ENTERING THE GREAT SILENCE
THE GREAT, GREAT SILENCE
Beloved Serapis Bey
The Bridge to Spiritual Freedom - May 3, 1964
I have come today to assist you, beloved chelas, to an understanding of what the ‘Great Silence' means. One must first realize that sound, like light, is made up of a series of vibrations, and the rapidity of the movement determines the quality and the tone of the sound.
Thought and feeling are the only creators of vibrations in this Universe, and the thought and rate of the sound emitted from the various vehicles through which their self-conscious life expresses.
You have been told that each lifestream, by Cosmic Plan, has a certain keynote, or Cosmic Tone, with variations and modulations, which added to the great Universal overtones of the system enriches the Cosmic Melody of the Spheres. And, you have further been told that humanity in his present limited state seldom, if ever, pours forth the vibratory rate which represents his part in the Eternal scheme of things.
The vibratory frequency referred to as the Great, Great Silence may be attained by any part of life by raising the vibratory action of the thought and feeling to a point where the vibrations emitted by the lifestream through the emotional mental, etheric and physical bodies blend into, and become one with the harmonious vibratory action of this Inner Realm.
As the Fourth Dimension vibrates much more rapidly than the dimension in which man finds himself imprisoned, it is obvious from a scientific viewpoint that a change in the vibratory action of the lifestream is all that is requisite for such a one to enter into this Realm of Cosmic Ideation, into the presence of the Ascended Host of Masters who have attained, and maintained, a vibratory rate to insure 'their permanent Presence there, and automatically opens the aspirant to the music and melodies of this Inner Sphere.
It is well known that the octave of sound that can be perceived by the physical ear is very limited, and that there stretches above and below this octave many sounds that can be 'picked up' by delicate instruments able to record these finer vibrations and modulate them into a frequency that will record on the physical eardrum.
It is also true that by increasing the vibratory action of the mechanism of an airplane, the magnetic pull of Earth is overcome, and tons of metal ascend into the higher ethers, carrying with it the inert bodies of people. Now, what can be accomplished mechanically, must be done through the conscious application of the Law of Energy and Vibration, which gives man complete freedom from the Third Dimensional Plane. As you would tune up a motor, such an one can rapidly increase the vibratory action of the cells of his body by acceleration the process of thought and feeling. Such an one, when he has trained himself in this manner will find it no great task to levitate the physical body, if such is his wish, and to tune in consciously to the Inner Spheres of Celestial Music, Melody and Wisdom.
One may be conscious dweller in the Heart of the Great, Great Silence while yet retaining a physical body, if such a one maintains a consciousness or a state of thought and feeling which keeps the Light emanations in, through and proceeding from his vehicles at an accelerated rate of vibration akin to the Higher Octaves - thus raising his vehicles to dwell in the Inner Realms while still wearing garments of flesh.
It is my constant prayer to the Father of All Light that there will be those, in multiple numbers, who will accomplish this state of being, wherein the magnetic pull of earth vibrations will no longer be a 'lure' to impede their progress in the Light. With the magnificent plans which are now being lowered, and just waiting for physically embodied chelas to consciously magnetize and externalize them, can you see how my whole Being yearns to welcome you into this exalted state; now I can say with all the Love of my Being, join your energies consciously with the Higher Realms and assist us in the externalization on the Planet Earth of the Utopia which our beloved Lord and King, the Ascended Master Saint Germain has held in his blessed Heart through the centuries, and which he knows shall manifest on this Planet Earth - and more quickly if the friends who profess to love him, prove that Love in action.
Extending my Heart and Hand to each of you in anticipation of the greater service which you are about to render in the Cause of Freedom.
"I AM" Serapis Bey
THE GURU AND THE CHELA
ENTERING THE GREAT SILENCE
By the Ascended Master Kuthumi
Excerpt from Bridge to Freedom Journal Book 2 – page 220
CHELA—Beloved Master: How does a student enter the Silence?
GURU— Blessed Chela: Consciously entering the Great Silence is a positive and not a negative state of individual consciousness. Contemplation must never be confused with lethargy, nor adoration and devotion with imagery and visionary dreams. Herein lies the training in wisdom, discrimination, balance, purity of motive and perseverance of will and purpose.
CHELA—Beloved Master: When you say entering the Silence requires the establishment and the maintenance of a positive state of consciousness— what do you mean?
GURU— Blessed Chela: I mean that the individual must engage the cooperation of his various vehicles of expression and use them to create an individual aura of peace, purity and tranquillity. Within this personal aura, the individual must remain alert, focused in attention and in control of his concentrated powers, holding them upon the object of his devotions, whether it be the heart of God or some divine Representative of the King of Kings.
CHELA— Beloved Master: We have been told that long periods of contemplation are dangerous and open the individual to insidious influences.
GURU—Blessed Chela: Here, discrimination must be developed. Each individual is capable of a different amount of “applied contemplation” according to the personal control of his thought processes, his feelings, his etheric memories and the demands of the physical vehicle. One man, consciously preparing to commune with his Maker, finds his own mental processes weaving out of the substance of thought, a screen of irrelevant thoughts.
Another man, able to concentrate his thoughts, finds the surging tide of his emotional nature re-vivifying past injustices. Still another enjoys the ever responsive sea of memories that flow from the etheric body. A man, well able to control his thoughts, feelings and memories, may find the demands of cramped muscles, itching skin or other physical discomforts disturbing his tasks.
Each chela must take personal note of his own capabilities and capacities of stilling his vehicles and then in wisdom develop the “applied contemplation” according to his increasing efficacy in the mastery and control of his vehicles.
The vibratory action of the soul itself, the motive animating the soul toward communion with the inner self, the vibratory action and appetites of the inner bodies, will determine what type of influence can “play upon” the individual, seeking the peace of the Silence. When the heart is pure, the soul earnest and the conscious mind keenly alert to the deceptions of the ego that seek to aggrandize self through impressions of a grandiose nature, no subtle outside forces can enter the period of contemplation.
CHELA— Beloved Master: What is the advantage of entering the great Silence?
GURU—Blessed Chela: The advantages (and they are many) of entering the Silence could hardly be enumerated in this column.
