The Gnosis & the Law

Note 1

In the following, the Maha Chohan gives us some valuable information as to the response an Ascended Master gives to whomever decrees, calls or thinks of Him.("Bulletin", August 21, 1955)

"---When an individual thinks of an Ascended Master, the light ray (which, is his thought) proceeds immediately to the heart Centre of that Master's Presence with the same degree of accuracy that a telegraphic beam is directed from the wires to a distant city or a boat in mid-ocean---From the heart of the aspirant there flows forth a steady stream of electrons without number and these form a beam or current which connects the thinker with the Master's Heart and so provides a natural current over which the Master's assistance and radiation ride back into the life, the experience and the consciousness of the student. Thus, often, in times of stress or strain, when one has not the time to phrase a specified request or requirement, the chela, by directing his attention to the Master, can set up this connection with just a simple prayer or invocation, and the Master's Light will return on that current of energy to give the protection, the illumination or the radiation required.

If the student could realize how instantaneous is the connection established with the Master by his call and the return of protection offered, he would truly know that the statement of the Beloved Jesus - "Lo, "I AM" with you always" was more than a mere paraphrase of the words "I AM".

Once an individual, unascended, has the privilege of becoming cognizant of any group of Perfected Beings, the Angelic Host or the Spiritual Hierarchy, he is never alone again, because he knows that every time he requires definite guidance or assistance, the response to his call will bring immediate help and the Master's radiation will flow into his life and out through him into the condition requiring assistance (if he is making the call on behalf of someone else)---

Many people have felt the instantaneous release of light by the use of just the Name of Jesus and the ancient members of the human race were in constant communication with Sanat Kumara through the reverent repetition of that august Title---."
In another of His Letters, the Maha Chohan adds:("Bulletin", June 28, 1964)

"---The reason why you seem bent on some God externalization at this moment is due to the fact that the pupil and the Ascended Master are always tied by invisible cords of consciousness, and the Initiations which We take in order to make Us of greater Cosmic Service require that you take a similar Initiation that you may rise with Us.

You have a balloon, for example, with string and a weight attached below. If the balloon is to rise, the weight must rise and cooperate with it. Your manifestation will determine how high We can go, because Our voluntary connection with you binds Us by certain invisible cords, and the height of Our achievement is determined by the cooperation of your own inner consciousness---."

Note 2

The question is often asked, if the Ascended Masters Who forsook "Nirvana" for the sake of humanity, are rewarded for it, through an expanded consciousness. The Maha Chohan, in the following, gives the answer.("Bulletin", May 10, 1959)

"---Those Members of the Spiritual Hierarchy Who have chosen voluntarily to remain in touch with the Earth and the evolution of her people expand a thousand-fold in Cosmic evolution in comparison with Those Divine Beings Who enter Nirvana and do not have the constant demands of the human race which require Them to make greater application in developing evolutionary power so that They can fill the respective requirements of the Cosmic Hour. So, also, the unascended individual who takes the responsibility of the care, guidance and protection of other human beings, such as a parent, guardian, or teacher of a member of the human race, in his consecrated service evolves more rapidly than the one who proceeds through life with only his own individual vehicles to account for---."

Note 3

At the end of this chapter, above, we present an address given by Alpha to the students in 1961.

Note 4

The question is often asked as to whether the Masters, besides contemplation, have places of worship in the Higher Octave and do They attend Divine Service. In the following, the Maha Chohan gives the answer.("Bulletin", Vol. 3, #3, April 18, 1954)

"---The Masters do have beautiful places of worship and exquisite Cosmic services dedicated to the adoration of the One Great and Good God. The church worship of the people of Earth is but a pale reflection of the glorious united devotion of the Celestial Host and of the Perfected Beings Who dwell in interstellar space.

The Ascended Beings, the Angelic Host, which includes the Cherubic and Seraphic Kingdoms, have all become perfect expressions of God by reason of Their love for God; Their devotion to God's service and Their constant outpouring of attention and energy toward the beneficent Source of All Good. Would it not, therefore, be strange if such embodied expressions of holiness and truth did not join together in adoration to the Spirit of all Life?---Rather be it said that the Earth worship reflects the worship of the heavens---.

Many people think that because individuals have made their Ascension, there is no longer need for worship and that as every Master's heart is His shrine and altar, he may not choose to join with the others in his outpouring to the Eternal Father. This is not the case---the worship, the rituals which draw Earth children together in a dutiful manner is also the heart centre of spiritual companionship in the higher octaves.

To see the great hosts of Divine Beings gathered together in celestial service--to hear the outpouring of Their heavenly music, the songs and chants of the angelic choirs---the tremendous radiation of the presiding Masters---is to draw into the soul a vision of the future when the Ceremonial Ray of Saint Germain will be in like manner expressed through the people of Earth.

Those great Cosmic gatherings of spiritual worship in adoration to God, of course emit a tremendous radiation of Light---That substance flows into the Devas who are Guardian Angels of the Cathedrals and churches of Earth and that is why, in those places of worship, individuals are so often caught up in an ecstasy and devotion to God---."

Note 5

It is not generally known that Madame Blavatsky, in her previous embodiment, was the Count Cagliostro. Referring to this, the Ascended Master Djwhal Khul, in a letter to one of his students,("Discipleship in the New Age", Vol. II), stated that the damage done to the Ashram (school) of Master Morya by H. P. B. (Helen P. Blavatsky) in his (her) previous re-embodiment, just started waning out.

In the "Letters of Helen Roerich, 1929-1938", p. 436, it is stated that Madame Blavatsky received her Ascension in 1924, in Hungary, and in a masculine form.

Note 6

A decree is not an ephemeral, temporary expression of feeling, issued to cover the need of the hour and be lost for the future. Every decree that is issued and directed to one's "I AM" Presence or to any member of the Ascended Masters or Cosmic Beings, becomes an established activity, increasing in strength and power, as it is augmented by similar ones, issued by others.
Finite human minds cannot quite grasp their potency and efficacy in the overall purpose of man's redemption. It is important that we bear in mind that since imperfection had its inception and growth in the human side, the appeal for its redemption should originate and be made by man's release of energy, through his feeling world, and the decrees are the means pre-eminently fit to accomplish this. Unless the energy is thus furnished, neither the "I AM" Presence, an Ascended Master or a Cosmic Being can give the sought assistance for all of Them are governed by Cosmic Law which is both explicit and inexorable.

The Goddess of Purity, pretty well summarized this to the students, when She said: "For more than a hundred years, the call from the hearts of humanity has come to Me, but the voice of the outer was silent. Today, the voice of the outer has made its call to Me, and I am here to remain and restore to the beloved children of the Earth that which your hearts have called these many centuries."

In the following, Chohan Morya discusses it from a slightly different angle.("Bridge", February, 1961, p. 261)

"---I want to speak to you upon a subject which perhaps is not clear to your minds. At the throat is the Chakra centre of power, as you know. Your power is released through the spoken word and that power is drawn from your Causal Body. The Causal Body, with all the colors that are within it, can be focused through the centre of power in the throat and in the spoken word and decrees, it can go forth to fulfillment as the individual's inner bodies come into alignment. At the moment of realization, when your seven bodies are completely aligned; when your Electronic Body, your Causal Body, your Holy Christ Self, your Emotional, Mental, Etheric and physical bodies come to that point of spiritual illumination and realization - that moment - one spoken word is all that is required for manifestation and precipitation to occur. All the power in your Causal Body flowing through that word brings manifestation. Jesus manifested that in the drawing of the precipitation through the fishes' mouth and in every fiat which He gave for healing and for resuscitation even of bodies that passed through so-called death.

Then what is the purpose of repetition which is the basis of Saint Germain's activity in the decree pattern? It is based upon the fact that you have used in millions of years so much energy through spoken word and beaten that into your emotional, mental and etheric bodies that you have solidified qualities of a negative and destructive nature within them, such as doubt, fear, rebellion, disillusionment, etc.

To requalify the energy in your physical bodies and your etheric, mental and emotional bodies, you must begin to release a balance of energy which will blaze into them and shatter those patterns that you set up, mostly- through the use of the spoken word and physical action. The efficacy of your decrees is not only in that which goes out into the ethers but that which is charged and charged into your etheric body which brings a positive alignment and control of your entire Consciousness in the acceptance of the affirmation of faith and positive assurance.

When you have said for centuries, "I am helpless; I am sick; I am distressed," you have built into the etheric garment, into that which the world calls the subconscious, certain deep grooves of energy. You have set that body into action. It is a consciousness which has accepted that which you have decreed for yourself for millions of years. You have done the same thing with your emotional body and your mental body through the use of life. One affirmation from your lips is not going to convince these conscious vehicles that you have completely changed your centuries of living. You are going to have to Drive Into Them a Positive radiation which will in time shatter and transmute the patterns of your past, and put in its place the patterns of perfection for the future.

The activity of the Ascended Master Saint Germain is to drive that energy into yourself for your mental body is so little of your entire being. When all of your vehicles respond and your mental, etheric and emotional bodies will cooperate with the physical, then one day you can say, "I AM FREE", and that moment you will be---."

Note 7

In the following, the Maha Chohan describes to us what exactly is a force field.("Bulletin", Vol. 2, #28)
"---The Rays of Light directed from the heart - governed more or less by the nature of man - have a natural periphery, and the circle created by the outer edge of these Rays, forms the "forcefield" of such a one. An intense, dynamic person has a forcefield of greater size than a lethargic person. An individual who has become cognizant of the Unfed Flame within the heart and who has learned the control of the balanced breath, also, has a larger forcefield than the uncontrolled and undeveloped man.

All of the energy from the physical and inner bodies that reaches out to this imaginary circle or periphery, is called his Sphere of influence and affects all the life that comes in contact with the quality of the vibration flowing through this forcefield at any given moment.

In a spiritual activity, when a group of individuals gather together, they combine the energies of their lifestreams and a great artificial forcefield is created, made up of the cooperative energies of all who are gathered there.

The nature of the leader and the amount of qualified energy such a one draws forth through song and decree, visualization and rhythmic breathing, determine the amount of efficacy that this forcefield can render Us in conveying qualified Flame---which will benefit a locality any given moment---."

Note 8

How this "pull" is affected and by what means it is manifested, the Maha Chohan enlightens us in the following:("Bulletin", Vol. 11, #13)

"---When an unascended being turns his attention to any special Ascended Master through love, contemplation, devotion or study, the Divine Being toward Whom he aspires is instantly aware of the Life-Energy, no matter how feeble may be the attempt. The Ascended One then immediately begins to direct Light Rays back to the one thinking of Him. Those Light Rays contain instruction, not always through the mind-body, but through a definite feeling, a sense of peace, or harmony or security, as the case may be.

A powerful way for a person in the flesh body to contact an Ascended Master's Radiation is to either read some words written about Him by a loving disciple, to contemplate His likeness, if one is privileged to have such an expression, or to use his own thought-processes to think of the Ascended One in terms of a Real Being as we think of a friend, a loved one or a parent. At the present time, regardless of the seeming lawlessness of the few---the race, as a whole is making a tremendous forward impetus, and mankind has been afforded the further means of contact with the Perfected Beings through the actual instruction and words of the Ascended Masters Themselves.

Meditation upon these instructions is an invaluable means of entering the vibratory action of the Divine Being. To seek the Presence of the Ascended Ones sometime each day by one of the means outlined above is to insure a permanent contact with Divine Friendship, assistance and illumination, which can and will flow back as an enriching power to the mind, the body and the Spirit---."

In the following excerpt, Archangel Michael gives us additional information on this important subject. From an address given to the students July 2, 1956, at the Royal Teton:("Bridge", September, 1957, p. 9)

"---Where there is a rhythm of invocation which is constant, there the Luminous Presence of any Ascended Master or Cosmic Being thus called for is established and sustained. Therefore, in the various Sanctuaries all over the world where certain Masters have been accorded the privilege of working with the group and where that group consciously gives attention to that Master in song and decree, those places have in and around them a Luminous Presence of that Master which remains a part of that "forcefield" and through which that Master pours His Divine Love and assisting energies at all times.

However, in order to sustain such a blessing, such a Luminous Presence should be rhythmically acknowledged at least once in every twenty-four hours.

If it is not possible to go personally this often into the Sanctuary or meeting place, because of the tremendous pressures of today's daily living, business interests, etc; which obligations arise mostly from the necessity of "making a living", then use the activity of "projected consciousness" which you have been shown how to do.

This is done by consciously projecting your attention (for "where your attention is, there you are") into the seat usually occupied by you in the Sanctuary or on the platform, if you are the Director of the Group, giving loving adoration and acknowledgment to the Luminous Presence of the Being or Beings - which Luminous Presences you desire to be sustained there. If you will conscientiously do this, approximately at the same time, at least once in every twenty-four hours, such a Luminous Presence will be sustained there for you. Otherwise, the powerful radiation of that Luminous Presence tends to lessen if such rhythmic acknowledgment is not given It. Of course, such foci of Ascended Master Light or that of the Cosmic Beings always increase when there is an address given or when the regular group meetings or services are held.

The lack of sufficient rhythmic application was one of the reasons why the Temple of the Sacred Heart finally disappeared from visibility upon the Continent of Atlantis. The majority of the Priests and Priestesses of that Temple did not give rhythmic attention to the Sacred Fire established within that Temple. You see, to keep here the visible, tangible presence of the Sacred Fire (which you yet have not drawn visible to the physical world), It had to be fed by the conscious ritual of the group of Priests and Priestesses who had volunteered to magnetize, sustain, and expand that Flame - at least once in every twelve hours. Because of the steadily increasing shadows brought here by the "laggards" at that time, the energies of these Priests and Priestesses became enmeshed in the creations of the outer world and their attention began to wander from the sameness of their ritualistic pattern of invocation.

Finally, on many of the Altars, the Sacred Fire just disappeared because there was no one interested or faithful enough to hold It there. As you know, the nature of the Flame is to arise and return to the Octave from whence It was originally drawn. We cannot, and shall not, bring that Sacred Fire back here again, visible and tangible to the physical sight of all mankind, until We can have the loving; constant, rhythmic service of those upon whom we can depend to magnetize that Sacred Fire at least once every day---."

Note 9

At the Transmission Flame Activity, held at the Chateau de Liberte, in southern France, on July 19, 1958, Chohan Paul the Venetian gave us the following:("Bulletin", Vol. 7, #17)

"---In case of many elderly people who do not have an understanding of the Ascended Host of Light, especially where they are gathered together in large institutions, there is so much repetition of the various individual and collective distresses which create in, through and around those places (which should be places of Haven, but really are places of incarceration of the unwanted and the socially discarded) a pall of etheric substance which you would not want to look upon with the inner eye unless you had a vision above the capacity to connect with it through sympathy but in self-mastery use the positive consciousness of compassion wherein and whereby you could invoke the Angels of the Violet Fire, particularly Lord Zadkiel's Legions, to remove that tremendous accumulation and then call to the beautiful and magnificent Beings Who are the Angels of Ministration to come and abide over those places and to radiate through them that love, that happiness, that hope, that sense of security which can become a life record on the constructive side to replace that discordant vibratory action which causes unnecessary distress, which makes it so difficult for Our Lord Maha Chohan, particularly, and for Those Who are engaged in removing those blessed souls from the physical form at the time of so-called death."

Note 10

"Every individual belonging to the human race affects mankind enmasse by the nature of the thoughts and feelings that emanate from him. No man lives unto himself because---the vibration flows through the entire humanity of Earth, within a period of a few seconds. (You know of the velocity with which the blood courses through the physical body.) The mechanical and scientific world has proved the transcendance of time and space through the medium of the telephone, radio and television. An individual speaking in New York is heard in China, Australia, San Francisco at the same instant that the vibratory action of his voice reaches his New York audience.

If man understood that his so-called "private" thoughts and feelings are being instantly broadcast through the Universe by an invisible "hook-up" and furthermore, that these same thoughts and feelings affect the lives of all the people on the Planet, as well as the animal and nature kingdoms according to their quality, he would endeavor to live more in accord with the principles expressed by the Master Jesus, Whom a vast number profess to accept as their Guide and Exemplar---(The Maha Chohan, "Bulletin", October 16, 1955)

Note 11

Addressing the students at His Own Retreat at Transylvania, Hungary, on July 16, 1955, during the Transmission Flame Activity, Saint Germain said the following:("Bulletin", Vol. 4, #17)

"---Now, beloved friends, with your permission, I will give you an object lesson on the Power of Precipitation.

First, you must realize that in order to become masters of energy, it is necessary to use the instruments of power with which we were endowed in the beginning, to both draw and dispense energy. These powers, beloved ones, are symbolized by the crown and the scepter.

The scepter is the symbol of the rod of power. This is the same symbol that Sanat Kumara uses to keep this Planet and its people from flying off into space. It is, also, symbolical of the rod of Aaron, mentioned in your Scriptures.

The crown is symbolical of the raised consciousness.
Within yourself, the scepter is your power of invocation---The power of concentrating your energies in mental or physical invocation on the higher octaves, by which concentration the currents from above are drawn down and charged and charged and charged into the condition to be rectified.

At the same time, the heart and mind (consciousness) must become still long enough to let the Presence of God reveal to and through you that which should be done in the particular situation which prompted your call.

All the power of the scepter is worthless unless there is a receptacle (crown) into which the concentrated energies may be released, transubstantiated and prepared for dissemination to mankind.

The power of the crown is likewise worthless without the invocative power of the scepter. When you combine the two activities - the power of invocation (scepter) with the quiet and reverent listening of the raised consciousness (crown), you will have a complete operation - otherwise it is only half-finished - which is the main reason there are not more satisfactory results from calls---."

Note 12

The technique by which this can be accomplished is related by Mother Mary in one of Her addresses to the students at Kings Park, Long Island, New York, on July 8, 1965.("Bridge", April, 1967, p. 15)

Note 13

In one of his numerous discourses to the students, the Great Divine Director related that Napoleon, in his early years, and before his rise to power, was a modest and obedient student of Saint Germain. The latter's purpose was, by pushing Napoleon to the top to bring under one rule all the states of Europe, abolish war and, eventually, create a United States of Europe.
Napoleon was fully aware of this and, for some time, adhered closely to it. But as his victories increased, his fame spread and his "friends" multiplied, he soon lost sight of this noble purpose and, reversing his modesty to arrogance, one day boldly told Saint Germain that from then on, he was going to give orders.
Seeing the trap in which Napoleon was following, Saint Germain most earnestly tried to dissuade him. But "when human arrogance rushes in, perfection rushes out" and, instead of following his preceptor's advice, Napoleon followed that of his "friends" who, joyfully, saw him on his way to St. Helena.