Letter from C.W. Leadbeater to Annie Besant
about a message of the Lord Maitreya to Bishop Wedgwood.
Sydney, May 14, 1920.
I do not think that I ever sent you a copy of the message which the Lord Maitreya sent to Wedgwood when he first came out here as a Bishop. I enclose one now, for I know that everything which He says is always of interest.
The two lines which follow and make the heading of the Message are in the handwriting of Bishop Leadbeater.
Message from the Lord
Maitreya to a Bishop.
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Not for a moment would I have you sanctimonious or hypocritical, proud or self-conscious; yet I would that your mission should be ever present in your mind. Be natural, yet let your nature be one with Mine, as Mine is with the Father. That is the possibility which I have given to my Bishops through the link which I have made with them; yet can this link be kept bright only through constant use. Close and perfect is the communication which I have openend; it is for them to keep it open, and for this sleepless vigilance is needed. This gift I have given to them not for their enjoyment or advancement, but that through them My flock may be fed. They have been many to whom through the ages I have offered this; yet few have understood it and used it aright. I have chosen you to hold it in these last days of this dispensation, and to occupy until I come; and I know that the burden which I have thus laid upon your sholders is a heavy one. You know more of what it means than many have done, and to bear it as it should be borne will need all your strength; yet I say to you that you can achieve if you will. See to it that you fail not in your trust. As I said to those whom I chose twenty centuries ago, so I say to you now: 'Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world'.