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Apostle Paul
approx 67 A.D.
"This
mortal must put on immortality,
this corruptible must put on incorruption."—I
Cor. 15:50-57
"[B]e strong in the Lord
and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor
of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against
principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."—Paul
of Tarsus
"Do not be deceived, God
is not mocked; for whatever a man sows,
that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will
of the flesh reap corruption,
but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting
life.
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season
we shall reap
if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to all,
especially to those who are of the household of faith."—Paul
of Tarsus
"Now godliness with contentment
is great gain. For we brought nothing
into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing
out.
And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and
a snare,
and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men
in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a
root
of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the
faith
in their greediness, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows."—Paul of Tarsus
"For even when we were with
you, we commanded you this:
If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."—Paul
of Tarsus
"If then you were raised
with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your
mind on things above,
not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life
is hidden
with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears,
then you also
will appear with Him in glory."—The Apostle Paul
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"Now, my beloved, in
a great love of my heart for Paul, I surely give to
you the tenderness, the closeness, the intimacy of
our walk together. If you will study the existing
records of Paul diligently, you will come to understand
just how personal is the interaction. Paul’s
sense of me was the sense of a friend almost physical
who walked at his side.
"He was ready to live
or to die for me because I was so real to him—more
real even than anything in this world. Yet I did
not desire he should die, but live—and live
to be the heart’s instrument of my own flame
to those who would receive me, no matter what their
background or karma.
"Thus, my beloved,
I have a continuing mission to do this. And those
who are called the Gentiles, supposedly those who
have not a threefold flame or very little soul substance,
are the ones to whom the light must be passed even
in this age. Thus we are in search of the remnant
—the true white fire core of the seed of Sanat
Kumara, the seed of Abraham who have never sacrificed
their light or threefold flame to material pursuits,
to greed or its Moloch or to any of the other gods
of the Canaanites.
"We are in search of
the remnant of the Christed ones, those ancient
souls sponsored by Enoch, sponsored by Adam, sponsored
by Seth and, ultimately, Noah. We are in search
of these who must make their ascension at the conclusion
of the coming dispensation, and we are in search
of those new evolutions, the new light-bearers as
well as those Gentiles who qualify as the bearers
of the seed of Christ—new vessels.
" . . . Learn well of me, therefore. For I,
the ascended master Jesus Christ, did exercise my
authority and my right to contact the unascended
Saul—true, a Pharisee and a Roman and a Jew,
a persecutor of me and of Christians, who stood
by even at the death of Stephen by stoning.
"Therefore, realize that the
acts of the individual are not the final conclusion
as to the quality of the soul. For there were other
Pharisees and Sadducees in those days who outwardly
kept perfectly the Law but inwardly were ravening
wolves and had not the quality of heart to be initiated.
"Understand, therefore, that
no matter what the accusation of physical acts that
are charged against the Messengers, we have chosen
because we have chosen, and the quality of heart
is the foundation of the instrument.
"Therefore, see to it also,
in thy preparation for our calling, that you bring
therefore a live coal, a lively coal of fire and
fervor for the Truth as you understand it. For this
was the quality of heart of Saul of Tarsus—believing
what he had been taught, even a false teaching regarding
Jesus Christ, my own name and my life and mission.
"Therefore, he persecuted
my followers and, in them, persecuted my Presence.
For I was in them, and my light was an offense to
those who therefore enlisted Saul in their ways
of exterminating, imprisoning, persecuting, and
torturing Christians.
"Blessed hearts, realize,
then, that the fervent heart when hitched to the
wrong star may be unhitched and redirected and therefore
scale the heights of mastery, leaving behind those
who seek to perfect themselves by the Law without
the Spirit, who engage in rituals without love,
and who are mechanistic in their judgments, very
eager to point the gnarled and bony finger against
any light-bearer for a single sin which they do
think does soil the garment.
"Well, sin may or may not
soil the garment. But the Holy Spirit is able. And
that Holy Spirit in me did raise up Saul, and therefore
he received upon himself that substance of his karma
which created the state of blindness. And my instrument
again, Ananias, therefore did pronounce that he
should see by that Holy Spirit—and he did
see.
"And Saul therefore became
Paul and went forth as a chief apostle, one that
I would send to the Gentiles. And yet he, being
a Jew, determined to preach to the Jews, not realizing
how infamous and how wicked was the core of their
hatred and their rage against the living Christ.
Thus, I came. Though he did not take my advice,
so he loved me and I comforted him and gave to him
protection, even through the Romans.
"And you see, therefore,
that God is no respecter of persons, and we of the
ascended hosts may raise up friends of light where
you know not. And I tell you, in these very months,
total strangers of this Church and of this organization
and of these Messengers have come forward to stand
for them in such nobility and honor and truth and
defense as to make almost the angels weep; whereby
contrast those who, having been with them so long
time, should pick apart the hairs and determine
that they are not worthy any longer to bear the
flame of the World Teachers."
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"You may become as the apostle Paul if
you so will it. Take this day the chapter [in
Lords of the Seven Rays] on the Chohan Hilarion
and his incarnations. Read it. Read it, beloved,
in moments of waiting or tarrying. Understand
the journeying of a soul, Saul of Tarsus—polarized
hot against the Christians, polarized then by
conversion to a path of apostleship in my service.
Understand that the power of conversion of the
Holy Spirit through the Maha Chohan and through
the Seven Chohans is available to you.
"Do you say to me, 'My Lord, I am already
converted?' Yea, ye are converted, but not all—even
as I said to Peter, 'Ye are clean, but not all.'
I seek the conversion of every cell and atom,
every identity of every prior incarnation. I
seek the conversion of the totality of self,
and swiftly of the most recalcitrant portion
of the self. That which is not polarized left
or right, plus or minus, has not the material
for conversion. Blessed ones, some upon this
planet sneak and hide from God, for they think
they will not be subject to tethering to any
law if they are neither hot nor cold."
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" . . . I bid you watch the film Peter
and Paul, which recounts the journeys and
the martyrdom of these apostles. May you be
enfired to move with the Holy Spirit as they
did so that in your day
you may bring the teachings of the Ascended
Masters not only to Christians but also to
those
of every religious persuasion. Therefore,
I say, right the axis of the mission to bring
to the world
the true teachings of Jesus Christ, most importantly,
the twin pillars of reincarnation and karma.
"I am your friend.
You are my friend. And I tell you candidly,
beloved chelas around the world who are tuned
in, I need you. The Darjeeling Council needs
you. Now let us be up and doing. And let us
become missionaries of the Everlasting Gospel
while there is time. Moreover, let us not
be counted among
the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman,
and every free man, [who] hid themselves in
the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains
and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
"Make your move now, beloved. For you
may never have another chance to fulfill your
God-appointed round.
"I AM Morya.
The love of my heart for you is intense, enfiring,
and as great as great are the sun and the
stars themselves."
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"Paul prayed that the saints might walk
worthy of the I AM Presence unto all pleasing
of his Word, being fruitful, that is, multiplying
his Presence, through every good work and
increasing in the knowledge of the God Presence.
He prayed for their strengthening with all
might. It was the Mighty I AM Presence that
empowered Paul. He knew it, he saw it, he
became it. He saw this glorious power present
as the power of the Father. It was his blazing
light in the face of a Man Christ Jesus who
went before him, city by city, preaching the
power of God’s kingdom come suddenly
within his temple."
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" . . . The Ruby
Ray is the path for devotees who would walk
the earth as Christ Jesus, who would love
one another as he has loved them, who would
appropriate that mind which was in him, who
would be perfect as he was perfect. Abounding
in good works, these know the grace of the
Lord.
"Paul is the great Christian
example of the chela anointed by the Ascended
Master Jesus into his path of Christhood.
He anointed him his messenger on the fifth
ray of science, truth, and healing. He sent
him with his message of the mystery of salvation
to ‘Jew’ and ‘Gentile’.
And Paul preached the mystery of the indwelling
Christ as 'Christ in you, the hope of glory.'
Those who cannot, who will not, understand
this mystery will remain babes in Christ,
if that. They cannot follow in his footsteps
to become bodhisattvas, World Saviours, quickening
spirits.
" . . . Consider, then,
blessed sons and daughters, these words of
Paul enlightened by the Spirit:
“Christ in you, the
hope of glory” is this Christ Self,
the pure Son of your own regenerate divinity.
"This is the One by
whom we preach, warning every man and teaching
every man in all his wisdom that we may present
every man in his own Christ Self, perfect,
for the incoming to his temple of Christ Jesus.
"Your beloved Christ
Self as the Mediator of your I AM Presence
is your hope that the glory of Christ Jesus
might come unto you by works, the sacred labor
of heart, head, and hand (good karma), and
by grace (the transfer of light/energy/consciousness
by the initiation of the Guru). Paul confirmed
his participation in the reconciliation saying,
'Whereunto—unto which perfection, i.e.,
the perfection of my Christ Self—I also
labour, striving according to his working
which he worketh in me mightily.'
"Paul, the initiated
Son, made by Jesus Christ a joint-heir with
him, yet labored striving for the perfection
of the Christ even as that Christ Self performed
his mighty works through him. As this Son
of man was one in his own Christ Self, so
he was one in Christ Jesus. The measure of
the perfection of his Christ Self which he
outpictured day by day in his soul was the
same measure by which he received the portion
of the divinity of Christ Jesus. He knew that
the ‘reconciliation’ process of
Jew and Gentile is the 'thorough change,'
or utter transmutation, by the Lord’s
Spirit of the sinner into the saint, the natural
man into the spiritual. He taught that this
reconciliation of the soul with the Spirit
of the I AM Presence occurs through Christ
crucified on the cross of Alpha and Omega.
" . . . Paul’s
great revelation was of the mystery of the
body of God as the true inner Church—the
Church Universal and Triumphant. Stone upon
stone, he beheld the Temple Beautiful built
from the lively stones—devotees become
the living Word by the demonstration of the
way of personal Christhood.
"Paul experienced directly
the communion of the saints in heaven and
the saints in earth. He knew the saints in
heaven as 'the saints in light.' Thus he accurately
described the ascended masters who appeared
to him in their glorified bodies. And he knew
the saints in earth unascended, both in and
out of the body:
"I knew a man
in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether
in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out
of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body,
or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
how that he was caught up into paradise, and
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful
for a man to utter.
"Paul gave thanks
to the Father, Almighty God individualized
in his own beloved I AM Presence, who made
us the saints in ‘darkness’, bearers
of the Karma in earth, meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in ‘light’,
in heaven. This inheritance of the ascended
masters is partaken of by their chelas (the
unascended disciples of Christ) as the communion
of the Lord’s body."
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"And therefore, our illumination comes
from an explanation of the terms, an explanation
of the acts and the words of Christ and of
his apostles, especially of Paul, who was
taught by the ascended master Jesus Christ
alone.
"He never met Jesus.
Jesus stopped him on the road. The ascended
master Jesus Christ appeared to him when he
was called Saul. And in that encounter he
was blinded for a considerable period of time,
showing the effect of the Light to crystallize
our karma and temporarily give us a burden
that we must work through.
"It’s the price
we pay for being apostles of Christ. He comes
to us and the Light brings out the darkness;
and then when we see that darkness, we must
choose to serve it or put it into the sacred
fire.
"He must try us and
test us. So he tested Saul. And Saul bore
that karma of his persecution of the Christians
and became a mighty servant of God, taught
by Jesus—taught by Jesus.
"And therefore,
the great message of this Easter through this
prayer and through the experience of Paul
is that each and every one of you can be God-taught
by the ascended master Jesus Christ. And,
of course, he is here through these three
months to teach us, and this conference is
just the beginning, the opening of the door,
the glimpse through the keyhole of what the
Master brings to us in the understanding of
his original and pure teaching."
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"Blessed hearts, time flies. As Morya
is wont to say, tempus fugit. Yes, beloved,
in that understanding know that you shall
not forever be finite beings, you shall not
forever be in this octave. But I say, leave
those footprints. Leave them in the sands
of earth and in the etheric octave. Leave
them in your writings and in your speakings.
Leave them as the apostle Paul did. Leave
them because you are become a mighty apostle
of mine and of Jesus and of Kuthumi and of
all the hosts of the Lord.
"Yes, beloved, take
the high road, take the tough road. Toughen
yourselves! Do your daily exercises. Do not
let your bodies or your minds become flabby.
Watch what you take in through the mouth and
watch what comes out of the mouth. For by
the power of the spoken Word, as you use it
correctly and purely and do not violate it
in any way, you will increase your stature
as a Son of God, one with your own Holy Christ
Self. And do this quickly, for cycles are
accelerating.
"And so, as it has been
said, now is the time to move with the tide
of Light that beckons. For I tell you, as
you take advantage of the solicitous presence
of the Great White Brotherhood, you will be
able to move mountains. This is the moment,
I tell you, beloved. It is the moment when
the first shot was fired, yes, for the independence
of the colonies. Yes, it is one of those moments
in liberty that you have celebrated, that
you have extolled, that you have understood
from the depths of your being.
"Count yourselves, then,
as those who were there, who have championed
the cause of liberty throughout the ages.
You have known it all. You have been thrown
to the lions. You have been burned at the
stake. All these things you have known.
"Therefore, what
is it that you fear? How can you be afraid
of anything when you have seen everything?"
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The Apostle Paul wrote:
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith." (2
Timothy 4:7).
"Know ye not
that they which run in a race run all, but
one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye
may obtain." (1 Corinthians 9:24). |
"Rejoice in the Lord
always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your
gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is
at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything
by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known to God; and
the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
will guard your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things
are true, whatever things are noble, whatever
things are just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely, whatever things
are of good report, if there is any virtue
and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate
on these things."—Paul
of Tarsus |
"Therefore
you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are
who judge, for in whatever you judge another
you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice
the same things. But we know that the judgment
of God is according to truth against those
who practice such things."—Paul
of Tarsus
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"I love the man that
can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink;
but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death."—Thomas Paine |
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