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The Shamballa Letter

 VOLUME III, Number 39                                                                                                          September 29, 1981 

Beloved Paul, The Maha Chohan

As you are mentally aware, the next step above the human through which every lifestream must pass is the Christ Self – or first rung of Ascended Master Consciousness. Your thinking and feeling worlds must make conscious endeavor to raise, and sustain, the thought and feeling processes of the personality at a rate of vibration which is that of Christhood. 

While the Christ Self remains a being apart from the personal self, the human self still remains more or less attached to the mass mind which is functioning in the outer mind of the personality. The chela intermittently goes into the Christ Consciousness and experiences an uplift, an ecstasy and an exhilaration of consciousness during periods of devotion and contemplation, but he has not maintained the sustained effort to function there constantly. 

If the chela would contemplate the Christ Self as the Gateway through which the personal self must pass into the Ascended Master Octave and then daily try again and again to control the thought and feeling processes as the Christ Self would, he would find a closer and closer connection between the two, until it would be as easy to function and remain in that sustained state of Freedom as it is now to function from the outer self. 

To BECOME the Christ is the goal of every unascended being and from that Christ Estate one passes easily into the Ascended Master Octave where Eternal Freedom expresses. 

To engage in a companionship with this Higher Self, inviting it again, again and again to serve and flow through you is one way to assure yourself of a tremendous Peace, Balance, Strength and Poise which will engender the Qualities of Christhood which you have so long sought and so sincerely loved, all through the ages. 

As I continue to hold the Immaculate Concept for you, I counsel you to do so not only individually but for all mankind. 

The Maha Chohan