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Excerpts from an Address by
OUR
BELOVED GAUTAMA
(Former Buddha;
Now New Lord of the World)
May 8, 1957
I am come this morning to bring to the planet Earth and its
evolutions that feeling and substance of God peace which is developed through
the control and mastery of energies that have been allowed to run rampant
through lack of understanding and self-discipline. The "Silver Cords" of energy
which connect the individualized "I AM" Selves with the personalities of the
entire human race belonging here, are held within the Cosmic radiation of my
feeling of peace this morning. Thus are those energies already qualified with my
feeling of peace before they enter into the emotional, mental, etheric and
physical vehicles of those embodied; as well as into the emotional, mental and
etheric vehicles of those presently not in embodiment, but yet belonging to
Earth's evolutions still unascended. That peace cannot be requalified by the
human!
Beloved ones, peace comes not through a feeling of lethargy but
through the conscious mastery of energy in balanced action! I, too, once walked
the ways of Earth and experienced for myself all of the "pull" of the physical
senses; all of the interests which mankind find temporarily enjoyable and,
through my own self-conscious endeavor, I chose to discover the Path to ultimate
and undisturbed peace. That path took me on a long journey not an outward
journey but an inward one, into the very heart-center of my Being; into that to
which the Orientals refer as "The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus". There abides
that part of a man which is immortal, uncontaminated by anything
human, sustaining his original pattern of Divinity until that hour when
the personal self consciously chooses to walk fearlessly into the heart of that
Flame. Then he finds the shell of the outer personality dropping away and
experiences the joy of bathing in that Flame of Immortality which is refreshing
indeed!
Thus you have the way of the Buddha, the "Bud", the closed-in Flame,
waiting patiently for release century after century within the heart of
personality after personality, as the lifestream chooses physical embodiment and
creates its various karmas. Then comes the time when circumstances created by
karma, good or otherwise; when pressures, depressing or exalting, make the
individual (through self-conscious decision) desire to proceed along the pathway
of light into the heart of his or her own God-being, and there discover that
Immortal Flame. That Flame, then expanding through the lifestream, becomes the
"Open Lotus" of perfection for that one and its virtues, perfumes, gifts and
manifestations become an impersonal benediction to the race, as well as to all
life which is evolving upon the Earth.
In the recognition of that Flame, man can become impersonal enough
to choose to release all selfhood in its favor; man can walk upon the Divine
Path and explore the magnificent aspects and activities of Deity, willingly
allowing them to flow forth emotionally, mentally, etherically and physically
through him to the just and the unjust alike with no thought of favor to any
particular person, place, condition or thing. When such a man is found, that one
is on the road to becoming a living Buddha. As the sun shines; as the waters
that cover the sea serve life impersonally; so do all who become applicants for
and who finally attain Buddhahood, serve impersonally, magnetizing certain
God-radiations and directing those radiations forth at Inner Levels to bless
those disembodied members of the human race who yet require assistance in
sublimating karma; as well as to embodied mankind and the Elemental Kingdom,
imprisoned Angel and the four-footed creature in embodiment here.
Selflessness of Motive Essential to Buddhahood
Concentration is one of the aspects of the follower of the true
Buddhistic teaching, concentration determined by selflessness of motive. In the
case of the one who walks upon the Spiritual Path into the Heart of Light, the
concentration must be motivated by a desire to bless life impersonally; to
remain in physical embodiment here upon this Earth plane, if necessary, as did
the Beloved Mary, the Holy Mother of Jesus, until there is more light and more
God-virtue here; or to enter into the Inner Spheres of Light (if it is so
directed) and there be a Sun of Righteousness. The doctrine of the Buddha as I
found it to be for myself and presented it to man, is one of renouncing self and
selfish interests and this renouncing goes way back into the causes and cores
which motivate even spiritual exercises. When that motivating power behind all
asceticism, all spiritual exercises and self-denials is for the magnification of
God's Presence, such an one is a disciple worthy to wear the garment of a
neophyte in the Temples of the Buddha.
When these disciplines, asceticism and various spiritual exercises
are practiced for personal enlightenment and for the ultimate freedom of the
individual alone, such an one will achieve a result wherein and whereby that
individual eventually comes to the point of being ready for the Ascension.
However, such a one has not become an expression of the impersonal Buddha, who
joyously, willingly lives and serves on any plane wheresoever his light may be
desired; his protection required; his understanding essential and his healing,
raising, illumining, uplifting presence a necessity. The Buddha becomes a "Cup"
into which, without any obstruction whatsoever, there flows the Gifts, Light and
Virtues of the Godhead. That "Cup" is just as impersonal in the outpouring of
its gifts as is any "Cup" or Grail filled with fresh water which is available to
those who are athirst.
There are not too many among mankind, the motives in whose hearts
are to be and remain a pliable, impersonal "Cup" of living light; for love of
God alone, magnetizing those Virtues from the Higher Realms, while still
sustaining a physical vehicle in the world of form which is subject to all of
the various vibratory actions of the lower atmosphere of Earth. Those "few" who
do so serve are indeed blessed among men! The farther one goes upon the
spiritual path the more subtle and delicate is the thread of the test and,
ofttimes, in its tremendous endeavor to work out its own karma and to be
personally free there from, the outer self does not cognize selfishness within
its motive. He who follows the Law of the Buddha willingly remains in that
Sphere into which his own Christ Self has directed him; there joyously
magnetizes the gifts of the God-head; impersonally letting the radiation of his
God-virtues flow forth. He has no opinion as to the worthiness of those who are
the recipients of his benediction, any more than the Communion Cup which is held
to the lips of the communicants, decides within itself whether or not there is
sacrilege within the soul of one who kneels before the rail. Can you come to
that place where your life and your virtue belong to God, to man, to Elemental
life, embodied Angel or four-footed creature alike, without any pressure of
personal feelings from your outer self; choosing to direct your gifts
impersonally to one or more of those whom karma temporarily has drawn around
you; either through good or evil influences from the past? I had to learn that
Way!
Surrender to Inner Light is Personal Victory
As I enter the atmosphere of Earth today and as I serve through you
who believe in my reality, I shall endeavor to help you, first, to remove every
motive (known and unknown) within your lifestream which would cause you to walk
upon the Spiritual Path for just personal attainment. Then I shall endeavor also
to help you to replace those by setting up constructive causes and pressures of
light which will enable you to walk that Path impersonally. These new pressures
of light will inspire you to plunge with all the intensity of your being into
the purity of the heart of the Sacred Fire, thus enabling you to serve for the
sake of the redemption of this planet and its people.
You see, when self is shorn away, you will find that spiritual
impetus will be stronger than any effort of human will which brings you
reluctantly to the door of the Temple of Light and then will not allow you to
experience the full enjoyment of entering into the Flame; lest that which you
thought you were should be no more and that which you really are should stand
forth, transmuting and sublimating personality into IMMORTALITY! Then shall you
have become Gods and Goddesses of Light - joyously willing to remain in
embodiment here - a living example of God's love and light so long as mankind
require assistance.
Children of God, I determined long ago to find the Truth! Seven long
years it took me to divest myself of all the semblances and human concepts which
had bound my intellect and my soul. Remember! I was born with no destructive
karma to expiate and yet, as do all beings who serve this Earth in a physical
garment, I came into a physical vehicle, surrounded by an etheric, mental and
emotional envelope, and lived in the vibrations of the Earth plane. Yet it
required seven long years for me to cognize reality and know that "Jewel in the
Heart of the Lotus" to which you refer as the Immortal Threefold Flame within
your hearts. After I had bathed within that Flame and, on its tremendous power
had arisen into the Presence of Almighty God, then there came to me the subtle
test, the test of which I speak that of making the sacrifice of returning into
the physical world and bringing to the attention of mankind the understanding
which I had gained.
Ascension - Just Raising of Vibrations
The words "ascending" and "descending"; "higher" and "lower" are
more descriptive of rates of vibration than they are of motion through space.
However, because the beloved people of Earth are so accustomed to dealing
constantly with form, the word "ascending" just naturally depicts to the outer
mind an upward motion of form; whereas, in Truth, it is.. merely an acceleration
of the vibratory action which makes up the atoms of the vehicle. The word
"descend" as mankind's outer mind visualizes its action, is merely the slowing
down and lowering of the vibratory action of the electrons which make up the
atom.
Now, beloved ones, let us take the visible Presence of the great El
Morya, for instance. You speak of his "descending" into the sanctuary to address
you through your "contact" and, when you come to the point of enough
purification and clarification of your physical sight, he will be quite visible
to you. Why? Because his "descending" is simply the slowing down of the
electronic rates of vibration in his vehicles and the acceleration of the
vibrations of your power of sight until the two meet. Then you have your
visible, tangible Presence of any Ascended Being.
Now, during these years which are being given to us to help you, we
are in the process of gradually accelerating the vibratory action of your four
lower bodies by speaking to you; encouraging you; and by giving you those
spiritual exercises, songs and decrees which have accelerated all of your senses
and, to a degree, open your inner sight and hearing. At the same time, we are
lowering the rate of vibration of our own bodies of light, of course never below
that rate which compels and sustains perfect harmony, but slowing our vibrations
down in spoken word and radiation so that we may establish a communion between
your outer minds and that consciousness in which we all abide. When the
acceleration of the student body has reached its apex, then will be the
manifestation which so many desire.
It is simply a matter of the control of energy. Of course, we are
always in absolute control of all energy and, as Lord Maitreya himself has said,
we could so lower the vibratory action of the electrons which spin around the
atoms of our light bodies to a place where we would be perfectly visible to your
physical sight RIGHT NOW! This would be a tremendous dispensation of the Cosmic
Law but it would not cause you to desire to further accelerate your own
vehicles. You see, once the gift is received, almost without fail the invocation
and application of the chela ceases, unless, of course, that lifestream has come
to the place of mastery.
"Human" Security - Undependable!
In the experience life of the outer world, individuals sometimes
work for an entire lifetime, just to obtain for themselves an annuity, a home or
general security. Yet, often, just when the gift is within reach or perhaps has
been received, the individual concerned passes from that embodiment at the very
time when their whole life energy has been expended and their pursuit of
happiness resulted in the externalization of that to which they dedicated their
thought, feeling, words and action, their entire life!
That is true of "inner" things as well. Ever since the time of my
own conscious Ascension, I have seen chela after chela and neophyte after
neophyte who desired the visible, tangible Presence of the Master. Then, when
the chela did achieve that mastery of clairvoyance (true inner sight) and
clairaudience (true inner hearing); when he was one-pointed enough in
concentration; when a dispensation allowed even a flashing glimpse of that
Ascended Being, such an one would cease his own endeavors and become in himself
a "sainted one", full of pride.
Beloved ones, the outer self is so undependable! Those who have not
seen through the "veil" and yet have touched the hem of the garment of the
Divine Ones; those who have accepted with all their beings the ESSENCE and not
the form THOSE ARE THE "SAINTED ONES"! In the words of Jesus, our Beloved
Brother, "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed." I say to
you who have believed in us and who have FELT ESSENCE; you who have known and
accepted God-virtue radiated to you by us through the veil" that when the
acceleration of your senses brings you to the point of physical manifestation,
it will mean nothing to you except just the joy of confirmation of that which
you already had known as you kneel and kiss the garment of your Benefactor or
Benefactress and Friend. I know for I returned to Earth after my period of
God-illumination; walked with simple men and women and yet had that gift of
being able to accelerate my Being so that I could be instantly present in
consciousness in any Sphere. I know how much the masses desire phenomena and how
few desire the ESSENCE! Those who follow me; those in the East who are true
Masters and Gurus yet unascended, usually do not allow the exercise of phenomena
for that reason... I lived simply and unostentatiously, letting Grace and
ESSENCE, example and works take the place of phenomena which seems miraculous to
the curious but which does not sustain the earnest chela. The curious and
passing fancy of the masses is not worthy of the investment of energy which such
phenomena would entail.
As you know, the Great Sanat Kumara has returned to serve with me
for a time and, as we together enfold the planet in our love, patience and
impersonal benediction today, I would like to tell you that the rim of the
periphery of the atmosphere of your planet Earth is filled with so many shining
ones! They stand at the outer edge, yet not having been allowed into the inner
atmosphere of Earth. However, they are peering over the edge of the Earth's
atmosphere, desiring to give of themselves. They are really living sacrifices,
desiring to literally throw themselves into the emotional, mental, etheric and
physical consciousness of Earth's people, so that by the radiation of their
greater light, they may speed up the freedom of Earth and her evolutions. They
are restrained only by the Lords of Karma and those who guard the Gates of
Birth, through which these souls would have to come.
Just how many of these magnificent lifestreams will be allowed to
enter into Earth's atmosphere in the coming months and years has not yet been
determined; but the more of them who are allowed to come, the quicker will be
the increasing of Earth's light and that light is the redemption of the planet
and Its evolutions. That light is the illumination of the individual as well as
of the masses; the acceleration of the consciousness of all people; the
restoration of the Earth to its perfect God-estate. That light which is within
me is within you also! That light is the "Bud" within the hearts of all mankind
and the stimulating and expanding of that "Bud" into that great Open Lotus is
the purpose for which I serve and for which you serve too. It is the purpose for
which others in the East serve also; as well as a few in the West, until there
shall be many, many lighted lamps; many "Cups" from which mankind may drink and
many, many God-virtues surging through those "Cups" into those who hunger and
thirst after goodness, peace, mercy, healing and benediction.
Now I speak to all mankind! Who among you will be such a "Cup"? Who
among you, standing pure, strong and selfless, are willing to be that Grail
through which my light shall flow? Your hearts will answer!
The benediction and blessing of the Most High Living God and that
peace which does surpass the understanding of the human mind be with you and all
who have loved me; who serve with me and who aspire to like attainment. May the
God of Mercy protect you on your spiritual Path toward enlightenment!