Prayer and Meditation
Chapter 3
Holy Prayer
Jesus and Kuthumi Dictated to the Messengers
Mark and Elizabeth Prophet
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To All Who Seek the Resurrection:
"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."11 With these words from the Psalmist, I cast out all fear of death as an unnatural process and I demonstrated for all time to all men that the way of the resurrection is the way of God living in man. Truly, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live;12 for the way I know, and it is the way of abundant life.
Fear of birth could well be more justifiable than fear of death, for the rest and surcease from pain that comes to individuals who have lived a rich and full life of service to mankind is more to be desired than the pain that accompanies one's entrance into the world of form. Nicodemus queried, "Can a man, when he is old, enter once again into his mother's womb?"13 Indeed, the simplicity of the divine plan of renewing life, either through reembodiment or the victory of overcoming mastery culminating in the ascension, is a very marvelous answer to the problems involved in the creation of individual man.
Immortal life can be retained only by the Godly. Those who acknowledge the presence of God in their lives live according to his principles, committing themselves unto God, as Daniel did in days of old, through continuous communion.14 If I seem to pluck one note [that of unbroken communion], it is because that note is truly the door. To be a friend of God, you must commune with him. To love the Father, you must know him.
Talking to God means that your energy goes back to the Source from whence it came, and the Source will not refuse to answer you. It is when men, full of fear and doubt and human criticism, slink back into the fading image of their own egos and in full retreat abandon the very plans that would give them immortal life that one could say, "Heaven weeps." For it is not the will of God that any should perish. As has been said of old, "My soul hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked."15
The abundant life is the natural life;
It is the life of sun and wind,
Of sea and earth and sky,
Of minerals and moving vitality.
God speaks through nature to man
And he speaks through song;
He speaks through inspiration
And he speaks all day long.
There is no end to inspiration;
It is the firing of the spark.
There is no end to consecration;
'Tis light ascending in the dark.
I AM the flame of resurrection,
The power that frees in nature's bower;
I AM the flame of resurrection,
Raising consciousness each hour.
To be a God (and not a clod),
True faith in plan must all expand;
To walk the pathway we have trod
The Holy Spirit now demands.
I come to give abundant life!
The treasure of thy heart is where
The human monad ceases strife
And reaches up in holy prayer.
Prayer is a ladder to God, but it is a ladder of thought that at times ceases to think and engages only in perception. The safeguards of holy prayer are love and the desire to bless, forgiveness and the will to express abundant beauty everywhere.
The chaste ideas of the Christ mind are not to be discounted or compared with those of the world mind. And those who have sought to achieve true culture need never fear the expansion of divine attunement. Neither fanaticism, insanity, nor unnatural states of mind exist in the mind of the Infinite. Oppressive mental conditions are always the result of wrong thinking and identification with the dregs of the world's thoughts.
Thus, in advocating holy prayer, we warn concerning the human tendency, after one has risen to great heights, to seek mortal comfort through a rapid descent to degrading lows. There is no need to plead with God in order to keep one's spirit in a state of truly listening grace. Rather, each soul should understand that the upward swing of the pendulum may seem to require balance in the opposite direction because it expands toward infinite heights which perhaps the fledgling soul cannot sustain; nevertheless, true balance need never be sought in extremes of unhappiness or involvement with the world.
There are certain "stops" for which one may ask when in communion with God, certain protections of one's own spiritual momentum which can and should be sought after. Frequently, those who are not given this instruction weary of well doing; and often not only do they undo all the good that they have done, but they actually put themselves momentarily backward. Sometimes the excuse that is offered by those who lack the courage to press forward is that they do not wish to go upward, for then they will have farther to fall.
There is no foundation to this theory, for those who understand the law of being are able to govern their own acts and intents even as God wishes them to do. Those at inner levels of consciousness who are for you, those who pray with you when you go up out of the mortal dimensions, are many. And if you ask them, they will help you in your descent, when for a time outer pressures may make certain demands upon your attention.
But I AM come that men may have life more abundantly;16 and the life of more abundant prayer, of more glorious attunement, is a means to a beautiful end. Cosmic cycles are spiral segments of joy that is rising. They produce not only the purification of thought, but also the imbuement of mankind with the power from on high that enables them to sustain a momentum of beautiful example among men.
Mankind need the example of beautiful souls whose faith will help them to overcome through communion with God. One of the pitfalls that must be guarded against is the tendency on the part of men who do have divine experiences and do achieve attunement with God to become overly confident until they fall into the temptation of exalting themselves over their supposedly "lesser" brothers. This is why exhortation for the unworthy and those who are unprincipled in life is so often entered into by the masters of wisdom.
We pray for those who despitefully use us,17 knowing that in due course of time the law will require of them a recompense for the energy that is gainfully used to puff up the ego. Thus, by seeking to save that which is lost and raising that which has fallen, we perform the work of Christ, of the illuminator, of the divine Mediator, and of the intensifier, the Holy Spirit.
Now I would like you to gaze upon the word intensifier; for it relates to the phrase "intended fire," and this is the fire that shall try every man's work.18 It is the divine fire that falls upon the altar where transmutation and change are sought and wrought.
Prayer without ceasing is the key to a release of radiant streams of God-energy that focus in the chalice of your being. The garnering of this energy will in time make the son to become one with the Father, for these energies are powerful and they are life. They are abundant, and they do perform within you that which mere mortal wishing can never do.
To seek to generate mortal illusion is an unworthy act, but to seek for the regeneration of God in you is the means of overcoming the world. Again I say, pray without ceasing for your victory and for the victory of all mankind.