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1. "Christ (Lord Maitreya) was the first of our Earth Humanity to achieve the goal. So rapid was the developement of The Christ that in Atlantean Days He found Himself upon The Path of Probation (leading to The Path of Discipleship). From the angle of evolution, the rapid unfoldment of the evolution of Christ was and has been totally unparalleled. It has never been duplicated, though there are people living today upon the planet who are beginning to develope now with equal rapidity."
2. "The first human being out of that Center which we call The Race of Men to achieve the point of The 3rd Initiation (The Transfiguration) was The Christ. In that first great demonstration of his point of attainment, through the medium of what was then a new type of Initiation, The Christ was joined by The Buddha. The Buddha had attained this same point prior to the creation of our planetary life, but conditions for taking The 3rd Initiation were not then available, and He and The Christ took The Initiation together."
3. "The World Teacher (in the 1920's) is that Great Being Whom the Christian calls The Christ. He is known also in The Orient as The Boddhisattva and as The Lord Maitreya and is The One looked for by the devout Mohammedan under the name of The Imam Mahdi. He it is Who has presided over the destinies of life since about 600 B.C., and He it is Who has come out among men before (Krishna) and Who is again looked for. He is The Great Lord of Love and Compassion, just as his predecessor, The Buddha, was The Lord of Wisdom. He is The World Teacher, The Master of The Masters, and The Instructor of The Angels, and to Him is committed the guidance of the spiritual destinies of men and the developement of the realization within each human being that he is a child of God and a son of The Most High."
"Ever since He left The Earth as related with approximate accuracy in the Bible story, though with much error in detail, has He stayed with the sons of men. Never has He really gone but only in appearance, and in a physical body He can be found by those who know the way dwelling in The Himalayas and working in close cooperation with His 2 Great Brothers, The Manu (1st Ray) and The Mahachohan (3rd Ray). Daily He pours out his blessing on the world, and daily He stands under the great pine in his garden at the sunset hour with hands uplifted in blessing over all those who truly and earnestly seek to aspire. To Him all seekers are known and, though they may remain unaware of Him, The Light which He pours forth stimulates their desire, fosters the spark of struggling life, and spurs on the aspirant until the momentous day dawns when they stand face to face with The One Who by being 'lifted up' (occultly understood) is drawing all men unto Himself as The Initiator of The Sacred Mysteries (of Initiation)."
4. "He has been for 2,000 years The Supreme Head of The Church Invisible, The Spiritual Hierarchy, composed of the disciples of all faiths. He recognizes and loves those who are not Christian but who retain their allegiance to their Founders, The Buddha, Mohammed, and Others. He cares not what the faith is if the objective is love of God and of Humanity. The Christ has no religious barriers in His Consciousness. It matters not to Him of what faith a man may call himself. The Son of God is on his way, and He cometh not alone. His Advance Guard (Initiates of The Hierarchy) is already here, and The Plan which They must follow is already made clear."
5. "He is The World Teacher and not a Christian Teacher. He Himself told us that He had other folds, and to them He has meant as much as He has meant to the orthodox Christian. They may not call Him Christ, but they have their own name for Him and follow Him as truly and faithfully as their Western brethren."
6. "Men have forgotten The Christ Who lives with us on Earth, surrounded by His Disciples, The Masters of The Wisdom, accessible to those who make the right approach and saving men by the force of his example. In the coming world religion, attainment of spiritual status through spiritual living will be taught, and the fact of the existence of Those Who have thus attained and Who work with Christ for the helping and salvaging of Humanity will be the goal. The fact of The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, the ability of Mankind to contact its Members and to work in cooperation with Them, and the existence of Those Who know what The Will of God is and Who can work intelligently with that Will -- these are the truths upon which the future spiritual teaching will be based."
7. "In the future, the eyes of Humanity will be fixed upon The Christ and not upon any such man-made institutions as The Church and its dignitaries. Christ will be seen as He is in reality, working through His Disciples, through The Masters of The Wisdom, and through his followers who toil unseen (and usually unrecognized) behind world affairs. The sphere of his activity will be known to be the human heart and also the crowded market places of the world but not some stone edifice and not the pomp and ceremony of any ecclesiastical headquarters."
8. "Individual man and his Soul are also attempting to come together, and when that Event (1st Initiation, The Birth) is consummated, The Christ is born in the cave of the heart and Christ is seen in the daily life with increasing power."
9. "As the man works with his personality, purifying it and bending it to the service of the spiritual will, he automatically raises the energies of the centers (chakras) in his body up to The Center between the eyebrows (Ajna Chakra). Eventually, the influence of each of The 2 Centers (in the head) increases and becomes wider and wider until they make contact with each other's vibratory or magnetic field, and instantly the light flashes out. Father-Spirit and mother-matter unite and are at-one, and The Christ is born. 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy)', said The Christ. This is the second birth, and from that moment vision comes with increasing power."
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