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CONrE.NTSJP"' If Ir1 . , First Edition1980 ej.: \Copyright 1980 The New Age Church of The Christ, Inc.Published byTHE NEW AGE CHURCH OF THE CHRISTKings Park Long IslandNew York 11754U.S.A.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD CATALOG NUMBER 80-82446Consciousness1How Your Consciousness Can Assist Others2Maintain and Sustain Peace2Accelerate Your Consciousness to the Golden Age3God's Omnipresent Supply of Good4Money is Often Repelled By the Thoughts of the Chela . 5Experiment With Consciousness6Consciousness Precipitates6Expansion or Limitation7Money is a Servant8Train the Consciousness to Contemplate Only Good9Supply and Demand10Limitation is of Your Own Choosing11Union With Cosmic Consciousness11The Universal and Individual Consciousness12The Vibratory Rate of the Consciousness is theDetermining Factor12The Raising of the Consciousness Lies WithinYour Free Will13Attainment of the Ascended Master Consciousness14Communion With The Saints15Consciousness is the Creative Center,17Man's Individual Sphere of Activity18Some Individuals Have a Greater Capacity to FeelThan Others19The Capacity to Expand and Nourish theConsciousness21Evolution On the Four Planes of Consciousness21The Relationship Between the Master and the Chela . 23Two Consciousnesses Are Active24The Great Men of The East25Guard the Doors of Your Consciousness26The Golden Flame of Consciousness27Man Determines His State of Consciousness28The Virtues of God are Constantly FlowingAround Us29Like Attracts Like30The Ascended Master Consciousness31Life Experience Forms the Consciousness32

God's Gift of Consciousness34The Instrument of Being34Treasures in Heaven35Space and Consciousness Are Not Synonymous35Vigilance is the Price of Peace36Enroll Your Bodies as Students37Unite Your Consciousness With The Master's38The Power within the Feeling Nature39Directing the Consciousness Upward41The Inner Eye Sees the True Essence of Being42The Aquarian Age43Promptings of Service to Life43The Service of the Holy Spirit44The Soul of Man45The Laggard Souls46Cosmic Christ Consciousness47The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand48Man is the Guardian of His Consciousness49Light is the Body of God51The Great Awareness52Directing the Attention53Increasing the Light of the World54The Law of the Circle55Life is a Beautiful Study56The Lotus Flower of Consciousness57Withdraw all Power from Appearances58A New Look at Soul Searching59The Re-orientation of the Mental Body61The Feeling Nature Provides the Substance62Travelling in Consciousness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53The Ascended Master Consciousness64lub-oduetiouWhen Beloved Holy AEolus held the Office of Maha Chohan,He imparted to us the Wisdom concerning the guarding ofthe individual consciousness, and at that time, gave a seriesof Lessons which it is now our great pleasure to present toall who are desirous of advancing in the Light and expandingtheir consciousness through study and application of theTruths contained within them.It is our sincere wish that these Lessons will providefurther enlightenment concerning the subject of Consciousness- an understanding of which js fundamentally necessary inour studies of Life throughout the Universe.The New Age Church of the Christ

'-' oaseiousaessThe state of consciousness in which a man livesdetermines how much happiness or unhappiness he knowsduring his sojourn upon the Earth plane.There are no two living beings unascended who live inthe same state of consciousness constantly. Unascendedbeings meet and enter the same sphere of consciousness at alecture, in schools and churches, and for a time rub shoulders,but return again into the wheel and sphere of their individualconsciousness evolved through the centuries. Within thesematerial spiral forms, they bounce like a rubber ball throughthe course of a day, plunge into darkness, are raised bytemporary exaltation, explode in anger, and so on, sometimespassing through a hundred states of consciousness in thecourse of an eight hour period.Now each state of consciousness through which theypass has a vibration. All of the destructive emotions andtendencies naturally have a vibratory action that isdisintegrating to the spiritual nature evolving through thesoul. The soul which is being pummelled by these vibrations(which sometimes change as often as three times within aminute) is grasping for the Light of Spiritual Counsel andsometimes direction from Above; the Higher Self is endeavoring to send through this whirlwind of vibration enoughpressure to be the guiding power of the soul.This requires that the Higher Self must secure a vibratoryaction of Its Light which can pass through the waves ofvibration; but before that Light can be anchored, the individualhas passed into another vibratory action and state ofconsciousness. The Spiritual Consciousness again changesthe vibratory direction, but by the time it reaches the soul,the soul is in another state of consciousness - running fromroom to room - with the Spiritual Self endeavoring to get itquiet enough in any one state of consciousness to secure anentrance to bring the Light and Spiritual Succor required.You will sec, therefore, that to train individuals tomaintain a more or less steady vibratory action in theirvehicles, is to enable their own Higher Self to give them theSpiritual Food and Counsel and Courage required for theirFreedom. Many students newly enjoying Spiritual knowledgesometimes have wild spurts of enthusiasm which, whilegood in themselves, arc also rapid shocks to the vibratoryaction of the soul, and We therefore recommend always the1

holding of the outer self in the Middle Way so that the Lightand Radiation from the "I AM" Presence can enter into andbecome one with the vibratory action of the aspirant. Thusprogress and unfoldment comes more quickly to the mananchored in Peace, than to the more zealous but uncontrolledlifestream.How Your Conseiousness Can Assist OthersThere is no limit to what one man or one woman can dofor any number of lifestreams through a strong thought andfeeling held firmly within the consciousness for GOOD.There is no power in all the Universe that can oppose aGOOD THOUGHT or that can manifest an evil thoughtunless the individual holding the constructive one choosesto let it go. That is why it is said that 'one with God is amajority.'That is why one unascended being could hold theplanet Earth from dissolution IF his consciousness could beunshaken by the mass mind, appearance, or any number ofvisible or invisible pressures that would attempt to changethe thought and feeling of Perfection and Protection held bythe ONE.All the forces of hell combined, with all their energies,cannot prevail against the smallest thought which is inagreement with God's Plan unless the lifestream holdingthe thought relinquishes it; and so, with your very greattenacity of spirit, know that you have an invulnerable armorand a tremendous power to free, to heal, and to hold Peace,unless you surrender your thought for a less perfect thoughtin the mind or heart of another.Maintain and Sustain PeaeeThe only way that the "I AM" Presence can reach theconsciousness of the outer man is by directing certainvibrations which enter into the outer consciousness asdesires, feelings, aspirations, and a pressure toward certainactivity even though the outer self is ofttimes unable toexplain by REASON that which is the prompting of theheart. Until the development of the chela enables the outerconsciousness, in a fully awakened state, to join with theDivine Plan and Image held in the Higher Self, the "I AM"2Presence uses the subtler vibrations and promptings toforward the Plan of Perfection because the soul and· thelower vehicles of man must be receptive to these vibrationsin order for them to record forcibly enough for action toensue.We do stress particularly the cultivation and maintenanceof as steady and unchanging vibration as is possible throughthe lower vehicles under all circumstances and all strain.As static destroys a radio or television program, makingit ofttimes impossible to even understand the words ormessages, or interpret the picture, so does discord of anynature distort the promptings and vibrations of the "I AM"Presence so that they are neither received nor anchored intothe energy of the outer self with sufficient strength tobecome the guidance of the daily life.In times of crises, more than ever are required individualswho maintain a constant flow of connection with their"I AM" Presence, and We do require that such individualsbuild that momentum and maintain and sustain a peacefulvibratory action so that the receptivity of the Divine Impulsesmay be clear and distinct enough to be a protection andguidance to many thousands in emergencies that maymanifest.Aeeelerate Your Conseiousnessto the Golden AgeWe are again studying Consciousness and the Presenceof Perfection in this Universe NOW. Just as the radioprograms are present in a room but require an instrumentto draw their vibrations forth as sound which is audible tothe ears of physical bodies, in just the same manner is theGolden Age ever present because We are living in thepresent and We are enjoying the Golden Age NOW in OurOctave where Perfection, Harmony, Beauty, and Freedomare the atmosphere in which We live.You can, and do, tune into that Golden Age when youcontact Us; when you hear Our words; or when Our Presencecomes to you in your contemplations or devotions. At suchtimes, your consciousness is accelerated and reaches upinto the Higher Vibrations that are ever-present. We aredesirous of sustaining you in that consciousness so that youmay live in the world, and yet be not of it.3

To this end, We suggest that you call for yourconsciousness to be enveloped in that of your own "I AM"Presence, or any Ascended Master, at all times, and thenthat through self-conscious effort, you try to think, and feel,and live, and speak as if you had passed through the Gatesinto the Kingdom of Heaven and were the honored guestamong the Perfected Assembly there.By practicing your presence in the Kingdom, you willfind that it can become a fact instead of a fancy.God's Omnipresent Supply of GoodThe Universe, as already created, is completely andfully stocked, so to speak, with every requisite for mankind'sfull enjoyment of his God Estate. The very Law of Creationis such that the Solar Logoi who took the responsibility ofevolving humanity on the Earth, created and drew from theHeart of God, with the co-operation of countless AscendedBeings and Devic Hosts, a great stock-pile, as it were, orCosmic Reservoir in which is held all the Opulence, Beauty,Harmony, Health, and assistance which every one of the tenbillion lifestreams could possibly require to fulfill theirindividual Divine Plans.It is like a Cosmic Trust Fund established in accordancewith the Divine Law under the supervision of the Solar GodHimself, which had to be completed and offered as a Bondbefore the Elohimic Builders could take the responsibilityof creation. Therefore there is pulsating through theatmosphere of Earth such a countless store of unusedBlessings, Powers, Activities, Qualities and OpulentExpressions of Perfection that there is no lifestream whocould not have the fullness of his Divine Heritage at anyinstant that he chooses to connect his consciousness withtheir ever-present Good. In metaphysical parlance, We callit Omniscient Omnipresent Supply.In the most squalid tenement, or the house built ofstraw, you will find the vibrations of Beauty flowing,uninterrupted by the bound consciousness that dwells withinthe squalor. In this way, mankind has remained enmeshedin a consciousness oflimitation while through his bodies isplaying constantly the ever-present Good.4To pry the intellect free from the intense power it hasgiven to the appearance world requires all the Cosmicpressure of Our combined Flames and Rays. When once theindividual identity opens itself to the inflowing of theseRays which bring Beauty, Harmony, Opulence and Peace,and the consciousness expands from its dwarfed estate andencompasses the Universal Good (which is ever-present),such an one will be released from his dependence upon alimited financial income in the realization that the Everpresent Supply, by its nature, will enter his world whenentertained in his consciousness; and that if money is ,required, as he holds his attention free from money asentering into his picture at all, the glorious Perfection thathe builds in his consciousness will, as one effect, producethe required supply by drawing it through natural channelsinto his experience.Money is Often Repelled Bythe Thoughts of the ChelaIt is one of the most difficult of all tasks to approach thehuman consciousness on the subject of monetary exchange- whereupon the human self becomes wary and protective;but if I can convince the intellect that the action of the Lawis to open the consciousness, expecting the miraculous,giving no thought to the appearance, and entertaining, inanticipation, the glory of the Opulent Perfection, then thoseindividuals who, with tenacity, HOLD TO THIS ACTIONOF THE LAW, will find themselves free from bondage tothe dollar, and the dollar will become the servant of theconsciousness as it should be.When you come into this understanding with meditationand .sincere open-minded contemplation, it should givegreat freedom to the inner nature.5

Experiment With CouseiousuessThe study of Consciousness is the study of Freedom, foronce the lifestream begins to experiment with the creativepowers contained within the individual governing influenceof one's own thought and feeling, such an one stands at thethreshold of complete relief and release from the bonds ofthe third dimensional thinking and feeling.The Golden Age is the presence of the Ascended Masters'Octave in the consciousness of all life. We live in the GoldenAge NOW because there is no time in God; there is no past,no future - just the ever-present. The Golden Age is aconsciousness of Perfection, of Harmony, of Beauty, ofHealth, and of Peace.Our individual consciousness, through the centuriesmerged with, and became one with the God-Consciousnessthat does not recognize imperfection, and which createsconstantly, by the creative powers within itself, everexpanding Perfection. Therefore, all people unascended areliving in the presence of the Golden Age, but shut it out bytheir own thoughts and feelings.There is great hope when one can tune in the consciousness to the ever-present Golden Age and let it, just like amagnet, entertain and draw into itself the fullness of thatBeauty. Such an individual consciousness then becomes, byits own nature, a projector of the Golden Age through theindividual lifestream so tuned in, and in an ever-wideningcircle, the Perfection of that Age begins to flow throughwhatever consciousness offers itself as a cup for thoseforces.When one or more can be found to render such aservice, you can see how it hastens the perception of theGolden Age by the masses. The feeling of struggle that hasalways enveloped new Movements is wholly unnecessary.Conseiousness PreeipitatesConsciousness, by its very nature, precipitates, and asyou entertain the Kingdom of Heaven in your consciousness,it can no more cease to precipitate itself into your worldthan the Sun can cease to precipitate Light and not explode.Even an urchin on the street who would contemplate andentertain a palace in his thought and feeling would, by hisvery nature, manifest that bliss even though all the naturallaws of the outer world would deny wealth or power, orauthority.6Neither the monetary exchange, birth, heritage, orenvironment is the law over the precipitating power ofconsciousness, BUT the untrained consciousness is affectedso by environment that it entertains that environment andtherefore duplicates the form, generation after generation,which seems to be a bondage of birth.No matter what a man's estate, his consciousness is theroad to his Freedom - whether he sit in a darkened dungeonor on the top of Mount Sinai - whether he dwell in thepalace of a king or the hovel of a goat-herd.Expansion or LimitationOnce the chela can grasp the Eternal Truth that thestate of thought and feeling which forms the consciousnessof the individual represents his wealth, his health, pisenvironment, and the experiences through which he willpass from hour to hour, such an one has begun to sever thechains and bonds of limitation and to come into the realmwhere he is master of circumstances.Take the money exchange - a man measures his wealth,his ability to serve, the beauty with which he surroundshimself, and his beneficence to the rest of life upon thephysical money, either in his possession or, by the naturallaw, coming to him in the process of human payments,endowments, salaries, and so on, and he thereby empowersan inanimate object to dole out to him a small percentage ofthe substance of the Universe through its ability to regulatehis affairs and his life, and he lives, day in and day out, yearin and year out, under the dictates of this exchange.Saint Germain has stated that money is only as valuableas its monetary presence requires for a medium of exchange.We have seen the monetary exchange of various nationsbecome worthless and the fortunes of state and individualsreduced to nothingness; still the student cannot perceivethat it is his consciousness, and not the amount of physicalassets in his hand, which represents either his health or hisprosperity.I am going to endeavor to show you a way and means bywhich you may withdraw from your apparent difficulties,and in the use of the Sacred Fire, MOULD into your7

universe all the Beauty, all the Perfection, all the Happiness,Opulence, Health and Comfort that you desire; and whenyou have enriched your consciousness by ACCEPTING theever-present Opulence throbbing through the UniversalLight, you will find that money is an EFFECT that willmanifest from this inner Cause which will be a servantappearing like a genie of old as the requirement of themoment demands.Money is a ServantMoney, like the intellect, is a beautiful servant, but acruel master. In itself, it cannot buy any of the Eternal Giftsof God. It cannot maintain life except where another part oflife chooses to accept money in return for the expenditure oflife energy. It cannot by Peace; it cannot buy Happiness: itcannot buy Beauty, Illumination, Understanding, or Wisdom.A man left on a desert island with the entire physical assetsof the planet Earth, but with no co-operation from Nature,would not sustain life in his bodyfor very long, for it cannotbe eaten; it cannot be breathed in as air; it cannot heat asthe Sun. It is only as valuable as man has made it, for heserves money where the Gods serve Life, and when the hourcomes that mankind awakens to giving Service for the Joyof expanding Life's Perfection, the monetary exchange ofthe planet Earth will cease to be.For you who are desirous of having your financialfreedom, I beg you to contemplate often that your wealth isnot in finance, but in the entertainment of the UniversalPresence of All Good, and if the rest of the Universe requiredmoney to give to you their products which they created bythe use of Life's Energy, the Law of your being wouldsupply that monetary exchange.They would receive the money, and you would receivethe Beauty, the Opulence, and the Perfection which is moreof God. Then you would be complying with the outer lawand yet would fill your universe with the fullness of thePerfection of the whole Universe.8Train the Conseiousnessto Contemplate Only GoodUnawakened men and women are bound by the threedimensional plane because they do not know of the CreativePower that is conferred upon them individually, and whichregulates their life's experience.Therefore, they use their consciousness to SUSTAINtheir estate rather than to IMPROVE it. This consciousnessmirrors their family, their environment, their race, and thenthrough the creative power within itself, re-projects thatwhich is entertained within it.Strong souls, from time to time, have broken away, withgreat effort, from the pattern of their people through thehelp of an Ascended Being Who placed upon their consciousness a strong impression that they were receptive enough tograsp. However, such people become exceptions to the rule.With chelas, however, once they become aware thatwhat they entertain in consciousness becomes fact for them,there should come a complete transformation of the innernature wherein it no longer accepts the reports of the senseswhich lead to a limited and imperfect expression of mind,body, and affairs.Such chelas must take their consciousness firmly inhand and dislodge it from its rut of acceptance - shaking itfree as you would shake a dust-mop from the window. Thisprocess will have to be repeated again and again becausethe consciousness settles back into its socket by habit andby its own weight.When you DETERMINE to disconnect that consciousness from the mass mind, you immediately draw the attenionof one or more Members of the Ascended Host. They beginto play Their Light into your consciousness which absorbsand entertains more of the Divine Plan in thought andfeeling. This makes the sum total of the consciousnesslighter and more pliable.Then, as you consciously TRAIN it to contemplateGOOD, and refuse, repeatedly, to allow the tentacles to reconnect with limitation, you will find it becoming mucheasier to tune in to the Golden Age EVER-PRESENT untilthere will be no instinctive desire of the consciousness torush back to its former estate every time you let down onyour conscious application; and then it will learn to ride9

above the mass mind on the Wings of Light. Then yoursteady state of being, like that of the adept, will be aconstant perception of and acknowledgement of PERFECTION.This disconnecting process with the old, and the processof re-orienting the mind with the new is the most difficultperiod, but it is one which receives the greatest assistancefrom the Ascended Masters, and you can ask Them to takehold of your consciousness and enfold it in Their CosmicHearts. You can insist upon the assistance of the Christwithin in this respect, and as your consciousness begins torespond only to expressions of Perfection, both your physicalvehicle and your affairs will reflect your corrected thoughtand feeling.light, electricity, air transportation, and so on. You can see,therefore, that there is a constant drawing forth from theunseen of more and more of the Gifts of God to fulfill therequirements of the evolving humanity. This will show us,then, that there has always been great unused Beautyalready perfected in the Universe.For instance, let us take the electric light bulb. It wasnot until one was perfected by demand on the Universalthat it came into being, even though the electricity and lightwere in the Universe all the time - but no one had asked forthem enough in order to manifest in the outer.The airplane did not come forth until some unascendedbeing demanded more speed in transportation. Then thecompleted plane that was in the Universe at the time ofMarco Polo became manifest in our modern world.Supply and DemandSupply always precedes demand. For instance, there isair in the Universe before the infant draws its first breath.There is Light in the Universe before the plant breaksthrough the surface of the earth and requires its beneficentrays.As a mother prepares for the coming child before thechild steps into the three-dimensional plane, so the UniversalFather prepares every activity, gift, power and requirementfor the lifestream BEFORE the journey into the threedimensional world of experience takes place. As the individualpasses through his Earth experience, he finds, from time totime, that there are various requirements which he needs inorder to fulfill his destiny, and that upon making the demandof life, the fulfillment of these requirements is at hand PROVING that the Great Divine Plan of Love and the greatGuiding Presence foresaw the unfoldment of his nature andtruly fulfills the statement: "Before they have called, I haveanswered!"In the evolution of an individual from a child to manhood,and the requirements accruing due to the growth of bodyand soul, and the civilization in which he finds himself, lifehas provided, more or less, the fulfillment of thoserequirements such as schooling, higher education, andassimilation into some profitable endeavor. As the entirerace proceeds in its evolution, the HigherLaw has providedmore and more Universal Gifts to help it along, such as10Limitation is of Your Own ChoosingThe average man chooses to remain in his own limitedconsciousness - accepting as it comes whatever innovationin the universal improvement some bold son or daughterchooses to demand from Life. But you can see from theabove that the great Universal Opulence pulsating UNUSEDmay be tuned into and drawn forth NOW, as well as ahundred years hence.The Golden Age can be experienced in its fullness byany unascended part of life this very hour by tuning theconsciousness into it and DEMANDING its expression,and living in its glory without waiting for the bold volunteerto draw it forth. Then like electricity and air transportation,the masses will enjoy it in years yet unborn.Union With The Cosmie ConseiousnessThe great Cosmic Joy when an unascended being raiseshis consciousness to a point of union with the CosmicConsciousness cannot be described in words, but theindividual who is aspiring toward perfect understandingwould never cease in his search if he could have a foreglimpse of the ecstasy that comes when his outer intellectualself blends into the God Consciousness of the Kingdom of11

Heaven. The effort and endeavor to sustain a separateconsciousness would be released and relinquished foreveras the individual consciousness is merged into the awarenessof the ONE NESS of all life.The Universal andthe Individual ConseiousnessIn the most advanced unascended being there is yet acircumference in which his individual identity dwells. It islike a band that separates him from the Universal, and atthe moment of the Ascension, that band slips away and theindividual consciousness then flows forth to every electronof every star and planet of the System. That completerelease and relinquishment does not bring an unconsciousness, but on the contrary, a tremendous alertness whereinthe individual is completely conscious of the feeling of everystar and planet in the System, and finds that they are allheld within the compass of his own heart.The Cosmic Consciousness toward which the chelastrives is worth every ounce of every electron that you haveever borrowed from the Heart of God, and the moments ofcontemplation which have taken you soaring above thethings of Earth are but a fragment of the eternal joy ofbecoming ONE with all that is.Universal Brotherhood is such an exquisite Unity thatWe but live for the hour when all the men, women andchildren who think themselves apart from Us will returnHome to experience this fullness.The Vibratory Rate of the Conseiousnessis the Determining FaetorThe consciousness of every man can absorb and retainonly that which vibrates at the same rate as the generalthought and feeling nature of the individual. Consciousnessis a series of vibrations determined by that which has heldthe attention of the lifestream through contemplation, thought,feeling, and sense activity.The subtle rapid vibrations of the Higher Octavescannot find entrance into the consciousness of the mass ofmankind because of the lack of compatability in the wave12length of the energy in motion in their minds which representstheir state of consciousness. We shall see, then, that theentry into the Consciousness of the Ascended Master ( whichis one with the Consciousness of the Divine Mind) calls fora definite change in the vibratory action of the chela'sconsciousness, and this can only be achieved by the carefulselection of the material and substance to which the sensesare directed and upon which the life energy plays throughcontemplation.All people are affected by music, and to some extent, bycolor, perfume, pictures and words - written or oral. Chelasdo not understand fully what a tremendous opportunity isalways at hand in the constructive material now manifestingin the physical world to quicken the rate of vibration intheir individual consciousness so that it may tune in to theDivine Thought of the Logoi and make the chela a cocreator - not in the blindness of individual darkness, but inthe Light of the Spiritual Understanding that comes alonefrom the union of the outer self and the Christ Consciousnessinto which Jesus entered in the waking state.The Raising of the ConseiousnessLies Within Your Free WillThe raising ( and lowering) of the vibratory action ofconsciousness under the conscious control of the free will isMastery and Freedom for the lifestream who achieves thatpersonal Victory.What is done by mankind every day involuntarily canbe done by every lifestream at will if perseverance anddetermination are present. There is no man, woman, orchild, incarnate or discarnate, who has not, and does not,through the vibratory action of an eight-hour period, changethe state of consciousness and the vibratory action of theenergy waves passing through him many hundreds of timesthrough the medium of internal and external stimuli, but forthe most part, individuals have no control over the variousstates of consciousness into which they enter - catapultedfrom one to another by the passing maya of daily life.Each state of consciousness into which the lifestreamenters immediately fills the entire being and world of theindividual with its experiences, and the individual

Attainment of the Ascended Master Consciousness 14 Communion With The Saints 15 Consciousness is the Creative Center , 17 Man's Individual Sphere of Activity 18 Some Individuals Have a Greater Capacity to Feel Than Others 19 The Capacity to Expand and Nourish the Consciousness 21 Evolutio