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Excerpts from an Address by
BELOVED ARCHANGEL URIEL
On: Ministering Angels
September 27,
1957
I am Uriel, Archangel of Ministration and I have come to you today
in response to the heart-calls of certain lifestreams in embodiment here who are
so sincerely interested in bringing about the eternal freedom of the Planet upon
which they presently abide!
It is our reason for being and service to life to minister unto any
part of creation which requires assistance, especially now in the
re-establishing of the natural harmony and higher vibratory action of the Earth
itself, as well as of the vehicles of expression used by Earth's evolutions at
this time. This will culminate in the fulfilling of the Divine Plan of
perfection eventually manifesting through individual lifestreams, Elemental life
evolving here and through the Inner Spheres of the very Planet itself.
Beloved ones, I might say that the activity of Ministration to which
we so lovingly dedicate our lives, represents a great deal more than the average
individual thinks when they either refer to or contemplate upon a Ministering
Angel.
In the first place, within the Ministering Angel there is the WILL
to serve until the entire world of the lifestream to which that Angel has
dedicated himself, is in complete harmony. Now, there are those Ministering
Angels who deal with just one lifestream at a time and even that is quite an
expenditure of time and energy, quite enough when one considers that the
lifestream needing such assistance has built the causes of his distress (the
transmuting of which now needs the Angel's help) for millions of years in the
pursuit of what he calls "happiness"!
You see, to be allowed to render this service, that Ministering
Angel must personally desire to do so. That Angel is a Being of free-will and so
must offer to serve. Every individual present here today and every member of the
human race still unascended (this, of course, including every "laggard" who came
here from other Systems and every Guardian Spirit who came to give the Earth
assistance) has such a particular Ministering Angel who has volunteered to serve
him from the beginning of his evolution here, staying with him until his journey
is completed. Before Helios and Vesta, a long time ago, that Ministering Angel
took a vow to serve a particular lifestream until it had achieved its Ascension
restored to its Divine Perfection at the close of all earthly embodiments.
Angel Develops Discrimination
Next, that Ministering Angel has to develop WISDOM in dealing with
you because, first of all, it had to get acquainted with you and your world.
Since you, too, are a being of free-will, that Angel did not know ahead of time
just what momentums you were going to develop which would give him opportunity
to expand his light. As you were developing your tendencies, he had no way of
knowing just how you would react to Ministration, for there are many individuals
whose natures tend to repel Ministration, if and when they are cognizant of the
fact that it is being given.
So, the discriminating faculties of the Ministering Angel develop
through association with a lifestream. In some cases, that Angel learned that it
would be best to minister to the individual, even to the distresses thereof,
(emotional, mental, etheric and physical) while the person slept so that the
conscious mind would not feel the Angel's current of healing energy!
On the other hand, where there was some co-operation between the
lifestream and the Ministering Angel, the assistance could be given all during
the day, as it was with the Beloved Mary, Mother of Jesus; as it was with
Beloved Jesus himself; as it was with your blessed Saint Germain (particularly
in his embodiment as Saint Joseph) and many more of those who not only
consciously cognized and reverenced the Angelic Host, but consciously welcomed
their service as well.
Then the Ministering Angel had to expand his feeling of Divine LOVE
for the Immortal Threefold Flame of God which held the Divine Pattern of
Perfection within the heart of the lifestream he had offered to serve. He had to
develop a tremendous momentum of that love which, all through the ages, has
given and still gives him the infinite patience to continue to serve a
personality which is so often resentful and rebellious against what that one
considers an interference with his use of free-will even resenting the help of
the Angel who can see far ahead and see what distresses will be the lot of the
individual should he be allowed to follow his own course of destructive
tendencies. So, these Ministering Angels of my Legions have developed tremendous
momentums of God-patience while dealing with unascended mankind.
Even in the outer world experience, you know what a feeling of
rejection or repellant force will do to your own sense of joy in service. So, in
a beautiful schoolroom at Inner Levels, these Ministering Angels are taught how
to draw and hold these feelings of Divine compassion, patience and
understanding. Here they learn that the outer selves of those they try to serve
might react to their help in many, many ways. However, they are also taught that
their responsibility is to be able to hold steady our beautiful Flame of Peace
(the gift and activity of the Sixth Ray) and wherever and whenever possible, to
pass that Flame through the energies of the lifestream they are assisting,
compelling God's peace there to manifest.
Angels Hold "Immaculate Concept"
Now, too, the Ministering Angels have to remember the activity of
the Fourth Ray sustaining within themselves a consciousness of the PURITY of the
"Immaculate Concept" for the individual they are serving and not be caught up in
a desire to change the subject of their devoted service by ministering to
another. You see, sometimes, when a joyous and wholly-free Angel from our Realm
sees some very fine soul stand before the Lords of Karma, offering to become a
Guardian Spirit to those evolving here, it is very easy for that Angel then to
say: "I will gladly go with that one and minister to him. I will stay with him
until the end of his journey, for he has a magnificent Causal Body (the gathered
momentums of one's accumulated good up to that time) and he has much opportunity
for great service". Then, of course, always eager to have this assistance for a
lifestream, the Great Law accepts the offer of the Angel.
But, after several millions of years of such service to that
lifestream, the Ministering Angel still must be able to sustain his original
enthusiasm for service to that one with the beautiful Causal Body, holding the
"Immaculate Concept" for his "ward" hoping for the eventual manifestation of
that perfection through a physical form, as well as the other three lower bodies
which, too, have disintegrated a little from the magnificence of the light body
in which the Angel had first seen that one at Inner Levels. Here, the activities
of RE-CONSECRATION by the Beloved Raphael plays such an important part in
sustaining the constancy of that Angel, keeping his feelings enthusiastic, his
energies buoyant and eager to serve. The only time these Ministering Angels have
some temporary release from the lifestream they are serving is during the time
when that one might be in the "Sleepers' Realm" for some time between
embodiments. Then, they may have a substitute to guard and minister to the
etheric body for them. while the soul-self sleeps.
This will give you some idea of the tremendous task of these
Ministering Angels because, as soon as the soul is conscious again (after his
"rest" in the "Sleepers' Realm") and his thinking and feeling worlds are active,
thus creating karma, it is the responsibility of the Ministering Angel to be on
hand to give that soul assistance, trying constantly to hold as much peace as
possible for him. These Ministering Angels also need CONCENTRATION. Do you think
it is easy to work almost continuously with one life-stream for literally
millions of years? Think on this! It is a case of voluntary imprisonment through
love, which has little parallel.
You see, while the physical body is asleep, the consciousness of the
individual is still functioning somewhere! If that consciousness is earth-bound
and (in the past while discarnates were still allowed in Earth's atmosphere)
prowling around in old castles or places of former abode in which the lifestream
had been previously interested, if the consciousness is having certain
experiences in the psychic realm (discordant activities) that consciousness is
creating destructive karma. So, the Ministering Angel is obligated by Law to
accompany such a soul and, at every opportunity, this Angel projects a Light Ray
into the consciousness of the one he is assisting, with the hope that perhaps it
will help him to look higher and desire more light.
Natural Conductors of Peace and Healing
These Ministering Angels are natural conductors of both PEACE and
HEALING but it is sometimes difficult to get mankind quiet enough in their
thoughts and feelings to receive these gifts. Even when the physical body sleeps
at night, the aura about it is still swinging around; the soul is darting here
and there in various directions, always in search of some sort of happiness. It
is part of the service of this Ministering Angel of the Sixth Ray to quiet the
feelings, mind, memory and flesh body and bring them PEACE.
Finally, the Ministering Angels are very powerfully developed along
the Ray of INVOCATION. Of course, they have constant access to all the Virtues
of the Godhead and, because they have the God-gift of Inner Sight, they know
just what is required by the lifestream whom they have offered to serve.
Therefore, from time to time, as the Cosmic Law permits (according to the Karmic
obligations of the soul concerned) these Angels do invoke the help of the
Ascended Beings and powers of Light to draw the particular assistance which that
lifestream requires at the moment.
Beloved ones, there are many blessings available to mankind which
they could have and enjoy if they only knew of and would call for them; as well
as Ascended Master and Angelic Friends who could release those blessings into
man's experience. I know, because in the activities of Ministration, we work
with the Silent Watchers over every City, State and Nation, as well as with the
Silent Watcher of the Planet itself.
As you can easily see, the Ministering Angels are always endeavoring
to draw your consciousness to something which is constructive and hold it there.
That is part of their power of Concentration, as well as their desire to bring
you peace. This ministration is our great joy to give to the Earth.
Now, as we previously said these Angels of which we have spoken have
offered to serve just one lifestream. In my capacity as Archangel of
Ministration, I have offered to serve the entire Planet Earth and all the
lifestreams who would ever take embodiment upon her, all Elemental life and
every living thing; until the substance of Earth itself and the Forces of Nature
should be restored to Divine Harmony and Eternal Perfection. So, what I have
said about individual Ministering Angels you can multiply by ten billion and
then know something of the service to this Planet and her evolutions which has
been offered and given by Beloved Donna Grace and myself.
(Concluded in
January, 1958 issue)
(NOTE: Our gentle reader may ask why, if these
Ministering Angels are ever with us and have the capacity to prevent human
distress, why are mankind in their present states of need and despair? Again may
we remind you of mankind's ability to use his God-given gift of freewill
destructively often deliberately defying the wise promptings of what he calls
his "conscience" which are often the feelings of warning from these Ministering
Angels themselves. These Angels are also sometimes called "Guardian Angels."
Have all of us not felt a strong prompting not to do a certain thing but,
because the desire to do it or to have something was so strong within us that we
willfully disregarded the prompting and "kicked against the pricks" (to speak),
only to regret our disobedience later when it was required of us to handle the
agonizing consequence of our human stubbornness and arrogance. How often have we
said: "Why did I not listen? I had a feeling not to do that, etc. etc.!"
Now that we have been given this wonderful
instruction about our Ministering Angel, let us daily acknowledge this personal
Friend of the Ages and endeavor to lovingly cooperate with him to make our way
easy, plain, successful and perfect at all times!
Were it not for these transcendent Beings of
Light and Love who have given themselves to mankind here, most lifestreams would
have completely destroyed themselves long ere this! God bless the Ministering
Angels, every blessed one of them and God bless our Beloved Uriel and Donna
Grace for their sustaining power of Love and Grace for all life!)