or later, such a one is brought to his knees before the only Power through him which can and does serve when invited, invoked and allowed to act.

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