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Beloved Hearts Who Give All and Receive the All of God -
In the hour when the Father acknowledged the glorification of his name - I AM THAT I AM1 - within me, I declared for all time and eternity: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."2 And today I declare it again, that you might derive the higher confirmation of my Word in your life, for the import must not be lost.
This, then, is the true meaning of this scientific statement of the Godhead dwelling bodily3 in every one of his servant sons and glorifying his name within them, even as he has glorified them by the gift of the Mighty I AM Presence: As the I AM Presence is lifted up within me and I am lifted up with it, so do I draw all men unto the selfsame God Source of each one's life.
You see, beloved, the 'I AM' Name and the 'I AM' Presence are the glory - one and the same - of the Son of man. Now ponder the reciprocity of the Father and the Son!
Two thousand years ago I said, "It is finished!"4 Aeons before, the Father said, "It is Good!"5 and rested from the labors of his creation. Completion, then, is the end of an era, an age, a plan, or a phase. It is the fulfillment of the endeavors of God or man where constancy and effort have adhered to Principle or Purpose now self-realized.
Completion signals the hour of the glorification of the Son of man - when the light of God is intensified both in man and in his manifest work. The glorification is the sealing and the raising up of man's offering of himself upon the altar of God - signifying that the Father is well pleased in his Son's outpicturing of Himself.
Now, let us see how the Law of Love and the Law of Life - which are the best part of divine wisdom - provide an understanding of the necessary give-and-take on the Path which only true love and real life can afford.
Dear ones, almost all love is given in expectation of reciprocity, and divine love is no exception. Today many people deceive themselves into believing that so-called impersonal love is unselfish (altruistic) and wants nothing in return. Some even believe it is wrong to have any wants or desires or preferences. This is not true if the wants or the desires or the preferences are necessary and beneficial, for then they are but God's own yearning for the expansion of his gifts to you which he communicates through you.
Those who feed on spiritual manna will understand through my parable of the talents6 God's statement of the I AM Presence concerning the man who had buried his talent in the earth. This unfortunate servant (chela) supposed that the law of God was unjust and haphazard, or indiscriminate, in the conferment of reward. Believing his lord (guru) to be "an hard man," reaping where he had not sown and gathering where he had not strawed, he acted accordingly.
Hiding the talent entrusted to him and keeping it intact, he stultified the gain and hindered both his spiritual and his material progress. Thus he remained in a shadowed and painful state of resentment, burdened by his own sense of struggle and smarting injustice toward his lord - all this because of his misuse and misunderstanding of God's laws.
You see, God does expect to receive from you good fruit after its kind.7 He has planted good within you. Beloved Kuthumi and I have also planted good seed through these Pearls of Wisdom and we, too, expect good fruit to manifest through your application of the laws of God and your continuing spiritual progress. As you review our teachings and forge ahead with all the Ascended Masters, we expect to see those "signs following"8 in your demonstration of physical and spiritual self-mastery.
May your multiplication of the talents of your Holy Christ Self be abundant, filling you with the Ascended Masters' full understanding of the scriptures, free from human distortions.
Now, this reciprocity of the Father and Son, Master and disciple, is witnessed in the push/pull, 'yin and yang', of the laws of Love and Life. Nevertheless, the unprofitable servant reflects the deceit born of greed and the inordinate desire to clutch and cling to the things of Spirit and Matter, stopping the flow of giving and receiving - of self-emptying and self-infilling. This he does through his ignorance of the law of the abundant Life which declares: I AM come that men might have Life - the fullness of God through the Mighty I AM Presence - and that they might have it - Him and the fruits of His Tree of Life - more abundantly.9
Those who bargain with Love (God) for a penny10 can expect no more, no less. Those who, like the widow with her two mites,11 can open their hearts to give all of themselves cannot fail to receive the all of Love (God) - and ought to expect to do so.
For, in order to receive from Life (God), who so often uses the human guise (illumined men become his hands and feet, his Presence, his love, cloaked yet in human form), men must give without reserve (to the divine beggar in disguise) that which Love has first given to them! - from glory unto glory.12
I live today as surely as you do and I AM your friend for all eternity. You are never forsaken. Be not afraid. Be of good cheer, it is I who comfort you now - the One, the same I AM - who have overcome the world.13
And that I AM is the Resurrection and the Life of all your Good. Therefore your good works and your good words shall live forevermore in the causal body of God. So lift up the Presence of the Father and the Son, by deeds exalt His name, and He will glorify (raise up and intensify) the I AM within you, drawing all men unto Himself through your blessed manifestation of His image! Do you see?
Blessings in the glorification of the Son of man,
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Blessed Students of Wisdom's University -
The darkening shadows of Good Friday symbolize humanity's crucifixion of their own God Self and the subsequent entombment of their pure Christ nature, following their feeble attempts to put aside or ignore the voice of the Law (Logos). This they do to the complete silencing of the Word in the agony of the crucifixion, thereby ignorantly, albeit willfully, destroying the Christ potential - the Light and Life of their own world!
The resurrection of the soul sealed in the heart of the Christ Self is the only resolution of this dilemma. Not only does the resurrection prove the eternal truth of the I AM promises, which confirm the covenant of eternal Life, but it also demonstrates the soul's inevitable encounter with Christ and the logical conclusion of her attempt to escape the treadmill of rebirth.
As in the case of Saul, the blinding of the mortal eyes that would not see mandates the choice either to come up higher or to continue to kick against the pricks of thy innate Christhood.14 With or without the soul, that Christ by reason of its immortal nature will rise again! Thus, there is a choice to be made and an answer which must be forthcoming to the Christ who calls.
When the fiat of Life - the voice of the Christ who raised the widow's son at Nain,15 Jairus' daughter,16 and Lazarus17 - is heard in the sacred temple of one's own heart, its unmistakable leading, its infinite peace, and its promises of immortality pervade one's life. This the disciple must decide to make his own. To this he must surrender until the shadows and storms of struggles past are of no consequence on Easter morning.
When at last the soul has ceased to crucify its own True Self, conquering instead the carnal mind and all enmity with the LORD,18 the I AM THAT I AM, it is forevermore bound by cords of love to the cross of Self-giving/Self-receiving Love. The soul enters into the joy of the Presence. This is victory: all that matters, all that really counts is risen!
To turn men to the way of peace and the way of wisdom is, then, the united goal of every ministering servant, every preacher of righteousness, no matter what exoteric or esoteric school he calls his alma mater.
As the corona appears around the sun, revealing its flaming diadem as mighty light rays in divine action, so may each one of you bearing our light also be its crown. Light is king and Love is queen, but the scepter of Wisdom is used by both.
While in a larger sense the Corona Class has only begun, our next lesson will conclude this first phase. When you are ready, we will summon you again without fanfare for the trek to a higher understanding. Ours is Wisdom's university, a refresher course freely given by the Ascended Masters of Light and Love.
Privileged as you are to be the corona of the Sun of Wisdom, think carefully how best you can represent all that we are, bearing no defamation in conduct but ever honoring the risen Christ within you.
Freely ye have received, freely give to Light the preeminence which Light always deserves to receive.
My blessing for your victory this Easter,
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O Master Jesus, Love's sweet King -
Within my heart to thee I sing!
The Mighty I AM Presence fair
Proclaims Love's victory everywhere.
The crown of thorns which once thou wore
Remove from mankind evermore.
The thorn is but thy love aborted
To take a shape and form distorted.
The rose's fairer face we see
As God intended life to be.
His love now blazes round thy head
To trace in outline symbol fair
Not thorn, but crowning rose instead.
Love itself transmutes all woe -
Changes come and changes go -
But none can mar the plan divine
Nor take from me God's gift sublime.
I AM the victor now with thee,
I feel the spur of Life in me
And know that raised I, too, shall be,
By God's own hand thy Face to see.
I AM thy child as are all men -
O come thou, Lord, to earth again!
That all breathe reverence in thy name
To feel the balm that frees from pain.
The thorns of life all broken then,
Our life moves upward to the sun -
Where coronation rays we wear:19
We hear thy voice now say - "Well done!"
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[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]