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To Our Gracious Readers Dedicated to Love's Service the World Around -
My personal Christmas gift to you this year is my own understanding of Life and its victorious consciousness. This, of course, is the supreme power of the Godhead that overcomes all appearances and conditions of this world. It is God's will for you, and certainly my earnest desire, that you too should possess this God-understanding, this God-consciousness, of your true being.
The comparatively simple life experienced by your forefathers has given way today to a much more complex organization, called by some "modern" society. Most scientists and teachers as well as the scholars of the day believe that life on earth has changed greatly, especially during the last few decades. And so it would appear to the outer-sense consciousness of mankind. Now let us see if this is really so!
Right here and now I ask you to still your outer self, becoming as quiet as you can in body, mind, and feelings. Then direct your attention to my All-Light form (i.e., the Electronic Presence of the Master), which I place in the atmosphere above you even as you read my words. Do me the honor of letting me give to you my own victorious consciousness over everything of this world and my feelings of joy in so doing. If you will really do this you will begin to realize what I mean when I say that nothing in this world has really changed insofar as its inherent nature is concerned. You will also realize the exact meaning within this gem of truth: The I AM is the same yesterday and today and forever.
The inherent meaning is continuity of being through the Presence of God with us throughout all time and space and eternity. Therefore you, too, can say, "The I AM THAT I AM of me, my own Great God Self, is the same yesterday and today and forever: therefore the I AM that I am here below (the Real Me who I AM, as Above, so below) being the soul sent forth as the reflection of that Great God Self, is also the same yesterday and today and forever. And when my soul is become the bride of my Holy Christ Self in the alchemical marriage, then it will be said of me, as it is said of my Elder Brother: `Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever!' "
Some of you are familiar with the working of the iris of the eye; just as the shutter of a camera admits more or less light to register on the film, so the iris expands to admit more light to the retina. Now, has anything really changed by the mere opening and closing of a shutter, or the iris, to admit more light? Surely not! So it is when there is an opening of the shutter of your consciousness; you permit yourself to now behold what was there all the time, simply waiting for your decision to open your eyes and see by the greater light you allow into field of vision.
Take electricity, for example; it is but one channel, shall we say, for the release of God's energy. Once it was "rediscovered" in this century (as it had been used in other times), once it was accepted and used, it became and still is a blessing to your "modern" world. However, electricity has always been. And the fact that for many centuries mankind were unaware of its existence does not mean that electricity ceased to be, nor does it mean that the scientific principles governing its use have ever changed. However, when electricity was harnessed for mankind's use, in most cases appearances in the physical world did change for the better because people had a more illumined sense of their surroundings. Then, too, has not the gift of electricity shed more light upon the world? And along with it has not the mind become more enlightened?
You see, one's attention has much to do with the expansion of consciousness. One's awareness of life corresponds to the focus of one's attention and upon who and what that attention is fixed. One may enter a garden and, being interested in a single rose, he may fix his attention so powerfully on that rose that he will see nothing else; whereas another may enter the garden and see it all at a glance taking in the whole rather than a part by the mere adjustment of the lens of the eye and mind. Thus the attention - what one wants to know or doesn't want to know - determines what one sees in life.
Thus it is my victorious consciousness and feeling about Life that I desire so much to give you today. I would have you have it for your constant practical use until you attain your own soul's ascension into the Light of the I AM THAT I AM. This is the same victorious consciousness and feeling I used in my final incarnation of the Word whereby I overcame the world! And just such a victorious overcoming as was mine is the divine destiny of every lifestream belonging to earth's evolutions still unascended.
Therefore, regardless of present appearances to the contrary, please believe me when I say that this victory is possible for everyone! And it is much more than merely possible for you, beloved ones, who are reading my words and who have the opportunity of consciously accepting the radiation of my Light, which I shall continue to release through this worded matrix to all who will ever read my message.
"Be still and know that I AM God" and that the I AM of me - the same yesterday and today and forever - is able to raise each one to his own Christ Self, crying, "Abba, Father." This Light that I pour through my words into the waiting chalice of your attention is my very Life, my very Consciousness! Take, eat, for this is my Body and my Blood. And thus I, Jesus, serve Holy Communion to my own.
Inasmuch as I have ascended to the heart of the Master Presence of All Life (as you, too, shall one day do if you set your sights upon ascension's goal), if you accept this Master Presence that I have become and if you will accept it with my victorious consciousness and feeling that I impart to you now, you will begin to realize the promises of God for your lifestream each and every day of the rest of your life - for I, Jesus, decree it so.
Following your initial acceptance of the Master Presence of all Life that I AM, you must give a few moments of acknowledgment daily, wherein you reconfirm your acceptance, by your own victorious consciousness and feeling, of my Master Presence with you. Then claim that Presence as your own with these powerful words that I shall affirm with you:
By the victorious consciousness and feeling of the Ascended Master Jesus Christ and my own beloved Holy Christ Self, I AM the Resurrection and the Life of the Master Presence of All Life within me!
And I AM giving conscious acceptance of the Light of Jesus the Christ, which is his very Life and Consciousness and which my Elder Brother is pouring into my waiting chalice now!
And I accept all that HE IS, and all that I AM, yesterday and today and forever, fulfilled in my victorious overcoming - my soul's ascension in the Light of the I AM THAT I AM! If you will do this each day as you love all life free through my Sacred Heart, I, Jesus, promise you that my Light will constantly expand in, through and around your entire consciousness, being, and world until it has made you like me, the Master Presence of All Life. "Know ye not that a little leaven [of the Bread of Life] leaveneth the whole lump?"
Remember always that the way of Victory and the way of Life is the way of the I AM! And I, Jesus, declare unto you that I AM that Way, that Truth and that Life, for I am that I AM! And so you shall be. I decree it. You see, the I AM is the individualized God Presence of each lifestream. And that I AM Presence is the Victory by its very nature! The Presence can never know anything but that Victory. For the I AM is of too pure eyes to behold or to contain iniquity (inequity or imbalance).
And so your eternal victory is already yours, it always has been, and always shall be - the same yesterday and today and forever! For it is your divine birthright! It is that which you really are! The Real You has never changed! Your human appearances have changed as you have made your entrances and your exits on the stage of life, and your expressions have altered from day to day but the Truth of your Immortal God-Free Being remains the same.
Therefore your victory is not something for which you need laboriously strive; for now you have the application of the merciful violet transmuting flame, which has been given to you so freely and lovingly (through the sponsorship of Saint Germain) for your limitless use, "without money and without price."
Today by the grace of the violet flame, that is always ready and willing to serve you at your earnest call, you have a much easier road to travel back Home than many others who trod the spiritual path before you have had.
Now you can be free from your karma so much more quickly if you will continue daily to purify your worlds to the best of your ability by the use of the violet flame. Then be sure to direct your energies constructively as you release them through thought, feeling, spoken word and deed; and hold to the understanding and the acceptance that my victorious consciousness and feeling is really yours. It is God's will for you that you have this glad, free gift of the full-gathered momentum of my victory. Therefore accept it right now for the restoration of your world to the original pattern of your perfect being, which is the Victory; for the I AM of you and of everyone who will so accept it is that Victory. The Father, the I AM THAT I AM, never changes!
How strange it is that unascended mankind find this principle of victory and of the soul's victorious overcoming too simple, either to understand or to accept. Victory is simply being. Therefore the Victory of being is allowing your I AM Presence in its full perfection (remember, the Light of your I AM Presence is pouring into your outer form through the crystal cord with every heartbeat) to express God's Victory here below, untouched by the misconceptions and shadowed thoughts and feelings of your outer self. That outer self as a rule does not cognize the Truth but builds its concepts and opinions from the impressions it receives, which in turn are registered in the etheric body (the memory world).
Victory, I say again, is simply being that which I AM and that which you really are! Believe with me and know that you can express the holiness (whole-"I"-ness) of your own "I" AM Presence. Is this not simple? But it is so powerful. For many a Christmas on this dear earth how very much have Christians overlooked this present possibility for individual Christ victory!
Recently, in speaking about our Summit Lighthouse activity, someone spoke of the "rays" from our Lighthouse as being the "raise," or the "raising" of all life. That is exactly what this activity is meant to be - a raising of the consciousness of all life upon this dear earth into its God-destiny. Only God's Life, Light and Love are eternal. As has been said so often, these three are synonymous. And all three are the manifestation of Christ Truth within you.
Therefore, if only Divine Truth is released by those who serve The Summit Lighthouse and if that service is given in Divine Love, then by cosmic law the expanding, multiplying power of the angels will increase this activity not only in numbers but also in Light's magnitude until it becomes a real Ascended Master channel for limitless good to flow to all the world. Then will the Lighthouse be seen by all, even as we see it now, "a city set on a hill, that cannot be hid ..." Let us say here that the hill represents the Rock of Truth upon which The Summit Lighthouse is founded; and the light rays that pour forth from its tower of faith are the Love-emanations of the Presence of God that deliver the healing Truth to all life.
We judge by the effectiveness of a work, not by its size, particularly in its beginning. This Summit Lighthouse activity offers its blessings freely to all. Those who at this time seem unable to understand either its purpose or its message as well as those who will not accept its service - all receive its blessings freely given. And those whose love of self exceeds their love of divine harmony and of loving cooperation with our Messenger and staff to fulfill the Darjeeling Council's divine plan for the organization are likewise blessed.
Now let me bless you and your world by flooding the atmosphere around you with the purifying and peace-giving fragrance of the rose (which symbolizes the chela on the Path) and with the fragrance of pine (which is the powerful essence of the Guru's protective substance). As I bless you, our gracious readers, as your attention is upon me today, I also expand this gift of my loving solicitude for your victory and freedom in the Light to reach the worlds of all souls of Light this Christmastide and throughout the new year.
This instruction comes to you through the loving courtesy of the Ascended Masters' Darjeeling Council, of which all the Ascended Masters are members.