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The
Conception of The Bridge to Freedom
-
July 1951
And its Birth Nine Months Later -
April
1952
As told from the Ascended Masters' Realm:
Looking upon the evolutions proceeding to avail themselves of the use of life
and opportunity in, through and around the planet Earth, I resolved to apply for
permission to the Supreme Authority for this system (of which the Earth is but
one small
unit) to endeavor to reach the outer consciousness of
some
members of the race and secure their limited but earnest operation in hastening the fulfillment of the Divine Plan.
The Beloved Helios and Vesta, listening kindly to my
petition, acquiesced to my suggested plan and referred me to the proper
authorities for confirmation of their Dispensation, namely the Great Karmic
Board, my immediate Superior (the Lord Maha Chohan) and the Chohan whose Cause I
desired to supplement, known to the students as the Ascended Master Saint
Germain.
All of these Beings offered their consent to my endeavors,
kindly withholding their own personal and individual opinions as to its
efficacy, due to the fact that the problematical and voluntary cooperation of
unascended beings would more or less decide the fate of the endeavor as well as
its ultimate good as a progressive spiritual stimulant to the recalcitrant
evolutions involved.
An unostentatious Journal was thus designed, completely
devoted to our Cause, wherein we might present our current activities, with the
illuminating knowledge as to what Retreats of the Great White Brotherhood were
playing Host to the Spiritual Hierarchy in each thirty-day cycle. To this was
added a simply worded course of application by which the interested and worthy
might join their voluntary energies to the primary Causes of a given hour.
Chelas were found who saw some merit in the idea and their
voluntary energies, kindly cooperation, and generous contributions of time,
money and dedicated thought, feeling and action, helped us to bring the idea
from conception to birth.
From above, the Beloved Helios and Vesta blessed our idea
and invested us, together with the accepted chelas, in this Cause. From below,
good lifestreams assisted us according to their consciousness, development and
understanding. Between the two, a Bridge was built and expanded to this present
day. Over it, many of the Hierarchy have stepped to bring their wealth of
knowledge to the receptive consciousness of students and over it, in time, many
chelas will walk to eternal freedom, mastery and God-dominion. We, who are among
the Bridge Builders, are grateful for this opportunity and to all who have made
its success possible, human and Divine.
Your editor,
THOMAS
PRINTZ.
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The Conception of "The Bridge to Freedom"
As told by the chelas, from the unascended realms:
In July of 1951, the Beloved Vesta honored a small group of chelas with her
Celestial Presence and gave to them the address which we know you will enjoy
reading in this anniversary issue of "The Bridge to Freedom" (August 1954).
As a
result of the inspiration, instruction and
spiritual stimulus which she inspired through this address, these earnest chelas
asked the Beloved Vesta if she had, in truth, any service of a Cosmic or
personal nature which they could fulfill and if,
at inner levels, she had invested them in a
Cause to benefit the human race or to help our Beloved Ascended Masters.
Her immediate answer in the affirmative was the seed of conception for "The
Bridge to Freedom." This was sowed in July of 1951 into the consciousness of
those who had asked for ways to serve her and the system which she and Helios
had created and sustained for some definite purpose.
For nine long months, the seed gestated within the consciousness of the hopeful
and earnest chelas. In April of 1952 "The Bridge to Freedom" was brought forth
in Havana, Cuba. From the moment of its birth, certain other chelas, chosen by
the Beloved Master El Morya, have nourished, developed and expanded this infant,
and "The Bridge to Freedom" which you enjoy today is the result of the combined
endeavors and goodwill of the Hearts of Heaven and the hearts of earth
—
all with
one purpose, one design, and one destiny
—
to
fulfill the Will of
God,
according to the individual and collective capacities of the God Intelligences,
both human and Divine.
YOUR ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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WE NOW JOYOUSLY ANNOUNCE
The addition of four pages of blessing,
beginning with this August 1954, issue of our little journal "The Bridge to
Freedom."
In August 1952, through the kindness and generosity of one of our gentle
readers, we were enabled to increase the infant "Bridge" from four to eight
pages. In April of 1953, when the publication of the journal was assumed by our
Philadelphia office, we were able again to increase the number of pages to 16.
Our August 1953, issue was increased to 20 pages and now, August 1954, we
present a 24-page "Bridge" for your pleasure, enjoyment and enlightenment.
THE MANAGEMENT