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PAUL, THE VENETIAN MASTER
Beloved Chelas:
I greet you and congratulate you on your great love and sincerity. It is my
desire to express to you a little of my service in this universe, in order that
you may think on me and assist me in drawing the understanding of the Third
Flame and Ray into the consciousness of the students, and, through them, into
the consciousness of all mankind.
I represent the Holy Spirit (the Maha Chohan) in the diversified action of the
Five Faucets of the substance and life force that flows from the Mind and Heart
of God and which are directed into the outer channels for mankind's greatest
good, through those Rays which are particularly prepared to receive and dispense
those blessings.
I am, therefore, and have been for many centuries, Guardian of the Essence of
the Holy Grail, that Grail being the individual consciousness of each man, woman
and child which has endured century after century and within which are held the
lights and shadows composed of life's experience.
For the most part, these beautiful Grails are covered with the accumulation of
the centuries through looking upon imperfection and absorbing it through the
senses and through the waste of life energies in imperfect living. These Grails,
which are the centers through which all active endeavors must flow, are almost
useless to us in endeavoring to translate the ideas of the Godhead into form.
May I explain to you that the great Divine Mind of the God-Parents of the race
is continuously externalizing ideas for the benefit and progress of every sphere
as well as the planet Earth and its people, but it requires the assistance of
the Beloved Maha Chohan to get these ideas coalesced into form. Then it becomes
my humble service to direct those ideas into some receptive form of conscious
life, who is living and functioning in the sphere to be benefitted by those
ideas made manifest.
This, perhaps, seems simple to you, but if you could look with the inner sight
upon the creations that form the conscious thinking and feeling selves of well
over nine-tenths of the human race, you would see that it would be impossible to
even direct an idea from the Mind of God into this seething and moving mass.
Rather is the consciousness of mankind open to the waves of thought and feeling
of human creation, and they re-live over and over again the etheric patterns of
the centuries that have been. When the great Maha Chohan delivers into my hands,
my heart and my consciousness the exquisite beauty of architecture; the beauty
of music; the beauty that flows through the realm of science and nature; the
beauty of devotional activities that have been presented through the world
religions and the beauty that is within the design of the Seventh Ray Ceremonial
manifestations for the earth, it becomes a tremendous weight on my heart when I
look at the incarnate lifestreams and wonder where among them I may find some
subtle inner bodies sensitive enough to receive even the slightest impression of
the Divine and glorious manifestation that the Father has designed for those
that love him.
Then, unto the other Chohans of the Rays do I impart the Gifts of the Maha
Chohan. They, in turn, seek out the spirits and souls of men; through the
expenditure of force and energy and through the further expenditure of such love
and patience that the human mind could not comprehend, do they endeavor to
release a composition, an exquisite painting or a beautiful piece of sculpture
and these few small representations are all that we are able to release from
this Infinite Storehouse, because of the lack of receptivity in the outer mind
of man.
In this great Endeavor that is now taking the attention of the Brotherhood in
the dissolving of the human veil, and as blessed men and women, such as
yourselves, are lifting your consciousness and voluntarily offering to meet us
in the "Upper Chamber," we at last see some hope.
I have, within my own Causal Body, those healing melodies which Serapis secured
and which could heal cancer and those terrific maladies that take the bodies and
minds of the people and destroy them, but it is difficult, in the tumultuous
living of the Western World to hold an aura undisturbed long enough or free
enough from the pressure of the moving screen of maya, to blend within that
consciousness enough of that harmony that it might be externalized.
In the age when the great composers all received of this infinite impetus, you
will remember that life was not lived so rapidly, but here, today, with the
multitudinous vibrations of commercialism, I find it most difficult to reach
through into the receptive consciousness of even highly trained and developed
chelas along the lines of evolution which are at my disposal to assist in
service to the Beloved Maha Chohan.
However, I shall endeavor, daily, to direct into your open consciousnesses these
ideas, these beautiful thoughtforms from the Mind and Heart of the Father that
have never been externalized before, and when your consciousness is clear enough
to grasp them within, they will be externalized on the screen of life without
effort of human will.
I accomplished this myself before the call came from my own great Presence and I
entered into the Heart of its Eternal Freedom (the artist, Paul Veronese
1528-1588). I had studied under the Lord Maitreya for seven hundred years
preceding my final embodiment and I had achieved great understanding of the
power that lies within "Holding the High Watch". I endeavored through my humble
efforts on the canvas to release upon the screen of life some of that beauty
which might endure and perhaps be an inspiration to the consciousness of mankind
in a later day.
It is my endeavor, Beloved Hearts of Light, to give to you a consciousness and
feeling of your own individual power to raise your outer conscious mind and meet
us at "The Bridge," and we, who can reach within the mind of God and still
maintain awakened consciousness, will draw forth and release to you the fullness
of the good that there is therein. You see, the Third Ray represents that
connection between the Inner Realms which do not directly contact the earth and
the four outer realms which have contact through the Higher Selves of unascended
beings.
Oh, if I could only convey to you the beauty of the planet Venus, the glory of
that Star, which is my home as well, for she has had no time of darkness. There
are suns within her sky by day and by night and the Beauty and Happiness and
Freedom of her people, who render every service and externalize all form through
the Flame within their hearts makes me long to take you there. However, the
greater love is to make of this earth such a Star and to teach you, each one, to
turn to that Glorious Unfed Flame and let it, for you, form the magnificent
pathway upon which your feet move forward in your daily occupations. Let that
Flame form the Open Door between your outer mind and your Christ Self within;
let it form a cape around your shoulders, protecting you from the impact of the
outer world and those thought and feeling forms which are looking for anchorage
in the consciousness of the negative-minded, the depressed and the weary.
Oh, Beloved Hearts, the Star of Venus is the Star where every being, ascended
and unascended, is a Master of the Power of the Flame and that Flame becomes the
battery of the bold. It becomes the fire which moves the body, it becomes the
blessing that pours from their hearts and it becomes the glorious, liquid Voice
of the Presence. It is the Light within their life, the smile upon their lips,
all the personal self is held within that Flame and the Flame in all beings who
are that unity and that happiness in association, makes of Venus truly a Star of
Love.
As soon as you allow your mental and feeling worlds to slip outside of the
Presence of your own Flame, you are apt to feel the impact of others who
unwisely do the same; but if you live within that Flame you will not experience
the impact of that which would throw you out of balance. Hold yourself,
therefore within the compass of that Flame and those unpleasant experiences will
be no more.
BLESSINGS AND LOVE