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Excerpts from Discourse of
BELOVED LORD BUDDHA
June 14, 1953
Oh, Beloved Lotus Flowers resting on the Bosom of the Eternal God, I bow before
the fragrance of your opening petals, in gratitude for the opportunity afforded
me to bring to you my Love!
How long have I loved life, and now you, I am told, by those who govern the
evolution of this small revolving planet, have signified before the Host of
Heaven that you are lovers of life. How happy I am to find so many who have
signified a love of life.
It is so long since I have spoken with people still wearing garments of flesh
that I can but convey to you, through feeling, my Love, for you. To love life is
a beautiful gift, for it opens to you the Gates to Immortality. I remember as
though it were yesterday my early life in that final incarnation in India, when
through the kindness of my Father, I was protected from the experiences by which
I might comprehend the degradation and unhappiness in which life through my
brothers and sisters was forced to function, and I lived in a false or
artificial Garden of Eden with my beautiful bride and my young son. I knew
within myself from the days when I had come from the Homeland what the Real and
Eternal Garden of Eden was like, and so it was perfectly natural for me to feel
it externalized in the beauty of the palace and the court yards, and I never saw
a sick man, or a diseased body. I achieved my physical majority without seeing
an eye that shed a tear or knowing that there was the sordid exodus from the
earth life which has been called death, and I was happy indeed inside my
"cocoon" but one day life opened the door and I was "privileged", yes, I say
that word advisedly, I was privileged to look upon the conditions that have been
created by the misuse of life.
You do not think that was an initiation? Coining suddenly and instantly not
through the course of my growing years, but seeing death in all its sordidness,
and sickness and disease, and things which we will not describe because your
lovely western world has them hidden behind closed doors, but my land they are
the written evidence of Karma, and all who run may read.
Then it was that I began to realize my love for that life, and I pursued that
love of Life through every Realm and every Sphere, until I attained what has
been kindly called "Illumination" and I was the first of the Teachers after the
veil of maya had shut out the physical sight of the Presence and the Masters,
from the average man to enter consciously into these Higher Realms, and through
the assistance of Ananda, and later one of the Kumaras themselves, place in
worded form something of what I had seen and knew as Truth, and it was in this
measure that I became "the Teacher of Teachers" and so remain to the present
day.
I would like to take you on a journey this morning, inward, away from this world of form, until you stand in the presence of that stream of Electronic Light which lives within that Holy Sanctuary in your heart.
I want you to feel it’s refreshing, raising, peace-giving, purifying power as
you enter into the Holy of Holies, and know that life unqualified by human
consciousness. The psalmist has called it "the Secret Place of the Most High."
You have referred to it as "The Unfed Flame" but it is a STATE OF PERFECT PEACE.
the center of your own being, from whence comes the vital essence by which your
body moves, the power by which your brain functions, the peace that passeth the
understanding of the mind, and the love that is eternal and abiding.
It has been my Message for twenty-five hundred years, and it shall be my message
for so long as the Sun of Light chooses to sustain my Individualization that
every man must find this Inner Sanctuary, and, finding it, abide therein, and
then alone he is COMPLETE and at Peace.
You have heard of the great sacrifice which I performed, to which Mr. Leadbeater
and the Beloved Edwin Arnold and other individuals have referred. I would like
to speak, too, of that for a moment, in order that you may understand as you
become Teachers of Teachers, and Wayshowers of men and women and children, in
such vast numbers that I would hesitate to even mention it, lest again we have a
tension through your very sincerity of the outer self.
When I stood in the Court of Sanat Kumara and offered to take upon myself the
necessary disciplines to become the embodiment of Love for a planet, the Angelic
Host, the Devic and the Elemental Kingdom, I realized that I would have to make
sacred through this Flame in my Heart all of the energies that I had used in all
the incarnations I had known. And when you once understand that, it becomes a
joy, because you become centered in this Fire of Purification and all the energy
that is returning to you through the experiences of the day you sanctify by
welcoming it, transmuting it, and returning it to your Causal Body, so that it
may go out no more. You do not think that was strenuous... when I chose to so
sanctify the energies which were the resulting effects of previous causes sent
out to the periphery of my world in ONE incarnation, when it has normally taken
hundreds of thousands of centuries. Some of you have felt the recoil of this
energy, and you have resented it and battled over it, and you have become
depressed over it, and wept over it, when there is no need... it is an
opportunity to sanctify the energy of your life in preparation for the days that
are yet ahead.
Oh, that wonderful Law of the Circle, the outgoing energy passing through the
Secret Flame of which I spoke, taking on the quality of your various bodies
through the centuries that have been, and now, by the magnetic pull of your own
Higher Mental Body, being called Home not to lash, or punish, or discourage you,
but because through the doors of your own Heart that energy might find Freedom.
From your Heart it came, and through your heart let it pass back into the Great
Eternal.
Blessed souls of Light, you have lived millions of years. If I could part the
veil this morning and yet you see that Electronic Light flowing downward into
your heart, contacting every person within this room, and flooding the city, you
would have some concept of the energies that you have unconsciously passed from
your body while you are at rest and at peace, not to mind when you qualify those
energies with a positive and dynamic feeling. You have now learned not to invoke
those energies to injure life. You have learned how to become harmless. But
those previously qualified energies must yet return home. It is the Law of your
life and here is a comforting thought: You can stop it in a moment. You do not
have to make the great sacrifice as I did, if you do not choose to do so.
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You stood before the Lord of the World and said "I shall sanctify the circle of
my life, through Love."
May I refer for a moment to your beautiful Violet Consuming Flame. In the East
we have called it the Flame of Compassion and Mercy. It is of such tremendous
assistance in this redemption of energy.
I wonder if it has been pointed out to you the approach of the soul required
before the Flame is set into action! It is a Flame by which you intend to purify
your own miscreations and it is joyously and vigorously employed, but first set
your own house in order. Forgive and balance your energies toward life before
you use it. My son has said "Forgive us our trespasses, AS we forgive those who
trespass against us."
Great numbers have gathered together, and in the Power of that Flame have asked
for release, but how many have first entered into the Secret Heart Chamber and
forgiven ALL of life that is the efficacy in its use for you my dear and sweet
and earnest, lovely flowers in God's Kingdom. It shall be done unto you
according as you do unto others, and this Violet Consuming Flame has not been
manifested in its full efficacy by any of my Beloved Saint Germain's children,
because the lifestream has not taken time to become the Mercy Flame first in
feeling and in thought.
You see the Law, my precious hearts, is so impersonal, and yet so practical...
what you wish for others you must GIVE FIRST, and you shall receive it. You are
desirous of knowing Freedom, and precious hearts that have suffered bodily
distress and mental confusion, if they could but FORGIVE LIFE, and then through
the use of this Flame, be Free in less than an hour!
I thank you for your thought of me. I thank you for your extreme patience. I
thank you for your Light, because it is your Light that made it possible for me
to come. Oh, you are so lovely when you are seen with the Inner Sight, and if I
were to ask of the Karmic Board one boon, it would be that you might see each
other once, and know the sincerity in the heart in the desire for service.
When I wore a flesh body I had found that peace sufficiently so that those who
entered my Aura experienced for a moment a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana. When I
forfeited that flesh body, I forfeited with it the power to so carry that
Radiation, but I am going to ask now that it be returned, and say with my son,
"Oh children, Love you one another!"
Love life trying to serve in whatever capacity. Enter into your action of the
Sacred Fire first, sanctifying first yourself before your Lord, cleansing your
heart and your hands of seeming injustices, and then see the FULLNESS of its
release.
GOOD MORNING!