THE GREAT SURRENDER
THE GREAT SURRENDER TO THE CHRIST WITHIN
By Beloved Lord Maitreya
December 1993
SHAMBALLA HEADQUARTERS OF THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY
Beloved of My Heart,
You are teachers! You are guardians of the Flame of Love! For who else would desire to be a teacher?
In order to be a proficient teacher, you must first learn the lessons yourself. This is done by placing your all at the feet of the Inner Light. Step through the gateway and enter into the Holy Flame of Love within your heart. There, offer your substance and your knowledge to the Christ, and you shall receive the understanding of how it must be used.
As you listen with your heart, you will hear the voice of your Inner Christ say to you: ‘My Beloved of the Ages, I AM so grateful that you have at last heard My voice. It is a joy to have you in My Holy Chamber. Enter and stay for as long as you wish, for, in reality―this Chamber is your own. As you put aside the old and open your mind to new ideas, testing them to the best of your ability, know that I AM with you. I have always loved you and I always shall! As you release all fear, My beloved, you shall wear the Crown of your Mother and carry the Scepter of your Father, and remain in this Sacred place for all eternity!'
Beloved chelas, listen to the teachings of your Inner Christ, for they are given out of pure, Divine Love. Love your Christ Self in return, for, through It, you will be able to love the Christ in others. This is the true meaning of 'The Christ calling out to Its own'. As others are stirred from their spiritual sleep by this call of love, the call―generated by your love for the Christ within your own heart―becomes the first cause of the awakening of many of your brothers and sisters in the Human Family. They will answer by being drawn to you for teaching.
When you teach the seekers of Truth, remember what beloved Kuthumi has said: "On the way to mastery, everyone comes to a place on the Path when he no longer looks for the teacher without, but he begins to turn to the still small voice that is within. He then begins to rely solely on intuition, next upon contact with the Presence, which precedes self-conscious Mastery and Divine Freedom from all human concepts and all human form."
Therein lies the key of how to teach. Always remember that you are acting merely as a bridge between the outer personality and the Inner Christ. Once a person contacts the Christ Who dwells within, he has begun to build his own bridge of consciousness. When this takes place, the teacher steps aside in gratitude, and supports his brother by holding the Divine Concept on his behalf, knowing that his own determination will set him free.
Because you must first accomplish this for yourself, I offer you an exercise that will help to achieve this goal. Sit quietly and center yourself in your Threefold Flame. Place your undivided attention upon It. Now step into the heart of this Sacred Flame. Remaining in this state of consciousness, you begin to see only through the eyes of the Christ. You feel the Divine emotions of the Christ. When this is established, gently and slowly begin to draw your consciousness upward to the third eye chakra, feeling the expansion of your Threefold Flame as you do so. Realize this as the Holy Christ Self grown to full stature, for you are at One with the love nature of the Christ in your heart and you are unifying it with the Divine Mind of God. The success of this exercise depends upon your willingness to become One in consciousness with your Divine Teacher.
This exercise not only bridges the outer consciousness with the Inner Light, but it draws you closer to your God Presence, and raises the planetary vibration as well.
Dear ones, the Path toward the Ascension is no longer a lonely Path. When We walked upon the Earth, it was often necessary to seclude ourselves in order to achieve our spiritual objectives. However, you know that after We secured Our goals, We returned to bless the masses with Our Divine Heritage. We never forced any part of life to accept Our teachings. We blessed the masses through Our radiation, stirring within their beings the Truth of their own Divine Reality. This is the way that you―Our chelas―must now begin to teach.
The consciousness of humankind has evolved to such a degree that the Christ within can now teach the individual. The Master each one seeks is set free in the heart flame of every person on the Earth.
Dear ones, I tell you now, seek no more! You have found the Master's abode. You are teachers of Truth! Move forward with your Divine Plan! Command It! Affirm: 'I AM the resurrection and the life of the Perfection of my Divine Plan manifest in the world of form―right here, right now, and forever sustained!'
The Sanctuary within your heart is a beautiful Retreat. It shall manifest in the physical world as a radiant sun, so that whoever sees It, will face his own Inner Light and say: 'Oh, brilliant Star of my true being, I shall follow Thee, now and forever! I AM free!'
Call upon My beloved World Teachers and They will help you to teach the Truth that shall set this sacred planet free for all eternity.
Rest now within the embrace of My love.
Maitreya
ENTERING INTO THE SILENCE
SILENCE IS THE WAY TO PEACE
By the Beloved Maha Chohan
From The Bridge to Freedom
Beloved Maha Chohan October 7, 1956
Blessed Seekers After Peace,
As has often been said, mastery is the ability to control a situation without words and without any apparent outer action. A Master can hold the peace within a room, or a nation, by the mere exhalation of Cosmic Peace drawn and focused through his own heart. The difficult thing for Western students to learn is to leave off “wordiness,” that in the silence of their tongues, they may hear their hearts speak, and hear the souls of other men, who perhaps have much to give. It seems so frequently, at a meeting of Western students, that each one is waiting with baited breath for a pause in the conversation that he may jump in with his concepts and ideas. Thus, each man is so enamored of the little knowledge or stories he projects into each conversation that he hears not anything but the things in his own world, and these are sometimes worn thin from his own repeating.
Beloved ones, it is in the SILENCE that power is generated, and in the SILENCE is the lesson learned from the heart of Truth. That is why, in the Eastern retreats, chelas are bound by pledges of absolute silence. Thus, their lower selves are stopped from constant chatter, until the great Self is heard within them, and then, no longer do they wish to express the idle nothings of the lesser selves. Silence is the way of Peace.
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.