Beloved Children:

It is my pleasure to offer you this week for your encouragement and instruction part of an address delivered by our Beloved El Morya on the evening of the Transmission Flame Ceremony at the Beloved Himalaya's Retreat, February 18th, 1956.

Love and Blessings,

Beloved Friends: 

Tonight we acknowledge the great Himalaya. He is known by many names, but to you as Himalaya, the great Manu of the Fourth Root Race, many members of which still walk the Earth. Tonight we have the great honor of visiting his Retreat, the Blue Lotus, high up in the white Himalayas. 

I wonder if you have given a thought to the thousands of pilgrims who, even as I speak, are toiling up the sides of these mountains from the hot plains of India, from China and the Malaya Peninsula - all searching for this Focus of Peace - many of them with rags wound around their feet in lieu of proper footwear and clothed in the light garments of the low countries which are inadequate to keep out the bitter cold of the heights. They have been toiling toward this Focus for many weeks and some for months, searching among the passes and crevasses for that which their hearts told them was an answer to their secret calls for light and truth. This cosmic search, even as carried on before the Wesak Festival each year, could be pathetic if one did not see with the inner eye that in the search itself there was power built into the Causal Bodies, strengths built emotionally, concentration built mentally and stamina built physically, so that those who seek and do not find in one life, by the very fact of their pilgrimage and search, will surely find it in another, because the law is unerring. 

Yet, through a dispensation of the Cosmic Law, beloved ones, you have not had to sail in a boat to India or fly by plane to the foot of the great Himalayas. You have not had to invest either money, energy or time in coming to the heart of this Retreat, but rather you have been given through the freedom of consciousness access to a Holy Place, so holy that only Beings like the Lord Buddha, Ananda, Lord Maitreya and Kuthumi have entered here up until these recent years. 

In this Retreat parchments of the writings of all the ancient sages are preserved and carefully guarded and will be released to the East and to the West only when greed, selfishness and separateness among the peoples of the Earth are no more. Think you what would happen to these priceless treasures if they were released prematurely? Those with the means would seize upon them and they would become but relics for the proud! They are retained here within the heart of the Himalayas waiting for the day when they will be an appreciated gift to the people of the future... The people of today could not take the time to read or understand them, so busy are they in the search for food, for raiment and for pleasure, spiritual wealth being to them, even as to the rich, of very little value. 

Tonight, in your beautiful forcefields, you come with me to the foot of the great Himalayas where we shall stop and gaze for a moment at those magnificent spires that look like gigantic fingers pointing heavenward, calling man's attention to God. 

As we ascend to the Retreat and see the great wall roll back before our eyes, we catch a glimpse of the Beloved Himalaya where he stands in the inner Sanctuary graciously greeting his many guests with a beneficent smile and a silent inclination of the head. He has many illustrious guests this evening among whom is the returning Sanat Kumara; also the Lord Gautama - new Lord of the World; the Lord Maha Chohan and Lord Maitreya, as well as distinguished visitors from other stars and planets. 

Let us stand for a moment and silently acknowledge the Presence of this great Lord of Peace! His beautiful form is clothed tonight in a magnificent golden robe with the words "Om Mani Padmi Hum" encrusted in Chinese blue around the hem; his lovely, slender hands folded one over the other within the long sleeves. Like Kwan Yin, the only indication of his Chinese background is in the high cheek bones. His skin is light and clear, radiating the inner light and his beautiful eyes are large and luminous. He truly is a Master of Peace and Tranquility. 

We turn now and enter the outer chamber, in the center of which is a magnificent blue lotus afloat within a pool of electronic light - the magic, mystic Lotus Flower that has within itself the power to connect with the Jewel in the heart of your own Lotus Flame, or the Three-Fold Flame of Life within your heart and confer upon each one of you tonight the privilege of having one special desire fulfilled. As we have remarked before, the desires we entertain in the valley are not the ones we hold upon the heights. 

As we silently contemplate this exquisite Blue Lotus Flower and absorb the radiation of peace from our gracious host, I ask you to prayerfully commune with your own inner Presence and sincerely ask that the petition you make be as selfless and, for the sake of the humanity of Earth, as world engulfing as possible. 

As we stand thus meditating upon our secret desires, the Beloved Himalaya, who has approached silently, beckons us to bend over and kiss the petals of the Lotus Flower. We do so and the fragrance of it fills our nostrils and flows through our whole beings, filling us with a celestial peace. You may return in consciousness to this moment as often as you like, beloved ones, and feel the radiation of the Blue Lotus flow into your physical forms as well. 

Now, we can hear the voices of the successful pilgrims as they arrive, chanting their "Om Mani Padmi Hum". They, however do not enter the sacred precincts of the Sanctuary, but have set up their yak skin tents all around in the snow. Yet you, beloved ones, are within this hallowed place. Your feet rest upon the spot where the blessed feet of the Lord Buddha, Ananda, Lord Maitreya and Kuthumi have stood... Once, in the long ago, these Beings also had a desire that they wished to have fulfilled and they, too, bent and kissed the Lotus Flower after which they received a deeper instruction in the Law, even as it is in our experience today. 

Owing to the larger number of lifestreams who are drawn to these Retreats, they have all been enlarged and this Sanctuary is no exception. This year the central focus is in the shape of a great pyramid with the Blue Lotus Flame blazing on top. The seats are arranged amphitheatre fashion around the base, the more advanced Beings on the higher seats, the lesser ones lower down toward the base; the chelas taking their seats according to their individual development and it is interesting to note that all do not sit on the same level. However, beloved ones, (and this is amazing) you are all within the golden curtain and in the company of the tremendous Beings of light who have come to pay homage to the Blue Lotus Flame. 

(Beloved Morya's address will be continued in future Bulletins.)