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O Minds Upheld as Chalices of Living Flame!
I am come to deliver unto you wisdom's spiral - a spiral of the Cosmic Christ consciousness that originates in cloven tongues of the Holy Spirit that are the love of God for the wisdom of his law. As you have pursued the wings of love, so I say, now perceive the fires of Christ-mindedness and become the presence of the Christ mind.
Now, my friends, if you will, as you are meditating, see before you a line horizontal just at eye level. And for the graphics of contemplation, imagine that all that falls beneath this line, as it were, of Christly demarcation is a perversion of the emotional and physical consciousness, and all that falls above it a perversion of the etheric and mental.
Most of you have an accurate sense of knowing when you are on the line of your Christly faculties and when you are off. Almost like a tightrope walker, mankind teeter and totter on this line of the Christ. And without the expertise that derives from the balance of the threefold flame, they often fall into the abyss of the illusions and perversions that come from the misuse of the four planes of Mater.
Some teachers have referred to the state of awareness or nonawareness in Christ as being "on the beam" or "off the beam." Again, the "beam" represents the fine line of Christ-discrimination whereon the consciousness of the soul, which we term solar awareness, merges and blends with the consciousness of the beloved Christ Self. The Christ Self is the impersonal personality of the Godhead descended from on high to the point of the Mediator. And that Mediator, when fully adored by the soul, does become the Word incarnate - the Word that is made flesh and that dwells among mankind, veiled in flesh yet still "a light to lighten the Gentiles."1
When I think of maintaining the Christ consciousness, I think of children who like to balance by walking on a curb or a line painted on the street, children playing hopscotch or striving for perfection in games that test the poise of the physical body, the marksmanship of the eye as the arrow that is shot to the center of the target, or the sheer fun of trying to rub the tummy and pat the head simultaneously as emotional energies are brought under control. Thus the flowing stream of consciousness willingly and lovingly submits to the discipline of the will that is a razor's edge of that mind which has forsaken all for the goal of oneness with the line of truth.
It is, then, to the discipline of the mind that I would call your attention. For some who would meditate know not how to meditate - that is, to draw their energies into the central forcefield of the heart, to draw in all thoughts and the sense of outer wings and things that scatter the energies of the mind, as the undisciplined eye follows each passing fly or moth or butterfly or bird across the sky.
Ask yourself this question, O chelas of Morya, would-be chelas of the Holy Spirit - ask yourself this question: Are you able to control thought as the tautness of the string of a harp, a violin, or a cello? Are you able to tune the mind to the chord of the Christ, to the tone of Life? Do you know when your thinking is on pitch - neither sharp nor flat? Have you known the joy of maintaining thought at the crest of the wave? And during meditation, are you able to contemplate the octagon crystal that contains the flame of white-fire light from which may be drawn forth at will the aspects of the seven rays of the Holy Spirit?
O children who have gone forth from the bosom of Abraham, children of Israel, I call to you now - come home to the center of the flame of Christ-awareness, to the center of flaming crystal! And as you read my words, seated in a place of quiet, posture erect out of respect for the Spirit, a breathless awe of the law, and in the fear of the Lord that is the beginning of wisdom2 - let me sketch for you on the canvas of your mind a thought form that is for the discipline of your faculties in meditation.
First let me explain that in order for you to function properly in the world of cause/effect in Matter form, it is necessary that your energies be extended through the nervous system, through the senses, and through the aura for the penetration of time and space, for a grasp of actualities here below, and for the mastering of conditions and circumstances. When your energies are thus extended to fill the aura of selfhood in form, you are in a state of outer awareness and outer consciousness.
When the masters talk about "going within," they mean that the energies which have been dispersed, so to speak, for outer probing must be withdrawn into the chamber of the heart as an infolding spiral - as a fire infolding itself.3 And thus the term going within, when properly understood, means spiraling back to the fiery core of the heart, which you may visualize as the centripetal movement of wind or water into the eye or focus of Self-awareness. As we begin our exercise in meditation, I am then, with your kind permission, sketching upon the screen of your mind minute particles of energy - thought energy, emotional energy, and even the energies of the physical and etheric bodies - moving vortexlike toward the center of what you may visualize as a spiral nebula superimposed upon your being with its flaming nucleus in your heart.
Now, if it is your pleasure, sit back for a moment in your chair, close your eyes, and feel the energies of consciousness moving from outer sensation and outer awareness into the central flame of Life which you now see as the threefold flame burning steadfastly on the altar of the heart. The energy moves toward this central sun of your being in a counterclockwise direction according to your own perspective. Thus the curve would move, below the heart, from the right side to the left and into the center; and, above the heart, from the left side to the right. This movement occurs as you contemplate Self as a blazing sun becoming more and more concentrated within the heart.
Close your eyes and visualize the sun of the Christ consciousness as that dazzling white-yellow glory now the size of a beach ball encompassing your heart and chest cavity. The more you contemplate this sun, the less you are aware of outer conditions until, unable to resist the magnet of God's love, wisdom, and power, you plunge into the center of this sun, magnetized by the Presence of Life and the calling of home which suddenly, through the mind's eye, has become so close, so warm, so sacred.
Now you perceive the wonder of celestial bodies, of the evening star, of man's outer adoration become the blazing glory of man's inner realization. Behold a celestial sphere suspended in spacelessness around the heart! Behold the heart suspended in the timelessness of the sphere! Behold the entering in to the Holy of Holies as man becomes God cycle by cycle, year by year! As you contemplate the wonder of the spiral nebula of being moving into the center of our oneness, you penetrate the world of crystalline dimensions. Of chalcedony, agate, and chrysoprase. Of kunzite, sphalerite, labradorite, and alexandrite. Of ruby, sapphire, diamond, emerald, and aquamarine. Such are the geometric crystallizations of the Christ mind and of the soul that has begun the mastery of Life all one - of Life as Mother flow into the schemata of the Elohim here below.
Now, inasmuch as the energies of God coalesce in form according to the patterns of crystal,4 I urge you to meditate upon all aspects of crystal which the elementals have defined in their role as instruments for the handiwork of the Mother. Yes, I say, meditate upon crystal forms that are revealed by a microscope as well as to the naked eye. And in following these lines of force, your consciousness will always return to the point of origin - the point of the flame and the nexus of the source that is in the eye of the flame.
Likewise, it would be well in the training of the mind to peruse Saint Germain's Studies in Alchemy and to outline for yourself thirty-three points of precipitation which are yours to discover in his timeless release on the laws of the transfer of energy from the plane of Spirit to the plane of Mater. And next week I shall continue for you my sketch for meditation which you may call your own as you resist not my markings on the screen of your mind.
I AM forever marking the way of victory for all.