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We have many journeys to make together. We have many walks to take, and talks that we must share. I would draw you a little closer to my flame, to my experience in the ascended octaves, and to my very living presence manifest to you through the Mother. There is not an hour of the day or night when you cannot see me in her very presence; for there is no separation - our flames are one. For I must anchor myself in form; and therefore, I walk this earth in that temple and in that flame and in that heart. We walk the earth as one. Therefore, you have my counsel and a blazing sun of righteousness.
The blessedness of this Presence of God, into which we dip as a fountain of life, is preserved for the anchoring of that community that has been the dream of all the mystics and the saints and the sages who have walked the earth. And herein is the potential: it is in your own expanded awareness of Selfhood, of that which you are here and now.
If you cannot see me as the God-free being which I am in the very flesh of the beloved, then I say, how can you see yourself or your own beloved I AM Presence walking the earth in the temple which you wear? You see, the point of hierarchy is always for the recognition of the Self. It is always in seeing the reflection of the ascended one in the face of the messenger that you can immediately make the transfer and see the beloved within your heart.
Therefore, the sense of limitation begins with the limitation of God and the manifestation of the ascended hosts in your very midst. If you cannot experience the Christ in the newborn babe of Bethlehem, if you cannot experience the Christ in the angels and the elementals, how can you experience that Christ within yourself?
And yet there is abroad in the land a very nefarious spirit that seeks to tear down hierarchy and the manifestation of hierarchy, to desecrate the image of the ascended hosts and of the messenger, and to say that no one can be fit to be called a messenger of the Great White Brotherhood, that no one can be fit to be called a disciple or a chela of Morya, but that somehow, in the levels of equality in democracy, all must be a part of the common herd of the mass consciousness.
Well, I tell you, it is not so! And by the grace of the presence of hierarchy right within your very midst, even in this moment when every empty seat is filled by a master, an angel, a seraphim, even in this moment when you are surrounded by the heavenly hosts, so I tell you the presence of hierarchy ascended and unascended is the very opening of the way and the path to the putting down of that sense of limitation, the putting down of that sense and the opening of the way of the vastness of the Spirit of Life within you. Have courage, then, to put down that sense and in utter humility to realize that if you are of God, it is by God's grace and by the single votive flame that burns now upon your heart's altar.
It is indeed a spirit of condemnation that hangs as a pall over the land, over the precious children, over the family, over the very face of the Mother to veil that face from the children of the sun. This is the sign of Capricorn. This is the sign of the coming of the power and the glory manifest in heaven and on earth. This is the sign of the coming of the King of kings, the one who is the Prince of Peace.3
Therefore, in the moment of his coming, let the alert who move with the angels, who swing their swords with the angels, know, then, that many who worship at the cradle of Bethlehem this night must be guarded by those who are the avant-garde, who understand that, in the most precious and solemn moments of mankind's prayer and communion, there must be some among mankind who will keep the vigil, who will draw the sword, who will slay the dragon, the demon, or the fallen one that lurks in the shadow, even as Herod's men lurked then to take the life of the newborn child.4
The child in its infancy requires the protection of those who are mature in the way of life. Let those, then, who yearn for the simple Christian or Buddhist tradition and the simple way of the calling realize that the way of the ascended masters, the demand for decrees and service and the keeping of the flame while others enjoy the merriments of Christmas, is part and parcel of the responsibility of those who are planning on the ascension. This is that responsibility which you must take ere you take your leave of Terra.
And so, when you have the nostalgia in your heart of the olden days when you had time to do the little things of Christmas cheer, when that nostalgia comes to mind, just think of the limitless vastness of self-awareness and your own confirmation, "I AM everywhere in the body of God!" And then you can flow with the Bethlehem babe, you can flow with the tear in the Mother's eye and in the fire of the Holy Spirit into every hearth and home. You can enjoy the caroling, the singing, the merriment, all the good things to eat, all the presents and all the trees and all that takes place around the earth, even while you are giving forth those fiats of light that sustain the very platform of evolution for those souls who know not the way to go, who do not understand the keeping of the vigil through all of the hours of the twenty-four.
After all, are you not well compensated by the Holy Kumaras who release into your seven chakras daily the light of the new birth and of the Christ? Are you not compensated by the joy upon the faces of those who newly find the teachings of the Christ and of the masters? So it is with us. We have made our sacrifices. We have forsaken the unascended temple. We have taken our leave of earth's schoolroom, and our memories are fond of many a day that we have shared together.
But there is a higher calling and a balance to be held. As we hold the balance, so you hold the balance. And we will see, in the ten years which unfold from this moment in 1976, an opening of the way for souls that perhaps would not have had the opportunity for life, for embodiment, or for the embracing of the teaching in this age.
I come to you, then, to bring to you and to the heart of the Mother and the children the Christmas gift given to me by the Lords of Karma this night. It is a dispensation that comes wrapped in a box and tied with ribbon. The untying of the ribbon and the opening of the box reveals a white cube, an onyx cube. It is a cube that has a special light. It glows from the light that is the combined momentum of the decrees of Keepers of the Flame for this year 1976 - every decree and every prayer, every meditation and communion, every fiat recorded as the formula of a white cube.
It is given by the Lords of Karma into my hand. I place it now in the hand of Mother, my own Mother and your very own Mother, Mother of Life; for the flame of Mother Life burns within this cube she will lay upon the altar of the City Foursquare - that City Foursquare that is America and that New Jerusalem that is the diamond in the center, the diamond of the soul in the center of Los Angeles.
This cube with the light of the chelas will be multiplied each day and each hour by the Seven Holy Kumaras, line by line, precept upon precept. It is the cornerstone for the building of the temple, the Temple Beautiful.5 That is the name of the temple which one day will be erected in Matter, but for the moment is erected in Spirit by you each day and every hour in the year to come, in the decade and in the many decades which come.
The multiplication of the cube by many factors of light, of ascended and unascended beings, will ultimately be the manifestation of all that God has planned for this Brotherhood and for this community of lightbearers. It even contains the record from the Scroll of Life of every soul who is to be born into this community in the service of the Law. Let it be known, then, that God has a plan, that each and every day your striving, your overcoming, your expanding of consciousness, your removal of limitation is forging the union for the building of the City.
Have you been burdened by doubts and fears, unclear purpose, and a lack of vision? Have the clouds surrounded you for moments or hours? I say to you, precious hearts, I have watched with you, I have walked with you. I have known your agonizing, your wondering. I have seen how the energies of Lemuria and of the coast have moved in as a mist for transmutation. And momentarily, now and again, the flame upon your heart would flicker and there would not be the instantaneous transmutation so that you could always see the sun of cosmic purpose and the day of glory that lies surely, as surely as I AM, before you.
I come, then, with comfort, with counsel, with vision, with the very nearness of my heart. I am happy that we are here together, here in Pasadena, here in California. I am happy for all the souls who have been called by my angels who have come with Michael's legions. I am happy for every soul who is yearning to be free, who has the burning desire, the very flame that will cut through that human mire. I am happy for every lesson that has been learned, for every lesson that you have taken to your heart and that has been your victory.
Some have strayed from the Path. I have walked with them, and sometimes I have looked on from afar as they have rejected my presence, not knowing it was I who came with a nudge, with a thought, with a hope, with a prayer. Some have so feared the authority of the Presence of God himself that even the least of these my brethren,6 my very own self, insignificant as that might be across the cosmos, has been an offense in their life.
I pray for them, for I well remember those incarnations not so long ago when I, too, did not understand the thrust of the presence of the sword of Morya or of Michael or of Hercules, the suddenness of the coming of the will of God, the sharpness of the division that it would bring in my members to divide me from myself.7 I, too, have the memory of the moments of the rejection of the will of God because I did not understand the very love of God inside of me and within the angelic hosts who surrounded me.
Let all of us, then, who have had the experience of even for an instant rejecting that will, let us come together now on this Christmas morn to dedicate our will to him who declared in his coming, "Lo, I AM come to do thy will, O God!"8 Let us call, then, for the masterful beings of life to descend into the midst of the chelas and Keepers of the Flame and especially the souls who are just about to reach out to touch the hem of the garment of the Brotherhood. Let us pray for them, for the clearing of the way for the will of God to be made manifest, for receptivity of consciousness, for the burning up of those embers, then, those very last manifestations of resistance to that will, and even of condemnation.
Let there be fire this night! Let the sacred fire burn around the earth! Let it find the souls of light to free them from all that opposes the new beginning, the origin of cycles in Capricorn. The birth of Jesus commemorates the coming of the resurrection flame in the springtime. I have come in this cycle of the year to reinforce that coming of the Mother light and of ascension's fires in the darkest hour of the year. I pray, then, that you will understand the need to defend an expansive consciousness, an expansive self-awareness.
Give then the freedom to hierarchy to be hierarchy! Give freedom to the ascended masters that they might express themselves through you in heart, in work, in virtue. Give that freedom to the messenger whereby the messenger can release the dictations of our octave. Give her the freedom to be myself in any way that I might manifest in the night or in the day - come knocking on your door and on your heart, I may.
Give all life the freedom to be the God Self, and watch and see how the cube will be that wonder of wonders, that lodestone of light that will always be the glowing of life because you have called, because the LORD has answered, because that LORD has given forth the light. This is the infallible law of the mathematics of Spirit and Mater.
Let this cube of white onyx, then, be so very close now to you that you can take your hand and feel the smoothness and the warmth. For even the onyx is warmed by the fire of your own heart - not cold as the marble of the tombstone, but alive with the fire of the call. The call! - your potential. Your awareness of Self! - your potential. So be the Christ and know that I am not removed, but very near, as near as your heart's door is open to the flame and the call of Mother.
Merry Christmas, my friends, my family, my very home on earth. Wherever you are, I am at home. I am at home in your singing, in your decrees, and in your life. And it is your gift to me that you have made a place on earth, a home where I can come. I thank you. I say again, with Tiny Tim, a very merry Christmas, and God bless us all!
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Note: The above dictation by Lanello was dictated to the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet in Pasadena, California, on December 25, 1976 (12:14-12:53 a.m. PST).