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Chapter 13
Beloved Kuthumi - March 30, 1962

     To Living Disciples -

     There is a Christ-radiance that surrounds a true disciple of the Ascended Masters, and it is a most hallowed vibratory action. It should be borne in mind, blessed ones, that everyone on earth has this radiance streaming forth from his causal body and that it is most lovely.

     The difference between the disciple and the ordinary lifestream is one of consecration and conservation. The disciple is consecrated to the Mighty I AM Presence and the great Ascended Masters and he is dedicated to the conservation of his pure Christ-energy which he draws in allotted portion from the Godhead. He knows that by storing each precious feeling of love, each tender memory of those hallowed moments when the Divine comes very near, he will one day possess a most wonderful momentum of God's pure energy, which will rise up at the precise instant when he is required to manifest the healing Christ.

     I am looking back on the years when this knowledge was not a part of the disciple's storehouse of spiritual treasures. I well recall the days when, as Francis of Assisi, I wandered midst the confusions and conflicts of the social community without truly understanding the delicate leadings from the Godhead which were calling me to come apart and serve the Christ (Light) of my own being. From time to time, I was fraught with elements of despair - it was the sometime hopelessness of a shepherd boy learning to pipe his first notes and sensing his pitiful inadequacy.

     The long pathway from one's first responses to the call of the Most High to the consummate attainment of the embodiment of the Christ flame is a saga of soul-stirring magnitude. One marvelous example is that of the little boy Samuel hearing God's voice and crying in response, "Speak, LORD, for thy servant heareth!"¹ Today he is the glorious Ascended Master you know as your own beloved Saint Germain.

     His great love for freedom is typified in the figure of "Uncle Sam," popularized as the prophetic spirit of America. This blessed land which he discovered as Christopher Columbus became the great home of the free he had envisioned as Francis Bacon in his writing The New Atlantis.

     Who can know but your own God Self what you shall one day be when, by reason of your obedient response to God's voice, you, too, shall follow in the footsteps of the Aquarian Master who long ago responded to the call of the Ancient of Days. The call of your Mighty I AM Presence is a blessing equal to the descent of the Paraclete,² and it is your loving response to God's call that will vest you with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. This investiture of God's radiance is intended to be used to fulfill your divine plan and not to be consumed by human vanity!

     Discipleship, precious prelude to the ascension! - how shall I make popular that which is still a long and lonely way amongst the rocks and crannies of the summit heights? Beloved Lord Ling in his embodiment as Moses struggled with his own soul in the heights of Horeb, the holy mountain, and so each lifestream must win his own victory over the temporary delusions of the senses.

     It would be far simpler for you to attain your freedom and victory as a disciple of the Ascended Masters if you would pursue spiritual graces as easily as you are able to cull earthly favor. It is for want of vision that the people perish,³ and it is for want of spiritual sight that the disciple suffers in his discipleship.

     You know and believe that separation does not exist in God, but because of mortal conflicts and blinded spiritual senses, most chelas are not able to perceive in its entirety the heavenly grace that always surrounds them or to know when the Ascended Masters are blessing them. If they did, inasmuch as blessings are constantly being poured out, the disciples would never sense anything except the beauty and love of God flooding through them as an ocean of cosmic mercy; and their Christ-image of immortality would soon quicken them above every subdivine stratification.

     The essence of one of my prayers well-known today, taken up by a modern disciple, contains the phrase "O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand."⁴ Therefore, I point the way of discipleship as one of gratitude for divine opportunity wherein you lovingly seek to understand others, making them happy by first sensing their struggles and then bestowing compassion, offering your prayers and petitions to God on their behalf.

     Think, dear ones, how Christlike this quality of the ministering servant is. Try to realize why the outpouring of loving concern to another is essential in maturing the soul and developing the heart chakra of the disciple. "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."⁵

     The grace of God is sufficient for everyone.⁶ Your understanding of this reality will help you to overcome any apathy you might feel toward certain types of discordant manifestations that parade before you. To cleanse the spiritual lepers encrusted with material sense-density and call them brother is a part of the service of a Christ.⁷ It must be borne in mind always that the chief goal of every disciple is to take upon himself the disciplines of a Christ so that he may become a bearer of men's burdens (karmic load)⁸ and a carrier to them of the vibratory action of God's own love and light.

     By meditating on the luminous aura of a saint, an Ascended Master, or a cosmic being, and visualizing that light around you with focused concentration, you may draw forth the intensity of your own Christ-radiance stored in your causal body. Like the finest silver, your radiance may at first appear tarnished by karmic doubts and fears, until your faith attains the brilliant polish of works in the form of deeds of love.⁹ For perfect love in action casts out (transmutes) all self-conscious fear and self-doubt.

     All deeds of love are not made known to everyone, for some remain entirely unperceived by men but are held in the purity of the blessed disciple's living aura. It is the prerogative of cosmic experts to judge in the light of their pure knowledge the degree of the disciple's devotion through the life record and auric reading, which are true and exact.

     Let every disciple realize that each response to the call of Divine Love - whether bestowed upon angel, man, or beast - if lovingly and sincerely given, can only magnify the power of that dear one to render a greater service. Thus the kingdom (the consciousness of God) expands on acts of grace.

     Now, acts of grace are the deeds of disciples. These always intensify Love's I AM Presence with the disciple and are most assuredly karma balancing. Of course, it is the (questionable) prerogative of anyone's free will to avoid expressing God's compassion when the opportunity is presented.

     Blessed ones, you may not always realize it at the time but Life regularly and repeatedly gives you the chance to show your light, your love, and your grace. And the final tally on Life's scoreboard reveals the winners to be those loving souls who do not miss the chance when Life calls!

     Beloved Jesus, in his embodiment as Joseph (son of Jacob by Rachel), was regarded by his brothers as an idle dreamer;¹⁰ yet in his lifetime he was able to assist a pharaoh to govern an empire!¹¹ The cup placed in his brother's sack¹² is symbolical of the one he later offered to the reincarnated sons of Jacob when he called them from their nets to take up their true vocation as "fishers of men."¹³

     During the Last Supper they did drink of that cup in a very real and spiritual sense. Thus they beheld once again the Love that had captivated the "idle dreamer." Now before their very eyes their own brother, born again to his true Sonship, was demonstrating the victory of the I AM THAT I AM over the world and death itself. They witnessed his resurrection and ascension brought about by the same power which had given life-substance to the people during the seven-year famine in Egypt.¹⁴ How beautiful is the Christ life weaving the seamless robe of immortality through the centuries of the soul's incarnations!

     Living as a disciple is the only way of assuring one's spiritual attainments. The Great Cosmic Law can never be fooled by anyone, neither will it ever deceive those who trust in it. Webs of human stress and strain are woven solely of each one's own life-substance which once entered form as God's pure energy but, alas, became gray and hardened by the condition of depressed (concave) chakras.

     It is this same energy which, when humanly misqualified, composes the astral nets of binding karma in which people are enmeshed and that create every downward spiral of human error from which they must be cut free by the Christed One.

     The idea of living your life as an example to the brothers and sisters of Light as they go about their various activities should be considered. Human accuracy in measuring the sincerity of another may be rightfully challenged, but who can question a perfect example? People watch the life of every disciple, and this makes every day your opportunity to be a living proof of Ascended Master love in action.

     Blessed people, while God has "winked"¹⁵ at human error in many poor examples who had sincere hearts, lifting some into their ascension because by cosmic law they merited it, I wish to emphasize that these are not quite the inspirational souls we can use as exemplars to the tired and confused masses who long to behold one they can justly idealize as the Christ.

     Other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice through my own; and by the example of my disciples there shall be one fold and one Shepherd - the universal Christ who is the Real Self of every child of God.¹⁶

     Now, if you will give these topics which I have raised a good deal of your thought, you will realize that your Mighty I AM Presence is able to answer your every call made in order that you might fulfill my calling and my teaching. No matter how many mistakes you have made in the past, your Presence is standing with outstretched arms, waiting for the moment when your hungry heart will reach up and demand the chalice of your own perfection.

     The Life which will be poured into the cup of your being shall be everlasting and the illustrious nature of your own God Self shall shine forth as the sun illumining the city set on an hill of discipleship (a pyramid of spiritual attainment) which cannot be hid!¹⁷ Thus, ultimately the path of the disciple presents to the world and to the Ascended Masters another candidate for the glories of the sacred ascension in the unfailing Light of God.

     A cloud of glory received the Christ, beloved Jesus, out of the realm of human sight, but as every ascended being knows, "this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."¹⁸

     Look, therefore, for the glorious appearing of the Christ in your own being. He, as your own Holy Christ Self, will guide you into all Truth. As your eternal Preceptor, your Holy Christ Self will continually beckon you on the way of living discipleship.

     I AM your friend and cosmic teacher,

     [Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]

Bibliography

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Volume 5, Number 13, footnote 4. The origin of the Peace Prayer, attributed through the centuries to Saint Francis, is uncertain as it is not among Francis' authenticated writings. According to the research of Fr. James Meyer, O.F.M., the prayer could have come from one of the "Sayings of Brother Giles" in the Fioretti (The Little Flowers of Saint Francis): "Blessed is he who loves and does not therefore desire to be loved. Blessed is he who fears and does not therefore desire to be feared. Blessed is he who serves and does not therefore desire to be served ..." But it is also possible, Fr. Meyer explains, that Giles drew his inspiration from Francis.

The earliest printed version of the Peace Prayer appeared in a book published in 1917 in France, which attributed its inspiration to the Testament of William the Conqueror. A copy of the prayer was presented to Pope Benedict (1914-1922), who was delighted to have it and requested it to be circulated widely. When it was distributed in Europe during World War I, it was printed on the back of a holy picture of Saint Francis. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York is credited with popularizing the prayer during World War II by distributing it for the first time in English. Following is the entire prayer translated from the French:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: / Where there is hatred, let me sow love; / Where there is discord, harmony; / Where there is injury, pardon; / Where there is error, truth; / Where there is doubt, faith; / Where there is despair, hope; / Where there is darkness, light; / Where there is sadness, joy; / O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek / To be consoled, as to console; / To be understood, as to understand; / To be loved, as to love: / For it is in giving that we receive; / It is in forgetting self that we find ourselves; / It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; /And it is in dying that we are born to eternal Life. (See Fr. Marion A. Habig, "Origin of the Peace Prayer," Franciscan Herald, May 1974, pp. 151-53.)

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Volume 5, Number 13, footnote 7. To cleanse the lepers. Matt. 10:8; 11:5; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 17:12-19.

There is a story told in the Fioretti of a leper who was being cared for by the brothers in Saint Francis' order. The leper was so blasphemous and abusive in his speech that none could bear to come near him. When Francis visited him, the leper complained that the brothers had not looked after him as they should, whereupon Francis offered to care for him himself.

The leper asked him what he could do that the others could not. Francis promised that he would do all he wished. The leper said, "I want you to wash me all over because the odor is such that I cannot stand it." Francis then prepared water with many sweet-scented herbs, undressed him and began to wash him with his hands. Miraculously, wherever Francis touched, the leprosy disappeared and the flesh was healed.

As the leper's body was healed, his soul experienced conversion also. Overcome with remorse for his sins, he began to weep bitterly, accusing himself for all the pain he had caused others. After fifteen days of deep penance, he fell ill and passed on. His soul, brighter than the sun, appeared to Saint Francis while he was praying in a forest. Pouring out gratitude and blessings, he announced to Francis that that day he was going to Paradise.

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