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Discipleship in the New Age I - Personal Instructions to Disciples - H.S.D.
January 1937 MY BROTHER AND CHOSEN FRIEND: I have watched you with care and understanding during the past year. I know what you have undergone and the measure of your difficulties and problems. These you faced, as usual, with courage. The past lies behind you and though I looked at you with anxiety till a few weeks ago, I no longer do so. You can and will become an integrating force in this group. A great process of transmutation of the lower energies has been going on in you, carried forward, as always, via the solar plexus center - that great clearing house of the personality. This has been for you a culminating crisis in your life, esoterically speaking, though its effects may produce exoteric happenings. These latter are (are they not?) of small moment compared to the inner happenings. There were moments when the situation was critical. At three such moments, during the past year, I definitely intervened and interposed my help, though you, of course, knew it not. Can I, at this point, convey to you a lesson which all accepted disciples have to learn? Such intervention by a watching Teacher or Master is something which should seldom happen and something which all conscious disciples seek to avoid; something which they never expect and which they never demand. [579] Conscious discipleship is only now opening before you as a result of this experience and during the unconscious stage we do occasionally help. This I did. I would ask you to regard the process of such a definite reorientation and transmutation as now closed - probably for this entire life. You have come through to a measure of release and are freed for service in a sense that was before not possible. Now I ask you to take several months of complete quiet, giving the solar plexus time to relax, and your brain and mind time to adjust themselves to the newer rhythms. Make no plans but follow the lines of service as they open up and as needs come to your attention. I need not ask you to stand by my work and by the things which I am attempting to do in the world, for this I know you will do. Your soul demands it of your personality and will find you ever ready. Below are six seed thoughts which I have chosen for your consideration. Will you give them fifteen minutes of quiet thought each day? 1st month - I am a bird of song. Those in the high air can hear my song. My fellow pilgrims feel my joy. 2nd month - I am the lotus of the heart. The perfume of the heart must fill the air around me and rest my fellowmen. 3rd month - I am a pool of quiet. Naught must destroy that peace, for all around me need that peace and quiet that the restful waters give. 4th month - I am a steadfast hill whereon the breeze of God blows free. The weary pilgrims on the Way find cool strength and tonic life upon that hill. 5th month - I am a voice that calls and carries cheer because I see the vision. 6th month - All that I am and all I have belongs to others, not myself. The work that you are now planning and about which you have spoken to me will suffice for your work for the next few months. [580]
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