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Unto You Whose Will Is Harnessed to the Absolute Desire for Soul Purification - I AM the Purifier and the Refiner's Fire
And I saw the furnace of trials heated white hot, and I perceived the testing of the matrices of Divine Love. I said unto God, O Lord, Thou hast measured the Infinite by Thine Own Strength, and Thou hast placed the measure of the Infinite within Man.
And as was spoken in Genesis, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Genesis 11:6-7)
Thus has the Cosmic Law acted and proscribed the borders of Man's habitation to keep the way of the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24) and its fruit for the eating of those whose consciousness identifies with Divine Reality, Happiness, Bliss, Purity and those Qualities that are native unto God.
Those who feel that the lure of the world is greater than the Magnetism of the Divine ought soberly to consider the fact that all things were made by Him and that it is clearly recorded in Scripture, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of Man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." (I Corinthians 2:9)
The mark of the beast must be perceived as the mark of a man, but the tracings of the Divine are everywhere apparent. (Revelation 13:16-18) There are none so blind as those who will not see. Therefore, in searching for the Ascension men must examine the Motives of God. To do this properly, men must seek to enter the Consciousness of God. There is a pulsating sound throughout the Universe which has been described as the Holy Aum or Om. Others have referenced it as the "Amen": It is the Infinite, moving through the cusp of the finite and quivering with the Infinite Life of the Eternal.
We come now to the place where memory must be cognized as the individualized akasha of a lifestream. Without memory, identity would fall. Without memory, purpose would not be perceived, nor would there be any integration of purpose. The gift of memory is intended to be a purified faculty designed by God to enable men to rise in awareness, step by step, until self-mastery is gained.
Every Ascended Master has passed through the Ascension Flame here at Luxor, but long before the possibility of that event had any validity for them, They first passed their memory through the Flame. The infestation of mortal thought and feeling, the variance from Divine Measurement and the awful putrification of mortal ideas, accompanied by greed, vengeance, egoism and the desire to expand the ego, have wrought havoc with the tender folds of memory.
Not only are individuals themselves full of dead men's bones and iniquities, as the Lord Christ spake long ago, (Matthew 23:27); not only are they full of hypocrisy, fawning upon those whom they feel will do them good and cursing by silence those whom they despise, but they are also forgetters of their promises. They remember that which they ought not to remember and they retain not that which they ought to remember.
I do not intend to spare those who desire their Freedom, for unless they are aware of these things, in which all men have engaged more or less to some relative degree, the necessary Purifications cannot be accomplished which will enable them to enter, through the Mediatorship of the living, loving Christ, into that God-Flame which is called the Ascension Flame and which acts to perform the final rite of Absolution and Purity, uniting Man unto God.
Books have been written, courses have been given, and people have sat for hours at the feet of gurus; rituals have been performed, spiritual exercises, long readings and meditations; but there is no substitute in any of these for the Purification which the Soul must willingly invoke and undergo. The "heat" of this "Fire" is not always comfortable, nor is it intended to be so, for even Saint Peter has said, "The elements shall melt with a fervent heat," (II Peter 3:10), but the Glory of the latter (the Fires of Purification and the results they afford) is not unworthy of the submission of the former (the elements of human creation) that bears the Soul to its haven of Eternal Refuge.
Those who do not choose to take the instruction which I give may remain in the world and let the world be their guru. They may be taught by the harsh cadences of the world and beaten into submission for a purpose of lesser attainment than can come under Our direct instruction. It is memory, then, I say to those of you who remain to listen, that must be purified, not only of pride but also of all of the negative qualifications and habits of misqualification which it has absorbed through the centuries. Even in the dream state individuals are often thrust into the astral plane unless they of necessity protect themselves, for there they frequently absorb the negative qualities of individuals who have no interest whatsoever in pursuing the Divine Path.
When I speak, then, of Purification of the memory, I AM referring to a memory purified to the uttermost, and the Purification of the memory will be an awakening unto Christ Identity and Godhood. Every lifestream has dwelled in the very Bosom of the Ascension Flame before It ever descended, and this is why it was spoken by Saint Paul, "He that descended is the same that Ascended." (Ephesians 4:10)
The Soul came forth with a thrust of purpose to do the Will of God, and the human thought-patterns which have been externalized have been an awesome blight upon the Radiant Patterns of the Soul beneath. The human overlay has opaqued the Light, and the travail of spiritual birth has yielded to birth in matter and the misqualification of substance.
The contamination of substance upon memory has made it a frightening thing, an object of horror, whereas God would have it an object of Celestial Beauty where the Elysian Fields can be perceived in their true Reality and the world seen as but a figment of mortal illusion. When this occurs, when the flames of Purification extend themselves into the memory body, it creates a spiritual magnet around the aura of the individual which draws him up into such Christ Magnificence as he has never, even in his greatest moments of Divine Attunement, understood or envisioned.
I AM urging upon you, then, the recognition of the need to purify your memory body of all the sordid details which are stored there, of all patterns whatsoever that are of negation, of all activities that are distinctly anti-Christ which may lie as obsession within the Soul, and of all beneath the surface of consciousness which is not the Purity of the Supreme Consciousness of the Christ Mediatorship of your Higher Mental Body or Holy Christ Self.
Some have sat before Me at Luxor when I have given this very same lecture and they have said, "Send me back, for my consciousness is but a sewer of human mason and I am without hope." To these I have turned with a look of withering scorn and spoken these words, "You have disgraced Divine Purpose for centuries and now you stand at the Doorway of Freedom, this by Divine Grace. Would you return, then, to the turgid sea of human emotions and frustrations without receiving the benefit of Our Instruction when you stand nigh unto the portals of a complete escape?" Out of an entire class I have seen no more than one, then, turn back. And frequently, as that one has lingered near the portal, he has silently slipped back into his seat and gone on.
Do you see, precious ones, it is all a matter of perspective? Those who minister in the world to men's spiritual needs do so from the standpoint of pleasing men. We act solely from the standpoint of pleasing God. Our desire is to get the job done, to show men how to find their Freedom.
Men require "spunk" and a straight spine. There is no question they have pampered themselves, and that with illusion. Straight talk and straight thought will do much to clear the way, and it will not place any individual outside the Citadel of Hope but wholly within It.
Men stay on the merry-go-round of human thought and feeling because they fear lest they fall off. But it will keep on going. So jump off the round of delusion and the mad whirl of human confusion. Come to Luxor, to the place where I AM.