My beloved, I enter the Spirit of the Christmastide in the very
heart of the Great Central Sun in your behalf. I enter into the
Spirit of the Christ in the act of being born and descending.
The Spirit of Christmas is a being of great,
great light and Buddhic attainment.
I come to announce, then, to you this Presence of the Almighty
individed in the individuality of the God flame.
The one known as the Spirit of Christmas is therefore
come to tell of the birth of Jesus Christ against the backdrop
of nature’s darkest hour of the year. The announcement at
winter solstice of his star appearing is a great drama of cosmos;
and it is here to teach us that in the darkest night of man’s
longing, there does appear the star of hope and the birth of the
Saviour.
I enter the Spirit of Christmas so that you may
understand that it is entirely possible for more than one son
of God to participate in a holy office, to co-occupy the divine
intent upon the twig that is bent, upon the very point, the focal
point of a quartz crystal embracing a world of fiery intent. Dear
hearts, I therefore come as the Spirit of Christmas, as you might
anticipate the coming of the one known as Santa Claus.
Remember the heart of a child—your
child, yourself—thinking
about the coming of Santa and how he would enter the house, and
how you would leave him cookies and milk and perhaps even a snack
for the reindeer. Remember how, in fullest belief, because your
parents had told you, you entered into that Spirit of Santa. And
remember also the disappointment upon learning that Santa was
not real.
But this is not true! Santa
is real. And I am here to tell you
that Santa Claus himself is the typical vessel of the Spirit of
Christmas, the one who embodies this very Presence which I have
entered.
It is wrong to tell children that Santa
is not real. It is right to explain to them the Spirit of Christmas
is indeed a person—a
person made real in God, a person who is a cosmic being, who fills
the hearts of the people with the anticipation of the greatest
gift of all, the gift of personal Christhood.
Those things that bring delight to children—games
and toys and things and rings in stockings —beloved
hearts, originally the gifts given to the child of every heart
were intended to enhance the child’s perception and realization
of that Person of Christ. When you think about the gifts that
are given these days, you realize that some gifts do assist the
individual in a greater sense of identity, while others adorn
the outer person and tend to create more maya of idolatry. And
thus, attaching importance and attention to the outer self, the
individual loses the great opportunity of this hour to truly enter
into the heart of that cosmic being known as the Spirit of Christmas.
Therefore, beloved ones, understand that this
Spirit embodies the collective consciousness of Christhood of
the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood—of
all ascended beings and angels and masters, cosmic hosts of the
Lord who are that Christ. Let us realize, then, that in all symbols
there is reality; in archetypes there is the original pattern
of the image made perfect out of Christ; and in Santa Claus himself
is the lingering hope in all that the figure of the Cosmic Christ
will come to bring the true joy, the joy of the heart filled with
love.
I enter into this Spirit to bless many who have
not yet contacted our word, our love, or our message. I know that
you understand and can share with me in a certain sense of an
increased desire, a fiery desire and intent to contact millions
of souls who in truth have a propensity for the Light but need
that special recipe, that special teaching and understanding,
the visual aid, the uncovering of truth.
You know very well how the tastes of people the
world around differ, and therefore the dishes from many nations
have a very peculiar flavor—a
peculiar way of eating. So the people of these countries, from
all corners of the world, do have great differences of palate.
Therefore, beloved, realize that, in the breaking of the bread
of Life, one must develop a taste for a certain dish. And it is
our desire to make tasteful the teaching of the violet flame and
of all that we so cherish—all
that is a part of our climbing of the highest mountain.
And therefore, because each step of the way,
each new altitude, each new mark of heightened sense of God-awareness
requires a new teaching, so the volumes of our work must be like
rocks that set the path to the summit of each man’s being.
Each volume must say to the wayfarer: Thou canst
not proceed further unless this stone become the living bread
of Life within thee. Sitting on the rock and reading the Book
of Life, thou shalt truly become the Rock and ascend once again,
saying over and over again, “Lead me to the Rock that is
higher than I.” <1>
Therefore, beloved, the desire to contact those
is in my heart. It is my birthday wish <2> and call for
dispensation to the heart of Alpha. I know that my own, each one
of you, sense this great desiring that is in the heart of our
Mother also. No thing is more important in the universe to our
lifestreams than this breaking of the bread of Life, taking that
bread and placing it in the open mouths of the birds that come
to be fed.
Let the symbol of this Christmas be the World
Mother, and the crown of a million stars be a giant nest where
all of the birds of the universes may come and find their rest
in that crown chakra of the Buddha and of the Mother.
O star-fire body of our appearing, year by year
we bring the news of good cheer. Year by year we turn the page,
that souls may view again a higher way and an inner understanding,
a deeper sense of Selfhood.
We are most pleased, then, to announce our forthcoming
publications, to present them to you during this holy week of
celebrations. <3> We are most pleased at the effort and
the striving. And we say to you, Think again. Think again in your
heart: if you had not received that book, that teaching, if you
could not study the Word, how would you know what it is or where
to find it?
O now this year coming, be runners in the race.
<4> Distribute our teaching far and wide, personally, physically—two-by-twoing,
if you will, going door-to-door, if you will <5>—speaking
the Word where you are moved, but always with the seed, as Johnny
Appleseed. These seeds are the books themselves. And remember
the pages of the Bible that he would leave with those seeds, planting
seeds in the ground and the Word of God in the hearts of men.
<6>
Dear ones, our seed of the teaching must be given.
We have watched how one article in our magazine, one chapter in
a book has turned around the mind of an individual most entrenched
in a downward cycle.
The logic and the reason why truth is true must
be given. Most people on earth are not willing to accept truth
as an absolute without explanation. They are tired of autocrats
and bureaucrats, and they do not believe that the God of truth
sends mandates without explanation.
Well, dear hearts, the Person of Christ as Teacher
is the one who gives the explanation. And therefore, in the giving
of that explanation and the transfer of this mighty flame of illumination
that is in your hand, realize, O realize, how the mind of man
can instantaneously become the vessel of the mind of God! This
is the miracle of the Incarnation—no
longer a mystery but a miracle of the Advent.
My dear hearts, look at that flame. <7>
It represents the illumination of our teaching. Soon the candle
wax will be no more and the wick itself will be consumed. Before
your very gaze, the lifetime of one candle is spent.
How many candle-worth is your life? And how can
you become that candle? The candle is spent, but the flame must
leap into your heart and you must become walking candles. I would
see men as candles walking.
Beloved hearts, it is amusing to contemplate
trees walking as men, men walking as trees. <8> Is it amusing
to consider that the candle you bear could just as easily be the
sacred fire of the Spirit of Christmas, and you could hold in
your hand that Person of God and be seen as a cosmic being walking?
Wisdom and Cheer . . .
"Christmas is not a time
nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and
goodwill,
to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of
Christmas."—Calvin Coolidge
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I hold in my hand the Spirit of Christmas. And
then I decide to climb inside, to enter in, to be the candle of
the Buddha in Winter, to be the Cosmic Christ. And it is a fond
embrace, for the Cosmic Christ decides to live in me. There is
a mutuality of desiring in this love of the higher evolution for
the lesser. There is a running to meet heart to heart. When hearts
become one and the fire intensifies, truly it is perfect love.
Enter now the Spirit of Christmas and be it.
Be it every day of the year—blessings.
Blessings full
and not without cheer. Be the Spirit of Christmas, and see how
much the Spirit of Christmas desires to be you. And realize, then,
in all those years of looking forward to Santa’s coming,
Santa has looked forward to coming to you, has desired to be one
with you, has worshiped the light of the Christ in your heart,
has sensed himself a servant gnome—the
chief of gnomes—in the
worship of the newborn Child.
Santa, then, comes as a servant of the Light
and as a chela of the Christ who is the Manchild. Santa might
be a modern version of three wise men coming to bear the gifts
of old—wise elementals
who realize, no matter what the outer manifestation, the celebration
of the birth of Jesus Christ must be that each member of the elemental
kingdom brings a gift to some child of God.
This is the ritual of the elementals, beloved
hearts. It is an amazing ritual to see how these elementals come
to the bedsides of children who wait with expectancy. They bring
little gifts they make, little houses that they construct out
of nutshells, gathering things from the forest and using amazing
techniques to re-create Hansel and Gretel forms, shapes.
Tender hearts are the elementals. And of course,
they are greeted by little children in their finer bodies with
such joy. Truly, this is the joy of Christmas, when sweet children
can freely interact with elementals, and elementals can know the
true worship of Christ and the hope that they, too, may become
that Christ.
The hope of elemental life remains this year—hope
in you, beloved. And their hope for immortal life remains predicated
upon your victory, your Godmastery, and your Christhood. <9>
Thus, Santa Claus is the great attention-getter
of all elemental life each Christmas, coming therefore with that
elfin wink and that twinkle of mirth to gather bouquets of attention
from the children as they thereby channel the love of their hearts
for the blessing of these servants of fire, air, water, and earth.
I summon, therefore, all elemental life to the
heart of the Buddha and the Mother. I summon elemental life to
the Inner Retreat for the building of a new day, and to Camelot
to learn how they, too, may teach men the way.
Most blessed ones, let us increase and multiply
the opportunity for Montessori education to the lightbearers of
a planet. Let us not be discouraged, but let us strive anew. Let
every student of our school realize that his own Christhood sets
a standard and an example not only for the school and the community,
but for all youth of the world. It is not a collective standard,
though Christ be one in all. It is an individual standard that
you keep by cherishing some very special gift of God, some very
special virtue.
Set the standard on a line that you can draw
and keep, beloved students of the light. Maintain a standard and
become a candle that glows with a single virtue that is one of
noncompromise, and you will soon become known for your sense of
justice, for your love, for your integrity, for your friendship,
for your striving for truth.
Our school is built of many stones, and our aspiration
is more than just a gingerbread cottage. We would build the pyramid
of the new age, and we would build the temple of man. [13-second
pause]
I pause, so that your heart may speak to me [7-second
pause] and so that you may put before me the utmost question,
the one of greatest import that sits upon your heart—a
desiring to know, a desiring to solve and resolve a problem.
Now I make myself manifold, and if you will have
me, I would enter the Spirit of Christmas who is your very own
beloved Christ Self.
Now, did you ever think that the Beloved—the
beloved Christ Self is the person of Santa himself? Now you see
him as the Christ, now you see him as the archetype of elemental
life, and now you go to the very kernel of his heart and know
him as the smiling Cosmic Christ, the smiling Maitreya, the smiling
Gautama. Now after all, doesn’t Santa remind you of the
Buddha in Winter?
We must become together the Great Giver of Life!
We must enter into that givingness and realize that though our
path is one of a striving to set aside that Inner Retreat and
preserve the teaching, we are in fact giving our alms to the poor
and helping those very ones in America who are without home or
heat or food and yet are being helped by their neighbors and friends.
And yet, though they are fed in body, these same ones still have
a longing in spirit—a loneliness
and a hunger that cannot be assuaged with physical food.
There are those whose calling it is to meet the
immediate physical needs of those in want. And of course, you
must always do this when you are face-to-face with those in need.
But though the call be great, and even as a temptation you would
go forth to sell all you have and divide it among the poor, even
as Jesus taught, <10> you must have a higher understanding
of selling all you have for the sake of providing for the poor
in spirit <11> who must, must have the Inner Retreat and
the teaching and the place prepared.
Come into the union of the community of light.
I send forth the call to those who have never considered before
this precept of the Lord: Go and sell all that thou hast, and
then secure the pearl of great price. <12>
This teaching on the selling and the giving to
the poor and on the selling and the purchase of the pearl of great
price go hand-in-hand with the Buddhic path of nonattachment.
Following the Guru and the Path means that all that one has, as
the bubble of the aura, now joins the bubbles of auras of the
hundreds and the thousands, making one great bubble of light,
one great canopy for the poor in spirit.
Consider, then, how you may enter in and become
a part of the mystical body of God by the very same requirements
that I gave to my own—which
Jesus gave to his own, and Moses before him, and Zarathustra and
Gautama—that entering into
the circle, that swimming into the sea of life, the drop entering
the ocean.
There is the necessity of identification of the
self with community and with the land. There is the necessity
for some to reconsider their positioning in life. Therefore, let
us enter the Central Sun.
I told you that I was entering the Spirit of
Christmas in the Central Sun. I AM here and I AM there. I have
set the forcefield of my being as a mirror here in this heart
and upon this altar, and I have set my being in the Central Sun,
therefore creating the oscillation of light waves and a stronger
image and a magnified image. Thus, I AM in the Great Central Sun.
Enter, then, by the mirror image which is reflected in my Electronic
Presence here at this altar.
So, beloved, by my mirror image, set forth scientifically
according to the same principles applied on earth, I have brought
the Central Sun to this place. And you have entered, for the mirror
image is the same, the one. Yet, in that mirror, the intensity
can be turned down with a dial of consciousness. Thus, by example
I would teach you that your soul is a mirror in itself, and you
also can bring to earth (and to the earth of the Inner Retreat)
the mirror image of the Central Sun and of Alpha and Omega and
of the Great Throne Room and the Temple Beautiful.
As you are abiding now for a time with me in
this great forcefield of light, I impart to you the vision, once
again, of the chohans of the Inner Retreat, your place within
it—the vision of “Thy
kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” In the Central
Sun you see the vision and the actuality of God’s kingdom.
Standing in the Great Central Sun, you look down upon this point
in space, and you see your soul as a mirror on earth. And you,
in your causal body and I AM Presence, send to that soul the image
of Self.
Now realize how important is the angle of the
mirror of the soul, which is concave—as
a flower petal cupped to receive and reflect the light. Imagine,
then, if this gentle, curved soul and mirror would be tipped just
slightly at an angle away from the Great Central Sun; it would
become cold and dark and not reflect the fullness of the light
or the vision of the kingdom. This is what happens when you take
your attention off of the I AM Presence and Almighty God. There
is not the direct mirror image on earth of what there could be.
“Well,” you say, “Lanello,
I have many things to think about. I cannot simply think about
the sun all day.” Well, beloved ones, there is an inner
technique for this God-mastery, which I learned and practiced
in my final incarnation.
In the back of your mind, in the recesses and
the folds of the curtain, in the backdrop of that area of your
being where you outplay the day’s role, there is that sense
of awareness. You can feel it now in your spine. You can feel
it in the energy which rises. There is an inner, an interior and
an anterior sense of the Great Central Sun.
You have contemplated the sun and beloved Alpha
and our Father so long that you retain the image and the inner
direction, and you do not depart from it even in all of your service
and all the busyness of life. And therefore, there is a constancy
of the eye within you that is a part of all sons and daughters
of God as they go about the business of our Father in heaven and
our Mother on earth.
This, then, is the assignment: to so build the
momentum of attention upon the sun of God as the I AM Presence,
the Christ Self, the crown chakra, and the all-seeing eye, as
well as your heart, that it becomes the automatic flow and current
of your being even when you are diverting some of that flow to
outer activity in the Matter spheres. This is something to be
done and a great safeguard against extreme pitfalls and descents
into areas of life that are very dark.
Some have a yo-yo consciousness. Some seesaw
up and down to great heights of light and new lows of darkness.
This can be overcome by centering in the very center of that point
instead of centering oneself on the surface or the extremities.
Traditional Polish Nativity (szopka)
"I will honor Christmas
in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."—Charles
Dickens
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Now, my beloved, you are absorbing the patterns
of the kingdom come, and specifically our Father’s kingdom
as his design pertains to your area of life and service. There
is a magnification by the great Spirit of Christmas of the area
of your divine plan in this great mandala that represents the
kingdom of God. And now there is a circle of light from your own
God Presence that is amplifying that area on the map, as it were,
of God’s kingdom, so that you can see, very specifically
and particularly, what it is that you must accomplish, the way
in which you must walk, and how you can achieve the inner kingdom.
Let the beloved of God lay upon the altar their
life, their attachments, their possessions, and strive to enter
in and become the One. The One is the fullness of the manifestation—the
Inner Retreat, the base of our pyramid, the focal point of light.
God has a great magnifying glass, and through
that glass he is sending a beam of light, a literal square of
fire upon that land. And do you know, beloved, that the lens of
that magnifying glass is your own causal body and the one causal
body of all of the Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood.
This concentration is for a purpose. The portion
of the kingdom amplified for you is sealed in the secret chamber
of your heart; the inner man of the heart <13> is its custodian,
and the map of that kingdom is also there. Square by square, the
sons of God fill in the blanks.
As you bring your abundance to the Inner Retreat,
so the abundant life will be multiplied for the very ones who
hunger and thirst today. That they may be filled tomorrow is our
prayer. For we recognize a process: that, though we would give
them to drink today, it will take until tomorrow to deliver the
cup, the seed, the book, the magazine.
Prepare, then, to enter in. Prepare to enter
the Inner Retreat as you have entered the Central Sun in this
hour. And prepare to have the vision perpetual of the beaming
of the light that is seen as the square which is the base of your
pyramid on that very land.
I have shown this square of light upon that land
and that Heart to our messenger for many, many days. It is a vision
that must be burned in consciousness, because when you see that
blazing light of the square, it becomes the point toward which
you gravitate—the Lodestone
itself.
I AM your Father, Lanello. I seal you with the
kiss of the crowning rose.
Return in consciousness to this sanctuary. Enter
the vessel, enter the mirror of the soul, and redefine your goal.
I bless you, out of the heart of Bonaventure,
in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and in
the name of the Blessed Virgin, Mary.
God be with you, as you reflect his glory.
Messenger’s Comments and Prayer:
Will you think now of this vessel of the soul,
like a shallow bowl. And will you think of it as the cradle —the
soul as the cradle to receive the Christ. And will you see the
divine Child laying in the crèche that your soul has become,
and realize that in this great event, the kingdom of God is come
into manifestation on earth . . .
Won’t you join hands in prayer with those
who are nearest you.
Beloved Alpha, our Father, it is the prayer of
this family and community of light that there be healing in our
midst–healing, that we might be the more perfect vessel
day by day.
I call for the healing of the minds, hearts,
souls, chakras—etheric,
mental, emotional, and physical bodies of this community of light-bearers
worldwide. Heal the schism and the breach especially caused by
harmful chemicals and drugs, radioactive fallout, and all harmful
elements of the environment as well as the astral plane. Purge
them. Pass through thy light, O God.
O Christmas Child descending, let shafts of light
from thy heart pass through us now and make us whole. We decree
it by the great power of Lanello upon us, by his mighty Electronic
Presence, by the great Spirit of the Christ Mass.
Lord God Almighty, now let our being and our
soul be not only the vessel and the reflector, but be the One–the
one heart united now with the Electronic Presence of the Buddha,
of Sanat Kumara, of this true Spirit of Christmas in the gnomes,
in the Christ, and in our own Christ Self.
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy
Spirit, and the Mother, Amen.
This dictation by Lanello was delivered through
the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Christmas Eve, December
24, 1982, at Camelot. Prior to this dictation, the messenger delivered
a sermon on Luke 11:29-54, “Our Message of the Sign of Jonas.”
Dictation and sermon published on 16-cassette album The Buddhas
in Winter (A83002), or available separately: cassette B83002.
1. Pss. 61:2.
2. Lanello’s birthday in his final incarnation
as the Messenger Mark L. Prophet was Christmas Eve, December 24,
1918.
3. Refers to the new Summit University Press
publications released during the New Year’s class The Buddhas
in Winter (December 29, 1982-January 2, 1983, at Camelot): Heart,
quarterly magazine “for the Coming Revolution in Higher
Consciousness”; 8-cassette album Mother’s Chakra Meditations
and the Science of the Spoken Word (A82162); 2-cassette album
Incarnations of the Magnanimous Heart of Lanello: Louis XIV the
Sun King (A82170); The Science of the Spoken Word, paperback.
4. I Cor. 9:24; Heb. 12:1.
5. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, December 29,
1976, “Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock:
2 x 2 = 42,” cassette B7726. This address by the messenger,
given in Pasadena, California,
at Energy Is God, should be played and studied by Keepers of the
Flame.
6. Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman, 1774,
in Leominster, Massachusetts) was an American pioneer and disciple
of the Swedish scientist-philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. Johnny,
who regarded apple trees as a living meditation upon God, believed
that the Lord had appointed him a mission in the wilderness to
produce apple orchards and preach the gospel to all he met. As
he traveled for 50 years throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
and Indiana, it was his custom, after a day of planting, to stop
at a cabin and ask with enthusiasm, “Will you have some
fresh news right from heaven?” He divided his books and
religious tracts into multiple sections, rotating them among the
settlers. At the time of Johnny’s death in 1845, his apple
seeds had borne fruit over one hundred thousand square miles.
7. During Lanello’s dictation, each devotee
held a candle, lit from the taper held by Mother at the altar.
8. Mark 8:24.
9. The deepest desire of the elemental beings
of fire, air, water, and earth serving earth’s evolutions
is to receive the flame of Life. They are not endowed with a threefold
flame but await
the resurrection of every son and daughter of God in order to
receive their own immortality. In a dictation given Easter, March
29, 1964, Jesus offered a portion of his own heart flame and his
momentum of the resurrection to all elemental life so that they
could feel “a part of the radiance of immortality”
and “never again have the sense of death.”
On April 6, 1977, Diana, Princess of the Fire
Element, announced: “The four Beings of the Elements stand
with me...to anchor the light of the threefold flame on behalf
of elemental life; and the anchoring of that flame is within your
hearts . . . As we come forth from the heart of Helios and Vesta,
we are going to deliver to all elemental life on earth this day,
through your own threefold flames, for a period of one minute,
the action of the threefold flame transferred to their consciousness,
being, and world—that they
might have a foretaste of the flame of immortal life which will
one day be their own . . . These beings, precious ones, adore
the flame within your heart, they adore your lifestreams as the
Christed ones . . . Understand then that these precious ones will
have opportunity as you increase your decrees for them.”
“The Elementals Await Your Word,”
published on Convocation of the New Birth in the New Jerusalem
Easter 1977, 8-cassette album (A7720), or available separately:
cassette B7721. See Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, “Servants
of God and Man in Nature,” in Climb the Highest Mountain
(1980), pp. 369-92; The Science of the Spoken Word (1983), pp.
167-69, 172-76; “Cosmic Cooperation between the Children
of the Sun and Elemental Life,” in A Prophecy of Karma to
Earth and Her Evolutions (Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 23), pp. 75-104.
Invocations and decrees for elemental life: The Creation of the
Cloud: Meditations on the Alchemy of Constructive Change and the
Control of the Aura, 2-cassette album (A8063); Sacred Ritual for
the Creation of the Cloud (cassette B83050), and accompanying
booklet; 36-page booklet Violet Flame Decrees and Songs for Elemental
Life.
10. Matt. 19:21; Mark 10:21; Luke 12:33; 18:22.
11. Matt. 5:3.
12. Matt. 13:46.
13. Eph. 3:16, 17; I Pet. 3:4.
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