Once each year, the Beloved Lord Divino celebrates the presentation of the Spiritual Law as given by his Guru, Lord Gautama, by reciting to the receptive chelas, the tenets of the Lord Buddha's Principle of Living - The Middle Way. This ceremony takes place in July of each year, and is known as the Asala Festival. We present for your individual and collective ceremonies excerpts of more recent comments by the Beloved Lord Divino which will intensify His outpouring at the Asala Festival. Participate!

Thomas Printz

 THE CONTROL OF THE FOUR LOWER BODIES 

"As the Beloved Saint Germain has recently explained on various occasions, the four lower bodies, physical, etheric, mental and emotional, are closely inter-related, one with the other, just as climbers who are making a steep ascent upon a glacier, are tied together for safety's sake. Each one depends upon the other's sure footing; upon the capacity and training of the other, in order to reach the apex of the mountain. The slip of the foot of any one, caused by hysteria, emotional unbalance or, perhaps, by some 'accident' to the physical body, is apt to plummet the entire group into a crevasse and obliterate them, temporarily, at least, from the physical appearance world. It is exactly the same thing with your inner bodies! 

If, through habit, your feelings (emotional body) have been allowed to explode at will and to throw out resentment and rebellion with little or no attempt on your part to control them, that emotional body immediately pulls down with it the other three vehicles into the slower vibrations of the astral realm. Then you have a headache and mental fog; you have another scar on the etheric body, and you usually have some physical repercussion in the flesh form. 

If the mental body is allowed to dwell upon thoughts of impurity, obscenity or the imperfections of other lifestreams - whether it is so-called fact or fancy, it eventually involves the emotional body. That body then comes over to see what is going on (so to speak) and a new 'party' is started. Thus the entire group again is plummeted into the psychic and astral realm. 

If the etheric body is allowed continually to revert to the injustices of the past - in this life alone most everyone has suffered, at least what they have considered injustice, it revivifies those distresses again, many times making them re-occur in your present experience. You know, the etheric body is a great one to watch for such opportunities to express itself while you are on 'vacation' or when you are not actually busy doing something else at the moment. That is when the etheric body becomes active and the stirring energies within it say: "Do you remember thus and so?" Finally, the mind and the feelings get into it, and you have the 'slough' of lowered vibrations again. Then there is only one thing to do, and this same procedure has been used century after century by all sincere lifestreams who wish to become Master of their worlds - that is, TO CHANGE THE VIBRATORY ACTION of those bodies by raising them (as the speed of the airplane propeller raises the plane into the air) by increasing the vibrations of those bodies to the point where harmony, purity, happiness, peace and general well-being exist! 

GOD CONTROL IMPERATIVE FOR ALL! 

This is impersonal Law! It has nothing to do with any particular individual or any special lifestream upon the planet. It is just Law! While you allow the vibrations of any one of your bodies to become discordant, you immediately sink into the 'slough' of the mass destructive thoughts and feelings of the race. You not only have to generate (through your application in the use of the Violet Fire and whatever other applications of which you know) enough 'steam' to get up and out of that rut again, but, while you are down there, you have opened your worlds to the destructive energies which form that mass strata and which then flow into and become a part of your world. 

Beloved ones, this is the Law of the Retreats! It is the Law and the Science of Mastery, which is taught by every Being who has attained the right to be called "Guru" (Master), and who accepts initiates and chelas for development. Mankind and chelas, too, are always looking for an easy way out of their difficulties; for a vicarious atonement; for someone else to pay their debt; someone else to set them free! I assure you there is no one else but your own consciousness who can eventually control the energy which has been entrusted to you from God. NO ONE but yourself can control that energy for you! True, the Masters, Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim can and do give you assistance in quieting the whirls of destructively qualified energy which you have already set up, and they pour oil on the troubled waters far more often than that of which you have any concept in your outer minds. 

True, the Master Jesus, the Beloved Prince of Peace, when invoked by a soul in turmoil and in trouble, does send forth his radiation in answer to their calls, and sometimes that one is sensitive enough to accept his peace. However - this is but temporary! Until the individual himself arises in the dignity of his own Godhood and realizes that he, himself, chose to take and use Life from the heart of the God of the Universe, he cannot be self-master over that Life! The world around him and his own inner bodies are a record of what he has done with such Life. 

SILENCE - SO IMPORTANT! 

When such a one so chooses to master his energies in dignity, poise and, preferably, in silence, he can succeed, if he will. You know, there is not too much kindness in this world of form. If you tell others of that which you endeavor to do before it is successfully achieved, you dissipate your energies which might be used to accomplish your purpose. Should you fail in your achievement, there will be many who will laugh at you. In the silence and dignity of your own Christ Flame, determine that these vehicles which you use are going to serve the purpose for which they were created, to expand the Virtues of God. You may choose to develop and radiate any one or more of a number of God Virtues which this world so much requires at this time. One could spend almost an entire evening enumerating the Virtues this crying planet Earth needs; for one thing - PEACE - of a certainty! Will you allow your emotional world to be a conduit from your Presence and the Ascended Masters' Realm to carry an uninterrupted PEACE into the souls of men which are torn with pain and agony; nations filled with unrest; an Elemental Kingdom despoiled and tortured by the ignorance, disinterest, unbelief and impurities generated by mankind; or must your emotional body be the plaything for any unkind word or displeasure of another which sends it immediately into distress? 

WHO OWNS YOUR WORLD? 

Does your emotional body belong to God or does it belong to the transients you meet upon Life's way who take your world away from the authority of your Presence and steal your peace, God's peace, from you? If this is so, for that moment at least, that discord short circuits your energies through which the Godhead and all the God-free Beings could pour peace into your worlds - then out through your atmosphere into the worlds of others. 

Does your mental body belong to God? Is it alert to the reception of the Divine directions of your "I Am" Presence, or is it busy accumulating the gossip which is heard over the radio, read from the printed page, or spoken through the kindly lips of your friends and associates? Is your mental body also the plaything for the transients you meet on Life's way? 

Does your etheric body belong to God? Is it the powerhouse it was intended to be in the beginning in which there is recorded every magnificent experience you had with God 'before the world was', from the first time your Immortal Three-fold Flame externalized from the Father when first you felt being and said "I AM"; when you first looked upon the faces of your God-parents of the System to which you belong; who created you; when you saw the shining light of the Archangels and there were no scales before your eyes; when you heard the Music of the Spheres just naturally, and when you saw the beautiful Temples of Light in the Inner Realms, is that the content of your etheric Body? Is that what surges up during your periods of relaxation and makes you remember God's Perfection, or is your etheric body just a Pandora's Box, containing the records of all the petty grievances and mistakes of others? 

Does your physical body belong to God? Is it vital and alert as it should be, ready to be about the Masters' business? 

TAKE DAILY PERSONAL INVENTORY? 

Today I ask you to take an inventory of yourselves. You are chelas now who must move forward under your own steam. These vehicles (bodies) which are yours to control, you must keep in the use of God IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU PROFESS! You cannot serve two Masters! You are serving God when your bodies are conductors for his Grace; you are serving Mammon when your bodies are reacting to the flash-tides of human emotions! 

Think it through, beloved ones! You say "all I am or have or ever hope to be or have is thine". That is a BIG STATEMENT. Are you confirming it in your daily living? 

My lovely ones think of the statements you make and have been making for a number of years now. Think upon them deeply, for they will affect the karma which you draw upon yourselves. 

It is up to you to create the glory of your Causal Body through your four lower bodies and make the Holy Spirit of God your personal aura, instead of its being a flashing and crashing of the discords of your various, vehicles which are offbeat. When they are so, they are creating the dissonance which is very evident to others, and which causes your own personal distresses. It is time NOW that you bring your four lower bodies - physical, etheric, mental and emotional - into alignment - ALL OF THEM - and then to raise and consecrate them all to God and to his service! 

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