"Perhaps you have noticed on a number of occasions that by your words and actions you may have caused some great grief and burden. You may have brought in the dark clouds through nega­tiv­ity, pessimism, criticism, barking and clamoring and having your way. And on another occasion, by doing what you know so well how to do, everyone has come away feeling good, feeling satisfied, feeling equally loved and equally important, and enjoying supremely a soul-satis­fying evening or experience together. Thus, you see, the carnal mind takes pride in itself, in its ability to control and hurt and put down and best another, and to rise and puff up as the puffing up of the snake.

"Yes, you can do these things, but I admonish you to choose not to do them—to not attempt to be the most important person in the room or the one who wins all the arguments or makes all the brilliant points. Far better to go within the heart, send love to each one, and encourage by your conversation some precious point of wisdom or expression to be forthcoming from another because you make it easy, you provide a point of relaxation and warmth. And someone who perhaps has had a much harder life than you, who has been silenced perhaps by great darkness through loved ones, can finally feel at home and free to speak without being criticized.

"Beloved ones, assume that those who come to you are injured and maimed and scarred, for they are. They have been in many battles of life. If you find them ornery or thick-skinned, this is a defense mechanism they have set up for a very deep hurt. Heal the hurt, not in such an obvious manner as self-proclaiming oneself as the healer—'Now I am going to do this for you, now I am going to do that for you'—but simply do it in the quietness of your heart. Learn to pray for people and not to prey upon them. [applause]

"It is true, beloved ones. Much of the hurt, much of the cruelty expressed in the world today is the means of the individual wrapping up again and again that old wound, that sharpness. And thus, it becomes a very important point of the Law to apply to Almighty God for the healing of one’s soul of the need to be aggressive toward any part of life.

"Much of the cause of your failure of many tests is that you have not stopped to rid yourself of the human habit to express that aggravation, that arrogance—all coming from the need of the carnal mind to assert itself. It is not real! It has no power to dominate your personality! I speak directly to you, and all of you know whereof I speak! And I tell you: the promise of your ascension will never be compromised by me, but it can be compromised by your free will!

"You must listen to me. There is a need to change by the will of the heart, by a heart that loves enough to change because others are still suffering from a dishonest expression that you periodically give vent to—dishonest because it does not praise God in the individual, it does not rejoice in his overcoming but still retains that defiance that will put down another.

"Beloved hearts, I will stand, and I will stand for eternity, to champion your soul’s path of victory and the ascension. Many of you who find yourselves in a precarious situation through your dalliance with the carnal mind may this day shed it in this heart and in my heart. For my heart is great enough, as the heart of God, to consume it all."

"The students of the manifold religions of the world—in their individual responses to the divine voice calling within their own hearts—have made an attempt to develop the heavenly attributes in their own lives only to find that their 'spirit of competition' in defense of their own particular ideology has intruded a discordant note of such proportions as to malign the entire image and permeate their feeling worlds with such sinister outpourings of hatred and projected discord as to confuse the youth of the world and thus strike a blow against the real God-ideals of life, which contain the best hope of mankind.

"The character of the Christ is the sometimes moot point of study on which men must concentrate, recognizing that the effects of the historical Jesus and other great masters are of little importance so far as they personally are concerned unless they do succeed in bringing into their own worlds, minds and affairs the God-powers which the great masters have always possessed yet have not always displayed to the eyes of the world.

"Confusion in religion is but a reflection of the distorted image composed of minute parts of the inflowing knowledge which men consciously retain but seldom assimilate and draw from either one or many diverse sources—which, although often sincere, are in themselves either incomplete or suffering from error in some of their basic or secondary ideas about God and the universal law. Confusion, then, symbolizes incompleteness or inaccuracy and should spur the sincere to ever new heights!"

"Sensing the human aura as a star, man gains his victory as he sees the universe flooded with stars of varying intensity. By comparison his own auric light glows more brightly, for the fires of competition fan the flame of aspiration.

"But all at once he staggers with the realization that he is in competition with no one, for the incomparable mystery of his own exquisite being is revealed at last. Questioning and doubts as to the purpose of life no longer engage his mind, for all answers are born in the ritual of becoming. The fascination of truth envelops him, and he weans himself from the old and familiar concepts that have stifled the glow of perpetual hope within his soul.

"He is concerned now that others shall also share in this great energy source of reality flowing forth from on high. Naught can transpire with his consent that God does not will, for the will of God and the will of man are become one.

"When each man consents to this victory, the struggle lessens and then is no more, for faith in the fatherhood of God reconciles men through Christ to the fountainhead of their eternal purpose. The glow of a new hope, infusing all, lends direction to the expansion of the auric light. The forcefield is magnified, and in the magnification thereof the star of the man who has become one with God shines on the planes of pure being as the angels rejoice."

"The family of nations as a divine ideal is no more difficult to comprehend as an idea than a community spirit or the love of one's country. As you ascend the pyramid called life, you find fewer stones at each level and but one at the top—the capstone! Yet, as you ascend, dear ones, your spiritual understanding of all substance descends from above to multiply your knowledge and power which increases your dominion over the 'footstool kingdom.' The greater the number who accept divine ideas, the greater amplification of these pure spiritual principles occurs; the more amplification, the stronger the universal bond of understanding between nation and nation or man and man.

"To replace narrowness by expansion, one must increase his understanding of universality. Rightly understood, the concept of unity in diversity is harmonious and beneficial. Rivalry and competition must give place to a spirit of excellence which seeks to draw forth from the Father above every facet possible of the wonderful divine plan.

"The Aquarian age is one of absolute cooperation between God and the ascended master, the ascended masters and man, and between people everywhere.

"The symbol of Aquarius—a water carrier with balanced urns—reveals harmonious service and bountiful supply! This rhythmic spirit of cooperation must be the basis of every relationship, replacing outworn selfishness.

" . . . No man is ever truly defrauded except by himself, albeit many are easily influenced by others and have not yet learned self-dependence which is only correct as it ties into or connects with its God source. I am calling for the world plan to come forth now and touch the responsive hearts of mankind. Unity must prevail and every false human control be reversed, for only in this manner is the victory of light assured."

"I AM certain that the media of true friendship need not expose the individual, who offers his loving attention, to the repulse of cruel and egocentric individuals who will spurn the proffered offering as a method of bolstering a sagging ego. But if such exposure occurs, it need not be a drag upon the energies and feelings as long as individuals are aware of the treachery of the carnal mind, without personalizing its vibrations. Keep yourself free as you offer your friendship by calling unto the Friend of all friends, God, to seal your offer of friendly assistance in the loving Protection of His own Great Heart Flame of Cosmic Friendship.

"Needless to say, spiritual friendship can be above all human idiosyncrasies and idolatry; and it is then spiritual indeed. Harmony, natural appreciation, study of the Great Cosmic Law, mutual prayer pacts, and service rendered jointly to others are invaluable in expanding the Light within the Souls of men. Facing the problems of the world together is often easier than going it alone.

"Therefore, I AM strongly advocating that Our chelas take 'under their wings' one or more individuals with whom they can Journey along the road that leads to their mutual Freedom. The only danger here lies in 'cliques' whereby competition and false protection is exercised, contrary to the Law of Love and playing one spiritual team against another. Each inter-group relationship should be based on Ascended Master Friendship which always serves first for the good of all and then the group, lastly for the personal self.

"Know, then, that the spirit of Christ-Discernment must be sought apart from any outer loyalties or opinions no matter how long you may have sustained them. You must guard both purse and person against the inroads of those who would establish, at the expense of absolute Virtue, a tower to reach unto Heaven, which is not anchored in the bedrock of world Good Will and the gentle entreaty of Our Lord The Maha Chohan Who ever admonishes:

"The Holy Spirit shall draw the devotees of all nations and creeds into such compliance with the Divine Will that the very shell of the whole world shall be saturated with the Light that is within it. The magnitude of that Light is best expanded, then, through Harmony and Understanding, not by a sense of struggle or competition among people seeking to serve the greater Light, but by the Holy Perceptions that recognize in the EQUAL CREATION the need for individual acceptance of each one's own GOD-GIVEN PERFECTION.

"In line with the policies We have established, to stand guard always upon the wall of the Lord, We say, let all who run and read remember to bear the UNITY OF TRUTH while understanding the subtlety of error. The Chelas of God are like Vines having very tender grapes, and We would not have any bruised by errors, whether stemming from the folly of avarice or the banality of ignorance."

"From earliest infancy upon this planet Earth, mankind's training occurs through the avenue of the five physical senses whereby there is builded into the consciousness almost complete dependence upon outer sources for the attainment of wisdom. The comparatively few have the misunderstood gift of genius, and yet God did create all men equal in the sense that all have equal opportunity to attain the crown of Life and then, with that attainment, to go onward into infinite excellence. In the spiritual realm there is never any competition, for the very nature of attainment itself precludes the very possibility of competition.

"Yet it is not the part of wisdom to give one's self away where nothing in return can be brought about as the result of this giving. God himself, as revealed by Christ in the parable of the talents, indicated the intent of the Deity to derive from the stewardship of creation the fruit of the talents he has given to man. The impediments of karma, or the law of cause and effect, have withheld from mankind for generations their soul freedom as well as their escape from immersement in ceaseless karmic rounds."

"The frequent outbursts in clashes among various groups of people quite naturally take their toll in human affairs producing seeds of distrust, unhappiness, and doubt, which in turn take many forms. Nowhere is this more evident than in the religious field, where through the centuries mankind have actually perpetrated all manners of injustice in the name of God. Those who should have stood shoulder to shoulder with one another in the support of cherished ideals have, either in the realm of human personality or doctrine, stood at sword's point.

"Mindful, then, of the great weakness of the human ego and its desire to achieve recognition for accomplishment, it is self-evident that competition which seeks to harm or disturb another part
of life in an unjust manner is a karma-making action which returns a great deal of unhappiness amplified to the one sending it out.

"I raise these concepts here in order to bring about a greater recognition of the interplay of subtle forces in the atmosphere which I discussed in my last release. For religious thought and political thought functioning in these aforementioned grids and forcefields-joined by the numerous frustrations and feelings of inadequacy which take their toll upon mankind—do result in an action of human discord which is almost suffocating to the cause of progress.

"You may ponder as to what occurs when a number of these forcefields do themselves begin to set up a mere mechanical clash in the sense that the electronic rate of vibration causes them to impinge upon one another. The end result is usually mass confusion, for many sensitive people do pick up the electronic release which, like subtly invisible atomic radiation, does have its effect upon those in proximity to it."

"As the population of the planet continues to increase and the demands upon nature mount upward with each increase, men must come to a platform of harmony and consonance, where the wheel of the world will be turned by the law of the One and the law of love among all nations and all people, so that the universal problems of mankind will be resolved with greater speed as the spirit of vain competition is stilled, and the spirit of infinite cooperation replaces the mortal sense that seeks to retard the progress of others as a means of accelerating one's own."

"We condemn not those who do not yet understand the mystery of the Divine, who hide behind the facade of agnosticism, who say, 'to be or not to be,' thus questioning their own identity and all reality in their unfirm worlds and questing consciousness. We condemn not the atheists who, in denying the existence of God, deny their own existence. We spread abroad the raiment of his garment, we expand the mantle of light upon the planet in song, in legend, and in intangible feelings that flow forth from light sources through every ascended master and angelic being.

"We seek to penetrate the veil of illusion, the sophistry of faint worldly wit and the mockings of self-condemnation which create feelings of inferiority in myriad individuals. We seek to draw aside the veil from every eye, from every consciousness, and to let each mind receive the floodlighting of divine beauty. For in reality, O mankind, all beauty is divine, and the Beautiful is another name for the Divine, whose symmetry and form are a matrix to draw man's thoughts upward.

"We urge an upward gaze to the Source of Life who is the sustaining strength of every cosmic emissary, of every ascended master, and every sun presence of immortal awareness. Thus will the strength, garnered from the untrammeled heights of beauty and cosmic purpose, be activated in the world of form. There is no solution to man's problems equal to the healing energies of heaven, and, precious ones, you cannot receive those energies from any outer sources by study, ambition, or entanglement in the psychic realm of blatant phenomena.

" . . . The still small voice is the voice of victory. And though it be but a whisper in the inner ecesses of being, saying silently, firmly, determinedly,"I AM God's son, To do his will I AM come!"

"it is enough to give the fervor which the moment requires, albeit we pray that men who seek the spiritual life will honor humility and feel no worldly sense of competition, rather paying homage to those ideals that will mean freedom to every man."

"Gracious ones, persevere! And you shall win! The challenge to every chela, every would-be initiate, to all who would come under our disciplines is given herewith. Persevere! And you shall win!

"The thought of merger with the Divine ought to be a blessed goal wherein all can shine. Competition and the vain spirit of egocentricity have no place in our disciplines; for one must work unswervingly for a purpose and devote oneself to the fulfillment of that purpose.

"The power to see the Promised Land vouchsafed of old to Moses as he came out of Egyptian bondage is one which to modern-day men and women must report the challenges of the times and make them aware of the need to persevere-to persevere in all that is of the past so that the untransmuted and banal aspects thereof may become vanquished in the name of victory; to persevere in the present hour when the drabness of appearances and the seeming slowness of pace does not temper the zeal of the fire of the heart; to persevere in the future by a glorious hope that refuses to leave the screen of the mind; to persevere at all times and to win.

" . . . If you could see at inner levels, as we do, the power of holy example as it was made known to The Karmic Board where individuals surmounted most frightful circumstances to become victors, you would recognize that often, by comparison measurement, your own struggles are
but those of an ant seeking to reach a nearby anthill."

"There is some subtle inward hope that has kept spiritually seeking people together down through the centuries. They have gathered in grottoes and caves, the catacombs of Rome.
They have been thrown to the lions literally and torn limb from limb. Atrocities and cruelties have been practiced against them. In modern-day society, even in the name of Christ, various religious groups all bearing the name Christian have shattered one another with feelings of enmity and competition. And the world has not expressed the Christ-love that the Master demonstrated.

"None of us today can lift up our head and say, I have not been a part of that. None of us can say, whether we actually entered into the doing of these deeds or not, that we have not perhaps at some time or other consented to it, either by our silence or by an inward rejoicing that something happened to someone or something that we did not approve of."

"It is unnatural for men to oppose one another by drawing forth energy and then blindly misqualifying that Light with the shadow of competition and ego. In a Universe guided wholly by the Law of Love there is no tug of war between opposing forces, but always the sweet implementation of Cosmic Assistance whereby the required number of Beings rush in to lift
the heaviest load.

"Truly the words 'My burden is Light' have meaning in the Kingdom of Heaven. For therein may be found the wondrous out-working of Immortal Perfection. A portion of God's Perfection floods over into the consciousness of the world today as of old. Regardless of the impediments which are strewn upon the pathway of mankind through misunderstanding and neglect, the world is blessed with an expanded outpouring of Love-both from on High and from many humble hearts below."

"The purpose of meditation, I repeat, is that God above may manifest in man below-as above, so below.

"If it is truly God who manifests below, there will be no room in your being for the sin of self-seeking, the desire for achievement, recognition, or competition with others among men. You will know that the strength of divine unity in the body of God upon earth is the requirement of the hour; and you will know by their fruits that those who claim to be great teachers, great leaders, great souls, gurus, and ministers of righteousness—who foster the sin of separation from mankind, who exalt themselves into positions of fame and fortune-are often in danger of having their works burned by the great transmuting fires of the law.

"Make no unnecessary karma in your meditations, but learn the path of humility which will make you great because you already are. This is the greatness that you share with every son of God
on earth and in the universe. It is the greatness of the light itself which belongs to all. It does not weaken your joint-heirship with the Christ to share it with the mass of illumined believers. It can only strengthen it; for each son of God who attains his perfect reunion with God and his manifestation of God, fulfilling the command 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,' is also enriching the borders of God's kingdom upon the planet."

"The judgments of men are not impartial, for they are incomplete. They are based not upon clear seeing, but often upon the competitive mind, emphasizing the struggles between peoples and personalities rather than that self-competition which ever seeks to reach higher in the way of genuine spiritual service and attainment.

"The time of the threshing floor is at hand. More and more, the Karmic Lords are finding it necessary, even when tempering their judgments by mercy, to execute those judgments upon
the ungodly which return to them their actions originating in the human consciousness that have denied mercy both to themselves and to others. These have entered into the marts of deceit, adding to the confusion of the world and holding back temporarily the blessed elements of Truth by which one day all shall be known even as they are known.

" . . . When I say that it is a great misfortune that individuals seem willing to allow the cutting-up of the Whole into separate manifestations pitted against one another, it is to show that the way of the spoiler is a snare to the soul. How unfortunate it is that individuals can come to a place in their judgments and condemnations of others where they can justify such thoughts and feelings. They seem unwilling to allow even for ordinary dialogue between themselves and that unfortunate individual whom they have now chosen as their enemy."

"The seemingly innocent practice of holding wrong concepts about others, of judging others, of assessing their level of attainment or possibility is all a part of vain competition and results in grave misunderstandings. You see, when the hidden hungers of the soul for advancement remain unsatisfied, they sometimes burst out as unbalanced energy which takes the form of gossip and the downgrading of others as a substitute for inner God-security.

" . . . It is most unfortunate that this battle of the human psyche is carried over into the science of religion, for men expect perfection in their religion and its followers. Herein lies the very subtle activities of the brothers of the shadow who seek to impugn the pure in heart by drawing down the pall of ignorance, confusion, and questioning about the person and character of another.

"Some of this is like taking out old photo albums and prints reflecting earlier immaturities and showing these 'snapshots' or 'snap judgments' to others and saying, 'See how they really are!' While the great divine opportunity called life moves onward, men attempt to methodically yet mechanically thwart the progress of another soul and, by the law of returning karma, do but hinder their own progress.

" . . . Precious ones, your ascension is not always achieved in one dramatic moment wherein
the form is transfigured and you rise into the arms of God. Attainment is often a matter of the conscious practice of daily entering into the heart of the Father and thinking his thoughts, dreaming his dreams of benevolence, partaking of his life and breaking the bread of his holy covenant with your brethren so that their hearts may also burn within them as the disciples experienced upon the way to Emmaus."

"How tragic it is that men spend lifetime after lifetime playing their competitive games, deriving temporary satisfaction in topping one another's achievements instead of simply enjoying the abundant Life and the limitless sense that wells up from within the childlike heart—the sense that comes from the natural expression of the thoughts of God that unfold within the mind attuned to the Infinite.

"Just as a flower joyously opens its petals according to its own preordained pattern, so man can release the energies of his consciousness into the blueprint of identity that marks the perfect concept and the patterned destiny—his very own from the beginning. Just as the etheric pattern of the flower is there-an electrical forcefield surrounding the bud with an aura of expectancy—so the design God has willed for each manifestation of Himself surrounds the evolving monad as a cocoon of Light, containing within itself all that man requires to fulfill his divine plan.

"As the flower unfolds, it follows the outline of the pattern which Nature has lovingly pressed upon its cellular structure. No resistance to the cosmic flow is here, but movement toward reunion with the Whole and a momentum of aeons, of Life evolving Life, begetting beauty and expanding the
universal order. Thus Nature teaches man the Way; and if he would follow, his life, too, would be the outpicturing on earth of heaven's immortal loveliness."

"Beloved ones, do not so easily give to the child the answer, for the answer is not important. It is the ritual of seeking and finding in all things—having to muster the will, having to have enough desire in the attainment of the prize to pursue. Thus, competition in life, in sports and games is useful to a point. For the desire to excel is truly the excellence of the first ray. And that excelling, beloved, is fired by love for the prize. And the prize becomes more precious and more precious as sights are elevated. And soon the prizes of this world no longer satisfy.

"It is good to win the medals and the cups. It is good to show the point of winning and victory only to realize that having thus conquered, one need not conquer again but one is ready for spiritual heights. And one knows that with effort and commeasurement and the inner sensing of the nearness of the stars one can achieve the goal of immortality.

"Thus, it is well to understand in training oneself or one's child not to make the hurdle too great or too little but to instill enough challenge that demands enough effort that in striving the soul will exceed its former position and discover a new unboundedness, a new penetration of the larger Self.

"Thus explore. Thus discover. Thus be creative. Do not rest on yesterday's victories; they are not equal to the next challenge.

"Thus, I begin to you my counsel of the new year with a single lesson from Maitreya's school on goal-fittedness. Fit yourselves well for the good use and exercise of the four lower bodies, the skills, potentials and talents that you have, always knowing that you are building parallel lines of force with an inner summoning and an inner adventure of the spirit that takes place beyond the body.

" . . . Detail, then, is the will of God-a thousand-petaled blue lotus, the sunflower herself and the many seeds thereof. The will of God is fastidious and detailed. It is [you have] fourteen months to master a skill, a trade, a profession, to bring to the point of excellence that which you would love most to lay upon the altar of God- that achievement, that ability which you know will enable us through you to build the house of God, to bring light to many a house now in darkness, to deliver souls of lifelong addictions. And these addictions go on lifetime after lifetime."

"Beloved, the categorizing of people is so natural to the carnal mind that it is almost impossible to erase its stain. The cast of the mind that assesses each passerby must needs be to elevate one’s own human ego.

"For a moment now, imagine yourself as an egoless being. Imagine yourself not being concerned about what others think of you, having no thoughts or opinions of others but only the freedom to acknowledge the Light, to bow to the Atman within and to treasure a soul to whom God has given the vessel of body and mind.

"That soul must be very special and very important to God—in fact, of ultimate importance. For why should the God of very gods sponsor a soul if that soul has no chance, no something within that can spring forth as a flower, even as a shoot pushes up through the crusty earth?

"O blessed ones, God has so valued each one that to each one he has given the very image of himself, the I AM Presence, the Holy Christ Self, in whose image you are made. Find the jewel, find the jewel. Find the Sangha, find the Buddha, find the Dharma, all locked within the inner divine spark.

"Enjoy, then, the peace of noncompetition, of not engaging in mental competition with others whom you think are more or less advanced than you are. What a pity that so many spend so much energy in defending their relative position in the social strata of life! Would you not agree, beloved ones?

[Congregation responds: 'Yes.']

"We do not often come apart to examine our thoughts and feelings—our faulty thoughts, our faulty feelings. But this is the hour to do so. It is so liberating.

"Think of the blessed ones of the East. Think of Lao Tzu, Confucius, the golden emperor and many, many unnamed devotees of Light and bodhisattvas robed in their saffron robes. Think of them, beloved, glorifying God in their members and do follow after them. Do realize that the self-emptying is the process whereby you are self-filled with the Real Self.

"The Buddhist teachings of the Dhyani Buddhas are necessarily inner teachings of the inner five secret rays. And thus we speak on these things, for these are the levels and the depths that you must enter in order to be free of the binding shackles of the human condition.

"Sages have taught these truths over many, many centuries, and you may say, 'What is new, Ratnasambhava?' What is new is that I am a Buddha and I am speaking through a Messenger, and therefore you have the direct light from my heart to quicken and make alive the precepts you may have read again and again.

"I release streams of light, white and blue and yellow and rose and green. I release streams of light so that there may be the alchemy of change for you in my words, which are not words alone but cups of light empowered—yes, empowered—to turn you around and set you on the path of overcoming and to the realization of your own seed of Buddhahood unfolding.

"This is the meaning and purpose of a dictation—not always to reveal some grand new fact of the universe but to empower you to employ and internalize the simple truths of being rather than merely hear about them.

"For as I receive you, so I place my Presence over you and in your heart. And I come for the washing of the waters by the Word. I come for the washing of the waters by the Divine Mother.

" . . . I call for the crystallization of light. I call for the melting of the elements that they might be poured into new vessels, new molds. I come to restore you to the higher planes of being whence you descended to this world. I come to take from you all self-criticism, self-deprecation. I come to deliver you of sorrow, of aches and pains of the heart regarding loved ones.

"These are not mere words, for in these words you discover what is my mission here and why I come with such profound love for each one of you. For you have had your struggles, each and every one, in the past year and I have been there with my givingness of compassion and understanding. And you have found that understanding in your God, in the friend, in the counsellor, in the professional who is able to help you sort out the elements of being.

"I say, beloved, as you have heard before, it is the sense of struggle that makes the struggle. Let us cease the struggling and remember how easy it is to transmute all levels of struggle by the violet flame, how easy it is to turn one’s back on Darkness and to face the Light of the Divine Mother.

"We, then, come for the consolation of all souls of Light throughout the Spirit-Matter universes. We are everywhere in these universes. And therefore, my word, registered through the vocal cords of one in embodiment, enables all those at this level of consciousness anywhere on all worlds whatsoever to receive the same light, the piercing rays of light, of star fire, of energy in the core of vast celestial bodies that you have not seen but only know are there beyond the Great Beyond.

"There is an interconnection of all Life. And therefore, whenever those who are the immortal ones speak through an embodied soul at this level, there is the transmission of that word to all lifestreams who are similarly abiding in this band of energy, which is your time and space and your compartment to work out your reason for being—your dharma as well as your karma.

"Know this, then—that another function of having a Messenger and dictations is the unification by the antahkarana, the great web of light, of all souls of a similar evolution. And as the antahkarana quivers at the hand of the great Master Artist of life, there is a stepping up, a tuning of the sound that is heard from the quivering of the antahkarana. And as you are able to transcend certain lower elements, you find yourself rising to new levels of that web of life and to attunement with the higher sound. This is the great mystery of being—that you also, though considering yourself finite, are with us 'everywhere in the consciousness of God.'

"So be still for a moment and resolve with inner resolution that this year will not be a year when you are tossed and tumbled by descending personal and world karma, that this will not be a year when you miss your moments, miss your cues, are not here and there and the next place where you need to be in consciousness and in time to proceed with the next challenge that your mentors of the Spirit would give you.

"Do not be idle but remember, the angels of the dawn come to assist you to unburden yourself of your daily karma. Meditate with them, walk with them, sing with them. Give your calls to the violet flame. Give yourself a boost by delivering yourself, yes, divesting yourself of the burdens of the day, before they come upon you.

"So, in the sweetness and the gentleness of all Buddhas out of all octaves, I seal you in the flame of compassion and charity, remembering the words of the precious Nada, 'I give you my love, for all else I have already given away.'

"Let this be your motto, beloved. Do not hold your hand closed tightly to hold on to your possessions, but open your hand and your heart and give and give and give. And the Light shall increase in your heart with each gift you give to another whose paucity of consciousness perceives a need for material things whereas you need not have them in such abundance or duplication.

"Value the things of the Spirit. Continue to give. For I tell you a secret: Giving is what makes the threefold flame flower of the heart grow and grow and grow. The more you give, the more the Light does flow.

"And I will tell all of you who seek this and that and the next recourse for healing that your healing is in the Christ-flame and in the seed of the Buddha within. Thus in love discover that all ailments are healed because you bring all things—by the threefold flame that you have expanded—into the balance of the five elements and the Five Dhyani Buddhas.

"Now picture us, one perched on each of your shoulders, one in the heart, one above the head and one beneath the feet.

"We are also your guardian-angel Buddhas."

"As he enters into the realization of his creative potential, man must develop the sense of limitless being, the sense of the abundant Life. He must replace the treacherous spirit of competition, which seized the heart of Cain and still dominates the mass consciousness,
with the all-pervading sense of the abundant Love.

"Love has created him; he is made in the image of Love. Love will sustain him; Love will guide him every step of the way; Love will produce in him the regeneration of the Christ; and all of Heaven will bow to the Light within him because he has enthroned the Christ within his heart
and developed an inner rapport with the universal Presence of Love.

"The marvelous sense of freedom that comes to the individual when he begins to realize that he can create, that he is destined to be a co-creator with God, and that he is already creating, whether he works in darkness or in Light, begets not only a feeling of responsibility to all of Cosmos and to one's fellowman but also the deep desire to successfully meet the challenges of that responsibility."

"In this hope of a new world, I appeal to the men and women of all religions upon earth to live according to the principle of love and according to the higher teachings, to cease their condemnations of one another, to let go of the sense of struggle, and to shun cutthroat competition that breeds gossip and the hypocrisy of psychological tricks.

"Learn to live honestly with thy God, and so shall you live honestly with your fellowmen. You will find that the reverse is also true. From the very beginning, all of the religions which have been sponsored by hierarchy have had as their central theme the ennoblement of man, the exaltation of his consciousness, the purification of the thoughts and motives of his world, and the final perfectionment of the individual as he is fitted for higher things in the many mansions of our Father. If it were not so I would have told you. But I have often told you, and you have often been told by life.