“If you are going to hold harmony in your world and produce the Miracles We want you to have, the first place you must control the energy harmoniously is within your own feeling world. And you will find as you just still the outer for a few moments, and then as you give it into the Control of the Unfed Flame in your Heart and to the Enfolding Flame from the Higher Mental Body just for a few moments, then make your Call, and go into outer action, you will find you will draw many, many wonderful Powers from the Higher Mental Body into your outer use.
And I am stressing this because the Higher Mental Body is always waiting to release these Powers into your outer use and direction; but It cannot and will not release those Powers until you have gained control over the feeling of your own solar plexus and have learned by habit to still that energy whenever you want the Gift or the Power from the “Presence” to act in your outer conditions.
The moment you still the energy in your feeling world and raise it into the Possession and Control of the Unfed Flame in your Heart and into the Higher Mental Body’s Control, then the “Presence” can hold command of the atmosphere about you; and It drops, as it were, a curtain of Its own Flame in and around you to hold gathered within you, your own energy. And as long as you hold that quiet, then whatever is necessary to control conditions in the situation, you can control with the feeling of mastery because the Sacred Fire – which is the Unfed Flame in your Heart and in your Higher Mental Body – is always the Master Element that holds energy in balanced action.
Therefore, if you give the energy of the outer self into the Possession of your own Heart’s Flame and then raise into the Possession of the Higher Mental Body, you have disconnected the streams of energy that ordinarily flow out from you. You have disconnected them from the discord of the world around you; and you have drawn within your own Powerhouse your energy and raised it into the Control of the Higher Mental Body. Then, because of the great calm, poised control, It can blaze around you those Activities of the Sacred Fire that purify the energy or the conditions with which you must deal and enable you to get accomplished that which is constructive in a very much shorter time than otherwise would be. And this takes the struggle out of your daily activities.
The moment you are content, My Dear Ones, to surrender the control of your feelings into the Possession of the Unfed Flame in your Heart and into that of the Higher Mental Body – the moment you are willing to surrender that, peace comes on the instant. And that is why this must come first, before the tremendous release of the greater Powers of greater energy in your own Life Streams can come into your outer physical use to do what the world calls miraculous.
This has gone on a long while, My Dear Ones, in mankind’s outer activities. Many have turned away from the discord and sought the silence within; and whenever they have accomplished that, power and control comes into the outer conditions, and just naturally things set themselves in Divine Order. Balance takes place. Everything goes along in the Divine Order that enables you to accomplish that which fulfills the Divine Plan.”
Beloved Lord Maitreya
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