Volume 8, No. 8                                                                                                        May 24, 1959 

Beloved Ones,

Beloved Lord Himalaya speaks: 

Beloved and blessed ones, I bring to you the Peace and Tranquility of the Orient; I bring to you the Love and the Gratitude of All who have attained Mastery - God Victory and their Ascension from the Heart of the Himalayan Mountains which bear my name and wherein so many of you, age after age, have come to me or to those Gurus from whom your own light and understanding had equipped you to receive instruction. The Fourth Root Race and all of her sub-races are eternally grateful for those of you, who, belonging to subsequent races, who have endured our protracted stay upon the planet, Earth, for which I in person apologize. I have remained, as you know, with the Earth in order that this Fourth Root Race and her sub-races should be redeemed individually and everyone of them ascent again into the Heart and the Glory of their own Divinity. When that is done, I shall be enabled, in honor, to face my Superior upon the Cosmic Ladder of Evolution and assume a new position which shall be a blessing not only to my Root Race and her sub-races but to the Earth who has been overlong a very generous Patroness to our peoples. 

In the Orient, we have known before the present temporary chaos a great Peace. In the exceedingly excessive heights of the Himalayan Range many a man and woman have found surcease from those particular chaotic distresses which are often found in the lowlands. There is scientific confirmation to prove the reason for this elevation of consciousness as there is elevation of the physical vehicle who is qualified to sustain the rarefied atmosphere of the heights. We, the Gods and Goddesses of the Mountains, endeavor always to raise mankind's attention by even the physical appearance of our Mountain Ranges to the heights. We endeavor whenever and wherever possible to draw into our arms and into our God Flames those qualified and earnest chelas who deserve more than ordinary assistance. When we so do, you can be assured that, although we have the strength born of ages of service and of patience, too, we will greet you in reverence with the deepest and sincerest love of our Hearts. 

Some wonder why it is necessary for the chelas to ascend to the Guru and feel that the Guru in sympathy, perhaps, should descend to the chela. Oh, my lovely ones, there is no strength in that; any more than there would be strength in a parent lying down next to a child just learning to walk rather than raising that child and allowing it to stand. That is the service of the true Divine Guru - to raise, balance and make self sufficient the life stream in whom he or she invests energy, time and love. Then, as it was the case in the time of your beloved Ascended Master Jesus, (now world teacher) when your Guru has been re-assigned to a further and more progressive opportunity, the chela has that inner strength and stability to draw on his own God Powers and to accept the assistance of another Divine Being and the chela is not left as were some of Jesus' disciples, and the disciples and followers of Lord Gautama, without too much anchorage in the light themselves. Naturally the worthy chela leans upon his Guru and loves him well, and that is as it should be, for the tie between the Guru and the chela is deeper and more lasting than any tie of flesh and blood, for it goes on throughout century after century, in embodiment, during the periods between embodiments as well. That love never dies, never wavers, but grows ever stronger with each successive blessing and benediction given by the Guru, with each successive manifestation of God Power by the alert, illumined and blessed chela. Those are the things of which our Beloved Ascended Master El Morya wrote when he (as Thomas Moore) said 'the heart that truly loves never forgets but as truly loves on to its close; as the sunflower turns on her God when he sets the same look which she turned when he rose!' Constance of a little flower, called oftentimes a weed, yet following the course of Helios from his rising until his setting, bowing the graceful neck of her long stalk and giving him the same love as he sets, as she gave when the first streaks of dawn pierced the sky.

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