Thomas Printz’ Private Bulletin

A weekly Release of Esoteric Teachings

Volume 18, No. 20                                                                                         August 17, 1969

Beloved Chelas: 

Continuing with excerpts from the addresses given at the Summer Conference of the Spiritual Hierarchy, heed the loving counsel of… 

Beloved Serapis Bey 

"Further on the power of the attention, I would like to impress upon the chelas the fact that it is not judicious to go into prolonged periods of meditation and permit the mind to go off into 'flights of fancy'. We do not have to go into detail to tell you what would happen to a man who did nothing but eat all the time - his digestive organs could not handle the excessive intake, and he would not only become obese but, ignoring the other instruments of functioning in the world of form, he would become unbalanced and no longer continue to serve as a useful citizen! 

0 children of the Light, heed the loving and wise counsel which our great Lord of the World Gautama has so often given. He attained such an accelerated Consciousness while still walking the ways of this Earth, through the Middle Way of Balance! Permit that great tool, the power of your attention, to blend with the Christ Presence within and you will find that in 15 minute periods of meditation you can receive greater benefit and advancement upon the path than if you had lapsed into what you consider deep meditation and a lethargic condition developed, where in an unguarded moment you could become the prey of the sinister force. 

Please listen attentively when I tell you, with true conviction, that I have recently seen some very sincere chelas entrapped by the practice of prolonged meditation - communications from them to headquarters of The Bridge to Freedom has proven the 'web' with which certain chelas were enmeshing themselves. At my personal direction, these letters were consigned to the Fire Element so that the substance in them could not continue to release its negative vibration and, through the Mercy of the Fire Element, was returned to the Universal for repolarization. 

"I AM" not just relating something that could happen - it has taken place in several instances, and the chelas will never know until they are free in the Light, the compassionate service which was given them by the Cosmic Law through the activity of transmutation! I counsel you to be very careful and to realize that contemplation and meditation, while similar, have a very fine line of demarcation!"

Love and Blessings,

THE MAHA CHOHAN