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To enter into the garden of the heart is to enter a chamber that exists in the mind of God which can come into being as the kingdom of God within you through meditation and through visualization. The Psalms were written as praises to the Lord whom David knew as he entered this chamber. And so I bid you enter also.
This chamber is the place where the planes of Mater are consecrated by the fires of the heart to the very point of perfection. Thus the Eastern devotee sees the earth transformed into jewellike crystals. Emeralds, diamonds, rubies compose the island in the midst of the nectar sea; and the essence of the Spirit Most Holy is the fragrance from flowering trees. You should also use your imagination to create this royal scene befitting your own Christ Self and your ascended-master guru.
That you might attain the Christ consciousness of the seven rays, I give to you the exercise of visualizing each of the seven chohans (lords) of the rays.1 And thus we will proceed step by step to expand the aura according to the masterful consciousness of these ascended-master gurus. The eight petals of the secondary heart chamber symbolize the mastery of the seven rays through the flame of the Christ (called the threefold flame) and the integration of that mastery in the eighth ray.
In all precipitation it is well to be specific. Therefore, draw a specific outline in your mind of this bejeweled island suspended in a glistening sea. Then see yourself walking from the shores of the sea through the tropical trees and vegetation to the center and highest promontory of the island.
Tropical birds and flowers of delicate and brilliant colors make the scene more vivid. And by and by you hear the songs of the birds as they sing the song celestial and key the soul to the frequencies of that plane where the ascending triangle of Mater meets the descending triangle of Spirit.
When you come to the center of your island in the sun, visualize specifically the platform and the throne that are consecrated for the image and the sacred presence of the master. You may wish to examine historical works showing the most beautiful thrones that have been built for the kings and queens of this world.
Select a design that is richly carved, gold leafed, and inlaid with precious and semiprecious stones, and visualize upon it a velvet cushion. There will be a cushion for each of the colors of the seven rays upon which the chohans will sit on the seven days of the week and receive you in the name of the Christ.
As you contemplate the blue-skyey dome and this place prepared to receive the Lord, give the following invocation for the integration of your soul with the consciousness of the Christ and its perfect outpicturing in the hidden chamber of the heart:
Almighty God, Maker of heaven and earth,
How bountiful are thy blessings!
How beautiful are thy flowings,
Immortal soul-knowings!
I acknowledge thee,
O thou Creator of me!
I acknowledge thy law
And the stars in the firmament
As the presence of the Christ
Who inhabits the cosmos,
As the boundaries of thy habitation
Here in the planes of Materialization
That reach like the rising and the falling
Of the waves of the sea calling
For the planes of the Spirit,
The reaches of infinity.
O Lord my God,
Come and talk and walk with me
In this my paradise garden,
My island in the sea!
Come, O Lord, in the cool of the day.
Come! For I have prepared the way,
And my offering is the sacrifice of the lesser self
Upon the altar of the heart.
My offering is the twelve virtues -
Oh, let the Christ now impart!
I kneel before the altar,
I kneel before thy throne.
My soul does long for unity,
The wisdom to atone.
O come, thou Divine Master,
The chohan of my life!
Come, O Lord,
In the form of El Morya,
Of Paul the Venetian and of Lanto.
Come, O Lord of heaven,
To consecrate my earth and my heaven.
Come with the truth,
With the freedom,
With the potential and the leaven.
Come, Serapis Bey, Hilarion!
Come, Nada and Saint Germain!
For I am not alone in the garden,
But all one with thee in thy name.
I AM THAT I AM, I AM THAT I AM,
I AM THAT I AM -
Threefold action of threefold flame of threefold law.
So the name of God
Releases now the holy awe.
I come before thy presence, Lord.
I see thee in thy essence, Lord.
I am thy omnipresence, Lord.
O holy one of God,
Come now be the Christ of me
As the fulfilling of the law
Of the Personal Personality.
For in that flame and by thy name,
Ascended-master gurus do proclaim
That in the person of the Son of God,
The Christ, the Christed Self of all,
Becomes the mentor and the guide
And ultimately the flame
Of purest son and daughter pressed inside
The hidden chamber of the heart.
Teach me, O chohan of my life,
How to be thyself,
How to walk the earth
As heart and head and hand
Responding to thy will at thy command.
Teach me, O chohan of my love,
How to feel the flow,
How to give thy succor
To all hearts below.
Teach me now, O chohan of the law,
To fulfill the promise of the seven rays
And to be forevermore
Prism'd awareness of thy grace.
O just stewards of the heart, understand how your aura can be enflamed with the presence of your Lord. And give this meditation as you renew your visualization of the chohans of the seven rays on the days of the week consecrated to those rays2 by the impartations of Helios and Vesta, Father-Mother Presence of Life in the heart of this solar system where you make your home.
Thus on Monday receive blessed Paul the Venetian and be tutored in the intuition and the mandates of love as he imparts creative fires and creativity of soul desire seated in the throne of the heart.
On Tuesday let your Christ Self lead you to the altar where you kneel before Lord Morya El, where you commune in silent meditation with the will of the flame and imbibe the Personal Personality of the one who has consecrated his mind as the diamond shining mind of God. And as you look upon his face, you see the twinkle of mirth that is needed upon earth. You hear the strains of "Panis Angelicus," and you know that your soul is fed the holy bread of angels. You drink the communion cup, and you vow obedience to the will of God.
On Wednesday as you contemplate the action of the emerald ray with joy and anticipation, you await the coming of Hilarion, who occupies the throne as the master philosopher, the master scientist. And from his forehead to your own, as the two of you are alone in Christ, there is a transfer of the divine gnosis; and the geometry of Mater integrating spirals of Spirit becomes clear.
On Thursday, the queen of the chohans, the Lady Master Nada, who practices law before the bar of heaven, comes to portray the law of justice and the noble way of ministration and service. In her aura is the music of those blessed words "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."3 And in the presence of the lady chohan, you perceive the wonder of the feminine ray in the mastery of the seven rays. All is clear: You live to serve forevermore - forevermore in the service of the Lord.
On Friday you hail Serapis Bey, Lord of Ascension's Flame. Marching to the sound of victory, of trumpets sounding the sound of your natal day, of the soul's rebirth - being born anew first in Mater and then in the glorious array of the ascension flame - you are born into Spirit for eternity.
On Saturday that is the sabbath of the seventh ray, you greet the Master of the Aquarian age: "Saint Germain, friend of old, I am honored at thy presence here! So may I know the cosmic honor flame that is entwined with strands of gold and violet as elementals weave a garland of praise to the Knight Commander of my heart." And you tarry before the alchemist of the Spirit who has come to teach you the science of the amethyst ray and the ritual of grace that will be the law for the next two thousand years.
On Sunday you rise to greet the dawn of illumination through Lord Lanto, who holds in his hands the book of the law of life for your soul - for the soul of a planet and a universe. His wisdom is a scroll that never ends; 'tis a scroll whereby you make amends. And in the profound understanding of the Lord of the Second Ray, lo, your sins are washed away!
Through the week with the seven chohans of the rays is a way of life for Brothers of the Golden Robe, for Sisters of the Wisdom Flame, who come to receive the instruction that is given in the etheric retreat of the Tibetan Master. For many centuries now, I have sponsored the tutoring of souls who have desired to enter in to a direct relationship with one or more masters of the hierarchy of the Great White Brotherhood.
We begin our course with meditations for self-purification. And for those who have for several lifetimes practiced the way of silence, I come to break the silence with a shout of acclamation, with that joyful noise that is the true fiat of the Word!
And thus the decrees4 of the devotees ring forth not as a murmuring or as a mumbling, but with the determined shout of warriors bold, of sons and daughters of God rejoicing in the fold! And the fold is a new level of awareness where the chela meets the master face to face and the energies of meditation become the fullness of the expression of the Christ mind, the Christ heart, and the Christ soul.
You who would become the Christ, you who would kneel at his feet, be prepared then to roar as lions over the hillsides of the world - not as the devil seeking whom he may devour,5 but as king and queen, as lion and lioness going forth to claim dominion in the kingdom of God that is within.
If you would attain and retain the consciousness of the chohans, you must then be willing to exercise the throat chakra whereby you take the energies garnered in the chamber of the heart, the fruits of the Spirit and the fragrance of the Spirit, and allow these gifts of the chohans to mesh in Mater through the peaceful thrust and the all-commanding power of the fiats of the Word.
Speak boldly, plainly - slow or swiftly as you will. Speak in rhythm. Speak in love. Speak in fervor and with zeal. But come before the presence of the chohans prepared to voice the soundless sound and to direct atoms and molecules of being by the authority and the grace of the law.
Hence, as you develop the heart chakra and become a just steward of the heart, you must learn to release the resources of the Spirit through the spoken Word and to give decrees in time and space that are for the transmutation of that place into the dominion and the domain of the kingdom of God.
I am leading you gently yet firmly by the hand to that Promised Land where ascended masters yet walk and talk with unascended man. Come with me! Hold my hand!
[Taken from book version, The Human Aura]