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. . . thirsty travelers ought not to spurn a cup of cold
water simply because
the tin cup in which it is delivered has an imperfection
in it."—Saint
Germain
"I say, let not one chela
judge another chela! For you do not know
when a brother or a sister that you criticize may have
volunteered to carry
your karma because he or she saw that your burden was
too hard to bear."
—Lanello, October 6, 1995
"Whenever you point your
finger at someone, three others
are pointing at you."—Mark L. Prophet
"How much easier it is
to be critical than to be correct."—Benjamin
Disraeli
"Men will always be mad,
and those who think they can cure them
are the maddest of all."—Voltaire
"The best reply to a bad
idea is a better idea,
not mindless violence."—Milton's 'Areopagitica'
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"That which would divide the body of God on earth, that which
would classify certain believers as 'evil,' that which would deny
fellowship to them as brethren and spread the poison of gossip
and deceit is always of malicious intent—if not in the person
of the purveyor of such teachings, then in the spirit that controls
the person."
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Jesus Christ:
'Universal Prayer'
Prayer and Meditation, 1978, p. 35 |
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"Let us realize, then, that it takes time to hate, it takes
time to gossip, it takes time to lose the energy of the sacred
fire in dissolute living! And all of this time is the absence
of the filling of hallowed space with the striving for excellence,
in one way or another, according to the freewill expression of
the heart of the individuals. Therefore you can sum up all of
the perversions and the misuses of love as energy misspent because
of the misuse of time."
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" . . . It is dangerous however to be
critical of another or of his concepts, for only the individual
can apprehend, through the screen of his own being, his world and
the cosmos beyond.
"When you realize the meaning of interpreting life for yourself
you will see how utterly impossible it is for you to perform this
for another, inasmuch as the average person cannot successfully
enter the consciousness of another lifestream nor accurately assess
his complete thought and feeling processes.
"This by the grace of God we are able to do; and the Karmic
Board, in connection with the impersonally Christed Selves of all
mankind, is able to mediate."
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Saint Germain
Studies in Alchemy
'Commanding Consciousness' |
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" . . . Because energy is most impersonal, like seeks like;
and it is the union of shadowed substance with shadowed substance
that causes a densification and strengthening of these nefarious
forces.
" . . . You see, precious ones, it
does not matter through whom the misqualification occurs upon
Earth. The fact that it does occur at all is a threat to all mankind
embodied here.
" . . . Let all see that in these current releases of the
Brotherhood the great giant sweep of a beam of intense light energy—calculated
not to snare the consciousness of mankind with mere petty dramas
or sequences which may tickle the ear or provide passing entertainment—but
rather to release the mighty soul-searching beam of Cosmic Christ
discrimination into the affairs of men that total freedom may
manifest and great divine friendships be formed based on the solid
bedrock of divinity. Only then can we weld together the spiritual
body upon the planet.
"So long as minute dissensions and divisions occur, so long
as individuals set up themselves and their human standards as
criteria and judge the children of God upon Earth, so long as
men fall directly into the traps that are set for them seeking
to bring about malicious gossip against our greatest outposts,
the world will still be in some peril."
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Master R
February 28, 1965 |
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" . . . Some of us become so weighted down by the inordinate
sense of sin in our life, because in the presence of that sin we
do not dare to lift our heads or challenge error or darkness where
we find it. We think that because we have erred we may correct no
one else because of their error."
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Elizabeth C. Prophet
Strategies of Light and Darkness Summit Lighthouse Library,
2002, p. 29 |
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"You must not allow gossip, misunderstanding or personal
idiosyncrasies to stand between you and your service. We do not
need splintered groups, fragmented or fractioned energies. We
need a body of devotees all for one and one for all."
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El Morya: The Chela
and the Path, p. 69 |
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"The necessity for the repetition of lessons is not always
understood by schoolchildren. They cannot understand that when
they think they know something they must rehearse it again. There
is a certain satiation of the soul that must come about through
the spiritual light and fire, the reinforcement of the fibers
of inner being."
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Sanat Kumara
December 15, 1985 |
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"[We must know that] when the force is so moving you to destroy
yourself or your peace or your work or your livelihood or your
family or your entire reason for being so that you can feel that
bombardment assailing the mind and the body with all intensity,
you can stand fast and still stand and say, 'Let the fiat of my
Lord be with me!' and know that God is where you are and be still
and be not moved and not speak but hold your peace while the forces
rage and you make the call silently within your heart for them
to be dispelled.
"Blessed ones, when there is a fury
of [the forces of] hell attacking you, it is wise not to speak
until you can speak in total God-control, lest they begin to speak
through you."
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"As we prepare to surrender these fears into the flame, we
need to be mindful of what we are putting into the flame and how
the flame will work. A prayer full of generalities will not work
because you will have failed to take responsibility for your own
substance. Some people cannot admit that they are wrong now or
have ever been wrong, so when they confess, they just say, 'O
God, forgive me for all my sins.' That is an irresponsible confession,
as it does not contain enlightenment.
"God cannot vaguely come down with a surgeon’s
knife and remove a vague tumor in your astral body. Therefore
the most important sins to confess are the individual sins that
you cannot talk to anybody about because they are so terrible.
Of course, they are not that terrible, but the devil has you convinced
that they are.
"If you do not talk to anybody about them,
including God, you will never get over the sense of guilt, for
when you can’t get something out of your system, that record
in your electronic belt becomes an anti-sun. Then more fear, more
guilt begins to revolve around it, as the sinister force rubs
it in through the demons and discarnates who plague you in the
night and tell you over and over again what a miserable sinner
you are.
"If you are not able to name a sin, perhaps
you have noticed in your character avarice, greed or possessiveness
toward material things, based, of course, on the fear of not having
them in the past. In this way, a sense of the records of the past
will come through even if you do not have specific recollections.
"You can confess the sin of avarice, for
example, and ask for it to be cleansed through all previous incarnations.
Then you can systematically visualize the twelve stations of the
Cosmic Clock in your mind. Starting at the twelve o’clock
line, you can confess the sins of condemnation and criticism and
judgment of other parts of life that you remember, and then confess
the sins you don’t remember but that you sense you may have
a momentum of in your consciousness.
"Obviously, criticism denotes fear, for
fear of your own incompleteness makes you criticize another part
of life. Thus you can find fear on every one of these twelve lines
and it’s a very interesting exercise to do. Following your
confession of the specific sins that come to mind, you can then
make a general prayer for the sins you cannot remember, because
your Christ Self remembers, with the help of the recording angels
who see what is recorded in the cells.
" . . . Remember those elements of self-doubt
or guilt that plague you in the night or come to you when, as
a child of light, you are under the burden of world condemnation.
Like Johnny one-note, they hammer away on the same note.
"Even loved ones, people in your family—God
bless them and forgive them, for they know not what they do—as
well as those around us in life, whether as employees or friends,
seem to delight in telling us what’s wrong with us. Some
people will always say, 'The trouble with you is . . . ' and on
they will go like a broken record, but it may last for ten or
twenty years.
"You will never be able to get over what
the trouble with you is, because it’s almost a rebellious
reaction by the person telling you, for it’s a karmic interchange.
You can go somewhere you’ve never been and a new friend
will start complaining about you for the very same thing. So it
wasn’t unique to the person who began the complaint but
it is now unique to you because you’re carrying that record
in your aura. The demons travel with you. They will hop on somebody
else’s back and mouth their mouthings against you.
"Now that does not mean that you are wholly
innocent. You may be receiving a message from angels of light
or your Christ Self that you refused to hear from the Guru centuries
ago. Your best friends may be telling you what you need to know
and refuse to hear, and you still refuse to correct your ways.
"Therefore we should always listen to our
accusers and find out whether there is any merit to what they
say. Either it’s a lie fabricated out of the whole cloth
and we are innocent, or the lie that’s being told may have
some foundation in fact somewhere in our present existence or
in a past one. If it is true, it doesn’t matter who speaks
it. We must deal with that cutting sword because the object of
our purging and self-purification is to become part of the sword
of truth and to be on the cutting edge of truth—to
be able to stand the truth whether it’s hurtful, whether
it’s hateful or whether it seems to destroy the entire base
of our identity.
" . . . When you are in confession and you
are with God, God is in command and you are in command. You are
saying, 'I recognize this sin. I want to put it on the altar and
I never want to pick it up again.' You don’t respond to
the tormentors of Job. You respond to your own conscience, your
own inner teacher, your Christ Self, and so it’s a healthy
assessment.
"Once you have confessed your sins to Almighty
God, once you believe in his perfect love, then you can say to
all your accusers, all the demons of the night, all the fallen
ones, 'You have no power over me. I have confessed that sin. I
have laid it upon the altar of the Almighty. It is no longer part
of me, for I have forsaken it. I have received forgiveness. God
has transmuted my sin and fulfilled his promise given to Israel,
I will remember their sin no more.’
"God has promised to forget our sins in
this era. This is his promise to the children of God, and this
is why in the old days people used to refer to the violet flame
as the forgetfulness flame. Eventually somebody said, “Well,
God can’t forget, so we can’t call the flame the forgetfulness
flame,” but believe it or not, they were actually calling
it that when I came into the activity!
"Nevertheless, it is the means whereby our
sins are forgotten. They are erased from the memory body of our
cells and ultimately when we ascend, they will be erased from
the memory body of the universe. So, 'I will remember their sins
no more' is an accurate statement.
" . . . I have to give you one more point
about mechanization man. They have an absence of love, an inability
to love, for they live by human sympathy. Corollary to the inability
to love is the inability to forgive and forget. You will find
in mechanization man or in individuals who have forsaken the threefold
flame and been cut off from God that they will never, ever forget
your sins.
"As long as you live they will tell you
about the terrible thing you did to them ten or twenty years ago.
It’s the most amazing thing. You have long ago accelerated
into the light. You have sent billowing love throughout the cosmos,
and you meet someone you once knew and they’re still as
angry as they were twenty years ago. They are still carrying around
their unwillingness to forget.
"Without love, there is no forgiveness.
Without forgiveness there’s no ability to forget. When people
hold something against you year in, year out, or nations carry
on their vendettas century after century, continually engaging
in wars, you are seeing either a race of mechanization man, individual
mechanized man, or those who have been cut off from the Source
because they have literally murdered God in their own temple.
"People put out the flame of life by their
hate and hate creation. Although they are cut off, they continue
to exist in the physical dimension because the physical forcefield
continues; life continues because of its decay rate, its disintegration
factor. I am suspicious of people who don’t forgive and
forget. If you look a little further, you will find it is because
they don’t truly love. They are dangerous people—dangerous
in private life and public life. This is a bit of wisdom that
comes from years of experience and from years of having God teach
me to observe characteristics through those experiences.
"The force will not forget, but our God
forgets. Therefore you also have a responsibility to forget. What
stops us from forgetting? Our own fear. If we don’t root
out the fear in our cells and in our electronic belt, it remains
the focal point of our guilty memory of the deeds that were a
manifestation of sin. Therefore, I must declare to you in the
presence of Portia and Pallas Athena today that if you refuse
to forget and continue to fear, you will be indulging in sin."
Invocation before Confession
In the name of the beloved Mighty I AM Presence
of all life, in the name of the beloved Holy Christ Self, we come
to the altar of confession, O God. In the name of the living Saviour
Jesus Christ, we come to confess our sins by our love of God,
who first loved us and established within our temple the threefold
flame of life upon the altar of being, who sent forth the beloved
Christ Self to be the mediator and the propitiation for our human
karma.
We bow before thy living flame. We invoke fearlessness
flame. Blaze forth within this temple and in every cell, beloved
Ray-O-Light. Legions of fearlessness flame, enter every living
cell of this temple. Bind now those centers of fear. Blaze forth
the light of God that never fails.
By the authority of Christ within me, I say,
bind fear. Bind its cause and core. Bind the moment of its inception
in my life. Cast out death. Cast out strife. Cast out doubt and
fear. Mighty I AM Presence, send forth thy ray of love, for this
my command made in the name of my own Christ Self is made in perfect
love for thee.
I would prepare thy temple, O living Word. I
call forth the whirling spiral of the Central Sun of love from
the very heart of the secret love star. I call for the mighty
action of Surya and Cuzco. I stand upon this very forcefield at
the altar of my confession. I ask for the light of God that never
fails to descend now into my temple. Purge now every vortex of
fear. I surrender it, O God. Let thy living flame of love pour
through me as the mighty River of Life.
Angelic hosts of the Lord, come forth. Mighty
secret love star, I call forth the whirlwind action of the sacred
fire, the whirling Central Sun of Almighty God. I call for the
whirling action of the Sun behind the sun of my own heart flame,
and of every living cell within my temple.
Lo, I AM the action of the sacred fire! Lo, I
AM the presence of the Lord Christ! Lo, I AM the soul that rises
to be one with this Christ Self even as I bow before the altar
and place upon this altar of sacred fire all misqualified energy!
In the name of the living Word, I call forth
the light of God that never fails. I confess each act of fear
and sin, known or unknown. I take responsibility for each and
every act, thought, word and feeling that has ever passed through
my chakras. I take full responsibility for them and I denounce
the misuse of the living Word. I cast it into the sacred fire.
I give unto the Lord now this substance and by the very fervor
of love of my heart, lo, I make contact. Lo, I arc the flame of
my fire unto God, even as the flame of God’s fire has arced
unto me.
Lo, I am the completion now of this mighty flow
of sacred fire! Lo, I am the light of God that never fails. I
come before the throne of Almighty God. I bow before the throne
of grace. I understand, O God, that without love, there is no
forgiveness or forgetting of sin. Therefore, O God, I bring to
the altar the gift of love, my perfect love, which is thy perfect
love for every part of thee, for brother and sister, for every
part of life everywhere.
This, my offering of perfect love, is the foundation
of my call, my prayer, my affirmation and my decree for love’s
forgiveness. Therefore, let perfect love magnetize the flame of
forgiveness within every living cell. Let forgiveness erase and
break the spell of fear and doubt and death.
Lord God Almighty, I surrender. I surrender the
momentum of my human creation. Let the violet flame come into
my life step-by-step and hour by hour until I am free. When I
am free, let me serve to set all life free with thy message of
living truth, of love perfected in love. And when I have served
to set life free, then, let me ascend to thee, O God. Let me ascend
to thee. Amen.
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November 20, 1980 |
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Criticism of the Staff in the Mystery School
"Now, I find within this staff that there are some who have
come here with what they think to be unusual abilities of an intellectual
nature or of a technical nature. And they have considered themselves
more qualified than our servants who wear the mantle of chela
or of the Holy Christ Self. And therefore, they have taken it
upon themselves to correct or criticize their department heads
or those who have gone before them in the devotions, the decrees,
and the contributions that have kept the very flame of this organization
until the new ones could arrive.
"Blessed ones, when you challenge
those who wear the mantle of staff, in this manner of criticism,
you are impugning, therefore, the office of Messenger, who has
given the assignments, as well as of the Darjeeling Council. And
I counsel you today that you are moving in treacherous waters
to allow yourselves to be so seized by the conceit and pride of
the carnal mind when, in fact, you have known from the beginning
why you were coming to this mystery school—for the very
defeat of that mind and to become the humble servant and chela
at the altar of Serapis, at the altar of Christ, being willing
to take the first and necessary steps of putting on the mantle
of student. Thus, I will shortly speak with those who have retained
that propensity to be critical of this staff."
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"Blessed hearts, I therefore ask you in the name of the
Great Divine Director, when you take your place in this court
each Friday night, [seated] as though [you were each one] directly
at the altar of God, that you determine to go after and to slay
the world beast of [the] condemnation of the Lightbearers of
the earth, [of] the ascending ones and the children of the Light
who are truly tossed and tumbled in the turmoil [and] in the
traducing of their lifestreams by the fallen ones. For they
are not meet to the chicanery and the subtlety of these fallen
ones.
"Thus, beloved, I say to you, let us clear
the twelve o’clock line for the Lightbearers! Let us this
day determine that if we are to be in physical manifestation by
these sixteen sapphire points of light of my Victory celebration
this day, we must have a smooth passageway through the etheric
bodies of these Lightbearers. We must together determine to clear
that line of God-Power and clear that passageway!
"For from the center of the circle through
the Holy Christ Flame through the I AM Presence there does descend
to each individual one, first through the etheric body, the God-Power,
the God-Love, and the God-Mastery. And in that etheric body, beloved,
there is the record and memory of their existence in higher octaves,
even in the golden-age cities of Light, even in etheric temples.
"Let us together, then, work and work the
works of God for the clearing of those lines in ourselves and
in those recruits who are ready, truly ready to embrace the Path!
Let us clear, then, on a regular basis all opposition to the [flame
of the] Great Divine Director, all opposition to [his initiations
of] God-Power [which he gives to the chelas of the will of God].
Let us get rid of it once and for all in this Community! Let us
bless and bless and bless one another and let us support one another.
"And let that word criticism, that word
condemnation, that word judgment be something that is no longer
a part of your vocabulary or feeling world! Let it be exorcised,
beloved, by the power of Astrea; for it is always black magic,
always malice, [and it] always returns to the sender with sickness,
disease, disintegration and death. You cannot escape [the karma
for] the arrows, the black arrows of the mind, sent forth almost
unconsciously as there is that critical carnal mind surveying
the scene and tearing down instead of building up.
"Beloved ones, to heal the Mystical Body
of God in the earth, to heal the Keepers of the Flame of this
condition and conditioning is my purpose this day! And I go before
El Morya, for if you are to heal this condition, beloved ones,
it will serve in an amazing way to move him toward that moment
of being unbenched. And I tell you, beloved, we as twin flames
and you as twin flames with your own do stand side by side with
the beloved El Morya. And you ought to see the legions of angels
who stand with him!
"Yet the spoken Word must be accomplished.
Yet the inner purification must be accomplished. And therefore
in the very process of clearing the etheric body there is the
clearing of the space for the will of God to descend and [for]
that mighty chalice that is desired [to be perfected], even the
crystal chalice [of God Self awareness] that does become the Holy
Grail.
"As the Great Divine Director is the sponsor
of El Morya and Saint Germain, let us approach, then—as
we seal the twelve o’clock line and the crown chakra with
the fullness of the blue-ray will of God—that
[one o’clock] line of Aquarius and that line of the soul,
even the seat-of-the-soul chakra.
"That soul being wed to God is what we are
about and what we have been about since my ascension and long
before. Beloved ones, until that wedding take place the soul is
in danger, the soul is not safe, the soul is subject to the levels
of Death and Hell that register in the astral plane but that are
built, mind you, out of the misuse of the sacred fire in the etheric
body.
"Let the memory bodies of the chelas of
the will of God throughout the world be cleansed! Hear me, O chelas
of El Morya! For imagine [what lightness and brightness there
will be] when that etheric body is cleared [and] all others [will]
therefore reflect it and will be able to receive that Divine Image
clearly. [That this may take place] let the soul herself [ensconced
in] the seat-of-the-soul [chakra] desire to wear the bridal garment,
be rid of self-hatred and mild dislike of the self-disapproval
of the self.
"Beloved hearts, let the soul desire in the desiring of God
to enter into the worthiness of being the bride of the Eternal
One—lo, of Christ! lo, of Saint
Germain, the Hierarch of Aquarius! lo, of the I AM Presence! Blessed
ones, the desiring to be wed to Truth, to the Christ Self, must
come upon one in a mighty way [in order for you to be able] to
reject the [temptation of] going after other gods.
" ' . . . This day I AM begotten of the
Lord! This day I have come forth out of the will of God, out of
that divine direction of Alpha and Omega, out of Elohim! This
day I will be wed to my Holy Christ Self. This day I AM wed to
the heart of Saint Germain and Portia. This day I give the cup
of my solar awareness unto Morya, for I know of none other who
has so cared so much for me to deliver me from the oppressions,
the depressions, and the [self-addictions that lead to the] annihilation
of self.'
"Blessed hearts, you must find the ultimate
reason for denying criticism, condemnation, and judgment [entrée
into your mind—for denying]
the dislike of the self of others and [the dislike] of oneself
[entrée into your feeling world]. You must find greater
reasons outside of yourselves and outside of one another and outside
of those things that you allow to come upon you[—yes,
greater reasons to espouse the Truth, the whole I AM Truth, and
nothing but the Truth]!
"You must have an expanded awareness of
earth’s evolutions and an expanded awareness of God! And
that God within you that is contained, beloved, must expand from
within until this expanding balloon of consciousness becoming
larger and larger causes the specks upon the surface to disappear.
"Blessed hearts, the Great Divine Director,
Saint Germain and Jesus Christ call you—call
you to dedicate yourselves to the clearing of this etheric body.
Therefore you see on the line of God-Mastery, the two o’clock
line of Pisces, how Jesus the Master has offered you all that
could be offered until you [answer the Call he sent forth] in
his dictations of the past several years.
" . . . The etheric holds the matrix of
all misuse of the sacred fire, all black magic, all witchcraft,
all records of Death and even records of Hell. Thus, when this
body becomes truly the light body, the heavenly body of the saints,
you have more than 25 percent of oneself that is in attunement
with, vibrating at the same chord with, the etheric octave where
there is the golden age, where there are the etheric cities and
retreats of Light, where there is the Holy City.
"Thus cleared, beloved, this etheric body,
which is the envelope of the soul’s journeying, becomes
[a tunnel, a clear passageway to octaves of light. It becomes]
a chalice. It becomes one with the Deathless Solar Body that is
woven [through the process of soul purification at all levels],
for the Deathless Solar Body does consist of the sacred fire that
is of the etheric ‘gossamer’ substance [of Cosmic
Christ purity].
"Understand, beloved, that to clear
this body you must be aligned with the forces of Archangel Michael
and his legions."
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"The
end of the human race will be that it will eventually
die of civilization."—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to
get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
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"Heaven is not disdainful of honest men’s search
for truth, but we know that people are prone to be overly critical
of those whose simplest thoughts they cannot yet understand.
Human sophistry and wit do not of themselves produce a passport
that leads to higher dimensions and accurate perceptions. On
the contrary, many have excommunicated themselves from a movement
of definite spiritual progress before they could take root or
refuge in an onward moving company of spiritual devotees. Surely
this must pinpoint for the perceptive how very vital it is that
men shall be as little children, trusting in the Infinite One
and in the wisdom of heaven itself to perform judgment upon
men whose hypocrisy they eschew.
"There is no need, blessed ones, for men
to be constantly engaged in a witch-hunt, while they yet seek
to find their way back home. Again and again individuals, steeped
in tradition or in traditional concepts, attend one of our services
only to turn away from the great opportunity which is given to
them. For ere the door can be opened toward the light or valid
explanations given, they have decided in their minds that the
appearance of those who represent us or the expressions of their
mouths are not pleasing to them. Arbiters of their own confusion
are they, laying hold upon decaying substance and proclaiming
it as real, while turning away from the
real and the banner of freedom without ever knowing what its true
value is.
"If there is, then, any admonishment
that I would give to humanity in these troubled times it is: Be
not hasty of judgment. I admit that some things are self-evident
and cast their shadows before them, but truth is often subtly
concealed beneath a crude exterior or a manifestation that belies
its great content."
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"We ask the students to understand that gaining control of
the soul (of the energies composing one’s identity pattern)
is one of the most essential functions of alchemy and that this
control is gained through surrender and through humility. When
the Christ entered the Holy City riding upon 'a colt, the foal
of an ass,' as we mentioned in our last lesson, his mien was one
of utter humility; yet he was crowned by God and man with the
highest honors.
"And so it is essential that we develop
in the students those same Christlike qualities that will make
them pillars in the temple of God that cannot be moved by human
emotions, no matter what their guise: criticism, condemnation,
judgment, self-pity, gossip, treachery, tyranny, or human deceit.
The alchemist must be oblivious to all human conduct yet not unaware
of worldly thought to the point where he plays the fop. To him
the fulfillment of the fiat 'Be wise as serpents and harmless
as doves!' is the order of every day.
"But we are concerned with the sinews of
mission, and the mission is freedom for all. If we would have
freedom be the joy of all, then we must give freedom to all, for
then none can exclude freedom from us. It is therefore to the
passions of freedom that our experiments in alchemy must be dedicated.
We must rise to emotional control; for when God said, 'Take dominion
over the earth!' He meant individual dominion over one’s
energies, consciousness, and one’s four lower bodies.
"Collective dominion comes about when the
contributing spirit of the group, the nation, the planet —recognizing
all that it has received from life—joyously offers itself
and all that it has received to the Great Spirit of life. At that
point, man the individual and man the collective unit ponder the
enrichment of the Real Self and the true mystical identity of
the group through the increase of individual talents. These gifts
of God, when multiplied, are like stars in the firmament of being
that glow in the grand design of universal destiny.
"When man becomes one with God, he
realizes that he truly is God. This is not blasphemy, but the
fruit of total surrender. The return gift of Life’s own
identity, as God gives himself to his son, is far greater than
the token sacrifice of mortality left on the altar by the beloved
son. Nevertheless, it is typical of the Deity to be the Great
Giver and thus to precipitate the highest alchemical manifestation—the
prism of the Christ consciousness. This must be and always is
the reward for the relinquishment of human error and the full
realization of the divine life in every man."
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Saint Germain
March 29, 1970 |
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"The dark ones will never cease their deception by condemnation.
They will pick you apart as the crows of the night. And they will
continue to pick, year in, year out, until you decide to cast
them out. Let it be now! Let this be your birthday gift to one
born in Capricorn. Let all of it go into the flame and be free!
See how much lighter you feel when you love yourself! God loves
you, so begin by loving yourself! And when you love yourself free,
you will see God standing where you are–God living, God
burning, God consuming, God loving all parts of life free.
"Let love be more than a smile. Let the
smile be the effect of a cause, a burning in your heart to convey
a fire. Let your motto be Start a Fire! Start a fire with Maitreya!
Start a fire that will never, never be put out. Start it now in
your heart and see it leaping! I can see it leaping across this
land to hearts and homes who have never been touched by the fiery
destiny of the soul.
" . . . When you have sufficiently loved
yourself to consume the jagged edges of your self-analysis, your
self-hypnosis, your self-deprecation, then turn around and love
those around you. Criticism is an absence of love. Strife and
discord, cruelty and pettiness—all
of these things belie the flame of love. The bickering and the
argumentation, the gossip and the evil spirits that flirt with
those on the fringe of the movement—these
are the absence of love. And those who are not able to sustain
a momentum of glorying in the law and in the power of the spoken
Word, these suffer the dread disease of selfishness, where there
is no love. And that selfishness leads to death and to decay of
the human soul.
"And therefore let the softness, the kindness,
the concern, the caring, the politeness, the tender regard for
one another as you would regard the ascended hosts, be your way
today and every day which follows unto the hour of your ascension.
Consider yourselves the mystical body of Christ. Love one another
each moment as you would love him as he is taken down from the
cross and cared for by the holy ones. Be unto one another lovers
of Christ, lovers of his body and his soul, lovers of his sorrow
and his triumph.
" 'Learn to love to do well, and you shall.'
Let mediocrity be expelled from this organization as a manifestation
of selfishness! Let the desire for perfection be seen as the work
of love! Let the desire to serve be seen as the work of love!
Let the desire to pray be seen as the work of love!
"And so my gift to you this night is the
gift of all of the love of my heart. I give it unto you that it
might be filled and renewed and again exalted that I might give
it again. And so I give it all, and I ascend into the heart of
God to gain the allness of his love for the imparting of that
love again and again and again.
"As I have shared with you my love and my
heart’s plea this night, I bid you: Go and do likewise.
I ask you to embrace one another in the fond embrace of the love
of Christ, that you might sense that you are one in body, one
in soul, one in mind. And I ask you to impart the fire of your
heart, to let it leap. And therefore, bear one another’s
burden. Bear one another’s burden."
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Lanello
December 24, 1975 |
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"But be assured of this, beloved: those whose hearts are
of stone, those who enter into a spirit of condemnation of our
best servants, these will not believe though you may prance
and dance all the day for them. They only hold up the faults
of the Lightbearers that they might have an excuse as to why
they will never bend the knee before Sanat Kumara or the Ancient
of Days or the Christ of their own being.
"Let it be known, then, that the
miracle is you and is in your heart as a threefold flame and divine
spark. The miracle is that a path foreknown can be walked by you
in this hour.
"My angels come for the transmutation of
doubt and fear. Recognize this, beloved, that all doubt and fear
is of oneself [and of] one’s relationship to God and to
the Divine Father-Mother. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
so is doubt. Thus, one’s state of consciousness and attainment,
mastery or absence thereof, is reflective of one’s own state
of being.
"Embrace Life, beloved, and Life shall embrace
thee.
"Now, my emphasis as I tutor your souls
is in the development of the heart as a fiery furnace and vortex
of transmutation, a place where the threefold flame is balanced
and where one can extend the borders of being and love to enfold
so many who suffer.
"Think upon these words of the bodhisattva
vow, fearless compassion! Ah, what a state of mind to be in perpetually!
Fearlessness to give of the fount of one’s being, to extend
compassion instead of criticism and backbiting, to give such flood
tides of love as to fill in the chinks and cracks of another’s
shortcomings. Fearless compassion means one no longer fears to
lose oneself or to loose oneself to become such a grid for the
light to pass through that the Infinite One never ceases to be
the compassionate one through you.
"Is this not, then, the face and the posture
of the Buddha, our beloved Gautama? Is it not, beloved, that Presence
of the Divine One?
"O fearlessness flame, dissolve, then,
all reticence to be and to embrace the will to be! Fearlessness
flame, sweep through those who are a part of my band of disciples
and let each one know how the rings of the aura multiply as lines
of compassion, [even] as rings upon a tree denote the ageless
wisdom that accrues to one’s Tree of Life—as a destiny,
as a continuity of the extension of the branches of being until
all of life might know that in the earth God has planted a seed
and a seedling has come forth and a tree has matured: It has become
a great tree. It is thyself, beloved, one and one and one again,
trees of the forest of God where angels pray."
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Saint Germain
April 16, 1988 |
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"Inasmuch as you have accepted me as your Guru, I take the
liberty of focusing a point of acceleration within your four lower
bodies. Beloved, you cannot undo this point without exerting extreme
effort. And—just in case you are wondering—you are
fully capable of holding onto and sustaining this coil of energy,
this point of light, if you will it so.
"This is a step-up in evolution for all
souls who will fully and finally cast into the sacred fire their
ancient momentums of criticism, condemnation and judgment, gossip
and all manner of human nonsense.
"Over the years I have pleaded with you.
Yes, I have pleaded with you. I have cajoled you. I have given
you of the very substance of my heart. Now I say: There is no
room for dalliance when the future of a planet and her evolutions
is at stake. You don’t have any time to waste.
"Fulfill your mission here or elsewhere.
But do not forget that this is the place. Maitreya’s Mystery
School is your soul’s launching pad (as the Messenger calls
it), from which you will one day soar to the Sun of your Mighty
I AM Presence. Yes, beloved, your ascent to God will be your point
of victory.
"Go out and resolve your karma if you must.
Go out and learn what you must learn. But know that I, Morya,
may not be here forever and a day, nor can any other Ascended
Master promise you that. For cycles turn, and this is the meaning
of “the shutting of the gate” and “the opening
of the gate."
” . . . Beloved,
I have much to say. But I am come chiefly to deliver in you a
fire that will devour your human selfishness, your human indulgence
and your human nonsense! These three enemies cause me to place
my hands over my ears and cry, Halt! Halt! I will hear none of
this foolish chatter! Get on with the saving of a world if you
intend to one day be an Ascended Master."
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El Morya
November 28, 1996 |
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"What
can be added to the happiness of a man who is in
health,
out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"—Adam
Smith
"Enemies do man more
good than harm. They point out to us our faults;
they put us upon our guard; and help us to live
more correctly.
The best men have always had their share of envy
and malice of the foolish
and wicked, and a man has therefore some reason
to be ashamed of himself
when he meets with none of it. My good friend Rev.
Whitefield once said,
When I am on the road and see boys in a field pelting
a tree, though I am
too far off to know what tree it is, I conclude
it has fruit on it."
—Benjamin Franklin, The Compleated Autobiography
compiled and edited by Mark Skousen |
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"Thus, I come with [the attribute of]
God-Power at my command, for I have long ago passed the initiation
whereby the all-power of heaven and earth was given unto me. [And
so this initiation] is given unto the Sons of God one by one as
they prove their competence and their trustworthiness in dealing
with the power of God. [For that power is] the might of the will
of God and the ultimate might of faith itself, the might of the
spoken Word.
"Yes, beloved, this is a year, as you have
been taught and heard from the lips of the Messenger, once and for
all to conquer ignorance, to conquer all seeds of criticism, condemnationand
judgment. And to do this you must be rid of all self-condemnation,
all putting down of the self and a certain [low-grade] angriness
at [various] levels of the garment of being.
"Yes, criticism, condemnation and judgment
may be based on envy and jealousy or the desire for revenge. Whatever
it is [based on], beloved hearts, this is the Evil, the Absolute
Evil that you must root out as the archetypal pattern [of nihilism]
in the unconscious.
"When you are delivered, then, of this [misqualified]
substance [because you deliver yourself of the nasty habit of criticizing,
condemning and judging others]—and
you deliver God from these vibrations that you have been imposing
upon him—you shall truly know
a new God-mastery. And this is that which we seek for you, for in
so many [other] ways you are developing God-mastery in your field
of service and in your professions.
"Well, beloved ones, we consider you to be
career sons and daughters of God and we desire to ratify your calling,
even as you choose to ratify your calling. Therefore, know well
how quickly there can come to you blessings and the opening of a
reservoir of genius and creativity whereby you may surely fulfill
your highest destiny."
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Great Divine Director
January 3, 1993 |
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"I am Portia, your advocate before the Court of the Sacred
Fire, before the courts of the world, and before the court of public
opinion. And I speak to all devotees in all new-age movements, in
all paths and teachings that go beyond the orthodoxy of the major
world religions.
"Beloved hearts, the forces of darkness would
splinter and divide you. You must understand the union of Light
of the avantgarde of the age and be not so mindful or critical of
separate ideas with which you differ. It matters not, beloved ones,
if you do not agree on every point of the Path and Teaching and
Way. What matters, beloved hearts, is that you see the union of
those who are climbing the highest mountain and that you realize
that when all arrive at the Summit of Being all will understand
and know the Law of the One.
"What is important in this hour is that there
be a worldwide awareness of the oneness of those seekers after Truth
and that their union be based on the principle of Truth and common
survival. For if there be separation, you will see then how here
and there the smaller groups are cast down, as those who fear the
coming of the new wave of Light do organize to put down by every
means anyone who goes forth with a message of the coming revolution
of Light.
" . . . Therefore let there be the dividing
of the way. And let the Lightbearers of the world unite in the name
of freedom! in the name of the flame of freedom of my beloved Saint
Germain! who is truly the champion of every seeker everywhere regardless
of any erroneous concepts or burdens that may separate that one
from the fullness of the blazing reality of the noonday sun of his
I AM Presence. For Saint Germain takes everyone’s hand and
leads that one nearer and nearer to the Light as he is willing and
able.
"Therefore, beloved hearts, please do
not interfere with the trek and the momentum and the rhythm of new
Lightbearers on the Path. Let them take his cup as they are able
while you keep the flame in joy and love. Be free, then, of criticism
and see how the ground swell of those who are the liberated souls
in the world will make their voice count not only in religion but
in the governments of the nations, will take their stand and see
the way through to the holding of the balance for the economies—and
in this nation especially. And the sacred fire infolding itself
must collapse the old structures and build upon the foundation of
the white cube and the stone of the masterbuilders."
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Lady Master Portia
November 17, 1985 |
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"Now in the heart of Helios and Vesta, by Love’s wisdom
and Wisdom’s love there is stripped from you small-mindedness,
pettiness, self-limitation, the demons of prejudice, want, fear,
poverty consciousness, all those belittling, self-intimidating conditions.
These extend to gossip, backbiting, criticism of others, all of
the chattering of the human nonsense. We have desired to strip from
you that which most detracts in your own behavior patterns from
your dignity of selfhood in and as God.
"God in you is the one God. There are not
gods many. Seeing, then, your expression of Him you ought to cry
out in awe, 'What hath God wrought! Multiple manifestations of Himself!
Yet He is
the All and the One.' This is the nature of Elohim—all-encompassing
Light. Now you know, beloved, that it is within our own auras that
both you and the sun are suspended."
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Apollo and Lumina
July 5, 1987 |
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"I come, then, to empower you who are able to receive the empowerment
of Elohim because of your preparedness. Preparedness is the key
when you welcome Elohim, beloved.
"I would give you energy of emerald light
for your use in healing any state of consciousness that may be troubling
you. But you must first heal yourself of criticism, condemnation—gossip!
Heal yourself of judging others. Heal yourself of putting down another
just so you can elevate yourself. Heal yourself, beloved, and enter
the glorious resurrection fires of Easter.
"This is the time to transcend yourself over
and over and over again. This is the time for self-transcendence
through the flame of the transfiguration, the flame of the resurrection,
the flame of the ascension. Yes, take full opportunity to pray profoundly
that angels of God might clear impure records of the mind, and know
that the sacred fire of Christ’s resurrection is able to consume
so much that you have been wrestling with.
"Wrestle no more! For with Elohim, Archangels
and the Lord Jesus Christ you shall know in these five days a transformation
you have not known in years. Accept it! Receive it! Kneel at your
bedside this night in fervent prayer that you might resolve your
conflicts, whether with God, Elohim, Archangel, Messenger, friend
or foe.
"It is time to know, beloved, that all that
matters is your victory in the mighty spheres of Light. Draw down
the spheres of your Causal Body through fervent devotion to your
beloved I AM Presence. Let the Presence drape flowing robes of light
around you.
"Have the courage to stand in the presence
of God’s perfection and power and omniscience. Have the courage
to pull down your Holy Christ Self. Do not shun the walk with your
True Self, but walk and talk as though you were on the road to Emmaus
with the Lord Christ, who is forever the King of your own kingdom."
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"We would love to see large numbers
of individuals become saints. We would love to see all men become
saints in manifestation. The surest and quickest way for this
to come about is to cease all criticism, all condemnation, all
gossip—all of the things that we have told you can never
produce perfection.
"I would love to bring you today a great message
of moving inspiration. I would like to speak of some of the great
spiritual laws. But at the present hour it remains a cosmic necessity
that I speak about the lessons you have long been taught, because
the mankind of earth unfortunately are still not practicing the
knowledge that has been given to them through the centuries by the
great Masters and Teachers of Wisdom.
"Therefore, I choose to take my time today
to reiterate, to repeat, to stress the same lessons
that have been stressed by all the Masters in the past: The need
for absolute devotion to God; the need for toleration and kindness
to one another; the need to look for all the good and benign qualities
in one another; the need to hold the balance, to keep your flame
steady and to remain undisturbed when the forces of the elements
rage around you.
"Conditions that disturb you, blessed ones,
are not the result of any individual human action. In almost every
case, [what disturbs you] is the result of a momentum builded in
the past by either yourself or by another. It is the result of accumulations
and vortices used by the sinister force, in much the same manner
as a tornado, to move across the face of life where happiness is,
to bring a disturbing condition there."
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Sanat Kumara
January 1, 1961 |
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"I have already disguised my representatives here and there.
Some of you know them and respect them, and some of you know them
and ignore them and belittle them. This is to say that your concept
of Christ is way off.
"Thus, my beloved, the Messenger has remained
silent and we are silent. What good would it do if I should announce
to you that one among you was my representative, one you had criticized
or condemned for this or for that? Either you would have to accept
my word and deny your criticism and put it into the flame, or you
would have to question the Messenger as the mouthpiece of my word
and think in your heart that perhaps you must go elsewhere to find
a true Messenger and a true avatar. So you see how idolatrous of
itself is the unredeemed consciousness.
"We do not wish to make your path any more
difficult for you than you have already made it for yourself. I
give you, then, a simple lesson this night. First of all, you have
all seen the Christ and not known him. Secondly, you ought to look
for the Christ in all people. But when you recognize that light
of the Christ in a special virtue and service of a chela of the
will of God, do not worship it, do not give preferential treatment
to that one, do not enter into idolatry . . . "
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Lord Maitreya
January 2, 1983 |
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"You cannot conform unto the path of the Teaching unless you
yourself would be re-created in God. You cannot keep the old self
and yet have the new. This is the folly of those who are imprisoned
by the intellect and will imprison all whom they meet and all whom
they teach and all to whom they would impart even the path of the
Ascended Masters.
"Yes, beloved, you cannot take the Path and
fashion an intellectual posture and in your pride consider that
you have thought better than the Hierarchy of Light as to how to
walk this path or how to relate to the Messenger or the Ascended
Masters or to one another.
"Therefore, know that the fall is the failure
to challenge the momentums of criticism, condemnation and judgment.
And these momentums, beloved, are a cast of the mind that is so
insidious that often the individual is no longer aware that with
every glance and gaze and examination of others there is that note
of analysis and criticism. This is death unto the soul of the individual
who retains it and death unto the little ones who should be so unfortunate
as to come under the gaze and mien of such an one.
" . . . And you should not flee this court
but run to it and know that day by day you are overcoming. You are
overcoming, beloved! Each and every one of you is overcoming. But
you must see that you move against those momentums of ancient pride
that reek to such an extent that the angels must wear gas masks,
as it were, to be free from the offense of the stench of the purging
of that unconscious and the subconscious levels of being and of
the carnal mind. Such it is, beloved. It is a pollution of your
being.
"And you must be free from these toxins of
ancient times and be willing to see yourself in need of total reformation.
And that reformation is called 'conversion,' and it is the turning
around of your being and it is the acceleration of the atoms until
they throw off so much darkness that you pass through the dark night
of the soul and the Dark Night of the Spirit and all seems darkness
to you.
"And in that very hour you must remember the
word and the teaching of Saint John of the Cross, Saint Teresa of
Avila. Yes, beloved, they are come again unto you. And you must
hear your ministers and hear the word of your preachers and know
that those who have borne the Light in your defense and have championed
your cause in past ages do come again and they themselves have moved
against all infamy and calumny and gossip against their lifestreams.
And that is a part of the purging of the earth.
"And if the saints do not stand in the earth,
beloved, how will the little ones who are the shorn lambs stand
in the earth? If the saints do not rise, beloved, into a higher
calling, how will any survive 'so great salvation'? We ask it, beloved."
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God and Goddess Meru
June 30, 1991 |
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To A Beautiful Person
If God had a refrigerator, your
picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would
be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He listens.
He can live anywhere in the universe,
but He chose
your heart.
Face it friend, He is crazy about
you!
God didn't promise days without
pain, laughter
without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength
for the day, comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.
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"God in you is able! But do not, I pray you, adorn the human
self, which the mortal is. As the grass, it is here today and gone
tomorrow, and the mighty fire and the wind sweep through and it
is no more.
"Beloved ones, the course of perfecting the
human is not the way. It is not the way of overcoming. Thus, if
you are not interested in perfecting the human, you can just right
now drop that pride in your human self! Just drop it on the floor
as an old garment! Beloved ones, it is as an oily, torn undershirt
that you have worn too long. Do you not see, it does not matter?
You are real God-free beings—divine beings now! You are immortal,
and all else is illusion! Will you accept it? ['Yes!']
"Beloved hearts, the components are there
in the dictations, the decree book, the Keepers of the Flame lessons.
But, as it always is, the more vast the compendium of knowledge,
the greater the requirement of the teacher to organize. Thus, I
point to the Count-to-Nine Decree. The 'Count-to-Nine' given in
the full fire of your heart enables you to regain the command of
your auric forcefield that has been impinged upon, pressed upon,
penetrated, invaded.
"Thus, understand: sometimes when you suddenly
feel a disturbance—you
are taken aback, you have a shock or a sudden reaction to the actions
of injustice of another—one of
the reasons you momentarily lose your balance is because the normal
flow of the aura has been disturbed,
as though you would suddenly agitate the waters.
"Now, your aura is your sanctuary, and it
is the sanctity of your God flame. Thus, before answering the demands
of the carnal mind-the questioning, the praying for favors, or whatever
—reestablish yourself. Speak quietly, softly, and slowly.
For in this way you will not engage into yourself the anger, the
impetuosity, the upsetness of anyone around you.
"You speak as I am speaking now: from the
heart—from the seat of the heart,
the point of the Buddha. You speak loud enough, in the sense of
being strong and firm, so that the breath and the voice are not
sinking like a shrinking violet of fear. You speak strong enough
and firm enough and peaceful enough and powerful enough so that
God may use your voice to still your own aura
and the agitation or the fear or the excitement of another.
"Be the calm presence in a vortex of calamity
and activity, beloved hearts, and learn the way of the power, the
immense power of peace itself. Thus, beloved ones, you ought to
know by heart the Count-to-Nine Decree. You ought to realize that
in a situation of upsetness it is necessary to take some deep breaths.
For in the presence of anxiety, the heart begins to palpitate and
people begin to breathe in a short-breath manner, thus adding to
the absence of control.
"You take a deep breath, you release it, you
go to the heart, and you give no instantaneous answers, yes or no—no
instantaneous reactions or solutions—but
quietly turn within. There are many ways of handling this. If someone
is ferocious like a mad dog, you may say, "Wait one minute,
please. I shall return momentarily." [applause]
" . . . Often it is a matter of stance.
How do you hold yourself? Are you in readiness for the next delivery
of God or thrust of the sinister force, or are you, as they say
these days, 'laid-back?' If you slouch, if you are laid-back, wide
open, lounging around-the TV set is on, the ads are bombarding their
rock beat, the cat is meowing, the dog is barking, the children
are screaming, the phone is ringing—how do you expect, then,
to keep your cool? It is a setup, but you have allowed it.
" . . . Well, beloved ones, do not point
the finger at those who are the self-sacrificing ones, for you know
not the karma they balance or the assignment from inner levels.
They have read the record of their life and they know what it will
take to overcome and be victorious. And they are also a signpost
to allow you to see that there is a sainthood to be pursued. And
when you see the humble chela you may imitate the Christ in that
one but not become attached to the outer personality."
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"I come that the rough places might be made plain, the rough
places about each one. Often we are not aware of the rough places,
for we are rough-hewn and "that is just the way we are,"
or so we say.
"I come, then, for the exquisite outpicturing
of your immortal design. I come to affirm it, not to deny it, as
others of this world may do. I come to affirm that blueprint that
is whole and that is holy.
Forgive and Forgive Again
"Oh, let there be the binding of the sense
of sin and of the condemnation upon those who stray from the law.
Have I not forgiven thee—forgiven
thee and forgiven thee again and again?
And have I not admonished you to forgive seventy times seven?
"I say, seven hundred, seven thousand times
seven give the cup of mercy, give the cup of forgiveness, and discover
an astounding transmutation of your own karma and of the wrongs
that you have carried with you for so long because you have condemned
yourself, criticized yourself and therefore felt that you could
not rise again. Thus, as you forgive others their trespasses, you
yourself are forgiven.
Who is it that does point the finger?
Let him who is without sin first cast the stone
"Thus I spoke to the accusers of Magdalene.
And this day in the arms of God, she is ascended. She is victorious.
And yet, beloved, is it not so that the condemnation of the world
is still upon woman-woman who is used and abused?
"And in the very heart of my knights of the
flame present here, my sons, is there not also the chalice of the
Divine Mother? And are you not also defenders of the Divine Mother?
" . . . Blessed hearts, these are subtleties.
We speak of prejudice against this Church or against this or that
race, but do we know (and I speak for you as I am one of you) when
we are unlawfully prejudiced against others? Do we automatically
define this group and that group, these others and those others?
"To be prejudiced in general against a group,
a certain level of society, a certain type of individual or those
of a certain nation means that each time you meet someone of that
collective group you already have the door of your mind closed and
you do not open the door.
"I say, if you would be rid of prejudice
practiced against this Church and your path, you must be rid of
prejudice within yourselves—you
must be rid of the tendency of the carnal mind to be prejudiced
in favor of itself. You must dig deep and discover whether when
seeing individuals of this or that class you feel prejudiced against
them because they are too rich or too poor, educated or uneducated,
or because they are this or they are that.
"Blessed ones, the human mind works in an
insidious way. It is so insidious that you do not even know it is
insidious. Pause for a moment and review the Law: You can be rid
of the negatives that are practiced against you only by going deep
within and determining that you will have the love that I have for
all souls, which transcends the earthly garment—whether
black or white or yellow or red-the background, the accent, the
genes or the IQ of this or that one.
"Search your souls. If you do not have a
transcendent love for all people that comes from seeking and finding
me in the threefold flame of their hearts, then you may yet retain
insidious prejudices because you behold the outer man and not the
inner man of the heart.
"You can be certain that you are rid of your
prejudices only if you systematically go through your vocabulary
and your attitudes, only if you sift your thoughts, including your
superiority and inferiority complexes. Yes, where do you position
yourself? And do you judge others from that
position? Do you define your identity in society by your membership
in this exclusive group or that exclusive group?
"There is pride, even spiritual pride, in
some who have the Teachings of the Ascended Masters and therefore
feel that they are better than others. This is most unfortunate,
for hearts of gold are everywhere in the earth and they are where
you would least expect to find them.
"You who have the gift of the discernment
of spirits always know when you have found the rare Lightbearer.
You know by the light of the eye, by the quality of the voice, by
the givingness of the heart and by the waters of Life flowing freely
from the chakras.
"This is not to say that you look down upon
those who do not have the light of the eye or of the aura. But it
is to say that at the very moment when by sheer mindless, unthinking
habit you would be prejudiced against those whom you deem to be
of lesser attainment on the Path, you turn to the beautiful face
of my Father Maitreya and you remember his eternal kindness and
his eternal compassion. And your heart then overflows with love
for a soul, any soul, for here is God encased in mortal form.
"I ask you this day to take a scorepad and
to recall the kindnesses and the unkindnesses you have extended
toward others. Note the incidents and put two check marks for each
kindness and one check mark for each unkindness. In this way you
can periodically review the quality of your interchanges with others.
This is important.
" . . . The fact remains that I am the Lord
and the Saviour of every lifestream upon earth, even those whom
you would consider to be of the seed of the Wicked One or of the
fallen angels or mechanization man, et cetera. Beloved hearts, there
is no prejudice when you come before the Lords of Karma. The seven
members of the Karmic Board, with Vairochana the newly appointed
eighth member, do not regard you with jaded eye as they administer
Divine Justice.
"Understand, then, that inasmuch as God has
given life to a soul, that soul shall have salvation through me,
shall have my support until the Lord God himself declares that the
hour of the final judgment of that one is come. It is only then
that I let go of my service to set that lifestream free.
" . . . Power can be a dangerous thing, especially
when you retain the sin of prejudice. With a prejudiced mind, you
will judge unrighteous judgment; you will abuse power and therefore
you will be judged and the karma of your unrighteousness will descend.
"Know, then, beloved, that to be a good shepherd
is to give the word of kindness and compassion again and again.
Whether you journey to lower levels of the astral plane with Archangel
Michael or to the highest levels of the etheric plane, remember
to give kindness to all. For you never know when those who have
strayed far from the center of being, under the influence of black
magicians and fallen angels, will melt by the tenderness of your
heart that says, 'No matter how filthy or dark this one has become
or how great his wrongs have been, I will give the word of kindness.'
"Think of the mother who in desperation took
the life of her two little boys. How the nation is disgusted with
this mother. Severe crimes are being committed every day in every
nation. Shall we toss this one or that one onto the rubbish heap
and say, 'This one is no longer worthy of kindness or compassion.
His sins are too great?'
"No, we shall not, beloved. For one day that one who receives
kindness and compassion, together with the violet flame of the Holy
Spirit, may surely be converted to the real and living Christ, who
I AM. And I do not exclude souls from my Church or ministry based
on human prejudice or on the darkness of their deeds.
" . . . How will you know when you meet someone
who is of the Evil One and when you meet someone who is of God?
For either one may be serving in an official capacity of meting
out judgments, making laws and directing the course of justice.
"You will know one from the other, as I have
said, by the gift of discernment of spirits. And you will, of course,
carve your words to fit the occasion; but a simple seed of truth
planted is enough, beloved, to turn around a lifestream, to turn
one who is of a negative polarity to a positive polarity of hope
and of joy.
"I ask you not to forsake any—any
who are sent to you, any who come your way, any who knock
at your door begging for the bread of Life. I ask you to remember
that in the ups and downs of the sine wave of your many lifetimes
you have been prince and pauper, priest and philosopher-king, sultan
and slave."
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"So, there is a side of the nature that is fragile, there is
a side of the nature that is strong. And again, beloved, it is relative,
so that you know not when you are weak and you know not when you
are strong.
"Thus, the Ascended Masters do come and we
do dote over you, but we do not indulge you. And we are fierce in
challenging you when you allow yourselves to express the not-self.
This cannot go unnoticed. This cannot go without discipline. This
deserves the cosmic spanking because all of
you know better and all of you are capable of doing better.
"And therefore when you vent that anger
of the dweller on occasion, you must understand, beloved, that you
do so knowingly and willingly and that you do so because you have
not taken the precautions day by day to gain that mastery over the
beast."
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"Blessed ones, feed the poor.
Clothe their souls. Adorn the mind with the wisdom and the practical
know-how of their daily livelihood. Set an example. Teach the children.
Let them not be lost! When serving the public good and the order,
there must be no discrimination between the ranks of those who have
much or less karma or this or that. When you are a public servant—and
you are all public servants—then your Lord is the Christ of
every man. ['Judge not lest ye be judged.']
"And I remind you that the Great Teacher
said, 'The servant is not greater than his lord.' Thus, remember
in humility that you are not greater than the Christ, even the Christ
Self that might be far above the evildoer. Serve that Christ! Cast
your anchor into the heart of that Christ and pull that Christ down
and raise that soul up and let the marriage [of that soul and her
Lord take place because you have interceded in Mercy's name]!
"Much can be accomplished by visualization
as you visualize this happening to millions of the disenfranchised,
millions of those who do not know what it means to have a piece
of the pie of the American dream. If you give them no hope, it means
you give them no anchor, no anchor to cast into the bedrock of their
own God-Reality.
"Pray, then, for there is not one of you
here tonight who in some embodiment past has not been at the very
bottom of the heap, [at the lowest rung] of society's ladder. And
there you should have remained had it not been for someone who had
compassion and more, who when looking upon you had to have hope,
beloved—hope of a greater vision
of what you could become than even you yourself had for yourself.
If someone had not had compassion and hope for you, hope that is
conviction, a conviction that inspires one to act and to do something
for the poor wretch lying in the gutter somewhere—namely
you—had such a one not come to
your aid, you should not have risen in that life and if not in that
life, then perhaps not in a series of lives.
"I will tell you the secret prayer of the
Messenger, who continually praises God in Morya, who did pick her
up as an orphan waif sometime, somewhere in the depths of the astral
plane. Thus, beloved, understand how you may share in the prayer
of Teresa of Avila, [which is also the prayer of the Messenger]:
'I, a poor sinner, I, a poor sinner, am not worthy of thee, my Lord,
and yet I serve and I pray.'
"See yourself, then, truly as that orphan.
For are you not an orphan until the day and the hour when someone,
perhaps some great one of the adepts, does take you and turn you
around and set you on a course straight for the highest star? Does
anyone here still think that he has done this of himself? ['No.']
"It is well to remember that, beloved. For
all have been wretched, all have been the downtrodden, all have
been under [the boot of] civilizations, empires [that have been
run as] absolute dictatorships.
"Who did come and rescue you?
"So it was Sanat Kumara, Saint Germain, the
Holy One of God. Yes, beloved. Yes, beloved, remember these things
when you see the peoples of this nation, the masses of humanity
and so many who are under tyrants and helpless before oncoming armies,
famines, droughts and the hopelessness of no change for the future.
Think of those incarcerated across the nations of the earth.
"I say this to all of you, for I give you
the consciousness of the Buddha, and I want you to know that that
portion that I give to you is the sensitivity to the pain of those
who are not as well-off as you are. And when I speak of being well-off,
I speak of the riches of the Spirit and the direct contact you have
with the Ascended Masters and Almighty God if you exercise it.
"Do you not know that some have indeed silenced
the voice of conscience, snuffed out the threefold flame and have
no momentum of contact with God? Yet somewhere deep inside there
is a point of kindness, a point of goodness and the desire to be
somebody who can accomplish something, who might ultimately do something
for someone else. Have mercy. Have the quality
of mercy within you. Be merciful toward life. For as God has forgiven
you your sins, so know that the gift is given to you to extend that
forgiveness to life.
"And the disciples were given that gift:
'Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted; whosoever sins ye retain,
they are retained.' This is given to the true disciple, who has
that Christ Flame burning brightly and has developed the sword of
discrimination, cleaving asunder the Real from the Unreal and understanding
when it is necessary for a man, a woman, a child to bear their karma
and when, in their heart of hearts, it is not necessary for them
to carry it longer."
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" . . . you can systematically visualize the twelve stations
of the Cosmic Clock in your mind. Starting at the twelve o'clock
line, you can confess the sins of condemnation and criticism and
judgment of other parts of life that you remember, and then confess
the sins you don't remember but that you sense you may have a momentum
of in your consciousness.
"Obviously, criticism denotes fear, for fear
of your own incompleteness makes you criticize another part of life.
Thus you can find fear on every one of these twelve lines and it's
a very interesting exercise to do. Following your confession of
the specific sins that come to mind, you can then make a general
prayer for the sins you cannot remember, because your Christ Self
remembers, with the help of the recording angels who see what is
recorded in the cells.
"The Catholic Church instituted confession
to help the soul unburden itself of the points of sin
that through guilt had become anti-suns in the electronic belt.
Today, because we do not go to confession, repent of our sins and
then transmute those sins, the collective accumulation of fear and
guilt has resulted in an age of psychiatry and a time of great inner
disturbance.
"All over the world, people are disturbed
because the day of judgment is nigh It is a fixed star, and we are
getting closer and closer to it. Everybody senses that they are
moving toward a day of reckoning when they will stand face-to-face
with the Mighty I AM Presence. Therefore every day that passes in
which their sins are not confessed, put into the violet flame and
then the temple purged by love, there is an increase of fear.
"The fear in the cells grows because it gathers
more of itself. Those anti-suns within the temple become a vortex
that collects astral substance. When you start with one point of
fear, by its very turning, by its very magnetism, it draws to itself
the identical vibration from the astral plane.
"Now you understand the basis of human
sympathy, sympathetic attractions and sympathetic relationships.
People with the same kinds of fear are attracted to one another,
associate with one another, hang around together, and usually wind
up spending their lives together. It is most
unfortunate."
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"Tomorrow at about three, we will be
reviewing the dictation of beloved El Morya from yesterday to give
you an opportunity to write a similar letter to the Divine Father
specifically to Alpha and to El Morya. In that dictation, he mentioned
the failure of an activity with which he had worked for about fifteen
years. The records and the archives of this activity are in my possession
and the striving of the masters with that group is very evident.
That group was the Bridge to Freedom in its early inception, in
the early fifties through the early sixties . . .
"So you'll hear the story of the Bridge
tomorrow. What I would like to talk about is the inner circle in
the Bridge that he was working with, with special people that were
drawn together because, specifically of their Causal Bodies. They
had tremendous attainment in their Causal Bodies of thousands of
years of previous activities. When these people got together, it
was like dynamite. It was just an explosion, a clash of wills.
"I recently read the inner, private dictations that he gave
to these people, almost pleading with them to stop their bickering,
and their fighting, and their egotism and their rebellion and to
combine their virtues for the victory. But they would not. And so
that endeavor failed and Morya lost fifteen years of working with
this group of chelas and finally having to abandon them, starting
all over with the Summit Lighthouse."
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SU Lecture, Level I
Saint Germain-Morya Series No. 10
(El Morya's Dictation, September 26, 1965)
November 17, 1975, Elizabeth C. Prophet |
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"As you rise in consciousness you will discover, that those
needs which you require in one plane of consciousness are not necessarily
those which you required in former times when your body was vibrating
at a more dense rate of vibration.
"A propos of this subject, I would caution
all, then, not to condemn their fellowmen for their habits of eating
or of living. For all are not at the same place of vibration. even
though all maybe in the physical octave, and each one must find
the manifestation of the Holy Comforter at that point in the dimension,
the time sequence, where he himself is manifesting.
"Do you realize that all men do not
manifest at the same place in consciousness? And this means that
the actual chemistries of their bodies, their emotional bodies too,
are not vibrating at the same place. But because this manifestation
is within one spectrum, you continue to see and converse and commingle
with these individuals; yet in reality they are not all manifesting
at your own rate of vibration.
"You must, then, learn not to condemn,
not to criticize, but to understand that here is a flower that is
unfolding in another garden of the consciousness of God, in one
of his many mansions."
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Beloved Father Enoch April 5, 1969 |
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“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment
ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam
that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let
me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in
thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine
own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out
of thy brother’s eye.”
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Matt. 7:1-5
See also John 8:7 |
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“But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever
shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council:
but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest
that thy brother hath ought against thee, leave there thy gift before
the altar and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother and
then come and offer thy gift.”
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Matt. 5:22-24 See also
Matt. 12:36, 37; 25:41-46 |
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"Whenever you point your finger at someone, three others are
pointing at you."
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Mark Prophet, Discourses
on Cosmic Law, audio B88154 |
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Resentment: The Most Sinful Act
You Can Commit against the Law
"So you see, beloved, some of you have
not stepped forward and said, "I can be this chalice of the
Holy Spirit. I have taken my lessons from the Mother this summer,
and I recognize that I must come into a love alignment with all
people. I must forgive all and I must understand that if I find
it difficult to forgive this one and that one for grievous wrongs,
I can call for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold of those
who have wronged me, thereby rendering them a great service, and
I can forgive their souls. In the words of Jesus, I can say, 'Father,
forgive them, for they know not what they do.'
"Some have blamed God for the karmic
circumstances of their lives. If you are among them, I ask you to
call upon the law of forgiveness for having so cast the blame for
your karma on your heavenly Father. And then I ask you to forgive
God for the circumstances of your life, for you know full well that
your karma is your karma. I ask you to forgive the Ascended Masters.
I ask you to forgive the Archangels. I ask you to forgive the Messenger.
I ask you to forgive one another and yourselves and, in so doing,
to say: 'Father, forgive me, for I knew not what I did.'
"Many have done unto Jesus Christ in
a state of ignorance what they would not do to him in an enlightened
state. And I tell you, beloved, there are still many among you who
do those things that you know you should not do. And you do not
do them ignorantly but you do them knowingly, simply because you
will not say die to the resentment, to the hostility, to this and
that shadowed form that lurks in your body temple, that lurks in
the garments of your etheric, mental or astral sheath.
"Where do you think the cancers come from?
"Where do you think the diseases come
from?
"You throw off all disease when you
internalize the Light. Nothing can harm you. But I tell you, beloved,
when you internalize resentment, when you internalize that ragged,
jagged energy that ties up and blocks the flow of Light within you,
then you are certainly a candidate for diseases that may very well
take you out of embodiment.
"It is absolutely imperative, beloved,
that you let go of all sense of criticism, condemnation and judgment,
of being incensed that this or that wrong has been done unto you.
I tell you, beloved, if you do not do this, it would be better for
you to go out from the Great White Brotherhood and separate yourselves
from it. For not to forgive, not to make things right with a brother,
a sister, with this one or that one could produce the greatest setback
to your victory and to your participating in our program at Darjeeling
for members-in-training under our Council.
"Think of this, beloved. Some of you
have allowed lingering resentments to go unchecked. This is notably
the most sinful act that can be committed by one who knows the Law.
I desire you to consider in this hour just what is your responsibility
in light of your knowledge of the Law. Once you have that knowledge
and you know the truth and you are no longer ignorant, you have
far heavier karma in allowing resentments to smolder than when you
were totally ignorant, even in this life.
"So you see, beloved, some of you do
not recognize that the great wisdom imparted to you through the
Messenger by the members of our bands does place upon you a major
responsibility to change your life, change your consciousness, to
turn around and shed the cocoon of the old self, become Light and
let that Light propel you into a service of joy and love whereby
you find fulfillment in yourselves and facilitate the fulfillment
of others.
" . . . This conference is a major turning
point. For I have come. I AM El Morya. I speak to you. And inasmuch
as I have spoken, I do not wish to see any not heed my word. For,
beloved ones, the Karmic Board is strict with us, very strict. And
when we receive a dispensation to speak to you and you do not heed
the words of that dictation as a dispensation granted in your behalf,
then at a future date when I or other Masters go back to the Karmic
Board requesting to deliver a dictation, the Lords of Karma say,
'Not until the students of long standing and even the new students
will put into practice that which we have given, for we will not
give a teaching that is not used.
" . . . For whatever your dissatisfactions
are, they are not the fault of God, of Morya, of the Messenger,
of this or that brother or sister or spouse.
"Beloved ones, your problems are your
own. They are the fruit of your tree of life. Make your peace with
them. Cast out the bad fruit and harvest the good, but do not blame
others for your fateful fruit. For you will waste a lifetime pointing
the finger at this one and that one instead of pointing it at yourselves-and
furthermore, you will lose my Electronic Presence with you.
" . . . I urge you and I plead with you to hear me as you have
never heard me before, to listen to my voice in the depths of your
souls, to make your peace with all people as if the morrow were
your ascension day or the day of your transition. Beloved hearts,
make your peace with God and walk the earth as living saviours.
That is the calling."
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" . . . Above all things you might
pray for from the Holy Kumaras, pray for the cosmic honor flame.
And measure all actions, all musings of the mind by the honor
that was the signet of your Thomas Becket, your Thomas More,
whom you honor as your Chief and Counselor.
" . . . Without your word as your
honor, without your actions as your honor, how can you walk
the straight and narrow path wherein you commit wrong toward
none but good toward all?
" . . . When you speak in honor, when you do not repeat
gossip, when you do not engage in criticism, condemnation and
judgment, especially during the cycle of Capricorn, you will
see how you liberate yourself to enter in to the cosmic honor
flame, which is a positive attribute of the sign of Capricorn.
It is a high honor. And out of honor come the blessings of the
Great Divine Director, whose Great Blue Causal Body amplifies
the God-Power of the Capricorn hierarchy.
"Have you thought when you make your major choices in life
that there is one right choice and a thousand other options?
What leads you to the right choice? It is honor, beloved, honor
in daily decisions. And if sometime you may tarnish your honor,
you can polish it again by right action and a profound humility,
calling upon the law of forgiveness so that you might be given
another opportunity to perform not one but many righteous deeds."
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Criticism,
Condemnation and Judgment
part I |