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From the fountain of peace and the fountain of hope within the tender folds of each heart, the shoots of aspiration rise and pulsate toward the domain of the sun. And the peace of the ages rests as a benediction upon those who love in hope, who understand the need to hope, who reckon with the power of hope as invocative of peace.
We would not still in the noble of heart the aspirations for peace; nor would we stifle a glaring realism that at the current hour is seen as an undercurrent and undertow threatening to plunge the world into a wretched condition where leftist uprisings hither and yon throughout the world will give the world tremendous problems to handle for many a year to come.
The hierarchy, who seek so much to apply the balm of Christ peace as unguent to individual hearts, long to apply it to the great heart of the World Mother. For she is torn again and again by the strangeness that sets brother against brother, that sets hope against hope, and denies the world the vibratory action of serenity.
How can a pool disturbed constantly by turbulence reflect the universal image of Christ, of Buddha, of unfolding Divinity? The choppiness of the waters reveals a broken image, blighted hopes, and querulous times. We seek, then, in great delight of heart in the midst of troubled times, to provide a renewing of man's interest in those peace-producing conditions which will enable each one to take the hand of another with elements of universal sincerity.
There is a touch of revulsion in a hand extended in hypocrisy. And as I ponder the number who have sought my domain in India, those who have probed the mysteries of Gobi, those who have sought to understand for purposes of self-aggrandizement, I plead with the Lords of Karma to hasten the day when the sincere may find their way to our abode - if not in physical dimension, then in the spirit of Buddhic peace.
There is a mystery involved that the world seems not to commonly know - yet that is so easily discovered - concerning the use of the word Buddha: "Nip it in the bud." But you cannot if God wills it not, if the soul wills it not. If the soul aspires to peace, if the soul aspires to reality, you cannot nip it in the bud. For the bud will become the divine man, the Buddhic manifestation. And so, the simple thought of Buddhahood is one of enfoldment of each soul by the lotus of spiritual characteristics and qualities corollary to the central passions that aspire to divine manifestation.
The soul yearns to express the divine. The soul yearns to see the crystal in the fire mist. The soul yearns to see the droppings of pure Truth, the angelic colorings, the glorious feelings of a passion for Divinity. The careless, those whose hearts are surfeited by much words, are caught up in them as in a napkin; and the talents which they ought to be using to endow the world with the richness of Divinity coming through the doorway of Self are buried in the napkin.1 And man's search for Reality grows dim, for he sees in many words a sea of troubles and confusing idioms.
The ascended masters and hierarchy long to bestow the serenity of peaceful knowing upon the souls of men. They do not comprehend this knowing of Reality. They do not comprehend because they do not see behind the cage of words. They do not understand. And the reason they do not understand is because the intelligence - the intelling of Divinity within themselves - has been corroded by an idea of accumulation. They feel that they have acquired so much knowledge. It is almost basically encyclopedic. And because they are able to spout forth their tomes of weighty knowledge and know all things, when we come to them there is danger that they will be swept down in the undercurrents of their own karmic outer self - karmic in the sense that they will feel that we are beneath their intelligence.
What a pity! A mortal can, of course, so they think, be beneath their intelligence - but never an ascended master. Therefore, we cannot be truly speaking to them unless we speak over their heads. And if we speak beneath their feet, the feet of their great intelligence, then, of course, there's a tendency on man's part to spurn the offering. And, oh, what a terrific karma they generate for themselves! - so much so that in many cases, Kuan Yin has pleaded to bar certain individuals from our sessions and releases lest they have the karma of the offering and the subsequent rejection thereof.
The resources of man are limitless. The resources of the soul are limitless. Man is the divine mirror. In the stillness of the pool of the mind, of the heart, of being, the equations and formulas of the Spirit are released as universal syncretism.
We release the essence of the binding unity of love - a love that is not moved by outer passions and conditions, a love that denies the ego (even selfhood) expression to intrude itself between the light rays of the universal Christ and the reflecting mirror of the universal consciousness embodied in the individual.
Quietude, then, the stilling of the mind, is an accomplishment which enables a lifestream to clearly perceive for himself that what he is stilling is the emptiness of self, the emptiness of the ego, the emptiness of the cornucopia that should long ago have been filled with all of the goodness of the Mind of God. And out of this emptiness that men have filled with the jumbled jargon of synthetic miscreations, there is an opaquing manifestation that prevents the penetration of universal Reality.
You see, when God conceived of the desire to express, to divide the loaf of Self with many manifestations; when God's hands brake the universal loaf, when the crumbs fell first from the LORD's table and the communion of the body of God was possible; when men first cried out and said, "Lo, I AM!" because the universal sense of Reality had descended as the flame from the heart of the Great Central Sun, down the hall of the galaxies - the outreach of the heart of God for each child of his heart was very great.
But the child, possessing the qualities of God that in retrospect would achieve Reality, but in complex manifestation would lose the spheres of identity - the soul seemed to be lost in the woods of self-complexities. And so the forest prevented man from seeing the tree of identity and the Tree of Life.2 The illusion supplanted Reality. But, the initiatic system was ordained and the policy of Guru-and-disciple relationships established, that nature's stepchild should once again be integrated into the patterns of universal Truth.
The initiatic process itself evolved, and individuals who partook of its fount of universal Reality also evolved. And the standards of the Godhead evolved. And under the aegis of transcendentalism, the very consciousness of God evolved. And therefore, because of what could be called the dizzying pace, aspirant souls were unable to reach up into a rapidly receding realm in an expanding universe.
But the universe would not stand still. There was a continual dancing of aspiration in the hearts of the bodhisattvas, in the hearts of the Buddhas, in the hearts of the Christs, in the hearts of those who were in tune, whose fiery fervor was a lash to stimulate all life. This fiery fervor continued to mount. And so the initiatic process evolved yet further, and the spaces in man's togetherness became wider - gaps and gaps and wider gaps.
But the basic, simple realities of life - the relationship of man to God, captured in the simple statement "I AM," was itself indicative of how universal quietude and universal acceptance could generate in any soul awareness of his Source. The simple words "I AM" - breathed into space to hallow space, breathed into space to enfire hearts, breathed into space to honor Deity, to draw forth a greater measure of universal cooperation - could and would enable souls to make progress.
And all progress must be measured relatively for each soul. Those who begin at zero have progressed at a quarter of an inch; those who begin at ten miles have progressed at eleven; those who begin at a million miles have progressed at a million and one. And so progress, being relative, is a manifestation of God's love for his children that are scattered in cosmos in a drifting time segment, in sequential relationships that defy comprehension by mortal minds, in sequential relationships that defy comprehension by the greatest computers upon the planet. For the giant cosmic computers that enable the universe to be integrated while it seems yet divided is a communion consecration by which hope can continually be regenerated in hearts that otherwise would be bereft of peace and robbed of Dame Reason.
The hierarchy today in these crucial times has reminded again and again of the awesome possibilities to mortals upon the planet. It is not always wise to continually chastise. Neither is it wise to continually warn. Neither is it wise to continually praise. For man, in his time, must be subjected to a varying degree and level of pressure, that he may be able, out of the manifold contacts with the hierarchy, to perceive how he can steer a safe course into that regenerative Reality that provides a new approach each day according to the exigencies of that day.
The passion for progress that rises in the hearts of men stimulates in them many desires which do not always give them peace. Yet all should learn to govern themselves, to understand that peace is not always to be considered as a thing that is indicative of cessation of action. The calm storm center, the eye of the hurricane itself at peace, is the focal point around which the turbulent winds do whip.
And therefore, we urge upon all who want true peace to understand that there are times when peace is best achieved by involvement willingly given to God and to the hierarchy in the battle of life. For you must win your victory! You must not accept that false peace which would say, "I desire to be left alone." You must recognize that in the struggle for integration, for Reality, there are times when peace becomes turbulent.
But I am not referencing here those synthetic generations which stem from human hatred or from the desire of men to be thought great among men. I am referencing here that peace which is generated at the end of action, when a thing well done is a gesture and crown of Deity's recognition of man's fruitful struggle for realization and Godhood.
The world itself, caught now in dimensions of egoism, caught now in the simple wants of food and shelter and the search for happiness, does not yet understand today (as it did not in the time that I wandered the world as Siddhartha) the meaning of true peace. In their search for Reality, some are prone to separate themselves from the world and to reject it. Others plunge into the world to an excess that does not provide for their lifestream the necessary avenues of expansion which they thought it would. And because they do not tie themselves or unite themselves to the meditative peace that is required on occasions, they find themselves in a maelstrom of error. And terror follows error.
Because it is the will of hierarchy to spread abroad the unguents of peace and the prods to progress withal, we must join with others of the hierarchy - your beloved El Morya, whose tongue-lashing, stemming from a heart brimming full of love and charged with good will, was today a hopeful gesture on behalf of world turmoil.3
In order for world turmoil to cease, in order to reduce the tensions in the world, the underlying causes must be perceived. This is your world, children of God - while you are here. And when you have left it, if you understand the meaning of the bodhisattva, it will still be your world, because it is God's.
In their anxiety to abandon the world, numerous souls, rejecting the conflicts among men, are prone to reject all that the world stands for. Here indeed is a sea of souls - children and aged, mature, wise, and ignorant, foolish, chided and chiding, resistant and resisting, loving and hating, turbulent and peaceful, confused and confusing - all moving forward, supposedly, in the search for discovery: discovery of the realities of life, acceptance of responsibility, hopefully, and recognition that the game is not won in one play.
Because it is essential tonight that each individual should see this, we stress it by repeating this word again: The game is not won by one play. Nor is it lost by one error. And the quicker that hearts can respond to the ministrations of the Deity and perceive that God is not seeking to betray the best interests of man but to endow him with usefulness, intelligence, and progress, they will plunge into the mighty mainstream of life experiences. And in that mainstream their souls will take flight into the domain of true peace, true awareness of accomplishment, and true understanding of universal love.
The love of God is within you and within each cell. And it is my desire tonight to endow you with the power to bring it forth. Some of the masters who have spoken to you have acted for you in your name and with the inner permission of your Holy Christ Selves. I choose tonight, rather, to let you act for yourself - not because I am a being of apathy, but because the hierarchy have said that when an individual possesses a desire, amplifies that desire by action and faith, when an individual charges their desire with love and recognizes that they have a unique mission to play in bringing through the doorway of the Self, through the blessed open doorway, a blessing into the world, and they undertake it, it is a measure of uptaking that abundantly exalts the soul and provides for a mounting pressure for divine expression in all life.
Conversely, those who either unwillingly or through the pressures of subtle psychic forces engage mankind's energies in turbulent manifestations of protest and hate are generating in the world community forces that not only could ultimately destroy those participants but also the total social structure which man has been abuilding, lo, these many years.
If we felt, as observing hierarchy, that mankind would be justified in so doing, heaven itself would assist the process. We would not hesitate to descend as we did over the tower of Nimrod at ancient Babylon and introduce our own elements of confusion into the world,4 dividing men that the Spirit might counter them. But at the present time, there are in social externalization so many magnificent qualities, so many endowments of the Spirit, so much of achievement, that it is the will of heaven that men learn to sift for themselves, out of the ashes of manifest reality in the world of form, those qualities that ought to be sustained.
We do not feel that society should be totally rejected by anyone. For the world today has the basic elements, as the hierarchy has long perceived, that would enable mankind to assemble, out of the sifting and out of the experiences of life, enough benignity that mankind could utilize in the forming of the golden age without the necessity of passing through further action of Armageddon in manifestation.
The activity of the leftist groups throughout the world, the current unrest in Turkey, in Saigon, in the Far East, in Czechoslovakia, and in your own blessed nation is not something that you should reckon with lightly.
You must realize that the book that was placed in your hands today was a manifestation of one lady's heart of peace.5 You must recognize that while it does not hold the dimensions of the Taj Mahal in outer expression, it does enable you to create a taj of peace6 - a taj of peace every time that you act to rush in, as true angels of the Spirit, and evoke from the heart of God those necessary transmutative fires that will reduce the combustible activities of the earth and preserve it, hopefully, until mankind can, out of the rubble of civilization (manifest out of astral debris), realize that in the world of form, in the constructive aspects of being, they can assemble the elements of ageless wisdom that will make of the world a golden realm of Christed light, of universal illumination - enabling little children to go to sleep at night and dream sweet dreams of angel presences, to hold within their heart, as we do, the hope for a better world, and to perceive the truth in Jesus' statement, my beloved brother, that except ye become as a little child, ye can in no wise enter into the kingdom.7
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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 July 21, 1968, during the International Re-Source Conference in San Francisco, California.
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In the name of the beloved mighty victorious Presence of God, I AM in me, Holy Christ Selves of all earth's evolutions, beloved Jesus the Christ and Kuthumi, beloved Lanello, the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother, Elemental Life - Fire, Air, Water, and Earth! I decree:
Out of the One,
Thou, God, hast spun
All of the races of men.
By thy great law
Do thou now draw
All to their God-source again.
Take away hate;
By love abate
All mankind's vicious intent.
Show thy great pow'r
Every hour
Of love and compassion God sent.
I AM, I AM, I AM
Divine love sending forth
The wonderful feeling of true divine healing,
Unguents of light now sealing
All of the schisms of men.
Stop all division!
By God-precision
Love is the hallowed law-key.
Ultimate peace,
Make all war cease,
Let the children of men now go free!
Stop mankind's friction,
All their predictions
Tearing bless'd heart from heart.
By God-direction
Produce now perfection
In thy great family - one heart.
And in full faith I consciously accept this manifest, manifest, manifest! (3x) right here and now with full power, eternally sustained, all-powerfully active, ever expanding, and world enfolding until all are wholly ascended in the light and free! Beloved I AM, beloved I AM, beloved I AM!