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As many of you know, the World Teachers serve directly under the office of the Cosmic Christ, and thus it has been our honor and privilege in consultation with Jesus and Kuthumi to prepare for you and millions who will follow in the spiral that we shall inaugurate this fall of the Ascended Masters' University. We have sat before the Lord of the World; and we have discussed how the teaching of the Ascended Masters has been given forth on other systems of worlds such as your own, where there has been an interruption for a number of centuries or even thousands of years of the true teaching of Hierarchy.
And I say that you will be blessed by the Presence of these World Teachers in your midst, for they are placing their Electronic Presence in the very focus where these classes are to be conducted. And they are setting forth the spirals of illumination that shall begin in the inner circle of devotees who come forth and are accepted for the first course, full-time, of the Ascended Master University.
I cannot even begin to tell you the rejoicing that has occurred in the retreats of the Brotherhood around the planetary body to know that there will be a school and an open door where young men and women of every age may enter and find there the Path that leads all Home, the Path that will ultimately connect millions to the retreats of the Brotherhood, to the chakras of the earth, to the elemental kingdom, and to service with the Cosmic Christ on behalf of the avatars who will surely descend into form if there be among you enough who will uphold the torch in their behalf. This is a great moment in the cosmic history of this solar system, and it is great because of the efficacy and the accuracy of our teachings which have been preserved in this activity.
Our concern with the various schools of theology and religion has always been with the percentage of Ascended Master law that is taught. The less percentage of pure truth, the less concentration of truth can be made within the consciousness of the students. And when the equation of truth and error is out of balance to the extent that error is in the majority - and I tell you that this is the case in the majority of schools upon this planet - then the students that graduate from these schools do not have the equipment within their outer consciousness to meet the tests of the Path. Many, because of their ultimate faith in God-Good, do make tremendous progress and do convert many souls to the Buddhic Path, to the Christic Light. And yet how much more progress can be won, and that swiftly, when there is the 99 percent-plus accuracy that is found in this retreat of the Brotherhood.
I say to you, one and all, blessed are you who shall partake of this initiation under the Hierarchy of Capricorn from the hand of the Great Divine Director - this initiation of the spiral of Golden Age education. I would, then, continue my explanation to you concerning your initiations upon the Path, for it is necessary that you be initiated to more advanced levels of discipleship in order to hold the balance for the planet and for lesser souls whose evolution has not reached the level of your own. Therefore I say, I am willing, most willing, to initiate you.
But, precious hearts, please be ready. Please expect the test. Please write down in a very important place that you do not forget to look upon each day, that you have asked to be tested. And then please pass the tests for the sake of the Lord of the World. For I tell you, Hierarchy is fatigued with those who come forward to be tested and then constantly fail those tests over and over and over again through lack of emotional control, through human pride, and by a disregarding of our precepts long taught to you.
I say to you, precious hearts, you need the discipline and the whiplash of our fire this night as well as our peace. For you must understand that it is the Law of Cosmos that not one of you is ever tested before you have been given the full information, the tutoring, the drilling, and the knowledge by energies hard-earned by Hierarchy, dispensed to you through many sources. You never come to a test unprepared! Do you understand? Do I make myself perfectly clear?
If you fail, it is because there is a will to fail in the subconscious. And I ask that you rout that consciousness from your subconscious this night, that you kick it out, and that you realize that if you desire to win, you will win. For the knowledge is inside, and it can be evoked upon a second's notice.
I say to you, you must not fail. You must not go down in spirals of degradation. You must uphold the Law of Hierarchy and show some worth to the Lords of Karma, who have extended mercy again and again and again. And what has been their return? A flaunting of the Law, a deliberate disregard of the very precepts which have been set forth for thousands of years. And all of a sudden, you decide by a process of intellectual rationalization that all is relative and you can do anything you please and get away with it. And that is the very test that you have failed - to follow the rationalization of the ego rather than the reason of the Logos. There is a reason to the Law if you will but have patience to learn that Law.
I say to you, then, that the Ascended Master Code of Conduct that shall be presented for your study and that shall be enacted by the Mother of the Flame for the university is the very same code of conduct that was delivered into the hand of Moses, the precepts of the Law that were delivered in the Sermon on the Mount, and the teachings that have come forth through the Buddha and the hierarchies of heaven. You will not be asked to submit to any discipline that has not already been present in our retreats for thousands of years.
And yet some of you question whether or not you should sign your application for want of seeing those disciplines. Where is your faith in Hierarchy? Where is your faith, I say? Do you not understand that the Law is impersonal and that it is impersonally applied and that if you place yourself in the hands of God and work His works and do His will, you have nothing to fear?
This is indeed the age of fearlessness; and I promise you that when you place yourself in the hands of our representatives on earth and in heaven, you will be treated royally, as kings and priests unto God. But you must also understand that you must earn the right to be thus treated. And thus we will demand absolute cleanliness of body and person. Is that such a hard requirement? We will demand that you pursue the vegetarian diet. Is that such a hard requirement? We ask you to garner your energies for the opening of the third eye and to maintain celibacy during your period of instruction unless you have been lawfully married in a church of your choice. Is that too hard?
I say, then, the disciplines of Hierarchy are universal and exacting. And unless you are willing to come under these disciplines, how can you expect to be crowned with the many crowns that the Lord of the World stands waiting to place upon your heads? For there are openings in Hierarchy, and there is a great need for leadership upon this planet. And if you will but contain yourselves for a while, you will see the great rewards and the great backing that Hierarchy will give you to multiply the loaves and fishes and to go forth with all that you require to impart the true Word of the Law.
And thus I say, trust in the Law. It is your greatest friend and defense. For when you understand that anyone who breaks that Law, regardless of who or what he may be, must be chastised of the Law, then you will find the greatest security you have ever known in the Law; for you will understand that it upholds your righteousness and forces you to surrender your unrighteousness. And this is precisely how you rise.
Therefore, I say, rejoice as little children rejoice when they feel the authority of discipline of the father person and the mother person in their life. Children love those who discipline them, because it gives them that sense of security, of being at home in the universe that is well run by a God who is in His place in heaven and on earth.
Trust in the Lord; and recognize that as Kuthumi gave forth the Word in the Theosophical Society to Sinnett, the greatest enemy of the disciple on the Path is fear and doubt - doubt of oneself and one's ability to attain, doubt of the teacher and doubt of the teaching. Diabolical enemies! Diabolical, I say! For once you set your foot upon the Path, to turn back is suicide. To let down is to cease to exist, for that upward spiral goes higher and higher. While you are still in the marshlands and at the level of the earth, earthy,1 there is time to hop off and you will not feel the pain of the fall. But when you ascend stories high, higher than your highest skyscrapers, into the realm of Hierarchy and then hop off, how great is the fall! The plummeting into the astral consciousness is inevitable.
Therefore we have laws. Therefore we have codes of conduct. And these are for the preservation of your very soul! Without the Law as the protective forcefield, as the fence, the guardrail on the great spiral, you might find yourself tottering off as you reach those dizzying heights where the Cosmic Christ Consciousness is attained.
Therefore I say to you, one and all, set your mark; set your foot upon the Path. And be not concerned, for you will walk the way of the Christ. As Jesus was able to fulfill every precept of the Law, so the focus of Jesus and Kuthumi in our retreat will give you the same support, the same momentum. And if you will, you will win!
I AM the Cosmic Christ, magnetizing the lodestone of your consciousness to its highest potential in God. Peace be unto you. I AM that I AM.2