The Guru and the Chela

By Master Koot Hoomi and Rubén Cedeño

PRESENTATION
By Rubén Cedeño
Buenos Aires 16/11/21

“The Guru and the Chela,” by Master Koot Hoomi, comes to be the best known, most important work and with the largest number of published copies of this Master, after “At the feet of the Master,” a book signed by Krishnamurti.

 In English, the original version of “The Guru and the Chela” was published for the first time, with the same title, between 1950 and 1960. The text appears in the dialogue format, with questions and answers, in which a student, throughout twenty-six chapters and one hundred and fifty pages, questions the Master about various topics of spirituality. Among other topics, both the disciple, when questioning, and the Master, when answering, focus on topics such as the Masters of Wisdom, their Celestial Plans, Momentums, paintings, and statues; the Flames, the expansion of the Light, the Sacred Fire and its use; the Great Silence and the Angels; Individual Consciousness, Life Patterns, the emotional world, human judgments and the development of Internal Powers; the Law of Balance, Spiritual Studies, Forcefields, group activities, the second death, Service and consecration.

Lord Koot Hoomi is one of the Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Shamballa who – after the Avatar of the Age – enjoys greater acceptance and popularity for his outstanding love and service to humanity as an exceptional being of the Second Golden Solar Ray and current “World Teacher.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Editorial Señora Porteña
• Release date: May 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9789878471969

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PRESENTATION

By Rubén Cedeño

Buenos Aires 16/11/21

The Guru and the Chela, by Master Koot Hoomi, comes to be the best known, most important work and with the largest number of published copies of this Master, after At the feet of the Master, a book signed by Krishnamurti.

In English, the original version of The Guru and the Chela was published for the first time, with the same title, between 1950 and 1960. The text appears in the dialogue format, with questions and answers, in which a student, throughout twenty-six chapters and one hundred and fifty pages, questions the Master about various topics of spirituality. Among other topics, both the disciple, when questioning, and the Master, when answering, focus on topics such as the Masters of Wisdom, their Celestial Plans, Momentums, paintings, and statues; the Flames, the expansion of the Light, the Sacred Fire and its use; the Great Silence and the Angels; Individual Consciousness, Life Patterns, the emotional world, human judgments and the development of Internal Powers; the Law of Balance, Spiritual Studies, Forcefields, group activities, the second death, Service and consecration.

Lord Koot Hoomi is one of the Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Shamballa who – after the Avatar of the Age – enjoys greater acceptance and popularity for his outstanding love and service to humanity as an exceptional being of the Second Golden Solar Ray and current World Teacher.

INTRODUCTION

"The standard set for the chela who is going to serve the masses in Our name is high! An individual teaching a horse how to jump causes the animal to hurdle rail after rail. The horse is trained to combine muscle, ligament, nerve, and intelligence until he can vault over higher and higher obstacles. In your training for mastery, as you increase in your capacity to jump over the low hurdles, We give you new strength and counsel to increase your spiritual knowledge and capability to serve and surmount the higher hurdles upon life’s path.

Our instructions and corrections are provided not to depress and fill you with self-depreciation, but rather to give to you the realization that you have mastered the ‘hurdle’ laid down for you previously and have jumped over it with ease. The Master then feels that it is time to place a higher ‘rail’ for you to clear, so that in the final ‘steeple-chase’ you may surmount the highest obstruction with dignity, poise, and efficacy and be of credit to Those of Us Who have loved you well enough to take responsibility for your training and development.

Do you know how much love it takes to spur a lifestream on? Some of you who have worked with the public through the years have some concepts of the energies required to sustain many individuals’ interests, enthusiasm, and service. Many of you know what tenacity of spirit and faith of consciousness is required to stand for weeks, months and years, pouring forth your life-breath into the souls of men and women, spurring them on despite the restrictions of your karma and theirs as well: holding and sustaining them on the spiritual path.

This is Our service from the Ascended Masters’ Octave. It is your service in your group endeavors. Likewise, it is the service expected from every student concerning his fellowman. Easier far would it be to turn one’s back upon mankind’s distress and enjoy personal nirvana! Easier far would it be to ‘fold one’s cloak’ about one and gaze an imagination at the snow-capped peaks of Himalaya’s mountains than to ‘work in the valley’ where disease, distress, and death stalk the human race and where mankind mills about, seeking a way back Home!

You, beloved ones, are among the few lifestreams scattered across the face of the Earth whom mankind will one day bless. Despite your depletions, you have been firm in inspiring spiritual applications for the many, often hiding your limitations behind a front of bravery so as not to scandalize the doubtful consciousness of those not yet grounded in the understanding of the Law. When these brave lifestreams’ flag’ in their enthusiasm, they always have My enthusiasm and all the power and mastery that is Mine to help them!"

El Morya

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THE EMOTIONAL BODY

CHELA: Beloved Master, how can I individually contribute to the Light of the world?

GURU: Blessed disciple, our Lord, Sanat Kumara, has said that Light is primarily released through the feeling world (the emotional body). The cultivation of those qualities of feeling, which are like unto the nature of God Himself, peace, purity, harmony, balance, love, tolerance, kindness, compassion, mercy, and understanding, makes your feeling world emit Light. The endeavor to transfer and convey your feelings of hope, faith, confidence, and loyalty to God into the consciousness and feelings of all you contact makes you thus not only a Light shining in the darkness but also a Light conductor, igniting the souls of men to like endeavor.

CHELA: Beloved Master, how can one control the feelings, which rise unbidden from the undisciplined soul and rush forth to add to the shadows of this earth plane?

GURU: Blessed disciple, there is but ONE POWER by which you can accomplish anything. That is the Power of God that flows through your Individualized Presence and gives life to your feeling world. When you return the authority for the qualification of that life to your Presence and refuse to allow your feeling world the license to which it is accustomed in the seizing and misqualifying of pure God-life, then that Beautiful Presence controls for you and through you your emotions.

CHELA: Beloved Master, I feel that the emotional body is an enemy of spiritual progress. Like Saint Augustine, I am torn between what I know is right and what I constantly do in the generation of discord, which is wrong. The good I would, I do not, and that which I would not, that I do. (Saint Augustine)

GURU: Blessed disciple, this is not a correct attitude. It creates a rebellion in your feeling world. God created your emotional body for a definitive purpose. The emotional body was designed to emulate God’s feelings and expand the qualities of God’s nature in whatever sphere the individual consciousness is functioning. The mental body was designed to create form, the feeling body to nourish that form with qualified life. It is primarily a gift of the Holy Spirit. When one sins in feelings, he commits the sin against the Holy Ghost, which the orthodox world has described as unforgivable.

CHELA: Beloved Master, is there, then, such a thing as an unforgiveable sin of thought, feeling, or action?

GURU: Blessed disciple, no, because only perfection is eternal. Every mistake, no matter how great, is transitory and passing. The very Law of Compassion and Mercy, the Gift of the Seven Ray, is the manifest proof that all sins, mistakes, and errors can and will be wiped out when the individual chooses to apply for the way and means to do so.

However, the sins of the feeling nature are the most difficult to overcome because the emotional body of mankind has ruled the mind and senses for many centuries. The emotional body is also the recipient of over 80% of the energies of the lifestream released through the Silver Cord into the use and control of the outer consciousness. It is, therefore, the most powerful of the instruments through which the soul seeks expression and ultimate mastery over energy, substance, and vibration. It is a better friend and servant than adversary.

CHELA: Beloved Master, how then may I make my emotional body my friend and servant?

GURU: Blessed disciple, by understanding that all bodies, mental, emotional, physical, and etheric, are the servants of the Holy Presence that made you and gave you to life, intelligence, and being. Return then the authority to use those bodies