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May the gentle peace of the lotus of crystalline, divine substance enfold its manifestations among you as I, the Lord of the World, humbly bow my knee upon the lotus throne to the glory of God, the I AM in all of you, who are manifestations of the same Divinity which, like a sacred jewel in the heart of the lotus, unfolds here in the East.
Some of you will soon receive a Pearl of Wisdom coming from Washington and released through the Darjeeling Council. And as you read it, you will have my message specifically sent out into the world pertaining to this coming year.1
Tonight from Shamballa I shall give you additional thoughts - thoughts from our heart. For in this Pearl I spoke and said (as Kipling also spoke2), "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" is dissolved in God. For in God all shall meet - both the East and the West, the Orient and the Occident.
And so before the sacred lotus throne of the Eternal, I greet you and enfold you in a mantle of cosmic peace - the peace of the Eternal Presence. Just as the soft and gentle breezes of the Holy Spirit enfold the descending souls of men previous to coming into physical embodiment and give them the blessings of heaven with the gentleness of an aeolian harp, so do I tonight, with a mantle of this peace, enfold you and declare unto you that the peace of God is the crown which brings to fruition all of the endeavors and aspirations of the heart.
For when men rest upon their laurels of accomplishment and in a sense of God-peace understand that these accomplishments were brought about into manifestation by the great laws of God, a sense of reverence, like a polished shaft of white light, blazes forth from their heart to the heart of their own Presence, and upon the return current of gratitude from God, the mantle of peace descends saying, "Well done."
I am so well aware of the sacred feelings within the hearts of many among the children of man. Individuals wearing still the dusty sandals of the road, traveling the busy highways of life, think many wonderful thoughts which have never been printed upon paper by ink for men to read.
These thoughts become a part of the sacred record, permanently endowed by God with the power to manifest love and beauty. Occasionally writers and sensitive individuals tap this great reservoir of spiritual power and draw therefrom some of the sacred thoughts of the most humble of mankind, and they print them in books, calling them their own. This is the spiritual treasure of all life.
For, little ones, I tell you, there is never a thought of your heart which God places there as a sacred jewel that does not remain in permanent manifestation. It remains there awaiting the more sensitive to seize it and to record it for the blessing of those not yet possessed with the faculty of being able to call forth this knowledge for themselves.
When the spiritual eyes of perception of mankind are more widely opened, the greater cognizance of spiritual law will burst into manifestation. At the present time, in one of the great universities of this nation, research is going forward on extrasensory perceptions. This is a beginning - a crowbar, a wedge into our octave.
But there is an easier path, a simpler path than that pursued through the intellect. Through the pathway of the heart, men can more quickly burst asunder the bonds that fetter them to earth and learn the great spiritual laws that make them master of their own destiny and enable them to assist the great cosmic tide of spiritual evolution as it sweeps across the planet with a flood tide of divine love and light and intelligence.
Several years ago, beloved Mother Mary spoke through this messenger and made a prediction concerning the housing of the world - that it would be possible for mankind to change the colors of their rooms by a mere touch of electronic light.3 Already many of these processes are being developed, and today this is a reality.
Subsequent inventions shall startle a world already surfeited in marvels beyond the ken of mortal mind in past generations. And yet much of this is Atla reborn. Some of it is Lemuria. But all of it is a manifestation of the good which God has in store for all men.
One of the great ones from our band of light known to you as Hilarion, formerly Saint Paul, declared: Eye has not seen, neither has ear heard, nor have there entered into the heart of man those things which God has prepared for them who love him4 - to them who are the called according to his purpose.5
Blessed ones, the wonders of God defy the human consciousness. The imaginations of man, however, are often presumptive; and the writings recorded by man are often inflammatory and conducive to pull men down toward the earth, toward the chaotic, toward the deceitful, into an octave of discord, darkness, and despair. This is not of the light.
Individuals who read and peruse and study these vain imaginings of men are but reaching into the garbage cans of life. And the time has come when the youth of the world and the more mature individuals of the world must discriminate between the type of material which they shall study and shall accept into their consciousness.
If the youth of the world would accept the ascended master teachings, the world would soon be free from crime and from those desultory conditions which make life almost untenable for some people.
I, therefore, today - speaking to you on this great occasion of opportunity, looking forward into this year with hope - do most earnestly express the will of the Great White Brotherhood that more and more the chelas of the ascended hosts will consider the great need of guiding the youth of the world in the right paths which they should go.
You have heard it said as an old proverb, As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined to grow.6 Blessed ones, the youth of the world are a little more easily molded and shaped. With age, individuals have accepted the idea of calcification and hardening. This they need not accept. The fact that they have accepted it does not mean that this must continue.
By the power of the God of Peace,7 at inner levels I call for a dissolvement of the sediment from the consciousness of those in this place. May your bloodstream, may the consciousness of your mind, the pathways of light - the neurons, the nerves, the cells, and all that has to do with the power of thought within you - be set free from all human tenacity and that which clings to the earth, to mud, to muck!
Remember, blessed ones, that the lily, precious as it is, is rooted sometimes in this muck. But you are not interested in that which is below. You are interested in the flowering of this lotus of Life, and you are interested in the sweet essence and the perfume which emanates from this flower.
Many of us had our origins in the dusty evolutions of this planet. I well recall my illumination beneath the Bo tree. I was a pilgrim with a staff in hand - a pilgrim king. And yet, in times past in other embodiments, I was not always a king. You have known poverty and you have known great wealth, but both are manifestations of your own karma in order to give you experiences in understanding life and the handling of substance and energy.
Blessed are ye and blessed is the earth. For the Great White Brotherhood, which has for so long looked ahead, is looking now ahead into the coming year with an anticipation that we can do more for you - and that you can do more for yourselves - in the coming year than has ever been possible before.
In that connection, I return to the thought of the pilgrim. I say to you tonight, every one of you are pilgrims upon the path of life. You have a staff in your hand. And the staff, though it appear to be made of wood, is made of eternal substance - radiant, luminous!
Your staff is God. Your staff is your Mighty I AM Presence. If you will hold on to that firmly, you will not stumble. For as you look ahead, you will thrust your staff of light substance into the mires, the pitfalls of life, and you will perceive them ere they overtake you, rather than fall down in the pit thereof and look upward for help.
Oh, we are ever so willing and we have in the past demonstrated our willingness to raise you, and I think in the future when you need it that we will be on hand to help whenever we can by cosmic law. But it is so needful for you to make greater use of the staff.
Blessed ones, take your limbs for example. If the limbs of your body - your hands, your feet - were to suffer from inertia and you were not to use them, they would soon atrophy and you would no longer possess this great faculty of walking, of moving about and demonstrating animation. Therefore, your spiritual limbs must be flexed and you must learn to depend upon God - you must learn to depend upon the God within you.
We here in Shamballa, the Great White Brotherhood, are men and women like yourselves. We wore a body identical to that which you now wear. We suffered the mortifications and the exaltations of life in a like manner as you now do. We were not, however, possessed with the great spiritual inheritance which is yours. For down through the ages, the lives of great men have indeed reminded you that you can make your own lives sublime.8
Blessed ones, as I am speaking to you now, I see before me the Spirit of Light. And I see a parting of the way. And from the hand of the Great Silent Watcher comes a beautiful manifestation, a manifestation of God, borne upon a white scroll - and the scroll, carried and winged toward me and toward my form by two snowy white doves.
Upon the scroll is a beautiful thought - a thought manifestation, a thoughtform of the purpose and ideologies of the Brotherhood in tangible form for the coming year. It is representative of a clarion call. It is a beautiful, long golden trumpet. The trumpet is heraldic. It heralds the opening of the golden age of light which begins this year in absolute God-perfection from our sphere.
There is, just a few inches from the front of this beautiful trumpet, a little musical staff, as it were; and upon this there is one note. And the note is not round - it is shaped like a heart and it is a beautiful pink. And from it extends a little staff upward with a tiny pink wing, and below it comes a staff down with another pink wing.
The symbol, therefore, for this coming year is representative of the heralding of the golden age, of the clarion call to mankind to awake from the lethargy of the ages, for men to understand the purposes of their religion and their faith - not in any sense as a mere ritual itself but as the unfolding and outpicturing of their own divinity.
This one note in the shape of the heart, so pink and lovely, is symbolical that only divine love is the power that frees from all fear, that sounds forth the note that shall make men perfect in the golden age - the note of love that comes from the heart, the heart of God first, and then is outpictured in the heart of each individual manifestation of God. It is a symbol of peace because it speaks of love. For where love is, there is peace; and where there is strife, there is no peace.
And therefore, I rejoice in the symbol. I rejoice as the blessed Silent Watcher Immaculata has lowered this to us to perceive it and to give it unto you tonight. I rejoice because of its meaning, the potency. I rejoice also because it speaks of harmony. There is a great and deeper meaning of harmony in it. And therefore, the music of the world shall be blessed.
Someone long ago declared that they did not care who would write the laws of the world if they could only write the music.9 Blessed and beloved ones, may the Goddess of Music seal this beautiful thoughtform with all the love and light from her heart and bless all the musicians of the world with a greater sense of their mission to bring a stilling of the discordant harmonies in life and to replace it by manifestations of beauty and perfection and love.
This thoughtform is a thoughtform to galvanize the world!
What is the meaning of a galvanization? I know some of you were slightly startled by my outburst, thinking I am the gentle Buddha. Blessed ones, I am gentle - but I want you to be galvanized into action! For even the power of our thought in the East was in itself an action. But today, when the East is East and the West is West and the twain have met, action and meditation go hand in hand.
You must learn to take this great spiritual gnosis, this treasury within you, and you must learn to use it in your daily affairs. It is a practical manifestation of Divinity. God is most practical, blessed ones.
Beloved Morya secretly came into this room a long time ago this evening, and he would like to remind the blessed ones here that the light bulb by his picture is not functioning. I hope that you realize that we take notice of these little things.
But he stated that inasmuch as the physical electricities were not functioning through this particular bulb, that he would provide an additional illumination himself to bless you with a radiation of himself. And so, you see, we do work so well hand in hand, and we do so hope that you will learn to work hand in hand with one another just as we do.
Beloved ones, it is a great privilege to be able to hold a staff in your hand. It is even a privilege to go forth with a begging bowl as we did in the East, because it causes the human spirit to realize not that it should beg but that the source of every good thing is God.
In entering the new year, when every one of you comes to accept that - that your Presence is able to supply you with every good thing - then there will be no need for any of you to lack, for you will all find the power to call forth from your Presence whatever you need.
I would like to say a word concerning consciousness and states of consciousness. Blessed ones, you see, our radiance and your own is only a difference of dimension. This may be a little difficult for you to comprehend in just the simple way I put it. It has a great depth of meaning within it, however.
Individuals sometimes have a very, very small consciousness. Now, I am only referring to the physical consciousness. I am only referring to that little, tiny aperture of awareness that exists in individuals - that makes individualization. For the God Presence of all men is most magnificent! The Mighty I AM Presence of all is charged with God's own electronic substance from his own heart. It is a manifestation of Divinity.
But although you have this great treasure-house, until you enlarge the opening of your consciousness (it is almost as if you could enlarge your silver cord, and you can!), until the silver cord connecting your physical form is able to expand! and expand! and expand! until it is the size of your tube of light - then nothing can be denied you because you will have a direct channel with your own Presence, so large, so beautiful, so magnificent that the direct power of the Presence is translated and transposed into the human octave on the instant. This is the secret of all precipitation.
Blessed ones, unfortunately, individuals with small apertures, with small openings in their consciousness for the good of God to flow, sometimes do not fully understand others who have a larger opening and a greater understanding. Do not, therefore, look upon another with avarice, with greed, with resentment; but prefer instead to enlarge your own aperture of consciousness, and you can individually draw forth whatever you need.
I think it goes without saying, and yet I shall say it - that men need never lack if they go to the Source. The Source is your own Presence.
I have not chosen tonight to particularly startle you or entertain you. I have chosen to take this occasion to give you some instruction. Often I do instruct by radiation. Often I seal mankind in a mantle of my peace, and individuals often bask in that peace - just as people lie upon the beaches in the sun and they are happy in the warmth and the love and the good feelings that come to them from the peace that flows from the heart of those of us at Shamballa.
Tonight I would amplify the power of peace. I would point out to you that the coming year, which is a year of opportunity, is a good time to make a resolution which you will keep. Oh, I know, blessed ladies and gentlemen of heaven, that so many times in the past you have made resolves and resolutions and then, because you have broken them or they have not manifested as you would have them, you have felt remorse and regret.
Blessed ones, do not forget that almost every ascended master when in human embodiment has suffered from some limitation. I could cite one instance to show you that may be somewhat illuminating to some of you.
Most of you perhaps are familiar with the beloved Jesus in connection with his great friendship for Lazarus. Most of you are probably aware of the fact that beloved Jesus was considered to be omniscient, to have all knowledge - and so he did. And yet although he had all knowledge, when his beloved friend Lazarus passed on out of physical form and was dead, Jesus did not know it in his outer consciousness. And when he was apprised of it, scriptures do record that he wept. And yet he went to wake him out of sleep and restored him to consciousness.10
Blessed ones, even the great masters in their manifestations when they wore physical bodies and were subject to some human limitation such as you have, did not always manifest all the good that was stored in their causal bodies. But all of these had one thing in common: they had the determination, even as I do and did, to get up every time they got down!
I want you to soak that into your consciousness and to realize through the coming year that the powers of negation and the acceptance of negation are almost the total cause for mankind getting into states of despair and inertia. As some wise one said: May God give you the wisdom to change those things which you are capable of changing, to accept those things which you cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.11
Blessed ones, the coming year is opportunity. What you shall make of it is your privilege, your responsibility. You are working hand in hand with a great spiritual fraternity. Some of you may choose to dedicate all portions of your life. Others may choose, as did Ananias and Sapphira,12 to hold back a part of yourself.
We do not compel. We do not demand. It is your Presence! [Here several words were lost on the original recording.] Your human self is but a shadowed figment of human imagination. It is builded up of human momentums and race habits of thought and feeling. It will never bring you peace. You may be surfeited with human sense pleasures and the pleasures of creation, but these are not the fullness of the Presence.
The fullness of the Presence, as Saint Germain once told you, is all that you desire. And when it is all that you desire in truth and verity, the peace of God which I AM shall seal you every moment of eternity, and nothing shall ever again rob you of your happiness.
O blessed ones, is this not a wonderful thing? To never, never, never be robbed of your happiness! To be ever eternally sealed with heaven's peace! Can anything stir the hearts of men any more than that? To realize that the turmoil and strife is indeed o'er - that peace, God-peace, like a gentle mantle of God-purity, is over the whole earth, making it a sphere of light, radiant and beautiful!
Some men have speculated concerning their forms and they said, "How will we look when we have made our ascension?" Blessed ones, it is not so important how you look - for you can look any way that you wish, in one sense of the word, after you have made your ascension - it is how you feel.
It is your feelings you must watch, for how you feel will determine how you look. If you feel grouchy (and I choose to use this word or expression), you are very apt to look so. But if you feel joyous, happy, buoyant and free and peaceful, I think that you will look so. I do not think there is much hypocrisy, really, in the universe, for people are quite manifestations of what they think.
In view of all these great truths which you already know, I can only make this parting plea with you, because tomorrow is another day and there are others who will speak to you concerning the great enfolding opportunities of this coming year. I make this plea once again - that you anchor all the truth you know about avoiding negation and thoughts of negation in your consciousness.
I do not propose a struggle, for some individuals actually enter into a momentum of negation by struggling against it! But I prefer that you as individuals realize every time negation rears its ugly head that you say:
Mighty I AM Presence, blaze your light through that aborted manifestation of your energy and change it into a cherubic state of consciousness! Make that fear become peace! Change it!
Then just like Cinderella and the fairy godmother, your rags will turn to spiritual richness and all the treasures of heaven and the universe will be yours. And you will not only join hands with us in God-peace, but you will join hands with every member of this great spiritual fraternity. And many of them whom none of you have ever heard of are here tonight.
You know, blessed ones, if we were to tell you the name of every spiritual ascended being that has ever made their ascension through all the past ages, you would be a long time in reciting this great rosary. Therefore, blessed ones, many of you who are quite wise have used this expression to include all: "the Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood." And this is very lovely. It is beautiful because it encompasses all those dear and precious souls who serve equally as I do to protect, to project, to endorse, to love God.
There isn't anything greater than loving God. And when you love God, you love all good. And when you love all good, the Law cannot fail. All that is good will love you and you will become nourished by it and you will expand into unity.
O then you will master perception, projection, precipitation, enfoldment, escape from the body, visitation to the retreats, unity with the angels, visibility of manifestation, invisibility at will. Nothing in the universe will be hidden, except it be by design of God.
Blessed ones, you belong to the Light and the Light belongs to you. Looking, therefore, ahead: Keep your attention upon that Goal of your ascension and peace, and forget the things which are behind.13
Blessed ones, in that connection, I would like to say a few more words. So many individuals - and it is true some of them are helped by a knowledge of their past embodiments - become enamored with some portion of those past embodiments and they fail to realize the opportunity of unfolding their own divinity in this one. And therefore I say to every one of you: Look to God to unfold the life plan that the Father has for you as his son.
You are all like tiny snowflakes of light with a different electronic pattern, but you all belong to Him. You are crystalline, ascended-master light substance in manifestation! You are beautiful. You are flowers in Eden. You are members of Shamballa's court. For that we love you. For that we bless you.
For all that you are and that I AM in unity, I thank you.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L.Prophet December 31, 1960, during the 1961 New Year's class in New York City.