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Among Masters I am known as a pragmatist in the truest sense of the word, for I am concerned with practicalities and with the exigencies of the hour. Mankind face a dilemma. It is a dilemma of the self, the society, and the civilization.
The Darjeeling Council seeks answers to the dilemma. We probe the mind of God, and then we probe the mind of man. We are concerned with what will work - not with a pie-in-the-sky philosophy. We are concerned with what will work now to stem the tide of world karma and the degradation of the image of the Christ as well as the image of the Divine Mother.
Chelas who knock on the door at Darjeeling are asked if they understand the urgency of world conditions and the crying need of the hour. If they have not yet gained that perspective, we recommend that they seek the disciplines of another retreat. For here at Darjeeling we offer a crash program in chelaship and initiation on the path for those who are willing to follow implicitly the demands of their own Christ Self and to respond with a flame that leaps and with eyes that sparkle with the kindling fires of soul discernment.
We send forth devotees of the Divine Mother. We train emissaries who will represent the Brotherhood and who will go forth into the large cities of the world to teach the way of the sacrifice of the self, as Saint Francis of old, for the greater glory of the Christ in all.
Come then; fear not to approach the fire blazing on the hearth here in the library of our retreat. Come now and meditate upon the flames, and see how the fiery salamanders dance to the music of the will of God that is the theme of your soul's reunion with the blueprint of your life, the grand design of destiny. See how the patterns blue and rose and gold woven in the Oriental rug recall the tapestry of the mind of God woven in your soul.
So then take comfort
In our cup of cheer -
An elixir crystal clear
Extended by angelic hands,
Devas from angelic bands
Who serve the diamond heart of Mary
And welcome you to tarry.
May I play for you from Moore's Irish Melodies a song from my heart which I composed long ago for a loved one. I dedicate it now to all chelas of the sacred fire preparing for that transmutation and the forsaking of the outer, fading form for the inner, ever-blooming sunflower of the heart, "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms." For the heart that has truly loved God never forgets the return current of that love reflected from the source of life. And so the soul, "as the sunflower, turns on her God, when he sets, the same look which she turn'd when he rose."1
Now, chelas of the will of God who would become chelas of the Ascended Masters, with the tenderness of the heart of the will of God, I draw you into the folds of the garment of that will, that you might see that the crystal lining of the sapphire blue is flecked with a golden-pink hue - an intense love of the wisdom of God that inspires the Darjeeling Masters to crack the whip of discipline. So great is our love for the soul of God in man that we would set you free to behold your immortal destiny.
There be some that come to our retreat for training, but their motives are not pure. They are self-seeking. They want power not to glory in God, but for the vainglory of the synthetic self which they refuse to surrender. They are told politely by the gatekeeper that those who enter must leave the slippers of the lesser self at the door. Those who are unwilling to take off the shoes of the shadowed self may not walk upon this hallowed ground.
It is time to enter the chamber designed with blue and gold motif where there is a screen and seats arranged in theater style. For to understand your path, your very personal path to salvation, you must have the perspective of your past and how you have created the present - both at personal and planetary levels. Come then; and let us see how we shall, in the magic of the flame, discover the designs of your soul destiny.
We enter the chamber now and take our places before a large semicircular screen on which there will be projected the experiences of other incarnations in the full dimensions that are portrayed from the akashic record. The group assembled here as I speak consists of unascended chelas - some of whom have an outer connection to the Retreat of the Resurrection Spiral in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and to Summit University in Santa Barbara, California. Others among the group are serving the will of God in their respective nations. These look forward to the day when the teachings of the Ascended Masters will be published in their language, that they might read and study in their outer, waking consciousness that which they receive here in their finer bodies during sleep.
One young couple taking their seats is accompanied by an unascended being of considerable attainment, of full stature and indeed recognized by the council. They will give birth to this soul in the not too distant future. I digress for a moment to point out this beautiful example wherein those who have united in love and in the sacred ritual of the marriage vow have been chosen by the Karmic Board even as they were chosen by this soul to give opportunity for an advanced lifestream to take embodiment in the service of humanity in the certainty of being reared in a home dedicated to the true law of the Lord.
Now scenes of life in ancient Thrace appear on the screen, and we find ourselves in the marketplace of a forgotten city in the land that is now Turkey. Two unascended Masters walk midst the crowds unnoticed. The people are concerned with the activities of the day, with the purchase of food and supplies at the best prices, while the vendors carefully watch the passing of coins from hand to hand to see how much the day's business will bring.
A group of devotees including some of the chelas now assembled in our retreat enters the marketplace. In this life they are mystics whose devotion is to the fire as it represents the one true God. Already they have borne the ridicule and the ostracism of their peers.
At the moment of their appearing, a peculiar astrological configuration aligns certain forces of hatred within the subconscious of the populace with an amalgamation of mass hatred focalized on astral planes. This interaction of forcefields in several dimensions of Matter we portray for the chelas, showing also the alignment of constellations, solar hierarchies, and "fixed" and "wandering" stars and how these energy fields amplify both the light and the darkness in mankind and cause the energizing of certain levels of karma in incarnations even prior to the ones now in focus on the screen.
Suddenly without warning, as if seized by a madness and a frenzy not entirely their own, certain individuals who seem to be at a random relationship to one another converge as a single entity. They act as a single unit - the mob - and with a single mind - the mass mind. They begin to pick up stones and hurl them at the devotees. The devotees are surrounded. Not terrified, but calmly centered in the flame that is the object of their worship, they shield their heads and their bodies. But to no avail.
The mob is brutal. With a desire for vengeance and a thirst for blood projected from the astral hordes, they descend upon the chelas until they are no more. Their souls take leave of that which remains of their finite forms, and the two unascended Masters standing by raise the fohatic energies of their heart chakras to assist the souls in the transition.
By karmic law they were not allowed to interfere with the circumstances that represented a converging of many forces and nature's demand for balance. Through their love and their mastery, they create a forcefield of light whereby the souls are taken safely to the etheric retreat of Pallas Athena over the island of Crete.
Now we roll back the drama on the screen so that all may examine the interplay of forces and the lines of karma that converged when the devotees first entered the marketplace. They see how they themselves in a much earlier period of earth's history, while engaged in the practice of a religion of darkness, were drawn into acts of fanaticism and untempered zeal which resulted in the death of those who retaliated that day in the forgotten city of ancient Thrace.
We review the scene in slow motion. I use the diamond that I wear on the index finger of my right hand to focus the action of the sacred fire on the screen. The violet ray that descends from the heart of my Presence is projected through the diamond and bursts forth as a thousand million flames on that scene on the screen. The chelas are on the edge of their seats as they watch the violet flame consume the cause and core, the record and memory - both in akasha and in their own subconscious.
The action of the violet flame intensifies in answer to my invocation made to the I AM Presence of each one: In the name of the Christ Self of the chelas, I invoke the fire of Almighty God to blaze forth the action of transmutation to change darkness into light - fear and hatred into love, envy into understanding, and vengeance into victory. As violet-flame angels from Zadkiel's retreat direct the energies of the flame, it forms coils of fire in the subconscious of each individual who was a party to this unfortunate interplay of energy.
Coils of fire are formed like the curly shavings that fall from planed wood. These coils rise and fall, rise and fall, intensifying the action of transmutation. And now they burst into a wide circle of energy and then return to the center. All of this is the action-formation of the fires of transmutation, flaming fire moving up and down and in and out; and then, following the circle of the cycles of individual karma in the electronic belt - a scrubbing action, a boiling action, a bubbling and a buoyant energy. Such is the diversity of the violet flame.
Scene by scene, step by step, the angels of the violet flame remove the record from the etheric body, the concepts from the mental body, the emotions from the feeling body, and the scars upon the physical matrix. Right before their very eyes, chelas of the will of God see what the glorious flame of God can do. They cheer. They applaud. And their bravos express the release of energy in their own hearts and a new freedom of the soul as this ancient record is cleared from their consciousness.
And now, in answer to the chelas' invocations to the violet flame, the fiery salamanders and the violet-flame angels, working hand in hand, retrace the record of that cycle when the lines of causation were drawn in the previous existence, which is also shown as chelas learn the lesson of blindly following the blind and of failing to invoke the wisdom of the Logos as a balance for the tyranny of the ego.
Next week we shall continue our investigations of the sacred fire and the flame of freedom - the violet energies that are the hallmark of the Aquarian age.
I AM for freedom through transmutation in God's will,