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The effulgence of the Light of Cosmos reaches its apex in the Cosmic Christ; and in that consciousness you find the awareness of Selfhood, the discernment of Selfhood, and the desire to be all that God made you to be. Life is indeed one, and the multifaceted parts comprising the vast evolutions throughout galaxies uncomprehended all have but one goal, the attainment of the Cosmic Christ Consciousness. I ensoul that consciousness for all evolving Godward. And thus you might say that I act as the mediator between the energies of the Central Sun focusing the I AM Presence and the individual manifestation on worlds within worlds and without.
At that point of consciousness which I occupy, there is an expansion of power and wisdom and love that nourishes evolutions ascending and evolutions descending. I have manifest this night, as I came into your midst, descending spheres of fire - blue fire, yellow fire, pink fire. And you might say that it is a Fourth of July display on the eve of the Day of Independence, celebrating the independence of the soul from all that is less than whole - the independence of the soul from every form of bondage.
Don't you think that it is time that you signed the Declaration of Independence of your soul from all enemies within and without, all forms of instruction that are less than whole? I think it is time. I am certain that you have gained great good from many sources along the Pathway of Light; but when you have the Ascended Masters as your guide, then realize that the standard is perfection. There is and there can be no compromise with human error; for every Ascended Master, angel, and Archangel focuses the consciousness of mediator between God and man. And each one who has earned the ascension stands in the place next to your Christ Self, mediating with you, for you, working together hand in hand with your Christ Consciousness to lead you into that awareness of the Light which shall give you your freedom.
I have overshadowed many avatars who have won the race of life; and I have sponsored some who have also taken the left-handed path. Through pride, through self-indulgence, some have come into a state of fear and doubt and then taken the intellectual path of reasoning until they have reasoned Hierarchy right out of the Cosmos and thus gone forth to proclaim that mankind do not need the Ascended Masters, but only themselves to get to God. Such hauteur can only originate in the human ego; for the soul that knows, the soul that stands in the Presence of God, leaps with gratitude for the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Hierarchy.
Beware, then, of those who have been our disciples and who have taken our name to perpetuate their teachings and their claim to fame and yet have changed those teachings and who are leading, even this very hour, thousands astray through the path of intellectual pride. By their fruits ye shall know them.1 Of course Hierarchy withdraws sponsorship of rebels to the cause; but once they have claimed our name and a position of eminence among our band, who will tell the little ones who come to their feet to hear the message of Hierarchy at the feet of the Master, who will tell them that the author is now bound on the left-handed path and no longer in the graces of Hierarchy?
Precious hearts, remember, the personality-cult consciousness has no place in the way of the Cosmic Christ. Therefore, do not become attached to the outer identity of any teacher or leader or of one another; for the outer consciousness may fail, but the Christ Light and the Law will uphold you and support you forever.
Sometimes you do not know that you have human attachments or entertain the idolatrous consciousness. It is well to honor the vessel and the cup. It is altogether in keeping with Hierarchy to pay allegiance to our representatives, to honor them. But remember that the homage that is paid as a ritual of your life in form is always intended for the God within and always accepted as such by our true emissaries. Therefore, give God the credit in all that you do. And take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink;2 for the Lord God will nourish the Flame that nourishes the form and provide all things at the feet of the true Masters of Light.
I remember well the humility of Jesus as he prayed to God in Hierarchy, to God in the Archangels and the Elohim. And he called upon the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, sometimes as one would press buttons at a switchboard, calling various points of Light in Cosmos, various identities, creating a crisscross of forces descending to impress upon the multitudes that Cosmic Christ Consciousness which he so nobly focused both in the individual sense, showing all, as the great exemplar of the age, how to become the individual Christ in action in the world of form, and then in the universal sense, showing also the relationship of Father and Son and of the Cosmic Christ as the universal manifestation of the individualization of the God Flame.
On the path to Cosmic Christhood, you must realize that the first level of attainment is the total awareness and Be-ness of your own Christ Self. This is the individualization of the Christ Flame, the personal Christ that ministers unto humanity. Then you have the attainment of the Universal Christ, which is won on the Buddhic Path as you expand your mastery to include more and more aspects and greater and greater Light of the heavenly hierarchies. It is largely a question of degree, of first becoming the Christ in the microcosm and then expanding that Christhood to the Macrocosm.
Now I have come to you specifically to inform you this night of my office as the initiator of disciples on the Path. I am known as the Great Initiator. Even as the Great Divine Director is known as the Initiator of Cycles, so I initiate mankind and all who desire to be tested must ultimately come under my jurisdiction and under my sponsorship. Those who enjoy the challenge of new tests, the raising of the bar, the raising of the hurdle for a higher and a higher jump, these are those who are counted in my classes in the retreat of the Lord Buddha.
I am the one who stands before your Christ Self and before you to see whether you are worthy of your idealism and whether you are willing to actually put on the line the beautiful words, the beautiful ideas, and the longing of your heart to be free to serve mankind. Then comes a test. It may be a test of pride, a test of fear, a test involving the total bent of your consciousness in its tendency toward compromise or error.
Surprisingly enough to many disciples, these tests come when they are least expected; for we must know how the disciple will act under the greatest of pressure, the greatest of fatigue, during periods when he may not have the full faculties of God-awareness. For the testing is of the consciousness and of the memory within the consciousness of precepts learned within our retreat, within our books, and in our instruction that comes in many ways - not the least of which is experience in the schoolroom of life, for experience remains the greatest tutor of the soul.
Thus I do not recommend that disciples go without sleep or try to make the hurdle of these fantastic diets that some of you have practiced, starving yourselves almost to the death and weakening your ability to withstand the temptations of the dark forces. Remember Jesus' words that "not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out."3 This he learned at the feet of Lord Buddha.
For it is well known in the circles of the Brotherhood that many times chelas of the Light, in their desire to be austere and in their belief that austerity is a path to victory, deprive themselves of the nutrients that Mother Nature has placed within all food for a balanced diet for her children. And thus their nervous system is not prepared to cope with the emotional stress that comes to the disciple on the Path.
I would also remind you that fasting at prolonged lengths is dangerous unless you are under a guru, an Ascended Master, or one representative in embodiment whom you know to have the authority and the ability to extend the protection of Hierarchy to you during periods of fasting. Jesus claimed me as his guru and called me Father, and yet I transferred that to the Almighty on high and to his own God Presence as I served to anchor through his consciousness the Cosmic Christ energies that gave him the authority and the power over all human conditions and circumstance. Thus when he was alone in the desert forty days and forty nights fasting and was delivered up unto the devil to be tempted,4 I was there overshadowing him with the mighty Archangels. And thus he, too, even in his great state of attainment, abided by the rule of the Brotherhood to fast only under the protection of Hierarchy.
I warn you of this; for I observe that some of our children of Light in various parts of the world, through the diets they have practiced, have had enter and intrude upon their consciousness demons and discarnates and direct emissaries of the black brotherhood. These forces, entering in when their body metabolism was at its lowest ebb, identified with the soul and with the etheric envelope and began to subtly weave an alter ego, an alternative pattern to the true awareness of the Christ within. Thus these precious hearts who ought to be in the company of the highest devotees upon the planet are caught in delusion and in strange practices that are not in keeping with a balanced manifestation of the true spiritual life.
I offer this information to you this night because I perceive that you are sincerely desirous of making progress on the path of purity, total purification of your four lower bodies; and indeed this is a correct goal. But let us understand that the Ascended Master standards of purity are not always the same as the world's concepts of what purity ought to be. For the world gauges purity from the standpoint of its own impurity.
Therefore, because mankind entertain a sense of guilt and sin, they have a vast condemnation which they bear against themselves for having partaken of human error and sin consciousness. And therefore their concept of purity is to completely wipe out the forcefield of the evolving human consciousness, and only then will they be satisfied. And thus they deprive themselves of all human joy and expression and the true happiness which God intends the saints to have.
And so I say, when you call for purity, realize that God has ordained the platform of the four lower bodies in the present state which you now enjoy for the purpose of evolution. Total denial of the needs of these four lower bodies can result in a warping of the consciousness and an ultimate rebellion of the outer consciousness against the Path and against the very Law that you desire to outpicture. For the four lower bodies and your evolving consciousness can stand only so much beating, so much whipping, beloved ones, and then there is a time for balance and a need to have balance to regain one's perspective along the way.
I urge you, then, to consider the teaching of the Eightfold Path of the Buddha as it is being taught by the Mother of the Flame in her discipleship under the Lord of the World, for she has been given precious concepts which are to be included in the next volume of Climb the Highest Mountain. And we have stood with her to see that the recording concerning the Eightfold Path will open the way in the West for millions of followers of the Lord of the World, for he is to be adored for the Flame of Alpha that he expands.
And thus acknowledgment and devotion to the Hierarch of this planetary body is in order. And thus as I speak of him whom we adore and call Abba, Father, I expect that you shall stand in homage to his very presence upon the planetary body. [Audience rises.] For you are greatly privileged, precious hearts, to have such an advanced soul desire to remain and fill the office of the one who keeps the Threefold Flame on behalf of your very life.
Do you consider, then, that the kingdom that is ruled by the Lord Buddha should have within it subjects who know not who their Lord is? Can you imagine some people within these United States who would know not who their president is? This condition blocks the flow and the great antahkarana of the Buddha which is held from his heart to the Great Central Sun.
And thus you see, as missionaries have gone forth from the West into the East to make known the teachings of the Christ, so I come forth from the East as an emissary, a missionary, for the Lord of the World. And I say, let him be elevated to the proper place, that the flow of Hierarchy may continue uninterrupted around the planetary body and that the peace, the enlightenment, the meditation practices, and all that the Buddha teaches might be known and followed and be used to take the disciples of Christ another step higher in their evolution. I thank you for your homage to our Lord. Won't you please be seated. [Audience is seated.]