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Thomas Printz’ Private Bulletin

Volume 1, No. 26                                                                                                    December 7, 1952

One of the most beautiful activities connected with the closing of the yearly cycle is the mystic ceremony whereby the Lords of Karma close the individual Book of Life for every Lifestream incarnate upon the earth during the twelve months that has passed. 

This ceremonial takes place the last evening of the old year in the Great Temple of Karma located within the Etheric Belt. It is a particular service for embodied individuals, and, although it includes those who have had any portion of an embodiment within the year, it does not include the discarnates or those who have not had an active earth experience for at least one hour of that twelve months. This is the merciful office of The Karmic Board and is performed in order to allow the lifestreams of the race to be freed from a portion of the errors and mistakes of the past year, made not so much through willful disobedience to the Law as through lack of discernment, discretion and discrimination. In other words, the mitigation of evil effects relate only to those whose causes were motivated with no evil intent, but which, nevertheless, ofttimes produced unnecessary confusion and distress in their wake. 

You would be surprised and gratified to know that almost a quarter of the Karmic legacy of the race is caused through "blundering" rather than willful disobedience of the unseen or manifest law, and the mercy of the Karmic Board (from the beginning of mankind's experiment with the Law of Cause and Effect) has always allowed at the close of the year this merciful melting away of the Karmic punishments, due to this laxity, which accounts for the lightness with which individuals enter the New Year filled with hope, resolutions and, strongly imbedded desire to improve upon their nature, character and manifest expression. 

There are over four billion souls who come under this beneficent mercy of the Karmic Board during this ceremonial. Each lifestream, from the ignorant savage to the most elect and select student, passes through the Halls of Karma, and his load is lightened according to the intent of his motives during the past twelve month. Thus all are enabled to enter joyously into the New Year Councils and receive the greatest possible benefit from the directive energies of the Master Beings, who set up the Keynote for the coming year. 

The Lords of Karma, themselves, allow the lifestream of every individual, at the close of each year, a certain percentage of Grace and Mercy, Which mitigates anywhere from one to forty or fifty per cent of the karmic debts of the year; and this Mercy is always measured against the motives behind all action. After the Lords of Karma have measured the Light of the Lifestreams, each one is then placed within the Ceremonial Fire of Purification, which is projected and sustained, of course, under the direction of Saint Germain, with the help and sustenance of the Angelic Kingdom and the Initiates, who are educated in the direction and sustenance of the Sacred Fire in its purifying aspect. Thus, consciously or unconsciously, every Lifestream upon the planet tastes and experiences within his own body, the purifying action of the Seventh Ray at the close of every year, and the soul and inner bodies step forth from this purification with a greats' opportunity for progress and less accumulation of a binding nature. Of course, it must be understood, that each Lifestream receives the ultimate amount of Mercy and Grace that his own merit for the past year has allowed him. 

If it were not for this yearly purification, mankind would, within seven years, destroy their minds, bodies and possible useful service for that incarnation. To a certain extent, it performs the same service that every soul is blessed with at the close of each embodiment, When through the purifying fire of Cosmic Mercy it is released of the karma of that entire life span, which was created more through ignorance and stupidity than conscious intent to do evil. This is the Comfort and Mercy extended by the Father of Love to his children, and it is the only hope for the survival of life upon the planet. My particular Office requires my Presence in the Hall of the Lords of Karma during each individual judgment, because every lifestream comes under my individual radiation, and it is important for me to see what the year has yielded in soul growth and possible expansion of Light. 

You have been told, how, at the stroke of midnight on each New Year, the Silent Watcher releases into the consciousness of SANAT KUMARA, the Keynote for the incoming year, and it may interest you to know that the Keynote for the Year 1950 was the Love Star; for 1951 it was my own Insignia - the Dove of Peace and for this year of 1952, it was an Ear of Wheat, signifying the accomplishment of each Lifestream. 

In this Year of 1952, which is called, "The Year of the Harvest," we find that the accomplishment of the individual intelligence will be a paramount issue before the Karmic Council, because the edict for the year was that every intelligence - Divine as well as human - was required by Law to utilize the talents, powers and capacities, developed by the lifestream, in contributing to the expansion of the Light through the human race.  

Because of the fiat concerning the Ascension of the Sun and her System within the twelve-month period provided for preparation, more than ordinary measures had to be adopted for those capable of understanding and co-operating with the requirements of the Law. It is, therefore, an Age of unusual opportunity for the aspirants, as well as extreme leniency, in the Grants from the Higher Authorities, and also a period of extreme responsibility for those who are privileged to share in the inner significance of the Cosmic Moment. 

As the Great Conclave at Shamballa closes and the Brotherhood prepares for its individual and collective Audience before the Lords of Karma at the half-yearly Conclave, every unascended being will do well to remember that as he has shared in the Vision of the New Day, and is aware of the significance of the Year, he will likewise be called upon to render a personal account of the utilization of his talents and energy during the course of the past year in a public meeting before both the Lords of Karma and the entire Assemblage of Ascended and Unascended Beings, who will all enter the Final Outpouring of 1952, each one carrying his own Sheaf, born of the single Ear he had received on New Year's Day from the Hands of the Silent Watcher and Sanat Kumara. 

It is needless for me to say that it is the earnest and heartfelt prayer of each member of the Ascended Host who has stood Sponsor for the unascended lifestreams present, that the harvest gleaned by each one will justify the faith such Sponsor had in the capacities and endeavors of each individual student and chela.

Love and Blessings,

THE MAHA CHOHAN