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"There are many pathways unto the same end, unto the same goal. "

For each almost in their own extent of individuality is existent upon another different, entirely and distinctly so level of evolvement, development and progressive soul movement. Aside from this there is a variance in the educative knowledge along the lines of communicative transpirance such as you are experiencing at this moment, and the manifestations and workings of the realms that are higher, and even in the area of the Holy One, Companion unto these that seek it, Holy Spirit as it comes near and nigh.

Along with the variance in these levels, as I have represented and enumerated to you, there is another variance which does hold some merit in its importance, and this is the distinguishing difference between many, even of you, my beloved children, those of my heart and those I have come forth to draw together. For it is in your midst also. This is the distinctive difference between those manifesting their charismatically-given and laden and cloven gifts 1 and those that are not able as of yet to manifest because they themselves created stones of stumbling, stones of blocking and barricades in the path to this manifestation and the goal of this rich and fulfilled blessing.

There is also present and evidenced clearly by the vibratory emanation of several, even of my beloved children, as well as is this also true, yes, and affirmatively, of several novices that are those of the category that can be specified as unsure, shaky, approaching what they see unrealistically in an attitude of their consciously known realism that from this as apropos as it should be but cannot be. They are seeking then to analyze in all essences of analyticality what is transpiring, what has transpired, and what shall transpire in the forthcoming of enumerative details of informative quality.

I am speaking unto those that have come forth into missions. Missions that are divided and categorized themselves as lesser missions, as missions of urgency and importance, and the missions of the highest regard, realm wise, which are the missions that shall be involved with and shall be instrumental in the reshaping of this world that you know of as the Earth, the globing, the peoplings upon the continents that divided in waterways and their mind's contingencies toward the edification in their inner mind's eye of spiritual goal, cause, and/or essence.

For, lo, I have come not unto you, my beloved children, simply to be for edificative value unto your mind, nor unto physical body by presence that you

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might feel in that presence radiation, presence itself verification and healing, but I have come more readily in adversely to the circumstances to gather together the souls of the ancient past that will be instrumental, that will be major important figures and features upon each of the varying degrees and levels of attainment in the new world movement, in the transpirant ray, semigistic change within the cosmic and universal legal system of laws inevitable, and within a transpiration of realm cosmic interplays. For this is a new age. It is a new dawning. It is a time when the old world, the old society, the old man, in reference symbolically to those that adhere unto the precepts, concepts and principles of forunance, ray, society movement in contrast to the new evidentuality of cosmic man. The Atlanteans coming into prevalence which should radiate and bring into evidentiality the new age and the new race of man. This is within a superficial and foundationally laid order of events. For though it will be a new race in consciousness, it shall not be another branch, nor a new branch of a root race, for this comes in a latter day than is this.

"In the past history of the race, a great event occurred which brought into manifestation the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom. We stand now on the verge of a similar but still more momentous event--the appearance of the fifth kingdom, as a result of the planned activity of the New Group of World Servers, working in collaboration with the Hierarchy of perfected souls, and under the guidance of the Christ Himself. This will usher in the New Age wherein five kingdoms in nature will be recognised as existing side by side upon earth. "2

It is within this hour that each can come into the righteousness and blessings of Spirit manifestation simply by opening yourselves and allowing Spirit to move and flow with you. To flow with you along as a Companion, not only the pathways and byways of life, but in the etheric seraphimistically-given songs of the angelic ones that ring about. But the ears of flesh cannot hear these sing nor play. It flows with you and can move your body into great jubilation and great praise. It can come over you, changing you so completely and radically that those that knew you in carnality and the carnal activities associated with mundanity, corporeality and materialism of the earth, would not be able to ensnare, entrap, or even recognize you. It is that as you enter into the flow of this also comes the great blessing that is associated with it which is the peace that passeth the understanding of man but behooves man to acquire, for it inner relates in inner revelatory quality to the soul, thus keeping it peaceful, happy, joyous, jovial in its attempt to transcend physical flesh.

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And it is the same Companion that can flow with you, the same energies here made manifest that can flow with you, that can also be this Companion that brings the joy of service, of manifestation and the peace that passeth understanding. 3 With many other blessings can this be acquired and achieved according to the differing levels.

If you would recall for a moment and allow your attention to be directed back to a statement made earlier in our conversation as I spoke unto you, that roadway or pathway was a keyword that should be taken note of as it was utilized. How does man in his carnal existence, in his physical unawareness, upon the outside skirtings and recesses of consciousness ever come into realization of his pathway, let alone have the opportunity to change his path to one more directly associated with the Divine or to a branch pathway that will allow him the charismatic manifestation as he bides his time progressing daily and evenly towards this Divine center?

It is that man cannot in his natural state of mind, in his natural sense, but in his attuned senses beyond the five ordinary given, man can from within, by knowing of self and striving for manifestation, asking for it intercessively for others and directly for self by prayer, stating that you would serve and that you would be true as were all others that have been given this. Then it shall surely come unto you. And at that time you will find yourself then upon a pathway of lightness and brightness; for behold, I shall be a Light unto your feet.

"4. Gradually the antahkarana is built and in this way the 'greater Light and the lesser light' are consciously related. A path of light and energy is established or created between these two divine aspects. As time goes on, there appears in the egoic group what is technically known as the 'linking light' or the 'bridging radiance.' This is the Path referred to in the Old Testament as 'the path of the just is as a shining light which shineth more and more until the day be with us.' In the esoteric books it is referred to in the following terms: 'Before a man can tread the path, he must become that path himself." 4

It is that a city is built upon a hill, and when it is so built it cannot be hidden from view. And man hides not his candle under a bushel but lifts it high and places it upon a candlestick that all might see in that household. These are the references and symbolically and scripturally given to show man his directional conquest in and towards spirituality. What is the conquest? What is the battle? What is the war? That man in his unaware state of development and evolvement that must struggle to evolve, if at all upon the superficial elements of

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subconsciousness or within the soul only that is not allowed to manifest, these are the contrast. These are the elements of such a man, of such a pathway--disharmony; inability to cooperate with those about, with forces about; inability to attune to the harmony of the cosmic and universal play; unable to know, understand and realize and comprehend and then again return to realize in a different connotation his mission, his purpose and his true reason for incarceration in this life.

"The Path of Discipleship is a difficult one to tread, and the Path of Initiation harder still; an initiate is but a battle-scarred warrior, the victor in many a hard-won fight; he speaks not of his achievements, for he is too busy with the great work in hand; he makes no reference to himself or to all that he has accomplished, save to deprecate the littleness of what has been done. Nevertheless, to the world he is ever a man of large influence, the wielder of spiritual power, the embodier of ideals, the worker for humanity, who unfailingly brings results which succeeding generations will recognise. He is one who, in spite of all this great achievement, is seldom understood by his own generation. He is frequently the butt of men's tongues, and frequently all that he does is misinterpreted; he lays his all--time, money, influence, reputation, and all that the world considers worth while--upon the altar of altruistic service, and frequently offers his life as a final gift, only to find that those whom he has served throw his gift back to him, scorn his renunciation, and label him with unsavory names. But the initiate cares not, for his is the privilege to see some what into the future, and therefore he realises that the force he has generated will in due course of time bring to fulfillment the plan; he knows also that his name and effort are noted in the archives of the Lodge, and that the 'Silent Watcher' over the affairs of men has taken notice. 11

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A man that has been blessed then by the rewards of seeking, finds himself upon a differing pathway as I have described before. One of Light, for, lo, shall I be a Light unto the feet. But man must first be aware of his pathway in order to strengthen that pathway, to know its point not only of demarcation, of demunction, of departation, but also its extended point of termination as to whether it terminates in a goal of Divine approval of Divine reunitation or simply a dead end, alleyway, or even one that sought for the best that they could see. Lo, remember the key is the pathway.

There are many pathways unto the same end, unto the same goal. There are several classes of these pathways. Thus man in his differing and his variant of levels, understanding development and spiritual evolvement into accenting the

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soul quality while incarcerated is one that finds his different from the other faceted degrees of pathway levels. There is first the pathway of the initiate which is the highest pathway.

"After a longer or shorter period of time the disciple stands at the Portal of Initiation. We must remember that as one approaches this portal and draws nearer to the Master it is, as says 'Light on the Path, 'with the feet bathed in the blood of the heart. Each step up is ever one plane or another, and always must this sacrifice be voluntary. He who treads the Probationary Path and the Path of Holiness is he who has counted the cost, whose sense of values has been readjusted, and who therefore judges not as judges the man of the world. He is the man who is attempting to take the 'kingdom by violence, ' and in the attempt is prepared for the consequent suffering. He is the man who counts all things but loss if he may but win the goal, and who, in the struggle for the mastery of the lower self by the higher, is willing to sacrifice even unto death. 11

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Branches upon this pathway are those of discipleship and disciplic entrances into advantageous movement of mission, of call, and of order that govern, mold and reestablish upon the earth the staff of righteousness, articulately shown in word, in action, and in thought. There is another categorization of pathways which is those that are seekers but will not give up their will which is the little will of man that even man is incapable of utilizing to its fullest capacity, let alone mastering it. They refuse to give up this given gift of man's will and call it free will and blow it out of proportion that it does not exist in unto a protective covering for them, and refuse to allow that will to be overshadowed by the Will of the Divine, the Most High God, the Power intrinsic, Supernal, Ever-existent, Ever-cognizant, Omnipotent. The other categorized degree of level of pathway elementation is that of the pathway of stagnation.

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ective, to make him aware of the pairs of opposites and of the necessity to choose between them. Through the light, which he has discovered in himself, he becomes aware of the dark. Through the good which attracts him, he sees the evil which is for him the line of least resistance. Through the activity of pain, he can visualize and become aware of pleasure, and heaven and hell become to him realities. Through the activity of the attractive life of his soul, he realizes the attraction of matter and of form, and is forced to recognize the urge and pull of both of them. He learns to feel himself as 'pendant 'twixt the two great forces', and, once the dualities are grasped, it dawns on him slowly and surely that the deciding factor in the struggle is his divine will, in contradistinction to his selfish will. Thus the dual forces play

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their part until they are seen as two great streams of divine energy, pulling in opposite directions, and he becomes then aware of the two paths, mentioned in our rule. One path leads back into the dreary land of rebirth, and the other leads through the golden gate to the city of free souls. 111

Upon this pathway, man unaware in each and every level of consciousness--physical, mental and spiritual--takes only a few steps in each lifetime that is lived, primarily tarrying in one place, standing still, dormant, stagnating upon his pathway. But one from the lowest level of pathways can by attuning, by seeking, by overcoming adversity, by being willing to be led, be led to any one of the higher two by teachers in flesh, even aside from teachers in spirit, such as am I unto many and to each that learns from these things I present.

But within these we have simply summarized the three-fold pathway of man symbolically representive of three levels of man's seeking. Beginning at the lowest which is nil-seeking, ending at the highest which is diligent seeking to the point of advantageously becoming purged, purified. Love and power is energy exemplified upon earth in the last of our lifetimes lived that the cycle might be broken for you're no longer returning unto the earth but going into a higher sphere. However, of these three levels, there are many pathways each. Far from this point, towards the East, one of the substantiated root race principles and properties are cast into and have been through generation and generation of in-depth personification of ideologies and theologies. They have entered into and have existed in the belief primarily of a seven-fold pathway.

My chelic friend, is it not that many, and you in particular, have run across, time and time again, the mention of the seven-fold pathway? Behold, the seven-fold pathway that they seek to exemplify, they do not exemplify, but rather strive to. It is within their theorem of accomplishment that the seven paths given by an adept, Buddhi, are representative of seven planes or level consciousness existent phases. The first being the lowest, the seventh the highest that can be obtained. Is this not of truth? But each pathway is representative of one of these principles. For, lo, I tell you this that is but elementary for it is the seven pathways that exist in the first categorization of man in his state of nil movement or stagnation running up seven levels to man's becoming a partial seeker.

"The point which I seek to emphasis is that only when the aspirant takes his stand with definiteness upon the mental plane, and keeps his 'focus of awareness' increasingly there, does it become possible for him to make real progress in the work of divine bridge building, the work of invocation, and the

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establishing of a conscious rapport between the Triad, the soul and the personality. The period covered by the conscious building of the antahkarana isthat from the final stages of the Path of Probation to the third initiation.

In considering this process it is necessary, in the early stages, to recognise the three aspects of the mind as they express themselves upon the mental plane and produce the varying states of consciousness upon that plane. It isinteresting here to note that, having reached the developed human stage

(integrated, aspiring, oriented and devoted), the man stands firmly upon the lower levels of that mental plane; he is then faced by the seven subplanes of that plane with their corresponding states of consciousness. He is therefore entering upon a new cycle where--this time equipped with full self-consciousness--he has seven states of mental awareness to develop; these are all innate or inherent in him, and all (when mastered) lead to one or other of the seven major initiations. These seven states of consciousness are--beginning from the first or lowest: mental plane ... buddhic plane ... atmic plane ... monadic plane ... logoic plane ... "s

The higher two levels of pathways contain nine pathways each; nine principal pathways each. With this, also, with upon entrance into the first level of pathways that one spiritually seeking might travel, within the entrance into the second magnitude given important and ostentatious presentation of a simple roadway that runs from left to right and, you must decide which way to walk upon that pathway to the right or to the left, upon the right leads into the light of day, of awareness, of awakening, of advance given advancing steps directed and guided by higher evolved souls of presentation and evolvement and purity. To the left is the pathway of loneliness leading into shadow, eventually into shadings, eventually into darkness. The right is the way of man, if he chooses it, to try to evolve above materiality, corruptness, rubble, mundanity, mediocrity · that the world holds so fascinating in disguised elements to entrap the unaware. Be it the unaware upon the first level of pathway or upon the highest, for all of these pathways are representative of the levels that can be accomplished upon the globing earth within your world.

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roes of that materiality, the harvest reaped through its manifestation. Thus man must choose towards unto the right or unto the left. If he chooses correctly, then he is set upon the lighted nine pathways, if it is in the second or third level of pathway evolvement. Each one of the nine represents one of the nine charismatic manifestations;9 the presence then of the

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Spirit with you. Each one represents the eternally existent eternal; nine in its order of mystique. Each one represents the eternally existent accomplishable upon that level of pathway. And as I have said each man bears a spiritual charismatic gift, at least one if not all. All are possible but few accomplish, utilizing all simultaneously. But should man be able to do so he would have the scope then of nine pathways to walk upon all lighted, blended together making one wide roadway that easily down it could he walk.

Many of you, my beloved children, are above the first phase and/or level of existence of pathways. Many are, and, predominantly this is true, upon the second phase of developing and evolving the presence of the Spirit, the charismatic, there being nine holy, nine important, nine intricately desirous gifts and pathways. Many and most of you have chosen whether to walk to the right or to the left; a few have not. Patiently we wait to see whether man will be foolish or wise. For what has been shown unto you is greater than and cannot be duplicated by the world and all it holds. Thus, we in our state cannot understand why you would lean to and/or walk in that direction towards the world and the world's entrapments. Only several have been fully initiated into the third classification of pathways, for upon the third level there are nine pathways also representative of the essences of the charismatic. Upon any one of these pathways, should man accomplish that level, he manifests then all charismatic gifts, all power in heaven and upon earth because of the strength in his faith, the truth of his conviction, the ability to influence and move masses of people.

A few, a very few of you have recognized and you have heard me call you twice, not call you a name that would be but foolish. I am in reference to the great call. You have heard the call from within, you have felt it, you know it and you heard me give it symbolically. Evidently clear but passed enough in its explanation. But to the obviously unattuned it was over seen. This is the call to discipleship of the highest earth order. Discipleship of the light, manifestation of the light and the light powers with which these disciples work and endeavor to strive to accomplish many great things wrought at their hand and at the hand of the Hierarchy.

"You need to work now more definitely and more confidently as an accepted disciple. What do I mean by that statement? I mean that you should work in the realisation that because of this definite acceptance--you are linked with the H

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erarchy of Masters and, therefore, the quality of the hierarchical service to humanity must also be expressed by and through you. What is this quality? Wisdom, expressing itself intelligently through love. 1110

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Eleven of you that can hear my voice now are away because of one order of things or another. Eleven shall be, as I have specified, chosen for discipleship. One that through which we reach out to you. That through which we live and breathe and have a being and an opportunity to bring the realm of teachings to you is already disciplic unto the higher sphere. Through my leading to that point came he there. Eleven others shall be chosen, many of which are present, several of which are not. Those that are not are those that are indecisive as to take the challenge, as to take the conquest, as to enter the battle. And we are indecisive as to whether they shall be desired. But those that can hear my voice now, if you be in this number, you know of what I am speaking, you have heard the call within, you have felt it and you have heard me give it to you twice before, I give it unto you again, my beloved children, if you be of this degree. Take up your cross and follow, but remember where there is a cross there is pain, there is suffering, there is anguish, there is seeming defeat. You will be deplored by all of those that see you carry this cross. But all of those that see you carry one, carry not one of their own. At a time later shall see you wear a crown and they shall not wear one, many of them shall not. For where there is a cross, there is a crown.

"To those who are standing in the blaze of pain (and their numbers are Legion), of agony, anxiety and distress--seeing it on every hand and attempting to stand steady in the midst of it all--! say: That which appears is not always that which truly is; that which rends and disrupts the personality life is frequently the agent of release, if rightly apprehended; that which will emerge when the Forces of Light have penetrated the world darkness will demonstrate the nature of the undying human spirit. To all of you I say: My love surrounds you and the aura of the Ashram of which I am the centre stands like a great defeating wall around you and around all who are battling for the right. See that you battle. You can then, if you will, sense this loving protection. Each day, ifyou will, you can put yourself en rapport with your Master. We are not blind or uncaring. We know, however, that there are worse evils than death and pain. We know that this is the hour of humanity's greatest opportunity and that if men can pass triumphantly through this and (by the strength of their own souls) surmount this very present evil, then the evolution of humanity will be hastened beyond all that was believed possible. It will constitute a release, self-achieved and self-initiated. This means as much in the life of mankind as it means in the life of the individual disciple. That chance and that opportunity must not be taken from man; the gained spiritual and eternal values are of far greater importance than his temporary agony. 11

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And, lo, unto those that I speak so endearingly, my beloved children, draw nigh unto my voice and unto me for this one moment if never again. Hear these words: Gold which is symbolic of the world and its materiality, gold is a thing. Man calls it precious. Gold is a thing that can drown you just as sure as can a river. A conquest after gold is an idol that must be worshipped and it is made out of silver. 12 Throughout history man has known this and many of the philosophically minded ones have emphasized it. It is by that right of their emphasizing of it that you come into the enterprisingly wrought words of idols with clay feet which were truly teraphim. Small objects carried in the ancient days, personal gods, family gods, household gods, many of them gold particularly in the early days.

Man would go into camps of others and steal, rape, burn and kill and abandon and leave behind, taking the gold and melting it down as homage and making their idols, their teraphim from this. 13 Joseph and in his time, he recognized teraphim. There is a figure within your scriptural history who was overwrought with grief when the teraphim was not where it was supposed to be; when it was not packed in a moving situation; and made a comment to that effect as who had taken it for it must be returned.

The golden cup placed in a bag of grain in the parabolicly given paralleling, symbolically, revelated stories, historically based in a man's conquest. The golden cup placed in a bag of grain to cause one to be recognized. 14 He that wore many colors as his coat.is Causing one and another to be brought near and nigh, was even a teraphim, in a way, for others utilized as the shape of plenty as now is given in symbol, the horn of plenty. They utilized not a horn in that day but a cup that ran over, and the idol became a gold cup filled to the brim with wine and overflowed. This was their sacrament. This was their protection. This was their assuredness of having bounty and being fruitful and having their life run over with the blessings.

And remember ye this my children that seek discipleship and that have heard me call thrice.

Forever, forever, in a day forthcoming

Shall you wear a bright and shining crown.

Far away over yonder,

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After you lay your heavy burden down.

In the home and in the haven,

Haven's bells shall sweetly chime.

Over there in the homeland fair and sunny and

Forever shall you wear a bright and shining crown.

Over there in the homeland

When you lay life and its heavy burdens down.

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'Pain is that upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the Feet of the Logos; pain is the following of the line of the greatest resistance and thereby reaching the summit of the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form and reaching of the inner fire; pain is the cold of isolation which leads to the warmth of the central sun; pain is the burning in the furnace in order finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into the far country, resulting in the welcome to the Father's Home; pain is the illusion of the Father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the Father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the building of the Temple. "16

A crown you shall wear is one of your accomplishments. For there is like unto, symbolically, a star given for each overcoming of an obstacle. And there is another coloration placed there to bedeck it in beauty, one of which is placed symbolically for each gift of the highest order you manifested. And the brightest gem of all that is wrought into these crowns is the gem that serves as an honorary medallion, as to whether or not you accomplish and fulfill your mission to the highest degree.

When I speak of these things, my beloved children, that I am not in reference to, and, my beloved ones, that have come forth this eve in some state of novicism, I am not speaking in reality of, man knows real existent so called objects, but in deep symbols, symbols of the mind, symbols of the soul and symbols of your world; thus, I teach three lessons with each symbol to three different ones according to their level of acceptance of it. This is the reason I seem to be rambling, and this is the reason I seem to be speaking of things that have no concrete value nor importance and would give to the average no

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gratification, but unto those that hear me speak, they shall be gratified and blessed.

And I can see the soul within the select few that have heard me call them into not the ministry, not the movement, not only the mission but into cosmically given, universally alighted, progressive pathways that shall wrap around this globe and shall change its composition as we change, and as others change and as man changes. As man enters into negativity as the earth polarities at the north and the south polarization are magnetized and demagnetized, as it turns and wheels upon its axis, then the earth's continents, the world as you know it, shall shift, shall change; its face shall be anew through your ministries, through your missions ye three, ye two or ye one that I am speaking to.

Though it be given unto you that through your determination is gathered together all of the great words to be placed in station points that the world might not lose its spiritual, educative institutions. The institutions being people and being outright systems of theologically given mastery supposingly. For the world will be changed which is physical, symbolically. The minds of men in the latter days are in the rebuilding, reseeding process. When it begins the mind shall be fed, shall be sufficed long after all gathered here are gone, by the words that are left, the articles that are left, the temple that is left. Alexandria that shall stand the test of time, and when she is left, abandoned by all that shall first walk in her, thus standing fundamental.

Through the Divine, the given ideal works, wrought at the hand of the Omnipotent, the Hierarchy has been given then power and the authority, as it is always, to direct rays, to govern missions and orders, and also to work with those who choose the highest calibred order of discipleship, to work with them as they travel upon the earth in a body. It is the two in combination, as the Hierarchy, as the Spirit comes in and moves upon you and as you testify unto its truth, its revelation unto the others. This when the spirit of the others about you is blessed, multiplied, representative of the level of consciousness called spiritual; thus, you have physical, mental and spiritual.

"One interesting fact emerges out of all this comparative work and this mode of analogical teaching, and that is that the word 'spiritual' refers neither to religious matters (so-called) not to the Path of Discipleship or the Path of the major or higher initiations, but to the relationships on every level of the cosmic physical plane, to every level from the lowest to the highest. The word 'spiritual' relates to attitudes, to relationships, to the moving forward from one level of consciousness (no matter how low or gross, from the point of view of a higher level of contact) to the next; it is related to the power to see the vision, even if

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that vision is materialistic as seen from the angle of a higher registration of possibility; the word 'spiritual' refers to every effect of the evolutionary process as it drives man forward from one range of sensitivity and of responsiveness to impression to another; it relates to the expansion of the consciousness, so that the unfoldment of the organs of sensory perception in primitive man or in the awakening infant are just as surely spiritual events as participation in an initiatory process; the development of the so-called irreligious man into a soundand effective businessman, with all the necessary perception and equipment forsuccess, is as much a spiritual unfoldment--in that individual's experience--asthe taking of an initiation by a disciple in an Ashram ...

The discoveries of science, my brother, or the production of some great work in literature or in the field of art, are just as much an evidence of 'spiritual' unfoldment as the rhapsodies of the mystic or the registration by the so-called occultist of a contact with the Hierarchy. "17

As I have said, I have called you thrice if you are to be disciples. Already have I called you thrice and you realized this. Those that I am speaking to, why have I called you thrice? Because you are to exist, to work, to manifest of a higher order in a polarity not attuned unto the old race but in a polarity attuned to new cosmic man and his race, which is of a distinctly opposite radiation, polarity of magnetism that was used in the effects of the ministry of perfection, the ministry of lessons intrinsic, the ministry of symbolism given unto the world through the works wrought in the existent phase of thirty-three measured in approximation years that were lived and that were compatible to evolution in that living, by Sananda18 and the disciplic one, such as I, that walked beside him. The effect is to work oppositely because the polarity is to be opposite.

However, the ends justifying the means, which ordinarily is not a truism, shall lead you into awareness eventually that the good propagated by the Master Teachers--Sananda, Buddha, Guatama Buddha, that of Mahomet, that even of the lesser teachers--shall not perish, will not be asked to perish, only to enter a phase of transition. And you will find that your works, though they be wrought at an angle different, though they be motivated in a different polarity pole of magnetism, shall parallel the effect and outcome as did the other Masters' missions, but with greater rapidity, not ·with twenty-four hundred years of waiting, not with so much pain, with little or no bloodshed in martyrdom. The only change that shall come into being is the change within your life that shall

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be obviously noticeable unto each. This noticeability will lead, my children,

until we all cease to exist upon this earth.

"Some of the great names during the later periods are known to history, such as Shri Sankaracharya, Vyasa, Mahommet, Jesus of Nazareth, and Krishna, down to those lesser initiates, Paul of Tarsus, Luther, and certain of the outstanding lights in European history. Always have these men and women been agents for the carrying out of race purpose, for the bringing about of group conditions, and for the furthering of the evolution of humanity. Sometimes they have appeared as beneficient forces, bringing peace and contentment with them. More often have they come as agents of destruction, breaking up the old forms of religion and of government in order that the life within the rapidly crystalising form might be set free and build for itself a newer and a better vehicle. 11

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"You will note that, as you look back over the spiritual history of the race of men during the past two thousand years (which is far enough for our purpose), that the following methods have been consecutively used to reach men's minds spiritually:

1. The method of raising the consciousness of an individual so that hebecame a Knower. Individual salvation and the emergence of outstanding individuals with spiritual sense, vision and achievement to their credit has characterised the mystical history of the past. Some of these people emerged along the way of the heart, the mystical way; such were Shri Krishna, St. Francis of Assisi, and all those Knowers whose way was the Way of Love. To these can be added Milarepa of Tibet and Lao Tze of China. Such also have been many of the saints of the church in the West. 'The Bhagavad Gita' has been the book which has embodied this way superlatively.

Others emerged along the way of the mind and were the intellectual Knowers. Theirs is the more strictly occult way and it has become increasingly the way of our present day aspirants. The reason for this is that the polarisation of the race is shifting ever more steadily on to the mental plane. Some of the individuals on this way of the mind were Sankaracharya, the Apostle Paul, and Meister Eckhart. Today, many are coming out along this way under the name of science. There were also those outstanding individuals, such as the Christ and the Buddha, Who combined both ways in their perfection and Who towered above Their fellowmen from the heights of Their achievement. They swayed hemispheres and centuries, whereas the lesser sons of God swayed countries, specific types of mind and lesser periods of time. 1120

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And the words that are left shall lead other generations. The words that are left in the true voice, ring, or in the writing by transcriptional nature, or within the volumes called books, or upon a taping device, these shall be unto many their roadway and to many their salvation. For nothing is salvation unto you and no one is salvation, and no teacher is salvation personified but each teacher personified the C

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ristos, being the Christ Principle of cosmic intervention, simply living that life in that state of achievement to show man through all generations that this is the way, the truth and the light through behoovement, through adoration, a mutual then exchange--behoovement and adoration.

Between you and the Divine Force, through the intervention of the Holy Spirit in the Christos, in consciousness and enwrapment that can enfold, those that reach the correct level and seek to ever move in Spirit, ever seeking to accomplish more and more, and that will walk to the right upon the pathway and not to the left.

Why, once again returning, have I chosen to call these disciples three times instead of one? It is two fold in nature. Firstly, even, my beloved children, so adored, so blessed abundantly, so verified, shown so many things that cannot be wrought of man, that know Spirit is present and can feel it, that have been proven over and over unto the articulateness know the accuracy, know reality, know the truth, know but all of these things at once simultaneously. But the first reason is because even as they have been given this, I could say even unto the highest of the evolved ones here, come forth hither unto me. Be as the rose; it toils not but is supplied and sufficed.

Come unto me and take up a cross. Through the words that have given you guidance to this point, by faith allowed them to guide you until you need no one to guide you. And they would sit idlely by, unassured within themselves of what to do, of how to do it. And if they were possibly one of these, they would analyze it analytically in their own minds and decide, yes, they are and in the next moment, no, I could not possibly be. It is a return in a short cycle to that transpired when I spoke unto you long ago saying: there shall be and then, there are nine chosen ones. The same, are we of more importance, is this recyclement not unto me, not unto you, truly, but unto the world as a whole? Behold it is so.

The second reason for calling you thrice is because when the polarity of the mission and its way, its mode of being accomplished is reversed from that that was experienced by Sananda and the disciplic beings such as I in the long ago, then the opposite must come into being to have its effect. Cause and effect is your physical presentation of law and of order. Yours that that you have created

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as man, as science, as technology, as even scientifically attempted technological maneuverances, and you call it physics, cause and effect is the general primary, most primeval, most mandatory of accepted facts. This is also true to an extent upon a higher level, upon a higher representation of broader scope in the mission of you, my beloved children, I and those of disciplic nature that shall begin the growth that shall change more than you ever know and come into change.

"What has really been happening, therefore, in the lives of individuals, in the lives of nations and in the life of humanity? A tremendous move to put right most ancient evil, to offset consciously the Law of Cause and Effect by a recognition of the causes in the personal, national and international worlds which have produced the effects under which humanity today suffers.

The Law of Karma is today a great and incontrovertible fact in the consciousness of humanity everywhere. They may not call it by that name, but they are well aware that in all today's events the nations are reaping what they

sowed. This great law--at one time a theory--is now a proven fact and a recognised factor in human thinking. The question 'Why?' so frequently asked brings in the factor of cause and effect with constant inevitability. The concepts of heredity and of environment are efforts to explain existing human conditions; qualities, racial characteristics, national temperaments and ideals prove the fact of some initiating world of causes. Historical conditions, the relationships between nations, social taboos, religious convictions and tendencies can all be traced to originating causes--some of them most ancient. Everything that is happening in the world today and which is so potently affecting humanity--things of beauty and of horror, modes of living and civilisation and culture, prejudices and likings, scientific attainment and artistic expression and the many ways in which humanity throughout the planet colours existence--are aspects of effects, initiated somewhere, on some level at some time, by human beings, both individually and en masse.

Karma is therefore that which Man--the Heavenly Man in whom we live, humanity as a whole, mankind in groups as nations, and individual man--has instituted, carried forward, endorsed, omitted to do or has done right through the ages until the present moment. Today, the harvest is rip and mankind is reaping what it has sown, preparatory to a

fresh ploughing in the springtime of

the New Age, with a fresh sowing of the seed which will (let us pray and hope) produce a better harvest. 1121

One hundred and forty-four thousand shall be touched, but more for each of those cannot go through life without touching several others with the beautiful

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message of light, of love, and of happiness, for there shall be many, many more. The cause of the polarity reversed, then we are working in cause and effect again principally. For in the life of the Master Sananda, in the time when He truly began taking preparatory steps for absolution in His mission thereby deriving the title, "Incarnate Christos," in the last moment having triumphed over laws, physical and spiritual, by utilizing the power and glory and the honor then shed in that moment.

When He first started taking the preparatory steps that would lead Him to this point upon a mount which was not truly a mount but a mound that once had been a dust bowl, but as the sand shifted became a mound of a sort solidified to a degree with many varieties of cacti growing, but not too many in number, rocks in a strange shape like unto the cranium of a man's physical body, called by the locals, the place of the skull for it looked like unto it, not in every respect but similar in a few, the gaping holes that could be seen and viewed from a distance, and the higher educated ones that had broadened their horizons even though their position might have been simply in the guards of, not the Caesar, but of a governor, not even the highest, which would have been the royal ones' guardsmen but only rather those of a governor of a sectarian divided, known as we called them in ancient Egypt.

These men and a few others slightly more highly educated called it Calvary, Golgotha.22 At any rate as the Master Teacher, Sananda, took the early steps to bring Him to that point, the early steps were not simply the miracles, were not simply His difficulties with the Pharisees, nor His difficulty with the governing body as a whole, or any other individual sectarily oriented group of people, and either manifesting for, on, showing the or teaching them a new doctrine. The first steps were truly steps taken outside, down into, and then finally out of, across the balcony and down a few more short steps of physical existence, real steps as you would call them, during which time He underwent more than most can exist having undergone without transition and, during that same time, that He walked in before He walked out. He that was to be the rock of steadiness, He that was to be the exemplification not only that of adoration but of piousness and of revelation and of fiery fury.

Peter denied Him twice, and as he walked out, down the last few steps on the way to his goal, Peter denied him again. And as he did, though tired, though weary, though weak, though worn, though wounded in spirit, in mind and in body, Sananda turned and looked into his face (Peter's) saying with His eyes 11as was prophesied, Peter; as was prophesied, Petrach; as was prophesied, Petre. 1123

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And what was Peter's denial? His identity, his knowledge of this man? "No!" ''No!" "Nol" Because we are working then in the reversal of the cycle, I call three times and those that answer the call in their heart, in their action, as they draw nigh unto their mission, are to say and will possibly have, "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" The cycle then completed with the great work forthcoming.

Man, where standeth ye in this hour in knowledge or interest? I shall not tolerate among my close ones and among my family hypocrisy. If you cannot exist and be as you truly are, at all times, at all moments, at all hours and all moments of every day, then who are you anyway in reality? It is hypocrisy for you to come nigh unto me seeking help, guidance, dealing or showing of the gifts that I manifest unto you, the abilities. It is hypocrisy to come forth seeking these, asking that you have them, giving the appearance that you have them or striving to manifest them and doing so subconsciously by fabrication rather than in truth simply because it is what you want others to see. It is hypocrisy to come forth and sit or stand near and nigh the power that is given into this chamber if you are entrapped, enslaved by the world's rubble, medioc rity, turmoil, fast-paced of ill-necessity, not withstanding nor forgetting materiality.

Do not come forth to be a hypocrite and appear pious, in a way it is that you wrought the works of the lenders of money in the temple. 24 You are as cunning as the scribes and their accomplices, the Pharisees, and as wise and as witty in the way of being cunning in your negativity; thus, hypocrisy shall not be had, and it shall be that in this pious state that many acquire and attune unto and have posed about them. If you do so, it best be true and not a facade for, lo, you fool very few, thus you draw to you many, many calamities; more than you can conceive of that are intended to break down this facade to bring truth out. And if you have been given the call and, if you refuse, not only shall ye not be called again, but, lo, beloved ones, you then shall walk out and sooner or later and, it shall not be much later, eventually see that you have entered your own system of demise.

And you shall cry out, "Why persecutest thou me?2s I, of most men. Why?" And you shall say over and over within you as your nights of sleep are troubled, as your thoughts will be troubled and muddled as you shall find great difficulties that could have been great blessings, you shall say again and again, "I of all men am most miserable." For you shall create, if you are not careful and in complete control of your own demise, your own hell, not a burning hell which is nil

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existent, but rather the hell of anguish which is within the mind and burns eternal as mental anguish can burn and sear one troubled.

Come unto me, ye troubled. Lo, I allow you to go away less troubled. Not that I am anything, but that you are important. Not that I am anything, but I am trying in this age to show you the love--intrinsically deep manifested teachings as example of a master teaching of Sananda in discipleship and in mission, and in area in love which is all things and must be sought upon each and every roadway, each and every pathway, and each and every level of pathways given upon each of the seven pathways in the first level, each of the nine in the second, each of the nine in the third. Then to reunite you eventually through six other planings of sphere to the Divine Force Itself. How many times, my children, have I denied you anything of importance once? Then say to yourselves, how many times have I denied others things of importance? Finalize your thought upon pathways by: "What have I denied the teacher that called me and I would not answer, but chose to walk away to worldly pleasures as my pathway?"

And I leave you with these soft delicate words, my beloved ones. Lovest thou me in the mission and the Most High more than the pleasures of the world in the state that it is in? Lovest thou me and that that I have given unto you to guide you forth in body? Lovest you He and myself more than the pleasures that will fade in time and you never can win? Lovest thou enough that thou, my children, for to allow the world to make you a slave? Then you are a slave that soon finds that he cannot even reason. And the things of earth, the world, and materiality can offer, can last and abide with you only for a short, short season. 26

Lovest thou enough to pick up a cross? Lovest thou enough to pick one up knowing that I carry one also much larger than any that you can pick up in the position that I hold in the Hierarch's movement. Can you take it up and follow your inner guidance and the still small voice that called and knocketh at the door to those that are ready to seek, to see, know and be?21 Lovest thou enough for this?

If not re-evaluate yourself and find out for your own knowledge, your own faith what level you do love upon, what league you are really in, that you might not overstep your limitations. And as is colloquialism in your language, ( and start playing rough with the bigger boys) which is symbolic of any who picks up their cross, their mission and carries it through, carries it through in reality, purpose and principle, and carries it through symbolically the street from the

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first step taken in this direction to the end, in attainment of the greatest goal that can be had. 28

Loveth thou enough to know your own pathway?*

* From Tapa's July 21st 1972 dissertation.

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