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The Shamballa Letter
VOLUME 14, Number 3 January 17, 1992
My Beloved Ones,
Sometimes you forget to invoke the Teacher. When I speak of "the Teacher", I refer always to the Christ who lives within your heart center. The Christ within can see the pain of the world, but will not be involved and trapped in it. It is the Christ within who opens the pathway of Light to the Presence of God I AM and holds that pathway open for your ascension. This is why the Christ has been called the savior. You must always remember that he lives within your heart, and not somewhere outside of yourself.
You have been told that an Ascended Master, Archangel, Chohan, or other Cosmic Being of Light will never approach you except through the I AM Presence, anchored in the Holy Christ Self within your heart center. That is completely, absolutely and utterly true. There is no other pathway through which enlightenment may flow. All else is fallacy and illusion, and created from the matter of the lower astral planes. Every person eventually discovers this truth, and I can only shorten the time involved for those who will listen to this advice.
Many enjoy the astral planes, mistaking the experiences there as spiritual in content. They are only spiritual in the sense that they eventually prove themselves to be illusions, having been created and sustained by the mind and emotions of humankind. To learn this lesson gracefully and to accept it with joy is one of the biggest steps you will ever take toward your complete Spiritual freedom in the Light.
It may seem strange to hear this, but it is not easy to accept disillusionment with joy. Sometimes the lessons that strip away the illusions seem very painful to experience, but I ask that you think deeply upon this teaching. You cannot proceed without giving up the illusions that have seemed to be your security for so long. Until this job is done, you cannot be free, so it is worth your every effort to let go of all untruths.
In these times you must examine everything for truth. You will learn more about how to do this as we proceed through the coming year, but the first step is to invoke the Teacher of Truth who lives within — always!
Your Friend of Truth,
John, the Beloved