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To the Beloved Spirit of 1957: 

To our gentle readers who are actively interested in bringing the Earth back to its pristine purity and perfection, we decree a year when vision shall become manifest fact when the hopes in the hearts of earnest chelas shall become expressed manifestation of the proper use of the Cosmic Law through purified vehicles of creation! 

We decree for our gentle readers a year of God-victorious accomplishment, combining Faith, Hope and Love, actually manifesting the Law, so that their own worlds are filled with all that is required for personal and Cosmic service. We also decree that they shall stand forth, right here in the physical appearance world, Christ-victorious men and women, an example of a life well lived - an inspiration to the masses to make like endeavor to accomplish. 

To all, we say a Happy New Year, filled with an increasing understanding of the Cosmic Law and the necessary practical cooperation with that Law in its use, for their own betterment and for the redemption of Our sweet Earth. THOMAS PRINTZ, Editor

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The Homes and Retreats of The Masters of Wisdom

January 15th through February 14th, 1957

(Since "The Bridge" goes to press so much in advance of the above Transmission dates and the Retreats to be active during the coming year are not listed until after the Thought-form for the New Year of 1957 is lowered into the consciousness of the Lord of the World, the description of the Retreat for this period will be mimeographed as soon as we receive it and mailed to you separately. Thank you, gentle reader, for your patient and understanding hearts!)

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Excerpts from an Address by

OUR BELOVED SAINT GERMAIN

March 31, 1956 

Beloved Friends of Freedom you who, among all the human race, have chosen to have faith and confidence in me, do you know how deep is my heart's gratitude for an opportunity to convey personally to you my thanks for that magnificent faith and capacity to "keep on keeping on" against almost insurmountable odds, handling your own personal returning karma, the national and race karma, as well as certain planetary karma all of which you freely and voluntarily agreed to help to transmute when you became a focus for the activities of the Seventh Ray in an embodied form. 

No matter to what Ray you primarily belong, through the kindness of your interest in my New Golden Age, you have become, and have had anchored within your auras, a tremendous concentrate of that Violet Fire and Freedom Ray. For that reason, there is much of God's life which has been bound, imperfect and impure which, through the wisdom of your own Holy Christ Self (according to your personal application) is directed toward you and your world for transmutation and returned to the heart of the Sun for re-polarization. 

Where else shall such energy go except to focuses of the Violet Fire, embodied in lifestreams who are walking the planet Earth? These are not always outwardly aware that, in their very recognition, acceptance and voluntary consecration of their lifestreams to the freeing of mankind, that such impacts of discordantly qualified energy upon their worlds are just a part of the obligation of representing the Freedom Flame upon the planet Earth. Then there manifests in the world of the chela, feelings of self-pity, self-depreciation and the various depressing thoughts and feelings which "bog down" the outer consciousness. At such times the chela often feels that he is not manifesting the full Christ perfection as he should or as does even the ordinary "good Christian" man or woman! 

Beloved friends, in the days of Atlantis, on the Continent of Lemuria, in Egypt and in other places where the Sacred Fire had been magnetized and drawn through the veil of human consciousness, visibly and tangibly present upon the various Temple Altars, it was not unusual for people to come from far, far countries to those focuses of the Sacred Fire and there, bringing with them certain distressing karmas, find complete freedom in the power of Transmutation (Violet Flame) not only individually, but for their loved ones, environments and Nations. So now, each one of you, as you move in your personal orbits, is a "Temple of the Sacred Fire" for the present, until there come into being in a future day (which may be beyond that of your present physical embodiment) those Sacred Fire Temples again; until the incoming generations which we are endeavoring to prepare for such service, are ready to live in the seclusion, constancy and dedication to the magnetization and sustenance of the powers of the Sacred Fire in this physical appearance world. However, until that time arrives, your own physical heart is that focus of the Sacred Fire and you, individually (as well as in your group activities) are the Temples of the Violet Fire of Mercy, Compassion, Forgiveness, Transmutation and Divine Alchemy. 

Successful Use of Violet Fire - A Science

For many, many ages prior to my own Victory, I pondered upon and contemplated God's gift of Mercy to all and endeavored in each embodiment (as well as between embodiments) to learn the science and efficacy of the Divine Alchemy which would change and raise the vibratory action of energy. As you have been told (and which does bear repetition) in time, this qualified me to be able to take upon myself the responsibilities and activities of the Seventh Ray as its Chohan. This Divine Alchemy is a real science just as much so as any science of electronics in the outer world today. It is not something which works in a haphazard manner! You are in an age of experimentation. You now stand much as I did in those embodiments previous to my Ascension, when I, too, was experimenting with various combinations of thought, feeling and spoken word in decrees. You are in a period of transition at this time, transition in your personal lives, world transition and then, in a very few short years, you will be in a period of planetary transition as well. These periods of "world change" always cause feelings of unrest in the emotional and mental bodies of the masses of the people; as well as stirring up a great sense of fear in their flesh bodies and etheric consciousnesses. 

Without being told, you know the people's tremendous fear of the various bombs, the "atom" bomb, the "hydrogen" bomb, cataclysmic disturbances - floods, hurricanes and other destructive actions of Nature. Throughout many embodiments, you, yourselves, have experienced some of these cataclysmic activities in the past; you have been on Continents which have sunk beneath the surface of the sea and, sometimes you have been among the few who carried the Sacred Fire safely (from the sinking continent) to another part of the globe; but even then you felt the rocking of the Earth as the sea claimed its own (temporarily) for purification. Because you are now in this period of transition; because you have different momentums of energy gathered within your Causal Bodies; because you are different personalities and types and belong to different Rays, we could not expect to have a complete unity and harmony of expression at this time. However, let us allow ourselves to be pliable enough to at least experiment until we have arrived at some efficacious method of application which cannot be confuted for, the moment such efficacious method of application has been found, you will have your manifestation of instantly transmuted energy as a result thereof. In other words, when properly applied, the Violet Fire will produce instantaneous perfection for you! 

Be Stabilized but Pliable

Remember always, dear hearts, to keep yourselves both centered and poised within your own Heart-flame, stabilized therein yet pliable enough to act quickly in emergencies and unexpected changes. If you are not pliable, you will be broken as the tree which does not bend before the wind. There are certain Cosmic and planetary changes of which even we do not know in advance; but, if you were to look upon the Universe, you would see that the entire Galaxy is in constant motion. As it progresses along its path around the Central Sun, the Earth sometimes comes under certain beneficent radiations which can be consciously drawn here on a moment's notice for the blessing of the planet and her people. These radiations are drawn by the calls of those gathered together in the "Upper Chamber" (as it were) by students who are dedicated to our service; whose physical bodies are rested; their mental bodies alert; their emotional bodies stable and their etheric bodies purified. However, in such Cosmic moments, sometimes we, ourselves, do not have more than 'five minutes' notice of such an opportunity. Then, if the student body is not pliable and ready to be called together at once (changing their set routines and patterns of living) such constructive blessing is lost so far as the Earth and her people are concerned; because the student body was not pliable enough at that time to be used as a good "conductor" for the radiation. 

For instance, take the ordinary example of your recent floods in the Eastern States and the storm conditions which arose unexpectedly. It is just good common sense (and certainly the part of wisdom) for anyone who has taken on the obligation and responsibility of a Sanctuary or group of this Activity, to gather together and prepare a dedicated and consecrated number of willing lifestreams who can and will at the moment when the crisis arises go into action collectively as soon as possible. If for any reason such collective action seems not to be possible, then personally be sure to have a set of appropriate decrees right at hand (better still to have it in your memory although some people do not easily memorize). Then personally go into action with those decrees for the averting of disaster. 

Be Ready! Your Help Will Be Needed!

Through the coming of great world changes, we come into strange days now, when great numbers of people may be in distress. They will need your calls to set into action the transmuting powers of the Violet Fire which you have been prepared to call forth. Bless your dear hearts! You are now and have been for many years (through your devotion to my Violet Flame) transmuting much more discordantly qualified energy than you know much that does not even belong to yourselves. So straighten your shoulders and raise your head in the dignity of Gods and Goddesses of Freedom, realizing that if the so-called "sinister force" does make an inroad into your world, emotionally, mentally, etherically or physically, it may not necessarily be your own. It is just destructively qualified energy coming into the Violet Fire for redemption! 

Let us learn to live above the tensions which plague the consciousness of the people of the world. There is no way for you to survive as a Spiritual Movement or even as a Spiritual Group, if you live below what I have chosen to call "the waterline", where there is fear, all sorts of distress, intolerance, hate, anger, rebellion and jealousy. If you do, you are then a part of the "mass creation" and the "mass mind"; you are in the bottom of the "pit" of human creation, instead of on top dropping a rope (our instruction) to those below you, by which you can raise them (by their acceptance) out of the darkness of human iniquity into "The Light of God that Never Fails"! 

In this great and magnificent City of New York, you have a tremendous opportunity to raise and free life because of the very pressures of so many millions of lifestreams living here. Nearly all come this way with one desire within their hearts and that is to find expression for their particular talents and their particular developed momentums; or, through proximity to great numbers of people, to earn their living. These millions of souls all gathered here know very little, if anything, of the Law of Mercy and Compassion and know practically nothing of the activities of the Seventh Ray. So, in this City, in Philadelphia and all other Cities, Countries and Nations all over the world where there are those fortunate lifestreams who know of the Sacred Fire and how to call its Violet Flame into action these have the joy, responsibility and opportunity of setting their fellowman free through its use. 

Never Limit Your Presence!

Now, as the Beloved Mary said to you recently (and it cannot be repeated to you too often) DO NOT LIMIT THE POWERS OF YOUR "I AM" PRESENCE! Please, beloved ones, become re-acquainted with that glorious Presence of you which I choose to call "The Magic Presence", because of its wonderful omnipotent power and its willingness to act to and through you at all times. Personally, you could not possibly even attempt to rehabilitate the entire human race, the three and one half billions who are already in embodiment, besides those billions who are awaiting physical embodiment here; all those who have been released from the "Compound" who are now working out their salvation in the various Temples and Spheres at Inner Levels. No! Of course not! But your Presence can!!! Your infinite, individualized "I AM" Presence has sustained you for eons of time. Then, as was described to you some time ago by the Beloved Lord Maitreya (See February 1956 "Bridge") , when the soul voluntarily disconnected itself from the conscious contact with that Presence, the "I AM" Presence continued in graciousness and kindness to keep pouring its stream of light and life energy (the "Silver Cord") into your physical heart to sustain your outer consciousness and give you the use of intelligence, emotional feeling, power of thought, memory and power of physical action. 

Your Presence and mine are not limited in any way! Your Presence and mine are ONE in glorious PERFECTION and that Presence, which is ALL-KNOWING is capable of instantly directing from itself a million or a billion rays of transcendent blazing light into whatever condition, place or person requires assistance. Therefore, can you not, with all humility, realize that the outer self, as Jesus said, is nothing? Will you not raise your deep and sincere attention to that Presence and make it feel that for once you desire to work consciously with it again? Then, that Presence will turn its attention to you; the stream of light (your "Silver Cord”) will permanently widen and your capacity to serve will increase by that renewed partnership. From the heart of that Presence then, you can direct those mighty rays of intelligent light (within which is the Violet Fire of Transmutation) to all of the life everywhere which you ever may have injured or which may have injured you from the time that the shadows of human creation first began to fall upon this dear Earth. Do you know that your Presence can locate in the Ascension Temples or in any Realm (wherever they are now abiding) any lifestream which you may have harmed at some time whether they are in embodiment here now or not? That Presence can and will (at your call) gladly balance that debt for you in one hour perhaps in just one moment! 

Beloved ones, in the Sacred Heart Temple, among those who are going to take embodiment here during the coming year; who are going to stand before the Beloved Mother Mary for the formation of their hearts do you know how many of these have karma of an extra weight because, in some embodiment, you caused them to have the feelings of despair, discouragement, rebellion or resentment, and that soul who is waiting to embody, carries certain etheric scars of distress, put there by past association with your lifestream? Think about it! Then think what your Presence in its unlimited capacities (by releasing its infinite powers of light and love) can do to make a balance to life for you at your call! 

Incidentally, those of you who have four-footed creatures as pets or are associated with them in other ways have you ever thought that perhaps you are paying back through them a service to life to balance previous actions; when, in the past, in self-righteous and zealous enthusiasm, you offered animals upon sacrificial altars, as well as bird and human life? 

O, there is much that you do not know! Fortunately, there is a veil of mercy between the conscious mind and certain etheric memories and that veil is drawn apart very slowly from time to time because a quite sane man has been known to go completely mad just by looking upon the "Dweller on the Threshold" as the human creation of his own lifestream is sometimes called. There is again the balance it is really a razor's edge! On the one hand, we have the complacent type of individual who feels that everything will come out all right and there is no need to do anything about it. Then, we have the over-tense one so eager and desirous of rendering the service (whether it be individual, planetary or Cosmic) that he becomes so tense that the vibratory action of the Presence cannot flow through him. There is great balance and relaxation in a complete alertness to the reality of that Presence; to the reality of ourselves and to the capacity of the Presence or ourselves to act through the Causal Body, directing our radiation and blessing at your call. 

In my life as Francis Bacon, I had come upon certain understanding of the Law of Re-embodiment which interested me deeply. I was a great reader and, during the various temporary incarcerations in that embodiment, I had much time at my disposal. I became interested in the idea of my own past embodiments and as I read about certain historical characters, they deeply touched me, etherically. Feeling that perhaps I had had some connection with these lifestreams in the past, I began to practice releasing the power of the Presence to pay whatever personal debts I might owe to those lifestreams, even though I could not tell where they were abiding at that moment whether they were disembodied, in embodiment, or in the "Compound"; whether they were awaiting embodiment in the Sacred Heart Temple or whether they were my next-door neighbors. That was not important! 

One day, however, before my Ascension, while in deep contemplation of the Presence and its Violet Fire of Mercy, Forgiveness and Transmutation, my inner sight was opened and I had a glimpse of a farmer walking through a field, sowing seed. This man was heavy-hearted and his head was bowed. Suddenly, I saw a Light Ray from my Presence go forth, within which was the Violet Fire. It blazed around that individual, instantly transmuting the cause of his distress; for which cause I had been responsible, at one time or another. Thus was paid the particular debt which I owed that lifestream. Then, that individual raised his head, free of that burden and actually ran laughing toward the farmhouse! Now, that person never knew from whence his release came. I did not even know the name of that man, but I knew that his burden was light­ened and that at least some part of My karmic debt had been paid. Interesting—if you care to develop it! 

Balance Required Between All Extremes

There are many aspects and uses of the Great Law which are interesting if one cares to think about and develop them. One must always remember to stay within the balance between indifference and over-conscientiousness; between pliability and stability; between every extreme which I could continue to elaborate upon this morning... between over-confidence and self-depreciation; between personal dignity and pride; between humility and self-abasement. You can think them up... that balance is really a razor's edge! The natural dignity of the embodied men and women who truly represent Freedom is expressed by their words, their works and their lives and by their walking humbly with their God.

It is always joyous for me when I am given opportunity to speak to you, even briefly and it is a happy and rewarding time for you, too, because, when I come closer than ordinary to you like this, I bring within the radiance of my Being and into your atmosphere and world, a much greater concentrate of that Sacred Fire of Mercy which I have loved and served so long. I have always said, you know, and I wrote it into the plays which seem to please the people (as "Shakespeare") that "The quality of Mercy is not strained..." Mercy is so magnificent! O, my God! If every man, woman and child, animal and elemental had to balance every "jot and tittle" of human mistakes, this world-task of purification and freedom would take an eternity! Beloved Sanat Kumara then could not possibly have gained his freedom at this time and there would have been really only one solution to the problem the dissolving of the entire planet. But, the Mercy of the Eternal is always waiting for you to call it into action, thus utilizing its powers. It is also waiting for you to make your calls through the use of the decrees which have been given to you. If you will stay with them, they will give you, within yourself, all the proof you will ever need of the efficacy of the Violet Fire's power called forth. This will mean more to you than all the riches of all the world! You see, when you have gained the power to consciously and instantly sublimate and transmute imperfect energy into perfection, life will not be long enough for you; you will scarcely want to go "Home" when your call comes. 

It takes alertness of the mental body as well as common sense and reason and it takes your personal interest in the application of the Law to bring it into outer manifestation for you. Look at the interest that Edison took in the study of electricity and the hours, months and years which he spent in just learning to harness its power. Is that of as much permanent importance to this planet as the use of the Violet Fire of Mercy and Compassion which, at will, can be called forth to transmute human shadows into light (i.e., sickness into health; financial lack into abundance, etc.)? 

O! that you would let me stir into action that "well-spring" of enthusiasm which is buried deep within you for the reality and efficacy of the use of the Violet Fire! When our Beloved Jesus said to those who came to him for help: "Thy sins are forgiven thee...", he used this "miracle-producing" Violet Flame of which we speak and, as the people saw its instantaneous action through his works, there was stirred up some enthusiasm within them for its use; but even that was only a temporary accomplishment. There were only about twenty or thirty people from the whole known world at that time who even had a half-interest in his mission. Later, Beloved Mother Mary had only about forty so you see we are not doing too badly with the numbers we now have, even though it seems at times as though we do not expand as rapidly as I certainly want us to and as you, in your hearts, do too! 

Prepare Now for Service to Come!

Now, there is this question of "readiness" again and the Beloved Maha Chohan has asked me to speak to you briefly concerning it this morning. It is a most important subject and one which I think, perhaps, you should seriously consider in some of your free moments. You never know ahead of time just when you will be called or to what post. I will tell you this much that, as a matter of Law, you will always be put into the position of the individual whose endeavors you have criticized! Therefore, it is wise to desist from criticizing another lifestream for, should you find yourself in his place, you might not be quite as comfortable as you are in your own; nor be as productive there as you were when, from your own place, you watched with folded arms the errors of your predecessor which errors then seemed so obvious to you. 

But, in a lighter vein, to be ready at a moment's notice for any summons to service which might come, is most important. It is something which has been brought to our attention recently. None of us knew that at the very moment when Beloved Morya's petition was granted by Helios and Vesta for the opportunity to start our New Activity, Lord Buddha then began to prepare himself by expanding his Causal Body until it was the same size and perfection as that Sanat Kumara, with the same outpouring of Love and Power. As we told you, at the time of the transferring of the title and powers of the Lord of the World from Sanat Kumara to Buddha, their two Causal Bodies coming together were like two exact halves of an orange. The radiation was the same. Now, Lord Buddha did that without being told. He did it without being asked "all on his own" (as we say). So did the Beloved Lord Maitreya prepare himself to take up the Office of the New Buddha. 

Beloved ones, when we speak so to you, it is not to engender any fear; it is not to make you feel tense in any way so that the Presence cannot even get five per cent of its energy through to you! No... we speak thus to you in order that you may be better prepared for your service which lies ahead for you do not know when or where you will be called! Be­loved Morya has mentioned this to you several times. He spoke of your being ready to go to far-off places like Tibet, for instance, to render some service which you could give there. Are you ready financially, physically, etherically, mentally and emotionally? Are your affairs in order? Are you so pliable that you could go in perfect happiness just in the garments which you are wearing now and live in all sorts of inconvenience? Think about this! Of course, I do not know that you will be called upon to become a Chohan immediately but, one never can tell! You may be called upon to lead a group ah, yes and perhaps without a book or song lyrics. Perhaps you will be suddenly called upon to lead a group of people who have never heard a decree before. What do you have, in your head that you can draw forth on a moment's notice like this for the help of the people? If, in the middle of the night or in the course of a busy day, suddenly some emergency arose and a frightened mass of people gathered around you, you would most surely need stability and absolute fearlessness and you would need something to work with which you could draw forth from your own memory. 

Now, today, I bring you not only the benediction of myself but also that of the Beloved Goddess of Liberty whose focus is established in the harbor of New York and who has chosen to welcome here from every land all those who have need of her assistance. You will remember that, at the time of my own Ascension, the very first Being I met in that Octave was this same Goddess of Liberty. Speaking to Her then, I asked her if she knew from whom I might get more help for those of you whom I had left behind. She assured me that there was such a one, and, later, I found that she was speaking of her dear self. Since that time, she has most lovingly and graciously given all of us that help! 

Thank you and Good morning!

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses - yearning to breathe free;

The wretched refuse of your teeming shores;

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me

I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door!"

(The above is the essence of that which appear on the base of the pedestal of her focus in New York harbor. Do you love life that much?)