"You have heard, Keepers of the Flame, the mathematics of joy transferred from my heart to your own. You have heard in this piece that bears the flame of my heart that very formula of the violet flame, and yet its cipher can be decoded by no man.

"For that which you hear in this manifestation of my causal body is but a part of the spherical formula of life. Yet the meditation upon its detail is for you the means whereby you pass to those higher dimensions of my own purple fiery heart where I would receive you, yes, there in the round tower of my heart, and keep you there forever and a day as you pursue here and now those glorious initiations of the Seventh Ray, drawing down by the light of Rakoczy, by the light of that march, even those conditions for your own self-mastery that are the distillations of my causal body and your own and of the fair flower of Portia's own lily heart.

"Blessed ones, we are indeed drawing down the strains of light-the rhythm and the beat and the impulse of sacred fire that bursts by the marching tempo, by the threefold flame, by the three-quarter time, by the exactness of the disciplines of Serapis Bey that rise, even as the fragrance of your soul rises to meet the fairest flower of your own life, the blessed Christ Self, who is in this hour the mediator of my own Light whereby that which flows through the Messenger may reach your own heart flame."

* Light of Rakoczy. Prior to Saint Germain's dictation the "Rakoczy March" from Hungarian Rhapsody no. 15 by Franz Liszt was played as the meditation music. The Great Divine Director, teacher and sponsor of Saint Germain, founded the royal House of Rakoczy of Hungary and established the retreat of the Great White Brotherhood, the Rakoczy Mansion, in Transylvania, where Saint Germain had transported the flame of freedom prior to the sinking of Atlantis. In 1684 Saint Germain ascended from the Rakoczy Mansion. When he appeared as the Wonderman of Europe, the Comte de St. Germain, historians of the period speculated that he was a prince of the Rakoczy family. The light of Rakoczy is the lineage of the Great Divine
Director since Atlantis.

"Saint Germain and the Great Divine Director, the Rakoczy Mansion—[the retreat] is now focused in the etheric plane over Romania, where World Communism has also divided the eastern states of Europe, not according to the lines of the culture of the Mother but according to the lies of the manipulation of the people, a people born to outpicture the flame of freedom in that house of light, that house that is the focus of the Maltese cross of your own precipitation of freedom."

A root race is a group of souls, or a lifewave, who embody together and have a unique archetypal pattern, divine plan and mission to fulfill on earth or on other systems of worlds. According to esoteric tradition, there are seven primary root races on earth.

The Ascended Masters teach that the first three root races have won their immortal freedom and ascended from earth.

The fourth, fifth and sixth root races (the latter not entirely descended into physical incarnation) remain in embodiment on earth.

The seventh root race is destined to incarnate on the continent of South America in the Aquarian age.

Each root race embodies under the aegis of a Manu (Sanskrit, "progenitor" or "lawgiver"), who embodies the Christic image for the race. Lord Himalaya and his divine complement are the Manus for the fourth root race; Vaivasvata Manu and his consort are the Manus for the fifth root race; the God and Goddess Meru are the Manus for the sixth root race; and the Great Divine Director and his divine complement are the Manus for the coming seventh root race.

Retreats of the Manus. The Great Divine Director maintains an etheric retreat in the heart of the Himalayas in India (the Cave of Light) and in the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania (the Rakoczy Mansion). The God and Goddess Meru maintain a retreat (the Temple of Illumination) in the etheric plane over Lake Titicaca, on the Peru-Bolivia border. Lord Himalaya maintains a retreat (the Retreat of the Blue Lotus) in the etheric plane over the Himalayas. The location of the retreat(s) of Vaivasvata Manu has not been revealed.