THE MAHA CHOHAN, THE HOLY SPIRIT—THE HAND OF GOD WORKING THROUGH ALL OF THE SEVEN RAYS

The Law of the Circle is a stern teacher, for there is no prompter but pain and unhappiness—and much later, love! What the infant learns through experience, the mature man may learn through contemplation and observation. Energy acts on the instant—its recoil may take centuries, but return it will. This is karma, good and evil. The mantle of the Spirit of God may deflect the full impact of this return current when the soul signifies a willingness to learn the cause for his pain. Later, the awakened soul may join the transcending powers of the higher laws and transmute any arrested karma, mercifully inanimate during his search. The deflecting, the suspension, and the meting out of karma is all under the supervision of the Lords of Karma, who are authorized by Helios and Vesta.

MORYA EL, FIRST RAY—Divine Will and Rulership
It is time the people of Earth made acquaintance with the Lords of Karma. They are the final authority for the lifestreams that belong to the Earth. They not only supervise and direct the incarnation of the soul, but form the judgment council at the time of dissolution of the physical garment. They delegate each soul to its proper sphere for its sojourn between embodiments. Through them must pass all petitions for dispensations to wipe out the karma of the race and transcend the natural law of cause and effect. They are Lords of Mercy and Love and are approachable for a petition of worthy merit.

KUTHUMI LAL SINGH, SECOND RAY—Wisdom, Guardian of Youth
A wise and loving parent administers corrective measures only to educate the child in the principles of right and wrong. When the intelligence of the child assimilates the lesson, the need for suffering and punishment ceases to exist. Only a sadistic nature would continue unnecessary discipline. Is it not apparent that the great Father is equally capable of waiving the judgments of karmic pain when the consciousness is awakened to the cause and has corrected its motive within? This is the Office of the Lords of Karma which I enjoy most—the wiping away of the tears and sins of the world through mercy!

PAUL THE VENETIAN, THIRD RAY—Diplomacy, Tact, Tolerance, a “Gentle-Man”
Am I my brother’s keeper? Would any good man see his brother struck down if it lay within his personal power to stave off the blow? How great might the combined petitions of good men weigh in the balance before the Lords of Karma, to release men from the full recoil of mass karma by changing the motivating powers behind the actions of the race!

SERAPIS BEY, FOURTH RAY—Art and Beauty, Hierarch of Luxor
When a member of the human race is bold enough to stand, unveiled, before the seven mighty judges—impersonal and dispassionate—the hearts of heaven are stirred. It is seldom such an application is denied. It is one thing for a liberated Master to request a dispensation for the people of Earth, but quite another for a man to recognize a need and further the possibility of moving a natural law by self-conscious initiative and endeavor. I am ALL for that man!

HILARION, FIFTH RAY—Science and God
Scientifically speaking, the Father, himself, grants dispensations of grace—surcease from wars, pestilence, famine, and all the individual and universal ills that man has fallen heir to. But all applicants must pass through the council of the Karmic Lords and show cause for the transcending of the karmic laws which are the authority over this Earth. If that law is to be transcended, it must be proven beyond a doubt that such mercy will be ultimately a good thing for the race. To mitigate or destroy karmic retribution is possible—otherwise there would be no hope or efficacy in prayer. Scientific research and medicine have temporarily alleviated pain and suffering and thus softened the karmic lash. More permanent manifestations of this transmuting of evil will be evident in the future.

JESUS, SIXTH RAY—Religious Worship through Devotion and Reverent Feeling
A dispensation is a grant of mercy given upon a worthy request. The law of Moses can be transcended through grace. Seemingly miraculous answers to prayer are positive proof of this fact. Herein lies the hope of man. If he were required by the God of love to pay every jot, every tittle, the chain of evolution would be endless. It is within the right and compass of every man to petition the Father for dispensations of mercy for his fellow man. Man must show just cause for such a grant, offering himself as a sponsor for the people. The upreaching of the hearts of men for peace could be gathered together by any man and offered as such a just cause.

SAINT GERMAIN, SEVENTH RAY—Ceremonial Worship, Cultivating the Training and Direction of Spiritual Energies of Both Angels and Men
Karma is merely energy qualified to act by individual or natural will, moving in an outgoing and incoming circuit. The effect of this karma will be determined by the motive within the qualifying intelligence, when the invisible cause was set up. The natural law is that karma, the law of cause and effect, must spend itself. If, however, the motive that has created evil karma is changed, the motivating intelligence educated, the natural law can be superseded by mercy and the causes set into motion wiped from the screen of life—even before they are apparent to aught but the inner eye. This is the promise of tomorrow and the hope of today—the power of dispensations—and the mercy of the Karmic Council.