Prayer and Meditation
Chapter 5
Prayer as Communication with Purpose
Jesus and Kuthumi Dictated to the Messengers
Mark and Elizabeth Prophet
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My love enfolds you all. The divine life is abundant, and prayer makes it possible of realization; but prayer must be regarded as communication, and communication with purpose. The world hungers for purity and lingers in guilt. 'Tis guilt that decries effort and, by creating a sense of unrighteousness and unworthiness in men, causes them to seek to hide from the Eternal Face.
Once the love of God is rightly understood by any man in any state whatsoever and he responds as prodigal son desiring to see and behold reality, reality cannot be denied unto him. God will come, and he will move in the mysterious ways of a spiritual being and a master of life to raise the individual soul into the ascended state.
Down the centuries, Christian palliatives have reduced the effectiveness of my Palestinian mission in the world of form by robbing of their import those concepts that are most important and stressing conditions which are a part of the lesser mysteries of God. For example, the via dolorosa, the sorrowful way, has been overemphasized and the suffering which I supposedly experienced is pointed out to mankind as a thorny road which they may expect to follow to their freedom.
Yet my words so clearly spoken to the weeping women of Jerusalem, "Weep not for me, ye daughters of Jerusalem, but weep for yourselves and for your children," seem to have been forgotten.22 "The way ye know" is now the way known by the few, yet the many regard themselves as "the elect." To make your calling and election sure, you must commune with Reality; you must commune with humility and you must commune with absolute sincerity.23
Out of the bane of uncertainty, men excuse themselves from communion and they pursue those enervating pleasures of the world which bring them to discouragement and doubt. Faith requires the fuel of fervent effort and fervent communion. Each time an individual feels the fires of reality dying down within the furnace of self, he must once again renew his covenant with God and seek to raise those fires to a place where the throb and pulsation of that inward reality can be felt and known within one's own flesh and the flesh of true identity.
Men identify with themselves outwardly, with their person, and cease altogether the recognition of the heavenly image.
The heavenly image is the thought
God used as blueprint plan,
As architectural demand upon the universe
To fabricate and design
A perfect man, a holy sign,
Symbol of the flame encased in form,
The dual Paraclete reborn.
As Holy Spirit manifest in men,
This is the visit of our God again
To world that waits the dawn.
O beloved ones, in this hour of world peril when the throb of Armageddon is heard as violence in the streets and as fear coming to many hearts, there is a need in America and in the world to renew the diligent application of prayer that burned on Quaker's hearth and in patriot's home. There, love was a glowing fire that sought itself to nourish a nation and cause this great land to expand wholesomely, teaching the young courtesy and grace and the art of loving one another.
Modern methods do not surpass the old. The latter are enhanced by scientific achievement and a richer measure of technological embellishment. If such elements of progress were used for the furtherance of the kingdom of God upon earth today and to teach the law as we intend it to be taught, it would be truly to place the kingdom within the grasp of men. But in this hour when communication has become so readily possible on a larger scale, the voices of the night are heard and the voices of the day are stilled; they are lost in the blare and tumult of the film makers and commercial vested interests and in the hammer of religious dogma.
Now a thrust for a purpose must be made into the world and the kingdom of God be brought very close to men! I am come again in this age to communicate with a larger body of men upon the planet than has inhabited it for many a year. Men are rich and increased with goods, but they do not understand that the passing moment they have is but an opportunity for bringing about increased good. And how essential is the increased good of imparting communication from the ageless fount of wisdom to a dying youth that with heavy heart seeks to cast away the carnal mold that he witnesses!
Today, we of hierarchy, mindful of the prayers rising unto Deity for assistance to the world in her hour of need, stress that with God-speed valiant assistance must come forth to men; and the work that The Summit Lighthouse seeks to do must be implemented, for it is a service in which all can unite. Hierarchy seeks not to build through this means a mere secular tower rising unto the skies, but to teach in this day the lost art of communion with God to honor the Deity, that the family of nations may perchance avoid the awful debacle toward which it is headed.
In the days of the Tower of Babel, the Great Karmic Board and heavenly hosts did cause to be issued the edict that confused the people's speech and drove them into separate bands in order that the awful contagion of unrighteousness might be stopped. Today the world has restored outer communication, but it is swiftly losing every vestige of the culture of the immortals.
The Great White Brotherhood, in a desperate attempt to stop this headlong debasement of the sons of God and children of the light upon the planet, is calling to all who will hear my voice and summoning the council of the elect from the four corners of the earth to a vigil of such holy prayer as has never before been raised as sweet incense to the throne of grace.
All men, then, must learn to recognize that in the span of the few short years and smothering dogmas to which they are exposed, they do not learn all of the manifold mysteries of God that are taught in the schools and archives of light. Heaven has become a nebulous name to many, and God a myth. Both are real, tangible, and powerful.
Without heaven and heaven's God, life would lack purpose and meaning; for God framed the world with holy wisdom and gave to man free will in order that, like Prometheus unbound, he might create reality within himself and achieve his own Godhood. This glorious concept has been cast aside by delusion and by the contagion of error so that men today are but a shadow of their former selves and the light is nearly gone out. Yet the light lives and the light is abundant! The light is real and prayer and communication are the requirements of the day.
Your beloved Saint Germain wrote in Macbeth, "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"24 Let us then decree to "out" the darkness in all men and to radiate the light of love to one another, no matter what men may think or do! Above all, let us decree that each individual soul, expressing the greatness of the Divine Self, may learn the precious art of weaving the golden flow of the shuttle of attention between himself and his God, between the son and the Father, between darkness and light. Thus shall light inhabit darkness and dispel it and bring to all the wedding garments of eternal purpose that cause the holy spiritual Bride of the Church to say, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!"25
For the radiant purposes of God's will in all, I remain and I AM