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Beloved Spirits of Immortal Life:

Following up our remarks of last week on Religion, I would like to ask you - What, in your Religion, distinguishes you, who are its followers, from the masses? Inner Peace, perhaps, but it must be more than that. 

What is meant by the mature man? Saint Germain, Chohan of the Seventh Ray represents the Perfect Man to the earth planet. He is the Bridge between the kingdoms of the Angels, the Elementals and his brother man. He is the Bridge between the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth. That is he who, with outstretched arms forms within himself the Maltese Cross of Freedom, the United Kingdoms of Angels, Men and Elementals... the Angels and Elementals making the horizontal or cross arm of the cross and the Masters wielding the Powers of the Sacred Fire united with his own consciousness through his physical body into the earth, making the upright bar.

That is the mature man and the man who understands Religion: 

Oh, that I might convey into your feelings the desire that is within Lord Maitreya for your spiritual awakening which is manifested in the fact that he has ordained that we come and in speaking our Hearts to those who are willing to listen we are endeavoring to convince your feelings of your ability to change conditions through the direction or the power of your own life. 

Worship has begun to mean relaxation of the senses and well can I understand that seeing with the inner eye the desires of the day... how you long for the Peace and Sanctuary of God - away from the thralldom of your own creations I do not condemn, for I love you more than you can ever love yourselves... but I do want you to be what God intended you to be not what you want for yourselves I want you to be free. I want you to be Master... I want you to be that which Saint Germain can use as a living, example of the Free Man... in which the Seven-fold nature, of Religion is embodied... 

Now, be not unduly concerned for every man is strong in one point out of the seven, which is natural, because each of you is one of seven types. Saint Francis of Assisi got his freedom and found his God walking through the fields; Saint Augustine in a cathedral; Saint Paul walking along the dusty road with bitterness in his heart toward the one who was to be his own great Master. It is a wonderful thing that you have even one facet developed - else you would not be interested in this activity - you would be "gamboling in the fields" with the rest of the race At least one of your developed designs of worship is strong enough to have brought you to the feet of the master and the Cosmic Christ. 

Now, I want you to do something for me... I want you to take your soul each day through the Seven Temples one in each Sphere. Discipline that soul. Abide for a time in the Temple, at least until there is a response to your own vibration. If you are proud and stiff-necked and your knee knows not the capacity to bend, kneel at the feet of the great Morya and learn from him the joy of Surrender and to say "Thy will, my God, be done, not mine". 

If you are mentally lazy and prefer to have another design your Religion for you, enter into the Heart of the Temple of Love in the Second Sphere and demand God’s Illumination from within. Leave not that Temple until Understanding - not born of another’s word but your own - makes service a happiness. 

Do you know why men make the practice of religion a duty? Because they are building their faith on someone else’s word. Therefore, the practice of their religion is performed through duty and fear without feeling its truth - but just because some other part of life has said so. 

Oh, when your own Heart Flame has revealed to you the Cause behind the Action, you will serve like the Angels your feelings will be happy and your hearts will sing.... 

Do you find that loving your fellowman is a chore? Then keep your soul centered in the Third Sphere under the great Venetian until you hear the cry in the heart of that fellowman - until you sense his struggle - his hope - his need. Do not leave it, children of my bosom, until you feel that love. This is my own Temple too. 

Do you believe in austerity - in self-denial, rigid surrender of all your senses to the Penitential Doctrine - built into your sweet lives through early living, when the hair shirt and the Vow of Poverty were considered a virtue? Then abide awhile in the Fourth Realm. Observe the garments of the Angels and the beauty of your on Celestial Mother and the Divine Perfection of the Heart of the God-Self not for vanity, mind you, but because the world needs Beauty. 

Suppose that I made all your flowers square - or black or green... with no perfume - conserving on the energy required to put color and scent within the flowers... where would man be? Oh, it is good to pour beauty into the world when the motive is to bring happiness to life. Do you see? 

Then, on your journey into the Fifth Sphere where the great Hilarion and the Goddess of Truth abide - watch the combination of the Rays to make certain powers available! Look at Love mathematically and see how it draws the goodness of life toward itself. Ask the master to show you a vortex of hate and see how it repels money, friends and every good thing - and there confirm your faith by practical witness. 

And the Sixth Temple: Oh, I do not have to urge you to enter here - but I would have you elaborate on the manifold blessings in your individual life... mark them off - one by one... if you can count them. Draw into your feeling world the love of the Master Jesus which permeates this Sphere, and do not leave it until you have felt the Peace that fills the atmosphere of that Holy Realm. 

You are now ready to enter the Seventh and final Sphere and here you may consciously step into the arms of the Sacred Love of the Sacred Fire, asking the Loving Presence within its heart to remove from your four lower bodies every human tendency, raising them by its Divine Alchemy into the Perfection of itself. 

Blessings and Love,

MAHA CHOHAN

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