The Rest of an Arhat

Does an Arhat rest? You already know that a change of labor is rest, but the true repose of an Arhat is his thought about the Beautiful. Amidst various labors, thought about the Beautiful is the bridge and power and stream of benevolence. Let us weigh a thought of evil and a thought of good, and we shall prove to ourselves that the beautiful thought is more powerful. Let us organically analyze different thoughts, and we shall see that a beautiful thought is a treasury of health. In beautiful thinking an Arhat beholds the ladder of ascent. In this active thinking is the Arhat’s repose. In what else can we find another source of benevolence? Thus can we remember when we are especially oppressed. When the shutters of selfhood are being fastened everywhere, when fires are extinguished in the darkness, is it not the time to reflect about the Beautiful? We anticipate a miracle, we strive to break the lock, but the ladder of the Arhat is only in the Beautiful. Let us not sully, let us not belittle this path! Only thereby will we attract that which seems so miraculous. And the miracle, is it not the indissoluble bond with Hierarchy? In this bond lies all of physics, and mechanics, and chemistry, and the panacea for all things. It seems possible with a little striving to move all obstacles, but the fulfillment of this condition is immeasurably difficult for people! Why have they clipped the wings of beauty?
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Fiery World 1

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Some Basic Truths as enunciated by Torkom Saraydarian

There are basic ideas on which your mind must stand:

1. You are Immortal
2.Nothing can hurt you
-not water

not fire
not earth
not wind
not enemies
not time
3.No one can take away from you whatever YOU HAVE in your essence. All properties that you have in the physical world exist in your essence. In astral and mental planes, they are yours m and they will be yours when you come back to the physical plane.
4. All the love that you haev will be yours in all coming lives. All the labor and service that you have started will increase in coming centuries.
5. Once you have, nothing can be lost.
Once you know, no one can take that knowledge from you.
Once you plan, it will actualize
6.No one can stop your labor and service forever. It will run in a stronger flow.

But remember
-All that you have must be a result of your LABOR.
-You will not steal or take anything from others.
-All that you stole will go back to its true owners.
-All that you took by invasion will be taken away from you.
-All that will remain with you is that which you earned with your earnest righteous labor-all that you earned by legal means.
-Things will be taken from you which you do not own in truth.
-If there is no true unity, you will be separated.
-All that you are will remain with you.
-All that you are not will be taken from you.
-All that is your knowledge will stay with you.
-All that is not your knowledge will be taken from you.

~Torkom Saraydarian, The Subconscious Mind and the Chalice

Difficulties expected on the Path

Can a worthy man meet on the path viper or scorpion or tarantula? Indeed he can. The longer the path, the more encounters. The difference is merely in this, that the faint-hearted can be stung, but the courageous will not be hurt. Thus, let us not consider that the best messengers will not be marked by the dark creatures. Let us call to mind all the examples.
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Fiery World 3

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Saggitarius Full Moon

ry to make your goals, especially in this full moon. Two days before the full moon, the full moon day, and two days after, you are going to examine yourself and find out what the goal of your life is. Why are you here? Of course you have lots of goals: to provide clothes for your physical body, a house to live in, and nice food are all necessary. A car, donkeys, and so on also are necessary, but are these the goals of your life? Is there something else? What kind of goals do you have?
By watching your goals and seeing your mental activities, your consciousness, you can pretty well decide where you are. If you are in the negative line, destructive line, selfish line, it means you do not have real goals. Every real goal that you find in your life becomes a stepping stone leading you to your ultimate purpose in life.

-Torkom Saraydarian, Wisdom of the Zodiac Volume 3

Service and Overcoming Difficulties

The path of the disciple is a thorny one; briars beset his every step, and difficulties meet him at every turn. Yet in the treading of the path, in the overcoming of the difficulties, and in a single-hearted adherence to the good of the group, with a proportionate attention to the individuals and their evolutionary development, comes at length fruition, and the attainment of the goal. A SERVER of the race stands forth. He is a server because he has no ends of his own to serve, and from his lower sheaths goes out no vibration which can beguile him from his chosen path. He serves, because he knows what is in man, and because for many lives he has worked with individuals and with groups, gradually expanding the range of his endeavour until he has gathered around him those units of consciousness whom he can energise, and use, and through whom he can work out the plans of his superiors. Such is the goal, but the immediate stages are fraught with difficulty for all who stand on the verge of self-discovery, and of becoming the Path itself.
-Holy Master D.K. through Alice Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar

Blessings - Importance

Why is it that some people don’t use the energy of blessing? Instead of blessing people and events, instead of looking at life from the viewpoint of blessing, they curse it. They create attitudes and actions that separate, distort, destroy, and stop the flow of the energy of blessing. The electricity of the energy of bliss is cut by hatred, fear, anger, jealousy, revenge, slander, and gossip. Negative thinking and hopelessness stop the flow of electricity. And because 80% of humanity is in these negative attitudes, emotions, and states of consciousness, they don’t let the current of divine energy flow out of them.
This energy of blessing flows through certain people more than others. Their secret is that they use it, and others don’t use it. The energies that you use in the Universe increase — especially your blessings, love, gratitude, gracefulness, humility, and beauty. As you use these energies you increase them, because as you use them you draw more from your Core. As the Core opens, the flow of energy, the current, increases in your life.
What then is the blessing? It is the current of energy coming from your Inner Core. It doesn’t even matter so much who is blessing you because every human being has the God-capacity within. It is only necessary to stand totally neutral so that the current flows through you, as the electricity flows through the wires. What does blessing do? Blessing a human being enlightens his mind, expands his consciousness, and then changes his level of being. So it is always wonderful to be blessed.

-Torkom Saraydarian , Autibiography

Altering Karma

The law of Cosmos is adamant, but at the same time we see apparent fluctuations of it. If we take karma, affirmation of karma too can be changed, just as the span between returns to carnate life may vary in different cases—from an instant to millennia. Those who do not know will be perplexed as to how such steadfastness can be at the same time so variable. Such ignorance will merely prove the lack of understanding of containment.
People also fail to understand which energy serves as the deciding factor. In all the cosmic amplitudes the basic factor is thought; it can alter karma, it can determine dates, it opens gates, and it can close them. It grows wing-rays from the shoulders. It can lead one close to the Higher World or precipitate one into the abyss. The manifestation of law rests on thought. The great wisdom of thought is a shield and a guard against chaos. Thought actually rules over the fury of chaos.
Truly, the law of Cosmos is immutable, but it is illumined by thought and therefore goal-fitting. Understanding of co-measurement only teaches comprehension of the fundamental law.
Thus, let us always remember creative thought. Aum!
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, AUM

Compensations on the Path

The difficulties and the trials which the disciple experiences upon the Way are, as you have discovered, only relative; they are oft offset by the pouring in of a sense of inner release. The compensations on the Way are not so often considered as are the difficulties. In the human being there is ever a tendency towards sorrow and suffering which has eventually to be negated; this tendency is one of the problems which the Hierarchy has to face, as it seeks strenuously, at this time, to lift mankind out of the morass in which it finds itself. This "tendency to misery," founded as it is on an attitude of mind, is of such ancient habit that it seems inconceivable to man that a different point of view and a totally different reaction to life affairs could ever be possible. I am referring to this because (in the midst of problems and tests) you are discovering the Way of Compensation. Do you think, my brother, that you could write a paper on this theme, "Compensations on the Way," for the helping of your fellowmen and for the stabilising of your own inner attitude?
-Holy Master D.K through Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age Volume 1

Harmful effects of Distrust

One may recall a fairy tale—A thinker brought some people a wonderful curative remedy, but it was necessary to carry it in a closed casket. None of the people would consent to open this casket, because, judging by their own natures, they assumed that it was a viper or some kind of poison. Thus one may offer a most beautiful treasure, but people will take it to be poison. This is how people impelled by fears of misfortune accept a treasure. What, then, is to be done if Satan has so firmly implanted distrust.
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Fiery World 2

Intuition

When Intuition flashes in your mind, you obtain the sense of reality. You see things as they are. You see the CAUSE of things. You see how they develop and become effects. You see the futility of many objects. You see the tragedy of hypocrisy, lies, vanities, pretensions, and showing off. You see the comedy of life. You see the mechanism of self-deceit. You see the role obsession plays in life. 
You see those objects and relations which no longer help you in your decision to serve and assist your higher commitments. You see how energy is wasted to feed glamors, illusions and self-defeating pleasures.
You see how life is wasted in making it keep us prisoners of our inertia, as slaves to our own hatred and fears. You see how civilizations are built on vanities and destroyed by self-deceit.
The intuition also reveals the reality of PROGRESSIVE UNFOLDMENT. It reveals the Purpose, the Plan and the Self within you and all living forms.
Intuition reveals the futility of all that is built upon the Sands of self-deceit. Intuition makes people realize that progress is not obtained by running after the tail of shadows.
THE MIND IS CALLED THE SLAYER OF REALITY. IT IS ONLY THROUGH INTUITION THAT YOUR KNOWLEDGE CAN HAVE A PURPOSE AND BE AN AGENT TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Thought and the Glory of Thinking

Attaining perfection in our day to day activities

Remember the second maxim-- that everything shall be done as perfectly as we can do it. Charge your letter with magnetism and make a talisman of it, by all means; you will do great good thereby; but do not forget that the mere physical handwriting must be perfect also-- first, out of courtesy to the recipient, and secondly, because all work done for the Master must be done with the utmost care, even to the minutest detail. And as all our work is work for Him, executed in Hisname and to His glory, that means that nothing must ever be done carelessly. In this, too, unselfishness may be applied; no one has the right to cause trouble to another by illegible handwriting-- to save a few moments of his own time by wasting many minutes of another' s.

We must not think that because we know more of the hidden side of things than others, and so are able to add unexpected blessings to daily acts, we are thereby absolved from doing the ordinary part of those acts to the very best of our ability. Not worse but better than that of others must our work be, in every respect and from every point of view, for the honour of the Master whom we serve. What the work is that He gives us, matters little; that it should be nobly done matters supremely. And the man who, all his life through, does the small, daily details well and carefully, will not be found wanting when some day he suddenly finds himself face to face with a great opportunity.

The little things in life weigh more than the big things; there are so many of them, and it is so much more difficult to go on steadily doing them. Saint Augustine remarked: “Many there be who will die for Christ, but few there be who will live for Him.” Many of us would instantly and gladly do some great thing for the Master; but He does not commonly ask for that. He asks us to live our daily life nobly, not for ourselves but for others; to forget ourselves, only to remember the good of mankind. Let us then form the habit of helpfulness-- for it soon becomes a habit, like everything else. It certainly makes life more interesting; and, above all, it brings us every day nearer to Him.

-C.W. Leadbeater, The Hidden Side of Things

Hamful Consequences of Evil Karma

There certain kinds of action which bring unusually horrible karma as their results. For example, the karma of cruelty of any kind, whether to men or to animals, is always especially awful in character; it often brings with it chronic physical ailments, accompanied by most acute sufferings, and often also it produces insanity-- this last more especially when the cruelty is of a refined and intentional character. We have found, for example, that many members of the ignorant mob who tortured Hypatia in Alexandria have been reborn in Armenia, and have themselves suffered all sorts of cruelties at the hands of the Turks. People who are now, apparently by accident, burnt to death with awful sufferings are often those who have burnt others in the middle ages, or looked on with glee at those ghastly scenes of martyrdom.

Any injury done to a highly developed person reacts terribly upon the doer. We should indeed be careful about our attitude towards any Great One who may come, for He, being far in advance of us, is likely to be misunderstood-- to be different from what we have expected, and therefore not to be appreciated. One reason why the Great Ones do not more often come amongst men is that the karma of misjudging and ill-using Them is dreadful, and the fools among mankind are sure to incur it. I have myself seen a case in which a great soul, born where he was not understood, fell when young into the hands of a brutal and incompetent pedagogue who shamefully abused him. I have also been allowed to see the karma which will follow upon that cruelty, and I shudder when I think of it. Truly may it be said of that miserable wretch, in the words attributed to the Christ, that before he had “offended one of these little ones, it had been better for him that a millstone had been hanged about his neck, and he had been drowned in the depths of the sea.”

Closely associated with this is the subject of the karma of ingratitude, which is always exceptionally heavy-- most of all when the ingratitude is shown to an occult teacher. People are constantly pressing forward, desiring to come into touch with the Masters, to attract Their attention; and they sometimes think that the pupils of those Masters try to hold them back, or at any rate decline to assist them in their efforts to approach. The pupil of the Masters exists only to help others, and nothing pleases him more than to draw another to the Feet where he has learned so much himself. But when he sees from the type of the aspirant that he does not yet understand those Great Ones, that his attitude towards Them is captious, irreverent, presumptuous, he will take no responsibility in the matter, for he knows that serious disaster is certain to result. A man of such temperament is sure to make bad karma anywhere; it would be foolish to put him into a position where he can multiply it a hundredfold.

-C.W. Leadbeater, The Inner Life Volume 2

Gratitude

If you go more deeply and if you understand the philosophy of the meaning of life, you start becoming thankful for all of the troubles, pains, sufferings, failures, problems, and obstacles that you have had. Not everyone is in that stage. If one day you open the book of your life and analyze it, you will see in those difficult pages that you made the greatest progress on those days that you were passing through suffering, pain, and failures. I don’t know how many of us can very sincerely say, “Thank you, Lord, for this accident, for this sickness, for these obstacles, for these headaches and problems.” Our first reaction is to hate them because they disturb our previous level — the crystallization of consciousness in which we say, “We are thankful because we have a turkey on the table.” This is fine, but can you look deeper and see how you can be thankful for a life that was nothing but a chain of troubles? If you examine your life more deeply, you will understand that all of the troubles, tribulations, pain, and suffering are nothing else but bills that come so that you can pay your karma and get rid of it. If you do not get rid of your karma, you don’t have a chance to expand your consciousness and contact your own Soul. Let us learn to bless our troubles, pain, and suffering and be thankful for them. Your consciousness must be shifted to that level in order to bless obstacles, pain, and suffering. But if you cannot do it totally,occasionally sit and ask yourself, “What did I learn from this problem?” You will never learn anything unless you have problems.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Wisdom of the Zodiac Volume 3

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Difference between a White Magician and Black Magician

One may ask, “How did the followers of the left hand path, such as the Black Magicians, develop psychic powers?” The answer is that the Black Lodge, seeing that some people cultivated enough indifference to the sufferings of humanity, bestowed on them the astral and mental equivalents of machine guns, poison gases, chemical weapons, atomic bombs, powers that can violate privacy, insecticides, pesticides, and other such powers and taught them how to use these. 
The point I want to stress is that the powers of the Black Magicians are not the result of their unfoldment. But the power of the White Magician is the extension of his True Self. The White Magician wins. The White Magician earns his powers. The Black Magician receives them. The White Magician does the work with his own powers. The Black Magician works with the power of the Black Lodge and its servants. That is why, when the Black Lodge takes away the power from a Black Magician, he becomes an ordinary man, but when a White Magician develops his powers, no power can take them away. His powers are the parts of the Self.
A White Magician is a highly developed person who uses his powers, his knowledge, and the laws of nature to lead humanity — from darkness to light
from the unreal to the real
from death to immortality
from chaos to beauty .
A White Magician is a graduated higher psychic.
Psychic power requires psychic energy. One must develop psychic energy if he wants to be a real White Magician — through meditation, sacrificial service, and studying the book of life and the laws that manifest therein.
-Torkom Saraydarian, Breakthrough to Higher Psychism

The Principle of Now

Principle of Now. During deep meditation, sometimes the meditator may experience a state of consciousness that is called Now, where the past, present and future are experienced as One or Now. To understand this concept, it must be specified that the experience of Now is not static but dynamic. The present is constantly becoming the past and the immediate future is constantly becoming the present. And the distant future is dynamic. The future that is being experienced at that moment is not static. It is dynamic. To comprehend this concept of Now, imagine that there are one million super computers connected and gridded together. The super computers have built-in programs. All data have already been inputted and the moment the new data are encoded, the gridded super computers. would almost instantaneously come out with the projected future outcome or events. The past, the present and the future are experienced simultaneously.
-Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, The Existence of God is Self-Evident

Preparations for the Full Moon

Preparations for the full moon

Physical Preparations
The first general preparation is to have as little sex as possible or none at all during the full moon period. If sexual energy is held and sublimated at the full moon time, it immediately goes to the throat center, and from there to the knowledge petals of your Lotus.
The second preparation is not to use any alcohol during the full moon period. When you drink alcohol at the full moon time, the effect is fifty times stronger than at any other time. Alcohol at full moon times spoils the magnetic rapport between the pineal, pituitary, and carotid glands.
The third preparation is not to use drugs, including marijuana. Marijuana is the most delicate, subtle poison. It enters you like a needle, but then it become a camel in you and you cannot get it out.
The fourth preparation is not to smoke cigarettes.

Emotional preparations

The first emotional preparation is to increase your lovingness, especially during the seven day full moon period.

The second emotional preparation is control of speech. Try to minimize your criticism, bad words, and cursing. Every time you misuse your speech, you burn your throat center. You do not need that, especially at the full moon time. In many monasteries, talking is completely forbidden during the entire seven day period of the full moon.
The third emotional preparation is calmness. As much as possible, try not to irritate yourself.
The fourth preparation is not to gossip and criticize and have ill will.

Mental preparations

Mentally, you must do your daily meditation, especially during the seven day full moon period.
The second mental preparation is to increase your reading — good reading, not newspapers, pornography, senseless books, etc. You do not need such reading material, especially during the full moon period. Read beautiful books, solemn books, books that polarize your spirit toward Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.
The third mental preparation is more difficult. Try to withdraw into your Higher Self. Imagine that you are walking, talking, thinking, and speaking in God. Who is God? God is the omnipresent Power Who is in your bones, in your hair, everywhere. . .but you are not aware of Him. During these days you must try to be aware of the fact that you are walking, living, and thinking in God. These are preparations for full moons in general.

-Torkom Saraydarian, Wisdom of the Zodiac Volume 3

Effects of Speech

Speech is of triple kind. The idle words will each produce effect. If good and kind, naught need be done. If otherwise, the paying of the price cannot be long delayed.

The selfish words, sent forth with strong intent, build up a wall of separation. Long time it takes to break that wall and so release the stored-up, selfish purpose. See to thy motive, and seek to use those words which blend thy little life with the large purpose of the will of God.

The word of hate, the cruel speech which ruins those who feel the spell, the poisonous gossip, passed along because it gives a thrill - these words kill the flickering impulses of the soul, cut at the roots of life, and so bring death.

If spoken in the light of day, just retribution will they bring; when spoken and then registered as lies, they strengthen that illusory world in which the speaker lives, and holds him back from liberation.

If uttered with intent to hurt, to bruise and kill, they wander back to him who sent them forth, and him they bruise and kill.

-Holy Master D.K. through Alice Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic

More about Tithing-Master Stephen Co. explains

How to Tithe
If you wish to make tithing a regular part of your health-and spiritual-development routine, here are some guidelines:

Amount-Ten percent of your income, after taxes, is the “standard” recommendation; however, this is not feasible for everyone. You can start with a smaller percentage and work you way up to 10 percent.

Proper tithing beneficiaries-It is good to tithe to organizations that
help people in great need. Any organization that helps the homeless, disaster victims, or those suffering from serious illnesses is good. But you may also want to tithe to further a particular cause, especially if you are trying to atone for a past wrongdoing or are asking for help in a particular area.
Here are some examples:
• If you’re atoning for selfish impulses or actions and you want to be more giving and generous, it might be good to donate to the Salvation Army or a rescue mission because they help people who are in great need.
• If you are addressing the karmic cause of a current health condition, it might be good to donate to an organization that raises funds for research in fighting that problem or something similar to it.
• If you were cruel to animals when you were a child, it might be good to make a donation to an animal shelter or rescue fund. It is also good to give money or money equivalents (gifts) to people or organizations that have directly contributed to your physical, emotional, spiritual, or financial well-being. This includes churches, spiritual organizations, your parents, and your employees (if you own or run a business), to name just a few. This is a critical aspect of tithing that most teachings overlook. It shows gratitude for the blessings you have received.

Frequency-Some people tithe a full year in advance; others write checks monthly or every two or three months. There is no karmically best way to tithe with regard to frequency. It’s more a matter of convenience and whether you wish to donate to many causes or a few. It’s an individual decision

-Master Stephen Co, Your Hands Can Heal You

Significance of Speech

Each word as it is uttered makes a little form in etheric matter, just as a thought does in mental matter. Some of those forms are most objectionable. The word “hate,” for instance, produces a horrible form, so much so that, having seen its shape, I never use the word. We may say that we dislike a thing, or that we do not care about it, but we should never use the word “hate” more than we can help, for merely to see the form that it makes gives a feeling of acute discomfort. There are words, on the other hand, which produce beautiful forms, words which it is well to recite. All this might be worked out scientifically, and will be some day, I have no doubt, when people have time to do it. It may be said, however, in general that the words which are connected with desirable qualities produce pleasant forms, and those which are associated with evil qualities produce ugly forms.

Such word-forms are not determined by the thought which accompanies the word; the thought builds its own form in a higher type of matter. For example, that word “hate” is often used quite casually without any real hatred at all, when speaking, perhaps, of some article of food; that is a perfectly unnecessary use of the word, and it obviously does not convey any serious emotion; so that the astral hate-form is not produced; but the ugly etheric sound-form appears just as though the speaker really meant it. So clearly the word itself is not a good word. The same is true of the oaths and obscene words so often used amongst uneducated and uncultured people; the forms produced by some of these are of a peculiarly horrible nature when seen by clairvoyant sight. But it is unthinkable that anyone aspiring to be a disciple would pollute his lips with these. We often hear people using all sorts of loose slang phrases which in reality have no meaning or legitimate derivation. It is important that all these should be avoided by the student of occultism.

-C.W. Leadbeater, Masters and the Path

Patience-- As to ld in Agni Yoga

It may be noticed that patience is developed to the extreme in certain people while others are totally lacking in this quality. What is the reason for this? Such a basic quality cannot be a matter of chance. Know that the possessor of patience has built it up in many lives. A patient man is a worker of vast experience. Only in great labors does a man cognize the worthlessness of irritation. Before the Great Image he perceives the complete insignificance of transitory manifestations. Without many testings it is impossible to appraise and distinguish the qualities of manifestations in life. One should not assume that patience is a distinction conferred without reason; on the contrary, it belongs to the qualities that have been earned with special difficulty, both in the earthly and in the subtle sojourn. Hence, the patient man is rich in experience while the impatient one is a novice in life. Thus let us remember, for the Path.
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Brotherhood

Tithing Exercise

Tithing Routine
1. Invoke for guidance and blessings.
2. Write a check for whatever amount you decide to the organization or person( s) of your choice.
3. Hold the check in your hands and say to yourself or aloud, with sincere intent, that you are grateful for the opportunity to serve, that you intend that this donation help as many people as possible, and that you wish it to generate much good karma for you and your family (if applicable). Include in your prayer also your wish that this donation offset or “work out” any bad karma you may have incurred. Finally, if you have a specific cause, such as self-healing, simply add that you would like your donation to generate good karma that will be applied to your healing.
4. Then let go of the thought, mail the check, and forget about it. You can decide if tithing fits in with your belief system, but the health and spiritual benefits of tithing can be profound; they go far beyond just the good feeling you get when you give to those in need.

-Stephen Co, Master; Eric B. Robins. Your Hands Can Heal You: Pranic Healing Energy Remedies to Boost Vitality and Speed Recovery from Common Health Problems (pp. 279-280). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

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Triangle Work- Guided by Stephen Co.

We will do what is taught by the Holy Master Dhjwal Khul, where we make triangles.
Pick two people. Choose Wisely. The Higher their Energy level, the higher they pull you up. You may not want choose someone who is angry or upset. You may want to pick up someone who is spiritually more evolved. They dont have to be physically alive.

Open your palms. Be aware of your heart. Imagine a GOLDEN LIGHT. A beautiful GOLDEN LIGHT from your HEART connecting to the First person. Then from your heart,visualize a GOLDEN LIGHT connecting to the second person and a Beautiful GOLDEN LIGHT connecting their HEART Centers.

Gently Touch your FOREHEAH Area. From your Forehead, Imagine a GOLDEN LIGHT Dto the First person.Then from your forehead to the second person. Then with their foreheads, connecting the second higher Triangle.

Raise your hands in Blessing. Between you and the other two Beings or persons, inside the Golden Triangles is the Planet Earth. We will chant OM three times and for the GREAT INVOCATION , follow silently.

-Master Stephen Co, Extract from March Full Moon Meditation 2016

Importance of Silence

Let each of you gain that control of speech which has often been your goal but seldom your achievement, and remember that the most powerful factor in the control of speech is a loving heart. Wild and fearful talk, hateful gossip, cruel innuendo, suspicion, the ascribing of wrong and wicked motives to persons and peoples, and the divergences of attitude which have separated the many different nations in the world, are rampant today, and have brought the world to its present distressing situation. It is so easy to drift into the same habits of speech and thought which we find around us and to discover ourselves participating in attack and the spirit of hate. Guard yourselves strenuously against this and say nothing which could inflame hate and suspicion in connection with any race, any person, any group or any leaders of groups and nations. You will have to guard yourselves with care, so that even in defence of that which you may personally or nationally approve, you do not find yourselves full of hate and breaking the law of love - the only law which can truly save the world. Perhaps the key to your success along this line will be the silence of a loving heart.
-Holy Master D.K. through Alice Bailey, Externalization of the Hierarchy

The Law of Decay

The Intuitional Plane can be studied and actualizing the Law of Decay, which is given in the Teaching under various names.
The Law of Decay operates every minute. Every form of life slowly gets old, decays, disintergrates, and vanishes in the three worlds.
All known objects, all the ways in which we live, our emotional attitudes, thoughtforms, even our principles and standards, all forms build by physical-etheric, astral, and mental matter matter are under the Law of Decay. At their origination the forms are alive and active, but slowly they get old, decay and disappear. In every form the Law of Decay works, and if we finally realize that we experience an expansion of consciousness.
All that exists in the physical, astral and mental worlds is subject to decay.Look at a beautiful, dynamic boy or a girl and see him or her seventy years later.Take any house, piece of furniture, book, piece of cloth and see it a few hundred or a few thousand years later, and you will see what changes it has gone through.
THE DISCIPLE OF WISDOM WILL SEE THE FRESHNESS AND BEAUTY OF OBJECTS, BUT IN THEM HE WILL ALSO SEE THE PROCESS OF DECAY.ONE OF THE METHODS TO RELEASE OURSELVES FROM ATTACHMENT IS TO BE AWARE OF THE LAW OF DECAY.
-Torkom Saraydarian , Leaderhsip Volume 5

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Money and Pranic Energy

Money is related to Pranic Energy, and as prana, it has three characterestics of TAMAS, RAJAS AND SATTVA. This means that the money can be used or acquired through tamasic ways-through the means of inertia; it can be acquired through the means of motion-rajas; or through the means of sattva-rhythm.
The way you spend money has a great influence upon the construction and the material of your etheric body. If you are spending money in tamasic ways, you are channeling to your system tamasic energy. If you are spending in rajasic ways, you are absorbing rajasic energy. If you are spending it in sattvic ways, you are channeling sattvic energy into your system.
Similarly, the way you acquire money is very important. You may acquire it by tamasic means such as selling drugs or killing people. This brings you inertia, and your subtle centers close and eventually become inactive.
You may acquire money by Rajasic means, for example by selling liquor or prostitution or lying or cheating. This creates great force and conflicting energies in your system.
You may acquire money by sattvic means such as honest labor, creative arts, or by using your education or talent through honest means. This brings joy, rhythm, and harmony into your nature, and you enjoy the wealth you have.
Many people do not enjoy the money they accumulate. It becomes either a burden on their shoulders or a means for their moral and spiritual downfall; but when acquired by sattvic means, it brings peace , harmony, enjoyment and unfoldment.
THE MONEY THAT CIRCULATES FROM HAND TO HAND CARRIES THESE ENERGIES. IT IS WISE TO BLESS MONEY BEFIRE YOU PUT IT INTO YOUR POCKET BECAUSE BLESSING CHANGES THE VIBRATIONS OF THE MONEY AND MAKES IT MORE RHYTHMIC WHEN ACQUIRED BY RIGHT MEANS.
-Torkom Saraydarian, New Dimensions in Healing

GMCKS Quote

Merging our Thought Process with that of our Master

THE Master proceeds to explain that when you become a pupil of one of the great Masters "you may always try the truth of your thought by laying it beside His". He explains that the pupil is one with the Master, and only needs to put back his thought into the Master's to see at once whether it agrees. This remark obviously does not apply to pupils yet on probation, but only to those whose consciousness is in some wonderful way blended with that of their Master. Many people have said to me that they cannot understand how this laying of the thought beside that of the Master can be accomplished. The only explanation I can think of is that the pupil who is accepted by the Master may always listen, if he will, to the great harmony which the Master sends forth into the world. Any thought the pupil has either harmonises with the Master's harmony, or is a discord, and in this way the pupil somehow feels whether his thought is true or not. If it is true it gives him a sense of fuller life, and causes him, as it were, to glow throughout his being. If the thought is not true, it gives him a sense of discomfort and of being ill at ease. He feels, in some way, out of tune with things, and intuitively knows that he is not as genuine as he ought to be. Probably most people have this feeling in greater or lesser degree. At a certain stage when conscience becomes active, we know in a general way what thoughts are constructive and what thoughts are destructive in our nature. We have certain ideals, and we know, at least, whether we are, on the whole, living up to these ideals or not. Indeed such people may always ask the question: " What would the Master think about this ? What would the Master say or do under these circumstances ?" But the pupil of the Masters has these feelings with very much greater intensity, and the only way in which I can describe the difference between the thought which harmonises and the thought which does not, is by telling you that the former gives a sense of freshness and clearness, while the latter causes a clouded and uncomfortable sensation. It is of course possible to be so immersed in one's thoughts and actions as to shut oneself off from the Master's consciousness, and very often thoughtlessly think or do or feel things which do not make us feel nearly as uncomfortable as they ought to, because we do not take the trouble to test them in the light of the Master's consciousness.

-George S Arundale, Thoughts on At the Feet of the Master

Be careful not to Make fun of Divine Names

For some leaders it is relatively easy not to slander people, but there is a form of slander into which they fall very easily and joyfully. This kind of slander is directed towards the great Ones in the form of telling anecdotes , jokes , stories or remarks . For example, some leaders tell funny stories about Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Moses, Jesus, or Mohammed to entertain without knowing that it is a deeply slanderous action. Playinng with the name of a Great One is recorded as a heavy slander because it denotes lack of respect and devotion and the presence of light-mindedness and vanity. Another form of slander is to use sacred words such as the Hierarchy or Shamballa as jokes or in stories. Examples must not be mentioned here , but one can easily see and hear many such kinds of slander.
HOLY AND SACRED NAMES MUST BE PRONOUNCED WITH THIE GREATEST RESPECT, SPOKEN SOFTLY AND WITH GREAT DEVOTION. In my many years of service, I have noticed students who made jokes with Sacred Names were eventually thrown out of their fields of service, and misfortune followed their steps. Solemnity is an act of highest act of Respect to Those is Highest Realms and to the Holy Ones and sacred names related to spiritual centers and locations. Lack of respect to Holy Ones and holy places is a sign of degeneration. Leaders must to be examples of solemnity , nobility, and simplicity.
ONE MUST ALSO BE CAREFUL NOT SLANDER HIS OWN INNER DIVINITY OR HIS TEACHER. THOSE WHO SLANDER THEIR INNER DIVINITY AND THEIR TEACHER PAY HEAVY TAXATION IN COMING YEARS AND LIVES.

-Torkom Saraydarian, Battling Dark Forces

Taitreya Upanishad

Om ! May my speech be based on ( ie. accord with ) the mind ; may my mind be based on speech .O Self - effulgent One , reveal Thyself to me .May you both ( speech and mind ) be the carriers of the Veda to me .May not all that I have heard depart from me .I shall join together ( ie , obliterate the difference of ) day and night through this study .I shall utter what is verbally true ; I shall utter what is mentally true .May that ( Brahman ) protect me ; May That protect the speaker ( i.e. the teacher ); may That protect me ; may That protect the speaker , may That protect the speaker .

Om ! Peace ! Peace ! Peace !

Torkom Quote

Questions to help on the Spiritual Path

There are few questions you can use in your conversation:
a. Do you have time? What do you do with your time?
b. When did you start to be interested in the spiritual life?
c. Do you have strong guilt feelings?
d. Did you ever attack someone and want to hurt him?How ?When?
e.Are you interested in the welfare of humanity
f.Are you unhappy when injustice is done to anyone?
g.Do you feel unhappy if an injustice is done to anyone?
h. Have you had moments when you were really sacrificial?

Such questions reveal the hidden sides of the applicants and you can more wisely approach his needs and give better spiritual direction.

-Torkom Saraydarian, Leadership Volume 1

MM Quote

Understanding the Teacher

Hasten, hasten to understand the Teacher! Let us encircle Him with a protective wall of devotion and thereby enclose ourselves within the stronghold. After you have wandered enough you will come to understand that with the Teacher, there is always success. Where defeat occurs, there has been betrayal of the Teacher. Where defeat is, it is we ourselves who have bent and rent and razed the goal-fitting plan. In defeat, we have turned away from the tested arrow of help. Can we assert that in the hour of danger we will proclaim the Name of the Teacher? Can we bear witness to the Teacher's Name? Can we discover the exultation of gratitude to the Teacher? Or, on the other hand, do we sometimes wonder why the Teaching does not accommodate our habits, and why our inactivity is disturbed by the Teaching? Why we are awakened from our self-justifying sleep?
      
      Gratitude and devotion flourish joyously in Our Community. If Our conduit brings word to Us that a co-worker thinks he has sacrificed something in the name of the Teaching, this would compel Us to reject his cooperation. Our co-workers know both how to receive and to give. When you spread Our Teaching do not shout in the square, but simply offer a smile to the approaching ones. Those who come voluntarily will accept the Teacher. But he who is ensnared will gnaw at his chains. We expect joy, and accept only the wondrous flower of devotion. Let us hasten to understand the Teacher!
      
      Affirm success; affirm joy; affirm understanding of progress. Cast away the thoughts that belong to the old world. I shall not tire of repeating this.

-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Agni Yoga

The Great Lord Padmasambhava

The Lord Padmasambhava is a MAHAGURU. MAHA means "Great" and GURU means "Spiritual Teacher". Buddha Padmasambhava has been a Great Teacher for aeons and aeons of times. Under his tutelage are Holy Master, great Arhats, high Tibetian Lamas, high Buddhist monks, Taoist yogis and immortals, Indian yogis, kaya Siddhas- great yogis from Southern India, rishis, great Kabbalists and other great Spiritual Disciples.
-Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, Om Mani Padme Hum

Having intense expreiences during Meditation

The dirtiest part of the aura is in the lower part, in the feet area. What the Lord Jesus meant is, “If you do not let me purify you, you cannot be my disciple.” (John 13: 8) That is the purpose of the washing of the feet. When you do Meditation on Twin Hearts, you can have a basin of water and salt and you can put some ylang-ylang or sandalwood incense, and maybe 5 to 10 drops of sandalwood oil into the water and salt, so when you do Meditation on Twin Hearts, the lower part of your aura is becoming clean. Once the lower part of your aura has been cleaned, you can fly in the inner world. When you do this regularly, what will happen is that when you sleep, your dream becomes vivid or when you meditate, when you have inner experiences, it becomes better because you are no longer pulled down by the dirty energy in your aura, in your astral body.

Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, Inner Teachings of Christianity Revealed

Various stages of development of the Heart

The heart can be found in various stages of development .Sometimes its like a small bud.Sometimes only three petals are open .Sometimes the petals are hardened in varying degrees Sometimes this heart is a fully developed ,Radioactive lotus

-The center of motive within our being

-The inclusive quality of our Real Self

-The organ of pure sensitivity in our being

- Our pure consciousness

-The link between us and Cosmos

-The center of compassion and love within us

-the sense within us that feels joy and ecstasy when it records beauty in any form ,sees virtues and experiences of heroic action and inclusive service

_The heart center which is found behind the physical heart , four to six inches away from our body ,and is recognized as a twelve petaled golden lotus

-The blue flame in the heart

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The Flame of The Heart

Looking ahead to the Future

It is wise to draw a line between past and future. It is impossible to calculate all that has been done—it is incommensurable. It is better to say “Yesterday is past; let us learn how to meet a new dawn.” We all grow, and our works are expanding with us. After twenty-seven years no one is a youth, and we all can then understand the achievement of Service. It is unworthy to rummage in yesterday's dust. Henceforth let us establish a new step. Let us begin to labor, surrounding ourselves with a thousand eyes. Let us acquire purity of thought and co-measurement of actions. Thus let us fill our days; let us become used to mobility and decisiveness. Likewise, let us not forget that there is nothing on Earth higher than the given Plan for the Common Good. Let us manifest understanding of the Teachings of life. As Moses brought forth human dignity, as Buddha impelled toward the broadening of consciousness, as Christ taught the good of giving, so now the New World is directed toward the far-off worlds! Ponder, what comparisons surround us! Ponder about the cornerstone. Reflect about the given path. Ponder how the boundaries of the Cosmos touched you. Recall the steps of wondrous tensions not in a book but in life. Reflect that so much has not been taken up and absorbed and yet you stand in your place. Therefore, be not disheartened by mistakes, but ascend by the Hierarchy of the Teaching.
-Master Morya through Helena Roerich, Community

Energies of the Heart

In the Human Heart the seven cosmic energies are assimilated and changed into 12 Radiations or 12 streams of energy. These are

1.Energy which heals

2.The energy which gives serenity and peace

3.The energy which gives joy and leads us into sacrificial service.

4.The energy which gives courage ,daring ,striving and patience

5.The energy which gives love ,unification,and inclusiveness.

6.The energy which causes universalism and synthesis

7.The energy which evokes beauty.

8.The energy which creates understanding ,timelessness,straight knowledge and intuition .

9.The energy which records

10. The energy which enables us to receive great inspirations and become creative.

11.The energy which transmutes

12. The energy which changes into righteousness and compassion

# Torkom Saraydarian

The Flame Of the Heart

Benefits of Group Full Moon Mediation

It is very important that we follow the full moon discipline and every month, individually or in group formation, do our meditation and attend group services if possible. The group service is more beneficial for the general public than individual observation of the full moon. The reason is that in individual meditation it is possible that one can draw more energy than he is capable of using or operating with, and this causes over- stimulation within his vehicles. But in a group formation the evoked energy is distributed evenly, and everyone is benefited according to his or her evolution. If we miss observing one or two full moons, we lose the benefit of those full moons and do not develop harmoniously, just as a melody missing two or three measures becomes incomplete. But if we follow each full moon year after year we benefit harmoniously from all twelve or thirteen elements that reach us through our discipline and meditation. Each full moon provides a different chemical element, and those chemical elements must be received and assimilated if we expect a harmonious development in our nation and right relationship with the greater Life.

Torkom Saraydarian, Wisdom of the Zodiac Volume 2

Overcoming our Karma

People have the opinion that karma cannot be changed. This is not true. Karma can be changed, although you need to spend more energy than the amount of energy you used to create the karma. For example, a true change in your motives, a true renunciation, a true penance, a real decision to change our conduct, a real and deep dedication to a deep humanitarian cause, a heroic and sacrificial act can transform your life, minimize your past karma, or even totally annihilate it.
You can overcome your karma by raising the level of consciousness and working hard to repair the damage you did to others . You can increase your beauty, goodness, light , joy and freedom and overcome a certain amount of your karma. Striving towards the summits of beauty and freedom breaks heavy layers of your karma.
Spreading the knowledge of karma wherever you go can takes away a certain amount of your karmic taxations. Meditation and prayer help you reduce to a great degree your disciplinary karma. Your karma can be lightened if you never encourage people to increase their karmic debs, Your karma can be reduced to a great extent if you do not join or associate with people who are full of hatred, separatism, selfishness and greed.
It is possible to expand our consciousness to such a degree that we become aware of our karma and cooperate with it in full measure. It is also possible that once we reach the stage of knowing our karma,and if absolutely necessary, we can change our karma through our fiery thoughts.
Karma can be changed through spiritual striving through fiery thoughts, and through transmuting our consciusness. Such a change is introduced or induced not because of fear, not because of personal interests, BUT BECAUSE OF A DIRE NEED FOR SACRIFICIAL SERVICE. This does not mean to break the law but to meet the law in a different way.
THE DECISIVE FACTOR IN YOUR KARMA IS NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE M BUT WHAT YOU DID AND WHAT YOU ARE.
-Torkom Saraydarian, New Dimensions in Healing