“Now when I said, when you turn your attention to your “Presence” and hold control of your feeling, then lift it to the Higher Mental Body – when I said you with draw the energy around you, I want to show you what happens.
Ordinarily, when the guard is not up over the feeling world, the radiation of the energy from the physical body and the feeling world pours forth in straight rays of Light; just streams of energy are constantly radiating out from your physical body. That is when you have plenty of energy within and are rested and positive. But after several hours of activity or in moving among discord, if you do not know how to protect yourselves – the contact of that constant radiation out into the atmosphere of other people – there comes a suction, and it keeps drawing off the energy that was within the body. And then you begin to feel tired and distressed. Could you see that from the Inner standpoint, where the rays of Light are strong and positive in the morning when you are rested – when you become tired, they droop, just like that, with the weight of the discordant substance in the atmosphere in which you move, or the radiation of the discord from others.
That is why when I said, when you still the solar plexus and draw the energy of the outer self into the Possession and Control of the Unfed Flame, raise it to the Higher Mental Body – It immediately drops around you a curtain of Its own Cosmic Fire; and that is what enables you to go forth into conditions, pour into them what corrects the wrong, and stand the guard over that which is right.
This is a powerful Protection which all of you need, because the outpouring of your own radiation is the thing that either keeps harmony about you and attracts to you what you require, or, if it be discordant and depressed, drops, and you have no protection. The destructive forces ride in on your own energy, and the next thing you know, you have something to handle!
Now, you say to Me, “Well, what about our Tubes of Light?” Well, what about Them? That’s just what I am talking about! When you become discordant or distressed, the Protection of your Tube of Light is down, and it has opened up and let the destructive energy from the outer world come into your feeling world.
There is nothing so necessary in all mankind’s outer activities as a calm, poised, inner control of the energy at the solar plexus, with the authority of the outer self that it be raised into the Control of the Unfed Flame in the Heart, and again raised into the Control of the Higher Mental Body. Then It can fill up the Cup and re-energize the outer self, drop the Flame of Its Protecting Love, and enable you to go forth and try again to accomplish that which is constructive.
Now all through the centuries various activities of Protection have been offered to mankind. In the beginning, around the emotional body – which extends for at least three feet on each side of the physical body – there was a natural Oval of Light Substance from the Higher Mental Body that was a natural, enfolding Outpouring of absolute Purity from the Higher Mental Body around the energy of the emotional body of the outer self. But as time went on and discord from within was allowed to charge into that substance, it was just as if the discord tore a hole in a fine chiffon garment, and another one occurred, again and again, until that entire protecting Oval of Light Substance was destroyed.
And that is why the Mighty Saint Germain gave you the exercise of the Tube of Light for energizing the outer self, that this might be re-established if you make the Call. This was a natural, enfolding Oval of Light; and you lived in that, My Dear Ones, in the two first Golden Ages, as a natural enfolding Oval of Light Substance about the physical body, just as the Ascended Masters today come and go in a similar Oval of Cosmic Light Substance through which the discord of Earth cannot pass.
Very often when We manifest, We come within the Oval of Light Substance. And as We step through that to become more visible to your physical senses, still that Substance remains around Us. And when We are through with Our Radiation and retire within that, We raise Its vibratory action and disappear. And it is just as mechanical as an airplane.”
Beloved Lord Maitreya
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 