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Chapter 11
Beloved Jesus the Christ - March 17, 1961


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1961
Inspired in
Mark L. Prophet
and
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

11  Beloved Jesus the Christ - March 17, 1961

Vol. 4 No. 11 - Beloved Jesus the Christ - March 17, 1961
TRANSFIGURATION
Corona Class Lesson 13
Light
"God Is Light"

     I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Yes, and I AM also the preceding Transfiguration!

     Blessed and Beloved Ones Who Love Light As Though You Were Adoring God -

     How right you are, for God is truly Light,1 and in him is no darkness at all!2

     Now, I am certain that thoughtful men and women will immediately recognize the difference between the uses of light in Nature and the uses of spiritual light in man. I refer to the fact that in Nature the outline of manifestation is achieved by a little more shading here and a little more light there, thus portraying on the canvas of life scenes of heaven and earth painted in a variety which is outpictured in sunlight and shadow, green leaf and bright marigold, and the marine blue of the deep - white foam and cloud, eternal movement of sky and sea.

     Yet, blessed ones, this is a phenomenon entirely different from the vibrations of the Holy Spirit manifesting within and about man as the essence of God, the Mighty I AM Presence, in cosmic action. For in the perfection of God's light, there is no darkness whatsoever - no shading, no subtlety - only the pure radiance of the Most High.

     Nature requires that atomic matter be clothed with various molecular patterns locking in vibratory levels which define every type and combination of material manifestation necessary to the evolution of a peculiar lifewave. You see, divine Law originally intended the creation to unfold in the physical octave that cosmic beauty which was outpictured in the Mind of God and given from God's own hand to the Silent Watcher3 on behalf of child-man.

     The reason the sons of God consider their God to be a flame or a universal fire (Moses identified our God as "a consuming fire"4) is that, whereas Nature exhibits vibratory changes by a light stimulus or force from without, the soul of the son of God has the potential to self-realize the pure God-power of the cosmic fires from within himself.

     The creative fires are at the very core of being, and the ancient memory scored in electronic life is that the spirit of man was born out of the very sacred fires by which Elohim gave birth to cosmos. The sons of God simply cannot forget that they came forth from the Great Central Sun to sow the fires of the Christic seed everywhere in the matter worlds - and to endow their Father's creation with the light of Life.

     Because they are made of the same stuff, they know their Father is a consuming fire. Were they not essential fire beings, the sons of God would not have survived "all the fiery darts of the wicked"5 (fallen angels' sendings of malice) to the present hour - nor could they have been successful co-creators with Elohim throughout their long trek through the galaxies. By divine direction, therefore, the son of God can draw around those inner fires of the heart that specific God-activity which his I AM Presence gave to the Silent Watcher to externalize for his lifestream alone, made wholly in the divine image.

     In the immaculate purity of this perfect light and perfect image, the birthright of every soul born of God, there is no darkness whatsoever - nor any of the gradation required in the natural manifestations of the footstool kingdom.6

     However, some of the 'gods' have wrested the secrets of creation to alter the inner nature of man (both his soul and his genes) to conform to an inverted pattern. Through his inharmonious habits of thought and feeling man became vulnerable to this treacherous violation of the nucleus of self. Therefore, because these gods were dishonorably motivated in their genetic enslavement of lesser endowed evolutions to a mechanistic control, when I was embodied as Jesus of Nazareth I spoke unto these manipulators of life, saying, "You are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father will ye carry out."7 (This lust was for the Light of the Christ sealed in the blood of the children of Elohim and equally for the Light of Christic attainment radiating from the chakras of the sons of the Great I AM.)

     I referred, then, to the abortions of cosmic principles by the godless, the deadly inversion of divine Law by the fallen ones who used the sacred gift of free will to turn God's purposes upside down at human levels and, with malice intended, created pain and sorrow for the children of God. By such devices, they added to their heavy burden a karma self-incurred by prior dis-obedience to the LORD God and to his subsequent Edenic judgments rendered upon the race through the Great Initiator, Lord Maitreya.

     Contradicting and rebelling against the divine intent, Atlantean archdeceivers, as well as geneticists who had begun their synthetic imitations of the creation of Elohim in pre-Lemurian epochs, moved to subject mankind to the whims of their diabolical will.8

     Transfiguration is the means devised by the Godhead to free man from (1) all manipulations and degrading changes intended to de-evolutionize the race and (2) all that is not in complete unity with the seed-essence of God himself and with the sacred fire of the Mighty I AM Presence.

     Through the acceleration of the electronic fire rings of the Presence that occurs during the initiation of the transfiguration, individuals are 'stepped up' in vibration and clothed with the seamless garment9 of electronic light. This transfiguring light comes from the heart of God and passes through all illusion and human density which, cloudlike and cunning, seeks to conceal from their gaze, in a thousand allures and subterfuges, the latent divinity of the seed of Christ.

     When this action of the transfiguration is initiated by the Presence and received by the soul in the fullness of God-awareness, a state of consciousness is entered into by the disciple wherein he no longer considers himself Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or a member of a separate religious sect. Neither is he conscious any longer of racial characteristics stamped on the outer form; but, in the joy of the divinely blessed transfiguring experience, he is one (as I AM) with the pure, electronic white light of God's sacred fire. This is the true initiation of the Holy Spirit through each one's Holy Christ Self.

     The effect of God's light upon man's consciousness is great joy and peace. When the light and fire of God flow through him like a crystal-clear river of Life,10 washing away the former impressions of unhappiness, the glory and freedom he feels are boundless!

     Every son of God can and should pass through the initiation of the transfiguration - not merely as an Easter ritual, but as the once-in-a-lifetime mountaintop experience with the Ascended Masters Moses, Elijah, and myself, witnessed by the apostles.11 This is the gift of God to permanently change one's life and to prepare the soul for succeeding initiations on the path of Christhood ere the resurrection can be attained.

     The power of the transfiguration to change one life exemplifies the action of the sacred fire, whose transforming light is the miracle worker day by day, until the soul and four lower bodies of the disciple are prepared for the fullness of the all-enveloping transfiguration.

     Such as these, proving the Law of Love step by step, descend the mountain and go forth (return to service at human levels) better equipped to render real assistance to their own friends, loved ones, and a world that hungers as never before to be filled with righteousness - the knowledge of the "right use" of all God's powers. These are truly the meek who, full of divine strength, shall inherit the earth.

     I AM showing the Way to eternal Life,

Jesus the Christ

     [Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]

Bibliography

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Volume 4, Number 11, footnote 1. Capitalization of the qualities of God. When attributes become personifications of the Deity or a member of the Trinity, they are capitalized. Often the distinction is moot as to whether or not a quality of God is, in fact, interchangeable with our conception of God personified in and through and as his attributes. Such words that come under this category are light, love, truth, mind, and being.
It is up to the reader to discern for himself that God both owns these qualities and professes them. They are always his. He is his qualities and endows them with his personhood - e.g., God is Light, God is Love (both with a capital L). Contrast: God's light, God's love (lowercased). The Law (capitalized) is God in manifestation.
In some cases, when embodied mankind manifest the attributes of God, they are lowercased. In other instances, a quality of God permeates both heaven and earth, God and man; and wherever it is seen it is clearly through that presence - that omnipresence - as well as that personal God.
The absolute or relative nature of a quality or its infinite or finite nature may also determine whether or not it is capitalized. The choice of deference may vary from individual to individual. Every reader may maintain his own preference. He is welcomed to do so.
If all qualities of God were capitalized, of course, it becomes clear that everything in the book could be capitalized! Thus, for readability, we have lowercased all but the most prominent manifestations of the Deity. The absence of capitalization, however, does not alter the meaning of the word itself - as in angel.

Footnotes:

1 Capitalization of the qualities of God. [3]
2 I John 1:5.
3 one at the Elohimic level who holds the immaculate concept out of the divine image for the whole of creation
4 Deut. 4:24; 9:3.
5 Eph. 6:16.
6 The footstool kingdom. Isa. 66:1; Matt. 5:35; Acts 7:49.
7 John 8:44.
8 For more on the long-hidden history of the archdeceivers of mankind, creation of mechanization man, genetic experimentation, and laggard evolutions, see the following Summit University Press publications: the Great Divine Director, "The Mechanization Concept," 1965 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 8, nos. 3-26, pp. 9-142; Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: The Untold Story of Men and Angels; Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Lost Teachings of Jesus II, pp. 300-332, 340-42, available in paperback and hardback; and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Life Begets Life, 16-cassette album (A83034).
9 Matt. 17:2; Mark 9:3; Luke 9:29; John 19:23.
10 Rev. 22:1.
11 The Transfiguration. Read Matt. 17:1-13; Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36.