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The Temple of the Great White Brotherhood 

Twice each year, at the beginning of the twelve month cycle in January, and at the beginning of July, The Great White Brotherhood have the opportunity of gathering together before the august body of Divine Justice and Mercy who are known as the Lords of Karma.

Rising majestically out of the level plains in the State of Wyoming stands the Grand Teton Range. Even to the mind of the man insensitive to the great spiritual world in which he is immersed, the glorious natural cathedral which spirals above the emerald green setting of plain and trees draws admiration. It impels aspiration toward lofty thoughts and stirs the spirit of inspiration toward Godliness. The snowy finger of the Grand Teton pointing Heavenward is a silent but constant admonition to all who look upon it to lift up their eyes unto the hills and then beyond to connect with the Creator of those very hills and man himself.

For many ages, within the heart of the Grand Teton, an Order of the Great White Brotherhood have united their strength, their consciousness and their Presence to evolving ways and means of helping the humankind of Earth to the expression of greater perfection of mind, greater peace of soul, greater health of body and greater development of the dormant Spirit of God which awaits summons from the heart of humanity.

The Order of the Great White Brotherhood is under the direction of the Beloved Master Lanto, who many ages ago, answered the summons of his God, left the Earth body for the last time and now abides in that Body Eternal, not made with hands, serving humankind of whom he was once a member. Having achieved his victory in the Orient and having been removed from the wheel of successive births and deaths, he chose to be a part of the great blending of consciousness of East and West, by taking up his abode in the United States of America at the sacred place where the first man to accept the hospitality of Earth set foot upon the Planet.

From this ancient Retreat in the heart of the Wyoming Rockies, brothers and sisters who are primarily interested in helping humanity to develop their natural talents, gifts, powers and reason for being, go forth to every country upon the surface of the sweet Earth whom they live to serve and whom they love.

The entire service and activity of that Spiritual Body of Dedicated Intelligent God Beings known as the Great White Brotherhood is to raise the consciousness of humankind and make it possible for every individual to know perfect health of mind and body, abundance of every good and perfect thing, and to learn what God the Father, desires that the individual shall manifest to widen the borders of his glorious Kingdom.

These half-yearly Councils are presided over by nine great Beings known as the Karmic Board. The glorious Being, who has become known to many as the Cosmic Mother, Beloved Mother Mary, will continue her service as the honorary spokesman of the Karmic Council for this year of 1982, Lady Portia, the Goddess of Justice; the Goddess of Liberty; the great Lord Shri Magra; Pallas Athena (Goddess of Truth); Kwan Yin, Goddess of Mercy; Lord Saithrhu, the great Divine Director (and Lord Manu of the Seventh Root Race); the Elohim Vista (the All-seeing Eye of God); and Beloved Lady Nada (Goddess of Transfiguration) are the present Members of this Body.

The laws that govern this Universe are scientific and exact, though merciful in the extreme. It is the responsibility of the Karmic Board to give every opportunity to the Spiritual Hierarchy and those chelas who represent them in the world of form, to quickly put into action whatever ideas and plans will help to fulfill God's Will.

However, the use of free will, a gift of the Father to all his children, must be respected and ALL that can be done by God, the Great White Brotherhood and a few unascended beings interested in their brothers' welfare is determined by the desire within the hearts of men to want to know and experience the fullness of God's Will for the planet and its evolutions.

When unascended beings choose to invoke the Presence or God's Will for the plane of which they are yet an integral part, the Cosmic Law allows more grace, more spiritual nourishment, more opportunity and more guidance to those few.

Throughout the year, in the various Retreats throughout the world, selfless brothers and sisters are constantly preparing plans for the furthering of the evolution of the race, and these plans and designs are presented at the half yearly Councils in order to secure the sanction of the Lords of Karma and the necessary Dispensations and grants of energy required to carry the plan into effect.

The Law governing the evolution of the race is that all benefits and blessings must come through the natural door of the consciousness of some member of the race yet embodied and belonging to the realm in which the blessing is to manifest. This is evident because the long course of history proves without a question of a doubt that - although all the inventions and discoveries and blessings existed in the mind of God and were easily perceived by those who had earned the right to live in his Presence - these gifts did not become the property of the race until one of their number grasped the idea and drew it through the energies of his own world. Even Jesus had to take on a physical body to translate the Word of God to humanity! 

It is to secure the cooperation and interest of the constructive students of life who attend these half yearly Councils that the members of the Brotherhood present their various petitions and plans. Upon the amount of interest shown by the embodied lifestreams who, in the greater freedom of their inner bodies, are privileged to participate in these Councils, depends the extent of the grants and dispensations handed down to the brothers by the Karmic Board..

Up until a few years ago, only the Ascended Beings participated in these Councils. Not many of the members of the human race were even cognizant of their Guardians, Protectors and Benefactors nor of the Councils held on their behalf. Thus all of the energy, all of the ideas and plans, all of the visions designed and presented to the Karmic Board for ratification came from God-free Beings.

These were limited in the expression of their Divine endeavors because so few of humankind were open doors through whom they might plant the seeds of those ideas, with the conscious knowledge that those seeds would be lovingly and trustingly received, nourished by the thoughts and feelings of the receiver and finally externalized in the world of form. The more of humanity who can be interested in such manifestation of God's Will and who can be presented in their finer bodies before the Karmic Board as the proof of interest in the race's welfare, the greater the dispensations and grants given by the Karmic Board to these elder brothers and sisters to try to fulfill their plans through chelas whom they can contact as best they may.

Although comparatively few members of humanity have visited the Rocky Mountain Retreat in their physical bodies, many thousands whose hearts, souls, spirits and minds are earnestly desirous of helping in the externalizing of the Kingdom of Heaven visit these half-yearly Councils in their inner bodies. Some of them also contribute plans and designs to help the race.

Many a great patriot, a great educator, a great artist, a great architect, a great scientist or inventor, a great religious personage, a great pioneer into the subtle frontiers of spiritual truth, has received his inspiration and his consecration at these Councils and has returned to his physical body filled with inspiration and conviction which he has woven into a blessing and benefaction for the race.

Few men can actually tell you where the consciousness goes during the hours of merciful sleep. Yet many men who are "called" to great service are the beneficiaries of the wisdom of these Councils and humanity are the beneficiaries of these peoples' presence at such Councils.

The Law of Life is based on the science of giving and receiving. In scientific parlance it is referred to as centrifugal and centripetal.

Nature confirms this law and so lives in harmony and balance. The release of the breath from the physical body is essential before the life-giving breath can enter to nourish and sustain the body's life.

The tree must give of its fruit in order to prepare for the miracle of a new resurrection and a future harvest. The flood tides recede to fulfill themselves and to again wash full and free upon the waiting shore.

The Focus at the Temple of the Great White Brotherhood is the focus for the outgoing (centrifugal force) upon the Planet Earth. The Ascension Temple over the Ashram at Fort Salonga, Long Island guarded by the Chohan of the Fourth Ray, Serapis Bey, is the focus for the incoming (centripetal force).

Humankind, through voluntary choice, asked for opportunity to experience Earth life and to contribute through his own creative centers of thought, feeling, spoken word and action to the creation of a Kingdom of Heaven upon the Planet Earth. He chose to ride on the tides of the outgoing breath of the Father into the world of form. When he has rendered this self-chosen service, contributed his share to the establishment of his own Father's Kingdom on Earth, he will return on the incoming breath of the Father focused at Long Island.

Because the development, externalization and general manifestation of God's Kingdom on Earth is focused through the Retreat within the heart of the Grand Teton Mountains, those Cosmic Beings, Ascended Masters, Angels, Devas, Builders of Form and dedicated men and women gather within the Council Chambers of the Teton twice in each year (at the end of December through January and at the end of June through the month of July) in order to formulate plans and designs to help such establishment of perfection on Earth.

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