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To Those Who Would Glorify God in Their Bodies and in Their Souls:
The pathway of salvation has been set before humanity by countless avatars. It is a pathway of the salvation of the soul and of a proving of the laws of the Spirit by the soul in and through the body. "Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit [soul], which are God's."1 The body temple is necessary to the evolution of the soul until the hour when the soul merges with the Spirit (the I AM Presence) in the ritual of reunion that is called the ascension.
Paul was asked, "How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?"2 His answer was "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die."3 And then he proceeded to explain that there are "celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another."4 The four lower bodies5 are the vehicles created by God for the soul's evolution. While in the physical octave, the anchoring point of consciousness is the physical body; but when the transition comes - and come it must to all who are born of the flesh - then the soul's habitation is the etheric envelope and the etheric plane.
That octave is a rarified replica of the physical octave. Its highest levels show forth the perfection of God and the pattern that is to be outpictured on earth. Here the retreats of the Brotherhood are located and the fourteen etheric cities that are found above the deserts and the oceans of the earth. Here life continues, and it is the memory of a sojourn in the etheric realm that enables mankind to believe in the continuity of existence beyond the grave.
Jesus spoke to his disciples regarding life - the life of the soul in the physical temple and the life of the soul on the etheric plane. One of his admonishments that came forth as a result of that teaching and which is recorded in Sacred Scripture is "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."6 The so-called death of the body must be seen as the natural laying-down of a soul's garment and the donning of another garment more suited to the next cycle of evolution.
As an alchemist of the Spirit as well as of Matter, I see all of Life as a process of transmutation, as that change from glory to glory of which Paul spoke.7 All things are indeed in a state of flux. Man rejoices as he anticipates changes in his life, the growth from one level of experience to another: from babyhood through childhood, the maturing years - years in which he masters the physical plane and the physical coordination of his body - and others in which he measures growth by soul development, by the conquest of knowledge, or by the expression of the feelings of God as he learns to master his emotions and to express them as God would have him do.
Some welcome death as a friend. They see it as an escape from their miseries, their failures, their wasted lives. Others fight death as an enemy - and well that they should; for death is the last enemy that must be overcome8 if man is to inherit immortal Life as the logical transition of his consciousness out of the mortal socket and its experiments in the finite realm. Death is either the doorway to infinity or a point of reentry whereby man must eventually return to the finite to undo and redo and to finish that which he has left undone.
I would speak to those who are concerned more with the survival of the soul than they are with the survival of the physical body, but who will defend the citadel of consciousness within the physical frame so long as it is required for the individual and collective progress of a planet and its people.
Those who are able to kill the body but are not able to kill the soul are not to be feared. Jesus mocked them when he said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."9 And so it is of the Christ Consciousness of each one of you. The Christ within you is able to raise up the vehicle necessary to perpetuate the unfoldment of the Spirit through the soul of man, whether on the physical or the etheric plane.
But then we come to that one of whom Jesus warned, "him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Who is it that can destroy the soul of man? Who is this one that should be feared? Is it not the father of lies,10 the Liar himself who has put forth the veil of illusion, who has made death real to the consciousness of mankind, and unreality and sin and shadow and shame? Is it not the Great Deceiver who has turned Life upside down and set false values before the race and then used those false values to cause mankind to lose their souls and become castaways?11
The soul can be destroyed, O children of the one true God, only if man, through his free will, elects to ally his energies with the lie of the Liar and to allow his consciousness to become the stronghold of evil. Those who are engaged in the perpetuation of unreality, of the death consciousness, and who exist for self-seeking rather than seeking to be of service to others - these are they who may well fear the death of the soul and him who is able to destroy the souls of men by luring their consciousness into the depths of iniquity and the pits of hell.
Although Jesus warned of the death of the soul and referred to the second death in his Revelation to John,12 the saying has gone forth from those who have become the mouthpiece of the spirits of the night that the second death has been abolished.
Hearts seeking union with the Eternal Fire, children who must become wise in the generation of Light, do you not see that it would be to the advantage of those who are candidates for the second death - who, unless they repent before the hour of their Final Judgment before the Court of the Sacred Fire, have no hope of redemption because of their evil deeds - to proclaim the abolishment of the second death so that others might be tempted to sin without fear of punishment? "Ye shall not surely die!"13 is the oft-repeated lie of the serpentine mind, the force that would devour the highest energies of man in order to perpetuate itself, the force that promises man salvation even while it leads him down the primrose path of his own self-destruction.
I write to clarify and to prepare the way for the glorious attainment of the sons and daughters of God as they reach upward and onward, ever higher in the Light to receive the graces of God and to offer unto Him the fruits of their united service and their rejoicings in the Holy Spirit.
What, then, is the second death? What is the Last Judgment? There comes a time in the evolution of the soul - and that time is drawing near for many, and thus I speak - when the opportunity for evolution in time and space draws to an end.
When the Spirit of man is first created out of the energies of Alpha and Omega and the White Fire Body of wholeness becomes the cloven tongues, or twin flames, that must bear witness to His Presence in time and space as the masculine and feminine rays anchored in form, the identities of man, the manifestation, and of his helpmeet are sent forth with a cycle of evolution that is sealed within the seed of the Christ Consciousness of each one. The cycle of Life is like a giant spiral that is released, and man travels over this spiral as he descends from infinity into the finite and then back again. It is a giant coil that spells man's span in time and space; and at the end of the coil of his appointed round, he must account for his use of energy every step of the way.
Man is judged daily and hourly, as you have been told. But there comes a time, when the sand runs out in the hourglass of Being, that his total effort must be examined and the determination made if he is ready to ascend into the Presence of God, to be counted among the immortals, or to have taken from him that which he hath14 because he has used his opportunity to perpetuate the energy veil known as evil.
If the Lords of Karma and those who sit in the seat of judgment at the Court of the Sacred Fire, known as the Four and Twenty Elders,15 find that the energies which the individual has misused are such that the requirement of the Law for the balancing of that karma exceeds the capacity of the soul, then the identity pattern of the soul is canceled out by the action of the Sacred Fire, and its total evolution from the beginning unto the end of time is erased from Cosmos. This is the second death.16 All, then, that remains is the original Flame, or the God Presence which merges with the universal Presence of God, I AM, in the Central Sun until another age, another manvantara, when God desires once again to send forth a soul from that individualized Flame and out of that original design that it might commence to evolve in time and space.
The lake of fire described in the Book of Revelation,17 which so many have feared, is but a focus of the Sacred Fire wherein man's miscreations are consumed and wherein he himself is consumed in the Last Judgment if he and his works are unable to withstand the trial by fire.18 This consuming action is the natural process of transmutation whereby God's energy is freed of the burden of impurity which man has imposed upon it.
At this hour of the conclusion of the Piscean Age and the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, I write to chelas of the Brotherhood throughout the world to tell you that at the end of this two-thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ and of the victorious example which he set before mankind that they might also do the works which he did,19 many will be called before the judgment seat,20 many will have to give an accounting, and they shall be judged "every man according to their works."21 Thus it is clear that man is not saved by grace unless his works show him to be worthy of that grace22 which comes forth from the Christ Consciousness and is the reward of those who have labored faithfully in the Father's vineyard.
For this reason the fiat went forth from Alpha and Omega out of the mouth of Uriel the Archangel pronouncing the opportunity for the fallen ones to bow the knee and confess the reality of Jesus the Christ and of the Christ-potential of every man, to forsake their ways, and to become emissaries of Light even as they have been emissaries of darkness. This is the final call to those who are candidates for the second death, and it is sounded at the end of every age. For God is merciful and His mercy endureth forever,23 and He desires to draw into Himself all who are ready and willing to accept the Law of Life as the supreme opportunity for man to become a co-creator with God.
Those who die in the Lord,24 in the Consciousness of God and in obedience to His laws, have nothing to fear; for to them death is but a transition to a higher glory. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years."25 These are they whose names are found written in the Book of Life,26 for the records of their good karma recorded in their own Causal Bodies bear witness to their right to immortality. But those whose names are not written in the Book of Life are those who have nothing to show forth for the opportunity of Life that was given to them. And these are they who are cast into the lake of fire.27
I ask you then to pray earnestly for those who will be brought to judgment this year and in the remaining years of this century, to invoke the violet flame which I have concentrated in the Cave of Symbols for this specific purpose - the burning away of the darkness of the dark ones that they might be free to make a right choice for God, for Christ, and for their own salvation. And then I ask you to fill the earth with the knowledge of the Lord28 that all who know not the Christ may learn of Him,29 that all who have lost the way may find it again and in so doing inherit immortal Life.
This and other related topics will be the subject of our discussion as you come in your finer bodies to the Royal Teton, where I shall be lecturing to those who are preparing their four lower bodies for survival through transition and for transition through survival.
To those who would transcend time and eternity by the law of transcendence, I say, Come!
Note: Saint Germain is the Chohan (Lord) of the Seventh Ray of Freedom and Director of the Seventh Dispensation - the next two-thousand year cycle. His divine complement is Portia, the Goddess of Justice, who serves on the Karmic Board. He is Hierarch of the retreats known as the Cave of Symbols in Wyoming and the Rakoczy Mansion in Transylvania. He is the founder and Knight Commander of the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity.
Precious hearts, I come as a representative of the Divine Mother; and I urge you again to be that representative in the world of form, to remember that there are millions waiting for the Light and that your job is hardly under way until you have contacted those millions. It is contact that is the byword of the hour. The outreach must come from you. We send forth the impetus from our retreats, and the hands and feet of the Brotherhood in the world of form must carry it. Contact! Contact! Contact through the Holy Spirit - the contact of the Christ Flame!
Let not your minds become flabby as you decree and give your invocations. Use the strength of your mind, the very will of your mind, to project a mighty arrow from your heart to the hearts of all mankind to make that contact! I tell you that many of you do not make the contact because you allow your minds to become as putty. They are not firm in their determination, and so you wander.
Perhaps you are too tired; perhaps you have not eaten properly, as you know the laws of good diet. Whatever the case may be, you are responsible during your hours of decree and prayer to let the firmness of your mind cover the earth and contact every soul with the Light and this teaching. As Jesus said "Cast your net on the right side,"30 so the right side of cosmic purpose is the penetration of illumination's golden flame that comes from the heart of the sun and is intended to be distributed through you as sun centers.
So the sun of even pressure in the heart of the earth releases its emanations. You are the links in this grand chain of Being, and you must become conscious that you are so. It is necessary that I speak to you this day so that you will throw off the lethargy of mankind's selfishness, the abomination of their self-loves. You must also overthrow their rebellion, for now is the hour when you can triumph if you will. If you will triumph, you can this hour by the creative fires of your own God Presence and your own Causal Body.
Therefore, let not the lethargy of the world be a burden unto you during this month and the coming months; but cut through by a determined effort and mark. Raise the sword of mercy and the sword of blue flame and cut through. And you know, the resistance of that effluvia is something like the resistance you feel when you take a knife and put it through a piece of cheese. There is a resistance to the flame in the mass consciousness; so you must be willing to put forth the effort that will make its mark and cut right through unto the end.
I say to you, awaken then from the lethargy of the senses! Be not weary in well doing.31 Organize your time and your cycles; for this opportunity of this embodiment can become a monument to the future. As Jesus left his footprints in the sands of time - and Mary and many other saints - so as you become the master of the cycles in your life, you too will leave a clear mark for those who come after you to follow in.
Remember that I have told you this. For I AM your sister on the Path and I have stood at your right hand during many embodiments, both in and out of embodiment. And from the ascended state I can help so many more than I did when I was embodied. This will be true of you also. But now while you are here, this is the hour when every blow counts for the victory of the Light. Make it count by being aware of the energies of cycles and the flame that turns and that burns, as it turns, the human effluvia within your consciousness.
Be still and know that I AM God. Be still and know that I AM God. Be still and know that I AM God.32 I thank you.
Note: The complete dictation of Beloved Leto is available to Keepers of the Flame on the Ascended Masters' Tape Recording MT 7212, The Summit Lighthouse.