December 18, 1955

Beloved Infinite Presence of God, by whose Life I have Being, I honor thee this night as I stand within the atmosphere of  the planet Earth. 

I honor thee for giving me the opportunity of sustaining this planet in our solar system. 

Let not thy children honor me, O Lord, for I, of myself, Am nothing. Without thy Light, thy intelligence, thy direction and thy sustaining Energy, I should be but unformed, elemental substance.

It is thou, great Infinite Source of all Good, who has endowed me with self-conscious Intelligence. It is thou to whom Honor and Glory and Gratitude belong.

May the humankind of Earth come to know that Service is Opportunity to use thy great Light in whatever sphere Life has placed them.

To thee, O great Star Venus, do I send my Love and Gratitude for all the energies you have given to sustain my activities during my exile here.

To you , O beloved and glorious Powers of Light, I AM so grateful!

To you, unascended beings, everyone, everywhere, who have taken interest in my service, let me say - I AM SO GRATEFUL! SO GRATEFUL! SO GRATEFUL!

December, 1955

Beloved Friends:

Tonight it is my opportunity and joy — my privilege and honor to project into your consciousness the quality of energy which is within my Flame.

What is Flame? And why does humankind shy from the word?

Flame is but a concentrate of life energy which has been qualified by some Intelligence to act in a specific manner; a concentrate of energy qualified by the feeling world of some self-conscious Intelligence to act in a specific manner. As that energy, magnetized, drawn and concentrated, is CHARGED and CHARGED with a specific feeling, it becomes a FLAME which can and will enter into the energies and world of anyone who chooses to use it.

Now, the quality which I offer, tonight, to humanity, to elemental life, to imprisoned angels and to the planet itself is PATIENCE ¾ the COSMIC FLAME OF COSMIC PATIENCE. Can you accept it in its fullness? Think it through!

What is Patience, beloved ones? It is merely control of the energy of the inner and the physical bodies. It is the capacity, when treating any expression of life needing assistance, to hold your energy in perfect harmony and then project it forth according to the direction of your Christ Self for the accomplishment of some good purpose.

You have been given an assignment on Happiness! Now, in preparation for the Holy Season, I give you an assignment ¾ and that is to become patient men and women!

Let me differentiate, for your enlightenment, between the quality of patience and that of lethargy or indifference. The patient man is not the indifferent or the lethargic man. The patient man is positive, poised, powerful. He does not allow his energy to go from him, either in thought, feeling, gesture or word, until the God-Self has qualified it with its nature, and then only does it go forth in blessing.

Sanat Kumara