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Beloved Students Who Would Teach the True Communion of Saints -
The opening letter from blessed Kuthumi, my brother, has so beautifully described to you some of the sweetness of his own awakening to the power of God during his Franciscan embodiment.
In his instruction, he wisely advocated the giving of the teachings of Light's perfection to every sincere seeker but stressed the need for every teacher to maintain his harmony, even if some men should choose to reject the teachings after hearing them.1 He advised a closer walk with each one's own I AM Presence (the Father) and Holy Christ Self (the Son) as the antidote for every problem. Let us see why this is the best part of divine wisdom.
You will perhaps recall that I spoke unto my disciples, saying, "Whom say ye that I am?"2 Well, beloved hearts, you could ask the same question of your associates today. And what do you think the answer would be, or what would you have it be?
Would you want them to describe you as just so much energy, so much accumulation of weight, of such an age or color of skin, with certain characteristics, mannerisms, and personal idiosyncrasies? Or would you prefer their description to include all the beauty, the ageless perfection and thrilling ever-new, ever-expanding dimensions of your own I AM Presence and its invincible power of Love's victory?
The choice is clear, as you can plainly see; for Wisdom always chooses the better part wherein the eternal truth of what you are, the eternal hope of what you are to be, and the Father's eternal love of your soul's purest intent are in perfect harmony. This, our immaculate concept held for each one of you, is our everlasting instruction - eternal, changeless, yet full of glories untold, of melodies unsung, of reaches and expanses uncharted, unprobed even by the ascended.
So deep is immortal Love that, lost in its depths, one finds solace supreme. Yet the joy of the eternal mystery remains even when all is made plain, for such is the nature of God's heart - the center of ineffable wisdom, the altar of eternal peace. As recipients of such a love, how can the cup of our zeal refrain from overflowing in the wish to call all Life to share the blessings and unity of our octave - the kingdom of heaven!
What, then, is the best way for a teacher of the kingdom of heaven to reach people - especially where the zeal of that teacher is very great, reaching out arms of love to embrace the whole world?3 As I proceed to answer this question, there is one concept I should like first to convey to each of you; for it concerns who and what you really are:
Within every atom and system of worlds there is a central focus of great light. In the solar systems the magnitude of this light is easily perceived; but in a relative sense, when you are dealing with microscopic parts of the whole, it may seem but a spark of imagination to most of you, so small is this central focus. Yet to us it is still a flame from the Great Central Sun, no matter how tiny it may seem to be.
Such is the divine spark within you - the threefold flame of Life burning on the altar of your heart. Though a mere sixteenth of an inch in height, it is the sun center and source of Life to your physical body.
Now, all that is coalesced in form around this center should be instrumental in the fulfillment of your divine plan according to the original seed idea held in the heart of the tiny flame. This plan of your life's perfection is in-tended to expand through the world of form in concentric rings of living, God-joyous, God-radiant light and color; for the energies of the threefold flame, born of the eternal radiance,4 sustain the entire physical creation!
By contrast, the human misqualification of the power of the divine spark manifests as gross condensations of selfishness, accumulations of discord and earthly qualities that actually solidify around the flame as mental density, feelings of resentment, and physical disease.
The buildup of discord in the body and the subconscious mind can be seen by the clairvoyant as shadowy clouds gathered round the central flame of being, blocking the penetration of the Light, whose healing, vivifying rays would naturally and swiftly disperse the grayness and heaviness of accumulated fear and doubt from the troubled hearts of humanity.
This clearance will take place when human stubbornness - the altogether human reluctance to accept change ("putting off the old man and putting on the new"5) and the willful ignoring of the inner voice of the Real Self - ceases to muddy the pure stream of God's energy as it flows forth unceasingly from his Spirit to the souls of his own.
Every one of us (the Ascended Masters) was compelled to leave behind this human consciousness and world view long before our ascension. We have given to the flame of God - to this precious focus of his intelligence which he has placed in us and in you - the authority for our individual worlds. Yes, beloved, we give allegiance to the flame of God in our life; and you can give allegiance to the flame of God in your life, if you will determine to do so with all your heart!
What, then, is the course of worldly living engaged in by the masses of so-called society but weavings upon a temporal loom? Year after year, the shuttle of time weaves strands composed of living light misqualified by human thought and feeling. These retain all the old habits and momentums of the race which never have and never will bring men their God-freedom or even personal peace.
Dear ones, so strong have been the dyes of human thought and feeling and so coated has the cloth become with astral dust that no matter how horrendous the completed tapestry, because of the hardened matrix people have continued to weave discordant patterns (even studying the lives of the infamous) in imitation of all that mocks and is contrary to heaven, outpicturing all that is anti-Christ (contrary to, or 'anti', the Real Self) and must therefore come to naught.
The Holy Christ Self can never permit one's improperly executed art to be displayed in the universal gallery of divine art - and therefore, by cosmic law and mercy, has no choice but to consign such weavings of the lesser self to the flames of mercy and forgiveness, where their forms dis-integrate and their atoms return to the heart of the Great Central Sun for purification (repolarization).
Now, it is sometimes difficult for unascended beings to understand how certain theologians when face to face with the transparent simplicity of Life as it stands almost self-evident have complicated the Father's teachings and laws so as to create great fear in men's hearts. Yet it is so, regardless of how good have been their intentions.
God is often pictured as being the dispenser of human vengeance, desiring appeasement or sacrifice for the many sins of mankind, in the absence of which he should forever consign men to a most grim future from which there would be no escape (although it is written, "Vengeance [i.e., divine justice] is mine; I will repay, saith the LORD"6). Yet the scriptures these theologians are subjecting to their private interpretation eternally declare the mercy of God to be from everlasting unto everlasting.7
O my beloved, my Galilean life was not sacrificial but sacramental. It was a freewill offering to God which you, too, shall one day make (and some of you have already begun the process) in the course of your journey back to God's heart.
Blessed Hilarion, when embodied as the apostle Paul, clearly understood the matter of man's works - both his positive and negative karma - for he saw them being judged in the trial by fire when he declared:
"Every man's work [karma] shall be made manifest: for the day [the 'Daystar,'8 the blazing Sun of the I AM Presence] shall declare it because it shall be revealed by [spiritual] fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by [sacred] fire."9
Only unprofitable patterns of karma, poorly woven garments of misqualified energy (such as thistles of human hatred and vengeful thoughtforms), and the clay whose molding lacks the Christic beauty to please the Eternal Potter are rejected.
The blessed atoms that temporarily and lovingly sacrifice their life to compose and hold together (sometimes for aeons) such misshapen humanly created densities in man and Nature are not to blame for the mistakes and clumsy experiments of the learners in God's great school - where Life, as God, has destined waves (particles) of energy to obey the commands of his children who are engaged in the grand experiment of free will.
Even though it appears to be otherwise, if the students of earth's schoolroom knew of the divine plan or were convinced with the conviction of God-certainty of Life's nobler purpose, they would not continue to bring any creation to the door of the temple of Life that was not a perfect work of art. Furthermore, we would help them to produce such perfect works - as we will you - if they would but ask our help.10
When I cried, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!"11 I spoke not alone for the then-present multitude, but for the whole planetary evolution unto the present day.
How can the human self, fashioned so often in images of imperfection and bowed down by its own self-created discords and densities (i.e., karma), be expected either to yield to or to respond to appeals of perfection? Did I not say, "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles"?12
Seldom, therefore, do appeals to the outer man produce the winning response, except where that man, as weaver of the garment of his soul, has wisely incorporated much devotion and love into his nature; for then he will respond spontaneously, naturally, and quickly to the truth that "I AM the Light of the world."13
Address your appeals, therefore, to the Holy Christ Self of men, except when individuals express a natural willingness to learn. Only then give them our words and our teachings which are cups that carry light and salvation to all.
The wisest on earth have much to learn. I myself took all the beginning initiations in the temple,14 although from the inception of my Galilean embodiment it was known by the sages that I would be considered wiser than the doctors and the wise men of that day. I continually taught that he that would be great must be the servant of all.15 As has been said, a great leader places himself above his followers only when it is a question of bearing responsibility.
When you call with all the intensity of your being for your own perfection in the Light, believing beloved Victory when he tells you that your own victory is possible today - there and then you make it possible!
Communion with us must be on our level, do you see? We cannot have communion with the changing outer self, which from day to day runs hot and cold, much of the time being lukewarm.16 We appeal to and reach your soul through your Holy Christ Self. And, believe me, that is how we are reaching you right now.
For this hallowed gift of personhood through the Son of God (represented by your Holy Christ Self, who is the 'Sun of Righteousness' shining in his strength in the very temple of your being17) descended from your own I AM Presence to act as your mediator in raising you to the fulfillment of your divine destiny. Your Holy Christ Self has the power to reach not only your outer mind and self but also the mind and psyche of any human on earth - as well as all of them! They cannot argue against it or resist its action, for their lifestreams also flow through the one Christ who is the Lord of all.
Therefore, lift up the Christ Self in all souls and teach them the true communion of saints, that they may realize that the God Presence of each one is one with every other manifestation of the I AM Presence - worlds without end.
Teach them the simple faith in the eternal Presence whose everlasting arms enfold them through their Holy Christ Self - resurrecting their thoughts, their minds, their worlds, their affairs, even their physical forms out of a prison house of stone (solidified human doubt and fear) into a world where we do not say, "I think, I believe, I want, I have," but declare with the Father: "I know, for I AM!"
How I long to receive you into that Holy Communion of your own I AM Presence, which you ought to keep daily in remembrance of me18 - I who am one with (the "I AM" in me who is one with) your own Holy Christ Self. Then the chaff (bad karma) of your nature will be separated from the wheat (good words and works) because you desire it even as do I. For the "fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge [purify] his [threshing] floor [your consciousness]."19
Through all the eternal cycles, the seed, or divine idea, of the soul is planted with the express hope of its multiplication and harvest, that by the refinement of heat (sacred fire) it may become a sacramental loaf even as I did, declaring for all: I AM the bread which came down from heaven. ... Take, eat, this is my Body of eternally purified substance, molded willingly, consciously in the Father's image.20
This Life which you call your own, flowing in your veins, is in truth the consecrated wine of the Father which he has sacrificed (sanctified) for you by placing the essence of his own Presence within it. The Father requires no suffering or loss save the surrender of that which is unreal, but gives to you his love and that temporal dominion over his Life which is your portion.
This is his divine plan, conceived that you may of your own choice learn to drink the cup wisely and thus by free will enter into your eternal dominion and oneness with him. For, by your leave, he, acting in you as in us, will sanctify you with the gift of his love and eternal friendship in the Life everlasting.
All students who are willing to drink of my cup (because they would be teachers of men)21 will assuredly call for the full implementation of the Law of Love which we the Ascended Masters offer. Thus, by our transforming power shall they verily drink that Communion which makes of every communicant the selfsame manifestation of the Son of God that I AM.
To this table I welcome you evermore, brother or sister of Light. Again I say, Come, drink of the water of eternal Life freely!22
I AM the Wayshower for you, one with your own Holy Christ Self -
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[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]