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The Building of Shamballa

The catastrophic changes that the "laggards" wrought over the Earth and its innocent humanity were more evident by now. Man was no more what he had been and his actions no longer were directed by his own "I AM" Presence. His thoughts, instead of being drawn closer to God, receded away from Him, and his decline, having reached its nadir, in its downward progress, rapidly was leading him to his final annihilation. ¹ Only superior help, given by a Cosmic Being, could save him now.
In the preceding chapter, Sanat Kumara told us how, while attending the Great Cosmic Council that proposed the dissolution of the Earth, He offered to salvage her, by giving His own Light in place of that which humanity could no longer supply. As we know, it is the Law of Life that in order to sustain an intelligent form, there must be a blessing; there must be a benefit to the Universe for the investment of Life bestowed upon it.
In the following excerpt, taken from an address given to the students, Sanat Kumara goes into detail in giving us additional information of His coming to the Earth.
" . . . It was at this Great Cosmic Council of Representatives of the Sun of our Galaxy - and I was the only Representative from the Planet Venus - that was decided that the elemental substance which had been held in the matrix of the Earth, be released and the Earth itself, (as it contributed no harmony or Light to the universe) be dissolved into its native element.
"Returning to the Planet Venus, I thought deeply on the millions of lifestreams who would become planetary orphans if this decree were fulfilled. As moments of great import emphasize small things, I can remember yet, as I walked out into our garden where the Beloved of My Heart, Venus, was sitting, the contour of a cloud and how the sun kissed it in its passing through the sky. I did not want to reveal to Venus My thoughts about volunteering to serve the Earth. I remember well the sound of the water rising from the heart of the fountain and then falling musically into the lily pool - I can tell you yet how many strands were woven into My sandals as I counted them over and over, trying to come to a decision.
"Finally, Venus - Who, of course, felt My every thought and feeling, said: 'Why don't You visit this Earth and see if You feel You can benefit it by making such a sacrifice.' Can I tell you the relief that flooded over Me at Her sweet release - for when one loves another more than life itself, great is the sacrifice in giving that one freedom to depart on Cosmic Service, knowing the centuries that such parting will entail.
"And so I came to Earth, and looking upon the Flame of God, containing the pattern of perfection for the lifestreams I felt it worth all the Love and Patience and Light required to hasten that day. I returned to Venus and told My Beloved of My decision, and then I told Our Council, made up of Those Who were the Governing Body of the State. Every one of Them, without exception, volunteered to go before Me to prepare the Earth for My coming. From this group, thirty dear souls were chosen, and Their names are burned into My Heart for all eternity. For almost one thousand long years, they labored on the Earth to prepare Shamballa for Our coming. ²
"Meanwhile, word gets around, even in Inner-Stellar Space. From other Stars and Planets and Systems came Envoys of Light offering to assist Us in Our Endeavor. Finally, nine thousands Beings were chosen; three thousand to take human embodiment; three thousand in the Nature and Devic Kingdoms and three thousand Angels. . . .
" . . . Finally, when the Cosmic Moment arrived and Shamballa was ready, I prepared to take My departure. The Star which is My Spiritual Insignia rose above the Planet Venus, and the people were acquainted with the fact that something unusual was about to occur: So I took My leave of My Beloved, - My Planet and My people to remain a voluntary exile for centuries of time. The tiny points of Light in the hearts of the thirty waiting ones was a welcome sight as we turned Our attention Earthward, and here I have abided."

In another talk, given July 4, 1954 ("Bridge", November, 1955), Sanat Kumara gave the following description of His coming to our Earth:

" . . . Some of you remember the Council on Venus. Some of you here volunteered to go to Earth before Me and create a focus into which l might come. Great was the sacrifice, children of Light, children of Venus, My beloved hearts! Earth was then in her darkest day. The Light within the hearts of men was scarcely discernible. Beings of Love from Venus who had known nothing but harmony there, chose to pass into that darkness through the regular gates of birth, accepting bodies provided for them by earthly parents. Nine hundred long years they labored in the building of Shamballa in the midst of that darkness; that blanket of effluvia; the mass creation of the physical and astral realms. These dedicated souls had to hold the vision and the pattern of the City they chose to build. They, also, had to hold the unbroken connection between the Christ Self, Myself and the outer consciousness through which they were serving. They had to hold back the pressures of lethargy, rebellion and hate by the very strength of their own Light. In that nine hundred years, more than once were their physical bodies destroyed by hordes of savages who, opposing the Light, drove in upon them. No sooner were their physical bodies disconnected from their souls, than they applied again for new Earth bodies from the Lords of Karma. These bodies were quickly provided for them and back again they came! So Shamballa was built. The perfection of the beautiful White Island grew. My love flowed continuously around the builders, and ever about them stood the sustaining power of My Faith until the Cosmic Moment of Visitation came.

"The Lemurian Pole Star signified My coming. I bade good-bye to My Star; to My People, to My Love, Beloved Venus Herself! Together, with the other great Kumaras, I arose into the atmosphere over Venus as every lifestream upon My Planet sang, I remember that well I have long visioned and hoped for a like return. Now, through your energies, that vision shall become fact!

"The Golden Star which will be My chariot is being fashioned from the sweet energies of some among you. My love for you is very great. As the great Kumaras preceded Me upon My journey earthward, They embodied the Triple activity of Love, Wisdom and Power. One Kumara ensouled the full power of the Blue Ray (First Ray); One the Gold (Second Ray), and One the Pink (Third Ray). As Our Beloved Friends awaited Us in Shamballa, the Kumaras descended upon a pathway of Flame and created a Three-fold Flame in the heart of Shamballa into which I stepped. In that same moment that Three Fold Flame was attached to the Sparks of Light within the heart of every lifestream belonging to the evolution of Earth. The Threefold Flame which We brought has been breathing the spiritual fire into each such lifestream on Earth and has sustained the identity of the egos belonging to Earth's evolutions, all this time. It is like a Cosmic bellows that has played through the Three-fold Flame in the Human heart.

"Thus We took Our abode upon the sweet Earth. Through the same power of centripetal and centrifugal force of which I spoke (cohesion and expansion of the magnetic power of Divine Love), We then began to magnetize the Flame in the hearts of some of the Guardian Spirits who were not sleeping so soundly and who were not too enthusiastically engaged in using primal life for the satisfaction of the personal self.

"In this way, the Great White Brotherhood began. The Three-fold Flame within the heart of Shamballa, within the Hearts of the Kumaras and Myself, formed the magnetic Heart of the Great White Brotherhood by Whom you have all been blessed and of which Brotherhood you all aspire to become conscious members. . . . "

In the following, Meta, Sanat Kumara's Daughter, discusses His coming into the Earth, from a different angle. ("Bridge", Series #4, Part 2)
""...It is many, many centuries (as recorded by human time), since My Father returned from a Conclave of the Suns of this System. . . . I remember it, as if it were yesterday - the day He divulged the information to My Mother and Our Family - that, through Cosmic vote and through Divine Justice of the Impersonal Universal Law, the Planet Earth had lost the right to draw any more energy or to be further sustained by the self-conscious sacrifice of elemental life; neither was it longer entitled to receive the release of Substance, Power and Light from the Sun, from the Angelic Host and those other Beings Who had guarded her thus far. It was thought by the Cosmic Law to be the part of Wisdom and Justice to return this Earth again to the unformed (to primal life) that its substances might be repolarized and formed anew in the womb of some future Sun, to be a cradle for some other evolution, perhaps more willing and desirous of fulfilling the Will of God.
"My Mother, as you know, feeling the love within My Father's heart for the beloved Earth and its evolutions, gave Him full Freedom to offer His Light and His Love to sustain the planet - if the Cosmic Law would accept His offer of assistance Therefore, He went to the Cosmic Authorities of this System with a joyous heart, proffering His help and, as you are aware, His gift of Love and sacrifice was accepted. . . . "

FOOTNOTES - CHAPTER 12

1. "From "The Hymn of the Robe of Glory"
" . . . And with me They then made a compact;
In my heart wrote it not to forget:
If thou goest down into Egypt,
And thence thou bring'st the One Pearl,
Then shalt thou put on thy Robe
And the Mantle that goeth upon it!
I forgot that I was a King's son
And became a slave to their King
I forgot all concerning the Pearl
For which my Parents had send me
And from the weight of their victuals
I lay down into a deep sleep . . . "
2. The following excerpt taken from an address given to students, on November, 1953, gives us additional information of His coming to Earth and how Shamballa, His Official Home, was repeatedly destroyed. The only omission He made was that two destructions of Shamballa were not caused by natural causes but by man, as proof of his "gratitude". ("Bridge", Series II, Book 3, p. 4)
" . . . Shamballa means to make sacred. It is the name of the City of the Sun, in the heart of Venus, which is My Home. At the time when I attended the Cosmic Council and it was voted to return the Earth into nothingness, I returned to My Planet, Venus and into Shamballa. There I told my Beloved and My Council that I would like to assist the people of the Earth - My Beloved friends - offered to come and build upon the Planet Earth a replica of that blazing Eternal City of Light - Into the Akashic Records was built the perfection of that design which remains there to the present day. For the scholars who are among you, Shamballa was built three times . . . and three times the physical buildings were destroyed. The first time it was created and prepared for the hour when I should make My Visitation. It was later destroyed and built again, by sensitive spirits who tuned into the glorious pattern in the Akashic Records. Again, cataclysmic action returned it to nothingness. The final building of Shamballa, even sixty thousand years ago is recorded in occult literature. That, too, has suffered decay, but the etheric replica of the blazing, powerful original city lives and breathes in the ethers over the Gobi Desert, and shall remain there until it is lowered again, permanently, into the physical appearance world as the Golden Age proceeds and mankind, individually and collectively, prove themselves worthy to sustain it for all eternity. It will be My gift to the evolution that I have loved and will remain a part of the Star of Freedom, long after I have returned to My Home, perhaps to go forth again to some further Star, some more childlike evolution, some more innocent evolving life. That is Love and that is Service and that is joy. . . . "
Addressing the students, on Thanksgiving Day, 1953, ("Bridge", Series II, Book 3, p. 2) Sanat Kumara said:
" . . . I have left Venus before. This is not the first Planet that has won the Mantle of My Love. I stood on other orbs, with other evolutions, and I returned Home victorious in every case. . . . Sometimes one lifestream developing enough Light in his or her heart to pay My ransom; sometimes an entire evolution developing that radiation required to meet the Cosmic Law's demand. It is not numbers but quality, beloved ones, that determine the radiation of Light required to sustain the place of a Planet in its evolution or to sustain the place of an individual in a planetary scheme. . . . "
Here is how the Maha Chohan presents the event of the destruction of Shamballa to His students. ("Bulletin", Vol. 9, #17)
" . . . Do you know that in the building of Shamballa, the entire populace was wiped out four times and the completed City of the Sun was bought with blood and agony of the Chelas of Sanat Kumara? Many of you, My outposts at present, were trusted Lieutenants who stood with the leading individual who went down temporarily before the onslaught of the savage horde three times out of four. When the glorious "Bridge" to Shamballa was completed, which connected the mainland with the shining island, you were among the group who crossed the Bridge with the Kumaras and Myself.
"For the first twenty-four hours, the shining island was completely devoted to the drawing of the Light, by the Kumaras (which ceremony may to some extent be likened to the consecration of new church buildings on the Earth today), and on the second day the populace was allowed to enter the Central Holy Temple for devotional service.
"These records, dear hearts, are in your etheric bodies. The Earthly turmoil which some of you seem to be experiencing at present is but child's play in comparison to the agonies of the past. If you could see what you have been through all down the centuries that have been, your present experience would be as a fleck of dust of the Sun. There have been moments of black despair in your previous experiences in the Earthly Schoolroom! By holding firm to the Light (as you have understood it), each in his own way, these experiences have been turned into shining moments of the most brilliant God Victory. . . . "
3. The sojourn of Sanat Kumara on Earth, from the time he came, until he relinquished His Office to Gautama and left for Venus on January 21, 1956, lasted approximately 4,500,000 years. We consider this date as the most accurate and reliable that was given up to now for the following reasons: First, Sanat Kumara Himself confirms it when, addressing the students in open class in Los Angeles, back in the late thirties, he said that "He came from Venus four and a half million years ago."
Later on, Mighty Victory, in a similar student class, reiterated it in Kansas City, while Jesus speaking in Chicago to another class of students, reaffirmed it in 1939.
In connection with the above, it may be of some interest to consider the length of time man has sojourned and lived on this Earth. It will be remembered that science, up to a few years ago "reckoned" that man had not lived on Earth more than 850,000 years. In July, 1961, due to findings in Eastern Africa, it increased the time to 1,750,000 years. With all due respect, however, to science's "hypothesis", the fact remains that man has been on this Globe not less than seven million years. This can be ascertained from the following:
Sanat Kumara's sojourn lasted 4,500,000 years. The time between the descent of man with his Manu to Earth, to the time of his "fall" - after the Third Root Race - might be calculated to be about one million years. Between the "fall" and the utter degeneration and de-evolution of man must have transpired over several millions of years, but with reserve we can estimate it at two million. Thus, we have:
One million, till the" Fall" 1,000,000
Two million, to the coming of Sanat Kumara 2,000,000
Four and one-half - Sanat Kumara's sojourn on Earth 4,500,000
Total 7,500,000 years
In an address given to the students, some time ago, Ascended Lady Master Leto said that the records showing man's sojourn on Earth are preserved in their original language in which they were written at the Royal Teton where an Ascended Master can translate them into any modern tongue. Not before long, these records will be given to the outer world.
* The word "apoctenosis" (to reduce one's self into the state and condition of an animal) is not a hyperbole here. During those dark and dismal days of human degradation, man's decline had reached such a point as to cohabit with animals. Touching this subject, only parenthetically, Saint Germain, in an address to the students of "The Summit Lighthouse", in Washington, D.C., said the following:
" . . . The destructive use of life force on Lemuria and Atlantis, the creation of animal forms by the black magicians - the scientists of that day - and the subsequent infusion of those created forms with Solar Energy in the process of cross-breeding human beings with animal life, resulted in such a frightful distortion of the Divine Plan in violation of all of Heaven's Laws, that the Noahchian deluge was the result; and thus the destruction of those forms through the flood removed from the screen of life these gross and wicked "imaginations of men's hearts" (Genesis 6: 9-17). In the mass memory of the race there remains, however, some knowledge of the existence of these forms, some of which were, for example, part horse and part man. Ultimately, the Mighty Cosmic Councils took steps to curb mankind's creative powers. It was decreed that "each seed should thenceforth bear of its kind" and thus the prevention of the recurrence of this activity was instituted by Cosmic Law. . . . "

About the Author

Tellis Papastavro was born in Greece and spent his formative years in the radiance of Beloved Pallas Athena's Temple of Truth. When he was 17 years old, he came to America where he spent his life seeking the answers to the questions "Who am I? Where did I come from?" Tellis found his answers in the information and teachings that were being released to Humanity, in an accelerated fashion, in accordance with Cosmic Edict. This information and teachings came from several key sources and was preparing Humanity to work in cooperation with the Ascended Host for the purpose of transforming the Planet into Her Divine Heritage, which is Heaven on Earth.

Realizing the necessity of a publication that would make these teachings available to every seeker - neophyte and experienced alike - Tellis compiled this information into "a handy manual of ordered teachings" and ""The Gnosis and the Law" was created. The material is considered the "Jewel Teachings" of the Spiritual Hierarchy.

Tellis was a selfless servant of the Light, and his sole purpose in publishing this sacred book of illumined Truth was to expand the wisdom and knowledge of God on Earth. "Gnosis" is no longer available in print. Our Beloved Tellis returned to Greece in 1988 where he made his final preparation to leave the Earth. He was called home on February 3, 1989 at the age of ninety nine.

References:

Papastavro, Tellis "The Gnosis and The Law" Chapter 12 (Copyright for The Gnosis and The Law was given to Patricia Diane Cota-Robles by Tellis S. Papastavro on October 29, 1980. This information may be copied for the benefit of Humanity, however, please give credit as to the source.)

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