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Chapter 52
Beloved Djwal Kul - December 27, 1963

     Master of Cycles is He! God of very God, Lord of Lords and King of Kings! How trivial would the treasures of all eternity be without the mighty dispensations of God, distributing and fashioning all Life in a rapture of Wondrous Wisdom! All space is hallowed by the Divine Majesty; and yet, condensed within the point of Light focused within the atom of a Man's Heart Flame may be found the Intelligence of Immortal God, reaching out and piercing the gloom of maya, the world delusion, the noncomprehending mind, and enfolding all the garments of Creation in the crystal clear apprehension of the Light within each Man's Being.

     And now abideth Hope, the Hope of comprehending the mystery of The Christ - the Hope of comprehending the mystery of God. It has not been enough for men to hold in supreme Faith and allegiance their belief in the Majesty of God. It has been the requirement of Life that they shall fashion themselves in this Majesty, in the Faith that God first foresaw and beheld them in that self-same Glory.

     O Holy Intelligence at the sacred age of twelve manifesting in the young Christ consulting with the doctors in the temple! Men's consciousness is not a mere encyclopedic memory of the Cosmos, an orderly succession of facts, a maddening procession of scenes and events, but rather is it the entering in from the Holy Place to the Holy of Holies within the Consciousness of Man's Being. Each man must comprehend the mystery of Life from the citadel of his own Being.

     "I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am there may ye be also" (John 14) is a most cogent statement of God's Glory within each individual Soul. Though all the world Ascend but thee, so long as thou remainest unascended, all the world Ascended must, in fulfillment of Love's obligation, for thee remain with bated, hushed breath in the Temple of God's Infinite Love, calling for the solution of thy recalcitrance. And so, it stands that the Holy Wisdom apprehended at the portals of each Man's Being is the Essence of Intelligence, more vast by far than the intellect which comprehends the starry bodies and their scientific origin. For dust may return to dust and stars to fiery dispersion throughout the vast Spacial regions separating nebula from nebulae.

     Nameless graves and the lives of men both great and small may march in a procession across the pages of history, but all would be a vain torment of the mind if it did not ultimately recognize the Holy Purpose of individualization and slay for itself the dragon whose sharpened tail has held men down to the base and low and senseless aspects of emotion and vain thought. As men stand, then, gazing at the portals of the years, as the pulsating fervor of their emotions rises and then flickers upon the Altar of Being, let them seek to know the mystery of the alchemist's white stone; let them understand the meaning of the Angel's call, "Behold I make all things new ... Write: for these words are true and faithful" (Rev.21:5).

     Let men cognize their individual identification with the fervent cry of the soul of God within them, gazing out at the ephemeral and changing world and then inward at the fire of their own Being, and crying with a loud voice, "Lo I AM come!" For in very Truth of very Truth it is God that has come in the Temple of every Man's Life and it is God within Who must assist each one in making right all that has been wrong. The dweller on the threshold of human creation must be consumed; the dark shapeless shadowy mass of disorganized elemental energies must be forsaken and transmuted by the splendor of God's appearing. The Dawn of God's Day must break - the Golden Dawn of Truth for every lifestream - and then as men face the new Day, months, years or cycles, all will be joyous.

     Joy to all in the Temple of God's appearing. Be of good cheer, it is I, the Infinite One. I AM thine!

     Lovingly ,

     Copyright ^© 1963, by The Summit Lighthouse, inc.

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Volume 6, Number 18, footnote 12. Spiritual interpretation of the menorah. Seven principles of the seven rays are mastered by the soul through the outpicturing of the threefold flame in balanced action in the four lower bodies. This is accomplished in seven stages of initiation, or steps of precipitation, under the guidance and tutelage of the Lords, or Chohans, of the Seven Rays. See Zechariah 4: The angel shows the prophet a "candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof."

This vision depicts in the golden candlestick the silver cord which extends from the heart of God in the Great Central Sun to the individualized Mighty I AM Presence, passing through the Holy Christ Self and anchoring in the heart of man the illumination to carry out the will of God in love.

The bowl represents the consciousness of man, which is fed by the self-luminous, intelligent light energy which flows over the silver cord. The seven lamps represent the seven receptacles of man (spiritual centers called in the Hindu chakras, i.e., wheel of the Law), sustained by the sacred fire from the one Source, flowing through the seven pipes. The seven pipes typify the seven rays, or facets, of the creation which must manifest the light of God through the seven lamps.

The three central candles of the menorah blaze forth the threefold flame of power, wisdom, and love (blue, yellow, and pink) embracing the threefold nature of the Divinity - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The two candles to the left of the blue flame of power represent the etheric and mental bodies of man, which are designed to outpicture the Fourth Ray of purity (white) and the Fifth Ray of science (green) respectively. To the right of the pink flame of love are the candles representing the emotional and physical bodies, whichare designed to outpicture the Sixth Ray of devotion (purple and gold, and the ruby ray) and the Seventh Ray of ordered service (violet) respectively.

The two olive trees on either side of the candles are "the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth" - i.e., they represent the authority of God invested in his representatives on earth in every age who hold the scepter of power in Church and State. The tree to the left is the blue plume of power directing all levels of government, and the tree to the right is the pink plume of love which presides over the religious life of the people.

The entire symbol of the candelabra (specifically the menorah in Hebrew terminology) is enfolded in the yellow plume of illumination, the key to man's fulfillment of his sevenfold identity. Thus the complete thoughtform of the two olive trees (power and love) at either side of the candlestick (wisdom) represents the action of the threefold flame in human society, while the candles in the center interpret man's inner and outer unfoldment in the fulfillment of the divine plan.

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Volume 6, Number 46, footnote 4. The elements. In the study of alchemy, the primordial substance, materia prima, is described as being without form, like the world before the creation ("And the earth was without form and void ..." Gen. 1:2) - before all things were separated into distinct elements. In his book, Alchemy, Titus Burckhardt explains that the four elements - fire, air, water, and earth - "do not proceed directly from materia prima but from its first determination, ether, which fills all space equally." Stanislas K. De Rola in Alchemy: The Secret Art writes: "From the interplay of the Four Elements, and their metamorphosis one into the other, all is evolved, and the fifth element, the Quintessence, distilled."

There has been debate through the centuries as to whether ether should be considered as a fifth element. Aristotle defined it as such and the Hindus and Theosophists also speak of five elements. When discussing the transmutation of elements from one form to another, however, the alchemist is referring to the four qualities of fire, air, water, and earth, as the fifth, ether (or quintessence), is considered eternal and unchangeable.