In this second seven year cycle of "The Bridge to Freedom Activity" four important steps of progress have been taken, to be followed by others. The first one was the reorganization of July 1958, which was not the result of the sinister force to separate individuals, as some good people believe or want others to believe. It was the action of the separation of the tares from the seed. That is a former state to which there will never be a return. 

The second step of progress was the Dispensation by which a vast amount of unpublished Ascended Master instruction has been freely given during the past year to the student body through the columns of "The Bridge to Freedom Journal", which has received the appreciation of the student body expressed through innumerable letters. This Dispensation will continue during this year. 

The third step of progress is that under the direction of Beloved Serapis Bey the New Format of "Hope Magazine" emerges from its initial stages, and becomes in reality a stepping stone to deeper esoteric philosophy contained in "The Bridge to Freedom Journal", by the explanation of the Laws that govern Health, Opulence, Peace and Enlightenment. 

The fourth step of progress, perhaps the most important, that has taken place has been the removal of the Mother House of our Beloved Maha Chohan, and the Headquarters of "The Bridge to Freedom Activity", under his personal direction, from Flourtown, Pennsylvania to the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the proximity of the Blue Ridge Mountains, over which there is the Etheric Temple of the Beloved Archangel Chamuel from Atlantean days. 

We are therefore in the process of the vitalization and expansion of "The Bridge to Freedom Activity". This is resulting in the widening of the Bridge from the Spiritual Hierarchy to mankind. 

THOMAS PRINTZ

(El Morya)

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YOU CAN BECOME AN ACOLYTE OF THE VIOLET FIRE

Monthly Letter to the Transmission of the Flame Class

January 16, 1960

Dear Children who wish to expand the Violet Fire: 

January is the month to make New Resolutions. May I entreat you to make at least one? Resolve to become specialists in the Science and Art of Invocation and in the use of the Violet Fire of Mercy, to purify your bodies, your homes, your offices. Expand the Violet Flame; project it into every discordant condition in every part of the world, through the four elements and into the elemental kingdom. 

1960 is going to be a year of cleansing to prepare the way for what is coming in the year 1961. Lord Zadkiel will be at the helm, as you know, with his Legions of Angels of the Violet Fire, but he needs you. This is the reason why he is establishing this year the Order of Acolytes of the Violet Fire. Everyone who makes the resolution I have begged you to make, and keeps it, is a candidate to join this Order, and as such you will be taken in hand, given instruction, while your body sleeps, and used in your environment or anywhere in the world. 

The distinguishing mark of those who are in earnest will be that on their foreheads will be placed a replica of the Thought-Form of the Year, that is, the Royal Purple Shield of Archangel Zadkiel, embossed with the Crystal likeness of his Archii the Holy Amethyst. 

The first requisite to qualify for membership in this Order is to try not to miss a single night in your attendance in consciousness at the Etheric Temple of Purification over the Island of Cuba, which will be open between January 15th and February 14th, 1960. 

Lord Zadkiel, Holy Amethyst and my humble self will wait for you every night at the Temple.  

Love and Blessing! 

MAHA CHOHAN

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