Dr Maria Montessori
1870-1952
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"Dr. Maria
Montessori is one who recognized that no child is beyond
hope. In 1899 in Rome, shortly after becoming the first
woman in Italy to receive a medical doctorate, she was put
in charge of a school for children who were regarded as
'hopelessly deficient.'
"In the words of E. M. Standing,
Dr. Montessori’s friend and biographer: 'Under her
skillful direction the inferior mentality of these defective
children . . . developed to a remarkable and unexpected
extent. Such indeed was her success that a number of idiot
children from the asylums learned to read and write so
well that they were able to present themselves with success
at a public examination taken together with normal children.'
"Dr. Montessori eventually
went on to work miracles among children considered to
be of normal mental capacity. She described these children,
who were from among the poorest families of Rome, as sixty
tearful, frightened children, so shy that it was impossible
to get them to speak; their faces were expressionless,
with bewildered eyes as though they had never seen anything
in their lives, . . . poor abandoned children who had
grown up in dark tumbledown cottages without anything
to stimulate their minds—dejected, uncared for.
It was not necessary to be a doctor to see that they suffered
from malnutrition, lack of fresh air and sunlight. They
were indeed closed flowers, but without the freshness
of buds, souls concealed in a hermetic cell.
"Dr. Montessori described
her work with these children:
"I set to work like a peasant woman who, having set
aside a good store of seed corn, has found a fertile field
in which she may freely sow it. But I was wrong. I had
hardly turned over the clods of my field, when I found
gold instead of wheat: the clods concealed a precious
treasure. I was not the peasant I had thought myself.
Rather I was like foolish Aladdin, who, without knowing
it, had in his hand a key that would open hidden treasures
. . .
"It took time for me to convince
myself that all this was not an illusion. After each new
experience proving such a truth I said to myself, 'I won’t
believe yet; I’ll believe in it next time.' Thus
for a long time I remained incredulous, and at the same
time deeply stirred and trepidant . . .
"One day, in great emotion,
I took my heart in my two hands as though to encourage
it to rise to the heights of faith, and I stood respectfully
before the children, saying to myself: 'Who are you then?
Have I perhaps met with the children who were held in
Christ’s arms and to whom the divine words were
spoken? I will follow you, to enter with you into the
Kingdom of Heaven.'
"And holding in my hands the torch
of faith I went on my way."
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"There must be awakened those who are also complacent
by wealth, as well as those who have come over the border
and are being influenced in their labor unions by those
of Marxist inclination. You know, it is the desire of Castro
to see, inside of America, cells of Communists who will
rise up and join the oncoming armies of the south, to overturn
the cities and to begin a Communist revolution in America.
Therefore, we envision focuses of the amethyst jewel, Montessori
schools, and a program of the distillation of information
concerning all of these matters."
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"Blessed hearts, you can see the condition of a planet
as we see it. You understand that, instead of moving forward,
the products of the educational systems of this nation
have less and less capacity to express the Word—as
language skills, as mathematics, or as other subjects.
Consequently, standards are lowered. The tests become
more and more easy as educators (who ought not to have
the name) are not willing to face the fact that they are
failing in the transfer of the light of the heart, which
is the only true illumination of any soul.
"Without the flow of love/wisdom
of Helios and Vesta through the teacher, the pupil will
not mount a spiral—for the spiral is nonexistent.
And if the teacher be not a part
of the chain of hierarchy, then that teacher cannot attach
his pupils to the chain to which he himself is not attached!
Therefore, the bodhisattvas—maintaining the flame
of hierarchy in the many dimensions and planes of consciousness—have
come, placing themselves very near to those whom they
would push up the ladder of Life." [highlighted
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Lord Maitreya
April 19, 1981 |
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"Most blessed ones, let us increase
and multiply the opportunity for Montessori education to
the lightbearers of a planet. [highlighted by webmaster]
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."
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Lanello
December 24, 1982 |
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"I say to all
mothers and fathers, even within this community,
you must enter into the arena of your children’s
education—both spiritual, mental, physical,
and emotional. For you are educating your children
emotionally by exactly what you do at the emotional
level. And you educate them by the example of the
discipline and order of your mind or the absence
of discipline, and chaos. Your children imbibe from
you by a direct infusion and transfusion of your
being. "Mothers
and fathers, you also stand before the World Teachers,
and you must have a reckoning this day.
[highlighted by webmaster] For if you have failed
to teach and teach righteously, you must come
into alignment and you must rectify this by giving
your love and your heart to your children and
educating yourselves as to how you may augment
and supplement that teaching which is given formally
in our Montessori schools or in the schools where
you send your children."
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"If Jesus, ready for his final incarnation
and in that incarnation, could bow before the
hierophant at Luxor and ask to be given the first
steps on the Path, can you not also receive those
first steps? Are you too proud to turn back your
own cosmic clock, to pick up the dropped stitches
of life? Do you not realize that though you may
know a lesson in the mind, you must learn it in
the heart and repeat the cycle for transmutation
of karma, even in those areas where you think
you have exceeded that level of instruction?
"This
is why it is so difficult to retrain the adult
mind that has not had the blessing of a certain
foundation in interaction with its own Inner Self
early in childhood, whether by the Montessori
method or some other method of teaching that would
accomplish the same purpose. It is because adults
do not consider that they should go back and do
the exercises of a three-year-old or a four-year-old;
for at a glance they 'see' the exercise and the
mental body takes it in and 'sees' what it is.
Not going through the exercise themselves, these
adults fail to realize that they do not incorporate
the spiral in their own being.
"Therefore,
there is a very wise and real admonishment in
going back to the Montessori classroom for some
who have not been able to get over, as you say,
the hang-ups that are remaining in consciousness
over which they place the fingers of the mind
and heart many, many, many times, revolving in
the etheric memory that which should have long
ago been passed into the flame." [highlighted
by webmaster]
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"Therefore, we desire to see the two-edged
sword of Maitreya outplayed in this community.
We desire you to understand that psychology only
goes so far and it, too, must be endowed with
a flame. Beware of the terms of humanism and democratic
interaction between parent and child, for this
is not true to the Ascended Masters’ teachings.
The interaction is with respect of the office
in hierarchy of both personages—the office
of parent being that of parent and teacher representing
the Godhead; the office of child being that of
chela and that of the heir becoming the son.
"Thus, if there is only
equality in the democratic sense or the humanistic
sense, we lose the sense of respect, we lose the
sense of the mantle. Where there is no sense of
the mantle, the mantle itself cannot be active.
And the mantle is of each one’s Christhood
and causal body, which apparently must be somewhat
(and, in fact, a great deal) outpictured in the
adult, whereas it is not intended to descend in
the child except by increments each year.
"Beloved ones, understand
that you must go beyond the psychology courses
you have seen and recognize that the effort toward
communication, toward interaction, toward right
motivation, and toward the support of the child
must come through the inner contact of the child
and the parent with the Christ mind. And therefore,
you have already been given formulas and teachings
and a way of life that in a sense compensates
for many of the humanistic approaches to the solving
of parent/child and teacher/child problems.
"Thus,
it becomes and it behooves the teachers of the
Montessori revolution and the Montessori message
to involve themselves in discipleship and a penetration
of the Word and its assimilation. When the parents
and the teachers, therefore, put on the Body and
Blood of the Universal Christ, they have a balance
of mind and heart. [highlighted by webmaster]
And therefore, they need not be governed by the
forceful mentality of the lower mind or the emotions
when dealing with children but must have the equivalent
thereof in the mind and heart of God and in the
hand of the Holy Spirit in action.
" . . . Whatever works, whatever is practical
is the Montessori revolution. It need not have
been spoken by Montessori. Therefore, beware of
a flesh-and-blood-saviour consciousness and of
a flesh-and-blood-devil consciousness. All people
are instruments of God a good deal of the time,
and some may fall prey to be instruments of error
as well.
"Thus, let us understand
that Maria Montessori was one spokesman for the
revolution in education, and you are another when
you are the instrument of your Christ Self. And
there are others throughout the fields of education
in America and the world. When you pick the best
fruits from the tree of education, you find that
you have a basket that is acceptable not only
to the Ascended Lady Master Maria Montessori,
but to Mother Mary and Magda and Jesus and John
the Baptist, for whom this very method was developed.
"And therefore, you cannot
keep up with the revolution unless you renew your
own courses of the mind—unless you come
to understand that each year there is greater
potential within the children and a different
way of learning because the universal astrology
changes, because the ages change, the years change,
the dispensations descend.
"Unless you are attuned
with these—unless you analyze the dispensations
of this conference, for instance, you will not
understand how they apply to the children and
the new calls that must be made in a service dedicated
to the children of this campus and the world (which,
I might say, at this time is not well enough attended
for the Sponsors of Youth or the Lords of Karma
to be effective in staying the aggressive forces
that are even now puncturing through to the children
of this community)."
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God and Goddess
Meru
January 6, 1985 |
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"You contain the keys, you have applied them—they
work. Mother Mary is waiting and so are we. All
who are teachers and see the success of our school
must know that it is not enough to educate the
few. The many must have combined with the Montessori
method all those innovations that have been inspired
upon you, ingenious through the Holy Spirit.
"Blessed
ones, as is always the case, as you have discovered,
until you hold your
prayer vigils on education, on the proper reading
method, on the proper acceleration of children
that they might finish the responsibilities of
schooling at an earlier age to move on to careers,
professions, and service [highlighted by
webmaster]—blessed
ones, until the prayer vigil is held and the books
are published, you will continue to see a yoke,
even the cross itself, on the backs of the youth."
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God and Goddess Meru
April 19, 1987 |
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"Blessed hearts, the prayer of one child in
Montessori school—any child, a single child—as
given daily here is the equivalent of thousands
who in ignorance pray the Mass yet have not received
the formula which you have received by grace to
access the supreme power of the Godhead. Let all
cherish, then, and value this opportunity. Let us
move swiftly."
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"I say to you, beloved ones, those of you
who have raised your families and are at a point
in life when you can give yourselves to God and
to Community, there is no more important calling
that you could have than to teach the children
and to be there this summer for that eight-week
training course in the Montessori method plus
other methods that we have added to that course.
"Beloved
ones, this course is the finest in the nation,
without exception, because it has its foundation
in the path of the violet flame, in the path of
mercy and grace, in the path of the true spiritual
traditions of Mary and Elizabeth, who did bring
forth the avatars of the age.
"Blessed ones, it
is a mandate! Do not think that you will make
your ascension by sitting home and minding your
houses and doing a few hours of decrees a day!
You must get in there, roll up your sleeves and
recognize that this is a moment to be born again
by Mercy’s flame and by Mercy’s heart
and to be sensitive to the cries of children of
all ages: 'Who will come and teach us?'
”So this is
the call of Mother Caspari. This is the call of
Maria Montessori. This is the cry of the children:
“Who will come and teach us? Who will come
and teach us?” [highlighted
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"Look
at their faces as you see the TV news specials
on education, on children of all ages. They are
blank. They are burdened. They are miserable.
They are without hope because they know what is
the education they should be given and that they
are not receiving it.
"I,
Kuan Yin, cry out this day to you who can make
this happen! It is a time for you to rescue those
whom we are sending to this earth as a mandala
of Lightbearers comprised of children in every
nation on the planet who will rise up, come to
their maturity and overthrow the evil system that
plagues every nation, including the United States.
"Yes, beloved, I, Kuan Yin,
cry out to you and I make you this promise: If
you will give yourself to the furthering of the
education of these children, I shall place my
Electronic Presence over you and I will work through
you. And because I place my Electronic Presence
over you, you shall have many blessings of healing
in your bodies and many side blessings that come
as a part of your dedication.
"Think about it,
beloved! It is not enough to have the Teaching.
It is not enough to decree. You must rescue the
children! You and you remain with a number of
other enlightened ones from all walks of life
to pass the torch of the ages to this generation."
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"If children
do not enter the program of Montessori instruction
until the age of two-and-a-half or older, much
is already set in the development of the child
from preconception to conception through gestation
and the first two to three years of the child’s
life. Many patterns of psychology are set in those
years and these patterns are set in the four lower
bodies. And the soul of light must therefore overcome
these before it can move forward, straight as
an arrow, following the cycles of the hours of
the clock year upon year. [highlighted
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"Therefore I call
for the establishment within this Community of
a committee for child guidance and parental guidance,
so that parents, teachers and sponsors may come
together with a loving understanding of those
things that ought to be and those things that
must be rooted out, torn down and built up within
the parents so that they might have a circle of
love and comfort to impart.
". . . We desire to
see the acceleration of our Montessori Teacher
Training program offered this year at Camelot.
We desire to see teachers go forth qualified as
ministers, as teachers and as representatives
of the true Spirit of Freedom, having, therefore,
the understanding of the message of the Word for
the Spirit cup and for the Matter cup. Let their
dharma then be the education of children, the
serving of the poor and the needy in the nations
and the teaching of people of all ages the simple
affirmation of the Word in the 'Heart, Head and
Hand Decrees.' "
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Sanat Kumara, October 7,
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" . . . Contrast this with President Clinton's
'Goals 2000' program, which seeks to enable all
third-graders to read on their own. Such a lackluster
goal is no goal at all! Allowing a child to remain
illiterate until the age of eight is to ignore the
early sensitive periods wherein they can assimilate
tremendous bodies of knowledge. Children can be
reading in preschool if given the opportunity and
encouragement." |
John the Beloved
March 30, 1997 |
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"Thus it is necessary then for the sign of
mobility to be realized in the advanced chela as
the sign of safety. And it is often necessary to
remove oneself to a point in the Inner Retreat,
here or there, where only the birds and the angels
and the elementals may truly know the forcefield
of your own Presence. Realize that there are little
ones who live in tiny bodies, there are little children
connected with this activity who rightfully ought
not to be in an area of such a dense population.
Often they are weary and burdened and sometimes
even out of sorts for bearing so much momentum of
world energy.
"Let all who are a part of this community—parents
and teachers and those who have concern about their
own path of light—realize that as the way
of the Messengers of God has been shown, and this
one also, so you must follow. For your day is also
coming—and the days will be shortened for
you who elect to adopt the full path of Christhood—when
you yourselves will no longer be able to bear the
burden of the areas of large concentration of population.
It is then that you will require the place prepared
and you will understand why the sacrifice was necessary."
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Lord Maitreya
April 4, 1982 |
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Montessori's Theory
of the "Absorbent Mind" As Compared With
Brain Research in the 90's by
Sharlet J. McClurkin
Writing her book, THE ABSORBENT
MIND, in the 1950's prior to current brain research,
Dr. Maria Montessori obviously and amazingly was
nearly fifty years ahead of her time.
She said, "There are many who hold, as I
do, that the most important period of life is
not the age of university studies, but the first
one, the period from birth to the age of six.
For that is the time when man's intelligence itself,
his greatest implement, is being formed. But not
only his intelligence; the full totality of his
psychic powers."
Brain research today is one of the most exciting
fields of scientific study, as exemplified in
the February 3, 1997 , article in the TIME Magazine,
"How A Child's Brain Develops." After
reading this article, early childhood educators
can now say, " I told you so," because
we have known all along that the first few years
of life shape the adult who is becoming. J. Madeline
Nash reports: "A baby's brain cells.shape
a lifetime of experience.
The first three years are critical."
(TIME, p. 48) Speaking to the May, 1995, Montessori
Institute of America conference in Des Moines
, WA , Dr. Jane Healy, author of Your Child's
Growing Mind , said, "I have found nothing
significantly inconsistent in the writings of
Dr. Montessori about the child as compared with
my research on the brain."
Not only did Montessori
envision a new type of education for young children,
she had the insight to understand the profound
significance of the period of early development:
"The greatness of the human personality begins
at the hour of birth."
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Nowe
metody nauczania
mlodziezy i dzieci
(New Teaching Methods
of Children and Youth)
Archeia Christine
Mark L. Prophet, 9 grudnia 1973
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Jesus the Christ
E.C. Prophet, 25 grudnia 1975
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Mother Mary
E.C. Prophet, 6 lipca 1980
Chapel of the Holy Grail
Camelot, CA
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Lanello
E.C. Prophet, 26 kwietnia 1981
La Tourelle Teaching Center
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Kuan Yin
E. C. Prophet, 11 grudnia 1981
Chapel
of the Holy Grail
Camelot, CA
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Archangel Michael
E. C. Prophet, 27 cerwca 1982 Chapel
of the Holy Grail
Camelot, CA
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Jesus Christ
E.C. Prophet, 24 listopada 1983
Royal Teton Ranch, USA
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Gautama Buddha
E.C. Prophet, 4 pazdziernika 1989
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Sanat Kumara
and Lady Master Venus
E.C. Prophet, 1 stycznia 1991
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Jesus Christ
E.C. Prophet, 24 listopada 1994
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Przyspieszenie
edukacji dzieci
(Acceleration
of the Education of Children)
Nada Rayborn
E.C. Prophet, 14 kwietnia 1995
The Inner Retreat, MT
Royal Teton Ranch, USA
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John the Beloved
E.C. Prophet, 30 marca 1997
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"The foundation
of national morality must be laid in private families
. . . How is it possible that Children can have any just
Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion
if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers
live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their
fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"—John
Adams
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"Education is not the filling
of a pail but the lighting of a fire. Of such is wisdom."—William
Butler Yeates
"The fate of empires depends
on the education of youth."—Aristotle
"[N]either the wisest constitution
nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness
of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."—Samuel
Adams
"Children should be educated
and instructed in the principles of freedom."—John
Adams
"Children today are tyrants.
They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize
their teachers."—Socrates
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