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Chapter 53
Beloved Paul the Venetian - December 29, 1982

     ... Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,

and cometh down from the Father of lights ...

     Beloved heart friends, children of the Infinite God whose capacities to appreciate the eternal beauty are expanded in accordance with your adoration to your own God Presence - I greet you one and all with the infinite love of the eternal Father.

     I ask that the pulsations of the liberty flame be expanded throughout your nation and throughout this hemisphere. I ask that you, making yourselves a committee of one, will attune wherever possible with me daily in the adoration to your Presence and the humble gratitude for all of the blessings which life has bestowed on you and will bestow on you as you make the necessary attunement to bring forth in your personal world all of the victory which God intends you to have and to share.

     I am privileged, indeed, to address you tonight. I am privileged, indeed, to bring to you by the power of divine radiation a sense of the divine majesty.

     Most individuals today, until they develop a sense of beauty, may stand before the old masterpieces in the cultural centers of the world and perhaps wonder just what sort of old fogies we were. And they perhaps think in their first glances upon some of our works that they are not quite as wonderful as some of the other more perceptive individuals from among mankind say they are. And this is most understandable even to us who possess in retrospect now the power of looking back upon our own work.¹

     And as we behold the radiance of heaven, we must express to you that, indeed, they are poor works of art from the standpoint of the divine realities. But nevertheless, they do convey the innovative disciplines of our school by the guiding hand of our own God Presence and Holy Christ Self, as it then functioned in accordance with our capacities at that hour, to bring forth the best that we could offer.

     And this is what we ask that you shall do. Ladies and gentlemen, you cannot reach for the moon and draw the moon down to earth, but you can take the luminosity of that august body and bring that luminosity and power down into your feeling world and then produce balance in your feeling world.

     All of the gifts and graces of God are yours for sharing with one another. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line in the history of this earth and its evolutions, some from among mankind decided that they wanted to be exclusive possessors of all of the glory of God and especially the material treasures of earth.

     They have divided the parcels of ground. They have fought and argued and deprived one another of liberty - all for a paltry trifle. And yet as free as the air they breathe are the greatest blessings of life - the understanding of beauty, the joy in the face of a receiver of a gift. Have you ever observed the happiness in the face of a child when a gift for which that child has longed for is bestowed upon it?

     I know that some among mankind are prone to think that this generation is hard, but I examine their feeling world from inner levels and I realize that people today are almost the same in their feeling worlds as they were in the days when I was Paul Veronese and in other previous embodiments. I realize, also, that there has come about in the feeling worlds of mankind a great shift and emphasis.

     Nevertheless, I would like to point out that while many of the souls presently upon this planet now are those who were here back in the days of the French Revolution and other eras, there are some on this planet at present who are very highly evolved beings, having been brought in for the seventh root race.²

     You must understand, blessed ones, that all lifestreams are not the same, that the energies, temptations, and problems of individuals often differ. And therefore, for mankind in their outer consciousness to make a proper judgment and assessment of another lifestream is exceedingly difficult, and ought not to be undertaken by the uninitiated or by those who are not especially trained and skillful in the manipulation of those energies and perceptions which ought to be brought about only by God-guidance, by ascended master instruction, and by the power of their own Holy Christ Self when they are placed in a capacity of a psychiatrist or someone especially trained to analyze others.

     I am sure that the average individual today who will contritely fall upon their knees privately beside their bedside and looking up toward heaven to their own God Presence as they did when they were but a child and shall say these simple words, "O God, help me!" that the Deity will respond to them just as effectively as though they were to make a long and arduous prayer, which in itself might be very flowery and very sincere but nevertheless oftentimes unnecessary.

     For the Deity does not expect mankind to be confined to a prison cell or a monk's cubicle in order to achieve emancipation. Emancipation often comes through simply making a call, knowing that that call will be answered.³ For it is in the faith and knowing that the cable to the higher heights of heaven is woven and that the energies of a man's or a woman's or a child's lifestream pour over that cable and magnetize the glory and attention of heaven and the love of the Great Father of Lights⁴ for the prodigal child.

     Therefore, ladies and gentlemen of God's own heart, the divine beauties are yours for the taking. They are yours for the asking. Beloved Jesus declared: Seek and ye shall find; ask and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you.⁵ These truths are just as effective today as they were two thousand years ago when, wandering the Judean hillsides, he uttered them. And you have only to prove to yourself their effectiveness by making the call.

     I am aware that there are those, even among you, who say, But I have called and I have called sincerely, beloved Paul, for this or that to manifest, and yet it has not manifested.

     Beloved ones, God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.⁶ And therefore, I am sure that there is some special reason why your particular request was not granted. Perhaps it was not wise on the part of your own God Presence to bring to you the particular request which you ask for. And perhaps the greatest thing that ever happened in your world was that the Presence withheld that particular manifestation from you. And then again, perhaps it was only a trial to test your faith. There are many reasons why a call goes unanswered.

     For truly the call does compel the answer. And in God's own way, the great Karmic Board,⁷ your own God Presence, and your Holy Christ Self does truly answer every call. And none of them are ignored where sincerity, application, devotion, love, and strength are put into them as the energy of God returning by the great law of the circle to its Source.

     This is the flame sent forth to manifest as life which, loving its own Source, seeks greater identification with its Source, with the eternal fire - the sacred fire of the Presence before the great throne. And this call going forth asks for more of the Father's love and essence, and therefore there is always a response. If the response does not manifest in your outer world, it is always placed securely deposited within your causal body; for truly there are no unanswered calls.

     Ladies and gentlemen, then sometimes it is necessary that in addition to making the call to God, you should, after all, call to your Holy Christ Self for the extraction of this great answer from your own causal body, for it is deposited there in the 'bank' and you must make the withdrawal.

     I hope that you understand the point that I am making. Sometimes you ask for a certain thing to be done and it is done at the moment. It does not manifest, however, in your world. It manifests in the causal world, in the etheric world, but it must be drawn down and magnetized by you.

     Blessed ones, I know. For I recall one particular angelic figure which I worked on for eighteen years. And I looked into the etheric realm in my memory and I saw this cherubic face. And I struggled first to execute it in charcoal. And then I tried later to put it into oils. And there was great difficulty in putting it into charcoal.

     And I struggled and I erased, and I struggled and I erased. And I used medium after medium. And yet, I could not capture on canvas that face which hauntingly stood before me in the etheric. And yet, for eighteen years I persisted until at last I stood before it and knew that to the best of my ability this which was above was executed below.

     Patience, blessed ones, is a great virtue. And yet in this hour of peril, I do not expect that you shall have patience in the world order of things. I expect that you shall have patience in your personal worlds, for your personal worlds ought to be subservient to the cause of the world good. For this has always been the fiat of our Brotherhood: to give first to others and then to ourselves.

     Knowing the Great Law, we sought to magnetize for the world, for mankind, for others, the blessings of God. And we placed ourselves second in all cases. This is truly a precept of the Brotherhood and one which is often overlooked by the beginning chela upon the Path, who enters into a communion with the ascended masters almost solely for that which he or she expects to receive.

     But when the blessed chela comes to realize that, in kneeling before his own Presence, he ought to invoke for others the precious gifts of God as treasures of heaven brought to the earth for the relief and the release of the suffering of mankind, then there is a manifestation in his countenance of true beauty, and we who perceive the soul of man blooming in mankind's countenance are then able to behold the true face of a man or woman.

     And this is art divine. This is art which we appreciate. This is art which the angels magnify. This is art which the blessed Christ himself epitomized as he laid in the manger when the angelic hosts and the shepherds came in loving adoration, when Mary herself kneeled within her heart and said, "This is a Christ, the Son of God."

     This is the light that we desire to see manifest in every one of your faces and in the faces of all mankind, because it means a sublimation of a man's individual identity for the good of the whole. And the whole, by a divine recompense, returns in glorious magnification the beauty of the entire cosmos to that individual, until there emerges from the stiffness and the hardness of the marble the eternal perfection of life immortal.

     I thank you and, in the name of your own God Presence, bid you good night.

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     This dictation by Paul the Venetian was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet September 3, 1961, in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Introductory quotation: James 1:17.

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Volume 25, Number 53, footnote 1. The ascended master Paul the Venetian was embodied as Paolo Veronese, one of the major artists of the 16th-century Venetian school. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th ed.), "His characteristic works are huge, vastly peopled canvasses depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects painted in splendid colour and set in a framework of Classical architecture. A master of the use of colour, Veronese also excelled at illusionary compositions that extend the eye beyond the actual confines of the room. Born in 1528, Paolo Caliari became known as Veronese after his birthplace, Verona. At first apprenticed as a stonecutter, his father's trade, he showed such a marked interest in painting that in his 14th year he was apprenticed to a painter named Antonio Badile, whose daughter Elena he later married. From Badile, Veronese derived a sound basic painting technique as well as a passion for paintings in which people and architecture were integrated. ... Veronese was also influenced by a group of painters that included Domenico Brusasorci, Giambattista Zelotti, and Paolo Farinati; attracted by Mannerist art, they studied the works of Giulio Romano, Raphael, Parmigiano, and Michelangelo. ... In 1553, Veronese was introduced to Venice and launched on a long collaboration with the Venetian authorities in connection with the decoration of different parts of the Palazzo Ducale. The first of these commissions, the partitioned ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (Hall of the Council of Ten), reveals characteristics of Veronese's mature style: skillful foreshortenings that make figures appear to be actually floating in space above the viewer, chromatic splendour, and luminous passages that endow even the shadows with colour. In 1555, probably at the summons of the prior of S. Sebastiano in Venice, Veronese began the decoration of the church that was to become his burial place. ... In the Story of Esther, depicted on the ceiling, appear the first of his rigorous compositions of foreshortened groups in luminous architectural frameworks and his decorative fancies that juxtapose animated, almost stereometric foregrounds and background figures wrought with a few strokes of light. ... The decoration of the villa at Maser (1561) ... marked a fundamental stage in the evolution of the art of Veronese and in the development of Venetian painting. Assisted by his brother Benedetto in the execution of the architectural framework, Paolo brilliantly interpreted the villa's Palladian rhythms, breaking through the walls with illusionistic landscapes and opening the ceilings to blue skies with figures from classical mythology. ... The classic compositions at Maser were succeeded by paintings with a tendency to monumentality and with a love for decorative pomp, as in The Marriage at Cana, executed in 1562 and 1563 for the refectory of S. Giorgio Maggiore (now in the Louvre, Paris). In this work the planes are multiplied, space is dilated, and an assembly of people is accumulated in complex but ordered movements. ... The wealth of whimsical and novel narrative details characteristically incorporated in Veronese's paintings and particularly in the Last Supper, commissioned in 1573 by the convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, aroused the suspicion of the Inquisition's tribunal of the Holy Office, which summoned Veronese to defend the painting. The tribunal objected to the painting on grounds that it included irreverent elements, inappropriate to the holiness of the event, for example, a dog, a jester holding a parrot, and a servant with a bleeding nose. Replying that 'we painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen take,' Veronese adroitly and staunchly defended the artist's right to freedom of imagination. The tribunal, perhaps influenced by the civil authority, elegantly resolved the question by suggesting that the theme be changed to a Feast in the House of Levi. ... In 1588, Veronese contracted a fever and, after a few days of illness, died on April 9. His brother and sons had him buried in S. Sebastiano, where a bust was placed above his grave."

Paolo Veronese ascended on April 19, 1588. As the ascended master Paul the Venetian, he is the Chohan (Lord) of the Third Ray of Love. His devotion is to beauty, the perfection of the soul through compassion, patience, understanding, self-discipline, and the development of the intuitive and creative faculties of the heart by the alchemy of self-sacrifice, selflessness, and surrender. On Atlantis, he was embodied as the head of cultural affairs. Before the continent sank, he went to Peru to establish a focus of the liberty flame which later enabled the Incas to produce a flourishing civilization. In a later incarnation in Egypt, he was a master of esoteric architecture and worked with El Morya, the master mason, in constructing the pyramids. His retreat, the Chateau de Liberte, is located in the etheric plane over southern France on the Rhone River. (Its physical counterpart is a chateau now owned by a private French family.) At the etheric level it contains classrooms with paintings and art work of every kind from all ages and races and cultures, as well as workshops for musicians, writers, sculptors, and students of voice. Here the masters introduce new techniques in every field of art. And here the Goddess of Liberty, sponsor of Paul the Venetian, brought the flame of liberty from the Temple of the Sun on Atlantis (located over present-day Manhattan). The impulse from this flame compelled the construction of the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the people of America.

In a dictation given in Washington, D.C., September 30, 1962, the ascended master K-17 announced: "There has been held a beautiful and wonderful session at Chananda's retreat in India ... and a decision was made on the part of beloved Paul the Venetian whereby there was transferred from his retreat in France this day, at the hour of eleven o'clock your time, the full pulsation of the great liberty flame. This flame was permanently placed within the forcefield of the Washington Monument; and the pulsations of the liberty flame are intended to grace the heart of America as a gift from the Brotherhood and from the heart of beloved Paul the Venetian. ... It is given as a treasure from the heart of France, from the spiritual government of France to the spiritual government of America. ... The liberty flame is a gift of greater magnitude than the former gift of France, the Statue of Liberty, as a tribute to that great being, the Goddess of Liberty. It is incomparable, for the flame itself shall penetrate the structure of the monument, rising high into the atmosphere above it and all who visit there shall become, even without knowing it, infused by the pulsations of the liberty flame within the heart of America. ..."

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