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The shafts of Light that penetrate the world darkness and maya must be seized upon hourly by embodied mankind. They cannot afford to continue to ally themselves with cherished institutions which have ceased to serve the purposes for which they were founded; they cannot deny the reality of perspective that is conveyed to the soul when the soul attains that perfection of attunement which reveals the reality of God.
It is not our wish to destroy those human instruments and traditional organizations which have in some measure served the divine plan. Nevertheless, they are already self-destroyed; and those remnants of their followers that remain as confused sheep that cannot find their pasture do not yet realize that through the greater power of The Great White Brotherhood and the greater dedication of the Ascended Masters of Wisdom there have been preserved in the heavens by divine decree and through divine intervention the standards of sublime grace that are sufficient for all mankind's needs.
As the old has exhibited its failures again and again, as those who profess to represent the Deity have shown themselves to be lovers of gold more than lovers of God, the divisive attempts of the brothers of the shadow have removed from view the real images of Divinity in the true spiritual leaders of the race and supplanted them by those human warps and distortions which indeed reflect the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place where it ought not.1
We have said before and we say again that the world is in grave danger; but we cite as evidence of the eternal presence of hope the manifestations of nature - the trees, the rocks, and the so-called inert aspects thereof - that endure long after the physical body of man. I say they endure in order to once again become a part of a planetary platform for the hopeful appearance of Life regenerate.
The statements made by my Son have been added to and in many cases enhanced by the spiritual experiences of men who in the centuries following his mission have entered into divine association with the heavenly hosts. As the great patriarch Athanasius said, "For He was made Man that we might be made God."2 But the rising turbulence of human emotion generated in wars and rumors of wars3 and in all manner of strife does not indicate that this process of man's rapprochement with the Deity is being accelerated.
The perceptive, who see not merely the speck of the moment but the grandeur of the accumulations of the spark of God within the heart and soul of mankind, are refreshed with the hope which, regardless of human appearances, is summoning from far-off worlds those valiant spirits that are even now approaching the planetary body to increase mankind's awareness of grace. They are determined by the invincible Light of cosmic victory to fasten together the loose-knit strands of a new culture and to weave the understanding within the heart's chalice and the mind's altar of mankind's own Christ-awareness.
Blatant have been the chatterings of those mortal magpies that have always sought to carry from nest to nest the burdens of carnal commentaries framed by those who are known to us as the destroyers of the cult of the Mother. But one day their opportunity shall pass; for they will reap the reward of having separated themselves into levels of sensuality that while extinguishing the Flame of God within the souls of their victims also blot out the very best possibilities for themselves.
Now is the time for the elect to determine so to be! I cannot say in cosmic honor that many orthodox institutions are serving aught else than the causes of Satan. That they have summoned some appearance of goodness yet have denied the power thereof in no way provides them with a valid excuse in the eyes of the living God.
How deep has been our heart's grief to see in this age the repudiation of Christ-wholeness that would have knit the Body of God upon earth into a solid spiritual organism that could well have assured humanity that the hour of the Second Coming was indeed now. Daily the conceptions of antichrist are thrust upon the world religious scene; and daily the religious leaders, as well as our students, have failed to distinguish between the Christ and the appearances of antichrist which proclaims itself to be that which it is not. Those who claim to be the allness of God must understand that the spark is only the allness when the spark is merged with the Flame.
They have not understood that whereas the spark can and should increase its size and magnificence, achieving within its own framework of identity a greater measure of the Godhead, it is only in the progressive movement of concerted action in harmony with the universe that the great rotation of the cosmic spheres is served. Hence those who proclaim themselves Light but are filled with darkness should look to the Christ-hope of universal dimension whereby they can at last be free from all that is less than perfection within themselves.
Man is indeed a being of mingled Light and darkness. His Light is the Christ Light; his darkness is that to which he has been subjected and that which he has accepted of that which opaques Light. Let all understand, then, that the purging of the self, which may excite many tests and trials and may well provide elements of chastisement, is still the most valiant way whereby individuals may come at last to a state of purification and a greater extension of the Light of God through the clear pane of their own crystal awareness.
I AM devoted to the expansion of the kingdom of heaven upon earth.
Pray therefore that ye enter not into temptation4 in the final hours of testing and of the battle won. In those hours, when those denizens of darkness rise to stir the dust and create the fray, to opaque the vow, to ride in upon the delicate threads of your consciousness, remember the vow that was made in the beginning before the world was of the fulfillment of the Divinity of God in the humanity of man. Remember that you came forth with great courage, great determination, saying to the Lord of Hosts: "Yea, Lord, I will go! Send me also; send me in the name of the risen Christ." And the Lord answered and said: "As thou wilt. So go forth, sons and daughters, sons and daughters of dominion. Go forth to challenge the night, the darkness, the discord, and the fray."
I seal within your hearts this day the divine memory of the divine vow. I seal it there so that at the hour of the final testing, of the battle won, the divine memory shall appear as a giant screen of Light to play again before your eyes that scene where you stood before the Most High God.
The courage of action, the courage to do battle when all the world is set against thee, must be evoked from the very heart of hearts. And prayer without ceasing must accompany the devotee who would win over the human consciousness with all of its deception, with all of its illusion, with all of its attempts to preserve itself against the day of the appearance of the Christ. For in the hour of the Second Coming as the thief that cometh in the night,5 the human consciousness is dissipated; it is scattered; it is no more. That very human consciousness anticipates the coming of the great Light of the Son of God; and so it attempts by devious methods and means, by all sorts of ruses and insanities, to preserve that last straw of identity.
Quicken the heart, quicken the mind, and quicken the determination, beloved ones, to slay the last foe! For the hour is indeed five minutes before twelve. It is the hour when the tail of the great dragon Tiamat swings as a backlash against the sons and daughters of God and against the holy innocents. It is the hour of victory for those who are ready to draw forth the Light and challenge the tail of the great dragon - the challenge of the misuse of the Sacred Fire and the tail of man's own carnality.
Do you not perceive, precious hearts, the warning that was given to you in the thoughtform for the year? Do you not realize that this is the year of the supreme effort of the darkness to retaliate, to take its revenge upon the Divine Woman and Her Seed? Do you not realize then that the defense of the Mother Flame and of the Divine Manchild appearing in all humanity is the supreme watch of the hour? This is the watch of Christ. "Could ye not watch with me one hour?"6
And as we are in now the final quadrant of the year, will you summon the vision of the All-Seeing Eye of God to clear the pathway before you unto the victory over all manifestations in the physical plane that are less than the perfection of Almighty God? This is the supreme moment of opportunity to challenge all spirals and cycles initiated by yourselves and by mankind in the first three quadrants in the year. There is still time, still opportunity, to say to that proud wave, "Thus far and no farther. Halt! I challenge you in the name of the living God."
You see, until the spiral becomes physical, it can be reversed. That is why Jesus said to Judas, "That which thou doest, do quickly."7 For until the malice becomes tangible as the physical action, the karmic recompense cannot be meted out and the return cycles begin and a new day then commence. And so you see, all that has begun at the etheric level of the memory, at the mental plane of thought, at the feeling place of desire - all this can yet be reversed if you challenge it ere it becomes physical. I say then, it is your moment of triumph or your moment of submission. In the name of Almighty God you have the authority in the name of Jesus the Christ to challenge every cycle of negation, every spiral of darkness that is released against you like a boomerang, like a tail of a serpent, like the forces of the night.
This is your hour of victory, blessed hearts. And I have come this morning to tell you that there are indeed many cycles that must be challenged by you if the earth is to come to the place on New Year's Eve that it can receive the opportunities and the benedictions that are contemplated by the Lords of Karma. Thus you might say it is an act of divine mercy in advance that I have been permitted to come before you this day to tell you that there are few upon the planetary body who understand the laws of God as you do, who understand the authority of the Sons and Daughters of Dominion, who call in the name of Jesus the Christ for the victory.
Note: The complete dictation of Beloved Mother Mary is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MT 7211, The Summit Lighthouse.