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The Seven Holy Kumaras gather. We assemble to plant firmly in the earth the coordinates of the seven rays in order that in your mastery of these rays you might also receive the mastery of the five secret rays.
I AM Sanat Kumara. Lady Venus accompanies me to this session of The Buddhas in Winter. We are all Buddhas. We are Kumaras by name. Thus, beloved, we survey the earth. We see the signs and we would commune with those who are able to hear, to understand and to project on the screen of their individual lives what shall come to pass and what must come to pass in the fulfillment of this century.
Thus, the Keeper of the Scrolls reads to you at inner levels and you may ask to hear this reading through your higher mind when you are in sleep this night. Ask to be taken to the Royal Teton Retreat in your etheric body to hear the reading of the record of what the remaining years of this decade portend for you and for Maitreya's Mystery School in Montana.
There are assignments to be accomplished. Many of you know that your specialization in your profession, which is your special gift to the earth, must be given now else the cause be lost, whether that gift of knowledge be a focus on the youth, on health care, on certain cures to certain diseases or on a wide latitude of input that many of you are capable of giving in fields of endeavor where you serve.
The remainder of this decade will be for you, each one, a recapitulation of the life that you have known in this embodiment and of the inklings you have gathered of your experiences and achievements in previous lifetimes.
You have heard the teachings of the Messenger on her own past embodiments and the karmic consequences of being either too far to the right or too far to the left of the Law. The negative karma that you can make, beloved, when you stray from the center of your Christhood and the balance of your threefold flame is great.
And you have learned and understood from Phylos the Tibetan's recountings of his karmic cycles from the ancient days of Lemuria to Atlantis to nineteenth-century America that the complexity of issues of karma for all of you also goes back to Lemuria, to Atlantis and even to other times and planets that are the antecedents of your earliest karmic entanglements on earth.
There are special moments in the life of each one when a chunk of karma can be paid off - moments that must be seized, for opportunity knocks. At times it seems unjust that you must part with a certain treasure or monies, and so forth. But in that very parting and the giving of a gift that you feel reluctant to give and yet compelled to give (for circumstances bring it to pass in spite of yourself), you may thereby balance a very serious karma. For in so doing, you seize the moment, you take the tide at its flood, you harness the wind and you use the positive portents of the elements of your karma to accomplish another milestone on the path of karma yoga you have chosen to pursue as a chela of your beloved El Morya.
You are all finishing up your karma even though you may be starting up this or that business or beginning a self-improvement course. Remember why you are here! Remember you have come to finish your course - the course of your karma. And remember that the finishing of your course with honors depends upon your willingness to pay off that karma when that karma falls due (no matter what the inconvenience). It depends upon your ability to recognize a karmic debt when you see one and to recognize a golden opportunity to give where perhaps you have not given before when you should have.
I cannot overstate to you the complexity of the strands of karma that tie you to this earth and to your service. Once El Morya told the Messengers that had they not agreed to come together in this life under the hierarchy's direction, the tie whereby the Great Law required them to serve together should have been buried beneath the shifting sands as deep as the transatlantic cable. And the opportunity for them to serve together to fulfill their mission would not have come to the fore again for many centuries.
Beware, then, the choices you make. Beware, then, the road not taken. Beware of avoiding the most difficult roads for the easy way, the broad way. As Jesus said: "Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."1
Therefore, never shirk or shun the difficult. And never be bitter that your toiling seems to be greater than another's. You can never overdo your toiling, beloved, for in that toil you are pulling the black threads from your garment. When you shall have pulled all the black threads, you will then have a coat of many colors. And when you accelerate those colors through sacrificial service, you shall have your seamless garment.
So review, if you have not reviewed it in some time, the book A Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos the Tibetan and the Messenger's exegesis thereon. For thereby you will once again realize how karmas continue lifetime to lifetime, how ten thousand years may advance ere this or that situation can come to full fruition wherein you can lay down your life for someone who seems to you to be totally insignificant. And yet in that one is God, and God is requiring of you the fulfillment of every jot and tittle of the law of your karma.
Do not minimize karma, then, as it plays its role in your everyday life and do not blind yourself to the issues of your karma. Some refuse to see their own dishonesty. It is time they woke up to see that dishonesty toward oneself as well as others can cause severe calamities.
If everyone were honest and true with his God, then everyone would be God-centered, and then there would be no calamities. Is it not so?
But it is not so that there are no calamities. For we see even our best servants taking deviant paths and shortcuts and thereby suffering calamity. Do not go this way, beloved.
Above all things you might pray for from the Holy Kumaras, pray for the cosmic honor flame. And measure all actions, all musings of the mind by the honor that was the signet of your Thomas Becket, your Thomas More, whom you honor as your Chief and Counsellor.
Is honor not the quality that you so laud in your Teacher?
Will you not, then, make it your own?
Without your word as your honor, without your actions as your honor, how can you walk the straight and narrow path wherein you commit wrong toward none but good toward all?
That is the beauty of the honor flame. When you speak in honor, when you do not repeat gossip, when you do not engage in criticism, condemnation and judgment, especially during the cycle of Capricorn,2 you will see how you liberate yourself to enter in to the cosmic honor flame, which is a positive attribute of the sign of Capricorn. It is a high honor. And out of honor come the blessings of the Great Divine Director, whose Great Blue Causal Body amplifies the God-Power of the Capricorn hierarchy.
Have you thought when you make your major choices in life that there is one right choice and a thousand other options?
What leads you to the right choice?
It is honor, beloved, honor in daily decisions. And if sometime you may tarnish your honor, you can polish it again by right action and a profound humility, calling upon the law of forgiveness so that you might be given another opportunity to perform not one but many righteous deeds.
That is all that anyone can do in the human octave, beloved, for in this world there is no time machine that can take you back to retrace your footsteps, to make right your wrongs. Each step you take in life must be a calculated step so that at the end of each day you approve of the steps you have taken.
Thus, during the remainder of the decade as you move toward the year 2002, I pray that you will finish up much unfinished business. For, beloved, the world is yet in a precarious state, teetering and tottering upon the unstable mountains of karma that her evolutions have created - a refuse that they refuse to see, to take responsibility for or to transmute.
The ascended hosts of the Great White Brotherhood cannot guarantee the stability of the earth, but you can guarantee the stability of your own heart, your own mind, your own honor, your own path and your own resolution to balance karma every day of your life.
So, beloved, as Saint Germain has said, the human consciousness is unpredictable. Yet there are certain things that are predictable and you ought to be looking at these things. You ought to be looking at the conditions of the nations and the leadership of the nations, the leadership of your own nation and your states and your cities.
Can you place your trust in your leaders? Can you be certain that they will lead the nations and the world in the right direction in the case of war or a happening such as the intended or accidental misuse of nuclear weapons?
In whose hands would you place your life this day?
I daresay you would place your life in the hands of God and none other, for you know that ultimately no human being can save you.
We see the miscalculations of the leadership of the nations, and especially of this nation, concerning war, concerning relative and absolute evil, which they know nothing of, concerning unseen forces, which they do not reckon with. How can their calculations, beloved, deter the anger of hell spewed out by millions upon earth?
There are more angry people on earth than there are peaceful people. And yet if the peaceful people of the earth would but use the Buddhas' mantras or the Ascended Masters' mantras or even recite as prayers the words of Jesus Christ found in their scriptures, they could amplify the flame of peace on earth a million times over.
We see people who are peaceful, yet it is a passive peace. It is not the active peace of Gautama Buddha, who has the power, centered in the very heart and eye of peace, to make war against the enemies of peace.
When you live on a planet such as earth, where no one seems to be able to control war or crime or disease or youth gangs or even violence on television and other social problems that are so deplorable to you, how do you suppose that the leadership of the planet is going to deal with the present possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by powers that now have or will soon have those weapons and will continue to amass them?
And so, beloved, this is why my message to you is to take the opportunity while civilization is here, while the world is in a state of relative equilibrium; for in this period you may contact people throughout the nations. You may balance karma. You may deliver the Teachings. You may go stumping to the nations of Asia, the Far East, the Middle East. You may form teams and balance karma here and there.
If and when there should be a major disruption of civilization as you know it, what you personally will suffer most is the loss of opportunity to balance karma throughout the earth.
You have been called to this altar for many reasons, for the reasons of the condition of your karma as well as your state of consciousness. Many of you whom we love most among the lifestreams of earth yet have the most ancient and complex karma, karma involving individuals who are scattered all over the world.
Some of you we have led to job opportunities that allow you to travel here and there where you would otherwise have no reason to go and thus we have given you the opportunity to give calls and invocations in major cities here and there around the world. And you have done so and you have offered the Teachings to those whom you have met.
And our angels have prearranged these meetings whereby you could not possibly avoid the encounter with this one and that one, that you might pay your debt, that you might give some pound of your own flesh, some portion of your own heart that is necessary for the balancing of karma.
The Messenger could recount to you many stories of her travels where she found herself balancing karma with the lowliest or the most prominent of citizens in faraway places where she never expected to go in this life. For nation by nation, person by person, down to the individual, we required of her that above all she balance her karma. And I think that I might say that her zeal and her determination to balance her karma did propel her to these places all the more - more so than one would be propelled who was not so consumed with the desire to balance karma.
Karma, then, must not be forgotten by you. Take every opportunity to teach the Teachings to another soul, to give some gift of self, some element of comfort or supply or food or care or spiritual nurturing.
Follow the teachings of Kuan Yin, who did give and give again of herself. You would say that she allowed anyone and everyone to walk all over her, to take from her this and that, even her very flesh. You see, beloved ones, there is a path of mercy, and the utter giving of oneself again and again in merciful acts is the essence of that path.
You need not feel that you must do all things that Kuan Yin did on the physical plane, but the gift of self is the greatest means of balancing karma. And in that regard, the greatest opportunity you have to give the gift of self to the one who needs it most is to join forces with the chelas who have entered the great dharma of your own beloved Guru, El Morya.
Thus with these words spoken, I, Sanat Kumara, with the Holy Kumaras, bid you take the high road of the mantra and early morning decrees that you might greet the day's karma at dawn and balance it.
Take the high road of acceleration on the spiritual path and achieve what you must achieve in these years, and then be at peace that you have done your best and given your all and pray that your best and your all are counted for your Chief, for your soul, for your victory.
Therefore, by way of mentioning the Chief, I now introduce him to you as your unannounced speaker.3
This dictation by Sanat Kumara was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, January 2, 1994, during the four-day conference The Buddhas in Winter, held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The dictation is available on video-and audiocassette. Videocassette (includes the dictations by Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi): total 80 min., HP94010. Audiocassette (includes the dictation by Amoghasiddhi, Holy Communion and the blessing of the Karmic Board letters): total 76 min., B94011. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Sanat Kumara's direction.]
An Hasidic Tale from Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe
Reprinted from Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales by Howard Schwartz
Among the Hasidim of Reb Mordecai of Chernobyl was Rabbi Eliakim, a merchant of great wealth and a collector of rare and precious religious objects. So wealthy was Reb Eliakim that he even owned his own scroll of the Torah, which was prominently displayed in an Ark that had been built into one wall of his living room.
Once Reb Mordecai came to pay him a visit, and Reb Eliakim was beside himself with joy, proudly showing off his precious objects to his rabbi. And each time Reb Mordecai seemed pleased by a particular object, Reb Eliakim had it wrapped and placed in a crate for the rabbi to take back with him.
Before long the crate was almost filled with silver goblets, embroidered matzah and challah covers, and other precious treasures of Reb Eliakim, and at last the rabbi rose to take his leave, thanking Reb Eliakim for his generosity. At that moment the rabbi's eye fell on a beautiful antique silver menorah, which was one of Reb Eliakim's most prized possessions. For a long time the rabbi stared at that menorah, and Reb Eliakim and everyone else clearly saw that he desired it, yet Reb Eliakim could not bring himself to offer it, for it was a priceless heirloom.
Finally it was the Rabbi of Chernobyl who broke the silence, asking, as a special favor, for the silver menorah. Everyone watched Reb Eliakim closely, for they knew how much he prized that menorah, and they saw that he was struggling with himself. At last Reb Eliakim ordered his servant to wrap the menorah, place it with the other gifts, and carry the crate to the rabbi's carriage.
When they returned home, the rabbi had the crate opened, and displayed all of the gifts he had received from Reb Eliakim except for the silver menorah, which was kept in storage. His Hasidim did not under-stand why he had asked for it or why he did not display it, but they dared not question the rabbi.
Time passed, and Reb Eliakim took his leave of this world, and eventually the episode of the silver menorah was forgotten. Ten years later, on the eve of Hanukah, Reb Mordecai had the menorah brought out of storage and prepared for lighting. As the flames burned brightly, reflected in the polished silver of the menorah, Reb Mordecai told his Hasidim a tale.
"This menorah once belonged to Reb Yosef David, who was a rich man for most of his life but then fell upon hard times. Reb Eliakim desired this menorah for many years and often tried to purchase it, but no matter how much he offered, Reb Yosef David refused to sell it, for this menorah had been in his family for many generations. However, when his situation grew desperate, Reb Yosef David went to Reb Eliakim for a loan. Reb Eliakim agreed to give him a generous loan, with the silver menorah to serve as security. But when the loan was due, Reb Yosef David could not repay it, and thus he had to relinquish the menorah to Reb Eliakim.
"Now, as we know from Reb Pinhas of Koretz, every good deed creates an angel. But if a deed is imperfect, it produces an imperfect angel. In giving Reb Yosef David a loan, Reb Eliakim did a good deed, and therefore an angel came into being. However, because his intentions were not completely pure, Reb Eliakim's angel was blind.
"After his death, Reb Eliakim was brought before the heavenly court. His good deeds and bad deeds were weighed, and they balanced exactly. All at once the blind angel took its place on the right side of the scale, and it tipped in Reb Eliakim's favor. Seeing this, the heavenly court ruled that Reb Eliakim might be permitted to enter Paradise, but since his margin was so narrow, he would have to be led there by the blind angel.
"Ever since, Reb Eliakim and the blind angel have wandered, and his soul has found no rest. For the blind angel could not find the way to Paradise. And without some special merit, he would have remained a wandering soul for many years to come. But tonight the light of this menorah reached all the way to the upper world, restoring the angel's sight. Now, at last, the angel has been able to lead the soul of Reb Eliakim to his resting place in Paradise.
"Now you know why, long ago, I asked Reb Eliakim for his menorah. For it was the merit of this gift that he needed in order to repair the eyesight of the angel. I never used it until now, as I was waiting for the right moment. Last night, I saw Reb Eliakim, led by the blind angel, in a dream. From this I knew that they were close, and tonight, as the flames ascended, that they were passing over. And now Reb Eliakim is basking in the sacred light of Paradise."
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