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Volume 10, No. 16                                                                                                 July 16, 1961

Dear Friends of Light: 

Today I will talk to you about the vast difference there is between knowledge and Illumination, or true understanding. Knowledge has been used through the ages by individuals who have through training and discipline received certain powers which they used for selfish ends. That knowledge (because it works or absolute Law) became for them a means to control multitudes of people in fear and distress and to build for themselves spiritual as well as material empires. 

There was in that knowledge more of a mental accretion of fact than of true Illumination, which latter, within its very self, motivates the individual who receives that Illumination to use it always in Divine Love for the Blessing of God, the Ascended Host, the mankind of Earth and the Elemental Kingdom. 

You may easily trace in the pattern of history, as far back as written records go, those who accumulated knowledge but had little Illumination as to what their talents and powers could do to lighten the burden of the race or hasten its evolution thus making easier the Pathway Home for those embodying upon the Earth. 

We now come again to a day when we are rendering a dual service - we are bringing the knowledge through, knowledge that is being recorded and which your human minds ofttimes cannot fully grasp, but these records to be given at a later date to incoming lifestreams who are prepared to use it well. Aside from that knowledge we are endeavoring to bring you the Flame of Illumination and understanding so that the little bit of the Law you truly understand becomes an externalization of the Grace of the Holy Spirit and the expression of your Causal Body in, through and around your human form. 

Beloved ones please feel the Flame of Illumination glow in your heart, your feeling world and your brain consciousness. This will give you an understanding of that you have been studying, and an applicable, workable Law, rather than just dry, bare facts. You can measure yourself in your studies without the need of an outside mentor by what Greater Truth presented to you does! Be ever alert so that it does not build spiritual arrogance or a separation from your fellowman in self-righteousness. Instead it should create a greater humility and make you more efficient in your service to your fellowman. Knowledge without Illumination becomes more dangerous than not knowing the Law at all. If this knowledge builds in you a greater realization of your capacity to serve Life, a greater desire to make calls for the peoples of Earth now, when fear and uncertainty fill the minds and hearts of the masses (which causes such tremendous pressures of energy to rise into the atmosphere) then your knowledge is being used for a good purpose - it is ILLUMINED from within by the motivating power of Pure Divine Love. 

It is wise to call the Illumination Flame (particularly active during this period - July 15 to August 14, 1961 when the Retreat of the Beloved God and Goddess Meru is open to the chelas and all mankind for their blessing and service to the planet), so that you may discern between fact and fancy. When the souls of the laggards came from other Planets to Earth, they came not in great conveyances, but through the gates of birth, and individuals who came upon this Planet from other Stars and Systems (some of you have so come) did not arrive in chariots of fire, you came gently or otherwise through the gates of birth. Nature's Laws are always practical! The rising of your Sun, the rise and fall of the tide, birth and death, all follow a course and a rhythm and they are not disturbed by the fancy of the outer mind. 

I bless you, dear hearts, with the Flame of Illumination and pour forth my gratitude to you for your sustained effort in raising the vibratory action of yourselves and the mass of mankind.

Love and Blessings,

THE MAHA CHOHAN