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Along the Path

The Maha Chohan

November 11, 1956

Beloved Children: I bring you greetings for this great Holy Day which has been given the beautiful name of "Thanksgiving" ¾ the giving of thanks. With the Great Helios and Vesta I represent one of the Hierarchy who are the recipients of the gratitude from all life for Our Outpouring through Nature and the avenues that supply the energy to the people of Earth. This has been My great privilege for centuries.

At inner levels the Thanksgiving ceremony is celebrated by every Angel, Master and Nature Sprite, and humankind is the beneficiary, for gratitude, or the pouring forth of Thanksgiving is one of the most glorious, uplifting and expanding expressions of Life. It gives not only ease of mind and body and spirit, but it springs up in a limitless profusion of gifts wherever the attention directs its currents.

The giving of thanks is one of the most contagious expressions of spirit and unifying activities of God. It is an instantaneous transmutation of hard or discordant feelings and it is a cosmic magnetic power that draws all good towards the generator of genuine Thanksgiving. So, dear ones, hesitate not to let your hearts sing Thanks for the blessed air you breathe, the water which cleanses, the humble earth upon which you set your feet, yea, even for the hard cement of the city streets which support the weight of so many uncomplainingly.

If for, say, three minutes daily, in this busy outer world, you will address your gratitude towards All Life everywhere, manifest and unmanifest and to the heart center of all created Beings you will open channels through which returning currents of blessings will flow into your life — for such is the Law. Habitual expressed gratitude for the service of the elements in the body to his person will keep the individual free of illness of body. Gratitude for the Co-Intelligence and Substance of Feeling loaned to him by the Cosmic Creator will keep the individual free of illness of mind or of upset emotions. Ingratitude of the masses has brought about all conditions of distress and is a grave insult to Life which is constantly pouring Its Gifts to humanity far beyond his merits.

Blessed Friends, I say to you that many of you were embodied among those early pilgrims on the rugged Massachusetts shore; your inner selves can remember well the hardships of that new land.

When the early forefathers first acknowledged Thanksgiving they had merely tuned into this Cosmic Day, for as you have been told, the Feast of Thanksgiving is a Cosmic Activity, and so you dear ones, helped inaugurate this Feast in America.

When a group of students is fortunate enough to secure the direct guidance of an Ascended Being, they become part of His Consciousness, and, in reality, a living part of His Very Being -- even as a child has a separate individuality but remains through life a part of the parents from whence it sprang. The student thus adds all the strength and good of his Causal reserve to the Master's Great Consciousness and widens the Master's field of service, by providing another complete set of vehicles through which the Master may work. And in turn the student receives of the great store of the Master's gifts and Light. So, My dear children, at this Thanksgiving Season I render to you My sincere gratitude for giving me your attention and for permitting Me to serve you. All My blessings and Love be ever with you.

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