Sexuality and Equality of Women:

"When Humanity took upon Itself the denser, grosser physical vehicle, the sexes were divided into male and female (from the previous androgynous vehicles). Neither one is greater than the other. They are equal. Be very sure of that. Any religious school which states that the female is any less than the male, in any way, is coming from an error in concept."

"The Divine Spirit resides within a physical vehicle that has the potential to be perfect, for it was designed after perfection, and in that perfection the human was given sexuality that Humanity might dwell together as male and female in order to procreate the human species and in order to live together as families, to learn together, to develope relationships together in order to progress together back to That Divinity (in the evolutionary spiral over eons of time) Which is inherent in all."

"However, there has come a time in what The East would call The Kali Yuga, a seeking after animalistic behavior, when human sexuality no longer dwells within the boundaries of the divine intentions but seeks such distractions as prostitution and, in some cases, homosexuality."

"The intention, in the creative sense, is for the coming together of the male and the female in a state of marital harmony in order to create the family life together for learning together in relationship and for the creation, within the individual, of a sense of balance. The subject of sexual celibacy is totally in error. Male and female were created as separate sexes at a specific point in the evolutionary pattern of the species (The Mid-Atlantean Era). Prior to that, before coming into the more gross flesh (of the current physical form), the sexes were not separated. They were of a more androgynous nature."

"Thus, if we are speaking of the point in time at which there was separation (of the sexes), it is within the desire body of each being to reunite with that from which it was separated, and, in the majority of cases, this means a seeking after a satisfactory relationship with a member of the opposite sex. Not all. There are some allowable exceptions to this. But in the main, to seek after a harmonious and lasting relationship with a member of the opposite sex and to create family life together for the benefit of bringing in other souls onto The Earthly Plane through the human mother, this is the intention. And it were ever to be encouraged that sex other than for that specific reason should be eventually raised above the level of animal pursuit to the level of creative spiritual endeavor."

"I (as Paul) used the term, Spiritual Father, in the same way that Our Lord (Jesus) before myself had used it, that I am in The Father and He in me. The concentration upon the masculine aspect was something which was, at that time and had been for some time and continued for some time, to be the prevalent thought. In the mind of those who are truly aware, there is no exclusion of the feminine principle. Let Us be very clear that all reference which will seek, in any way, to exclude womankind or to make woman any less than man is a concept founded upon total error. The masculine and the feminine principles, therefore male and female, are fully equal."

"Women always were and always will be totally equal to men. One of the things which I (Hilarion) attempt is that the conflict, that has been apparent within many Faiths for thousands of years concerning the stature of women, finally now be clarified. The Creator created men and women as equal. By the time that Paul became an Apostle of God, despite his upbringing which had taught him to the contrary, Paul The Apostle was well aware of the fact and made it very clear that women and men are equal. That which has perpetuated this nonsense (servility of women) down through the ages is the inability of either the Christians or the Jews to hear what was said and, of course, the Muslims now and the Hindu. It goes on and on. The point remains that women and men are and always were equal."

Homosexuality:

"The persecution of the homosexual arose directly out of the misinterpretation of The Church of Rome regarding the subject of celibacy. In pronouncing that it was necessary for the male priests to be celibate and in making a great issue out of celibacy, while it was noteworthy that most of the high ranking officials and The Pope Himself was never celibate, one creates a great danger. It is not within human nature or God-given to be celibate, and if, for any reason, the natural and perfectly correct instincts of Humankind are suppressed, then that suppression will result in a state of imbalance."

"During the long history of The Catholic Church, imposed celibacy has created surreptitious homosexuality on a very, very large scale. It was, I would venture to suggest, out of a need to vindicate the situation of the priesthood that, even down to modern legislature, homosexual persecution has been continued, more particularly in The Middle Ages against the male population and arising directly out of the priesthood. In The Middle Ages the female was not given to homosexuality in the same way because there was too much cloistering of the female and too much fear."

"Homosexuality does, indeed, have a great deal of karmic responsibility and, in a considerable number of cases, creates a retardation on the course of evolution. There are, of course, exceptions to that statement. But for the general purpose of Humanity, the male and the female were intended to grow together in sexual intimacy not promiscuous intimacy. In the case where that kind of sexual intimacy occurs between 2 of the same outward physical sex, that is 2 men or 2 women, it is because they have a disproportionate attitude toward their animus or anima (the male and female aspects of self), the psyche, which is invariably of karmic origin and which those in question have come together in order to work out. But it were better if, instead of working out on the physical level their karmic task, the individuals in question would move toward the raising of the spiritual pursuits into those Higher Levels, into their Higher Chakras, to turn the sexual energy into a different form. But each soul proceeds at a pace which is in accord with that being, and it is not for others to pass judgement upon the method or the speed."

Reincarnation:

"So much of that which has been taught down the ages by That Church which calls Itself after The Christ falls short of the true message. When it became the choice of a very small group of people (The Council of Nicea) to decide what would go into the written word and what would be omitted (from The Bible), part of their decision was to pronounce upon the whole concept of reincarnation. If one does not reincarnate, of course one cannot use the word, karma, because there would be no such thing. Therefore, I wish to make it clear that The Law of Cause and Effect in relationship to human involvement in karmic debt is fact. Reincarnation is fact, whether or not The Catholic Church likes it."

"Once beings have evolved to the state of Humankind, they do not return as insects or animals or plants. Each species remains within its own kind after that stage of evolution has been completed. The only way that it would be possible for a being to take so retrograde a step would be for that being to have totally denied all of the assistance of its kind and to be so intrinsically evil as to incur loss of Soul. And yet, divine compassion is such that such a fall is still able to be slowly, very slowly, re-evolved, yet not upon the same Sphere of Consciousness. It would be upon another Planet whose evolutionary pattern is within the limitations so described."

The Law of Cause and Effect:

"One has used the term, karma, simply because it is a well known expression in this day and age coming from The East, but The Law of Cause and Effect is That Which We prefer. To every single thing there is a cause, and to every single thought there is an effect. It is as simple as the fact that when I have completed my in-breath, I shall breathe out. When one recognizes that the very thoughts which we entertain have already set in motion the form which lies behind those thoughts, then we can also acknowledge that all of those patterns create a field which bears energy, and the energy will come back to the sender. It is totally unavoidable. It is part of the very Law of That First Cause Which was The Creative Impulse, The Great Out-Breath Which, even Itself, shall cease and return to The Creator as The In-Breath."

"By The Law of Cause and Effect, The Karmic Lords (for this Solar System) note all things including injustice. Whether that injustice be individual, from one to another, or whether it be racial, from one country to another, it is fully recorded by The Lords of Karma; and that karma which is incurred shall be expiated in the same way. If it is a racial affair, then The Race will work out the karma. If it is an individual or a family affair, that family and the individuals who are part of that family will work out their karma. This is one of The Laws which cannot be changed. In accordance with that which you do, so shall you receive. It is inevitable. Therefore, if any form of injustice is created between one party and another, one may rest assured that restitution shall occur sooner or later, sometimes when it is least expected, and not always in the same lifetime."

"One does not free oneself from The Law of Cause and Effect at the point in time when one determines to accept the message of Christ. It is hoped that from this point onward one will pay more attention and do things differently, but we may rest assured that whatever we have done previously, which is in error, shall incur the necessary working out of that error for that individual concerned."

The Universal Laws:

"All created form moves within the boundaries of certain specific Laws. Those Laws could be referred to as Universal Guidelines. They are, in fact, rules of Nature Herself, Principles to Which all of Nature conforms. It has ever been the task of The Adepts (High Level Initiates within The Spiritual Hierarchy), Who are universally aware of The Laws of Creation, The Universal Laws, to endeavor to make Those better known upon the many Planes of existence. The Great Illuminati (Initiates incarnate) of the ages have held as their primary purpose the teaching of Those Laws. Planet Earth, for some reason, has been particularly laggard, especially in the evolution of the human, that is, in its adherence to Those Principles."

"For those who are not yet upon such a level of understanding, there have to be translations into guidelines which will assist Humanity in its acquisition of deeper knowledge. Such were the laws written by Hammurabi in Babylonian times and so on. Therefore, that which one refers to as the law, when it is set at the level of human standards, becomes a code of ethics."

"The True Universal Laws go back to the time of the creation of all that is. (Each Universe in the infinitude of Universes has its own particular Laws.) And out of That Creation came The Laws. At a point in time, those of Humankind and, in particular, Those Races who occupied The Middle East of The Earth around The Eastern Mediterranean, that is, had so far moved away from Those Divine Laws that it became necessary to rewrite that which would remind Humanity of The Laws of Natural Order. The Laws of Natural Order in their statement were not understood. Therefore, it became necessary to write a code of ethics which Humanity might more readily accept and understand."

"And so, in many places around The Earth, there were given such codes as standards by which Humanity might live in relationship one to another. However, there is considerable deviation from the original understanding of The Laws of Natural Order That were brought down to This Earthly Plane and the subsequent writing of codes of ethics which were undertaken directly upon This Plane."

"Regarding Universal Law, there are many treatises extant. That of Brother Djwhal Khul (The Tibetan Master of Wisdom Who taught through Alice A. Bailey from 1919 to 1949) is perhaps one of the most complete. Those who wish need only study his work. I Myself (Hilarion, The Chohan of The Fifth Ray) have written several treatises which I called 'The Teachings of The Temple'. One might study that. And, of course, there is 'The Book of Dzyan' (found, in part, in the writings of Helena P. Blavatsky), and there is the translation of 'The Keys of Enoch'. If anyone wishes to make a study of The Universal Laws as They apply to This Earthly Plane, they need go no further than to study those works."

"We have said that when one arrives at a certain time in his own evolution, the need for laws, per se, upon that vehicle are no longer a point of stress, for obedience to the law is then automatic, and, in that sense, there are no longer written laws. In order to impress upon human evolution the fact that each being must work upon itself in order to raise the consciousness beyond the fleshly limitations to the point when that one is able to unite with The All Consciousness, The All Being, The Ten Commandments and, indeed, all of the laws are set forth as guidelines."

Israelite:

"The knowledge of The Universal Wisdoms was passed down through The Priest Initiates, The King Priests, the closest of which at the time prior to The Exodus of The Bible was actually contained in the country of Egypt. The Pharoah, The King Priest of pre-dynastic Egypt, that is, upheld The Wisdoms of the ages Which were passed down within the mind of The Egyptian Pharoah. The Great Mystery Schools of Egypt, along the whole temple body of Egypt, taught these Great Wisdoms, and when one had passed from the lesser rites all the way through the portal of The Final Initiation, then and only then was One an Israelite, One Who walked with The Light of God."

"Here, indeed, is an Initiate and, in truth, only Those Few Who have passed through That Degree of knowing should call Themselves Israelite. It is not a country. It is a very High Status, One Which received universal recognition. Moses was such an Adept. He endeavored to pass on the traditions to the priesthood, and we are relatively aware of what happened."

Animal Sacrifice:

"Jesus made it very plain that blood sacrifice was totally incorrect. It is the sacrifice of one's own lesser personality (to make way for The I Am Presence) which is being called for. This will never be achieved by the sacrifice of animals and the shedding of blood in the area of the temple in order to purchase a foothold upon The Path. The whole concept of blood sacrifice was conceived in error and perpetuated in a manner which is foreign to the pursuit of Higher Paths of Spirit."

Sin:

"It has been the misfortune for Humanity down the ages to suffer the torment of fear, fear of recourse, if one were to err and fall into sin, by some indignant God. I have noted with interest, throughout the many translations of my work (as Paul), that the name, sin, has been an attempt to establish that Paul unrelentingly was striving after perfection and anything which fell short of his view of the perfection of God was inevitably sinful. Let Us set the record straight. The demonstration given to Humanity by The Lord Jesus, overlighted as He was by The Christ (for the 3 years from The Baptism to The Crucifixion), was that it is, indeed, possible for all of God's creation to become perfected and to move back into a state of Divinity equal to that which He Himself achieved. It is the decision of each and every soul as to the timing, as to the method, of that achievement. Where each individual soul lies along The Path to that achievement is between that one and whatever he feels is God. It is not for anything outside of that being to pass judgement upon."

"Sin, the teaching of sin, is a means of coercion through fear. And yet, we are not islands. We are not upon The Earthly Plane in order to work upon ourselves to the exclusion of others. We need also to be aware of how our actions affect all of the people around us, and we need to be also aware that when we arrive at a certain level in our own understanding, we then reach the point when we recognize the need to assist our younger brothers and sisters toward that same understanding. We do not assist by condemnation but only by love and compassion in the knowledge that we too have walked the same path. What then is sin?"

The Path of Initiation:

"It is the purpose of the seemingly endless rounds of incarnation to move toward the ultimate return to First Cause. I use the term, First Cause, as being That of The Godhead. In those many lives, with the many lessons that we have encompassed, we gradually move away from the need to satisfy the lusts of the flesh. We gradually move toward The Light. Eventually along That Path, we recognize that we are no longer satisfying the individual self, and we begin to work in a group for the benefit of the greater good and for the easement of the suffering of the rest of Humanity."

"There must be quite a distinction made in The Initiatory Path of the disciple. One must remember that, in The Path of Initiation, first one is a seeker. When one is accepted into The Lodge or Ashram of a Master Teacher (Ascended Master), one then is known as a disciple (on The Path of Discipleship). It is only when one has passed completely through the preliminary and probationary period of discipleship that one eventually sets oneself upon The Path of Initiation."

"At a point in time in one's Path of Initiation, when one recognizes that one has arrived at the need to serve, one is then accepted (as a chela or student) by an Elder (Ascended Master) of The Race, and one commences the life of service. Then begins a further series of lives in which Soul undertakes the path of service in its many forms, and so progress is made through the various Schools of Initiation until the point when it is no longer necessary to come back to This Earthly Plane unless one so chooses. (The Level of The Fifth Initiation or Ascension) The Christ (previously Lord Maitreya and now Lord Kuthumi) and Those Members of The Galactic Council, Whom Humanity or some members of Humanity call The Hierarchy, are Those Who have elected to stay upon This Earthly Plane along with their chosen helpers until all of Humanity has passed through to a certain Level of awareness."

"At the point in time when one, indeed, becomes a seeker along The Path of Initiation, there are many Levels within That Initiatory Process. The First Level (The Birth) is when it suddenly dawns upon the individual that he/she is not here for himself/herself alone, and he/she begins to look toward The Path of Enlightenment and the return of The Soul toward a more conscious state, in other words integration between the physical and Spiritual levels. The Second Degree (The Baptism) is a little further along That Path. The Third Degree (The Transfiguration or Soul Merge) is when The Disciple accepts The Path of Service and recognizes that the movement toward enlightened consciousness requires that one serve one's fellow man, Humanity. The Fourth Degree (The Crucifixion) is when one takes that service to Humanity beyond all thought of self, the point of total renunciation. It is likened, in some schools, to The Crucifixion -- in effect, the crucifixion of all that is of The Material Plane of form."

"When The Initiate passes through That Fourth Degree and it is fully realized that He has renounced the world in all its material sense and seeks only The Path of True Service in a state of enlightened consciousness, then and only then is one Apostate, having renounced the world (and likewise becomes an Adept in The White Brotherhood). The Apostolic Succession is the succession of Those Souls Who have thus progressed and Who are entitled to bear That Name (Initiates, Adepts, and Ascended Masters). Even now there are still few in number."

"So long as we, as individuals, continue to go our own way and fail to recognize the unity of all life and fail to recognize also our own Divinity, we walk in the shadow. Until the time when it becomes obvious to us that we must follow after The Path Which brings us into The Light, until we cease to be The Prodigal and set our feet back along The Path to Our Father's Home, then we are all in a state of error. Everyone of us. We too must become as He (The Christ) demonstrated. That is for each being within themselves. There is no way to do otherwise and become part of The Body of Christ." (Self-Realized along The Path of Initiation established by Sanat Kumara for the sentient beings of Planet Earth)

"For any seeker after righteousness, which is another way of saying heightening one's consciousness, there comes a time, even as The Christ through Jesus declared, when one must go through a Baptism. It is, in fact, what one might term The Second Degree of Initiation. The First Degree is That of Rebirth or Re-entry. It is the moment in time when one discovers that such a one is not simply following that one's own course but is, in fact, seeking to place the feet back upon The Path to The Creator (The Evolutionary Spiral) to become a Co-Creator with That Divinity."

"Having set one's feet firmly back upon The Path of Return, The Second Degree of Initiation is then That of Baptism, Which Point in the Christian gospel is extremely important, for It was, in fact, The Point when The Man, Jesus, surrendered his prepared body for the entry of The Divine Christos (the entry of The Maitreya Consciousness at The River Jordan). In effect, every aspirant shall pass through That Same Degree and, for some, The Baptism shall be literal, immersing in water, which is symbolic of The Emotional Body or state and is a statement that such a one is ready to take command of That Emotional Vehicle. The emotions no longer control the man. From here on out (after The Second Initiation) the man is in control of the emotions. That is a very distinct Initiatory Degree and statement and is vital along The Path to what might be termed The True Faith, which, in any instance, is The Path of Return to The Creator."

"All of Humanity has to pass through stages which can only be dictated by the inner wisdom of each individual. When the individual comes to the point in time when he begins to question the more simplistic teachings, he sets foot on his own path, his own search, for those very deeper mysteries. When the individual is ready, he will find the key to each and every one of those deeper mysteries through their embodiment in The Life of Jesus, and he will find The Path to the ultimate knowledge of The Christ through That Example."

"When he embarks upon The Path of Return (to The Creator) and soul begins to recognize the deeper truths, then each of those keys to unlock the mysteries can be discovered through the example set by Jesus Who gave embodiment to The Christ Principle (for the 3 years of His Ministry after The Baptism). There is no higher example that Humanity may turn to. There have been Others in more ancient times (Other Avatars of The Christ Consciousness), but the latest and greatest example to which we turn in our search and, therefore, the key that unlocks those deeper mysteries can be found in the example which He gave." (A Life Which was intentionally representative of and a teaching example of The Path of Initiation)

The Sacrifice of Jesus:

"It can be said of Each Member of That Team (The Great White Brotherhood) that theirs is a role which is sacrificial. Each has gone through a life or lives which has been the ultimate sacrifice of the self as a demonstration to the rest of Humanity of what it really takes if one, indeed, has set aside all in order to bring this beautiful Planet and all who dwell upon Her into That State of Divinity. That which The Adept Jesus chose to do in that life was the ultimate demonstration, to all who would follow thereafter, of total sacrifice. It was an enactment of something that has been carried out several times before. Jesus was not the first, the giving of That Sacred Blood back to The Earth and the taking upon Himself the suffering, vicariously, for all of Humanity. By that act, at the beginning of The Piscean Age, He again made certain, for the rest of human life, the ability to move beyond the animal nature into The Realm of Pure Spirit. In this sense, indeed, His Blood was shed for our atonement, at-one-ment."

"The fact that The One, Jesus, had achieved such a degree of Mastery, was upon The Initiatory Path so far advanced that He was able to demonstrate The Divine Principle of The Fourth Level of Initiation (Fourth Initiation taken upon The Cross, variously called The Renunciation or The Crucifixion), That of total crucifixion of self, the lesser self (the ego/personality), and to fully give of The Body and The Blood and The Being of That Self for Humanity, that from this point outward we all have as example That Supreme Act."

The Crucifixion Revelation:

"This, if fully stated, will be the most shattering of all for the establishment to accept. Did, in fact, Jesus die upon The Cross (No), or did He Who is The Supreme Master place Himself into a state of suspension (Yes, through Yogic Powers learned in The East) from which, 3 days later, He was able to resurrect and continue with his fleshly life until the moment in time when He chose, as That Adept (Fourth Level Initiate), to leave this mortal plane in a method of his own choosing, even as all such High Adepts may do? The statement of his death and resurrection has been taken literally down the ages, and the attitude of the death by Crucifixion has been the symbol of a Church which called Itself after The Name of Christ rather than the glorious message of the resurrection into eternal life which, through his example, becomes the attainable destiny of us all. Will they, I wonder, accept that the word, death, meant death to the baser physical instinct in order to give life to that which is immortal? Let us so hope."

Reconciliation:

"We are not reconciled to a God of judgement, to a jealous God, to a God of anger and wrath. This was the erroneous God. The God of The Old Testament of The Hebrew World was not part of The Godhead. Our Lord, through The Mission of Jesus, demonstrated to all of us what is required in order to attain The Highest Level of our own Divinity. We are all a part of That Divinity. We are given free will to choose the time, the method, and how long we wish to spend in that pursuit along The Path to Illumination. The only being who creates any kind of judgement upon our actions is self. If there is no condemnation of our actions, then there is equally no requirement for reconciliation outside of ourselves."

"One can only be reconciled to that from which one is separated. Is that not so? What I am trying to impart at this time, which might not have been possible to impart in earlier ages, is that we are not, in any way, separate from That Which we regard as God."

The Fall:

"There is a total historic misconception surrounding the assumption that Adam was a single human male, whereas The Adamic Race (Adam Cadmon Man) was a Race Which surrounded what is called The Fall (during The Third Root Race on The Motherland of Mu). The Fall is simply the coming into the more gross, fleshly animal body from which period onward it became necessary to remember The Path back to The Divine. It is not involving that which has been called sin."

Group Karma and Vicarious Atonement:

"During The Crucifixion, what, in fact, happened at the time of that particular demonstration was the saving of endless rounds of karmic debts. To a great extent, The Laws of Cause and Effect were in place, but the demonstration entered into by The Christ (Lord Maitreya) through the office of Jesus was a covenant made which expiated a tremendous amount of human karma at that point in time. Had He not elected to do this, Humanity may have become bogged down in the morass of their own endless pendulum of karmic responsibility out of which it might have been impossible to extricate. It is, as it were, a purchase that Our Lord Christ made on behalf of Humanity in order to save those endless rounds and in order to set those of Humanity, willing to accept, upon a path which might far more easily be sustained."

"What was meant, when it was said that The Christ through Jesus had purchased, on behalf of Humanity, much of the blackness of the karmic debt, was that He, like The Other Great Ones before Him, had taken upon his own Vehicle much of that debt in order to make it possible, on a level of frequency for the rest of Humankind, to proceed at a faster pace. In other words, in a sense, it was helping Humanity to increase its pace but not to completely take away the need for the individual to work at his or her own karma."

"There are numerous channels through which The Law of Cause and Effect may be enacted or activated. Primarily, there is what one might call a group karma. Attendant upon This Earthly Plane, there are situations which are, in effect, pre-arranged within a specific group of individuals who, down through many lives, have worked together. Part of the operation upon This Earthly Plane is seeking out those who are part of one's group and working upon the furtherance of that group action. In this sense, there is an inevitable group karma which each member of that body of the whole assists in processing. There is also racial karma, the whole Race at large. The problems that are inherent within a specific Race are those which the whole of That Race are working to alleviate."

"Then there is the individual karmic pattern set by each being. While it might be supposed that each individual personality is working at that one's own level and thus, within the boundaries of The Law of Cause and Effect, creating and expiating karma, it must also be remembered that each of those individuals is also interweaving with his or her group and the karma that collectively that group incurs. And again, in turn, the group is interweaving with what might be various racial karmic patterns. It is not very often that a group is a member collectively of one Race. Usually groups are members of several Races and, therefore, there is the interweaving of the racial pattern of those many Races."

"Humanity has not yet made sufficient progress in its evolution to fully register the fact that we are not separate little islands of individuality. We are all interconnected. That which affects the individual also affects the group, also affects The Race, and eventually affects the whole of civilization in a continuum that goes on down through the whole of history of The Human Race and, to some extent, even before that."

"Therefore, there are Those Great Ones (The Ascended Masters of The Spiritual Hierarchy) Who have come to This Earthly Plane at intervals throughout those ages Who have taken upon Themselves the responsibility of the whole Race. And, through the purchase of their own atonement, They have set the balance. The last One to do that was The One Whom we call Jesus The Christ (embodiment of Sananda overshadowed by Lord Maitreya). Because of the evolutionary process, it was necessary for an even greater act of atonement to be made within The Law of Cause and Effect than had been the case in earlier civilizations. And so, by His Supreme Act and by the overlighting of The Universal Christ (Second Aspect of The Godhead transmuted through The Consciousness of Maitreya), That Supreme Master gave of his own Being and that of The Hosts Who stood behind Him upon The Higher Planes in order to purchase his own atonement and that of Humankind. That action, having been set in motion at that point in written history, is in motion for all time."

"From that point forward, because of that supreme example, each individual working upon his own balance and each group recognizing its group responsibility is now able, if it so chooses, to work from the level of karmic responsibility which allows all that has passed to be set in balance and, as it were, to work from here forward with a clear record. There are many souls coming into This Earthly Plane at this time who, therefore, do not hold any karmic responsibility from the past and who work on what might be termed, instant balancing, as they go along in this present life. There is still a vast racial responsibility, and it is the work of each group within those areas to become so aware of those responsibilities that the racial karma also might be set in balance."

"All of this was made possible by a Group of Souls (The White Brotherhood) Who have repeatedly come to This Earthly Plane and, by vicarious atonement, have taken on the suffering of the whole of Humanity, often quietly, often without recognition, until the time when certain Members of That Group came together at a period in written history in that land in The Eastern Mediterranean where such an act of group steadfastness allowed Jesus, The Man, to become the embodiment of The Universal Christ."

The One Law:

"Outside of This Earthly Plane, there are no written laws per se and, indeed, within This Earthly Plane there are none. The only people who need written laws are those who have not yet arrived at a state of Higher Consciousness. For those whom written laws are no longer necessary, there is not that within their consciousness that would even consider a pattern of behavior which makes written laws necessary. It is the work of the individual to create that within the self that goes beyond the law of Humankind in order to become part of The Universal Ethic. Do you recall the words of Jesus when challenged regarding The Commandments? 'There is, in truth, only one law. Thou shalt love The Lord Thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, and all of thy self, and thou shalt love thy neighbor even as self.' There are no other laws to one who is capable of so doing."

"There is, in the final analysis, in all of our striving, that one truth: without love as one's motivation, anything we do may as well be left not done. It is an eternal truth."

"Wherever we get to around the world, that which is similar from Race to Race, that is where we will find the truth. Most else is distortion as is that message which Jesus attempted to clarify, the message of the ages (Unconditional Love). It was no different in his day than throughout the millennia before Him and no different now for The Next Age (The Golden Age in The Sign of Aquarius). Yet, we must once again come back to what is the pure truth and set aside the distortions. As we keep coming back over and over again to the purity, leaving out the distortions, hopefully Humanity has again the means to progress (in love)."

The Temple Body:

"By the words of Jesus and my own words, We were reminding people that the outer, physical form is that which contains The Divine Spirit (of The Higher Self). We reminded people that there are other levels, finer dimensions, than that which is recognized merely upon the level of physical form. The work, which we who elect to teach must needs undertake, is to first of all help the human being to understand that he is not his fleshly body."

"One has to recognize that the body is, indeed, a temple wherein Spirit dwells and that the mind is the vehicle which is, one might say, the bridge between the 2, the connecting point between that which is of the physical and mortal plane and that which is of the higher and finer Realms of Spirit and all that lies between. It is dangerous, from the point of view of evolution to The Higher Realms, to allow the being to exercise his thought too often upon the level of the gross physical. Through the vehicle of the mind and the pattern of thought, one moves forward in one's aspiration to those matters eternal."

"Let Us be very clear that there is nothing evil within the body itself and the exercise of those bodily functions which are a part of nature. All are part of a Divine Creation and are not in any way, of themselves, evil. What has been evil in Man is that which He has chosen to do with those bodily functions and those things which have been perpetrated against one's fellow human beings. It is not the body itself or the bodily functions that have created this. It is the exercising of the human mind."

Pure Motives:

"It is the work of The Soul, of The Higher Self, to continually overlight the being in the endeavor to lift the motivation out of the level of self-gratification to the point when every act of that one is carried out for the higher purpose and the greater good, not only of that soul but for all. When one's motives are wholly of the truth and pure, then all that one does is also pure and part of God. That is possible to attain while still in the fleshly vehicle as was clearly stated by Jesus and has been equally clearly stated by all of The Great Teachers Who have come to This Earthly Plane."

Duality:

"The One Who created all recognized The Darkness and The Light (the 2 Polarities of existence in this particular Universe, Those of Service to Self and Those of Service to Others). The Darkness is equally of God. We must all recognize our own Darkness as well as that which is Light as being a part of our own Divinity, for it is only by the continual testing and that which is learned from that testing that the one goes forward in the several attainments to which we all aspire. Darkness and the darker side of self is no more separate from God than is The Light. The lesser self (the incarnate fragment of The Higher Self called the ego/personality) is not separate from The Higher. It is there that we may grow."

Septenary Beingness:

"We all who enter The Earthly Plane do so in the full knowledge of our karmic debt. In a sense, the need to reincarnate and The Law of Cause and Effect are synonymous because, when one is upon The Earthly Plane in a specific incarnation, one carries within the lesser vehicle (the lesser self) that which is called The Astral (The Emotional Energy Field or Body)."

"Let Us recap on the subject of lesser self for a moment. The physical plane personality is comprised of the fleshly body (the gross body) and The Aetheric Vehicle (the template for the physical body) together with The Astral or Emotional Body. Upon The Higher Planes, the 3 Bodies Which are The Buddhic, The Atmic, and The Monadic (or Higher Ego Self) respond to the same stimuli: the will and, to a certain extent, emotions, excepting that the emotions on The Higher Level are not negative. Then we have The Mind Vehicle (The Mental Body), Which is a bridge between The Higher and the lower planes." (a septenary constitution of individuality)

The Astral Body:

"When a Soul elects to enter again into The Fleshly Plane, It does so in order to learn certain lessons. And upon arrival into The Mortal Plane, that which is stamped upon The Astral Body, which is called emotional reaction, forms continually an impression upon The Aetheric Counterpart. If one were to be able to see The Aetheric Counterpart of the physical body at any given time, one might be very disturbed when one sees the effect that negative thinking has upon That Aetheric Counterpart. And so, it is a constant operation of the human condition that The Higher Self endeavors to assist the lower self to remove negative thinking."

"At whatever point in time The Soul (The Higher Self) elects to leave The Physical Plane and withdraw from that vehicle, whatever is accumulated by The Aetheric Counterpart transfers into The Higher Realms (transfers to The Astral Body Which finds Itself upon The Astral Planes comprised of 7 Levels of 7 sub-levels each) in its exact appearance at that point in time. It is then the work of Soul upon The Higher Planes to restore whatever is out of balance within that being (that extended fragment of its Consciousness). That is often quite an arduous task upon The Astral Planes. Each individual Soul still has to do this. There is nothing which has made that particular exercise unnecessary, nor will there ever be."

"That which We term evil (The Dark Brotherhood, Those of Service to Self) is the opposing Force, the opposite polarity which enables the evolving being to seek out the truth. It is, indeed, a truth that without the one opposite we cannot discern and define the other polarity (in a Universe of Duality). In other words, if one did not experience hatred, one could not discern what is love. If one did not experience cold, one could not define what is heat. The difference upon The Earthly Plane of interaction is that Humanity reacts to each of these experiences. On The Higher Planes, there is no reaction. What reactionary excesses create are problems within The Astral/Emotional Vehicle. And it is within That Emotional Vehicle, Which is part of the incarnatory form (part of the septenary beingness in this particular Universe), that we have our human difficulties. That Emotional Body is not part of The Higher Nature and, therefore, cannot be considered to be a part of The Godhead. Negative emotions are not part of Divinity. So far as We are aware of The Attributes of Divinity, That Source of all Creation does not have emotions."

"There is a notion in the minds of many individuals which supposes that when one leaves this fleshly form one moves into Higher Realms where all is peace, harmony, and Light. This is not the case. When the being leaves the fleshly vehicle, that one does so in the state of consciousness at the point of departure. That state of consciousness does not suddenly change when one arrives, as it were, at the other side (which is that Level of The Astral Planes equivalent to one's vibrational rate of being, one's evolutionary state of awareness). It remains exactly the same."

"However, because of the greater clarity which that one has of observation, and because of the ability of the helping hands (Guides and Teachers) who are there present, it is possible for such a one to make assessment more easily and to look at those things which are outstanding and to bring those things into a more balanced state. This is work which is much more easily accomplished when not confined within the fleshly form (and when the focus of consciousness has shifted into The Astral Body). But there is a difference. It is a total misconception to imagine that when one leaves this gross flesh one is immediately catapulted into an area where the consciousness is much higher. This is an ever ongoing process (the evolutionary spiral back to The Godhead over eons of time after the involutionary spiral down into physicality) no matter which Realm one might occupy."

The Universal Christ:

"The Universal Christ (The Second Ray or Aspect of The Godhead, That of Divine Love and Wisdom) is part of The Creation of all things. If a soul had chosen, in this life, to be a follower after The Buddha or any other, that is simply a path which they have chosen because there are certain aspects within that field that, in this life, they wish to pursue. However, it is no more possible for any soul to attain to a level which approaches The Path toward Divinity, and yet deny The Christ, than it is for a human body to have no heart and still live. The acknowledgement of The Universality of The Christ (not Maitreya but The Second Aspect of The Godhead) is as the grass. Soul cannot live without it. It is part of the essence of being."

Religious Schisms:

"The more enlightened of The Eastern Religions acknowledge Jesus as a Prophet. Mohammed certainly acknowledged Jesus as a fellow Prophet. The Koran acknowledges the fact. It is the succession of establishments (religions) which have called themselves after the name of Those Prophets that have created problems, not The Prophets Themselves. In fact, each and every One of Those Prophets have not required that establishments be created in their name at all."

"There has been, particularly in The Church Which has called Itself after the name of Christ, a very erroneous and malignant concept concerning their aspect of the truth. It is not the nature of The True Godhead or of The Universal Christ to create that which separates. Indeed, absolutely the reverse is the truth. There is no separation from The Love of God through Christ no matter what particular path the soul purports to follow in any one lifetime."

Teaching in Parables:

"Jesus was dealing with a group of people, in that time and place, who were, in the main, simple folk, and, as with young children, the way to get across the message which one wishes to convey is to put it into symbology that they will best understand. The Master, therefore, chose frequently to express The Great Universal Truths through the medium of the natural environment which the people of his day could well understand. The method used by Jesus is an age old method of hiding The Great Universal Wisdoms in simple form that people might readily appreciate and therefore better understand."

The Wrathful Jehovah:

"There is no such entity as a wrathful, jealous God. In truth, The Supreme Godhead Whose Name cannot be spoken, The First Cause, Source of all things seen and not seen, created and not created, has created all that is as an ongoing process through which we all move, in which we all learn, no matter on what Level we might be in existence. When one moves beyond The Level of This Earthly Plane, there are no such negative emotions as anger or jealousy. For even Those Who have passed into The Fifth Kingdom (The Ascended Masters of The Spiritual Hierarchy), negative emotions are a thing that belongs to the confinements of The Earthly Plane. They are not part of Divinity in any way. That God to which The Old Testament refers is not, beloved ones, The Supreme Godhead. The one whom The Old Testament Bible refers to as Jehovah is not The Supreme First Cause. That will rock the boat a little; will it not?"

The Higher Self:

"No matter in passing as The I That I Am in this moment, no matter what plane of existence one is working upon, That Which Is (The I Am Presence) is so far beyond our imagining; how may we interpret? We may only assume from the light of our own clarity and continue to ask, at all times, that The Clearer Light may be shown to us. Even as we attain That Greater Light, The Source from Which It comes also moves on ahead of us. We see fragments face to face, and so much more is still seen through a mirror darkly."

"That Which is usually referred to as Soul is, in fact, a collective term for The Three Vital Bodies of The Higher Self. As We have stated previously, The Total Self (The I Am Presence) is, in fact, a 7-faceted Being (Septenary Beingness). That Which is generally regarded as The Higher Self operates on the level of Will (The First Ray), Wisdom/Love (The Second Ray), and Active Intelligence (The Third Ray), and essentially the 3 facets of the lower self (the personality) work with the same impulses, with the mind (The Mental Body), as it were, the bridge between the two. Therefore, when We speak of Higher Self, as has been explained earlier, We speak of The Three Bodies: The Buddhic, The Atmic, and The Monadic. Essentially, all are part of The Immortal Soul. They are The Finer Bodies. And so, when We speak of Soul or what some call The Causal Body, We, in fact, speak of The Three Finer Essences of Being."

Judgementalism:

"That Which we look upon as The Godhead, The Supreme Knower of all things, is The Ultimate Judge of what we all do, and That Ultimate Source judges not but leaves it to the discretion of each individualized Soul (each Higher Self) to know what it is that They have created. And They Themselves will expiate that effect (from a given cause) in their own timing. Therefore, we do not, at any time, profess to judge another."

The Zodiac:

"Each being passes, in his evolutionary pattern, through all of the 12 Constellations of The Zodiac. Each is born, at one point in his pattern or another, into The Sign which is called, or sometimes ruled by, one of Those Great Elohim (Co-creators of this region of The Galaxy). Hercules gave us, by his own example, the picture of what each of The Signs offers to Soul in its learning (The 12 Labors of Hercules). These energies reflect into our own immediate Planetary Family, and it is the work, the overlighting force-field of certain Planets within Our Group, Our Solar System, to offer certain frequencies which The Soul, in its passage through the evolutionary process, may learn."

Saturn:

"The role of The Planet Saturn is that of allowing Humanity to see Itself. The symbolic energy of Saturn is 'Man know thyself'. He is, indeed, The Tempter Who showed to Jeshua all The Kingdoms of Earth and said, 'These can be yours if you wish'. It was not an embodiment with the name, Satan, to which The Initiate may answer. It was a statement of recognition that Saturn is the governing principle behind all of our discernment. It is The Planet Saturn Which allows us to know ourselves. It is not The Devil or Satan. There is no such person."

The Externalization of The Spiritual Hierarchy:

"When I (as Paul) referred to Christ coming back with all His Saints, I was referring to all of Those Beings (The Great White Brotherhood) Who have passed through The Earthly Plane, Who have learned all that The Earthly Plane has to offer, and Who have the option to pass into some of Those other many Mansions (Higher Schools of Learning), but Who have exercised their option to stay. 'We will remain to help This Earth until all have passed through those Gates.' Some there are, at all times, in physical embodiment upon The Earthly Plane. Others there are Who are in other dimensions and yet, from those other dimensions, monitor and assist. It shall be Those Who are in those other frequencies (The Fifth Kingdom or The Spiritual Hierarchy for Planet Earth), monitoring and assisting, Who will come in His Train when He comes (The next Avatar of The Christ Consciousness, Lord Kuthumi). Those may still be in the classification of Adept, Initiate, in the mortal sense, in which case They would be what The Church would call Saints."

The Value of Religions:

"It is not the intention to create any kind of situation or thought-form which would implicate or place blame before any one segment of Religious Thought. In the evolutionary progress of Humanity as it stood at the time of the writing of Paul's work originally and in the 2,000 years that have passed since then, we must be filled with respect for much of the great good that all parts (The Religions of Humanity) have given in their evolutionary state. We are however now, for this next phase which might be called The New Dispensation (The New Age), endeavoring to upgrade and clarify (the erroneous teachings)."

"It matters not, in the progress of each soul, whether outwardly he/she chooses to be a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, whether he follows the Judaic Laws, or whatever the choice. It matters not if he professes to be an Atheist or anything else. That is a stage in the moment where that soul is. All are making progress toward Universality no matter what their state upon The Physical Plane, and, in the end, there are no Religions. We all make our individual soul choice to walk whatever path we choose toward Divinity. The God Self, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Divine Spark (The I Am Presence, The Higher Self), whatever words we choose, are in us, and it is our responsibility to attain."

Materialism:

"No matter how grave the world situation is in this modern day, and we do have threats of nuclear extinction, it still comes back to the same basic frailty within human nature, which is the frailty of materialism. So long as Humankind attaches so much vast importance to the acquisitions of The Material Plane to the exclusion of or to the detriment of The Realm of Spirit, then we shall always have problems."

The Law of One:

"Addressing the oneness of all things (The Law of One), if one truly believes that we are, every single one of us, part of That Allness, then we are, literally, part of The Body of Christ (The Universal Christ). We are, indeed, literally part, each, of the other. I am my brother's keeper. It could not be otherwise. His or her difficulty is my difficulty. That which I do reflects in them. And that which they do affects me. I did mean (as Paul), literally, that we are a part of The Body of Christ and He part of us, then and now."

"When one is fully able to accept that there is One Body, One Mind, One Spirit (The Law of One), and that all of Humanity, whether they call themselves Christians, Buddhists, or anything else, is a part of That Oneness, then shall it be accepted that Christ reigns. Then shall it be accepted that The Kingdom of God is here on Earth. All of The Religions, including The Christian, have done great service. We do not discount that service, but We can no longer allow the misconception that there is only one Path to God and that It is either through The Christian Church or any other Institution created in the name of a God. There is only one Path to God, and It lies inside each and every single member of That Body Which came from God."

Marriage:

"Marriage, as such, is an earthbound institution, and if those who are separated from one marriage, because for many reasons that marriage does not work out, should the individuals at some future time come together with another who is more suited and with whom mutual harmony can be established, then I say there is nothing within The Universal Laws of God that says they must not come together. There were certain laws set forth in those biblical times in order to arrive at a degree of order. The laws were such to provide a means to reduce immorality, but these laws are earthbound."

"As has been reiterated by many sources, the ultimate coming together between male and female is in order to assist in the growth toward unconditional love. If there is no hope within a present coupling of such, and belief systems do appear to be a considerable stumbling block in that regard, then it is better that the ones in question separate and let the future take its course."

"In the marriage relationship, the 2 are coming together in accord with that which was set forth by what we might term 'divine command'. And there is, within the joining together of the male and female, the opportunity, during the act of love, for the 2 as one whole to raise each other into a very high level of spiritual bliss. In the case of using a prostitute for sexual gratification, one is simply satisfying the flesh."

"One of the highest truths is that the ultimate ideal upon This Earthly Plane is that those who are joined together should not be put asunder. Did Jesus not say, 'Those whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder.'? That is because that is the ultimate ideal. One does not advocate that if life is miserable with another partner and the partner is the wrong one, one should stay together throughout all things good, bad, or otherwise. One is suggesting that the ideal is to know one's true sympathetic soul and to stay with that one in a union of love which creates the necessary environment for the emergence into The Christed Being."

"One cannot emerge thereto in any other than the environment of love created between 2 sympathetic souls. It is, again, a Universal Law that The High Souls Who wish to come into being in This Earth Plane cannot do so with parents who are not of that same High Frequency. Therefore, We always will admonish that one seek for the highest possible, ever, ever moving upwards. The ideal relationship between the male and female is to come together and stay together and to bring other souls into This Earthly Plane to learn from that example. Example is the only way one can ever truly learn. It is not a mundane subject. It is a very deep esoteric subject."

The Co-Creators of The Universe:

"Throughout the evolution of Humanity, there has been the recognition of certain Forces which Man has chosen to call Gods. There has been, then, confusion in the monotheistic religions which advocate One God as The Supreme God. The confusion arises out of the fact that the lesser Devic Forces are called god by many other religions. Let us, therefore, assume that The First Cause, or That Which the Christian looks upon as The Only God, is in fact God. In The Three-Fold Energy of God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit (The Triune Godhead or 1st 3 Aspects of Divinity) of That Godhead, we therefore equate That Supreme Source of all things, call It what we will, with The One and Only God."

"What, then, do we do with all of The Powers beside The Throne, The Co-Creators (at every level of existence)? What do we do with The Planetary Logoi (The Creators of each Planetary Sphere, e.g. The Higher Self of Sanat Kumara for Planet Earth)? What do we do with The Devic and The Nature Spirits and all of the multitudes of Forces Which work in hierarchic sequence down into This Earthly Plane? It is unfortunate that the very God referred to in The Old Testament (Jehovah) is one such, is not The Supreme Godhead. He was, rather, a Racial God, one of the gods of this world. We must, therefore, recognize that to use the same word to describe something which is of This Earth and then to also attempt to describe That Which cannot be named, indeed, is very confusing and has been confusing since Man was created."

"However, let us here make no mistake that there are many, many levels (Many Levels of Co-Creator Councils of 12 from The Godhead down to physicality). There are many Force Fields Which move down from That First Supreme Creator of all things, The One, and step down Their Frequencies until They come into created form and then, in The Realms of created form, meet again many more Forces That are part of The Creative Urge, yet, again, all part of The One. If we know, above all things, that we are all part of The One, then, yes, we recognize One Supreme Diety, but this does not discount all of The Forces That assist That Supreme Cause."

Head Covering:

"The mind is a sphere of intangible substance responsive to the slightest impulse from either inside or outside of that entity whose mind it is. Each impression gives rise to countless images by these stimuli, that is, from association of ideas or from objects we feel with our senses. All of these things, whether material or astral, are formed from the substance of that which is called Akasha. The brain, mind, and head are, in fact, a small world or sphere of Akasha. The Akashic Substance penetrates the human brain and head and can carry with it images carried by currents of force or thought projected onto it by another mind. These thoughts carry for thousands of miles from the point of generation and, according to their nature, can be a hindrance or an assistance."

"Akasha, then, can be said to correspond, to a great extent, to the head, to The Pituitary Body of the brain, and to the senses of sight, hearing, and speech. The impulses are also conveyed to the heart and to the generative organs affecting the fires of creation. Akasha is particularly attractive to the germinal spot in the egg or seed (sperm). It corresponds to the emotional surge of love and, particularly potent in women, to the passive side of nature and to the soil in which the seed is planted. Akasha corresponds, in matter, to Aether, to sound vibrating to the color Indigo and the keynote A in the tonic scale, and touches Universal Mind. It is recorded by The Great Recording Angel and responds to the negative pole, the left hand, the receptor. In The True Church Universal, it is said to be The Bride, that is, The Channel through Which Universal Light and Love/Wisdom (The Second Ray or Aspect of The Godhead) may flow without interruption."

"Knowing these facts, The Ancient Wisdom Schools required that a woman cover the head on entering a place of power dedicated to The Universal Wisdoms because of the particular energy being received and transmitted by The Feminine Principle, more especially when contained in the physical vehicle of a woman. Only the more advanced woman Initiate was admitted to The Inner Sanctum of such places of power because she must exercise great personal discernment on 2 causes: a) that she not project her powerful thoughts to the detriment of others not so powerful, and b) that she not bring with her, in The Inner Place, any negative frequencies. All frequencies surrounding the head are attractive to the denizens of The Subtle Realms, which are loosely termed angels in Christian Theology. These may be of a positive or of a negative nature. It is advisable for man also to cover the head if intending to go into a deeper meditational state in order to receive transmitted wisdom from those other Realms."

"This whole subject was taken by the translators in The Church of Rome as an excuse to prolong and exacerbate the denigration of women to the rank of servility which, of course, is an absolute miscarriage of the truth."

The Near Death Experience:

"While in the fleshly body, it is difficult in the extreme for the average human to communicate and see into those other Realms that are ever present, working in parallel manner, side by side if you will, and often integrated with the physical, manifest form. The ability of retention of awareness of those Realms, for the average human, is rare. In very rare circumstances, some are born with that. All children are born with that ability which lasts for only a very short time. Others, in rare circumstances, retain that ability."

"But, in the main, the ability of sight (aetheric sight) usually comes with a death experience. When a person has died to the fleshly vehicle and then, for some reason, returns into that vehicle (The Near Death Experience) or perhaps, I should say, when The Spirit (The Higher Self) returns into that vehicle, it is usually possible and very likely that the person in question has a greater ability to retain knowledge of those other Spheres of existence. This might be likened to enlightenment. One is certainly bathed in The Pure Light of That Which lies beyond the physical form, and one can say with true certainty that, from that point, one's life is changed, and there is no return to what was before that event."

"I do not say that one immediately thereafter becomes a High Degree Initiate or Adept. Those are circumstances that must be won over rigorous and long disciplines, but there is, however, a change and a knowledge that cannot be eradicated no matter what the circumstances from that point onward. These people are quite frequently totally misunderstood, for they have a knowing that cannot be conveyed to others. The man, Paul, could answer to all of that and particularly in light of his earlier record. It was this event (on the road to Damascus), in fact, which reconciled Luke and Paul because of Luke's intimate understanding of such an event."

"May the peace and blessing of all The Higher Beings
Who care for humanity's struggle be with you forevermore."

HILARION
(Lord of The Fifth Ray)

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