This evocative statue represents a slender, youthful being seated in a pensive attitude with the fingers of his right hand supporting his head and his bent right leg resting across the left knee....The remarkable grace and pliancy of its pose make this a penetrating evocation of a being in a state of profound intro­spection....In China where, this iconographic type was popular between the fifth and eighth centuries, the meditating pose symbolizes a turning point in the spiritual career of both Prince Siddhartha and Prince Ajita [Maitreya]—usually the moment immediately preceding enlightenment.

        Since the events of the teaching career of Prince Ajita, the future Buddha Maitreya, are modeled after those of Prince Siddhartha, the Buddha Sakyamuni [Gautama], it is often impossible, without inscriptions or contextual evidence, to distinguish between images of these two Bodhisattvas. <3>

        [Maitri] is characterized by the desire to do good to others and to provide them with what is useful.... Maitri is regarded as a great power in the universe. It prompts a bodhisattva to hope, pray and wish for the welfare of others, without passion or expectation of reward. It can tame wild beasts and venomous serpents. It prevents and allays physical and mental pain and evil. It establishes peace and concord among mankind....The perfect Buddhas can emit rays of maitri from their bodies, which are diffused [all] over the world and promote peace and joy everywhere. <4>

        “Revered Nagasena, this too was said by the Lord: ‘If the freedom of mind that is loving-kindness is practiced, developed, made much of, made a vehicle, made a basis, persisted in, become familiar with and well established, eleven advantages may be expected: one sleeps in comfort, wakes in comfort, dreams no evil dream, he is dear to human beings, dear to nonhuman beings, devatas guard him, fire, poison and weapons do not affect him, his mind is easily concentrated, the expression of his face is serene, he does his (karmic) time unconfused, and if he penetrates no higher (to arhatship than the attainment of loving-kindness) he reaches the Brahma-world (on deceasing from this life).’ But on the other hand you say: ‘The boy Sama, a dweller in loving-kindness, was roaming about in a forest surrounded by a herd of deer when, on being pierced by a poisoned arrow shot by the king Piliyakkha, he fell down fainting on that very spot.’...

        [Nagasena replies,] “What was the reason for that? These (advantages resulting from developing loving-kindness), sire, are not a man’s special qualities; these are special qualities due to developing loving-kindness. At the moment when the boy Sama, sire, was lifting up his pitcher of water he was neglectful of the development of loving-kindness. At the moment, sire, when a man is filled with loving-kindness neither fire nor poison nor weapons affect him, and when those who desire his woe approach him they do not see him, they have no chance over him....

        “It is wonderful, revered Nagasena, it is marvellous, revered Nagasena, how the development of loving-kindness is a warding off of all evil.”

        “The development of loving-kindness, sire, brings all special qualities of skill both for those (desiring) weal and for those (desiring) woe. The development of loving-kindness which is of great advantage should be communicated to all those beings who are bound to consciousness.” <5>

        My emphasis as I tutor your souls is in the development of the heart as a fiery furnace, [a] vortex of transmutation, and a place where the threefold flame is balanced, [out of which] one can extend the borders of being and love to enfold so many who suffer.

        Think upon these words of the Bodhisattva vow: fearless compassion! Ah, what a state of mind to be in perpetually! Fearless­ness to give of the fount of one’s being, to extend compassion instead of criticism and backbiting, to give such flood tides of love as to fill in the chinks and cracks of another’s shortcomings.

        Fearless compassion means one no longer fears to lose oneself or to loose oneself to become such a grid for the Light to pass through that the Infinite One never ceases to be the Compassionate One through you. <7>

        I will tell you what has impelled us to reach beyond our ability, and I speak of all the ascended hosts. It is because we saw a need so great and had such compassion for the one who had that need, and [we] saw that none other stood by to help that one, none other would come if we did not extend the hand. In that moment, beloved, Love itself supplied the intensity, the [sacred] fire whereby we could leap to the rescue, to the side of [one in distress], or enter some course of study [so] that we might become proficient in [the] knowledge that was needed.

        This [response], then, this love that could forget itself and leap to save a life, this, beloved, was the opening for the great fire of the Holy Spirit to enter the heart, to dissolve recalcitrance there, to melt the impediments to those twelve petals [of the heart chakra] and their unique vibration, to take from us hardness of heart, physical encrustations, disease, fear, doubt, records of death. All of these could vanish in the ardor of service. <8>

        The Dhamma-sangani defines it thus: “The striving and onward effort, the exertion and endeavour, the zeal and ardour, the vigour and fortitude, the state of unfaltering effort, the state of sustained desire, the state of not putting down the yoke and the burden, the solid grip of the yoke and the burden, energy, right endeavour, this is virya.”...

        Virya is often praised by the Mahayanist writers, and its fundamental importance is indicated in unequivocal terms. Enlighten­ment depends entirely on virya; where there is virya, there is bodhi. Virya is the chief and paramount cause of all the auspicious principles that are conducive to Enlightenment. It promotes a bodhisattva’s material and spiritual well-being. It is far better to live only for a day with full virya than to vegetate without energy during a hundred years. <9>

        What qualities must a Bodhisattva possess? In the Teaching of Gotama Buddha and in the Teaching of Bodhisattva Maitreya, given by him to Asanga according to tradition in the fourth century (Mahayana-Sutralankara), the maximum development of energy, courage, patience, constancy of striving, and fearlessness was underlined first of all. Energy is the basis of everything, for it alone contains all possibilities.

        “Buddhas are eternally in action; immovability is unknown to them; like the eternal motion in space the actions of the Sons of Conquerors manifest themselves in the worlds.”

        “Mighty, valiant, firm in his step, not rejecting the burden of an achievement for the General Good.”

        “There are three joys of Bodhisattvas: the joy of giving, the joy of helping, and the joy of eternal perception. Patience always, in all, and everywhere. The Sons of Buddhas, the Sons of Conquerors, Bodhisattvas in their active compassion are Mothers to All-Exis­tence.” <10>

        When men speak evil of ye, thus must ye train yourselves: “Our heart shall be unwavering, no evil word will we send forth, but compassionate of other’s welfare will we abide, of kindly heart without resentment: and that man who thus speaks will we suffuse with thoughts accompanied by love, and so abide; and, making that our standpoint, we will suffuse the whole world with loving thoughts, far-reaching, wide-spreading, boundless, free from hate, free from ill-will, and so abide.” Thus, brethren, must ye train your­selves. <11>

        Har Dayal, in his summary of the perfection of ksanti, says:

        A bodhisattva knows that the Buddhas are “the ocean of for­bearance”; gentle forbearance is their spiritual garment. He cultivates this virtue in its full perfection. He forgives others for all kinds of injury, insult, contumely, abuse and censure. He forgives them everywhere, in secret and in public. He forgives them at all times, in the forenoon, at noon and in the afternoon, by day and by night. He forgives them for what has been done in the past, for what is being done at present and for what will be done in the future....He forgives all without exception, his friends, his enemies, and those who are neither.” <12>

        In truth, when men understand the ritual of forgiveness and the ritual of honor, they will understand that as they reach out from their hearts to enfold one whom they meet with true and unbiased love, there flows from their hearts to that one an energy of upliftment that in contacting the receptive heart is raised exponen­tially into higher dimensions until, by the power of the square root, the cosmic cube glows within that energy and amplifies it by love. This positively charged energy then returns to the sender, assuring him that the blessings he will reap for the joy he has released to another will be a permanent part of his world forever....

        We urge, then, upon all an understanding of the ritual of the heart. When an individual does some bit of harm to you, precious ones, whether it be mischievous or intentional, you who are the wise ones will immediately seize upon the opportunity to forgive him.

        For when the essence of forgiveness is released from your heart, not only does it create a passion for freedom in the erring one but it intensifies remorse in his heart, thereby bringing him to the feet of his own divinity. Thus he is able once again to laugh at the wind and the wave and the seasons and the buffetings of life and understand that all is a chastening to unfold his soul’s reality.

        Do you see, then, gracious ones, that courtesy as an expression of forgiveness and affection between hearts is a spiritual activity that brings about great soul expansion, which is intended to bring every man from serfdom to a state of lordship where he is the master of his world?

        Yet we sometimes look askance, even from our octave, at those individuals who have long been under our tutelage and our radiation who upon receipt of some trivial offense immediately begin to send out a vibration of great resentment against the one who performs this offense against their lifestreams.

        Quite frequently there is a mounting of intense reactionary resentment; this creates a great karma for the student of Ascended Master law, who ought to know better. And through the rupture that is thereby created in the emotional body, there is a pressing in from the sinister force of disturbing vibrations that not only flow through the aura and lifestream of the one who has taken offense but also puncture the peace and harmony of the supposed offender.

        Do you not see, then, by contrast what a gracious thing the ritual of forgiveness can be? And O how wonderful it would be if our students would truly understand the law of forgiveness! It is a sweet gift from the heart of God and one that people ought to welcome into their worlds so that they may freely give it to others, even as they have freely received it.

        Whenever someone does something that is not to your liking, precious ones, this is your great opportunity. This is your opportunity to say, “I will use God’s energy and love to erase one more blight upon the universe! I will see to it that the blackboard of life becomes a radiant screen of white perfection, and I will put my perfection-patterns into manifestation. For these patterns are from the Father, and I am the Son representing the Father and I must show forth Light and not Darkness.”

        Don’t you think it a bit strange, gracious ones, that from time to time people insist upon doing just the opposite? With their mouths they attempt to draw near to God as they speak and prattle of brotherly love; but when the moment of testing comes they are the first ones to rise up and say, “Vengeance is mine!” What a mockery this makes of “pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father.” <13>

        Let us, then, seek not after lust or luster but let us seek after the perfectionment of life. The perfectionment of life lives within you. It is quite natural to draw light from within your heart and send it out into the world. This is the virtue that creates the seamless garment. Do you realize that your tube of light is the seamless garment of the Christ? Do you realize when you call forth from God the perfection of his light-radiance to surround you that you are weaving the seamless garment around yourself?

        Precious ones, I want you all to understand tonight that the moment that you have in your thought and feeling world resentment against any individual or any group of individuals on earth, you are immediately sending forth through the qualification of your energy the substance which will create a boomerang that will bring to your doorstep a great deal of unhappiness.

        You do not wish to reap the fruit of unhappiness, do you? Then I am certain you will understand that even if you do not always feel like forgiving, it is that discretion which is the better part, in fact the best part, of valor.

        I come to initiate the line of Bodhisattvas of the New Age. I come to inquire: Are there any among you who care enough for Terra to live and to love, and to live and to serve until this people held in the hand of God come into the center of the One?...

        Here I AM and, startling as it may seem, I have always been with you, even in the darkest hours of your aloneness, even in the hour of your rejection of my presence when you have cried out, “Whither shall I flee from thy presence?” For you have known in your soul that although you would ascend into heaven or be in the depths of the underworld, <14> you would find Maitreya Buddha answering the call of Gautama Buddha, of Sanat Kumara. For long ago I took my vow:

        And I saw my God imprisoned in flesh. I saw the Word imprisoned in hearts of stone. I saw my God interred in souls bound to the ways of the wicked. And I said again:

I will not leave thee, O my God!

I will tend that fire.

I will adore that flame.

And by and by some will aspire to be with me—

To be Maitreya.

        And one day I sat, my head in my hand, deep in thought, and Lord Gautama said to me, “What are you thinking, my Son?” And I said, “My Father, can we win them with kindness and with love? Will they respond to Love?” And my Father said to me, “If you hold within your heart, my Son, the full orchestration of Love, 144,000 tones of Love, if you yourself will come to know Love, then, yes, you will win them with Love.”

        My heart leaped for joy. My Father had given to me the challenge to know Love, to be Love, not for the sake of mere love and loving Love, not for the sake of the mere bliss of the communion of Love, but for the salvation of souls, for the reaching out unto my God in humanity.

        One tender smile is surely worth a thousand frames <15> of the face of Maitreya. The loving, overflowing, pure heart’s giving—does this not convey the Maitreya beyond the veil? I desire you to be myself, not in pomposity or pride (now self-styled initiators of lesser mortals), nay, but to remember that by the grace of the one who has sent me you yourself might be my vessel.

        You say, then, “But you have not yet appeared to us, Maitreya. How can we be thyself appearing to others?”

        Yet I have so many times appeared to you....

        You shall surely know the Buddha in the way when you expand the golden pink glow-ray of the heart, becoming thereby tender, sensitive, loving in a beautiful sound of Love—love as appreciation for the soul, for the spirit, for the vastness of potential and being, but above all [love as] appreciation for the God Flame.

        In gratitude for the God Flame that is your threefold flame, serve to set life free. Kindness always comes forth from gratitude. Selfishness emits from the state of the ingrate who receives again and again and demands more and demands more again as though Life and Hierarchy and Mother should supply all wants and needs.

        Blessed ones, to forget to be grateful for the gift of the flame of Life means that you can be capable of riding roughshod over another’s tenderest moments and feelings in this insensitivity.

        “The Keeper’s Daily Prayer” is given [to you] by the beloved Nada that you might neglect not profoundest gratitude [in the] daily memory that you are and shall be eternally yourself because the flame of Life as divine spark beats—beats, beloved—and leaps, burns and blazes within you. All else may fade but the flame burns on, and out of the flame is [heard] the Call, the Call to the soul:

“Come Home to the heart of Maitreya!” <16>

I AM a God Flame of radiant Love
From the very Heart of God
In the Great Central Sun,
Descending from the Master of Life!
I AM charged now
With beloved Helios and Vesta’s
Supreme God Consciousness
And Solar Awareness.

Pilgrim upon earth,
I AM walking daily the way
Of the Ascended Masters’ Victory
That leads to my eternal Freedom
By the power of the sacred fire
This day and always,
Continually made manifest
In my thoughts, feelings, and immediate awareness,
Transcending and transmuting
All the elements of earth
Within my four lower bodies
And freeing me by the power of the sacred fire
From those misqualified foci of energy
within my being.

I AM set free right now from all that binds
By and through the currents of the Divine Flame
Of the sacred fire itself,
Whose ascending action makes me
God in manifestation,
God in action,
God by direction and
God in consciousness!

I AM an active Flame!
I AM a vital Flame!
I AM an eternal Flame!
I AM an expanding fire spark
From the Great Central Sun
Drawing to me now every ray
Of divine energy which I need
And which can never be requalified by the human
And flooding me with the Light
And God-illumination of a thousand suns
To take dominion and rule supreme forever
Everywhere I AM!

Where I AM, there God is also.
Unseparated forever I remain,
Increasing my Light
By the smile of his radiance,
The fullness of his Love,
The omniscience of his Wisdom,
And the power of his Life eternal,
Which automatically raises me
On ascension’s wings of Victory
That shall return me to the Heart of God
From whence in Truth
I AM come to do God’s Will
And manifest abundant Life to all!

Then the cosmic conflagration takes place: the whole world is burnt down by an Asura-king [demon-king] holding seven suns in his hands. Even the mountains melt and disappear; the earth has become a scorched plain. At that moment, Maitreya descends, seated in a splendid shrine that floats down from the Tusita heaven....

        When Maitreya descends, the demon-kings with their armies will try to resist him, and they are defeated by a host of myriads of bodhisattvas, riding on supernatural elephants and lions, and armed to the teeth.

‘the father will not know his son, nor will the mother know her daughter.’ The crowds of sinners and of the pious ones seem to be herded into two separate groups;...when Maitreya descends he will collect those who are destined to be saved ‘east of the bridge,’ and the sinners ‘west of the bridge.’ The chosen people constitute a small minority....Their salvation is the fruit of their religious piety, which [includes]: the confession of the Triple Refuge [the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha]; the Five Rules to be observed by laymen [prohibiting killing, stealing, adultery, lying and intoxication]; fasting, the practice of ‘visualization’, and reciting the Guanshiyin Scripture [the Kuan Yin Scripture].

        In addition to these formal precepts and techniques, the practicants are constantly told to devote themselves whole-heartedly to religious works, to repent, and to abstain from desire and evil intentions. They are ordered to ‘change their hearts and change their thoughts,’ to ‘change their former ways and cultivate themselves for the future’; for soon a Lord of Darkness...will come, and only those who exert themselves to the utmost can be saved. <17>

        Believers formed small congregations bound by strands of teacher-to-pupil ties, and met to worship and to read [their] scriptures together. Some, inspired by their patriarch’s predictions that the end of the present cosmic era would be signaled by great catastrophes and by the appearance of a savior sent by the Eternal Mother, rose in rebellion in order to usher in the new world. Although outlawed...for their beliefs, deemed incompatible with official orthodoxy and conducive to violent political action, communities of White Lotus adherents survived and grew in subsequent centuries.

        For those who believed, the White Lotus religion provided a process for salvation that did not necessitate reliance on the temples and priests of either popular religion or the state cult....

        By the early eighteenth century, a variety of different sects (groups of believers linked by the bonds between pupils and teacher) had appeared, some relying on written scriptures and congregational life, others emphasizing the recitation of mantras and individual yogic meditation. Although uprisings were few, government persecution (arrests of sectarians, confiscation of books, destruction of meeting places) slowly intensified....

        At least two thousand books (nearly four hundred different titles) were seized and destroyed by the government between 1720 and 1840....

        Both congregational and meditational sects nevertheless continued to attract followers. <18>

        The Eternal Mother wanted her children to return to their “primordial native land,” their “original Home...,” the spiritual paradise that mankind had once left and where their Mother still resided....It was...a splendid and luxurious place, a paradise that incorporated many of the features of the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, of popular Chinese Buddhism....

        Having described this paradise to which the Eternal Mother longed to bring her children, the literature of these sects goes on to explain how the Eternal Mother would, to this end, intervene in human history. She would send down to earth gods and buddhas who would teach a new system of values by means of which men could find salvation and thus “come Home.” Because mankind was “steeped in wickedness” the Eternal Mother had been compelled to make repeated efforts to open this road to salvation. She had first sent down the Lamp-lighting Buddha [Dipankara, an incarnation of Sanat Kumara] to save the world; then she had sent down the Sakyamuni Buddha [Gautama] to try again. Each had been able to save some of her children, but most of mankind remained lost. Therefore, the Eternal Mother had promised that she would send down yet another god to lead men to salvation, the Buddha Maitreya. <23>

        “Universal Light, suppose a person tries to cross the Ganges in a poorly built boat. With what vigor should he row the boat?”

        Bodhisattva Universal Light replied, “World-Honored One, he should row it with great vigor. Why? Because it may collapse in midstream.”

        The Buddha said, “Universal Light, a Bodhisattva who wishes to cultivate the Buddha-Dharma should exert himself twice as hard. Why? Because the body is impermanent and uncertain, a decaying form which cannot long remain and will eventually wear out and perish; it may disintegrate before one benefits from the Dharma.

        “[A Bodhisattva should think,] ‘I will learn to navigate the Dharma boat in this stream [of samsara], so that I may ferry sentient beings across the four currents. I will ply this Dharma boat back and forth in samsara to deliver sentient beings.’

        “The Dharma boat which a Bodhisattva should use is made for the purpose of saving all sentient beings equally. Its strong, thick planks are the immeasurable merits resulting from the practice of pure discipline; its embellishments are the practice and the fruit of giving; its beams are the pure faith in the Buddha-path; its strong riggings are all kinds of virtues; its nails are patience, tenderness, and thoughtfulness. The raw wood is the various ways to enlightenment, cultivated with vigor, taken from the forest of the supreme, wonderful Dharma....

        “Concentration serves as the helmsman, while insight brings the true benefit. The boat steers clear of [the reefs of] the two extremes....Being able to deliver sentient beings in the ten directions, he proclaims, ‘Come aboard this Dharma boat! It sails on a safe course to nirvana. It ferries you from the shore of all wrong views...to the shore of Buddhahood.’

        “Thus, Universal Light, a Bodhisattva-Mahasattva should learn everything about this Dharma boat.” <31>

        I come that you might hear my voice and know that all of my offering on the path of the Buddha is in the love/reverence of the Mother and the Mother’s burden to reclaim her own—to find them again, to wash them clean, to make them whole, to heal their bodies and therefore to prepare food for soul and body and mind.

        The great longing of the Mother to once again draw to the heart of God all who went forth has thus become, self-acclaimed, the burden of all Buddhas. And therefore we are the comforters of the Mother. We are the comforters of the Mother and we speak through her lips the ancient wisdom....

        Many sons and daughters ascended have gone forth in her name to rescue her offspring. She will never rest until they are found and one by one compelled by her eye and sternness, by her Love and Wisdom, by her determination, to look once again at the Law, to look again at the First Love, to remember the golden days in the Central Sun, to remember, then, the point of origin. <32>

        I AM Maitreya in the heart of the I where the cross of the T is the formation of a Mother’s heart. I AM the Rey of the Mother’s Light manifesting within you. <33>

        Awake, I say! For I AM Himalaya. And I have attended your comings and your goings in and out of incarnation unto your Causal Body, unto the farthest depths of the astral and physical planes. I say to you, beloved, according to the path of initiation outlined in “The Hymn of the Pearl” (that is truly based upon an ancient Lemurian text known by Jesus), your [soul’s] evolutionary spiral has continued too long in and out of earth consciousness.

        Blessed hearts, you have, as it were, a momentum on a sine wave that is not ascending. You have become accustomed to earth’s merry-go-round and have forgot that the purpose of the sine wave is to get off the merry-go-round and to enter the spiral that leads as a coil of fire directly to the heart of Alpha and Omega. <40>

        The jatakas are the divine song of the Bodhisattva ideal in a form which speaks directly to the human heart and which, therefore, is not only understandable to the wise but even to the simplest mind. Only the all-too-clever will smile at them indulgently. Up to the present day the jatakas have not lost their human appeal and continue to exert a deep influence upon the religious life in all Buddhist countries. In Ceylon, Burma, Siam, and Cambodia crowds of people listen with rapt attention for hours when Bhikkhus during the full-moon nights recite the stories of the Buddha’s former lives, and even in Tibet I have seen tears in the eyes of sturdy caravan men when, sitting around the camp-fire, [they listened as] the Bodhisattva’s suffering and sacrifices were retold. For these people the jatakas are not literature or “folklore” but something that happens in their very presence and profoundly affects their own life. Something that moves them to the core of their being, because it is ever-present reality to them. <52>

        You may read these stories that I told so long ago. They are in the collected writings of the Buddha that are published even today. They must be read symboli­cally. They must be read with understanding and above all with the Ascended Masters’ teachings as a basis.

In aeons long past, aeons beyond recall, there was an emperor in this world by the name of Mahayana who had a thousand kings subject to him. He had three sons: the eldest, Mahanada, the middle son Maha-deva, and the youngest, Mahasattva. From childhood the youngest son was of a loving and compassionate nature and thought of all beings as his only sons.

        Upon a certain occasion the emperor, his ministers, and his wives and sons went to the forests and mountains to divert themselves. The princes went into the woods to explore and saw there a mother tiger who had given birth to cubs and was so exhausted with hunger that she was on the point of eating her young. The younger brother said to the others: “Brothers, this mother tiger is starving and going to eat her own offspring.” When the elder brothers agreed that this was so, the younger brother asked: “What would the tigress eat?” The elder brothers said: “She eats freshly-killed meat and drinks blood.” The younger brother said: “Who could give his own flesh and blood in order to save her life?” To which the brothers replied: “Who, indeed, could do so difficult a thing!”

        The younger brother thought: “For long I have been wandering in the round of birth and death wasting life and limb, and through attachment, anger, and ignorance have brought forth no merits. For the sake of the Dharma I should have entered the field of virtue. Now, in order to bring about merit, I shall give my body to the tigress.”

        As they were returning, he said to the two elder brothers: “You two go on ahead. I have something private I want to do in the woods. I’ll come back to you in just a moment.” Going back to the tigress, he lay down in front of her, but the tigress was unable to open her mouth to eat. The prince then took a sharp stick and pierced his body. When the blood flowed the tigress licked it, [she] was then able to open her mouth, and [she] ate the prince’s body. <53>

        During the first day of [Sankha’s] journey on foot, the soles of his feet split open, for they were tender due to luxurious upbringing. On the second day they began to bleed; on the third day he was unable to walk any further. Then he went on his knees using the palms of his hands as support. Going on the fourth day in the same manner his knees and palms bled, at which the Emperor Sankha thought: “I should go on my chest,” so he began creeping on his chest. Impelled by the joy of contemplating the Buddha, even though (sorely) afflicted he surmounted the great suffering and pain.

        ...The Exalted One Sirimata, the Worthy Perfect Buddha, surveying the world with his All-knowing Knowledge, seeing his mighty effort, thought, “This Sankha is certainly a Buddha-sprout, a Buddha-seed [i.e., a bodhi­sattva]; on my account he endures great pain.”

        “Should the Exalted One teach the Dhamma further, I have no suitable offering to make for it. The offering that I have is just sufficient for the Dhamma already taught.”...

        ...The Emperor Sankha said to the Exalted One Sirimata, the Worthy Perfect Buddha: “...I too among all bodily parts would pay homage to your doctrine with my head,” and he began severing his neck with his nails....

Having spoken thus, “May this help the attainment of the All-knowing Knowledge,” he cut off his head with his nails....The head was severed from the neck in the presence of the Exalted One as in homage to the Dhamma. <55>

        It is time to make your decision to fulfill your destiny, for I have come! I have come to call you Home and to enumerate the requirements for your Homecoming, and [foremost among them] is to rescue every Lightbearer on earth, every child of God marked by the Lord your God for the Victory. Thus, let not a day pass that you do not intensify the endeavor and show to yourself some good gain that should please our hearts immensely. <57>

When he was seen wearing wet sandals and scurrying for shelter, rain was expected; but when he slept on the market bridge in a squatting posture, his head resting on his knees, then good weather was expected. One feature of his appearance singled him out—he carried a hemp bag wherever he went. Into this bag was deposited whatever he received, and for this reason the bag became an object of intense curiosity, especially among the children. They would chase him and climb all over him, and force him to open his bag. On such an occasion he would place the bag on the ground, empty the contents one by one, and just as methodically put them back into the bag.

        The expressions attributed to him were all enigmatic and exhibit [Zen] characteristics....Once a monk asked him about his bag; he replied by placing it on the ground. When asked what this meant, he shouldered the bag and went away. Once he was asked how old the bag was, and he replied that it was as old as space.

Because of his popularity the people were only too willing to believe the stories that he never died. All such stories pointed to the prediction that he was the Future Buddha in the flesh. Once people were amazed when they found him lying in the snow, unaffected by it. On another occasion a friend found him bathing in the river, and discovered that he possessed the third or wisdom eye on his back. Surprised by this, the friend exclaimed, “You are a Buddha!” whereupon the Hemp-bag Bonze silenced him and warned, “Do not tell anyone.”...
        The following couplet, seen...in Hopei, is probably the most apt description of him:

“The big belly is capable to contain, it contains all the
         things under Heaven which are difficult to contain.
The broad face is inclined to laugh, to laugh at the
         laughable men on earth.”

        In this potbellied figure one is able to see the representation of a number of Chinese life-ideals. The huge protruding stomach and the hemp bag denote prosperity and a wealth of material goods, for only a rich person would have enough to eat and be fat. The reclining figure is indicative of the spiritual contentment and relaxation of one who is at peace with himself and the world. Finally, the large number of children usually surrounding him are illustrative of another Chinese virtue—a large family consisting of many children. When these features are combined with the genial appearance of the figure, as if he were full of mirth and friendship, then it is easily understood why he has been so enthusias­tically received by the Chinese. When the Chinese look at him, they see not just a Buddhist deity but also a good representation of many of the things after which they aspire. <61>

        According to legend [he] refused the designation of Zen master, as well as monastic restriction, and instead walked the streets with his sack over his shoulder....Some­times, in fact, he is pictured sitting inside his sack (his only home) peering impishly out....Like an Oriental Santa Claus, he was the merry sage with a twinkle in his eye who had rediscovered the wisdom and freedom and laughter of little children. Whenever he met a fellow Zen devotee, he is reputed to have extended his hand, saying in childish fashion, “Give me a penny.” Or if anyone would suggest that he return to a temple or monastery, or more formally instruct others in the Zen path, he would again reply, with an air of innocence, “Give me a penny.” [The Laughing Buddha] represents, therefore, the Zen goal of recovering on a higher plane the spontaneity and naturalness and playfulness...of the child....[He] symbolises the wisdom of children. He is not a little like the commonly ignored image of Jesus who pauses to play with the children, despite his disciples’ dismay, or who sets a little child in the midst of his all-too-earnest followers with the declaration: “Unless you turn and become like children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” <62>

The new time of the Era of Maitreya is in need of conviction. Life in its entirety must be purified by the flame of achievement....

        The dates are approaching. The Image of Maitreya is ready to rise. All [of] the Buddhas of the past have combined their wisdom of experience and have handed it on to the Blessed Coming One. <63>

        The reign of the Lord of Shambhala does not imply that He will come and take part physically in the last battle; this is the mistake that the most ignorant of Buddhists make. The Lord of Shambhala, according to the most ancient chronicles, will fight the Prince of Darkness himself. This battle, first of all, takes place in the subtle spheres; whereas, here the Lord of Shambhala acts through his earthly warriors. As for Himself, He can be seen only in the most exceptional cases, and certainly would never appear in a crowd or among the curious. As for his [manifestations] in a Fiery Image, this would be disastrous for all and everything, as his aura is charged with energies of tremendous power.<65>

In another of her letters she says:

        The whole East believes in the Advent of the Lord Maitreya....Certainly, His Advent must not be understood as an appearance in the flesh, amidst earthly conditions and Earth-dwellers. The Teaching of the Lord Maitreya will be spread all over the world and it will proclaim the New Era—the era of the awakening of the Spirit, which is also called the era of woman.<66>

In her book Woman we read:

            Each Lord has His keynote. The Epoch of Maitreya proclaims the Woman. The manifestation of Maitreya is linked with the confirmation of the Mother of the World, in past, present and future. <67>

        Come now, come now, be joyous in that buoyant flame. For I AM Maitreya and I AM happiness—a Buddha of happiness, a chela of happiness, a friend of happiness. All these thousands of years they have called me the Coming Buddha, and I have been coming and coming and coming, and at last I AM here!

        I AM come! I AM the Buddha of the Aquarian cycle.

        Perceive, then, the coming of the Mother always as the sign of Lord Maitreya. For we have a saying: If the Mother be in our midst, can Maitreya be far behind?Far nearer than the far-off worlds is the emanating Light of Maitreya.

        Thus, indeed have you renamed the mountain “Maitreya Mountain.” <68>For it is the sign of the rising spiral of his coming, as earth herself rises in the form of the mountain to praise his blessed feet, that he might have the place wherewith to alight—and there to meditate over the Heart of our Inner Retreat for the coming of the pilgrims who would become, by discipleship, the messengers of Maitreya. <69>

        The great moment of his coming signifies a turning in the age and an unleashing of his Causal Body that does contain the formula of the path of the Bodhisattva for all who would unite with him in love and receive the fruit of the Tree of Life, [which is] the initiation of [everlasting] Life in the heart [chakra], as well as the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. <72>

        My beloved, I welcome you as I welcomed to my heart long ago the youth Issa, your Jesus, when he came to the Himalayas and touched the fire of Tibet and knew the ancient lamas and found me. <73>For I was the one promised and known of him even before birth, as the entire drama of the mission of the avatar of the Piscean age was, of course, premeditated by God and directed from above.

        Sweet Jesus, the strong, when he said to his parents at the age of twelve, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” <74>he spake of the Teacher, the eternal Guru he must go and find. [He must] go to the East and, as all such saints, receive the anointing from the lineage of his descent.

        Thus I unveil to you the real mission of the Saviour, so truly stated by the apostles, for the redemption of the twin flames who took up the path of the Tree of Life in the ancient Mystery School and were turned aside by the cunning of the serpent philosophy, which was the philosophy of the fallen angels who were determined to subvert the Light [of twin flames] and misdirect the great gift of God [to all generations who would come after them]....

        Thus, the mission of Jesus was to go back to Eden, yet the Motherland was long gone. [Therefore he came to Shamballa.] And he came to the ancient repository of the tablets of Mu and the writings of Maitreya and Gautama and Sanat Kumara. He came for the redemption of those who had been turned aside [from the law of the Divine Mother] and to restore [to them] the [true] path of discipleship [under the Cosmic Christ].

        Such a perfect one was he that the Ancient of Days determined that as much of the path of the Mystery School as the Great Law would allow should be demonstrated by example in his mission. The testing of that mission and his ability to sustain those initiations in [the] outer [world] were the subject of our training sessions during his eighteen years in the Orient....

        My beloved, with what great joy I receive you here as I received the youth Jesus! For the dispensation is truly opened and I may begin anew, taking those who have apprenticed themselves before the Darjeeling Master and Saint Germain and the Great Divine Director, those who have disciplined themselves by the Law of Love before the living Christ.

        Indeed, indeed, you must acknowledge him the Saviour of your life, for he is! He restored to you the contact with your own Christ Self and [he] is here today to increase that spark or even ignite it again if, by your words and your works, you may be rotated one hundred and eighty degrees to face the living Son of God.

        If you cannot see the Saviour in him, I cannot teach you; there is nothing else. He has taught my teaching. I would take you from [that level] and beyond. You can never save so much as a bumblebee if you do not see the glory of that life....For he was and is God incarnate, truly in the unique sense that God raised him up as the example but never in the exclusive sense that all could not follow in his footsteps.

        I AM Maitreya come again. The cycles move with great rhythm. Vast ages turn and the door opens. Thus I tell you as the headmaster of the school that I am truly ensconced, and physically so, by the grace of this body loaned to me. And I commit myself to your heart as God has committed himself to me, that I will deliver to you in these months and years and decades, truly, the personal teaching that is the requirement for you not merely for the ascension but for the highest attainment of your soul prior to that ascension whereby the gift of [your] attainment might be the offering on the altar of humanity. <75>

        Therefore be ready, for thou shalt meet Maitreya in the way one of these days. Accept, then, the invitation to be trained at the retreats of the Lords of the Seven Rays, <76> for they do prepare your souls for the Great Initiator.

        Maitreya is that one. And I come that you might have the aura of the Holy Spirit to receive him again. For many of you he was the last initiator from divine realms that you have seen. [You saw him] in the Mystery School known as Eden, upon Lemuria, not far from this place.

        Thus, in ancient times you and your twin flame did know the opportunity to receive that initiation. Yet you were lured away—lured away, then, by false teachers, cunning serpents who crept in, fallen angels, to tear you from your love tryst with the Beloved and with the blessed Guru Maitreya. <77>

        Maitreya has come. He has set up the Mystery School, choosing the Royal Teton Ranch as the place for that Light. He has come to call ancient souls, twin flames, back to where they left off [in their] initiations on the continent of Lemuria. Here was the Mystery School. Here was the opportunity. Here it is born again.

        Do not fear and do not withdraw when Maitreya recounts to you at inner levels what are the requirements of the return to this opportunity. It comes once in many thousands of years. And each and every one who hears my voice in these rooms—you must know that you are here because you need this initiation in order to be effective [in service] with your twin flame and to make your ascension....

        Thus we are come. Thus we place ourselves at your service. May you know the meaning of having access to the Ascended Masters through Maitreya, Gautama, Jesus and Sanat Kumara—the Lion, the Calf, the Man and the Flying Eagle. <78>So these are the symbols of the ones who hold the divine office [on the Path of the Ruby Ray] in the four quadrants. So let your heart be opened to the Mysteries of Christ. And do not deny them before you have tasted of the nectar of thy Christ Self. <79>

        We bow before the Ancient of Days whose Light shineth out of the East. And unto the West we come....

        ...By the Light of devotion of the Lord of the World, the Saviouress is come unto the West—long pro­phesied—out of the West Wind. And in the very heart of her children’s longing—the very heart of her children’s longing, I say—does she come forth in this hour. And leading the children who greet the Mother is Maitreya, bearer of the banner of the World Mother.

        From Shamballa I arc a Light. I would establish the ground of the Ancient of Days.

        Sanat Kumara comes in the flame of Mother, for he is the God of the South. Therefore let him appear, even as I appear as the God of the West. The living Christ, eternal Christus is come, the God of the East. And unto Maitreya the mountain is given—for he sits as the one, as the Buddha whose time is come. For the one is present and the others take their positions that he might be in the forefront of life. Thus I have commanded, “Give forth the teaching of Maitreya, God of the North, <80> emissary of the emissary of Brahma.”

        Now therefore, my beloved, in this hour I contem­plate—note it well—the arcing of the flame of Shamballa to the Inner Retreat as the Western abode of the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas and the Bodhisattvas-to-Be who are the devotees of the Mother Light....

        I come, then, for the arcing of the Light of Shamballa unto the Inner Retreat....

        Go be where I AM! For the Inner Retreat is in the heart of the Mother....Come to the place where the Buddha and the Mother are one. <81>

        Make no mistake, beloved, we count this place as a true and living Sangha of the Buddha, for all the elements required for such a Sangha be present.<82>

And the Elohim Heros and Amora, in their dictation of October 11, 1988, told us:

        Our God is Love and this is the religion of the golden age. Our God of Love has sealed within this very Community, within this very heart such a cornucopia of loveliness, of teaching, of mystery of God as to endure as the foundation and fulfillment of Aquarius.<83>

In his dictation delivered on June 30, 1988, El Morya said:

The ascension cannot be made without the Mystery School, without Maitreya, without an ordered, step-by-step path. Thanks be to God for the listening ear of the Western chela whereby into the Western Hemisphere there do come marching down the highways of your devotion the Great Lights of the Orient! Blessed hearts, but for yourselves, the true and expansive and universal Aquarian-age teaching of the East should be lost not only to the West but to the East as well. <84>

        I dedicate, therefore, this Inner Retreat as the Place of Great Encounters where each one might come to encounter the Lord God Almighty, his own I AM Presence, Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Lord Maitreya, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

        Blessed hearts, souls encountering Truth, souls uniting one with the other, forging a union, forging a nucleus, forging a magnet for transition into the New Age: when have we ever seen re-created [the Community of] the original seed of Sanat Kumara gathered together in one place, not merely for human companionship but for the understanding of the components of the capstone and the components of the heart of America?

        [When have we ever seen them] understanding the rising of the soul, disengaging from the dissonance of the world, from its momentum of war and bloodshed, oppression, and the clouding of the mind by tyrants? When have we ever seen gathered together, in the numberless numbers of thousands, the Body of Light [the Sangha of the Buddha] of planet earth?

        Blessed hearts, it has been many centuries. And the world has not yet seen what can be accomplished by the great gathering of the elect.<85>

In his annual Wesak address of May 13, 1987, Gautama announced:

I AM Gautama Buddha ever keeping the flame and the vigil at the Inner Retreat of the Western Shamballa. My hand and my presence do physically consecrate the Heart of the Inner Retreat as the international shrine and gathering place of the devotees of Light and Christed ones of the world. <86>

        The Sangha is primarily the community of those who, by virtue of their immediate or remote approximation to Enlightenment, stand in spiritual relation to the Buddha and dwell spiritually in His presence. It is the community of those who, through their relationship with Him, are also spiritually related to one another. The Sangha is the Buddha’s spiritual family. In the Nikayas [the collection of sutras of the Pali canon] He is indeed represented as telling His disciples: “Ye are mine own true sons, born of my mouth; heirs of the Dhamma, not heirs of worldly things.” Centuries later the same theme finds beautiful expression as a trinity consisting of the Buddha as Father, the Dharma as Mother, and the Sangha as Son. <87>

In the Bodhisattva, Buddhism finds its highest expression and its ultimate meaning. The Bodhisattva is indeed the meaning of human life, even the meaning of existence....

        In terms of Western thought, the Bodhisattva principle is the principle of perpetual self-transcendence....

        ...By the Spiritual Community—the Order—we mean a group...of truly human individuals who have Enlightenment, the Path, and the Spiritual Community itself as their ideals or who, in traditional Buddhist language, Go for Refuge to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Of this Spiritual Community the Bodhisattva is the spirit, even as the Spiritual Community is the expression, at least to some extent, of the Bodhisattva principle in the world.

        It is the Bodhisattva who, from the Beyond which is within, as well as from the Beyond which is without, leads the Spiritual Community on the Path to Enlightenment. The Bodhisattva always has led and always will lead. We see him in the jatakas as the hero, the being who represents the point of self-trans­cendence within each group or class of beings. We see him always taking the lead. In some of the great Mahayana sutras we see him establishing what is known as the Pure Land, or ideal environment for the pursuit of the spiritual life.

        We see him as Avalokiteshvara, Lord of Compassion, whose eleven faces look down upon the sufferings of sentient beings in the eleven directions of space, and whose thousand arms are out­stretched to help. We see him as Manjushri, Lord of Wisdom and Eloquence, who with his right hand whirls above his head the flaming sword of knowledge, that cuts asunder the bonds of ignorance, while with his left he presses the book of the Perfection of Wisdom to his heart.

        We see him as Vajrapani, <88> Lord of Might, whose blazing thunderbolt cuts through the obstructions of the cyclic order of conditionality and opens up the way for the progressive order. We see him—we see her—as Tara, Lady of Salvation, who delivers from all dangers, temporal and spiritual. In fact, we see in the Bodhisattva the Glorious Company of Bodhisattvas, who are the Spiritual Community in the highest sense, of which our earthly Spiritual Community is a pale and indistinct reflex. We see him—we see them—as embodiments of the Bodhisattva principle, key to the evolution of consciousness, individual and collective. <89>

        Take refuge, then, in one another. For each of you is the Church and each of you is the Community, and the refuge is a refuge of Love, a place where you can go and find the necessary sustaining of your soul, your body and your mind.

        So Hierarchy has come to the West and you are blessed. Hierarchy has come to open the door of the heart of the East. How wondrous it is that those whom we call can have a physical place to come to [where they may] find our radiation and our teachings.

        O bhikkus, receive our Light from heart and head and hand. Above all, become the Teaching of the Buddha. For when you have become the Dhamma, as the Path and as the Teaching, you will be one with us and you will find yourself assimilated by that Greater Self. You will find yourself on the path to the ascension. You will find yourself imparting the Teaching as a flame....

         Wisdom is the flame that makes life bearable in samsara, in the veil of illusion where maya is the great teacher. So Wisdom is the sustaining grace. It is the bubbling fountain of joy, it is hope, it is exaltation, it is Light and Light’s dimension.

        There is a sphere of light within my own soul that represents the path of my chelaship under the Lord Sanat Kumara. Hand in hand Gautama and I would go through meadow and forests, climbing to the heights of the Himalayas—not in search but in surrender unto the Eternal Guru, the Everlasting Star, that Light whom we knew as the very Person of heartbeat.

        We would follow the beating of our hearts to its logical conclusion in the heart of the Ancient of Days where so many devotees have found succor and a flame and the place of rest in preparation for going out once again on the path of initiation—that is, initiation according to this world and all that it contains—[that comes about through the encounter with] the crosscurrents of lifestreams and races and fallen ones and types of personalities that are the antithesis of the Godhead. <91>

        I represent to you Father when you are reaching up to become the Christ. And when you become the Christ, I represent to you Brother in Christ. And when you are seeking to raise up the Feminine Ray, then I provide the complement to that Feminine Ray as the action of the Holy Spirit. And when you manifest the Holy Spirit, then I appear as the Bride arrayed in white. And so, you see, the mastery of the [consciousness of the] Cosmic Christ is [the accomplishment] of the [mastery of the] four points of the City Foursquare and of the four sides of the four lower bodies. And thus, the mark of the Cosmic Christ consciousness and of one who has attained it is that you become all things to all people. <95>

The holder and the beholder of the office is Maitreya, the Great Loving One, the Buddha Who Has Come. His Dharma is sacrifice. His virtue is diligence to all in the discipleship of discernment and discrimination—mind and heart for determined action. He...teaches the art and the science of the balance of karma and the transmutation of energies misqualified through the perfecting of the heart. <96>

        The world is waiting for Maitreya and Maitreya’s co-workers and servants. And they are also waiting for my twin flame, whom they know not. Thus, out of the octaves of nirvana she has descended in a golden orb of Light. And you will see how this presence of my beloved will multiply my action in your behalf.

        Now see the great teams of conquerors. You have called to them. They are here! And if you see them not, watch how you will develop your spiritual senses by divorcing yourself from the world of drugs and sugar and marijuana and alcohol and nicotine.

        Beloved, I long to see you free, and we are determined! And the presence, then, in this golden sphere of [the] Causal Body of Light of my beloved does arc the presence of the Lady Master Venus in that Retreat of the Divine Mother unveiled over the Inner Retreat so that Camelot, in this city of the angels of the Christ and the Buddha [as well as of Mother Mary], shall have that ray and that Light of my divine counterpart.

        And you will know the truth of Maitreya. And you will receive the initiations individually from my heart daily if you but inscribe a separate letter to me this New Year’s Eve addressed to your Mighty I AM Presence and Holy Christ Self, to me and to my beloved twin flame.

        Then, beloved, you may apply to become my chela, my initiate. And watch well, for I AM determined to accept almost as many who call upon me, rather to give you the initiations and let you eliminate yourselves than to eliminate you without giving you a clean white page in 1986 to begin anew where you left off on Lemuria.

        And I tell you, you did leave me in Lemuria and I come to claim you again! And you may determine to move forward, for I will bring you to that point of the union, whether inner or outer, of twin flames as only my office can accomplish. For it is my office that was violated by twin flames [in the Garden of Eden], and therefore you [who left the Path under my tutelage] must receive that reuniting through me. <98>

        “I and my Father are one” [is] the mantra of the protection of the Guru-Chela relationship that I gave to him, the Son of man. I and my Father are one! When you speak these words, the lineage of your [Ascended] Masters is with you, the Electronic Presence of Jesus is upon you, your own I AM Presence and Christ Self [are there], and I AM instantly there. For Jesus would have you call him “Brother” and me “Father.” And I agree, for it is a reminder that he is not so far above you but at your side, even though many of you have known him as Father.

        Thus, you see, the “I and my Father are one” mantra is actually a call. It is a call you may give in time of danger, chaos, confusion, accident or illness or any need, as long as you have the perception that the Call cannot and will not fail and as long as you have the understanding of who is Father. The Lord God Almighty is Father and his emissaries to whom he has given the mantle of his I AM Presence to teach mankind are Father. Thus the “I and my Father are one” mantra uses the I AM name to confirm the bond of our oneness.

        By cosmic law I cannot fail to answer the call of this mantra. The only variation in my answer is in your vibration. For though I may be with you, you may not feel it until you have quelled the turbulence of your emotions. Thus, our oneness becomes ever closer as you put on the likeness of the image of the Father that I would bequeath to you. <99>

        As God is in me and I am in God, so I declare, I and my Father are one. And lo, I have become the Father. And the Father has become the Son through the figure-eight flow that is the design of the plus/minus interchange of Alpha in the Guru and Omega in the Chela.

        Now I am the Father and Gautama is the Son. And as Gautama long ago passed the initiations of the Fatherhood of God, I bequeathed to him my flaming awareness of that Father. And lo, he declared, “I and my Father are one!” And he became the Father and the Father in the Son, the incarnate Word, the embodied Guru, the Lamb.

        Then Maitreya, the blessed, the beautiful, the bountiful Bodhisattva, beheld the vision of the Buddha, and the Buddha beyond the Buddha, as my own flaming presence revealed the parting of veil upon veil, each veil the opening of another door in heaven as his meditation parted the octaves of the first, the second, the third heaven, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh.

        Thus he bowed before the gracious Gautama as the Guru who was God because he unveiled to him the God of very gods. And lo, he declared, “I and my Father are one!” as he beheld the infinite succession of the Gurus who bore witness of worlds beyond worlds of the God manifestation.

        And Maitreya became the pivot point of the path of initiation unto every chela who would know the Guru, unto every soul of the hundred and forty and four thousand who would return to the Mystery School of the Garden of Eden.

        He was the embodied Guru, the Father/Son manifestation unto the twin flames of Adam and Eve and unto their children, my children, sent to earth to demonstrate the path of initiation. By the subtile serpent, Satan’s agent, the Path was set aside unto these twin flames and their offspring for six thousand cycles of life and death until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

        Then Jesus Christ was the I AM THAT I AM incarnate. He was the embodied Lamb. He was, as Archangel Gabriel has said, the messenger of our flame who became the message. <101>

        By his attainment on the path of initiation under his Father, Maitreya, he became the Lamb unto the hundred and forty and four thousand. He, too, opened the door in heaven, opening the temple of understanding. <102>

        Heed my word, ye ministering servants. It is the hour of the resurrection flame. It is time for the resurrection! It is time for the raising up of the sacred fire! It is time that you use the mantra “I AM the Resurrection and the Life” and then continue with the affirmation of all things in your life that require filling in.

        And therefore if you have doubt you say:

        I AM the Resurrection and the Life of God’s faith within me now! And I refuse to accept any alternative [to God’s faith manifest as] doubt and fear!

        I AM the Resurrection and the Life of all Love within my world! And I refuse to accept its opposite or its impostors, or any human sympathy! <105>

  (give 3 times)

I AM, I AM, I AM the Resurrection and the Life

of my finances (give 3 times)

Now made manifest in my hands and use today!

        Let those who adore God, then, through the fervor of fiery, fohatic prayer—let those who adore him in the joyousness and the boundlessness of his divine decree that they deliver as the Word of the Lord into the consciousness of relative good and evil—let those who go to the mount Sion to adore him in the meditation of their hearts’ light upon the light of God’s heart—therefore learn to seal their chakras from all vibrations less than the Christ Light registering in the Matter spheres.

        The closing of the petals of the seven lotus flowers [chakras] is accomplished through the conscious determination of the will of man reinforced by the will of God. It is the thrust, ho! of Light flashing forth in the I-AM-the-guard consciousness. It is the right hand of the Christ or the Buddha stretched forth in the irreversible initiatic Light which releases the command, “They shall not pass!” It is the creation of a cosmic forcefield of Light radiating forth in all directions from the center of the white cube within the heart....

        When, therefore, your attention must be directed into a multitude of matters demanding your watchful eye and skill of the hand, and by and by you feel the encroach­ment of random particles of effluvia pressing against your wall of Light, remember, even the policeman directing traffic makes use of the ancient mudra which universally communicates the cosmic vibration STOP!

        This mental thrust of the Word is reinforced by certain physical postures during meditation and by others when one is in the active mode....This reaffirmation of the Word, once again drawing the lines of one’s forcefield, may be accompanied by a strong breathing out and then a deep breathing in, holding the inbreath while visualizing the seven chakras and the eighth each sealed by the Lord Buddha extending the fearlessness flame [of Divine Love] in the abhaya mudra. <107>

        I AM the first and the last, the living Guru Maitreya. I am present with you and in you unto the universal idiom of the word of Victory. I AM Maitreya, Ma. I bless you by the sacrament of my life, by the sacrament of my perpetual adoration of God. Lo, I AM Alpha and Omega. I AM present with you alway.

        Now speak my name silently in your heart: Maitreya. And in my name wrap the burden of your soul, the problem of the day. Wrap it carefully in my name, for I stand now before you in the Great Silence ready to receive that package addressed to me.

        I AM thy healing Light.

        I AM the Lover of thy soul.

        I AM the Wisdom of the manifest Guru. Aum

.        Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden. I will give you rest. I AM the all-consuming Light. The all-consuming Light is my yoke. Therefore take my yoke upon you and learn of me. I will demonstrate to you the alchemy whereby thy burden shall be Light <108> and thy Light shall be a flaming sword and thy sword shall be for the deliverance of the nations.

        By the flame of Saint Germain, Jesus Christ, and your own dear name written in heaven, I declare unto you, the Victory Flame is come! In my left hand I take the package addressed to me from each one of you now. And in my right hand I make my vow. And I thrust Victory’s torch and I say: Here, carry the torch of the fire of Victory and I will carry the burden of your day.

        This is my promise. May you take it and incorporate it into your morning ritual. So greet the dawn and make your little package, whether small or great. Seal it with my name. My angels will take that package and give to you the torch of Victory for your day, each and every day until your ascension in the Light.

                Lo, the ascension draweth nigh.

        I AM the Initiator, testing you in the hour of victory! Shirk not responsibility. Shrink not from testing, but proclaim the Sacred Law! With rejoicing go forth to meet the challenge of fire at the eleventh hour of each day, of each year, of each cycle of fulfillment. For there I stand to welcome you, to offer you the opportunity to seal and make permanent the Victory of a cycle. And this is a testing that must come to seal all other testings of all other hierarchies each step of the way. Therefore, you can expect to greet me each day with:

Hail, Maitreya! Hail, Victory! Hail, Flame of God!

        This is the call I like to hear! This is the call that will carry you through the year! This is the call that will make of us bosom friends of Light. For when I hear that call I stand forth to embrace you and to say: Now let us go forth, as hand in hand together we meet the challenge of the hour! I cannot pass your tests for you, but I can place my hand in yours and lend you the momentum of my consciousness and my flame. <109>

        Will you not, then, first and foremost take up the study of all of my dictations [which I have released] even through these two disciples, your Messengers? Will you not search them to discover the keys of this age that is known in some quarters as “the Age of Maitreya”? Then will you not see that all others [of the spiritual hierarchy] who have released by the Holy Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood the vast Teaching set forth have also been my Messengers—the Ascended Masters, the angelic hosts?

        Can there not be even a treasure mapping of these teachings? Can there not be a choosing one by one of a single gem of a virtue to embody, come what may? Can we not be together a mass of crystalline substance as one body, one forcefield, truly endowing and instilling the consciousness of the Universal Christ to a planet? <110>

Understand that the thread of my teaching is in all teachings of the Ascended Masters; and they have been as the Bodhisattvas going before the coming of my Presence. The presence in the earth of that Light demands an extraordinary and unflinching strength and devotion on the part of the chelas who would surround me....

        I bring to you, then, the sense of yourself as an extension of myself (who am an extension of Gautama, Sanat Kumara) in order that your heart, beloved ones, may become as a fiery furnace, sacred and intense, in which you store Light—far more Light than that stored by those not on the Path—and become thereby truly a transformer of worlds. And by that heart, when you stand in the presence of the children of the Mother, they can no longer be the same. They must be different. They must know joy. Such is my presence in the Messenger.

        If you elect, then, to have that increase of Light of the heart, pursue the teachings of the Ascended Masters in an orderly manner....

        ...Thus I say, every word of the Ascended Masters through the Messengers is in you a preparation not only for the coming of Maitreya in outer manifestation in the world but also for my coming in inner manifestation in your being....

        Beware, O children of the Sun. For I AM that Law that does deliver thee. And the means of deliverance which you have seen as the clipper ship is truly my Causal Body. It is my Eden of Light, forged, won, created to contain all of you in the Mystery School. <111>

The power of the heart conquers absolutely everything. The heart may know the significance of far-off happenings. The heart can soar, fortifying the needed links. The heart can unite itself with the far-off worlds. Test it by the transmission of the will alone and you will realize the difference in the will of the heart. Maitreya’s is the Age of the Heart! Only with the heart can one evaluate the treasures of Maitreya! Only with the heart can one understand how greatly all acquisitions, all straight-knowledge are needed for the future. <112>

        Know me, then, in kindness first expressed by you. Then the return current of that kindness expressed by another will reveal to you one of my million smiles through the friend, through the kind ones on earth, the wise ones who know that true kindness is found in the act of one who has cared enough to earn the key to open the door to successive chambers of my retreat.

Come and find me, beloved. <113>

        I would woo you to the courts of Maitreya. Come and find me, beloved. I shall not tell where I hold court to deliver my mystery teachings in the etheric octave, for I desire those who have the magnet of my heart to find me as one would find a treasure without a map—only lodestone attracted to lodestone.

        But I place in your heart, in this hour together, fire of my fire. I dip into this fire, beloved—a gold and pink and white fire—I dip into it, and in the multiplicity of my Self and Presence I place [it] into an urn (which by your leave I have already placed upon the altar of your heart)—a beautiful gold and pink and white fire. These colors merging, beloved, produce many hues.

        Therefore, [visualizing this fire] as petals of roses, fiery roses with dewdrops, you shall know that when you meditate upon this fire through the call to the golden pink glow-ray, you shall be drawn unerringly to my abode. And you shall know that the requirement of approaching me by a congruency of vibration has been met by all whom you find in my abode. The golden pink glow-ray is the entrance to the realm of the Buddhas. <114>

1.  

I AM calling today for thy Golden Pink Ray
To manifest round my form.
Golden Pink Light, dazzling bright,
My four lower bodies adorn!

Refrain:  

O Brotherhood at Luxor and blest Serapis Bey,
Hear our call and answer by Love’s ascending ray.

Charge, charge, charge our being
With essence pure and bright;
Let thy hallowed radiance
Of Ascension’s mighty Light
Blaze its dazzling Light rays
Upward in God’s name
Till all of heaven claims us
For God’s ascending flame.

2.  

Saturate me with Golden Pink Light
Make my four lower bodies bright;
Saturate me with Ascension’s Ray,
Raise my four lower bodies today!

3.  

Surround us now with Golden Pink Love
Illumined and charged with Light from above;
Absorbing this with lightning speed,
I AM fully charged with Victory’s mead.