The Messenger by Nicholas Roerich
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"Be thou incapable
of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee.
Establish unto thyself principles of action, and see that thou
ever act
according to them. First know that thy principles are just,
and then be thou inflexible in the path of them."—Akhenaton
(c. B.C. 1375)
II, x, 7. Along with an unusual clarity and simplicity of spiritual
cognition
he was endowed with an unusual complexity of the whole being.
In himself Origen atoned for the tempest of the early days of
Christianity.
Being an apologist of knowledge he was indignant at the decline
of knowledge
among the priesthood.—Leaves of Morya's Garden, Illumination
(1925)
"Mighty footprints in the sands of life has our Messenger
left, and all
who are wise will seek them out and place their feet in that unmistakable,
clearly marked pathway which he has shown."El Morya,
March 11, 1973
"Something wonderful
is going to happen! . . . This happens to be
a Great White Brotherhood mantram . . . What God is interested
in
is us having the consciousness of great expectations. Expect much
and you receive much."Mark L. Prophet
"Write often to me and to the Lords of Karma. Ask for dispensations
when you need them, and do not be surprised when you receive them."
Lanello, October 6, 1995
This [Summit Lighthouse] is like the confraternity of the brothers
and sisters
of Islam or of Judaism or of this or that Masonic order, the Knights
Templar, and so on."
—Lanello, July 5, 1992
"Angels initiate you in each of your chakras tens of thousands
of times
in the course of your lifetimes. For after all, beloved, you are
seeking
the highest prize—the gift of eternal life, the gift of
bonding
to your Holy Christ Self, the gift of Godhood."—Lanello,
August 8, 1993
“I am in the Father and the Father in Me.”John
14:10
"May you not grumble."—Lanello, March 3,1991
"Some people treat life as a smorgasbord."—Mark
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The Ball Is in Your Court for the Victory—
Step Forth from Your Heart
"We are interested in you learning the ritual of Victory, defeating
the forces of fallen ones who have plotted, I tell you, more than
a million years for this hour when they think they shall have the
victory. And we shall see what Keepers of the Flame will make of
their challenge, of their denial of the Light of the Great White
Brotherhood.
"Beloved ones, the ball is in your court for
the Victory in this hour. Make the most of it. For the world awaits
your stepping forth from the secret chambers of the heart to the
housetops, to the mountains through the systems of communication
with the Word for which they have been waiting.
"I say, therefore, let the entire momentum
of anti-God, antireligion, anti-the-culture-of-the-Mother-on-earth
go down before the legions of Light encamped on the horizons of
the world.
"Thus, legions of Uriel march with the dawn.
Legions of Michael, Gabriel, Jophiel, Chamuel, legions of Raphael,
Zadkiel, Uzziel all march in the earth for the binding of the fallen
ones who have denied God in the little children, in the sons and
daughters, in the holy Church.
"Therefore, we affirm from the heart of hearts
of Gautama Buddha and confirm the fall of tyrants and all enemies
of the Light: Stand fast, beloved, and see the salvation of your
God!
"Let all study this my message and apply
it immediately. For the Light awaits the proper channels. And when
the proper channels are established, the Light! Light! Light! will
have her perfect work in thee, in this hall, in this university,
in this Church Universal and Triumphant forevermore."
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Lanello
February 26, 1986 |
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"Blessed ones, no matter how much we teach or you teach, individuals
must learn some things by experience. We condemn no one for this
necessity, for every ascended master has gone through the harrowing
experience of learning outside of the mystery school what he simply
could not understand within it. This is the nature of evolution
on planet Earth.
" . . . We desire that all of our disciples
should learn by our example and especially by our mistakes. But
some have chosen, rather than to learn and receive the blessing,
to condemn instead, not realizing that a lesson learned is also
a point of attainment even if the test may not have been passed.
For, precious hearts, the great learning curve is always in the
setback experienced by having taken the wrong road.
"Thus may it be to you that you will
mount as eagles and accomplish even a far greater mastery than we
have had. May you exceed the masters ascended in your own path,
but may you do so with all humility and not neglecting the first
steps."
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"When you call upon a saint, you are perhaps calling upon only
one incarnation of that lifestream, who is now an Ascended Master.
Take, for example, Mark Prophet. Mark was embodied as Saint Bonaventure,
but he was also embodied as Saint Mark, the author of the Gospel
of Mark, and as Ikhnaton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Bodhidharma.
So, beloved, when you appeal to the spheres of the Causal Body of
a particular saint, you receive the blessing and benediction of
that Ascended Master's attainment and calling in that particular
incarnation.
"When you seek the wisdom of the Zen
Masters, you call upon Bodhidharma. When you call to the Ascended
Master Bodhidharma, you are focusing on Mark's incarnation as Bodhidharma
and you are applying to access the great wisdom stored in the Second
Ray band of his Causal Body and his momentum of service on the yellow
ray.
"When you seek to write poetry, you
call upon Longfellow. When you seek sainthood, you call upon Saint
Bonaventure. When you seek direct communion with the one God, you
call upon Ikhnaton. When you desire to know the mysteries taught
by Christ, you call upon Saint Mark, et cetera, et cetera.
"So know this, beloved. Some saints
whom you thought to be different lifestreams are all one; others
are indeed identified one by one as separate individuals. And if
you will call upon the entire Causal Body of an Ascended Master,
such as Lanello, you will benefit from the attainment of that one's
entire lifestream, lifetime after lifetime.
The Style of the Zen Masters
"We the members of the Darjeeling Council
think it is time you understood the fierceness that could come forth
from a Mark Prophet and likewise from his twin flame. That fierceness,
that directness and that intensity, beloved, characterize the style
of the Zen Masters. Their demeanor is the mark of their training
in the East and their centeredness in the five secret rays. It is
also a sign of the release of fohat through their chakras.
"And therefore, the sacred fire goes
forth from their throat chakras and is amplified by the First Ray
momentum of the Messengers. It goes forth from the Divine Father
as Alpha and from the Divine Mother as Omega, and it is released
to your Messengers so they may have the energy that is necessary
in order to give you our correction.
"Those of you who bore lasting resentment
over spankings from your parents or correction from your teachers
and were not respectful or humble before your elders may have a
difficult time in dealing with our disciplines, meted out not only
by the Messengers but by any Ascended Master. Beloved ones, I counsel
you therefore to seek the great humility of nonbeing and enter thereby
into Being, having divested yourselves of the accoutrements of the
human ego."
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"Yes, beloved, it is wonderful to be with you. It
is wonderful to be with you again and again. Make room for me in your
office. Even a tiny picture of me will signal that I am welcome there.
"My preference, beloved, of a photograph is that
which is before you. It is the one of myself on the Sermons for a Sabbath
Evening album. This particular portrait, beloved, I had taken in the full
knowledge that I would be taking my leave of this world in the victory
of the ascension. In this you will find my Electronic Presence of Divine
Love, for it was with the great desire to present to you a photo of my
passionate love for your souls that I had this photograph taken. Thus
I know that you will know me through that presence, through that look
and through that heart.
"I can do, oh, so much more for you, for I have
that dispensation, being the co-founder with beloved El Morya of The Summit
Lighthouse. Being now a co-Guru with him and serving under him, I can
do so much, beloved.
"Dont forget to call to me, for Lanello
is my name."
Mark L. Prophet
"Yes, beloved ones, and how did he (Mark
Prophet) rise up? By not being coddled and spoiled but by coming into
the realities of the depression and the loss at age nine of his own
father by death and therefore having to make his way as an individual,
as a sole provider for his mother, moving on then and taking his position
in the United States Army Air Corps and standing for the victory of
Saint Germain in America."
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Elohim Purity and Astrea
April 9,1993 |
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" . . . Make room for me in your office.
Even a tiny picture of me will signal that I am welcome there.
"My preference, beloved, of a photograph
is that which is before you. It is the one of myself on the Sermons
for a Sabbath Evening album. This particular portrait, beloved,
I had taken in the full knowledge that I would be taking my leave
of this world in the victory of the ascension. In this you will
find my Electronic Presence of Divine Love, for it was with the
great desire to present to you a photo of my passionate love for
your souls that I had this photograph taken. Thus I know that you
will know me through that presence, through that look and through
that heart."
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"Beloved of my heart, I would deliver a word to
you. And my word concerns your own fulfillment of the fiery coil.
"I am in the universe of light. And you are in the
universe where there appears to be light and darkness. Let us consider,
then, how we will walk together in this plane of consciousness, aware
of the inner universe and yet in the perspective that all is not well,
all is not whole within thisthis place to which we have been assigned.
"I AM your own Lanello. I come with endearment.
I come with a very special love for this soil, this continent [Europe],
the great art and beauty, the profound understanding that has come forth
and with a remembrance of many friendships, not the least of which
your own.
"I, therefore, desire to place upon
you the awareness that my mantle is available. It hangs upon a hangermay
it not be for longin your closet. May it not remain there. May you
take it down and wear it, not only on special occasions but as a daily
garment.
"I would fasten my heart to your own.
And I promise that I will be there when you speak my name and direct my
flame into every condition."
Mark Prophet on the Red Sea
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"Upon the occasion of the ascension of our messenger Mark
L. Prophet, I say to each and every one of you that when a son
of God returns to the heart of God through the ritual of the ascension,
by the law of cycles he must also return to the field of battle
and to the world whence he came and over which he achieved the
victory—there to bring glad tidings of the light of victory
to all who walked with him on the homeward path.
"Jesus' promise to his disciples who would
believe upon him was the accomplishment of greater works 'because
I go unto my father.' Understand the law and be satisfied thereby.
The light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world
is the light that he must expand through the flame within the
heart in order to achieve that glorious reunion of the soul with
the Spirit that is known as the marriage of the Lamb.
"I say then to you, one and all—those
who grieve the loss of a dear friend and teacher and those of
you who are able to rejoice in his glorious attainment—that
because he has gone to the Father, he can add the momentum of
his causal body to your own, that you also might do those greater
works which were promised to the disciples of Jesus. Each time
a son or a daughter of God ascends, those who are ready to receive
it are blessed by the presence of the Holy Spirit, the descent
of the Paraclete. And the communion cup of hierarchy is shared
once again with the children of God who yet dwell in the valley
of becoming.
"The parting words of the avatar to those
who gather round to receive the mantle of his victory must always
be 'It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away,
the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will
send Him unto you.' Simultaneously, as the flame that is man rises
to become one with the Flame that is God, there is showered upon
those who understand the Law and who pursue its spirit, the contents
of the cup of the Holy Grail. The Comforter is the essence of
Life, of the Holy Spirit, that fulfills the prayer of Jesus 'Father,
make them one even as we are one.'
"I exhort you, O chelas of the will of God,
to realize that the door to heaven stands wide open because your
Messenger and mine has opened it, not only for himself, but for
you and for all mankind. If he had but given the last energies
of his life to the teaching and to the publication thereof, aye,
that would have been enough to open the door; but by earning his
victory through dauntless service and unquenchable love for God
and man, he paved the pathway before you that you too might ascend
into the very Presence of God.
" . . . The wind bloweth where it listeth,
And thou hearest the sound thereof,
But canst not tell whence it cometh
And whither it goeth:
So is every one that is born of the Spirit.
To be born of the Spirit
Is to be borne of the Spirit.
And so is every Ascended Being,
The company of saints,
The hosts that are camped
Upon the hillsides of the world.
"Among them standing tall,
Clothed in robe of white
And sash of brilliant sapphire blue,
Is the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood
Who proclaims to you still
The message of the Sacred Word,
The oft-repeated sound of harmonies,
Mantras, invocations spoken by angels
That come tumbling down the corridor
That echoes with a fateful sound,
' I AM free, I AM free,
I AM free forevermore!
We are one, we are one,
We are one forevermore!
There is no death, no parting, no sorrow,
But all-oneness, all-oneness,
And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.'
"The crystal cord has risen
To carry a heart of fire
Back to its Source
While the blessed elementals,
Oromasis and Diana
Have taken that noble form
And returned it to the Eternal Bourn.
From Light to Light, from glory unto glory—
This is the word—
Not dust to dust!
For the Son of man shall come again
With healing in his wings
To raise each heart and to impart
The comfort from on high
“I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you.
Yet a little while,
And the world seeth me no more;
But ye see me:
Because I live, ye shall live also.”
"The promise of the ages is fulfilled.
The promise that God willed,
The promise of man to God
And God to man,
Is the covenant instilled
In every heart and mind,
The stain of centuries to bind
And to unleash the lightning
Of creativity sublime.
"The brothers and sisters of the
Diamond Heart and the entire Darjeeling Council assembled salute
you in the Spirit of the ascension flame. We beckon you onward,
and we offer it to you, a cup of Light in his name.
"May I introduce to you then the Ascended
Master Lanello, to whom you may now call and whom you may address,
knowing well that the friend whose hand you shook, whose smile
greeted you once, will greet you again in the eternal embrace
of Love’s victory won.
I AM your Mentor on the Path,
El Morya
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"I have been the recipient of the light
of far-off worlds. It is the least and the most humble offering
of myself to give to you the wrapping of that robe of light around
you. May it be a toga, a sari, a cape invincible! May it be whatever
is the requirement of the hour.
"I bear a sword that glistens in my hand!
Extraordinarily, it is in my left hand today. For in my right, I
bear the Book of the Law. And I consider it even more powerful to
change the course of history than the sword itself, save it be the
sword of the spoken Word.
"Take the book to heart and let it become
the rock and the foundation of the turning of cycles. Even so is
the wisdom of the great tome of God a mighty comfort on your Path.
"May you know the Lawand, in knowing
it, speak with authority. May you meditate upon our spoken Word
and the written Word until, so saturated with the crystal flow of
convergent streams of higher worlds, you go forth endued with the
dewdrop of Life, the nectar of the Buddha, and the single drop of
the sacred blood of Christ.
"Essence! Essence it is, as you distill the perfume of lily
of the valley and therefore breathe in even the auric emanation
of the holy Mary.
"So understand how there is the compressing,
in the white fire core of thy Life, of all that is the distillation
of the Word of the Great White Brotherhood. Let it be animated by
the flame of the heart! Let those who have not the Light depart,
else bow before it and cease! their interlocutions based on the
exceptioningsthat is, the taking exception to the rule, the
law, the Word, the love itself.
"When love is given and is not understood
but only analyzed, it cannot be partaken of.
"Let the lovers of God appear! Let them draw
near to my heart. For I have understood the distillation of the
rose.
"To which part may one point and say, 'Ah!
from this comes the essence'? Where is the perfume of the heart
of God? Truly, it is beyond the form. Truly, there is a transcending
spiral whereby you pass through the form to the Sun behind the sun.
And then doth the true matrix appear.
"By your own peace, I enter your world. By
your psychic disturbance, ego entanglement, I am repelledeven
as the mountain climber rappels from the rock and moves toward it
again.
"We are swinging on the rope of time and space.
Let us swing together instead of against one another! Let us not
miss one anothers cycles. Let us sweep through cosmic cycles
on the same wavelength.
"This length of rope
can carry us to farthest star. Consider the length, an infinite
length, and then realize how the formula of Life can swing you through
the starsthese stars the causal bodies of ascended masters,
elfs and fairies, undines swimming in the cosmic sea."
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"If you would desire to know of an example of one who has walked
the earth fused in the heart of the I AM Presence, a guileless one
of honor and love for all, one meek and humble who could know pain
and be subject to his own human foibles, mistakesif you would
desire to understand the profile of one fused to the Presence before
the hour of parting, I direct your hearts to the man they called Mark
Prophet.
"You can know
him better in his voice, which modulated with the voice of the Presence.
Never have you heard a voice so close to your I AM Presence as the
voice of Mark. Upon the decibels of sound you could traverse that
voice to the heart of your own Beloved. Contrast it to the shrill
sounds and voices strident of the earth and you will have a comparison."
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The Hearts of El Morya and Lanello,
Where Would We Be Without Them?
"Remember that the heart that has truly loved never forgets.
I have loved you long before you found my footprints in the sands,
whether in this life or in previous lifetimes. I have loved you
because we are part of a mandala. We came from Venus together. We
were trained on Mercury. We were trained on the God Star. Yes, some
or all of you who were part of our bands were trained on various
planets.
"And, yes, we have served our beloved Akbar,
our beloved El Morya, long and lovingly.
"Just imagine for a moment, beloved ones,
this universe without El Morya. It would be as though someone had
pulled the chain on the light and all of a sudden the light had
gone out and we would say, 'Where is Morya?'
"So, I ask you now, prompted by that little
exercise, brief though it was, to recognize your beloved El Morya
and to thank him for his call to me, and through me to you, to be
a part of his Summit Lighthouse.
"What a heavenly sponsor! Had Morya not called
me, I would not have had the opportunity to be trained as a Messenger.
I would not have found Elizabeth. Ask yourselves: Would you have
found one another or received the sponsorship to bear the wondrous
souls that have been brought to your families, had Morya not called
us, one and all?
"O blessed ones, think what the consequences
would be of the absence of one hierarch, El Morya, in our midst.
And then imagine what the absence of so many Ascended Masters and
Cosmic Beings in our midst would be like; for each one has played
a unique yet integral role in the forming of this Community, in
the forming of the Great White Brotherhood. Think of it, beloved!"
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Beloved Mark
My little ones, my great ones,
my children, my souls aborning in the womb, it is my desire that you accept
me as being physically present [with you]. I am so near to
you. If you will only incline your ear, you will hear me speaking to you
through your Holy Christ Self with correct discretion and judgment and
direction.
You will also know me through my Beloved.
And therefore hear my words through her and do not miss them. When you
are closed to some levels of communication, for you do not want your worlds
disturbed, you will avoid me and her and you will lose a lesson that could
liberate you in a day from something you may [otherwise] carry for a decade.
We are very much with you, beloved, and
we have been with you for many, many centuries. We have come again and
again together, and the bonding of us all [to one another] can be compared
to the bonding of us all to the Cosmic Christ and the Holy Christ Self.
We desire to take you to the hour when 51
percent of your karma is balanced and beyond it. We desire to take you
to the place where you will not lose what you have gained, where you will
not fall back because of false teachers, where you will not be fooled
by those momentums of your own electronic belt nor by the dweller-on-the-threshold
itself in its final manifestation of the subtlety of Serpent.
You are bonded to each one of us, beloved.
You can strengthen this bonding. You can take on the yoke of Light. And
you can also take on the yoke of our karma that is world karma itself.
Know indeed what strengths and opportunities
I have to bestow upon you from my Causal Body."
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"Thus know that I did receive that initiation under Jesus
in the Garden of Gethsemane. And the record of the immersion of
my body in the very Body and Blood of my Lord has been with me
and I have never been without it these long centuries. Thus, even
in future lifetimes unto the present, the very fire and the glow
of his Presence would take me up into other realms.
"And from those realms, while I was yet
in physical embodiment as your Messenger, I did deliver to you
the vibrations of eternity and of the Infinite One. I recall a
particular dictation, beloved, where I spoke out of Ein Sof, the
unknowable, inconceivable God. This blessing was accorded to me
in my final incarnation. Yes, I could deliver to you Ein Sof—who
became to me the knowable and conceivable God—because I
had been initiated by Jesus.
"I speak to you, then, and I urge
you to seek the deep mysteries of God through your Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, through my overshadowing Presence and through the
instrument of my Beloved. Yes, seek the deep mysteries of God
and seek to receive knowledge directly, spoken in this octave
through the office of the Messenger. And in order to be certain
that you will never lose either the blessing or the anointing
or the mysteries themselves, you must seal them in your heart.
For these very mysteries will become an intensity of light and
sacred fire that illumines your temple. And, once again, we see
that the mysteries are locked in the symbols of the ten sefirot."
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Lanello would like me to call to your attention some verses of
scripture that include an allusion to him. This passage is from
chapter 14 of the Book of Mark:
"Rise up, let us go. Lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand."
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh
Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with
swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and
the elders.
And he that betrayed him had given them a token,
saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he. Take him
and lead him away safely."
And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway
to him, and saith, "Master, master," and kissed him.
And they laid their hands on him and took him.
And one of them that stood by drew a sword and
smote a servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, "Are
ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to
take me?
"I was daily with you in the temple
teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled."
And they all forsook him and fled.
And there followed him a certain young man,
having a linen cloth cast about his naked body;
and the young men laid hold on him:
And he left the linen cloth and fled from them
naked.
- Mark 14:42-52
The story behind this is that Jesus was initiating Mark as a young
man in the Garden of Gethsemane when Judas led the authorities
to him. And so the young man fled, and the linen cloth that was
cast about his naked body dropped from him.
I have taught you in the past that a letter
of the second-century Church Father Clement of Alexandria reveals
that Mark wrote a secret Gospel. It would have been just like
Mark to do that! It was discovered in 1958 at Mar Saba, a Greek
Orthodox monastery in the Judean desert. I will read to you from
Clement's letter as translated by Morton Smith.
[As for] Mark, then, during Peter's stay in Rome he wrote [an
account of] the Lord's doings, not, however, declaring all [of
them], nor yet hinting at the secret [ones], but selecting those
he thought most useful for increasing the faith of those who were
being instructed. But when Peter died as a martyr, Mark came over
to Alexandria, bringing both his own notes and those of Peter,
from which he transferred to his former book the things suitable
to whatever makes for progress toward knowledge [gnosis].
[Thus] he composed a more spiritual Gospel for
the use of those who were being perfected. Nevertheless, he yet
did not divulge the things not to be uttered, nor did he write
down the hierophantic teaching of the Lord, but to the stories
already written he added yet others and, moreover, brought in
certain sayings of which he knew the interpretation would, as
a mystagogue, lead the hearers into the innermost sanctuary of
that truth hidden by seven [veils]. [A mystagogue is one who initiates
another into a mystery cult.]
Thus, in sum, he prearranged matters, neither
grudgingly nor incautiously, in my opinion, and, dying, he left
his composition to the church in Alexandria, where it even yet
is most carefully guarded, being read only to those who are being
initiated into the great mysteries.
Clement goes on to say that this secret Gospel contained material
that was omitted from the Book of Mark, chapter 10. This material
is a variant of the Lazarus story, which in the New Testament
is found only in the Book of John. Clement writes:
For example, after "And they were in the road going up to
Jerusalem," and what follows, until "After three days
he shall arise," [the secret Gospel] brings the following
[material] word for word:
"And they come into Bethany, and a certain woman, whose brother
had died, was there. And, coming, she prostrated herself before
Jesus and says to him, 'Son of David, have mercy on me.'
But the disciples rebuked her. And Jesus, being
angered, went off with her into the garden where the tomb was,
and straightway a great cry was heard from the tomb. And going
near Jesus rolled away the stone from the door of the tomb. And
straightway, going in where the youth was, he stretched forth
his hand and raised him, seizing his hand. But the youth, looking
upon him, loved him and began to beseech him that he might be
with him.
And going out of the tomb they came into
the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days Jesus
told him what to do and in the evening the youth comes to him,
wearing a linen cloth over [his] naked [body]. And he remained
with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom
of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of
the Jordan.
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To Be the Father, You Must Be the Son,
the Christ
"We stand to anchor here the mission of the Father and
the Son that you might realize what is the import of the celebration
of Father, even as [you realize what] it is for Mother. There
is none that can call themselves Father or Mother save by the
appearance of the Son. The Son is the emanation of the Light.
And one day that Son, in the fullness of that emanation, comes
to the dawn of realization that he too must rise—rise
by the mighty spiral and the crystal cord to bear also the mantle
of the Father.
"It is to this dwelling of the Father
in the Son and the Father and the Son in the devotee that I
would call you as a holy purpose [to be pursued and realized
throughout your life]. You who have received the anointing of
the Light of Christ, you who understand the embodiment of the
Word, you have much to expand from your own causal body of this
Light, this Word, this Son, this Christ anointed. But in the
very process of being the Son of God can you not also follow
the mystical path, best understood by John the Beloved, of realizing
the Father Principle within the Son?"
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Mark L. Prophet says in his introduction to Ashram Rituals, “The
sponsoring Master of the Ashram, the Ascended Master Morya El,
will endeavor to gradually unfold in the mind and heart of each
student the tested and proven methods of meditation and the tremendous
power of invocation to God when correctly used. Through each student’s
God Presence the master will assist in bringing to him—and
through him to the world—the benefits and glory of Light’s
radiation from the heavenly gates now ajar.
“As the students of the Ashram engage in such activities
as the Master shall direct, they will note gentle changes that
bring peace into their personal lives as well as into the lives
of all who are touched by their reaching out. Our calls for Light
will not go unheeded. They will enable the
Light-evolutions of our earth to finally send forth the beautiful
beams of pure Light and Love as God intended them to do….
“You can render your world service by participating in mediation
periods that are observed simultaneously by our members. Dictated
by El Morya and sponsored from on high, these rituals will increase
the Good radiating through you to our sweet earth.
“It is to this opportunity that we who serve in the Ashram
call you. We invite you to take part in rendering a service to
life that will free by love countless millions of our brothers
and sisters who endlessly tread the wheel of karma. So often these
‘know not what they do,’ but live blindly, without
hope, as if cast into a pit of despair.
“If you join in these rituals, you will tune in with singleness
of purpose to the great radiations of the Ascended Masters and
those of our brothers and sisters on every continent.”
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El Morya, Ashram Rituals
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" . . . It is written, 'Do you know
how to strive?' Many answers come forth from chelas who hear
the word of Maitreya, 'Do you know how to strive?' Many answers
are given, but perfect striving must come. For if you receive
the command, 'Excelsior!' and know not how to excel unto the
excellence of a Christ, then of what use be the command? Therefore,
let the striving ones learn the meaning of their own path. It
matters not that you meet and conquer this or that foe on the
way.
"For I tell you, it is easier to conquer the foe than it
is to be found in righteousness in the hour of the coming of
Maitreya for the meeting of thy soul on the Path. Contemplate
this, for it is hard enough, as heaven and earth know, to bind
the foe."
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"It has been noted that I am among the ascended masters,
as is Lanello, who are closest to the physical octave. I have
not ceased to appear to heads of state, to commanders in battle
regarding matters of intelligence absolutely of necessity to
their awareness and to their victory.
" . . . You are all players, playing
a mighty part in our effort. I welcome you, then, to Lanello's
retreat on the Rhine. For we shall hold intense meetings throughout
this conference and provide you at inner levels with the intelligence
you must have to chart your personal lives and course and to
make calls that the course of this nation and many nations shall
be for victory, for freedom, for the free-enterprise system,
for a solid foundation in God Self-government and a solid foundation
in the spiritual path."
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Mark Prophet was embodied as Ikhnaton:
"Thirty-three centuries ago one Ikhnaton*
beheld the sun as the focalpoint for God's consciousness and
adored the light radiating forth from the great sun disc. The
Pharaoh of Egypt described the universe as a giant egg, a great
cell of Being in which he conceived the nucleus as the source
of that creative force which he acknowledged as the life energy
of God.
"Long before Jesus came to grace the Earth with the flame
of the Christ, Ikhnaton proclaimed himself a son of God and
affirmed the Presence of that God within his heart. Not only
was Ikhnaton among the first of the monotheists to come to the
fore in the history of the Fertile Crescent following the sinking
of Atlantis, but he was also among the first of the joint-heirs
with Christ to proclaim himself in the identity of the Flaming
One, which he acknowledged as sonship.
"Perceiving God in nature and in every form of life, Ikhnaton
was of the lineage of the ancient priesthood of the Order of
Melchizedek which included in its descent Enoch, Elijah, Zarathustra,
John the Baptist, Jesus and many others. These priests of the
sacred fire were one and all filled with the Holy Spirit--and
the fire of the I AM THAT I AM--which prepares the way for the
coming of the Sun King and the Sun Queen.
"Ikhnaton was among the first of the great prophets of
the Middle East to acknowledge that God was a part of all that
He had created, to affirm the great mystery of the Word Incarnate.
In truth he proclaimed the integration of the spirals of Spirit
with the cycles of Mater. Indeed he understood the light as
the flow of energy, of love and truth and law in and out of
material form and consciousness as the very flow of God Himself--God
the Spirit who dwelt in the Sun behind the sun and in the mystical
center of the Cosmic Egg.
"All of these revelations, which went against the mainstream
of current religious thought and practice, including his development
of culture and the arts in the realism of a living flame--these
came to the fore in Ikhnaton because of the purity of his heart
and mind and soul, the clarity of the crystal stream of water
of life flowing through his chakras, and above all through his
deep devotion to the Mother-flame whom he honored in his consort,
the beautiful Queen Nefertiti, and in their seven daughters
outpicturing the seven rays of the Christ consciousness in the
Mother-flame.
"We bow then before the flame of one who was true to his
Real Self, who was indeed living truth, and who left a mark
of truth upon the sands of time. And we call to your attention
that the measure of this man or of any man who would be the
Christ is the measure of purity and of the flow of purity in
being and consciousness."
* Ikhnaton: I acknowledge the at-one-ness of God. Ikhnaton (Amenhotep
IV) was Pharaoh of Egypt c. 1375-1358 B.C. Ikhnaton introduced
a revolutionary monotheism based on the worship of the one God,
whom he called Aton. He represented Aton in the symbol of a
sun disc or orb with diverging rays, each of which ended in
a hand bestowing blessings upon all life.
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Djwal Kul
December 1, 1974 |
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Mark Prophet was embodied as Aesop, author of educational fables:.
The Father and His Sons
A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually
quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes
by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical
illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose
he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they
had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of
them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces.
They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do
it.
He next opened the faggot, took the sticks
separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons' hands,
upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in
these words:
"My sons, if you
are of one mind and unite to assist each other, you will be
as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies;
but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken
as easily as these sticks."
The Crow and the Pitcher
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a
Pitcher which had once been full of water; butwhen the Crow
put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only
very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach
far enough down to get at it. He tried and he tried, but at
last had to give up in despair.
Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble
and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped that into the Pitcher.
At last, at last, he saw the water mount up
near him, and after casting in a few more pebbles he was able
to quench his thirst and save his life. Little by little does
the trick.
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The Two Frogs
TWO FROGS were neighbors. One inhabited
a deep pond far removed from public view; the other lived
in a gully containing little water and traversed by a
country road. The frog that lived in the pond warned his
friend to change his residence and entreated him to come
and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater
safety from danger and more abundant food. The other refused,
saying that he felt it so very hard to leave a place to
which he had become accustomed. A few days afterwards
a heavy wagon passed through the gully and crushed him
to death under its wheels.
"A willful man will have
his way to his own hurt."—Aesop |
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small,
is ever wasted."—Aesop
"I know a certain gospel
which is called “The Gospel according to Thomas” and a “Gospel
according to Matthias,” and many others have we read—lest
we should in any way be considered ignorant because of those who imagine
they possess some knowledge if they are acquainted with these. Nevertheless,
among all these we have approved solely what the church has recognized,
which is that only four gospels should be accepted."—Origen
"Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal."—Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
"I heard the bells on Christmas
Day, Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet, The words
repeat, Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"—Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
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